Gettin' you home (Jack)

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico had found her black dress that was a halter top, that showed all the right curves. She was glad that Jack had been home more often, because there was no evil, and his uncle was hidden again which was good, the only sad thing was that her mother had went with him or ran off else where, but at the moment she didn't care. She was going to surprise Jack at the school. She placed her hair into a neat tangle of curls, that framed her face just right. She didn't use magic either, or well she did just a little to get it to hold through the night. She applied some light make-up to her face.

Just as she was ready to walk out the door, she placed her black heels on her feet, and called for her broom. She wasn't walking to the school, nor was she going to drive, she was going to go in style, on a broom. Then she remembered the picnic basket she had one of the house elves make. "Thank you" she said to the small house elf, who smile and nodded.

Nico held the basket in one hand and then hopped onto the broom sitting sideways as not to mess up her dress. She smiled as she flew off into the night towards the school. She loved the night, it was so peaceful, and so dark, when the moon and the stars weren't out but the stars and the moon was out. In 3 days it would be a full moon, so she wasn't that worried about anything happening tonight.

Nico smiled as she neared the gamekeeper's hut. She looked around but no one was there good, she could fix up the picnic basket, and the place, and herself. She smiled as she entered the hut and with a flick of her wand, the room looked like it was set for a romantic evening. She smiled and got the picnic all set up, and she sat on the floor waiting for Jack to come back to the Hut

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack sat at the staff table in the great hall grinning from ear to ear as he watched his son sit on a stool in front of everyone, and had the sorting hat placed on his head. It seemed like only a second after it was placed the hat called out "Ravenclaw." Of course it would be Hayden to break the trend of Riddles being in Slytherin. Something that made him feel very proud of the small boy. He gave him a quick thumbs up before he left the stool for his table. He sat and watched as the rest of the children were sorted. As soon as Karalynn anounced that it was time to eat he excused himself from the table.

A stone in the inner pocket of his robes had vibrated to alert him that someone was in his cabin. He had a sneaky feeling that it might be his wife looking to know what house Hayden had been sorted into. He couldn't really blame her for it. He himself rarely ate in the great hall the only reason he had been there tonight was to see his son be sorted. He walked down the stone stairs and out accross the sloping lawns to his cabin. The perfume he smelled in the air outside his door was deffinately that of his wife.

He opened the door with a smile that grew as he saw the scene. He had correctly assumed who the intruder was, but had completely missed as to the cause behind it. He walked directly to Nico, and scooped her off of the floor and into his arms. He bent his head over hers looking directly into her eyes and smiling at her. He then bent lower pressing his lips to hers and parting them with his tongue. He kissed her long and hard having been already missing her severely. He pulled back still grinning. "To what do I owe this surprise."

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico smiled when jack swept her off the floor, and held her in his arms. What made her heart flutter was the kiss. "Well my dear, i wanted to have a nice evening with you, being as Hayden is now in school, and Rose is with Kris for a few hours." She said to him. "And i thought i would surprise you with dinner and me." she smiled at him. She wiggled a little and got back to her feet from his arms. She was glad that he was happy to see her, even though he probably already knew it was her from before he walked into the hut. She knew her son had been sorted, but what house she didn't know but would find out soon.

"Well sit have something to eat, there are sandwiches, and a salad, and" she paused for a moment not really knowing what was in there "Well you know i really don't know whats in there, i didn't unpack it, i had one of the house elves make it while i was getting ready" she smiled, and looked at him. "So there are two reasons why im here, one is i missed you at home, and knowing that the school year started up you'll probably be here more often then you are at home, and two to know what house Hayden was sorted into." She said sheepishly.

"I'll probably be getting an owl from him in the next few days telling me how much he loves school, because you know that he loves it" She said with a smile on her face. Some of Nico's hair fell into her face so she pushed it back, glad to see that it was still up in the curls, it should be after the whole magic holding it up. "Lets see whats in here" she said opening up the basket. "Spaghetti and meatballs, white wine, some cheese, and glasses, oh and a fruit salad" she smiled, she named them off as she pulled them out of the basket.

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack smirked as his wife wiggled out of his arms. He listened as she spoke waiting to hear the words he knew were coming. He was unsurprised that she was beating around the bush. He loved it when she acted like this it reminded him of how she had acted when they first met. All that was missing was a charred common room. He couldn't really blame her he had something that he wanted to talk to her about that he had been pushing off. He had been thinking on it for months, and had only gotten around to talking to Kris about it the night before.

Then she said the words that he knew were coming. She wanted to know about Hayden. A huge grin spread accross his face. "You know when my alarm went off to let me know someone was here my immediate thought was that you had come to find out what house Hayden was in. I guess I was right, but no matter the reason I am thrilled that you are here." He watched as she then turned to the food acting as if she had just commented on something as mundane as the weather.

There was a strong gust of wind that pushed her right into his waiting arms which immediatly entwined around her. "He has broken the family tradition to my great pleasure. He is in Ravenclaw which is not very surprising. That boy is smarter than many full grown witches, and wizards." He smiled down at her. He was still amazed even after all this time at how much she meant to him, and how his love for her continued to grow each day. How he had been able to go weeks without her to hunt his uncle he could no longer understand. He hadn't even been away from her for a full day yet, and still he missed her like crazy.

His expression faltered a little as he gazed into her eyes knowing that he needed to talk to her. "Nico I want you and Rose to come stay here with me." He gestured to the cabin that though it looked tiny on the ouside on the inside it was a good size two story house. "I've been thinking on it for a while now and I don't want our family in that house anymore. I don't know what I'll do with the place, but it is to dangerous. I don't know what other secrets it hides or what charms my uncle has put on it. Also I don't want to risk him coming back there especially with me here, and you and Rose all alone there. It will only be temporary until we can get a new place, but it will make me feel safe, and plus I'd miss you to much."

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico smiled and looked at him, "Well im glad that my little boy got into the house he wanted. I'm glad that he was put in a place where he will be welcomed or well hopefully welcomed, it doesn't help with the name, maybe we should have given them my last name" She said thinking out loud. "But i'm sure that he will do just fine" she smiled and looked at him.

Nico smiled as the wind blew her into his arms. "Well look who his parents are, and his family, someone was bound to end up a genius, in our family, and i am glad it was him to do it" she said smiling still, glad to be in his arms. It had been a long time since she had been in his arms, or well to her it seemed like a long time.

Nico smiled at his request and thought about it. "Hmm what about Hayden i don't think he wants all of us this close to him." She said worried about Hayden, knowing that this was his first year in school, at Hogwarts. "I think we should talk to him before we go making any important choices, me you and rose could always get an apartment if he doesn't want us to be that close, and then we can just put some good use to the broomsticks." She said with a smile. "And i don't think Kris would mind watching Rose for us." she said looking at him.

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack gave Nico a guilty smile as helooked down into her eyes. "Ok don't think about this around Hayden, but I kind of spied on him a little bit before the feast as the air. It looks like he might already have friends one a slytherin, and the other a gryffindor. Neither of them think ill of Riddles only my uncle and his father. Thegryffindor girl is a Potter to, and from what she said her family feels the same way. We don't have to live in shame because of our name any more and I think that it's all becuse of Kris."

He smiled down at his wife as he wondered how he could have gotten along without her before he had met her. She had deffinately made him into a different, and better person. He smirked as she worried about how Hayden would take to them being so close. "Honey you know I have to stay at the school as gamekeeper. Plus Hayden cn't have a problem with it if you and rose don't go running up to the school to see him. Let him come here and visit us. He's a good boy, and he loves his family he'll come and visit. I plan on giving him space as well. It will only be temporary. I'm thinking about buying the three broomsticks and there's a three bedroom flat above it."

As he gazed into his wifes eyes his urges began to take over. His skin got so hot that it sky rocketed the temperature in the room, and everything turned to iron. his hands on her back burst into flame burning the dess off of her. He gave her his devilish grin, and pulled her into a kiss parting her lips with his and then massaging her tongue with his own. He pulled her in tight to his body as his own clothes burned off.

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico smiled up at him and said "I would feel better if we talked to Hayden about it" She started and then finished "because i know rose would want to be up there at the school all the time bugging him, and you know she would." Nico moved out of his arms, and picked up a glass of wine off the floor, and took a drink of it. "Well i still don't know i still think there might be people who might judge him by his name, that one girl or even two isn't everyone in the school." Nico reminded him.

Nico looked at him and shook her head. "No Rose will not live above the Three Broomsticks its way to dangerous for a girl her, age to be running around that place" she said to him. "I don't like that idea, i really don't mind where we are now, and i know that you have to be here, and when you are here, i will be there with Rose" she said to him. "If we were at the three broomsticks she could get herself and me into so much trouble, and your not leaving this job here at the school, if something happens i want you to be here to protect Hayden" she said looking at him. She wasn't about to have her oldest son here without anyone that wasn't family there to protect him, she knew Kara would protect them all but it wasn't the same thing, or her at least.

She felt the urges and knew what was coming but she was just so mad that he even though about moving them to the three broomsticks she didn't want to do anything like that. After they kissed she pushed him away, and grabbed a blanket and wrapped up. "No i did not come here for that, i came to have a romantic evening that would not end in that" She said pulling the blanket closer to her, and moving away from him. She was still mad and this night would not end that way.

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack watched as everything went completely against what he had hoped for. He felt the fire begin to burn hotter inside of him. Now the fire did not burn because of his urges it burned because of his anger. He turned away from Nico as flames errupted all over his body. The flames quickly turned white hot, and he knew that even with her elemental abilities that this fire would burn her. He pushed the fire away from himself with a blast and it melted right through the wall. He knew that his wife would be upset by this even though he hadn't meant to become so angry. Everything returned to normal, and he picked up his wand.

With a small flick of his wrist the wall repaired itself. He then waved his wand again and they were both dressed again as if nothing had happened. He turned his back on Nico to look out the window. "You think that I do not know this. You've only dealt with the persecution this name brings for a few years. Kris, and I have dealt with it our entire lives." The wind outside roared with its massive strength as Jack channeled his anger through the air rather than fire. He could not take his wife reacting towards his ideas in this way. She could not understand why he hated that house so much.

"I hate that house. I want nothing to do with it. Every time I'm there I am constantly reminded of the things that happened there. The meetings of the darkest witches, wizards, and creatures to discuss the destruction of the wizarding world. All of the murders that happened in that house. I spent my childhood wondering how man people had died there worried that someone had died in my room." He turned back to look at her, and the expression on his face was one of the utmost distress.

"I can't say for sure, but I think Kris has the same problems with the house. Why do you think she left it why she visits so rarely." Jack stopped talking and turned back to the window. He could feel his anger getting out of control. His hatred for his uncle began to bubble to the surface. "I will not be able to sleep through the night until my uncle is dead, and I can be sure that my family is safe. Stay at the house if you like you can have it. I never want to see that place again."

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico looked at jack and couldn't believe her eyes. She didn't think that he would react this badly, he didn't have to be in that house, neither him nor his sister had to be there she wasn't saying that they had to be there, it was just someplace other then the three broomsticks to keep Rose out of trouble, because there was no way on this earth she was going to stay here with rose. She knew that she hadn't dealt with the name like they had, and wasn't insiting on it, she was just worried for their child.

When he calmed down and fix his mess, she looked and shook her head at him "You have it all wrong you know" she told him. "I don't care where we live but not here or the three broomsticks" she looked at him and continued "I don't know what its like to be you, but i am aloud to worry for our SON!" she screamed at him. She was mad, and it was never good, when she was mad, parts of her that she struggled with came out and tended to attack the wrong people.

She looked at him almost shaking, and said "Yea your sleepless nights over your uncle, mine where over you." she looked at him. "You didn't have to deal with the 'Mommy whens daddy coming back' You didn't have to deal with all of the things that were required of me because you weren't ever there for me or the kids" she said to him almost screaming again. Her eyes started to turn a black, which meant that her demon side was coming out to play.

"So you just keep on worrying about what you think is important and I'll keep watching our children" She said trying to calm down. She tried to regain self control. "When your ready to worry about us, you know those you keep leaving behind to run after your uncle, you know where to find me, in a small apartment in London with Rose" She said and turned her eyes were slowly returning to their normal color, but they were still black, she knew she had to get out of there soon. She started towards the door.

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack stood there silent as he drank in his wifes wirds. Each one was like a cruel dagger straight to the heart. When she finished and headed for the door he spoke up. "You never bothered to find out why I have been trying so hard to kill my uncle. He believes that the descendants of his father are the most powerful witch's and wizards. He believes the secrets of the magical world rest in the Riddle blood. He wants all who share his bloodline to work for him. I gave up the life that I wanted to protect my family because I know that eventually he will come for them. Do you think that I wanted to leave you and the kids? You think I enjoyed being stuck in that hell hole of a world my uncle created?"

Jack shook his head angrily as he turned back to the window. "I never should have come back from the dead. What is dead should stay dead." He growled through gritted teeth. He conmsidered just disapearing into the air, but he knew that he could not leave them until his uncle was finaly dead. When he was he could leave them to live out life as they would have had he stayed dead in the first place.

((Sorry crap post I know))

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

Nico stopped cold, and listened to his words and turned on her heel and looked at him. "No i never wondered because i knew" she said to him. "I always knew that he would come for us, and when he did i would have been waiting, i didn't go chasing him down" she said to him in a voice that was almost yelling at him, but wasn't yelling. She was trying to calm down but it wasn't working. "You didn't have to go chasing him, all over the place Jack, you could have stayed no one cared about your uncle until he was around" she looked at him.

She was mad and when he said that he should have stayed dead, she laughed wildly and said "It could be arranged again, this time it would be permanent" she said with a hint of madness in her voice. "But what would you do about the kids, you can't just leave them" she looked at him again, and her eyes were pitch black, and it was like another person was where Nico had been.

Nico was locked inside, while the demon was out, but it wasn't fully out, Nico was mostly there, but Jack had her so mad that she stopped trying to hold the demon in her back. She tried to keep the demon in her from harming Jack, she still loved him, for the most part.

[Jack Anthony Riddle]

Jack hung his head and looked at the floor. He began to laugh a little. This was no normal laughter it was that of a person whose mind had finaly broken. "Of course you would say that. Of course you'd have been ready to take him on, and that is the main reason that I chased him. I don't want you to go head to head with that psycho. Look at how many great and powerfull wizards died by his hand. Yes I know that you're a demon, but that wouldn't matter to him. He's a vampire that preffers the blood of demons to any other. I have always feared that he would come knocking when I wasn't around and that you'd try to fight him, and be killed, and then he'd go after the kids. When I was chasing him I knew where he was, and knew that you were safe."

Jack lifted his head to look her in her eyes. Seeing that the demon was out did not matter to him. She was his wife, and the person that mattered the most to him. If she hated him enough to kill him than so be it. Without her he would not be alive anyways. He walked right up to her and put his hands on either side of her face. "You will never know how much you mean to me. You changed everything for me. Before I met you I had no ambitions for the future no cares no worries I would have welcomed death with open arms just to experience the adventure of it. I should have died with my friends, but I refused to go any where that you weren't. Since I've been back I can think of nothing but yours and the kids safety. I'm not saying that I was right in chasing my uncle, but that is what made sense at the time."

Jack stared into her eyes as the wind outside died out completely. The fire in the hearth and the flames of the candles all went out. The two elements he controlled became completely calm for while he touched her he could not be upset. "I am sorry for how I reacted if you don't want to move to the three broomsticks thats fine. I don't care if we live in an igloo in in the middle of the arctic as long as I have you and we are away from that house I will be happy." Jack moved his hands from her face, and wrapped them around her body pulling her into a tight embrace. "I love you Nico. I will always love you in life or death. You and the kids matter more to me than anything else. That is why I am here now, and why I've been home since I came back. I've thought of searching out my uncle, but I can't bare to be away from you anymore. If you hadn't come here tonight I would have come to the house to see you tonight. Let the world crumble and fall apart as long as there is some void in which I can be with you."

[Nico (Cross) Riddle]

(Long over due Sorry)

Nico heard him laugh, like he had gone mad. Nico turned and looked at him then to the outside of the castle, where her son was, while her daughter was at home hopefully sleeping but that wasn't going to happen and she knew it. Nico's mind bounced from one topic to another she couldn't keep up with him at the moment. She had everything on her mind at that moment. "I dont care what he would have done, or could have done." She said to him after a few moments of trying to clear her head "I would have and could have done what i needed to." She didn't smile "Im not as weak as people think i am, i grew up with witches and wizards demons and vampires. I can hold my own against people and if it came down to it i could kill too" she said looking at him.

Her eyes were changing to their natural state, she was calming down quicker then she thought she would. Nico knew that tonight she would have to let her demons out of the box for an hour or so. That was something that she feared, they would keep her inside and hunt down Jack, was she strong enough to hold them back was her problem. "What should have made sense was to stay home with the kids, and your wife, not chasing after your uncle" She said to him. "I do know what i mean to you, but you have no idea what you mean to me." she looked up at him with loving eyes. "With out you i would be a demon just killing might have helped your uncle" Nico was always going to have the mark that would make her just the slightest bit different, she was always going to have a side of her that would have to be kept hidden from both of the worlds alike.

"Jack" she said in a whisper "We will always be together no matter how far apart we are in time, or in miles" She smiled up at him and said "We were meant to be and what is meant to be will always find each other, and it will forever live on in us and threw our two wonderful kids" she said to him "How do you think i kept from going crazy when you died" she chuckled a little. "I do love you lets eat please" she said to him. "I have to feed my inner workings" she laughed at that, but said nothing more on the topic. "We can move anywhere you like just not into here or above the Three Broomsticks." she said to him with a smile side stepping him to get back into the hut, to get food.