A/N hey what up! it's grace back at it again with that harry potter fanfic but this is more original than Annabelle Strange. I'm making up so much for this story because not a lot has been confirmed for the Ilvermony school at this time (who knows when this will be published) so I'm going off my mind and head canons that I think are cool. let's be honest i'm going to write this and then suddenly JK Rowling will write a book or make a movie or play about Ilvermony like with Annabelle Strange. also this is fanfiction and a lot of it is made up and so ignored logic and just fucking go with it. Hope you guys enjoy and please excuse all errors!

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The Girl Who Doesn't Exist

On January 15, 1990, Emaly Starling was born in darkness.

Her mother, Celeste Starling, had been sentenced to Azkaban after killing a No-Maj girl but only she knew that she was three weeks pregnant when her sentence had been made. Celeste didn't tell anyone though. She kept her mouth shut about the baby because she knew that if someone else got the chance to raise her - like her father - they would tell her that her mother was terrible person and one she shouldn't worry about her. So she decided to be selfish and keep the secret of her unborn child to herself. Celeste went to Azkaban with the child in her and after nine months, she gave birth in secret during the middle of storm.

The thunder covered up her cries as she pushed her daughter out and she buried herself deep into the shadows where she was unable to be seen. It was painful and terrible and hard but she did it. In the end it was worth it as it brought Celeste, the whole thing she cared about more than herself, her daughter. She named her Emaly River Starling and unfortunately for her, she looked just liked her father. Even though, Celeste promised that this didn't bother her and that she would still love her daughter no matter what, sometimes it seemed liked she hated the fact that her daughter reminded her of the girl's father. But it didn't matter because he didn't know that her had a daughter. As far as she was concerned, the world didn't even know that Emaly existed.

Or at least that's how it had been for thirteen years. Things were easy at first with the girl being young and small. Then time went by, the child got older and taller and Celeste found it harder to kept her child hidden from the world. One time, when Emaly was young and curious, she woke up before her mother and crawled towards the opening of their cell. The opening wasn't giant but it also wasn't so small that only bugs and mice could craw through. Emaly just looked out to see the shape of something dark and mysterious floating by, she shivered at the cold chills that went through her. She looked up to see a man, a tall man who had a long beard and sickly pale skin. As if he felt her there, the man looked over and his dark almost dead eyes met her brown ones, she tired to duck quickly but it was too late. He had seen her.

"There was something there," he said with a shaky voice. "A girl! She was there!" The black figures standing next to him slowly turns towards the directions where she was hiding and Emaly starting crawling away, back to her mother. She crawled behind her mother and hid in the hole against the wall that her mother slept against. The man continued screaming until one second she couldn't hear him anymore. After that she listened to her mother and never wondered off again. For years in the prison with Celeste, she stayed in the hole in the wall and her mother, her dear mother, tried her best to be a great mother. She would Emaly everything she knew and had learned so that the girl won't know nothing but it still wasn't the same. It didn't help that some of the things she told her daughter were more opinions then true things. Celeste didn't think it matter what her daughter knew though as she thought the two would ever be parted.

But they would be parted. The man who had seen Emaly that day when she was young had been in court the summer before Emaly's fourteenth birthday. He told someone that he had seen a girl hiding in the cells one day years ago and that person told another who told another and the words continued on until someone gave the order to see if it was true. The day they came was the last day that Emaly Starling ever saw her mother. The two were siting in the cell, Celeste was just watching her daughter playing with rocks in her hole in the wall. Before they could do anything the cell door slammed open and guards rushed in pulling Celeste out of the cell with a tight grip. A tall man with a mustache and a top hat walk into the cell, using his wand to project light the cell. He walked towards the end of the cell before turning around and slowly walking back. Celeste sighed in relief that maybe he wouldn't notice but then suddenly the man stopped right in front of the hole in the wall.

"Mr. Dodge what is it?" A man holding Celeste asked.

Mr. Dodge crouched down onto his knees and looked into the hole, where he met the eyes of thirteen year old Emaly. "Hello little one," he said in a kind voice. He held out his hand into the hole and she just stared at his hand and then back at him. "I'm Fredrick Dodge," he told her. "What's your name?" Still nothing from the young girl. He looked over at her mother and asked the same question.

"It's Emaly River Starling," she told him.

He repeated her name in his head, nodding and turning back to Emaly. He held out his hand to Emaly again. "I know that it's very stressful meeting all these new people but none of us are going to hurt you." She stared at his hand again, "I promise I won't hurt you. In fact I want to help you, Emaly." His kind voice and promises seemed appealing her so she grabbed his hand and he helped her out of the hole. That when he got a good look at the small girl. Her body was so thin like she was a stick and her long black hair seemed to go down her back. She looked like she hadn't eaten in weeks. "How old is she?" He asked. Emily still held his hand even thought his tone was no longer kind and sweet.

Celeste's eyes narrow at the sight of her daughter hand's held being by someone else. She wanted to scream at him and tell him at get away from her but she didn't want to lose her daughter, the only good thing she had in her life. "She's thirteen. She will be fourteen in January." She explained. Mr. Dodge looked back at Emaly who was looking anxiously down at her feet as if she was scared. Not of someone but what someone would be able to do. "Please she is all I have." Celeste said, pulling on the arms of the others who were holding her back.

Mr. Dodge stared at Celeste who seemed upset about the fact that they could take to her daughter away. But there was something about the fact that she wasn't breaking down in tears, there was something about Celeste Starling that made him think that she didn't view Emaly as daughter but more as something else like she was a prize. "You've had her for thirteen years," he said moving his hand to the side and the guards moved themselves and Celeste away from the opening. "It's time for the girl to have a real life." He began walking away and Celeste screamed out in pain as she watched her daughter being taken away. Emaly watched as her mother disappeared away from her vision, she had tears in her eyes. She was young and had never had anyone else.

In Brockton, Massachusetts, Jasper Martin was cleaning up the dinner in his house while his fourteen (as of three weeks ago) daughter, Jeanine, sat on the couch in the room opposite reading with her cat curled up against her side and his wife, Eleanor, put dishes up in the kitchen. The Martin's were a small family but they were a happy family. They lived in a normal house that was on a normal street but they were a family that wasn't really normal. There suddenly was 'owt' sound from out the window, making both Jeanine and Jasper to look up from what they were doing but Eleanor waved them off to continue on with what they were doing as she opened the window. She grabbed the letter and watched the owl fly off before shutting the window. Eleanor explained the letter in her hands, it was addressed to her husband but it was from Magical Congress of the United States. She wanted to tell herself that it was probably a work related thing but she was curious. Jasper finished cleaning up the dishes and walked into the kitchen, placing the dishes up in the cabinets. "It's for you," Eleanor said. Jasper gave the letter a confused look and began opening it slowly. The letter wasn't about work.

Dear Mr. Martin,

If you remember correctly, you had a relationship with Miss. Celeste Starling who has been imprisoned in Azkaban for thirteen years for killing No-Maj named Gwendolyn Francis. We received a tip a week ago saying that a young girl was being held in Miss. Starling's cell and upon investigation we have discovered that there indeed was a girl living in that cell. We have taken her back to Headquarters and we had her take a DNA test to figure out where the rest of her family. After looking at the DNA results, we have included that she is your daughter. You have been requested to come to Headquarters as soon as possible by Fredrick Dodge to decided the fate of the not then we shall come to you.

Signed,

Martha Holland, Assistant of Mr. Dodge

Jasper read of over the letter several times, he couldn't believe it. He and Celeste had a small affair, in fact it wasn't even a affair, and it was when Eleanor was pregnant with Jeanine and he never regretted something so much. It was only one night and he didn't really remember how things went down, when minute she was working and then the next minute things were happening and he ended up cheating on his wife. He was surprised Eleanor even forgave him for what he had done, it took even longer for him to forgive himself. Things had gotten better over the years as Jeanine got older and they were fine, he didn't know how he was going to tell her that he had gotten that girl pregnant and he had another had another daughter.

"What is it?" His wife asked, crossing her arms. He opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out. He closed his mouth and handed over the letter. Jasper watched as she read the letters, he couldn't read her expression which annoyed him. After a couple seconds, she looked up at him and gave the letter back to him. "What are you going to do?" She asked him quietly.

Jasper shrugged, "I don't know." He said, placed the letter down against the kitchen counter. "I mean I have to go and see her right? They said if I didn't they were bring her here and I don't want that."

Eleanor nodded in response, "Okay I'll go with you." She said.

"You don't have to," he said, not protesting it but he was scared that seeing Celeste's daughter would just bring up old memories.

"She's your daughter. I'm your wife and I want to see her and help you make the correct decision." She explained. "Now please go get my coat and I'll go and try to explain this to Jeanine." Jasper nodded his head and did as he was told. It took a while before Eleanor returned back to the kitchen with Jeanine running up the stairs with her cat following her. He guessed learning this new information was going to be hard on her. They were both silent as they walked to fireplace and fooed to the Headquarters. It didn't take them long to find Martha who leaded them to a small office. There was a window on the door where Jasper could see a man in a suit with a mustache sitting at a table and across from him sat a small thin girl with long dark hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a shirt that was too big for her and heavily eating a burger and as they watched, Eleanor's heart swelled as she look so much like Jasper. Martha knocked against the door, making the man Jasper assumed was Fredrick Dodge look up at the door.

He said something to girl and she stopped eating for a second to listen to what he was saying before going back to eating. "You must be Jasper Martin," the man said as he shut the door behind him. Jasper looked away to greet the man while Eleanor greeted him for a second before looking back at the girl. "She is in the room as you might have seen already." He said nudging towards the door. They all stared at her for a couple seconds, and Emaly could feel their eyes on her, she turned towards the door and gave them a shy wave before quickly turning away so that she couldn't see their reactions. "She's pretty shy," Mr. Dodge explained. "The only other person she ever spoke to was her mother and according to Emaly, her mother trained her not to talk to others." He looked over to see the Martin's have look mixed of shock and confusion. "It was so that she won't get caught and taken away," he explained, trying to reassure them.

They were quiet as if to think about what to say next, before Eleanor cleared her throat and asked, "What else did her mother teach her?" She asked. "If you were able to talk about that with her."

"We did talk about," Fredrick said, turning back towards the window. "Her mother taught her somethings and not all of them correct but some were things that she should know."

"She talks to you?" Jasper asked. He was nervous about everything, he didn't know how things were going to down. His mind was spinning.

Mr. Dodge shrugged, "A little. She was hungry so I let her eat and she has never been around anyone else and I think that she is scared that she is going to make her mother unhappy so she is being careful with what she is going to say." He explained. "She's very bright for what she knows and she still needs proper education and despite what she might have seen when she was in the prison, I think she will do fine."

"What will happen to her?" Eleanor asked.

He sighed, looking at the couple, "That is for you to decided as you are the only family she has left." Eleanor placed her hand over her mouth in shock as she listened. The poor girl had no one else but a mother in Azkaban, they didn't even know her and they had to decided what to do next. "Her mother was orphaned and she had no other family besides her sister who died last year. She isn't allow to talk to her mother anymore and she isn't allowed to make decisions about Emaly's life anymore."

"What choices do we have?" Jasper asked. Eleanor looked over at him like he was an idiot because she knew what they had to do and she didn't understand why he was asking what else there was. Unless he was thinking that may they should be taking a different road with this girl. She was his daughter why was he thinking like this?

"You can either take her in or she will be entered into the Foster System," Mr. Dodge explained. "It's your decision."

Eleanor looked over at Jasper who was nodding his head. He didn't seem sure about what to do next. She responded, "Can we talk to her?" She asked. Mr. Dodge nodded and he opened the door, letting them thought the door. Before he closed it, he told that if they needed anything he was going to be on the other side of the door. Emaly finished up eating her burger and looked over at them for a second before looking back down at the table. Eleanor couldn't notice how sick the girl looked, her skin was pale to the point where it looked like she hadn't seen the sun in years and there was bags under her eyes. They sat in silence for a couple seconds before Eleanor broke the silence. "Hello," she said. Emaly nodded and gave a polite smile and muttered something was too quiet for either of them to here but they guessed it was 'hi'. "I'm Eleanor Martin," she said. She looked over at Jasper waiting for him to respond but he stayed quiet so she decided to answer for him. "This is my husband, Jasper, he is -"

"I know who he is," Emaly said. It wasn't very loud but it louder that what she had said before. She looked up at them now, her eyes were filled with sadness. "Mr. Dodge said that you were coming by," she paused looking at Jasper for a couple seconds, "plus my mother told me that I looked liked you." Emily added. Once she said it she took her eyes away from him.

"Your mother talked about me?" Jasper asked. He was surprised as he and Celeste didn't leave things on good terms. She hated him. She even went to prison without telling him she was pregnant.

She shrugged, "A little but not a lot. She only told me that I looked like you and that you were died."

Jasper cleared his throat, unsure of what to say. "I'm not died." He said and Eleanor rolled her eyes at her husband.

"I kind of figured," she said and the silence returned to the room for a while. "Is this all you are going to do?" Emaly asked. "Just stare at me and ask me about my mother?" The couple shared a look trying to figure out what they should say but nothing came out. They didn't know what to say as they had no clue what to do or say about this. "Why don't you tell me something about you?"

"We've been together for sixteen years now," Eleanor explained. "We have a daughter named Jeanine who is only older then you by a couple months and she goes to Ilvermorny." Emaly raised her eyebrows and she continued to explain. "It's the magic school here in a America. I'm guessing that your mother never you about that?"

She shook her head, "She only planned on us being together." She said it so quietly that they almost missed it and Eleanor kind of wished that she did because hearing those words broke her heart. She looked over at her husband who seemed lost in everything and she sighed. They talk for a short while after that it was nothing major, just small talk. The girl just didn't know what to do or what to say as she had never had to talk to anyone other then her mother or do anything else then but hide in the from the world but she was in the world and she was only confused as ever. The couple walk out of the room and Mr. Dodge was waiting on the other. He asked if they had decided on anything and before Jasper could say anything, Eleanor beat him to it, telling him that they need to talk before anything could be said. He nodded and walked as her and her husband walked away from the door.

"What are you thinking?" She asked her husband who was looking nervous about all this. He looked paler then normal and like his mind was somewhere else.

"I don't know," he said. "I don't how to deal with all this." He placed his head in his hands as they sat in the hallway.

Eleanor bit her lip as she looked at her husband, she knew what choice they had to make and it was a choice that she might have to make for him. "I know what we are going to do," she said, making him look up at her. "We are going to give that girl a home and a life and try and get her into a school so that she can learn because she made not me my daughter but she is your's which means we aren't leaving her to be on her own when she has no one." She said it all in a confident attitude. Her husband nodded his head and they walked back towards Mr. Dodge nodded his head as they spoke about Emaly he seemed pleased with their decision. He explained that things probably weren't going to be easy for them or for her and that he would talk to some people about getting her into the school.

"I will also have come by and visit every now and then to check up her and how is doing," he said, "to make sure that she is doing well and is being right fairly." The couple nodded and he went back into the other room where Emaly sat and they watched from the window. He seemed to speak in a calm voice as he explained to her what was happening, she didn't reacted to what she was hearing. She didn't seem calm, just unsure about everything. When he was done talking, she stood up from the chair and walked towards the door with Mr. Dodge following behind her. He grabbed a black coat and handed it over to her. She put in it on and was much bigger then her. She walked out of the door and not saying anything and neither did they. They all walked away and back to the Martin's home where Emaly Starling would started her new life.

a/n it's funny. it's got the idea for this book at the beginning of the year but everything was crazy so I never got around to it and now it's the end of the year I'm finally writing it. this is going to be an interesting story and I'm hoping that I'll get through it. I'm just in a good mood now that I finally have a good schedule and I'm finally getting through my depression. we will be going to ilvermorny soon but just be calm. daybreak will be updated soon and then maybe annabelle strange book two? i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and look out for the next one soon.