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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter in any way or form, and I do not own any idea's or anything from 'The Day After Tomorrow'. I also do not own Charles Gunn from Angel, me mate added that bit in.
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Chapter 2: Gunn???
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(Willows POV)
I looked up and wished I hadn't, the car just behind the second cab had been hit with something... and it was melting.
"What is that?" I asked, shocked at the sight of so much blood.
Tara and I made our way forward.
"It's hail" She said solemnly.
I turned to her, eyes wide. "That is hail? What the hell is the other stuff then?"
The whooshing sound came near us again, this time it landed near my foot.
At the same time we looked up at the sky and... hail was falling. Hail the size of footballs, there were screams and glass smashes, lot's of them.
Suddenly something ice cold patted my cheek, "What is that?"
Tara looked at me.
"It's rain.. lot's of... it..." She looked up at the sky and now the Hail and Rain were falling, but very heavily. The road was already about a foot deep in rain, and the car's were lurching forward.
"Tara! Willow! Get in the cars, NOW" Shouted Alexa from the cab, Tara and I ran to the cab's, we went for the first cab. I turned the handle on the door and nothing happened, I kept trying to open the door, it wasn't working, I was getting more worked up now.
"Open the door" I said, looking at Alexa and Becky, they were trying from the other side... it wasn't opening.
"OPEN THE DOOR" Tara shouted at the car and quickly went round the other side, narrowly missing a hail stone, and tried to open the door, that was locked too.
"OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR!" I screamed and kicked the car, upon hearing the sound of the locks being lifted from the car I went for it again... but the car lurched forward, and so did the other cab.
My eye's widened, freezing cold rain the size of icicles patted down on me. Tara and I waited for a moment, car's rushing past us... it was funny that the car's had only the drivers in them, lots of people were left. But no- one we knew... No-one our age.
"ALEXA, ZARA, BECKY!" I shouted into the distance, my hair was soaking wet and so was my clothes, my small top was sticking to me and the rain carried on falling.
Absolutely freezing rain. I hadn't realised it but I was shaking like a leaf and had realised that they weren't coming back.
"Oh my god Willow, we have to run" Tara said, in shock.
I looked at the rain which was about a quarter of the way up my legs.
People were running for the city now and realising there wasn't that much to the city we turned and started to run as fast as we could, the hail was worse than before, now reaching the size of a light that was used to light the whole corridor in my primary school, one landed just before where I was.
Falling over it I rolled on the floor for a few feet before I stopped.
I lay on the floor for a minute, I was still ok, but there was red on the newly fallen hailstone... my blood.
I looked at my arm and a deep nasty cut had emerged, wincing as I stood up.
I turned to run through the water which was now a quarter of the way up my legs, I slipped on a bit of ice under the water, stumbled and grabbed something hanging out of a car. I turned and too my horror it was someone who was unfortunate to be looking outside their window when a 'hail stone' had hit them.
"Willow come on!" Tara shouted, soaking wet herself.
I gasped, my eyes wide, still in shock I backed away and begun to run to the city. Tara ran after me, as many people were doing the same... I didn't know but I'd have to find a jacket... and fast, I was freezing and soaking wet.
Maybe we could find someone's house, like someone from school, or maybe we could go to the Ministry of Magic... Actually, that wasn't such a bad idea.
Turning we made a run for it, dodging the 'Hail stone's' and the freezing cold rain... which looked so cold by now it could turn into icicles.
After a few minutes of running I realised that I was going to freeze at this rate, I walked into some designer shop and looked at a coat for a while.
Tara followed me in.
"Willow what are you doing?" She asked.
I picked up the light pink coat and put it on, I turned and walked out the shop, the alarm's sounded and there was a wave of panic. Tara grabbed my arm and we both ran for it.
I quickly ran, nearly slipping, the water was falling but it was turning to ice underneath it as well... this wasn't good, as we ran through the streets I realised I should have taken some trousers, my ankles and legs were freezing.
The Ministry of Magic was in a few streets, we ran down the road which was actually crowded full of people with umbrella's that had no idea about how bad the rain was, it seemed that inside the city the Hail stone's were actually smaller than pea's, there were some idiots yelling to go inside... that's what we were going to do. It would be certainly safe inside the Ministry of Magic.
Reaching the vandalised telephone box we went in and was in a little cover for a while, the rain was still pounding down like hammers, we needed to be quick.
"Oh my god" I said to myself, "What's the number?"
I clapped my hands together trying to remember and picked up the receiver, my hand's shaking, not just the reason I was cold... I was scared.
I dialled Six two four four two and there was a polite voice on the phone.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic. Please state your name and business"
I breathed, thank god someone was answering, they obviously didn't know, "Willow Rosenburg and Tara Smyth. It's about the weather outside, we need to talk to someone. Anyone"
We stood there, watching the water rise up in the city as I waited for an answer.
Finally we got badge's and were let down into the Ministry of Magic.
"Thank you" I said to myself angrily, and stepped out into the Atrium.
Which had changed since I'd seen it last, there was a Main desk, and sofa's and it looked very much like a normal London company or something.
I looked around and my trainer's squeaked as I walked across to the new desk.
"Hi" I said, the woman looked up from her book and placed her wand that she had been directing the floo network with underneath the desk.
"Hello" She tilted her head to one side, "Welcome to the Ministry of Magic..." She read my badge, "Willow Rosenburg with enquiry about weather"
She smiled. "What would be that enquiry Miss Rosenburg?" She asked me.
"Don't you know what's going on outside?" Tara asked her urgently.
She made a face then did a sickening smile again.
"I could pass you through to our Muggle Weather experts, they have an office in Scotland but I'll find them" She reached for her wand.
"Yes I understand but wouldn't it be best for you to..."
Slowly I turned around upon hearing that voice, it was the Minister of Magic... it was Fudge, here.
"Cornelius Fudge!" I said, raising my voice a little, he turned around.
I grabbed Tara's hand and walked up to him, the floor now soaking wet.
"What?" He asked and turned to someone, "What is this girl doing here?"
I bit my lip and looked at him.
"I'm here as to enquire about the weather outside, unless you're completely stupid or you really don't know anything" I tilted my head and wriggled my nose, tempted to laugh, but I stopped myself.
"I do know about the weather outside Miss..." He read the badge I had on, "Rosenburg"
"Are you going to do anything about it?" I asked him, "Do you know what caused it?"
"I don't feel it would be necessary to divulge that kind of information Miss Rosenburg, now if you excuse me..." He walked past me.
"Wait! I need to know what's happening!?! Muggles have died already! And it's going to get worse!" I shouted after him, I saw him pause and mutter something to two strong looking men, They came over.
"By the Order of the Minister Of Magic you have to leave now Miss Rosenburg" One of the men said.
"No! I can't go out there, I'm going to die out there, I'm going to drown!" I said to them, worried.
They looked at each other and each grabbed one of my arms and literally dragged me out of the building and to the telephone box, they opened the door of the vandalised telephone box.
"You have to leave now. The Minister will make an announcement about the weather outside if he feels it necessary"
I shook my head, Tara quickly ran to the telephone box and stood by me.
"Come on! What do you suggest I do then?" I asked as the telephone box started to move.
"Go inside and keep warm!" They shouted at me.
There was a clunk to let me know we were there. I was shocked to find that the water had reached a level about half way up my leg's.
And it was still ice-cold and turning into ice on the bottom. I swear we were about a foot above the actual height of the street... we needed to get inside, and at least try to find someone we knew or someone at the school, even if it turned out to be Draco Malfoy, I would be grateful.
Quickly we walked through the street and were stunned to see it was exactly as it were before with everyone bustling around, some still shopping, apart from people were growing more panicked by the minute, and the hail stone's were now the size of golf-balls.
Dodging the hail and wading through the water we reached a building with stairs leading up to it.
"Willow let's go in here" Tara said, grabbing my arm.
"Wait" I said, patting someone who was running past me, "Is this the theatre?"
The girl nodded, "Yes it is"
"Wait a second, do you have your parent's with you?" I asked her, although she looked about eighteen she looked very scared.
"No, I'm looking for my boyfriend" She said, and looked at the theatre, "They're letting people in"
I watched them as they opened the door's.
"Let's go" I ran up the stairs along with some other people, the girl didn't move.
"I need to find my boyfriend" She said simply and turned away, "TOM! TOM!" She shouted.
The girl begun to walk away, Tara and I ran down the steps of the theatre.
"Are you insane?" Tara asked her, she was wearing less than I was, just her bikini with flip flop's, she didn't have any belongings, or a coat.
"You're going to freeze" I told her.
She shook her head. "I'm fine" She begun to walk across the street and I followed her.
"Your boyfriend... Tom is probably inside, he would want you to be inside as well" I told her, she shook her head.
"Tom would be looking for me, Now leave me alone" She said, shivering, and she begun to walk through the crowds of people. We followed her at a pace, we'd been around a few corners and I was starting to freeze now.
Everyone was literally wading through the water now.
"Hey you!" Tara shouted, the girl turned around.
"Have you been following me?" She asked, shocked.
"Yes, Look the water is going to be so deep soon it's going to start to flood places, we need to go back to the theatre" I said, out of breath.
The girl thought for a moment. "Ok, but only because I'm freezing and theatres have like... changing rooms?"
I nodded, "They do"
I grabbed her hand and we all waded through the nearly empty streets, building's were full to the brim of people.
After five minutes we were insight of the theatre.
"Wait!" I shouted at the man in a black coat and suit, he looked up.
"Hurry up!" He shouted back, I understood why, the water was about half-way up the steps, if they didn't close the door it would flood... worse than it would with the door open.
We all ran as the water had started to reach our waists.
"Ok!" Tara shouted, the girl grabbed the man's hand and she was taken in, We stood still for a moment, realising that the ice was actually freezing all the water as it went along. Meaning that if the ice wasn't holding everyone's weight then most of us would have had to swim.
The man appeared again and Tara grabbed his hand, he pulled her up then pulled me up and just as the water reached the last set of about twelve steps we closed the door.
I leaned against the door and breathed in and out deeply.
"You need to go to the highest floor of the theatre, follow me" The man said and walked us through the empty theatre, by the time we reached the top it was the actual top of the theatre where people would sit, apart from it was extremely full.
Men, Woman, mother's, babies, children were all sitting down, drying off and picking out coats from a little pile on the table.
Tara grabbed a jumper and a coat, which she wore, she had the perfect outside on.
She offered me a nice pink and white jacket thing... But I shook my head.
I looked around for the girl, and I saw her again, she had Jeans and a Jumper on now. Tara and I walked over to her.
"Hey" I said to her, she turned around.
"Hi again, Thanks for making me come here, my boyfriend is here!" She smiled.
"That's great!" I smiled and held my hand out, "I'm Willow"
She took my hand and nodded, "I'm Cindy"
"Great name" I laughed, she joined in with the laughter.
A pair of trainers were put on the table, Cindy and I turned around.
"Charles" She smiled, "This is Willow"
"You said his name was Tom" Tara said, Cindy went and whispered something to Tara.
I looked up and couldn't believe my eyes, he couldn't be here.
"Charles? Charles Gunn?" I asked.
He nodded.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter in any way or form, and I do not own any idea's or anything from 'The Day After Tomorrow'. I also do not own Charles Gunn from Angel, me mate added that bit in.
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Chapter 2: Gunn???
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(Willows POV)
I looked up and wished I hadn't, the car just behind the second cab had been hit with something... and it was melting.
"What is that?" I asked, shocked at the sight of so much blood.
Tara and I made our way forward.
"It's hail" She said solemnly.
I turned to her, eyes wide. "That is hail? What the hell is the other stuff then?"
The whooshing sound came near us again, this time it landed near my foot.
At the same time we looked up at the sky and... hail was falling. Hail the size of footballs, there were screams and glass smashes, lot's of them.
Suddenly something ice cold patted my cheek, "What is that?"
Tara looked at me.
"It's rain.. lot's of... it..." She looked up at the sky and now the Hail and Rain were falling, but very heavily. The road was already about a foot deep in rain, and the car's were lurching forward.
"Tara! Willow! Get in the cars, NOW" Shouted Alexa from the cab, Tara and I ran to the cab's, we went for the first cab. I turned the handle on the door and nothing happened, I kept trying to open the door, it wasn't working, I was getting more worked up now.
"Open the door" I said, looking at Alexa and Becky, they were trying from the other side... it wasn't opening.
"OPEN THE DOOR" Tara shouted at the car and quickly went round the other side, narrowly missing a hail stone, and tried to open the door, that was locked too.
"OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR!" I screamed and kicked the car, upon hearing the sound of the locks being lifted from the car I went for it again... but the car lurched forward, and so did the other cab.
My eye's widened, freezing cold rain the size of icicles patted down on me. Tara and I waited for a moment, car's rushing past us... it was funny that the car's had only the drivers in them, lots of people were left. But no- one we knew... No-one our age.
"ALEXA, ZARA, BECKY!" I shouted into the distance, my hair was soaking wet and so was my clothes, my small top was sticking to me and the rain carried on falling.
Absolutely freezing rain. I hadn't realised it but I was shaking like a leaf and had realised that they weren't coming back.
"Oh my god Willow, we have to run" Tara said, in shock.
I looked at the rain which was about a quarter of the way up my legs.
People were running for the city now and realising there wasn't that much to the city we turned and started to run as fast as we could, the hail was worse than before, now reaching the size of a light that was used to light the whole corridor in my primary school, one landed just before where I was.
Falling over it I rolled on the floor for a few feet before I stopped.
I lay on the floor for a minute, I was still ok, but there was red on the newly fallen hailstone... my blood.
I looked at my arm and a deep nasty cut had emerged, wincing as I stood up.
I turned to run through the water which was now a quarter of the way up my legs, I slipped on a bit of ice under the water, stumbled and grabbed something hanging out of a car. I turned and too my horror it was someone who was unfortunate to be looking outside their window when a 'hail stone' had hit them.
"Willow come on!" Tara shouted, soaking wet herself.
I gasped, my eyes wide, still in shock I backed away and begun to run to the city. Tara ran after me, as many people were doing the same... I didn't know but I'd have to find a jacket... and fast, I was freezing and soaking wet.
Maybe we could find someone's house, like someone from school, or maybe we could go to the Ministry of Magic... Actually, that wasn't such a bad idea.
Turning we made a run for it, dodging the 'Hail stone's' and the freezing cold rain... which looked so cold by now it could turn into icicles.
After a few minutes of running I realised that I was going to freeze at this rate, I walked into some designer shop and looked at a coat for a while.
Tara followed me in.
"Willow what are you doing?" She asked.
I picked up the light pink coat and put it on, I turned and walked out the shop, the alarm's sounded and there was a wave of panic. Tara grabbed my arm and we both ran for it.
I quickly ran, nearly slipping, the water was falling but it was turning to ice underneath it as well... this wasn't good, as we ran through the streets I realised I should have taken some trousers, my ankles and legs were freezing.
The Ministry of Magic was in a few streets, we ran down the road which was actually crowded full of people with umbrella's that had no idea about how bad the rain was, it seemed that inside the city the Hail stone's were actually smaller than pea's, there were some idiots yelling to go inside... that's what we were going to do. It would be certainly safe inside the Ministry of Magic.
Reaching the vandalised telephone box we went in and was in a little cover for a while, the rain was still pounding down like hammers, we needed to be quick.
"Oh my god" I said to myself, "What's the number?"
I clapped my hands together trying to remember and picked up the receiver, my hand's shaking, not just the reason I was cold... I was scared.
I dialled Six two four four two and there was a polite voice on the phone.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic. Please state your name and business"
I breathed, thank god someone was answering, they obviously didn't know, "Willow Rosenburg and Tara Smyth. It's about the weather outside, we need to talk to someone. Anyone"
We stood there, watching the water rise up in the city as I waited for an answer.
Finally we got badge's and were let down into the Ministry of Magic.
"Thank you" I said to myself angrily, and stepped out into the Atrium.
Which had changed since I'd seen it last, there was a Main desk, and sofa's and it looked very much like a normal London company or something.
I looked around and my trainer's squeaked as I walked across to the new desk.
"Hi" I said, the woman looked up from her book and placed her wand that she had been directing the floo network with underneath the desk.
"Hello" She tilted her head to one side, "Welcome to the Ministry of Magic..." She read my badge, "Willow Rosenburg with enquiry about weather"
She smiled. "What would be that enquiry Miss Rosenburg?" She asked me.
"Don't you know what's going on outside?" Tara asked her urgently.
She made a face then did a sickening smile again.
"I could pass you through to our Muggle Weather experts, they have an office in Scotland but I'll find them" She reached for her wand.
"Yes I understand but wouldn't it be best for you to..."
Slowly I turned around upon hearing that voice, it was the Minister of Magic... it was Fudge, here.
"Cornelius Fudge!" I said, raising my voice a little, he turned around.
I grabbed Tara's hand and walked up to him, the floor now soaking wet.
"What?" He asked and turned to someone, "What is this girl doing here?"
I bit my lip and looked at him.
"I'm here as to enquire about the weather outside, unless you're completely stupid or you really don't know anything" I tilted my head and wriggled my nose, tempted to laugh, but I stopped myself.
"I do know about the weather outside Miss..." He read the badge I had on, "Rosenburg"
"Are you going to do anything about it?" I asked him, "Do you know what caused it?"
"I don't feel it would be necessary to divulge that kind of information Miss Rosenburg, now if you excuse me..." He walked past me.
"Wait! I need to know what's happening!?! Muggles have died already! And it's going to get worse!" I shouted after him, I saw him pause and mutter something to two strong looking men, They came over.
"By the Order of the Minister Of Magic you have to leave now Miss Rosenburg" One of the men said.
"No! I can't go out there, I'm going to die out there, I'm going to drown!" I said to them, worried.
They looked at each other and each grabbed one of my arms and literally dragged me out of the building and to the telephone box, they opened the door of the vandalised telephone box.
"You have to leave now. The Minister will make an announcement about the weather outside if he feels it necessary"
I shook my head, Tara quickly ran to the telephone box and stood by me.
"Come on! What do you suggest I do then?" I asked as the telephone box started to move.
"Go inside and keep warm!" They shouted at me.
There was a clunk to let me know we were there. I was shocked to find that the water had reached a level about half way up my leg's.
And it was still ice-cold and turning into ice on the bottom. I swear we were about a foot above the actual height of the street... we needed to get inside, and at least try to find someone we knew or someone at the school, even if it turned out to be Draco Malfoy, I would be grateful.
Quickly we walked through the street and were stunned to see it was exactly as it were before with everyone bustling around, some still shopping, apart from people were growing more panicked by the minute, and the hail stone's were now the size of golf-balls.
Dodging the hail and wading through the water we reached a building with stairs leading up to it.
"Willow let's go in here" Tara said, grabbing my arm.
"Wait" I said, patting someone who was running past me, "Is this the theatre?"
The girl nodded, "Yes it is"
"Wait a second, do you have your parent's with you?" I asked her, although she looked about eighteen she looked very scared.
"No, I'm looking for my boyfriend" She said, and looked at the theatre, "They're letting people in"
I watched them as they opened the door's.
"Let's go" I ran up the stairs along with some other people, the girl didn't move.
"I need to find my boyfriend" She said simply and turned away, "TOM! TOM!" She shouted.
The girl begun to walk away, Tara and I ran down the steps of the theatre.
"Are you insane?" Tara asked her, she was wearing less than I was, just her bikini with flip flop's, she didn't have any belongings, or a coat.
"You're going to freeze" I told her.
She shook her head. "I'm fine" She begun to walk across the street and I followed her.
"Your boyfriend... Tom is probably inside, he would want you to be inside as well" I told her, she shook her head.
"Tom would be looking for me, Now leave me alone" She said, shivering, and she begun to walk through the crowds of people. We followed her at a pace, we'd been around a few corners and I was starting to freeze now.
Everyone was literally wading through the water now.
"Hey you!" Tara shouted, the girl turned around.
"Have you been following me?" She asked, shocked.
"Yes, Look the water is going to be so deep soon it's going to start to flood places, we need to go back to the theatre" I said, out of breath.
The girl thought for a moment. "Ok, but only because I'm freezing and theatres have like... changing rooms?"
I nodded, "They do"
I grabbed her hand and we all waded through the nearly empty streets, building's were full to the brim of people.
After five minutes we were insight of the theatre.
"Wait!" I shouted at the man in a black coat and suit, he looked up.
"Hurry up!" He shouted back, I understood why, the water was about half-way up the steps, if they didn't close the door it would flood... worse than it would with the door open.
We all ran as the water had started to reach our waists.
"Ok!" Tara shouted, the girl grabbed the man's hand and she was taken in, We stood still for a moment, realising that the ice was actually freezing all the water as it went along. Meaning that if the ice wasn't holding everyone's weight then most of us would have had to swim.
The man appeared again and Tara grabbed his hand, he pulled her up then pulled me up and just as the water reached the last set of about twelve steps we closed the door.
I leaned against the door and breathed in and out deeply.
"You need to go to the highest floor of the theatre, follow me" The man said and walked us through the empty theatre, by the time we reached the top it was the actual top of the theatre where people would sit, apart from it was extremely full.
Men, Woman, mother's, babies, children were all sitting down, drying off and picking out coats from a little pile on the table.
Tara grabbed a jumper and a coat, which she wore, she had the perfect outside on.
She offered me a nice pink and white jacket thing... But I shook my head.
I looked around for the girl, and I saw her again, she had Jeans and a Jumper on now. Tara and I walked over to her.
"Hey" I said to her, she turned around.
"Hi again, Thanks for making me come here, my boyfriend is here!" She smiled.
"That's great!" I smiled and held my hand out, "I'm Willow"
She took my hand and nodded, "I'm Cindy"
"Great name" I laughed, she joined in with the laughter.
A pair of trainers were put on the table, Cindy and I turned around.
"Charles" She smiled, "This is Willow"
"You said his name was Tom" Tara said, Cindy went and whispered something to Tara.
I looked up and couldn't believe my eyes, he couldn't be here.
"Charles? Charles Gunn?" I asked.
He nodded.