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Chapter Two- First Encounters
"What the hell is going on?" Sophie shrieked as she jerked her arm away from him and backed up against the headboard. Her hand went automatically to the sheet to keep herself decent. What little colour she had recovered in her face drained away at the realisation that she was naked. She shrieked again and flew out of the bed and scrabbled to the corner of the room, the sheet firmly wrapped around her. Her dark brown eyes were widened his shock and fear, the sudden physical exertion of flying from the bed had caused her to lose her breath, her whole body heaved as she tried to get her breath back.
"Sophie, it's alright. You're safe here," James tried to plead but Sophie shook her head frantically, her long brown hair flying about her.
"How can you expect me to believe that?" Sophie cried out. "Look at me!"
"It's not what you think!" James begged immediately not that it did much to convince. Sophie was looking as though she was desperately struggling not to cry. James took a step forward and she screamed,
"Stay back!" She then sunk to the floor with a sob and James took a step back in an attempt to sooth her. Just as he went to call out to his parents they entered the room along with his aunt and uncle.
"James?" Harry questioned at the peculiar situation before them.
"She woke up," James said dumbly.
"Well I think that's obvious," Hermione pointed out as Ginny made her way round the bed, grabbed James and manoeuvred him away from Sophie and towards the others. James watched his mother sit on the end of the bed and say quietly.
"Sophie, none of us are going to hurt you." Sophie looked over at Harry and Ron.
"We took you here," Harry said. James felt his heart skip a beat when Sophie met his eyes again, this time with less shock and fear. Ginny got off the bed and walked over to them.
"I think it's best if you all wait down stairs," she said and motioned them all to leave. James left with the others after one last look at Sophie.
When they got downstairs James saw that the other children had been allowed downstairs again. Albus and Hugo were playing wizard's chess, Hugo beating Albus as usual, having inherited his father's talents for the game. Lily was working on a Potion's essay and Rose was cleaning her broom, a Firebolt 400. As soon as they saw him Lily jumped up from her spot in front of the fire and walked over to him, saying
"What did you do to make the girl scream?"
"Lily!" Everyone except James said.
"We were told not to ask too many questions," Albus reminded her as moved his knight.
"It was only one!" Lily protested.
"Sophie was startled when she woke up, that's all!" Harry said, placing his hand on Lily shoulder. "Now go and work on your essay," Lily pouted and walked back over to the rug in front of the fire.
"Rose, Albus, could you please help me with dinner?" Hermione asked as she headed towards the kitchen. They got up and followed Hermione into the kitchen.
Harry turned to Ron and said, "We better put our report in,"
James, who had sat down opposite Hugo to continue the chess game, looked up and asked, "What's going to happen to her,"
His father turned to him and replied, "Well, she'll stay with us for the time being until we find her parents."
James' face darkened. "But they left her in the dungeons! She's been treated horribly!"
Harry's face was grim as he replied, "I know but we can't keep her,"
"Come on, the sooner we get to the office the sooner we can go home," Ron butted in. So the two older men walked over to the fireplace, Lily got out of the way and they flooed to the Ministry, leaving the three teenagers alone in the living room.
"So, tell us everything!" Lily said excitedly, bouncing in her seat on the lounge.
"What were you told?" James asked, looking at Hugo, who was currently taking James' queen.
"That when Dad and Uncle Harry were called into work today they had to do a raid on the Malfoy's house. When they were there checking the Dungeons they found Sophie in one of the cells." Hugo exclaimed, running a hand through his messy red hair as he looked at the chess board.
"She was conscious then, she told them that her mother had an affair while Mr. Malfoy was away and fell pregnant. Because of all the trouble it would cause Mr. Malfoy made her keep it a secret and hide Sophie away. She was never allowed to go to Hogwarts or even leave the Manor! But before they got any more information out of her they decided to leave, then they hit the trap and so on..." Hugo concluded.
"Checkmate!" he added triumphantly, James had completely forgotten the game and looked down to see that Hugo had indeed won.
"Good game," James said half-heartily, out of reflex more than anything. He was too busy thinking about Sophie. He turned to look into the hallway, up the stairs, as though expecting to see her walking down them.
"So James, what happened when you were up there?" Lily asked eagerly, her dark red hair shining against the light of the fire.
James hesitated before replying, "I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to tell you,"
Lily rolled her eyes and replied, "We know everything anyway," her green eyes lit up and she added, "Unless it was something really exciting!"
"It wasn't," James responded quickly, he didn't want to fuel his sister's imagination. "But this is Auror business; I'm not sure how much we are allowed to talk about. I'll ask Dad later okay?"
"Alright," Lily replied with a sigh.
Rose entered the living room from the kitchen. "Mum says dinner's almost ready, so you lot have to go wash up." She continued walking out of the living room and towards the stairs.
"Where are you going?" James called out suspiciously.
"To tell your mum. Now before you say anything my Mum said it was okay," Rose turned on her heel and disappeared up into the second floor.
With a flash of green light Harry, then Ron appeared out of the fireplace. "Just in time," Hugo said. "Dinner's ready."
"Oh good," Ron said excitedly rubbing his hands together. James and Harry went to follow Ron into the kitchen when a knock at the front door stopped them.
"I forgot! Teddy was coming over for dinner tonight," Harry said.
"That's okay, Dad. I'm sure Teddy will be interested to know what's going on anyway." James replied as they made their way to the front door in the Hall. Harry got there ahead of James and opened the door to find Teddy standing on the porch.
"Uncle Harry!" Teddy exclaimed with a smile and gave a friendly hug.
"Hey James," he added upon seeing him standing in the entrance way. James hugged the older man and asked,
"How have you been?"
"Can't complain, getting things ready for classes next year. You been doing all the homework I set you?"
"Yes, Teddy I have. But I'm still not used to calling you Professor Lupin," James replied with a laugh. "Even though you've been teaching Transfiguration for three years!" Teddy laughed and replied,
"Well you don't have to worry about that now. We are all on holidays so it's not necessary!"
Harry closed the front door and said, "Come on, into the dining room, you're just in time for dinner,"
The three men turned around and James stopped in shock of seeing not only his mum walking down the stairs but Sophie as well. She was dressed in Rose's white cotton dressing gown and matching slippers. She looked as though she had bathed and her hair was brushed and left down, the long hair ending at her waist.
"We thought it would be nice if she came down and had something to eat," Ginny said with a note of cheerfulness.
"How are you feeling?" Harry asked, smiling.
Sophie returned the smile softly and replied, "Much better thank you," Her eyes met James and they both seemed to be frozen in the spot, temporarily focused on her dark brown eyes staring into his honey ones.
"I'm Teddy," Teddy interrupted, walking past James to the stairs and holding out his hand. "Teddy Lupin,"
Sophie looked away from James to give Teddy a polite smile. "Sophie Morrissey, it's nice to meet you," she shook his hand.
"I don't recognise you, do you go to Hogwarts?" he enquired and Ginny replied,
"No, not at the moment. We can talk about that later. I'm sure everyone is waiting for us to get to the table."