She's Back

Ch.2

by Rosie Jade

Rowan woke up with a start, the first thing she noticed was a tapping at her window. She turned towards it and was surprised to see two ginger faces staring back at her. She jumped up and rushed to the window to open it.

"George! Fred!" she whispered furiously at them. "What are you two doing here!?"

Fred and George looked at her in astonishment.

"Why are we here?" they mimicked her in unison.

"Where here because you haven't written Fred, Oliver, Ginny, Charlie, Percy or I at all this summer. Where here because we where all worried sick about you!" George said, almost shrieking.

Rowan motioned for him to be quiet, "Don't make so much noise, if my Uncle finds you here all three of us are dead!" she snapped at him.

"Four of us you mean." Percy said as he jumped into the room after the Twins.

Rowan looked out the window to see how they at gotten up to her second story window, and she almost screamed in surprise at the flying car that was floating outside her window.

"What the hell is that thing, what if someone from the neighborhood see's that and rings my Uncle to tell him that there is a FLIPPING FLYING CAR OUTSIDE HIS FREAK NIECE'S WINDOW!" she quietly screamed at them.

All three of them looked guilty, and turned away from the anger they could feel radiating off of her in waves.

Rowan was beyond angry at them, but she reared her anger in so they could get her out of this horrid, ugly place.

"So are we going or not?" she said to them snappily.

Fred nodded at her and motioned for her to crab Hedwig's cadge and all the other stuff she wanted to take with her.

"Where's your trunk?" George asked her.

Rowans face lit up bright red and she looked down at the floor, she didn't want to tell them that her Uncle had taken her school things away from her and locked them away in her old bedroom, the cupboard under the stairs.

"Its...um...it's in the cupboard under the stairs...but my doors locked and so is the cupboard...so I figured I'd...um just bye some new stuff...you know." she told them, stuttering, completely mortified.

All three of them looked at her, and then turned there heads towards the door in anger at how she felt ashamed for something that wasn't in her control.

"We can pick locks," Fred assured her. "Charlie taught us, I'll go and get it, cupboard under the stairs you said?" he asked her.

Rowan nodded her head in his direction, and he was off to picking the locks and getting her school things

She helped Percy and George get the rest of her things into the car, then all three of them piled in to wait for Fred.

Once Fred was back and they had her trunk in the back of the car, was when her Uncle, who had been breathing funny and snorting through all of there rescue attempted, decided to burst through the door screaming at her to quite down, but they heard nothing as they flew off into the clouds toward the Burrow.

Rowan rested her head on the seat in front of her, a headache hitting her suddenly as they flew through the night sky.

"Are you ok Ro?" Percy, who was in the back with her, asked as he placed his hand on her back.

Rowan was about to answer him, when a sudden pain exploded in her temple, and she black out into painless bliss.

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When Rowan came back to herself, she was immediately jumping up and crouching into a defensive position on the ground, staring at the people in the room with her. She quickly noticed that there was only one potential threat in the room, and that was Dumbledore, and she could easily take him out.

"What do you want with me Dumbledore?" she snarled viciously.

Everyone looked at her shocked, except Dumbledore who just looked worried and a little bemused.

"My dear girl," he started, "I am here, because while you where escaping you relatives house with the Messrs Weasley, they tell me you suddenly blacked out. I am here out of sheer worry for you, child"

Rowan snarled at him, and then laughed bitterly, "Like you care about me Dumbledore, I'm just your pawn in your war against Tom."

Dumbledore was starting to look very worried now, "My dear...where did you hear the name Tom from?" he questioned her.

Rowans face lit up in a cruel smile, "That is for me to know and you to find out all by your lonesome little self, now isn't it." she said cackling.

She then turned to the Weasleys, "Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, for caring so much about my welfare." she told them smiling kindly.

The Weasleys looked a little shocked, but all of them shook it off and smiled at her. Mrs Weasley came forward to crush her in a hug.

"It was no problem dear, I just wish my boy's had told us what was going on we would have went to fetch you from you relatives sooner." Mrs Weasley said, as she fussed over her state.

"Now your just entirely too thin, come down and have breakfast," she said to Rowan, and then turned to Dumbledore, "Thank you for you help Albus, but I do think all Rowan needs now is a little mothering."

Dumbledore, still looking very worried, chuckled at Mrs. Weasley, "I do believe that I shall leave her in your expert hands, Molly" he said, then steeped out of the room to the fireplace, grabbing some Floo powder, flouncing in hurriedly in and Flooing away to his office.

Mrs. Weasley was left beaming in pride, and ushering Rowan and the rest of the Weasley's into the kitchen for their breakfast.

TBC