Author's Note: Here I am again. I guess I really like this story and the
reviews I've been getting for it otherwise I know I wouldn't have chapter 5
out already. Whew! *wipes forehead* I'm really glad you all like it! More
thank yous:
SleepieCareBear- I'm sorry, I'd just posted chapter 4 when you had reviewed so I'm sorry! I'm glad you like Vixen, I was a little worried about what people would think of my kitty creation.
Bell- It's okay, thank you for both of your reviews. I'm glad you like my little Alternate Universe.
Hanna-chan- I'm glad you like it!
Cherry Blood or The Elfin Child whichever you are. - Thanks for the review. I hope I can get Lily's finding out soon; this chapter kind of lays the ground work. And whichever stole pen names don't do that it confuzzles the writer. whee.
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys this next chapter, as usual; anything you recognize isn't mine its J.K's or someone else's. Ha, the necklace is something I wish I owned because I like the mentioned jewels. So yeah, don't sue me and all flames will be used for my smokes. Love ya! ~Frankie~
Chapter Five: Confusing Lily
"Lily, the letter was from my Grandfather Albus letting me know that he's coming to visit this evening at 5," Arabella said upon spotting Lily in the room that she was sleeping in.
"Really? That sounds interesting. oh, am I going to be in the way?" Lily asked quietly thinking that maybe Arabella's grandfather might be one of those high-strung types who didn't like outsiders or people with out jobs or homes.
"Oh no! He actually wants to meet you as I mentioned you last night when I wrote him," Arabella said a little nervous that Lily might not buy this story.
Lily looked up, "Why would he want to meet me?" she asked slightly confused.
"He says that he likes meeting my friends and he's in town on business so he wants to stop by," Arabella said quickly and convincingly.
"Okay, I'll just clean up a little bit and be right down," Lily said and began going through her things quickly in search of her nice outfit to make a good impression, and Arabella left her to it, going down to wait for Dumbledore while Lily showered.
About two minutes before Dumbledore arrived Lily came down the stairs in a yellow flowered skirt and a dark blue t-shirt with her hair braided down her back neatly. When Dumbledore arrived he was wearing muggle clothes; faded jeans and a tie dyed t-shirt, with is extremely long hair and beard he looked a little like a hippie.
"Grandfather," Arabella said welcoming him inside with a very brief hug.
"Bella, so lovely to see you again," Dumbledore said with a wink and turned to Lily. "And you must be Lily," he said looking at her carefully through his spectacles.
"Yes, I'm Lily Evans, it's nice to meet you," Lily said a smile lighting up her face as she shook Dumbledore's hand.
Just in that brief touch Dumbledore realized that she was a very powerful witch and untrained she could be very dangerous, but he was also suspicious because in this time Voldemort had control over many people and you never knew who he had 'taken under his wing'. "Your name sounds rather familiar Lily, where did you go to school?" Dumbledore asked.
"In Kent until I was 15 and then I moved in with my sister in Surrey because my parents died in a car accident," Lily replied her smiled fading a little and a lamp in the corner flickered slightly.
"Did you or your parents ever get any offers to any private boarding schools when you were younger?" Dumbledore asked carefully seeing that his line of questioning was disturbing Lily and she was getting close to an explosion.
"Not that I know of," Lily said quietly, sighing, and the lamp stopped flickering.
"Have you ever heard of Hogwarts?" he asked quickly and when Lily shook her head he got a strange look on his face, "Lily, if you could excuse us, I have to ask Bella something," he said.
"Of course, I'll be upstairs," Lily said and went upstairs to ponder Arabella's 'grandfather's' strange questions.
"What is it Albus?" Arabella asked when Lily was out of earshot.
"She should have gone to Hogwarts, and she never received her letter. I am beginning to wonder if Voldemort has something to do with this," Dumbledore said his eyes glinting with anger. "I'm going to have to cast a spell on something to restrain her powers before she explodes and all that cooped up energy kills her. Then we have to get her private instructors to help her control it," Dumbledore explained quietly as Arabella was struck with an idea.
"Professor, I bout a charmed necklace today in Diagon Alley, it's to let me know if she gets into any trouble so I could help her. You could cast the spell on it," Arabella said and pulled a bag out of her purse on the table; out of the bag came a beautiful antique looking ruby necklace.
"Perfect, great thinking Arabella," Dumbledore said and took his want from his pocket, mumbled a few words and the pear shaped dark red ruby was suddenly joined by a beautiful pear shaped emerald dangling below the ruby on an antique type chain like the necklace it's self. They both glinted magnificently in the light. "Beautiful, and natural," Dumbledore said as he examined the necklace for anything that could be fixed.
"Natural?" Arabella asked slightly confused.
"Oh yes, the ruby came from Burma and the emerald from came from Zambia in Africa," Dumbledore said gently handing Arabella the necklace.
"The emerald is your own?" Arabella asked.
"Yes, a sort of heirloom. You will have to give this too her as soon as possible. I can't stay any longer. I have to find out more about what is going on here," Dumbledore said gently. "Don't' let her leave Arabella, if she does something terrible might happen to her. She's important, that much is obvious. Have a good night, and give Lily my apologies for leaving so soon," he said and opened the door and stepped out into the night.
Upstairs Lily was wondering what was going and she heard the door downstairs open and close before Arabella called, "Lily, come down here please!"
"Coming," Lily called back and went down to find Dumbledore had done. "He left?" she asked wondering why that fact didn't make her feel any better about what was going on.
"Yes, he said he had something terribly important to do and had to leave. He sends his apologies on leaving so suddenly," Arabella explained fiddling with the necklace in her right hand.
"He was very odd Bella, why did he ask those strange questions?" Lily asked putting her hand to her head gently trying to ease a tension headache she felt coming on.
"I rarely understand him Lily, so don't worry about it. There's a method to his madness and he's the only one who understands it," Arabella said gently mentioning the popular saying.
"I'll try not to worry about it," Lily quietly and felt the floor beginning to tremble beneath her feet.
Arabella felt the vibration too and knew that she had to get that necklace on Lily soon, or something horrible might happen. "Lily, I have something I want to give you, it's a necklace I got today while I was out. When I saw it I thought of you and I wanted you to have something nice for your job search," Arabella said quickly handing over the necklace.
"I couldn't possibly accept it," Lily said seeing the ruby/emerald combination.
"Please don't argue, I really want you to have it and it would be really nice if you didn't take it off," Arabella said walking over and fastening the chain around her neck personally.
"Okay, if you're certain I will," Lily said suddenly feeling much calmer and the shudder that they felt disappeared.
Arabella sighed and ran her hands through her hair gently. "I'm going to go work on dinner, do whatever you would like to do," Arabella said quietly and walked up to the kitchen.
Lily walked up to her bedroom and pulled her journal out of her bag and began to write:
Diary,
I'm beginning to wonder who Arabella Figg really is. I have this weird feeling that something strange is going on and I think I caused it. I've very grateful to her for taking me in but I think it might be best if I leave as soon as possible for the safety of everyone.
I felt so strange tonight, as if all my frustrations were about to just come barreling out and then Bella put this beautiful necklace on me and all those feelings disappeared. I'm thinking clearer then I have been in years. I have to leave for Bella's safety; if something happened to her I would never forgive myself. I think if I do stay something strange or dangerous is going to happen and I don't want Bella to get hurt. I will leave tonight after dinner when Bella goes to sleep. I will leave you her so she understands. I'm sorry. I just have to leave. I'll come back when I'm settled, I just need to make something for myself. I can't rely on people until I get myself settled.
Always,
Lily Evans
Lily finished writing just as Arabella called her down for dinner. As previously the meal was absolutely delicious and Lily felt bad for planning to run away and even worse for planning to go ahead with it, but she knew she had to do it.
As the meal ended Lily told Arabella that she wanted to rest for a while because she was tired after the excitement of the day. Arabella told her to sleep well and cleaned up the dishes before heading to sleep herself.
Lily wrote Arabella an apology letter to leave on her bed and she quietly packed her things and waited until she heard Arabella's light snoring in her bedroom before she slung her backpack over her shoulder after changing into jeans and a gray sweater and headed out into the foggy London night.
Author's Note: If this chapter is confusing ask a question in a review. *sighs* I hope you all liked it! ~Frankie~
SleepieCareBear- I'm sorry, I'd just posted chapter 4 when you had reviewed so I'm sorry! I'm glad you like Vixen, I was a little worried about what people would think of my kitty creation.
Bell- It's okay, thank you for both of your reviews. I'm glad you like my little Alternate Universe.
Hanna-chan- I'm glad you like it!
Cherry Blood or The Elfin Child whichever you are. - Thanks for the review. I hope I can get Lily's finding out soon; this chapter kind of lays the ground work. And whichever stole pen names don't do that it confuzzles the writer. whee.
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys this next chapter, as usual; anything you recognize isn't mine its J.K's or someone else's. Ha, the necklace is something I wish I owned because I like the mentioned jewels. So yeah, don't sue me and all flames will be used for my smokes. Love ya! ~Frankie~
Chapter Five: Confusing Lily
"Lily, the letter was from my Grandfather Albus letting me know that he's coming to visit this evening at 5," Arabella said upon spotting Lily in the room that she was sleeping in.
"Really? That sounds interesting. oh, am I going to be in the way?" Lily asked quietly thinking that maybe Arabella's grandfather might be one of those high-strung types who didn't like outsiders or people with out jobs or homes.
"Oh no! He actually wants to meet you as I mentioned you last night when I wrote him," Arabella said a little nervous that Lily might not buy this story.
Lily looked up, "Why would he want to meet me?" she asked slightly confused.
"He says that he likes meeting my friends and he's in town on business so he wants to stop by," Arabella said quickly and convincingly.
"Okay, I'll just clean up a little bit and be right down," Lily said and began going through her things quickly in search of her nice outfit to make a good impression, and Arabella left her to it, going down to wait for Dumbledore while Lily showered.
About two minutes before Dumbledore arrived Lily came down the stairs in a yellow flowered skirt and a dark blue t-shirt with her hair braided down her back neatly. When Dumbledore arrived he was wearing muggle clothes; faded jeans and a tie dyed t-shirt, with is extremely long hair and beard he looked a little like a hippie.
"Grandfather," Arabella said welcoming him inside with a very brief hug.
"Bella, so lovely to see you again," Dumbledore said with a wink and turned to Lily. "And you must be Lily," he said looking at her carefully through his spectacles.
"Yes, I'm Lily Evans, it's nice to meet you," Lily said a smile lighting up her face as she shook Dumbledore's hand.
Just in that brief touch Dumbledore realized that she was a very powerful witch and untrained she could be very dangerous, but he was also suspicious because in this time Voldemort had control over many people and you never knew who he had 'taken under his wing'. "Your name sounds rather familiar Lily, where did you go to school?" Dumbledore asked.
"In Kent until I was 15 and then I moved in with my sister in Surrey because my parents died in a car accident," Lily replied her smiled fading a little and a lamp in the corner flickered slightly.
"Did you or your parents ever get any offers to any private boarding schools when you were younger?" Dumbledore asked carefully seeing that his line of questioning was disturbing Lily and she was getting close to an explosion.
"Not that I know of," Lily said quietly, sighing, and the lamp stopped flickering.
"Have you ever heard of Hogwarts?" he asked quickly and when Lily shook her head he got a strange look on his face, "Lily, if you could excuse us, I have to ask Bella something," he said.
"Of course, I'll be upstairs," Lily said and went upstairs to ponder Arabella's 'grandfather's' strange questions.
"What is it Albus?" Arabella asked when Lily was out of earshot.
"She should have gone to Hogwarts, and she never received her letter. I am beginning to wonder if Voldemort has something to do with this," Dumbledore said his eyes glinting with anger. "I'm going to have to cast a spell on something to restrain her powers before she explodes and all that cooped up energy kills her. Then we have to get her private instructors to help her control it," Dumbledore explained quietly as Arabella was struck with an idea.
"Professor, I bout a charmed necklace today in Diagon Alley, it's to let me know if she gets into any trouble so I could help her. You could cast the spell on it," Arabella said and pulled a bag out of her purse on the table; out of the bag came a beautiful antique looking ruby necklace.
"Perfect, great thinking Arabella," Dumbledore said and took his want from his pocket, mumbled a few words and the pear shaped dark red ruby was suddenly joined by a beautiful pear shaped emerald dangling below the ruby on an antique type chain like the necklace it's self. They both glinted magnificently in the light. "Beautiful, and natural," Dumbledore said as he examined the necklace for anything that could be fixed.
"Natural?" Arabella asked slightly confused.
"Oh yes, the ruby came from Burma and the emerald from came from Zambia in Africa," Dumbledore said gently handing Arabella the necklace.
"The emerald is your own?" Arabella asked.
"Yes, a sort of heirloom. You will have to give this too her as soon as possible. I can't stay any longer. I have to find out more about what is going on here," Dumbledore said gently. "Don't' let her leave Arabella, if she does something terrible might happen to her. She's important, that much is obvious. Have a good night, and give Lily my apologies for leaving so soon," he said and opened the door and stepped out into the night.
Upstairs Lily was wondering what was going and she heard the door downstairs open and close before Arabella called, "Lily, come down here please!"
"Coming," Lily called back and went down to find Dumbledore had done. "He left?" she asked wondering why that fact didn't make her feel any better about what was going on.
"Yes, he said he had something terribly important to do and had to leave. He sends his apologies on leaving so suddenly," Arabella explained fiddling with the necklace in her right hand.
"He was very odd Bella, why did he ask those strange questions?" Lily asked putting her hand to her head gently trying to ease a tension headache she felt coming on.
"I rarely understand him Lily, so don't worry about it. There's a method to his madness and he's the only one who understands it," Arabella said gently mentioning the popular saying.
"I'll try not to worry about it," Lily quietly and felt the floor beginning to tremble beneath her feet.
Arabella felt the vibration too and knew that she had to get that necklace on Lily soon, or something horrible might happen. "Lily, I have something I want to give you, it's a necklace I got today while I was out. When I saw it I thought of you and I wanted you to have something nice for your job search," Arabella said quickly handing over the necklace.
"I couldn't possibly accept it," Lily said seeing the ruby/emerald combination.
"Please don't argue, I really want you to have it and it would be really nice if you didn't take it off," Arabella said walking over and fastening the chain around her neck personally.
"Okay, if you're certain I will," Lily said suddenly feeling much calmer and the shudder that they felt disappeared.
Arabella sighed and ran her hands through her hair gently. "I'm going to go work on dinner, do whatever you would like to do," Arabella said quietly and walked up to the kitchen.
Lily walked up to her bedroom and pulled her journal out of her bag and began to write:
Diary,
I'm beginning to wonder who Arabella Figg really is. I have this weird feeling that something strange is going on and I think I caused it. I've very grateful to her for taking me in but I think it might be best if I leave as soon as possible for the safety of everyone.
I felt so strange tonight, as if all my frustrations were about to just come barreling out and then Bella put this beautiful necklace on me and all those feelings disappeared. I'm thinking clearer then I have been in years. I have to leave for Bella's safety; if something happened to her I would never forgive myself. I think if I do stay something strange or dangerous is going to happen and I don't want Bella to get hurt. I will leave tonight after dinner when Bella goes to sleep. I will leave you her so she understands. I'm sorry. I just have to leave. I'll come back when I'm settled, I just need to make something for myself. I can't rely on people until I get myself settled.
Always,
Lily Evans
Lily finished writing just as Arabella called her down for dinner. As previously the meal was absolutely delicious and Lily felt bad for planning to run away and even worse for planning to go ahead with it, but she knew she had to do it.
As the meal ended Lily told Arabella that she wanted to rest for a while because she was tired after the excitement of the day. Arabella told her to sleep well and cleaned up the dishes before heading to sleep herself.
Lily wrote Arabella an apology letter to leave on her bed and she quietly packed her things and waited until she heard Arabella's light snoring in her bedroom before she slung her backpack over her shoulder after changing into jeans and a gray sweater and headed out into the foggy London night.
Author's Note: If this chapter is confusing ask a question in a review. *sighs* I hope you all liked it! ~Frankie~