"Thank god you're here McGonagall, all the tables are full and two of the waiters who were supposed to be here 15 minutes ago haven't turned up yet," called out one of Kat's work friends as she led a couple to there table.

"Who's missing Sally? Do you want me to call them?" Kat responded. She worked at a fancy restaurant just outside of Diagon Alley in the muggle world. It was called La Parisien.

"Katie Wilkinson and Matt Michaels, but we tried calling and both their mobiles were off and their home phones sent to the answering machine." Both girls had walked into the kitchen at this stage, Kat to get her apron and Sally to get the next meal.

"Great, just fan-frcking-tastic, we're gonna be here a long time aren't we Sall?" Kat almost said rather than questioned.

"Yep, well you are, my shift finishes in two hours," Sally said smirking at Kat.

"Damn you, how long have you been here?" Kat asked.

"Since 1o'clock, so only five hours." Sally said, normally their shifts went for 7 or 8 hours.

"Lucky, I'm here until midnight, it's my late shift tonight," Kat commented dryly.

"Well at least you've had dinner; I haven't eaten anything to eat for ages." Sally commented, trying to raise Kat's spirit.

"Yeah, but you didn't have to look after two 4 year-olds today, did you?" Kat questioned clearly frustrated.

"No, I guess I didn't, why were you babysitting, I thought you hated that?" Sally questioned, really the two girls were just stalling.

"Yeah, but do you remember my friend Lily you met?" Kat asked trying to jog Sally's memory.

Sally coughed, "the one who didn't get out much?" Sally wondered trying not to laugh.

"Hey," shrieked Kat, "she's my best friend,"

"whoa, calm down girl, I know she was just tying to rescue her cousin from the abusive relatives right?" Sally defended.

Before Kat could respond a voice called out "GIRLS, get back in there, this is not a social time, you are supposed to be working!" The manager screamed out.

Both girls snapped to attention, "Yes, sir!" they replied, while walking out of the kitchen giggling. The manager shook his head and walked off laughing.

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To say Annette Longbottom was tired would be a massive understatement. She worked in a muggle orphanage. It had been found that the old supervisor had hit 11 different children, but had tried to hit more but the older children protected the younger ones. She had originally worked in a social services centre, but it hadn't felt right, so she had applied for a job in the orphanage. There were 7 children between 1 and 4, 15 between 5 and 9, and about 40 between 10 and 16.

All of the children had been wary of her, but they had eventually warmed up to her, particularly a little 3 year old called Marcie and a 15 year old called Callie. She also got along well with the boys because she often played games like football with them.

Anne worked from 9 until 7, she was there for all of the children's meal's and while they were awake.

At the present moment she was searching for all of the children, except Marcie, they had been playing sardines. She had all of the children between the ages of 5 and 16 playing, although she had some of the oldest children take the really young ones like Kelly (who was only 1) with them.

Finally she found a group of about 15 children hiding in one of the bathrooms. She quickly placed Marcie on the ground and ducked down with all the others.

"Told you she'd be the next to find us Brett!" A little 6 year old called Sammy (Samantha) whined to her older brother.

"I know you did Sammy, I know you were right, but if you're not quiet then everyone will find us" Brett commented, trying to calm down his little sister. He had been one of the children who had been hit, he was 16 and probably could have fought back and escaped, but he would have had to leave his sister so he stayed.

"To late guys," Callie commented as she walked in, holding little Kelly in a very similar position to what Anne had been holding Marcie in. She sat down on the bathroom floor and cradled Kelly.

Brett and Kelly liked each other more than friends, but Anne and about two 15 year olds were the only one's who picked it up.

They waited another half an hour and no other children appeared. Anne started to get worried. Brett and Callie told her it would be fine, they'd be here soon, after 10 minutes Anne got up. She refused to take Marcie with her and left her in the arms of Alyssa, a very mature 14 year old.

She told them not to come out unless she actually came back in to get them, and she'd be back shortly. Anne knew they wouldn't listen to her, if she wasn't back soon they'd want to come out to investigate.

Anne quickly stepped outside, she locked the door with a quick spell and also put a silencing charm on the door.

She headed out to try and find what was keeping the children, normally she wouldn't have been so paranoid, but after her brother and his wife's torture she was extremely nervous about everything.

She walked out into the courtyard, and what she saw terrified her. 6 deatheaters were surrounding the rest of the children, Anne wasn't close enough to hear what the deatheater's were saying, but she assumed it was something awful.

Anne clicked her necklace open and whispered "Lily, are you there? There are deatheaters here at the orphanage, they've surrounded about 30 children and some look pretty badly hurt, I need you to bring 3 aurors and you and another medi-wizard"

Anne then just hoped to god that Lily had her necklace on.

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I guess this was a sort of cliff hanger…..what will Anne do? Will she wait for the auror's to get there? Or will she charge in there and try and save them all? Who knows…..well I do but that's beside the point….(: Review please guys…….