Zero

When they arrived at the Burrow it was exactly as Zero remembered it, having stayed there once during Christmas Break. Yuki and the Headmaster were staring up at the tall wizarding house. Yuki looked scarred whereas the Headmaster look simply bemused. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had released the others and they were staggering around trying to regain their footing. Rachel had dropped her wand upon arriving and was trying to retrieve it from a gnome.

"Come here you little... Accio wand!" Unfortunately for her the command worked and her wand smacked her between the eyes. She muttered curse words under her breath as Mrs. Weasley herded everyone into the living room. Zero hung back in the kitchen, he had no desire to face questions and a room of crowded people. He turned to head to the kitchen and found his way blocked by Fred and George.

"What do you want?" he asked. His voice was brusque and he gave them one of his glares. They were unfazed however and George put his arm around his shoulder. They were about the same height.

"Come with us Zero," he said in a friendly voice. Zero felt a sudden urge to throttle him.

He pushed his arm away, "Don't touch me!" he said angrily. Fred eyed him and led the way upstairs. Zero followed reluctantly. George was walking in stalker like manner, his breath on his neck. Zero resisted the urge to curse him to high heaven, since he was currently relying on their family's charity until the start of the term.

Fred pushed the door open to their old room. It was pilled with boxes. When the door closed Zero turned to George.

"Can't you stalk someone else?" he asked angrily.

"Sorry," he said with a smile, "It's just, you seem different now."

They don't even know the half of it thought Zero. "So what do you want with me?"

In unison the twins leaned in and made him back up against the door, "We want to know, what these are," they said together. It took Zero a few seconds to process that they were talking about his blood tablets, which George was holding in front of his face. Zero glared at them and tried to swipe them away but George was too quick for him. Unfortunately in the process George broke a glass vase on one the boxes. The tablets went flying as George raced to pick up the glass shards, since Fred was refusing to give him his wand as a punishment. Zero ran to the other side of the room, trying to find where the tablets had fallen.

That's when he smelled the blood.

Rachel

Mrs. Weasley was telling off Ron for being outside the shop without an adult when they heard the crash. Everyone jumped and went quiet listening intently.

"Mum's going to kill us! I can't believe you just broke Muriel's vase!" shouted one of the twins.

"Well, if you hadn't been so curious as to what that was we wouldn't have had to worm it out of him, Fred!" shouted George.

"You could have just asked you know!" yelled Zero.

"Are they fighting?" muttered Ron? Hermione and Yuki were half standing looking panicked. Rachel was at the bottom of the stairs, listening.

"Owww!" yelled George.

"Oh my gosh I can't believe you just cut yourself!" yelled Fred, "that's what your wands for you moron."

"If you give it to me then we won't have this problem now will we," said George softly, in an angry voice. Rachel was now standing outside their doorway.

"Well I... Zero are you okay?" said Fred.

Rachel opened the door and peeked in. Zero was standing by the window, his head down. He looked evil in the setting sun. He looked up at Fred, and Rachel gasped. His lavender eyes had turned a blood-red color and when he opened his mouth there were fangs protruding from his lips.

"Woah okay, is the vampire thing supposed to scare us?" said George who was holding a bleeding hand in the other. Zero stepped forward and took it, forcing him to stand up. Then the truth hit Rachel with full force, she panicked, running into the room. Sh knocked George out of the way and placed herself between him and Zero.

"Are you stupid? This is real not some joke, George!" she said angrily. At this George paled and began to back away, Fred following suit. They ran from the room to the downstairs. Rachel stood there meeting Zero's eyes, suddenly brave. Zero reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her close. She stood there for a moment and then felt his fangs brush her neck. She struggled, pulling her wand out of her pocket.

"Stop it!" she yelled. There was a sharp pang as Zero sunk his fangs into her and with a loud bang everything went black.