So I know this is a long time in coming but I hope people out there haven't given up on this story though I wouldn't blame anyone if they did.

On that note, I can't say I will be updating this nearly as often as my other stories but I will make every effort to write this one and finish it too.

Chapter – 3

Harry had to admit he looked dressed to kill in his dark brown leather jacket and skinny denims with top of class red and black sports shoes. Usually he was so poor at choosing outfits for himself so Hermione and Ginny had organized his wardrobe for him.

He had gotten his eyes fixed after the war so he didn't need the glasses anymore but he decided to add a black aviator sunglass to finish the look before he stepped out of his room in the quaint two storey house in Forks.

They had magically expanded the space so it wasn't as cluttered as it looked before they started inhabiting it.

Hermione greeted him at the kitchen where she'd propped a Styrofoam cup from which he could smell blood. He smirked at her attempt to bring some sort of normalcy to their routine and she smiled back at him.

"You know I really don't have the patience to drink out of a straw Hermione."

Hermione shot him a pointed look and said "Yes well, you better get used to it Harry."

Harry shrugged and eyed the sandwich she was eating with part disgust and part longing before he started to slowly sip the blood.

"Can you believe I'm actually exited about muggle school?"

"Yes" said Harry giving her an incredulous look, it wasn't at all a surprise that she'd want to study more.

"Oh cheer up Harry, atleast you're getting to see the person you're claiming is you're mate."

"He is my mate!" exclaimed Harry.

Hermione finished her sandwich and then took her plates to the sink not commenting further on the subject and Harry frowned.

"Just be cautious, they might consider you as a threat to their territory."

Harry grunted not at all pleased with the slow pace things were progressing, if it were up to him he'd have kidnapped Edward and taken him somewhere far away, buggered him silly until all he could think about was his…

"HARRY!"

Harry broke out his reverie and noticed an irate Hermione, "What?" he asked innocently.

"We have to leave, its time."

"Okay, how do we reach there? Can we apparate?"

"I don't know the co-ordinates or the place properly enough. We're going to have to walk."

"Hmm, I have a better idea."

Hermione narrowed her eyes at him in confusion, Harry retrieved his wand and cast a charm non verbally before he extended his hand to Hermione.

"What did you just do?"

"Oh come on Hermione, what's the fun in knowing?"

"Harry…"

"Don't you trust me?"

Hermione sighed, rolled her eyes and stepped closer to him. Only when she was close enough did Harry allow a mischievous smile to appear and before Hermione could protest or even think Harry hoisted her on his back and leapt out of one of the windows.

Hermione screamed as Harry laughed as they launched past the greenery and roads and houses of Forks.

Finally Harry landed neatly in a road and let Hermione down from his back.

Hermione was winded and she smacked him on the head before she laughed along with him.

"I'm going to get back at you for that Harry Potter! Mark my words!"

Harry just laughed and said "I don't see why you're complaining Hermione, atleast it was better than the time with buckbeak."

"Ugh Harry, you know I'm averse to flying."

Harry looked around and noticed the small building with the ominous board with the words "FORKS HIGH SCHOOL" and groaned.

"Can't believe I have to do school again…"

"Harry…" Hermione's voice held trepidation and Harry threw her a questioning look but her eyes were directed elsewhere.

Harry followed her gaze and caught sight of the five vampires glaring at them from where they were standing near their expensive cars. He didn't know how he didn't catch their scent before but he might have been a bit preoccupied with enjoying his new abilities.

Now that he saw him in real life one thought came unbidden to his mind, 'Edward is absolutely beautiful.'

Just as he'd thought it Edward's eyes widened.

Knowing that they'd be able to hear quite well from where they were standing Harry waved his hand and said "Hello everyone, I'm Harry Potter and this is my friend Hermione Granger."

Alice was the only one out of the five siblings who seemed thrilled by the fact that Harry had greeted them and waved back.

When she went forward though Jasper put an arm around her keeping her back, Alice pouted and turned to her mate reassuring him that it was alright before Jasper dropped his guard.

"I am Alice Cullen and this is Jasper and Rosalie Hale, this is Emmett and Edward Cullen."

Since it was clear that they were not going to move Harry cleared his throat and said "Nice to meet you guys, 'why am I feeling nervous now? Haven't I learned anything from Blaise?"

Hermione was smiling at Harry's flabbergasted look and saved him by saying "Harry, don't you think we should go to class?"

Harry blinked before he looked at her and said "Yeah, yeah class is fine."

Hermione held his hand as they walked towards the school and Harry looked back once more eyes narrowed on Edward before he let Hermione pull him away.

"Hermione, I want to be in his class, every class he's taking!"

"You're getting stalker-ish already Harry."

"Hermione, you do know I'm not actually here for sight seeing right?"

"I don't know about that, you seemed to be enjoying the sight very much this morning."

"Can't help it, he's gorgeous, I just want to.."

"Harry, spare me the details!"

"Fine, you're loss."

Meanwhile the Cullen brood were truly disconcerted by the appearance of two peculiar persons in their midst.

"Well, I don't think they pose any threat" Alice said merrily and Jasper sighed in fond exasperation while Rosalie snapped "Of course you don't think they're a threat, it was the same way with that human too!"

Edward cut them off by saying "He knew my name."

"Of course he knows your name Edward, I did introduce you."

"No, no" he turned to look at his adopted siblings, "He knew my name before you introduced me."

"I couldn't feel anything from him."

"Can you read his mind?" asked Alice.

"Yes."

"Maybe he heard local gossip about us" Alice theorized.

"Maybe…but that doesn't explain why Jasper's powers won't work on him."

"Everyone has to have their limitations Edward, maybe he's Jasper's."

Edward hadn't gotten the opportunity to talk to the new vampire up until English class where Alice sat close to Harry Potter.

"Hello again Harry"

"Hai Alice!" said Harry with a bit of awkwardness in his voice which Edward found amusing, it was almost like he was still in touch with his humanity and didn't have to fake it so much. He idly wondered how old Harry Potter must be in vampiric years.

"So did you transfer from England here?"

"Something like that.."

Edward started to probe Harry's mind wanting to know why the vampire had chosen to come to Forks when he experienced the most peculiar feeling, he couldn't read Harry's mind at all, he concentrated more and pushed at the barrier he could feel literally when he felt a great push and he was promptly shoved out of Harry's mind.

He was breathing heavily and for once it was not something he was faking to pretend to be human and when he looked up Harry was glaring at him with his cobalt blue eyes which didn't fully mask the red hue underneath the colored lenses.

A minute went by where everything seemed frozen in time and Edward looked around noticing that everyone in the room had freezed at what they were doing mid step, like time itself had halted and then he could not contain his anxiety when the vampire stepped close to him, his eyes still having that menacing edge.

"What have you done to them?" asked Edward worried now that even Alice seemed to be affected. Everyone in the class room except him and Harry Potter were unmoving.

The vampire refused to answer and Edward demanded more loudly "What have you done?"

Harry was furious beyond belief, he thought he was past the time when people could just get into his mind and mess it up, that anyone could come close to doing legilimens on him and he hadn't even been aware of it made him act without a thought to the consequences.

Now his mate was looking at him in apprehension but Harry couldn't find it in himself to care, "How did you learn to do it?"

Edward growled at the vampire and to think Alice had pegged him as harmless! "You release them now or!"

"Or what? I could just freeze your ass along with these lot and burn you right here and no one…no one will know. Don't even think of moving!" snarled Harry.

Edward blinked wondering why he felt a trickle of fear for this vampire, he'd met a fair few in his life and yet opposing this vampire felt downright suicidal to him.

"Vampires have powers, as you demonstrated just now….yours is suspending people in time, mine is mind reading."

"You're bullshitting me! Are you lying to me?" Harry was outright shouting now and Edward felt ashamed that he wanted to cower in fear at what the vampire might do to him if he moved even a muscle. If worse comes to worse he could make a run for it or call Rosalie and the others but what if they were frozen too.

"ANSWER ME!" screeched Harry and the board behind him cracked.

"I'm not lying!" declared Edward, "I'm not, and I've been able to read minds ever since I was turned into a vampire."

Harry considered his mate for a moment wondering if he was lying or not, what if he was training under some wizard? How could he have powers, he wasn't magic. Only magical vampires had powers, it was an irrefutable theory.

Harry stalled for a minute wondering whether or not to use legilimens himself that would teach his mate to not go digging into his mind again. However, Edward's scent was coming at him in waves and Harry groaned low in his throat before he stepped back and away. Once he was able to get himself under control again he turned to Edward and said "Don't ever try to read my mind again, I won't be as forgiving the next time."

In a split second the cracked board repaired itself and all the others who were previously frozen proceeded on as if nothing had happened at all.

Alice turned to look at him with a small smile saying "I think having them here will be wonderful, I should invite him to our home."

Edward who was still reeling from it all protested trying to warn Alice but she'd already opened her big mouth and invited Harry for dinner in the evening.

Edward bought his hand up to ruffle his hair in a very human gesture when he heard Harry accepting smirking right at Edward who scowled and turned away, weary and unsettled and not liking it one bit.

Edward remained on the edge for most part of the day because everywhere he went Harry Potter was always behind him and not only did Alice like him the entire school seemed to be taken to Harry Potter. If Edward had to hear one more thought of 'Oh gosh, his accent' Look at his blue eyes' 'He looks better than all the Cullen's' 'I am so going to ask him out', he was going to scream.

Edward couldn't understand, when they'd first come to Forks all the humans were alarmed of them whether they were attracted to them or not. It took weeks for one human girl to come and ask him out. His family, including him had never dealt with popularity well, they isolated themselves from the humans and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible but Harry Potter took to all the attention like duck to water. He was charming, polite, engaging and funny and by the end of the day only Edward seemed to think ill of him, even the teachers liked him even if Potter was shit at algebra.

He wished Bella was here today, atleast she would take his side unfailingly.

Lunch came and Harry and his other friend sat down together at the farthest corner from him and his siblings and they seemed to be having a heated debate but no matter how hard he concentrated he wasn't able to hear them.

And what was more Harry Potter seemed to be eating something or more precisely a lollipop, how could vampires eat anything? Maybe he wasn't a vampire at all; maybe he was some other supernatural being that they didn't know existed.

"Alice, can you hear them talking?" asked Edward, urgency in his tone.

Alice and the rest of them turned to him and Edward tilted his head to indicate the vampire and his friend. To his dismay though when Edward turned he saw the vampire staring right at him from where he was sucking on his candy.

Harry waved at them and turned back to his friend, "Oh don't start Hermione, algebra is shit!" And now he heard what they were talking clearly, Edward narrowed his eyes wondering what sort of creature Harry Potter really was.

His friend sounded exasperated with him and they went on to argue about something else.

"Aww, they are a cute couple."

"She's not his girlfriend" retorted Edward surprised with the vehemence in his voice.

"You read his mind and found that out then?" asked Rosalie with a hint of bitterness in his voice.

Edward didn't actually know whether they were a couple or not but he didn't feel the need to deny his statement from earlier so he let Rosalie assume.

By the end of the day Edward was tense as a bowstring as he felt eyes boring into him for the rest of the day and he couldn't wait to escape the class and warn his family and the pack so they could mount a good defense on the new vampire. He didn't believe for one second that the vampire would resist the temptation of human blood.

At the end of the day both Harry Potter and his friend Hermione came to meet them, Edward found Harry standing close to Emmett and Alice while Rosalie and Jasper were behind them looking on with open distrust.

Edward rushed forward as fast as he could with the humans surrounding him and gave Harry a loathsome glare.

Harry raised his hands up in a defensive gesture, "Look guys, I think you all know by now that I'm a vampire, I only want to tell you guys that I'm not here to harm anyone and that I'd really like it if we could be friends."

"Of course Harry, it's very exiting to meet someone else of our kind who's not gone totally insane and rogue." said Alice while the other Cullen's remained silent.

"I hope you will come to our home today…" said Alice as the others groaned audibly at Alice's naivety.

Hermione interrupted saying "Uhmm, we'd love to Alice but we have somewhere else to be today, you could come to our house this weekend."

Harry looked at Hermione suspiciously, how were they going to hide all the magic in the house exactly? And they did not anywhere to go to today.

"Alright, it's a deal then."

Hermione smiled and Harry nodded along not knowing what Hermione was planning.

Edward was still glaring at him though so Harry decided to risk it, 'I'm sorry for being such a git today, I just really don't like anyone being privy to my thoughts.'

Edward's eyes widened for the second time that day and he questioned 'What are you really? You're not a vampire, I've never met a vampire who possessed these many powers, not even the ones in Volturi.'

'All in good time Edward.'

Harry never got a chance to hear Edward's reply as Hermione grabbed his arm and the mental link disappeared.

They said goodbye and parted, he had already relayed what had happened in English class today and Hermione had berated him for the better part of lunch about how irresponsible and brash he was being.

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