Missing
"Rach, what are we going to do now?" Amy asked as they sat in the empty Slytherin common room.
"I've been thinking. We can't go tonight, well we could, but I just don't think it would be wise to" Rachel said as she sat crossed legged on the table, her head resting on her hand.
"Right, so how long do you think we should wait till we go?" Amy said plonking herself down on the black leather sofa.
"We leave when the other two schools leave" Rachel answered.
"But if we leave at the same time as them people are going to notice" Amy sighed.
"That's why we're going to go and 'borrow' a Beauxbatons uniform" Rachel grinned as she swung her legs over the side of the table.
"What? But we don't even know where they sleep let alone where their uniforms are, and what about Draco and Niall? What if they don't even want to come with us? What if-"
Amy was now getting extremely flustered.
"Calm down! For a start, I do actually know where they sleep, and where the uniforms are, sometimes it's handy to have a dad that's a teacher. As for Niall and Draco, well Niall will want to go; you're doing this for him after all. As for Draco well, we'll have to wait and see" Rachel said her smile now faded.
Amy nodded.
"We better go and get the uniforms now, before people start to come back" Rachel said heading for the door.
"Good idea" Amy agreed.
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"Have you seen Rachel?" Emily asked Ron as she scanned the crowds of people.
"Nu...ope" Ron mumbled as he shoved some sausage into his mouth.
"I haven't seen her since that incident with the table" she sighed "I'm going to go and ask if anyone has seen her, I want to check she's ok"
Ron didn't have time to say anything as Emily had already moved away from the table.
Emily pushed through the crowds, she scanned for a familiar face and the first one she saw was Nick. He was now wearing a new suit, which looked absolutely dreadful. But there he was dancing away, well what he classed as dancing. It was more like throwing yourself around and thrusting. A group of Beauxbatons girls were huddled and were giggling and pointing at him, but he hadn't seem to notice, and if he had, then he obvious didn't care.
She then noticed Sophie perched on the edge of a chair, her head slumped in her hands, and she was staring down at the table. Emily could see a red stain on the front of her dress which she guessed Nick had probably caused.
She walked over towards Sophie.
"Soph?" Emily asked.
Sophie looked up.
"Oh hey" Sophie said, clearly fed up.
"You haven't seen Rachel have you?" Emily asked biting her lip.
"Rachel?" Sophie repeated in a daze "No, can't say I have"
"Ok, don't worry then. What's wrong anyway?" Emily asked concerned.
"I'll give you a clue it begins with the letter 'N'. And its 'dancing' over there" Sophie scowled giving a violent head nod to where Nick was still swinging his arms round.
"Ah, I see" Emily nodded.
"He's ruined my whole night. He was late taking me here, he arrived dressed as, what I can only describe as a potato wearing a suit that was clearly too small, then, when he came back he was wearing that horrid blue frilly thing, and then he spilt this stupid red drink on me. And now he's ditched me to dance like a drugged up hippogriff!" Sophie moaned, as she slammed her head on the table.
"At least it can't get any worse" Emily shrugged.
Sophie just grunted.
Emily decided this was probably a good time to leave. She made her way over to Nick.
"Nick, can I talk to you a second please" Emily said dragging Nick away from the dance floor.
"Have you seen Rachel?" she asked.
"As in your twin?" Nick asked blinking.
Emily couldn't help but sigh, he was a nice person, but he wasn't half stupid.
"Yes Nick" she sighed.
"Not since Goyle broke the table" he replied.
"Ok then..." Emily said now getting rather concerned of the absence of her sister.
"Wait!" Nick called, as he walked over to where Emily was "I've seen her after that"
"Really, where?" Emily asked.
"I saw her go out the door, and then after a couple minutes Amy went after her, because I spoke with Niall earlier and he said Amy had gone after Rachel" Nick said looking rather pleased with himself that he remembered.
Emily didn't bother saying anything else to him as she scurried off to see Niall, who was surrounded by a group of girls.
Emily barged her way though.
"Do you mind?" one of the girls snapped as Emily accidently elbowed her.
Emily ignored the girl and proceeded to make her way towards Niall.
"Niall" she said looking down at him.
He was currently sat around a table in the back corner with at least 5 girls sat either side of him. He blinked at Emily curiously.
"Can we talk please, thanks" Emily said yanking Niall up off his chair and pulling him away from the crowd of girls.
"What do you want?" he asked. He hardly knew Emily. All he knew was that she was Snape's daughter and Rachel's twin. And he was extremely confused as to what she wanted.
"Do you know where Amy went?" Emily asked.
"All she said was that she was going after Rachel because she looked upset. And then she said that she would come straight back. But she hasn't" Niall said frowning "Why is there something wrong?"
Emily stared at Niall then ran off out the Great Hall door.
Niall watched her run off, his frown descending.
His group of girls approached him and one put an arm on his shoulder.
"Come back to the table Niall" she cooed.
"Get off me" Niall said slapping her hand away.
He decided that if there was a chance Amy was in trouble, then he wanted to help her. He made a dash for the door, but just as he left the Great Hall he saw Draco stumbling towards him.
"Draco?" Niall said curiously. "Why are you walking funny?"
Draco hiccupped in reply.
"Draco, are you drunk?" Niall asked walking over to him.
"N..no... what? Hey, have...no...have you seen...urm..urgh.. Rach-el?" Draco slurred.
"Rachel?" Niall said confused.
Niall knew that there was something going on. Amy and Rachel had disappeared and nobody knew where they were, and now Draco had appeared absolutely hammered. He decided to make it his job to find Amy and Rachel and to find out what was going on. But then there was the matter of Draco, who was bent slightly over and his facial expression was not one that a sober person would pull.
He propped Draco up as much as he could, and tried to support him as he tried to walk at the quickest pace possible.
Niall has no idea where either two of the girls could be, neither did he know which way Emily went.
Niall decided maybe it was best to wonder towards the Slytherin common room, but then he thought that was probably where Emily would have gone, so he took the opposite route.
After twenty minutes of dragging a drunken Draco around, he was close to giving up when he thought he heard a soft gasping noise. He stopped to listen to hear if he could make out where the noise had come from. However although he could no longer hear the gasping noise, he did hear a light thudding noise, that was getting slightly louder. He froze, and strained to listen. He was about to move when the thudding stopped.
He waited a couple of minutes but no other noise could be heard. He began to walk again, when he hit something.
He scowled, there was nothing there, he tried to walk forward again but again there was something blocking his way.
He reached out a hand towards the air. Then he heard someone whisper what sounded like "ouch".
His hand was still in the air, then it caught hold of something and he pulled.
There stood before him was Rachel, carrying Amy's bag, and various other items.
"What the-"he was about to question Rachel when he noticed to the side of her appeared Amy.
He stared at them.
"How did you do that?" he asked.
Rachel simply looked down at his hand, as if to say 'Well look at your hand and you'll see how'
He glanced down at his hand. It had vanished.
"What the hell" he dropped the item and it landed in a purple velvet heap on the floor.
"Wait, is that an invisibility cloak?" he asked looking from Rachel to Amy.
They both nodded.
"So you managed to get it then" he asked turning to Amy, however it wasn't Amy that answered.
"Well obviously, or we wouldn't have it now would we" Rachel said sarcastically picking the cloak back up off the floor and shoving it in Amy's bag.
"We don't have time to be wasting" Amy said starting to walk off again.
"I don't understand" Niall said heaving Draco up again as he was beginning to slide down nearer to the floor.
"What happened to him" Rachel asked staring at Draco.
"I think he's a bit drunk" Niall sighed as he again tried to keep Draco from slipping.
"Here, I'll help" Rachel said putting an arm round Draco.
"I've..Iva...be..en lookin' fo ya" Draco hiccupped.
Rachel merely nodded and gave him a slight hug from behind.
"We'll explain everything when we get to the Ravenclaw common room" Amy said rushing ahead.
"Explain what?" Niall asked as he looked at Rachel worriedly.
Rachel just grimaced up at him.
"Oh, by the way, your sister is looking for you" Niall said giving her a sideways glance.
Rachel froze.
"Amy" Rachel called. Amy span round impatiently. "It's as we expected, she's looking for us"
Amy bit her lip.
"Best get a move on then" Amy said as she began to pick up the pace.