Beginning to See the Light [open]

[Gabriel Michael Cavaliere]

Gabe nodded thoughtfully, glancing over at Jared. The mute was much better at understanding things like this; his inability to speak spells had, through necessity, made him a bit of a magical genius. Jared was processing the information, probably compiling a list of objects that could have that effect. Gabe would ask him what he'd come up with later.

"Alright. As long as we know what we're dealing with...kind of," he mumbled.

"We're cousins," Al spoke up in response to Harry's speculations. "And Gabe saved Jared's ass when that bastard slit his throat. He's a good soldier...even if he's line for a worst-father-of-the-year award."

"Hey! Uncalled for!" Gabe protested. "Eliza's taking care of Lexi and Julius! They love their aunt!"

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie stayed under the brush, she didn't blend in with any of the greenery but she kind of matched the dirt so she hoped she'd be safe. She'd gotten so nervous and didn't know how to explain any of it. She'd paniced and ran away with her tail between her legs. How could she have been so stupid not to think Teddy was going to find out about her having a boyfriend in this time period. She just didn't think it was going to happen this way. Why hadn't she said something about it? Flashes of those memories from when she was a child kept flashing in her mind. Her father smacking her for not doing all the dishes, her mother smacking her for not cleaning her room properly. She was five, she hadn't known any better.

[Harrison "Harry" Prewett]

Eliza? Did Gabe just say Eliza? Harry's mind couldn't help but think back to when she died. Her, laying there, on the verge of death, and him there, trying to cheer her up with the memories of all their times together. How Ron was banished from teaching her English, because he taught her a few words she was better off with not knowing, and the many times the two had fought together against Voldemort. Gabe... Harry remembered this boy's face. It was... it was the boy in Eliza's picture she had. Lexi and Julius were with his old friend. Lexi and Julius. He recognized them too. However, Harry had to try to banish these memories. He would never be able see the Eliza he knew and grew up with again. Sure the one in this time was just as he remembered her, but it couldn't be the same. How could he explain that he knew her and shared all these experiences with her and was her friend without blowing their cover?

"Eliza?" Harry muttered, before clearing his throat, and speaking louder, trying to cover up all these mixed feelings that were plaguing him, though, probably unsuccessful, "I mean, I didn't know you were related to her. Sorry, I probably sound like an idiot right now. It doesn't really matter if you are; I just didn't realize it."

Teddy was running as fast as he could, but he couldn't run for long before he was huffing and puffing quite a bit. He hated running. And it was really weird because he could walk, jog, work out and a lot of other activities with moving, without too much problem, but running seemed to tire him out really quickly. Teddy slowed to a walk. Knowing Sophie she was probably hiding, and not running anymore.

"Sophie! You shouldn't run off like that!" Teddy shouted hoping she heard. Hopefully, the natives didn't sneak up on them or something. It wouldn't be good if they were captured and perhaps even killed.

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie had changed back. She had started to go back the way she came, or atleast, the way she thought was the way she came from. She wasn't really sure actually. She looked around at the sound of movement and instantly pulled out her wand. She was freaking out now, who had followed her? She was a great runner, she could run three miles in under twenty minutes and was working on running a marathon. She hoped it was someone she knew.

"Teddy?" she asked the open air, "Teddy is that you? If it is I'm really scared right now and I don't know which way is which it all looks the same and I don't know where to go." she sat down. Basic rule when you got lost, stay where you are so they can find you. Whomever they were, she hoped it was someone she knew. She rocked back and forth trying to calm down, she was worried, scared and regretting running off. She just didn't know how to face her brother...

[Gabriel Michael Cavaliere]

Why had he reacted like that to the mention of Eliza? This was just odd... Gabe hadn't even known that Eliza knew a Harry besides her friend, Harry Potter. Ah, Potter...Eliza told Lexi and Julius a lot of stories about him. It made Gabe nervous; he didn't want the twins to get their hopes up about that boy and then have him fail. He knew firsthand what that felt like. It was probably a by-product of his own childhood, but Gabe also worried that everyone was placing too many expectations on a kid. What of Potter cracked under the pressure....? That couldn't end well.

He winced at the mention of his relation to Eliza. He loved Eliza as a sister, really he did, but talking about things like this made him think about Brielle. He tried really hard to not think about her.

"I....I was engaged to her older sister," he explained. "Her niece and nephew are my children. Eliza's kind of...stepped into the role of mother for those two. She'll be a great wife and mother one day. She's helped Lexi, Julius and I a lot."

[Harrison "Harry" Prewett]

"She will," Harry replied before realizing the implications of that, if they had any suspicions about all of the transfers and their real origin being the future, "I-I meant to say that I bet she will. I-I met her before, and heard a lot of stories about her in America about her experiences in East Berlin; she's a-a hero sort of figure where I lived before." Why the hell was he being such an idiot? Somethings never changed, and he wasn't good at telling lies about those he cared about because when it came to them, he had a lot of emotion regarding them and he wasn't good at controlling those sorts of emotions.

"Yeah!" Teddy called back, "Just stay put, I'm coming!" Teddy began to run again. It really was the bane of his existence. He hated it so much, but he ran towards where he had heard her voice come from. Soon he came upon her and smiled widely. "So explain this whole boyfriend thing. I still have to decided whether or not to hate this Gabe guy or not."

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie was covering her head afraid if something fell or anything really. She was just scared. She was breathing shakily, she kept hearing things which didn't help. She almost screamed when Teddy came into the clearing because she hadn't expected him to be so close. She looked up and started to cry. She was still scared. She stood up and hugged him.

"Thank god you found me, we need to get back and I don't know where to go.." she wiped her face off. "Well, um, his daughter ran into, litterally crashed into me, out side of Honeydukes and Gabe and I started talking. His son fell asleep in my lap. There's a lot to explain... it started when he asked me to go see Brielle's grave, I didn't want to barge in, but Lexi wanted me to go so I went and he asked me if I'd like to go out sometime and then taa-daa, boyfriend. If you have to yell or something please just write it down, you know how I feel about yelling.."

[Gabriel Michael Cavaliere]

"Ah, it's fine. Slip of the tongue and all that, right?" Gabe asked good-naturedly. "Yeah, a few Americans met Eliza during the German Reunification and spread stories about her when they got home. She was pretty pissed about it."

Mm-HMM. Not. An. American. LIAR. He'd known, of course, but he wouldn't call his guy out on it. At least not right now. There was a time and place for everything (at least Gabe's mother insisted that there was), and now was not the time or the place to question Harry Prewett (if that was actually his name) about his dubious land (or time) of origin.

[Harrison "Harry" Prewett]

In Harry's mind if one could read it, they would hear just a whole line of curse words as he scolded himself. He was normally not this stupid. But the mention of Eliza... it just through him off. He still couldn't trust this guy, even if for some reason Sophie was called his girlfriend and he's cousins to one of his past friends. He was still untrustworthy and didn't earn Harry's trust. Even family couldn't be trusted, unless they earned the trust. It took him a long time to trust Draco Malfoy after he switch sides, years even, and only after Harry had no more friends, did Draco actually earn his trust.

"I understand why she would be pissed about it," Harry replied trying to regain his confidence and stop coming up with conspiracy theories, "I mean, everyone knowing your name, for something you only did because it was the right thing to do, is terrible.... Not.... not that I would know how it feels to be famous, just how I would think if as." He was such a liar. He was not doing very well right now. He really needed to step it up.

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie was covering her head afraid if something fell or anything really. She was just scared. She was breathing shakily, she kept hearing things which didn't help. She almost screamed when Teddy came into the clearing because she hadn't expected him to be so close. She looked up and started to cry. She was still scared. She stood up and hugged him.

"Thank god you found me, we need to get back and I don't know where to go.." she wiped her face off. "Well, um, his daughter ran into, litterally crashed into me, out side of Honeydukes and Gabe and I started talking. His son fell asleep in my lap. There's a lot to explain... it started when he asked me to go see Brielle's grave, I didn't want to barge in, but Lexi wanted me to go so I went and he asked me if I'd like to go out sometime and then taa-daa, boyfriend. If you have to yell or something please just write it down, you know how I feel about yelling."

[Theodore "Teddy" Lupin]

"I dunno where to go either..." Teddy said looking around seeing pretty much just trees and having not kept track of which ways he had gone.

"My little sister has a boyfriend!" Teddy said with almost a squeal like a fangirl would do if they met a celebrity they really love, before laughing, "I'm not mad! As long as that guy doesn't hurt my precious little baby sister. If he does, I'll kill him."

((Sorry I forgot to add Teddy's part on my last post D: ))

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

"Why didn't you have someone give you a piece of string or something? Now were lost, in the woods, we could die out here." Sophie crossed her arms.

"Okay squealing is just as bad!" she felt like her eardrums had burst. It was so loud, "If were lucky, they'll have heard that and can come find us. He's not going to hurt me, I my end up breaking his heart anyway... I really don't know how I'm going to tell him I'm not from this time." She bit her finger nail, she hadn't thought that far yet.

[Theodore "Teddy" Lupin]

"Sorry I was more worried about my baby sister running off!" Teddy said throwing his hands up in the air a bit over-dramatically.

"Sorry!" Teddy apologized with a pouting face, "It's just so exciting..." Teddy then returned to his slightly serious normal self. "He'll get over it, if you really want to. And I bet we'll have a choice whether to go back to our time or not, and if you really do like him enough, you could stay. I think that I would probably stay if given the choice. Our future wasn't too great..." Everyone knew, orphaned, fighting since they were old enough to. That one time he snuck out and saw a battle, and his favorite professor die, Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron, and Aunt Ginny dying. Loosing so many people... it wasn't the sort of future he wanted at least.

((To explain the place that they are going to; They are a community like Hogsmeade and Hogwarts that is completely isolated, any of those who come too close will be taken prisoner and will be questioned. If released, their memory will be wiped in order to be completely unknown and stay isolated. No one leaves with memories of the place besides one person, who set up all of this stuff...))

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie shook her head, "And they say I'm the weird one." she started to pace thinking. Maybe she could sniff everyone out? She did train for a while with the police and all of their dogs had to be trackers. It was the reason they were there.

"I'll need to go back. I don't want there to be two of me out there. If one dies, what happens to the other? If the young me dies after running away this me would have never existed. Then you'd never know me. And I'd die with the memory of a bad life. Then, I'd end up a ghost. Oh the side effects..." she smacked herself in the forhead several times. "It may not have been great, but it was a whole hell of a lot better then the life I'd been living. Plus Gran made me eat about three times my weight in food for every meal."

((That... sucks... man, that'd be horrible. Seeing this awesome place and then getting your memory wiped because you found it. I'd probably cry once I realised there was a part of my trip missing..))

[Theodore "Teddy" Lupin]

"Who says you're the weird one? I'll teach them a thing or two about us Lupin kids," Teddy laughed, knowing that he was a weird person, who always seemed to be different than some of the others, but that was because he always wanted to stick out. He had no life parents, and he had Gran and Uncle Harry, which meant that he was always thought of second handedly, which he understood quite well, because it was either pay attention to him or plan the next battle. He didn't want them to not plan enough for the next battle or they would die on him faster than they already were.

"I suppose... I don't want to go back to the same time we had. The war was too long and bloody, too many died, so everything would never be well until we all died out and the next generation would be normal and peaceful again. If we could make our time not the same as before, maybe the future would be something worth returning too," Teddy sighed. He hated the future he was from. He was parentless, and was in the middle of a war. It was a terrible time to grow up in. "Maybe if you two really hit it off, then perhaps he might wait for you in the future..."

It didn't take long before Teddy heard something nearby. He looked towards where he had heard the sound, but nothing was there. Then it came from the other way, then from another direction. He pulled out his wand, but before he knew it, a spell had come towards him, a red jet, and hit him squarely in the chest. He tumbled to the ground. He had been stunned by someone. Another jet of light came from the shadows and headed right for Sophie.

Harry heard something despite being separated by Teddy and Sophie. It happened to their group as well, not knowing Teddy and Sophie were as well, however, Harry was quicker, and pulled his wand out the instant he heard the people moving around.

"What the hell is going on?" Harry said, before sending a stunning spell where he heard the footsteps stop, despite more going on behind him. The spell hit the tree, but someone there had jumped out of the way, and Harry saw them. He cast a shield charm, which defended himself from someone attacking him from the back, knowing the strategy, as he and his people used guerilla tactics like this before.

((I had explained that, just because I had planned for this to happen soon-ish))