Chapter 2
Leo orbed to the spot where the chiming was coming from and was immediately assaulted by the smell of blood surrounding him and had to get his bearings, not expecting such a long trip. Once he had himself centered again he could tell that he was in some kind of stone cellar or basement with aisles of shelves stocked with oddly looking jars. He began his hurried trek around the basement moving even faster when he heard a high pitched scream that was quickly followed by more. The chiming in his head got louder with each step he took and he soon found himself in the back of the room completely horror struck by what he was seeing. There was a girl laying on the ground completely naked and covered in blood her body was mangled and cut open and there was a man, he was all over her touching her violating her all the while telling her what a useless child she was and that she deserved everything she was getting. Leo was enraged, he ran over to the man yanking him off her and tossing him aside. He knelt down next to the girl noticing how she scooted away from his touch he quickly removed his black teachers robe and laid it on her promising that he would get her out of there. When he looked up he could see the man rising to his feet unsteadily before summoning a black crossbow giving Leo all the excuse needed to use his lightning bolts to electrocute him and effect vanquishing the bastard.
I turned around and rushed back over to the girl's side and begin healing her wounds, at this pint she was unconscious and I could tell why from the amount of blood that was on the walls and floor. But no matter how glad I was that I could help this girl I couldn't help be disappointed by frizzy brown curls and honey brown eyes, this wasn't the girl I had seen in my head this wasn't my daughter. As that thought crossed my head something amazing happened, I was healing her wounds when suddenly I a burst of magic shot out from her center like it had just been unbound and blue orbs of light surrounded her body changing her pale snow like skin to a soft peach color and her golden locks smoothed out into waist length black ringlets. I stared at her in awe as a torrent of emotions filled through my brain from seeing the daughter that I lost all those years ago. Having finished healing her knowing that she would still bare scars from this encounter I scooped her up into my arms and orbed back to the manor.
Hermione POV
I slowly awoke to the feeling of soft cotton on my skin and sun n my eyes, Gods I hadn't felt the sun in ages, it felt magnificent. It felt so good I could almost forget about the rest of the summer, almost. I opened my eyes slowly trying to get over my grogginess. When I could finally focus I completely froze, this wasn't my room, I had never been in this room before. I lurched up in the bed and glanced wildly around me. the room looked a little old fashioned but it was homely and filled with nice warm colors. There was a large window off to the side of the room and when I slipped out of the bed and walked over I could see a well-kept garden surrounded by emerald green hedges in a circular pattern. It was splashed with color and far too beautiful to exist anywhere near my home. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not. I heard a noise outside of the door making me jump as the door creaked open revealing a pale woman with flaming red hair and light blue eyes. She walked into the room carefully making me back up into the corner as she got closer. She seemed upset by my reaction and stopped her walk towards me to sit down on the edge of the bed.
"You don't have to be scared sweetie no one's going to hurt here" she said trying to reassure me and for some reason it worked. That doesn't mean that I'm going to be getting any closer to her. With that decision I plopped myself down in a chair that was placed in the corner. I drew my right leg up to my chest and leaned head against it.
"Who are you" I asked peering at her with a mix of suspicion and curiosity. I knew that if I really needed to that I could use my magic to escape. It was against the law but I think considering the circumstances they would understand, probably not but still. I was so caught up in my thoughts that at first didn't hear what she said. It couldn't possibly be what I thought it was.
"I'm sorry could you say that again I must have miss heard you" I said shell shocked. I was now sitting rod straight and gripping my right leg so hard that it began to hurt.
"I know you heard me, I'm your Aunt" she said smiling at me.
"That's impossible, my family's dead they died when I was a baby. If you're really my Aunt then why did they….why did you let them-"at this point I couldn't find it in me to form a coherent sentence. All these years of torture at the hands of people that claimed to be my saviors, all those years of acceptance because they said that my parents died and that I should be grateful for their treatment because it was better than death, and yet according to this woman my family was here the entire time!
"Oh sweetie I'm so sorry we couldn't find you sooner" she said reaching out for me "We tried so hard but they blocked your powers, and then your mom disappeared and we had to stay here for your brothers sakes" she was holding me now and crying. I didn't know how to react this was so strange, the only people to ever hold like this where the boys. I tried to keep my composure, after all it couldn't be true this had to be some kind of trap, a set up by my parents.
"But its all ok now, your home and we'll never let anyone hurt you again" she said with finality holding my face in her hands and breaking my out of my thoughts. She was looking me straight in the eyes with a torrent of emotion shining in her blue depths and suddenly I knew she wasn't lying to me this was all real and I was free. I burst out into tears and threw my arms around her neck and began sobbing like I never had before. She didn't freak out about me crying all over her, she just rocked me back and forth humming softly. I felt myself beginning to slip off into sleep, right before I drifted off I heard voices downstairs talking happily and laughing and couldn't help but smile. I think im going to like it here.