Hey, Kid (Jake)

[Cassiopeia Irene di'Angelo]

Cassie hummed happily as she left the candy store with little Lexi in tow. With Gabe running around like a chicken with his head cut off while they all prepared for Ana's arrival, she found herself spending more and more time with the young Metamorphagus. She found Lexi's animated personality fascinating. The little girl's father was of a very sarcastic mold, and her mother (God rest her soul) had been extremely quiet and reserved. It was interesting that Lexi could be so different. She chalked it up to the girl being a Metamorphagus. Lexi Cavaliere was just not capable of hiding her emotions.

Lexi, giggling, ran ahead of Cassie before she could stop the kid and right into a fellow pedestrian. Cassie jogged to catch up, smiling sheepishly at the person Lexi had attempted to plow over.

"I'm sorry about that; she's a little rambunctious. Apologize, Lexi," she scolded.

"Lexi's sowwy," the child mumbled.

[Jacob Micheal Lestrange]

Jake had decided that he would 'patrol' Hogsmeade for the Dragon's Fire. At least that's what he told Phineas. Truthfully he wanted to get away from that guy. It was so terrible listening to Phineas go on and on about how they'd kill Potter before Voldemort would die this time around. All the people he wanted to meet and kill including Mad-Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Ronald Weasley, Fred Weasley... The list goes on and on. He was sick of it, so he was walking through Hogsmeade.

Jake was simply walking, when suddenly out of no where a little kid comes running and knocks into him. Of course he doesn't fall over, but stumbles slightly. When a woman, who seemed a little old to be such a young kid's parent, and a little to young to be the kid's grandparent, at least appearance wise, told the little girl to apologize he smiled. The little girl apologized and Jake couldn't help but hop down to her height so he was squatting, giving her a smile.

"You are forgiven, Lexi, right?" Jake addressed the last part to the woman, before turning back to the little girl, "You are a cute young woman, little one."

[Cassiopeia Irene di'Angelo]

Lexi giggled happily, hair turning that pale pink it always did when she was happy. She pointed to herself.

"Alexis Cavaliere!" she said proudly then pointed at the boy. "Lexi's friend! Lexi's friend!"

Cassie couldn't help but smile. The child really was too cute, sometimes; it almost made up for her over-abundance of energy and fierce independent streak...almost. Not quite, though; Lexi was still far too energetic for her own good, and it just wasn't healthy for a four-year-old to run off like she did. (If only because Cassie wasn't as young as she'd once been and sometimes had a hard time keeping up with her.)

"She seems to have taken a shine to you," she laughed. "I really am sorry about that; I'm Cassiopeia di'Angelo. It's very nice to meet you."

[Jacob Micheal Lestrange]

"Whoa!" Jake said as the little girl's hair changed. He hadn't seen on of those since... since... ever. Though Jake met Teddy like once, he didn't see the boy's hair change. "That's wickedly cool." Jake couldn't help but love the little girl. Alexis Cavaliere... he knew that name! That was that one girl who played Quidditch! And to think he had a poster of her one his wall at one point, but that was because he had posters of almost all the girl Quidditch players.

"The pleasure's all mine," Jake said, "I'm selfish like that. My name's Jacob..." he looked down almost ashamedly, "Lestrange." He hated introducing himself. Everyone always seemed to hate him after it or love him. He would've changed his last name, but he didn't think about it the first few times and if he changed it now people would realize something was up.

[Cassiopeia Irene di'Angelo]

Lexi beamed, and her hair turned an even more vivid shade of pink. She liked it when people complimented her status as a Metamorphagus, since there were a lot of people that were freaked out by it. She was babysat by Curia-members because all of the other babysitters were scared off by her. She was a very pleasent child, though, Cassie noted.

"Grazie, new friend!" the little girl sing-songed.

Cassie's eyes widened briefly when he said his last name. Was he one of Bella's cousins through marriage? She hadn't thought she'd ever meet a Lestrange that wasn't wholly unpleasant.

"Lestrange," she murmured. "It has no bearing on you, but...my younger sister married into that family...Do you know Bella? Is she alright?"

Much as she clashed with Cissy and Bella, Cassie cared deeply for all of her sisters and worried about them.

[Jacob Micheal Lestrange]

Ah she knew Bellatrix, though not many people got away with calling her Bella. Voldemort, Roddy, and Narcissa are the only ones he knew of who called her Bella. Maybe this woman knew her better than most people, though the way she said it, made him believe there had been some bad blood between them. It wasn't hard for bad blood to come between someone and his dear mother.

"Yeah, I know her," Jake replied with a sigh, "She's like normal, crazy and a bit obsessed with You-Know-Who." He only said You-Know-Who because he wasn't sure when the taboo came upon the world with Voldemort's name, and it was better safe than sorry. He might as well get used to using the indirect form of name for him. Dark Lord was usually Death Eater talk and Voldemort was the Order mostly, and so You-Know-Who was what he had decided to choose without having a million death eaters chasing him for using the name.