Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters, they of course belong too a miss JK Rowling that we all know and love or we wouldn't be writing these tributes of sorts.

Authors notes: I don't know where this came from but I thought it would be interesting - this will be a Minerva / Hermione story I can assure you, but it might take me a while to get there, I'm not very good at writing Fanfic yet and I know I tend to waffle on a lot of rubbish smiley face but you'll just have to go with it. Oh and as I said this will eventually be a HG/MM ship story so if that ain't your thing then don't read below this little line here Points downwards oh and this contains ref to abuse so again if that sorta thing upsets you in anyway then please don't read on.

Thanks for taking the time to read my story if you do get any further than the line, and please do review - review mine and I review yours .

Minervarulez

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If You Only Knew……..

Chapter 2 - rescue

Saturday the 18th of August, they should be coming for her today. She placed a simple concealment charm on her battered face, covering the cuts across her cheek and her black eye. Wearing a long sleeved hooded top, to cover up the bruises on her arms where he clawed at her the night before, along with her favourite jeans, she finished her packing after she got dressed. Packing everything she owned into her trunk - she had to shrink a lot magically for them to fit. She had packed everything - because after this school year she would be of age in the Wizarding world and she had no desire to ever return here once she had finished at Hogwarts.

She bumped her heavy trunk down the stair case and left it in the hall near the door. She'd made so much noise coming down the stairs she was visibly shaking by the time she reached the bottom, she'd be in for it for sure she thought. But to her surprise there was no shouting - he wasn't home and for that she thanked her lucky stars. She didn't know where he was nor did she even care, because she knew that if he was home she probably wouldn't make it out of the house without another beating.

She walked into the living room and put the telly on for a bit and picked up a magazine that had been sitting on the table. A few hours later there was a knock at the door around twelve midday, she jumped ever so slightly not really expecting it as she was too engrossed in the article she was reading. Getting up she went to the door.

"Hello dear" Mrs Weasley smiled at her

"Hi Mrs Weasley" Hermione answered trying to sound as much like her normal self as possible - she hadn't told any of them about her mothers death or what had been happening over the summer holidays. "Um.. Come in" she said stepping aside to let them in Molly Weasley walking in closely followed by their daughter and one of Hermione's best friends Ginny.

"Call me Molly dear. How many times do I have to tell you" Molly smiled, Hermione gave her a small smile and nodded.

"Professor Dumbledore wants us to take you straight to headquarters" Hermione quickly moved aside, standing behind Ginny as Arthur Weasley spoke from the door way. She began to tremble slightly.

"What ever is the matter dear?" Molly asked, concerned about the young girls sudden change in behaviour - she was acting very out of sorts Molly thought to herself.

"Nothings wrong" Hermione said quickly "I'm sorry"

"That's quiet alright dear" she smiled

"You ready to go?" Ginny asked her friend, Hermione nodded her head slightly

"All packed?" Arthur asked her and Hermione nodded again in the direction of her trunk, "Ok well do you want to wait around and say goodbye to your parents?" she asked

"No I don't" Hermione said quietly - barely above a whisper as she shook her head.

Mr and Mrs Weasley exchanged worried glances as Ginny linked arms with Hermione and headed from the house. Both of them noticed the slight flinching movement from Hermione but didn't address it. Arthur spelled the trunk so it wasn't quite so heavy and carried it outside and Hermione locked the door, leaving her key under the mat.

Hermione and Ginny walked ahead of Ginny's parents as they walked in direction of the port-key they needed to take them closer to headquarters.

Hermione was quiet all the way despite Ginny's best efforts to strike up a conversation with her best friend, they hadn't seen each other in weeks. Ginny looked back at her mum with a worried look on her face.

"Its ok dear" Molly mouthed in direction of Ginny. Ginny nodded and tried talking with Hermione again. Molly turned to Arthur.

"I'm worried Arthur, that snot like our Hermione, she isn't usually this quiet?" Molly said

"I know dear, there's something not quiet right, what do you suppose happened" he replied

"I don't know, and it doesn't look as though she'll be up to talking anytime soon, I might write to Minerva and tell her of Hermione's strange behaviour" she whispered.

"Now there's an idea" he replied as they reached the port-key "Just in time" he said glancing at his muggle watch - Hermione had given him for Christmas one year knowing his fascination with all things muggle based she thought it would be a great present. Each one of them touched the port-key and disappeared - reappearing just a few streets away from where headquarters was based they arrived at their destination in no time at all.

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I know these chapters are short and i apologise for it but theres only so much spare time you get when your at work and got housework to do. thanks for reading