Disclaimer: see chapter 1
"Tell me what just happened." Said Persephone as they arrived at their newest destination. It was a bedroom that much she knew. She wanted to go home, she wanted her mother, her aunt, he uncle,…she'd even settle for a familiar maid.
"We got something we needed." Said Galatea tucking the Phoenix Gate safely into her bag
"Where are we?" asked Harry as eh looked around. The room was dim lit only by a candelabrum but they could make out a bed, dresser, and a book shelf.
"Quiet, brother." Said Portia gathering that the person inhabiting the room must have been asleep. She didn't want whoever it was to wake up, she was beginning to like this adventure somewhat. She had seen a fey, a living fey. They did walk amongst mortals but they often blended in seamlessly. It might have been a child of Oberon himself but he had been taken down rather easily. How did he know Galatea? That was the question.
"Alright. That was Castle Wyvern in a muggle city called New York in America. That was fey called Puck who I come to know later in life. I got something of great importance from him but it is crucial that certain things happen. We are now in the Pettigrew Estate in the next island, yes the one that smells funny, and what I need is a sort of…device." Said Galatea glancing at her list.
"What?" they all said at once not caring for a moment about where they were. That was too much at once.
"I need this." Said Galatea pulling out an illustration she seemed to have torn out of a book. It looked like an ordinary compass albeit a golden one.
"A compass?" asked Harry adjusting his glasses.
"It's not an ordinary compass and it is not of this world." Said Galatea as she began to quietly root through the things in this darkened room.
"Not of this world? How can it not be of this world? Was it forged from meteorite?" said Harry his wand in his hand in case of danger
"No it's just…not." Said Galatea picking through the drawers. The paper said it would be in this room but where it didn't say. She tried to accio it but nothing happened.
"This is a bad idea." Said Persephone as she stood in the middle of the room. This was too familiar, the darkness. It seemed to taunt her. She suddenly felt as though the walls were closing in on her. She looked around do a window, a gas lamp, another candle, anything to make light.
"Are you alright?" asked Harry as Portia pushed past him to get to the closet. Persephone let out a sigh as the magical light from lumos filled the room.
"I'm alright now." Said Persephone. She and Harry watched Portia and Galatea flittered about the room now not caring about the mess they made.
"Maybe we should go home. Like you said." Said Harry giving her hand a reassuring squeeze. He hadn't lost his earlier fears about destroying the present by changing the past now he had new ones. If something was to happen to any of them their parents wouldn't know what had happened to them.
"Galatea has it. She decides where we go. She didn't even listen he me the first few tines I said it." Said Persephone resting herself against Harry.
"What if something happens to us?" asked Harry as he and Persephone sat down.
"Like what?" asked Persephone leaning back against Harry. He seemed to take most of the anxiety away.
"Something bad. That fey could have easily killed us." Said Harry
"Fey are tricksters, they don't kill." Said Harry
"They can hurt you. I've read about them, they twist what you say and what you do, even change your entire perception of the world." Said Harry
"Is the great Harold Pettigrew scared?" said Persephone almost teasingly
"A little. I'm no Gryffindor." Said Harry running his fingers through her blonde hair, freeing it from its ribbon.
"Why do you care so much about being a Gryffindor anyway? You were only at that school for a few months." Said Persephone
"I felt so…right there. Like everything made sense. Almost like I was meant to be there" Said Harry
"Except for the part where your teacher had a demon growing out of the back of his head." Said Persephone with a giggle
"It wasn't a demon." Said Harry avoiding falling books as Portia opened them all up so see if they had been hollowed out.
"What then?" asked Persephone as she watched Galatea grow more and more frustrated. She began to throw things off of the walls just seemed to generally panic.
"It was the last Dark Lord. He had somehow attached himself to the back of that teacher's head." Said Harry
"I don't understand magic sometimes." Said Persephone with a shake of her head
"I wish we could have stayed but with that and Galatea's father escaping from Azkaban prison mother and father made us come home." Said Harry
"Well I knew that part. I'm not completely out of things." Said Persephone
"Sorry. Do you ever feel like they're keeping things from us?" asked Harry
"I know Galatea is keeping things from us but I'm going to find out. I don't think this is just about Avalon like when we were little." Said Persephone as Galatea threw open the curtains to reveal daylight. Persephone instinctively crept backwards from it.
"I meant mum and dad." Said Harry backing away from Galatea. Portia wisely did the same.
"Yours or mine? I know yours are too. Everyone hides everything from us." Said Persephone
"It's not here!" yelled Galatea looking quite mad. Her jet black hair was loose and flying around her face, her eyes were wild and scared like a trapped animal's. She felt as though the floor of the world had been pulled out from under her.
"Maybe it's in another room." Suggested Portia as she surveyed the damaged they did. She wondered if Harry was right about right about stepping on a butterfly. She looked at the bottom of her shoes and was relived to find no butterflies.
"It's supposed to be here!" yelled Galatea wild magic flipping the bed over. This seemed to get someone's attention as the door opened. They stood frozen in shock not knowing what if anything they could do. They were do far away from each other to disappear and attacking them would do no good if there was more than one of if this was an adult.
"Give it to them, Celeste." Said the vampire from the previous night in the Pettigrew house. She didn't look like the vampires they had seen in illustrations; those vampires were either mad predators or arrogant aristocrats wearing the clothes and airs of a different time. This girl looked well, like them. She was dressed nicely, she was clean, she hair was set in a mass of light brown curls cascading down her back, and her eyes were red but it was just the iris. They were a predators eyes, the shape fot he pupil gave them away but she looked very sane. He skin was pale but not inhumanly so and her fangs stuck out from inside her mouth, almost as if it were too small for her teeth. That would explain her slight lisp though.
"Fine! Here." Said the girl who stood next to the vampire. This was a fey but she was their size. He ears were long and tall, her hair was white but a wand could be seen in her left hand. Her eyes were oddly familiar and it took them a moment to realize that these were the Pettigrew eyes. The dull blue Pettigrew eyes. Harry pulled Portia and Persephone away from them out of fear.
"Thank you." Said Galatea in the most polite voice she could muster. She wasn't as afraid of them as she was afraid of what would happen. She knew who she was looking at and it made what she was doing all the more real. She knew she couldn't fail. Galatea reached out a shaking hand to take the golden compass from the fey girl's outstretched hand.
"Can you read it?" asked the fey girl Celeste. She didn't know how to feel at this moment but a jab to the ribs from her cousin Claudine stopped her form saying anything stupid.
"I can figure it out." Said Galatea. She glanced back and saw they everyone had their wand drawn. She decided that it was best to take their leave before anything bad could happen.
"Well see each other again soon." Said Claudine as she extended her hand to Galatea. Galatea shook her hand and felt a piece of paper make its way into her sleeve. Galatea gather her current family and they once again left.
"That was the strangest thing I've ever done." Said Celeste as she rubbed her side
"I've done stranger." Said Claudine
"Do you think we did the right thing?"
"I don't know." Said Claudine as she surveyed her room
"They think you're a full vampire, I could feel it." Said Celeste
"It's best that they think that for the time being. Mother always said I was a surprise. Call the house elf and have this cleaned up and close the curtain. Just because I can stand the light doesn't mean I like it.." Said Claudine