A/N: Well, I'm here again. I really need to stop doing this, but its fun! And reviewers, I only do this because I love you and you motivate me so much, more than you may ever know. If this story wasn't getting any reviews whatsoever, we wouldn't even be past chapter one!

I'd like to add this again: I OWN NOTHING AND NO ONE except Daphne and Abby. Keziah, Trianne, Taylor, Kay, and Paulina (you'll meet her in this chapter) are based on real people, so they own themselves. Cherrie is also a real person too; I believe she has an account on here. (shameless plug over)

Reference:

Abby is 16 (as stated in chapter one)

Keziah is 19 (explains the whole 'I haven't seen you in two years thing' they went to school together, until Keziah left)

Trianne is almost nine

Daphne is 11, but getting ready to start year two (she turns 12 after this story ends)

Paulina is 17 (and has left Hogwarts)

This story is set around early summer 2003

Chapter Five:

As Daphne woke up, she could hear a small commotion downstairs as the front door opened. They were back, and not a minute too soon, dawn was slowly beginning to stretch over the horizon. She tiptoed out of bed, and onto the landing, leaning against its walls and using the shadows to her advantage.

She could see Luna, her aunt and uncle, Cho, and her mother discussing something with worried looks on their faces. She crouched down toward the landing's rail to listen in.

"It's just turned six," Her mother noted as she looked at one of the clocks on the mantel. "I think the wizarding world has probably gotten the word by now, or at least some rumors."

"What, that my daughter's turned into a vampire?" She could hear her Aunt reply angrily. "Because if they have…" she moved in a threatening way towards Hermione, scowling.

"No, no, no," Cho said, placing a hand between the two females, "More than likely, it's just that she's gone missing, probably nothing about her being turned, because the Order are the only ones that know that."

Daphne covered her mouth in shock as she crashed soundlessly into the wall. This had not been a pleasant wake-up call for her, but there might be more she needed to hear, she surmised. She leant back onto her stomach; her brown hair pushed back in a makeshift pony tail, and listened again.

"No doubt she could possibly hurt someone or something, so…" Cho continued, but drifting off and then looking at the ground, awaiting an answer.

"I think we have to, Ginny." her Uncle emotionlessly answered to Cho, looking at her Aunt, who had tears in her eyes and a look of horror. "We have to kill her. Sunset tonight, that's when we track her down and kill her."

Daphne's eyes widened as she went back onto the wall again. She had to stop this. They were not going to kill her cousin, at least not if she could help it. But in all reality, how was she supposed to stop it? She was an underage witch, who couldn't really do much without her mother, let alone stop them killing her cousin.

There was a sudden spark in her eyes as she went back into her room, changed into some day clothes, and placed her wand in her back pocket. She had a feeling she knew someone who could help her out. She placed some tennis shoes on, and opened the patio deck's door (which was in her mother's room) as quietly as she could; making sure her bedroom door was closed, so as to not let her cover be blown.

She made it onto the patio deck, where she could feel a light wind blowing as the sun slowly rose over the hills in the distance. It was a beautiful sight, even though she didn't exactly have time for it. She climbed over the small barricade that blocked the stairs leading the way down, but it was easily jumped if you were agile enough. She tiptoed down the stairs, but bolted into a run as soon as her left foot hit the grass of the open backyard.

"Paulina!"

"Huh, what, whaddya want?" a bewildered teenager asked as she opened the door after hearing a rapid set of knocks, looking down at the small girl who stood before her. "Daff? What are you doing here? It's only six-fifteen… chica, you ought to still be in bed," she commented as she let the girl in.

"Is it family problems again?" she wondered out loud as she tapped her wand to a teacup on her kitchen counter, which then filled with tea and zoomed over to Daphne (who was seated at the kitchen table) as she shook her head.

"No, Paulina, it's a little more serious than that. It involves my cousin, you know Abby right?"

Paulina nodded as she sat down, her brown hair falling into her face. After pushing it back, she added, "Of course I do chica. She went missing last night, didn't she? Read it in the prophet. That tends to be unreliable…so I dunno…"

"Yeah, she did. But you're not going to believe what happened to her."

"Well then, tell me, Daphne."

"My aunt said she was turned into a vampire!"

Paulina raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure you heard her right?"

"Yes, I'm very sure! They said they were going to kill her tonight when they find her too!"

Paulina covered her mouth, much in the way Daphne had when she'd found out. "That's not right! Killing your own flesh and blood? I think we ought to go to Keziah's house while her mother's out, and get her and Tri in on this. Maybe if we find her first…"

Daphne smiled, but then frowned. "Then maybe we can warn her, but oh gosh, how do we get to Keziah's in such a short space of time? Her mother's only going to be gone for so long, what if she catches us?"

Paulina placed a finger on Daphne's lips. "Daff, I can figure this out. I'm not that bad, and I got a car too. Problem half-way solved. You have to have a car when you're muggle born, I'm afraid. You think leaving the muggle world behind is easy? Not really, at least not for me."

She beeped the keys of her car, unlocking it. She reached for her wand and tapped the front door, locking it, and she also pulled all the windows down, locking them tightly as well. Paulina didn't have a back door, only a front door and a door down to her garage, which after she and Daphne had stepped through, locked instantly behind them, causing Daphne to jump in shock.

"I just do that so no idiot who tries to get into my house gets in. It's locked from the inside." Paulina said off-handedly to the mildly shocked Daphne, who stepped into the car.

"But what about the garage door that opens? Is it charmed or something?"

Paulina laughed. "Yes, I'm not that stupid."

After two hours of driving, Paulina's house being quite some distance further from Keziah's, they arrived, and Paulina quickly parked the car, and ran up the steps to her house, and quickly knocked on the door, causing a confused and slightly fatigued Keziah to answer it, who, upon seeing Daphne in Paulina's car, nodded quickly and fetched her sleepy sister from the nearby couch in the front room. Trianne was annoyed by the fact she had to get up earlier and that her mother was not home, but went along with the two anyway.

Daphne moved into the backseat of the car and opened the door, allowing Trianne to come into the car. She promptly smiled at Daphne, and went straight back to sleep.

Keziah looked back at Daphne as Paulina shifted gears and started driving again. "Are you alright there, Miss Houdini? Pretty smart how you got away like that!"

Daphne smiled awkwardly. "I'm fine. Sorry I woke up Trianne," she apologized as she looked down at the sleeping eight year old, who looked up at her and replied, "It's alright, Daphne," in a sleepy voice, and then went back to sleep for a second time.

"If you guys don't mind," Paulina said as the two returned their forward gaze, "I got to show you this really neat-o place that I found. About a couple months back, I was looking out my window, and then BOOM, something blows up in the distance. Few days later, I go to the explosion. Turns out it was this really fine mansion that was set on fire."

"Who would set a mansion on fire?"

"Someone who wants the insurance money, Daphne, come on."

"Maybe it was an accident."

"Maybe, maybe not. You can decide that for yourselves when you get there."