The Scars We Leave Behind

Chapter 7: The Dragon's Lament

Samantha continued firing spells and she shoved the memory into her pocket. She identified a few faces in the room. There was her old friend Lee Jordan dueling near the door, he was almost laughing as she saw him.

Harry was dueling two of the big goons at once and Ron was dueling another well. It looked like Ron had something round and covered in paper in his hand. Ginny, Kai and Jack were all winning their own duels and edging towards the door. Kai was taking on Freya and they were locked in an intense yelling match.

"Still up to your old tricks Kai!" Freya cackled.

Kai sneered, "You miss my tricks and you know it!"

"Please Kai, don't make me hurt you. I don't want to." Freya insisted and as Samantha glanced at her, she had hesitation in her eyes.

Samantha focused back to her own duel and enacted a shield charm. 

"Come on you lot!" Lee yelled into the room before motioning for everyone to get out of the room. She finally fired a good stun before she and Jack both ran towards the door.

Lee winked as she passed into the hallway, "Hey beautiful."

"You Git!" Samantha yelled at him as they ran through the hallway firing spells. "How'd you know to come here?"

Lee chuckled answering her question following closely, "Well your Goddaughter was born Monday morning. Genevieve was keeping it quiet and I wanted to tell you over our lunch."

"She was born already?" Samantha's mind ceased her racing and she hugged him around the neck before pulling him down to help him avoid a spell above his head. She nonverbally stunned the man who had sent the spell.

Lee chuckled as they stood up, "Yes, little Rebel Genevieve Jordan. Your beautiful Goddaughter. She looks like her mum thankfully."

"You have a Goddaughter?" Jack asked following closely behind them as they reached a set of stairs and began running down them. For all the spells whizzing past his head, a smile was plastered across his mouth.

"Yeah and a Godson!" Lee yelled happily before quickly shaking Jack's hand. "Good to see you mate."

"Her name is Rebel?" She felt her heart leap.

"Told you she'd love the name Lee." Ginny yelled firing a few more spells and running behind them. She had beads of sweat down her forehead and her ponytail was flying as she ran. 

"I told him you would hate it. Come on you lot! Ron's supposed to test my newest product, so if I were you, I'd get out of here quicker than that." George, Ginny's brother and one of Samantha's old Potterwatch buddies yelled from the bottom of the stairs. Duke the dragon, was perched on his shoulder. He flew up to Samantha and nudged on her shoulder. George pointed at the dragon, "He led us here."

"Good job Duke!" Samantha whispered and the little dragon began dancing on her shoulder.

Lee chuckled as they reached the bottom, "I saw that imposter, his name is Fritz right?" 

Samantha nodded trying to catch her breath and not trip over her own feet. 

"I knew it wasn't you. You didn't give that Fritz character nearly enough information about you and I. That git told me everything about you being here, looking for your brother. I went to George, who told me to go to Harry. Harry told us where he was sure you'd be and Ginny tore the mickey out of him till he'd agree to take us all. We got to the ranch and the lady there, sent us here, then we saw the Dragon."

"Recognized him from when Charlie used to bring Kai around." George laughed at the little black dragon. 

Samantha noticed there were a few stunned people around the front desk of the INN. She also noticed that Harry, Ron and Kai still hadn't retreated from the upstairs. Everyone exited the INN into the streets. No one dared to run any further until the rest of their company arrived. The thunder and lightning was raging now, and the wind had picked up fervently, it was whipping around everyone. Samantha's hair and hat were soaked.