"Jasper get back here!" Rebecca yelled as she chased Jasper flying around her apartment with a letter in hand. "If you don't get over here I am going to cut off your head and place it above the fireplace." She screamed at him as he landed on the railing of the second level and she glared at him and checked her robes for her wand. Jasper gave a screech and she looked up at him and saw her wand in his talons.
"Jasper I swear if you don't get down here, give me back my wand and deliver this letter, I am going to-." She screamed and was cut off by a knock at her door and she pointed her finger at him and he ruffled his feathers and she gave a huff and walked to the door and opened it and saw Lily looking slightly surprised.
"Everything alright?" She asked as she peered inside and Rebecca rolled her eyes and ushered Lily in.
"No, Jasper has my wand and he won't deliver this letter to Remus for me?" She said and Lily walked in and Jasper gave a small chirp and flew down to Lily, dropping Rebecca's wand at Lily's feet.
"Yeah of course he likes you." Rebecca muttered and picked up her wand and glared at Jasper.
"Did you take Becky's wand?" Lily said as she stroked Jasper's chest with a smile and he cooed and Rebecca took out some books from a box and put them up in a bookshelf. "You might want to be careful around this one; you don't want to make her mad." Lily said quietly with a chuckle and Jasper flew from her arm back up to the railing and Rebecca flipped off Jasper.
"Stupid bird." She growled and Lily looked around the apartment.
"This place looks alright. You said you were going to paint the walls right?" Lily said as she looked at the horrible yellow walls and Rebecca waved her wand at the walls which turned a light blue.
"Yeah I did." She said and went back to the books.
"This place looks great by the way, I like this couch." Lily said as she sat down on the grey couch.
"Yeah? It used to belong to my grandparents. Most of the furniture here is from my grandparents house, we had it in storage and weren't doing anything with it so I brought it here." She said and Lily picked up one of the large books on the table.
"Are you almost done with your books?" She asked flipping through it.
"I have three more books to read, I don't know how I am going to get it done by then."
"Oh don't worry you will be fine."
"Thanks. So uh what are you here for exactly?" Rebecca asked as she flipped through a book.
"Becky you asked me to come help you unpack before the meeting."
"Meeting?" Rebecca asked curiously and went back to her book.
"Yeah, you know for the Order." She said and Rebecca looked up surprised.
"Is that tonight?"
"Yeah, how did you forget?"
"I don't know, oh what time is it?" Rebecca asked as she looked at the clock on the wall.
"We have plenty of time. So what did you want me to do?"
"Uh let's go upstairs." She said and looked at Jasper.
"Jasper please come here." Rebecca pleaded and Jasper clipped his beak at her. "Please, I need this delivered." Rebecca said holding up the letter.
"Jasper come on." Lily said and Jasper flew over to Rebecca and snapped at her ear and she flinched as she picked him up and set him on the edge of the chair and attached her letter to him. "Take this to Remus." She said and he nipped at her fingers and she kicked the chair and it toppled over as he flew in to the air and flew out the window and Rebecca heard a sigh from Lily.
"You know if you were nice to him he might be more inclined to listen."
"Oh believe me I tried the whole nice thing, I don't think I have ever gotten along with any bird, they all hate me, its like this aura that I give off and they all immediately hate me or something." Rebecca said and headed up the stairs with Lily following.
"So how are you affording this place?" Lily asked as they walked up to her room.
"My dad paid the down payment and the first month and I am working on getting a job so I can continue living here, I have an interview on Friday and two on Saturday so I am hoping to get a job."
"Wow it sounds like you are going to be really busy."
"Well at least until I get my healer license and start working at St. Mungos."
"Wow are all these clothes?" Lily asked looking at the boxes all around the room.
"Well about half of them are, some of them are shoes, pictures, and all the other stuff. I've already charmed the dresser to hold more and I am sure the closet will hold what I need." Rebecca said as she opened up a box of hangers and started to hang up some clothes and Lily soon started to put the clothes in to the dresser.
Remus glanced around the room at the Order members standing around Dumbledore's office waiting as Edgar Bones, Dumbledore, Moody and Caradoc Dearborn all met in the upstairs office, leaving everyone to chat quietly with each other as they waited. Remus saw Rebecca walk in with Lily, James immediately went to Lily and Rebecca glanced around the office and gave him a small smile and wave before the Prewett twins flanked her and the three of them went off to the side talking and Remus felt a slight jealousy as she laughed at something one of them had said, he could never tell them apart, no one ever could. Soon Benjy made his way over followed by Michael and Remus stared at the four boys surrounding Rebecca and he turn and stared at the floor and clenched his fists, he couldn't let jealousy get him like this. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around and saw Rebecca.
"Hey Remus." She said and he felt his stomach flutter as a weak smile came over his face.
"Hey Becky."
"Did you get my letter?" She asked and he shook his head.
"Oh well it's probably at your house. Uh I was wondering if you wanted to go get breakfast Sunday morning."
"Yeah that sounds great. What time?"
"I was thinking maybe 9ish or something, there is a place down the street from me called Crown Diner, and I go there sometimes when I am too lazy to cook."
"Yeah 9 sounds great, I'll be there."
"Good." She said with a smile and looked up the stairs as Dumbledore came down with Moody, Caradoc and Edgar.
"Please take your seats everyone." Dumbledore said and everyone took their seats and waited for Dumbledore to speak. He turned and looked at Moody who cleared his throat and stepped forward.
"You all know what you are here for, you know what we stand for and every moment in the Order is life or death. Many of you may think you know how to duel, many of you may think you are very skilled duelers but let me tell you, you know nothing. You know nothing about a duel between life or death, what it is like with your opponent trying to kill you. Because of this, we will be having training twice a week to work on your dueling skills so you might be just a little bit more prepared when it comes time to fight for your life. A simple spell could be the difference between life or death." He said and looked around at everyone as they stared at him in complete silence. "Constant Vigilance." He said loud and sharply making a few people jump. "Is the key you much be prepared and vigilant, ready for anything." He said and looked at everyone.
"You, Walcott." He said looking at Rebecca and she glanced away from the window and looked at Moody.
"Yes?"
"Get up here." He said and she glanced at Remus before getting up and stood in front of the room. Moody suddenly whipped out his wand and before she could even reach for hers she was thrown off her feet and she skid across the floor.
"You weren't paying attention Walcott, constant vigilance." He said and she groaned as she sat up.
"You didn't have to throw me across the room." She snapped as she got up and suddenly was thrown back again.
"You need to be faster to recover Walcott; I could have finished you by now." Moody said and she quickly got up and blocked a curse he threw at her and she threw a stunner at him and he blocked it with hardly an effort.
"Better." He said and looked at everyone. "You need to be quick, you aren't going to hardly have a moment to think, you need to always be ready." He said and motioned for Rebecca to sit back down and she turned around to walk back and suddenly her feet tripped from underneath her and she let out a frustrated growl.
"Come on you need to stop doing that." She snapped as she got up.
"Never turn your back on your enemy." He said and she sat back down with a glare at Moody as he continued with fighting tactics. Once he finished everyone went up and took an oath to the Order before they were dismissed until training.
"Walcott." Moody said and she rolled her eyes and turned around and raised an eyebrow at him.
"I'll see you Sunday." Rebecca said to Remus and he nodded and walked out with everyone as she walked over to Moody. He quickly got out his wand and she whipped hers out and he raised an eyebrow at her and pocketed his wand and she glared at him.
"Keep this up and you are going to make me paranoid like you." She said as she pocketed her wand.
"It will keep you on your toes." He said roughly. "I want to start training you in Occlumency and Legilimency soon. I think we should start tomorrow."
"Why do I even have to do this honestly? What purpose is it going to serve?"
"Trust me, it will come in handy, tomorrow we will meet at headquarters and start the training."
"I can't do everything, I already have my healer training, the Order training, I don't know if I can work with this new training."
"Be here at 6 o'clock tomorrow." He said and handed her a piece of paper and she sighed and took it from him.
"Do you have it memorized?" He asked as he pulled out his wand.
"No." She said and glanced at the paper with the address.
"The headquarters are guarded by Albus as the secret keeper, memorize this." He said and she read over the address and nodded.
"Alright." She said and he took the paper from her.
"What is it?"
"42786 West Hanger." She said and he nodded and burned the paper and she turned to leave.
"You better be there Walcott." He said and she rolled her eyes and walked out of the office.
Rebecca sat on the swings with Andrew, they were 6 again and trying to see who could swing the highest.
"I'm higher than you Andy." Rebecca said with a laugh and squealed at how high she was.
"Rebecca be careful." Her mom called from the bench but Rebecca ignored her.
"I bet you won't jump." Rebecca said to Andrew and he shook his head.
"I will." She said with a grin.
"I really don't think you should Becky, you could get hurt." He said warily.
"No I wont, I will land on my feet. Watch." She said and started to swing higher and higher.
"Becky don't do it." Andrew said before she leaped out of the seat with a scream and she heard her mother call her name before she crashed in to the ground.
"You aren't concentrating Walcott; focus on clearing your mind." Moody said as she picked herself from off the ground.
"Come on Moody I am tired, we have been at this for 2 hours already, I'm beat." She said as she gripped the chair with shaky hands and pulled herself up in to it as she hunched over taking deep breaths.
"Might as well, we aren't getting anywhere any ways." He said and turned to leave the room.
"So that's it, I can just go?"
"Yes, be here next Tuesday at 7."
"Training doesn't start until 8."
"Precisely, we will be doing this before training."
"Are you kidding me? I am going to be wiped."
"Well let us hope that you can clear your mind by then." He said and walked out of the room and she took a deep breath and stood up and kicked the chair.
"Asshole." She muttered and picked her wand up off the ground and pocketed it as she walked out and headed back to her apartment.
She walked up the stairs and nearly ran in to someone as she turned down the hall.
"I'm terribly sorry." Someone said and she looked up and saw a rather handsome young man standing before her.
"Oh, it's…okay." She said with a small smile. He was tall and had curly dark brown locks, hazel eyes and a strong build. He didn't look any older than 20.
"You just moved in here right?" He asked and she nodded as she leaned against the wall and quickly glanced him up and down.
"Yeah, uh 2A."
"I'm 3B, I guess this makes us neighbors." He said and held out his hand.
"Randall Wilson, people call me Randy though." He said and she took his hand.
"Rebecca…Walcott." She said and cleared her throat and looked around.
"American huh?"
"Yeah, New York."
"I went there last summer, very crowded." He said and she shrugged.
"I suppose."
"Well I was about to go grab something to eat down the street, would you like to come?" He asked and she bit her lip. Technically her and Remus weren't going out, it wouldn't really be cheating if she went out with Randy and he was so…incredibly…HOT! How could she not know she had such a hot neighbor? Well it was just dinner; it wasn't anything other than that, it wasn't a date or anything.
"Uh yeah sure." She said as she glanced at the stairs.
"Do you need to go drop something off or pick anything up?" He asked and she looked back at him and shook her head.
"Alright then let's go." He said and they walked back down the stairs together.
"So what do you do Randy?"
"I'm a photographer." He said and she raised her eyebrows at him. He looked more like a model than a photographer if anything. Once she was able to find her words she cleared her throat hoping he didn't notice her stare at him.
"Really what kind of photography?"
"Fashion, stuff for magazines and such. What about you?" He said and she sighed, damn a muggle, well what did she expect in a muggle community?
"I'm working to be a nurse."
"A nurse, no kidding." He said and held open the door for her.
"Thank you, yeah, I start next week."
"Well good luck, my sister wanted to be a nurse, she just never had the stomach for it, that's when she found out she got woozy at the sight of blood so she changed her career choice."
"Shame, geeze I have messed myself up enough seen enough blood, doesn't bother me the least."
"I'm sure you will make a fine nurse." He said and held the door open for her as they walked in to the restaurant and sat down.
"Thanks." She said with a smile as she looked at the menu.
Sirius walked down the street glancing in to the stores and such, he had nothing to do, no date tonight, James was out with Lily, Remus didn't feel well due to the coming full moon and Peter was off doing Merlin knows what. He glanced in to one of the restaurants and continued but stopped and looked back inside. That was Rebecca and the person across from her…was definitely not Remus. He watched them for a moment, his lips curving in to a smirk, well he had much never liked the idea of Remus and Rebecca together, perhaps this might change Remus' mind. He hurried down the street eager to formulate his plan.
"Well thanks for dinner." Rebecca said with a smile as Randall walked her to her apartment and they stood outside.
"No problem." He said with a smile and she turned and unlocked her door and when she turned back to him he grabbed her and kissed her. He slowly pulled away from her and bit his lip and took a step backwards.
"Sorry about that, I don't know what came over me." He said and she touched her lips and nodded.
"Right." She said and looked at him and gave him a small smile.
"I'll see you later. Have a good night." He said with a smile and turned and walked down the hall to the stairs and glanced back at her with a smile before going up them and she slowly turned back around and walked in to the apartment and closed the door behind her.
"Oh, I smell trouble." She muttered to herself as she dropped her purse off on the table and went upstairs to get ready for bed.
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i sort of envisioned Randall as Adam Brody and I kind of see Moody as Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, whatcha think?