Disclaimer: If I wrote Harry Potter I wouldn't have killed one of the wonder twins; and if I wrote these songs what would I be doing here? lol

'Italics'- thoughts

'Bold'- singing

'Bold/italicized'- just the song that goes to the chapter, if any.

'((Bold and in double parentheses))'- Singing with Siren abilities, with only one set of parentheses its talking with the ability.

Author's notes: Hey I know, long time no update. Been goin through a rough time but I am determined to finish this fanfic. So enjoy and I'll try cranking one out again soon.

:-Chapter 24-:

I was awake.

You know how some mornings it takes forever to drag your ass out of bed, then others your instantly awake, well today was one of those mornings; and that was annoying. Then I heard a heart beat in my ear and felt my pillow shift, I tilted my head up and came face to face with James. Meeting his eyes I remembered everything. He gives me a small smile, "I gotta use the loo."

"Oh, it's right over there." I said throwing my arm in the general direction behind me as I sat up. He slips out from under me, jumps over me, and has the door closed in seconds. I briefly wonder how long he's had to go for as I prop my body back against the head board.

As I sit there I can't stop the chaotic thoughts from swimming through my mind. As soon as I start to really focus on one another jumps in the spotlight. 'Leo came back- He brought Vampires into the house- Did that mean he was a vampire too?' I asked myself, knowing the answer. 'Why did he want to be more powerful than Voldemort?- What happened to my brother?- Why do I still feel so exhausted?- Did James mind that I kissed him last night?'

There, my mind finally stopped. I kissed James last night…I kept repeating it in my head; 'and he kissed back.' That little voice in the back of my head chimed. He did but that could have been because I was venerable and he didn't want to hurt me, I felt the little voice tug at something inside of me when I thought this.

As I sit there thinking about it I begin to sing, my song, and my thoughts began to melt away. So I close my eyes and continued to sing...

"((Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh))"

James pauses as he washes his hands and hears Alexis's voice, singing, but there's something different this time…Like now she's a super charged magnet and he's a hunk of metal; at least that's the first comparison that came to mind. He slowly opened the door so as not to distract her; he didn't want her to stop.

I pause just letting the calmness take over and I relax, "What song was that?" My eyes fly open and I see James walking over to the bed.

"Oh, just another song, nothing special…" I was silently panicking wondering if he had heard me, and suddenly glad with myself for stopping.

"It sounded really good, you should finish it." James said giving me a serious look while sitting next to me on the bed.

I shake my head and look away softly saying "No, I shouldn't have even began to sing it in the first place…"

Then it hit James she had just sung in that voice, her Siren voice. He remembered her saying that she would never sing to anyone in that voice, and after what happened last night he didn't want to push it with her. "How are you feeling this morning?"

"Tired, and you?" I said leaning my head back against the head board, relived he didn't push the song subject.

"Fine, a bit tired too but I'll live." He slid his hand forward and took mine. We sat there silently and I let my eyes close again. I felt James move to sit next to me so I leaned against him and his thumb began to trace patterns on the outside of my hand.

Something knocked loudly against the glass door that leads to my balcony; my whole body flinched violently. James squeezed my hand as we both looked over to the door to see what caused the noise. It was Bernard.

"Can you let him in?" I asked without taking my eyes off my protective pet.

James chuckled, "Yeah sure," He walked over and unlocked the door sliding it open, "Hey buddy." He bowed and Bernard nodded his head before trotting in and stopping in front of my bed.

"Yeah you know better than to come onto my bed." I said smiling at him.

"On the bed? My mom would kill me for just having a Hippogriff in my room!" James said laughing as he made his way on my bed again earning a squawk in protest from Bernard since James could go where he could not.

Bernard laid down at the end of my bed and placed his head at my feet letting out a whine, "I know I'll get up in a bit Bernard." I stared into his big Tuscan yellow eyes, "You've such a good boy Bernard." He purred in approval and pulled his head back sitting there patiently. I leaned back against James again and he curled his arm around me.

I was growing more tired the longer I stayed awake and I was grateful James stayed with me during the night and that he didn't try and flee first chance he got. I was grateful he was still here…

There was a soft knock on my door and Casandra poked her head in, "Hey, I didn't know if you'd be awake." She walked all the way in, "Morning Bernard." Bernard bowed his head to her as she walked over to us and sat on the bed. James uncurled his arm from around me when she placed her hand on my forehead. "How are you feeling?"

I readjusted myself to sit straighter, "Okay…still tired but that's what naps are for." I said giving a small smile.

She smiled softly back, "Well unfortunately naps will have to wait…we'll be having some guests arriving soon…"Cassandra looked very displeased when she said this.

"Guests?"

Cassandra sighed before looking me in the eye again, "Your Mother." I just stared back at her…my mother was coming here, I hadn't seen her in almost four years, I had stopped visiting her in the summer. "She caught wind of what happened last night from the paper and insisted on seeing you in person, and we couldn't really deny her that since she is your birth mother…"

My lip curled up at this, it was no secret that Cassandra and my mother did not get along, they were about as close as Ron Weasely and my Father. "Well I guess now is as good a time as any for a family reunion…can't I just go back to sleep though?" I said earning a smile from her.

"No, she'll be here soon so get up and straighten yourself, and come downstairs." She leaned in and planted a kiss on my forehead, "Take your time though" she winked, "no sense in rushing in your sleepy state." With another smile she was closing the door of my room.

After Cassandra left it was silent, I was thinking about my mother and last night's events. I slid off the bed and went to the loo. When I came out James was sitting on the edge of the bed trying to smooth his unruly mop. I walked over in front of my full length mirror to fix my appearance.

"So, your mum is coming…" James said breaking the silence.

I sighed smoothing down my dress trying the make the wrinkles fade, not that it did much good, "Yeah, I wonder what she's more curious about, me or Leo…"

"You really don't like your mum do you?" James said appearing behind me in the mirror.

"I won't jump for joy knowing I'm going to see her, no, but she's my Mother so I do love her. I just don't like her way of dealing with people. Anyone who isn't a Siren doesn't deserve her time, they don't deserve her attention, or her kindness; their trash and that's how she treats them."

"She can't be that harsh," James said trying to reason.

I chuckled and shook my hair straightening it out, "I guess you'll find out soon." I turned around facing him, "How do I look?"

James smirked, "Like you had a rough night." I glared at him as he reaches down and tucks pieces of hair behind my ear, then he leaned in. "You look gorgeous Alexis." He placed a soft kiss on my cheek and I could feel my cheek flush ever so slightly.

"Come on let's go, best not to let everyone else suffer longer than they must." I said taking his hand, "Bernard I think it best if you stay here… Wait for me okay bud?" He replied with a gentle purr and a bow of the head.

Neither of us said anything as we walked down the hall and then down the stair; and neither of us let go of the others hand. The door to the living room was open and we could see Cassandra and my Father as we approached. When we got closer Harry stepped out into the doorway, he looked relieved to see his son.

I squeezed James hand before letting go and proceeding to my Father as James stayed with his. I felt very relieved to see my Father. He didn't say anything as he leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of my head. I looked back towards Cassandra and noticed Scorpio wasn't standing by her. "Where's Scorpio?" I asked growing slightly anxious that something happened after I blacked out last night.

"He's up stairs resting; he stayed up late worrying last night." Father said muffled in my hair. Dad released me briefly and I gave Cassandra a proper hug before I returned to my Father's embrace, and that's how we stood waiting for my Mother's arrival.

When James reached his Dad, Harry asked how he was and James replied: tired and stiff. Harry just smiled and ruffled his son's semi-neat hair, "Oh and F.Y.I if you Mother asks you slept on the couch down here with me, okay?"

"Thanks Dad," James was very thankful his Dad was going to save him from the tongue lashing he would have gotten if his Mom found out he had spent the night in Alexis's bed, with Alexis. "I owe you one Dad."

"Damn right you do." Harry chuckled as he pulled his son to him for a half-hug. Then the fireplace erupted in green flames and Harry released James, and Draco loosened his grip on Alexis.

The sound of heels on the marble floor drew James attention, when he looked it was his aunt walking towards them.

"Sorry, Ron decided he was going to argue whether or not I was going to come here this morning." Hermione said out of breath when he finally reached her extended family.

Harry chuckled, "Like he stood a chance." James laughed at this too while his Aunt shot his father a look.

Hermione turned her head and met Alexis's gaze, "Hello, how you are feeling today? Anything sore or aching?"

Alexis gave a gentle smile in return of my aunt's concerns, "No, nothing like that, just tired."

Hermione smiled, "Good, so why is everyone gathered here this morning?" She said looking over to Casandra.

"Alexis's mother is coming, she heard about what happened last night and was concerned…" Casandra rolled her eyes slightly; James realized that she must not like Alexis's mother very much…not at all he'd bet.

Hermione's mouth made a 'o' shape and after looking around the room she asked, "Do you want us to leave?"

Draco turned his head towards the fireplace, "You don't have to, she's here anyway." James met Alexis's eye one more time before turning to the fireplace, she looked surprisingly calm.

A woman half a head taller than Alexis stepped out of the green flames. Her wavy hair resting gracefully at her waist, her golden kissed skin standing out elegantly in the room, and her Caribbean blue eyes completing her appearance. She donned a dress that said she was about to go to a ball, but James guessed that was her usual apparel.

"Alexis, sweetheart" The woman said once she located her with her eyes and she opened her arms taking a few paces towards Alexis.

I detached herself from her Father and walked forward to meet her, "Hello Mother."

"Sweetie I was so worried once I heard what happened." The older woman pulled away looking my outfit over. "Sweetie, did u sleep in that dress?"

I gave a sigh, "Yes Mother, I was quite tired after last night's events."

"Oh Alexis, you should really take better care of yourself dear. You're still straightening your hair I see." She shook her head as she lifted a few strands of Alexis's hair. This is when James caught on that her Mother had different priorities.

Before I could answer the Woman spoke again, "Hello Draco, long time no see."

Her smile was enough to put anybody under a spell but her look along with it, would completely enrapture a man.

"Hello Amara," Draco said shifting slightly.

"No hug for an old wife Draco?" Amara asked sweetly with a different tone in her voice.

Draco started to lean forward as if to walk to her and give her a hug but Cassandra stepped forward and looped her arm under his, "Don't you think if he had wanted to give you a hug he would have walked over and done it himself?"

"Oh, you're still with him are you?" Amara said in sickly sweet tone.

"Yes, unlike you."

I cut my mother off, these two could go at it all day, "Mother can we stop this please, or was that your purpose of coming here?"

Amara looked back at me, "Of course not sweetie, I'm sorry." Then her eyes were drawn behind me to the other group of people. "Oh, how rude of me, hello I'm Alexis's mother, Amara."

My father cut off Hermione as she moved to answer, "You brought someone with you?"

"Yes, his name is Russ." My Mother responded.

"How dare you bring one of your-" Casandra started in but Draco stopped her.

My mother promptly ignored her and turned to me, "Alexis you'll love him, he has a wine vineyard on the coast of Italy. It's absolutely gorgeous!" Then the fireplace erupted in green flames again and a man younger than my father stepped out, he was in a well dressed suit and his hair looked like it had been wind-tossed to perfection.

"Russ come here, I want you to meet Alexis." Amara smiled fondly down at me.

I sighed heavily as the man approached, 'like you're going to be around long enough to get to know more than that…'

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you; your mother has told me about you." He took my hand and kissed the back of it; and in the moment he earned the hatred of two men in the room.

"Yes, nice to meet you too." I said not even giving him so much as a glance before I quickly removed my hand from his grasp. "Mother-"

"Oh, I'm so sorry I keep being rude; before you fluued sweetie these people here were about to introduce themselves." My Mother said cutting me off again and looking from her boy-toy to James and his family behind me.

Then I snapped, "MOM! Stop, I'm trying to talk to you about Leo, please…" I was hit with a wave of exhaustion again.

"I'm sorry sweetheart." Amara went to cup my cheek but I pulled away from her touch. It looked as if someone slapped her in the face.

"Are you okay Alexis…" she asked.

As I looked into her eyes I saw that she was actually worried, "Yes Mother, just exhausted."

"You poor baby" She said pulling me into a hug; I heard a grunt like noise come from Casandra but I decided now that I had my Mother's attention I was going to ask the few questions I had.

"Mother I have a question," She pulled away and waited for me, "Last night after he-" I swallowed hard, it was just a name right it shouldn't be hard to say… "Leo- sang to me I began to feel exhausted…I didn't think Siren's could affect each other like that."

"We usually don't…I have heard stories about certain Siren's who were stronger than others and were able to manipulate other Siren's, but that shouldn't be the case between you two..." My mother said studying me.

"Are you sure it was after he sang to you? You weren't hit with a spell before that?" Hermione asked from behind me.

"I'm positive, I wasn't by a spell." I answered turning my head towards her.

"It shouldn't have made you weak though…he would sing to you all the time as a child." My Mother said as she walked to the bay windows in thought.

My eyes lost focus as I too remembered his songs to me… "I would fall asleep sometimes but I don't remember ever being exhausted." I blinked a few times before I focused on my Mother again.

"No nothing like that happened before." She turned back to me and just stared, searching for some answer for me.

Then it hit me, "Would him being a vampire change the effect or power of his Siren abilities?"

My Mother's face hardened, "What do you mean?"

I swallowed, I knew better than to provoke a Siren, "I'm not 100% sure but, I think he was part vampire…"

She looked positively livid, and I had no idea why, "What would make you think that he was part vampire now?"

Flashes of last night flew through my head, "The way he moved…" I said breathlessly.

"The way he moved? You do know space perception can be fixed my magic, don't you dear…"

"Yes! Of course-" I shouted back.

"No she's right." Hermione said taking a few steps closer. "We… 'got rid of' the others who came with him by using sunlight charms, and a few of the guests were attacked; leaving the trademark puncture marks on the necks."

She looked at me again and spoke with an extra pull in her voice, "He's a vampire now?"

"Yes…at least I'm pretty sure he is…" I watched as my mother's face was taken by a blank look. "You haven't heard from him lately have you?"

She shook her head, "No," she looked me in the eye, "If I would you would have been the first to know sweetie." Somehow I didn't believe the blank look on her face.

Then we all heard flesh connect with flesh followed by a heavy thud.

"If you EVER LOOK AT HER THAT AGAIN!" He shouted down at Russ as Russ touched his now red bruised cheek.

I ran over to James and put my body between his and Russ's, "What is wrong with you James?" I put my hand on his chest as if telling him to stay and looked back over my shoulder to Russ who had not moved.

"You should have seen the way he was looking at you! He's lucky I only have him one shot… You're dating her mother, what's wrong with you!" He shouted at Russ as the downed man finally started to stand.

"Good man," My father said as he approached, he even gave James at pat on the back as he passed coming to stop at the crouched form of Russ, "I was about to do the same myself, although it wouldn't have been one hit, with a fist… You are to leave now, and don't ever think about coming back or ever seeing my daughter again."

James's arm slipped around my waist and I fell into place next to his body. Russ stood staring my father in the eye and then he flicked his gaze at me for a brief second and I tightened my arm around James's waist to keep him rooted by me, but I grabbed the wrong man.

My father grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into the mantel piece, "What did I tell you?" He shoved Russ in the fireplace and threw fluu powder in, "Get out of my sight before I take everything you own from you, and trust me I can…"

I sighed, "Dad…its nothing new,"

James's arm tugged against me and I looked up to him, "You shouldn't have to be use to things like that." James said shooting the older man another glare before the fire lit with green flames.

There was a silence before my mother broke it, "I should be going too I think." I left James and went to hug her. "Would that be James Potter?" She whispered into my ear.

I groaned, "Oh Mother, don't start…" She smirked and flicked her eyes over to Harry and then to James before meeting my eye again. "Are you dating him?"

I rolled my eyes and James caught what she said and blushed, "No, he has a girlfriend."

"You don't sound too happy about that." She said giving me a knowing look.

"Don't read into it Mother."

She walked over to the fireplace and threw in some powder but then paused and looked at James, "So who is this other girl who beat out my daughter? She must be quite a gem."

James looked down at his feet, "Mother…" I sighed.

She smiled "I know, I know,-"

"She doesn't…compare to your daughter…" James said to my mother as his face turned a deep red like the rug beneath our feet.

Mother raised an eyebrow and threw me another smirk, "Bye sweetheart. Love you, I'll write you soon okay?" She said stepping into the fireplace and adjusting her dress.

"Okay, love you too." I said watching the green flames consume her.

"Harry, I'd like to finish talking with you about other charms we can put on the house." My father said walking towards his study, and Mr. Potter nodded following.

"Maybe I can help with that, we both know Harry will ask me later anyway." Hermione said smirking when said man shot her a look.

"Will you be okay if I go sit in with them Lexi?" Casandra asked.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I'll probably go to sleep soon anyway." I replied with a smile.

James and I still hadn't looked at each other since my mother left, so I decided to break the standoff and I glanced over at him. He wasn't as red as he had been but the color still showed. My head began flooding with questions about him, us, if he would let there be an "us". But that was exactly what I didn't need right now, another head ache, so I walked over to the bay windows and laid my head against it, it's coolness was welcomed. A few seconds later James approached and I turned my head to watch him as he stopped and looked out across the lawn.

He waited a few more seconds before leaning his head against the glass too, "Yeah, you wouldn't believe the night I had either." He turned to me with a smile and I chuckled at his lame joke. "I don't know about you but the couch sounds a lot better than standing against an over exaggerated window." I chuckled again at him and as I turned I cast my hand out and he caught it, and we both walked over to the couch and flopped down. He was in a slouched sitting position and I lay out along the couch letting my feet rest in his lap. We sat there while our older family members talked in my father's study. My eyes slowly started to close and I slowly caved to the exhaustion.

When other voices rang in my ears I jolted awake and heard that Hermione was saying her goodbyes to Casandra. James was standing by his father; I didn't even feel him get up. I walked up the group and mumbled a quite 'sorry' to James but he just shook his head and told me not to worry about it.

"If you start feeling any worse I told Casandra to notify me and I'll do what I can." Hermione said as she gave me a hug and I thanked her. I was beginning to think she was more of a worry-wart than Casandra was. "And Draco, always good to see you." She said a sly smile on her features, everyone laughed at this.

"Yes well I know everyone likes to look at me." He replied with his own cocky smile in place. He then extended his hand to her, "Joking aside, thank you Hermione, you were an invaluable help."

If Hermione was surprised by my father's actions she didn't show it, "Your welcome Draco."

Casandra moved forward to hug and thank both Harry and Hermione. I took this chance to give James a hug; he did stay with me all night. My arms snaked around his neck and his arms curled around my waist while his top half curled down to mold to mine. "Thanks for staying with me-"

"I would have done it if they hadn't asked; you don't need to thank me." He mumbled back into my neck.

We held the hug for a few seconds and as he moved to pull away I pulled his head back down next to mine and whispered into this ear, "And for the record, I don't mind it when you stare."

When we broke apart he had a smile on his face, it wasn't a laughing smile or a worried one, it was…a content one. "Bye Alexis."

"Bye."

Harry clapped a hand on my shoulder and my knees almost gave out due to my exhaustion but a managed to stay standing, "So I hung garlic over your bed and a cross, I know how much you hate…" He gave me a smirk, "garlic, but it might keep some old crazy blonde vampires away." Hermione wacked him telling him this was no time for a joke like that, but honestly I think that's just what I needed, so I played along.

"Oh how thoughtful, it is a small world after-all so one can never tell."

He smiled at me, "Stay safe kid."

"You too, thank you for all you did."

And one by one the extended Potter family was taken away by the flames and the only thought invading my mind was-sleep.