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AN: I said I would update within days of my last update and that ended up being a lie, so I'm sorry! That said, finals is next week so after that I should have plenty of time to update more often! Reviews are most appreciated!
"Well, if you're last names are Clearwater, then who is Hermione Granger and Graciela Louis?"
'Well, shit.' Graciela's first coherent thought just kept repeating itself over and over 'shit, shit, shit, shit.'
'Gracie hush! Pull yourself together and think quickly on your feet.' Hermione scolded Graciela mentally, after hearing Gracie's inner mutterings.
"Right, well that's easy enough to explain." Hermione began as she saw Graciela pull herself together out of the corner of her eye.
"Oh yeah, quick and easy explanation. But first, how did you know those names?" Graciela asked as she stalled for time to come up with an explanation.
The boys instantly paled but Sirius pulled himself together first and crossed his arms over his chest before stating, "Nope. We asked you first."
"How gentlemanly of you, Sirius." Hermione rolled her eyes and crossed her arms of her own.
"Look. To tell you the truth, we haven't known that we were twins for very long…" Graciela began.
'What are you doing?!' Hermione shrieked mentally in Gracie's head.
'Just shut up and follow along.' Graciela gruffed out impatiently. "'Mione… wasn't Mom's maiden name Granger?" Graciela asked out loud followed by a silent 'just say yes, stupid!'
"Yeah it was." Hermione quickly agreed, still not seeing what Graciela was thinking.
"Well then there we go!" Graciela flashed a smile at the boys as if she had just explained everything.
"Wait, wait, but that doesn't explain anything!" James exclaimed.
"Yeah, like why you're really Louis, but you claim to be Clearwaters!" Sirius added.
Graciela was about to answer when she felt a magic push against her wards that she had set up around the curtains. Graciela didn't recognize the magical signature but Hermione sure did.
'Remus.' Hermione said quietly in Gracie's head.
"Oh fucking hell!" Graciela exclaimed, making the boys widen with the ferocity behind her words, before swishing her wand a few times and roughly tugging a stumbling Remus into the curtains and putting the wards back up. Remus had practically fallen on his face when he noticed James and Sirius, standing awkwardly as if spelled not to move, and Hermione and Graciela with one of the boys' wands in their left hands and their own in their right. "Seriously?! Who's next that's going to try to listen in to our conversation?" Graciela grumpily added before silently accio-ing Remus' wand while Hermione simultaneously threw a silent immobulus at him.
"Welcome to the club Remus!" Sirius sniped sarcastically.
"I take it from our current positions, they didn't like being asked why The Map said their last names were different?" Remus asked innocently under his breath.
Little did he know that Graciela had extraordinary hearing as she asked immediately "What map?"
All three boys stiffened and glared at Remus who looked sheepish and guilty.
"And before you say, nothing, Graciela and I both heard what you said Remus." Hermione smugly said as she put her hands on her hips and glared at the boys, daring them to question her. At this moment the girls were so in sync, they didn't even notice when Graciela immediately copied Hermione's stance and glare at the boys as well.
"Well that's a scary sight to see." James muttered
The twins ignored the boys and Graciela got her mind back on track. "Anyway, as we were saying before Remus so rudely interrupted," Graciela started, noticing how the boys instantly relaxed when they realized they weren't going to be asked about the map.
Hermione noticed this as well and seamlessly inserted, "and before we get back to this map," before Graciela continued, noticing how the boys quickly tensed back up.
"As I said, our mother's maiden name was Granger. I'm assuming after our parents split that Mom had you take her maiden name so it would be harder for Dad to find you and Mom." Graciela said nodding towards Hermione before continuing. "When Dad took me, he quickly got remarried to some Barbie Bottle Blonde in America and took her name, and forced the twit's last name on me. Once my father died, I was told that my father's real last name had been Clearwater, and I had a twin sister and a mother who lived in Britain. Took a while to find 'Mione and Mom but when I did, we only had a few months together before Mom died and everything went to shit. When we were sent here, we decided that since Clearwater was technically our real last names, that's what we were going to go by." Graciela finished and was too wrapped up in her thoughts and silently making sure with Hermione that it sounded like a reasonable explanation that she didn't notice the three identical looks of pity on the boys' faces.
"Now. If we could see this so called map that shows our names, perhaps we can fix it so it shows our true names?" Hermione asked.
Sirius blurted out, "But the map never lies!" before anyone could stop them.
"And technically the map isn't lying, as those are our names legally until we get them correctly changed to Clearwater." Hermione insisted, holding her hand out for the map as Graciela waved her wand and cancelled the immobulus on the three boys.
James silently handed the map over to Hermione much to Sirius' chagrin. "James!"
"What? It's not like they'll be able to open it." James said quickly defending himself.
'So, we both know the password…' Graciela said, watching as Hermione looked at the currently blank map. 'But how do we open it without giving up that we know what it is and how to open it?'
'I have an idea.' Hermione said as a soft, devious smile lit her features. "Gracie…. Didn't the boys back home create a map of the town that showed where everyone was so they could pull pranks without getting caught?" Hermione asked seemingly innocently.
Graciela instantly got a mental picture of the Weasley Twins in her head as a smirk grew on her face. "Yeah, they did 'Mione. Think their password would work on this one?"
"Oh I hope so. I would hope not to have to open it like you did once to theirs when it kept saying insults every time you tried to open it." Hermione replied.
"Well, it made them give me the password afterwards, now didn't it?" Graciela's smirk grew with the fond memory.
The three boys stared wide eyed at the Twins, hoping that they didn't figure out the password, or do whatever Graciela did to get the other boys to tell about their map. Remus' eyes were the roundest of them all when he considered what it would take to get the map to open without the password.
"Let's give it a go then." Hermione said before pointing her wand at the map and say, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
All three boys' jaws dropped practically to the floor, causing Hermione to giggle and Graciela to chuckle. "You'll catch flies like that boys." Graciela said once she stopped chuckling.
An audible click was made as the boys snapped their jaws shut, causing Hermione to giggle louder.
Graciela ignored Hermione's laughter as she pulled the map out of her twin's hand and looked at where their names were. Once she found them, she pointed her wand at their names and spoke, "Re scripta nomina, quid vis ut, non posita, sed nomina virorum. Annuntiabitis donec Clearwater nostro praecepit nobis, ita fiat." * Once the spell was complete, she handed the map silently over to the shell shocked boys.
"What did you do? And how did you do it?" Remus asked as he noticed the last names had changed to Clearwater.
Graciela shrugged as Hermione stated matter of fact like, "Graciela has a penchant for creating spells."
"Most of the time I just pull it out of my ass and wing it." Graciela said bluntly.
"So you just, come up with spells, that WORK, by winging it?!" Remus asked incredulously.
"Yeah I guess. Anyway, I might create the spells but Mione here is the one that you should look at that, Remus." Graciela said with a smug.
"What?" Remus asked, the other two boys looking equally as confused.
"Like you want to unwrap me like a chocolate bar." Graciela snorted at his incredulous look.
Sirius and James snickered and James said something like, "Well, Remus does love his chocolate."
Hermione looked down disapproval written all over her face as Graciela continued. "Anyway, as I was saying, I'm good at writing up spells, but Hermione is the spell genius. Her spell theory is unmatched by anyone."
"We match perfectly then, don't we sis?" Hermione asked with a soft smile toward her twin.
"Yep. Now boys. I'd love for us to all stay up, paint each-other's nails and girl talk, but I think Mione can agree with me when I say I'm tired, sore, and my patience is running thin. I would like to sleep for the rest of the night without any more surprises or unwelcome visitors. So if you don't mind, please go back to your rooms and leave ours in peace." Graciela said, sarcasm practically dripping out of her mouth.
Hermione smiled at the boys, her apology for her sister shining through her face as she softly spoke, "Goodnight boys."
The boys nodded mechanically as if they were all still processing everything that they'd learned tonight, and waited until Graciela waved her wand to get rid of the wards, and slipped outside the privacy curtains. 'Finally.' Gracie thought to her twin as she practically dropped her wand in exhaustion as she stumbled onto her bed. Hermione waved her wand, muttering spells under breath to alert her in case someone else tried to disturb them, before collapsing onto the bed next to Graciela. The twins clasped hands as they both fell totally and completely unconscious.
(Switches to first person POV. AN: If you are triggered by violence, please skip this first paragraph.)
Darkness surrounds me, engulfs me, there is nothing but the darkness and the pain. No, not pain, agony. Pure, horrible agony fills my body until I hear it. A low rumble, then a chuckle. Then, a hot mass towers over me, as claw like hands come to grip my arms. Blood assaults my senses, duly noting that it is my coppery blood that fills the air with its stench. The monster above me speaks, his voice like a low rumble of predatory hunger. "Merlin, Mudblood, does your blood smell tasty. You're mine, Mudblood. And now you won't forget it." That's when the real pain begins. I've never felt such pain. Violently turning me over so my face is smashed into the cold, unforgiving cement, with my back exposed to the beast like monster, he takes his meaty claws, and almost as if using it as a pencil or quill, starts carving into my back, the horrible words that will forever scar and leave their mark upon my body, mind, and soul. In an awkward, scratch-y scrawl the single word "Mine" covers from the start of my left shoulder blade all the way across my back. I scream in agony even as my body goes limp from pain, and as if understanding my inner defeat, the monster licks up the blood that oozes from my back, before lifting me like a rag doll and throws me across my cage and into the barred wall behind me. "You taste wonderful, pet. I wonder what other body parts of yours taste as good…" I whimper and try to move as far away from the beast as possible, but there is no-where to go. 'I'm trapped' is my last coherent thought before the beast looms over me once again, dagger like teeth gleam in a predatorial smirk before the agony sets in again. No matter how much I scream or beg, the pain just gets worse and worse, never once stopping, for hours… and hours… the screaming never stops…
"Gracie!"
I startle awake, sweat dripping of my brow, chest heaving, and tears streaming down my face. I can't catch my breath. I can still feel the beast's breath on my skin, his claws digging into my body, ripping all hope from my soul.
"Gracie! You're okay! Look at me Gracie, you're okay. He's gone Gracie, he's gone. He can't get to you anymore." Hermione said, pulling Gracie into her arms.
"He's gone?" Gracie could hear the whimper that came out of her soft, feeble voice.
"Yes, Gracie. He's gone. Greyback's gone. He's gone and he is never going to hurt you or me ever again. We're safe. You're safe." Hermione reassured her twin, her friend, as glimpses of what that monster had done to Gracie swirled in her mind. Little had she known, that the boys had never returned to their room, only just each laid on a hospital bed, struggling to figure out these two girls, staying up to talk through everything they had learned, when Graciela and Hermione's wards had broken with the sound of Graciela's screams filling the hospital wing, all three of them hearing the one word that would stop all of them in their tracks, faces paling with the question only Remus was brave enough to ask.
"Did she just say Greyback?"