My mother's screaming had woken me and I jumped off my bed and grabbed my wand from the bedside table. I looked around my bedroom frantically when the door was flung open and mum charged in with Hugo. "Go to Teddy's! Quick, they're coming, you're cousins will explain! Just go" she begged, looking desperate. "Mum" I moaned rubbing my eyes as she summoned out trunks. "Rose Death Eaters are coming, you have to go now; your father and I have to do something. JUST GO" she screamed as seven hooded figures appeared. Hugo and I screamed and I grabbed his hand and our trunks before disapparating.
"MUM, DAD" Hugo shrieked, dropping to the floor as we landed. I pulled out my wand as someone yelled our names and I spun around in a full circle. We were in Teddy's house, thank Merlin. He lived in what used to be the Shrieking Shack, Uncle Harry had brought it and gave it to Teddy as a wedding gift (Teddy married Victorie in my third year of Hogwarts) and the house had held a deep meaning to him and his father. Something I never exactly understood as the house was supposedly haunted. He promised to tell me one day. The main room was decorated in bold colours and a few items of furniture scattered around. The two big windows were covered with the old Gryffindor hangings. The furniture was very old; some even appeared to be torn to shreds because they came with the house.
James, Al, Lily, Roxanne, Fred, Lucy, Molly, Dominique and Louis were all around us, sat on old seats or the floor, all pale and scared looking. James and Al had the traditional Potter black hair but James had his mum's eyes while Lily had her hair and she and Al had their dad's eyes. Roxanne was a spitting image of her mother, while Fred was a duplicate of his father. Molly and Lucy were completely different. Lucy had fuzzy red hair, tonnes of freckles and a complete sport freak when Molly had dead straight brown hair, not a single freckle and was a workaholic. Dominique and Louis were both like Victorie who resembled the vela within beautifully. Teddy was just like his mum according to Harry except with turquoise hair and his dad's face.
I looked around at my assembled family as Teddy and Victorie came thundering down the stairs. They too, were pale and scared. "Oh thank Merlin!" Victorie squeaked and flung herself at us. Hugo and I hugged her back earnestly as Teddy spoke to us all. "So tomorrow was supposed to be when some of you found out but I suppose it's a bit late now" he said uneasily and James stood up. "Death Eaters have gone to all our houses, they're killing anyone related by blood to any of the Golden Trio because…" James broke off and turned helplessly to Fred. "Because there is a new Dark Lord, Harry received a tipoff about it last year but the only new information he got was a couple of months ago and it was about our families being targeted" Fred looked to Louis who cleared his throat and spoke as well.
"Harry told all our parents and Teddy who then came up with plans to do in an emergency. The plans were to get all of us here while they defended us at our homes. When we're here; Teddy and Victorie have to start planning on escape teams and routes should something go wrong. If the worse does happen we've got meet up points at certain times, places to stay, all of which we can only see when we read it. Teddy and Victorie have written it down on pieces of parchment at the places we're staying so that should some of us get kidnapped and they read our minds or whatever, they won't know where the others are because we only know where we're going" Louis had barely whispered them, yet the words had fallen like stones on our ears.
"What?" Lily snapped looking furious and horrified. "If something bad happens, we're going to be split up and have certain safe houses to go to; none of the others will know where our safe houses will be though. We have certain places where we meet up as well" I muttered, wrapping my head around it. I glimpsed up at Teddy who nodded, confirming what I said. "So I might not be with Rose?" Hugo whispered looking close to death. "We thought we'd split you guys up with who you work best with, so that if you were caught, you would fight better together" Victorie said smoothing back his curly orange hair and fixing up his thick glasses.
"Hugo, we'll be fine. No one will let anything happen to you" I breathed taking his shaking hand in mine. "We've got you're rooms ready" Teddy muttered and we all followed him out the room. There was a long narrow hallway that led from the front door. It had four different doors leading off somewhere else, one staircase and two archways; one to the kitchen and one to the main room. The four other doors led to a bathroom, a study and spare bedrooms. In the first spare room it was Molly, me, Dominique, Lily and Roxanne. In the second spare bedroom it was Hugo, James, Al, Fred, Louis and Lucy.
"We'll see you in the morning" Teddy and Victorie waved as they ascended the stairs and we all trudged off to bed. There were no beds and instead, sleeping bags because they decided it would be unfair if only one of us had a bed. I completely agreed although, it would have been just a tiny bit more comfortable for me to sleep on. But sleep I did, I entered a world of pain, horror and all the other terrible things my head could come up with before Dominique woke me up at ten in the morning.
"Come on, we're going to have breakfast and get the bags ready" she whispered shaking me lightly. "Bags?" I groaned sitting up in the squishy purple sleeping bag. "In case we get raided. The bags will be hidden around the house" she explained hastily. She tossed me a black dress and a change of undies before leaving the room. I looked around at my white and green surroundings. There was a desk with a couple of books piled on it, the others sleeping bags scattered around the room, colour coded so we know which one is whose. There were light green curtains shielding most the light spewing from the huge window and white walls and carpet.
I quickly changed into the short dress and joined the others in the kitchen. The kitchen was a vast room with heaps of space. There were black and white counters along sea blue walls and a table in the centre of the room with chairs crowded around it. I sat down in the chair between Al and Hugo as they served me warm rolls and some porridge. I muttered thanks and began eating the scalding hot food. "We're gonna pack the bags in a minute then we can start getting everything together. I'll be the one doing all the shopping so while you're packing make a list of what we need and I can get it without getting caught" Teddy told everyone and we nodded obediently.
"We should have our own bags, because there will be personal items some will need and others won't" I said, swallowing down a lump of porridge and bread. "Rose we can't do that, if an emergency happens we don't want some of us running upstairs and some of us going down to get the right bag" Victorie said and I heard the faint remains of what used to be her thick French accent (she lived there for ten years before Hogwarts). "Well can we have our own bags to carry around here?" I snapped a little bit too harsh, but I did have some items I would not lose for the life of me, even if that was the asking cost.
"Okay, so when we're all done, we can start getting the bags together'' Teddy said taking Victorie's hand in his and giving her a reassuring look. "We should lay down some rules though, about things to have in the bag and all that" I suggested, finishing off my roll. "Okay then, anyone got ideas?" Dominique asked looking around at us all. "Food that won't go off, fresh bottles of water every day, a change of clothes for both genders and ways to contact each other" Molly said immediately. "How can we contact each other?" Lucy snorted.
"Muggle mobiles, I'll go visit Dennis later, see what he can do" Teddy grunted, shifting in his seat. "I think the bags will have to be small enough to carry easily, which means we can't use trunks" James yawned, ruffling his hair as he stretched. "Are you all crazy?" Lily screamed. "Lil's not now" Al muttered to her. "Al, Merlin, just listen to the lot of you!" she yelled at us. We sat in silence listening to her, a little shocked, a little relieved. "Our parents are missing! People are probably trying to kill us!" She bellowed; her face was red and clashed terribly with her hair.
"Lily" Louis muttered looking a little uncomfortable. "I want to know what the fuck is going on! I want to know who is attack and who the fuck is the new Dark One" she shrieked. "Lily sit down and we'll explain as best we can" Roxanne snapped tugging on the skinny wrist and pulling the girl into her chair. "Roxa-"Lily hissed slapping at the hand holding her down. "Look, I'll explain it to you all as best as I can" Teddy snapped, looking exhausted and ready to collapse.
"There is a new guy around, we've no idea who he really is; just that he claims he is a reincarnation of Voldemort. He's had a year or more to plan and now apparently, he's at work. I think he wants to get the Golden Trio, especially Harry. Anyone related to them are most likely going to be… most… most likely to be killed" as he said it the room temperature dropped. It was like everything turned to ice and whatever colour was in anyone's faces drained almost instantly. "Mum" Hugo breathed and I grasped his hand.
"I think all your parents, even nana and papa Weasley, have been taken somewhere and stuff is happening. They might be tortured or anything" Teddy swallowed and we all hung onto every word he spoke. "Harry received tipoff's and while most of you have been at Hogwarts the rest of us have dedicated our time to planning, preparing and warding. Dennis is in contact with me and he and I have been working on the muggle mobiles, getting them to run on magical airwaves" he rushed to the finish of what he was saying and we all leant back in our charges, barely able to breath.
"How far have you got?" Fred whispered, shaking horribly. "Pretty well actually; I haven't agreed to meet him today but I'm going to go as soon as we're ready, we need the phones now more than ever" Teddy answered and we all stood up. "Well let's start. We need to be prepared" I muttered and led the way to the main room. Hugo crept up beside me and wrapped a hand around my shoulders. I shrugged him off and sat the furthest away from anyone, I needed to think and to think, I needed space.
We sat around in a circle with bags for each of us. The bags were all the same, the usual grey, Hogwarts emblem, and too many pockets to count. Inside the bags were quills and parchment, mobile pockets, a change of clothes for boys and girls, a hair brush, toothbrushes, cans of food and a filled bottle of water. When we finished that, Teddy left with a list of things we would all need, our trunks were placed in a hidden trap door at the back of the pantry in the kitchen. We then placed the bags, in easy to access obvious places. "Just in case" soon became our motto. Lunch was a quiet event and soon we were all tucked up in bed sleeping the days away.
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