I don't own the Avengers or Harry Potter.

I do own my OC, please don't use her or copy her character.

Warning this fic will be AU and will be Fem Harry, there will also be Bad!Dumbledore and Dumbledore and most of the Weasley's bashing. I would also like to thank Aeroza for being the Beta Reader for this story.

But Fem Harry is not a horcrux in this fic.

Each chapter will be between 1500 and 2500 words long.

Previously:

"Please come in, I'm sure there is a simple explanation for this." Taylor hears her aunt say.

Maybe someone will finally rescue her...

There is Always Hope - Chapter 3

March 2007; No.4 Privet Drive, Surrey, England, 13:00

"Please sit down, I will just go and get my husband so we can sort this out." Aunt Petunia said with a hint of nervousness, leaving the woman in the lounge.

A few minutes later, she comes back into the room with Vernon Dursley, and made Maggie Lewis then look over at the couple rather disgusted; mostly at the obesity of the man himself.

"I'm Maggie Lewis, and to what I told your wife, I am from Child Protection Services. Some of your neighbours heard screaming coming from your house earlier today. Do you have any children?" Maggie asked them while seeing Vernon held back a gulp at that.

"Yes, we have a son named Dudley. I can call him down if you want?" Petunia offered as Maggie looked to be in agreement at that, "Yes, please do." Petunia then goes upstairs and a few minutes later, she comes back down with Dudley.

Maggie looks the child over and other than being overweight, there was no visible signs that he was being abused but she still asked him, "Hello Dudley, how are you?" Maggie asked.

"I'm fine, I was upstairs watching my program. I want to go back to it." Dudley grumbled, okay definitely nothing wrong with this child, in fact Maggie thought he was probably a spoilt only child, who never wanted for anything.

"Yes Dudley, you can go back to your program upstairs." Maggie told him and watched as he waddled back up the stairs as fast as he can go.

"Well, there is nothing wrong with your son, but would you please explain to me what caused those pained screams?" Maggie asked while hoping to get to the bottom of this.

"They were probably imagining things." Vernon stated firmly to her.

"Okay, would you mind if I have a look around before I leave then?" Maggie asks hoping that she might uncover something as they had been acting shady, the entire time she had been here.

"Of course, please do." Petunia said; obviously eager to do anything to get the woman out of the house.

So Maggie heads upstairs first and finds that Dudley was definitely very spoilt and that she had nothing to worry about there; other than him getting diabetes at some point in his life. But as she walked back downstairs, she heard a few little whimpers that seemed to be coming from the cupboard up the stairs.

She quickly investigates and opens the door, and immediately turns her head away at the strong smell of blood coming from the cupboard. Looking back in again, however, she sees a tiny girl in there with red hair, who was trembling all over and looking utterly terrified.

Leaving the cupboard door, she marched back into the lounge; glaring angrily right at the Dursleys. "How come you didn't tell me you had another child living here, in a cupboard of all things?!" Maggie stated; fuming furiously at the Dursleys. She then grabbed and talks through a comm while asking the police; who had come with her to come into the house, because it was strongly suspected that there would need to be an arrest in this case.

It seemed that she had shocked the Dursleys into becoming silent.

The two police officers come in, "What's going on Miss Lewis?" One of them asks while Maggie led them over to the cupboard where the young girl is trembling.

"Come and look at this and tell me that those monsters don't need to go to jail." She said.

One exclaimed in shock, "Oh my God!"

The other policeman exclaimed in shock, "That poor girl…" Then he goes into the lounge with his partner and places the Dursley's under arrest for Child Abuse and Neglect.

Maggie listens as Mr. Dursley starts shouting about how they can't do this, and how this would ruin them. Then she turns her attention to the child in the cupboard, and saw her cower from her, "Hey Honey, I'm not going to hurt you. How about we get you out of that cupboard?" Maggie asked the child gently. Taylor; who was still in shock that she was actually going to get out of here once and for all, stayed quiet.

For you see, what her Uncle had done to her had not left her unaffected. She had felt even more terrified when the male policeman had looked into her safe haven; of course as much as she didn't like the cupboard, it was the one place that her Uncle couldn't get her, because he was too big to get in.

Taylor decided; despite how scared she was, she would like to get out of the cupboard, and out of this house. She moved slowly, but stopped quickly when pain shot through her body and cried out in pain. "Oh Honey, let me help you sweetheart?" Maggie asked the girl when she tried to move, but stopped because she was in pain.

The child nodded and Maggie gently picked her up, and placed her on her hip yet Taylor whimpered a bit, but kept mostly quiet.

Maggie walked out of the house hoping that the ambulance that she had asked the policeman to call, would already be here. When she picked the child up, she noticed two things: One, that the child hardly weighed anything, and two, that she had lots of lashes on her back that were probably caused by a belt.

Looking up, she saw that the ambulance was already there and made her way towards it, and the ambulance crew quickly got the bed ready as Maggie gently put the girl on the bed. "I'll travel with her," She told them as they loaded her up, and they nod as she gets in as one of them follows her to keep an eye on the child's condition. While the other goes around the front to drive.

"We are going to look after you now, Honey." Maggie said trying to comfort the girl, who hasn't said anything yet. It only takes five minutes to get to the hospital and Taylor is then taken away to get treated the moment they get into the hospital.

It was an hour and a half later before a nurse came over to Maggie; whose boss had asked her to stay and see if she could get the child's name after she had been treated. "She is settled in bed now, and in a lot less pain than she was, you can see her now if you would like." The nurse offered.

"Yes I'll see her, I need to see if I can get her name, to see if she has any other family." Maggie told them as the nurse nodded and then said, "Okay Miss Lewis if you will follow me, I will take you to her room."

Maggie followed her to a Private Ward, were the girl would be recovering. They couldn't put her in the Children's Ward because of how she had been brought in.

She nods at the nurse and then goes into the child's room, "Hey there, Honey. Are you feeling a bit better?" Maggie asked the child. Taylor was still felt quite nervous, but she nodded at the woman who had rescued her. She was grateful for that, if nothing else.

"My name's Maggie, can you tell me your name? We need to see if you have any other family who can look after you." Maggie said to her gently.

Taylor doesn't want to tell Maggie her name and yet… What if they do find some family for her and they hate her as well…

March 2007; Unknown Location - The Triskelion, 10:19 (Same day - Accounting the time difference between Uk and New York)

"Hey Maria, come and get a look at this," Bobbi called her friend after looking into things, "What have you got?" Maria asked curiously, walking over to her, "You know we were fiddling about with that program that can age missing children for a few days? We put Taylor in there, and well it, finally kicked up a potential match."

"What? Where?" Maria stated while taking a better look at the screen.

"It's an Abuse Case in Surrey, England, and from a little girl that the hospital has estimated about four or five as Social Worker found her in a cupboard in her aunt and uncle's house. They haven't been able to get her to talk; Even to give her name, but look at the picture... She looks like Tasha's miniature." Bobbi explained.

"Geez, I feel sorry for those bastards if that really is Taylor. Clint and Tasha would beat the crap out of them, and that would be after we get to them. We have to take this directly to Fury as he can authorise us to go." Maria ordered.

"Okay," Bobbi agreed.

Maria then set up a screen and called Director Fury, and it didn't take long for the Director's face to appear on the screen. "What is it Agent Hill?" Fury questioned.

"Sir, we have a lead on Taylor. An Abuse Case in Surrey, England. Agent Morse and I would like permission to check it out." Maria explained, knowing that Fury would know exactly who she was talking about.

"Go, but don't tell Barton and Romanoff. If it pans out, let me know and I will tell them in person." Fury ordered them as Maria nodded, "Yes, sir."

It didn't take them very long to prepare themselves, and since they couldn't go as agents of SHIELD because that might put Taylor's life in danger, so they would merely be going as one of their many aliases. Both had private investigator credentials as Maise Heart and Bethany Law.

"Right, so the plan is to tell them that we think Taylor is connected to a kidnapping that happened five years ago, and request a DNA Test be done to confirm it, right?" Bobbi confirmed as the two of them headed for the SHIELD Airfield where a quinjet was waiting to take them to Surrey, England. "Yes, that is the plan Bobbi." Maria agreed.

It was about seven hours later that the pilot told them that they were there, and wished them good luck on their mission. They got off the plane and into a taxi, Maria told the driver where they wanted to go to, a hotel that she pre booked on the flight over so that she and Bobbi had somewhere to stay the night.

Soon they were settled into a room with two beds and prepared themselves to meet the girl that could be their goddaughter after five years of her being missing.

March 2007; Miss Lewis's House, 19:05

Maggie Lewis sighed as it had been a long day, she had been sent to check out a potential case of Child Abuse and Neglect. Which had proved to be the worse than anything she could have imagined, she then had to wait for an hour and a half to see if she could get the girls name.

Which she hadn't managed to get, the girls relatives had been asked what it was as well and they had said that they just called her 'Girl'. They couldn't remember what her name was from when they had got her years ago, when her parents died in a car crash.

It was one of the worst cases she had ever seen, Petunia and Vernon Dursley really didn't care about what they had put their niece through, or what happened to her. They were more worried about their son; Dudley, and what would happen to their reputation among their neighbours as the man stated.

Now finally she was at home, on her sofa; drinking a cup of tea after having such a stressful day. Maggie knew that she would have to go back to the hospital tomorrow as her boss still wanted the girls name. The hospital had been able to make an estimate on her age, but it could be a few years out because of how small and malnourished she is. They had said that the best estimate they could make was being four or five years old.

She really couldn't imagine why anyone would abuse and neglect a child, especially one that was pretty as this little one was as she had the most stunning emerald green eyes and auburn hair. The little one really didn't look anything like her aunt or uncle, so Maggie could only assume that she looked like her mother.

Well whatever the case, she would make sure that this little girl got justice, and if she had any other family... She would get her settled with them; if not, she was sure that any Foster Family would be happy to have her. The little one's looks and her young age would help her there, if a Foster Family became necessary.

March 2007; The Hospital - Taylor's Room, 21:52

Taylor snuggled down on the first proper bed that she had ever slept in. The woman Maggie, had finally left after an hour of trying to get Taylor to tell her what her name was. She hadn't told her, she didn't want to know if she had any other relatives anywhere. Taylor hoped that if Maggie came back, that she wouldn't keep asking about her name.

She didn't mind having her company, after all, she had taken her away from the Dursleys. Maggie had read her a chapter of a book called Matilda, which she told her was written by Roald Dahl before she left, which was nice since no one had ever read to her before.

She had wondered if her parents had read to her before they died in that car accident, but then with what Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon had said about them, she doubted it.

Thinking about what might happen to Matilda in the next chapter, was how Taylor dropped off to sleep in the first real bed that she had ever been in, to her knowledge. Unfortunately for Taylor she didn't get to stay asleep due to the nightmares of her Uncle beating her.

Waking up with nightmares was something that Taylor was very familiar with, she had trained herself a long time ago not to make a sound when she woke up in case she woke her uncle up, and made him mad. So she sat in silence waiting to drop off to sleep again even though she knew that it was unlikely.

This is chapter three redone, I hope that you all like the changes that I have started to make. I promise the rest of the Avengers will play a role in this story still like they did in the old version.

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