CHAPTER 10: Don't tell anyone

I felt the sunlight around me, I could hear the birds chirping, and I also felt someone breathing beside me.

I woke up and my eyes too a minute to adjust to the new light after the night's darkness.I looked and saw Arya curled up into my side and her arm was slung over my stomach.

I couldn't help but smile.

Her tiny breaths were peaceful and innocent, James asked "Who is she?"

James was standing looking down at both of us, I replied "Her name's Arya, she's lost in the woods just like us"

I carefully got up without waking her up.

I stretched to remove the cricks in my body, James stated "You look like you've been put through hell, what's with all the bruises?"

I sighed "It's a long story"

He shook his head.

Arya was waking up, her eyelids opened slowly revealing her sleepy blue eyes.

She rubbed her eyes and yawned, Arya sat there looking around at her surroundings before looking up and asking "What time is it Mr. Albus?"

James grinned, I answered "I don't have a watch"

She nodded and got up "Good morning Mr. Albus and Mr. Albus's big brother, I don't remember your name" She blushed politely.

James laughed "Call me James"

She smiled at James.

She questioned "So where do we go from here?"

James and I exchanged a look before James saying "I think I saw a path while you two were asleep"

We nodded and followed James through the woods, indeed he had found a path.

I was getting bored so I asked Arya "Where do you stay?"

She smiled and said "Over the hills"

I asked "Do you know magic?"

She nodded "Mummy knows magic, Daddy didn't know, but now he's gone"

She looked sad, I asked "Where did he go?"

She said "Mummy said he went far away, and that he never liked magic"

I felt bad for her, she was so nice and innocent, who would leave her and go? Especially her father?

She said "But Mummy says he loved me, just not as much as he hated magic"

She said sadly. I looked down at her "It's alright, are you excited for Hogwarts?"

Her eyes lit up "Yes! I will have so many friends there! And I'll play Quidditch! Mummy doesn't let me play because she thinks muggles will see, but I have a broom, I love my broom, my friend Billy has a broom too it's so nice sometimes I wish I was at Hogwarts already then I could learn magic and be like Mummy"

She saw a bush of wild flowers and she gasped "They are so pretty! I want one"

She skipped off with her braid swinging behind her to the bush, she gave a good tug and plucked the flower, she examined it and smelt it before coming back and saying "I'm going to give this to Mummy so she can grow it in our garden"

I smiled "She'll love it"
She looked so happy, James asked "What do you want to do when you grow up Arya?"

Arya smiled "I want to be a healer like Mummy I also want to kill Voldemort, he's a nasty old man, that's what my Grandma said, and I'm never to become like him or else Harry Potter will find me and will be very mad at me for being like him"

James and I grinned, people used our Dad to instill good qualities in their children, I said "She's right you know"

Arya looked up at me proudly "She's always right, she's my Grandma"

As we trudged along the path we finally reached a meadow and we could see some hills there, Arya ran further and said "My house is there, see! See! It's there!"

I looked where she was pointing and saw a house on the next hill.

We ran all the way, then we stopped when we were almost there, when Arya realized we weren't following she turned around, her face was pink after running and her hair looked windswept.

She asked slightly out of breath "Aren't you coming?"

James said "We can't Arya"

Her face fell "But, but, why not?"

I answered "We have to get back to out own home or our Mum and Dad will be very worried"

She looked at the ground a tear falling down "I guess you have to go then?"

I nodded "Yes"

She ran up and hugged me "Don't forget me Mr. Albus, you know where I stay now don't you? Will you come and visit me?"

She looked hopefully up at me "I don't know Arya"

More tears fell, I said "But James and I will always remember you"

She gave James a tight hug and said "At least wait a minute, I'll be right back"

She ran at top speed up the hill.

I said "Come on James we should go"

I turned around when she yelled "Wait! I'm coming!"

She raced back down the hill a tin in her hands along with a bottle and a box.

She stopped in front of us and said "Here take these, if you're going at least keep these"

I took the items out of her hands and asked "What are these?"

She pointed at the tin and said "Those are cookies"

She then proceeded to point at the bottle "That's milk"

Lastly she pointed at the box and said "Inside the box are sandwiches"

I felt so touched by this little girl and her ability to trust without knowing at all who we were, I prayed that she should always be happy.

James took her up into a hug "You're amazing Arya"

She grinned "Thank you for everything Mr. Albus and Mr. James, I'll always remember you"

I said "Arya don't tell anyone you ever saw or met us"

Her eyebrows narrowed "Why?"

James said "It's better that way, nobody knows us here Arya and you should always keep it that way"

She smiled and said "Okay, I promise I'll never tell anyone not even Mummy"

I smiled "Bye Arya"

James said "Bye!"

We turned to leave and I saw her standing there and waving at us with tears streaming down her face.

AN: Arya is amazing. Please let me know what you think, so far so good, now Al and James have to get back to the burrow and Harry is out looking for them. What happened to Bellatrix? I know I'll update soon enough. Thanks!