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Chapter Eight

The Safe House

Cassie was so glad that they got to miss school just help someone move in. She, like her brother, was a little worried about who this girl might be. I mean you can't just let anyone live with a bunch of wizards. Dumbledore said she knew of this world. Did that mean that she was like some kind of…. Spy? Or like a prophecy maker? Or what?

She wasn't really sure what to make of this girl. Who would want her? What was so special about her that would make her wanted by dangerous people? And if she was so special, why had she been living with her parents this whole time? Cassie wasn't really liking this situation, but what better way to find out what was weird than to find out first hand by asking the person in charge of the weird.

"Yes, we'll help her." She said after a large silence. Draco looked at her like she was insane, but she understood what she was doing. She was skipping out on boring lessons and things her brother had taught her months before, she was missing out on homework that she had already done thanks to Hermione's good teaching skills, and boring lunches where everyone thought about the next time they were gonna get together with everyone next.

"Alright, I will allow you to go pack your bags, and I hope that within the hour you will be in my office, ready to leave for the safe house. The moment you are safely there, I will go and retrieve her from where she currently is staying and we will make friends and be happy. You'll help her move in, and Draco, I hope you can catch her up to speed as best as possible."

And with that they were dismissed to go pack. Draco looked at Cassie. "What did he mean by catch her up to speed? I thought she knew of everything going on?"

Cassie shrugged, obviously he was being vague for a reason. Though when she suggested that to Draco he glared at her. "He's being vague just to be vague. There is no determined reason. Go on, go pack, I'll wait for you at the bottom of the Main Stair case. Hurry up, I don't want to be waiting for you for too long." Draco said before hurrying off to the Dungeons.

Within a few minutes Cassie was back at the staircase and she was the one who was waiting. She had done it on purpose. She had never really unpacked her stuff since they had gotten back from summer vacation, so getting her stuff together was easy. She knew, however, that her brother was going to be flying around his dormitories trying to find all his stuff. He wasn't the neatest person in the world. And he was definitely not organized.

It was nearly 40 minutes later when Draco finally appeared. He looked at Cassie in disbelief, wondering how in the name of Merlin she was there before him. She was even sitting down, reading a magazine. She looked up at her brother and laughed. She would never tell her secret, her brother would get worried.

They walked together to Dumbledore's office, both of them imagining what this girl would be like.

Cassie imagined her as a sweet foreign girl who had watched a terrible crime and needed protection. She was thinking probably an Egyptian, with nice brown skin and dark black hair. She imagined the girl to be kind, and intelligent, but somewhat shy.

Draco imagined her to be an American. Probably one with that twangy accent. In his mind's eye she was gonna be sweet, but annoying and have that much too happy attitude about everything. He imagined she was probably one of the best spies in America. Because of her surprising looks and attitude they would never expect a martial arts master who could be a better ninja than half the Japanese population. *Yes he understood how slightly racist he was being*

They arrived at Dumbledore's office and immediately entered. Everyone who was friends with Harry knew that Jelly Beans was the password. He was constantly in and out of Dumbledore's office, as were they most of the time. Draco and Cassie made their way up the staircase and into the main office. Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, writing a few letters. Fawkes sat on a perch next to him and flew over to greet Cassie as she came in. Cassie would feed the Phoenix sweets when Dumbledore wasn't looking. She actually was Harry's companion when he came to talk to Dumbledore about something and while they were talking in private or visiting a memory in the Pensieve, she would sit outside and hang out with Fawkes.

"Hey Fawkes." She rubbing his head and discreetly giving him a treat. He cawed softly at her then flew back to his perch and started grooming his wings.

"Hello. Alright, now let's do this quickly, as I am sure you are anxious to meet this new roommate of yours." Dumbledore mumbled. Draco and Cassie shared a look. They were both eager to find out who was right. They were, of course, going to share notes later. They always did. It was their thing.

"Ladies first." Draco said bowing slightly to Cassie. She smirked and took a handful of powder and yelled her destination into the flames. She stepped in and in a flourish of green flame was gone. Draco did the same, and found himself in the safe house. Neither he nor Cassie really had a name for it. No one did. Everyone just called it the safe house.

"Now, wait here while I go get your house guest." Apparently Dumbledore had myriad of words to describe this person without actually describing them.

"It's funny how he has yet to describe her at all to us." Draco said as they walked towards their rooms. Cassie nodded, chuckling a little. The house was small but comfortably so. They had landed in the living room, which was large and had thousands of books in bookcases stacked up to the ceiling all the way around the room. It had two couches and a chair facing the fireplace. There was a large archway on one side of the room, opposite the fireplace, that opened up in to the hall that led from the door. Barely anyone used the door. Most everyone either used the Floo network or Apparated in.

When looking from the door however, on your right was the living room, and in front of you was two options, a hallway leading down to the kitchen or the stairs. Upstairs there were three bedrooms plus a large room. Normally it was called the master bedroom, but neither Cassie nor Draco wanted the huge room to themselves so they used that for their silent room.

They had had one in their mansion back home. What it is, is a room where you have no furniture, just bean bags, and rugs. Draco constantly liked to sit in there and read. There was incense and scented candles. And it was good for Cassie's meditating. Some days, when they didn't feel like hanging out with any one or doing anything, they would sit in there and just think or read, or meditate. It was a wonderful place to do it too. It was nice and large.

The hallway downstairs led to the kitchen, the family room, and the backyard. The kitchen was large and open. Both Cassie and Draco could cook so they were constantly using it. The family room was just a smaller version of the living room without the books. It was always dark and cool in the family room. They would sit in there and talk. It was connected to the kitchen so when one of them was cooking the other would hang out in the family room and talk.

The backyard was simple. There was a small garden that Cassie had tended to herself and a pool. It wasn't a large pool, just something small so that they could have a comfortable number of friends over and there was still enough room for more.

After Cassie and Draco settled into their rooms they went downstairs and sat in the living room. For a while they just sat there and waited. They started sharing their ideas of what the girl might be like. Cassie liked Draco's idea of her being a martial artist and the best spy in America and Draco liked the thought of her being from Egypt. They then created this person they thought she would be, neither of them particularly caring if they were right or wrong.

Cassie thought of school. She would be in History of Magic right now. She silently thanked Merlin for this. She hated that class, and the last time she was in there, she had snuck off into DADA. She wasn't necessarily a trouble maker, but she had a problem with authority, on most days. She was pretty good friends with Professor Lupin and constantly sat in his classroom just listening in on older classes.

But when Lupin was out, which was generally once a month, Snape was there and Cassie would sit in there annoying him. Snape could never get too unhappy with her. Severus had always been around when she was growing up, and she had eventually learned ways to make him smile and laugh and wrap him around her finger. Draco always found it funny to hear the door open when Snape was teaching DADA and hear him groan in exasperation when he saw it was Cassie.

Draco thought of what he would be doing in school. Right now would be... a free period. He would be sitting in the library reading a book. He then remembered that he was reading a Muggle book he had seen in this very library. It was a book Hermione had suggested to him multiple times. He was about halfway through it, for the fifteenth time, and loved it. Pride and Prejudice. He especially loved the part where Darcy proposes to Elizabeth and she refuses him. He would always yell at Lizzy to just accept the offer and yell at him later.

He quickly got up to retrieve the book, when he heard the familiar pop of an Apparition. He calmly turned away, though he was excited to see who this girl really was.

He took in her caramel eyes, her milky white skin, and dark brown, almost black hair. He saw the curve of her hips and concave of her waist. He saw her arms folded over her chest as she saw her roommates, the disapproving glare. The tight line of her mouth and the set of her jaw. Draco saw the beautiful woman standing in front of him and he felt nothing. Who was this girl?

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