Author's Note: Yeay I finally finished!!! It was a long week of lab reports, but I finally managed to devote time to my favorite couple. Review if you want too, although it woudl be nice to know if the story turned out okay.
Zoey went to bed disappointed and woke up the next morning with a fresh determination to ask her mother, no matter what. She went downstairs to find it empty, and just as she was leaving she heard Snape and her mother come into the room from the kitchen arguing about something. She had decided to listen when Hermione came bursting downstairs like a madman. Zoey quickly moved away from the dining room door to meet her.
"Dumbledore, owl, help," she panted from running. "What?" Zoey asked.
"Dumbledore just sent Harry an Owl, saying that they were discovered and Harry was their only hope for survival. They said they were at Hogwarts. We are all going with him because it's obvious that Voldermort has them all trapped and is demanding Harry. His life is in danger to, but you know Harry, he needs to go. Look you tell Professor Hardbroom and Professor Snape, what's happening and wait here for us."
"Right," Zoey moved quickly to tell her mother, but stopped dead in her tracks when she heard Snape talking.
"Connie she's my daughter to, and I want to tell her!" Zoey stood at the door not daring to go in or even move.
"Severus, there are so many things she doesn't know, I'm keeping her safe."
"I want to keep her safe to, but I can't keep pretending I hate her. No doubt she already thinks I'm a monster. It hurts me to see her look at me with that much hatred."
Zoey backed away from the door. There was know way she could go in now and no way she was going to tell her mother anything. White hot anger arose in her chest and when she heard Harry, Ron, and Hermione coming down the stairs, she said, "They said that we need to go and that they need to stay here."
"Are you sure, well okay if that's what they say," replied Hermione.
Zoey knew that the smart thing to do would have been to tell her mother and...her father. She couldn't even think straight right now. All she wanted to do was get away from this house.
When Dumbledore and the rest of the Order arrived back at the Black house, they were shocked to find the four children missing.
"Constance, Severus, Where are they?" Dumbledore thundred.
"I...I don't know," Severus stammered, "We thought they were upstairs, in fact we were just about to check on them."
"Yeah," piped in Fred, "We didn't know they were gone either, we were just upstairs inventing some new sugar bombs, and all of a sudden everyone came rushing into our room asking where they were." Molly eyed them with anger at this message.
Dumbledore fumed and was ready to yell again when Minerva rushed down from upstairs. "Albus, you need to read this now." Dumbledore read the letter and dropped it shock only to utter the word "Voldermort."
Everyone shrank back in horror and as Dumbledore recovered he said, "Hogwarts, now, we need to get to Hogwarts."
People started scrambling around for broomsticks and capes.
"Molly and Arthur, you stay here to look after the place. Constance I want to stay here as well."
"Look professor, I know that I was here when they left, but I have the right to protect my daughter."
"Her daughter!" Fred and George looked at each other in shock.
"Constance, it would be safer if you stayed here." Dumbledore said.
"Look if it's because of Severus, he's a big boy he can take care of himself, I don't think that I'll endanger...."
"Constance!" Dunbledore said firmly, "You can't go because of the Black prophecy."
"What," she stammered.
"A member of the Black family is prophesized to save Harry from Lord Voldermort. They assumed it was Sirius, but they don't know that you are still alive. If you go I feel that you will be found out and killed."
Constance could only look at him in shock.
P.S. sorry these chapter endings are always so random and suspenseful....That always helps me end a chapter for some reason.
