Chapter two: Appirating and Making Friends

Every one had left by five in the evening, leaving Harry, Sirius and Remus sitting together in the living room. Harry continually fidgeted on the coach where he sat next to Remus. He could not wait any longer. He knew Sirius was purposely not bringing up his present just to annoy Harry, and was angry that Remus was playing along. Everyone had left, why were they not going on the life changing adventure? Had Sirius just been kidding around? Why were they all just sitting there?

"Okay, are you done the torture? Or have you completely forgotten about the life-changing adventure you promised? 'Cause all this sitting around is driving me mad!" Harry finally snapped.

Sirius and Remus burst out laughing. They were practically rolling on the floor when they finally calmed down enough to talk again. Sirius was still giggling when Remus finally turned to harry and told him it was time to tell him about his present.

"Harry I want you to appirate." Sirius said to Harry.

"What?" Harry exclaimed "I don't know how to appirate!"

"It's really not that hard. Come here and Moony will teach you."

Harry walked over to the werewolf and looked at him. He had taught Harry how to cast the potronus charm, so he could probably teach him how to appirate. Remus congered two hoops and placed one on either side of the room. He instructed Harry to stand in one hoop and focus on the space in the other hoop. Harry did as told and focused his entire mind on the area and then felt as if he was being pulled through a very small tube and a large amount of pain in his left side. Then he landed ungracefully in the hoop and fell to his knees in agony, clutching at his left shoulder where his arm no longer was. He looked over to the other hoop were is arm lay useless and bleeding.

HIS ARM HAD BEEN RIPPED OFF!

Sirius grabbed the arm while Remus rushed over to him and began to rub a weird cream on his shoulder stump. Then Sirius got over to them and pushed they arm up against his shoulder, Remus continued to rub the cream along the torn flesh. Slowly they extreme pain began to subside until it was completely gone. Harry dared to glance at his arm which was now completely reconnected to his body. He pulled it out of Sirius' grip and wiggled it around. All the muscles seemed to work properly, and it didn't hurt at all. Pleased with the results, Remus stood and extended his hand to Harry and helped him up.

"Congratulations Harry! You did far better than I expected for a first timer."

"Ya Harry," said Sirius, "Are you sure you've never appirated before?"

Harry just laughed and said no. Harry tried appirating about ten more times before he mastered it, then did it a couple more times just to make sure he had it. Finally Sirius said he was ready. Ready for what, he had no idea, until he explained.

"You see Harry, now that you can appirate, you can do this thing called Destination Appiration. It's like appirating only it's suppose to take you some were that will change your life, allow you to find your destiny, so to say. I did some research with Moony here and found that some people find other people and others find a job they can make out of the materials there and becoming famous, some discover an entire new area. So me you and my buddy right there are going to side along appirate with you while you appirate." He finished with a smile. Glad that he could retain all of that information.

Harry just stared curiously at Sirius. "How do I do that when I don't have a place to focuses on?" He asked

"You need to keep your mind half blank and half focused on moving." Remus answered.

"Oh, Okay." Harry stated his voice full of sarcasm "Simple I guess."

Remus and Sirius just laughed and grabbed either one of Harry's arms. Then Harry focused, kind of, it was almost like he was doing it subconsciously, but after a moment he had the feeling of being pulled through a tube. And with a crack, the three men were gone.

With a crack three people appeared out of thin air. The first thing that they realized was that it was raining, hard. The second was that they where at some sort of muggle playground late at night. Sirius was the first to speak.

"Alright, everyone look around for a per son of some sort." Then he went of towards a slide. Remus went in the direction of the monkey bars. Harry looked around and saw bright red through the gray haze casted around in the rain and night. It was by what looked to be a swing set.

He silently ran to Sirius and then to Remus and took them up behind the swing set. Harry and Sirius sat down on a swing on either side of the red blob hat turned out to be a girl with long red hair. The girl did not look up or speak, Harry wondered if she even knew they were there. She did though, but none of them knew she had already formulated a plan if the tried to touch her. Remus was right behind her with his arms raised in the air over her as if he was trying to capture her. Then Sirius looked up at Moony and winked. Then three seconds later Harry and Sirius gabbed her arm and Remus clamped his hands down on her shoulders. What happened next surprised all of them

The girl instantly was on her feet. She planted a solid punch in to the unsuspecting werewolf's chest. When hit Remus fell to the ground, completely still except for the rise and fall of his chest and his eyes that had been flickering back and forth between Harry and his godfather. Then he watched as the small girl kicked Sirius of the swing. Al of this seemed to happen in a matter of seconds, but Harry new better, no person could ever move that fast. But then she was facing him. The girl grabbed the sides of his head, and with amazing strength pulled him up so that there faces were centimeters. Before Harry had any time to react, the girl had smashed their heads together, causing extreme pain to fill his entire head. Then, wile Harry suffered from head trauma; he was dragged over to the slide and left under the playground equipment and out of the rain. She left him there and went over to the swings. Moments later, she came back with Remus and Sirius, both being dragged backwards by there shirt.

When everyone was out of the rain the girl closed her eyes and took several deep breathes, and with each the air around them seemed to warm up a little. That girl was doing wandless magic! And she only looked to be about thirteen! Then, out of no where, she grabbed three ropes and tied their hands behind their backs and their feet together. Remus, who was having the effects of the earlier attack were off had struggled and pulled away until he was slapped, very loudly, on the side of his head.

When she was finished the girl turned to them "Who are you?" she asked.

"Well, I'm Sirius" Sirius said then nodded his head tours Harry "That's Harry, and the man you just slapped is Remus."

Remus growled when Sirius said his name, either to add effect or to show that he did not want his name said. The girl showed no sign of being scared, only anger and confusion.

"What are you doing here?" she asked

"I could say the same for you. Why are you out late at night in the pouring rain?" Harry replied with as much venom in his voice as he could force out. The girl just laughed.

"I think I'm the one asking questions since you were the ones who started the attack."

"Well," began Sirius, "We were doing this thing called appirating, you probably know about that since you're a witch, and it was supposed to take us to Harry's 'destiny' and some how we got here. Would you mind telling us were here is?" he finished with a winning smile. Harry and Remus just stared at their obviously crazed friend.

"I know what appirating is, and you're in Crofton, Maryland. That's near the east coast of the United States. Judging by the accents I would say you're all britts?" she answered and asked.

"Yup." Was the reply from all of them.

"Wait you know what appirating is? You must be wizards! Pull up your, oh you can't do that your hands are tied." She laughed.

She came over to Harry and pushed up the sleeve on his left arm. After prodding at it several times, the girl made a satisfied humph and proceeded on with Moony and Padfoot testing for the dark mark the same way. When she was done, she untied Sirius and helped him up and shook his hand. She did the same with Harry and then finally Remus. She seemed to trust him the least, that or he scared her.

"My name is Rose. Why don't you come to my house? I can put some thing warm in you and offer you a shower." Then she looked down at her self and sighed "I should probably do the same."

Harry couldn't see her very well, but what he could make out was that she had bright red hair and clothes that looked much too big and were now sopping wet, so the hung on her small frame, seeming to weigh her down. Her brown eyes shown like lamps, illuminating the space around them. The eyes rolled when they saw that everyone was staring at her in a mixture of shock, happiness, and the start of relaxation.

"Stop eyeballing me. It's not like I'm some sort of freak! Come on I'll show you were to go." Then she walked off. Not tuning to see if they were following, which they weren't she called over her shoulder to come on, that she had no way of harming two grown men and a teenager.

Harry snorted at that but turned to ketch up with Rose. The two grown men quickly followed after him. He noticed that as they walked, the warmth that had surrounded them wile they were under the playground equipment was still there. Wile they were walking Harry continued to bombard Rose with questions. He found out that her full name is Rose Lily Potter, and when he told her that they had the same last name she just nodded her head. Harry also learned that she was adopted, sort of, by the Williams. To Harry they seemed a lot like the Dursleys. Remus and Sirius talked in hushed voices. He was only able to pick up things like 'she looks like Lily' and 'could she really be Rose?' 'Our Rose'

Finally they reached a large house with white walls; a red roof and an empty drive way. Rose walked up to the garage door and pressed a code on to a lock, then the door opened, reveling a garage full of broken bikes, balls of all shapes and sizes, and a tool bench in the back. Rose led them to a door that was painted all white and opened it.

"Welcome to my humble abode." She said with a smile.

When they came in they found that it was anything but humble. All of the walls were painted white with black tile under foot. She led them to a kitchen so clean that it would put Mrs. Dursley to shame.

"If you want to hang out here you can. This is where I'll be making the food." Rose smiled. Sirius and harry turned down the offer, but Remus insisted that he would help. So Rose left Remus there, and with promos to be back soon she left the room. She showed them to a long table with about six chairs around it. Harry and Sirius took seats close to the head and Rose left them to talk.

She re-entered the kitchen to find Remus sitting on the counter and smiled. She liked him, it was just a gut feeling, but she was pretty sure that he wanted to protect her.

What from, she didn't know.

"Come off of that, I need to get to the cabinet underneath." She said and Remus hopped off. Rose grabbed a large round pan from the cabinet and a cutting board and set them on the stove. Then she moved to the fridge and pulled out two slabs of raw chicken, two bell peppers, and an onion. Remus had grabbed a knife for her and a pair of kitchen sheers. Rose oiled the pan and turned on the burner while Remus cut the chicken. When he was done he washed his hands and then began to chop the peppers. Rose cooked the chicken and when it was done, she added a healthy amount of vegetable oil and the peppers and onion that Remus had chopped. She stirred the mixture around the pan, making sure that everything was evenly cooked. That's when Remus spoke up.

"We make a fine team, don't you think?"

"I certainly am seeing positive results." Rose smiled and so did Remus.

Remus most certainly agreed. The smell coming from the food was amazing!

"Mr. Remus could you do me the favor of reaching into the cabinet above my head and grabbing the big bottle with the blue lid and the label that says 'season all' on it?"

"Sure." Said Remus "And please don't call me 'Mr. Remus'. It makes me feel old"

Rose laughed and agreed. Remus handed her the seasoning and watch and she put in a generous amount before setting it down on the counter and continuing stirring.

Finally it was done. Remus grabbed the plates and silverware from where Rose had instructed and followed her as she walked with the pan and a hot pad to the table. Rose sat the pad on the table and then the pan on top of that and next to it she sat a large wooden spoon that she had been stirring with. Remus passed around plates and forks to everyone and then took a seat. Rose walked to the end of the table were she normally sits, far from the head. She waited for everyone to fill there plates and then took some for herself. Rose couldn't help but smile when everyone had their first mouthful, and they all let out a very loud, very satisfying Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Rose ate and she had to say, she out did herself this time. Even though her stir-fry is always the best.

When everyone was done and all the plates, except for Rose's, were liked clean, Rose cleared the table. She went back to the kitchen with the pan and Remus, who was carrying the plates and silverware. She hand washed the pan and told Remus how to put his load into the dishwasher. Then she remembered the blueberry muffins she made yesterday. She grabbed four and went with Remus back to the dinning room to enjoy them. Half way through his muffin, Sirius asked her to marry him. Her reply was a loud 'HECK NO!' Every one laughed, even Sirius after a couple seconds of pouting.

"Rose, I believe that we have some thing to tell you." Sirius said "It has to do with a missing person- "I didn't kill or hide any one!" Rose interrupted. Sirius laughed. "Let me finish. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, this has to do with a missing person and Harry's Destination Appiration." Sirius posed and took a deep breath, "You see, Harry parent died a long time ago, when he was one, but about a week before, his younger sister was stolen and probably killed. But after meeting you, and seeing your resemblance to Harry's mother, Lily. I'm starting to think that Harry's Destination Appiration took him to his long lost sister." Sirius finished with a week smile, ready for her to freak-out and scream at him, but instead she just nodded and chewed her bottom lip, thinking. A moment went by before Rose nodded again. "I don't know how that could be possible but I'll tell you all the info on myself that I know so that you can compare if you wanna." Sirius shared a smile with Moony before turning back to Rose.

"Do you know when you were born?"

"July thirty-first."

"What is your full name?"

"Rose Lily Potter"

"Not William?"

"No, not William."

"Do you know who your natural parents are?"

"No."

"Do you know who took you here?"

"No."

"If I said you were the Rose Potter we're looking for, would you want to stay with your family or come to number 12 Grimmuald Palace and live with Harry Remus and I?"

"I would rather live with you."

"Why?"

"If I turn out to be your Rose Potter, Then I would like to get to know my brother and his grown man friends. But if I'm not I'll just wait two more years."

"Why would you wait two more years?"

"Because then another wizard would be an adult. And he promised that when he was an adult that he would take me away from here."

"Why do you want to leave so bad? Do the Williams treat you right?"

"I don't see what that has to do with me being or not being you Rose."

"Who is that other wizard you were talking about?"

"He told me I'm not to tell anyone. He doesn't want his parents to find out, 'cause they would probably tear him to pieces." Rose shrugged, "So I'm happy to keep it secret."

Remus sighed. This was getting them nowhere. He dug around in his pocket wile Sirius continued to attack the girl with questions. He wanted to know, was this girl really Rose? If so, then that would mean his goddaughter was alive. But what was she doing here all the way in America? So many questions, and it drove Remus up the wall to not have any of the answers. His hand touched something smooth and cool. He pulled it out to reveal a vile of a thick red liquid, easily confused with blood. It was a parental potion. When consumed, the name of the child's parents appears above their head. 'This way, we can really find out.' Thought Remus as he held the small bottle in front of his best friends face.

"Parental potion!" he shrieked and hugged Remus around the neck. "How do you always seem to have exactly what we need at any moment? You are the bestest buddy EVER!"

"Um, Sorry to interrupt, but what is parental potion?" harry asked.

"Well Harry, parental potion is a potion that when you dink it, it shows everyone who your parents are." Explained Remus.

"So I'm supposed to drink that?" questioned Rose.

"Heck ya! Take a sip and we'll all know who your dad and mum are." Said Sirius happily. "Then we'll know what the heck to do with you!"

Remus handed over the vile. Rose uncorked it and sniffed. It smelled of salt and some thing ells that Rose couldn't put a mane on. Then she put the edge to her lips and took a small sip from the bottle, she was ready to fight of the potion if it turned out to be poison.

Then, before her very eyes, and the eyes of everyone around her, names began to write themselves in mid air. After a minuet, Rose could decipher the red script in front of her. James and Lily Potter. All of the people in that room stared at those words.

Rose couldn't believe what was happening. A family had found her. Her family had found her. Sirius was in shock, after searching about a week for her, when Rose was first taken, they had never found her. Now he knows why. Remus was in a similar state, only with more happiness. They had found his goddaughter, and she was alive and seemingly healthy. Harry was shocked and angry. Angry because nobody ever told him he had a sister. And shocked because there she was! The sister he never had, or, always had but never knew about.

Everyone continued to stare, even when the magic letters disappeared, each person was lost in their own thoughts. Until Sirius spoke up of course.

"Well, I'm thinking you should go grab your things little flower, 'cause we're taking you home with us! Us godfathers and godson are gonna wait down here."

"All righty!" Rose said with a grin. "I'll be back."

She ran out of the room full speed, down the hall and into Elisa's spare room. Rose through open the closet and grabbed a green and black duffle bag that had many holes that were fixed with ducked tape. Then she raced out of the room ant to the stairs were her 'bedroom' was and stuffed all of her hand-me-down clothes into it. All of her clothes and toiletries filed about two thirds of the bag. Then she went to the bathroom and filled it the rest of the way with some of Elisa's 'girly gear'. A house full of men meant not having the proper equipment.

Then she was packed, and she ran back to the three she left behind. They were all standing by the door, ready to leave. Harry smiled. Neither of them could believe that they had a sibling. It was over whelming for Rose. In a couple of hours, she had learned who her parents were, that she had a brother and his older man friends to take care of her, she learned that she was actually loved by more than one person, she learned that she was going to have a life where she had friends and family. Rose didn't even try to contain her smile. It would be a painful failure if she had tried.

"Well, it looks as if some one is ready! How did you do that so fast?" Remus asked.

"Doesn't take long to pack my stuff." Rose answered. They need not know of the small amount of stuff she had to pack. "And I ran." She added as an after thought.

"Well I guess we should get going sis." Harry shook his head; he was never going to get use to saying that. The word sister felt foreign on his tong.

"Oh and one more thing." Sirius pointed to Remus "this guy's your Godfather."

"Good to know." Rose replied with an exited smile in their direction.

She walked over to Remus and took his hand. He smiled down at her. She looked so much like Lily, except for her eyes. James' eyes. It was kind of funny how she and Harry looked the complete opposite of each other. You would have never known they were brother and sister if you did not know their parents.

"We're going to do side along Appiration. Harry come here and hold my hand." Sirius stated. "Rose, it will feel like your being pushed through a tube. Don't try to breath, 'cause you won't be able to and don't worry it won't hurt at all."

"Okay then," she said with a shrug, "I think I've appirate before. It was an accident though and I ended up on the neighbor's roof!"

"Cool! But we're appirating to Grimmuald Palace. Not a roof." Remus said.

"What ever!" Rose groaned and then smiled to show she was joking.

"Grimmuald Palace here we come!" Said Harry before he and Sirius disappeared with a pop. Remus smiled at Rose again and with another pop; they were gone to.

Sirius was right. It felt like being pulled through a very small tube. It didn't hurt, but it was not some thing Rose wanted to do again.

Then with another pop, Remus and Rose were standing in front of two large houses. The one on the left with a big brass number eleven, and the one on the right had a brass thirteen on it. Were is number twelve? Then Remus handed Rose a yellow piece of paper with no lines. On it, in scratchy righting was Number twelve Grimmuald Palace. After reading this, Rose looked up and saw that he house had just magically appeared. She did not know how this happened, but they were wizards after all, magic was the normal thing here.

Then Remus bent down to her ear and whispered 'burn it'. And so Rose held the paper out in her hand, not knowing that Remus was getting out a lighter, she focused on the molecules. She speed them up, creating friction between the air and the paper. And just as Remus was about to hand over the small lighter, the paper burst into flames that didn't hurt Rose even the slightest! Remus was shocked of course; it was very hard for wizards to do wandless magic. Roomer has it that even Dumbledore has difficulty with that skill. How had a fourteen year old managed it? He was diffidently going to tell Sirius and Harry. Wile He was thinking about this, Rose was wondering why Remus acted so shocked. Was she supposed to be incapable of doing magic to? Then she remembered the lighter in his hand. He most likely expected her to use that instead. Oh well, to late.

Then she walked up to the house. Rose turned back to see her god father not following her. She used her arms to silently beckon him towards her and the house. His excretion was still shocked and his eyes were glazed over, as if he was deep in another world. Rose ran over and took his hand in hers. Then she practically dragged him to the door. She set the bag she had been carrying in her left hand down and pushed open the door. Rose shoved the werewolf in and grabbed her bag.

"I think I broke him." She said to Harry and Sirius and she lugged her bag and God father into the living room. She sat him down in a chair and sat at his feet.

"He'll be fine." Sirius said. "Harry, can you show rose to her room?"

"Sure." Said Harry. He grabbed Rose's bag and walked her out of the room. She clamed that she could carry it and that he didn't need to, but Harry insisted. He led her to a room a little away from his. When he opened the door to show his sister he could tell that she loved it. It had a back confider with white pillows and walls. The curtains were the same black. The dresser was the same black to. And there was a floor length mirror by the closet. Rose took her bag and gave Harry a hug.

"You should probably go to sleep." He said in a protective, brotherly tone.

"Fine." She said with a pout. "I'll get my pajamas on then come back down tot say good night to everyone. No out! I don't care who you are, your not gonna be in here wile I change!" and with that she showed Harry to the door, and he left with a laugh.

Rose just grabbed a nightgown from her bag and threw it on. She would unpack tomorrow. Rose tied back her slightly wet hair in a braid after she brushed it. Then she ran down stares to say good night to Sirius and Remus and Harry. Those plans were interrupted when she fell down the stairs. As she tumbled head over heels, loud thumps sounding as she fell, the drapery on the wall flew open, reveling a very unhappy looking lady who had begun screaming her head off.

"FILTH! BLOOD TRAIGHTER! HOW DARE YOU!"

Then Sirius and Remus ran over to the angry yelling portrait and seemed to struggle to close the drapery. Harry ran to her, asking if she was okay and helping her sit up.

"OH SHUT UP!" she yelled at the portrait. "A WOMAN SUCH AS YOURSELF SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO BE SREAMING HER HEAD OF IN SUCH A DISGACEFULL WAY! LOOK AT YOUR SELF! THOUGHING A TANTRUM LIKE A TWO YEAR OLD! THAT IS TRULY DISCUSTING!" that seemed to get her attention, and hurt Harry's ears. Everyone seemed shocked at Rose's words.

Then the portrait spoke again. "How dare you speak to me in suck a way!"

"How dare you disgrace the most noble and ancient house of Black!"

The woman was shocked. She just crossed he arms and held her nose up high. Refusing to look at Rose. Using this time of slight peace, Remus and Sirius closed the curtains.

"How did you do that?" Sirius asked

"What?" Rose replied confused

"You got her to shut up!" Sirius said in disbelief.

"Ya, so?"

"Well, Nobody I know has been able to do that before!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Oh." Rose said lamely. "Well I was just coming down to say thanks and good night. Harry told me it was past the house bed time."

"I said nothing about a bed time!" Harry almost shouted. Rose just raised an eyebrow.

She got up with a large amount of pain on every part of her body. She hugged every one and then left to go up stairs. Careful not to slip and fall again.

When she was out of sight Remus turned to the two people left beside him.

"Rose can do wand less magic."

END OF CHAPTER

GOOD BIEY