In the last chapter, I asked if anyone would be interested in a reading of the books for this story. Well, someone said yes. That was the literal only response to that question so I decided to write it.
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ThunderClaw03 chapter 27. Mar 3
I imagine Bruce is going to want to murder Dumbledore by the time he finally finishes listening to Adriane's life up to this point. That's if he and his kids don't already do. I wonder how much Bruce will love Adriane's gifts. I wonder how Kara will react to having another alien close to her own age on earth.
I wonder what you have planned for a relationship in your story. Update when you can
Me: Oh, they will want to murder dumbledore, only they won't because they're no killing rule. And the relationship is a secret shhh.
DocRider chapter 27. 23h ago
This is an interesting story. I'm hoping for 2 things to happen: 1) Gohan is magical through Chi-Chi. And 2) Nappa gets revived when the wish to revive all the people Frieza and his men killed is made. (DBZA logic)
Me: interesting ideas, I don't know if I'll do them but it's something to consider.
Done with the reviews, onto the story!
At Hogwarts
As soon as Fred, George, Neville, Luna, and Fluer woke up they each made their way to the ROR to open their gifts. They had decided that they would open their gifts together, not only would it help them avoid people trying to see what Adriane got them to try and figure out where she was, it would also let them hang out and have fun.
When they sat down in the ROR Winky popped in and gave them each their gifts. Winky even handed out the gifts they got from others as well, not just the ones from Adriane.
Thanking her, the group decided how to open them. They decided to save Adriane's gifts for last. Luna was insistent that Adriane's gifts would be the best so they should follow the muggle saying of saving the best for last. They all agreed and got an opening.
Fred got a knitted sweater from his mom like he got every year. It had an F on it, Fred knew that their mom started putting letters on the sweaters to help her tell him and George apart.
From George, he got some new shirts. They were muggle shirts with special images on them that George had charmed to move. Fred put one on right away with a laugh.
From Neville, He got some plants he could use in potions along with some clippings so he could grow his own potions ingredients later on when he and George started up their Shop. Fred gave Neville a big hug when he opened them, Fred never noticed Neville blush but George did.
George looked thoughtfully at Neville but looked away when Neville glanced over when feeling eyes on him.
From Luna, He got a special headband that Luna had made herself. Fred put it on with another laugh.
"How do I look?"
"Very nice, now Open my gift." Fluer giggled while pointing at the gift from her.
Opening it he noticed a necklace and looked at Fluer curious. "A necklace?"
"Qui, it is charmed to warn you if someone is trying to cast compulsions on you and if you're about to eat anything that has a potion in it."
Fred put the necklace on over his new shirt with a smile, "Thanks Fluer, I love it! Okay George your turn!" They had all agreed to open every other present first before opening Adriane's gifts.
George nodded and opened the gift from their parents, like Fred, he got a knitted sweater that he set to the side.
Then he opened Fred's gift. Fred had somehow got a book on how to correctly manage a business and gave it to George, knowing that he was the more Business-minded one out of the two of them.
He set the book on top of his sweater with a smile, thanking Fred before turning to Neville's gift. Neville got him a book on creating your own spells, it was a very old book. George hugged Neville right away with a big smile. "How did you get this, Nev?"
Neville ducked his head to hide his blush, "T-The Library back home had two copies for some reason, I asked Gran and she said I could give you the second one."
"Neville, you are the absolute best!"
George turned back to his other gifts, hiding a smirk since he saw Neville's blush. Looks like Neville liked both George and his brother. George would have to talk with Fred but he wouldn't mind sharing the little herbologist if Fred was okay with it. Just because they would be sharing a boyfriend did not mean that Fred and George would do anything though, that wasn't right in the twins' minds.
Opening the gift from Luna he saw she made him a headband just like his brothers, it was hand made and he loved it. George put the headband on right away just like Fred had done before opening Fluer's gift.
She got him a necklace like his brothers, only now that he examined the necklaces closer he noticed that Freds had a charm on it in the shape of a potions vial and he had one in the shape of a wand.
George put the necklace on right away and knew that these were some things that he and Fred would never switch or mess with. George would never wear Fred's necklace and vice versa.
Neville smiled at the twins before opening his own gifts.
From his Gran he got one of his dad's old defense books, it was from when he was training to be an Auror. Sighing he placed it to the side, His Gran was so focused on making him be exactly like his dad. His Gran didn't want Neville, she wanted his dad and was trying so hard to turn Neville into Frank.
She didn't care for Neville, she only cared that she was part of his dad.
Shaking his head he turned to the gift the twins got him, looks like they pitched together to get him a gift. Opening it he beamed when he saw new gardening tools. His old ones had been falling apart but his Gran refused to buy him new ones, even if he had been using the old ones since he was seven when he found them in the storage shed.
"Thanks you two! These will be so much more usefull than the ones I've been using for years." Smiling Neville turned back to his gifts, never seeing the Twins exchange a serious look that told each other they would be talking later.
Neville got a bottle cap bracelet, Luna explained that it was charmed to be comfortable and not hurt Neville at all. Of course, if someone tried to grab their wrist and grabbed the bracelet as well, it would be a little painful as the bottle caps dug into the hand.
From Fluer, Neville got a book on herbology, she had also got him a gift voucher for one free wand. Neville was surprised when Fluer explained that she had noticed that Neville had problems with his wand and when she asked Adriane she was told that the wand used to belong to Neville's dad.
Fluer explained that when she got her wand she was told that the wand chooses the witch or wizard, that was if you didn't get it custom made.
Fluer decided to open her gifts next. From her parents, she got some makeup, not that she needed it. From her little sister, she got a hand-drawn card along with a handmade necklace that she put on right away.
From the twins she got some chocolates, she gave them a suspicious look but they promised they hadn't messed with them at all. Fluer decided to trust them.
From Neville, she got some winter gloves that will go with her school robes, she thanked him as she put them to the side with the box of chocolates and makeup.
Opening Luna's gift she smiled amused to see a lifelong subscription to the quibbler, her father's newspaper. Under that, there was a hairpin that looked like a feather. She put it in her hair, using it to keep her hair out of her face.
"Okay now-"
"It's time for"
"Luna to open-"
"Her gifts!"
Luna giggled at the twin speak and turned to her gifts. Opening the one from her dad she smiled and put in the new radish earrings he gave her, these ones changed colors with her mood!
The twins gave her a rainbow-colored sweater, she shrugged off the sweater she was wearing to put it on. From Neville, she got some bright blue leather bracelets, she put those on as well. From Fluer she got a purple, blue, and pink beaded necklace she put on. Her friends knew exactly what she would like.
She beamed at them while wearing all her new things. "Time to Open Adriane's gifts!"
Fluer smiled as she remembered Adriane sitting her down right before she left for the holidays and explained who and what she really was. Fluer had promised not to tell a soul about what Adriane had told her that day. Luckily, Adriane explained that the twins, Neville, and Luna knew too so she could talk about things with them.
The day Adriane saved her from her ex-friend was the start of her new life. Fluer had made true, honest friends that didn't hate her for something she couldn't help. She had male friends that didn't lust after her. From what she's seen so far, it seemed her male friends lusted after each other instead. Neville liked both twins and the twins both liked him.
Fluer smiled as she opened Adriane's gift and gasped softly. The dress was beautiful and the shoes would go with several of her outfits. The chocolates were a good touch too. In fact, The shoes she got would go swimmingly with the outfit she was wearing to the Yule ball tonight, she would wear these instead of the simple black ones she was planning on wearing.
Luna squealed happily when finding the book and crystals. She loved the Crystals because they would help her focus more in class but she adored her new book. Already she had found some of the creatures she and her dad had been looking for written in it. She also vowed to try some of the spells in here later.
Neville smiled at the good luck charm, he put it on right away and looked at the other part of his gift, and felt his jaw drop. Some of these seeds were supposed to be super hard to get, How did Adriane manage to get one of these seeds let along with all the ones she sent him? He suddenly felt that his gift to her was a little underwhelming.
George was already buried in the new charms book Adriane got him, he would look at the other things later. It was well known to friends of George that if you tempted him with new charms he didn't know yet, he was going to do anything to learn them until he could cast them perfectly. Sadly his family didn't know this about him.
Fred was staring at the very rare potions book that he had just been given for Christmas. He had no clue how Adriane managed to find this book, it was thought to be lost forever. He paused when remembering that Adriane had been out of state, maybe books that people in Britain thought were lost really weren't lost. Maybe they just weren't being sold in Britain anymore for some reason.
With Adriane at the hotel
Adriane woke up and jumped out of bed right away, she didn't even bother to get dressed before she started unwrapping her gifts. She knew that Dobby and Winky took all her gifts to Gringgots to make sure they were charm and potion free.
Grinlast found several gifts that had tracking charms and controlling potions on and in them. For a small fee, he took those charms off and got rid of any potioned object before sending them to Adriane for her to decide if she wanted to keep the objects or not.
Grabbing the first gift she tore it open. She smiled when seeing it was from Sirius, he gave her some extra pictures he had of her parents, she glanced at them and noticed she didn't have any of these pictures in her photo album. Adriane set them to the side carefully, deciding to look at them more closely later when putting them in her photo album.
Grabbing the next gift she noticed it was from Remus. Opening it she raised an eyebrow when seeing it was a book on defense. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, the problem was that this book was for second years instead of fourth or higher.
Shaking her head, thankful but confused she set it next to the photos.
From Molly she got a knitted sweater she tossed to the side while rolling her eyes, she spotted a note in the bottom of the box, and when she gave it a glance over she snorted and crumpled it up.
It was just Molly trying to lecture her for leaving the School and try to order her back. Molly had even tried saying that there seemed to be something wrong with her trust vault key and that Dumbledore wanted her to see if Adriane would be willing to write a letter to the Goblins allowing Molly to get a new key for her.
Adriane rolled her eyes as if she would ever be that dumb.
Adriane reached for the next gift and opened it, she smiled when seeing it was from the twins. They managed to buy her some green pearl earrings. The pearls were probably fake but it was very nice of them to get her the earrings.
The next gift was from Neville, he got her some hair ties and hairpins. She liked them enough that she decided to wear them later. Fluer gave her some french chocolates along with a simple white dress that had light blue and pink flowers all around the bottom.
Adriane chuckled fondly when she got to Luna's gift. It was an entire outfit.
There was a black skirt that stopped right above her knees. There were some short shorts that she could wear under the skirt, just so no one could stare at her underwear. There was an emerald green shirt with white details all over it.
Luna had even sent her a black headband, a short cape that was sea green, and some black ankle boots. It was clear why Luna had sent her all of these clothes, somehow she knew about Adriane's short adventure and decided that Adriane needed a better hero outfit than just random clothes she had laying around that she didn't care about.
Luna sent a note saying that Adriane would need to make copies of the outfit herself along with charming them to be hard to destroy. She chuckled softly as she set the outfit down on her bed before calling for Dobby and Winky.
When they popped in she handed them both a gift and then had to spend the next ten minutes calming them down from their tears at the fact that Adriane got them gifts. She explained that the gifts weren't to set them free, they were just a gift.
They were both confused at first before they opened the gifts and gasped at the clothes that were inside. Winky was soon bouncing excitedly about all the dresses and other things Adriane bought her before popping away to try them on.
Doppy was more emotional, he was sniffling as he held the socks in his hand. "Mistress is so kind to poor Dobby and Winky!" He popped away before Adriane could say anything. Adriane was a little concerned but figured if something was wrong then Dobby would come to talk to her about it.
With the Bat-family in Gothem.
Jason scowled from the couch. "Alright Bruce, what was so important that you needed all of us to come here, on christmas might I add?"
Bruce just handed out the gifts from Adriane as a response.
"Christmas gifts? Seriously? Alright, I'm out, I want nothing to do with anything from you-"
Alfred walked in and took a gift of his own from Bruce, "Do sit down Master Jason, these are not from Bruce even if he did wish you purchase you something. No, these are from Bruce's cousin."
Dick gasped, "Cousin? Bruce why didn't you ever mention having a cousin before?! Why did we never meet them?"
Tim eyed the gift box in his hand suspiciously, "Are you sure you can trust them, Bruce? We've never heard of you having a cousin before and them just coming out of the blue like this is really suspicious."
Jason stared at the gift in his own hands conflicted, On one hand, this gift was from someone related to Bruce, on the other hand, he didn't know this person so had no reason to hate them like he did Bruce for not killing the Joker when they killed him.
"Yes, we can trust her. Dick, Tim, the reason I never mentioned a cousin before is that I thought she and her mom both died years ago. It was a couple of years before I met you Dick." Sighing he continued, "Her mom's name was Lily. Lily was my cousin on my mother's side of the family, we didn't meet in person often but we would talk whenever we could."
"She was like a little sister to me, and then she was murdered in her own home. She and her husband were magical, it's why I don't like magic. it reminds me of her and reminds me that magic is what killed her."
"Killed her?" Jason couldn't help but ask, he couldn't help but feel a bit bad for Bruce. If he and this Lily were as close as he said they were then her death must have hit him hard, he hopped this story wasn't going to where he thought it was.
"You see, the magicals in Britain were part of a small war going on at the time, Lily had forbidden me from coming to help. The only time she ever allowed me to come there was when they adopted a little girl they named Rose."
"She goes by Adriane now father, I'm going to assume that you were to shocked when finding out that she was alive that you missed her saying she changed her name to Adriane Kenna Dive Potter."
"You've met her?" Dick looked at Damien surprised.
"And you're using her name?" Tim was shocked.
Damien just glared at them, "No Grayson, I did not meet her. Superman met her when she came to him with help concerning something important, he recorded her explination over the course of several days and listening to the first recording was enough for me to conclude that she shall now be under my protection."
Jason raised an eyebrow, "Damn, how did she manage to get the Demon Spawn to decide she was family when we couldn't?"
"Anyways, Apparently Rose is now going by Adriane, thank you for informing me, Damien. As I was saying, They blood adopted a little girl and things were happy for them for a while. Until haloween, the leader of the other side of the war. A man nameed Voldemort went to their house and killed them in cold blood."
"For so long I believed that they were all gone, Lily, her husband James, and little Adriane. But that was wrong, turns out Adriane was alive and had been sent to live with the one person she was never to go to. Lily's big sister, Petunia. The reason I never mentioned her before is because I didn't want you exposed to her."
Jason raised his eyebrow again, "So you'll expose us to villains trying to murder us but not to your cousin that you've never mentioned before today?"
Bruce looked slightly embarrassed before coughing in his hand. "When you put it like that then it does indeed sound stupid. The difference is, you can fight back against the villains, my cousin Petunia on the other hand. She's very um opinuated, she hates anything she deams as "freakish". That would include Dick, Jason, and Damien. I'm not sure how she would react to Tim but I wasn't willing to risk anything."
"She would insult all of you to try and get a rise out of you just so she could go around and spread vicious rumors about how awful and out of control you all are."
"She hated Lily for being magical, pretty, and smart when she wasn't and that has lasted to today."
"Long story short these presents are from Adriane, she found out she's related to us and looked us up before buying us these gifts."
Dick smiled widely. "The lets open them!" Laughing he opened his gift before freezing with wide eyes. "Hey, um, Bruce? Does your Cousin happen to know who we are by any chance?"
Bruce was confused but answered. "No why?" Dick just help up the necklace with a Nightwing on it in response. Jason laughed, "It's probably just a coincidence Dick, nothing to be worried about." Dick looked at Jason before grabbing the note that was inside the Box while Jason opened his gift.
Jason chuckled and held up his leather bracelets, "See? It was just a coincidence." Bruce was frowning slightly and shook his head. He was confused on why Jason's bracelets were the exact same color as his Red Hood outfit.
Tim opened his and gasped softly, "Jason I don't think it's a coincidence." Jason looked over confused and Tim held up the ring with a red robbin on it, causing Jason and Dick's eyes to widen. "How does she know? Did Clark tell her?"
Bruce shook his head, "No, he told her his own identity but he never told her ours."
Jason was very suspicious. "Then how did she know?" "We'll just need to ask her when we eventually meet her." Tim mumbled as he read the paper that was in the box.
Damien opened his gift and raised an eyebrow when seeing two different sets of earrings. One with Robins and one with a katana on it. Interesting, he truly needed to figure out how his cousin knew of this.
Bruce eyed his own gift before opening it, he snorted when seeing the cartoonish bats on an anklet. He showed it sons and they all laughed, including Jason and Damien. For Damien, it was just a small smirk and snort but it was a laugh.
They all turned to Alfred curious about what he got, they wondered if it was something butler or gun-related. Slowly, Alfried carefully opened the box and looked inside. He froze for a second which worried the boys before he slowly picked up a ring that had lilies engraved on it all over.
They all went silent went Alfred slowly slipped it on his finger and rubbed the lilies with a sad look in his eyes. Bruce walked over to his kids and softly told them that Alfred and his cousin had been very close, close enough that Alfred had thought of Lily as his own daughter even if he didn't see her anywhere near as often as he would have liked.
Slowly everything went their separate ways to give Alfred time to get himself back together.
Bruce managed to gather all of his kids in the Batcave and handed them the first of the recordings he had before he handed Damien the second recording.
Pointing to the USB in Tim's hand, "That's the recording of Adriane explaining her life until the end of her first year at Hogwarts, the magical school she goes to. You will listen to it so when you meet her you don't accidentally say anything upsetting."
"Damien has already listened to that one, the USB I gave him is her explaining her second and third year. . . . Damien you might want to listen to that one in the training room so you have things to destroy when you get angry."
Jason and Tim exchanged a look, slightly surprised that Bruce was encouraging Damien to break something in anger. "I am going to listen to the third recording, Clark mentioned that it's compiled of two different days of her explaining. Mostly because she needed to rush off to write to her account manager"
Dick blinked, "She has an account manager?" "Apparently she's just as rich as us according to Clark." Bruce nodded at Dick before going down to his cave where he had prepared several dummies and ugly plates for him to break just like Clark told him to.
Damien walked to the training room after grabbing his laptop and headphones from his room.
Jason. Tim and Dick were left in the hallway feeling out of place in the manor for the first time in a while, soon they all walked to Dick's old room while shrugging off the feeling.
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