Chapter Two

As Ember approaches her home, with the twins in hand, she sees her Mother with tears in her eyes. Ember knew right away what must have happened. A scout fairy must have watched the whole thing and informed her Mother.

The twins wriggle out of Embers hands and run to their Mother. They already know what to do, plead more scared then they already were. They burst out in tears as they ran into their Mothers firm hug.

Ember walks slowly with her head down to her Mother. There is no way Ember can get out of this one. Her twin sisters would go unpunished while she would be grounded at the Fairy fort probably until she was married.

Mother shooed off the twins and nodded Ember to come forward. She slowly walked to her Mother, wings folding behind her in guilt. She stopped in front of her mother and looked up into her eyes.

"Ember, how dare you defy what I said. You are my oldest and most experienced child. You should know better than to let the twins run freely in the forest. And worse, you let them on the Hogwarts ground, where they could have ended up like I did, or worse, they could have been dead."

At this Ember hung her head low for the fact that her sisters could have gone through the terrible things her Mother went through. Ember broke down on the spot and started to sob loudly on the floor. Her Mother looked at her and walked away.

Ember's P.O.V.

'She can be so cruel at times. I can't stand it. She makes me feel so guilty.' She thought. 'I can't blame her. She never had a mother that was around a lot. There was never anyone to make rules and set limits and care for her. All she really had was Clover, but she was much younger and wasn't like a friend. Of course when you-know-who stole her, he twisted her mind more than it was twisted to begin with.

'And then when she returned to the fairy community she met Dalamar, my Father, but she couldn't really trust a guy at first, because of what you-know-who did to her. But she needed security, so when he offered his hand in marriage, she took it.

'Then in the next two months of her marriage she got pregnant with me. I didn't know her Father, because right before my Mother found out she was pregnant, he left her for another fairy. But when I was eleven or so, I can't remember, my Mother gave birth to the twins, the Father being another one of the fairies, was no longer alive.'

I look up from the ground and see my Mothers back turned. I quickly spring up and run off to my room.

'Of course now, I'll never be able to explore the Hogwarts ground, so I guess the only way out of here is running away. I know it's a silly idea, but I think it will be for the better. I'm almost a full-grown fairy, and by next year my Mother would have probably set up a marriage that I really didn't want. So why not avoid all that by running away? If I went to Hogwarts, there's only a minimum amount of people that I know there.'

I grab one of my small bags and take my only other outfit. It looks almost exactly alike to the one I am wearing now; a dark red short dress with no sleeves, and it is a bit raggedy at the bottom. I carefully pull my golden anklet from under my pillow and put it around my tiny ankle.

I look back at my room and give out a sigh. I turn to my window and carefully and quietly climb out of it. I touch my bare feet onto the cold branch under my window. I jump from the branch, landing cat-like onto the next. I fold my wings out behind me and flutter away from the fairy colony. When I'm sure there is no fairies around me I land on the ground and start walking. I take the path that my sisters and I had run through earlier today.

Then, for the second time that day, I see the huge man up ahead. My heart beats faster as I swiftly hide behind a large tree trunk. I hear his footsteps becoming closer and heavier. Not really knowing what to do I silently slide over around the tree, but bump into a large object.

Knowing what it is, I shakily turn my head up to look into the dark brown eyes of the man. Once again, they showed no reason to hurt me. So, I decided to try my luck, I had nothing else to lose, so why not try this?

"Hi." I say in a small voice.

The large man looked astounded for a second, then a smile came to his lips. And then in a gruff voice he said, "'Ello."

Scared out of my mind by this time, I did the one and only useful thing that my sisters had taught me; I pretended to faint.