***Authors note: Just want to give you a background on my character Ella. She has a bit of everything that the trio has. She is bright and has common sense like Hermione is logically, she gets upset and angry easily like Ron does and assumes the worse, or have it cloud her judgment until later when she realizes what actually happened and figures it out. And just like Harry she will help her friends, and on impulse will fight. It doesn't help either that she wants to get to the bottom of things or is very curious. Anyway sorry for the grammar not only on these next chapters but the last, but I don't feel like correcting anything. Oh this chapter is really pointless sorry to bore you :/ ***

Ch. 4

I look at Knox surprised. "Why does he want me dead?" I asked.

"You are with the enemy. He wants you, Granger and Weasley dead not only to get to Harry, but they know if they kill you three off Harry is pretty much dead already. You got to hit where they are weak, and right now all he has is friends. His family is well dead already therefore you and them are his closest to as family. Plus Umbridge just really has this thing out for you. You are close in price to Harry missy" Knox said.

"Wow and my dad supports this man? Does he want me dead or something? Well if it is Dolohov he almost did. He tried to kill me and my friends at the coffee shop. I don't know who Bexton is. I never saw him on any wanted posters now that I think about it" I said.
"I don't know what to tell ya kiddo. Anyway here is the food we have left. We can go gather some other stuff to keep your mind off of things" Knox said.

"Okay" I retorted.

We walked quietly making thing a bit awkward for the both of us. I saw some berries and inspected them. They were fresh and fully ripe. I grabbed a handful of them. I turned around when I heard grunting sounds like someone was trying to pull or carry something heavy, and sure enough it was. I saw Knox trying to carry the dead deer. I looked at him annoyed.

"You know you can levitate the deer" I told him.

"Oh yea!" Knox said sheepishly.

Once we felt like we had everything we needed we decided to go back to the campsite where we came across a very annoyed Scabior.

"Where have you been?" asked Scabior.

I rolled my eyes at him.

"As you can tell we were hunting for tonights dinner!" I said while walking to the tent.

I walked right up to the sink to wash the berries.

"What happened here?" he asked.

"I cleaned it like you told me to."

I saw him eye the corner

"Relax…Knox put an enchantment up that way I wouldn't be able to get to it" I told him.

Scabior didn't seem to believe me as he went to grab something but was bounced back by an invisible force.

"See" I told him. He seemed to relax

"Is this food for dinner?" he asked while popping a berry in his mouth.

"Yes…apart of it" I said.

He was going to grab another berry but I slapped his hand to knock the berry back into the bowl.

"Stop it! It will be part of the dessert tonight" I said.

Scabior raised an eyebrow

"What? You requested a three course meal!" I said annoyed.

"Good girl I will have Reuben help you" Scabior said.

"Who?" I asked.

"Reuben he is our new recruit. Umbridge seemed to like him. He said that 'e and 'is family didn't care who wins until 'is family was killed by Aurors, and now 'e has vengeance in 'is heart. I guess that was good enough for that old toad" Scabior explained.

I laughed at what he just said.

"What?" he asked amused.

"My friends and I use to call her toad also. She use to teach at Hogwarts and I hated her with a passion" I told him.

"Why? And she use to teach at Hogwarts?" Scabior asked.

I gave him a surprised look.

"You are forgetting that I was locked up. We don't get news from anyone" Scabior said.

I gave him an understanding look.

"Yeah, she didn't even teach us how to do defense against the dark arts. We just read books. When You-Know-Who came back Fudge didn't want to believe it. He made it seem like Harry was a liar. The ministry decided to get involved with Hogwarts, and that horrible toad was our teacher. She also gave us horrible detentions" I told him.

"Really? How?" asked Scabior.

I stopped washing the berries and raised my right hand up to Scabior.

"It's a consealour charm" I told him.

Scabior took my hand and took the charm off to reveal what was written on my hand.

"I will not break school rules. What did she make you do? Carve that on your hand!" Scabior shouted.

I was taken back for a moment. I did not expect his little outburst, but then I remembered what Knox had told me. They both are protecting me to repay my mom.

"No, she has this quill that was charmed. We didn't need ink. Once we started writing the letters it would write on our hand and the blood was the ink. Sick if you ask me."

Scabior had a horrified look on his face. "I am all for corporal punishment but that is way out there!" Scabior said.

"Yeah, anyway I better make dinner" I said and walked out of the tent.

When I stepped outside Knox was already done skinning the deer.

"Can you set up a lot of pans for me on the fire please? I am going to need yours and Scabiors stove in your tents as well" I told Knox.

Knox nodded his head and set up everything for me. I grabbed three small pots and put it in Knox's tent. I stepped out and rammed into someone.

"Sorry about that" said the stranger while he reached his hand out to lift me up.

"The name is Reuben. Reuben Smith Scabior told me to help you" said Reuben.

"Oh yes! I am Ella. Ella Robertson. Here you can take this big pot into Scabiors tent please."

I through some extra stuff in the pot and he left. I quickly chopped off two large meats and cut them in cubes and went to Scabiors tent. I boiled the water and threw the cubed meat into the pot. I noticed my wand was on the table so I connected the spinach together making 10 long strands of spinach. I quickly put the spinach in the bag of water with salt and pepper.

When I stepped out I noticed knox and Scabior arguing. Scabior rolled his eyes at Knox and looked worried. I walked towards Scabior.

"What's up Doc?" I grabbed the carrot out of his hand.

"Don't spoil your dinner, and I need these!" I said.

"Okay Reuben. Can you put a cup of sugar, teaspoon of brown sugar and cinnamon, a dash of milk and put the berries in. Also, I need you to skin the carrots and chop them up" I asked Reuben.

Reuben nodded and went into the tent to do his chores. I grabbed the potatoes and asked Damian if he could peel the potatoes. Having nothing better to do he peeled the potatoes with his wand and cut them up. He even put them in the boiling pot and left.

"Why do you keep looking at them?" asked Reuben.

"They are hiding something. Most likely about my father do you know who Lark Bexton is?" I asked Reuben.

"Sorry no. Is he your father?" asked Reuben

"Long story…My mother was with one Death Eater Dolohov. Then they broke it off and she fell in love with another one. Bexton they are not sure who my father is but I think it is a lie. They know. Knox wants me to know he is giving me clues" I explained.

"Such as?" asked Reuben.

"Well my mother said I have my father's last name. Obviously they don't match, but maybe he is using their moms or middle name I don't know. He also said that I should do some math" I said.

"What does that mean?" asked Reuben.

I chuckled a bit. "Well he said that my mom fell in love a month after and that was after Halloween. I am born August 8th 1980 which places Bexton my dad. Problem is I have no clue what he looks like or what he is like" I explained to Reuben.

The sun was about to go down so I had Reuben cook the meat and leave one raw meat for Greyback. I went into Scabiors tent to finish what I left off. I took the meat out of the boiling water and started shredding the meat up. I then put the rice in the water. While I had the rice set I quickly chopped up onion and basil and put it in the rice a long with the meat. I then rolled out the spinach and put the rice on them and rolled it up and cut them in halves making them like sushi rolls.

"How did ya know how to cook and find different ingredients?" asked Scabior.

"I like to cook the muggle way. Keeps my mind off of things besides, you are forced to learn what ingredients are right when you are out and about in the wilderness trying to find ways to destroy you-know-who" I said.

"He can't be destroyed. I am surprised that I have not ran into you guys before" Scabior said.

I smirked "You have actually. We had enchantments up so no one can see us. You smelled Hermione's perfume that night" I said.

My comment seemed to register "Vanilla" he said.

I nodded my head yes and handed him the plate "Appetizers" I told him.

I walked out to go to Knox's tent to set up the course meal. Reuben took all the plates out to them.

"Aw you thought of Greyback by giving him raw meat how sweet of you!" Scabior said sarcastically.

"It was Ella's idea" replied Reuben.

"Wow deer meat, mashed potatoes and carrots. Looks amazing" Knox said.

"I will make sure to let Ella know" Reuben told them.

I just finished buttering up the melted sugar on the rolls then put the melted berries on top and passed them around. Reuben and I sat down and started eating with them. I smiled at the random compliments and grunts. I had a feeling that they will want me to cook from now on. Once everyone was done they called it a night and walked into their tents.

As I walked in the tent Scabior fallowed me and started pouring something behind me. I turned around and he motioned me to sit across from him.

"So…Ella I want to get to know you a bit. Fancy to answer them?" asked Scabior while he pushed the cup towards me.

"As long as I am able to ask you questions" I said.

"I will but I don't have to answer if I don't want to" Scabior said.

"Fair enough ask away" I told Scabior.

"Favorite color?"

"Purple and you"

"Black and green"

"Best friend?"

"Hermione and Luna…your favorite animal"

"A dragon"

"Mine is a wolf"

"Your favorite subject at Hogwarts"

"Defense Against the Dark Arts and Astrology"

"Who was your favorite professor at Hogwarts?"

"Well…Dumbledore was a goon. McGonagel is strict, never got the chance to know much of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers they only lasted a year. Flitwick is a twit, and Slughorn is weird and annoying. I probably go with Slughorn because he was the Slytherin head and I liked potions."

"I like McGonagel! Although she is strict she is fair and cares for her students. You are right about Slughorn but I would have to say Lupin was my favorite. Stupid Greyback attacked him when he was a kid. He had to leave because word got out that he is a werewolf great teacher regardless." I told Scabior

"Why do you have so much faith in Harry?" Scabior asked.

"Because good always triumphs over evil"

"If you say so" he replied.

"Is it true you were orphaned?" I asked.

"Yea my mum died when I was 7 years old. My sister Tilly was 4 and my older brother Tiffer was 11. That was when I met Knox."

"Oh…I was raised by my grandmother, never met my dad, and my mom went crazy" I told him.

"Who is Lark Bexton Scabior?" I asked.

Scabior was hesitant at first.

"Yes well. He is a death eater now. We were friends at Hogwarts. He is your father Elle he made Knox your guardian and me your godfather."