They Returned ~ AU HP fan fiction ~ The Marauders Return

Chapter 14 - Waiting

Ginny woke up expecting it to be a normal day. That was until she saw the only barely familiar surroundings. The ropes that held her hands were bound tightly and she knew that if she ever got them off they would most definitely be rubbed raw and probably scar. Judging by the fairly dim light she could count around 8 other people in there and they looked oddly familiar. She wasn't sure what about them made them seem so familiar but there was something about them that was so oddly unique and although uncommon she felt that she had been surrounded by that particular trait for most of her life. Ginny had, in fact, been surrounded by that particular trait for most of her life she just didn't realise it.

A sudden groaning to her left startled her and she could barely make out the features on the girls face when she had seen the hair, eyes in general defining features she could tell that this girl was in fact one of her best friends, Hermione.

"Hermione?" She whispered, not daring to be any louder in fear of attracting any attention from possible guards. 

"Wha?" She mumbles, a mixture of confusing and tiredness. She's not completely awake yet. "Who's there?"

"It's me Hermione," She whispers and when she's turning her head around and squinting into the darkness I continue, "On your right."

"Ginny?" She whispers, now utterly confused.

"Yeah it's me. Do you remember what happened to you? My memory is pretty hazy, I can only remember being shoved into a van."

"No sorry Ginny, I only remember some guy trying to knock me out and the next thing I know you're whispering to me."

"Oh well then. Can you see who any of these people are? They're closer to you and the light."

"I can't  see them very clearly," she says, "but that looks a bit like Harry and that looks like Lily. All the others are too small for me to see. Do you want me to try and wake them up?"

"Yeah, thanks Mione."

And then she could hear Hermione trying to wake up the adults. She succeeds in waking people up, but no the ones she was hoping to wake up.

"Uh-mi-ney?" the sound of James Potter the second calls. 

"James?" Ginny whispers. 

"Mummy?" 

"James, It's me Ginny and Hermione is next to me. James if that's you can you come a bit closer to the window please if you can."

"Ok mummy." James replied and he half stumbles, half crawls hi s way towards the two women. 

Whilst Ginny and Hermione's feet and hands are bound together and their hands are attached to the wall, James has only his hands tied up and there is a piece of rope that extends further than either Ginny or Hermione's attachments go which means that he can crawl onto Ginny's lap. 

"Hey Jamesie," Hermione calls, "Who was over there next to you."

"Um I think it was Rem and Siri and Lily and Sammy."

"Ok thanks James."

And with that Hermione and Ginny whispered  in hushed tones until the sun rose and everyone else began to wake.

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Once the others were all up they came to the realisation that none of then knew where they were and that while the adults had almost no chance of being able to wriggle free the kids were able to (with some help) and once the kids were free then the adults could the take off the binds. 

After accomplishing this all they could do was wait and keep up the appearance of being bound up when in fact they weren't. 

The guards outside their cell gave then no food but as there were no bars they could also not see that they were all free. They were told to wait for the master to come to them and while they were doing that to remain silent. 

And so they waited until their captor came into their cell.

He wore dark robes with a hood so that they couldn't see who he was until he took the hood down and revealed himself.

Their captor was Rodolphus Lestrange.

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A/N ~ so sorry for not updating but yeah. Am honestly going to try and update every week but it may be every two (depends on how I'm feeling).

Anyway so I have summer exams coming up and I am so stressed even thought there in like 6 weeks but yeah I just freak out over exams.

NYC was so much fun and that was great but we were were there for four days and it felt like we did every touristy thing you can do so I barely had time to rest. 

So I was looking at some story stats and I was thinking how crazy it is to have people reading this ALL OVER THE WORLD. I mean I literally have readers from the Philippines to the Netherlands to the USA. which is pretty crazy. 

So thanks for reading this and we have over 700 reads - thank you so so so much. I know I thank you guys every chapter but it seriously means a lot to me that you read my random ramblings. 

So this isn't going to have many more chapters left but I'm determined to finish it because I hate it when people leave things unfinished (especially when you get to the good parts). I'm feeling uninspired so I'm thinking of publishing a few of my already written short stories that I had to write for English because I want to see what people think of them. Feel free to comment if that's what you'd like to see. I'm also going to see what I write next - it may be original, it may be fanfic but I'm going to see how I feel and possibly take a break with exams and then I'll pick up some writing in June again (probably). 

And this is really long so I should go, hope you're having a good life wherever you are 

~ Emma482 xx