Among The Mischief

Chapter Twelve-TWINS?!?!

Chapter song- Figure it out by Royal Blood

"I-I erm I was in the room of requirement with Draco to practise the Patronus charm and start a potions project." I stuttered, in hope that the fact we were doing work would make him less angry. "No one goes to the room of requirement to study Jules, don't bullshit me! You've been gone for hours, it's 1 am!" He seethed taking another step closer to me. He towered over me, it was quite menacing. What's it got to do with him? He doesn't own me. "Well all we did was study and then I fell asleep. That was it, end of story." I shouted, throwing my arms in the air becoming more and more frustrated with Fred's behaviour. "Bullshit!" He growled pacing around the room. "Fred it has nothing to do with you, I can be friends with whoever I want." I barked. He stopped pacing and marched over to me. His demeanour completely changed, causing me to stumble backwards, I was cornered. He placed his fists on the walls beside my shoulders and leaned in. "He isn't just a friend, I see the way he looks at you, Jules. He's just trying to collect you, like his own private plaything." He whispered, a smirk on his face. I stared up into Fred's eyes, I didn't know how to respond. Was he right? Or was he just saying that? I froze, unable to move. "Fred, what has gotten into you?" I sigh. "This isn't you."

Suddenly the Common room door swung open, revealing a rather furious looking Draco. "Get your filthy hands off her!" He growled raising his wand at Fred. Fred laughed, pushing off the wall and backing away from me but moving towards Draco. "How the hell did you get in here Malfoy?" Fred questioned. Draco looked through Fred to me, he gave me a look as if to ask if I was okay, I nodded. "I had a first-year tell me the other day, for emergency purposes." He snarled. Fred had retrieved his wand and was now holding it to Draco. "Boys stop it!" I cried finally being able to move. Footsteps came from the stairs to the boy's dorms. George, Ron and Harry appeared at the bottom of the stairs. George moved towards Fred "come on Freddie leave it alone." He spoke in an effort to calm Fred. Ron jogged over to me embracing me in a hug and walking me towards the girl's corridor. "I think you should go Malfoy." Harry spoke gently trying to defuse the tension, "Keep an eye on her for me." Draco replied before leaving the room.

"Are you okay?" Ron asked quietly. "I will be, I just think I need to spend some time away from both of them and focus on school and settling in properly," I replied. "Yeah, I get you, well if there's anything you need you know where to find me." He smiled, "good night Jules, sleep well." He wandered sleepily off to the boy's dorm. "Good night Ron." And with that, I got into bed and forced the thoughts of what just happened to the back of my mind.

~The next day at breakfast~

"So basically you're saying there fighting over you like dogs." Cedric gasped. "Pretty much mate," Ron replied for me. Ron asked Cedric to sit with us this morning as he knows how close we are, I was very grateful to have all my friends around me this morning. "That's just barbaric." Hermione intervened, looking up from the charms book she was reading. "They're teenage boys Mione what did you expect?" Ginny laughed. "I thought Draco would have a little bit of grace about it." Hermione laughed. Everyone looked over at the Slytherin table, Draco had his head down ignoring everyone around him. He must have felt all of our eyes on him as he looked straight at us. The group pretended to be admiring something outside the window. He slammed his hand on the table and marched towards the exit of the great hall. Just as he reached the exit a rather depressed looking Fred stalked around the corner bumping straight into the blonde Slytherin boy. Draco stood his ground but Fred was clearly in no mood to fight so apologised and continued towards the Gryffindor table and his brother. Malfoy sniggered and stormed off.

I've been here a week and all of this has happened, I didn't realise how intense some people were. Whilst deep in thought I felt a comforting arm wrap around my shoulder and the familiar smell of wood and vanilla filled my lungs. Harry. His presence alone made me feel so much better, almost as if I was complete. Harry and I had always had such a strong bond for the little time we have known each other. He was like a home away from home. "Let's ditch this joint," he whispered grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the hall. We made our way down to the lake.

"Talk to me." he smiled taking a seat under a tree by the lake. Everyone was probably in a class by now so there was no one around. I sat beside him, pulling my knees up to my chest. "Where do I start Harry?" I questioned. "You're confused about what you want or what you're doing I can feel it," he stated. "You feel it?" I asked turning to face him. "Yes it's so strange, last night in the common room, George and I woke up at the same time, I felt distress and fear and George could feel Fred's anger. It's like we have some sort of connection Jules. Can you feel it?" He responded, taking my hand in his. "I felt your pain and envy when we saw Ginny and Dean, I also felt proud when I was put into Gryffindor but it was someone else's emotion," I confirmed. Our eyes met and it clicked. "You don't think, wait when is your birthday again?" he asked. "The 31st of July 1980 how do you not know this by now, we have the same birthday." I laughed. we both gasped, eyes wide. "Your hair is naturally ginger, you look like me but we aren't identical, you have green eyes. It makes sense!" he cried excitedly springing to his feet and pacing back and forth. He was right. "So this means we are twins?!" I gasped jumping up and grabbing onto his shoulders. "Apparently so. We need to speak to Remus and Sirius right now," he spoke before sprinting towards the castle. "HARRY WAIT!" I laughed chasing after him. "I have a real family Jules, I have you!" he screamed punching the air as we ran as fast as our legs would take us to my dad's office. Luckily when we reached the classroom Dad didn't have a class so we ran straight to the office at the top of the stairs. We burst through the door huffing and puffing. "We are twins!" we both screeched at the same time. Remus laughed, "Sirius and I were wondering how long it would take for you two to figure it out." Harry and I practically jumped into each other's arms. "I have a family." he sobbed into my hair. I HAVE A BROTHER! MY PARENTS WERE JAMES AND LILY POTTER! I couldn't be happier, I feel like a missing piece of me has finally been filled. Releasing Harry from the embrace we both turned to face Dad, "Explain," I demanded. "Alright, yes you are twins, Lily and James are your biological parents. Sirius and I are your Godparents, that is why you Jules stayed with us. Harry had to be sent to his Aunties in order to protect him. the prophecy only mentioned a one-year-old boy, so Sirius and I took you into protection Jules, we hid you from most of the wizarding world and made you our own. you are by blood a Potter but you will always be our daughter." he broke down midway through his speech, the memory of losing James and Lily still broke his heart and now mine too.  He continued anyway "Sirius was accused of giving up your parents but the ministry found our old friend Peter Pettigrew just in time for him to confess. However, Pettigrew escaped by turning into a rat before being arrested." he explained. Wow, this is a lot to take in. After a long chat with my dad, it was lunch and we had missed most classes so he gave us the rest of the day off. We ran to the great hall to tell everyone the news. we burst into the hall, and straight to our friends. "We are twins!" we both screamed in sync. Gasps were heard all around the room.  "You owe me a butterbeer, Seamus!" Ron shouted happily across the table. We explained the entire story to the group and they were just as shocked as us. Lunch ended so I headed towards the library, just as I turned the corner I heard whispers in the corridor. "The pair of you need to leave her alone!" Cedric snarled to the two boys in front of him. "You are messing with her head and she has only just got her, give her time and stop trying to control her, she isn't the kind of girl you can control."