Lexi sat at her desk with her embroidery thread weaving the strands into a design she liked she finished one this is the one she would copy by magic, she had just about enough of the classes here at Hogwarts, first time she got on a broom would be the last time; she had a panic attack and fell off. Carmela had to orb to catch her. It wasn't as bad as Neville; he broke his wrist and had to be taken to the Hospital wing, Lexi had retreated to her dormitory in embarrassment,
"You know it's not that bad, my first time flying a broom was horrible," Carmela stated. Lexi turned from her first friendship-protection bracelet, to look at her whitelighter,
"What are you talking about?" asks Lexi,
"This isn't my first time to Hogwarts, okay maybe my first time as a whitelighter." Carmela answers, "I was in school here over two hundred years ago,"
"Decrepited" teased Lexi, she learned her babysitter was a whitelighter, when she was six and it was a shared secret between them. Along with many others. In someway Carmela stepped in and filled the void left after Patty died, taking on the role of motherly figure. "What house were you in?"
"Would you believe me if i said Slytherin?" asks Carmela, "I still know the password; it hasn't changed since my time ended."
"But Ron said Slytherin is where all evil witches and wizards come from." Lexi replies.
"Not all the time, sure some are bad to the core, but i wasn't; i was just shorted into that house, because i was a pure blood witch; I was destined to be a whitelighter." Carmela explained. "But sometimes i wish the Elders would give me more charges."
Lexi was Carmela's only charge, "But Carmela, I'm a whole lot of trouble neatly wrapped into one package deal."
"Yeah and That is why, I get a vacation from up there, to watch over and teach you." Carmela laughed.
"Whatever," Lexi replies and got up. "I promised to meet Hermione in the library"
"Do i want to know why?" asks Carmela as she watched Lexi take her smaller duplicate of the Book of shadows, it held mostly information on demons, power of one spells, and a few potions recipes, just in case Lexi might need it.
"I thought i could write a few spells down in my book, just in case." Lexi replies. She walked out.
"Sometimes, i wonder about her." Carmela stated as she orbed out; she was going to check in with the older sisters and her fellow whitelighter Leo.
Lexi walked the halls holding her book close to her chest; it didn't feel right bringing the book out in the open. She hurried into the library, and found Hermione sitting reading a large book,
"A bit of light reading?" Lexi asks; she sat down and placed the book on top of the table. Hermione's eyes widened.
"This is the Book." Hermione exclaimed.
"Oh calm down, it's not the Real One, it's my personal copy, it's smaller as you can plainly see. The real one is ten times this size." Lexi smiled. "We are allowed to share it with close friends"
"You mean me?" asks Hermione.
"You're one of the few friends I have, being a Charmed One is dangerous," Lexi answers. She pulled the first of many friendship bracelets from her pocket and set it down next to the book Hermione was reading.
Hermione looked at the bracelet and back at Lexi and smiled. "Friendship bracelet,"
"Yep, the first of many, but my bracelets double as a protection bracelets, I have a feeling that Hogwarts isn't going to be nice and quiet," Lexi responded.
"You're making them for the whole school?" Hermione stated "That would take forever."
"Not really I'll copy one so all of Gryffindor will have one by dinner." Lexi stated. "and the other houses over the next few days, those they will find at their tables."
Lexi opened the book, "Here, see the difference between wiccans and wizardry,"
"The wiccan rede?" Hermione questioned,
"An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will; pretty much saying watch what you work with so it doesn't come times three, that is why I have Carmela and Snowdrop, other then that, we have incantation that i wrote just in case i have to rebond with the book,"
Hermione turned to the second page, while Lexi smiled as Hermione touched the book without it having jump away from her. "Oh and I should tell you, both books have so many protection spells on it, Only good beings can touch it."
Hermione and Lexi read the spell to themselves, Lexi smiled again as she remember the thunderstorm that led her down a path to her regain her birthright.
Hear now the words
of the witches,
The secrets we hid
in the night,
The oldest of Gods
are invoked here,
The great work of
Magic is sought,
In this night and
in this hour,
I call upon the
Ancient power,
Bring your powers
to we sisters four!
We want the power!
Give us the power!
"Wow, DarkLighters what are those?" asks Hermione, as she flipped though a few pages.
"Opposite of whitelighters, they only live to destroy whitelighters, because if a witch's whitelighter is killed the witch is weaken," Lexi stated in a deadpanned voice. "They often carry a crossbow with poison tipped bolts."
Hermione read both books at the same time, often asking questions, with Lexi was only happy to answer, it was great that have someone to talk too about magic, Lexi left to look at a few bookshelves, to see what they have to read. Making a list of the ones she would read over the weekends, some she wanted to find copies to own. She wrote down the titles and authors, to look at later. This took hours. Lexi realized something was wrong, usually Carmela would be orbing in at any moment to annoy her or just to have someone to talk too.
"Lexi, we're going to be late for dinner" Hermione called out. Disturbing Lexi from her thoughts. They put away their things.
"I have to put the book back up," Lexi stated as they were walking out of the library, "Want to come?"
"Sure, I wondered what your rooms look like" Hermione replies. Lexi looped her arm with Hermione's "Well then my friend, you're going to love it."
Melinda Warren smiled as Lexi brought Hermione with her,
"Those who are truly your friends will always have my permission to enter the dormitory," Melinda stated then swung open. Lexi and Hermione walked in.
"Who are they?" asks Hermione walking up to pictures.
"My family, Prue, Piper, Phoebe, the next one is of my mom and Grams," Lexi stated; tears were filling her tears as she thought of her mother and grams. It was true that she didn't know Patty all that well, but she was still her mother. After the book was put up, and it the protective cage of crystals. Lexi was taking no chances, if someone would get this book they would have direct access to the other one.
Together they joined the others in the Great Hall, Lexi was barely touching her food. Hermione, Ron and Harry were worried about their friend.
"Lexi?" asks Harry, who was staring at the girl, he thought he knew. He didn't get a responds
"Carmela, where are you?" asks Lexi as she didn't eat. She was worried about her whitelighter. As soon as she said this, and large crash came from orbs. Lexi stood up, there on the steps that lead up to the teachers' table was Carmela, with a black crossbow bolt in her shoulder.