Disclaimer- See the first chapter
A.N.- I'm back! I will be posting several more chapters in the next 2 weeks, then I will be taking a break from writing Nightshade for a short while due to the fact that I will be relocating to the east coast for college. This chapter is currently unbeta'd and I am in search for a new beta since it seems that my current beta disappeared on me. Please read and review...I would love to hear feedback from you guys! No flames please. Tiny HBP spoiler in the chapter...read at your risk.
On with the story!
A shadowy man stood in the darkened alleyway that ran alongside the street the Granger residence stood on. He would have not been seen by people wandering the street if it was not for the faint glow of his cigarette and white smoke expelled from his lungs. The pop of apparition is heard in the alleyway as the shadowy man looks on with contempt.
"Jean-Pierre! What is the status on the Granger house?" A lowly man with the face of a rat looks on cowering under the glare of the tall man towering over him. A lighting fast arm flashes by and the next thing known, the rat faced man is bodily picked up by the neck and thrown against the wall. As the rat faced man gasps for breath and struggling against the ever tightening grip, a low menacing voice is heard deep from the shadowy man's chest.
"Pettigrew! How many times have I told you not to call me Jean-Pierre...My name is Jean-Philippe...Oui?" Suddenly, the grip is released, Peter Pettigrew collapses to the ground holding his neck and gasping for air.
"Pardonnze moi, Jean-Philippe..forgive me for my transgression. The Dark Lord sent me to find out the status of what is occurring at the Granger household. He wants you to continue to spy on the Grangers and dispose of the parents as soon as possible." Peter Pettigrew spat contemptuously towards the French half-vampire that has seemly become the Dark Lord's favorite pet beside Snape.
"Pettigrew...don't give me orders like that you are the one giving me the orders...If you speak towards me in that manner again...I...WILL...KILL...YOU...and toss your corpse to Fenrir Greyback...pity...The Dark Lord seems to like you. Tell the Dark Lord that everything seems quiet at the Granger and I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary...yet. Get out of my sight before I crucio you." Peter Pettigrew wilts under the ever increasing menacing glare of Jean-Philippe Marc...the leader of the vampires that have allied with Voldermort, and apparates away.
Jean-Philippe turns his attention back to the Granger household, mentally calculating how many hours left before daylight comes when he would have to return to the vampire hide-out to await until the next evening comes.
Back at the Granger house, Hermione is in her bedroom frantically packing all of her necessary stuff including her homework and the revision table that she had planned out for her homework schedule. On a impulse she packs her beloved laptop and iPod to take with her to the Weasleys to maintain her sanity amid the chaos that reigns at the Burrow. Crookshanks looks on his master and gives out a yowl like he is approving of what she is doing mainly because he loves chasing the garden gnomes at the burrow. Hermione collapses onto her bed after a whirlwind re-packing of her school trunk less than a week after returning home from Hogwarts. She turns over to where Crookshanks is laying then picks him up and shoves the now-protesting cat into the cat carrier.
Meanwhile, Mr. & Ms. Granger are already packing all the necessary items and making calls to their respective partners for the dentistry business. Notifying the partners that they are now the sole owners of the business due to family emergency that will take the family out of the country for a undetermined time. They are also wiring money & shutting down their bank accounts leaving no traces of the Granger name. After packing, the whole family returns down to the living room and nervously await the appearance of a order member that will take the family into their hiding locations. Hermione feels a disturbing of the wards and hears a knock on the door in the living room, and it jars the whole family back into reality. The whole family looks on each other one last time before the doorknob begins to turn.
TBC. dun dun dun... suspensful music playing in the background