Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter. If I did I prolly wouldn't be on the internet writing my ideas. No, unfortunately, Harry Potter does not belong to me but the oh-so talented J. K.Rowling. Let us all bow down to her -:bows:-
Charmed is not mine either, It belongs to the people at WB. I tried to get them to sell it to me but they won't accept my generous offer of $50. ;-) But Chris is definitely mine...but that's another story for another day :-)
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"Regular Talking."
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." -Ralph Hodgson
Chapter Eight
Reincarnation? HARDLY.
13thSummer
"So, how was you're second year at Hogwarts Harry?" Paige asked as she pulled to a stop in front of a traffic light. She looked at him in the passenger seat nervously. She hadn't really had time to bond with him as she had with Piper and Phoebe. He had been away at school, and Paige had nearly died when Piper asked her to pick him up. She was good with kids at her job at social services, but she was terrible with teenagers. Harry would be turning 13 in July, (Piper and Phoebe had already started planning the surprise party,) and then he would be a dreaded 'teenager.' She had a been a terrible teen herself, her teen years were the worst of her life. She figured she should get to know him now.
"It was ok. I had to fight off a basilisk to save my best friend's little sister and stop Lord Voldemort from coming back." Paige blinked at him.
"Oh. Well. Is that a normal occurrence at Hogwarts?" Harry grinned at her, and she felt butterflies in her stomach flutter. Was that a real smile? Did she really make him laugh? Or was he faking it? Or worse, making fun of her? Teenagers are so hard to read. Paige thought angrily.
"Yeah, pretty much. How have your powers been? Are they developing nicely?" Paige bit back a snicker. Using the word 'develop' made it sound like something so...so...puerile.
"Yeah. They're growing fine. I've gotten pretty good at orbing and calling things." Harry smiled at her again. I wish he would stop doing that! It's making me nervous! Do something nice Paige! Do something nice! Compliment him!
"You're very-erm-handsome!" Paige visibly smacked herself on the forehead, causing Harry to laugh. "God, it sounded like I was coming on to you!" she said, burying her face in her hands as they pulled to another red light. Harry laughed harder and said,
"Maybe, but it was a great way to break the ice." Paige giggled which only came out as muffled giggles to Harry. She looked up as Harry said,
"It worked a lot better than my development comment."
"That was just puerile!" Paige said, laughing with him now.
"Yeah, I thought it would work. But your coming on to me worked much better." Harry said, laughing as she turned red.
"It was so embarrassing!" she said, shaking her head. Then, "Crap!" Paige swore. "I just ran a red light. Damn it, a cop's on our tail." Paige pulled over and reached over to the glove compartment to get her registration. She rolled down the window and the cop's head poked in.
"Daryl!" Harry cheered. He opened the car door and ran around the front of the car to see his friend. "How are you?" Daryl smiled at Harry and hugged him saying,
"I'm fine! How are you? On your way home from school?" Harry nodded.
"Paige and I were just getting to know each other. Unfortunately, we didn't see the red light. We're really sorry Daryl is anyone hurt? You're not going to tell Piper, or give us a ticket are you?" Paige had to hand it to the kid, he sure knew how to talk his way out of a ticket.
"No, no one was hurt, thankfully. I'm not going to tell Piper, although I'm not too sure about the ticket part though.." Daryl looked skeptically at Harry.
"Aw come on Daryl! We didn't mean it! Couldn't you just give us a warning? That's not a busy intersection!" Daryl studied Harry for a moment before sighing and saying,
"You owe me. Big time. Hi Paige." he waved to Paige, who was still in the car. She waved back. She didn't know him too well either, at least, definitely not enough to get out of paying a ticket.
Hi! Daryl." Paige ended lamely as he walked away. Harry walked back to the car and got in grinning.
"I'm useful to have around." with a corky grin of her own Paige added,
"And not just for your looks."
"I'M HOME!" Harry hollered as he entered the Manor. Paige followed him and hung her coat on the rack. She poked him in the back and said,
"If you promise not to tell Piper, watch this k?" Harry nodded and Paige took a deep breath and said, "Suitcase!" nothing happened for a moment. Harry snickered and said,
"Try 'trunk.'" Paige sneered at Harry and said,
"Fine then. Trunk." a moment later Harry's trunk formed in blue orbs in front of them. Harry nodded and said,
"Impressive. But-wait. Do you smell that?" they both paused and sniffed the air, then together-
"Piper's cookies!"
"I SO CALLED IT!"
"NO WAY SCARBOY I'M THERE FIRST!" the two went running into the kitchen, knocking into each other and knocking things off shelves. They went slamming into the kitchen, tumbling into the island. The duo giggled and grabbed some cookies. They walked of the kitchen, both holding a cookie in each hand.
"SURPRISE!" Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Chelsea all yelled together. Paige and Harry jumped backwards as Chelsea came running forward and hugged Harry.
"Welcome home Harry!" Chelsea said excitedly, drawing back and grinning at him.
"Chelsea-you've got braces! Wow you guys this is awesome!" Harry hugged Chelsea again, picked her up and spinning her around.
"Awwww. I hope I'm not interrupting any big reunion." Harry's eyes narrowed at the demon standing behind the group.
"DUCK!" Harry pulled Chelsea to the ground and an energy ball shattered the plant behind their head. Harry and Chelsea struggled to their feet and Harry flung out his arm, sending the demon crashing into a wall. Chelsea opened her hand and conjured an athame, and flung it at the demon. It hit him in the shoulder and he looked up, staring at her. She froze. The demon conjured a fire ball and threw it at them but suddenly someone with black curls came running forward.
"Harry!" Gabby yelled. She stopped, the fire ball hitting her firmly on the back. Her eyes locked with Harry's and in an instant Harry knew it was too late. Life left her eyes, and she fell to the ground. Harry and Chelsea dropped to their knees and he lifted his hands to her chest, trying to heal her. Tears streamed down Chelsea's face as she pulled Gabby's head into her lap and held her, rocking back and forth slowly.
The two were unaware of the Sisters killing the demon, or the group coming to kneel down next to them, or of Leo trying to heal Gabby. Piper pulled Harry into a hug as he stared down at his best friend, who only moments before had been all too happy to see him. Life went on mute, and time slowed down.
The next few days would be a blur for Harry. All he kept seeing was Gabby's life leaving through her eyes, her body going limb, and falling down to the ground in her arms. Her voice calling his name echoed around him, and he had terrible dreams of that moment.
The day of the funeral, a small knock rapped on his bedroom and Chelsea answered. Her eyes were red and she almost refused to look at him. They hadn't spoken since that day, and from what Harry had heard Piper whispering to her sisters, Chelsea had locked herself up in her room and refused to come out. She was indeed looking paler-skinnier-sickly. He sat on the edge of the bed, and looked up when she came in, but soon found himself unable to look at her either. The carpet pattern suddenly became far more fascinating, and he stared at his feet as he heard the door close softly. He saw her small feet in black flip flops round the corner of his bed, and the bed sunk a little as she sat next to him. They sat there together for a long moment, staring at their feet and any where but looking at each other or up. The only thing breaking the silence was Chelsea's soft sniffling.
She broke the stillness by wiping her eyes, and he looked up, finding her crying silently, but trying so desperately to stop herself. He frowned, suddenly his pity party seemed stupid. Gabby may have been one of his best friends, but Chelsea saw her everyday. They were probably closer than Gabby and Harry had been.
Harry reached out and took Chelsea's hand. She looked up, startled, not realizing he had noticed her, but as she looked into her eyes she started to sob. Harry patted her back awkwardly but if she noticed she didn't show it. She hugged him and after a moment Harry hugged her back.
A few moments later when Chelsea had composed herself she sighed, looking down at her hands.
"I heard that, you were sick. Piper said you wouldn't come out of your room.." Chelsea nodded.
"I kept trying to sleep-I just thought maybe if I woke up it would all just be a nightmare-but, I couldn't get to sleep. And every time I did fall asleep, I'd wake up screaming." she said quietly, looking at her hands again. "I don't think I can do this Harry. I can't bury my best friend." she said crying silently.
"You'll be fine. I promise. We can get through this together." Harry giving her an awkward smile. She smiled back at him.
"Thank you." Harry nodded and stood. Chelsea stood also and they walked out of the room. As They descended the stairs Chelsea took his hand. Harry jumped slightly but held her hand gently and they walked down the stairs together. Piper gave them a kind smile and ruffled Harry's hair and led them out to the car.
After the funeral, Harry, the Sisters, Chelsea and Leo walked around, cleaning up the church and grabbing Gabby's pictures from around the stations. They all headed for the door, but Harry stopped as he saw Chelsea walked slowly up to the close coffin. He walked up behind her and watched as she put her hand on the coffin.
"Be happy. And say hi to my parents for me." she whispered. Harry frowned and he took her wrist and said,
"Come on Chels." she allowed him to drag her away and they went home.
When Harry and Chelsea got home, Piper and Leo led them into the Living Room and sat them down.
"We wanted to talk to you. We don't want you to go off fighting demons. If you're fighting a demon I want you to get at least two of us so we can go with you." Leo explained. Piper took a deep breath.
"We also wanted to tell you..Leo and I, are pregnant." Harry's jaw dropped.
"Oh my gosh Piper that's awesome!" Chelsea said jumping up and hugging her. Piper smiled and thanked her.
"Ok, now, lunch is in five minutes, go sit down." Piper said. Harry and Chelsea rolled their eyes at each other and Harry muttered, "She's going to be a great mom."
Ok, there have been some questions and let me just say that right now, I dont support Ginny and Harry. I just dont so there wont be any H/G in my story! For further questions review and ill respond :)
thanks for being sooooo patient! its beeen months since i updated and i just want to thank everyone who reviewed! you kept my spirit going! i had some major writers block for a long time when i didnt write a single thing! but, i got though it and i hope this chapter is satisfactory. Obviously Harry's growing up, and the next chapter should be easier to write because Chris will be in it and i love chris hahaha
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