A/U: Hope you like it, it's longer this time.
I heard the mumbles of people below me. I lifted my eyes with great effort to find myself in a room that wasn't mine. I blinked again to make sure I wasn't dreaming. When the smell of mildew and dust hit me I knew it wasn't a dream I sat up suddenly remembering the events of the day before.
I looked around the dusty grey room and found a window. A door slammed from a floor above me. I jumped slightly and stood up hesitantly avoiding any squeaky floors. I tiptoed over to the window and tried to push it open but to no avail it wouldn't budge. I sighed and looked around for another solution besides going out the door where people might be able to see. The room was extremely old it seemed. The walls were horribly worn and the floor squeaked at every movement. The furniture looked as though it had snowed on the inside with all the dust, and the sheets smelled like something out of a trunk in my grandmothers' attic.
What time was it? I searched for my i-pod but found it was gone then looked out the window to see a morning sunrise. I must have been out for hours.
"Fred Weasley how many times have I told you" I heard a motherly stern tone being used from below me. Maybe if there was a staircase or another window I could climb out of in the hall I could get out of this place.
I tip toed again to the door and held my breath as I turned the knob slowly. I got the door entirely open and still heard the ruckus continue from beneath. I stepped out seeing another window near the stair case. I walked over slowly to the window my hands were sweating because I was so anxious. I reached the window and attempted to open the window, yet again it wasn't budging, and there were no locks.
"None of these windows open silly muggle raised…" was all the little wrinkly thing said before I let out a blood curdling scream. I heard several chairs scrape against the floor and several other feet rushing to see where my screams were coming from. The wrinkly dwarf with a big nose and a horrible shirt simply glared at me continuing to clean. I saw three men running up the stairs and I darted to the room I was previously in.
I slammed the door shut and locked it with a lock on the doorknob and leaned against the door so that they couldn't open it.
"Open the door please" one man asked calmly.
"He's only a house elf" another man explained.
"Move aside" the third man said calmly.
"Alohomora" the third man chanted and the door blew open knocking me to the ground. I scurried even though my head was throbbing across the bed and into the corner grabbing a chair to block them off.
"Please put the chair down" a man with blondish hair and a mustache calmly said gesturing with his hands.
"I want to go home" I almost growled through gritted teeth.
"This is your home for now" the dirty man from the other day tried to smile a little.
"If you put the chair down and calmly follow us we will explain everything" another man with red hair smiled kindly.
"How can I trust you" I started to tear up a little. The men all looked at each other for a second.
"You can't but you'll just have to" it made no sense but I put down the chair but still kept my space.
"Good now, why don't we have a cup of tea" the red head asked walking out of the room followed by the dirty blonde man.
"Sorry for knocking you out the other day" the dirty man apologized. I followed by a good six feet behind them. As I reached the bottom stair I realized that there were actually several people in this house. They all looked really odd though. One girl had hair that changed colors. She waved at me with a cheerful smile. Another man had a small amount of hair and his eye was strapped to a strap that went around his head, he simply nodded his head respectfully. There was also a pair of twins who were wrestling with each other for some type of bottle. They both suddenly looked up when another red head nudged them, all three of them waved with big smiles on their faces. The red head looked around my age.
"Oh, there you are, I'll put on a cup of tea for you, and breakfast should be just about ready" a woman who sounded a lot like the woman who was yelling at someone named Fred smiled and ran to the stove to put on a kettle.
The dirty man pulled out a chair and offered it to me. I inspected it before I sat down. The red headed man sat next to me and across from me the dirty man sat, and next to him the blondish haired man sat down.
"Before we say anything I think we should all get to know each other" the red head man said.
"I am Arthur, this is my wife Molly" he pointed to the red hair woman who smiled at me "we have seven children, but only four are living here. Fred and George are twins, Ron is there younger brother, and then Ginny is their younger sister."
"I'm Serious" the dirty man said.
"And I'm Remus" the blondish man folded his hands together.
"You might have saw Moody, and Tonks" Arthur pointed to the two really weird people who I saw coming into the kitchen that were now standing behind us, I waved. Then I heard a door squeak open and a tall pale skinned man walked out. He had long black oily hair which fell down to his shoulders and his entire wardrobe was black.
"That is Severus."
The man simply stared at me then continued to finish what he was doing and walked out.
"He doesn't bite, that would Remus here" Serious smirked at his own joke. Remus simply smiled shaking his head.
"Now Ann, Severus says that you did receive our letter" Arthur asked, I nodded frowning.
"As we said in it yesterday you are not who you think you are, there is a whole other world which you do not know about" Arthur began.
"Which will explain Kreacher upstairs" Serious cut in.
"Yes, you see, you are unique, you are a witch. All of us in this room are witches and wizards" he paused for my reaction.
"Are you eccentric or something?"
"No, see" he flicked a piece of wood, which looked like a wand almost like Serious' but not exactly, at my chair and I started to levitate into the air. I screamed and as he pulled his wand back my chair fell to the ground.
I turned around to look at everyone else; the girl with the odd colored hair had suddenly changed her hair color. I was so confused and the fact that I had a headache didn't help.
"Here's your tea" Molly said handing me a mug. She placed the tea, and cream on the table and handed everyone else coffee. I started to stir my tea wanting to just forget about what Arthur just did. He flicked his wand at my spoon and it stirred itself also picking out what I usually take in my tea. I sat there stunned.
"Now that you might believe us, you are like us. You can do all of this and much, much more…" he explained to me exactly how other magical children will go to a school and learn magic and how there are different subjects and how non-magic people are called muggles.
"But why wasn't I told before like everyone else" I asked suddenly intrigued.
"You'll find that out when you're older."
I didn't know why I believed them, it was non-sense. I had never seen anything close to magic. Nor have I ever done anything like magic. I started to think back to when me and my brother were fighting and his cereal just randomly exploded into his face. There was also a time when I felt bad for a fish that my father had caught while fishing and it came back to life. My parents… Would I ever get to see my parents again?
"What about my family, will I ever get to see them again" I asked. Arthur had a very solemn face and Serious was reaching for my hands which I pulled away onto my lap.
"Maybe in time" Arthur finally spat out.
"Maybe in time" I screamed standing up "What do you mean maybe in time, I want to go home now. This is… it's not real, you can't do this. You're just one of those crazy cults is all, and I'm not going to join. I want to go home!"
"Mystic" Arthur sympathetically said reaching for my hand I ran out of reach.
"That's not my name" I screamed and ran to the front door which was locked, I tried to kick it open but it didn't seem to budge.
"Calm down" Remus grabbed me from behind, I flailed out at him.
"Don't touch me" I was crying at this point. He knelt down onto the floor and curled in my legs so that I was in a fetal position. I was hysterically crying trying to catch my breath. I gave up after several useless attempts to break free of his grasp.
Eventually my hysterics had ceased and the tears on my face dried into a sticky mess.
"Alright, why don't you go and clean yourself up, Ginny told us the stuff you would probably need from your house and Severus went and retrieved it. It should be in the room you woke up in" I nodded and darted up the stairs.
I searched the room for a piece of paper and pen. I needed to let my mom know where I was. I found paper a bottle of ink and an owl feather. I had never written like this but I had to give it a try.
"Dear Family
I wanted to let you know that currently I am safe but I have no clue if it is going to stay that way. I don't know entirely where I am, but the people who took me claim to be Arthur and Serious. I don't know their last names and they claim to be wizards and say that I am a witch. The last place I remember being was at a playground on Knights Lane. The place where they brought me looks run down and dusty. There are several people here they appear to be pleasant but I'm not entirely sure.
I love you
Anna"
I folded up the letter and tried to find an envelope but found none. There was a small stamp though like one that they would use in old times. I picked up the stamp but found no candle or matches. I groaned. How was I even going to send the letter?
I jumped and hid the letter behind my back when I heard three knocks on the door. I quickly looked in the mirror and sighed.
"What" I asked harshly through the door.
"Breakfast is ready" a girl said. I presumed that she was probably Ginny. I decided best if I cooperated so I quickly changed my clothes into something more appropriate than the shorts. I threw on a pair of skinny jeans and found my white cardigan. I took off my make-up and brushed my hair out.
I hesitantly walked out incase that creepy little creature was still outside. It wasn't so I walked downstairs to find the twins, who I think were called Fred and George, pop out of no where and scare Molly who almost dropped the plate of food she was carrying to the large table.
"Saved you a seat" a red head girl suggested pulling out the seat for me. I sat down next to her.
"You're Ginny right" I asked.
"Yes, and you're Ann" she asked.
"Mhm" I nodded as Serious sat next to me. I rolled my eyes at him slightly.
"Just a heads up, Molly's taken a liking to you, so you'll probably be fat by the end of the summer" he whispered in my ear.
"Alright everyone dig in" Molly smiled. I took in all of the food that she put out. There were eggs, sausage, pork roll, scrapple, cinnamon buns, toast, and another type of eggs. There was some type of juice that looked carrot juice or something and a tea kettle.
"Well come on dear eat" Molly insisted handing me a bowl of eggs. I laughed slightly and took a little bit of eggs. By the time she stopped ordering me to take certain foods I had a mountain in front of me. I looked over at Ginny who giggled a little then ate her own food. I could only take a couple of bites before my stomach told me that I was full. Ron who was sitting next to Ginny happily took the rest of my food.
"So do you think that you are ready to start your lessons today" Serious asked after he finished eating. I starred at him confused yet again "Severus will be instructing you on Potions, Defense against the dark arts, and Transfiguration and I will be instructing you on charms, mystical creatures, and history.
I shrugged my shoulders and almost died when I turned to Tonks and saw her hair change colors from purple to a hot red as she started to yell at Moody.
"She charmed it" Ginny whispered in my ear.
"Uh… okay" I said unsure.
"Why don't we go and get started on some charms as a matter of fact downstairs" Serious asked standing up. I stood up and followed him.
"Is anyone else going to come" I asked scared that something might happen if we were alone.
"Ginny, Ron, do you guys want to come and watch" he asked.
"Sure there's nothing else around here to do" Ginny smiled and followed, Ron grabbed his plate which still had food on it and followed behind.
"Now, we went and bought you a wand which should do fine for you, why don't you give it a try" he handed me a light brown stick with a handle of the end. I held it starring at him.
"What should I do with it" I asked him.
"Oh just flick it at the flowers" he instructed pulling out a vase with a couple of dead roses in it.
I flicked the wand at them and the roses seemed to revive returning to their natural color. I looked back down at my hand and gasped. Did I really just do that?
"It's a perfect fit" he clapped his hands together and started to teach me a couple of things. I couldn't believe this was really happening. He taught me about different types of charms and spells, and different creatures like house elves and unicorns, and some of the history like how there are pure bloods and half bloods and how at Hogwarts where the other students were going to go they were sorted into different houses. I was always eager in school but I was never this interested I absorbed every bit of information I could get. We finally had to stop though when Molly yelled down for us to come up for dinner.
"Am I going to go to school with them" I asked hopefully.
"Um… No, we have to train you here" he smiled.
"Hermione" Ginny yelled when she got to the top of the steps. Ron darted up after her. I walked up behind Serious who also went to great the new person.
"Mystic…" Serious began.
"Ann" I corrected him.
"Ann" he sighed "this is Hermione."
"Hermione this is Mys… Ann" he corrected himself.
"Nice to meet you" she held out her hand which I took politely "I don't think I've seen you at school before where do you go?"
"Um… I just found out about all of this stuff."
"Oh, if you need any help I have tons of books and I can help you if you'd like" she smiled.
"Thanks that would be great" I returned the smile.
We all sat down for dinner and enjoyed the meal. Fred and George flung food at each other and Ron ate practically the whole plate of chicken. Molly stuffed Hermione's and my own plate like a mountain. Serious and Remus told me about some pranks that they used to pull on Severus who sat there looking annoyed and ready to murder both of them. I started to feel bad for the pale man who simply nibbled on his food.
After we finished eating I went back up to my room where I found that Hermione would be sleeping too. There was a second bed placed inside. We figured out that while I changed in the bedroom she could go and change in the bathroom. After we both were settle down in our beds, I started to fix my drawers so that there was room for her to put her stuff in. I came across a photo of my family picture I picked it up and slipped it under my pillow.
"Would you like a book" she asked holding up a brown book which looked old.
"Um… sure" I smiled as she tossed it to me.
"It's from my first year, it should be able to help you a little" I nodded and started to read. I finished about a hundred pages when I finally fell asleep in the bed.
"Is this the most recent picture of your daughter" a man in a police uniform asked.
"Mom what's going on" I asked but no one even looked my way.
"Y…Yes" my mother was sitting on the sofa with bloodshot eyes and my dad was holding her close to him.
"About how tall is she" the policeman asked again.
"About five foot six, she's fifteen years old" she started to cry afterwards.
"Alright, we'll do everything we can but since it appears she ran away, there's really nothing we can do" the policeman tilted his hat and walked out. My mother started to cry again.
"Mom, I didn't run away, these men took me and…" I reached for my mother but my hand slipped right through her.
"Mom" I screamed.
"Dad" I screamed even harder.
"I'm right here, you have to see me, and I didn't run away please" I screamed.
"Ann, wake up" Hermione was shaking me.
"What's going on" Serious and Arthur both charged into the room.
"Just a bad dream" Hermione explained cradling me in her arms. I was shaking and crying so hard I felt like I was shaking the whole bed. The men nodded and walked off explaining to other people who were also running over to see what was going on.
"What happened" she asked letting go of me. I shook my head not wanting to tell and turned to my side silently crying.
Did my parents really think that I ran away? What would happen if when I went home when this was all over and they didn't believe me that I was kidnapped I needed to let them know.
"Hermione" I wanted to make sure she wasn't sleeping.
"Yes" she asked turning over to face me.
"Do you have parents" I asked.
"Yes I do their dentist's" she smiled.
"Do they know that you're here?"
"Yes… do yours?"
I stayed silent; I turned back over to face the window and watched the crescent moon. It seemed to lure me into a dreamless sleep so that I could finish my night's rest.
A/U: Hope you liked it I'll update ASAP. Please comment, review, criticize, or complain. XD