Chapter 1: Midnight Visitor
Dani's POV:
It was a dark and foggy night, but the fog wasn't nearly as thick as the tension in the room. It was 11:30 and the two sixteen-year-old twins were starting to panic. Dani looked at her brother with a worried face and said, "Are you sure he'll come? How do we know we can trust him?" She had every right to be cautious given their history. Ever since they were little they had known they were different; only they thought something was wrong with them. It turned out they had special powers.
When they were just six months old their mother had been murdered by Death Eaters. Of course Dani and her brother didn't remember any of this. In fact they had just found out about their family's history about two years ago. Their mother was killed because she was hiding them from their father, Tom Riddle. Dani shuddered as she thought about her heritage. She was terrified of their father. About two years ago they came to England in search of their father only to find out that he is one the most feared wizard of all time. After finding as much information on him as they could they moved onto their mother's history. But, after finding out about their father they now understood why they had been sent to America in the first place.
Their mother had put in her will that if she were to die her children would be sent to America. Well, they had been sent to America, but when they were fourteen they decided to go to England. They'd been living on the streets since they were eleven, but it hadn't been easy. However, it was better than going to another foster home. Their foster homes were usually full of abuse or alcohol. Usually the abuse had been inflicted on Dani because she was so easy to pick on. Taylor was defiantly the stronger of the two and was sick of seeing his sister hurt and getting hurt himself. So they had decided to leave the foster home program. Living on the streets in New York had been hard because it was overcrowded and if there was any trouble the older teens and adults were usually the first to be investigated by the cops. However it had been good for them, especially Dani, because it had defiantly given them a hardened exterior; however, being on the street had caused them to be a little reckless at times. Living on the streets had prepared them for anything. Or so they thought….
Taylor moved forward and gave his sister a hug. "This is Dumbledore; of course we can trust him." Taylor said. "But it's always good to remember the code we made up with him." Dani smiled, it was always good to hear positive thinking. Dumbledore had been looking for them for years so when he found them in a muggle town near Hogwarts he had wasted no time helping them understand their heritage and the magical world. It had been hard to take in at first but now they were used to it. The code was a certain question and answer. The question: "What is our special "talents"?" and answer, "Taylor can turn invisible at will and is a Parselmouth. Dani can see the future and hear and read peoples' minds and thoughts." Dumbledore was the only one who knew about their powers. Well, except for Voldemort but, he only knew about the powers themselves not how they were divided between the two teens.
Voldemort had chosen their mother to have his child, or children as it turned out, because he had heard of their mother's powers. He figured any child with any of these gifts would be powerful and he would raise the kid in his own beliefs. After a few drinks and a good disguise he had achieved what he was after. Only when Lucinda figured out what had happened she decided that it would be the best to hide the baby or babies from him. The only other person who knew was Dumbledore.
Their mother was the half-sister of Lucius Malfoy. Only, Lucius didn't know it until about a year ago. Lucius' father had and affair with another pure-blood which resulted in Dani's mother being born. Their mother's name was Lucinda June Malfoy. So when Danni had found this out she thought they could go to the Malfoys. But that was before they found out that the Malfoys' weren't they type to be trusted; so obviously, they couldn't go there. The only person left for them to go was Serverus Snape, their mother's friend and their godfather. They had found out about Snape by going to the muggle hospital and seeing a copy of their birth certificates. The original plan was for them to go to Hogwarts and start their fourth year. However, the Dark Mark had appeared and Dumbledore said that it safer for Dani and Taylor to stay in hiding. But now their father was so fixed on finding them that Dumbledore thought it would be safer for them to go to Hogwarts and start their sixth year, then to continue to run all over the country.
Dani looked out the broken window and remembered the night their father came back to power. They had been staying in a nearby village when it had happened. It had been her first really meaningful vision. She had been asleep when it happened and hoped it had just been a bad dream, but she knew it wasn't. The scene still haunted her in her sleep or when she was awake; the death of a boy, Harry Potter and her father dueling….she'd rather not think about it right now. Yes, they knew who Harry Potter was; he was going to be the hardest to face.
Dani turned back to the room and studied her brother. His short black hair was a mess from him running his hand through it and his blue eyes were full of worry and tiredness. He was dressed in a black shirt and jeans; that were a wrinkled and covered in dust. Then she turned to look herself over in the mirror. Her shoulder-length black hair was combed but her own dark eyes were bloodshot from getting barely or not any sleep. She was also wearing jeans and a black tank-top. She looked back at her hair with its unnaturally, bright red streaks through it. She had gotten it done a few months ago and now wondered if it was acceptable in the magical community. She looked around at the dirty, dusty, and broken-down house they had been living in for the past week. It wasn't a five star hotel but it was safe and probably the best place they'd actually lived so far. She looked around the small room and saw two trunks sitting in the middle of the floor. On top of one trunk there was Taylor's sleeping, brown owl, Comet. At least someone's getting some rest around here, she thought. On the other trunk was a small carrying case with two yellow eyes staring out. The eyes belonged to Midnight, Dani's black cat. Suddenly the clock struck twelve and on the twelfth chime she heard a faint pop.
Note: ok u maybe wonderin where they got the money for all their stuff. The money came from Gringgotts (sorry if I spelled that wrong) and after they bought all the magic supplies, they transferred into muggle money. With the money the bought clothes, food, etc. (I didn't know how to fit this info into the story so I'd thought I'd just tell u) Ok 2nd chapter will be up soon ( I hope! I'm kinda a perfectionist so I have like 10 ppl read and edit my stuff b4 posting. Also there's my evil teachers who love to give hmwk!) Please Read & review! Ur thoughts are important!