10.2 Sorry about mistakes!
Ginny: Guys... Sofie is still missing!
Sofie: *appears* No I'm not! I was just off in another world.
Ginny: You had me worried sick!
Sofie: Sorry Gin, I promise not to disappear again. I don't own anything from the Harry potter world written by Jk Rowling.
How did THEY get here?
Chapter 10
The girl lay on the ground of the Headmaster's office. Her blond hair had fallen into her eyes when she fainted.
"Miss?" Neville waved his hand in front of her face to fan her. "Please let me be wrong..." He muttered before loudly saying: "Alice! Are you alright?!"
She sat up quickly and looked around. "Who are you?! Where am I?!" The girl asked in fear.
"I'm Neville Longbottom, I'm headmaster of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You're name is Alice, isn't it?"
"Yes." Alice nodded. "How do you know that?" She gasped, realizing something. "Neville... Headmaster... Longbottom... You're mine and Franks' son! In the future!"
Neville nods. "How did you get here?" He asks gently.
Alice thought for a second. "Well... I was organizing library books. Then I picked up this book, but my eyes got all blurry. So I went to rub my eyes... When I opened them I was here!"
Nevis nods, helping her to her feet. "Mhm... What book did you pick up?" He asked.
Alice thought hard. Nothing came to her. "I don't know, my vision went too blurry to see. But it felt powerful." She shivered.
Neville thought for a second. He had to tell Harry. Harry would know what to do. "Can you get a message to Mr. Harry Potter?" He asked politely when one of the elves appeared at call.
"Yes sir. What do you wish to say, sir?" The elf squeaked.
"Just find him and report back. Tell him I need to speak to him, but I'll come to him." Neville told him.
The elf nods before disappearing. He's back in minutes. "Mr. Harry Potter is at the manor of Mr. And Mrs. James Potter." The elf says.
"Thank you. Please tell anyone who asks for me I am going to see my daughters' family." Neville gives the elf a coin before he disappears again. "Alice, I need you to floo to a place with me."
Alice looks fearful but nods. "Where to?"
"Lions Manor. It's the home of a friend of mine. Just, say the name and you'll get there." He says. "I'll go first to explain. Follow shortly after, please?" He tells her before flooing off.
Neville lands in Emma's fire place. "Neville?!" Many say.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Alice 2 asks, hugging her father.
"Bit of a situation. Are you having a Christmas party I wasn't invited to?" He asks as he sees all the people.
Harry hugs his friend. "'Fraid not. We have a situation of our own." He gestures to prongs, Lily, Sirius and Remus.
"I think we have a similar situation." Neville says. Alice appears in the fireplace.
"Alice!" LilyFlower says before running to hug her.
"Lily! What's going on? How did you get here?" She asks.
"A book, surprisingly." LilyFlower tells her.
"Me too... What kind of book is this?" Alice asks.
"An evil one." Emma spits out. James rubs her back gently. "It's swapping out people from our time and yours. We don't know why."
Alice looks at her. "That little girl... Jamie... She must be yours! And the other boy. They were all very nice, polite children! They're with Dumbledore, by the way. They just appeared in the courtyard, so Frank and I took them to Dumbledore. The older boy... Theo? He asked to speak to him. He seemed very capable to protect them. No wonder Jamie seemed so confused..." She muttered the last part to herself.
"My Jamie!" Emma gasped. "She's safe? And John? Oh they're alright?!"
"Yes! Theo, Jamie, Charlie and the other two boys." Alice told her. "All safe in Dumbledore's office. No need to worry." Alice's smile was comforting and sweet.
"Oh thank goodness." Vicky gasped. The other mothers nodded.
"What about a little girl named Kasey?" Quinn asked.
"And Jean?" Rose looked worried.
"Sorry, I didn't meet anyone else." She frowned. "But I'm sure they are safe." Alice looked at the two very worried mothers.
"I'm sure they are. If Alice came from the same time as the rest then I'm sure Jean and Kasey landed in the same time as the others." Hugo's voice was cracked from being worried but sounded confident.
"Hugo's right." Ron told his daughter and daughter-in-law. "They're safe, I promise."
The mothers nodded still quite worried.
"You must be Auntie Alice." The first Alice looked at the other. "I confused poor little Jamie with my name."
"Yes, she's very stubborn." James smiled.
"And Frank..." Alice looked at Neville. "Oh no... We've died. You named your children after us because we died!"
"You live to an old age before you die." Harry promises. Neville nods in agreement.
"We make it through the war?" Alice whispers.
"Both of them." Alice 2 smiles. "We've met before many times. You passed away a few years ago. Frank not long after."
"And... You know who? Did he get defeated?" Alice asks.
"Yes ma'am." Albus smiles. "Hi, I'm Albus Potter, Alice's husband."
"Pleasure to meet you." Alice smiles back.
Ginny offers Alice some tea. "You must be quite worried?"
"A little. I know I'm in good hands though." She smiled up at her. Ginny hugged her lightly.
"I'm Ginny Weasley-Potter. It's a pleasure to meet you so young. This is my husband, Harry. That's our son and his wife, James and Emma. Our daughter Lily and her husband Lysander. And Albus is out son as well." She gestured as she spoke.
"Is he yours, James?" Alice asked Prongs, who nods.
"Mine and LilyFlower's." Prongs smirked.
"Oh give it a rest, James." LilyFlower glared.
Alice smiled at the two. "Sweet, huh?" Sirius winked. Alice nodded still smiling.
"So, not to be ungrateful... but how are we getting home?" Alice asked.
"We aren't sure yet." Harry told her gently.
The past
"Frank?" Hayley ran up to him. "Have you seen Alice?"
"No... I figured she went straight to bed after the library last night." Frank took a bite of eggs.
"She didn't. She wasn't in bed the this morning when I woke up. I figured she was just off with you last night and then got up early."
"She wasn't with me..." Frank looked worried. "You don't think she was with anyone else... Do you?"
"Our loyal Alice? She might as well be a Hufflepuff! No way would she cheat on you." Hayley shook her head. "I'll check the library, maybe she fell asleep."
"I'll look around the school, see if anyone has seen her." He told her.
After looking for the while day, they came up empty. "I'm going to tell Dumbledore." Frank looked more worried than he ever had. He ran to the headmasters office.
"Headmaster! Alice is missing!" He yelled, walking in.
"Ah, and young Alice. Thank you for telling me. Back to class now, son." Dumbledore smiles.
"Just that? Thanks for telling you?!" Frank snapped.
"She isn't the only one missing. Thank you for informing me that she is one of the ones we need to look for. You may go." Dumbledore smiled even wider.
"Er... Yes sir..." Frank backed out of the office.
Dumbledore chuckled.
In the room of requirement, the kids were sitting around sadly.
"Johnny... I wanna go home." Jamie whines from the bed the room had given them. John hugged her tight, whispering things to her.
Gideon was asleep in the other bed with Charlie and Kasey resting with their heads on his shoulders, fast asleep as well.
Theo sighed. "You alright?" Jean asked.
Theo nodded. "Yeah, cos. I'm good. How're you holding up?"
"I'm fine. Scared for my parents, and Laney..."
"Laney?" Theo smiled.
"I've named her. Mum and dad can't decide on a name, so I've named her." Jean nodded.
"It's beautiful. And it works for a boy or a girl." Theo nods back at her.
"I'm going to go to sleep." Jean leans against him. He hugged her. "Night cos."
Theo woke up the next morning a bit dazed. For a second, he was able to forget. Forget he was trapped in a room in a time that wasn't his own, forget he and his family could be in grave danger.
For a second he was able to convince himself he had just fallen asleep in the ROR again, with his beautiful best friend Lyssa lying against him. But the fantasy was broken when he looked down and saw not short brown hair falling onto deep tanned skin, but strawberry blond curls over skin as white as snow.
He sighed ans stood up, careful not to wake Jean. What he did next could get all of them in a lot of trouble, maybe even killed. Or worse ruin the time stream.
He opened the door and walked out, careful to change into a pair of Hufflepuff robes the room offered up.
Jean: I want to go home!
Sofie: I'll get you home soon... I just don't know how yet.
Jean: Well hurry!