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Note: Okay, I just wanted to thank anyone who is reading this. I'm sure if you have gotten this far that you have noticed all my MANY spelling and grammar mistakes. I feel that if you are going to spend your precious time reading my story that I owe you a little explanation. I don't know why other people write this type of stories, other than the fact that it is fun, but I write them when I have one of my bad migraines. Focusing on something like a creative writing piece helps me take my mind off the throbbing pain in my head. The problem is that it's hard to focus on editing something that you've written when you have a headache. When I don't have a migraine, I don't really want to stay at home and I don't want to be sitting behind a computer. So, I've been trying to edit these and I think I've been doing a better job with them, but I'm sorry all the same. I hope you all understand and don't hold my mistakes against my story. I hope you are all enjoying it and I apologize for any clichés or "Mary Sue's" that I've included. This is my first Fan Fiction that I've ever written. I have written 22 chapters that are saved on my computer and am slowing going back through them and editing them as much as my headache is allowing me to. I hope to have them done and up soon, but I can't say exactly when. I hope you can all understand what I'm trying to say in the story, even with the mistakes, okay back to the story.
The New Home
The next week Danielle and her friends went to go visit Sara at the Weasley's. Hermione came along to meet the infamous Sara that she had heard so much about.
"Hello Dears." Mrs. Weasley called when they entered the house. She came over and gave all four big hugs, much to Ron's dislike.
"Sara is up stairs cleaning her room, for the fifth time today. I swear this house is more clean that it's been for years with that precious little one around here." She said herding them all into the kitchen.
"May I go up and say hello?" Danielle asked politely. "Yes, of course. Bring her down here, she should stop cleaning and come see her friends. She talks of you often Danielle." Mrs. Weasley said giving Danielle a look that Danielle couldn't read. "Well, I think of her often as well. I'll be right back." Danielle said walking out of the kitchen and up the stairs.
Mrs. Weasley watched her until she was out of sight, and then sighed. "That is one amazing girl." She said turning back to the others.
"So, what can I get you? Anything to drink or eat, dears?" "No, we all had a big breakfast, maybe a little later." Ron told her.
Suddenly there was a loud excited scream up stairs. "DANNY!" Then there was a loud thud as Danielle and Sara fell to the floor and hysterical laughing.
"If it wasn't for the laughing I would be worried." Ron said as they all looked at each other.
"Sara has been very excited about your visit. It's all she's talked about for two days now. 'How long until Danny comes? Oh, I've got to clean for Danny. Danny's coming today.' It is wasn't so cute I'd be getting annoyed." Mrs. Weasley told them.
Soon Danielle and Sara came down the stairs. Danielle was giving Sara a piggy pack ride and Sara was laughing and smiling brightly. Danielle put Sara down when she got into the kitchen.
"Harry!" Sara shouted running over to him and throwing her arms around him. Harry picked her up and sat her on his lap. "Hi Ron!" Sara said excitedly to Ron.
Hermione was watching all this with wide eyes. Ron and Harry taking care of a little girl like a daughter wasn't what she expected to find her
"Sara, this is my best friend Hermione." Danielle said introducing them. "Hi, I've heard a lot about you from Danny, Ron, and Harry" Sara said excitedly. "And I've heard a lot about you." Hermione said smiling and she suddenly understood why the boys loved her so much.
They all sat around talking for a while. Sara told them about the school she was going to.
"And the teacher is really nice, she said that I'm not behind at all. And Cathy, the girl who sits next to me is really nice. I went over to her house a few days ago. We watched a movie called Anastasia, it reminded me of you Danny." Sara hadn't stopped talking for at least ten minutes. They all wondered how she managed to breath.
"Why was that?" Danielle asked the over excited little girl.
"Because it is about a girl around you age who runs away from a orphanage and finds her family." Sara said simply. "And the lady who runs the orphanage is mean just like Mr. Hunt, although she didn't hit Anastasia." Sara kept talking about everything and Danielle listened smiling all the while.
Danielle looked at Harry and thought, "Sara sure is doing well here! She is acting like a child should." Harry smiled and thought back, "Yeah, I'm really glad she seems to be doing so well. I was worried about a non- magical girl in this house, but things seem to be going very well for everyone." Danielle just smiled and went back to listening about Sara's school and her friend Cathy.
Soon they were playing shoots and ladders. Ron was having trouble for he had never played a muggle game and couldn't figure out why the pieces didn't move when he told them to.
The five of them were all laughing and playing games happily when Mrs. Weasley announced dinner. They all stood up and went into the kitchen and eat a wonderful dinner and continued poking fun at each other about the games.
Around nine Mrs. Weasley told them that Sara should be in bed now. Sara gave her puppy dog eyes, but Mrs. Weasley only looked down at the little girl and said, "You will see them tomorrow. Right now you need to go to bed, I've already let you stay up later than usually."
Then she turned to Danielle, "Would you like to tuck her in Danielle? She always tells me that I'm not as good at it as you are." Danielle smiled at Mrs. Weasley and said, "Yeah, I'll go tuck her in, but I'm sure she doesn't mean what she says."
Danielle took Sara's hand and went upstairs with her. Mrs. Weasley wanted to see what Danielle did, so she quietly followed to listen outside the door.
Harry, Ron and Hermione saw this and did the same. Mrs. Weasley jumped when she first saw the others; she blushed like she had been caught doing something wrong. She motioned for them to be quiet and they nodded
"Danny?" Sara's little voice said. "I've missed you." Danielle smiled and sat down on the bed next to her. "Oh, I've missed you too."
"Will you sing, I've missed your singing" Sara asked looking into Danielle's eyes. Danielle couldn't have said no if she had wanted to. She started singing her normal song,
"Baby mine don't you cry, Baby mine dry your eye, Rest your head close to my heart, never to part, baby of mine. Little one when you play, don't you mind what they say, let those eyes sparkle and shine, never a tear, baby of mine. If they knew sweet little you, they'd end up loving you too. All those same people who scold you, what they'd give just for the right to hold you. From you head to your toes, you're not much goodness knows, but your so precious to me, sure as can be baby of mine."
Danielle kissed Sara on the forehead. "Good night my Sweetest Sara." Danielle said softly. Danielle got up to leave, thinking that Sara was asleep.
"Good night my Dearest Danny" said a quiet voice behind her. Danielle walked back over and kissed her forehead again. She started to sing a different song and by the end, Sara was sleeping soundly.
Danielle walked out of the room and almost tripped over Ron, Harry, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley. Luckily Ron caught her before she fell. He set her back on her feet before Mrs. Weasley could see their expressions.
They five went downstairs and into the kitchen to talk. When safely in the kitchen, with no chance of waking Sara, Mrs. Weasley said, "Sara was right, you tuck her in better than anyone else could." Danielle just looked at her with a puzzled look.
"Sorry we were spying, I wanted to see how you tucked her it, so I might be able to make her go to sleep easier." Mrs. Weasley confessed.
"That's okay, I don't mind." Danielle said forgiving her.
"You sing beautifully!" Hermione said breaking a long silence. Ron nodded in agreement as did Mrs. Weasley. Harry just smiled. Danielle blushed and dismissed the comment.
Soon Harry, Ron and Hermione were falling out of their seats, they were so tired. Mrs. Weasley sent them to bed. Danielle got up to follow, even thought she wasn't at all sleepy.
"Danielle?" Mrs. Weasley called after her, "Can we talk for a little while before you go to sleep?" Danielle nodded and came back into the kitchen.
"I just want to know a few things, but I don't know how to ask." Mrs. Weasley said. Danielle just nodded again. "Why do you take such good care of her? You love her like a daughter and she loves you like her mother. Why?"
Danielle looked at her with a puzzled look. "I am her mother, at least in only way the really matters." Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley and saw her puzzled expression. "A mother's job is to protect her child, to keep the child safe and to give the child all the she can. That is what I did, I protected her from being hit by Mr. Hunt, and I gave her a better life. My mother died to protect Harry and me. I have scars on my back, and in my memory, from protecting her. If that is not being a mother, I don't know what is." Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley's face and saw she was crying.
"I gave her the life that a child should have, here with you. Soon she will cry out to you when she's scared and want to hear you sing to her instead of me. But that's okay, I love her enough to give her away so that she can have all life has to offer that I can't give her."
Mrs. Weasley, still crying, looked up at Danielle and said, "You ARE her mother. I will never and could never replace you, she will only have two mothers!" Danielle smiled at her. "You better get some sleep. Good night " with this Danielle went up and went to bed.
The next morning came and went quickly. Soon it was time to head back to school.
Danielle said goodbye and told her to write her a letter sometime. It was easier to say goodbye this time, now that Danielle knew that Sara was settled and enjoying herself.
The four friends were on their way out to get the portkey back to Hogwarts when Mrs. Weasley called Danielle back.
"I hear that you don't have anywhere to stay this summer when school is out" Mrs. Weasley said and Danielle nodded. "Well, we don't have a lot of room here, but if you wouldn't mind sharing a room with Ginny and Sara, you can stay here."
Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley in disbelief, Mrs. Weasley only nodded and said, "Sara would love to have you around and Ron seems to like a lot." she winked at Danielle as she said that. Danielle blushed and smiled. Danielle flung her arms around her. "Thank you!" she whispered as she drew away.
"Go on, you don't want to miss your portkey." Danielle ran from the house, but stopped at the end of the driveway and smiled brightly at Sara and Mrs. Weasley.
Ron grabbed her hand and touched it to the portkey a second before it transported them back to Hogwarts. They all fell on the ground in the Gryffindor common room.
Ron landed directly on top of Danielle and they both blushed as he realized this and quickly got up.
"What did my mom want you for?" Ron asked when they had all recovered from the fall.
"Oh, she offered to let me stay at your house for the summer so I could be near Sara," Danielle paused and then said quietly, "and you."
Note: Okay, I just wanted to thank anyone who is reading this. I'm sure if you have gotten this far that you have noticed all my MANY spelling and grammar mistakes. I feel that if you are going to spend your precious time reading my story that I owe you a little explanation. I don't know why other people write this type of stories, other than the fact that it is fun, but I write them when I have one of my bad migraines. Focusing on something like a creative writing piece helps me take my mind off the throbbing pain in my head. The problem is that it's hard to focus on editing something that you've written when you have a headache. When I don't have a migraine, I don't really want to stay at home and I don't want to be sitting behind a computer. So, I've been trying to edit these and I think I've been doing a better job with them, but I'm sorry all the same. I hope you all understand and don't hold my mistakes against my story. I hope you are all enjoying it and I apologize for any clichés or "Mary Sue's" that I've included. This is my first Fan Fiction that I've ever written. I have written 22 chapters that are saved on my computer and am slowing going back through them and editing them as much as my headache is allowing me to. I hope to have them done and up soon, but I can't say exactly when. I hope you can all understand what I'm trying to say in the story, even with the mistakes, okay back to the story.
The New Home
The next week Danielle and her friends went to go visit Sara at the Weasley's. Hermione came along to meet the infamous Sara that she had heard so much about.
"Hello Dears." Mrs. Weasley called when they entered the house. She came over and gave all four big hugs, much to Ron's dislike.
"Sara is up stairs cleaning her room, for the fifth time today. I swear this house is more clean that it's been for years with that precious little one around here." She said herding them all into the kitchen.
"May I go up and say hello?" Danielle asked politely. "Yes, of course. Bring her down here, she should stop cleaning and come see her friends. She talks of you often Danielle." Mrs. Weasley said giving Danielle a look that Danielle couldn't read. "Well, I think of her often as well. I'll be right back." Danielle said walking out of the kitchen and up the stairs.
Mrs. Weasley watched her until she was out of sight, and then sighed. "That is one amazing girl." She said turning back to the others.
"So, what can I get you? Anything to drink or eat, dears?" "No, we all had a big breakfast, maybe a little later." Ron told her.
Suddenly there was a loud excited scream up stairs. "DANNY!" Then there was a loud thud as Danielle and Sara fell to the floor and hysterical laughing.
"If it wasn't for the laughing I would be worried." Ron said as they all looked at each other.
"Sara has been very excited about your visit. It's all she's talked about for two days now. 'How long until Danny comes? Oh, I've got to clean for Danny. Danny's coming today.' It is wasn't so cute I'd be getting annoyed." Mrs. Weasley told them.
Soon Danielle and Sara came down the stairs. Danielle was giving Sara a piggy pack ride and Sara was laughing and smiling brightly. Danielle put Sara down when she got into the kitchen.
"Harry!" Sara shouted running over to him and throwing her arms around him. Harry picked her up and sat her on his lap. "Hi Ron!" Sara said excitedly to Ron.
Hermione was watching all this with wide eyes. Ron and Harry taking care of a little girl like a daughter wasn't what she expected to find her
"Sara, this is my best friend Hermione." Danielle said introducing them. "Hi, I've heard a lot about you from Danny, Ron, and Harry" Sara said excitedly. "And I've heard a lot about you." Hermione said smiling and she suddenly understood why the boys loved her so much.
They all sat around talking for a while. Sara told them about the school she was going to.
"And the teacher is really nice, she said that I'm not behind at all. And Cathy, the girl who sits next to me is really nice. I went over to her house a few days ago. We watched a movie called Anastasia, it reminded me of you Danny." Sara hadn't stopped talking for at least ten minutes. They all wondered how she managed to breath.
"Why was that?" Danielle asked the over excited little girl.
"Because it is about a girl around you age who runs away from a orphanage and finds her family." Sara said simply. "And the lady who runs the orphanage is mean just like Mr. Hunt, although she didn't hit Anastasia." Sara kept talking about everything and Danielle listened smiling all the while.
Danielle looked at Harry and thought, "Sara sure is doing well here! She is acting like a child should." Harry smiled and thought back, "Yeah, I'm really glad she seems to be doing so well. I was worried about a non- magical girl in this house, but things seem to be going very well for everyone." Danielle just smiled and went back to listening about Sara's school and her friend Cathy.
Soon they were playing shoots and ladders. Ron was having trouble for he had never played a muggle game and couldn't figure out why the pieces didn't move when he told them to.
The five of them were all laughing and playing games happily when Mrs. Weasley announced dinner. They all stood up and went into the kitchen and eat a wonderful dinner and continued poking fun at each other about the games.
Around nine Mrs. Weasley told them that Sara should be in bed now. Sara gave her puppy dog eyes, but Mrs. Weasley only looked down at the little girl and said, "You will see them tomorrow. Right now you need to go to bed, I've already let you stay up later than usually."
Then she turned to Danielle, "Would you like to tuck her in Danielle? She always tells me that I'm not as good at it as you are." Danielle smiled at Mrs. Weasley and said, "Yeah, I'll go tuck her in, but I'm sure she doesn't mean what she says."
Danielle took Sara's hand and went upstairs with her. Mrs. Weasley wanted to see what Danielle did, so she quietly followed to listen outside the door.
Harry, Ron and Hermione saw this and did the same. Mrs. Weasley jumped when she first saw the others; she blushed like she had been caught doing something wrong. She motioned for them to be quiet and they nodded
"Danny?" Sara's little voice said. "I've missed you." Danielle smiled and sat down on the bed next to her. "Oh, I've missed you too."
"Will you sing, I've missed your singing" Sara asked looking into Danielle's eyes. Danielle couldn't have said no if she had wanted to. She started singing her normal song,
"Baby mine don't you cry, Baby mine dry your eye, Rest your head close to my heart, never to part, baby of mine. Little one when you play, don't you mind what they say, let those eyes sparkle and shine, never a tear, baby of mine. If they knew sweet little you, they'd end up loving you too. All those same people who scold you, what they'd give just for the right to hold you. From you head to your toes, you're not much goodness knows, but your so precious to me, sure as can be baby of mine."
Danielle kissed Sara on the forehead. "Good night my Sweetest Sara." Danielle said softly. Danielle got up to leave, thinking that Sara was asleep.
"Good night my Dearest Danny" said a quiet voice behind her. Danielle walked back over and kissed her forehead again. She started to sing a different song and by the end, Sara was sleeping soundly.
Danielle walked out of the room and almost tripped over Ron, Harry, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley. Luckily Ron caught her before she fell. He set her back on her feet before Mrs. Weasley could see their expressions.
They five went downstairs and into the kitchen to talk. When safely in the kitchen, with no chance of waking Sara, Mrs. Weasley said, "Sara was right, you tuck her in better than anyone else could." Danielle just looked at her with a puzzled look.
"Sorry we were spying, I wanted to see how you tucked her it, so I might be able to make her go to sleep easier." Mrs. Weasley confessed.
"That's okay, I don't mind." Danielle said forgiving her.
"You sing beautifully!" Hermione said breaking a long silence. Ron nodded in agreement as did Mrs. Weasley. Harry just smiled. Danielle blushed and dismissed the comment.
Soon Harry, Ron and Hermione were falling out of their seats, they were so tired. Mrs. Weasley sent them to bed. Danielle got up to follow, even thought she wasn't at all sleepy.
"Danielle?" Mrs. Weasley called after her, "Can we talk for a little while before you go to sleep?" Danielle nodded and came back into the kitchen.
"I just want to know a few things, but I don't know how to ask." Mrs. Weasley said. Danielle just nodded again. "Why do you take such good care of her? You love her like a daughter and she loves you like her mother. Why?"
Danielle looked at her with a puzzled look. "I am her mother, at least in only way the really matters." Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley and saw her puzzled expression. "A mother's job is to protect her child, to keep the child safe and to give the child all the she can. That is what I did, I protected her from being hit by Mr. Hunt, and I gave her a better life. My mother died to protect Harry and me. I have scars on my back, and in my memory, from protecting her. If that is not being a mother, I don't know what is." Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley's face and saw she was crying.
"I gave her the life that a child should have, here with you. Soon she will cry out to you when she's scared and want to hear you sing to her instead of me. But that's okay, I love her enough to give her away so that she can have all life has to offer that I can't give her."
Mrs. Weasley, still crying, looked up at Danielle and said, "You ARE her mother. I will never and could never replace you, she will only have two mothers!" Danielle smiled at her. "You better get some sleep. Good night " with this Danielle went up and went to bed.
The next morning came and went quickly. Soon it was time to head back to school.
Danielle said goodbye and told her to write her a letter sometime. It was easier to say goodbye this time, now that Danielle knew that Sara was settled and enjoying herself.
The four friends were on their way out to get the portkey back to Hogwarts when Mrs. Weasley called Danielle back.
"I hear that you don't have anywhere to stay this summer when school is out" Mrs. Weasley said and Danielle nodded. "Well, we don't have a lot of room here, but if you wouldn't mind sharing a room with Ginny and Sara, you can stay here."
Danielle looked at Mrs. Weasley in disbelief, Mrs. Weasley only nodded and said, "Sara would love to have you around and Ron seems to like a lot." she winked at Danielle as she said that. Danielle blushed and smiled. Danielle flung her arms around her. "Thank you!" she whispered as she drew away.
"Go on, you don't want to miss your portkey." Danielle ran from the house, but stopped at the end of the driveway and smiled brightly at Sara and Mrs. Weasley.
Ron grabbed her hand and touched it to the portkey a second before it transported them back to Hogwarts. They all fell on the ground in the Gryffindor common room.
Ron landed directly on top of Danielle and they both blushed as he realized this and quickly got up.
"What did my mom want you for?" Ron asked when they had all recovered from the fall.
"Oh, she offered to let me stay at your house for the summer so I could be near Sara," Danielle paused and then said quietly, "and you."