Chapter 3

Once the stairs stopped moving they were lead into a small ante chamber. The two men told them to stay put as they continued into the office beyond. The door was shut and nether twin remembered the password the blond had muttered. They were stuck here and they didn't like it.

Esmeralda sat down on one of the chairs with Daenerys coiled in her lap while her brother paced the room. Marvy had never good with situations like this. Waiting unnerved him, made him over think things. It was something he and Tom had in common, though Tom had never been one to pace. No, Tom would sit quietly in thought, the wheels turning behind his blue eyes. Watching her brother pace was better, at least she knew he was uneasy.

It was than that it happened. A long drawn out hoss escaped her brothers mouth, but she knew what he said. It was a word that grandmother would slapped him for. Yet, Essie had a feeling the old woman wouldn't have known he had cursed. Marvy was just as startled and looked at his sister with wide eyes. He could see the wheels begin to turn as she took this knew development in. Than she replied in a much more measured hiss that he understood as well.

" Tom talked about this." She stated as a glimmer of sadness entered his eyes. " We must be descendants of Salazar." Though in light of this Esmeralda wondered why he had never once uttered the man's last name.

" Salazar who?" Marvy asked. He wondered for a moment why they were still hissing like snakes, than he thought about it. From what his sister had just said, this ability was inherited through ones bloodline. This meant that only a few could speak like this. They were most likely the only two in the castle.

" I don't know." Esmeralda answered honestly. " Tom never gave me a last name. Just like he never told me the names of the four houses, only what animal represented them."

Marvolo gave an exasperated sigh and shook his head. That was entirely Riddle. The frustrating boy hadn't even told them his middle name. Whenever they had asked he had simply smirked in an amused fashion. Their grandmother had smiled and laughed on occasion, as if she knew something they didn't.

" I wish Uncle Vicar was here." Essie hissed quietly as a few tears started down her cheeks. This was all too much and he had been the one person that understood them most.

" He left us for Wonderland." Her bother almost growled as he sat down in the chair next to hers. Uncle Vicar was a sore spot of his. Their favorite uncle, in the end they had been the only ones he said good bye too. The rest of the family thought Vicar mad, but not them. They had loved his stories and the many books he brought them on magical creatures.

Looking over at his sister, Mary noticed that this had finely overwhelmed her. He was surprised it hadn't happened sooner. She was so fragile when it came to these types of things. Essie just didn't cope well when everything was thrown at her all at once. The only time this hadn't happened was when they had found Tom that first Marvy had a feeling Riddle had been very overwhelmed, he just hid it better than Essie.

" Give me the wand he made you." He told her quietly. In all honesty he was tires of all the hissing, but only they could understand what the other was saying. So it was useful, he also wasn't sure he wanted them to know his sister had a wand.

Esmeralda hasitated for a moment before nodding and pulled the wand out of the robs pocket. It was a ten inch yew wand that was hand carved. At the end of the wand was half closed rose that was very delicate looking. Thorns cover the rest of the wand, concentrated where you put your hand, they thinned out as they reached the tip. There was something particular about it too. This yew was different from any yew he had ever seen. The age rings were normally slightly darker than the rest of the wood, but on this wand they were iridescent. It lent the wand an almost other worldly feel and even went beyond this new world they found themselves in.

" Alright, now sit on the floor in front of me." He told as he thought about what he was going to do. Magic was one part correct spell or word choice and three parts intent. At least, that was how Marvy saw it. The young man knew that the spells were in Latin and he had taken three courses of Latin in highschool. He was fluent in it and could speak it in conversation as well and had often done so with Tom. The two had enjoyed not talking about anything important as his sister tried to figure out what they were saying. It had been a good game, until she got a translator app that could identify what you were saying just by listening.

Once she was in front of him he picked up a lock of her hair and wrapped it around the wand. "Crispum" Mary mutter only to feel a tad of resistance. Though when he unwrapped her hair it came out in a perfect ringlet. He repeated that until her whole head was a mass of ringlets. By the time he was done Essie was no longer crying.

Marvy smirked as he reached into his pocket and pulled out one of her hair accessories out. It happened to be her favorite one. A hand carved wood ornament that looked like coiling snakes. Pulling the wood pin out that slid between the two holes on the hair piece. The ornament was also curved so that when the pin was in place it held the hair in place. Once he had her hair gathered at the nap of her neck he put the ornament in place.

It always worked and he was glad for it. Despite being the male in the family, Marvy had always like doing people's hair. It was something his grandmother had looked down on him for it. His mother and sister loved as he would do their hair in elaborate styles. He had also learned that curling Essie's hair calmed her down. Marvolo would than pull it back out of her face in some simply but elegant style. Part of it was that his sister simply had so much hair, but she never let him cut more than her split ends off.

A shadow came over the pair and a hand held out. It was a woman with frizzy brown openedand a round face. Freckles pepered her cheeks and her lips were a light rose color. Behind her the door to the office was opened and the two males along with an old woman. All where looking at the twins as if they were about to kill someone.

" The wand, please?" The woman asked her hand still held out. It was on the chair next to Marvy. " I'm sorry, but we can't let you keep it."

Esmeralda was standing in moments and quickly grabbed the wand pointing it at the woman. " Why do you want? We haven't done anything wrong."

" Because the person who made it for you wasn't the nicest person here in this world." The woman explained staring down Esmeralda with no fear at all. Hermione knew this girl had almost no concept of how to use that wand. What her brother had done was child's play and certainly not hard to figure out.

" Ganger! What are you doing?" The blond asked as he rushed over to stand between them.

" Draco, that wand could be cursed, or worse." Hermione stated looking at the blond. " It was given to her by him."

" Yes, it was given by him." Draco nodded as he glanced back at Esmeralda. He could see the fear in her eyes, but there was also courage. " But, if it were cursed it would have maimed the basked" Hermione, I know you don't like this." The other male, his hair a dark brown stated. " But if we get hostile, so will they."

" Marvy, give me a word I can use." Esmeralda hissed catching Potters attention. He could understand them, but he didn't want them to know that.

" A word?" The male asked confused. He didn't understand what she wanted.

" You took three years of Latin, God damn it!" She all but yelled. " Now give me a word I can use!"

Marvolo racked his brain as he grabbed Daenerys off the floor. The cobra quickly dipped into into his shirt and coiled around his waist. She wasn't moving as she wouldn't be easily hit ether. He than quickly went over to stand behind his sister and whispered a word in her ear. It was to quiet for Potter to pick up on.

Draco quickly turned so he was facing the twins while Potter pulled Granger away. " Now, let's not do anything you will regret later." The blond stated trying to talk them down. Well, it seem Esmeralda was the one that needed to be talked down thanks to Granger.

" Why should I believe you?" She asked wand still up. Esmeralda would not go down without a fight.