AN/: I do not own Harry Potter or Charmed.
Warnings: Violence. Language. Slash.
"Parseltongue"
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"Harper? What is that?" Ardex asked staring at his partner.
Harper looked over at him before looking down at his lap "Oh, my familiar" he replied.
Ardex blinked and folded into the arm chair opposite Harper.
"And why is it here?" he asked slowly.
Harper sent him a confused look before lightly patting the small animal "It's my familiar? Where else would it be?" he asked.
Ardex blinked at him again "It's a Kitsune" he pointed out.
Harper raised his eyebrow at him "You don't say" he drawled sarcastically.
Ardex looked at the small magical fox curled up on Harper's lap "I don't like it" he declared.
Harper glared at him "She" he said stressing out the pronoun "Is called Jessica, and I don't care if you don't like her".
"Where did it come from?" Ardex asked "She. Where did she come from?" he corrected as Harper glared at him again.
Harper shrugged one shoulder "I performed the ritual this morning" he said in explanation.
Ardex eyed the small black fox warily "They are rather mischievous though, they cause a lot of trouble" he warned causing Harper to snort.
"Oh yes" Harper said sarcastically "Because you and Caine didn't set a horde of killer rabbits free in the Ministry before we left last week".
Ardex shrugged "It was Caine's idea" he claimed as Caine sniggered from his perch around Ardex's neck.
Harper snorted "Because Caine has seen Monty Python" he pointed out.
Ardex nodded "He has actually" he said smugly "He loves it as much as I do"
"Go away before I castrate you both" Harper deadpanned "People like you should never be allowed to have kids or you'll corrupt them all".
Ardex pouted at Harper trying to change his mind.
"Go work on a new spell or something" Harper told him.
Ardex turned his puppy dog eyes on Harper.
Harper looked at him "If you wanted to do something for me you could make a spell" he offered making Ardex's face light up.
Ardex sprung to his feet making Caine hiss angrily as he ran out of the room excitedly.
"What's up with him?" Lily asked from the window seat.
Harper chuckled "If you would believe it, the all mighty Ardex was jealous I was paying someone else attention" he answered making Lily's jaw drop.
"He was jealous of Jessica? Why?" She asked confused.
Harper shrugged "He's been clingy all day, and Jess was on my lap and he wasn't" he told her "He gets like that randomly, he'll just spend the day following me around and craving my attention".
Lily giggled at the thought "Maybe it's just part of his wolfish instincts?" she inquired making Harper shrug again.
"I don't actually know" he admitted "I usually don't mind it for the first part of the day and then I send him off to work for me. Its manipulation and its cruel, but he gets really annoying quickly".
Lily laughed at that "So that explains where he's been all day then" she noted.
Harper nodded "I needed to get up early to cast a familiar finding spell, and he wouldn't leave me alone so I sent him off to finish carving the runes on the new cauldrons" he explained.
Lily cast a glance at the black fox on his lap tilting her head "Aren't Kitsune dark creatures?" she asked.
Shaking his head Harper corrected her "They are actually light creatures, but they are major pranksters so people think they are dark".
Lily smirked "Because what this house needs is another prankster" she pointed out "You are definitely the son of a Marauder".
Harper smirked back at her before his face fell.
"Dex likes loud explosive spells" he said slowly.
Lily looked up and paled, knowing exactly how explosive Ardex can get in just one week.
Harper snatched Jess from his lap and sprinted out of the room holding her to his chest with Lily right behind him.
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"So how does Dex know what's going to happen again?" Lily asked as she watched Ardex pulling out a memory.
"He's dual-cored as well" Harper explained "He has a core for Wizarding magic and for Wiccan magic. My Beaming ability is Wiccan and Dex can has a teleportation ability called Shredding".
Lily nodded having seen Ardex teleport around before.
"One of his powers from birth is the power of Premonition, to see the future" Harper continued "You've seen him have visions before actually, when he froze and then summoned you away from the cauldron yesterday. He saw it happen and acted on it".
Lily recalled seeing Ardex stiffen before he spun and pulled her away.
"And this?" she asked.
Harper and Lily stepped forward at Ardex's gestured "He pulls the memory of the premonition so it can be watched by others" he told her before dipping his face into the pensieve and being sucked into the memory.
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"Now" Harper whispered as he recognised the current moment from Ardex's vision that morning.
Ardex nodded without looking up from his book while Lily looked confused.
"LILY!" a voice shouted making Lily jump.
Harper watched as James stormed into Florean's parlour.
He and Ardex slowly drew their wands but kept them hidden in their hands.
"What do you want James?" Lily asked him coldly.
James stepped forward and grabbed her arm "I want you to come home! You have no right to run off like this" he yelled at her.
Harper watched as Lily slowly stood and yanked her arm from James' grip.
"This should be fun" he muttered to Ardex who smirked.
"From what I've heard of your mother's temper definitely" he replied.
"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT?" Lily screeched making everyone cover their ears "You attack me then you expect me to come home like a good little wife?"
James didn't see the dangerous look on Lily's face and argued back.
"You're my wife! If I allow the Headmaster to force his way into your mind then he's allowed! I'm Lord Potter remember!" he yelled.
Harper, Ardex, and the entire store winced at that.
Lily's eyes narrowed as her wand shot up and pressed against his throat "Then it's a good thing that I'm divorcing your stupid arse!" she snarled making James' eyes widen.
"You can't do that!" he cried.
Lily smirked "The paperwork is on the table right now, and when we are finished our ice-creams we are going to Gringotts to get it filed" she explained "Get used to living without me James, it's going to become permanent real soon".
James' began to panic and drew his wand "Incendio" he yelled pointing his wand at the table.
Harper's hand shot out as he caught the fireball that flew from James' wand. Harper focussed and the fireball disappeared in his hand, "I love Pyrokinesis" he mumbled to himself before glaring at James "Don't do that again Potter" he warned him.
"This is all your fault!" James' snarled as he noticed Harper sitting there, his wand rose to aim at Harper instead, he opened his mouth to cast a spell when a bolt of electricity arced into his chest throwing him into the wall.
Lily smirked as she blew on the end of her smoking wand, turning to Ardex she winked at him "And that's what I meant when I said that medical spells can be useful in duels" she said.
Ardex just blinked at her "You used my heart re-started charm to knock him out" he stating before he looked over at a twitching James, he smirked before tilting his head back and laughing loudly.
Lily sat back down at her chair and pulled her ice cream back towards her and eating a mouthful as she muttered "Stupid bastard getting between me and chocolate, think he would learn after 18 years of marriage".
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