AN: last chapter and this chapter is set up for a few story lines that will come to play in due time. Some of it is seeing up for Emily to b easy when it is time to Steve to come back as well Lauren and lastly Bucky. For Emily needs to start in the emotion roller coaster before Steve comes back. But the main storyline in last chapter and this chapter is Gwen, for hose that ad it so far and have been ordering when you will meet her face to face, that won't be for some time. Before you can meet her face to face that a lot needs to happen, the last thing that need so happen is Days of Future past. For some things in Emily's life like be changed in that new timeline, I am not saying of what will happen to Gwen, but I am sure you can guess of what will happen to her in due time. But you will see her as a baby in this chapter while Emily is dreaming.
Emily's pov
Emily and Steve barely turned six only days ago, both of them were in the hospital next to their father. Her father didn't look well, his skin paled and yellowed and some of his hair was grey, the scariest part for Emily was his eyes. Eyes that were fill d with joy, love, kindness and showed that he cared were dull and full of pain but there was still love in them whenever he looked at Emily and Steve. Emily was sitting next to Steve and Emily was holding onto the stuffed bear that Bucky gave to her a year ago. Other than Steve and knowing that she has a home to go to with Bucky's family if something happens to her father, that the stuffed bear was the only other comfort she has. Her father looked at Emily and Steve before he spoke softly.
"Emily, Steve, come here." Emily and Steve got off of the chair before they walked over to their father. Their father reached out his hands and took each of their hands into his larger hand and looked at them. "Look, I will be leaving and soon."
"Where are you going daddy?" Her father looked at her when she said that before he put his hands on her cheeks as a tear went down her cheek.
"A better place. A place of where I can't come back from."
"Don't you love us?"
"I do, it is only because of you toe I made it as far as I have. But I am losing the battle, I need you two to be strong." Her father looked at Steve. "Look after Emily and take care of her. Promise me that you will."
"I promise."
"When will we see you again, Daddy?" Her father looked at her.
"I hope that it would not be for some time. But someday I will see you two down there with me and we will be together again. I am going to miss my little flower princess and my little soldier. Make sure you two stay together no matter what happens. Farewell till than." As he spoke the last words that his eyes close and he didn't hear the yells and crying of his two children nor that of the doctors that case in to take the two children out of the hospital room. The dream faded to be replace by another scene.
A man was sitting in a nursery and in his arms was a small pink bundle, hidden among the bundle was a small face of a new born baby girl fast asleep. The man was singing the baby to sleep, after a minute the man stopped singing and looked down at his baby girl. Her hair was the same shade as his brown hair and she had his blue eyes as well, for he seen her eyes before she closed them again. The man raised quietly and made sure not to disturb his little girl before he walked across the room and placed her in the crib. Thankfully Demeter had set up the nursery before she left, before she left that she told him some things of which was still ringing his ears. Demeter had told him that she didn't wanted history to repeat itself and took steps to make sure it didn't happen again. Despite that, he still couldn't help but worry about his daughter or his son that he would never see, he has the hope that he could see him someday.
Just as he placed his daughter into the crib that here was a bang from the front door, he stood up properly and looked over to the door of the nursery. Than another bang came and he could hear the door fall down to the floor, he runs into the hallway. Just as he did so that two men wearing nothing but black entered the hallway, he stood there for a moment before one started towards him. He tried to defend himself and managed to punch the guy in the face but he was unable to do anything else for the other guy punched him in the face and the other one kicked him in the stomach. The guy he punched went into the nursery while the other one hit him across the back, as he blacked out that he notice the other guy coming out and yelled at the other man or it seem if the one guy was yelling to Robert. "Don't, it's a girl." His last thoughts before he fell into blackness was, what were they going to his daughter.
The next thing he knew was someone was whispering to him and asking him to wake up, he could hear the crying of a newborn baby but it was a little lower pitch than that of Gwen. As he woke up more that he thought back to the last thing he could remember, that two men came into his apartment and knocked him out. And that they were going to do something to his daughter or were planning on something that revolves around her. As he woke up more that he realized that it was Demeter that was whispering and there was a background noise of a baby. He wondered if she find Gwen, slowly he opened his eyes and saw Demeter looking down at him worried.
"For a moment I thought you were dead." He sat up.
"How did you get here?" He looked around and noticed that he was in the nursery and there was a bundle in the crib but instead of it being pink, it was blue. "Where's Gwen?"
"I don't know, whoever case in here had took her and were long gone when I cam here and Apollo was unable to see of where they went." He got up from the floor, rather unsteadily, and walked to the crib and looked down at a baby boy that was crying. He has the same hair color as he does and Gwen, the baby boy stopped crying for a moment and opened his eyes and looked at him. The baby boy's eyes were blue, just like his own eyes and Gwen's eyes, looking down at him that he knew that is was the other baby that was born along with Gwen, Phillip. However he wasn't planning on using the full name but shorten it to Phil instead, he picked up Phil before turning to Demeter.
"Do you think that Gwen can be found and brought back?"
"I don't know, all I know she is hidden." He looked at Phil and Phil yawned and turned before he fell asleep.
"What of Phil?" He looked back over at Demeter. "Would he go to his half sister?"
"Well, she is still unaware to Phil or his twin. I will admit I wanted children since she become immortal and I know she wants half siblings. But I don't want to take Phil to her now and tell her everything that I know what happen, for that would be unaware. Knowing her she would do everything she can to help, she might be able to help. But with still dealing nightmares of the past and than give her hope and tear half of it away may not be a good idea. It would be better if she doesn't know for the time being. But like we planned with Gwen that she will start training him at ten or a little after he turns ten. Besides we both lost a child tonight and it would only be fair if the father raises the son." He merely nodded and Demeter disappeared in a green light. The scene changed again.
This time a man in his early thirties was driving as fast as he could down a country road and there was a ten year old boy in her front seat next to him. He was explain everything to his son of who and what he was, he even explained of why he didn't tell his son this earlier or at least one reason of which was his demigod scent. It was when he reached the par about Phil's half sister that he stepped on the break and the car skidded to a halt. Fear fled through him as he looked down the road at the monster that was there, it's head was human, it's body was that of a lion and it had a tail with spikes. He shifted gear and the car went backwards, but than the lion man roared and charged, he knew that he could get to far backing up. Also there was little chance of getting away from the monster, he hope and prayed that Phil's half sister would show up.
"Get out." Robert and Ohio managed o grout before the monster was able to kill Phil, for the monster missed Phil by just a few inches. Robert ran over to the other side to the car just as Phil stumbled and tripped over a root, the monster turned to Phil. Robert feel anger swelling inside of him, there as no way he was going to have his son killed for he didn't want a repeat or relive of what happen to his daughter. Before the master got to close to Phil at Robert managed to jump onto the monster's back. Suddenly the monster reared, Robert went to grabbed hold of something when suddenly the spiked tail hit him. He was throw off of the monster and he could barely tell that he went flying through the air before hitting a tree and hitting the ground. He felt pain and he could fell himself losing to unconsciousness, robber linked a few times and notice his vision was going fuzzy and his hearing was off. However didn't miss Phil's scream of Dad.
Robert wanted to yell back telling Phil that he was fine but he knew that he want fine and that he was dying. At the moment he felt like he failed both of his children of being the protection they needed as well as to have a normal childhood and that he was unable omega Phil to his half sister. As Robert tried to lift himself to try to get up that the monster was charging at Phil, Robert had to say Phil, even if he as dying. Just as he managed to got into his knees that he felt hope for the first time in ten years, even with his blurry vision that he was able to see the woman jumping over Phil. She moved so fast that he was not able to see her properly or see what she did when she hit the monster that it caused the monster to fell back and crashed into the car. When the woman stood still that he got his first look at her, just taking one look at her that he just somehow knew that this woman was Phil's half sister.
The woman was at least ten years younger than he was and twelve years older than Phil or by looks at any rate. The woman's hair was black and curly that pulled up in a ponytail with something leather. Her skin was pale and he could see just enough of her face o see that her eyes were dark and there was a glow of madness in her eyes, she was wearing an old 1940s brown leather jacket that was made clearly for a male, a red shirt, black pants and running shoes. Even from where he was that he could feel the air around her, there was hope, life and death and from how she was holding herself that she was born and trained to fight anything that comes her way, monster or otherwise. It was like she was born a warrior, a fight, a defender, but at the same time there was small signs that time has not been kind to her and that was only if one was able to pick up. For he got the sense to loss, misery, and sadness, the same kind of feelings he got when his daughter was taken from him.
However Robert fell forward before he felt his eye close at that moment, his breathing was getting heavier as he lay there. Than he heard movement moving over to him and someone moving him to his side, he opened his eyes to see Phil kneeling there. He could see the worry and sadness in Phil's eyes, it was clear to them both that there was nothing that could done form Robert now. The only thing he really needed to know was that Phil was safe and sound with his half sister, for she was the only one who could look after him. Robert reached out and touched Phil's cheek as tears started coming down his face and he wipe them away. Phil looked unharmed but he went sure on that for sure, Robert needed to know that Phil as fine before h dies.
"Are you hurt?"
"No, but you need to get healed."
"Phil ... "
"You will be all right." From Phil's tone that Robert knew that Phil didn't want to lose him, not here not now, Robert wished that this didn't happen.
"Phil, you know I won't make it, not with what happen."
"Please dad." As Phil said that, the woman walked over when she kissed the monster and she spoke making Phil jump and turn around.
"He is right, he doesn't have much time left." Robert watched as Phil looked up at the woman standing there looking at the two of them. "His life aura is fading and fast." Than Phil looked back to his father.
"No, you can't leave me, not in the middle of the forest. You also told me that you were taking me to my half sister's."
"I did." Robert looked up at the woman behind them, hoping that this was Rachel Blackthrone or aka Emily Barnes. "What is your name?" The woman looked at Robert carefully before she spoke.
"Rachel Blackthrone, daughter of Hades. Why?"
"You're Rachel?" The woman looked surprised when Robert said that.
"Yes, do you know me?"
"Your mother told me about you and told me that you are her child by birth but were adopted by Hades much later in life. She brought up that you think of yourself as both of their daughters as well as the gods but the demigods only know you as a daughter of Hades."
"What else did she tell you about me?"
"Everything but she asked me to only tell Phil that you are her daughter by birth and a daughter of Hades by adoption." Rachel looked down at Phil before she knelt down besides the two of them.
"He is a demigod isn't he?"
"He is, he is a son of Demeter." Robert saw hr eyes idea when he said that so he went on. "His scent was starting to get stronger in the last month, when he almost got killed earlier today that I know I had to find you and get him to you. Please take him in, he doesn't have anyone else to go to now. You are his only family left." Robert looked back at Phil. "Behave Phil, learn what she teaches you to make sure enough you can defend yourself against the monsters. I love you." Robert felt at peace though he was still worried of how his death would affect Phil. Robert closed his eyes as his head slumped forward, he hard Phil call dad a couple of time and when he took his last breathy hate last thing he hard was Phil shouting no and crying.
"No! No! No!" Emily hardly noticed that she woke up nor did she feel a pair of arms around her till a male's voice broke through her yelling.
"Emily, calm down. Calm down. Breath." Emily started breathing, she could feel shadows around her as work as darkness along rumbling. Emily breathe more and tried to calm herself down, slowly she felt her powers were once again under her control. As soon as the rumbling stopped and she didn't feel the darkness and shadows didn't try to cling to her that she knew that her powers were under her control again. She realized at the moment that sh had been crying or still was for she could feel the tears on her cheeks as well as more coming down. It was only that she realized of who was holding her in a hug and was trying to clam her down, it was Hades. Emily pulled out of the hug and she wiped away the tears as she pulled away from the hug, Emily didn't look at Hades, for she knew that he had a look of concern on his face. For it had been at least thirty years since she had a nightmare and broke down, just like she had just now. All just because of the two orders she read. Suddenly, Emily felt someone else sitting on the bed not to head this time she heard Persephone's voice.
"Are you all right, Emily?" Emily didn't look at it either one of them nor did she say anything right away. She glanced around the room and she looked at where she was when she found hear kneeling on the floor and felt her control overpowers lose control. That was the last hint she could remember her powers went out of control and she found herself on the floor. The only other thing she could remember was someone hugging and tasking to her, she figured it was Hades and Persephone. For they were the only ones, other than he birth father, that were aware of the nightmares and what she was capable of when the nightmares happen. But she never remembered her powers being that out of control before when she had nightmare before. When she looked to the floor that she didn't see the file for she barely can remember the file being next to her. This she looked on the other side of the be and noticed the file on the desk, that it was op showing the face of Gwen Coulson. Emily looked away and out her head on Persephone's shoulder, she didn't dare anything however Hades spoke up.
"Would you prefer Persephone and myself keep that file of where only Persephone and myself can get at?" Emily nodded, she could feel the shift as Hades got up, it wasn't till when she heard Hades was close to the door hat she lifts her head and spoke.
"Dad." Hades looked back at Emily with the file in his hand, Emily remembers talking to her mother about Gwen but that night was the only time they talked about Gwen. Emily remembers her mother bringing up Hades but she couldn't remember of what her mother said about Hades. "Did you know about Gwen Coulson?"
"Yes and no. Your mother came down and asked if there was a Gwen Coulson down here and I told her that I wasn't sure. So she asked me to keep a look out for her if she dies. I have looked for her in the underworld but so far she has yet to enter the underworld. Though it wasn't till I looked at the file that I understood fully of why Demeter came down here all those years ago. I am guessing that you sense the connection between Phil and Gwen?" Emily nodded.
"I did and I question my mother about it. She told me everything she knew at the time and we haven't spoke about it since. Though she had me swear on the River Styx not to tell Phil."
"That is not a big surprise that Demeter would do that." There was a slight pause before Hades went on. "Emily." Emily looked at him as he spoke. "I know Gwen is not dead or not yet as far as I am aware. I have no doubt that you will meet her before sh dies, when that happens, you will need to help her. I am not sure how or when, it may even be as simple as finding her and tell her what you know of her."
"I don't know about that, dad."
"Neither do I, but I believe that she would need help to have a new life and that either you or Phil will be the one that helps her do that." Emily opened her mouth to say something but Hades spoke. "Before you say anything, considering the connection between the two that at some point that Phil would need to know. Not through you though." As soon as Hades said that, that Hades walked out of the bedroom, Emily curled up next to Persephone. For the first time in about thirty years, she felt helpless and hopeless, that there was nothing she could do to stop of what was to come.
Emily was sure that Arabella could tell that something was wrong or bothering Emily when Arabella came back from visiting Emily's mother. Emily wanted to tell Arabella was wrong but she want sue if that was a good idea or not, not only that but Arabella wouldn't understand the full impact that the news had on Emily. For Arabella was unaware of the fact that Emily as Emily Barns, even bough Arabella head of her. That was another hing, Emily was unsurprising she was ready to tell Arabella and before fading that file earlier that Emily considered telling Arabella the day before Arabella leaves for Hogwarts. But with the file and the nightmare she had, she didn't feel ready any more, there two other reasons of why Emily hadn't told Arabella. One being that she wants Arabella to know of who she is really, though she would admit that was not a reason she kept it from Phil for so long. Another reason was that she didn't want to drag as bells into her past or too soon at any rate, for Emily wanted to be sure that Arabella was easy to face Emily's past it and when Emily's past should catch up with her. After dinner, Emily made her way to her room, she barely turned the last corner when she heard a yell from down the hall. Emily turned towards the yell and saw Arabella coming over to her, when Arabella was close enough at she spoke.
"Emily, is everything all right?" Emily stood there for a moment wondering ho to answer that question.
"Things have been better?"
"What's wrong?" Emily sighed.
"Don't worry about Arabella." Arabella was about ready to say so in but Emily went on before Arabella could say anything. "Arabella, look." Emily out one of her hands on Arabella's shoulders. "I am not sure if you would fully understand of what is bothering me. Not only that but it has nothing to do with you. What is bothering me is a personal matter."
"But shouldn't you tell someone?"
"Our father and Persephone are already aware of what it is." Emily pause for a moment and looked at Arabella as Arabella watched her, it went on. "Arabella, first off it is a long story and second off, I made an oat on the river Styx not to talk to anyone about this unless if it is with people that are aware of it. I made that oath long before you were born, but you don't need to worry about it." Arabella looked at her, giving a look that said that she still wanted to know but diced to leave it as it was. Arabella walked back down the hallway towards her room while Emily went to her room, hoping that Arabella would put of wha was bothering in the back of her mind.
The night before Arabella went to Hogwarts that Emily found herself a bit restless, half was because for the first time Arabella was going to a school and was going somewhere outside of Emily's cabin, SHIELD headquarters or Clint's farmhouse. Emily has been to school but it was for about three years, that sounded really lame and Emily knows it, thankfully she learned how to read, write and everything else at camp. Thankfully Emily didn't have the main common two problems of demigods, so she was able to read and write English just as well as she could read and write Greek. During her first ten years in the underworld that Hades had her coach up som of her schooling, along side doing underwood duties. Funny into her main two Rachel's in regards to either schooling or learning to control her demigod powers was her birth father and adopted father. That was the thing she noticed about Hades was that he did different things with he parents of his children. For he placed a curse on both Lily evens and Maria Di Angelo so that Arabella, Nico and Bianca couldn't talk to their mothers, even to see them.
However with Emily, she could talk to her father whenever she wanted to, that was mainly because Bianca and Nico were dipped into the Lethe and Arabella only been with her mother for half hour or a hour at most. With Nico and Bianca, there was nothing she could do really, but arguing about Arabella meeting her mother was an argument that has been going on since Lily entered the underworld. Emily know that Arabella was aware that her mother was dead, but Emily was unsure of what Arabella knows about the death of her mother or what story she has. Emily was worried of asking, Arabella did ask Emily of how her mother died and in a way of what Emily told Arabella was the truth. That her mother died when she as six of an incurable illness or it was incurable at the time, the only non truth of what Emily told Arabella that it was her mother that died.
Upon reaching Arabella's room that Emily knocked and went into the room, as Emily netted that Arabella looked up from where she was on the bed reading a book. It seem hard to believe that Arabella was already eleven and was going off to school. The only thing that remained the same since Emily first saw Arabella was her dark red hair, purple eyes with flecks of green, pale skin and a gleam of madness in her eyes like she was a mad woman or a genius. Emily could remember the time of when Arabella was in her arms as a small and few hours old baby. That was one thing she liked about being immortal, for when she gets the chance, she could just sit down at a cafe and just watch as time goes by as she stay stills. But that was also one of the most annoying things about being immortal as well, there were different cons and pros of things and there things of where an item can be on both sides of the list.
"Scared?"
"A little, I am more worried than scared."
"There is nothing to be scared about. Sure it seems scary at first but when you learned at you are part of another world. I remember when I learned that I was a demigod."
"When you meet Lauren?" Emily stiffen when Arabella said that, even though Arabella was not aware of who she was that Emily told her that she meet and knew Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes and Lauren Huntington. So Arabella has a basic idea of old Emily was and some things she did in the past, Emily remembered when Arabella first ask of how Emily's story about Lieutenant USA and Captain America was so detailed. Emily told Arabella that she was there nearby as the events unfolded themselves, but she didn't say outright of how or why she was there. For the first few years after her fake death that shines where Lauren was till Lauren said goodbye to both Steve and Emily on the Brooklyn bridge and that was the last time Emily ever saw of her bet grind, the one she considered as her sister in all but blood.
"I am sorry, Emily." Emily looked at Arabella, due to Hades, Persephone and the other gods calling Emily by her given first name that Arabella did so. Emily just told Arabella that Emily was he middle name and that Blackthrone was her married last name and that James was her maiden name. Saying Emily was her middle came from when Phil asked of why some people called her Emily instead of Rachel. However saying James was her maiden name was when Phil kept asking about her husband and brother. Since than that Phil learned the truth, he me enabled her for not telling him and he could understand too well of why she never led him or a good many of them. She did tell him about Hades making her promise not to reveal herself till Captain America was found and came back.
"It's all right, Arabella. I love Lauren as a sister, even as a twin, and I wouldn't change my memories of her for anything, it's worries and bothers me that I can't find her or learn of what happen to her."
"Just like Steve and Bucky." Emily did her best to hold back those memories, honestly the memories of Steve and Bucky were more painful than that of Lauren. For Steve and Bucky were ripped from twice while Lauren was never ripped from her, instead Emily ripped herself from Lauren. Something that Emily hadn't forgive herself for doing and she hoped she could explain that to Lauren some day. Emily knows she was close to tears but she managed to hold it back, usually she was able to control is better since Phil enter her life and Arabella helped even more. But with what she learned within the las into that she was finding it hard to control the motions and not to let them overwhelm her.
"Yes, just like Steve and Bucky." Emily walked over to where Arabella was standing before hugged Arabella, Arabella hugged her back as Emily kissed the top of her head. "Now you better get some sleep, for you will be going to London tomorrow to go to Hogwarts." Emily pulled away from the hug so that Arabella could lay back down on her bed. Emily took the book off the bed before she pulled the blankets over Arabella and turned off the light that was by Arabella's bed. Emily kissed her forehead. "Good night, Arabella." Emily walk across the room before she left the room.
The next day, Emily was unable to say goodbye to Arabella before she left for Hogwarts. For Emily was moe determined this ever o find the winter soldier and figure out of what happen to him, who he was and he was able be alive for so long without aging. She figure the winter soldier went from one agency to another for years, but it seems that there as more o it than that with what she learned from Gwen's file. That was the fact that the winter soldier was always under HYDRA but went from each agency to another, she was unsure of which agency thinks they have control of him but she was worried of what he could do and what become of him if he should leave HYDRA for good. She wasn't sure which one was more scary the current winter soldier or knowing who would take his place and knowing the kind of training that person has. She hadn't told her mother what she learned but her mother, Hades, Apollo and Hermes were helping with the winter soldier when they could. They also managed to help Project demigod by bringing more of their children to their base and telling them of any HYRDA bases they managed to find. With everything Emily does that it was not a surprise that she fell asleep with her head on the table in her cabin. As she slept that one of the pictures on the table was blown away by a warm breeze and went into the bedroom.
The picture landed in front of a picture with a man that was about twenty four wearing a 1940s Amy uniform. The man in the army uniform had dark brown and sky blue eyes along with fair skin, the funny thing was that the picture of the winter soldier right next to the dark brown hair man was wearing a similar uniform but more it was mode and tactical. The uniform was mostly silver and black, however the winter soldier had brown hair that was a couple of shades lighter than the other man's hair. But due to the goggles and face mask that his eyes couldn't be seen, his one arm was made out of silver metal and there was a red star on it. As the picture of the winter soldier lay there that a swirl of magic surrounded both pictures of Bucky Barnes and the winter soldier. So that Bucky's hair turned a little lighter and his blue eyes become more sky blue and he tanned slightly while the winter soldier's hair become a littler darker and his skin become a little fairer. The thing that changed the most was the face make and goggles, for they were gone to reveal sky blue eyes and the face of Bucky Barnes. Thankfully Emily was fast asleep by the time the two pictures return to normal.
As soon as Emily was awake that she went into her bedroom to get a change of clothing, when she got in there that she saw the one picture laying there. After changing that Emily picked it and put it back in the chest that she has the information of the winter soldier. Once she did that, that she went to the underworld and did her normal duties, of course she went to talk to her birth father so he could help her calm down. During the next couple of months that she learned from Severus that the headmaster was aware of her and was fine with Emily coming down to help train Arabella or make sure Arabella keeps up with her training. Emily remembered that Severus told her of what the headmaster's name was and that she heard it before but she couldn't remember what his name was. During that time that Arabella's black owl, Shadow, came and gave them Arabella's letters and they sent letters back or Emily did more often than their father at least. In her last letter to Arabella that Emily told Arabella that she might come to Hogwarts around Halloween. It was funny when Arabella was here that Emily had some extra of helping or training Arabella to learn to control her powers. But now that Arabella wasn't here that she found herself doing the things that Hades has Arabella do when she was old enough and trained enough to do so.
Even though Arabella was a mortal that Emily was sure that Arabella was next in line after her, even if Steve wakes up and Hades adopts him. Besides, Emily knows that Steve would feel uncomfortable with becoming a heir to anything and that he would rather do what he did in the war. Emily wasn't even sure if Steve would accept being adopted by Hades, that was one thing she wondered about, would he accept that or not. Even if he did that she was sure he would gladly help lead and due his duties but he wouldn't want the burden of having the full control like Hades does. Emily couldn't blame him for she felt it's weight of being next for nearly seventy years, even to this day, that scares her. That scares her worse than nightmares or anything that scares or if something freaks her out, Emily refused to let that show to anyone but her birth father and Howard. She only showed Howard because he dragged it out of her and she punched him in the face when he did that to the amusement of his wife. After what felt like forever, or at least more than usual, that Emily was able to the underworld.
It was the weekend after Halloween that Emily was able to Hogwarts to visit and help train Arabella and help her some with a training schedule. Thanks to the information given to her by Godric Gryffindor that Emily was able to shadow travel just outside of the gates of Hogwarts. Godric recommend to her that she should go through the gate, it wasn't till she entered the grounds and saw the castle that she understand of why Godric recommended that. Hogwarts was huge and looked like it was built in the medieval times, even though it was grand that there was no doubt in her mind that Olympus and Hades's palace were grander. After a few moments that Emily entered the castle, when she did that a strange feeling over her, it was not a bad feeling. It was a feeling like the castle was watching her and that the castle was expecting her after all of this time, she couldn't explain it better than that. Emily looked around the entrance as she did so that she saw Arabella going up the stairs with three eleven year olds, a girl and two boys.
The girl had brushy brown hair, one of the boys has red hair and the last boy had black hair, with the last boy that Emily didn't need to see his face to know of who he was. Unlike the rest of the wizarding world that Emily knew who Harry was by the fact she could feel the connection between him and Arabella and it grew stronger since Emily last saw Arabella. Emily couldn't help but smile when she felt that connection, she could feel their connection was and would become more powerful in time if they let it. Emily noticed that Arabella and he other stopped halfway up the stairs, she looked up to see three boys, two were huge while one was smaller. The smaller boy has blond hair, a pointed face and was pale, from what Severus told her about his godson that smaller boy must be Draco Malfoy. Draco was looking between the four, from that look and the way he was holding himself reminded Emily too much of the bullies back between the ages of four to eight when she left her adopted family. She was also reminded of the bullies that were in the super soldier program that tried to flirt with her but made life difficult for her brother.
"I am surprised that you are still hanging around them. A blood traitor and a muggle born."
"Who I hang around with is none of your concern, Malfoy." Emily merely smiled, it reminded much of how she responded to the bulling she got or the flirting she got. Or at the flirting she got from every man but Bucky. Emily covered herself with shadows and went to the foot of the stairs to watch.
"We are family, so we are suppose to look out for each other."
"I am not asking you to look out for me and never will either. If you really were looking out for me then why didn't you show up at the duel, you had claimed that I should see how a wizard handles a duel. All you were trying to do was to set us up to leave this school. All you proved was that you are a rude, sneaky, worthless coward and a good for nothing blood traitor that has nothing better to do than to get people into trouble for his own selfish gains." Draco pulled out his wand and pointed it at Arabella.
"You dare insult a Malfoy." Emily smiled even more when Arabella took a step forward to Draco before Draco hissed at him coldly.
"Yes, I dare insult a Malfoy and I would do it again and again."
"If you think you can insult me or my family again you are surely ... " before Draco could say anything more that Emily used the shadows covering her to throw Draco and his two bodyguards against the wall. What happen next was funny, for the two thugs got up as they scream and went running towards the dungeons. Neither one of the thugs even noticed Emily standing there as they ran past her making Emily smile and she managed to hold back the giggling. Draco got up and he glared at his two thugs before he looked at Arabella, not even noticing Emily was there. Draco looked at Arabella.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a darkness elemental? I can help you train that ability." Before Arabella could answer, that Emily spoke up.
"First off, she didn't tell you because it was not any of your concern." At their words that Draco looked away from Arabella and looked to where Emily was, when he looked at her that he looked worried and scared. "Second off, despite that fact, even what you think or otherwise, her powers would not be strong enough to do what to you and your two thugs. Not at their weight." Honestly, Emily wasn't told sure of how powerful and strong Arabella's powers were, but she wasn't going to tell that to Draco. Besides it was plain to Emily that Draco was not aware of the world outside of his home or Hogwarts and he needed a taste of what the real world was like both in and outside of he magical world. As Emily spoke that she walked up the stairs till she was standing on the same platform as Draco and she stood a good foot above him. It was clear that he wasn't thinking of her as a great from the way he was glaring at her.
"You did that? Why?"
"Simple, I am her older half sister but I have a different mother that died when I was much younger. If there was anything I dealt with when I was younger, even younger than Arabella are bullies. Besides you started this, thinking she was dishonoring your family honor. But I think it was more of you that was doing that, not her." Draco raised his wand, before he could that Emily decided to go into Lieutenant America mood and kicked the wand out of his hand and grabbed it before he wand went to the floor. It was moments after kicking his ends away and catching it that she grabbed his air and yanked his arm to his back and pushed him against the wall. Draco wimped and struggled against her. "Don't struggle it will do no good, the only you will get out of this is if you listen." Draco stopped struggling. "Listen carefully to me now, I don't like bullies all that much and I defend myself if I face any that do me harm and I hold the same to Arabella for the time being. So don't mess with me and be carefully of what you say and do around Arabella for I would be teaching her some of things I know including of what I just did. So unless if you change and Arabella accepted you as a friend at the very least that I would be careful if I were you. If you managed to do that, has you wouldn't have to worry about me doing this to you again or even Arabella doing this to you."
Draco looked back at Arabella and her friends, Emily looked and noticed that Arabella's friends back away from Emily. Emily as confused at first till she realize that she was using her death and fear aura, but she could tell that it was not at her full strength. For if it was Arabella would back away while the other three would have ran for it, Emily only knows that because of the last couple of months. For Emily lost control of her powers when she thinks too much about of Gwen and what she learned about Gwen. Emily looked back at Draco of who looked at her of who looked terrified and he nodded showing that he understood of what she meant and she let go of him. Emily tossed Draco his wand back of who barely managed to catch it with his hands as he stumbled away from the wall. "Than go back to your common room and I won't tell anyone of what happened here." Draco nodded before he went running towards where his two thugs went to. Emily lowered the aura and Arabella came up and hugged Emily while the other three walked slowly closer. When Arabella let go that Emily looked at the other three but she looked at Harry the longest, he looked just like James but with Lily's eyes.
"I don't mean you three any harm. I just don't like bullies, no matter where they come from. Though from what Severus told me about Draco that he is a spoiled brat, there is a small chance he could change. But than again who knows." It was the red head that spoke up.
"You are the half sister that Arabella has been talking about?"
"I am indeed. I am Rachel Blackthrone but you can call me Emily." It was the girl that spoke.
"How did you do that with the shadows? I have never seen that before."
"I am a darkness elemental, I will let Arabella confirm to you if she is a darkness elemental as well." Emily looked at the girl. "You are Hermione Granger." She looked at the red haired boy. "You are Ron Weasley. And you are Harry Potter." All of them nodded.
"Emily, come on let's go to the tower." So Emily followed the four of them to the Gryffindor tower to finish talking there.