It was six o'clock in the evening on the first of August; the girls were to start arriving at six thirty, and arrive at five minute intervals until the last girl arrived at six forty-five. Hermionella was to arrive first, being the eldest, and then Ginnevera, Lunesa, Pansettia. Every time she read a letter from the families that took the girls, she had to remember which girl was which; it wasn't hard since they just fixated each girl's name to make it shorter than their real names.
Alexandria sighed, looking at the clock. Mia would be arriving in fifteen minutes now. She looked back to each photo of the girls, the ones with the charms, and then the ones without. They looked so different, but she could see her girls behind each charm. She couldn't believe that she had actually met Luna once, by complete accident. What must she think knowing now that I'm her mother?
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After being in contact with the ministry, Hermione was granted that the Granger's fireplace be used as a floo portal once, at six thirty; and she only had one chance. She stood in front of the fireplace with Jean and Jonathan leaving in only a minute. She looked up at the people that she had known for years as mum and dad.
"Oh, Hermione," Jean said, hugging the now teal eyed-curly black haired girl one last time while the tears flowed from her eyes. "Know that we have always loved you, dear sweet girl."
Hermione smiled. "I know," she whispered. "And I will always love you." She let go of Jean to hug Jonathan. "Is it alright if I owl you?" Jonathan nodded while hugging her before letting go.
"Of course, we always did support your magic." He smiled at her, just as the clock struck six thirty. "Go now, Hermionella. We'll be waiting for your owl." She quickly put her stuff into the fireplace, taking the handful of floo powder she was given, she dropped it shaying "Pierce Manor", and watched as the Grangers waved goodbye to her.
In less than a second, she tumbled out of the fireplace, her stuff falling behind her.
~*~HR~*~
Alexandria heard the clock strike six thirty, and a second later a dull thud. She turned around to see curly black hair, knowing that it was her eldest daughter. "Hermionella?" The girl looked up.
"Mum," she whispered, picking herself up. Alexandria smiled, hugging the girl. Hermione hugged her mother back, smiling. "I forgot that the Grangers told me my real name. But, I do like to go by Mia, if that's okay?"
Alexandria pulled away from her daughter nodding. "Of course, my dear! Mia it is." She stood up straight. "You're so beautiful!" There was a loud crack, and Hermione's legs were crushed with a hug.
"Missus Hermionella! You is home at last!" The small house elf let go of Hermione, and looked up at her with eager and excited eyes. "We is so happy to have the eldest of Mistress Alexandria's daughters home!"
Hermione's smile faltered a bit as she looked to her mother. "I-I'm the eldest?" Alexandria nodded, while Hermione's smile reappeared. "Wow," she said. She looked down at the elf. "What is your name?"
"Wanda, Missus," the elf squeaked, still shaking with happiness.
"Well, Wanda," Alexandria said. "Why don't you take Mia and her things to her room?" Wanda nodded, and mumbled something along the lines of "This way" while taking her stuff. Alexandria hugged Hermione again. "Dinner is at seven, take as long as you need to get ready. But I ask that you stay in your quarters until it is time. I don't want my girls seeing each other until you are all down here for dinner." She smiled at the girl.
"Yes, mother," Hermione said, smiling and following Wanda to her room. Not long after Hermione and Wanda left, there was another dull thud and Alexandria looked at the clock. She turned around with a smile to see a straight haired strawberry blond standing up.
"Ginnevera," she said, hugging the girl.
~*~HR~*~
"You have everything?" Mr. and Mrs. Weasley looked into the now chocolate brown eyes of Ginny. "You can owl us if you want, we'd love to hear from you." He sighed. "We love you, Ginnevera."
Ginny smiled at her adoptive parents, who smiled back. "Of course I'll write! You've been my parents for so long, how could I not?" She looked at the clock, she only had one minute left. She quickly hugged both Weasleys. Turning to leave, she looked back at them one more time. "I love you," she said before stepping into the fire and saying "Pierce Manor", disappearing from the Weasley household.
She fell to the floor with a thud. Slowly she stood up, and looked into the eyes of the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. The woman turned to her. "Ginnevera."
"Mum," she said with a happy laugh, hugging her mother. "You're so beautiful, mum!" Alexandria pulled away from the girl, and smiled at her.
"Not as beautiful as my second born," she said. Ginny's eyes got wide, and Alexandria laughed. "Yes, you're my second born." She smiled at the girl. "It's Ginny, right?" Ginny smiled and nodded. Whoever her sister was, or if she had found out from the Weasley's, she had a nickname; and loved going by Gin or Ginny.
There was a loud crack and Ginny's legs, like Hermione's, were crushed together. "Missus Ginnevera! You is home too Missus! I is Wanda, I take you to your room." Wanda smiled at Ginny. She laughed a bit, giving her mother another hug and, after her mother had given her the same instructions as Hermione, she followed Wanda out and to her room.
Alexandria wiped a fallen tear, her two eldest were home.
~*~HR~*~
The now black haired girl hugged her adoptive father. "Thank you for everything. I promise to write." Mr. Lovegood crushed Luna in a breath taking hug; the last thing he had to live for was now leaving, to go live with her real mother. Luna looked at him one more time. "Don't be sad, you won't be alone."
He smiled at the girl, looking into her chocolate brown eyes. "I have the neighbors, yes... But I won't have my little girl," he whispered. Luna smiled, knowing something that he didn't. He gave her one last fleeting hug before letting her go. "Go now, love, don't keep your mother waiting." He smiled at her one last time. She kissed his cheek and went to the fireplace.
"Pierce Manor," her heard her say before she disappeared. Tumbling out of the fireplace with the third dull thud for the night, Luna looked at her surroundings. She was in a very beautiful drawing room. "Lunesa."
And the next to come through knows me, Alexandria thought. Suddenly, there was a dull thud. She turned around to look into the chocolate brown eyes of her curious black haired girl. "Lunesa," she said.
Luna looked up at the woman who's voice it belonged to; Alexandria Pierce was just as lovely as when she had met her. She smiled. "Hello, mother," she said in her dreamy voice, hugging her mother. She took the woman by surprise, as she had hugged the other two before they had hugged her. She smiled, hugging the girl back. Luna pulled away and looked at the clock. "Six forty," she said. She looked at her mother. "I am the third?"
Alexandria laughed. "My little Ravenclaw," she said, smiling at the girl. There was a loud crack for the fourth time that night, and a loud squeal. Luna smiled and laughed as it was her turn to have her legs pulled together in a hug.
"Missus Lunesa! Missus Lunesa! You is home and safe! I is Wanda." Wanda had learned after Hermione to make sure the girls knew her name before they got a chance to ask. Luna bent down to the elf's hieght. "Ohhh," she said, a sparkle in her eyes. "Missus Lunesa always was Wanda's favorite, Wanda knew that Missus Luna would always turn out to be a purdy as the moon." Luna laughed a bit.
Alexandria cleared her throat. "Lunesa, dear-"
"Mum? Would you call me Luna?"
She smiled at her daughter. "Of course, my dear Luna. Just like the moon." She smiled again. "Anyways, Luna, Wanda will take you to your room. Dinner is at seven. Please take as much time as you need to get ready, but I do ask that you stay in your room, as I have ask your two older sisters. You will all meet at dinner."
"Yes, mum," Luna said, swiftly kissing the elder woman on her cheek before following Wanda out of the room and up the stairs to her room.
Alexandria sighed. "And soon shall come my baby," she said, waiting for her youngest daughter. After a minute or so, there was a squeak, followed by a dull thud and a moan. After a bit of muttering, Alexandria stared at the girl. "Ah, my baby girl, my youngest!" Alexandria said. "My Pansettia..."
~*~HR~*~
"Alright, pumpkin patch," Mr. Parkinson said. "You'll be leaving soon." Mrs. Parkinson wiped away a tear, looking at the now curly hair blond.
"Would you like me to write?" Pansy asked, hugging her adopted mother one last time. She watched Mr. Parkinson quickly wipe away a tear over his wife's shoulder. "I'll owl you as soon as I can, once I get settled."
"Of course, Pansettia, if you would like," Mrs. Parkinson said, wiping away a few of her own tears while Pansy hugged her husband goodbye. Pansy smiled at them one last time. "We love you," Mrs. Parkinson said.
"I love you both too," Pansy said, stepping into the fire. "Pierce Manor," she said strongly, disappearing into the flames. It had been a while since she had flooed, and she forgot how bumpy the landing was. She squeaked before landing on the floor with a dull thud like her three sisters, only she moaned. "Ow," she said. "And that's the reason I quit flooing. I can't stand it," she mumbled under her breath.
"Ah, my baby girl, my youngest! My Pansettia..." Pansy looked up into the face of a beautiful woman that she could only assume was her mother. Alexandria looked into her teal eyes. "My little girl, you're home."
Pansy smiled. "Hi, mum," she half said/half whispered, hugging her and smiling. "Mum, I like Pansy too."
Alexandria laughed a bit, pulling away from her daughter. "Pansy it is," she said. "Now," she continued, "I hate to rush you but as soon as Wanda gets back down, she's going to take you straight to your room so that you can get ready for dinner at seven." Pansy nodded at her mother.
"Hello, Wanda," Pansy said laughing a little.
Suddenly there was a pop, and Pansy's legs were being squished together. "Missus Pansettia! You is finally home! Missus' sisters are all here, and finishing getting ready for dinner!" Wanda was almost dragging Pansy and her luggage out of the room so she could get ready, laughing as she followed the little elf.
~*~HR~*~
When Wanda left, Hermione was standing in the Northeast wing of the Manor on the second floor. She stood in front of a deep red and a shiny gold "H" with a shiny gold handle. She took a breath, and entered through the door. She let out the breath as she looked around the room. On one side, there was a four poster bed like the one her bed at Hogwarts, but a big King Size one. The whole room was nothing but red and gold. She found her closet and took a step into it. It was about the size of a regular one bed/one bath/kitchen/living room flat in London. She found a mess of her school robes neatly hanging up on one side, and the rest of her clothes on the other. Her shoes, purse, and makeup with a nice sized vanity took up the very well lit back wall. Smiling, she backed out and closed the door, only to open the door to her bathroom. Her jaw dropped, it was the size of the Prefects bathroom at Hogwarts, and even had the pool sized tub. (The bathroom and closet was something each girl had in her room, size and all.) Amazed, she backed out and opened a third door, wondering where it went to. She was hoping that it was a library of some sort. Slowly, she opened the door to a gigantic library, the biggest one in the world that she had ever seen. She closed the door, suddenly wishing that she could just take a steam bath; thinking, she would just go a book for a bit, she opened the door to find a steam room. "It's my own room of requirement," she said breathlessly, walking in for a steam shower.
When Hermione walked out, feeling refreshed, she saw a dress laying on the bed. She walked over to it and picked it up. It was a deep red, almost a blood red; she turned to the bathroom and quickly dress, putting on the blood red heels that were on the floor next to her bed. She admired the dress in the mirror. It was spaghetti strapped with three diamond studded connectors showing part of her chest between her cleavage off a bit. It just barely came over the top of her butt and had a corset like (but open) back with a slight bow that tied at her hips in the back. She ran her hands down her dress, smiling. She let her long, perfectly spiraling curls loose, and they fell ever so gently that it completed the look perfectly.
She looked at the clock and noticed that it was five til seven. She looked at herself one last time in the mirror before nodding in approval, and walking out the door to head to dinner.
~*~HR~*~
Ginny stood in front of her door in the Northwest wing of the house on the second floor, which was not that much different from Hermione's; except that hers had a big shiny "G" on it. Her room was almost identical to Hermione's, and she quickly also noticed the personal Room of Requirement. Ginny lay on her bed for a moment, before deciding that she should shower. Ginny walked into her bathroom, and turned all the knobs for her pool-like tub. She relaxed and washed, enjoying not having to worry about any brothers barging in on her.
After a while, she got out and wrapped herself in a fluffy white robe, walking out to get ready for dinner. She was on her way to her closet to choose something when from the corner of her eyes, she saw something bright red on her bed. She turned to look at it, only to realize that it was a dress, with high heels of the same bright red color on the floor. She admired the bright color, and the kind of thin straps. She put the dress and shoes on, and looked in the mirror. The bright red of the dress off set the light strawberry color of her hair, and made her brown eyes pop. It was tight fitting, and came down about four inches from her thighs. It had a sweetheart top creating two little waves over her cleavage, and wrapping in a straight line around her torso. She smiled at her own refection, muttering a spell and waving her wand so that her hair did a half neat bun, with gold chopsticks making and "X". She smiled, and left her room.
~*~HR~*~
Luna stood in front of a royal blue door that had a bronze handle and a big bronze "L" in the middle of her door in the Southwest wing of the second floor. She walked in, seeing nothing but Ravenclaw house colors all around her room. She smiled in approval, finding her Room of Requirement first before her closet or bathroom. She sighed happily, jumping in the shower to quickly wash her hair. She walked out and immediately noticed the royal blue dress and high heels lying on and beside her bed. Without even stopping to admire it, she took the dress and put it on before admiring it in the mirror like her two older sisters had. He dress had a triple spaghetti strap on the left shoulder that started out together and then fanned apart in the back. It came to just above her knee, and came at a diagonal keeping her cleavage completely covered.
She smiled, taking her wand and fashioning her hair so that she had the top layer of her hair (one strand on each side) twisted and bobby pinned back in the center of the back of her head, making her head look like it was pulled half back but it was only parsley pulled back. She smiled at her own reflection and skipped out of her room down to dinner.
~*~HR~*~
Pansy was quickly escorted to her room in the Southeast wing of the second floor. She stood in front of a emerald green door with a big silver "P" on it. She smiled, opening the door. Thankfully, she had showered right before she left the Parkinson's so all she had to do was change. She opened the door to a Slytherin decorated room. She didn't have time to explore the room, but she did notice the dress on her bed; it was a bright emerald green cocktail dress that came just below her knees with a wavy bottom, and a sash that tied in back right at her waist and was strapless. Clear shoes sat on the floor next to her bed. She magicked the dress and shoes onto her, and quickly took her wand and fixed her hair so that it was first pulled back into a ponytail, and then her curls bobby pinned in a way to her head that made it look like she had a flower sprouting out of her head. She spun in the dress, and then quickly left so as not to be late to dinner.
~*~HR~*~
As they girls approached the dining hall from their different directions, they wondered who their other three sisters could be...
A/N: Okay, so, broke a new record: this is the longest chapter EVER WRITTEN BY ME! 3,148 words! The dresses that the girls have on in this chapter and inevitably the third chapter are REAL DRESSES and I have the link with the pictures of the dresses and the credit of who owns them on my profile if you want to look at them. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Let me know what you think and how you think the girls will react to seeing who their sisters are...