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Salvage

Chapter 7: Explanation

-Next morning-

"Arianna, Granger, Weaslette, Luna!"

"In a minute!" came Arianna's voice. Draco huffed as he leaned onto the car and crossed his arms.

"Bloody hell, where're they? We're almost late" Ron said, annoyed. Draco sighed and looked at his watch. Fifteen minutes till the bell rang and they were still in front of the house, waiting for the girls. Draco 'tsked' when the girls finally came out from the house.

"Girls, always late!" He said, earning a slap on the arm from Arianna.

"Shut up, Draco!" Arianna said. She opened the door and got into the car. Draco shook his head and went to the driver seat as Luna opened the passenger door.

"Hold on" he warned before the car flew to school direction. Arianna screamed as the car made a sharp turn at the corner. Finally, they arrived at the school five minutes before the bell rang.

"Draco, are trying to kill us?" Arianna slapped his arm.

"No, I'm trying to make us arrive here on time" Draco got out of the car and opened her door. Arianna rolled her eyes and linked her arms around Luna who just got out as well. They waited for few minutes before Harry's car appeared.

"Let's go" she said cheerfully and dragged Luna.

Harry felt someone was staring at him. He took a deep breath and looked around, trying to find the culprit. His green orbs met a pair of golden ones. Edward Cullen. Harry sighed and shook his head. Since the day Draco read his mind, Harry always found him staring at them. Sometimes, he even glared at them. 'What's his problem anyway?'

Harry closed his book when the teacher ended her speech about something he didn't fully understand. He took his bag and was about to stood up when someone appeared in front of him. He raised his eyebrow when the person in front of him didn't say anything.

"Is there anything I can help you?" Harry asked politely.

"What are you?" he whispered. Harry sighed and walked out the empty class with Edward hot in his tail. Harry felt a hand grabbed his elbow and yanked him to look at the much older boy.

"I know you and your friends know about me and my family."

"Vampire, you mean?" Harry asked. He saw Edward tensed.

"Yes, my friends and I know about you and your family being a vampire. We won't tell anyone if that's what you are worrying about."

"No. That's not what I am worrying about. We want to know what you are. You have unusual aura and scent, that's means you're not regular human. Not to mention Malfoy can read my mind but I can't read his. You're something that I have never encountered before." Edward growled.

"Why do you want to know? Our kind isn't your concern after all-"

"If you're threat for us, then that's my concern" Harry raised his eyebrows. 'So that's why they keep observing us? They think we're something that brings them harm.'

"Don't worry; we aren't threat for you and your family." Harry said as he began to walk away.

"We won't be sure about that until you explain about your kind." Edward said. Harry stopped on his track and turned around.

"You can visit us if you want" a soft voice was heard from behind Harry, making the boy and Edward jumped because of her sudden appearance.

"Luna, you scared me! How did you-"

"Doesn't matter, Harry." Luna looked at Edward who was still in shock.

"Edward Cullen, wasn't it?" Luna smiled dreamily when Edward nodded. She took few steps forward to him and looked at him in the eye.

"Come to our house this afternoon around 4 pm, we will talk about it" She said. She stared at him for few minutes before turned around and skipped away, dragging Harry along with her. Luna glanced back at Edward and sighed when she saw him talking on the phone.

"You invited him?" Draco asked in disbelief. Luna smiled at him and nodded.

"Yes, they will come this afternoon at 4 pm." Luna said as she took a bite on her sandwich. Draco sighed, trying to control his anger. He was never fond of the vampires a bit.

"What's wrong?" Arianna asked, taking a seat beside Draco. When Draco's respond was only a sigh, Arianna turned her attention to Luna. Luna waited for Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny to sit down before announced the news.

"I invited the Cullen to our house this afternoon, 4 pm" Ron chocked on his water.

"What? You invited them?" Ginny looked at her in shock.

"Yes, Edward cornered Harry this morning and demanded an explanation about us. Because we have many things to tell, I decided to invite him and his family, right Harry?" Luna said. All heads turned to the Boy-Who-Live.

"He didn't corner me, Luna. We were in empty corridor and yes, he asked about us. They think we're a threat for them."

"But we're not a threat" Hermione cut.

"Yes, we aren't. We don't have any business here aside of having a break form Wizarding world, but they think otherwise. Edward said we have different aura and scent than regular human. He also annoyed that Draco can read his mind but he can't read Draco's" Harry said, amused when he saw Draco smirked smugly.

"He can read mind?" Arianna asked. She didn't know vampire could do such thing.

"Yes, apparently some vampires have special ability."

"That's dangerous. Sure, he can't read Draco's mind, but if he read our mind, he will know about the Wizarding World. That means we break the law."

"What law? We didn't tell him and if he found out about it because he read our mind then it was beyond our control. Beside vampire is magical creature, Hermione, just like the La Push shape shifters." Ron said. Hermione opened her mouth but closed it again when she realized he was right.

"Wait! Luna, didn't you just texting Jacob to come into our house at 4 pm?" Ginny asked. Luna nodded.

"What? They're Jacob's enemy, Luna. They will fight in our house."

"They won't if they still want an explanation from us AND if they still value their life." Draco said. The other didn't say anything but opened their lunch box and ate. Harry was eating his sandwich when he found the Cullen clan was looking at them. He sighed and shook his head.

"Let's go shopping!" Ginny said happily as they walked out the school.

"Shopping?"

"Yes, Harry. I need to buy some new clothes since someone burned them last night" Ginny said, glaring at her brother. Ron glared back.

"Of course I did. They didn't look like clothes at all. The skirts were too short and the shirts were too tight. You nearly gave me heart attack when you appeared in front of me wearing those." Ron said.

"They're not!"

"Yes, they are"

"Are not"

"Are too"

"Maybe Weaslette wants to seduce Potter with them" Draco said. Ron's head snapped to Draco, who was smirking, before faced his sister. Ginny blushed hard.

"What? Ginny, you-"

"I-I do not!" She said, before throwing a death glare at the girls who was snickering.

"Really?"

"Yes, Ron. I-I just like them. They're nice" She defended her self. Ron raised an eyebrow. She didn't look at him in the eye. He saw she blushed hard when her eyes caught Harry's, who was blushing as well.

"Harry, you didn't do anything to my sister, did you?" Ron asked. Harry shook his head quickly.

"O-Of course not! We- I didn't do anything" Harry said, trying to convince the fuming brother. Ron looked at him uncertainly.

"It's the truth, Ron"

"Fine. Ginny, if I ever catch you in Harry's room wearing those, I'll burn them again and I'll tell Mum to pick you up." Ron threatened. Ginny glared at him and walked to the car angrily. Ron shook his head and followed his sister.

"Thank you, Malfoy" Harry said, glaring at the still smirking boy.

"Come on Potter, don't tell me you wouldn't be happy if you found out Ginny wore a sexy outfit just for you?" Draco said, smirking. Harry glared at him before walked to his car with Hermione.

"Draco, that's cruel!" Arianna giggled.

"Well, he didn't deny it anyway." Draco said as he wrapped an arm around Arianna's waist and led her to the car.

"So, when will you wear a sexy outfit for me, Miss Danvers?" Arianna smiled slyly.

"Well, you have to wait until we're married, Mr. Malfoy and I will wear it for you everyday" She said, closing the door. Draco smirked and walked to the driver side.

"That's beautiful" Arianna exclaimed as the girls were staring at a beautiful yellow dress.

"It will look good on you, Arianna." Ginny said, touching the soft garment. Hermione and Luna nodded in unison. Arianna frowned and looked at the price before shook her head.

"It's too expensive."

"Come on, Arianna. You're rich. You can buy the whole store if you want." Ginny said.

"You're right. But I don't bring much Muggle money today. Beside I don't really need this dress, don't have any special occasion soon" she said before walked away.

"Look Luna, this dress is cute" Ginny said, holding a cute casual blue dress in her hand. Luna titled her head and took the dress.

"Put it on, Luna! Come on" Arianna said, dragging Luna into the changing room. The girls were having fun dressing up while the boys were waiting outside bored to death.

"Bloody hell, what did you buy? These bags are so heavy" Ron grumbled. He had two heavy white bags in his hands as well as Harry. Draco had two in his right and one in his left hand. Two Arianna's and one's Luna.

"Just few dresses, shirts and pants. Oh and few books."Hermione said.

"I believe you about the dresses, shirts and pants, but I don't believe in books part." Ron said. Hermione threw him a 'shut up' look.

"Do you still need to buy something else?" Harry asked.

"Yes, actually. We still haven't bought some fruits. Oh, we need new jackets." Arianna said, smiling.

"I'm hungry?" Luna said.

"Let's find something to eat." Draco said, looking around. After arguing about what food they want to eat and where they should eat, they finally agreed to eat in nearby McDonald. Draco's eyes widen when he saw the amount of food the girls were having, Arianna especially.

"Arianna, love. Do you really think you can eat all of that?" Draco said, eyeing Arianna's four burgers and a large coke. Arianna rolled her eyes.

"Of course, I can. Beside if I can finish these, I can always give it to you. Merlin knows how much you can eat"

"But you'll get fat if you keep eating that much! I don't mind about that but I'm sure you'll be" Arianna rolled her eyes and took some fried french into her hand before stuffed them into Draco's mouth.

"If you don't mind me being fat then I don't see the reason why I should be" she said, taking a big bite on her burger. The wizards and the witches talked while they were having their lunch. They enjoyed their moment together, no war to worry about, no Dark Lord, just peace and freedom.

"Oh, look at that!" Luna said dreamily. The group turned from their lunch to look at whatever Luna was staring.

"Oh, it's so cute" Arianna and Hermione cooed. There, in front of the large window, a small girl around ten years old was standing and holding a cute white rabbit in her arms.

"I wanna rabbit like that" Luna said, her eyes were shining with hope.

"Wait, there's a pet shop somewhere here. I saw it." Arianna said happily.

"Really? Let look for it!" Luna stood up excitedly and grabbed Hermione's hand and followed Arianna out the fast food restaurant.

"Wait!" Ron shouted, but the girls didn't seem to hear it. Draco shook his head and stared at the food trays on the table.

"Bloody women," Draco muttered. "Always make the men get stuck with the bill..."

"Is this their house?" Carlisle Cullen turned his blond head to Edward. Edward nodded; his eyes were scanning the big house in front of them. He took a deep breath. It was empty.

"Hmm, nice house" Alice said, biting her lip. She wasn't sure how to feel. She was excited but afraid at the same time. She was excited because she finally knew what they were but she was afraid too if they were threat to them. She never had any vision about them. He didn't know they would be here, she didn't know Draco would read Edward's mind, and she didn't know they would invite them. She couldn't see what they would do next. She didn't tell her family about it. They didn't ask.

"Urgh, why do I smell wet dog?" Rosalie said angrily. The Cullen heard familiar growls and saw the whole wolf pack was walking toward them.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Jacob growled. Edward wanted to roll his eyes. Jacob was always being the one who would show the anger first.

"Calm down, Jake" The Alpha calmed his Beta down. Sam narrowed his eyes as he gave the vampires a cold look.

"What's your business here?"

"I can ask the same for you" Emmet dared to say. Carlisle gave him a warning look before put a friendly smile, trying to convince the shape shifters that they weren't here for something bad.

"We're friends with the owner of this house. We came here for ... a visit" Sam narrowed his eyes. 'Visit? Nice reason. Like it usual for a coven of vampire to visit someone'

"You come here to ask for some explanation"

"Stay out my head, bloodsucker!" Jacob barked to the mind reader. Both of them began the glare contest.

"We're here for the same reason then, Sam Uley. We're curious about them. I know that they're not a regular human and I'm sure 100% that they have already known about us being a vampire. I think it's only fair if we know what they are since they have known what we are."

"We also have to make sure if the aren't a threat." Rosalie added. Jacob's glared moved from Edward to the blonde haired vampire behind Emmet.

"They aren't a threat! Sure they aren't normal human, but they aren't threat" 'How dare them!'

"Maybe not for you, we still have to make sure." Carlisle said, trying not to cause any fight.

"They have live here for months. If they were a threat, they would have done something bad to all of you. So far, nothing happens. They are good people and we will be happy if you stay away from them" Jacob growled.

"Jake!" Jake turned his head to the voice.

"Luna!" his face lit up. He noticed that the wizards and witches were staring at them around their car. 'When did they arrive here?' Jacob shook his head.

"You're here" Harry nodded his head as his eyes examined the two kinds of mystical creature in front of their house. From the look of their faces, they were surprise to see them. How in the earth they didn't notice them came? And they said they had sensitive hearing...

"It's okay, Jake. I'm the one who invite them. We had some... discussion about our species" Luna said, linking her arm around Jacob's. Luna titled her heard.

"Welcome to our humble home, people..." She said before skipped into the house, pausing to unlock the door, and dragged Jacob with her.

"Come in" Harry said, welcoming the pack and vampires.

The vampires and the pack came in and looked around the house. They followed Harry to family room since it was little bigger that the living room. Harry looked at them and sighed. The room was still too small for all of them. Hermione noticed this and waved her head, muttering some spells. Soon the room was bigger than before and the chairs were gone, leaving only large carpet to sit. The Cullen and the pack were too shocked to say something.

"Sit" Draco commanded as he sit down on the carpet.

"So, what do you want to know?" Harry asked, looking at the very curious vampires and less curious wolf shifters.

"What are you?" Edward asked immediately. Esme nudged him, trying to warn him to be more polite but Edward was too curious to notice it.

"We're wizards and witches." Luna said. The vampires frowned and looked at them like they were crazy.

"We're not lying." Hermione said, noticing the look on their face.

"Sorry, it's just... unbelievable." Carlisle said, shaking his head. He smiled and looked at them teenagers in front of him. He could see they were telling the truth when his eyes locked with Harry.

"Well, you have to believe because it's true. We're wizards and witches that live or lived in England, a place that has largest society of our kind."

"So you're wizards? Wand, broomstick, cloak, spell, potion... something like that?" Emmet asked, excited.

"Yes."

"This is my wand." Luna said as she taking out a piece of wood called wand. She pointed her wand to Emmet's cap.

"Wingardium Leviosa" she said softly. The vampires gasped when the cap was floating around the room. Luna dropped the cap onto Seth's head. Seth gave a disgusting look and threw it on the carpet immediately.

"Hey!" Emmet cried and took it quickly.

"Wow" Alice said in awe.

"You knew!" Edward growled at the wolves.

"Yes, we did and we have no reason to tell you about it if that what you are thinking about" Sam said.

"What are you doing here, then? You have a life in England, right? Where you are gathering around your kind." The oldest vampires asked kindly. Harry sighed.

"We came here only to clear our mind from everything that had happened in England. Few months ago, there was a war between dark side and light side. The dark side was led by one of the most powerful wizard Tom Riddle or we knew as Lord Voldemort. The light side was previously led by one of the most powerful wizard too named Albus Dumbledore but he died a year ago.

Voldemort was very cruel wizard. He thought that pureblood was the only one who should be learning magic so he planned to destroy Muggle-born and possibly Muggle too from this world. He wanted to rule the world, so he did everything that would give benefit for him. He gathered followers since he was in school, learning high level dark magic and even killed everyone that across his path."

"What's pureblood, Muggle-born and Muggle?" Sam asked.

"Pureblood is a wizard that has magical parents, both of them. If only have one, maybe mother or father, then be called half-blood. Muggle is a term to call non-magical being, a regular human and if two muggles have a child that has magical ability, the child is called muggle-born."

"Are you pureblood, Harry?" Seth asked. Harry shook his head.

"No. My father was, but my mother was Muggle-born, so I am a half-blood"

"Was?" Esme asked, curiously.

"My parents died when I was fifteen months" Harry said. Esme looked at him in sympathy. If a vampire could cry maybe she would have cried.

"Draco, Arianna, Luna, Ginny and Ron are pureblood while Hermione is Muggle-born" Harry said, smiling to her friends.

"Voldemort was becoming a powerful dark wizard. Everyone was scared of him. They were even too scared to say his name. Until one day, there was a prophecy that said that Voldemort would be defeated by a boy. Furious and maybe scared, Voldemort searched for the boy and tried to kill him. He managed to kill his parents but failed to kill the boy. The boy was protected by his mother's love, the most powerful love in this world. His curse rebounded and attacked himself."

"So he had died?" Paul asked. Harry shook his head.

"Many people thought so, but some wizards believed that he would come back. And they were right. In my fourth year in school, he came back and gained power and followers once more. He ruled the Ministry of Magic, sent someone to get whatever he wanted, sent someone to kill Albus Dumbledore, kidnapped everyone who had important information and finally began a war.

The war happened in Hogwarts. Our beloved school was destroyed, many loved ones were died" Harry said, looking at Ron who was leaning to Hermione "And finally Voldemort died."

"Who killed Voldemort? Did the boy do that?"

"Ye, he did"

"Who is the boy?" Carlisle narrowed his eyes.

"Me" Harry said. The audiences stared at him in awe.

"Wow... so you're a very powerful wizard" Jacob said in awe.

"No, the reason I was able to defeated Voldemort wasn't because I'm powerful wizard but because I have one thing that he didn't. I have love. I have love from my parents, friends and also everyone who care about me. Voldemort didn't have that and even underestimated love. I am not a powerful wizard at ll. War hero, yes but powerful wizard, no." Harry said, shaking his head.

"As Harry said before, we came here only to clear our mind and also waiting for Auror training to be opened. We will back once we have to." Hermione said.

"You will come back to England?" Jacob asked, turned his attention to Luna. Luna gave him a smile and took his hand.

"Not now" She said. Jacob took a deep breath and let her leaned into his chest.

"What's Auror?" Seth asked. He was captivated by the story.

"Auror is someone who has a job to find dark wizard and capture them."

"Like policeman?" Harry chuckled.

"Yes, like policeman"

"Wow, cool!"

"You see, we are not thread to anyone. We won't do anything to all of you" Harry said, looking at the Cullen. Carlisle smiled and nodded.

"Thank you for your explanation and we're sorry about our suspicion"

"No need to. You have a right to be suspicious and all. "Harry said, smiling.

Jacob sighed as he caressed Luna's blond hair. It had been hours since the visit of the Cullen, more explanations, more demonstration and so on. Now, Jacob was hanging out in Luna's bedroom. Both of them were lying on her bed, cuddling.

"What's wrong?" Luna asked. She sat up and looked at her, worried. Jacob forced a smile and shook his head.

"Jake, please..."

"I just... Luna, you and friends are only here for a while. After the Auror thing is opened, all of you will be back to England. I understand that you want to be an Auror but... but I..."

"You don't want to be away from me." She finished, lifting her hand and caressed his cheek. Jacob leaned on her touch and nodded.

"Jacob, I don't want to be away from you too, not after I find someone like you. Become an Auror isn't my dream. It's Harry and the other's dream. But never mine"

"But your father was killed by Death Eaters, right? I thought-"

"Yes, my father was killed by them but that doesn't mean I have to revenge his death by become an Auror and hunt all the dark wizards. I know that my father would be happy if I manage to do something useful for everyone and that's not only by becoming an Auror. I can be anything I want and my father would still be proud of me. I will find a way to be someone who is manage to reach her dream but still by the side of her love" Luna said, smiling. Jacob couldn't help but smiled back and leaned for a kiss.

"How?" Jacob whispered but

"Hmm... I don't know but I will think about it" Luna said.

"Luna?"

"Yes" Jacob looked straight into her blue eyes.

"I love you" he said sincerely.

"I love you too" she smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck before pulled him into a passionate kiss. Jacob pushed her onto the bed with him on top of her.

Jacob was so into the kiss that he didn't notice someone knocked the door or when Draco opened Luna's bedroom door. Draco had to use his wand to get them separated. Surprise, Jacob turned to look at the door only to find a pair of blue gray eyes glared at him. Jacob blushed and quickly jumped onto his feet. His eyes were looking everywhere except at the furious Slytherin Prince.

"It's late Mr. Black. You should go home" Draco said coldly. Jacob nodded nervously and looked at Luna who was smiling at him in amused.

"Ye-yeah, that's right. Bye Luna" Jacob said. Luna walked to him and gave him a kiss on the cheeks.

"Bye, Jacob. I'll se you tomorrow" she said. Jacob smiled and leaned down to kiss her once more.

"Ahem" Jacob jumped.

"Bye" he said before hurriedly jumped off Luna's balcony. Luna smiled and turned around.

"What?" she asked, smiling at Draco. Draco stared at her for a moment before shook his head.

"Next time, tell him to go home at 11 o'clock or I will force him to leave" Draco said. Luna smiled and nodded before kissed his cheek and pushed him out her bedroom.

Draco shook his head as he walked downstairs. Jacob and Luna was a couple now. Draco smiled. She deserved some happiness after everything she had been through. Draco walked into the kitchen and filled a glass with some water. Draco was about to drink when he felt pain on his left forearm. Reflect, he dropped the glass and grasped his arm. He leaned onto the counter and pull up his sleeve. He looked at his arm in horror when a familiar dark mark was getting darker and clearer.

"Merlin..."

TBC

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