4Alright Folks! Heres the next part! Okay, so remember how before I mentioned I wouldn't force you to review? yes? Well, times have changed folks lol Come on, just drop me a note I'm begging you! I guess I can't force you, but just know that it would be greatly appreciated...(Even if its just to tell me why you didn't like it!)
Decisions, Decisions!
"Julie!"
The voice was no longer concerned, surprisingly it sounded quite angry. Deveelyn stirred in her bed, her body aching wand she peeled an eye open to look at her cousin, the cause of all this pain. "Julie?" She said questioningly, "Who's that?"
Tina looked at her wide eyed. "Did you hit your head? You are Julie!" She shouted at her.
Deveelyn gasped and jumped up to stand looking down at her own clothes, she was no longer wearing her school robes, and instead she was wearing her pajamas. "Deveelyn….no, I'm Julie. And you're my sister, Tina." She said, as if reminding herself as she looked around the room. "Oh Tina! What an amazing dream I had! I was with Remus, Remus Lupin!" She said and sighed contentedly.
"I know." Said Tina, perhaps a tad bit bitterly and she held up a few papers to inspect. "I read your entire little escapade. I can't believe you actually went there!"
Julie gaped open mouthed at her sister, had this not been the same person who had been practically begging her to write again? Unbeknownst to her though, her sister wasn't mad that she had wrote again, but that she hadn't included her. She snatched the papers from her and she felt small tears sting her eyes. "I really was there…" she mumbled.
"Yes! We went over that already, and with no regard for consequences. Honestly! An orphaned half-blood? Did you not think for one moment to include anyone else in your family? Not one person sprang into your mind when you came up with that ridiculous back-story?" Tina said, screaming at her, eyes glaring at her filled with anger as she gestured about.
As realization dawned on Julie her face paled slightly, "You…you wanted to come?" Her voice was soft, and apologetic, voicing everything she had left unsaid; the fact that she had not included her sister, the one who perhaps wasn't the greatest of role models, but who had always been there for her.
Tina merely nodded and they both sat down on the edge of the bed, regarding one another slowly. "I want to come with you."
Julie nodded in agreement, "You could be my cousin, my mother's sister's daughter, making you a pureblood. A year older than me of course, but which house?" She said her eyes glazed over as it was clear she was somewhere else entirely.
Tina seemed to be in more or less the same state as her younger sister. "Why Gryffindor of course…" She said suddenly not sounding so sure of herself. "But I'm not exactly the bravest am I? Dear me, I don't know." She paused and there was a long, but companionable silence about the room as they thought. "I know Julie! You can right it! You can right about me getting sorted, it would be perfect!"
"You're right, and then we can see for sure if I really can pull you in or not. But what is your name?"
"Tanya Bledstone, my father was Robin Bledstone and my mother Avageline Blanche, your mother's sister." She said matter-of-factly as though she wasn't just suddenly making this information but as if it had always simply been that way.
"Good, good." Now listen, I won't be present at the Sorting, as I will only be 9 and a half, and my parents still alive. So I haven't the slightest clue what will happen once I start. Prepare yourself for anything." Julie said, and not waiting for a response for she already knew what it would be she pulled herself up from the bed and sat at her desk. Automatically grabbing her pencil and with a deep breath she began to write.
This time was different, as the words began to flow out of her she felt the now familiar shift taking place, but she didn't find herself suddenly walking down the halls. No, now she was merely an observer watching from up above, as though she was a ghost. Her eyes focused on a familiar figure she recognized as her older sister, but who has now a small little eleven year old girl.
Tanya Bledstone found herself amongst a throng of other first-year students. She was nervous and excited at the same time to finally be attending Hogwarts. Her smooth auburn hair was pulled back into a braid that extended just past her waist, and her brown eyes watched intently, taking in everything around her.
She found the Headmasters speech unbearably boring, and so admired the students that filled up the for house tables as she waited for the Sorting to begin and her name to be called. She was completely oblivious to the young witch and wizard who stared at her intently with identical blue eyes from behind.
Then, the names began and her whole body tensed and she was extremely impatient. Thankfully, her name started with a B so it wasn't too long of a wait.
"Bledstone, Tanya"
McGonagall's voice rang out and she sprang forward to have the hat placed on her head, all thoughts seemed non-existent, the truth being that she had no preference of house. "Hmmm, interesting…" Said a voice, "Loyal, quick-witted…and very cunning ahh yes it is quite obvious." She was about to ask what was obvious but was interrupted.
"SLYTHERIN!"
The Slytherin erupted with cheer, some students banging the table as she made her way over quite proudly. She zoned out for most of the rest of the Sorting, but one name caught her attention and she turned to look.
"Devins, Erinvale." The name was called and a young girl was given a reassuring squeeze of her hand by her twin before she marched up to the hat, which after a moment of silence was followed by a loud.
"SLYTHERIN!"
The cheer erupted again, and the timid girl rushed over to the table and strong beside Tanya, but something stopped her from sitting. It didn't take a genius to figure out that she was afraid her brother wouldn't join her here.
"Devins, Rustcrat."
The Sorting Hat barely had the time to touch his head fully before it announced its decision.
"SLYTHERIN!"
Tanya watched as Erinvale tightly embraced her brother, and she found herself cheering at the sibling's reunion. And, at that moment the three of them caught each others eye, and that was all it took for them to know that the correct decision had been made. The three spent the rest of the feast together, making fast friends. Tanya could easily see just how close the brother and sister were, they seemed even to be two parts of the same person. Frequently finishing one another sentences, and not even needing to voice their thoughts to convey something to one another. Identical twins they definitely were, and though Erinvale, or Rinny as she preferred, looked feminine, she shared her brothers ice blue eyes and long flowing black hair, where as her brother Rustcrat, who Tanya quickly learned preferred Rusty, hair was short and neatly cut.
On the way down to their dungeon dorm, they began to gossip about a few of the other students, it seemed a few purebloods had broken tradition and entered into both the Gryfiindor and Hufflepuff house. And, it didn't take long for them to decide that by the end of this year, they would prove there worth as Slytherins and as much more then simple first-years.
Julie found this, transition, much more pleasing, it was simply like a chapter in a story had been finished, and so she found herself floating away from the trio of friends back into her own body and bedroom. She turned to find Tina, who had apparently not had such an easy time groaning and lying on her stomach on the floor. She regarded her for a long moment before timdly voicing her thought, "Slytherin?" She said, voice barely audible.
Tina groaned again and turned to look at Julie and grinned wickedly, "I know, great, eh?" She said and rubbed the back of her head and sat up straight. "That was amazing, though coming back bloody hurt...No wonder you wanted to stay."
"How can you possibly be glad you're in Slytherin? Do you even understand what that means? That's the house that Voldemort was from!"
"Oh hush already, just cause I'm not Miss. Innocent doesn't mean I'm going to become a Death Eater. Lighten up already. So when do you fancy we should go back?"
Julie sighed and blinked back the frustration and confusion. "Tomorrow, I need some sleep. We shall go back the same day I left, its two weeks before the final Quidditch match, so you know." Tina nodded and went back to her own room, still grinning like a fool and Julie curled up in her own bed, some how though, she found it wasn't quite the same comfort as the bed in her dorm was.