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I found Charlie and Jasper out in the grounds, the sun had come out again and the rain had stopped. The boys were laughing and chucking a quaffle between them, taking turns to ask questions about each other, I smiled fondly and trotted down the grounds to where they were stood.
"Guys." I greeted, Charlie waved and Jasper flashed me a grin. Being away from the Cullens had done him wonders; he was smiling and laughing and talking, learning new skills and being everything he should and it had only been a few days. "Jasper, I was thinking of going and getting your stuff from Forks now?"
"Yeah sure. You coming with us Charlie?"
"Course I am man. When are you heading to Ireland?" Charlie Questioned.
"If you two don't mind I was hoping to head off tomorrow, thank Professor Snape, get some blood from the kitchens and then say goodbye to you two." Me and Charlie nodded.
"I need to get some of my clothes and some other things from the house. Collect all of my muggle money from my private bank account as well as some from the shared one between me and Alice. Then go to Diagon Alley to have lots of that exchanged into Galleons and put in my Vault."
"So the house, town and the Diagon Alley yeah?" I asked.
Jasper nodded a grin lighting his face, "I'm going to travel the world with money in my pocket and a rucksack on my back."
I laughed, gave Jasper his bag and then wrapped my arms around their waists and led them towards Hogsmeade, I felt both their arms settle around my shoulders and smirked, this was how it should be. This day was actually going slow; it was only 1:30.
We apparated and Jasper, now used to the sensation landed gracefully next to us in the meadow where the house was situated. We carried on walking both of them now holding my hands. We arrived at the door and I saw Jasper inhale deeply before opening the door and pulling us both through.
The three of walked down the hallway and to the living room where only four pairs of hopeful eyes met ours. I was confused and so was Jasper, I let go of Jasper's hand as well as Charlie's and gestured them both upstairs.
"Where are Edward and Alice?"
Esme swallowed and looked at the ground before answering painfully, "They left." I nodded and watched as Charlie lent against the banister at the top of the stairs. Soon enough Jasper came back into view and walked downstairs carrying his bag on his back, he didn't say a word to the others just left through the front door, me and Charlie followed.
"Seattle." Jasper answered my unspoken question. I grabbed their hands and apparated into a back alley in Seattle. No one paid us any attention as we emerged and began to walk towards the bank. Jasper was quiet as we walked; Charlie and I were talking quietly about the Weasley's and the Order. I watched from beside Charlie as Jasper withdrew what must have been thousands of dollars in cash.
The accountant was obviously in just as much sock as we were. After securing every last penny from his private account and half from the shared one between him and Alice, he turned away and headed towards the door.
We followed him out and made our way back to the alley, Charlie apparated us to Diagon Alley and we made our way through crowds of Witches and Wizards to Gringotts. Jasper instead of being sullen and unhappy looking now walked with his head held high with confidence and a spring in his step as we walked through crowded streets. Clearly the magical world was better for him than the Muggle world. The sun shone high and the wet cobblestoned street began to dry, the white marble building stood proud ahead of us.
We entered and I looked mistrustfully at the goblins, Jasper walked up to the desk at the front, "I wish to have some muggle money exchanged into galleons."
The goblin looked up at Jasper with widened eyes obviously wondering why a Vampire wanted to exchange money. "Name?" it hissed.
"Jasper Whitlock."
"Do you have your key?" The goblin narrowed his eyes as he watched Jasper removed his dog tags from around his neck and hand them to the Goblin. "Do you have the money?"
Jasper handed over half of the money to the goblin and waited as it disappeared behind the desk. Once it reappeared Jasper said, "I would also like to enter my vault."
The goblin gestured for him to follow and me and Charlie stood in the cool of the shadows in the stone building, soon enough Jasper was back placing his dog tags around his neck and zipping his rucksack up. He grinned at us and we exited the bank and made our way to the leaky cauldron.
"Hey Tom. Can we have some Floo powder and borrow your fireplace?"
"Course you can Charlie, you know where the powder is." The Barman called back.
"I'm going to go home and see the family, you want to come?" Me and Jasper nodded, Charlie threw some powder into the fire and stepped into it. "The Burrow."
"It's safe don't worry Jasper, plenty of other Vampires have done it." I assured him. Jasper copied Charlie's actions and I watched as he disappeared in the green flames. I followed behind the boys and found myself in the Weasley living room, in front of an extremely surprised Mr and Mrs Weasley along with a set of twins and a Ginny.
Charlie stepped forward to hug his Mother and finally Molly recovered from the shock to hug him back, "Oh I've missed you so much. Where have you been, how have you been?"
"Hey Arthur." I called. Arthur grinned and waved at me; looking next to me he saw Jasper and immediately recognised him to be a Vampire
"Ginny, boys get back. Molly, Charlie." He called slightly panicked.
I grabbed Jasper's arm and Charlie snapped his head to his dad who had his wand raised at his friend. Throwing himself to Jasper's other side he said, "No dad. He's my friend and a vegetarian Vampire." Charlie made sure to place a large amount of emphasis on the word 'vegetarian'.
Jasper nodded and watched cautiously as Arthur stepped forward and looked him over, looking closely at his eyes before lowering his wand. "Sorry about that, but as you can see not much interaction with Vampires, and that which we have had wasn't the best."
"It's understandable sir." Jasper replied well naturedly, Arthur put his hand forward and Jasper shook it. "So you are Charlie's father?"
"That I am."
"How do you know our son then?" Mrs Weasley asked cheerfully after giving me a bear hug.
"Er. Well," he looked to me and I nodded. "My brother," he sneered as he said the word, "Met Bella here at school, they eventually started dating. She watched me and the rest of my family play baseball when three nomads came to the clearing, James, one of the Vampires was a tracker and he tried to hurt Bella. Myself, Bella and Alice," he looked angry as he said her name, "Left to protect Bella whilst the others tried to stop James. He eventually lured Bella to a ballet studio and bit her; Edward had to suck the venom out whilst me and the others destroyed James. Edward left Bella, bringing the rest of the family with him after I nearly bit her on her birthday because she got a paper cut." He sounded so ashamed as he said this. "She began doing reckless things and eventually jumped off of a cliff in La Push. Rosalie, my sister, told Edward who then went to the Volturi in Italy to ask to be killed. Alice and Bella went to stop him."
I rested my hand comfortingly on his arm, "They came back, and things settled down then Victoria, one of the nomads that were with James, began to create a newborn army to destroy the family and Bella. We managed to kill them all, Bella then got engaged to Edward. Bella disappeared for a time and came back telling us she went to Romania to help a friend, about a month later Charlie showed up in Forks, I overheard their conversation in the forest and when Bella went back to the house to see Edward,"
"I broke off the engagement after I found out he was cheating on me with Alice, Jasper's ex-wife and several other ladies from a nearby coven."
"How old are you then Jasper dear?" Asked Molly after a stretch of silence.
"I'm 150 ma'am." He answered politely. I saw the twins gape at Jasper in surprise, Ginny had left and I was sure Molly and Arthur were not expecting his answer. "I was born 1844 in Houston, Texas."
"Molly are you and Arthur going to that meeting tonight?" I questioned.
"Yes. Are you going Jasper?"
Jasper shook his head, "No ma'am, I'm not. I am going to go through my belongings and make sure I have everything I need before I set off tomorrow and go travelling, starting with Ireland."
"You are planning on travelling, but what about places with sun?" Molly asked fearfully.
Jasper grinned, "I had a lesson in Potions with Professor Snape this morning. He taught me how to successfully brew a potion to enable me in sunlight for two days. If I take the potion every two days I am free to enjoy the sunlight as much as I want." He answered cheerfully.
"You sure you're not going to get caught?" Molly poked.
"I'm sure ma'am." Jasper answered.
"Charlie you are seriously friends with a Vampire?" I heard one of the twins whisper.
"Yes, and be nice to him, besides he can hear us if we're whispering so there is no point." Charlie answered at regular voice level, "He isn't staying in England anyways, he is going to head to Ireland tomorrow."
"But that means we won't get to talk to him." They whined in unison.
"Well go talk to him now, mum is cooking an early dinner and dad has got paperwork to do so it's just me, Jasper, Bella and you two in here. Ask him some questions."
"I will answer what I can." Jasper spoke up, he had been listening in also and now had an amused grin splayed across his scarred face. After he had told me his story and showed me the scars they all became much more visible to me.
"Er okay then. So can you move really fast?"
I interrupted Jasper with an apologetic smile, "Why don't we go outside and perhaps he could demonstrate. Sound good Jazz?"
Jasper nodded and followed me out of the door, the three boys walking behind us eagerly. "Yes I can move really fast." Jasper answered before one of them could ask again.
"Prove it." They said together. Jasper looked up, there was a tree about 100 meters away, he shot off toward it and was back in less than 5 seconds. "Woah, dude that's awesome!" Fred, I think, exclaimed.
I rolled my eyes and thought about it for a moment before casting an accio on the beat up Ford Anglia in the shed. It came whizzing towards us and landed close by, Jasper stared at it before moving over to it and picking it up and carrying it slightly away from us then placing it down again. Fred and George's faces were comical.
"You drink blood don't you?"
"Yes I do, but I drink only the blood of animals."
"You got a favourite?" One of them asked bluntly.
"Excuse me?" Jasper asked incredulously.
"What my brother means to say," George, maybe, stepped forward, "Is have you got a particular favourite animal when hunting."
"Oh, yes I like to hunt Ox or Bear." Jasper answered.
"How old did you say you were?"
"I'm 150; I was born 1844 and bitten by a Vampire named Maria when I was 19."
"You still remember your human life?"
"Parts of it. I know I grew up in Houston, Texas. I remember living on a horse ranch with my parents; I don't recall having any brothers or sisters. When I was 16 I ran away from home and joined the Confederate army, I quickly rose through the ranks being promoted over older more experienced men. I was assisting in evacuation, when I was riding back I saw three women, I stopped to help them and they were beautiful. I was speechless, they were talking two of them soon left and the dark haired lady, Maria bit me." Jasper stopped and pulled up his sleeve he looked up and frowned then pulled his phone out of his robe, using the light he made the scars on his arm visible to Charlie and the twins.
"There were many wars in the south, Maria was building an army, she selected more carefully than the others, I was chosen due to my status as a Major in the army. However when a Vampire begins to lose the strength that comes with being a newborn after around a year, Maria wanted rid of them, which was my job. I got these scars and many others all over my body due to those wars, Vampire venom is the only thing that can leave a scar on a Vampire's body."
Jasper didn't go into all the details this time, just enough to give them the rough outline of it. They gaped but didn't say anything.
"Boys dinner!" Molly's voice startled us out of our thoughts. Fred and George shot up and began shoving each other out of the way to get there first. Me, Charlie and Jasper followed behind at a leisurely pace.
"Me and Bella have already eaten and Jasper doesn't eat human food." Charlie said before his mother could ask them if they were hungry. Molly nodded and bustled around the kitchen whilst me and Jasper stood awkwardly in the door way.
"Did you know me and Charlie are back together Molly?" I asked her lightly, she froze and turned to stare at me wide eyed. I nodded; she gasped and rushed forward to hug me.
The rest of the Weasley's filed in and began to fill their plates with food, Molly copied them and I pulled a roll off of Ron's plate with a thump on the back of the head when he tried to snatch it back. I offered a bit to Jasper and laughed when his face screwed up in disgust, "It smells like dirt." He muttered. I just laughed some more and lent back against Charlie's chest.
"Well mum, dad, we'll see you at the meeting. We are going to head back to the castle for a bit."
"Oh must you?" Cried Molly.
"Yeah c'mon bro we only just got you back." One of the twins called.
"I gotta do some stuff, besides I am pretty sure you will see me again before you go back to school. And you two will see me at 6." He answered. He pulled me into the living room and I grabbed Jasper's hand dragging him behind us.
We left the same way we entered, through the fireplace however this time we arrived in the Three Broomsticks. We all trudged back up to the castle, and I heard Jasper say softly, "I'm going to go down to the dungeons and work on brewing some more potions."
"Okay Jazz have fun." He disappeared around the corner and that's when I heard a rumbly voice in my ear ask, "Want to have some fun of our own?"
I couldn't help myself; I smirked and dragged him in the opposite direction to Jasper.
This was even more of a pain in the ass to write (o_0)
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