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Chapter 4: The Safe Room at the Ministry

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I opened the telephone box and water went all over the floor, I slid down the telephone box... exhausted.

The cut on my arm was very painful and it stung from the water. I stood up and Gunn held Jasmine in his arms. I took a wet tissue out of my pocket...

Jasmine would never see her mother ever again. I cried a little and wiped my eyes with the tissue.

I was watching him and heard a few voices. One of them was saying my name.

"I'm here" I said and looked up to find my friend Absynthe standing there. I felt so happy seeing her. She hugged me and then Tara, we noticed she had a bag with her.

"It won't work here" Tara stated, watching Absynthe pull out a hand-held television and a laptop, she added, "Too much magic"

Absynthe shook her head, "It's ok, this has been charmed. It can"

She flipped open her laptop and handed me a portable television.

"See if you can get anything on that... Maybe we can see how others are coping" Absynthe gave me a warm smile and I checked the television.

I fiddled with the television screen and the buttons on it, I smacked the back of it with my hand and waved it about in the air when I got a picture.

I cried out and thrust the television towards them.

"Got something!" I said grimly. "Tornadoes over America, Hail in China and Japan... Snow and ice over Canada" I had the volume up at full blast, it seemed that the station was just showing you the damage.

"We have to tell the Minister. That storm heading over Scotland surprised us, and we were in a weather station for Merlin's sake! No wonder Scotland didn't flood as H0GWARTS would have been evacuated. These storms move quickly." Absynthe said flatly and stood up, putting the laptop away. We nodded and joined her as she began to walk off.

"Wait!" Someone yelled and I turned around, it was Gunn. He nearly slipped on the shiny floor but regained his balance I couldn't help but smile.

"Jasmine!" I cried and took the baby, "Thank you Charles."

I smiled at him and he smiled back, we stood for a moment, just looking at each other, we noticed that we were looking a bit stupid and both coughed and turned around.

"You should do some drying charms, I doubt anyone is going to mind us doing underage magic." Absynthe said grimly.

Tara nodded and did a spell on herself.

"Willow do you wanna do the spell... you won't get into trouble" She smiled at me, I shook my head, looking back at Gunn.

I heard Absynthe ask who the boy was.

Tara tapped me on my shoulder.

"Can I tell her?" She asked me. I nodded.

Tara told Absynthe about Gunn and the big long history between us. The whole story with him having a massive crush on me and me liking him back but being too late because he had a girlfriend....

"So you guy's are like, in love with each other?" Asked Absynthe.

I nodded, "I'm not sure about him being in love with me but me... yeah"

We all paused and started to walk again, I felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Hi Gunn" I smiled, my voice pretty small, I coughed.

"Hey Willow" He nodded and begun to walk along with us. Everything was silent.

Absynthe looked from me to Gunn and took him to the side.

"I know what she's talking about" I said glumly.

"What's wrong with him knowing that you love him?" Tara asked.

"Well, maybe because I wanted to tell him" I shrugged and paused for a second.

A shiver went up my spine and I looked behind me. One of the security men from earlier was running around... terrified.

"EVERYONE" He shouted, "YOU HAVE TO EVACUTE THE BUILDING, NOW"

There was no questioning it.

Everyone ran in a panic to a room which can't be touched by anything. I slowly saw the room fill up with people. Water had started to seep through and it was putting pressure on the ground above it.

"There's no room for us" Tara said in disbelief, I looked down at Jasmine.

"We can't let her die" I told her. Gunn and Absynthe walked over.

"Can I talk to you Willow?" Gunn asked me, I watched the pavement above pound with the pressure of the water.

Tara climbed onto the desk and opened a little vent in the ceiling, it was big enough to fit a full grown man, Absynthe went up first and helped Tara up, Gunn went in after them and I held Jasmine up, they almost took her when I paused. And very slowly turned around.

The pressure wasn't high enough to burst yet. I grabbed Jasmine and jumped down into the water. I ran for it, across the Atrium and opened the door... very slowly the locks came undone and there was a cry of panic inside. I handed Jasmine to the first person I saw.

"You have to look after her" I told them, they nodded.

"Aren't you coming in?" Asked someone.

I shook my head, and waited for another minute to make sure that the locks were ok.

"WILLOW! WILLOW!" Shouted Tara.

"GET OVER HERE NOW OR YOU'LL DIE" Gunn and Absynthe shouted from the ceiling bit, they were all leaning down, Tara was looking at the telephone box, where it was ready to burst, and Gunn and Absynthe were looking at me.

"Ok!" I shouted back. I made a run for it but I was too late.

The telephone box had filled with water and with a massive crash, the whole wall by the telephone box broke off and the water came gushing in, I stood there, like a deer in the headlights... unable to move or speak.

I finally made a run for it and jumped onto the desk, I grabbed Gunn's hand... but was it too late?