Chapter 16 is up and ready to read, now you will understand why it was virtually all in italics last chapter.
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"Bella." A familiar voice murmured in my ear.
Just a dream…
"No." I mumbled into the pillow. The voice called my name again and I responded with a harsh slap to the soft body beside me.
"Ouchies Bella!" The voice whined. "C'mon we need to get dressed otherwise we will be late to the Order meeting."
I gasped and threw myself out of the mushy bed to begin throwing clothes on my dream now just a forgotten blur. Charlie chuckled and I turned to scowl at him, he raised his hands in surrender and began to pull his brown cargo pants on. My black skinny jeans were pulled up my legs and my top thrown over my head, Charlie stood calmly watching me get ready as he positioned his grey beanie on his head.
We left the room of requirement and trotted down the corridor toward Dumbledore's office, I stopped and before Charlie could ask I had jumped on his back. My boyfriend laughed and carried on towards the meeting as I let my arms dangle around his neck; fingers gently brushing his chest as he walked along empty corridors and down various flights of moving staircases.
We approached the Gargoyle and told him the latest password, Charlie carried on walking up the spiralling staircase and up to the oak door leading to the Headmaster's office. I pushed the door open with my foot and Charlie manoeuvred us into the room much to the looks of surprise from the few people in the room. The Headmaster had apparently put some of his trinkets and other things away so that there was room for a long wooden table.
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table to his right was Minerva and to his left was Severus. Sat beside Minerva was Sirius Black and I couldn't help the grin that spread across my face when I saw him, he looked healthy enough still extremely thin but that was to be expected, his face was pale and taught with thick black marks under his eyes.
There were 15 people in total when me and Charlie sat down; Dumbledore, Minerva, Severus, me and Charlie, Alastor Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Emmeline Vance, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Thomas and James Whitlock, Hestia Jones and then Molly and Arthur.
I smiled at Sirius and couldn't help but positively beam when he grinned back. "Thank you all for coming to this meeting, today we need to work out where we are going to set up Headquarters, who is going to talk to some other contacts and try and to convince we are to fight on our side and a few other things we need to run over in order to reform the Order of the Phoenix."
There were murmurs of agreement and nodded heads; I just stared blankly at the man. "As all of you here are aware; we're extremely low on people who believe that Voldemort is back." I noted the various flinches around the room but Dumbledore continued as if nothing had happened. "We need more people to believe in our cause. As I understand it Kingsley there are a few Aurors you can talk too?"
"Indeed Headmaster." Was the baritone reply.
"Good. Charlie might I request you talk to some of your colleagues in Romania."
"Sure thing Dumbledore." My Boyfriends voice answered.
"Hestia, Emmeline I will leave other Ministry Members in your hands. Remus as many Werewolves as you could turn over to our side." The man nodded gravely, "Isabelle."
I snapped my eyes from Remus' face. "Your job is in this envelope here."
"I see." I answered flatly, Dumbledore pushed a brown sealed envelope in my direction.
"You can open that now but no one other than me or Severus can see that understood?"
I nodded and carefully opened the envelope, concealed inside were several sheets of plain lined paper with lists on them. List one revealed that I was to travel back to America and talk to the tribe of Quileute shifters and the Cullens, their names were all listed as well as there being photos.
"You do realize I cannot guarantee that they will still be there." I spoke out effectively cutting Dumbledore off mid-sentence.
"I am well aware of this Miss Fenwick however seeing as there is another mission there you should make sure." He answered monotonously. I said nothing just hummed and put that list face down on the table. The next revealed sheet of paper read two words,The Volturi, no pictures, no information nothing. At the top in large red lettering it said Gather Info.
When there were no more sheets in the folder I saw another envelope being pushed into my line of view; I looked up and saw Severus give me a barely discernible nod. Cautiously I opened it; inside was more paper in Severus' tidy scrawl.
There were several maps from all over the world most many of them were of England though, they each had little red and black flags, red symbolising possible attacks and black symbolising attacked areas. I noted with a pang of aguish that my family manor as well as the Potter's house was on there along with Gideon and Fabian's home.
A few sheets of paper detailing some of Voldemort's possible future plans and attacks, some of them with annotations for ideas of defence from the Light side. There were a ridiculous amount of papers that had the names of every Death Eater on the Dark side as well as their positions. Lists of Allies to the Dark and lists of Traitors, people to be cautious of and Death Eaters who could easily be defeated, Head Quarters, poisons and antidotes, curses and ways to reverse them, best defensive spells, at the bottom was written; Dumbledore knows some of this, not all. Severus had really thought this through.
I sighed and conjured up a black leather binder with storage pockets inside the front sporting several black and blue muggle pens along with a red marker, I began ordering my papers into the coloured areas red being pay the most attention too and green the least attention. The Volturi information which lacked abysmally was placed into a clear plastic wallet in the red section at the front, whilst the maps and plans were placed in yellow and the others in green.
Dumbledore had been talking to everyone whilst I had gone through everything he had given me for the last five minutes once my binder was closed and I locked it with a password only I knew. "Minerva if you could talk to your brother Malcolm please?" Minerva nodded her head at the Headmaster's request.
"Right now that we have gone through all of that we need to find a Headquarters as we cannot meet here."
"How about my family home?" Sirius rasped.
"Is it secure?"
"The Blacks were a paranoid bunch, it is well protected and seeing as I am the last living heir its mine, I can get past all of the defences. I don't mind you all using it for Order Meetings."
Dumbledore nodded. "The house is 12 Grimmauld Place, London. Apparate in amongst the sheltered trees across the road from it." Everyone nodded and Dumbledore cast a charm silently whilst I carefully wrote the address down and placed it in a pocket inside of my binder. Dumbledore dismissed us and I watched Charlie follow his parents out of the door obviously intent on talking to them.
Finally it was just me and the Headmaster left in the room, "You know this task is virtually impossible. Don't you?"
"Not impossible Isabelle; merely require an extremely competent Witch or Wizard. And seeing as a Witch tends to be more persevering than Wizard along with the fact that Witches are generally preferred by other creatures you and Minerva were naturally my first choices. However since I need Minerva here at the school to help me with paperwork and teach you were the one that fitted the requirements." He explained heavily.
"Hmm. And Dumbledore how exactly am I going to be of much help in the field of work?"
"You underestimate yourself my dear; you have ridiculously good ways of extracting information in the most difficult of situation. I think it would be easy for you, besides I know that Voldemort is thinking of recruiting Vampires and other Werewolves. You also have a much larger range of experience when dealing with dangerous creatures. Need I remind you that you work with Dragons on a regular basis, that you have tended to several Werewolves, been within feet of dangerously out of control Shifters without flinching, virtually lived with Vampires, dealt with Death Eaters first hand on your own and so forth."
"I'll see you soon Headmaster." I dismissed.
"Goodbye Isabelle."
So chapter 16 is done. As you now know guys the previous chapter was in actual fact Bella's dream! Most of you guys were wrong when guessing the person who called her! Muahahahahahahaha!
A Shifter is a creature used in this story. They are people who can take the form of any animal but their natural shape is a wolf like those in Twilight. It is with extreme difficulty that they take the form of another human being aside from the human form they can adopt naturally. So imagine Jacob Black becoming Edward or something along those lines.
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