Alex stared.

She had just been given three demonstrations, talked to God-Knows-how-many-hours, and just been told magic exists.

This was defiantly not her day.

In conclusion to all of this madness, there she sat, staring wide eyed at everyone in the room. Her eyes dept darting to them, Dumbledore, the window, and back.

Apparently, it's a 'her against them' right now.

She was still (unfortunately) chained up to the chair because the fake-eyed-man, (more commonly known as 'Mad Eye Moody' as she figured out) had thought it was a better 'safety precaution' in case Alex 'lost control' again.

It had been five minutes since he had ended his 'little' speech and Alex was still staring.

Vampires are not known to be tong tied.

She did not like the way they were all looking at her. They were giving her looks like she had a very unstable mind right now and needed either :

Some time to think this through

Or..

A cart that went directly to the loony bin.

That cheery woman, Tonks, was still grinning at her as if it was the best thing in the world that she was there with them now.

If anyone needs to go to the loony bin, it's her.

Alex found that she was starting to regain some of her speech. So she opened her mouth to make another inquiry,

No sound came out.

She shut her mouth, then after a minute or so she opened it again…

Then closed it.

She started to stare again.

Dumbledore started to look slightly concerned about her so he felt the need to say:

"I understand that this is a lot to take in right now but-" he started to say

Alex held her hand up to stop him. She closed her eyes for a second with her hand still up, then she opened them and said in her musical voice:

"Let me get these facts straight," she started with a hard voice "You all are wizards and witches who fought against an 'evil' wizard who now supposedly 'died' but you don't believe it. Now you felt the need to get more help 'just in case' he comes back. Finally, you decided to drag a vampire who could very well kill you into the situation so you have all of the 'extra help you need."

Dumbledore looked at her very seriously.

"We also think," he said gesturing around to everyone else "That it would be a marvelous learning experience to learn about a new person and her culture."

It was pretty obvious that some people didn't exactly think of this as a 'learning experience,' but Alexandra decided not to comment.

"How exactly would you want me to help." She said flatly.

Dumbledore looked at her for a second then admitted to her the marvelous conclusion that

"We haven't gotten that far yet."

"So, if you haven't figured that out yet, why am I here?" she said glaring at everyone.

A man with very dark skin and wearing mostly black looked up and said:

"It was a now or never situation."

"I see." Alex said

She thought over all of this for a minute or so. Then realized that she was still chained up. She started to scowl at Dumbledore.

"Would you mind taking these off?" she "politely" asked.

He seemed to remember that she was chained up to a chair. He took his 'wand' out then frowned.

"Yes?" Alex asked

He looked up and started to frown at her.

"I can't say I know much about you, but shouldn't you be able to break out of those chains?" he inquired.

Before Alex could say anything, Mad Eye spoke up

"I put an unbreakable charm on it, for our protection." He growled.

Alex glared at him. His bad eye hadn't wandered from her yet. She felt like she was a dog on a leash. It was not a good feeling.

Dumbledore 'hummed' for a second then with a lazy flick of his wand, the chains that seemed to have a little tint of blue in it, came off. Now they were just plain black. That, she guessed, was the 'charm' that Moody put on was now disabled, or whatever they called it.

Moody started to speak again.

" Do you think that this is a wise idea?" he felt the need to ask.

Dumbledore was about to say something but Alex spoke up before he could get a word out.

" Believe me," she said in a board tone " If I planned to attempt to kill any of you right now I would have done so already."

Moody looked at her very suspiciously, but Dumbledore nodded and took out a key.

Alex smiled showing all of her perfect white teeth. Some of the people in the room eye's widened.

"No need." She said.

Before anyone could protest, she bent down, grabbed the whole chain with her teeth, and pulled. There was a resulting snap and the right side of her chains fell off. She could feel everyone's stared on her back but before anyone said anything, she leaned over to the other side and did the same.

When she was all 'free,' she got up and slip her chair in a fast motion over to the corner.

She realized she must have moved way to fast, because everyone was staring at her with wide eyes. Dumbledore spoke up.

" I suppose the speed comes with being a vampire." He said mildly.

Alex smiled a wicked smile.

"That wasn't even fast."

He gave her a small nod.

"Would you like to enlighten us about what else does come with being a vampire?"

The smile from Alex's face was now gone.

"Not particularly."She said.

"We told you all of the things that wizards do." The snide voice of Severus rang out through the room.

"No," she disagreed " You all chose to tell me, I didn't ask for any information."

"That may be so, but if we are going to cooperate with each other, we need information from both sides." Another voice spoke up.

Alex took a step back and glared at all of the people in there. She had a feeling she was being ganged up on.

"You all are sticking your nose in somewhere you don't belong." She said flatly.

"Be that as it may-" a new voice started, but Alex interrupted them.

"What time is it?"

Dumbledore looked at his watch and his eyebrows rose in surprise.

"Almost midnight, I think it's time to take this up another day." He said.

Nobody moved. Alex's eyes remained hard. Dumbledore sighed.

"I understand you don't want to talk today, so how about tomorrow?" he said pleasantly.

There was an instant uproar.

"She won't come back!"

"It's unlikely we could ever find her again!"

"I say we just go through the night!"

"What about Veritaserum?"

Dumbledore raised both of his hands up.

" We will wait till tomorrow." He said with a note of finality.

He walked over to Alex and stuck a note in her pocket.

"I will expect you to be here tomorrow Alexandra." He said quite clearly. Then his voice quieted down and said:

"I will personally come looking for you if you aren't."

Alexandra gave him a curt nod. Truthfully, she didn't have any intentions of coming back here. Dumbledore stood there looking straight into her eyes for a few seconds before nodding.

"Albus, you can't be serous-" started a bright red haired man in the back.

"I am and I don't want anyone arguing." He said then nodded to Alexandra.

Alex turned then started walking graceful strides to the highest window that looked like it had a tree outside of it.

First, she jumped a great leap to the next highest window, then made another jump to her destination. Before she made her 'escape', she realized she had one more question to ask. She turned around back to Dumbledore. Everyone was watching her with hard eyes.

"One more question, where am I?" she asked.

Looking at her straight in the eye, he said

"London, England."

A fury bust within her, but she quickly stuffed it.

Unfortunately, it didn't go unnoticed.

She gave everyone a curt nod then opened the window. It was raining outside, almost as bad as the last time.

She jumped out the window, immediately getting drowned with water. She started to run at top speed west, where she knew a forest was somewhere around there.

She never looked back.

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