Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. I only own Abby. The rest is credited to J.K. Rowling.
It was late at night when the girl's eyes finally fumbled open. The older Weasley's had decided to take turns sitting by the girl so that she didn't become even more disorientated then she probably would be when she woke up.
Mrs. Weasley was on duty at the time. She was sitting in her favorite armchair reading a book and didn't notice the girl stir from her slumber. Only when she heard a small shout of pain from the girl did she become aware. She turned to see the girl trying to sit up while holding her left arm.
"Oh dear," said Mrs. Weasley rushing to the girls' side. "Sit still, you might have some broken bones that we don't know about and we don't want to injure you more."
The girl weakly lowered herself back to the couch with the help of Mrs. Weasley.
"Where am I?" Muttered the girl.
"You're at our home, but don't worry about that right now dear, we need to take care of you and get you all better. Now, I need you to tell me where you hurt and if you have any broken bones or anything that you know about."
The girl wearily looked around at her surroundings before answering Mrs. Weasley with an ok.
"Ummm…well, I'm pretty sure my right leg is broken. And maybe a few ribs. I think I dislocated my left shoulder too. That's, that's all I can really tell," she said with a look of pain evident on her face.
"Okay dear. I healed you the best that I can. But we're going to have to take you to St. Mungo's to be healed properly."
"What?" The girl asked looking startled. "What's that?"
"It's a wizarding hospital," explained Mrs. Weasley. "They'll fix you right up."
"No, I can't go there. He'll find me there. No, no, no, I can't," the girl cried hysterically.
"You have to dear, you have to get your injuries healed."
"No, I can't!"
"You just wait right here and rest. I'll be right back," Mrs. Weasley said as she stood up and moved toward the door.
Mrs. Weasley made her way to the kitchen where Fred, George, Ginny, and Bill were playing a game of Exploding Snap. At the sound of their mother's footsteps, everyone looked up.
"Where's your father?" Mrs. Weasley asked on the verge of tears.
"What's going on mum? Is she awake?"
"Just tell me where your father is George."
"He's up in the attic."
"Fine, I'm going to get him, everybody stay out of that room. You hear me?"
"Yes mum," everyone replied.
As Mrs. Weasley went up the stairs, Ginny stood from her chair.
"We have to go tell Ron, Harry, and Hermoine something is going on."
She made her way into the living room where Harry and Ron were talking and Hermoine slept cuddled up at the end of the couch next to Harry.
"Harry, something's going on with that girl. We don't know what but mum just went upstairs to find dad, it looks like she's about to cry."
"I guess we better wake Hermoine then," Harry said with a worried expression crossing his face.
After some gentle nudging and calling her name, Hermoine finally woke up. With one look around the room she knew something had happened when she was asleep.
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley came down the stairs. Mrs. Weasley came over to where Hermoine sat and motioned for her to follow. She led Hermoine to the hallway near the den where they had moved the girl in earlier.
"Hermoine, we have a favor to ask you. Seeing as you're so close to her age and you being the only one she's talked to so far besides me. She's scared, really scared, but I don't know of what, I can only guess. But the thing is she is refusing to go to the hospital, and she needs to go or else she'll die and we can't force her. We need you to talk to her for us. Would you?"
"Of course I would Mrs. Weasley."
"Oh, thank you so much dear. She's right this way."
Mrs. Weasley led Hermoine to the den's door and opened it for her. As she walked in her heart couldn't help but go out for the crumpled and bloodied form on the couch. She approached the couch and sat in the chair beside it. The girl turned to look at her.
"Hi, I'm Hermoine. I don't know if you recognize me from earlier or not."
"Yeah, I do. My name's Abby."
"It's nice to meet you Abby. Um, Mrs. Weasley asked me to come in here to talked to you because she said you didn't want to go to the hospital. But if you don't go then you can die. She wanted me to maybe find out why you don't want to go."
"I can't go. He'll know where I am. He'll come after me again and then he'll hurt me worse then he did last time, I don't want that," Abby said as tears began streaming down her face.
"Who's he?"
"I don't know his name. He's the one who took me and tortured me. He did so many terrible things. I…I…I…" With that Abby broke down sobbing.
Hermoine reached out to try to comfort her when she stopped and looked up to continue her story.
"His face was hideous. Like nothing I've ever seen before. It was kinda snakelike. His tongue was forked and everything. It was so scary. I don't want him to find me again."
"Abby, I know this is hard for you, but was there anyone else there? Did he say their names?"
"Yes. There were a whole bunch of them. All of them wearing robes. He called one of them Wormtail and another Malfoy. He had them do some of the torturing too," she explained calming down a bit.
"Ok, here's what I'll try to do. We have to get you to a hospital, if not St. Mungo's then somewhere else. So, is it okay if we take you to a Muggle hospital?"
"Yeah, that's ok, I don't think he'll be there."
"Okay, I'm going to go talk to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley about it and I'll be back soon." Hermoine started to get up when Abby grabbed her wrist.
"Hermoine, I don't know what I would do without you. You're being so kind to me and everything. I don't know how I'll ever repay you."
"Don't worry about repaying me. You're in trouble and I want to help." With that Hermoine left the room.
Hermoine left the room and closed the door. She leaned back and closed her eyes thinking about what Abby has been through and what is still in store for her as she joins her place in the war against Voldemort. It was then and there Hermoine swore to protect Abby from Voldemort and to be there for her always.
A/N: I'm sorry I took so long to update, my computer has been sitting in a box for I don't know how long, we've been rearranging. I hope this chapter is good, if not the rest of them will be. I promise. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy this. Feel free to review. Thank you everyone, especially ponyboyluver who was my first and only reviewer. Thank you so much, it means a lot to me.