-1Chapter 4: Jack and Jill

PoV of Narrator

It was late at night when the credits of The Goblet of Fire finally rolled across the screen. Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat dumbstruck staring at the it. Maggie smiled at them as she flipped the screen off.

"Bloody hell." Ron gasped and Maggie and Rebecca couldn't help exchanging amused glances.

"Yeah, so." Rupert started, "now that you know we're telling the truth what are we going to do?"

"Well," Hermione answered, "you can stay in here for a while. I'm pretty sure that I can find out a way to send you back but you have to stay out of sight. Especially you two." She looked meaningfully at Rupert and Tom.

The four of them looked around the room and saw one lonely couch in the corner. When they turned around the three others were gone. They shrugged and pulled out the bed in the couch. Rebecca squeezed in next to Tom and Maggie draped herself over the arm leaning against the back of it. Rupert sprawled out at the end with his legs hanging over the side.

Amazingly they fell asleep quickly and deeply. Maggie only woke up when she fell off of her perch and hit her head on the couch arm on the way down.

She grumbled as she sat up rubbing her head. She stood and walked over to the window pulling back the curtain just a crack so that she could see outside. The sun was just rising over forest and casting purple lines on the surface of the lake.

"You couldn't sleep either?" Rupert asked coming up behind her and looking over her shoulder.

She shook her head, "I fell."

He laughed, "Me too."

"It's beautiful."

"Sucks being trapped in here doesn't it?"

Maggie nodded. "There's so much out there. How can we stay in here?"

"Why should we?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why should we have to be prisoners in this over crowded room? No one's stopping us."

"What about them?" She pointed to Rebecca who was holding onto Tom like some large Teddy Bear.

"Ah, we could be back long before they notice. Come on."

Maggie thought for a moment and then smiled. "Alright! Let's go!"

They opened the door quietly and found themselves in a long stone hallway.

"Woah." Maggie gasped. "For some reason this place seems familiar."

"What?" Rupert studdered as she grabbed his hand and started running down the closest stairway. They ran down another hallway and up five more flights only to go down five more.

"Where are we going?" Rupert gasped as she stopped.

She smiled down at him. "You don't realize where we are?"

He looked up and smiled. In front of them was a large picture of a bowl of fruit. A huge pear was hovering just above Maggie's head.

"Food!" He gasped as she tickled it and the painting swung open in a large doorway

The two of them ran in utterly astonished by the huge mass of elves. A group of twenty or so ran over holding up large plates of the breakfast food. They ate their fill of toast, marmalade, eggs, bacon, potatoes, milk, orange juice, and biscuits.

They left full and happy. They wandered around talking for a while about everything from internet and T.V. to work and school. They found themselves finally at the door leading to the grounds. They went through cautiously as the castle was now starting to stir and neither of them wanted to be recognized.

As they walked around Rupert was talking about Dan and Emma.

"They're really great to hangout with. At first it was kind of akward but we started getting along really quickly. It's a lot of fun but realy hard work. I think I look foreward to the break between movies as much as normal kids do for summer break."

Maggie had stopped and was staring off into space. It was a few moments before Rupert noticed.

"What?" He asked turning around.

"Shhh!" She gasped pulling him to stand behind a tree with her.

Confused he looked around her and his jaw dropped. A group of three girls were walking toward them. Two of them were obviously twins with long black hair and tannish skin but the third was a shorter girl with wavy reddish hair and bright hazel eyes.

"OMG!" Maggie whispered from her hiding place. "It's me."

"Who is it?" Rupert asked.

"Not a bad start to the year is it?" One of the Patil twins asked.

"Hmmm." The red head agreed. "The boys are defiantly much better. I mean, just look at Ron."

The other two laughed. "Remember first year? He was so scrawny and had that bowl cut?"

"Hey! It was cute." Rupert said defending himself. He shut up when Maggie gave him a sharp jab in the stomach

"So are you going for him Lavender?" The other twin asked.

"He's defiantly on my list." She laughed.

They turned onto a path that led back to the castle and were out of earshot.

"Oh my gosh!" Maggie laughed jumping out from behind the tree. She was shaking with laughter.

"What's so funny?" Rupert asked coming out behind her rubbing his stomach.

"Don't you know who she was?"

"No, who?"

"That was Lavender! Lavender Brown!"

"What? You're Lavender?"

The two of them laughed so hard that they crashed into the grass by the edge of the lake. When Maggie was out of breath she drug her fingers through the water.

"So, I'm Ron. Tom's Malfoy and you're Lavender. So who is Becca?"

Maggie shrugged. "Dunno. Oh crap! I forgot about Becca." She looked up and saw the that sun was way past the middle of the sky. "They'll be up by now!"

The two of them crashed through the woods and up the hill to the castle. They ran past the confused looking students and charged to the requirement hallway. They ran up and down it three time and finally the door appeared.

They ripped it open and gasped at what they saw.