Lexi glared at Carmela, she couldn't call her a whitelighter. She was a freaking Elder. "You lied to me. All this time."
"Tiger, I didn't lie to you, I told you half-truths. I was assigned to you." Carmela replied taking a step toward her charge. This wasn't good for a working relationship if her charge was mad at her. "My fellow Elders didn't want me to tell you, we thought it was for the best."
Hermione came around the corner, and stared at Lexi and Carmela and the new person who was looking down at his shoes. "Who are the elders?"
Lexi turned to her friend, and pointed at the book on the stand, "It has an entry on the Elders,"
Hermione went over to the book and opened it, which made Leo gap.
"Leo, this is a school for witchcraft, idiot." Carmela laughed, "Hermione is a good witch."
Hermione flipped though the pages until she came to the entry on Elders. She read it outloud since it wasn't a spell.
"The Elders: also known as the Founders, they are the highest
Level of Whitelighter. The Elders control the
ranks of the guardian angels and keep track of
the good witches they protect. They are not all
knowing but they can aid with their vast wisdom."
"Carmela is one of them." Lexi growled, "I hate this." Her temperature was rising. Flames appeared around her hair; which looked like dancing sparks. Carmela's and Leo's eyes widened at Lexi's anger.
Carmela went over to Hermione "I'm going to orb you to the great hall, I don't want to you get hurt."
Hermione nodded slightly terrified of her friend,
Carmela raised her hand and flicked it, Hermione disappeared in orbs. She then turned to Leo, and glared at him and in the whitelighter language told him to get lost along with a few other choice words, and she was going to summon him later to get more information.
"Lexi, you need to talk out your anger, unless you want to burn down Hogwarts." Carmela stated softly, she took a step backward. Holding her hands out in front of her.
Lexi flicked her hands and sending a powerful wave of energy at Carmela. Sending the Elder flying back into a wall. "Okay, you want me to talk. I'll talk. I'm sick of being lied too. I'm sick of hearing about how famous the Halliwell name is. I'm sick of following the Elders rules."
Carmela rubbed her head, she was glad of being dead, that would have killed her; if she wasn't made of orbs. "I know the rules and I don't like them either, seeing as I wrote a few of them myself." She knew how much trouble it caused the eleven year old and her sisters. It wasn't fair that she was thrown into a war she wasn't emotionally ready for.
"Are you going to blast me again?" asks Carmela. Seeing the tears that were threatening to fall.
Lexi shook her head, her bottom lip quivering. As she tired to hold back the sobs that wanted to come. Carmela came over and picked Lexi up, who wrapped her arms and legs around the Elder's slim body. She walked carefully back over to the couch and sat down. So that Lexi was curled up in her lap. The girl was a little big to be held standing up.
"I'm sorry about not telling you about me, being an Elder. I didn't think it would matter besides do I act like one?" Carmela apologized as she rubbed gentle circles on Lexi's back.
Lexi shook her head and sobbed; "Why me?"
"Mainly because you needed someone with higher connections then a normal whitelighter, if you were just a Wiccan witch, Leo would have assigned your whitelighter just like your sisters." Carmela answered, inside she was cussing at her fellows. "I was a student at Hogwarts before I died, so they thought I was a better choice, I know about this world."
Lexi cried as she was being held, she was glad that Carmela orbed Hermione to safety. She could have hurt one the closet friends she has.
"Will everyone find out my temper tantrum?" Lexi asked after a few minutes of crying.
"If they might, secrets never stay for long in this place." Carmela replied, "But I think they know what's good for them they will keep their mouths shut."
Lexi stared and then starting laughing, so hard she almost fell out of Carmela's lap.
Carmela raised an eyebrow, "Just what is so funny?"
"Just thinking, that you're not an Elder, you're a demon in disguise" Lexi answers.
"At last you caught of to my plans, now I'm going to have to kill you now." teased Carmela, she was glad this whole being an Elder passed.
"Oh I'm still mad at you about being an Elder," Lexi stated. "But I'm more worried about my sisters."
"I'll go see what the others are being stupid about." Carmela stated "You go eat something, I'll be back. I hope."
Lexi watched as her Elder, orbed away. She was thinking about the possibilities of having an Elder watching over her. She'll get information on demons quicker. She gathered her stuff and headed to the bathing room; she took a bath and got dressed. She went down to the great hall, and straight to Hermione.
"Hey, Hermione," Lexi greeted, "I'm sorry about my temper tantrum,"
"It's okay, just I didn't think you would have flames in your hair," Hermione replied,
"Yeah, I was angry, hurt and above all betrayed." Lexi stated as she sat down and filled her plate with eggs, bacon and fried potatoes, she reached for her drink and seen it was pumpkin juice, then pushed it away.
"Hey Carmela, bring me some tea or something that isn't Pumpkin when you come back!" exclaimed Lexi to the ceiling, "Least she could do for being lair."
"Why don't you drink pumpkin juice?" asks Ron, between bites.
"I'm allergic to pumpkin; i can't even crave a pumpkin on Halloween." Lexi replied,
Madam Pomfrey gasped, that could be heard over the yawns and morning conversations, and she haven't thought that people may have allergies to something they served all the time,
Alexis turned when she heard the school nurse gasped, she stood up and walked to the end of the table.
"I guess i should have said something my first night here but i was neverous about my life being turned upside down again," Lexi apologized.
"No need to worry," Madam Pomfrey replied, then turned to Dumbledore, "I will make sure nothing like this never happens again."
"Madam Pomfrey?" asks Lexi, who was looking off to the side,
"Yes?"
"I'll will write down everything, I'm allergic too and give it to you" Lexi stated then turned to go back to her seat.
After Breakfast, Lexi went to her classes, She was forced to sit next to her most annoying acquaintance in her last class of the day Charms; Draco Malfoy.
'Now I'm starting to wish I was placed in Gryffindor, but no I'm belong to all the Houses.' Lexi thought as she sat down, she wished she had at least one friend in here. But her charms class was at a different time then her friends.
She pulled out her wand for the first time, she hadn't used it since she got it because she's been taking notes in her classes that requires a wand,
"I wonder what my wand core is made out of?" Lexi thought loud before class started,
"I can tell you that, Lexi," Carmela's voice sounded off the walls as she orbed in,
"What do you know about wands you're an Elder." Draco spoke up.
"I would refrain from talking if I were you, as Elder I have authority to take points away from students." Carmela replied calmly, "As for Lexi's wand it's made from Rosewood, nine and half inches long, and the core is Thestral and whitelighter hair,"
"She has two cores in her wand why?" asks a Ravenclaw boy,
"Due to her magical heritage, the wand requires two parts from the Wizarding world and Wiccan world." Carmela answered, "I commissioned the wand when I found out that she was adopted by the Halliwells."
"Did you give the hair?" asks Lexi, in awe.
"Yes, I did. When I was a whitelighter, I was recently promoted to Elder, I have been teaching new whitelighters ever since." Carmela answers.
"So you were promoted ninety years ago?" Lexi teased,
Carmela nodded "Oh and I also brought you a present from home,"
"What is it?" asks Lexi, did she forget to bring something when she packed?
"Can't tell you, you have to find out after this class that is," Carmela laughed then sat down next to Professor Flitwick's desk, who just came in and had to stand on a stack of books.
The class went by slowly, Lexi was impatient for the afternoon off; when class was over. She almost tripped in her mad dash to get back to her common room. Only to be caught by none other the Draco.
"Easy there Halliwell, wouldn't want you to get hurt." Draco whispered, his face still held the cold mask, but his voice sounded kind, taking Lexi by surprised.
"Uh..Thanks Malfoy." replied Lexi,
"Don't tell anyone about this, but I am kinda nice." Draco whispered again, "Come by The Slytherin dormitory, we're all not that bad, it wouldn't hurt you to have more friends then Potter."
Lexi didn't know what to say, she wanted friends in all the Houses, but being friends with Draco Malfoy was something she wasn't sure of.
Carmela walked with her back to dormitory, there by the desk was a gutiar stand, holding an acoustic guitar. Lexi turned to Carmela,
"You brought me my guitar?" Lexi asks.
"You need something to do when you have afternoons off, I'm sure if you wrote Dumbledore, he would let you preform some eveings,"
"Thank you, Carmela," Lexi stated.
Carmela orbed off with a note for Dumbledore a few hours later, leaving Lexi hunched over her homework, next was to tell Madam Pomfrey all of Lexi's allegies, because Carmela knew them all by heart.
Lexi worked on a song, because as the day went by she felt terrible for what she did and said to Carmela, sure she was hurt but it didn't matter anymore.
Talon flew in the open window, with a note his beak, Lexi took the note and smiled, Dumbledore had given her permission to preform tonight at supper.
Later that eveing, the students were wondering why a stood was in place in front of the teachers' table, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione haven't seen Lexi all afternoon, Carmela was sitting with the teachers tonight. Since this was confusing her most of all, she handed over the letter without reading it.
A few seconds later, Lexi walked in with her guitar, straped across her back, she sat down with her friends, Dumbledore stood up,
"Tonight we have after supper treat, I have agreed to let our own Alexis Halliwell perform a song for someone," Dumbledore explained then sat back down.
After Lexi finished eating, she stood up and walked over to the stood, she sat on it.
"Could I have everone's attention" Lexi spoke in the slience, once everyone's eyes were on her. "I feel really gulity about something that happened this morning, I was angry and upset, but now that I thought about it, I found it out it doesn't matter," Lexi turned her head a little to where her Elder was sitting, "Carmela, this is is for you,"
Lexi began to play her guitar, when she got to the right part, she began to sing.
My heart's own choices guide me
In all I say or do.
The lessons that you taught me
Reflect the best in you.
For all the times I tested you,
For all the ground I lost,
You always stood beside me,
Regardless of the cost.
The Elder's own wisdom shapes me
And leads me as I grow
The glory of my heritage
Is there for me to know
The ties of blood and honor join
To make my spirit strong
But it was you who helped me
And taught me right from wrong.
My heart' own voice is strong now-
I know which Path to take
I feel your guiding presence, too,
In every choice I make
I need no one to tell me
I will reap the seeds you've sown.
And you have helped me learn that
I'll never be alone.
Carmela stood up and walked over to Lexi, as she paused to play solo for a while, Lexi smiled at her, then sang the last verse.
Be patient with me, teacher,
For I am still a child
A part of me will always be
Unshackled, free, and wild
But in your firm and caring way
You've shown me what is true.
So light the road before me
And I will follow you!
Yes! I will follow you,
Once the song faded, cheers erupted from all four tables, but Lexi didn't pay attention to them, she was staring at Carmela,
"I'm sorry, I was such a jerk, do you forgive me?" asks Lexi,
Carmela hugged her Charge, then whispered in her ear, "There was nothing to forgive."
DarkPriestess66 says the song isn't mine, I changed it a little to fit in with the story,