The Bandit Damsels
I'm With You
Disclaimer: You know the drill. If you don't, check earlier chapters.
A/N: Sorry this chapter took me so long to start writing and to post it. I had a busy break. And my other stories too. Hogs Have Warts has 5 chapters up. The Tale of the Unwanted Lorelei Smith (title may change) has 2 chapters up and another is being worked on. Also I am writing a story with my brother called The Deceiving Truth under the pen name Mandegal, so please check it out. The fifth chapter was recently posted to it. Now, on with the STORY.
June 14th, 8:34 am – Hogwarts: 2nd Year Girls Dorm
"Tomorrow. Oh I wish it were tomorrow."
"You always wish it were tomorrow, Del," Kalani sighed.
"I know, but tomorrow I get to go back to the Dragon's Den," Delicia said happily.
"Yes that's true, but today is such a sad day. How can you be so happy?" asked Allegra.
"Why is it a sad day today?" Divina asked from her bed.
"Because today Ron, Harry, Seamus, Dean, Hermione, Lavender, and Parvati graduate."
Delicia started to cry.
"Honey, what's wrong?" asked Allegra as Kalani rubbed her back.
"D…Dr…Dra…Draco *sniff* was suppose to g…grad…graduate t…t…today!" she wailed.
"Delicia, he wouldn't want you to be like this," proclaimed Kalani.
"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?!?! YOU NEVER KNEW HIM!" she yelled, throwing Kalani's arm off her and storming out of the dorm, slamming the door behind her.
"At least she has a loving place to go to," said Kalani sadly.
"What do you mean?" questioned Divina.
"Exactly what I said. So her brother and mother died this year - so what? My life is by far worse then hers. She has people who love her while I have a drunken mother, an abusive step-father, and a spiteful step-sister!" Kalani suddenly cover her mouth with her hand and ran out of the dorm.
Allegra and Divina stared at each other. They were, the least to say, shocked, for Kalani never opened up to people. Sure, she was fun and happy and gay (as in happy not gay as in homosexual), but she was very secretive.
~
Kalani ran through the halls of Hogwarts with tears pouring down her checks. She was running when she bumped into Dawn and her friends.
"Well, if it isn't the mudblood," she spat at Kalani.
That was it, Kalani snapped. "I'M NOT A MUDBLOOD YOU SELF-CENTERED BITCH! MY FATHER WAS A WIZARD!" She swung her fist back and punched Dawn in her perfect face.
The punch landed with a sickening crack as Dawn's nose broke.
"YOU BITCH!" she screeched.
"Takes one to know one," was all that Kalani said as she walked away. 'Great, just great,' she thought. Now she would get expelled. Now she would have to spend all year with her 'family'.
~Flashback~
"GET DOWN HERE NOW!"
A young girl of ten slowly walked down the stairs to where her step-father was waiting with his belt on the floor.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" he roared, pointing to the stain on the rug.
"I don't know," was the small girl answered.
"YOU DON'T KNOW!"
"Maybe it was Michelle or Mel."
"MY DAUGHTERS ARE PERFECT! THEY WOULDN'T DO THIS. IT HAD TO BE YOU."
"It wasn't. I didn't do anything."
The girl turned around to see Mel and Michelle standing in the doorway. Michelle was laughing while Mel was looking a little pale. A woman staggered through the front door and stood behind the two older girls.
"COME HERE GIRL!" The man grabbed the girl, threw her to the floor, pushed up her skirt, and picked up his belt from the ground.
The woman stated to laugh with Michelle as Mel turned away and left.
The man lifted up his belt and…
~End of Flashback~
Kalani slid down the wall that she had been standing at as she thought of this memory. Why was her life like this?
~Flashback~
"Come here Kalani," called a Hawaiian man from outside a large beach house.
"DADDY!" cried the little girl as she jumped into her father's arms. "You're home."
"Yes angel, I'm home." He looked over the house that he had lived in since his birth. He had inherited the house when his father's ex-friend, Tom Riddle, had killed his parents. His parents had been driving to Salem School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to see him.
A woman walked out of the house with two boys trailing behind her.
"Peni! Pika! Come here you two," called their father.
The two boys ran to where their father knelt in the sand. They jumped into his arms and joined their three year old sister in a hug.
The man kissed the three heads that clung to his neck. "I love you all," he whispered.
The woman mocked a pout. "What about me Kimo?" asked the woman with a smile in her eyes. This woman had a heavy English accent.
"I'm sorry Alya." Kimo placed his children back down on the sand and told them to go play while he spent some time with their mother.
He walked up the brick walkway and stood before her.
"Oh Kimo," she cried as she flew into his waiting arms. "I was so worried! There was another attack with that skull and snake mark in the paper again this morning. I know that you have to catch those…" She stopped and searched for the right words.
"Death Eaters?"
"Yes those things. But I was worried that something happened to you."
"Well nothing did. And good news…"
His wife smiled. "I got a promotion."
The smile disappeared.
"To a desk job," he said with a loud laugh. His wife smiled again and kissed him.
Little Kalani smiled as she watched her parents secretly from behind a bush.
~End of Flashback~
Kalani missed her dad. She missed her brothers. But most of all, she missed her old mother. The mother that loved her, not the mother that laughed when she while she was being beaten.
She heard footsteps approach and she quickly covered all evidence of her tears.
"Miss Kai, could you accompany me to my office?" asked Dumbledore.
Kalani nodded. She tried to stand up but fell back again as something in her gut told her something was wrong.
"What happened sir? What's wrong?" she asked weakly from her spot on the ground.
Dumbledore knelt down so that he was eye level with Kalani. "Do you want me to tell you now?"
Kalani nodded.
"Your mother died in a car accident this morning." Dumbledore looked at Kalani and saw that she was not crying but staring at him in disbelief.
"She was drunk, wasn't she?" Dumbledore nodded his head. "She was probably coming back from that strip house she calls a job?" Again, Dumbledore nodded.
The two were silent for a moment when…
"She deserves that. She deserves to go to hell."
Dumbledore, shocked by this, sat there stunned.
Kalani slowly got up and started to walk away.
Dumbledore snapped back to reality and called out to her, "Pack quickly, for you are leaving within the hour. Come to my office when you are done."
~
Kalani ran to the dorm. Her mother was dead. Her slut of a mother was dead. Her slut of a mother who used to care was dead. She didn't want to go home early.
She slowly opened the door to the room and saw Dawn reading a magazine with a bandage on her nose and Allegra and Divina quietly playing a game of chess.
She slipped into the room and started pack. By accident, she hit her bed with her elbow. Allegra and Divina turned their attention to her.
"Where are you going?" they asked curiously.
"Home."
"Why?"
"Because."
"Oh." The two girls looked away from their friend with a sigh each.
~
Kalani slowly walked to Dumbledore's office.
~Flashback~
"Alya, you sure that you do not want to come?" asked Kimo as he put his sons in the backseat of the car.
"I'm sure. I want to stay with Kalani. She's not feeling well."
"Ok. I love you." He said as he gave his wife a hug then walked into the house.
He saw Kalani lying on the couch. He walked over to her and hugged her. "I love you angel."
"Bye, daddy."
"Bye, angel."
He then left and got into the car. The boys had already said their goodbyes.
Some time later there was a knock on the front door.
"Kalani dear, can you get it?" asked Alya from the kitchen.
"Sure mommy."
Kalani opened the front door to see three official men standing at the door.
"Is Mrs. Kai home?" asked the first man.
"Mommy, there are people here to see you."
"I wasn't excepting any visitors to…" Alya stopped and stared at the men. "What happened to them? Are they ok?" she cried.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Kai. Death Eaters attacked them as they got out of the car. They died instantly," one man said.
Kalani looked from the men to her mother. Her mother had slid down the wall and was now on the floor. "No. No. NO. Kimo, why did you have to leave me? Why did you leave us?" she kept said.
"Mommy?" asked Kalani.
"Kalani he left us. They left us."
"Who?"
"Daddy, and Peni, and Pika. They died."
The information slowly sunk into Kalani.
"DADDY!" she wailed.
~End of Flashback~
(A/N: Sorry about the flashbacks. There might be a few more in this chapter but this is how you find out about Kalani.)
Kalani looked up and was surprised to see that she had reached her destination.
She remembered what had happened after her father had died. There had been a funeral. Her mother had packed quickly and left the country with her. They went to England, to where her mother had grown up. Nine months later, her mother was re-married, was a whore, and was an alcoholic.
Kalani hated her for it. The only good thing that had come from that was that she now had seven great friends (the boys in their year).
"Pixie Sticks," muttered Kalani to the gargoyle that guarded the wall.
The statue jumped out of the way as the passage opened. Kalani got onto the staircase and went up with it.
She slowly knocked on the door that led to Dumbledore's office, and entered when he told her to.
He walked over to his fireplace and reached for a pot on the mantle. "Here is some floo powder," he said as he sprinkled some of the dusk into her hand. "I have momentarily hooked up you family's fire place with the floo network, but it will only be up for fifteen minutes. Do you know how to use it?" he asked her.
Kalani shook her head. She may be half wizard, but she had never traveled via floo for her father died before her introduced the magical community to her. Her mother stopped caring about her after her father died so her mother had never said anything about it. But she had gotten her letter and had received a beating for the 'nonsense' as her step-father thought it was.
Dumbledore explained the floo network to her and told her to say 'Kai' when she stepped into the fire.
"Will it burn me?" she asked him nervously.
"No it will not. The floo powder puts a spell on the flames making them safe."
"What about my stuff?"
"I will send it a minute after you leave so that it should arrive after you."
"Kai," shouted Kalani as she stepped into the fireplace. "Thank you Professor," was the last sound that Dumbledore heard before he sent the trunk.
~
Kalani fell out of the fireplace with her trunk landing just behind her. "Owww," she whispered as she rubbed her butt.
"DADDY!" a female screamed from somewhere within the house. "I HEARD A SOUND FROM THE FAMILY ROOM!"
Kalani shook her head when she heard this. Mel was very dramatic, but at least she was nice to Kalani.
A man with blonde hair and green eyes walked into the room with a small woman.
The woman was of Hawaiian decent. She had curly brown hair, large violet/brown eyes, and brown skin. Her build was the same as Kalani's except she was taller.
The man was short but well built. As soon as he saw Kalani, disgust filled his small eyes.
"How'd you get 'ere?" he asked her.
"I…" Kalani looked at her aunt, and then remembered that she knew about magic for she was her father's sister. "I flooed from school. My Headmaster hooked up the fire place."
"Oh." With that, he left the room, not about to hit her while her aunt was there.
"Kalani!" squealed the small woman, running to give her niece a hug.
"Aunt Kalea… I need air," squeaked Kalani from under her aunt.
"Of course. So sorry." Kalea started to bounce on her heels. "So… how was school? Any boys you like? Is Binns still teaching? Is the mean caretaker… umm… Flich still here?"
Kalani stared at her aunt. "How do you know?"
"I'm your father's sister silly. I'm a witch too except your mother wouldn't let me see you after your father died. I couldn't tell you about magic and I was so mad."
"How do you know about," Kalani looked around her and whispered, "Hogwarts?"
"Hogwarts?" her aunt repeated in a booming voice. "When I went to school I was part of an exchange program and I got to go to Hogwarts for a year. Oh, that year was the best year of my school career. Such fun."
Kalani giggled. Her aunt was a character some times. "To answer your questions… schools ok except for this bitch and her friends. Binns ghost is teaching and Flich is still there."
"How about boys?"
"So how have you been?" asked Kalani dodging the question again.
"Do you like any boys Kalani?"
"Are you enjoying your time in England? How long are you here for?"
Kalea shook her head. Her niece is as stubborn as her father was. "England's great and I leave tomorrow. I'm fine. Now, do you like any boys?"
Kalani mumbled something that Kalea didn't hear.
"What?" she asked
"Sorta," Kalani said meekly.
"Sorta?" Kalea raised an eyebrow, causing Kalani to giggle.
"Well… we're friends with these four guys in our year and I like…" Kalani was interrupted before she could finish.
A young woman with straight blond hair appeared. Her grey eyes looked around the room for something. Her blue tank top and black pants were tight on her thin body.
"KALANI!" cried Michelle in a sickening sweet voice as she grabbed Kalani and pulled her into a hug. "I'm so sorry about your mom. She was so go to us!" she wailed as fake tears streamed down her face.
Kalani gave her a weird look. "Umm, Michelle… you ok?" she asked as she pried the eighteen-year old girl off of her.
"How can I be ok?" she wailed. "SHE DIED! She didn't even say goodbye."
"Why don't we go through her will now since we are all here?" suggested Kalea.
"Sure," said Kalani as she pushed her actress of a step-sister off of her.
They walked through the house towards the attic. On the way, they collected Mel and Kevin (A/N: the step father).
When they sorted through all of the stuff in the attic and the stuff that belonged to Kalani's mom, Mel ended up with a platinum necklace, Michelle ended up with a set of ruby earrings, and Kevin ended up with the house and all the items that had only been bought in his marriage with Alya. He also kept his own stuff. Kalea ended up with her brother's platinum diving watch and all of his clothes. Kalani ended up with all her mother's, brothers', and father's things that hadn't been taken.
In total she was left with 300 million American dollars, 450 thousand pounds, a lager sum of money in a vault in Gringotts, her mother's jewelry, clothes, and possessions, her brothers' things up to the age of five, and her father's life, counting a large vineyard in Italy among other things.
~
Kalea left the next morning heading back to Hawaii. After she left, Kalani's step-father and Michelle started yelling at her again. She was ordered around and she had some much to do it seemed like it was a years worth.
Kevin had hit Kalani eight times before nine o'clock that night.
Kalani had enough. She pulled out her wand not caring about the laws. She placed the shrinking charm on everything and put all her things in her trunk and backpack because she had no plans of coming back.
She quickly placed a feather-lite charm on the trunk and pack, before shrinking them and placing them in her pocket. She looked around the bare room that moments before had held her life. She wrote a quick note, grabbed her invisibility cloak that she had left out, and put it on her.
She quietly left the house and started walking. To where, she did not know.
~
I'm waitin in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but there's no sound
Kalani walked along the road, surprised at how cold summer nights could be. Suddenly she felt something light fall on her and looked up. It was raining.
Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
Won't someone please take me home
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I'm, I'm with you
Kalani looked around her wishing that someone was there with her. She started to cry as more rain fell from the sky.
I'm looking for a place
searching for a face
is there anybody here I know
cause nothings going right
and everythings a mess
and no one likes to be alone
Kalani looked around again, but there was nothing around her, no farm houses or buildings. No people or animals.
Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
Won't someone please take me home
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I'm, I'm with you
She felt the hot tears move down her face. She felt the sobs rack through her body and she asked herself on question. "Why doesn't anyone love me?" she whispered to the night.
oh why is everything so confusing
maybe I'm just out of my mind
yea yea yea
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I'm, I'm with you
Kalani shivered as she walked on. Why was her life so bad? Why was she here? Did she have a purpose? Why did she left?
Take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I'm, I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I'm, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm with you...
(Avril Lavigne – I'm With You)
Kalani took her wand out of her pocket to cast 'Lumos' when she tripped and fell. She fell onto her but as her wand dropped beside her. She started crying even harder.
All of a sudden there was a loud as a bus fell out of the sky.
"Welcome to the Knight Bus… (A/N: you know the rest)" a man said as he stepped off the bus.
Kalani picked up her wand and looked up. "Anywhere?" she asked with wonderment.
"That's what I said."
She fished out her money and handed 11 Sickles to the man.
"Where to?" he asked.
"Diagon Alley I guess."
The man led Kalani onto the bus. He led her to the back were one other person was sleeping.
The person sat up and asked, "Are we there?"
The man who led Kalani over to a bed looked at the man and shook his head.
"I'm sorry Mr. Potter we aren't at the Burrow yet. Someone flagged us down."
Kalani started at the man on the bed before running up to him. "Harry Potter?" she asked almost crying.
"Umm, yes?" he asked.
"Oh Harry!" whined Kalani as she through herself onto him. "I don't want to go back. I really don't!" She started sobbing into his chest.
Harry looked down at the child in his arms and recognized her as Kalani Kai. "It's ok Kalani." He soothed her by stroking her back.
"It's not ok!" she sobbed. "I have nowhere to go!"
"How 'bout you come with me?"
Kalani looked up at him. "Really?" she asked.
"Sure. Stan," he said turning to the man that had led Kalani to the bed, "She's going to come with me so forget about getting her to where ever she asked to go."
Stan nodded and headed for the front.
Harry turned back to Kalani who was now silently crying. "Where's all your stuff?" he asked her.
She pointed to her pocket.
"In your pocket?" Then realization dawned on him. "Kalani, you know you're not allowed to use magic out of school."
"But I had to get away and fast," she whispered.
Harry shook his head. He slowly lowered Kalani onto his bed as her breathing became more regular and light.
He walked to the front of the bus. "How long 'til the Burrow Stan?" he asked.
"No more than a good fifteen minutes," was the reply from behind the newspaper.
"Do you have a callo-globe on the bus?" he asked.
"Yup. Beside your bed. Just insert a Sickle and make your call."
Harry walked back to his bed where Kalani was sprawled out. He looked on the table beside the bed and saw the callo-globe. He quickly inserted a Sickle and whispered "Molly Weasley" into the speaker.
The callo-globe glowed red for two seconds before Molly Weasley's tired face appeared in the globe.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Mrs. Weasley? It's Harry."
"Oh Harry how are you? You are on your way here right?"
"Yes I am. I'll be arriving in about fifteen minutes. Umm, when I was coming on the Knight Bus it picked up Kalani Kai. I was wondering if I could bring her with me?"
"Sure! I'll just add an extra bed to Ginny's room. But Harry?"
"Yes?"
"Why is she with you? Shouldn't she be at home?"
"I'm not sure but she kept saying 'I don't want to go back.' I couldn't get her to tell me more for she fell asleep."
"Oh the poor dear. Well, bring her here and when she wakes up, we'll talk to her. Good-bye Harry, see you soon."
"Bye Mrs. Weasley."
A/N: Thx everyone who reviewed and remember… REVIEW!!!!
Angel Lily Lupin
duckmiso – Delicia is sad about her brother as you can see here.
And thx to my beta reader Mistress del Mare