Imani decided to stay at the station and talk to her dad more when he had a free moment, which was not often because of the recent goes on. But it was exactly what Imani needed for her job. She secretly took down notes on her phone and claimed she was texting a couple of friends back in England that she was fine and had found her family, which she had done. All the Weasley's, Hermione and Harry had sent back replies of happiness and congratulations.
"So what kind of car did you get?" Her father asked.
"A Ford Mustang." Imani blurted. She heard something clang and saw her dad had dropped the stapler he was about to use.
"That's an expensive car!" He exclaimed.
"What? I said I'd been saving up for ages."
"Yeah but-"
"Listen dad I won't go into detail but Harry's Aunt and Uncle weren't the best parental figures. Both and Harry and I wanted to get out of there as soon a possible. For me that meant saving up for a car. I've been saving up since I was 8." She said giving her dad the low down.
"Did they..." He trailed off.
"No they didn't abuse me. Not physically anyway, but if we 'acted' out or didn't do as they asked we might've gone without dinner." She said. Her dad was gobsmacked. "But it was nice when we both got accepted in the same boarding school. We only had to put up with that over the Christmas holidays. They were surprisingly more civil towards us as well." Imani continued to ease her dad's tension. He seemed to relax after that.
"So when's the car going to arrive?"
"I get to pick it up in two days." She said happily.
"It was then that a deputy came in saying they needed to head to the school.
"Sorry Imani I have to go, do you want me to drop you off at home?"
"No um do you know if there's a library around here?"
"Uh yeah it's down the road a ways I'll drop you off." He said picking up his keys.
"Cool." Imani said following him to his car. It was a five minute drive to the library and Imani got out saying she'd see him later, just to text her when he arrived.
As she turned around and saw the library, it didn't look to big but Imani didn't mind. She walked in and straight away applied for a library card. The librarian was friendly and soon had the paperwork sorted and handed Imani her new card.
"Thank you." Imani said smiling. She started browsing the shelves and looked at each section slowly making her way to the fantasy section. Out the corner of her eye she sees something shimmer. Turning her head Imani sees a sign that she knows only she can see 'Wizarding Hall' it read.
"Wow. There must be some supernatural stuff if the library has a secret wing." Imani muttered to herself quietly before stepping through the hidden doorway. Turning the corner it opened into a small hall with a high roof. It was floor to ceiling shelves all stacked with books of varying ages and colours.
"Haha reminds me of Hogwarts Library." Imani said seeing the sun beams come through the windows that were close to the ceiling to prevent any muggles from peering through. At the end of the hall was a spiral staircase that led to the second level of the library. Ahead of her lay two long tables with various chairs around them. The place was immaculate not a speak of dust anywhere but it was clear that no one had been in the hall for a while.
Walking closer to the tables she saw two pieces of paper on one with a quill and ink pot next to them. Frowning Imani stepped closer and read the pages.
'Dear reader,
To whomever enters the library and reads these pages is now the soul owner of the witch and wizarding wing of Beacon Hills Library. You are responsible for all books, pages and knowledge kept within this sector of the library. No muggle can enter through the hidden passage unless given permission by yourself and given strict instruction to not speak a word of our world.
I trust this library falls into capable hands.'
Imani was more than stunned, looking at the other page she saw a contract with the signature of the previous owner and space for her own signature.
"...ok..." Imani said slowly reading through the contract carefully. She didn't see anything hit or amiss with the paperwork or the library itself and since it seemed that she was the only witch in Beacon Hills she decided to sign. Picking up the quill and delicately dipping it in the ink. She breathed before quickly scrawling her cursive signature. There was soon a lightening feeling to the hall and it seemed brighter. Imani smiled, it felt like the books had awakened and wanted to be read.
"I knew it must've been a while since anyone has read you and I'll try my best to read each and everyone of you but for now is there a book about the history of Beacon Hills supernatural goings on?" Imani thought out loud walking around and looking for section names. But to her surprise two large thick books flew from the shelves and landed on the table closest to her. Looking closer she saw one was older than the other and the older of the two was considerably thicker. 'Beacon Hills a History' the titles read volume 1 and volume 2. Imani flipped open volume 2 to the back and read a little seeing that the books were self written. The last entry was her signing the papers to own the library and her arriving in Beacon Hills. She smiled.
"I love magic." Imani said sitting down on a couch close by and started to skim read it's pages. She was searching for the previous owner of the library and completely missed her brother's and his best friend's name being written in the book. Occasionally Imani looked at her phone. It was couple of hours before it pinged and she saw her dad's name come up. She closed and picked up the two volumes.
"Now where did you two come from?" Imani asked out loud searching for any spaces on the shelves. But the books had other ideas, both rose and flew from her arms back to their home on a shelf down the end of the hall.
"Well alright then. Thank you." She said before picking up her bag from the couch and headed out of the hall to the front of the library to meet her father.
"Hey dad." She said seeing him leaning against his car.
"Hi."
"How'd the school thing go?" She asked.
"It was interesting, we had a tip off about the recent case." He said avoiding the word killing or murder. Imani nodded getting in and they headed home.
They walked through the door and Imani headed up to her room placing her bag down on the ground. She was about to head out her room when her phone pinged with a text, she took it out her pocket expecting to see one of her wizarding friend's names. Instead she saw Stiles' name, she quickly opened the text.
'Hey sorry gonna have to miss the catch up. Got detention.' It read, Imani chuckled. The amount of time she got detention or close to getting it were countless. It wasn't to surprising her brother was the same. Imani walked downstairs seeing her dad in the kitchen sorting out what appeared to be dinner.
"Hey Stiles just sent me a text saying he's got detention." She said. He sighed.
"Why does that not surprise me?" He said, Imani chuckled.
"Hey why don't I sort dinner?" She asked. She had snuck down the kitchen elves a few times and got them to show her how to make a few things, using both magical and muggle methods.
"You sure?"
"Absolutely." Imani said. He smiled and left the kitchen to his room and Imani started right away getting her wand out whilst he was out the room and swished it a bit to get things started before reverting to muggle methods. The two enjoyed a nice dinner with Imani preparing enough for her self, her dad and Stiles but left his in the microwave knowing he wouldn't be home.
Later the two went their separate ways to do their own things. Imani put a few silencing and protection charms around her room so she could practise her magic in peace and security. She got a few of her books out and waved her wand around creating and moving things around. She stopped immediately when she heard her father's footsteps approach her room and a nock.
"One second!" She called pushing her trunk and wand under bed out of sight before unlocking her door, temporarily breaking the charms.
"Imani I've got to go, on of the fire alarms tripped at the station. You right here by yourself?" He asked.
"I'll be fine. Go make sure everything's ok." Imani said and with that he left. Imani closed her door again reactivating the charms.
About an hour later she heard the front door open and close, again she hid everything in her room and headed to the stair case. She saw her father and Stiles downstairs.
"Stiles!" She said happily but the Sheriff didn't look happy and Stiles looked Sheepish. Imani slowed in her decent to her brother for a hug. "What happened?" She asked.
"Ask Stiles." Her dad sighed heading upstairs.
"Uh haha long story." Stiles said. It was clear he didn't want to speak about it.
"Ok." Imani said looking at him and then where their dad had disappeared upstairs. "Something tells me I don't want to know anyways?" She asked.
"Nope you don't" Stiles said quickly using what she said as an escape. She nodded.
"Oh! I uh made dinner and your share is in the microwave." Imani said bouncing up and down.
"Really?" Stiles asked his eyes lighting up and headed to kitchen opening the microwave seeing what he had. "Looks good." He said closing the door and started reheating it.
"Hope you like it. I'll be in my room." Imani said backing out and up to her room.
Author Note: This was just a filler and a way to head into the series. It follows the end of the second episode of season 2.