A Bride Most Begrudging

[mcgonagallrocks]

A Bride Most Begrudging
(hehe just for the record Cripes is my new favorite word hence me using it a BUNCH for all Non Brits from what I was told *by Angledust* it means basically the same thing as damn) And this is set for our time in 1946 so Min would be about 21 and it’s in the time of the Amercian colonies for all back in time periods.
Disclaimer: I own nothing whatsoever not even the title really that belongs to Deeanne Gist and her publishes ect as do Constance, Drew, Mary, Grandma, Sally, and all the other characters from her novel A Bride Most Begrudging, Albus, Minerva, and all other HP characters belong to JK Rowling and her publishers.

Prologue

“Poppy she needs to get it though her stubborn Scottish mind that she’s in love with him and vice a versa!” Rolanda Hooch rolled her eyes at one of her best friends and the resident Hogwarts School Nurse, “Hence my plan is brilliant.” “She’ll kill us both, and I for one don’t want to leave my darling grandchildren without a grandmother and Alastor without a wife.” Poppy sighed in return.
“Pops she needs to realize she loves Albus. It’s bloody well obvious they’re in love with each other.”
“They’d be married by now if they were.”
“He stares at her all the time Pops, they have a chess match EVERY week, and he tells her everything.”

Poppy gave up this was impossible, “Fine but I’ll have no part in this oh so ‘brilliant’ plot of yours. I have a husband to think about. If she kills you I’m afraid you’re on your own dear.” “Thanks ‘dear’” Rolanda rolled her eyes walking out the door towards her quarters. This had to go on without a hitch. When she reached her room quickly Rolanda wrote a message on a piece of paper and cast a spell on it, “Perfect.” She banished it to Minerva’s room grinning to herself.

Chapter 1

“What in the bloody name of Merlin is she thinking?” Minerva picked up a letter written in Rolanda’s familiar scrawl, when she picked up the letter the all too familiar feeling of using a portkey tugged at her bellybutton. “Cripes!” She gasped. That damn woman where was this port key going to? More importantly what was she going to do to that evil hawk when she got back the ways to kill her were just to numerous.

Minerva landed a few moments later stumbling a few steps before she got her balance back, where was she? Everything looked so odd. Where was she? It certainly wasn’t Hogwarts in all actuality it looked a bit like London but a bit different. As she looked around Minerva realized she was sticking out like a sore thumb. The women who were around had on at the very least ankle length skirt with bodices and all of them had their hair covered. Damn Rolanda she was going to pay for this one.

Suddenly in a second something wrapped around Minerva’s waist pinning her arms to her sides so she couldn’t get to her wand, she didn’t dare transform in front of so many of what she thought were muggles, it was better to be safe than sorry after all. “Let go!” She hissed struggling to get free but was held fast. Her arms were yanked behind her back and Minerva felt a pair of iron cuffs clasped around her wrist. Rolanda was defiantly going to pay now, “I said let go.” She struggled harder only to feel her feet being lifted off the ground surly this wasn’t a Death Eater they would have cast a spell by now.

Something was very very wrong, “Let me….” Minerva’s voice was muffled by something being slipped around her mouth as a gag it caused her to kick and struggle all that harder. Surly Rolanda hadn’t planned something like this to happen, she couldn’t have. She felt sharp pressure being applied to the base of her neck and everything started to grow fuzzy her fighting ceased. Minerva’s last thoughts were about murdering Rolanda when she got out of this.


(R&R please and yes I will finish this one I swear)

[osusprinks]

You had better finish this! I can't wait to read more and I think I am going to have to pick up this book! I loved Poppy's reasoning for not participating. I hope Rolanda realizes what she is doing! Thanks for sharing and update soon!

[mcgonagallrocks]

It's a GREAT book The Measure of a Lady by the same woman is good too (so far I just started it) I got them as Easter presents from my Mom (early but so what)

[furandfeathers]

omg what happened!! You have to update soon, pleeeeease!

[mcgonagallrocks]

Chapter 2

What seemed like minutes later to Minerva, but was in all actually a few hours; she woke up on a ship. The deck was swaying from side to side under her causing the Scottish witch to grow a little green around the gills, she never had mixed with water that well even before she had become an animagus, “Albus?” She called softly her eyes adjusting to the light again, her head woozy. Where was she? When Minerva tried to move her arms it all came flooding back where was her wand? A dark figure was turned around its back to her a few feet away talking to someone.

“Captain she’s awake.” A voice said from somewhere behind Minerva and the figure in front of her turned around a wicked smile on his face. The man looked about forty, with a scruffy graying beard, and the face of a sea man, “The pretty little Lass has decided to join us finally I see.” He said looking Minerva over his eyes remaining on her breast a few moments longer than she felt comfortable with. “You’ll kindly let me go.” She glared at him; if looks could kill the captain would be dead in a second.
“I think not Lass. You’ll fetch quite a few pounds of tobacco once we get to Virginia.”
“I did nothing and you have no right to hold me.” She glared.

“Fiery one isn’t she captain.” Another new voice came from behind Minerva this time belonging to a man older than the captain about age fifty with white hair and a white beard.
“Aye Lucas that she is.” The Captain nodded still staring at Minerva; she was quite a catch and was sure to fetch quite a price when they got to the colonies. “We’ll get a pretty penny from her if she survives the voyage. Two of them on one shipment we got lucky, that so called lady and this one, I might well have enough to retire on and never have to come on one of these god forsaken voyages again.”

Where’s Albus when you need him? Minerva thought to herself trying to ignore the two men before her, and trying to think of a plan to escape. They must have taken her wand for it was usually in her sleeve yet now it was no where to be found. She didn’t dare transform and get in trouble with the Minstery, that bunch of fools would try to throw her in Azkaban for something like that, more likely than not. Sadly she’d never been exactly gifted at wandless magic and so she didn’t have a chance at getting the cuffs undone without her wand or Albus being around.

“I’ll thank you two kindly to let me go.” She glared at the two once more after they had shut up.
“Don’t think so Lass we’re about to push off. Take her down with the rest of them. Two months and you’ll be free… once someone picks you as his bride that is.” Lucas smirked, “The tobacco is almost unpacked a few more crates and you can push off Captain. Lass this is going to be the last time you see England I’d take a good look.”
“I don’t think so! You don’t have rights to hold me!” Minerva yelled.
“We don’t need a right. The colonies are desperate for brides, and the King has giving all trading ships permission to provide them brides… at a price of course.”
“You kidnapped me!”
“I’d keep your pretty mouth shut or you’ll end up in the middle of the ocean alone… with the sharks!”

Minerva glared at him again giving in for now at least, she’d get out of this and Rolanda was going to pay bloody hell for it. After working together for the last six years, and having gone to school together for seven before that the woman should have known it. The question was where Albus was at. Surly he would have come looking for her by now. They had to get out of this soon, he had a school to run, she had to help, and she had a ‘friend’ to kill.

“Captain! We’re done feel free to shove off at your leisure.” A voice called loudly from on the dock.
“Shove off!” The Captain called quickly the ship lurched, a bit and was heading out of the harbor, “Take her below!” Minerva felt a pair of arms go around her waist again and she was picked up off the ground.
“I can walk thank you very much!”
“Orders are orders.” The sailor’s arms dropped a little low for her comfort level. “You’ll be lucky if that new husband of yours is this gentle.”
“Bastard.”
He smacked her across the face with one hand while they walked down the stairs to the lower decks, “I’d watch your tongue colonist don’t take kindly to disobedient ladies in the mists.”

(I swear I will get the book into the more once they get to the colonies)

[crystalpheonixeyes]

Interesting! I hope you update soon!

[elivania]

Great second chapter. I'm totally sucked in. Awsome job and I can't wait for the next chapter! *Eli*

[osusprinks]

Awesome. This is fascinating. Albus had better be waiting in the colonies or I might kill Ro myself!

[ιady ταвz]

hmmmm....unlike amything ive ever read...update por favor

[yourmirroroferised]

YES! YOU Must Keep Going! I love this story! It is definitely a different angle, fascinating!

[mcgonagallrocks]

Ok you all are gonna hate me but at school I have ISATs(a state test) all this week and all next week so you don't have a huge chance of getting an update any time soon this might be the last update until the tests are over..


Chapter 3
*Yes I'm being cruel to Min but it's for her own good in one way or another. All will turn out well in the end I promise*
(2 months later)

Even though normally she was thin over the last few months Minerva had lost more weight than could do any human good, from the time she was a baby she was a scrawny small skinny thing. Now even she was smaller than ever, the dress she'd been ordered to put on didn't help matters either. The plunging neck showed off her chest far more than anything she owned at home, its waist clung to her form in fact the only part of the ghastly blue garment that didn't hug skin tight to her body the skirt that flared out at her hips making her waist look even smaller than it really was.

Minerva had been standing on the half upper deck with the first mate between herself and a fiery redhead apparently named 'Lady' Constance Morrow, a girl claiming the captain had kidnapped her before they left, Minerva knew herself it wasn't above the captain's morals to kidnap a girl but Minerva (not to mention everyone else on the ship almost) doubted this Constance girl really was the daughter of an Earl like she claimed.

Below the two women the rest of the 'cargo' stood the women on the left the men on the right. The men were to serve terms of seven or fourteen years as indentured servants, as depended on their sentence, but the women they served lifetime sentences as brides. All Minerva knew was that Rolanda was going to die when she got home and she wasn't staying here. No matter who 'bought' her she wouldn't stay. Albus would be along any moment to save her. He just had to get here.

While she was lost in her thoughts Minerva didn't notice footsteps of someone approaching, then a hand landed on the small of her back and slid downward giving her backside a rather hard squeeze causing her to jump and be rather rudely ripped out of her thoughts, "One more move and you'll regret it." She growled to whoever it was.

"Fiery little bride you've got there Emmet." Laughed a few voices from around the deck. She looked over searching though the crowd for Albus he had to be here. He had to get here soon, she was wandless, couldn't transform and appearely someone had taken a fancy to her. "I'm warning you." Minerva growled again. "Now now you best lose that tone I don't mind my woman being feisty, but that just simply won't do." Emmet snarled running his hands over her hips.
"Consider yourself lucky I have these chains on."

"I said hold your tongue woman!" He screeched. "Emmet! Leave her be she's not your bride yet. Hands off." The Captain glared at the man coming out of his quarters with another man having just finished up a contract, "She's not yours yet both this one and 'Lady' Constance are 300 pounds a piece up front or you're not taking her." For once in the two months she'd been on this cursed ship Minerva was happy to see the Captain. "Let me go back to the farm and I'll have it."Emmet smirked squeezing Minerva's back side before warlking off the boat. "Dear Merlin." She sighe d under her breath.

"You best learn to hold your tongue around him or you won't see the next winter." The Captain looked at her motioning to his first mate to take Minerva below, "You'll be his in the morning more than likely." "That's what you think." She looked over her shoulder for Albus once more.

[elivania]

You're right. You are cruel.

Good luck on your tests! I remember those damnable In State Tests (called the WASL in Washington)...*gives a thumbs up*

[furandfeathers]

*agrees with Minerva* Albus had better get there soon
Great job, this is really interesting...

[osusprinks]

I am so glad you updated. I really needed that. I'm sure Albus will save the day eventually, this is after all, the romance section, but I am beginning to lose hope that it will be anytime soon!!! Poor Min.

Good luck on your tests dear! We'll look forward to your return.

[yourmirroroferised]

Yep, all in favor of burning the bloody ISATS simply scream in frustration right now, there doesn't that feel better?

But this story is so wonderful!! I love you keep leading us on, thinking, "oh, Albus will come save the day" then this rude, dirty chap walks up and grabs Minerva's tush and now we start thinking "Oi!! Where's Albus?" But, truly, nice description, and I realize the characters aren't yours but you're doing a nice job with them!

[ιady ταвz]

oy!!!!!!!...man those tests need to hurry up...we need more soon, but no rush..take ur time and do well =]

[McGonagallsGirl]

Selfish I am , and selfish I will be. Tests be damned, I'm ready to read more!

(Sorry, I've been drinking.....)

[StormAngel]

omg. This is so amazing.

[ginevrahermione]

FINISH PLEEEEEASE!!!
Please...need update...will starve...yeah, you get the picture.
Love the plot - hurry up please.........

[Minerva577]

Wonderful. I very much like this story. Minerva seems very helpless which is very different from her normal character. The story is magnificent, update soon.
-M

[harmonydumbledore]

Update soon! I totally hope Minerva goes all judo on their butts XD lol.

[angielica618]

great story..!update very soon..!

[minerva56]

this is so a great beginning... please update soon... ;-)

[horcruxhorror]

love it. i need more *crazed expression on face*

[mrsdumbledores]

... when i read this one... i thought of jack sparrow... i don't know why...xD

hmmm... this is good,.... IDEA...
oh.. sorry,,,,
I really like your stroy... really... but this emmet... his hands are where albus' should be.. i hope he'll pay for this..

[sonataeternal]

please update suspense is killing us all!

[albus1sttabby]

Albus, you must not leave her alone!!! She needs your help!!!
Please update as soon as possible!