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Here's chapter two. Enjoy reading!
Chapter two:
Awakening
It was a normal day for Hogwarts. Students could be seen everywhere, from hallways to the grounds. Every student has a book in their arms, as their quarter exams were just around the corner. The great hall was filled with students too, eating their first meal for the day and getting ready for their upcoming classes.
Albus Dumbledore forced another bite of pancake into his mouth. All he wanted was to lock himself into his office and think…though he knew that he couldn't do that. He might be not in his best mood, but he still had to fulfill his duty as a headmaster. And a headmaster must never skip any meal at the great hall. The old but powerful wizard was very uneasy for what he had done last night. The thing he had done was very unethical and against to his beliefs, but his 'old' acquaintance's decision was very stern to his dismay.
Everything will be alright…trust me, that's all she had said.
He really can't refuse her, especially when she was fluttering her eyelashes to him and trying to dazzle him. No, he doesn't have a thing for his friend and will never think of her in that way…but he was still human, and humans like him can't stay away from vampire's dazzling capabilities. Albus knew that Alice knew what she was doing, yet…he still couldn't let go of his uneasiness, especially when she told about her second request to him.
I know she could see things…but is she really certain about it?
"Is everything alright headmaster?" his deputy asked him as Minerva noticed the headmaster staring at his half finished pancakes.
"Yes, I'm alright. My old age must be just getting me" Albus replied with a smile and tried to make the twinkling of his eyes remain.
Minerva noticed those, but did accept his light comment.
Suddenly, a dove patronus approached the headmaster. And whatever the words it delivered, it made him stood up and exited the room, leaving his dumbstruck employees.
…
The mediwizard paced once again as she glanced at the unopened door. Surely, the headmaster must have already received her message, isn't he?
She glanced again at the child lying on one of the hospital bed. Her chocolate brown eyes stared far away at the window. Her curled light brown hair hung until her shoulders, so beautiful that Poppy though she was going to be blind by the child's appearance. She almost thought she was staring at a beautiful portrait if the child didn't move and glanced at her direction.
"Where am I?" the child asked with her soft delicate voice.
Poppy didn't respond at first, still mesmerized at the girl's face. But then she finally gained herself back to answer the child's question.
"You're in Hogwarts dear. How are you feeling?" she asked.
"I feel…funny. What is Hogwarts?" she titled her head sideways as she questioned the woman, making the mediwizard got dazzle again to her patient.
"It's a school for wizards and witches. Does your stomach or any part of your body hurt?" the child shook her head. "No? That's good" Poppy nodded approvingly, glad that her medicine worked for her.
"We found you outside the gate unconscious. Can't you remember anything?" Poppy pressed again though she doesn't liked the whole ordeal at all. She was just following her employer had said and even though she trust him fully, she couldn't just let go of the feeling of anger. Especially when she found out that the girl's companion had left already, leaving the poor child alone and disoriented.
The child shook her head, making the mediwizard felt pity for her even more. The child doesn't remember anything at all! And to think it wasn't really a coincidence makes her blood boil for the headmaster.
Is was as if on cue when the door burst open and revealed the origin of her anger. The headmaster glided next to her, with his bright robes billowing behind him.
"Albus" the mediwizard greeted him with gritted teeth. She still has her moment on tormenting the old man when they aren't in the presence of the child.
Albus nodded and didn't speak to her, either it was because he had felt her anger or just too focused at the child on bed. The child's chocolate eyes met his blue orbs that he almost forgot to breath. The child was a breathtaking sight, as he always expected to a being with a vampire blood.
"Good morning child, how are you feeling?" he spoke very softly as he slowly reaching her bed.
The girl glanced at the mediwizard for help as she couldn't help but be scared at her newest visitor.
"Don't be scared, I won't hurt you. I'm professor Dumbledore and I am the headmaster of this school" he assured the anxious child. Renesmee glanced at the mediwizard and Poppy nodded in confirmation.
"He won't hurt you. He's the one who found you outside" Poppy told her.
Renesmee just nodded and continue to stare at the old looking man.
"You're a professor?" she asked in her soft voice.
"As a matter of fact, yes" replied he.
"And she said that you sir found me outside?" she asked again.
Dumbledore sat on the nearest chair next to her bed, the same chair he had occupied the last night.
"You are severely injured outside the gates. Do you remember anything about last night?" he inquired, making his eye twinkle behind his spectacles.
Renesmee think hard but there was nothing she could remember. "I…can't remember…anything…"
"What's your name, little one?"
She stared at his blue orbs once again as she realized something, and then started to panic.
"…I don't know sir…I can't remember a thing"
…
"Erase all of her memories?"
Albus stood up on his seat and was really shocked from what his companion had requested. Alice showed no emotion, quite uncharacteristic of her.
"Yes, and sealing her vampire instinct would be very convenient for us" she added.
"We could protect her here in the castle so I don't think erasing her memories and sealing those would be necessary. Could you tell me the reason for such request?" Albus glanced at the sleeping child and thought about doing such task to the innocent girl.
"They are still haunting her, and one of them has the ability to read minds by just touching the person. It's dangerous for her to have our memories now, especially that some wizard had teamed up with them. They had killed half of my family, Albus. They wouldn't have second thoughts of killing her the next time they would find her" she explained. Albus finally noticed that even though her face was hard as stone in that moment, her eyes showed her very emotion.
Sadness
"Are you certain about it?"
"Yes, I know she will be on good hands" she smiled though her eyes still shows how sad she was.
Albus reached the side of the child's bed, with his wand already in hand.
"Removing all of her memories might not return again Alice" he spoke again, thinking that he might change the vampire's mind.
"I trust you with every fiber of my being Albus. I could even trust my own life on your hands" Alice half smiled at him.
"I don't deserve such trust" Albus replied, making Alice smirked in response.
"Nonsense, you actually deserve much bigger than that…old man" she joked, making Albus raised his eyebrow at her.
"You talk as if you're younger than me"
"I'm physically younger and in heart. And don't argue with me" she retorted and fluttered her eyes at him as she know the wizard would never resist her dazzling abilities.
"Yes ma'am" Alice chuckled at the old wizard's response. Albus turned his head against her and tried to refocus at the situation on hand.
Their sudden battering had lighted the serious atmosphere that Albus noticed Alice had relaxed a bit. He raised his wand on the child's head and began a very complicated incantation. Alice took something from her pockets and wore it to the child's wrist. She clutched the child's hand while the wizard's magic had begun its work and whispered into her ear.
"I will see you soon, Nessie. And when that time comes, I'll make sure everything's already fine"
Author's note: sorry if I didn't updated so soon. I'm still thinking about what will be the course of this story…though I have a vague plot about this; I'm still having a difficult time to write those. And updating my first story eats up my time…so there.
Any reviews and advices will be highly appreciated! –winks-
Renesnee
