Chapter 16: Hey Brother

Jane woke up from her bed early the next morning hoping to see if she could go see if Harry without any of the teachers noticing that she was there. She walked quietly out of the common room with her Gryffindor robes on and walked to the hospital wing.

When getting there, Harry was asleep, so she sat down on the wooden chair that was next to the bed. He looked so peaceful there, just lying down in the warming comfy bed with those striped pajamas. Jane could feel a tear come down her cheek and fall onto the sheets. She didn't know if it was from seeing Harry get hurt for the first time in her life since she had just found her brother, or if it was because those striped pajamas reminded her a movie that she had watched with Sarah. Another tear came streaming down her cheek and landed onto the sheet. She didn't want to remember that movie because it made her cry the whole night. She never got any sleep that night and even the next day she still cried, but thankfully it was less than before.

The movie was called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. She didn't know why Sarah decided to have her watch it. Jane guessed that she was old enough because she was 11 at that time. But, then again, why would you show it to an 11-year-old girl? Wouldn't you show it to someone more mature, say like 14? Jane had no clue why, so she gave a big sigh. She missed Sarah so much even though she has her brother here at school. "Why do I miss Sarah so much?" Jane thought? "Is it because I had spent most of my life with her and now and I miss her when I sort of need her the most? Or is it because I just don't really feel like I am part of Harry's family?" Jane questioned herself. Just then a stream of tears exited from Jane's eyes. She bent her head down and laid her head in her hands. That's when she started to whimper, but only softly.

At that point, Harry's eyelids slowing opened up to face Jane.

"Jane what are you doing here and why are you crying?" a familiar voice asked.

Jane looked up and saw Harry looking at her with his hazel-green eyes. She looked down at her feet that were in her gray and white tennis shoes.

"Jane please tell me what is wrong," Harry said encouragingly.

She looked at Harry straight in the eyes; his eyes the same color as hers.

"Well," she said taking a deep breath in.

"How about you sit down next to me," Harry said as he got out of the covers of the bed and sat down on top of them. Finally, he patted a spot next to him.

Jane looked at him and then at his right arm that was in a tan color sling. He saw her looking at it and then instantly switched sides so that Jane was sitting on his left side, so not to lean on his left arm and hurt it even more.

Jane gave in and sat next to her brother, the boy in the striped pajamas, which then started another wave of tears that came out of her. She huddled next to Harry and leaned on his right shoulder. Harry put his right arm around Jane as to keep her company.

They sat there on the bed for quite some time before Harry asked, "Jane?"

Jane at first didn't answer, but then there was a quiet whisper that answered the question.

"Yes?"

"If it is alright with you, do you mind if I ask," There was a long pause. "Why were you crying?" Harry asked not sure if he should ask it, but his gut told him he should. I mean Jane was his sister. He was worried about her. There was a long pause from Jane as well like she was trying to find the right words to say.

There was a deep breath from Jane as she drew air into her lungs.

"I was crying because when I saw you in those striped pajamas that you have on…" there was a pause as if Jane was remembering the whole movie. "I remembered a movie that I saw with Sarah. You remember me talking about Sarah, don't you?"

"Yes," Harry answered pulling Jane's loose hairs out of her eyes.

"Okay, the movie was called…it was called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," Jane finished with a raspy voice.

There was silence as Jane let the information sink in. Jane didn't know if Harry has seen the movie or not. He probably hasn't, but he might have heard of it.

"I've heard of that movie," Harry said breaking the silence between them. "It's a sad movie. I have never heard of it, but I know that it is sad. But, that isn't why you came is it?" he asked questioningly?

Jane got up and looked at him with streaks of tears running down her cheeks. Harry could tell that these were new tears.

"Jane is else is wrong?" Harry asked.

Jane looked at him with her blurry eyes and answered, "It feels like I'm not part of your family."

Harry looked at her in surprise, but suddenly his face softened.

"Jane," he spoke calmly, "You will always be apart of my family; I mean you are my sister."

"But, Harry I don't have any classes with you and it feels like we haven't been spending any time together," Jane protested.

"We can change all of that. Don't you remember? Dumbledore said that next year he might put you in the same year as me," Harry said with a smile. "We can change it all."

"Oh, right now I remember."

Harry hit the back of Jane's head with his good hand.

"Ow! That hurt!" said Jane.

"You silly bum," Harry laughed.

"What did you just call me?" Jane asked looking at him with a questioning look, but with a tint of anger in her eyes.

"That's right. I called you a bum, you bum."

Jane stared into Harry's eyes. Anger burning in the pit of her stomach while her eyes gleamed with anger and hatred.

Harry looked startled by the quick change of emotion Jane was feeling. For a moment she was feeling happy, glad and a slight tint a sadness, but then all of a sudden she changed to anger and hatred. The scary part was that all of this angry and hatred was aimed at him!

Harry started to back up away from Jane. He didn't know what she was up to, but whatever it was he was bracing himself for it.

Jane drew up her wand and pointed it at her brother.

Like a little kid would do, Harry backed away from his sister even further trying to not get the full blast of whatever spell she was about to conjure up.

"Come... on... Jane,"Harry stammered. "I was just joking around or as you might call it fooling around. It's noting to be...um," he paused trying to think of the right words to say. "It's nothing to be ashamed of."

Jane raised her wand and Harry knew that this would hurt a lot, so he closed his eyes waiting for his sister to say the spell, except nothing happened.

"Maybe I missed heard Jane say the spell or maybe my hearing is bad," thought Harry. He didn't want to open his eyes because she was afraid of what he will find, but he finally managed himself to open one eye. When he did open his eye, did not expect to see what he saw.

Harry saw Jane sitting on her knees a few inches away from him, but with a huge grin on her face and by the sounds of it, she was giggling because she had her hands up to her mouth. He wand must be behind her because Harry couldn't see it.

"Why are you giggling?" he managed to ask without getting too anger at her.

"I'll just make this short and sweet, okay?"

"Sounds fine to me," Harry's voice rising a tiny more.

"I was just having a little fun with you, Harry, like you did with me," Jane finished.

Harry stared at Jane with an anger star. This time it was Harry's turn to be anger.

"Fun?" Harry question.

"Yes, fun," answered Jane.

"You weren't having fun with me at all. To me, it was like really serious stuff. I mean, YOU WERE POINTING A WAND AT ME!" shouted Harry.

Jane was surprised by the reaction that she got out of Harry that felt guilty for what she had done.

"I'm...I'm...I'm...,"Jane tried to say but she just couldn't get it out.

Harry then realized what he had said and went over to sit down next to her.

"It's okay. I understand what you were trying to do, Jane," Harry said trying to calm her down. "Just try not to do it again okay?"

Jane nodded and put her head on his shoulder.

"But, it still was funny the way you were curled up in the corner like a little scaredy cat," Jane joked.

"I'm not a scaredy-cat," Harry said.

"Yes, you are."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Anyways," Jane said trying to change the subject. "How will we spend more time together when we don't have classes with each other?"

"Oh right, we were talking about that before this incident started."

Jane nodded.

"Well, we can spend more time together whenever you want, like on the weekends, or after homework. How about that?" he suggested.

"That sounds great," agreed Jane as she gave Harry a huge hug.

Harry embraced Jane as she did him. Jane never having a brother hugged Harry especially long because he was part of her family and now that she has heard it from him, she believes that it is true. She is a true Potter.

"Oh, and Jane," Harry said as he tore apart from the hug and looked at her straight in the eyes. "I love you and will always love you. And just because I am a year ahead of you doesn't mean that I am smarter than you," he joked.

Jane giggled at Harry's humor. "I know," she answered.

They gave each other one last hug before Jane decided to leave and go to the common room.

As Jane was leaving, she turned around just as she saw Harry getting back into the covers of the bed.

"Harry," she called out.

"Yeah, Jane?"

"I will always love you too," Jane smiled and with that, she left Harry with a grin on his face.

AN: I don't own Harry Potter. The only characters I own are Jane, Sarah, and any other characters that I made up. (Last edited 3/20/17)