Harry and Eloise Potter

Chapter Four

I woke up to Mummy and Daddy's voices.
"What time does she usually wake up?" Mummy's voice asked.
"I'm not sure." Daddy said back. I opened my eyes slowly before yawning. "About now apparently." He chuckled as I rubbed my eyes tiredly. "Good morning love."
   "Morning." I mumbled, cuddling back into the pillow my head was on.
   "We have a big day ahead of us, love, it's time to get up."
   "I don't wanna..." I mumbled again.
"Yes you do baby girl." Mummy said softly. I shook my head again as I cuddled further into the pillow. I was suddenly lifted making me whine. Daddy set me on my feet by the door.
   "Go get dressed and ready and meet us downstairs for breakfast." Daddy instructed. I stomped back to my room and crawled into bed again. "Eloise Lillian Euphemia Potter, if you are not dressed and downstairs for breakfast in ten minutes I will not hesitate to put you in timeout!!!" Daddy yelled from downstairs. I whimpered but sluggishly climbed out of bed reluctantly. I slowly got dressed struggling slightly because I'm tired.

"Eloise!!" Daddy called. I grabbed my stuffed unicorn from my bed and went downstairs. Daddy opened the door to the breakfast parlor harshly and the edge slammed into my forehead. I fell to the ground as my bottom lip wobbled. "Oh sweetie, please don't cry. Honey, I'm so sorry." He tried to pick me up before I got up and ran back upstairs. "Elle!" I slammed and locked my door. "Sweetie, I'm so sorry, please let me help."
"What happened?" Mummy came over to him.
"I was leaving the parlor and was going to come up here only to hit her in the forehead with the door. And she was already having a bad morning." Daddy sighed.
"Unlock her door." I was face down on my bed, hugging a pillow and my stuffed animal with tears running down my face. The door opened slowly. "Hey honey..." the bed dipped next to me but I didn't raise or turn my head to look at either of them. "You know Daddy didn't mean to, don't you?"
"Go 'way." I sniffled.
"Oh sweetie, please don't cry. Daddy's sorry. He's so sorry." Daddy said, sounding a bit panicky. "Please don't cry honey."
"Too late, go away!!" I cried into my pillow.
"Why don't you go and get Remus and Sirius?" Mummy whispered to him. Daddy sighed quietly but got up and left. I don't know how long it was, but soon the door opened.
"Hey..." Sirius' voice sounded through the room softly. "I got it." He whispered to Mummy. "You know... your Dad is about to cry... he feels really bad. Especially after last night. Why don't you give him a chance to apologize?"
   "He's done enough.." I mumbled into my pillow, just wanting to be left alone.
   "That's right, he has. He's apologized, felt guilty, tried to comfort you, but you keep pushing him away." Remus said from the other side of my bed. "I know your Dad, he won't stop trying to get your forgiveness. Now tell us, why are you being so harsh on him?" I didn't answer, I just laid there and didn't answer. "I heard you've been having a bad morning. Wanna tell us what's going on?" I didn't want to tell them. They're going to disown me.
   "I can't." I muttered into my pillow.
   "Why not?" Remus asked.
   "You're going to disown me." I whispered.
   "We would and could never disown you." Sirius said, his voice worried.
   "You would if I told you."
   "No, we wouldn't. Neither would your Mum or dad." Remus told me.
   "Yes they would!!" I exclaimed into my pillow.
   "No, they wouldn't." Sirius and Remus said in sync.
   "Yes they would, now go away!!" I exclaimed again. They both sighed and left me alone, leaving the room. I slowly stood up and listened.
   "What ever is going on, she thinks it's bad enough to where you would disown her." Remus told Mum and Dad softly.
   "You don't think it's whatever is going on in her dreams, do you?" Mummy asked them, sounding really worried. No... they couldn't know... could they??
   "I don't know. I really don't. We need to get her to talk to us somehow though. Whatever it is is tearing her apart from the inside." Dad said.
   "I feel horrible. What gave her the idea that we would disown her? I would never. No matter how bad."
   "I would never disown her either." I went over to my desk and wrote something down
   'It wasn't Voldemort that killed Grandma and Grandpa.' I slipped it under the door and waited.
   "It wasn't Voldemort that killed Grandma and Grandpa??" Sirius read. I wrote down another thing.
   'I can't tell you who it is because he's supposedly on the light side and I'm scared.' I slipped that under the door too.
   "There's nothing to be scared of, love." Mom said, sounding shaky. I wrote something else on a new sheet.
   'I've been having dreams of the night Grandma and Grandpa were killed.' I put that under once again and heard them converse for a second.
   "How is that possible? She was only just over a year old. She couldn't possibly..." Mum breathed.
   'I told you that you wouldn't believe me.' I slid that under the door before hearing dad say something.
   "We should contact Dumbledore..." Remus whispered. I stood up and quickly opened the door.
   "You can't!" I said quickly.
   "Why not?" Mummy kneeled one front of me, taking my hands softly. "Tell us what's going on."
   "Dumbledore did it. He... He was the one who killed them in my dreams. He... he wanted me. Grandma said that Tom would find him, that he'd set the record straight. I don't know who Tom is. And I don't know why this is happening, but I don't trust him. I don't trust Dumbledore. Please, you have to believe me, something bigger is going on. This isn't just a war. And-" I looked at their expressions. "You don't believe me..." I whispered.
"This is just hard to think." Dad told me.
"I knew you wouldn't." I whispered, pulling my hands from mom's. "Fine. If you don't believe me, I'll prove you wrong! All of you!!" I went into my room and slammed my door really hard. I looked around my room and made a decision that would change my entire life forever.

I'm gonna run away.