Chapter 1
Fragile
The girl was reading a book. A romance book. It must have been a good book as she hadn't glanced up when Draco had entered the compartment. He was glad she hadn't looked at him. Everyone else was. He sighed and stared out of the window
The girl had her legs stretched out along the full length of her side of the compartment seat her back against the window. Her legs were covered in a blanket. Draco thought this was a little strange as it wasn't that cold. Her golden brown hair had fallen across her face and she absent-mindedly pushed it back behind her ear. Her pale green eyes flicked across the page and she frowned.
Draco watched her. He was bored. She wasn't pretty really, he mused. Suddenly she grinned at some thing funny she had read and he changed his mind. She was pretty.
He hadn't seen her before. Funny, seven years at Hogwarts and you think you would have seen everyone, but he hadn't seen her.
Draco sighed, he was not looking forward to the new school year. He'd had a taste of what it would be like on the train. No one said anything bad to him, but then no one had even looked at him. It was fair he supposed. He did deserve it. He'd been a death-eater. It was the price he'd pay.
He glanced back at the girl. She still hadn't looked at him.
When they were nearly there the girl sighed and put her but down.
She glanced across to him and jumped. She smiled sheepishly, "Sorry I didn't know there was anyone else here."
Draco looked at her, saying nothing.
She held out her hand, "I'm Jack."
Draco's lips curled into something that wasn't a sneer but also wasn't quite a smile, "Isn't that a boys name?" he asked.
Jack grinned good-naturedly, "Ha ha! No its short for Jacqueline."
"Oh." Draco nodded.
Jacks lips curved slightly, "And your name is?"
Draco looked at her, "Draco Malfoy." He shook her still outstretched hand.
"Oh." She said nothing.
Strange he thought. He glanced at her book, "Good book?"
"Oh yes. They all lived happily ever after." Jack laughed, "Well apart from the huge arguments they'll have they do! But then I suppose that's why they will live happily ever after."
Draco frowned but said nothing.
Jack pushed her self up and craned her had round to look out the window, "What's it like?" She asked, "Hogwarts."
Draco stared, "Haven't you been there before."
"Nope."
"Why not?"
Jack rolled her eyes, "I was a little tied up."
Draco shrugged, "Hogwarts is Hogwarts. You have to have seen it to know. I suppose it's a little different after the war."
"War?"
Draco frowned, "Where were you tied up? In a muggle house?"
Jack laughed, "Sort of. I'm a muggle so I suppose it made it a muggle house."
Draco stared at her, "If you're a muggle then why on earth are you going to Hogwarts!"
Jack shrugged, "Beats me!"
Draco glared at her. Stupid muggle. He hated muggles. They were stupid.
"How far is it." Jack asked.
He glanced out of the window, "We're here." He growled.
Sure enough the train came to a stop. Jack didn't move. Draco stood up. "Well are you going?"
Jack shook her head. "No."
"Why."
"None of your..." She broke of and glared at him, "Do you hate me because I'm a muggle?"
"Yes!" Flew out of his mouth before he could stop it.
Jack looked hurt. "If it make you feel any better I can see the future."
"What?"
"You know! Premonitions and stuff like that."
Draco stared at her. He couldn't think of anything to say.
Jack glanced past him and smiled, "Hello Hagrid!"
Hagrid smiled back, "Hullo Miss Jack!" He saw Draco and nodded at him, "Draco." He put down the ting he'd been carrying and opened it up. Then he picked Jack up and placed her in it.
It was a wheelchair.
Draco stared.
Her legs, they looked so... Fragile.
"Are you coming?" Jack asked.
"Y...Yes." Draco stuttered. He followed them out of the compartment feeling slightly ill.
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