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Gabrielle · 01-20-2012, 10:54 AM

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My name is Beth, and this is my first proper fan-fiction that I have written. So be nice!

The universe in which I am writing my story, and all canon characters are strictly the creation of J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Chapter 1

Quirinus ran. He ran as he had never run before, even after he lost his breath and couldn’t seem to go on, he found another spurt of energy and starting running again. As it happens when you are scared, every noise is magnified and morphed to become even more frightening than it would have been in normal daylight or in the company of a friend. Quirinus didn’t have either of those. He was just a young adult fresh out of Hogwarts, it was night time, with no friends, no wand, in a forest, on a mission and, he was being chased by a vampire.

He jumped over a log and felt his foot slip on a root; he tumbled to the leaf strewn ground, cursing over and over under his breath. It would have been more sensible to stay down and not make a sound, but Quirinus stood up and made his way to the nearest tree. It was a large oak, with peeling bark and thick branches. He climbed up the branches, the feat was made only harder given the fact that he had managed to twist his ankle when he fell, and his neck was throbbing from where the vampire had bit him.

As he reached one of the upmost branches, he collapsed against the trunk and drew his arms around himself. He was shaking. Not the “Man, rock climbing was so scary that I am shaking” kind, the “Oh Merlin, I am going to die.” kind. The vampire had taken his wand before it had bitten him. He hated himself for not realising it.

The vampire was pretty, if a little intimidating. She had dark, straight hair that fell into her eyes and a shallow look about her. She had courted him, casting some sort of enchantment over him; it was a smell much like that of Amortentia. Of course, no girls had ever used love potion on him, he had only smelt it in Potions class.

It was like he had been intoxicated; then again, the smell might have done that to him. Before he had time to come to his senses the vampire lady had bitten into his neck and filled his body with venom.

He had gotten a sudden surge of energy and had hit her in the face and taken her by surprise before running away, he had been running for hours until he found this tree. The venom wasn’t fatal, but would cause him to quickly lose all feeling in his body, so that he could not move or feel yet his brain and heat would still be intact. Vampires liked their blood warm and fresh, see? Of course, he would not be intact if the female vampire found him and devoured him for supper.

Quirinus forced himself to open his eyes, which he hadn’t even realised he had shut in the first place. His eyelids felt droopy and heavy, he forced himself to keep them open while he shifted his weight on the branch so that it would be safe to peer down from his branch to see if the vampire was still there.

He took a sharp intake of breath. She stood at the base of his tree sniffing around like a dog, suddenly; she looked up right into Quirinus’s eyes. He scrambled to hide, instead, he felt himself slipping- falling onto the neck branch with a whack. Except, his senses felt dulled, he saw as he hit the branch, how his arm stuck out funny and the final thump as he hit the ground, but he didn’t really feel it.

It was as if he was in a dream and he would wake up at any second, but this was no dream. The female vampire crouched down next to Quirinus and lifted his chin was that his eyes would meet hers, “Well you’re not the best looking fella I’ve ever eaten,” She said in a rasping voice, “But you’ll do, and, if I must say, you seem pretty smart. There’s a rumour that drinking the blood of someone smart will increase your own intelligence. What do you say we try it out?” She laughed a horrible laugh and leant forwards again. He couldn’t defend himself, his arms felt too heavy to lift but he managed to say one thing, “Get your stinking hands off me.” The vampire looked amused and ignored his comment.

A strange noise rung out, even in his drugged state he could tell that it wasn’t something natural to the forest. The vampire could obviously sense it too and looked away from himself in search of the noise. There was a rustle in the trees and the vampire fell to the ground before disintegrating into ash. “Thank Merlin for silver bullets, aye kid?” A gruff voice said, but before Quirinus could make sense of who had just saved his life, his eyelids grew far too heavy and he blacked-out.

Droo · 01-20-2012, 12:58 PM

Welcome to Epic and Adventure, be sure you the rules, post often and have fun!

XenoLongbottom · 01-20-2012, 07:55 PM

First reader!

I'm shaking right now, but more like the This is story is so amazing kind of shaking. I can't wait to read more! I've always been curious about Quirrel, and this is fantastic! Can't wait for more!

Gabrielle · 01-21-2012, 02:53 AM

Aww, thanks for the nice comment

Chapter 2

When Quirinus woke up he was in intense pain. It seemed as if every part of his body had been beaten at with a stick. He blinked his eyes a couple of times, but couldn’t see anything because he was blinded by the sudden light.

After his eyes adjusted he came to realise that a woman’s form was sitting beside him, tending to his arm that was encased in some sort of cast. He panicked for a second thinking it was the vampire before he realised this woman was a lot dumpier than the vampire had been, and also had fairer hair, brown like that of polished wood and streaked with grey.

“What-who are you?” He said groggily, trying to sit up but was pushed back down with a surprisingly strong grip. The woman kept attending to his injuries but a grumpy voice answered him across the room where a man was leaning against a wall that was covered in ugly, peeling wallpaper. He had weather beaten skin, a bristle of sooty hair covered her head and he had a shotgun strapped over his shoulder.

“Dave,” The man said, “Saved you back there in the forest from that vampire, I told you to stay away from them.” He said, “You better tell me your name as well,”

“I- Quirinus" He said shakily.

“Never mind Quirinus, past is past. But that pain you have will stay with you for a day or so though, the venom numbed your senses and now you’re feeling all of the pain you didn’t,” Dave laughed, “That’s my wife, Jessie, who’s attending to you. Wouldn’t have even thought to go and save you if it hadn’t been for her, she’s too good natured she is.”Dave said the last statement as if it was a bad thing, but when he gestured to the dumpy lady, his face softened slightly. Quirinus glanced at her; Jessie smiled warmly at him then shuffled off into a nearby room.

Only once Jessie was gone, Quirinus noticed a second lady. The lady was younger and thinner than that of Jessie and had a natural beauty about her, dark skin, warm brown eyes and black hair that fell in a tangle of curls down her back. She looked nothing like either of Dave or Jessie and, for the first time, Quirinus noticed he had no shirt on, he covered himself with the blanket he had draped across himself and looked at the girl again, wondering if she had seen his scrawny frame, or if she’d care. Dave, noticing his staring said, “That’s Danny, just one of many of our clan.” Danny turned to stare at Quirinus, a calculating crease in between her eyebrows.

“Uh-hey, Danny.” Quirinus said nervously, keeping the blanket up to his chin.

Danny got of her seat on the sofa and walked over to where Quirinus’ make-shift bed on the floor was made up. She ripped the blanket off of him; thank Merlin he still had his jeans on, however ripped and muddy they were, “It’s Daniele to you. You can call me Danny when I decide whether you’re a wimp or not.” Daniele said hauntingly and strode out of the room, racing up something that sounded like a set of stairs. Quirinus store after her for a few seconds before recovering his blanket and covering himself again.

Suddenly, a question occurred to him, “Why aren’t you using magic,” Quirinus said, “Are you some sort of Muggle Orphanage? Because Danny- I mean Daniele looks nothing like either of you.” It was possible, Quirinus thought, that perhaps it was a muggle orphanage that believed in the tales of vampires in the Dark Forest.

“No, we’re not muggles," He said, clearly offended by the notion, “Squibs, outcasts. Might as well be muggles. Been spending our time running around young witches and wizards like you who think they can take on full grown vampires. Jessie started taking in Squib children a quite a couple of years back. Their pureblood parents would dump them, disgusted at having given birth to such a monstrosity. Danny is the first we took in, she was eleven and had been living on the streets all over the place for over a year until we found her” Dave said, a soft edge to his voice, “There’s a couple of others upstairs but I wouldn’t visit, some can get rather- jealous or witches and wizards.”

Quirinus nodded, and curled up again under his blanket. He didn’t care if Dave thought he was pathetic doing so, he had sat up before, and he now understood why Jessie had tried to stop him doing so. Quirinus had a pounding headache now, along with the aches and pains of his body. He didn’t sleep, but he rested his eyes for a couple of minutes ignoring Dave’s poorly disguised scoff as he left the room.

What started out as a rest must’ve deepened into sleep at some point, because when Quirinus opened his eyes, a pleasant smell was wafting out from the kitchen and a box of clothing was at the foot of the mattress, which was supposed to be his bed. Quirinus guessed that Jessie had gotten some old clothes together for him, his supplies, wand and clothes had all been ruined or left behind when the vampire attacked him.

“Dinner, kids!” Jessie’s voice rang out from the kitchen, “Dave, go and fetch Quirinus for dinner.” He heard her say afterwards. Quirinus scrambled into some fresh clothes, which hung a little bit off of him and wiped sleep from his eyes before Dave came in.

Dave obviously assumed Quirinus knew dinner was ready and just nodded in the direction of the kitchen. As Quirinus got up, a kid paused in the door way on his own way to the kitchen, “You must be the scrawny wizard who got beaten up by a vampire that Danny told us about?” The kid sneered; he had mousey hair and a large mouth for such a small kid.

“Yeah, guess I am.” Quirinus said, pushing past the kid on his way out of the room. He hated bullies, they reminded him of his school days at Hogwarts, and this kid seemed like a bully.

XenoLongbottom · 01-21-2012, 03:45 PM

Poor Quirinus. But I'm glad he's found and is getting healthy, even though I know his ending.

And I don't know why, but I like Danny!

Keep on writing. I'm excited for more.

Droo · 01-21-2012, 05:14 PM

Very good dear!!!

Enigma · 01-27-2012, 07:21 AM

PAMS!!!

This is going great!!

dobbysbestpal · 01-29-2012, 05:01 PM

that is brill for ur first go, when do we get more more more. x

Gabrielle · 02-05-2012, 09:35 AM

Thankies everyone! This one is quite a bit shorter than the others but I promise the next chapter will be longer! Ii felt quilty about taking so long anyway

Chapter 3

There were only a couple of children that Dave and Jessie had taken in. There was a little blonde girl who was little older than seven, the mousey kid with the big mouth, a teenage boy with dark hair and Daniele.

Daniele was chatting with the little blonde girl, looking perfectly pleasant and friendly until he walked inside the room; she scowled at him and looked away. The little girl looked at him strangely, not meanly like the mousey boy, but curiously, like a wizard was some sort of foreign creature that she had never seen before. Quirinus looked back at her, raising one eyebrow at her. The little girl blushed and turned back to talk to Daniele.

“Quirinus, come sit down at the table.” Jessie called her back to him as she set about dishing out the dinner onto several colourful plates that looked like they were created by children.

Quirinus sat down at the table next to the dark haired teenage boy who looked up and smirked as he sat down, as if he knew a joke that no one else did. Jessie came around to where he and the dark haired boy were sitting and placed two plates in front of them, the one that was placed i front of Quirinus of significantly larger than the other boys.

“Jessie? Why does he get more than I do?” The dark haired boy complained, eating up his dinner extremely quickly and eyeing Quirinus’ dinner with an almost concerning longing.

“Logan,” Jessie said sternly, “Quirinus has just come back from the forest and is very tired. You have been lazing around at home.”

Logan sulked moodily while Jessie said this, eyes averted from Quirinus or Jessie. Quirinus quickly finished his dinner after that.

Jessie cooking, to say it nicely, was not the best. The soup they had had been made from home grown vegetables and not the nicest quality either. Quirinus pretended to enjoy the food anyway; it was nice to have food even if it was not the best. He had lost all of his galleons in the Black Forest when the vampire was chasing him.

“Our Danny grew the vegetables for our soup.” Dave said with a warning glance at Quirinus as if daring him to criticise his wife’s cooking.
Quirinus nodded finishing his mouth full of soup and swallowing slightly too quickly, scorching his throat and tongue. He coughed and Jessie threw him a concerned glance.

“I’m fine.” He passed off, leaving Jessie looking relieved and Daniele looking like she had just missed an exciting party.

“All right then, you’ll be sleeping in Logan’s room tonight.” Jessie said, looking at Logan sternly who had turned in his seat to argue some more.

“Oh, that’s good.” Quirinus said, getting up from his seat, Logan got up shortly afterwards while Quirinus stood awkwardly waiting for him to do so. Logan sauntered off, leaving Quirinus to follow him down the hall and Daniele giggling still at the table at his discomfort.

Enigma · 02-05-2012, 03:00 PM

Good going!

And I like Danny, oops! Daniele

She seems interesting...

XenoLongbottom · 02-05-2012, 08:51 PM

I like Logan! I can't wait to see how this works out! And Danielle is pretty awesome too! I can't wait for more!

Gabrielle · 04-17-2012, 02:35 AM

Chapter 4

Logan’s room was messy. And that is putting it lightly. Dirty dishes lined all surfaces; dust coated the million books that were stacked haphazardly on the thread bare carpet and teddy bears that had been stitched up many times sat along the bed.

“What’re you looking at?” Logan demanded, covering his teddy bears with a blanket on his bed, “So what if I have teddy bears, lots of kids do too. My mu- Jessie wouldn’t let me chuck them away.” He spewed his words out, darting glances at Quirinus.

Quirinus averted his gaze. The idea of the oh-so-tough Logan keeping his teddy bears was too funny and he suspected that Logan would not take Quirinus’ smirk as a compliment.

“You’ll be sleeping here.” Logan said as he chucked one pillow on the ground and a quilt. “This is my room.” The dark-haired teen suddenly said, “So don’t look through my stuff. It’s mine.” Logan straightened up and leaned upon his bookshelf. “So what actually happened in the forest?” He said, “You’ve got a fair idea of what we know from what Elliot asked before.”

Quirinus stiffened as Logan gave a name to the little twat, “I guess I was beat up by a vampire.” He replied waspishly narrowing his eyes.

“Oh...” Said Logan looking oddly disappointed, “I thought maybe-" But whatever Logan thought was silenced as the door swung open and Daniele stood, slightly out of breath.

“Logan, Lucy made Elliot become covered in boils!” The look on her face made it clear that this was not a laughing matter; Daniele’s brown eyes were wide and scared.

Logan jumped up and gave a significant glance to Daniele before pushing past her out the door.

“You might as well come too.” Daniele said apprehensively, gesturing to him and giving a small jump when he brushed against her as he followed Logan down the stairs where an audible argument was taking place somewhere below.

“I didn’t mean to!” A girl’s voice was shouting on the verge of breaking; trying unsuccessfully, to be heard over the din of Elliot’s cries, and Dave’s booming shouts.

Quirinus reached the living room and took in his wand lying abandoned upon the floor by the small blonde girl who he assumed was called Lucy and who was now had traces of tears in the corner of her eyes.

He was about to ask why his wand was here when he thought it had been lost in the forest when Dave’s shouts gave him the required information.

“Took a wizard’s wand when we were hiding it – You know why we hid it – Magic is dangerous – But now you... magic” He spluttered to a close, his eyes finding Quirinus and jumping as if struck by lightning. “Get out of this house – and take that witch with you as well as well.” He raised a shaking hand and pointed at Lucy.

Quirinus stared at Dave and Jessie who was cowering near him. He was so taken aback by this sudden banishment, that he was lost for words. “I-" He started, turning to Daniele.

He expected her to stick up for Lucy if not for him. When before, Daniele would be chatting happily with Lucy; she now stood stationary in the door frame. Almost as if she was scared of her now.

Daniele caught his eye and took a shaking step towards Quirinus, “Dave, you ca-can’t just kick her out because she has magic.” She appealed to Dave. Her face was still very pale.

“Yes I can. And you can get out too if you are going to stick with these vermin.” He snapped.

“F-fine. We’ll go." She replied. “Logan?” Daniele pleaded to her brother.

It seemed as if he was going to join Elliot, Dave and Jessie. Elliot of which, was still snivelling in the corner, a number of angry red boils covering his face. Quirinus felt a surge of anger at Logan and went to take a step towards him when Daniele reached out a hand to hold him back.

He saw why. Logan had scooped up Lucy and was now carrying her, not back to their group, but out the front door. Quirinus followed with Daniele in his wake out into the cold German night.

Droo · 04-17-2012, 12:14 PM

Loved the new chappie!

PAMS!

XenoLongbottom · 04-17-2012, 07:18 PM

Amazing! Poor Lucy.

Logan's a real jerk. I'm excited about what's gonna happen next. PAMS!!!!!

HarryPotterQuidditch · 04-29-2012, 05:28 PM

Nice! Liking this so far, can't wait to see more.

Gabrielle · 05-23-2012, 08:03 AM

Thanks guys! I hope you like the new chappie

Chapter 5

It was number of quiet minutes of walking along the deserted village road before Quirinus thought to voice, “Logan, where exactly are we going?”

“Somewhere”

Quirinus noticed Lucy had stopped crying.

“Do you want me to carry her?” He asked, scooping her up from the ground after Logan had given a curt nod and placed her gently down.

A small sniff issued from behind him. He looked over his shoulder and glanced quickly back to the front at the sight of Daniele crying quietly behind him. He supposed the gentlemanly thing to do was hold her hand – comfort her at least. But no. He kept walking on carrying Lucy gently.

“There’s a tavern.” Logan said, “Just a couple more minutes away. We can sleep there and organise what we’re going t do then.” Logan slowed his pace to match Quirinus’ “She wasn’t supposed to be magical.” He said quietly, “Dave hates magic. She had been having these things happening for a while; we covered them up every time though. Either the cat did it, it was trick of light. And so on.” He looked past him, his eyes resting vaguely on his sister, “Daniele and I both knew she was a witch. We both knew the signs. How our own parents had wished we were magical how we could not?” He let out a bitter laugh.

“Is that the tavern?” Quirinus asked, changing the topic suddenly. It was a small building with the words ‘The Lonely Vampire’ displayed on a worn sign out the front. It looked homely if small, like the rest of this village. But the sign made him wonder just how homely it really was.

“Yes. It is.”

They entered the tavern that still had a dingy yellow light still on. Logan gave a nod to the bar- mistress before going to a booth at the very end of the room.

Quirinus lay Lucy down on the shabby leather seat. She was dozing, her pale face shining. The trio squeezed into the opposite seat; Daniele on the end closest to the window. Her arm brushed against him as she turned to look out at the abandoned street.

The bar-mistress strode over to their booth. She had slick, brown hair that curled around her face that flaunted lips covered in pink lipstick. “Do you want a butterbeer, firewisky?” She asked, raising an eyebrow at them.

“Firewisky.” Logan mumbled.

Quirinus shot a glance at Logan, “This is a magical tavern? Like the Leaky Cauldron?" His answer came from behind him.

“Duh.” The woman had replied.

“I’ll have a butterbeer” He remembered the sleeping Lucy and stony Daniele, “Make that three butterbeers.”

“A room as well.” Logan added.

“Sure.” The woman said pleasantly, fluttering her eyelids at Logan, placing a silver key from a pocket in her skirt onto the table, “I’ll bring up the drinks.” She strutted back to the bar where he could see she was examining herself in the reflection of a bottle as she cleaned up.

Logan got up and placed the key in his pocket, rubbing his eyes. Quirinus got up afterwards and picked up Lucy again, letting her head rest against his shoulder.

“Daniele.” He said. She had to get up to go to the room with them. “Danny.”

At the second name, she looked around and stood up. She hovered near Quirinus, pausing to stroke her sister’s cheek before they head up the old staircase to the room.

XenoLongbottom · 05-24-2012, 05:56 PM

Aww... Lucy's so sweet. Poor Danielle. Never imagined her crying before this. It was nice of Quirinus to offer to carry Lucy though. Keep up the good work!

(Just realized that Quirrell in the artwork you made for this stoyr is the guy who played him in AVPM. Nicely done.)