CHAPTER TWO: THE REUNION
"Mom?", came a light voice. A slender girl with flaming auburn hair and shocking crystal blue eyes streaked with midnight blue, walked into another empty room, trying to figure out where her adoptive mother had gotten to. She wasn't in any of her usual places, and she didn't know where else she would be. But she hadn't checked the garden yet. Her mother was probably there planting and daydreaming. But she absolutely had to show her mother the letter that had come in the mail. She ran down the long hallway and almost into a slender boy with platinum blonde hair. "Oops! Sorry, Draco!! Have you seen my mom?", the girl asked. Draco smiled. " Yeah she was in the garden last I saw, and Lina...", he paused for she had started to run off to the garden, " don't worry I got a letter from Hogwarts, too." He smiled and gave her a peck on the cheek and then turned to walk down the hall to where his room was. Lina swayed on the spot from Draco's kiss. When she recovered herself she shook away her blush and ran as fast as she could, which was pretty fast, to the little fountain in the garden's greenhouse. It was where her mother loved to go and sketch the flowers that grew there.
Lina had the sketches hung all over her room. She drew them herself sometimes, but she preferred to draw portraits. Especially of her mother, but she would never admit that she had an entire book full of her sketches of Draco. She ran into the greenhouse and saw her mother drawing a beautiful sketch of the fountain. The lily pads were a beautiful florescent green, and the fish swimming in the fountain were charmed to change color every few minutes. Apparently Bellatrix had charmed them to pose for her sketches because there were two fish posed to form a heart, and they were very still for a pair of fish. Lina giggled at the funny sight and Bellatrix looked up to see who had made the sound of silver trickle through the air.
She smiled at her adopted daughter, and noticed how she seemed to be eager to say something. She looked at the thick envelope in her hand and smiled. "Congratulations on your letter pumpkin! You got your list of supplies already? Hmm, well that just means we are going to have to go shopping again!", Bellatrix said. Lina sadly smiled. "You know, Harry still hasn't met me yet, and I think it might have to do with the house I'm in. I mean he is in Gryffindor, and I am in his opposing house, Slytherin." Bellatrix just sighed. "He will realize soon enough, pumpkin. You know how slow boys can be sometimes..." She winked at her daughter then. Lina giggled and asked , "So when are we going shopping for my fifth year supplies?" Bellatrix pretended to pull out an imaginary planner and look through the days. Lina giggled. Her mother looked at her and said. "Does this Saturday sound good to you?" She stood up and picked up her daughter by the waist and swung her around in circles." Yes, that sounds great, Mom!", Lina laughed out. They were laughing and squealing and jumping around and didn't even notice a certain blonde boy had entered the green house and was staring at Lina dreamily. He had loved her from the first time he had seen her. They had grown up together and they were very close. And now they were going off to school together, for their fifth year, and Draco was ecstatic. He would have her all to himself when they got to school and her birthday was coming up in October, so he would have the perfect time to win her love.
He wanted to join into the happy moment, but at that moment, Lina spotted him and blushed. Her mom knew about her crush and winked at him and he ran up to the two spinning furiously at this point, and jumped onto Lina and held onto her waist so he wouldn't fall off. They were still spinning fast and they were all laughing to the point of pain.
Suddenly Bellatrix had an idea and she let go of Lina's waist and both she and Draco went flying into the fountain, which was charmed to look shallow, but in reality was extremely deep. Luckily Lina had dropped her letter on the ground before she had flown into the water, but she still had her clothes on and Draco holding her waist, and he wasn't about to let her go. They hit the water laughing and blushing all the way down in the water until they had to let go of each other so they could swim back up to the air. They came up gasping, but they eventually caught their breath and realized that they were no longer wearing full clothes, but swimsuits. They looked around, and they didn't see Bellatrix. "Mom?", Lina cautioned. She knew what was coming. And like clockwork, Bellatrix came out of nowhere and jumped into the water in her swimsuit, too. She came up and splashed the two little magical children. She also knew that Draco liked Lina back, and she had a little matchmaking in mind.
"Draco, have you ever seen the little passageways under the fountain?", Bellatrix asked. He shook his head. "No I haven't. How do you get there?", he questioned. Bella smiled. " Lina can show you the way. Right, Lina?" Lina nodded and turned to Draco. Then she pointed down. " They're down there." She giggled when his eyes questioned her sanity. Bellatrix laughed along and charmed them to breathe underwater. Then Lina dove underwater. Draco waited for her to come back up, but she didn't. He worriedly looked to Bellatrix, who was just smiling. " Well, go on, Draco! She's waiting for you." Sure enough, as he dove under the water, he saw her flipping under the water and laughing. She waved to him to follow her and she swam into what looked like an underwater tunnel. " So that's what she meant by underground tunnels?", Draco asked once he caught up to her where she was waiting. She just rolled her eyes. "Yes, and she just wants you to know where I always used to run off to when I would disappear. She knows how much it worries you, and I couldn't explain it to you because it is jinxed to be hidden from everyone who hasn't been there before.", she explained. "I have to show you where it is, but don't worry I won't let you drown."
At that comment she took off down the tunnel so fast he didn't know wether or not she was half fish or just really talented. But he followed anyway. Soon enough he came to a split in the tunnel. He couldn't see a trace of her anywhere. Not even a trail of bubbles was left to show him where she had gone. "Lina?! Where are you?!" he yelled. He was a little annoyed. He wanted to make sure she wasn't unconscious at the bottom of a tunnel somewhere, and he didn't even know where she was. Suddenly, in answer to his yells, he saw a shadow on the curve of the tunnel to his left. He took a good look at the tunnel. It looked somehow murkier than the right one. But he saw the shadow again, and it looked like a girl's shadow so he swam closer to it and called again. "Lina? Is that you?" The shadow suddenly turned into a huge creature and turned to come after him. Draco was scared stiff, and he couldn't move even if he had tried. But suddenly there was a glowing light from behind him and it surrounded him and kept going after the creature that was now running, or swimming, away as fast as it could from the crystal and midnight blue streaked blue light. It suddenly caught up to the creature and wrapped it up like a cocoon. The light slowly faded and the creature disappeared with it.
Draco turned to look behind him, to see where the light had come from, and he saw Lina glowing that strange blue light. Draco felt relief wash over him once he saw Lina was in no harm. But his eyes widened in awe as he saw the glow was emanating from her being, and the strange blue light was the same colors as her eyes. As he looked into her eyes, he saw that they were glowing brightly, without seeing anything, and were glaring at the place the creature used to be. As soon as the light had completely dissipated from the water, he looked around and saw the water wasn't murky anymore.
He swam to Lina who he now saw was shaking all over, most likely from magical shock, and grabbed her close to his slender frame. She was slowly starting get control of herself, but as he looked at her, he noticed her eyes drooping. He checked her neck for the gills that Bella had spelled onto her, but they were not there, He noticed Lina had her lips pressed in a tight line. She was starting to black out, and Draco noticed. Oh God, NO! Please don't drown on me Lina! I love you! What can I do?! She needs air, and she needs it now! Uh, um... which way was the fountain's entrance again?, he thought as he looked around. "..A-air-r...", came the word between bubbles of air from Lina's lips. Draco looked at her and realized she had just given up her last supply of breath to tell him to get out of the water. He felt his neck and realized his gills were gone, too. He knew the only way to save Lina from drowning was to breathe into her. But she wouldn't want me to kiss her! She would probably rather drown!, he thought. But she couldn't even hold onto the breathe she had left, because she had let it out. He made a split second decision and put his mouth to hers. She opened her mouth and he let her breathe.
As soon as She had come back to her senses, She began to take advantage of the situation. She kissed him full force and then broke away from his embrace and stared at the bottom of the tunnel. He could tell she was blushing, even though the water was casting shadows on both of their faces. She saw he was blushing , too, and she almost giggled again. But she caught herself and grabbed his arm and pulled him in the direction of one of the other tunnels. This must be the way to wherever she had been going before that creature almost..., he broke his train of thought at the epiphany making its way into his head. That was magic I've seen before... but where? He stared at her beautiful figure as they swam through the tunnel as fast as they could to where he presumed was air. Oh my God... that was Heartfire magic! But that can only mean... she will become a firen being when she turns fifteen this October... I wonder if she knows about it?
He was thinking so many thoughts at once that he didn't even realize he had broken the surface until he realized that he wasn't moving anymore. Then he heard the gasping of breath from beside him and realized he and Lina were both gasping for air. He looked around to see the most beautiful little cove he had ever seen. There was a Crystal blue light reflecting from the water and it gave the cove the look of a human aquarium. It took his breath away. " This is where you always run off to? Wow, I can see why. It is so beautiful... It kind of reminds me of you.", he said with a straight face. Lina turned, with glittering eyes, to look at the boy she was in love with. " Draco, I need to know something. I need to know how you feel about me.", she stated. Draco looked taken aback. He wondered why she looked like she might cry any minute. "Lina what do you mean? What's wrong why are you so upset?" Lina could tell how worried Draco was getting by the tears that were most likely streaking down her already wet cheeks, but she kept on going. " Draco, I love you. And I am asking you if you love me back." she was looking straight into his shining silver eyes as she said this, and she noted that his eyes began to glitter when she said she loved him. The next thing she knew, Draco was kissing her and she was kissing him back. He pulled away and the looked he straight in the eyes and she saw the love that was flaunting itself in his eyes. He pulled her close into an embrace and whispered, "Of course I love you, my silly little pumpkin head."
He laughed as he said the little nickname he had used to tease her when they were toddlers. She smiled up at him and noticed she was glowing again. " Did you know you glow silver, Draco?", Lina suddenly asked. Draco did a double take. "I glow?" He pretended to be surprised. But he reluctantly pulled away from Lina to look at his arms and sure enough he was glowing. The light was a faint silver color, but it was definitely silver. Draco mentally slapped himself for forgetting his glamour spell before he went off with Lina. He wondered if Lina knew that she glowed, too. "You know, Draco, that color reminds me of your eyes...", she said as she pulled his chin to face her so she could look into his silver eyes. He looked straight back into her eyes and recognized the color of her crystal blue eyes, streaked with midnight blue. The most magnificent eyes he had ever seen. That was the color of the light that killed the creature who was coming after me... Oh my God! Lina is my... i-is my... I can't even think that!! She said she loved me, but she can't really love me enough to be my..., he shook his head to rid him of the thoughts that kept creeping into his mind. "Lina, did you know you glow the same color of your eyes, also?" Lina just looked at him and nodded. Then she said, " I can't remember a time when I didn't glow. Mom taught me how to cast a glamour on myself so that no one will make a fuss about it at school. I guess it worked if even you didn't see it before now..." she broke off her sentence because Draco seemed to look puzzled. " What did you mean by "even I didn't notice"? No look at me Lina, please answer me. What do you know about the glowing?"
She looked back and said, " I know that it is the color of your inner Heartfire Magic, and it is usually the same color as your eyes. I also know that when someone you love, family or otherwise, is in severe danger, you are able to succumb to the power and it can protect the loved one, or kill the source of the danger. Apparently you already know which one my Heartfire does. You got a firsthand demonstration on my powers, in the darker tunnel." She stopped to glare at him. " You know, Draco, that is mostly your fault for not using you firen abilities to keep up with me.", she said. Draco flushed scarlet and looked away. " I didn't know that you knew what a firen was and I didn't even suspect that were one... Or at least will be one on your birthday this year... that is going to be one interesting moment ... if you remember when we were in the common room on my birthday and I just got up and ran to my dorm room, and then there was that loud noise that sounded like... I can't describe it...", he looked to Lina for help. He noticed that she was nodding at this description of the memory." It sounded like liquid silver I would say. Soft yet loud and obnoxious.", she said with a meaningful look.
Draco ignored the comment and recalled more of the memory. " The sound seemed to chime and sing at the same time, and then it just got louder and light was shining everywhere... come to think of it, I think the light was silver, wasn't it? Hmm, well as soon as the sound stopped, the light sucked right into me and I started to glow. At that time Severus had come in and cast a glamour on me and given me fake detention so he could teach me about the magic." Lina smiled. "Sevie always seems to think we all can't tell when he gives us detention to be nice and actually teach us something...", she noted. Draco smiled at her. " What else do you know about your powers, Lina? It's really rare for premature firens to have such strong powers at young ages... Do you remember when you first used your powers?", Draco asked her again. Lina sighed. "Let's get out of the water before we get all pruney."
When they got out and sat down on some very soft coral, Lina began telling her story.
"Lets see... The first time I used my powers, I can remember the moment as if it happened only a few moments ago. I was a small baby at the time. I had just turned one year old a few days before. I think it was Halloween night. Lord Voldemort had come to kill me and... well, to kill me. I remember feeling numb when I saw the evil man go after my father. I started to scream out for my... err, ... mother. She tried to hide me in our baby room.", she said. Lina looked a little frantic because she had almost slipped up twice. She had to be careful not to let Draco know that she had a brother. Let alone that her brother was Harry Potter. Draco hated Harry, almost as much as he hated what he knew about Voldemort. But his hatred for the evil man was probably just going to increase with the knowledge that came with this story. But Draco looked confused. " Voldemort came after Bellatrix?", he asked. Lina just shook her head sadly. "Bellatrix adopted me when Voldemort killed my family.", she admitted sadly. " My mother and Bella were close friends for a long time and she rescued me when the Evil Lord came to kill me to erase the prophecy...Oops..."
Lina blushed furiously at her slip up. Draco scowled at her. "What aren't you telling me, Lina?", Draco almost yelled. He hadn't known that Lina was adopted and that got to him, but the only prophecy he knew about was the one about two firen babies... but Lina didn't have any siblings. Bellatrix wouldn't have left the other baby behind in danger... so it just couldn't have had anything to do with Lina. Lina decided to change the subject. " Draco. Did you know that the mark on the back of your neck, has a twin mark on someone else?", she pointedly asked. Draco blushed profusely. "Yes.", he replied sheepishly. He had hoped that she hadn't seen the mark, but since they were swimming, she must have seen it by now. " Did you also know that the person who has the other mark can feel what you are feeling?", she said with a hint of irritation dripping from her words. Suddenly Draco felt irritated to no end, but then he realized that he wasn't irritated but that she was. He nodded his response to her.
She looked angry now as she said, " Then how do you think it makes me feel when you get angry at me for something I can't control, Draco? It actually hurts twice as bad, because I know you know that I have your mark, but you haven't said anything to claim me... Do you even want me? Draco, I asked you today because I know if I didn't, the marks would have faded away. You really are careless, Draco.", she chided. She decided to get up and go to the waters' edge. She sat down and stared at her reflection. Draco went and sat beside her again, but this time hat sat much closer, and actually pulled her into his lap. He could see tears coming into her eyes, and he felt them in his own also. He wiped hers away and she did the same to him. " Lina, can you please finish telling me your story... all of it??" Lina looked doubtful, and a little worried. "I won't get mad at you, Lina. I promise. It's just that I need to know if you are the same prophecy I am thinking of." Lina paled at this words, and he knew what she was hiding from him.
" Draco, I'm so sorry, Draco. But yes, there is only one prophecy of Voldemort and children, and yes there are two children in that prophecy, and yes I have a sibling. A brother. And he is almost two months older than I am."
Draco was confused. " How is that even possible?" Lina blushed furiously. "Um.. Well.. Heh heh... When my mom was pregnant with my brother, a prophecy was spoken. It was the prophecy of her two children. The prophet told her the ages of her two children and then gave her a potion to drink." Lina paused for a minute, and then continued when she made sure Draco understood what she was telling him. "Two months later, she found she was pregnant with my older brother and me, her second baby." Draco was blown away. "So, this brother of yours is literally two months older than you?" Lina nodded. Draco looked away to hide his anger. He had a feeling who her brother was, and he didn't like it.
"I believe by the look on your face, and the way I am starting to feel, that you already know who he is, what my real surname is, and what happened the night Voldemort died." she finished sheepishly. She felt his shock, anger, and her own hurt at his feelings, multiply steadily higher inside her. She knew once she started to shake that she must be sobbing, but she didn't care. Draco wasn't even looking at her. In his mind, Draco was trying not to picture the Boy Who Lived, but it wasn't working. He knew that Harry Potter was her brother, and now he fully understood her words of not being angry at her for things she couldn't control. He heard her speak again. " To answer your earlier question, Draco, the first time I used my powers, was when I watched Voldemort kill my mother, while I was hidden in Bellatrix's arms. He pointed his wand at Harry, and even for such a young age, I knew something was wrong. Harry and I could read each others minds at the time, so I told him to move when he saw a bright light. I heard Voldemort say something and I saw a green light, but I also saw Harry move, but already knew he wouldn't move fast enough. Suddenly, I felt numb, all over, the loss of both my parents, and probably my beloved brother, it made a numb feeling spread even into my mind.
But then one thought entered my mind... : Protect Harry. Kill Voldemort.
And it happened. I saw myself glow, which was normal for me, but this time it was brighter, and it seemed to gather around me like a cocoon. But no one noticed because I was invisible. I was glaring at Voldemort for killing the people I loved, and suddenly, my light flew into an even larger mass, and surrounded Voldemort like a cocoon. I watched as my light constricted him and he was screaming in agony. Then the light dissipated, and he was left barely breathing on the floor. I must have gone into magical shock because I suddenly felt tired. But I didn't go to sleep until after I watched Sev appear from beside Bellatrix, who was invisible and holding me, and walk over to kill Voldemort. Then I watched him pick up Harry and check his forehead to find a scar." Lina paused in her story to make Draco see that she had a twin scar, just like Harry's, except her scar was pointed in the opposite direction. "The last thing I remember before waking up in LeStrange Manor, was seeing my parents, Lily and James Potter, lying in each others arms in death on the floor, with Severus, Bellatrix, and Lucius, all almost in tears at the sight.
But don't you see Draco? Harry Potter is my brother and I need to be near him this year. I need to find him before he comes into his powers and the letter coming early, that was because McGonagall knows that Harry goes shopping as soon as he gets his list. So she gave him, myself, and apparently you, too, our school lists early. So I can find him in Diagon Alley. I need your help Draco. Harry needs me when he goes into his firen powers and you know it. Draco, I love you but I need you to help me find my brother... Draco???" Lina broke off her sentence when Draco finally turned around to look at her. What she saw broke her heart. He was crying, most likely from anger of being hidden from the truth for so long, but he was also crying because he was mated to the girl he loved.
And the girl he loved, loved Harry. Flipping. Potter. He couldn't even control his temper anymore. He told himself, of course she loves him you idiot! They are siblings! They could read each others minds! She has been suffering at school for years, because he doesn't even know he has a sister! Wait. What's today's date? Oh my God! Today is the day before Harry's birthday!! Wait a second... since when do I call him Harry... his name is Potter! That stupid little pottie head... I'll show him to hurt my mate ever again..., Draco sighed collecting his thoughts. " Lina, tomorrow is his birthday right?", he asked his new found fieren ( the term for a firen mate). Lina shook here head. " Err, yeah, um Draco, love, heh heh... we've been gone for hours now... it's already his birthday. In fact...", she paused to check a small clock that she had hanging on one of the stone walls. "It is precisely ten fifteen... p.m." , she smiled sheepishly. Draco paled. He knew they had until eleven o' clock that night to find harry before all hell broke loose. When Harry came into his full powers, he would be given a flashback of the night he first saw what Heartfire magic was. And that would be the night Lina killed Voldemort. And he would obviously realize that he had a sister, and being the stupid headed Gryffindor that he was, he would want to find her and make sure she was alive. Time could ease all separations, but it could not stop this reunion.
The flashback would not only remind Harry of who Lina was, but of how he had watched over her when she slept in the crib next to hers. Exceptionally bright at such a young age, he knew who she was and they could read each others minds. That was probably how Lina even got through the years. Just helping Harry by solving his problems for him by reading them in his mind. Draco shook his head. Without thinking he grabbed Lina's arm an dove into the water. He used his full firen speed to get back to the fountain. When they got there, Lucius and Bella were waiting. He knew Bella had already told Lucius everything, so he just kept running with Lina at his heels. He never let go of her arm as they ran into the LeStrange Manor and up the stairs to their rooms. He threw her into hers and yelled for her to get dressed. He slammed her door and ran for his own. Ten minutes passed and they were both dressed and standing at the fireplace. For years, Lina had know the address of her brother, but now she was going to show up there. She hoped this would work.
"Number four, Private Drive!", she yelled. She threw the powder into the fire and jumped into the green flames. She spun around and around and soon Draco was next to her spinning, too. All to soon they were standing in a small fireplace in Number four, Private Drive. She quickly stepped out of the fireplace and headed toward the stairs. She suddenly felt shock and fear on the other side of her fieren link. Draco? What's wrong, love? She thought to him. She wanted to find Harry, so she didn't turn back. Suddenly she heard her fieren whisper, " Lina, turn around..." She turned around to face the fireplace, and there was Harry, holding his wand to Draco's throat and glaring straight at Harry. She could feel the tears in her eyes at seeing her brother, but she could feel a mixture of hope, anger, fear, and hatred through her link with Draco. She suddenly had an idea. She stepped over to Harry, who was still glaring daggers at her, and closed her eyes. She was searching for the link between their minds. She could tell he had been trying Occlumency, but they were the Firen Twins. Nothing could block their link. She found the link and smiled just a bit. She sent him her thoughts. Harry? Could you please release my fieren? It's the least you could do for me.
Harry was so shocked at what he just heard and felt in his mind, that he actually did drop his arms back down to his sides. The shock she felt from both links she had open was making her giggle. She couldn't hold it in any longer, and let a giggle slip out. Again, the sound of crystal bells filled the air. Harry was still in shock when she giggled and now his eyes seem to glaze over. He had known of a connection in his mind, but he thought it was just some overly crazed fan, trying to break into his thoughts. But here was a bewitching girl standing in front of him, with that voice that always haunted his dreams on Halloween nights. He had felt the presence of her mind through that strange connection throughout the years. Especially when he would have personal problems. They would always seem to solve themselves. "Who are you? Why is Malfoy with you? What did you call him a minute ago? A fieren?", Harry asked. He turned to look at Draco. "Are you a firen, malfoy?", he asked again. Malfoy sneered. " That would make sense if she called me her fieren wouldn't it, Pottie?" Lina shot him a dark look. He blushed and looked toward the mantle. He saw a clock on the wall and he realized just how long they had taken to find Harry. It was exactly one minute before Harry would... Suddenly the clocked changed the minute and there was a flash of bright emerald green light.
There was a soft chiming filling the air now, and Lina noted how it sounded like a liquid version of an emerald. The light was spreading like arms reaching out, when it touched Lina. Suddenly, the light wrapped around her and picked her up and started to pull her even closer to Harry. Draco tried to grab her out of the light, but another arm of light knocked him out of the way. Lina looked at him and shook her head. Let me handle this part, Draco, love., she thought to him.She turned to face Harry, who was emanating light, without seeming to be able to control himself. She reached out through her link and tried to talk to him, but all she could see was the flashback of the night she saved Harry from Lord Voldemort. She was trying to control his light for him while making sure he stayed conscious. She could only see flashes of what he was seeing.
Two babies in a crib. A sister with flaming orange hair. A bright green light. A mother screaming. Invisible people appearing from nowhere. A mother giving the people my sister. A voice in my head, my sister's voice, telling me it is okay. The people and my sister disappearing. My mothers tears. The door blowing up. My mother spitting in an evil mans face. The man saying the evil words that ended her life. Feeling angry. Seeing a wand pointed at my forehead. Hearing those words again. Seeing and feeling my sister's heartfire magic fill the room. Watching the light that was the color of my sisters eyes wrap around the evil man and kill him. Seeing the man that loved my mother, walk over and make sure the evil man never came back. Watching as my mother floated to my father's body. Together in life, in death, in heaven. Forever together, the way two siblings should be. Another flashback. Waking up to the smell of soot and floo powder. Seeing Malfoy in my house. Hearing a name from my past that I couldn't place until now. Feeling my hart wake up when she laughed. Hearing the sound of light and dark crystal. The feeling of being reunited with a loved one. The feeling of not caring who they are. Knowing they are your only family. Hearing the clock chime eleven. Seeing her being lifted by the light coming from me. Feeling her mind controlling my light. And now as she stares at me with worry dripping from her eyes. Knowing that she loves her brother. She loves me. I am her brother. Lord voldemort didn't kill the cute little baby sister from my Halloween nightmares. She lived. Lina. My crystal eyed Lina. Harry's light started to dissipate and Lina could now see the tears streaming down his face. She looked over to make sure Draco was okay, and then she looked through Harry's link to make sure he was okay, too. When she looked through, she felt wave after wave of emotion.
Love, Loss, Remorse, Guilt, Love, Separation, more Guilt, Love, Love, Love, Adoration, Reunion. There was no other emotions in his mind, other than love and guilt. He stared at her, tears streaming down his face, as he looked at her, taking her in. He had seen her thousands of times in his Slytherin-Gryffindor classes. He had seen her thousands of times, he had thought she looked familiar, but he had passed it off as the red hair that reminded him only slightly of the Weasley family. But Lina's hair was more auburn colored He also noticed her tears, staining his Mother's beautiful face. He reached over to wipe her tears off, and she smiled. She jumped on him and he caught her with ease. Almost as if they had been doing that for years. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and she clung to his shoulders, because she couldn't reach any higher, And they stayed in that position, hugging each other until Draco pointedly cleared his throat. Lina let go of Harry and smiled at the both of them. "You know that you two are going to have to get along now, right?" She laughed quietly as they grimaced at her words. They heard a stirring from upstairs, and they froze. When everything was still again, Lina whispered to Harry, " Harry, we need to get your things, and then we have to leave. You are going to finish out the summer at the Manor. Draco and I will help you, but we have to be quiet." Harry nodded and he led the way to his room, followed by an eager but quiet Lina, and a more than reluctant Draco. They went up the stairs, and down the hall to the smallest bedroom. He opened the door and stepped inside. He quietly let them in and shut the door. He grabbed his school trunk and started filling it with his clothes, and then his books. When he had finished with his school books, he turned around to see his sister pulling out even more of his clothes and by the time she had finished throwing them into his trunk, none of his clothes were in his dresser or his closet.
" Lina, why did you take out all my clothes?", Harry questioned. Draco was bored at this point, so he answered for her. " I thought it would be obvious that she wants you to live at the Manor now that you know everything. Bella and Sev already arranged for this to happen, and Lina has been waiting for tonight from her first day at Hogwarts." Draco finished. Lina paused to glare daggers at Draco, then moved on to push him out of the way so that she could raid his desk for parchment and his favorite quills. When she was done there, She turned to see Harry standing ready with his Firebolt, and Draco was holding the two brooms that he had brought so he and Lina could fly back home with Harry. Harry began to ask. "How are we supposed to fly with all..." But before he could finish, or even blink, Lina turned and gave Draco a pleading look. They were not supposed to use their wands outside of school, but Heartfire magic did not require a wand, and it did not count as 'out-of-school' magic. Heartfire magic entailed many things, including the ability to cast spells without words or wands.
Harry didn't yet know how to use his powers, but Draco had come into his powers five months ago. And his father had taught him to control his powers. Draco was very talented with his powers. He could probably manipulate others if he really wanted to. But right now, Lina was asking him to shrink everything to a portable size. He sighed, looked at harry, shrugged, then looked at the pile of Harry's things. Instantly, they shrank down to tiny little pieces and Lina scooped them all up, and put them in her bag. She put the bag back on her back and then looked up to see Harry's bewildered expression. She giggled and Harry slapped a hand over her mouth. She eventually stifled the giggle, and then they left the room. Harry and Draco kept throwing glares at each other behind Lina's back as she led the way out of the front door. They stood on the front step and she turned to face Draco again, but Harry held up and hand. He took hers and then she watched as he closed his eyes in a look of deep concentration. The next thing they knew, Harry, Draco, and Lina were all invisible. She giggled freely this time and hugged the invisible figure that she knew was Harry. Harry and Draco were both the same height, and both taller than her by four inches, but she could feel the difference in their heart fires and could easily tell the apart.
" Harry, can you sense my Heartfire? Or do I need to be visible to show you the way?", she asked him. Harry thought about that, but then suddenly they were visible again. "Hey! I didn't mean to do that yet!", Harry said. "That's because you didn't do that at all.", Draco said. "I did." Harry narrowed his eyes at Draco, but before he could respond, Lina hopped on her broom and said, "Would you guys COME ON ALREADY?!" And she took off into the air. Draco was next to follow, trying to fly faster than Harry, but Harry's broom was faster, and he blew right past Draco and flew next to Lina. When he was right next to Lina, he carefully took one hand off is broom to somewhat hug his little sister. Then he had an idea. Lina?, can you hear me? It's Harry. Wow, I feel stupid right now, I'm mentally talking to myself, trying to talk to voices in my head. Something's not quite right with me.
Lina suddenly broke out laughing. He looked at her and narrowed his eyes. You can hear me can't you? Lina nodded. Of course I can hear you, Harry. We are bonded by firen magic. I can also feel your pain, to an extent, and sense where you are, especially if you are hurt in any way. That came in handy during our years at school, when no one else could find you, Sev would come find me and he would ask me to go find you. I told him I already knew where you were, but he would always make me go with the teachers to go get you.. Usually the lake, but sometimes the room of requirement, or even quidditch pitch if you were upset about something. But by the time you would even think about going to the quidditch pitch, I would have already sensed your problem, and fixed it for you. Harry gave her a bewildered look. You were the one who solved all my problems last year? Last year when our Godfather escaped to come find me? Does he know about you? Lina laughed out loud. Draco realized they were speaking through their link, so he pushed his broom faster, so that he was flying on Lina's left side. She smiled over at him to comfort him. She realized how bad she was making him feel, so she decided to make the conversation audible. "Yes, I was the one who solved all your problems. But not just last year. I have been helping you since our first year. When Hermione when missing, I was the one who found her crying in the girl's bathroom. She told me not to tell you, or Ron, where she was. And I didn't, I told Neville. He told you where she was. Hermione quickly figured out who I really was, and she promised not to tell you. Hermione and I have been good friends since then, when I found her there in our first year, and we usually spend lots of time in the library."
Harry just blinked. "So other people know about me and you being siblings?", he asked. Lina nodded. "But only Hermione figured out that we are the prophecy of firen twins. The rest of them were fooled by the glamours." Harry nodded thoughtfully. Lina could tell he was lost in his train of thought, so she looked over at Draco. He was trying to seem indifferent towards the 'mudblood', but she could tell he was angry that she knew before he did. She let a giggle slip out, and he looked at her. He couldn't help but smile when she did. He loved her that much. He pulled closer to her broom and leaned over. He gave her a quick kiss and then pulled away again. Harry noticed that and said, " You had better watch yourself around my sister , Malfoy...", Harry joked. All three of them laughed. The rest of the way to LeStrange Manor, they laughed and joked and caught up on all things missed. Too soon, they arrived at the Manor, but they decided to watch the sun rise over the garden. Harry hugged Lina non stop and barely let Draco take hold of her. Eventually they did go inside and Bellatrix was thrilled to see him there. It actually reminded him of his first time at the Weasley's home, just that this house was much bigger.
They were all tired, so they all went to their separate rooms, and didn't come out until the next morning. They decided to go shopping for school supplies, and they went to Diagon Alley. When they came home, Severus and Lucius had arrived and were waiting for them. Snape was so happy that Harry had arrived safely, and explained to Harry that he had always protected him, but pretended to hate him so that no one would suspect him. Lucius was standoffish at first, but eventually gave into Harry. All six of them sat around talking and joking for hours. The three firens looked at each other and smiled. They would go to school in less that two weeks, and would be ready to face anything the school year threw at them. And they would get through it, Together.