Dawn's Whisper

By Ashlyn Tricks

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

Summary: A hero captured while fighting a criminal with her team. She is the only one of her team captured. Which begs the question why was she captured? What nefarious plans do her captors have planned for her? And what in the world does her capture have to do with our hero's mysterious past?

Will she bow to her captor's will or will she blow their plans to hell?

Chapter 1: Captured! Where am I ?

Kara woke up and was instantly alert and scanning her surroundings for any threats, finding none she relaxed marginally. Once she had made sure there were no immediate threats she took a closer look at her she found suprised her instead of being in a cell or dungeon like she expected she was in a bedroom. As the last memory she had was of her and her team fighting a criminal mastermind and his lackeys. She had just knocked out several of the criminal mastermind's lackeys when she felt a spell hit her in the back before falling unconscious. As she took in her current surroundings it became clear to her that she had been captured. Although she was in a spacious and seemingly comfortable bedroom she did not recognize the decor as belonging to anyone she knew. She just didn't know who had captured her which disturbed Kara greatly since without knowing who had her or why she would not be able to plan a successful escape for awhile.

After exploring the room she was in Kara decided to test the door to see if her captors had locked her in. As she opened the door she was suprised to find it unlocked. Who captures someone and then leaves the door to the room they are being kept in open? She thought to herself while still keeping up her guard and an eye on her surroundings. After all, just because she hadn't run into anyone or anything dangerous yet didn't mean they weren't there. In her mind it was strange that she hadn't seen or heard anything from her captors and that she seemed to have been taken to someone's home. It just didn't make sense why would someone capture her only to take her home? What did whoever did this want from her? Were they trying to lure her into a false sense of security? And what about her team, were they captured as well? She hoped not as the more she explored the more she was beginning to realize who might have captured her. And if she was correct she did not want her team to be here for the coming confrontation.

It would be ugly she thought as she descended a set of stairs that would take her towards the voices she could hear. They won't be expecting anyone remotely like me, Kara thought. Her captors probably thought she was a sweet, understanding goody-two-shoes type of person. Someone who would easily forgive and forget and then volunteer their services to help them clean up their mess. Well they'll be in for one hell of a suprise Kara thought to herself as she approached the doors to the room she knew her captors were in. She wasn't about to let theese people kidnap her and get a way with it easily. No if they manage to keep her here whether through hard negotation or force they would learn what happens to those who mess with her. As she opened the doors and entered the room containing her captors part of her was quaking in anticipation at the thought of how much fun it would be to destroy them. Another part of her was scared shitless at the thought of facing her captors.

As Kara looked around she was only slightly suprised and majorly pissed of that she was right about who had captured her. The room that they were in was in fact a dinning room which apparently was being used for a meeting. She recognized her birth parents, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, her twin, Albus Dumbledore, the Weasleys, and Hermione Granger. She recognized the rest of the people as well,they were all part of the Order of the Phoenix she knew. Despite having been abandoned by her parents at a young age she had learned all about her origins and connection to the wizarding world. She had also learned to use her magic well though she rarely did. She watched as those attending the meeting bickered amongst themselves not having noticed her yet and she had been standing in the doorway for several minutes. It was amusing to her that they were supposed to be leading fighters in a war yet they were both disorganized and unattentive to changes in their surroundings. Anyone on her team would have noticed her within seconds considering she had taken no actions to conceal her presence. And if she had been a stranger to them the would have been on guard and questioning her immediately.

Kara after another few minutes of observing and hearing nothing to give her a clue as to why they had kidnapped her, whistled loudly drawing their attention to her and effectively quieting them. " Why has the Order of the Phoenix kidnapped me?" She asked once she had everyones attention causing quite a stir.

" My dear girl, I must ask how is it that you know of us?" Dumbledore asked not seeing any point in denying that they were the Order or that they kidnapped her. After all, she would have eventually found out about the order later. But as the girl already knew of them, the only thing he could do is to how much she knew and rearrange his plans accordingly.

"It doesn't matter how I know of you, what matters is that you answer my question. As your answer will determine how deal with you, after all kidnaping is a crime here in the wizarding world just like it is in the muggle world. I wonder how the public would if they found that their precious heroes had kidnaped someone. While at first it would not seem bad seeing as I live in the muggle world but when they found out exactly who you kidnapped it would destroy you. And I don't mean when they find out that I am the 'lost' Potter daughter. No you see I am not ignorant of my identity or the wizarding world like you may believe me to as I mentioned earlier Kidnapping is illegal even in the wizarding world, and I know enough about the laws in this world that I could burry you all. That's if I decided to handle you legally, if I chose to handle you without getting the law involved lets just say your punishment would be much worse. However your punishment or lack of one depends on why you kidnapped me. " Kara told the group vindictively.

"Now my dear girl, to say we kidnapped you is too harsh we were merely returning you to your rightful place as a member of the wizarding world and as a Potter. Surely if know about the Order then you must know about your parents who have longed to reunited with you. They were so worried when they heard of your disappearance that they searched everywhere only to fall into a depression when they couldn't find you. Surely you can understand that the person who stunned you and brought you here only did so with the intentions of reuniting you with your parents. " Dumbledore said in an almost pleading tone trying to guilt Kara into not doing anything about how they had retrieved her.

" No I don't understand why I was stunned and brought here. Yes I know the Potters are my parents but if they truly wanted to be reunited why couldn't the person just have approached me and asked me to come with them? Or why not tell them where I was and let them come to me? All you have done is cause trouble for yourselves. " Kara replied with disgust clear in her tone.

" Well I didn't think of asking you or just telling your parents." Sirius Black answers embarrassed. " I was just so excited to finally have found you that I just reacted without really thinking things through. "

" Hmph." Was the reply he recieved as Kara crossed her arms in front of her clearly expressing what she thought of the mans confession. " How did you find me? For that matter what made you think I was the 'missing Potter'? As I know that I currently look nothing like the Potters and I have made sure that there was no information to connect me to the Potters available. "

"Well I wasn't really looking for you but was on a mission to observe and possibly recruit some muggle heroes to help us in the war. You and your team was on the list and as I observed you I felt our magical bond stronger than ever. I don't know if you know this but I am your godfather and with your parents permission I blood adopted you into my family. This caused a magical bond to form between us. This bond would let me know if you were in danger, guage your emotions, etc. Unfortunately the bond would not let me discern your location, unless I am nearby. " Sirius muttered the last part resentfully. " I just followed the bond to you by determining the strength of the bond. The closer I was to you the stronger it was. "

" Why does the great 'Order of the Phoenix' want to recruit muggle heroes? Are you guys really losing the war that badly that you need to resort to recruiting lowly muggles?" Kara asked cruelly feeling a tiny measure of satisifaction when she saw some of the Order wince at her words. She felt even more satisifaction at seeing her parents stricken look at her words. She knew that they were beginning to wonder if it was their fault that she has turned into an apparently angry and cruel woman. But what they didn't know was that normally she was one of the kindest people you can meet, though she wouldn't admit to being kind , she didn't even think she was kind but her teammates all insist that she is. It was just that the situation she found herself in seemingly brought out her more vindictive side. As she thought of the vindictive part of her, her normal self despite others trying to convince her otherwise.

" What happened to you thats making you act this way?Why are you so angry ?" Lilly Potter asked in a shaky voice clearly upset at how her daughter was acting.

" Well mommy dearest finally speaks up. I'll tell you why I am so angry as you put it. You see not only was I kidnapped and brought to a place I swore never to come to, I am here talking to people I swore never to meet. I am also worried about my team, are they alright? I have no way of knowing what happened to them after I was stunned. Then there's the question of what you plan on doing with me. Will you allow me to go back to my life and team or will you try to keep me here? If I leave would you hunt me down and bring your war to my doorstep? Will you try to force me to fight in your war ? Then there's my team will you try to recruit them ? If they refuse to fight them would you try to force them to fight for you?" Kara finally asked the questions that has been on her mind since she realized exactly who had her. " This is what has been going on in my mind since I arrived here. These thoughts combined with my distaste for the Potters and most of the wizarding world in general make me a very unhappy person. Which in turn tends to bring out the nastier side of my personality. " They don't have to know that my nastier side isn't that different from my normal self she thought.

"If you hate us so much why haven't you tried to leave yet?" Hermione Granger asked curious as she knew that Kara could have left long ago without anyone being able to stop her. She knew this as she had kept up with current events in the muggle world and Kara was a known hero, a powerful one at that. As such she figured that Kara could have easily left without anyone even knowing she had.

" That's simple I have several questions I want answered that can only be answered by the people in this room. And I am curious to see if my family along with their friends have any redeeming qualities. Though if I choose not leave I will need to contact my team otherwise they will likely come to rescue me thinking I was captured by an enemy. And trust me you don't want that to happen. " Kara replied her words giving a small spark of hope to her parents and their friends that it wasn't too late to regain their daughter.

"What questions do you have for us?" James Potter asked finally have gotten the nerve to speak up.

"Well for starters I would like an answer to my earlier questions. Then I would like to know why you and mom gave me away. I would also like to know when it was you found out I wasn't living with the Dursley's. Also I am curious to know if you knew who was raising me. "She wasn't sure what would be worse the fact that they knew or if they didn't. Both were bad options in her eyes. However, the worst woul be if it turned out that they had known who was raising her and how she was being raised by the bitch and did nothing about it. If that was what happened then she might just rethink her decision of leaving her biological relations unharmed when she leaves this place.

" As far as I am aware your team is fine. After I stunned and hid you from view I stuck around to see what happened to your team knowing that you would want to know. They defeated the people they were fighting then looked for you for a few hours, after not finding you they left the scene. I assume they either went home or to headquarters, I left after they left. As for the rest of your questions someone else should answer those. " Sirius replied sending dirty looks to the Potters and Dumbledore indicating that they would be the best ones to answer her other questions. He and Remus had never approved of the Potters abandoning Kara, but there had been nothing they could do to prevent it from happening unfortunately.

Albus Dumbledore was unsure what to do as far as answering Kara's questions went. It was an undeniable fact that she was needed to win the war whether or not her team was involved. As several months ago it was discovered that Kara was the prophecy child and not her brother as previously thought. Unfortunately the woman seems to hold a great deal of resentment for her family, the Order, and quite possibly the wizarding world. And the way she talked it was as if she already knew of her origins and wanted nothing tp do with them indicating that she might leave even if she knew of the prophecy. It most likely will be next to impossible to convince the woman to fight for them especially when she doesn't seem to have any ties to the wizarding world. So how could he convince her to fight for them? He knew that the answers that both he and her parents were to give her would be crucial to her decision on whether or not to help them. And if they could get her to help them perhaps she could convince her team and even some other heroes to help them. Considering her team has from what he has been told worked along side other teams of muggle heros several times, he figures if he can get one team to help them others will follow once the muggles realize exactly what they were up against as the first team would call for reinforcements. He decided to take a risk and tell her the truth in the hopes that Kara would understand their decision. He felt that while she may resent them for their actions and the logic behind them, it would be far more damaging to try and lie or twist the truth.

"Truthfully if we were to ask for your team's help and they were to say no, we as in the Order of the Phoenix would leave your team alone and bother them no more. " Dumbledore said to answer Kara's questions about her team recieving incredulous looks from the rest of the Order as he was well known for pestering and manipulating people to get what he wants from people. Some thought that he was doing just that, but those who knew him well knew he was being truthful and was wondering why he was.

"And me, if I were to refuse to help you and leave? Would you keep bothering me or searching for me in order to try to convince me to help you?"

"Truthfuly, yes I would. " Albus responded truthfully causing the Order to frown wondering what was going on with their leader and Kara to start laughing. " What's funny about what I said?" Albus asked frowning not seeing anything funny about what he said.

"The fact that you answered truthfully and the tone of your voice indicates that you actually believe you could succeed in getting to me again. Trust me if I choose to leave you will lose any chance of me fighting in this war for you. Now that the questions about my team and what would happen if I were to leave are answered, I want to know why my parents abandoned me. " Kara said in a dark and demanding tone that caused everyone to shiver.