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How It Should've Been

Chapter 9: Truth for One, Illusions for All

"Find me something of his and I'll show you." Jake grinned slightly.

Amelia looked at him as if was asking for a body part. Her gaze shifted to Alex.

"Amelia, Jake is a friend. If he says he can do it, then he most certainly can." Alex assured her knowing why Amelia turned to her. Amelia nodded before going over to closet to the right of the desk. Entering the closet, she pulled out with a coat in her hands before handing it reluctantly to Jake.

With the coat now in his hands, Alex and Jake shared a look before Alex nodded. Jake looked back at the coat in his hands before his eyes glowed a violet color. The coat in his hands glowed purple lightly. Amelia could see the change in his eyes but not the coat like Alex and Jake could. The violet glowing surrounding the coat steadily turn to a maroon color. The glow shimmered before spreading all over the office and the people in it. Jake closed his eyes and focused.

The glow continued past the study and the house. It continued much further than Amelia would've believed if she could see it. The maroon glow washed over all of London even extending as far as all over the United Kingdom. It washed over people and buildings but only people with godly blood, descendants and clear-sighted mortals could see it.

When the wave washed over Liverpool, it continued going through each and every building, over every person. The wave reached a manor on the outskirts of Liverpool, when it passed over a person they glowed maroon causing the wave to stop. It had located the person with the same magical signature as the one Jake found on the coat.

Jake's eyes opened and the violet glow faded from his eyes as the maroon wave faded all around the country. "Liverpool. North Outskirts. Free Grove Estate." He said looking at Alex. She nodded before walking over to Amelia and grabbing her arm before the two disappeared in a column of blue fire.

Upon landing Amelia stumbled slightly setting her hand on the wall to her left to steady herself. She turned to look at Alex and her eyes widened. Alex now had a quiver of arrows on her back along with dao swords and was wearing black tight combat pants and a black fitting leather jacket that was zipped halfway up with a hood connected and a navy-blue domino mask laying around her neck. (Imagine the season 3 arrow suit but in black and the hood is leather rather than cloth.) The mask wasn't on and the hood was down but Amelia could only imagine what someone could think having someone pointing an arrow at you wearing that.

A piece of paper appeared in Alex's hand in a wisp of fire along with a pen. She scrabbled a note, before it disappeared again.

"What was that?" Amelia asked curiously. Alex turned her head to face Amelia.

"Note to Harry. Letting him know to move forward." Alex said she started walking forward.

"Move forward with what?" Amelia responded eyes narrowed. She hadn't heard about this part of the plan.

"Right about now, I imagine Harry's raising some hell with whatever prank he's pulling."

Hogwarts

After using a quick Tempus charm and seeing the time. Harry put his hand under the Ravenclaw table in the Great Hall and waited. A minute later, he felt a paper in his hand. Pulling his hand out, he read it.

Time to Raise Hell Kid

Looking up from the nod, Harry sent a nod to Luna allowing her time to put ear plugs in. Harry did the same before giving a flick of his concealed wand.

Suddenly everyone's voice in the hall was amplified and all in different languages. There were at least ten different languages all being spoken all curtsey of Harry and Luna.

It didn't take people long to realize that they couldn't understand what the person they were talking to was saying. To themselves it sounded like they were talking English when they really weren't.

The sudden influx in noise sent the staff into a frenzy trying to solve the problem and calm hysterical students. While Luna and Harry just sat and continued eating and talking, though they spoke in a language they both understood, French to make it seem like they were affected as well but just removed the amplification charm.

Liverpool, Free Grove Estate

"Do I even want to know?" Amelia questioned looking sideways at Alex.

"Even if you did, I couldn't tell you. I have no idea what the kid planned." Alex admitted with a grin. "Either way, we have our own things to attend to. Search the manor." Alex ordered before walking down the hall that was lit only by that of the light from the windows.

As Alex continued down the hall, she lifted the domino mask and placed it over her face and set the hood into place as well and a bow appeared in a torrent of flames in her hand.

Walking down the hall the first door was on her left. Switching the bow from her left hand to her right she opened the door and scanned the room. Nothing. It continued like this for the rest of the rooms down the hall and then again with the next hall.

This process continued until there was a locked door in one of the halls. Stepping back, she kicked forward forcing the door open.

Stepping into the room, there was a serious computer setup. It was six monitors, three rows with two in each, one on top of the other. They were all on and displaying different things.

Approaching the setup, Alex got a better look at what exactly the monitors were displaying. On each monitor was footage from different security cameras. On one of the screens, Alex could see Amelia walking down a hall. All of them were in different places all over the manor.

Suddenly four of the screens went black before a new view was divided equally over the four making up the footage. At the same time the door to the room slammed close causing Alex to spin around, arrow nocked in the bow pointing at the door. Seeing no one, Alex lowered the bow and turned back to the screens.

It was of an all-white room, there was a chandelier hanging in the center of the ceiling.

On the other two screens, one continued to follow Amelia while the other blacked out before words started appearing on it.

See that white room? He was there. You didn't think we'd make it that easy did you?

The words fading and seconds later more appeared.

Oh wait, you thought it was Dumbledore, didn't you? Yeah, I'll admit that was pretty clever of us huh? Well no it wasn't Dumbledore. Alex's eyes widened in realization. It was a trick.

The writing faded just as it had before and just as before more appeared.

Ah I can see you're shocked, well I guess we can't really because of the hood but anyway. And really? Wearing your Chaser gear? We told you Alex, 15 years ago. You'd be joining this war. Time to live up to that. So, you have three options. Alex frowned under the hood. They could see her. Her eyes lifted from the screen to the corners of the room quickly. Out of the corner of her eye she could see a camera in the right corner of the room. Her eyes narrowed and was tempted to shoot it out but decided to leave it for a bit.

Your first choice. You leave this room right now, and go find Madam Bones and tell her of this whole thing and the truth. The writing appeared. Alex knew this option was out of the question.

Secondly, you stay and listen to what we have to say. Do this and we'll tell you where to find Sirius. Same as always it faded. More appeared but it wasn't the final option like Alex expected it to be.

See we don't believe it's time for anyone else to know the truth yet. This message is for you, all of this has been a message for you. Have you found the meaning yet? I think you have. Don't worry you don't have to say it. Just remember it. This time when the text disappeared it was quickly replaced.

The final option, we tell you where Sirius is. On one condition, you lie about how you knew to Madam Bones, to everyone. You see Alex, we know what you're capable of. You're second to only Chaos. You're one of the most powerful masters since their creation. You are powerful yes, you're also an extraordinary liar, but there are just some things that you can't hide, aren't there? At least not from us. Alex's jaw clenched.

Don't worry. Those secrets, are secrets we find are best not to be revealed. At least not now. They are much like us, we don't feel it's time for others to know, but one day they will Alex. However, little you want them to. So, what's it going to be? It's really simple when you think about it and we promise to live up to our word.

"What do you know?" Alex demanded, hand clenching around the bows grip.

I think you already know the answer to that. Came the answer. If text could be condescending this was definitely condescending.

"If you know as much about me as you say then you know that I don't do others dirty work." Alex snapped.

You have in the past. You do if it's for a reason you deem good enough, and I would say this seems like a pretty good reason.

"Fine." Alex ground out, clearly not happy. "Where is he?" She demanded. Text didn't appear with an answer but the four screens that were displaying the white room all faded to view a different cameras footage. It was a room exactly the same as the white one the only difference was it was navy blue and black. The camera that had been following Amelia shifted to show the outside of the room and a map showing where it was in relevance to the rest of the manor.

Open the drawer. Text appeared on the screen. Following the instruction, Alex opened the drawer that was directly under the tabletop of the desk. Inside was a paper version of the map, there was a circle for where they were right now and a X for where Sirius was.

"You knew what I'd chose." Alex realized.

We had a prediction yes, but we've learned that you can be very unpredictable… even for us. Now, we've lived up to our end of the agreement, now it's time for you to live up to yours. The screens all reverted back to how they were when Alex first entered the room and the door opened. The only screen that wasn't the same was the one that was following Amelia.

Alex give one last look at the computers before swiftly turning on her heel and leaving the room. Making her way through the maze of corridors using the map, Alex eventually rounded a corner and came up behind Amelia. Giving the map one last looked she put the map inside of the half-zipped leather jacket, Alex approached Amelia.

"Follow me." She ordered as she walked past Amelia. Amelia's eye brows furrowed in confusion but she followed anyway.

"You know where he is?" Amelia questioned as they rounded several corners and walked down a series of different hallways.

"Yes." Alex answered shortly, before stopping in front of a door. "Here." Alex placed her hand on the door knob and twisted opening the door to reveal…


To reveal the end of the chapter. Yup, that's all for this week folks, hope you enjoyed. But you did get some pretty vital things revealed as this mystery unravels even more. Who is this new person/group/foe and what do they know?

As always, happy reading! See ya next chapter! -DS