Rylie Green and Her Very Long Story

By: moonlightbear

Disclaimer: I don't own JK's world of wizarding magic… and I don't own the devastating world of JERICHO…

Author's notes: read my Jericho story called God Bless the USA… it gives a brief overview of what the country and the town went through… Rylie is mentioned ever so quickly and quietly in it… it may take a long time but Rylie's full story of her time in Jericho will be posted as well…

Also this story will be extraordinarily long because it contains her first three years at Hogwarts. And FYI, you may choose which time period you'd like the story to be in (1990s or 2011, etc.), but any muggle music mentioned will coincide my Jericho timeline. This means, it already existed before 2006 or has a new reason and way to have come about since.

Summary: The war has ended and Rylie is now home, safe and sound… now she must face her family and friends and let them in on the secrets of the new world she calls her own.

Prologue: Punishment

May 10…

Rylie Amelia Green was not a happy camper. She's been in bed, resting for the last few days and had already told her story twice. She was not a story teller. She hated to be the center of attention, and yet her father found it fit for her to retell her story once again for all their closest friends and family, who all of course already know where she goes to school each year. You would think one arm in a sling, the other bandaged, and taking several potions to heal her was enough punishment? But her father feels different.

She sighed. She hadn't planned this but now she had to deal with the consequences of her actions; even if her father was the one who started it. Besides her friends had wonder for ages what was really going on. It was time to tell the truth.

The door bell rang and the first of many entered. Not only were her father, step-mom Emily, and baby brother Johnny going to be there, but so would her Grandma Gail, Uncle Erik, Aunt Mary, and Cousins Abigail and Nathan. Sam Hawkins, and Sally and Woody Taylor, her three best friends, were coming and Mrs. Taylor would be with them, since she over heard the kids talking last summer when they had a sleep over. Uncle Stanley, Aunt Mimi, and their daughter Bella were on their way because Rylie used their farm to fly her broom around since the ranch was too close to town. Her honorary uncles Mikey and Lucas were coming too. These two were Rylie's next door neighbors eight years earlier in South Dakota, when she lived with her mother before Isolation Day. They came to Jericho looking for her and her mother the summer after the second Civil War ended, and decided to stay even though Rylie's mom had died.

There was a knock on her door, "Come in…" Rylie responded without looking. She was having a difficult time trying to put her hair in a ponytail with only one hand.

"Oh honey!" Her grandmother said warmly. "Let me help you with that!"

Rylie smiled. "Thanks, grand…"

"Are you ready for tonight?" She asked.

"Never… Why is dad making me do this?"

"Because he was worried sick since you never came home for Christmas and no owls. Sam told him the little bit you've told your friends, so he went to New York and got his hands on a paper from your world. What he saw/read, it scared him a lot, sweetheart. I think he just hopes if you repeat and remember what you went through, that you won't want to do that again."

"I never wanted to in the first place. I wanted to stay home, with you guys. Dad was the one that sent me away again. 'It's safer'… Yeah, right! It's his own fault, and I did the only thing I could think of after I was there. I had to help! It was the ASA all over again and I wasn't gonna stand by and watch it happen!"

"You know if you had told your father what was happening—"

"I did try… That first Christmas, but New Bern was at ends with us and all dad could think about was getting me back to school without New Bern thinking Jericho was getting more reinforcements that could mess up the treaty. Besides, I was already involved by then… I couldn't just leave them… Dad wouldn't."

"He knows that. I believe underneath all the worry, fear, and false disappointment, he's very proud of you and who you've become."

"Then why doesn't he just—"

"Because he's too much like his father; even though, he'd never admit it." Gail said standing up and heading for the door. "Let's go honey, it smells like dinner is ready and I'm quite interested in finding out how much you've learned of your wizarding relatives."

Dinner was a quiet affair for Rylie, but not for everyone else. There was a lot of loud chatter going around the room. Uncle Erik was going on a trip to Texas next week; Mikey and Lucas put a huge fire out on the Lederman Farm yesterday; Woody was training for the Fall varsity football tryouts this summer; Sally's dance classes had doubled; Sam won a chess tournament a few days ago; and so much more. It wasn't long though before her friends began to ask for details of her latest adventures at school, but Rylie didn't want to repeat her story again, so she told them to wait. They weren't happy.

"Come on, Ry! What happened at the end, between the kid and evil dude?" Woody asked her for the umpteenth time. He always loved the details, which is why he didn't know as much as the other two did.

Rylie glared at him, before sighing. "I only know what I've been told…"

"But you were there, right?"

"Of course, but I got knocked out before Harry showed up again. Truth be told, I was surprised I did wake up…" That shut him up, and Rylie sighed again. "Just wait, ok…"

It was only minutes later when Emily started to fill some coffee cups, made home style hot chocolate, and opened a canister of tasty cookies for dessert. She and Grandma Gail brought everything on trays to the living room, and everyone began to get settled in for a good story.

"Come on kido," Jake said guiding his daughter to her seat.

"Do I have to?" She asked one last time, hoping to get out of it.

"Yes!" Several people responded.

Rylie turn pink slightly. She knew she would eventually tell them all what had happened, but in less words and smaller groups. Not like a formal thing her father made it out to be.

"Did it just start this last year?" Aunt Mary asked politely.

"Nah, it was when she missed my Birthday!" Sally replied, still pouting.

"Green witchy!"

"That was Professor McGonagall, Bella, in green robes. And I've said sorry a bunch Sal, besides I wanted to stay…" Rylie said.

"I bet it started in London…" Mimi guessed.

"The school, school is always awful!" Lucas added.

"We all know how you feel about school, bro, but not for the reasons you think. I do agree though, it was the school." Mikey replied.

Rylie's eyes narrowed at him because he already knew the whole story. He was the second person she had to tell. "Can I start now?" She whined a bit. Several people nodded and she began. "It really all started with The Toad in Pink Robes…"

~~end~~

So that was the prologue… what do you think?

Next chapter starts the first book, Rylie Green and Another Corrupt Government. Stay tuned!