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Hide and Seek
As the train pulled into the station the four friends woke up. Danielle squeezed her eyes shut and tried to go back to sleep, it wasn't often anymore that she slept peacefully.
Ron let out a quietly laugh and ran his fingers through her hair. "Sweetie, you need to get up." Ron said resting his hand on her shoulder. Danielle rolled over on to her back and looked up at him. Their eyes locked and neither one moved for a few minutes.
Harry and Hermione had left them to go find an empty carriage, Ron and Danielle were to meet them there. "We really do have to go." Ron said wishing that it wasn't so. Danielle nodded and sat up. She sleepily got to her feet and Ron took her hand and led her to the carriages.
The sleepy teenagers didn't talk for the rest of the ride. They all wanted to go back to sleep again, but knew that now they were awake they would be awake for a while. They made their way into the great hall for dinner.
Hermione and Danielle exchanged glances and didn't sit down with the boys. "We will be right back." Danielle said as the two girls walk out of the great hall and towards the bathroom.
As Danielle was standing in front of the mirror washing her hands she head someone mutter something and a hard thud. Danielle called, "Hermione are you okay?" She turned around to see Hermione laying on the floor stunned and Malfoy standing over her body.
Danielle knew better than to let him anywhere near her. "What do you want?" Danielle spat at him. "To talk to you alone, but I knew that you wouldn't let me." He explained.
"You realize I could kill you right now, and no one would care." Danielle said reaching for her wand, but noticed it wasn't there.
"Looking for this?" He said holding her wand.
"You know as well as I do that I don't need it." She said crossing her arms in front of her.
"Maybe not, but considering your last experience with wandless magic I figured it would slow you down." He said glaring at her.
"Just give me back my wand and tell me what you want. Quickly before I decided to kill you for everything you have done to me and my friends." Danielle said impatiently.
"I wanted to warn you." Malfoy said in a voice that almost sounded caring.
"I can take care of myself." Danielle shouted angrily.
"I saw how much his death hurt you and I don't want you to go through that again." Malfoy said taking a step closer.
"Stay back!" Danielle shouted seeing his step. "This is just a trap, you want to be my friend so you can deliver me into the waiting arms of the Voldemort." Danielle said glaring at him then suddenly yelled, "Again."
Malfoy didn't say anything for a minute. She was right; he was supposed to deliver her to the dark lord again, but at the same time he still had some feeling for her.
"Have it your way." He said throwing her wand at her and walking out.
Danielle walked over to the limp Hermione lying on the floor. "Enervate." Danielle said and Hermione slowing opened her eyes. Danielle explained what happened and the two girls decided that they were no longer hungry and they headed toward Gryffindor tower.
"Harry, Hermione and I don't feel good. We're going to bed." Danielle said telepathically to Harry who was still in the great hall waiting eating.
"Ron and I both hope you two feel better." Harry told her back. When the boys got to the common room after dinner they went in to check on the girls. The first bed they got to was Hermione's. She was still awake reading a potions book.
"Hey, I heard you weren't feeling well." Harry said as the two boys sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Yeah, we ran into Malfoy in the bathroom. He stunned me, so he could talk to Danielle. She wouldn't tell me what he said, but we decided to come up here. I haven't heard anything from her, I think she's asleep." Hermione told them this and went back to reading her book.
It wasn't that she didn't care about Danielle, she just knew her well enough to know that Danielle liked her space. Harry got up and walked over to Danielle's bed.
"Danielle?" He called softly, but there was no answer. Harry quietly pulled apart the curtains on her bed and he groaned.
"What?" Hermione and Ron said at the same time.
"She's not here." Harry said and he went to her trunk. "Neither is her invisibility cloak or her map." Ron ran out of the room into the boy's dorms. Harry and Hermione sat there listing off the places she might be.
A few minutes later Ron came back and said, "You'll never guess what else she took." Ron said coming over to the bed. "Your map." Ron said shaking his head.
"What are we going to do now?" Hermione asked knowing that Danielle needed to be with her friends, no matter what she might say on the outside.
"Come on, we'll find her without the map, let's grab my invisibility cloak." Hermione threw a robe on and ran out after the boys. Danielle let out a sigh and got out from under the bed. She would have just put the cloak on and stay in the bed, but she couldn't risk one of her friends feeling for her there. She put her map back in her trunk and left the cloak on her bed.
She walked over to the boy's dorms and put Harry's map back. She knew she shouldn't have taken it, but she really wanted to be alone. She went back to her dorm and found Shadow out of her tower for once. Danielle went over to the window as Shadow jumped up on the windowsill.
"No one understands me, Shadow." Danielle said to the purring cat. "I wish I was a cat, life would be so simple. Just eat and sleep all day, what else could be better?" Shadow just licked her hand comfortingly. "Everyone keeps telling me that nothing bad is going to happen, but it already has. Tim is dead; doesn't anyone understand that? One of my oldest friends is dead. Everyone just tells me that I need to move on; that I can't live in the past. I agree, but he's only been dead for about three weeks. For years Tim was the only person I had that could be considered a friend. Back at the orphanage we were all like family, we all suffered at the hands of Mr. Hunt, some more than others. Now, he's dead. I loved him, I really did. Not like I love Ron or Hermione or Harry. He was different; he knew everything and still liked me. None of my friends know everything about my past. They don't know how mean Mr. Hunt really was. I will never tell them what happened whenever Mr. Hunt got really mad. Tim knew. The one person in the world who knew, the only person I could talk to about anything, and he is dead."
Danielle stopped there. Shadow was still licking her hand. Danielle felt much better, even though she hadn't talked to a person. Shadow was a good listener, and the best part was that Shadow wouldn't judge her by what she said and she couldn't tell anyone.
Danielle turned around and saw Harry, Hermione and Ron appear from under Harry's invisibility cloak. "What the hell?" Danielle said when she saw them.
"We saw you put the map back in my truck." Harry explained.
"What did you hear?" Danielle asked with a very scared look on her face.
"Danielle, we just want to help you." Hermione said sensing that this conversation was going to end badly. They had been eaves dropping and heard things Danielle didn't want to tell them.
"What did you mean he was the only person you could talk to?" Ron said yelling at her. Danielle's face now showed a mixture of hurt and anger.
"You had no right." She yelled as she ran from the dorm room. Hermione glared at Ron.
"You stupid idiot." Hermione spat at him and ran out after Danielle. Hermione got there just in time to see Danielle slip on out of common room with her invisibility cloak and map in her hands.
"Great," Hermione said when the boys caught up, "Now she really did leave." Hermione was to upset with both boys to talk to them. Harry hadn't said anything, but Hermione knew his thoughts were along the same line and Ron's. She went up to her room and put a spell on the room so only someone who slept there could open it. Then she cast a silencing charm on it so she couldn't hear the boy's banging to be let in.
It was still early; there was no one else in all of Gryffindor tower. Shadow jumped up on the bed next to Hermione. Hermione stroked the purring cat and said, "I understand why Danielle talks to you. You are good at keeping secrets and you don't ever judge or say the wrong thing." Shadow licked Hermione's hand, but when Crookshanks showed up she decided to leave and go back to her tower.
Harry and Ron did go up to the girl's room, but soon realized that they were not going to get in there. They decided their best bet was to go find Danielle. They had Harry's map this time, so it couldn't be that hard.
Harry got the map and said, "I swear I am up to no good." He saw a dot labeled 'Potter' in Hagrid's Hut. Harry sighed. "Ron, I know you're not going to like this, but I think we should let Danielle be for tonight. She's with Hagrid and that's a good place for her."
Ron glared at Harry. "Don't you want to know what she meant when she was talking tonight?" Ron asked with a touch on anger in his voice.
"Yes I do, but we probably are not going to get it tonight, even if we found her. Not to mention I think we both need to cool down a little before we talk to her about this. If I saw her right now, I might go rip her apart." Harry said and Ron reluctantly agreed.
They slipped a piece of parchment under the girl's door. Hermione saw and read it.
Hermione, We are sorry Hermione. We aren't going looking for her, she's down and Hagrid's. We both decided that we need to cool off a little before we talked to her, so we are going to bed. If you talk to her before us, please tell her we are sorry, but we would like to speak to her about what we heard. Harry and Ron
Hermione sigh. "Those boys." She muttered to herself as she took off the charms and crawled into bed. She lay awake for a long time thinking about what Danielle had said.
"They don't know how mean Mr. Hunt really was. I will never tell them what happened whenever Mr. Hunt got really mad. Tim knew. The one person in the world who knew, the only person I could talk to about anything, and he is dead."
"Knew what?" Hermione said to herself. "It must be really bad if it was worse than those beatings. If so, I understand why you wouldn't want to tell us." Hermione fell asleep before her roommates started to come in to go to bed. So much had happened during that night.
Hide and Seek
As the train pulled into the station the four friends woke up. Danielle squeezed her eyes shut and tried to go back to sleep, it wasn't often anymore that she slept peacefully.
Ron let out a quietly laugh and ran his fingers through her hair. "Sweetie, you need to get up." Ron said resting his hand on her shoulder. Danielle rolled over on to her back and looked up at him. Their eyes locked and neither one moved for a few minutes.
Harry and Hermione had left them to go find an empty carriage, Ron and Danielle were to meet them there. "We really do have to go." Ron said wishing that it wasn't so. Danielle nodded and sat up. She sleepily got to her feet and Ron took her hand and led her to the carriages.
The sleepy teenagers didn't talk for the rest of the ride. They all wanted to go back to sleep again, but knew that now they were awake they would be awake for a while. They made their way into the great hall for dinner.
Hermione and Danielle exchanged glances and didn't sit down with the boys. "We will be right back." Danielle said as the two girls walk out of the great hall and towards the bathroom.
As Danielle was standing in front of the mirror washing her hands she head someone mutter something and a hard thud. Danielle called, "Hermione are you okay?" She turned around to see Hermione laying on the floor stunned and Malfoy standing over her body.
Danielle knew better than to let him anywhere near her. "What do you want?" Danielle spat at him. "To talk to you alone, but I knew that you wouldn't let me." He explained.
"You realize I could kill you right now, and no one would care." Danielle said reaching for her wand, but noticed it wasn't there.
"Looking for this?" He said holding her wand.
"You know as well as I do that I don't need it." She said crossing her arms in front of her.
"Maybe not, but considering your last experience with wandless magic I figured it would slow you down." He said glaring at her.
"Just give me back my wand and tell me what you want. Quickly before I decided to kill you for everything you have done to me and my friends." Danielle said impatiently.
"I wanted to warn you." Malfoy said in a voice that almost sounded caring.
"I can take care of myself." Danielle shouted angrily.
"I saw how much his death hurt you and I don't want you to go through that again." Malfoy said taking a step closer.
"Stay back!" Danielle shouted seeing his step. "This is just a trap, you want to be my friend so you can deliver me into the waiting arms of the Voldemort." Danielle said glaring at him then suddenly yelled, "Again."
Malfoy didn't say anything for a minute. She was right; he was supposed to deliver her to the dark lord again, but at the same time he still had some feeling for her.
"Have it your way." He said throwing her wand at her and walking out.
Danielle walked over to the limp Hermione lying on the floor. "Enervate." Danielle said and Hermione slowing opened her eyes. Danielle explained what happened and the two girls decided that they were no longer hungry and they headed toward Gryffindor tower.
"Harry, Hermione and I don't feel good. We're going to bed." Danielle said telepathically to Harry who was still in the great hall waiting eating.
"Ron and I both hope you two feel better." Harry told her back. When the boys got to the common room after dinner they went in to check on the girls. The first bed they got to was Hermione's. She was still awake reading a potions book.
"Hey, I heard you weren't feeling well." Harry said as the two boys sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Yeah, we ran into Malfoy in the bathroom. He stunned me, so he could talk to Danielle. She wouldn't tell me what he said, but we decided to come up here. I haven't heard anything from her, I think she's asleep." Hermione told them this and went back to reading her book.
It wasn't that she didn't care about Danielle, she just knew her well enough to know that Danielle liked her space. Harry got up and walked over to Danielle's bed.
"Danielle?" He called softly, but there was no answer. Harry quietly pulled apart the curtains on her bed and he groaned.
"What?" Hermione and Ron said at the same time.
"She's not here." Harry said and he went to her trunk. "Neither is her invisibility cloak or her map." Ron ran out of the room into the boy's dorms. Harry and Hermione sat there listing off the places she might be.
A few minutes later Ron came back and said, "You'll never guess what else she took." Ron said coming over to the bed. "Your map." Ron said shaking his head.
"What are we going to do now?" Hermione asked knowing that Danielle needed to be with her friends, no matter what she might say on the outside.
"Come on, we'll find her without the map, let's grab my invisibility cloak." Hermione threw a robe on and ran out after the boys. Danielle let out a sigh and got out from under the bed. She would have just put the cloak on and stay in the bed, but she couldn't risk one of her friends feeling for her there. She put her map back in her trunk and left the cloak on her bed.
She walked over to the boy's dorms and put Harry's map back. She knew she shouldn't have taken it, but she really wanted to be alone. She went back to her dorm and found Shadow out of her tower for once. Danielle went over to the window as Shadow jumped up on the windowsill.
"No one understands me, Shadow." Danielle said to the purring cat. "I wish I was a cat, life would be so simple. Just eat and sleep all day, what else could be better?" Shadow just licked her hand comfortingly. "Everyone keeps telling me that nothing bad is going to happen, but it already has. Tim is dead; doesn't anyone understand that? One of my oldest friends is dead. Everyone just tells me that I need to move on; that I can't live in the past. I agree, but he's only been dead for about three weeks. For years Tim was the only person I had that could be considered a friend. Back at the orphanage we were all like family, we all suffered at the hands of Mr. Hunt, some more than others. Now, he's dead. I loved him, I really did. Not like I love Ron or Hermione or Harry. He was different; he knew everything and still liked me. None of my friends know everything about my past. They don't know how mean Mr. Hunt really was. I will never tell them what happened whenever Mr. Hunt got really mad. Tim knew. The one person in the world who knew, the only person I could talk to about anything, and he is dead."
Danielle stopped there. Shadow was still licking her hand. Danielle felt much better, even though she hadn't talked to a person. Shadow was a good listener, and the best part was that Shadow wouldn't judge her by what she said and she couldn't tell anyone.
Danielle turned around and saw Harry, Hermione and Ron appear from under Harry's invisibility cloak. "What the hell?" Danielle said when she saw them.
"We saw you put the map back in my truck." Harry explained.
"What did you hear?" Danielle asked with a very scared look on her face.
"Danielle, we just want to help you." Hermione said sensing that this conversation was going to end badly. They had been eaves dropping and heard things Danielle didn't want to tell them.
"What did you mean he was the only person you could talk to?" Ron said yelling at her. Danielle's face now showed a mixture of hurt and anger.
"You had no right." She yelled as she ran from the dorm room. Hermione glared at Ron.
"You stupid idiot." Hermione spat at him and ran out after Danielle. Hermione got there just in time to see Danielle slip on out of common room with her invisibility cloak and map in her hands.
"Great," Hermione said when the boys caught up, "Now she really did leave." Hermione was to upset with both boys to talk to them. Harry hadn't said anything, but Hermione knew his thoughts were along the same line and Ron's. She went up to her room and put a spell on the room so only someone who slept there could open it. Then she cast a silencing charm on it so she couldn't hear the boy's banging to be let in.
It was still early; there was no one else in all of Gryffindor tower. Shadow jumped up on the bed next to Hermione. Hermione stroked the purring cat and said, "I understand why Danielle talks to you. You are good at keeping secrets and you don't ever judge or say the wrong thing." Shadow licked Hermione's hand, but when Crookshanks showed up she decided to leave and go back to her tower.
Harry and Ron did go up to the girl's room, but soon realized that they were not going to get in there. They decided their best bet was to go find Danielle. They had Harry's map this time, so it couldn't be that hard.
Harry got the map and said, "I swear I am up to no good." He saw a dot labeled 'Potter' in Hagrid's Hut. Harry sighed. "Ron, I know you're not going to like this, but I think we should let Danielle be for tonight. She's with Hagrid and that's a good place for her."
Ron glared at Harry. "Don't you want to know what she meant when she was talking tonight?" Ron asked with a touch on anger in his voice.
"Yes I do, but we probably are not going to get it tonight, even if we found her. Not to mention I think we both need to cool down a little before we talk to her about this. If I saw her right now, I might go rip her apart." Harry said and Ron reluctantly agreed.
They slipped a piece of parchment under the girl's door. Hermione saw and read it.
Hermione, We are sorry Hermione. We aren't going looking for her, she's down and Hagrid's. We both decided that we need to cool off a little before we talked to her, so we are going to bed. If you talk to her before us, please tell her we are sorry, but we would like to speak to her about what we heard. Harry and Ron
Hermione sigh. "Those boys." She muttered to herself as she took off the charms and crawled into bed. She lay awake for a long time thinking about what Danielle had said.
"They don't know how mean Mr. Hunt really was. I will never tell them what happened whenever Mr. Hunt got really mad. Tim knew. The one person in the world who knew, the only person I could talk to about anything, and he is dead."
"Knew what?" Hermione said to herself. "It must be really bad if it was worse than those beatings. If so, I understand why you wouldn't want to tell us." Hermione fell asleep before her roommates started to come in to go to bed. So much had happened during that night.