Desperate Measures
Part 3
Jasmine Potter, youngest of three children, sat in a corner of a room with only a blanket and the clothes on her back. The room contained no furniture, no windows, and one door. Since her arrival some time ago she had been moved to three different rooms. This was largely in part because she had a habit of breaking, tearing, and shredding anything and everything in the other rooms. Now on her forth room her hosts allotted her no comforts save a blanket, which they warned her was the only one she would receive.
The door to the room opened and in walked the man who had ruined Jasmine's life. He was roughly the same height as her father had been, maybe a tad taller, long blonde hair that flowed past his shoulders, scary gray eyes and the most evil looking face she had ever seen.
"Go way." Jasmine spat out.
"It's time for you to eat. If you don't eat this there won't be any food until tomorrow morning. You can try to starve yourself all you want but eventually you will have to eat Jasmine.
Jasmine took the bowl of soup from the server and began eating it. Normally she would try and toss it at them but she was finally to the point where she needed something other than water in her system.
"Good girl. If you behave yourself long enough maybe we'll try solids again." Draco informed the girl as he shut the door locking the girl in her room.
Jasmine quickly ate the soup and moved away from the door. A house elf entered and removed the dishes and left before Jasmine could talk to it. She had heard of the creatures from her parents, as well as the world that her parents had hidden from. Her stomach full Jasmine balled herself up in a corner pulled the blanket around her and fell asleep.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
"Mummy, mummy Rachel and Daniel picking on me." Jasmine told her mum as she ran into the family home in Barcelona.
Ginny lifted the youngest of her children into her arms and kissed her forehead. "Why are they picking on you love?" Ginny asked her red haired little angel.
"Cause I mummy's little angel." Jasmine replied with an angelic look on her face. Ginny carried her daughter outside and saw Daniel and Rachel playing outside their house. The air was warm, the sky was clear and the sounds of happy children echoed around Casa de Potter (it was only called that by Harry and Ginny in private). Harry was upstairs working on one of his many projects. It was a day like any other, until they arrived. Jasmine saw them first but didn't know who they were.
"Mummy who de?" The little girl asked as a large group of men wearing dark robes approached the house.
"HARRY!!!" Ginny screamed.
Ginny quickly put Jasmine down and told her to run for the house. Daniel had noticed the evil looking men and grabbed his sister and dragged her back without being told to. Jasmine watch from behind the door as the men drew long sticks from their pockets and all of the sudden green lights flew from the sticks. It was like she was watching a movie, only this was real. She watched as some of the men fired red sparks that hit her twin sister in the back as she was running. Dan turned and tried valiantly to lift his sister up only to be hit by a green blast of light himself. Jasmine still remembers watching her older brother just fall to the ground, unmoving like a statue.
Her mum cursed at the men her stick pointed at the man who hit Daniel and fired a blast that sent him to the ground. In a rage Ginny began shoot blasts of light at the unknown men. Unfortunately there were too many and her mummy soon fell over unmoving. By the time her father arrived he was too late to help Jasmine's mum, but that didn't stop him from trying to hurt the men that had hurt her family. Jasmine watched as her dad hurt what seemed like dozens of men before one of the men shot her daddy with a crossbow. The arrow hit him on the left side of his tummy. She distinctly remembered him turning, and blood soaking into his gray shirt. The arrow did not stop her father and he continued to fight on as a second and third arrow struck him. It was when the forth arrow hit what Jasmine knew to be his heart that her daddy finally fell down.
Jasmine watched two men pick up her brother and sister, and then a long blond haired man came to her and took her away from her family home.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
"Mummy. " Jasmine yelled as she awoke from her nightmare. It was one she'd had every time she'd closed her eyes. Jasmine pulled a locket from her shirt and opened it. The locket contained magical pictures of her family and relatives. Her mum and dad had made one for each of their children as a way to always have their family with them. All one had to do was say the picture name and it would appear.
Tears falling continuously down the young girls face. "Mummy. please help me. I wanna go home pease help me." Jasmine said aloud as she continued to cry looking at the pictures of her family.
"State the nature of your emergency." A familiar voice called out from the locket.
"Mummy???" Jasmine asked sniffling.
"Sorry love. this is just a magical assistant with your mum's voice. What is wrong?"
"I... I need help. Mummy & daddy. they not here and I not know where I am." Jasmine explained.
"I am unable to locate your parents. please select an alternate choice." The voice instructed.
Jasmine was panicking. Her parents didn't have any friends that they'd introduced to the children. Jasmine knew her daddy's cousin was out of town on business (at least that's what daddy said). Jasmine couldn't think who to turn to. and then a name popped into her head.
"Aunt 'Mione. where's Aunt Mione.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
It was mid afternoon and Hermione Weasley was walking through Diagon Alley with her daughter. The two had just finished acquiring more books from Flourish & Blotts and were on their way to rendezvous with Ron and the twins when Hermione felt a sensation in her right hand. She looked at it and realized her ring was glowing. The ring in fact was a gift from Ginny that she had received for Christmas one year. Ginny had vanished without a trace (save a departure letter) the same day Harry escaped from Azkaban. The Weasleys, however think some might think them, knew that Ginny must have orchestrated Harry's escape.
She sent an occasional letter via post to Hermione's parents and then three years ago Ginny had sent the entire family rings. The rings came with a letter requesting that they be put on immediately and never taken off, even for slumber. To this day Hermione wondered if anyone besides Ron and she complied with this request.
"Mum, what is it?" Little Jania Weasley asked.
"I don't know love. just a strange feeling." Hermione stated. She suddenly felt a sharp pain in her hand and then it ended. Rubbing her hand until the feeling of pain was gone she looked around then took her daughter's hand and march on to Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes.
"Aunt 'Mione." A voice called out.
Hermione looked around. She saw no one. She and Jania continued one.
"Aunt 'Mione." The voice called again, this time in a panic tone.
Hermione looked around some more but could see no one that might call her aunt. Just as she was about to continue on her way she caught a sight out of the corner of her eye. A little person, just a child had hopped up briefly. Hermione might not have noticed this person if it weren't for the fact they had red hair. Hermione instructed her daughter to keep up with her and the two walked at a very fast pace in the direction of the red haired child. As she neared the spot she had seen the red hair pop up a group of ministry officials apparated into the alley. Hermione scowled when she saw who they were.
"Draco." Hermione said in a low voice.
"There she is." Hermione heard Draco yell. Hermione watched as four grown men chased after the youth with red hair. "Jania, run to your uncle's store and tell them I need Help. Your father will know how to find me. Tell them to hurry and stay in the store young lady." Hermione ordered.
"Yes mum." The seven-year-old Jania replied and dashed to the store as fast as her legs could carry her.
Hermione ran trying to intercept whom ever it was that Draco was chasing. She knew that Draco was a ministry official with a lot of power but it didn't matter to Hermione, she wanted to know who was calling her Aunt 'Mione, especially if they had red hair.
"Someone stop that girl." Draco yelled his wand drawn and ready to cast a curse if the pedestrians would move from his way. His luck finally paid off when the little girl tripped and fell face first on the cobblestones.
"Time to go home." Draco informed the little girl whose knee was scraped and blood coming to the surface through broken skin. The little girl was crying and not just from the injury. It was obvious she was terrified of the man many knew to be a ministry official. Draco was reaching for her when his limbs suddenly seized up and he fell over. His two companions turned to see a witch with her wand drawn and aimed at them. The men didn't have their wands out so they opted to raise their hands in the air instead of risking a curse.
"Aunt Mione." The little red haired girl who was looking at Hermione with tears in her eyes declared.
"What's your name little one?" Hermione asked as she motioned for the little girl to come stand by her.
"Jasmine. Jasmine Potter." The red haired, green-eyed girl with tears in her eyes answered. She slowly stood and hobbled over to her aunt.
"Jasmine. who is your mum and dad?" Hermione asked already knowing the answer.
"Hawy and Ginny Potter." Jasmine answered, now crying hard and hugged Hermione. Hermione gave the girl a one armed hug as she kept her eyes on the two men and the petrified weasel.
Ron, Fred, and George arrived immediately after Jasmine had managed to attach herself to her aunt. The three male Weasleys were surprised to find Hermione holding two men at wand point, ready to curse them. They noticed a little girl with red hair clutching onto her. Fred and George pulled their wands and stunned the two men (they had become firm believers in the shoot first ask questions later policy), checked on the weasel to make sure he was still petrified, then turned their attention to Hermione and the little girl.
"Love, why don't you introduce yourself to your uncles." Hermione stated shocking the three men.
Jasmine wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve, looked at the men who had obviously aged since the pictures in her locket were taken and said, "My name is Jasmine Potter. My pawents are Hawy and Ginny Potter."
"She's the spitting image of her mum." Fred said.
"Save her fathers eyes." George stated.
"We're your mummy's brothers." Ron stated. "I'm your Uncle Ron, one of those two men is named Fred the other is George."
Jasmine smiled briefly. "How I tew you two apart?" she asked.
George flicked his wand and made his shirt blue. He then turned Fred's red.
"Red for Unca Fred, Blue for Unca George." George said in a kiddie type voice. Jasmine walked over and gave her uncles a hug. She was still crying but now because she was safe and with family.
"We'll be taking our niece to her family Malfoy." Ron informed the petrified man. "Thank you ever so much for bringing her to us.
Fred then said, "No need to get up, we can find our way back thanks all the same."
"We should go back to the store, collect Jania, close early then all portkey to the Burrow. Mum's gonna wanna know about this right away." George said.
The other three Weasleys nodded their head in agreement. Ron picked up the exhausted and thin looking Jasmine who wrapped her arms around him and held him tight. They then hastily departed for the store. Soon they would be off to introduce the Weasley family to its newest member.
~The End of Part 3~
Jasmine Potter, youngest of three children, sat in a corner of a room with only a blanket and the clothes on her back. The room contained no furniture, no windows, and one door. Since her arrival some time ago she had been moved to three different rooms. This was largely in part because she had a habit of breaking, tearing, and shredding anything and everything in the other rooms. Now on her forth room her hosts allotted her no comforts save a blanket, which they warned her was the only one she would receive.
The door to the room opened and in walked the man who had ruined Jasmine's life. He was roughly the same height as her father had been, maybe a tad taller, long blonde hair that flowed past his shoulders, scary gray eyes and the most evil looking face she had ever seen.
"Go way." Jasmine spat out.
"It's time for you to eat. If you don't eat this there won't be any food until tomorrow morning. You can try to starve yourself all you want but eventually you will have to eat Jasmine.
Jasmine took the bowl of soup from the server and began eating it. Normally she would try and toss it at them but she was finally to the point where she needed something other than water in her system.
"Good girl. If you behave yourself long enough maybe we'll try solids again." Draco informed the girl as he shut the door locking the girl in her room.
Jasmine quickly ate the soup and moved away from the door. A house elf entered and removed the dishes and left before Jasmine could talk to it. She had heard of the creatures from her parents, as well as the world that her parents had hidden from. Her stomach full Jasmine balled herself up in a corner pulled the blanket around her and fell asleep.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
"Mummy, mummy Rachel and Daniel picking on me." Jasmine told her mum as she ran into the family home in Barcelona.
Ginny lifted the youngest of her children into her arms and kissed her forehead. "Why are they picking on you love?" Ginny asked her red haired little angel.
"Cause I mummy's little angel." Jasmine replied with an angelic look on her face. Ginny carried her daughter outside and saw Daniel and Rachel playing outside their house. The air was warm, the sky was clear and the sounds of happy children echoed around Casa de Potter (it was only called that by Harry and Ginny in private). Harry was upstairs working on one of his many projects. It was a day like any other, until they arrived. Jasmine saw them first but didn't know who they were.
"Mummy who de?" The little girl asked as a large group of men wearing dark robes approached the house.
"HARRY!!!" Ginny screamed.
Ginny quickly put Jasmine down and told her to run for the house. Daniel had noticed the evil looking men and grabbed his sister and dragged her back without being told to. Jasmine watch from behind the door as the men drew long sticks from their pockets and all of the sudden green lights flew from the sticks. It was like she was watching a movie, only this was real. She watched as some of the men fired red sparks that hit her twin sister in the back as she was running. Dan turned and tried valiantly to lift his sister up only to be hit by a green blast of light himself. Jasmine still remembers watching her older brother just fall to the ground, unmoving like a statue.
Her mum cursed at the men her stick pointed at the man who hit Daniel and fired a blast that sent him to the ground. In a rage Ginny began shoot blasts of light at the unknown men. Unfortunately there were too many and her mummy soon fell over unmoving. By the time her father arrived he was too late to help Jasmine's mum, but that didn't stop him from trying to hurt the men that had hurt her family. Jasmine watched as her dad hurt what seemed like dozens of men before one of the men shot her daddy with a crossbow. The arrow hit him on the left side of his tummy. She distinctly remembered him turning, and blood soaking into his gray shirt. The arrow did not stop her father and he continued to fight on as a second and third arrow struck him. It was when the forth arrow hit what Jasmine knew to be his heart that her daddy finally fell down.
Jasmine watched two men pick up her brother and sister, and then a long blond haired man came to her and took her away from her family home.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
"Mummy. " Jasmine yelled as she awoke from her nightmare. It was one she'd had every time she'd closed her eyes. Jasmine pulled a locket from her shirt and opened it. The locket contained magical pictures of her family and relatives. Her mum and dad had made one for each of their children as a way to always have their family with them. All one had to do was say the picture name and it would appear.
Tears falling continuously down the young girls face. "Mummy. please help me. I wanna go home pease help me." Jasmine said aloud as she continued to cry looking at the pictures of her family.
"State the nature of your emergency." A familiar voice called out from the locket.
"Mummy???" Jasmine asked sniffling.
"Sorry love. this is just a magical assistant with your mum's voice. What is wrong?"
"I... I need help. Mummy & daddy. they not here and I not know where I am." Jasmine explained.
"I am unable to locate your parents. please select an alternate choice." The voice instructed.
Jasmine was panicking. Her parents didn't have any friends that they'd introduced to the children. Jasmine knew her daddy's cousin was out of town on business (at least that's what daddy said). Jasmine couldn't think who to turn to. and then a name popped into her head.
"Aunt 'Mione. where's Aunt Mione.
**~~** **~~** **~~**
It was mid afternoon and Hermione Weasley was walking through Diagon Alley with her daughter. The two had just finished acquiring more books from Flourish & Blotts and were on their way to rendezvous with Ron and the twins when Hermione felt a sensation in her right hand. She looked at it and realized her ring was glowing. The ring in fact was a gift from Ginny that she had received for Christmas one year. Ginny had vanished without a trace (save a departure letter) the same day Harry escaped from Azkaban. The Weasleys, however think some might think them, knew that Ginny must have orchestrated Harry's escape.
She sent an occasional letter via post to Hermione's parents and then three years ago Ginny had sent the entire family rings. The rings came with a letter requesting that they be put on immediately and never taken off, even for slumber. To this day Hermione wondered if anyone besides Ron and she complied with this request.
"Mum, what is it?" Little Jania Weasley asked.
"I don't know love. just a strange feeling." Hermione stated. She suddenly felt a sharp pain in her hand and then it ended. Rubbing her hand until the feeling of pain was gone she looked around then took her daughter's hand and march on to Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes.
"Aunt 'Mione." A voice called out.
Hermione looked around. She saw no one. She and Jania continued one.
"Aunt 'Mione." The voice called again, this time in a panic tone.
Hermione looked around some more but could see no one that might call her aunt. Just as she was about to continue on her way she caught a sight out of the corner of her eye. A little person, just a child had hopped up briefly. Hermione might not have noticed this person if it weren't for the fact they had red hair. Hermione instructed her daughter to keep up with her and the two walked at a very fast pace in the direction of the red haired child. As she neared the spot she had seen the red hair pop up a group of ministry officials apparated into the alley. Hermione scowled when she saw who they were.
"Draco." Hermione said in a low voice.
"There she is." Hermione heard Draco yell. Hermione watched as four grown men chased after the youth with red hair. "Jania, run to your uncle's store and tell them I need Help. Your father will know how to find me. Tell them to hurry and stay in the store young lady." Hermione ordered.
"Yes mum." The seven-year-old Jania replied and dashed to the store as fast as her legs could carry her.
Hermione ran trying to intercept whom ever it was that Draco was chasing. She knew that Draco was a ministry official with a lot of power but it didn't matter to Hermione, she wanted to know who was calling her Aunt 'Mione, especially if they had red hair.
"Someone stop that girl." Draco yelled his wand drawn and ready to cast a curse if the pedestrians would move from his way. His luck finally paid off when the little girl tripped and fell face first on the cobblestones.
"Time to go home." Draco informed the little girl whose knee was scraped and blood coming to the surface through broken skin. The little girl was crying and not just from the injury. It was obvious she was terrified of the man many knew to be a ministry official. Draco was reaching for her when his limbs suddenly seized up and he fell over. His two companions turned to see a witch with her wand drawn and aimed at them. The men didn't have their wands out so they opted to raise their hands in the air instead of risking a curse.
"Aunt Mione." The little red haired girl who was looking at Hermione with tears in her eyes declared.
"What's your name little one?" Hermione asked as she motioned for the little girl to come stand by her.
"Jasmine. Jasmine Potter." The red haired, green-eyed girl with tears in her eyes answered. She slowly stood and hobbled over to her aunt.
"Jasmine. who is your mum and dad?" Hermione asked already knowing the answer.
"Hawy and Ginny Potter." Jasmine answered, now crying hard and hugged Hermione. Hermione gave the girl a one armed hug as she kept her eyes on the two men and the petrified weasel.
Ron, Fred, and George arrived immediately after Jasmine had managed to attach herself to her aunt. The three male Weasleys were surprised to find Hermione holding two men at wand point, ready to curse them. They noticed a little girl with red hair clutching onto her. Fred and George pulled their wands and stunned the two men (they had become firm believers in the shoot first ask questions later policy), checked on the weasel to make sure he was still petrified, then turned their attention to Hermione and the little girl.
"Love, why don't you introduce yourself to your uncles." Hermione stated shocking the three men.
Jasmine wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve, looked at the men who had obviously aged since the pictures in her locket were taken and said, "My name is Jasmine Potter. My pawents are Hawy and Ginny Potter."
"She's the spitting image of her mum." Fred said.
"Save her fathers eyes." George stated.
"We're your mummy's brothers." Ron stated. "I'm your Uncle Ron, one of those two men is named Fred the other is George."
Jasmine smiled briefly. "How I tew you two apart?" she asked.
George flicked his wand and made his shirt blue. He then turned Fred's red.
"Red for Unca Fred, Blue for Unca George." George said in a kiddie type voice. Jasmine walked over and gave her uncles a hug. She was still crying but now because she was safe and with family.
"We'll be taking our niece to her family Malfoy." Ron informed the petrified man. "Thank you ever so much for bringing her to us.
Fred then said, "No need to get up, we can find our way back thanks all the same."
"We should go back to the store, collect Jania, close early then all portkey to the Burrow. Mum's gonna wanna know about this right away." George said.
The other three Weasleys nodded their head in agreement. Ron picked up the exhausted and thin looking Jasmine who wrapped her arms around him and held him tight. They then hastily departed for the store. Soon they would be off to introduce the Weasley family to its newest member.
~The End of Part 3~