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Albus ran to catch up with her, the mysterious girl. He finally saw her take rest at the Leaky Cauldron. He leaned against a brick wall and waited for a few minutes to catch his breath and decide what to do. This question had taunted him since five years ago. When he first saw her. He never did persue her though, he always kept it to himself. Something to ponder over while at Hogwarts. But now it became too much. He had watched this small girl grow in power secretly. He watched her aura seeming to grow with every passing day. And with every passing day she disappeared into nothingness it seemed at around the time of about 6:30 in the evening. With this in mind he looks to his watch... 5:43. "Good, I still have enough bloody time to receive a few answers. That is if I wasn't such a tart." He finally sighs and walks to the Cauldron after a couple of deep breaths consuming a couple minutes.
He enters the room and the immense noise and deafening chatter within the room. He walks to the bartender and asks him screaming where she would be. The blonde hairdo man points to a dark corner in the room seeming away from all the insanity. He looks harder and sees the girl. She still has her hood up, but her chair balances on two legs her feet on the side of the table relaxed none of the less. Her hands are behind her head as well, but a glorious golden bird sits on her shoulder. The falcon leans on the side of the girl's head Its beady black eyes calm seeming to be unfazed by the noise. A mug of butterbeer sits on the table. At that moment after he had drunken in the site, she lowers her hood and those icy blue eyes look straight to the Professor. He shudders and is frozen to the spot. An eyebrow raises quizzically and with a grin she mentions for Albus to come and take a seat.
The frozen comes to life as he shudders once more and starts stumbling to the table. The girl drops the chair to all fours and looks down at the table as the falcon sits straighter. She tries to hold in the giggling at seeing the man stumble so. He finally makes it to the seat across from the girl. She mentions to her bird nodding in his direction, "This is my loyal companion Alshain. He's a rainbow falcon." Alshain puffs up with importance at hearing his name. The girl puts a hand to her chest saying calmly, "I am, as you may have heard, Gabrielle Ashley." She then extends her hand to the Professor, "And you are my friend?"
"Al-Albus Du-Dum-Dumbledore..." he says in awe stumbling among his own name as he cautiously takes her hand.
"That wasn't so hard was it now was it? Don't worry. To clear up a few things, No I do not eat people, nor do I desire to. And No I do not torture the unfortunate people who get lost within my forest, never to see mankind again." The Professor sighs now that his fears have been diminished. She says slowly to him, "So why did you follow me? You are the first to dare do so." He freezes once again.
He says stumbling once more, "Ho-How di-di-did yu-you know? I-I-I was just curious-" the girl holds her hand up stopping the poor man short.
"I don't bite. So don't fret for the gods sakes! Please get on with the bloody questions!" She says annoyed at his fear as she leans back in her chair as Alshain takes flight out of the window. Albus looks down to think before he speaks. He finally blurts out,
"Where did you come from? What is your past?" The girl sighs and leans to Dumbledore. She then slowly begins the story of her life, in Bellrenor, with her mother... and her beloved brother... She excluded his death from the story as well as the war and the broken promises that she told the Professor. She then stopped leaning back almost on the verge of tears. She puts on a faint grin, but her eyes, her only weakness, tell the truth of what she feels. Dumbledore had to look away fro the grief in her eyes was too much to bear for the normal human being without himself breaking down. Having heard all this, he thought it was all more of a fairy tale story than anything. He finally leaned to her. "So... It seems you have been through a lot Gabby. I'm sorry if I caused any pain-" He stops short by himself as she looks into his eyes once more. The flames that flickered within her eyes now showed an undiscussable emotion that no one could describe. "I'm sorry... I' so sorry..." He says over and over as he grips the girl's shoulders as she looks at the table. He looks to his watch... 6:45... Gabby says to him,
"I care not for the time dear. The animals at the cottage will fair all right." Dumbledore nods and thinks some more of what to say next. A massive boyish grin over comes his face.
"Gabrielle... Have you ever heard of Hogwarts?"
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