The Deception

Chapter 6

"Are you sure James?" Billy paced anxiously in front of her, all seven of them where sat in the observatory, James had just relayed the days' events to her siblings who couldn't believe they where hearing. They unfortunately had to sneak behind Tom's back as he did not yet know the truth about his origins.

"Yes, I am sure and if you still believe I'm being delusion you can go to the library and talk with mother but I highly doubt you'll want to do that right now, she's very upset" Billy sat next to Katana going through all the books she has ever read trying to recall ever reading something like the Altera Vita ritual but came up empty.

"Of course she's upset, Godric's gone and bloody gave himself a second body in which he can possibly take over Hogwarts!" Katana flung herself back on the couch, her siblings where beginning to irritate her, why couldn't they just go and confront him? He was in a child's body for Merlin's sake!

"There is no need to be hysterical about it Katana, and no we can not just go and confront him, have you not been paying any attention? He may have a child's body but his magic is just as strong and he still has a centuries worth more of spells and experience than we do" Katana rolled her eyes at the tongue lashing her sister was giving her.

At times it felt like she could never do anything without her eldest sister lecturing her. She understood that as first born James was her future head of house even though she wasn't male, their grandparents had witnessed her magical prowess as a baby and dubbed her their combined heir and once their mother passed it on to her James would become Lady Slytherin and Ravenclaw since the Flamel title would being going to Reagan.

"Yes James" that was the response she had long ago decided was the safest way to respond to her sister after many fights that ended up with her getting her arse handed to her both mentally and magically.

The stress and anxiousness James was feeling was practically radiating out of her to the point that Castor felt the need to walk over and embrace his sister. It was common knowledge by now that no one but Castor could calm James down when she got worked up ever since even before he was born James would even find laying her head on the right side of her mother's stomach when she was pregnant with Castor and Katana very calming, but only the right side which they late found was the side Castor was on inside the womb.

After they had reconciled from the long six month fight they seemed closer than before, at times it seemed like there was a glow to them when they where near each other, most of the time their siblings brushed it off as the light casting on them, but tonight in the barely lit observatory the glow was very prominent and they could no longer ignore it. Evie the less tactful of them all decided to be blunt in her investigation.

"Why on earth do you two glow like that?" James and Castor looked up in confusion.

"What do you mean Evie?" Billy, Reagan, Loki and Katana looked at each other before slowly seeping deeper into the couch, they where all leaning back eagerly letting Evie take the lead on this one.

"Do the both of you honestly not know?" Seeing the confused looks on their faces Evie transfigured a small potted muggle plant called geranium into a mirror and stood directly in front of her siblings who where still wrapped in a golden glow.

"What is that?" James leaned forward and out of Castors embrace to get a closer look at the glow in the mirror, however as soon as she was separated from him the glow vanished. With a quizzical look she leaned back onto Castor and watched in awe as they began to glow again. The trauma of what they had discovered about Godric and their family grimoire was instantly forgotten, they had a new mystery to discover.

"I think we need to go see mum and dad" Castor and James walked a few steps behind their siblings confused and alarmed with what they just discovered they felt like freaks.