A/N: Who is excited for Monday for series two of the Worst Witch? I know I am, I can barely contain my excitement.

I hope you all enjoy my brand new story and thank you to the stargate time traveller for helping me with this idea, I hope you love the way it came down on paper.

Reviews would be appreciated. I do NOT own the Worst Witch Series or the Characters.

What A True Parent Is

Chapter One

Ethel Hallow walked with her arms folded over her chest as her trainers scuffed over the laminate flooring making a squeaking noise. The young blonde chanced a glance at her older sister, Esmerelda, who was walking on her right and saw that the older blonde looked bored to tears as well.

"Ethel, walk properly!" Mrs Hallow shouted to her middle daughter as she heard her scuffing her feet. Ethel turned her gaze away from her sister and sighed.

"Sorry mother" Ethel replied to her looking at the ground.

Ethel and her two sisters, Esmerelda and Sybil, were all out with their parents in Waitrose doing the food shop. To many people they might be wondering why Mr and Mrs Hallow did not just send their servants or butler to do this chore but Mr and Mrs Hallow were very fussy and after they had sent the servants a few times and they had come back with things they did not approve of the couple decided to do the job themselves.

This is exactly why the three girls,who were as blonde as their mother,were bored to tears and Mr and Mrs Hallow did not let their girls wander off to look around but made them stay together the whole time, Ethel had no idea why they had bothered to bring her and her sisters...they would still buy what they want anyway and it was something all three girls had come to dread.

As Mr and Mrs Hallow were talking about meat and trying to decide on what they were buying, Sybil, who had remained quiet like she is supposed to up to this point, suddenly spoke.

"I need the toilet" Sybil told her mother as she picked up some chicken and looked at it.

"Sybil, what have I told you before, that is a rude way to put it, you say I need to use the lavatory" Mrs Hallow told her daughter,scolding her for her choice of words.

Ethel had to hide her smirk at the word lavatory, it always made her giggle as no-one her age used that word anymore.

"Sorry" Sybil replied sadly before she kept talking "But I really need to go" Sybil told her mother and father.

"Okay sweetie, on you go" her father replied thinking she was old enough to go toilet by herself.

"Where are they?" Sybil asked not seeing any signs around for directions.

"They are near the tills Sybs, you have to go around to the other end of the shop" Esmerelda replied helpfully.

"No, what if I can't find you again?" Sybil said her lip pouting. Esmerelda knew getting lost was one of Sybil's huge fears, especially in public, and not thinking it would be a good idea for her parents to get called to customer services because Sybil couldn't find them Esmerelda replied.

"I will go with you Sybil, Ethel do you need to go?" Esmerelda asked her sister and Ethel shook her head.

"No thanks, I am fine" Ethel replied with a smile, she knew she could go just to get away from her parents for a bit but she did not fancy going to public toilets if she had a choice.

"Alright, we won't we be long" Esmerelda said to her parents who barely glanced up as Esmerelda touched Ethel on the shoulder before leading Sybil away.

Ethel followed her parents yawning now and then as they walked down the cheese aisle, Ethel was just about to lie on the floor and cry with boredom when something caught her eye.

"Mother...can we get more chocolate spread?" Ethel asked her mother tugging on her arm. Ethel was fussy with food but she adored chocolate spread,probably a little to much, and she had finished the last of her jar that morning.

Mrs Hallow tutted at her daughter pulling her and although the blonde woman never usually let her girls pick anything she knew Ethel would never shut up until she got it so she agreed.

"If it will keep you quiet" Mrs Hallow told Ethel as she carried on walking with her husband.

Ethel smiled happily and ran over to the spread and jam section looking for her favourite topping, but the space where the jars normally were was empty and Ethel sighed before she looked at the top shelf seeing a new tray ready to be put out. The top shelf of course was for shops to store extra stock until they needed it, and Ethel needed it now.

"Dad I can't..." Ethel started to say, only then realising her parents had walked off without her. Ethel looked around the aisle wanting to ask a shop assistant to get her a jar but there was no one around, there was not even any customers in this aisle at the time, it was empty.

Ethel knew if she went to her parents and told them they had to ask someone to get some down as there was none on the shelf they would not bother to do it and leave the shop without it so Ethel, who was used to getting what she wanted without her parents help, decided to reach the jar herself.

Ethel stood on the lowest metal shelf and stretched up as far as she could but was not even close to reaching the jar she wanted so badly so the young girl gently stepped onto the shelf above her and reached with all her might but she was just to short to be able to grab the jar.

Ethel thought about stepping down and maybe getting Esmie to help her but decided to try once more first, she swung her leg up and put her foot onto the highest shelf before putting her other foot next to her, standing as high as she could on the shelves now.

Ethel reached up easily this time and took her jar of chocolate spread of the shelf, happy that she had managed to get her treat. Knowing Esmerelda would be sending out a search warrant if she did not go and find her family soon, Ethel knew it was time for her to go and catch her parents up.

The young blonde put her foot down gently to climb down the shelves, however, the shelf underneath her was quite low down and Ethel could not see where she was stepping, which is how Ethel missed the step and started to fall backwards.

The girl screamed as she fell but then a few seconds later she fell silent as she smacked her head on the bottom shelf of the shelves she had being climbing and fell to the floor knocked out.

Esmerelda kept her hands on Sybil's shoulders as they walked around the aisles looking for their parents, Esmerelda being that much older, and used to being by herself,was panicking a lot less than Sybil who was already snivelling from worry that they were lost.

"It is okay Sybil, we will find them" Esmerelda told her sister trying to calm her down as she walked down the corridors with her, as they got to the end of one aisle, Esmerelda instantly noticed a large crowd gathered around.

"Excuse me, please, excuse me" Esmerelda said politely as she grabbed a hold of Sybil's hand so as not to lose her as they pushed through the crowd.

"Why is there a big crowd here?" Sybil asked the elder girl curiously, Esmerelda kept pushing through the crowd before replying.

"I have no idea Sybs" Esmerelda replied truthfully as the got to the end of the aisle, that was when Sybil noticed people were kneeling on the floor over someone.

"Oh no someone has hurt themselves" Sybil said not seeing any other reason why they would be lying on the floor.

With such a big crowd of people gathered Esmerelda knew someone must have called for a ambulance and she assumed someone had collapsed or something and she did not think it was right for her sister to see this so she started rushing faster to the end of the aisle when she saw something which nearly made her heart stop.

She happened to get a glimpse of the person lying on the floor as she hurried past with Sybil, she was looking at the person upside down but she would know her sister anywhere. Her sister was lying on the floor and clearly something bad had happened to her.

"Ethie!" Esmerelda screamed as she dropped Sybil's hand in her shock and ran towards Ethel as fast as she could,pushing through the people gathered around her sister to reach her.