Chapter 5 - a new family
Two weeks had passed since Alex had left the Russo's. Her first week had been spent talking to professor Crumbs about what had happened and trying to figure out where her real family was.
Two weeks away from the person she found out was her bond-mate. She remembered what had happened when she first found out what being a bond mate meant.
Flashback
Crumbs was sitting in his office finishing up any work he had left for the day when he heard someone flash into the room. Looking up he saw a girl that he had come to grow close to over the years. Alex Santiago. He knew that she wasn't a Russo, plus he had always thought that she knew it the whole time too.
Seeing the dried tears coming down her face he knew that something was wrong. That and the suitcase in her left hand didn't help the matter either.
"Alex my dear what's wrong?" He asked, his voice filled with concern.
Seeing her eyes start to mist up Crumbs jumped up from his chair and wrapped his arms around her in a deep embrace. Giving her time to explain what had happened not even an hour earlier.
Crumbs was appalled to say the least. Appalled at how Jerry and Teresa had handled this, he had made sure to explain to them that Alex would in no way be their child because of how her and Justin had the bond together. Before he could let her keep talking he knew that he had to explain to her the bond they she shared with Justin.
"Alex have you ever heard of a mate bond?" Seeing her shake her head he continued "Alright, well I'll put it simply. A mate bond is a bond that two people share. This kind of bond only happens in the wizarding world as it can be extremely dangerous. The term soul mate that mortals use is similar to this bond just extremely weak compared to it. For a bond mate to go against the bond means the death of both bonder. And the bond is set in stone as soon as both members breath their first breath, you are bonded Alex. This is why I'm telling you this. You are bonded to Justin Russo."
Alex went into shock. She was bonded to her brother? Wait, not her brother she realized. Her lover. Once the initial shock wore off she was happy that she was going to be with Justin for the ever because she had always had a strange pull towards him and it always felt right when he was around.
Flashback end
In the following two weeks Alex spent them trying to find this about any family that she had left. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, anything. It took two weeks but she had finally found what she was looking for and was now standing in front of her real grandparents house trying to work up the strength to knock on the as she was about to knock on the door it had opened to and elderly looking man.
"Hello may I hel… Alexandra? Is that you?" He asked….
With Justin
Two months had passed since life in the Russo home had changed. Justin refused to talk to his parents after they had explained what had happened and why Alex left. Max was still Max but he wasn't the same anymore either. He was still dumber than a rock but he never smiled anymore, almost like all the fun loving side of him had been drained away.
Every day Justin sat in his room and waited. He waiting for any news from Alex. Any kind of news that she was alright or that she had found what she was looking for. Waiting and thinking. Thinking about that conversation that he had with his parents not even minutes after she had left him…
Flashback
With a deep passionate kiss she was gone. Gone...GONE! Wait, he realized. 'Mom and dad must know why she left like that, they must' he thought not even clueing in that she never referred to their parents as her parents only his. Almost like… Like… Like she wasn't even apart of their family.
Running out of his room he went straight to Alex's room. Upon finding her not there he marched straight into his parents room. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" He yelled as soon as he walked into their room seeing his mother crying on the bed and his father on his knees with tears streaming down his eyes. "Justin I-we-um I don't know how to explain this but I'm not going to right now" Jerry said, trying to find something to cover what had just happened.
"YES YOU ARE! SHE JUST LEFT ME WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHAT YOUR TWO DID TO HER AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME WHY THE HELL MY SISTER JUST LEFT WITH ALL HER THINGS!" He yelled back at his parents his anger rising by the second.
"Alright Justin we'll tell you just go get your brother and wait for us downstairs." Jerry sighed, he knew this was coming and that there was nothing they could do to avoid any of it now. He knew that after today everything had changed from bad to worse for him, for his family.
Justin looked down and nodded then went to get Max and walked downstairs to wait for his parents to explain just what the hell was happening.
Flashback end
For the past two months since then everything was different. Max was no longer the young idiotic child that he once was, no longer loud and outgoing, Justin no longer went to school or focused in his human world studies but instead poured himself into the magical theory that he was always nervous about learning new things that might help him find Alex, or that might help him in leaving his present hell sooner.
Yes, Justin now hated it, living with his parents above the family sub shop, not being able to stand being in the same room as them for more than a few seconds without started to hate them more for what they did.
Two weeks Justin had spent either in his room or in the lair pouring over text book after textbook. Today was no different, that was until mid way through his tenth textbook of the week that he heard the portal open.
Turning around Justin saw the only thing that could have brought his out of his funk. The only thing that even mattered in his life anymore. "Alex is that you…"
A/N - Sorry it's been so long guys started a new job and just never had the time to write after it. But im back and i'll be focusing on this story for a little while until it's caught up to where I would like it to be. As always read and review guys till next time
~Nikki