Chapter 27 The Family Reunion

With sad hearts and heavy feet the girls packed their trunks and made their way to the Hogsmead station. Shayna and Alana agreed the night before that the prefects would just have to get along with out them. So all of them searched for a compartment.

"Let's go towards the back?" Amber suggested from the front of the group Jes had been almost toppling over with her trunks, luckily a few of the boys from Beauxbatons were there to carry them for her. Selphie's bags were already on the train and she was whisper to some girls to the side.

And lagging behind was Shayna, trying to heave her luggage, and not look like an idiot. As usual she was failing miserably. Cho Chang passed her on the way up to the train, her head still hung low. She smiled weakly at Shayna as she moved on. "Hey Chang!" she called, but as soon as Cho turned Shayna forgot what she wanted to say "Uh ... I'm sorry 'bout Cedric."

"Thanks Riddle" she turned to go, but then "You still suck" Shayna smiled and shook her head, things at Hogwarts were certainly back to normal. "Hey Shayna! ... Shayna wait!"

Michelle was running at Shayna as fast as her little legs would carry her. She trust a piece a parchment under her nose. "It's the address of the orphanage I live at. You'll write me won't you?"

"'Slong as you write back." Shayna said She bent down and hugged her little sister. "Am I interrupting something Riddle?" some one asked from behind her She straitened up to see Warren smiling awkwardly at her.

"What are you doing here?" she laughed "Come to say goodbye. Madame Bootlet says your job'll be here for ya when school starts up again if you want it. Um ... who is this?" he was now looking as Michelle who was watching Warren from behind Shayna

"Oh this is my little sister." Michelle took a step forward and smiled at Warren "Hey Michelle I'm War-" But something bumped Warren into Michelle before he could finish

"So sorry" said a distracted witch "But I must find it" She was look franticly through a snake skin purse for something. Things were clicking and clanking inside. As she rummaged through a small coin pouch fell to the ground. "Oh could you get that?" she asked no one unparticular

Shayna, Warren, and Michelle all reached down and touched the pouch at once. And quite suddenly Shayna felt herself being pulled away, her hand no unable to let go of the pouch. As she sped off to nowhere, the frazzled witch could be heard laughing insanely.

Her feet found the ground again, as did Michelle's and Warren's. The pouch fell lifeless to the grassy ground below them. Shayna looked around, they were on a hill some where far from Hogwarts she judged, since it was so much warmer. Off in the distance there was a small muggle village that seemed to have only one large house, and it was falling in on itself. The crystal blue sky was puffed with clouds. Michelle began to walk toward the edge of the hill. "What happened?" she asked

"I guess that coin pouch was a portkey." Warren reasoned

"But who carried portkeys in their purse?" Shayna asked, not expecting an answer

"Anyone who I instruct to do so." a cold voice answered nonetheless Shayna turned slowly around as did the others. Standing there in the shadows of a large tree was a thin man in plain black robes. His eyes were red and stood out on his pale snake like face. He was smiling wickedly, his arms folded across his chest, apparently very pleased, "Hello girls."

The pit of Shayna's stomach disappeared completely. She stood there rooted on the spot. Warren stumbled back as the identity of this man became clear to him. Michelle had turned the shade of blue she had at the 3rd task. She wobbled for a moment, trying to hold her own, but it was no use. She bent over and spit up a discolored liquid all over the soft grass.

"Did the portkey not agree with you Michelle? I will remember that next time." Voldemort said sympathetically

Michelle ran over to Shayna a buried her face in her robes. Shayna dropped a hand to her sister's blonde curls, but did not look down. She was glaring deservedly at her father.

He seemed not to care about any of this, and began walking toward the,. "My how you two have grown since our last visits. Michelle, my youngest, you look just like your mother. Starting up at Hogwarts this year were you? With that muggle-lover Albus Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore is a great man." Shayna said in a low voice Voldemort took his eyes off Michelle and fixed them in hers. "And then there's my heir, Shayna. You however look nothing like your mother. You bare a strong resemblance to myself at you age. That reminds me you took O.W.L.'s this year, how did you do?"

Shayna was silent. "Well no matter" he continued "I'll be sending you both to Durmstrang, once I've replaced that idiot Kakeroff."

"We're not going to Durmstrang." Shayna informed him

"You will go where I tell you too."

"No we won't. We will go to Hogwarts!"

"I am your father!"

"You're what?!" Warren cried Voldemort looked annoyed in his direction "Do you mind boy? This is sort of a family thing." He stretched out his wand and shot a yellow stream of light at Warren. The boy fell lifeless yards away from the Riddle family. A thin stream of blood issuing from his head, but still breathing as far as Shayna could tell.