Title The Death eaters daughter
Author name Alexia Green
Author email drake_please@hotmail.com
Category Romance/action/
Keywords Hermione , Draco , daughter , jewl
Spoilers all books
Rating pg 13
Summary Hermione granger is a woman on the run , she is forced to flee to Australia with her new born child. Thirteen years later a old friend from the past reveals himself , does he hold the key to Hermione's past and what of the jewl she always wears around her neck? why is every one after it. It's up to Heather the amazing psychic Angelica the amazing pyscho and the dashing and debonair Mr Blau to find out
Disclaimer we dont own any thing , but you probably already knew that.
The Death Eaters Daughter- Chapter Two
"Green, Hermione and Amethyst?"
"Yeah , we're here"
Amethyst Draca Green, more commonly known as Ethy Green, once again found herself standing shivering in the warm Australian wind at 4.15 in the morning. Due to the rules and regulations of the Orion Boarding house, where her and her mother had lived for years, it was an abiding rule that you must exit the Boarding house when the fire alarm sounded. Too bad the stupid thing had sounded four times in the past week alone.
"Germaine, Zev, Andre, Claire, Madeleine and Peter" an old lady with a thick Italian accent called, a clipboard in her wrinkly, olive colored hands.
"Anna Maria, can you not even call out zee names properly, you must call out zee first name ZEN zee last name" The old lady's wrinkled counterpart, namely her husband, called angrily from behind her, his rich Italian voice husked with age.
"No, no, no Guiseppe, shoo know zat shoo must call out zee last name ZEN zee first name" Anna Maria answered snidely, shoving the clipboard into Ethy's waiting hands. She knew that this was always the part of the fight where the Italian kicked in.
"I think shour brain went out along vith shour joints!" Guiseppe barked, swinging his cane from side to side. Boarders swept themselves away in an attempt to stay cane less.
"Vel shoo are zee Grande old Stupidos I ever lay my eyes apon!" Anna Maria yelled. Ethy rolled her eyes and looked around at the dark haired boy standing beside her.
"See Zev, even at 4.20 in the morning they still manage to fight like a Blast-Ended Skrewt and a Unicorn" Ethy said tiredly, yawning loudly.
"Yeah... when I'm married I'm not gonna be nothing like these two ...me and my wife will talk and laugh and.. .do other.. .stuff" Zev replied, turning a slight shade of pink and grinning widely.
Ethy turned away in an attempt to hide the fact she was blushing the shade of a ripe tomato. As she looked around she spotted the boarders in turn. Dave the Herbalist was carrying an armload of his precious coriander, a firm frown fixed on his lips. Angelica was looking around shiftily, a crowbar from the tool shed in one hand and a rather mutant looking cheese sandwich in the other, playing with her long, red hair.
Ethy had a sneaking suspicion she had more to do with the fire alarms and short circuiting lights than she made out she did.
Heather, the resident psychic, was sitting on a small lawn chair, an amused expression affixed on her face. She most likely knew what was going on, but Ethy knew she liked a good laugh, just like anyone else.
Alicia was sitting beside Heather, repeating in a mechanical voice
"Must. ..Alphabetise ...Must... Alphabetise"
She had a serious alphabetising problem.
Mr. Sennzebody was sitting in his own little spot of the lawn, no one dared to come near him, he was in an extremely annoyed mood at this point of time.
Mr. Blau was hiding behind one of Anna Maria' s famous olive trees, a fake beard and glasses accessorised his face.
Kelly looked extremely up and go for 4.25. She didn't even look sleepy. It must have been the Insomnia kicking in again.
Bill and Stanley, the two twins, were standing beside each other, the same puzzled expression on their faces. Amethyst could never tell them apart, no matter how many name tags, embroidered jumpers and face paints she tried.
Her Best friend Ginger was trying to stop her fighting nonno and nonna, her reddish hair flying in all directions.
Everything and everyone looked relatively normal, that is for a bunch of weirdos standing outside in their pyjamas at 4.30 in the morning.
Ethy pulled a strand of her silvery blonde hair from her face, her silver-grey eyes roaming around. Sometimes when she looked at the boarders she shared her life with she found herself the only mature one, even if she was only 13 and the others were at least the same age as her mother or older.
"Ethy! Amethyst! AMETHYST DRACA!" a voice pulled her out of her early morning dream. As she snapped back to reality she found her mother smiling at her. Even though she'd never admit it, even under the Cruciatus curse, she had the best mum in the entire world.
"Guiseppe said it's fine to go back in the boarding house, it was another false alarm ...Please mind out for Angelica though, Ethy , right now she has a fetish for trying to get people to climb on the roof and help her make some bizarre lightning rod and frankly, Gem, I have no time to scrape you, Zev or Ginger off the patio floor" Hermione said playfully, ruffling Ethy's silvery hair.
"Right mum, I'll be right up, I just need to see Ginger" Ethy replied.
Hermione nodded in approval and headed for the door behind an extremely sneaky looking Mr. Blau.
"Right now, Ginger, Ginger, Ginger where would I go if I was Ginger" Ethy whispered to herself, heading inside.
"Ginger!!" She called to her friend, who was just down the hall, opening her room with an enchantment spell she learned in advanced Transfiguration, turning a lock into a jelly snake, Useful and Delicious.
Ginger! GINGER PELLEGRINO" Ethy called, Ginger turned and smiled as she saw her friend.
"What do you want, you person that sucks at Transfiguration" Ginger replied playfully, her shoulder length auburn hair swishing as she turned.
"Eh, your not that good at Muggle cooking yourself, are you?" Ethy said snidely, remembering the last time Ginger tried. It resulted in four hair plugs, Mr. Sennzebody 's beard completely shaved off and having to clean chocolate icing of the cupboards for ages.
"Shut up about that, you" Ginger replied, putting her 13 inch Redwood wand back into her Muggle Pj's Pocket.
"Now, did you want to ask me something or did you intend for me to stand out in the cold, looking as stupid as you do..." Ginger said playfully, pointing at Ethy's pale violet pyjamas, Ethy sighed and brushed off her Pj's, her pale cheeks turning a slight shade of pink.
"Well, I wanted to ask you ...is it my turn to collect the rent with you tomorrow?" Ethy said in the brightest, most bubbliest way possible, but the inside of her head was saying
'Please let it be Zev, please...not me, please not me'
"Yep... be ready at 6.30 sharp" Ginger said brightly, muttering a few words, wand in hand, and the lock changed to a particularly juicy red jelly snake, which Ginger grabbed promptly, Ethy sighed in a barely audible tone.
"Okay ...I guess I'll be seeing you then" Ethy said in the nicest way possible, before backing off into the hall. Ginger waved and closed her door with a click behind her.
"Damn Damn DAMN!" she cried softly as she heard Ginger's door click shut. She hated collecting rent. Apart from the fact it was a great place to collect excuses for not doing homework, it was boring and hopeless. They didn't even end up paying it anyway.
Ethy was snapped from her early morning dream as a dark figure crossed her in the dark hall. her heart skipped a beat before she realised it was only Kelly with a worn vacuum in her hand, she must have pinched it from Anna Maria's cleaning closet. Ethy was used to these kind of situations, and looked Kelly straight in the eye.
"Err Kelly? Why the Vacuum , You know Anna Maria doesn't like you touching her Muggle cleaning stuff" Ethy said calmly, Kelly looked around.
"Well... No better time for some Spring Cleaning than right now" Kelly said in a bubbly tone, holding up the Hoover, Ethy gently prized her grip open and pulled the Hoover away.
"But I can't sleeeeeeep"
"Well count Broomsticks or something"
"I can't"
Ethy sighed and pushed the protesting woman towards her room.
"Look, stop walking around the boarding house like some damn insomniac with no life!" Ethy cried, exasperated, Kelly raised her eyebrow in a rather quizzical way, Ethy sighed.
"Look, go and sleep in your room...that's what you pay Guiseppe and Anna Maria for" Ethy said, pushing the protesting woman into the room, slamming the door closed. She sighed once again, picked up the Hoover, and continued to her room. She knew it wouldn't be far until she came across another person, and of course, being the smart alec she was, she was right. As she neared Angelica's room she heard a low buzzing noise, as she came closer she found she could make out the words.
"Now, with this cheese sandwich which I place in front of the laser we will either be able to run the whole boarding house electricity on CHEESE POWER! thus saving all the boarders at least 50 Galleons a month or.. .I blow the whole boarding house to Smithereens!!!, you with me Alicia?"
"Oh Angelica ...I really don't think this is the best Idea you've ever thought..."
"If you do, I'll buy you a whole TRUCKLOAD of stuff to alphabetise *Cough* With your money, of course *Cough*"
"Your on!, put that Sandwich in the laser, baby!"
Ethy decided that now would probably be the time to stop listening and start acting. Even though 50 Galleons would really help her and Her mother, not having a boarding house to live in would just be chaotic. She pushed open the door, just in time to see Angelica about to place a rather large, freakish-looking cheese sandwich on a holder in front of a home made monstrosity of a laser. Angelica and Alicia looked up in surprise.
"Angelica, hand me the sandwich" Ethy said sternly.
"What? this Sandwich" Angelica replied coolly, holding up the cheese sandwich gone wrong.
"Yes, that sandwich, Angelica, I don't see any other Sandwiches lying around any...."
"Well, actually, there is a Peanut butter and Sardine" Alicia started timidly, she didn't get very far for she was interrupted rather rudely.
"Shut Up Alicia!" Ethy and Angelica yelled at exactly the same time, Alicia bowed her head and turned to alphabetise some odd colored potions Angelica had conjured up.
"So, hand it over" Ethy said finally, putting her hand out
.
"Hand what over?" Angelica replied, putting the sandwich behind her back.
"The sandwich"
"What sandwich"
"The one in your hands behind your back"
"Geez, can't a lady have an abnormal skin growth without the whole world finding out"
"Nice try, Angelica, just hand it over"
"But I'm huuuuungry"
"Just give it!"
"Your the bossiest Teen ever!" Angelica finally gave in, slapping the sandwich into Ethy's palm.
The teenager nodded in approval, much like the way her mother does when she tells her where she's going. Ethy left the room in a huff, tired and annoyed, Alicia was not far behind her. Once Ethy made sure Angelica wasn't up to anything else, there didn't seem to be any noise coming from inside her room, she picked up the Hoover in one hand, the mutant cheese sandwich in the other and continued down the hall until she reached room 18.
She uttered a few words that varied from everyone else's and the lock turned into a fat green Jelly Snake. She opened the door quietly so that if her mother was sleeping she wouldn't wake her.
She placed the Hoover and the cheese sandwich on the wall by the door quietly before hearing something she very rarely heard. Her mother was singing, though it was very faint it was the sweetest voice Ethy had ever heard escape her mothers mouth. The song she was singing sounded strangely familiar to Ethy, but she couldn't quite put her finger on where she'd heard it from.
"Ride on a dragon and fly with me
Up into the starry night
I'll pick a flower that will never fade
You can wear it in your long, tangle mane
And together we shall be free"
Hermione sang the verse one last time before Ethy heard her voice break with sobs. She said a two syllable name that Ethy couldn't quite make out, Hermione's voice was unrecognisable when she cried.
"You promised you'd come back where are you? Ethy's 13 that's right , Ethy, short for Amethyst, your name, the one you wanted. It's been 13 years, I'm sick of hiding Come back" Ethy heard her mother sobbing. She couldn't take it anymore, she ran into the next room to see Hermione at the window.
"Mum! What's wrong?" Ethy cried, Hermione rubbed her eyes and turned. Her Bushy Brown hair was tangled and her beautiful eyes were clouded with tears.
"Oh, nothing Gem" Hermione replied, holding gently onto the shining Green and Yellow jewel around her neck. Ethy sat down by her mum. Sometimes her mum had these kind of fits....she seemed extremely sad sometimes, especially when Mr. Blau tried to Chat her up a few nights ago. She had started to sob uncontrollably and spent most of the night in her room. Ethy didn't blame Mr. Blau though, her mother was very pretty ...but she never seemed to go out or anything , like she was saving herself for someone Ethy had never seen in her whole life.
"Well , what was the song you were singing?" Ethy asked, changing the subject slightly.
"Oh, a friend sung it to me a long time ago" Hermione replied, a slight smile formed on her lips.
"My Dad?" Ethy asked, Hermione nodded, scratching the back of her neck in weak thought. Ethy waited a few moments before asking, once again, the one question she had asked more times in her life than common phrases such as "What's for dinner?" and "Do I have to?",
"Mum, who IS my dad?"
Hermione quickly jumped from her place on the bed.
"Ethy, you must be tired, it's 5.00 in the morning Sleep now, talk later" Hermione said in a rushed voice, gently pushing Ethy into her bed. She sighed, she didn't dare argue with her mum if she was set in her ways, it was like sending Alicia into a china shop and not expecting her to alphabetise every dish in sight.
****
"Thomas Riddle, we are becoming tired of waiting for you to retrieve the jewel for us to do your dirty work for you. Give the jewel to us by the time the sun sets on the night of the next full moon, if not we will delete the contract. Harry Potter shall live" The Immortal said emotionlessly, looking up at the full moon shining in the navy sky, his voice rang inside Voldemort's head like a bell.
"NO! how can you! I don't have a chance in Heaven finding that jewel!! it could be anywhere by now!" Voldemort screamed, taking a sideways glance at Worm tail, who had slight guiltiness written on his face.
"Thomas Riddle, the Immortals have spoken" The Immortal's voice rung out, he stood up tall, making sure the black hood covered all of his face, before disapparating in front of Voldemort. Voldemort was boiling with Rage.
"How could they do this to me!! How the hell am I going to find that bloody jewel in a month!" Voldemort cried half to himself, putting his hands to his face.
"I. ..I don't know, master" Wormtail said timidly, not knowing what else to say.
"Oh come off it, you were the one that hid the jewel in the first place...You cannot lie to me, Wormtail, your face tells all, even if your mouth does not" Voldemort said in a slightly bemused tone, turning the other way, deep in thought.
"B-but master ...I ...I don't know" Wormtail started in a startled voice
"Shut up Wormtail, I have an Idea" Voldemort interrupted, turning around once again, his red eyes glimmering with pure evil.
"We conduct a search for the jewel. Every Death Eater in all of England will search assigned places. The best of the best of my servants will search the one place I am very sure it is if no-one has tampered with it in these past 13 years "Voldemort said evilly, Wormtail stuttered for a few seconds.
"Where would that be, master?" He said, trying to make it sound like a casual question. Too bad he hadn't been too good in the Muggle art of Drama as a boy.
"Wormtail, I would have thought you'd known that Hogwarts would be the only place you would have had time to hide in the time you had" Voldemort said in the same bemused tone.
"I'm not just a pretty face"
Wormtail shuddered.
"Who will you assign Hogwarts to?" Wormtail asked, his voice shaking. Inside he was hoping and praying that a magpie had carried it away, attracted to the shininess, or that a unicorn had gotten it stuck on his horn and it had come loose over a pond, and was now resting deep underwater.
"Very questioning today, aren't we Wormtail? I was thinking the front grounds assigned to Parayna, Crabbe and Yerrah, inside....make it Sildeborough and Jindo, courtyard and back grounds to Coucuppe, Havpery and Davids and the Forbidden forest. ..yes, that's in for a real treat only the best of the best is scouring there. ..the best of the best...Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson." Voldemort said lightly, laughing softly.
****
"Ethy! you ready in there?" Ginger called out through the closed door .
"Yeah, yeah hang on a sec, Gin" Ethy replied tiredly, pulling a loose blue jumper over her head and sticking her 10 inch Cherrywood wand into the back pocket of her jeans quietly, as not to wake her mother, who was still sleeping soundly. She opened the door and stepped outside, Ginger was standing, clipboard in hand, looking rather impatient.
"Well you took long enough" Ginger said snidely, straightening a piece of her auburn hair which was tied back in a thick mass of curls she called a ponytail.
"Well what did you expect, I was up all night attending to mutant cheese sandwiches and Anna Maria's Muggle cleaning machines!" Ethy spat, she was pretty cranky in the mornings. Ginger stood back a few steps.
"Woah there, didn't mean to sound bossy……and what it this about Cheese Sandwiches?" Ginger said, raising an eyebrow, Ethy's features softened a little and she smiled.
"Long story, Ginger don't have the time or effort to tell you" Ethy laughed.
"Okay I was thinking we start at Angelica's and work our way down" Ginger said, changing the subject, Amethyst nodded in agreement.
"As long as we get it done then I'm happy where ever we start" Ethy replied, rolling her eyes slightly.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, we only need to see Angelica, Mr. Blau and Heather today... Everyone else wrote letters to Nonno last night explaining why they couldn't pay it today , figures" Ginger said with a slight sigh, Ethy breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sure Doesn't make any difference to me" she replied, trying to mask the sheer happiness on her face.
So the two thirteen year olds walked slowly down the hall towards Angelica's. When they neared the door they found it was giving off it's own green light. Ginger leaned in to touch it in awe before a gloved hand caught hers, it was Angelica in a full body space suit.
"Watch it, I accidentally spilled some sort of potion on the door...It's making it shine all green like" Angelica said, observing her doors glowing shade and giggling.
"If nonno sees this..." Ginger growled, but she couldn't help smile at the glowing green door.
"Oh, your Nonno shouldn't touch it, A spider crawled on it this morning..." Angelica said, fixing the visor of her baggy space suit.
"And..." Ethy said, not seeing the point.
"And, well that's him..." Angelica said, pointing to a small charcoal spot on the opposite wall, Ginger put her hands behind her back and bit her lip.
"Angelica, I'm not even gonna ask you how your gonna fix this, I'm only here to collect the rent" Ginger said firmly, taking a firm hold of her clipboard. Angelica put a puzzled expression on through her space suit.
"Oh! The rent! Yeah it's inside, lucky I have my space suit thingie on" Angelica laughed, opening the door. Ethy jumped out the way before the door hit her. The 2 girls looked at each other in disbelief as Angelica returned with a glowing green slip of paper on the end of a pair of tweezers.
"Go on, take it, it ain't gonna bite" Angelica smiled, shoving the paper in the girls direction, Ginger wrinkled her nose and pointed at the paper.
"Angelica .it's glowing the same colour as your door "Ginger gulped, looking at Ethy.
"So, it's a purdy colour" Angelica smiled, looking down at the glowing paper, a smile plastered on her face. At that moment a plump Mosquito was attracted to the glowing paper. The bug neared it, and as soon as it's furry black body touched the paper, sparks of Orange and Blue engulfed it, and sent it hurtling into the opposite wall. Ginger and Ethy screamed, the Blue sparks cleared on the wall, and there, next to the remains of Mister Spider was the blackened remains of Mister Mozzie.
"OK, that's the last straw Angelica, I'm NOT touching that paper, I don't wanna end up a little black spot on the FREAKING WALL" Ginger cried, Angelica's smile faded, Ethy looked shocked.
"Well I have this Idea that everyone can wear space suits if you can't get rid of it" Angelica said in a superior voice, throwing the glowing paper into her room.
"Angelica write a sign that says 'Do Not go near this Freaking door , it's shining Green' and stick in on the wall near your door" Ginger said sarcastically.
"And you'd better pay that rent soon Angie"
Ethy and Ginger decided to get as far away from Angelica, Her space suit and the shining green door as they possibly could. As they were halfway down the hall they heard Angelica's voice ring out, slightly muffled due to the Space Suit
"IT'S ANGELICA!!!"
****
"I can't believe the masters got us looking for a tiny jewel that we don't even know what looks like, where it is or why he wants it" Draco said, slightly annoyed, as he entered the edge of the forest, a female right on his tail.
"Well, Dracie, we don't exactly have to look the whole time, do we" Pansy Parkinson giggled flirtatiously. Draco turned to face the woman. Even after 13 years she still had the face of a bulldog, Draco shuddered at just the thought of what Pansy was suggesting.
"Don't call me Dracie" Draco growled, continuing to walk.
"I think it's cute for Girlfriends and Boyfriends to have pet names for each other" Pansy said sweetly, continuing to jog a little to keep up with Draco's wide strides. Draco suddenly stopped dead, turned to meet Pansy's eyes and growled.
"Where did you get the Idea I was your boyfriend" Pansy looked down and fiddled with a strand of her cinnamon hair.
"Well, my father told me a long time ago that -"
"So I'm automatically going to be your boyfriend, marry you and die with you because your father says so! you have so much to learn, Pansy Parkinson..." Draco spat, dripping pure venom as he turned and strode into the forest. If he had been any madder steam would have escaped his ears.
"Draco, I'm sorry, it's just that I thought " Pansy started, running after Draco
"Well don't think, Pansy, you and me don't think alike" Draco yelled, crashing into a clearing that seemed awfully familiar to him. Everything was quiet and peaceful here, not like Draco's life had been in the last 13 years. Suddenly, before Draco could think twice, memory's flooded into his head. Memories that he couldn't forget, memory's he didn't want to forget.
***
"Keep running" he yelled as he dragged Hermione into the woods, they ran down the path as fast as they could, crashing through the undergrowth until the sounds of that Blast-Ended Skrewt sounded faint in the distance. Finally the 2 of them reached a small clearing and collapsed, Exhausted. Hermione leaned her head on Draco's shoulder and breathed deeply, allowing air to enter her lungs.
"How's the cat" Draco snapped, Hermione looked down at the bundle in her arms.
"There's not a scratch on her or the kittens surprisingly" Hermione remarked.
***
Draco couldn't help but think about Hermione all the time alone, waiting for him. His daughter or son would be at least 14 no, 13 years old. The poor thing probably never knew that his or her father was a Death Eater, not only that, but the best Death Eater of them all. Draco sighed, wondering when the day would come when he was able to see Hermione and his offspring. When would it be safe to bring them home, to England, to the Malfoy mansion, where they belonged. Draco looked down at a clump of brown dirt at his foot, he kicked it moodily when yet another memory jolted in the back of his brain.
***
"Draco" Hermione said to him, he opened his eyes tiredly.
"What Hermione" He asked, she held up the slightly muddy jewel in front of Draco who felt his eyes drawn to it.
"What's this?" She asked, slightly puzzled. They both stared at the swirling shades of Emerald Green and yellow that seemed to be moving like ink in water.
"I don't know" Draco replied, suddenly feeling very uneasy. Hermione shrugged and clipped it around her neck by the silver chain that glittered menacingly.
"So I don't loose it" Hermione commented, looking at Draco. He didn't like the look of that jewel, it looked sinister, almost evil.
***
It took a few moments of silence before Draco gasped in shock, what if the jewel Hermione had found 14 years ago was the same jewel Voldemort was after. He had said he had lost it 14 years ago. Draco looked around, if Hermione had Voldemort's jewel she was in terrible danger, he had to do something. He pulled a piece of parchment from his pocket, his self inking quill from in his robe pocket and checked that Pansy would not be able to see what he was writing. To his relief, Pansy had gone to check around the other side of the clearing so he lay the parchment on the ground and scribbled a message.
Hermione,
Your in terrible danger! Hide the jewel, the one around your neck, I don't know what it is but Voldemort has conducted a search everywhere in England for it. Lay low for a few weeks, Herm, if Voldemort finds out you have it and I know you do, we're both going to die. Don't let it out of your sight, but Hide it, for me. I love you Hermione
Draco thought for a few moments before scribbling a little more.
And Hermione, keep Your Daughter/Son out of this they don't need to be involved, it's just you and me.
Draco read it over quickly before nodding in approval. He decided not to Sign it for fear that Voldemort or any other Death Eaters intercepted it on the way. He would be killed promptly if Voldemort knew he knew where the jewel was and didn't tell him.
Draco reached around his neck and pulled a small silver whistle to his lips. A whistle he knew would come in handy, it's pitch was perfectly balanced so that only his owl was able to hear it. He blew loudly, hoping that the whistle would be heard from the Hog warts building, where he had left Vinarette, his owl. He waited a few minutes while rolling up the parchment and putting the quill back in his robe pocket until finally an ebony black owl soared overhead, landing perfectly on the square of Draco's shoulder. Though Vinarette was old, 15 years Draco had had her, she was the toughest little thing and was sent everywhere.
"OK Girl, this is the most important job your ever going to get" Draco muttered, attaching the parchment to Vinarette's left leg.
"Remember Hermione" Vinarette cocked her head to the side as if in a response.
"Take this to Hermione, Girl, in Australia. It's very important" Draco muttered. Vinarette blinked her deep brown eyes once before soaring back into the sky, Draco watched her until she was just a little black dot on the horizon.
"What did you just send, Dracie?" Pansy asked sweetly, walking back into the clearing, Draco growled under his breath and turned to face the woman.
"A note to Voldemort saying that there's no sign of the jewel so far, but we're going to keep looking" Draco replied in a neutral tone of voice, still worried about Hermione well-being.
"And Pansy, if you call me Dracie one more time I swear I will perform the Cruciatus curse here and now"
"Oh Dracie, your so cute when your angry".
****
"Mr. Blau, this check is for 5 Sickles not 50 Galleons" Ethy said tiredly, showing the check to a very dressed up Mr. Blau.
"Oh, well, that's the last Magical check I have, I can't write out another one, sorry" Mr. Blau replied in a deeper tone of voice than his usual. Ginger turned around and whispered
"Well, at least it's not glowing green..." Ethy couldn't help but giggle.
"Err.. .just one more thing Mr. Blau why the dark glasses?" Ginger asked, looking up at Mr. Blau's face. He adjusted the glasses before answering.
"Well I work in a Muggle tanning salon..." He made up the first thing that came into his head
"Huh ...uh huh.... well why the beard" Ethy replied, smiling slightly.
"Damn Puberty" Mr. Blau answered, running a few fingers through the fake beard.
"Mr. Blau, your 34 years old..." Ginger replied, raising one eyebrow. Mr. Blau sighed, these 2 kids were much harder to trick than Angelica.
"Look, if 2 men come around with a pram wheel in their hand, just for a joke can you tell them I moved to Canada" Mr. Blau said quietly as he slammed the door shut. Ginger looked at Ethy and the two laughed.
"Right then Today we get a glowing green Check that kills bugs, a check for 5 sickles and a note saying we were late and that she knows when were gonna see her next" Ginger said a little sarcastically, Ethy giggled.
"Just another day at the Orion" She replied, and the two decided to go and play with Ginger's Cat, Arnianna.
****
Hermione looked out the window of her apartment, the sky was relatively blue today, unlike yesterday, when it had been pouring. You could never tell what the weather would be like in Australia.
She turned around and proceeded to write a letter on a piece of yellowed parchment to Ethy, she was going to go down to Chuton Alley to get some new supplies. As she just finished writing it a small tapping at the window was heard, she turned and saw an Ebony black owl flying level with her window. Hermione promptly opened the window and the owl flew straight onto her shoulder.
'Hmmm, there's something familiar about this owl' Hermione thought to herself as she spotted the parchment rolled up on the owl's left leg. she untied it and smoothed it out on the table and read it out loud to herself
"Hermione" She read.
"You're in terrible Danger! Hide the jewel, the one around your neck, I don't know what it is but Voldemort has conducted a search everywhere in England for it. Lay low for a few weeks, Herm, if Voldemort finds out you have it, and I know you do, we're both going to die. Don't let it out of your sight, but hide it for me. I love you Hermione
And Hermione, keep your Daughter/Son out of this they don't need to be involved it's just you and me"
Hermione tugged at the jewel around her neck in shock before everything came together and hit her like a ton of bricks.
"Vinarette! Is that you! Did Draco send me this!" Hermione cried at the exhausted bird who cocked it's head to the side.
"Oh my god" Hermione muttered as she patted the owl's soft feathers, looking out the window, rather distracted. Draco, for the first time in 14 years had contacted her to warn her. She unclasped the jewel from around her neck and shoved it in an overflowed Ethy's desk drawer.
'She never uses it anyway' Hermione thought as she scribbled a quick note, tied it to Vinarette and watched her soar into the darkness until there was only a spot in the navy sky. She was worried, but managed to assure herself everything would be fine.
Author name Alexia Green
Author email drake_please@hotmail.com
Category Romance/action/
Keywords Hermione , Draco , daughter , jewl
Spoilers all books
Rating pg 13
Summary Hermione granger is a woman on the run , she is forced to flee to Australia with her new born child. Thirteen years later a old friend from the past reveals himself , does he hold the key to Hermione's past and what of the jewl she always wears around her neck? why is every one after it. It's up to Heather the amazing psychic Angelica the amazing pyscho and the dashing and debonair Mr Blau to find out
Disclaimer we dont own any thing , but you probably already knew that.
The Death Eaters Daughter- Chapter Two
"Green, Hermione and Amethyst?"
"Yeah , we're here"
Amethyst Draca Green, more commonly known as Ethy Green, once again found herself standing shivering in the warm Australian wind at 4.15 in the morning. Due to the rules and regulations of the Orion Boarding house, where her and her mother had lived for years, it was an abiding rule that you must exit the Boarding house when the fire alarm sounded. Too bad the stupid thing had sounded four times in the past week alone.
"Germaine, Zev, Andre, Claire, Madeleine and Peter" an old lady with a thick Italian accent called, a clipboard in her wrinkly, olive colored hands.
"Anna Maria, can you not even call out zee names properly, you must call out zee first name ZEN zee last name" The old lady's wrinkled counterpart, namely her husband, called angrily from behind her, his rich Italian voice husked with age.
"No, no, no Guiseppe, shoo know zat shoo must call out zee last name ZEN zee first name" Anna Maria answered snidely, shoving the clipboard into Ethy's waiting hands. She knew that this was always the part of the fight where the Italian kicked in.
"I think shour brain went out along vith shour joints!" Guiseppe barked, swinging his cane from side to side. Boarders swept themselves away in an attempt to stay cane less.
"Vel shoo are zee Grande old Stupidos I ever lay my eyes apon!" Anna Maria yelled. Ethy rolled her eyes and looked around at the dark haired boy standing beside her.
"See Zev, even at 4.20 in the morning they still manage to fight like a Blast-Ended Skrewt and a Unicorn" Ethy said tiredly, yawning loudly.
"Yeah... when I'm married I'm not gonna be nothing like these two ...me and my wife will talk and laugh and.. .do other.. .stuff" Zev replied, turning a slight shade of pink and grinning widely.
Ethy turned away in an attempt to hide the fact she was blushing the shade of a ripe tomato. As she looked around she spotted the boarders in turn. Dave the Herbalist was carrying an armload of his precious coriander, a firm frown fixed on his lips. Angelica was looking around shiftily, a crowbar from the tool shed in one hand and a rather mutant looking cheese sandwich in the other, playing with her long, red hair.
Ethy had a sneaking suspicion she had more to do with the fire alarms and short circuiting lights than she made out she did.
Heather, the resident psychic, was sitting on a small lawn chair, an amused expression affixed on her face. She most likely knew what was going on, but Ethy knew she liked a good laugh, just like anyone else.
Alicia was sitting beside Heather, repeating in a mechanical voice
"Must. ..Alphabetise ...Must... Alphabetise"
She had a serious alphabetising problem.
Mr. Sennzebody was sitting in his own little spot of the lawn, no one dared to come near him, he was in an extremely annoyed mood at this point of time.
Mr. Blau was hiding behind one of Anna Maria' s famous olive trees, a fake beard and glasses accessorised his face.
Kelly looked extremely up and go for 4.25. She didn't even look sleepy. It must have been the Insomnia kicking in again.
Bill and Stanley, the two twins, were standing beside each other, the same puzzled expression on their faces. Amethyst could never tell them apart, no matter how many name tags, embroidered jumpers and face paints she tried.
Her Best friend Ginger was trying to stop her fighting nonno and nonna, her reddish hair flying in all directions.
Everything and everyone looked relatively normal, that is for a bunch of weirdos standing outside in their pyjamas at 4.30 in the morning.
Ethy pulled a strand of her silvery blonde hair from her face, her silver-grey eyes roaming around. Sometimes when she looked at the boarders she shared her life with she found herself the only mature one, even if she was only 13 and the others were at least the same age as her mother or older.
"Ethy! Amethyst! AMETHYST DRACA!" a voice pulled her out of her early morning dream. As she snapped back to reality she found her mother smiling at her. Even though she'd never admit it, even under the Cruciatus curse, she had the best mum in the entire world.
"Guiseppe said it's fine to go back in the boarding house, it was another false alarm ...Please mind out for Angelica though, Ethy , right now she has a fetish for trying to get people to climb on the roof and help her make some bizarre lightning rod and frankly, Gem, I have no time to scrape you, Zev or Ginger off the patio floor" Hermione said playfully, ruffling Ethy's silvery hair.
"Right mum, I'll be right up, I just need to see Ginger" Ethy replied.
Hermione nodded in approval and headed for the door behind an extremely sneaky looking Mr. Blau.
"Right now, Ginger, Ginger, Ginger where would I go if I was Ginger" Ethy whispered to herself, heading inside.
"Ginger!!" She called to her friend, who was just down the hall, opening her room with an enchantment spell she learned in advanced Transfiguration, turning a lock into a jelly snake, Useful and Delicious.
Ginger! GINGER PELLEGRINO" Ethy called, Ginger turned and smiled as she saw her friend.
"What do you want, you person that sucks at Transfiguration" Ginger replied playfully, her shoulder length auburn hair swishing as she turned.
"Eh, your not that good at Muggle cooking yourself, are you?" Ethy said snidely, remembering the last time Ginger tried. It resulted in four hair plugs, Mr. Sennzebody 's beard completely shaved off and having to clean chocolate icing of the cupboards for ages.
"Shut up about that, you" Ginger replied, putting her 13 inch Redwood wand back into her Muggle Pj's Pocket.
"Now, did you want to ask me something or did you intend for me to stand out in the cold, looking as stupid as you do..." Ginger said playfully, pointing at Ethy's pale violet pyjamas, Ethy sighed and brushed off her Pj's, her pale cheeks turning a slight shade of pink.
"Well, I wanted to ask you ...is it my turn to collect the rent with you tomorrow?" Ethy said in the brightest, most bubbliest way possible, but the inside of her head was saying
'Please let it be Zev, please...not me, please not me'
"Yep... be ready at 6.30 sharp" Ginger said brightly, muttering a few words, wand in hand, and the lock changed to a particularly juicy red jelly snake, which Ginger grabbed promptly, Ethy sighed in a barely audible tone.
"Okay ...I guess I'll be seeing you then" Ethy said in the nicest way possible, before backing off into the hall. Ginger waved and closed her door with a click behind her.
"Damn Damn DAMN!" she cried softly as she heard Ginger's door click shut. She hated collecting rent. Apart from the fact it was a great place to collect excuses for not doing homework, it was boring and hopeless. They didn't even end up paying it anyway.
Ethy was snapped from her early morning dream as a dark figure crossed her in the dark hall. her heart skipped a beat before she realised it was only Kelly with a worn vacuum in her hand, she must have pinched it from Anna Maria's cleaning closet. Ethy was used to these kind of situations, and looked Kelly straight in the eye.
"Err Kelly? Why the Vacuum , You know Anna Maria doesn't like you touching her Muggle cleaning stuff" Ethy said calmly, Kelly looked around.
"Well... No better time for some Spring Cleaning than right now" Kelly said in a bubbly tone, holding up the Hoover, Ethy gently prized her grip open and pulled the Hoover away.
"But I can't sleeeeeeep"
"Well count Broomsticks or something"
"I can't"
Ethy sighed and pushed the protesting woman towards her room.
"Look, stop walking around the boarding house like some damn insomniac with no life!" Ethy cried, exasperated, Kelly raised her eyebrow in a rather quizzical way, Ethy sighed.
"Look, go and sleep in your room...that's what you pay Guiseppe and Anna Maria for" Ethy said, pushing the protesting woman into the room, slamming the door closed. She sighed once again, picked up the Hoover, and continued to her room. She knew it wouldn't be far until she came across another person, and of course, being the smart alec she was, she was right. As she neared Angelica's room she heard a low buzzing noise, as she came closer she found she could make out the words.
"Now, with this cheese sandwich which I place in front of the laser we will either be able to run the whole boarding house electricity on CHEESE POWER! thus saving all the boarders at least 50 Galleons a month or.. .I blow the whole boarding house to Smithereens!!!, you with me Alicia?"
"Oh Angelica ...I really don't think this is the best Idea you've ever thought..."
"If you do, I'll buy you a whole TRUCKLOAD of stuff to alphabetise *Cough* With your money, of course *Cough*"
"Your on!, put that Sandwich in the laser, baby!"
Ethy decided that now would probably be the time to stop listening and start acting. Even though 50 Galleons would really help her and Her mother, not having a boarding house to live in would just be chaotic. She pushed open the door, just in time to see Angelica about to place a rather large, freakish-looking cheese sandwich on a holder in front of a home made monstrosity of a laser. Angelica and Alicia looked up in surprise.
"Angelica, hand me the sandwich" Ethy said sternly.
"What? this Sandwich" Angelica replied coolly, holding up the cheese sandwich gone wrong.
"Yes, that sandwich, Angelica, I don't see any other Sandwiches lying around any...."
"Well, actually, there is a Peanut butter and Sardine" Alicia started timidly, she didn't get very far for she was interrupted rather rudely.
"Shut Up Alicia!" Ethy and Angelica yelled at exactly the same time, Alicia bowed her head and turned to alphabetise some odd colored potions Angelica had conjured up.
"So, hand it over" Ethy said finally, putting her hand out
.
"Hand what over?" Angelica replied, putting the sandwich behind her back.
"The sandwich"
"What sandwich"
"The one in your hands behind your back"
"Geez, can't a lady have an abnormal skin growth without the whole world finding out"
"Nice try, Angelica, just hand it over"
"But I'm huuuuungry"
"Just give it!"
"Your the bossiest Teen ever!" Angelica finally gave in, slapping the sandwich into Ethy's palm.
The teenager nodded in approval, much like the way her mother does when she tells her where she's going. Ethy left the room in a huff, tired and annoyed, Alicia was not far behind her. Once Ethy made sure Angelica wasn't up to anything else, there didn't seem to be any noise coming from inside her room, she picked up the Hoover in one hand, the mutant cheese sandwich in the other and continued down the hall until she reached room 18.
She uttered a few words that varied from everyone else's and the lock turned into a fat green Jelly Snake. She opened the door quietly so that if her mother was sleeping she wouldn't wake her.
She placed the Hoover and the cheese sandwich on the wall by the door quietly before hearing something she very rarely heard. Her mother was singing, though it was very faint it was the sweetest voice Ethy had ever heard escape her mothers mouth. The song she was singing sounded strangely familiar to Ethy, but she couldn't quite put her finger on where she'd heard it from.
"Ride on a dragon and fly with me
Up into the starry night
I'll pick a flower that will never fade
You can wear it in your long, tangle mane
And together we shall be free"
Hermione sang the verse one last time before Ethy heard her voice break with sobs. She said a two syllable name that Ethy couldn't quite make out, Hermione's voice was unrecognisable when she cried.
"You promised you'd come back where are you? Ethy's 13 that's right , Ethy, short for Amethyst, your name, the one you wanted. It's been 13 years, I'm sick of hiding Come back" Ethy heard her mother sobbing. She couldn't take it anymore, she ran into the next room to see Hermione at the window.
"Mum! What's wrong?" Ethy cried, Hermione rubbed her eyes and turned. Her Bushy Brown hair was tangled and her beautiful eyes were clouded with tears.
"Oh, nothing Gem" Hermione replied, holding gently onto the shining Green and Yellow jewel around her neck. Ethy sat down by her mum. Sometimes her mum had these kind of fits....she seemed extremely sad sometimes, especially when Mr. Blau tried to Chat her up a few nights ago. She had started to sob uncontrollably and spent most of the night in her room. Ethy didn't blame Mr. Blau though, her mother was very pretty ...but she never seemed to go out or anything , like she was saving herself for someone Ethy had never seen in her whole life.
"Well , what was the song you were singing?" Ethy asked, changing the subject slightly.
"Oh, a friend sung it to me a long time ago" Hermione replied, a slight smile formed on her lips.
"My Dad?" Ethy asked, Hermione nodded, scratching the back of her neck in weak thought. Ethy waited a few moments before asking, once again, the one question she had asked more times in her life than common phrases such as "What's for dinner?" and "Do I have to?",
"Mum, who IS my dad?"
Hermione quickly jumped from her place on the bed.
"Ethy, you must be tired, it's 5.00 in the morning Sleep now, talk later" Hermione said in a rushed voice, gently pushing Ethy into her bed. She sighed, she didn't dare argue with her mum if she was set in her ways, it was like sending Alicia into a china shop and not expecting her to alphabetise every dish in sight.
****
"Thomas Riddle, we are becoming tired of waiting for you to retrieve the jewel for us to do your dirty work for you. Give the jewel to us by the time the sun sets on the night of the next full moon, if not we will delete the contract. Harry Potter shall live" The Immortal said emotionlessly, looking up at the full moon shining in the navy sky, his voice rang inside Voldemort's head like a bell.
"NO! how can you! I don't have a chance in Heaven finding that jewel!! it could be anywhere by now!" Voldemort screamed, taking a sideways glance at Worm tail, who had slight guiltiness written on his face.
"Thomas Riddle, the Immortals have spoken" The Immortal's voice rung out, he stood up tall, making sure the black hood covered all of his face, before disapparating in front of Voldemort. Voldemort was boiling with Rage.
"How could they do this to me!! How the hell am I going to find that bloody jewel in a month!" Voldemort cried half to himself, putting his hands to his face.
"I. ..I don't know, master" Wormtail said timidly, not knowing what else to say.
"Oh come off it, you were the one that hid the jewel in the first place...You cannot lie to me, Wormtail, your face tells all, even if your mouth does not" Voldemort said in a slightly bemused tone, turning the other way, deep in thought.
"B-but master ...I ...I don't know" Wormtail started in a startled voice
"Shut up Wormtail, I have an Idea" Voldemort interrupted, turning around once again, his red eyes glimmering with pure evil.
"We conduct a search for the jewel. Every Death Eater in all of England will search assigned places. The best of the best of my servants will search the one place I am very sure it is if no-one has tampered with it in these past 13 years "Voldemort said evilly, Wormtail stuttered for a few seconds.
"Where would that be, master?" He said, trying to make it sound like a casual question. Too bad he hadn't been too good in the Muggle art of Drama as a boy.
"Wormtail, I would have thought you'd known that Hogwarts would be the only place you would have had time to hide in the time you had" Voldemort said in the same bemused tone.
"I'm not just a pretty face"
Wormtail shuddered.
"Who will you assign Hogwarts to?" Wormtail asked, his voice shaking. Inside he was hoping and praying that a magpie had carried it away, attracted to the shininess, or that a unicorn had gotten it stuck on his horn and it had come loose over a pond, and was now resting deep underwater.
"Very questioning today, aren't we Wormtail? I was thinking the front grounds assigned to Parayna, Crabbe and Yerrah, inside....make it Sildeborough and Jindo, courtyard and back grounds to Coucuppe, Havpery and Davids and the Forbidden forest. ..yes, that's in for a real treat only the best of the best is scouring there. ..the best of the best...Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson." Voldemort said lightly, laughing softly.
****
"Ethy! you ready in there?" Ginger called out through the closed door .
"Yeah, yeah hang on a sec, Gin" Ethy replied tiredly, pulling a loose blue jumper over her head and sticking her 10 inch Cherrywood wand into the back pocket of her jeans quietly, as not to wake her mother, who was still sleeping soundly. She opened the door and stepped outside, Ginger was standing, clipboard in hand, looking rather impatient.
"Well you took long enough" Ginger said snidely, straightening a piece of her auburn hair which was tied back in a thick mass of curls she called a ponytail.
"Well what did you expect, I was up all night attending to mutant cheese sandwiches and Anna Maria's Muggle cleaning machines!" Ethy spat, she was pretty cranky in the mornings. Ginger stood back a few steps.
"Woah there, didn't mean to sound bossy……and what it this about Cheese Sandwiches?" Ginger said, raising an eyebrow, Ethy's features softened a little and she smiled.
"Long story, Ginger don't have the time or effort to tell you" Ethy laughed.
"Okay I was thinking we start at Angelica's and work our way down" Ginger said, changing the subject, Amethyst nodded in agreement.
"As long as we get it done then I'm happy where ever we start" Ethy replied, rolling her eyes slightly.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, we only need to see Angelica, Mr. Blau and Heather today... Everyone else wrote letters to Nonno last night explaining why they couldn't pay it today , figures" Ginger said with a slight sigh, Ethy breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sure Doesn't make any difference to me" she replied, trying to mask the sheer happiness on her face.
So the two thirteen year olds walked slowly down the hall towards Angelica's. When they neared the door they found it was giving off it's own green light. Ginger leaned in to touch it in awe before a gloved hand caught hers, it was Angelica in a full body space suit.
"Watch it, I accidentally spilled some sort of potion on the door...It's making it shine all green like" Angelica said, observing her doors glowing shade and giggling.
"If nonno sees this..." Ginger growled, but she couldn't help smile at the glowing green door.
"Oh, your Nonno shouldn't touch it, A spider crawled on it this morning..." Angelica said, fixing the visor of her baggy space suit.
"And..." Ethy said, not seeing the point.
"And, well that's him..." Angelica said, pointing to a small charcoal spot on the opposite wall, Ginger put her hands behind her back and bit her lip.
"Angelica, I'm not even gonna ask you how your gonna fix this, I'm only here to collect the rent" Ginger said firmly, taking a firm hold of her clipboard. Angelica put a puzzled expression on through her space suit.
"Oh! The rent! Yeah it's inside, lucky I have my space suit thingie on" Angelica laughed, opening the door. Ethy jumped out the way before the door hit her. The 2 girls looked at each other in disbelief as Angelica returned with a glowing green slip of paper on the end of a pair of tweezers.
"Go on, take it, it ain't gonna bite" Angelica smiled, shoving the paper in the girls direction, Ginger wrinkled her nose and pointed at the paper.
"Angelica .it's glowing the same colour as your door "Ginger gulped, looking at Ethy.
"So, it's a purdy colour" Angelica smiled, looking down at the glowing paper, a smile plastered on her face. At that moment a plump Mosquito was attracted to the glowing paper. The bug neared it, and as soon as it's furry black body touched the paper, sparks of Orange and Blue engulfed it, and sent it hurtling into the opposite wall. Ginger and Ethy screamed, the Blue sparks cleared on the wall, and there, next to the remains of Mister Spider was the blackened remains of Mister Mozzie.
"OK, that's the last straw Angelica, I'm NOT touching that paper, I don't wanna end up a little black spot on the FREAKING WALL" Ginger cried, Angelica's smile faded, Ethy looked shocked.
"Well I have this Idea that everyone can wear space suits if you can't get rid of it" Angelica said in a superior voice, throwing the glowing paper into her room.
"Angelica write a sign that says 'Do Not go near this Freaking door , it's shining Green' and stick in on the wall near your door" Ginger said sarcastically.
"And you'd better pay that rent soon Angie"
Ethy and Ginger decided to get as far away from Angelica, Her space suit and the shining green door as they possibly could. As they were halfway down the hall they heard Angelica's voice ring out, slightly muffled due to the Space Suit
"IT'S ANGELICA!!!"
****
"I can't believe the masters got us looking for a tiny jewel that we don't even know what looks like, where it is or why he wants it" Draco said, slightly annoyed, as he entered the edge of the forest, a female right on his tail.
"Well, Dracie, we don't exactly have to look the whole time, do we" Pansy Parkinson giggled flirtatiously. Draco turned to face the woman. Even after 13 years she still had the face of a bulldog, Draco shuddered at just the thought of what Pansy was suggesting.
"Don't call me Dracie" Draco growled, continuing to walk.
"I think it's cute for Girlfriends and Boyfriends to have pet names for each other" Pansy said sweetly, continuing to jog a little to keep up with Draco's wide strides. Draco suddenly stopped dead, turned to meet Pansy's eyes and growled.
"Where did you get the Idea I was your boyfriend" Pansy looked down and fiddled with a strand of her cinnamon hair.
"Well, my father told me a long time ago that -"
"So I'm automatically going to be your boyfriend, marry you and die with you because your father says so! you have so much to learn, Pansy Parkinson..." Draco spat, dripping pure venom as he turned and strode into the forest. If he had been any madder steam would have escaped his ears.
"Draco, I'm sorry, it's just that I thought " Pansy started, running after Draco
"Well don't think, Pansy, you and me don't think alike" Draco yelled, crashing into a clearing that seemed awfully familiar to him. Everything was quiet and peaceful here, not like Draco's life had been in the last 13 years. Suddenly, before Draco could think twice, memory's flooded into his head. Memories that he couldn't forget, memory's he didn't want to forget.
***
"Keep running" he yelled as he dragged Hermione into the woods, they ran down the path as fast as they could, crashing through the undergrowth until the sounds of that Blast-Ended Skrewt sounded faint in the distance. Finally the 2 of them reached a small clearing and collapsed, Exhausted. Hermione leaned her head on Draco's shoulder and breathed deeply, allowing air to enter her lungs.
"How's the cat" Draco snapped, Hermione looked down at the bundle in her arms.
"There's not a scratch on her or the kittens surprisingly" Hermione remarked.
***
Draco couldn't help but think about Hermione all the time alone, waiting for him. His daughter or son would be at least 14 no, 13 years old. The poor thing probably never knew that his or her father was a Death Eater, not only that, but the best Death Eater of them all. Draco sighed, wondering when the day would come when he was able to see Hermione and his offspring. When would it be safe to bring them home, to England, to the Malfoy mansion, where they belonged. Draco looked down at a clump of brown dirt at his foot, he kicked it moodily when yet another memory jolted in the back of his brain.
***
"Draco" Hermione said to him, he opened his eyes tiredly.
"What Hermione" He asked, she held up the slightly muddy jewel in front of Draco who felt his eyes drawn to it.
"What's this?" She asked, slightly puzzled. They both stared at the swirling shades of Emerald Green and yellow that seemed to be moving like ink in water.
"I don't know" Draco replied, suddenly feeling very uneasy. Hermione shrugged and clipped it around her neck by the silver chain that glittered menacingly.
"So I don't loose it" Hermione commented, looking at Draco. He didn't like the look of that jewel, it looked sinister, almost evil.
***
It took a few moments of silence before Draco gasped in shock, what if the jewel Hermione had found 14 years ago was the same jewel Voldemort was after. He had said he had lost it 14 years ago. Draco looked around, if Hermione had Voldemort's jewel she was in terrible danger, he had to do something. He pulled a piece of parchment from his pocket, his self inking quill from in his robe pocket and checked that Pansy would not be able to see what he was writing. To his relief, Pansy had gone to check around the other side of the clearing so he lay the parchment on the ground and scribbled a message.
Hermione,
Your in terrible danger! Hide the jewel, the one around your neck, I don't know what it is but Voldemort has conducted a search everywhere in England for it. Lay low for a few weeks, Herm, if Voldemort finds out you have it and I know you do, we're both going to die. Don't let it out of your sight, but Hide it, for me. I love you Hermione
Draco thought for a few moments before scribbling a little more.
And Hermione, keep Your Daughter/Son out of this they don't need to be involved, it's just you and me.
Draco read it over quickly before nodding in approval. He decided not to Sign it for fear that Voldemort or any other Death Eaters intercepted it on the way. He would be killed promptly if Voldemort knew he knew where the jewel was and didn't tell him.
Draco reached around his neck and pulled a small silver whistle to his lips. A whistle he knew would come in handy, it's pitch was perfectly balanced so that only his owl was able to hear it. He blew loudly, hoping that the whistle would be heard from the Hog warts building, where he had left Vinarette, his owl. He waited a few minutes while rolling up the parchment and putting the quill back in his robe pocket until finally an ebony black owl soared overhead, landing perfectly on the square of Draco's shoulder. Though Vinarette was old, 15 years Draco had had her, she was the toughest little thing and was sent everywhere.
"OK Girl, this is the most important job your ever going to get" Draco muttered, attaching the parchment to Vinarette's left leg.
"Remember Hermione" Vinarette cocked her head to the side as if in a response.
"Take this to Hermione, Girl, in Australia. It's very important" Draco muttered. Vinarette blinked her deep brown eyes once before soaring back into the sky, Draco watched her until she was just a little black dot on the horizon.
"What did you just send, Dracie?" Pansy asked sweetly, walking back into the clearing, Draco growled under his breath and turned to face the woman.
"A note to Voldemort saying that there's no sign of the jewel so far, but we're going to keep looking" Draco replied in a neutral tone of voice, still worried about Hermione well-being.
"And Pansy, if you call me Dracie one more time I swear I will perform the Cruciatus curse here and now"
"Oh Dracie, your so cute when your angry".
****
"Mr. Blau, this check is for 5 Sickles not 50 Galleons" Ethy said tiredly, showing the check to a very dressed up Mr. Blau.
"Oh, well, that's the last Magical check I have, I can't write out another one, sorry" Mr. Blau replied in a deeper tone of voice than his usual. Ginger turned around and whispered
"Well, at least it's not glowing green..." Ethy couldn't help but giggle.
"Err.. .just one more thing Mr. Blau why the dark glasses?" Ginger asked, looking up at Mr. Blau's face. He adjusted the glasses before answering.
"Well I work in a Muggle tanning salon..." He made up the first thing that came into his head
"Huh ...uh huh.... well why the beard" Ethy replied, smiling slightly.
"Damn Puberty" Mr. Blau answered, running a few fingers through the fake beard.
"Mr. Blau, your 34 years old..." Ginger replied, raising one eyebrow. Mr. Blau sighed, these 2 kids were much harder to trick than Angelica.
"Look, if 2 men come around with a pram wheel in their hand, just for a joke can you tell them I moved to Canada" Mr. Blau said quietly as he slammed the door shut. Ginger looked at Ethy and the two laughed.
"Right then Today we get a glowing green Check that kills bugs, a check for 5 sickles and a note saying we were late and that she knows when were gonna see her next" Ginger said a little sarcastically, Ethy giggled.
"Just another day at the Orion" She replied, and the two decided to go and play with Ginger's Cat, Arnianna.
****
Hermione looked out the window of her apartment, the sky was relatively blue today, unlike yesterday, when it had been pouring. You could never tell what the weather would be like in Australia.
She turned around and proceeded to write a letter on a piece of yellowed parchment to Ethy, she was going to go down to Chuton Alley to get some new supplies. As she just finished writing it a small tapping at the window was heard, she turned and saw an Ebony black owl flying level with her window. Hermione promptly opened the window and the owl flew straight onto her shoulder.
'Hmmm, there's something familiar about this owl' Hermione thought to herself as she spotted the parchment rolled up on the owl's left leg. she untied it and smoothed it out on the table and read it out loud to herself
"Hermione" She read.
"You're in terrible Danger! Hide the jewel, the one around your neck, I don't know what it is but Voldemort has conducted a search everywhere in England for it. Lay low for a few weeks, Herm, if Voldemort finds out you have it, and I know you do, we're both going to die. Don't let it out of your sight, but hide it for me. I love you Hermione
And Hermione, keep your Daughter/Son out of this they don't need to be involved it's just you and me"
Hermione tugged at the jewel around her neck in shock before everything came together and hit her like a ton of bricks.
"Vinarette! Is that you! Did Draco send me this!" Hermione cried at the exhausted bird who cocked it's head to the side.
"Oh my god" Hermione muttered as she patted the owl's soft feathers, looking out the window, rather distracted. Draco, for the first time in 14 years had contacted her to warn her. She unclasped the jewel from around her neck and shoved it in an overflowed Ethy's desk drawer.
'She never uses it anyway' Hermione thought as she scribbled a quick note, tied it to Vinarette and watched her soar into the darkness until there was only a spot in the navy sky. She was worried, but managed to assure herself everything would be fine.