OH MY GOODNESS! I am so sorry to you all! I guess life just caught up with me way too fast and I let it take control. I do have a semi good excuse, though. Right after I updated last, I found out that my very young sister needed a kidney transplant in the incredibly near future. Trying to manage that, graduate from high school, get set up for college, and settle in kind of took over my life.
Once again, I just want to say I am so sorry to all of my readers, subscribers, commenters, and supporters.
With that said, I will try to update at least once a week if not twice or more, especially at first to make up for my hiatus!
Thanks so much! Love you all!
Disclaimer: Only in my dreams do I own Harry Potter and the Wizarding world. All credit goes to JK Rowling!
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The Enchantress
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Ginny entered her small flat in a hurry. It was six at night, and she had one hour to get everything packed and get out of town before Emmett could come to see her. She had spent hours in the park, contemplating what should be her next move. She had sat on a bench with a notebook, scribbling furiously the positives and negatives of telling everyone she was leaving. Unfortunately, the negatives won out and she decided it would be easier to slip away before Emmett came by at seven.
Rushing to the closet, Ginny dragged out a dusty old trunk with ease. A mushroom cloud of dust polluted the air as the large lid creaked open, landing with a thud. She shuffled through the contents searching for a thin piece of wood that would make packing so much faster. After dispelling the contents of the trunk of the floor, she finally found what she was looking for. Her fingers itched to hold the small wooden stick in her hand again and to say the magical words that would make her life rather simple once more. Pulling the wand carefully out of the box, Ginny smiled. She hadn't thought she would have ever used magic again. She had planned on just staying in the Muggle world for the rest of her life.
The hazel wood wand vibrated a little in her hand, as if trying to shake off the dust of being trapped in a box for many years. Ginny giggled and waved it, reciting incantations to clean and pack for her. It was a trick she had learned from her mother many years before when packing for another year at Hogwarts.
"Accio keys," she called with delight. There were many times when she had lost her keys and wished she had kept with using magic for the convenience. She was so wrapped up in her magical abilities that she didn't notice when her best friend and next door neighbor walked through the door.
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"MELANIE!" Addyson called from the doorway, "Why the HELL is all of your stuff flying by me without the help of anyone?"
Ginny stopped dead in her tracks. "Ada… I didn't expect you to come over," She dropped her wand with a look of sheer terror. After the thin piece of wood clattered and bounced on the floor a few times, it rolled under the nearest piece of furniture.
Addyson Fairchild was Ginny/Mel's closest friend from school. She was very tall and lean with raven colored hair and violet eyes. Ginny had never met anyone like her. She was so unique. Her eyes always held a strange look of knowing.
She glared at Ginny with a look of knowing. "Mel, I know what you are. I've known since I saw Ambrosia fly out of your window the first day you got here. I kept it a secret because I knew you were trying to get away from life in the Wizarding world. Ginny stood with her mouth agape. "Please shut your mouth dear, you look like a fish when you do that." Quickly, Ginny snapped her mouth shut and picked up her wand off the floor. She wasn't sure if she should just continue or if she should sit down and tell Ada the truth about everything and what her plan was. She decided to start the packing process and then sit with Ada and talk a little. With a wave of her graceful arm, the clothes started folding itself again and she let it do what it needed.
"Ada, how do you know about wizards? Are you one also?" Ginny exclaimed excitedly while sitting at the table where Ada decided to sit down. Ada laughed at her excitement and shook her head.
"No Mel, I wish I was sometimes because I just think life would be a bit easier, but some of my family is. My dad's side has quite a few. I never truly received any 'magical abilities' but I did receive my grandmother's acute abilities on tuning into the future," she sipped the Starbucks coffee she had brought in with her. Ginny gave her a very confused look. "I'm a seer, Mel."
Ginny's eyes became the size of saucers as she stood up abruptly and ceased the work the magic was doing around the house. Everything was packed and ready to go and Ginny still had half an hour to spare. "Ada, I'm so sorry! I'm leaving. I need to be out of here before seven when Emmett…" she trailed off quickly.
Ada rolled her eyes, "What did Emmett say to you in your last session Mel. I didn't really believe the dream I had last night when I saw the two of you fighting and you leaving, but I guess it was true huh. Maybe I am a better seer than I thought. I can't believe you are just going to up and leave without saying goodbye to anyone. Were you even going to stop by and say goodbye to me? I thought we were friends!" Ada exploded and stomped around the flat. Ada stomping was much less intimidating considering it was too graceful to seem angry, the curse of being a ballerina.
Ginny held her hands up as if surrendering, "I'm so sorry Ada," she broke down, "I just didn't want this to be any harder than it needed to be. I didn't expect you to know of wizards and when I am back in the Wizarding world, in England, there would have been no way of keeping contact with me except owl. I want to keep contact with you! Now that I know you can handle owl post, I will be able to talk to you all the time! Maybe you can even come visit me! You don't know how hard this all has been for me. I'm a product of the war. I ran away to avoid it and to get the discipline to forget everyone I had lost. Fuck Ada, I even ran away from my fiancé because I couldn't handle the pain anymore. Imagine my surprise when Emmett told me that I needed to go back and face the place where I had lost so much, and I know that I really do need to go back! Now I'm just confused and upset and scared out of my mind and I didn't have anyone to tell because everyone would think I'm crazy. I- I just please don't be mad with me. I care about you so much and I just want you to be happy and I'm going to miss you so much. Please don't be angry with me."
Ginny was now fully in tears. Ada ran over and embraced her. "Shh, baby, I know I know. We can keep in touch, Hun! I promise! No need to be scared. Just be strong!" She continued to shush and sooth Ginny until her tears receded. The fiery redhead grinned up at Ada and hugged her tightly.
"I'm so sorry Ada, but I really do need to leave! Emmett is supposed to come any minute now and I really can't face him before I leave," Ginny sighed. Ada nodded and gave her one last hug before walking out the door and back to her own flat.
Ginny sat down at her kitchen table and scribbled down one last note to Emmett in hasty handwriting on notebook paper.
Emmett,
I am so sorry to cancel our date, but my flight back to England leaves today at 7. I guess this is goodbye.
Love,
Mel
Ginny placed the note in an envelope and left it sitting on the kitchen counter with his name on the front.
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The petite witch shrunk her luggage and left her flat, looking back one last time at everything she had come to know over the last four years. She sighed, thinking of how her father would have loved coming to visit her in her Muggle home, but it just wasn't possible. Even know that she was going back, her family couldn't know that she was back. She wasn't quite ready to face the pain and sorrow of everything she had left behind, including a very hurt fiancé.
Ginny walked out of the building and hailed a cab to take her to the airport. She was headed back. The Wizarding world would soon encounter Ginny Weasley once again, even if it didn't know it was her.
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Emmett arrived at Ginny's apartment right after Ginny had left. He knocked on the door gently, which was still propped open. "Mel?" he hollered as he walked in, seeing the bare shell of an apartment except for the envelope which caught his eye. He walked over and opened the envelope; already sure of what the note was going to say.
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Well, there you go! I'm a little rusty, so let me get back into the swing of writing!
We couldn't let poor Ginny get away with no friends now could we? What do you think of Ada and her powers?
And how about Emmett? Do you think he will chase after her or just let her go?
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