(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I've been trying to find a way to connect the last chapter I wrote, and the next two I've written, and I only just found the way, so, here it is.

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Leo

I woke up the next morning to the sound of Vex hissing at an oversized, brown speckled owl that I recognised as Sirius's perched on my window sill.

I pushed the covers off of myself as I scooted down the bed before swinging my legs over the edge, approaching the bird carefully.

"Morning." The bird cocked it's head at me, and I chuckled. "Just like your owner." I gently untied the small scroll of paper from around it's leg and unfurling it.

Leo,

What in Merlin's saggy, silver-haired buttocks is going on?

Sirius

Short, but definitely to the point.

I sighed, fishing out some spare parchment from one of my desk drawers.

Sirius,

It's complicated.

Leo

I attached the parchment to the owl's leg, stroking his head carefully before moving over to my closet, pulling on a pair of jeans and the first t-shirt I saw.

As I reached the bottom of the stairs, Lisbet looked up from the Daily prophet, flashing me a smile.

"Alright Leo?" I shrugged, taking my seat at the table, doing my best to ignore the food that Shari had prepared and left sitting in the middle of the table.

"Never been better." Shari rolled her eyes, pushing a plate towards me.

"Then why are you still not eating?" My father questioned, and I winced.

"My stomach hurts. It'll go away soon, I'm sure." Shari and my father shared worried looks, but Lisbet only smirked at me over the newspaper.

"Such protective parents, aren't they Leo?" She teased, and I grinned as Shari glared at her.

"A cute couple as well." I said, before having to duck as Shari swatted at me with a frying pan. "Too slow!" I cried, moving to hide behind Lisbet, knowing my father wouldn't take too kindly to my teasing either.

"So help me Leo..." Shari growled, but I only beamed at her.

"What, Shari?" She hesitated for a second, before pursing her lips.

"I will tell Elaine you like her." I shrugged, scoffing.

"Please, she knows." All three of them turned to look at me. "What?" My father set down the daily prophet he had wrestled from Lisbet to clasp his hands together and level me with a stern look.

"Well, it's just that, before now, that threat would have sent you into a mass of apologies. Now, 'she knows'?" Shari glanced at my father before back at me.

"What your father is trying to say is, when the hell did she find out?" I paused for a second, wincing slightly.

"Well, I may be exaggerating slightly, but... I've made it pretty obvious that I like her." Lisbet rolled her eyes.

"Oh please, you two are as oblivious to each other as Shari and Nicholai are to each other." I'm sure Shari was trying her hardest not to blush, and my father rather nimbly whacked Lisbet with the newspaper.

"Well, I know she likes me, and I'm fairly certain she knows I like her, unlike these two-" Shari smacked me over the back of the head.

"Wait a minute, you know she likes you?" Lisbet exclaimed, catching the other two's attention, and I shrugged.

"I overheard her admitting it, yes." Shari quickly pulled me into a tight embrace.

"Leo! Yay!" I rolled my eyes.

"Of course, there's one thing keeping us apart." Lisbet raised an eyebrow at me.

"What's that?" I stared at her for a second, before gesturing to myself.

"Hello! Half-vampire here!" My father rolled his eyes, something he did rather rarely.

"Leo-" I cut him off, narrowing my eyes at him.

"You look me in the eyes and tell me that there isn't even a chance of me ever hurting her, and I'll confess my love for her the next time I see her." He stared at me, slack-jawed for a minute, and I saw the pain in his eyes. "But you can't do that, can you?" He dropped his gaze to the floor.

"Leo..." Shari murmured, and I frowned for a second.

"I'll be back." None of them objected, and as soon as I closed the front door behind me, I switched into vampire speed.

I ran at full speed for over an hour, and it one stage, crossed a busy highway, finding it barely even a challenge to dodge between cars- and at one stage, scaling the side of a truck and flinging myself over it.

Eventually, I arrived at a small town, settling down in a diner rather ironically named, 'Grandma's House', now half-starved.

The server, a young woman, perhaps only a few years older than me brought me my bacon and egg meal, and a cup of coffee.

After sitting their for half an hour after having finished my meal, just sipping my now cold coffee and observing the customers: An old man with pants pulled halfway past his armpits, a middle-aged woman in a vest and a guy dressed like a lumberjack; I gave the girl a few notes to pay the bill, and a tip.

"Thanks, Jo." I said, having noticed her name tag earlier, and she looked up from her notepad, startled, giving me a small smile in return for the grin I threw her way.

I exited the diner, and feeling no one looking at me, I took off towards home.

(A/N): So, there were originally going to be like, two chapter instead of this one, so it may seem like a filler chapter, but it isn't.

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This chapter has had small edits made to it on 30/12/22