In Through the Out Door
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 13
Lyra walked Sasporilla back to number four Castle Road. Sassy was happy to be home and away from the uncomfortable atmosphere at rhe Curtiss house. Lyra set her bags near the table and kicked her boots off. She tossed her long coat over to the door hook and missed. The coat fell to the floor in a crumpled pile.
"Pick your coat up you slob." Sasporilla said.
"Ah ma!" Lyra protested. "I'm suppose to be the adult here!"
"Good luck with that." Sasporilla laughed grabbing a can of Fanta from the refrigerator and sitting on the couch. Buster jumped up beside her and snuggled in trying to warm his cold back side.
"So things still pretty tense on the boy friend front?" Lyra asked sitting down beside Sassy and grabbing the can of soda from her and taking a sip. "Thanks nerd get yer own."
"Excuse me." Sassy laughed. "Give me that back or I'll ..."
"You'll what?" Lyra asked threatening to drink it all.
Sasporilla tried grabbing the can away from her but Lyra moved it playfully taunting her friend.
"I'll give you thumping!" Sasporilla yelled.
"Ok." Lyra said handing her the Fanta. "So you'll fight for a can of soda when some one tries to steal it from you but you won't fight for your boy friend when a girl threatens to steal him from you? Curious!"
"It's not the same thing." Sasporilla said sipping her orange soda.
"No?" Lyra asked.
"No it's not." Sassy insisted. "It's more like I want the Fanta and you want the Fanta but the Fanta hasn't decided who it wants to drink it. I can't exactly just force him to love me more."
"Do you think fighting with him and making things tense at his home over Christmas is the way?" Lyra said.
"I didn't want any of that." Sassy said. "Karrys my friend and she's just defending me."
Lyra looked at her friend. "Ok play times over. Let me get serious for a second."
For what ever reason both of them burst into laughter.
"Come on I'm serious." Lyra insisted. "Did your mom ever have the talk with you?"
"The talk?" Sassy asked.
"You know about the birds and the bees?" Lyra asked.
"Yes." Sasporilla said embarrassed. "And I would really rather not have it with you."
"I just wanted to ask if you and Korry ever...?" Lyra asked.
"NO!!!" Sasporilla said. "I'm not old enough for that."
"People start at different ages." Lyra said. "I started early."
"Well I'm not ready and won't be for a long while." Sassy said. "I'm still to young."
"You're nearly sixteen." Lyra said. "Not an uncommon age to...:
"Well it is to early for me." Sassy said.
"Ok." Lyra smiled. "I'm just saying its a pretty important thing for most boys. What if the other girl is ready?"
"Then that's her decision." Sasporilla said. "I won't let anyone or any situation dictate when I'm ready!"
"Good girl." Lyra said. "You be you. That should be enough for any young man who deserves your love!"
"Thank you." Sassy said finishing her can of orange.
"Want another?" Lyra asked.
"No." Sassy said getting up to put the can in the recycle. "One is my limit."
That is truly what Lyra feared. If Sasporillas heart was broken now at this age, she may just shut down and opt out of love for the rest of her life.
Karry had disappeared upstairs. Zac and Korry were sitting in the living room watching professional dueling with Mr.Curtiss.
"Oh come on ref!" Mr.Curtiss yelled. "You didn't see that?"
"So tell me what's going on mate." Zac said to Korry.
"Going on with what?" Korry asked.
"Don't play thick." Zac said tersely. "You have a good girl friend in Sasporilla, who actually loves your ugly mug, and you want to throw all that away for a magically altered twelve year old who is basically a lie."
"You can't understand." Korry said. "I like Sassy, I really do, but there's a deeper feeling with Maddy. I think she may be my soul mate."
"I think you may still be bewitched." Zac said concerned.
"I may very well be." Korry smiled. "But I've promised not to make up my mind until Karrys antidote is ready."
"Fair enough." Zac nodded. "I just want to quote you, your own words. You looked at Miss Sasporilla Bucket and told me you were going to marry that girl one day."
Korry sat there hearing the words echo in the distant fog in his brain.
"I wonder what's keeping Karry?" Zac asked. "I'm going to go check on her."
Lyra and Sassy sat on the couch watching her mums telly. They watched a show about a funny Vicar in a small English town. It felt good to laugh.
A knock came at the window. Lyra pulled her wand nervously. Sasporilla looked up and saw a white owl. Sassy went to the window and opened it.
"Delivery for Sasporilla Bucket." The owl said.
"I'm her." Sassy smiled as the large owl passed her an envelope of pretty red and gold foil. "Thank you very much."
The owl looked at her curiously. "No witch has ever said thank you to me."
"Well everyone should." Sassy smiled.
She watched the owl fly off into the night sky. Something moved in the shadows. Sasporilla tried to see what it was. It almost looked like the shadowy figure of a person. Nothing moved. It must have been just a trick of the shadows she decided and closed the window.
"What did you get?" Lyra asked.
"Don't know." Sassy said. "I haven't opened it yet."
"Well who is it from." Lyra asked.
"Doesn't say." Sasporilla looked at her friend with equal parts playful amusement and frustration.
"Well open it?" Lyra insisted.
"Maybe in the morning." Sasporilla said. "I'm a bit sleepy."
"Open it you brat!" Lyra shouted laughing.
Sasporilla carefully ripped off the foil paper. Inside was a lovely Christmas card showing Myron throwing a snow ball at the camera. She opened it to reveal a lovely message. "Miss your warm smile every day my darling Sassy. I hope you have a happy Christmas and I hope to see you soon."
Inside the card six back stage passes appeared for a concert Myron was putting on at the Albert hall in a few days time. Sasporilla had read about the concert in the Daily Prophet. He was performing old Weird Sisters songs, some of solo bits and some new original material.
"Lyra?" Sassy asked. "Can we go?"
"Are you kidding?" Lyra said. "Back stage passes and a personal invite from the star! Hell ya we're going!"
Sasporilla danced around ecstatic. Lyra joined her just happy to see her friend smile.
"Ok now you." Professor Ash-Wolf said seriously. "I do believe it's time for bed. We've a big couple of days ahead of us."
"Really?" Sasporillas eyes gleamed.
"You bet!" Lyra smiled.
It was around one a.m. when Sasporilla heard the tap at the window. She looked over but didn't see an owl. She laid her head back down until she heard another tap on the window. She looked up just in time to see a hand, delicate and pale with long sharp finger nails pull away from the glass.
Sasporilla grabbed her wand. Something large but light skittered across the roof above her.
"Lyra!" Sasporilla yelled running through the bathroom and into the master bedroom.
Lyra sat up in bed her wand drawn, light glowing lightly from the tip. She waved to Sasporilla to come to her. Lyras gaze never left the cold dead face of Khyron Jipsum, the aurer who was working the Vampire case with Nick Owlmore, as he rocked in the old wood rocking chair in the corner of the master bedroom. If Khyron had been turned and made it here then something was very wrong.
"It's nice to see you again aurer." The vampire said, not in the voice of Khyron Jipsum but in the voice of the Vampire Master. "I've taken your Nicks new partner as my own. Now I have come for you."
"You leave her alone!" Sasporilla said pointing her wand at the creature.
"This does not concern you little witch." The Master said raising his hand. Sasporilla saw the fabric of dark magic that flowed around his hand. Gathering power for something. The vampire flicked his hand a ball of dark energy flowed towards her. Sasporilla knew no counter for this kind of use of magic so she bent back as the ball of force flew over her and crashed into the wall.
"A girl of elven blood." The master said breathing deeply. "Your blood will be as sweet as spring honey."
"Lumos Solem!" Lyra cast.
The vampire turned to dust in the chair. Other vampires skittered down the walls and ran. Lyra and Sasporilla leaned out the window and filled the night air with brilliant sunlight. No place was safe for the vampire minions that shuddered with fear, and burst into flame at the sunlight's touch.
"Thanks for the diversion." Lyra said. "You'd make a fair aurer."
"Thanks but I really want to be a wand maker." Sassy smiled.
"Still?" Lyra said surprised. "I don't know many girls your age who know what they want to do and stick with it."
"Yes well I'm special." Sassy laughed.
"You have no idea Sasporilla Bucket."
Lyra walked Sasporilla back to number four Castle Road. Sassy was happy to be home and away from the uncomfortable atmosphere at rhe Curtiss house. Lyra set her bags near the table and kicked her boots off. She tossed her long coat over to the door hook and missed. The coat fell to the floor in a crumpled pile.
"Pick your coat up you slob." Sasporilla said.
"Ah ma!" Lyra protested. "I'm suppose to be the adult here!"
"Good luck with that." Sasporilla laughed grabbing a can of Fanta from the refrigerator and sitting on the couch. Buster jumped up beside her and snuggled in trying to warm his cold back side.
"So things still pretty tense on the boy friend front?" Lyra asked sitting down beside Sassy and grabbing the can of soda from her and taking a sip. "Thanks nerd get yer own."
"Excuse me." Sassy laughed. "Give me that back or I'll ..."
"You'll what?" Lyra asked threatening to drink it all.
Sasporilla tried grabbing the can away from her but Lyra moved it playfully taunting her friend.
"I'll give you thumping!" Sasporilla yelled.
"Ok." Lyra said handing her the Fanta. "So you'll fight for a can of soda when some one tries to steal it from you but you won't fight for your boy friend when a girl threatens to steal him from you? Curious!"
"It's not the same thing." Sasporilla said sipping her orange soda.
"No?" Lyra asked.
"No it's not." Sassy insisted. "It's more like I want the Fanta and you want the Fanta but the Fanta hasn't decided who it wants to drink it. I can't exactly just force him to love me more."
"Do you think fighting with him and making things tense at his home over Christmas is the way?" Lyra said.
"I didn't want any of that." Sassy said. "Karrys my friend and she's just defending me."
Lyra looked at her friend. "Ok play times over. Let me get serious for a second."
For what ever reason both of them burst into laughter.
"Come on I'm serious." Lyra insisted. "Did your mom ever have the talk with you?"
"The talk?" Sassy asked.
"You know about the birds and the bees?" Lyra asked.
"Yes." Sasporilla said embarrassed. "And I would really rather not have it with you."
"I just wanted to ask if you and Korry ever...?" Lyra asked.
"NO!!!" Sasporilla said. "I'm not old enough for that."
"People start at different ages." Lyra said. "I started early."
"Well I'm not ready and won't be for a long while." Sassy said. "I'm still to young."
"You're nearly sixteen." Lyra said. "Not an uncommon age to...:
"Well it is to early for me." Sassy said.
"Ok." Lyra smiled. "I'm just saying its a pretty important thing for most boys. What if the other girl is ready?"
"Then that's her decision." Sasporilla said. "I won't let anyone or any situation dictate when I'm ready!"
"Good girl." Lyra said. "You be you. That should be enough for any young man who deserves your love!"
"Thank you." Sassy said finishing her can of orange.
"Want another?" Lyra asked.
"No." Sassy said getting up to put the can in the recycle. "One is my limit."
That is truly what Lyra feared. If Sasporillas heart was broken now at this age, she may just shut down and opt out of love for the rest of her life.
Karry had disappeared upstairs. Zac and Korry were sitting in the living room watching professional dueling with Mr.Curtiss.
"Oh come on ref!" Mr.Curtiss yelled. "You didn't see that?"
"So tell me what's going on mate." Zac said to Korry.
"Going on with what?" Korry asked.
"Don't play thick." Zac said tersely. "You have a good girl friend in Sasporilla, who actually loves your ugly mug, and you want to throw all that away for a magically altered twelve year old who is basically a lie."
"You can't understand." Korry said. "I like Sassy, I really do, but there's a deeper feeling with Maddy. I think she may be my soul mate."
"I think you may still be bewitched." Zac said concerned.
"I may very well be." Korry smiled. "But I've promised not to make up my mind until Karrys antidote is ready."
"Fair enough." Zac nodded. "I just want to quote you, your own words. You looked at Miss Sasporilla Bucket and told me you were going to marry that girl one day."
Korry sat there hearing the words echo in the distant fog in his brain.
"I wonder what's keeping Karry?" Zac asked. "I'm going to go check on her."
Lyra and Sassy sat on the couch watching her mums telly. They watched a show about a funny Vicar in a small English town. It felt good to laugh.
A knock came at the window. Lyra pulled her wand nervously. Sasporilla looked up and saw a white owl. Sassy went to the window and opened it.
"Delivery for Sasporilla Bucket." The owl said.
"I'm her." Sassy smiled as the large owl passed her an envelope of pretty red and gold foil. "Thank you very much."
The owl looked at her curiously. "No witch has ever said thank you to me."
"Well everyone should." Sassy smiled.
She watched the owl fly off into the night sky. Something moved in the shadows. Sasporilla tried to see what it was. It almost looked like the shadowy figure of a person. Nothing moved. It must have been just a trick of the shadows she decided and closed the window.
"What did you get?" Lyra asked.
"Don't know." Sassy said. "I haven't opened it yet."
"Well who is it from." Lyra asked.
"Doesn't say." Sasporilla looked at her friend with equal parts playful amusement and frustration.
"Well open it?" Lyra insisted.
"Maybe in the morning." Sasporilla said. "I'm a bit sleepy."
"Open it you brat!" Lyra shouted laughing.
Sasporilla carefully ripped off the foil paper. Inside was a lovely Christmas card showing Myron throwing a snow ball at the camera. She opened it to reveal a lovely message. "Miss your warm smile every day my darling Sassy. I hope you have a happy Christmas and I hope to see you soon."
Inside the card six back stage passes appeared for a concert Myron was putting on at the Albert hall in a few days time. Sasporilla had read about the concert in the Daily Prophet. He was performing old Weird Sisters songs, some of solo bits and some new original material.
"Lyra?" Sassy asked. "Can we go?"
"Are you kidding?" Lyra said. "Back stage passes and a personal invite from the star! Hell ya we're going!"
Sasporilla danced around ecstatic. Lyra joined her just happy to see her friend smile.
"Ok now you." Professor Ash-Wolf said seriously. "I do believe it's time for bed. We've a big couple of days ahead of us."
"Really?" Sasporillas eyes gleamed.
"You bet!" Lyra smiled.
It was around one a.m. when Sasporilla heard the tap at the window. She looked over but didn't see an owl. She laid her head back down until she heard another tap on the window. She looked up just in time to see a hand, delicate and pale with long sharp finger nails pull away from the glass.
Sasporilla grabbed her wand. Something large but light skittered across the roof above her.
"Lyra!" Sasporilla yelled running through the bathroom and into the master bedroom.
Lyra sat up in bed her wand drawn, light glowing lightly from the tip. She waved to Sasporilla to come to her. Lyras gaze never left the cold dead face of Khyron Jipsum, the aurer who was working the Vampire case with Nick Owlmore, as he rocked in the old wood rocking chair in the corner of the master bedroom. If Khyron had been turned and made it here then something was very wrong.
"It's nice to see you again aurer." The vampire said, not in the voice of Khyron Jipsum but in the voice of the Vampire Master. "I've taken your Nicks new partner as my own. Now I have come for you."
"You leave her alone!" Sasporilla said pointing her wand at the creature.
"This does not concern you little witch." The Master said raising his hand. Sasporilla saw the fabric of dark magic that flowed around his hand. Gathering power for something. The vampire flicked his hand a ball of dark energy flowed towards her. Sasporilla knew no counter for this kind of use of magic so she bent back as the ball of force flew over her and crashed into the wall.
"A girl of elven blood." The master said breathing deeply. "Your blood will be as sweet as spring honey."
"Lumos Solem!" Lyra cast.
The vampire turned to dust in the chair. Other vampires skittered down the walls and ran. Lyra and Sasporilla leaned out the window and filled the night air with brilliant sunlight. No place was safe for the vampire minions that shuddered with fear, and burst into flame at the sunlight's touch.
"Thanks for the diversion." Lyra said. "You'd make a fair aurer."
"Thanks but I really want to be a wand maker." Sassy smiled.
"Still?" Lyra said surprised. "I don't know many girls your age who know what they want to do and stick with it."
"Yes well I'm special." Sassy laughed.
"You have no idea Sasporilla Bucket."
PLEASE REMEMBER
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.