Thanks to ReflectionsOfReality for helping me explain about Lily and James. I just hope that I have written it well enough that it will make sense to all of you. If not let me know any I'll see what I can do to add to it if not fix the whole lot.
This chapter is also part filler the next chapter will have Bella at school and finding out about the Cullens and then it is going to jump maybe a month or two, depending on how things go. So Please do enjoy what I have done here for you and let me know what you think about what I have done.
http:// www. christies. com / LotFinder / lot_ ? pos=2&intObjectID=5124953&sid= (This is an image of the bracelet, but think much nicer)
Chapter 8
Harry sighed as he rolled over in his bed, away from the sliver of light peeking through his curtains. Letting out a groan Harry sat up in his bed and rubbed at his eyes to get rid of the sleep in them before looking over at his clock and saw the red numbers glaring 09:30.
'At least it's only Sunday.' He thought as he headed toward his bathroom to take a shower and get started for the day.
Remus sighed as he nervously picked at the table and ended up getting a splinter in his finger for his troubles which caused him to shove it in his mouth and suck on it and try to get said splinter out.
"Something the matter Lupin?" Lucius questioned as he browsed through the local newspaper.
"What would you say if I told you that Lily and James are alive and have been since their supposed death?" Remus questioned.
Lucius put down the newspaper and started at the werewolf, "Then why would they leave Harry with those things one would call relatives?" He questioned.
Remus sighed, "Albus thought that it was for the best." Came the response, and he handed over the letter that Albus had written for Harry and watched as the other man's face went through an array of emotions.
"What has Harry done about this?" He asked handing the letter back.
"Nothing has been done yet." Remus responded, "He hasn't even been to see them yet. But I was hoping that I could talk him into going today to see his parents and at least get the ball rolling."
"It would help him to start coming to terms with all of it. The sooner he explodes at them for abandoning him the sooner he can start getting over it and slowly forgive them." Lucius explained and went back to the paper.
"I know. Let's just hope Harry responds to that kind of reasoning." Remus sighed and poured himself another cup of tea and one for Lucius.
"Hope I respond to what Remmy?" Harry questioned, obviously catching the end of the conversation and poured himself a cup of tea and grabbed some cereal.
Remus sighed once again, "I want you to come with me today to see James and Lily." He got out in a rush.
The cup in Harry's hand shattered, "Why should I?"
"The sooner that you confront them and explode at them for what they did to you the sooner you can come to terms that they are alive and are willing to get to know you. Nothing is set in stone Harry, you do not need to forgive them but you should at least hear their side of the story and not just Dumbledore's." Lucius spoke up knowing that Remus would be too soft on the teen.
Harry sighed and let his head drop, "Yeah. Alright I guess you're right." He said.
Remus let out a small sigh of relief, "We'll only go around for two hours, nothing more than that alright?"
"I hold the right to leave sooner if I so wish." Harry said.
"Deal."
James looked down at the phone and couldn't help the happy bubble of laughter that spilled out of him and he put the phone in the cradle and did a little happy dance around the lounge room.
"What's going on James?" Lily questioned as she came into the lounge from the kitchen, having just fed Darrion.
"Remus and Harry are coming over today to talk." James told her sweeping her up in his arms and danced around the lounge with wife and child.
Lily gave a small relieved smile, "I'm so glad." She whispered putting her head on James' shoulder as they rocked back and forth.
Charlie rubbed at the back of his head as he looked apologetically at Lily Potter, "I'm sorry Lily. But I have to head into work, been some attacks around the place and we want to confer with the other precincts about what's going on." Charlie explained, "Though if you don't mind. My daughter has just come to stay with me and is very responsible and if you and she don't mind, Bella could look after Darrion." He offered.
"Oh that would be wonderful if you could ask her." Lily gushed.
"Just give me a second and I'll let you know." He said and disappeared into the house to ask his daughter if she would babysit. "Come on in Lily." Charlie called out.
Lily entered the house and walked through in to the dining room, "Hello, I'm Lily Potter and this is my second son Darrion." She introduced herself and shook the teens hand.
"Bella."
"You don't mind babysitting do you?" Lily asked, "I will of course pay you for looking after him."
Bella gave Lily a small smile, "Yeah, sure. I'm not doing anything until school tomorrow so I have the time."
Lily sighed, "Thank you Bella." She said giving Darrion a kiss on the forehead, told him to be a good boy and left the baby bag by the sofa before heading out of the house.
"Are you going to be alright Bella?" Charlie asked once Lily was gone.
Bella rolled her eyes, "I'll be fine dad. It's not like I haven't babysat before." She responded with a roll of her eyes, "Now you better head off, you do have work to do."
Harry and Remus stood staring at the wooden door with stained glass windows, an image of a stag, grim and werewolf were cut from the glass, surrounded by lilies the door opened and James stepped out with Lily standing uneasily next to him.
"Won't you please come in?" James said softly moving out of the doorway so that Remus and Harry could enter the house.
"Thank you." Remus said stiffly as he ushered Harry into the house but kept him away from Lily and James.
Lily and James sighed softly at the move but they could understand the need for Remus to do what he did. He was protecting his cub from an unknown threat.
"How do we know you are who you claim to be?" Remus questioned them from the doorway to the kitchen, the back door off of the kitchen being the closest exit in view for them to run if they had too.
"Polyjuice can make you look like a person but they cannot look like that person's Animagus." James responded and seconds later a brilliant stag was standing in the middle of the room and next to him, where Lily once stood was now a russet doe.
Remus inclined his head, not going any further to greet the couple, "You may change back now." He said and summoned two of the chairs sitting around the kitchen table for himself and Harry, not wanting to give up his exit advantage.
James and Lily transformed back into their human selves and took a seat of the lounge and stared at the two, "What would you like to know now?" Lily asked softly.
"I want to know why you thought it was such a good idea to abandon me? Why you never contacted me or Remus or Sirius?" Harry snarled at the couple, a calming hand on his shoulder was the only thing keeping him from standing up and yelling the house down.
"It was my fault dear boy." Came an all too well known voice from the landscape portrait hanging over the fire place, "It was the nature of the spell you see. They couldn't alert anyone."
"What do you mean Albus?" Lily questioned, "We just thought they all wanted nothing to do with us."
"Once your letters hit the mail box they were transfigured into moths. No one received the letters you wrote to them telling them that you were alive and well and to look after dear Harry." Albus explained.
"How could you do that to us Albus?" James questioned, hurt.
Albus sighed and gave them a sad smile, "It was all for the greater good." He said, "Harry needed something to avenge. With you alive Harry wouldn't have had the inclination to do anything about Voldemort, even though he was the one destined to defeat him. So I had to have you die." He explained as he looked around the room and stopped on Harry and could see the usually pale face a horrible puce, "Let it out Harry before you bring the house down around your ears."
Harry shakily took some deep breaths, gaining control of himself before he did just what Albus said the he would do. Harry was going to show the old man that he had a lot more control then he thought he did by reigning in his magic and calming right down, even though he wanted to do nothing more than burn everything down around him.
Albus smiled proudly at Harry and continued on with his explanation, "From my death and up until the time Harry and Minerva read the letter I had written, the house had no Secret Keeper and now, Minerva and yourself Harry are the Secret Keepers and can cancel the spell or change the circumstances of the spell."
"Are you saying, that all this time, Lily and James have been held under a Fidelius that they had no knowledge of?" Remus questioned, "That, that is the reason why none of the letters got through to any of us?"
Albus nodded, "I'm afraid so my boy. I thought I was doing what was best at the time. I had to cut everything off, letters, presents for Christmas and birthdays."
"I cannot believe that you cut us off from everything that we knew, everyone that we loved all for the Greater Bloody Good." James raged, "You stopped us from knowing our son, of him knowing that we were alive and well and loved him to death and would do anything to keep him safe." He fell back in his seat breathing harshly, what little bit of magic he had was crackling on the surface.
"We settled into our lives here at Forks, we never, never thought of having another child until we heard something back from Harry. But over the years, we became depressed and hurt that our own son, our family ignored every letter that we sent to them. We finally settled about a year ago, having come to terms with everything and had another child." Lily cried, "All I wanted was my baby back." She said sobbing harshly, the force of her sobs choking her.
If he could, Albus himself would be crying at the pain that he had caused his children at what he had done to the family. Knowing that he was the cause for the depression that Lily and James went through at not having Harry know about them and writing to them, "I am deeply sorry about the pain that I have caused, and I know that there is nothing more that I can say or do that can change anything but I do hope that one day you can forgive a foolish old man of his mistakes." He said and left the portrait.
Remus cleared his throat, "I think that we should leave for know. We have all been told a lot and need to think some things over. Especially yourselves, knowing now that you were under the Fidelius all this time." Remus spoke up.
James swallowed thickly, "Yes, I think that would be a good idea for now." He said, his voice hoarse from the pain he was feeling.
"We'll leave it the week and try again on Saturday?" Harry said.
"Of course dear." Lily whispered as she whipped her cheeks with the back of her hand, "We are sorry Harry, so very, very sorry." She said.
Harry nodded jerkily, "Yeah, I know." He whispered and the pair left the house, closing the door softly behind them.
"I think that I might head on down to the beach at La Push." Harry whispered.
Remus ran a hand through Harry's hair and gave his a kiss on the crown of his head, "Of course Cub. Take all the time that you need but I do want you home by 10 tonight alright?"
"Of course Remmy." Harry said giving him a small smile and headed down the road toward the La Push Reservation.
Remus sighed and headed back home, maybe he could help out the Malfoy's with their housing situation for now while he stewed over what they had all just found out.
Harry looked out over the swirling waves of the ocean as he sat on a piece of drift wood, his thoughts swirling much like the waves were doing. He was pissed at Dumbledore, he couldn't believe that the man had put them under the Fidelius and then added another type of spell so that they couldn't send letters out to him and everyone else, leaving his parents to believe that they had all wanted nothing to do with them because we hadn't returned their letters.
Harry didn't know what to do about everything that had been reviled to them. He was still angry with his parents, but he also now knew that there was nothing more that he could do about it all. What was done was done and all they could do now was try and get through it all and become something of a family.
Nothing would replace that family that he had made with Remus, Ron and Hermione but that didn't mean that the family couldn't be expanded to involve his parents and sibling.
Harry sighed and ran a hand through his hair and all but jumped a mile when someone sat down next to him. Harry looked to his left and saw a smiling Jacob Black sitting next to him with a bright smile on his face.
"Hey ya Harry."
Harry gave the teen a small smile and turned back to look out at the ocean, "Hey Jacob."
"Everything all right Harry?" He asked.
"Yes, no." Harry sighed, "It will be eventually." He finally said, "Just found out something's that are a little hard to digest but I'll get through it."
"Fair enough." Jacob responded, "You hungry?" He asked as was answered by the growling of Harry's stomach causing him to laugh and Harry to blush, "Come on then. Dad asked me to come down and invite you to lunch when he saw you head this way." He said standing up and brushing off his butt from the sand.
Harry followed after the teen, he wasn't going to let what happened keep him down.
"So you doing anything today?" Jacob asked.
"Nope." Harry responded, "Haven't got anything planned at the moment."
"Awesome." Jacob responded, "I was thinking about heading into Port Angeles to get some things. Would you like to come with me?" He asked.
"Yeah, sure. I'll just have to call Remmy and let him know that I'm heading to Port Angeles just so he knows where I am." Harry responded.
"Of course, you can use our phone to let them know." Jacob responded as he entered his house, "Just down the hall a little." He said pointing to Harry where the phone was.
"Hey dad. Brought Harry back with me." Harry heard Jacob call as he headed into the lounge.
"He staying for lunch." Billy asked.
"Yes. He's also going to join me down in Port Angeles." Jacob explained, "He's just letting his dad know." He said and headed into the kitchen and finished off lunch.
"Maybe we should have the whole lot of them down one day for dinner. We haven't met the rest of the family and I would like to." Billy said as he took a sip of his beer.
"All you have to do is ask." Harry spoke up from where he appeared in the door way with a smile on his face.
"Well then how about you and your family come down for one of our bonfires that's coming up?" Billy asked Harry, "It's a whole reservation function so the whole tribe will be there for it."
"Of course we would love to come. Let us know when it is and I'll make sure that the whole family is there." Harry responded with a smile.
"Take a seat Harry." Billy said waving a hand at one of the chairs, "Tell me a little about yourself."
Harry shrugged, "There isn't much about me really. I moved here with Remus and my two best friends for a change of scenery when my fiancé was murdered and I lost some others of my extended family. I went to boarding school with Ron and Hermione and that's how we met. Friends since our first year.
I have just recently found out that my parents are alive when I have been told all my life that they were dead. I'm 17 and attend Forks High School with Ron and 'Mione and I'm really glad that we came here."
"What about sports?" Billy asked.
Harry laughed, " Football, soccer for you Americans. But I don't really have a team."
"We'll I'm just going to have to change that for you lad. There's a baseball match on before we have the bonfire so you'll have to come by before then and watch the game with me." Billy practically ordered.
"Yes sir." Harry responded with a straight face but ended up with a wide grin, "You'll have to explain the rules to me though."
Billy seemed to get a determined look on his face, "Of course. I know just the thing that can help with getting to know baseball." He said and wheeled off into the hall.
"You've dug yourself a nice deep hole there Harry." Jacob laughed from the kitchen.
Harry stood up and headed into the kitchen, "How bad is it?" He asked.
"Just wait until dad hands you the Baseball for Dummies book." He responded.
"You want any help?"
"Nah I'm all good, nearly done." Jacob responded and grabbed some plates from the cabinet and put them on the counter next to him and threw onto the plates some toasted cheese, tomato and onion sandwiches.
"Looks good." Harry teased and grabbed one of the plates and sat down at the kitchen table and jumped slightly when Billy dropped Baseball for Dummies onto the table next to him, "Ah, thanks Billy." He said and pulled the book to his side and flicked through the first couple of pages.
"Have it read by the bonfire mister." Billy ordered as he grabbed his plate and cut the sandwich and dug in.
"Yes sir."
Emmett swang the aluminium bat listlessly as he waited for the rest of his family to join him in the garage for their game during the in coming storm. Alice danced into the garage but wasn't dressed for playing ball.
"We're not going to be playing today Em." She explained coming to a stop in front of him with a smile on her face.
Emmett let out a bear of a growl and threw the bat down and stormed into the house, not at all pleased with the outcome, and headed into his room to change into some casual clothes and was back in the garage and jumping in his truck.
"Where are you going Emmett?" Rosalie questioned, everyone had appeared in the garage when they heard Emmett throw down the bat.
"Out." Emmett responded and revved up the engine and roared out of the garage and out of sight.
"What's wrong with him?" Rosalie sniffed as she turned to Alice and Edward.
"All I did was tell him that we wouldn't be playing ball today and he stormed off without letting me tell him why." Alice responded.
"Don't worry about it all too much, he's just a little bit frustrated and was hoping that the match today would take care of some of that." Jasper spoke up.
"When we went hunting this morning we ended up near Alaska and he took down several animals during the trip." Edward added.
"Did he tell you anything else?" Rosalie questioned.
Both Edward and Jasper shook their heads, there was nothing more that they could tell her. What she wanted to know should be told to her by Emmett and Emmett alone. Edward turned to Alice, "Why can't we play today?" He asked.
"The stormed changed directions and wouldn't be coming today so we wouldn't have been able to play." Alice explained with a shrug and seconds later her face went slack and her eyes went vacant.
"Alice?" Jasper questioned lightly after a few minutes.
Alice turned to her husband with a bright smile on her face and then skipped back into the main part of the house, ignoring her family and their curious looks and repeated the book of Genesis so that Edward wasn't able to pick up on it.
"Damn woman." Edward grumbled.
Harry stopped out the front of an old antique store and peeked in through the window, his curiosity piqued by the statuette sitting in the window.
"Hey Harry, you ready to head off?" Jacob asked coming up behind the others teen, "Dad wants me to be home soon."
"You head off Jacob, I'm going to check around some more. I need to get a start on Christmas presents and I may as well do it now while I'm here." Harry explained, "I'll call Remmy later to come and pick me up."
Jacob looked doubtful, "I don't know Harry." He said unsure.
Harry chuckled, "It'll be all right Jacob. I'll call you when I get home if it would make you feel better."
Jacob nodded, "Yes it would and dad wouldn't have to kill me either."
Harry chuckled, "I'll be fine Jacob and I'll call you when I get home all right."
"Okay, cool. I'll catch you later then Harry." Jacob said heading over to where Billy's truck was sitting and climbed in and took off back to the Reservation, waving at Harry as he disappeared.
Harry chuckled and waved until the other teen had disappeared completely and then turned around and entered the antique store to enquire about the statuette sitting in the window.
Emmett parked in the car park for the theatre and shoved the parking ticket on his dashboard so that he wouldn't get a ticket for parking it there when he wasn't going to the theatre. Emmett pulled the cover over the truck just in case it started to rain before he got back home and then headed out into Port Angeles.
Emmett headed over to one of the only decent jewellery stores in Port Angeles, knowing that he would have to get Rosalie something for the way he stormed out of the house. He headed straight to the gold and diamonds, knowing Rosalie would prefer nothing less.
Emmett looked over everything in the case for something to get Rosalie but nothing seemed to catch his eye that his wife would find suitable. Nothing he gave her ever seemed good enough. Giving up in his search he turned to head out when something near the door caught his eye. Moving over to it he saw that it was an ivory bracelet set with a series of shining emeralds and rubies with textured gold detail and terminals. Despite the emerald, rubies and gold it wasn't too over the top, it was subtle in the design and execution.
"How much is it for this bracelet?" Emmett asked the sales person.
"$20,000." The woman responded.
"I'll take it." Emmett said without hesitation and pulled out his wallet and dropped his credit card on the counter and waited while the woman got over her shock. Emmett snapped his fingers in the womas face to get her moving and turned his attention to the outside world while he waited for her to ring it up when he caught sight of Harry walking by under the weight of some shopping bags.
"I'll be right back." He told the woman and ducked his head out the door, "Harry." He called out.
Harry nearly dropped everything in shock at the sudden booming noise from behind him and turned to see Emmett standing out the front of a jewellery store, "Oh hey Em." Harry said brightly and headed over to the larger teen, still juggling his bags.
"Shopping much?" Emmett chuckled and grabbed a couple of the heavier bags off of him with little effort.
"Yeah. Thought that I would get a head start on Christmas." Harry explained, "What about you?"
"Needed to get out of the house for a while." Emmett responded and headed back into the store where the receipt was waiting to be signed and the box to be picked up.
"Thank you." Emmett said picking up the box and shoved it into his pocket and turned back to Harry, "Little bit early for that isn't it?" He asked.
"Yeah it is but if I don't get it done now then it will all be last minute." Harry said with a shrug.
Emmett peeked into the bags he was holding, only to be smack by Harry in response, "You get anything for me?" He asked.
Harry looked at him with calculating eyes, "What makes you think that you deserve anything from me for Christmas?" He questioned.
Emmett looked at him with puppy dog eyes, "Aw come on you know that you love me."
Harry snorted, "I wouldn't be too sure about that." He shot back with a smirk, "Now come on, I need to go to one more place and then I have to call Remus to come and get me." He said and headed down the street.
"I could give you a lift you know." Emmett said catching up with Harry in a few strides.
Harry shrugged, "Sure." He said, "Oh, do you know of anything that Rosalie would like?" He asked, "She's the only one and Alice, that I haven't found anything for."
Emmett winced at the thought, "Rosalie is going to be really hard. She won't except anything poorly made and has to be something made out of gold. Alice is a lot easier to shop for." He explained.
"Your girlfriend's a real bitch you know." Harry grumbled.
"Then why bother getting her something for Christmas?" He questioned the shorter teen.
"Because I'm nice." Harry responded with his nose up in the air.
Emmett chuckled and patted the teen on his head, ruffling the already feathered hair and dodged out of the way when Harry swang at him. Not wanting the teen to hurt himself if the hand hit him.
"Oh hey, you know how before you left yesterday, Carlisle and your dad said that they thought they knew each other?" Emmett questioned Harry.
"Yeah what about it?"
"Well Carlisle remembers how they met now."
"Oh and how's that?" Harry wondered.
Emmett shrugged and gave him a sheepish smile, "He wouldn't tell us. So I'm guessing that when he has the time he'll pop by your place and talk to Remus."
"I'll let Remus know that Carlisle remembers how they met." Harry said, "I guess that I'll have to wait to get Rosalie and Alice something when I go back to England." He said with a sigh, "Come on big guy, let's get me home before Remus and Jacob begin to worry."
"Who's Jacob?" Emmett questioned.
"Jacob Black." Harry said, "He lives down on the Reservation."
Emmett nodded, "Fair enough."
"So what'd ya get me for Christmas?" Emmett questioned again and dug through the bags as they walked.