…This chapter is so much longer than any of my others :o
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Jasper Pov
So much had happened in the past few hours, we had arrived at the Three Broomsticks and Bella was obviously well acquainted with the place. She was asleep now.
I had a few hours to ponder what happened today like when I told Alice that I no longer loved her, I have never said something so truthful. I hated her, she was a whore and she never truly loved me.
Hogwarts was gorgeous, not your usual gorgeous. Hogwarts had an understated beauty about it in its age; it was magnificent, worn stone and aged tapestries, just my thing.
I thought about what Bella had said, about how her family died. No one should ever have to go through that, so many people had been lost to wars and now another was building. She's said Vampires had been involved in the last war, I wonder if they were just nomads or whether they we attached to the Volturi.
3 HOURS LATER
It was 5 am when the sound of running water alerted me that Bella was awake. 10 minutes later a fully dressed Bella Fenwick stood in my door way, "We are heading up to the castle to get Charlie."
I nodded, "Bella,"
"Hmm?" she turned her head to look at me, blue eyes curious.
"About last night," Her eyes darkened considerably and they narrowed as she stared at me, "I'm sorry."
She turned to face forward as we walked out of the Three Broomsticks, "Do not mention it Jasper." She said coldly.
It struck me at how she could go from her now notably sunny disposition to dark and cold quicker than a flash. We walked in quiet and I allowed myself to look at the surroundings, Bella's dark mood was slowly dissipating and in its place was a cool collectiveness with just a dash of excitement.
The Castle stood tall and proud just up ahead, I saw the smile light Bella's face and she began to run towards the Castle, surprised I jogged to keep up with her, Charlie stood on the steps.
Bella launched herself at him and I watches as he spun her around and kissed her lips. The wave of love and adoration the came from them was sickeningly sweet so much that I couldn't help but smile.
"Bella, why is there a Vampire behind you?" Charlie murmured in her ear, slowly edging in front of her.
"This is Jasper Whitlock." Bella said proudly stepping forward to bring me forward.
"Whitlock as in Thomas and James?" Charlie raised an eyebrow in bemusement.
I felt my brow crease however before I could ask who Thomas and James were Bella nodded and then grinned, "Yes." She turned to look at me, "They're relatives of yours. Distant nephews."
I only just managed to hide my shock, "What are we going to do now?" I asked.
"We are going to Diagon Alley in London to open you a Gringotts account, get you some money, robes and other supplies." Bella assured me. I swallowed and nodded, "We are getting there via Apparation, so hold onto my arm and don't let go. We don't want to experiment with Vampire splinching."
I said nothing just grabbed Bella's arm. Soon enough it felt like I was being squeezed through a very small tube with no air, it stopped shortly but it left me disoriented. Once my sight cleared I took in my surroundings, tall light stone buildings stood each side of the cobbled path, Witches and Wizards bustled about, gossiping and trying to do what needed doing.
"C'mon Jazz." Bella said; I let my eyes drift to her and Charlie who were walking ahead, hand in hand. I went after them, we walked and Charlie asked me questions about what I like and what sort of things I was interested in.
When we arrived at the huge white marble building, I held my breath as I saw the Goblins; they weren't the nicest smelling things.
"Name?" it hissed.
"Isabelle Fenwick. I wish to open a Vault. Name: Jasper Whitlock. I want it to be accessible to Mr Whitlock and myself only."
The Goblin disappeared and came back a few minutes later with a small silver key. He handed it to me. "Vault 947."
"You got any Muggle money on you Jasper?" Bella turned to me.
"Uh yeah." I pulled my wallet out and handed Bella several hundred dollar bills.
Bella placed them in front of the Goblin and said, "I would like these changed too Galleons and placed in Mr Whitlock's Vault along with 200 Galleons out of Vault 923." It nodded and disappeared again, Bella turned around and commented, "Do not lose that key; we need to get you some money in a minute."
"Anything else?" The Goblin's hard voice asked.
"I would like to enter my vault."
"Do you have your key?" Bella handed it a silver key from around her neck. He gestured them forward and Bella and Charlie followed with confidence whilst I followed behind them quietly. We arrived at a rusted cart, the Witch and Wizard grinned at each other and leapt into it, I on the other hand climbed in with some trepidation. Once I was in the cart took off at such speed even I found it blurry then everything focused.
We flew down winding tracks and came to a sudden stop in front of a door, Bella jumped out and watched as the Goblin opened the door, I looked around Bella and my Vampiric sight allowed me to see large piles of golden coins, items made of pure gold and silver and precious looking stones.
"That's her 'small fortune' as she calls it."
"Small?" I exclaimed softly.
"Yes that is everything she inherited after her family passed. Some of it she has earned by working, some of it is interest like in the muggle world and you see those pretty little rocks and gems?"
"Hmm." I turned to Charlie's grinning face.
"They are worth thousands of Galleons each and she has a ridiculous amount of them." He declared.
I was about to reply but Bella returned placing a large sack of Galleons in her tiny purse. "It's a spell." I shook my head and the cart was off again, we arrived back in Gringotts. "Right, off to Madam Malkin's to get you some robes. Then I think we will hit Flourish and Blotts."
I just nodded and followed Bella and Charlie out of the white marble building and to a large well-fairing shop. Bella dragged me inside and to a woman at the counter.
"I need to get Mr Whitlock fitted." Bella said cheerfully.
"What kind of robes love?" she tinkled.
"Every day robes, dress robes, two cloaks, dress shoes and some boots."
"Alrighty love. What size shoe are you Mr Whitlock?"
"An 8 ma'am." I replied.
"Polite one ain't he?" she said to Bella; she just laughed and nodded. Madam Malkin had thick brown hair which was greying rapidly. A short woman, shorter than Bella and had ice blue eyes.
"Right we have Leather." She showed us some admittedly nice shoes, they were slightly pointed and looked comfortable to dance in. "Fabric?" I shook my head.
"I'll have leather please." She nodded happily and put the shoe box to the side.
"Right leather boots." I shook my head, "Dragon Hide; strong, durable and last a long time." I grinned. She placed those on top of the other box.
"Right darling, robes. Let's get you measured." She forced me into a stall with a white shirt and told me to put it on. When I came out of the stall she pulled me in front of her and began measuring, a floating piece of parchment and a quill appeared and began writing down everything the old woman was muttering.
Finally she stopped and told me to put my shirt and jumper back on. "Any preference on colour love?" she asked me.
I shrugged and turned to Bella, she looked critically at me before turning to Madam Malkin and saying, "We'll take 4 sets of black robes, 1 lined in royal blue, one lined in red, one lined in green and the other lined gold, 1 set of blue robes and a set of red robes. Never mine dress robes; a white, collared shirt, old fashioned, faded black, button up waistcoat; a pair of black dress pants and his dress shoes." She answered thoughtfully tapping her chin.
The quill had copied all of this down and the lady just nodded her head and us to come back in an hour or so. "That's a lot of stuff Bella. I haven't got any money with me."
"Oh hush. I am buying everything today as a way of saying welcome to the wizarding world."
"But Bella…" I trailed off. She shook her head and led us into Flourish and Blotts.
"You see any books you want Jazz pick 'em up." I walked around idly and occasionally picked up books and added them to my growing pile. "Don't pick up Hogwarts: A History or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them because I can give you my copies from when I was at Hogwarts."
I put down the two books I just picked up and looked through a couple more books picking up a couple about potions and some others about magical creatures. When I finally had scoured everything and picked up what I wanted I took them to the counter, Bella placed some rolls of parchment and several quills on the counter too, "That'll be 175 Galleons please." I gasped at the price.
"Here you are." Bella handed the man his money and watched as he bagged my books. I grabbed the bag and listened with half an ear as Bella said that we were going to the apothecary to pick me up a cauldron and some Potions supplies.
The shop absolutely reeked and I barely held back a flinch, Bella danced round with a basket, making Charlie hold onto a cauldron and gas burner. The basket was soon crammed with clear glass vials, knives, and what Bella said were basic ingredients; it came to over 200 Galleons.
We left the shop and moved onto another shop to buy a telescope and a set of scales; that was 16 Galleons. "Hey Bella."
"Yes?" she chirped.
"Did you know my hair is naturally dark brown near black?" I questioned.
The way her jaw dropped answered my question, "No way?" she gasped, even Charlie was gaping at me.
"What did that bitch make you die your hair or something?" Charlie asked.
"Yes," I avowed. "She also made me shave off my facial hair; the only thing that changes in our body is the length of hair on your face and head."
"Yeah I knew that but do you really have dark brown hair?" I nodded, "Dear Merlin." She exclaimed. "Are you going to keep dyeing it or let it wash out?"
"I'm going to wash out the dye, let it grow out a bit and let my facial hair grow." I grinned allowing my teeth to show. Charlie laughed and bumped my shoulder with a grin.
"Bella I need to talk to the guys in Gambol and Japes. Where do you want me to meet you two?" Charlie asked.
Bella raised a sceptic eyebrow but nodded, "Meet us in the Junk shop."
"Okie Dokie Zahăr." He kissed Bella's temple and walked into the shop.
"What does Zahăr mean?" I queried.
"It means Sugar in Romanian. It's where Charlie works and where I usually spend my time." Bella said softly. I nodded to myself and entered the shop behind Bella. "Hey do you want a rucksack?"
"What?"
"Do you want a rucksack, I can charm it permanently?" she asked slightly impatient.
"Uh yeah, okay." I took the medium sized, grey, army camouflage rucksack from her hands, and held onto it as we walked through the shop. Bella picked up various items such as a black pocket knife, a note book, a pack of pens, a torch, a silver neck chain with dog tags and a large leather bound book.
"Can I get the dog tags engraved please?" Bella asked the shop Keeper.
"With what love?" he asked cheerfully. He handed her a notebook and I watched her write down 2 separate lines of words. Within minutes the man had them engraved and passed back to Bella.
"50 Galleons Darlin'." The man
"You're cheap in 'ere." She passed the man his money and began to walk away, "I'll be back another day." Bella called over her shoulder as we left the shop. "Right give me that Rucksack." I handed it to her and watched as she pulled out her wand, "Impervius." I stopped listening as she cast the rest of the spells. "There you go, all of them permanent and undetectable."
"What did you cast?" I asked slightly apprehensive.
"An extension charm so you can put everything in there. The impervius charm so that it won't get wet if it rains and an unbreakable charm so you can't break it in any of your Vampiric shenanigans, a featherweight charm so that it doesn't weigh anything, not that that would be a problem for you. Salvio Hexia so that if you run into trouble Witches and Wizards your bag can't get blown up or something stupid like that. Should probably cast that one on you as well, maybe then you won't get hurt if someone tries to incendio you." She cast her wand over me silently. She took the Pocket Knife, the dog tags as well as the Torch and cast some charms on that as well.
Charlie came running out of the shop across the street with an orange bag and a face splitting grin, Bella shook her head and said nothing, simply placed the dog tags round my neck.
"Right Jasper let's pick up your robes and get you an owl."
"Okay. Wait what, an owl?" what the hell was she thinking.
"Yes, Eyelops Owl Emporium sells Vampire friendly owls. They were raised by Vampires and so would have no problem being with you, as long as you don't mind. That way you can send me letters."
"O-kay." I muttered unsure. She guided us over to the shop and went inside. I followed with my bags and Charlie entered behind me. Bella went straight to the back and began to look at various cages with red tags.
"Which one do you want Jazz?" she asked softly.
I looked over the owls; there were barn owls, horned owls and screech owls but the one that caught my eye was the Northern Snowy Owl sat right at the front. It was female; obviously extremely independent she stood proud on her perch watching me with peculiar grey eyes. "Her. I would like her."
Bella grinned as she saw who I had picked and allowed an ear-splitting grin overcome her face.
"We want the Snowy Owl at the back raised by Vampires." I heard Bella say, I watched her pay and wondered what I was going to name her.
"What you naming her mate?" the man asked.
"Winter." I murmured softly, watching as the owl ruffled her feathers and let out a soft squawk in return. The owner opened the cage and I held out my arm, Winter flew round the shop before settling on my arm and preening when I stroked her chest feathers. She was place back in the cage and carried by Charlie as we walked to madam Malkin's to collect my clothes.
I sat on a stool and emptied my books, potions equipment and other things into my Rucksack. Bella came over and offered handed me a bag and told me to get dressed. I slipped into the changing room and opened the bag to see a white shirt and some dark wash jeans, "Though you might want 'em." Bella's voice said from the other side of the curtain.
I laughed and slipped the clothes on and the red lined robes over the top of them. Leaning down I laced up my Dragon Hide boots and exited the changing room. "Ooh, once your hair gets dark and you got some stubble Charlie may have some competition."
"Say wah?" Charlie exclaimed.
"Joking Copil(1), joking." She laughed.
"You better be." He mock growled, pulling her against his side. I smirked and placed the rest of my clothes in the Rucksack.
Copil– Baby
Decided to try doing Jasper's Point of View, did I succeed? Let me know. Sorry I know that in Stephanie Meyer's world Vampire bodies are unchanging and so cannot grow their hair or facial hair but it's my story my rules, I'm just borrowing the characters. Read and Review xx
