Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own GW or HP, but Gaëlle, Lie, and Ivy are mine.

Family at Hogwarts

Chapter 1

Gaëlle Summers waited on Platform 9 ¾ for the Hogwarts Express. She was going as a Fourth year and looked forward to another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She had many good friends and could not wait to see them. She shifted her owl cage onto a better position on her trunk and looked around. She spotted a few people from her House but none that she really knew. Then all of a sudden someone grabbed her from behind and swung her around in a wide circle.

"Put me down!" Gaëlle demanded. She was quickly obeyed, but only to be engulfed in a tight embrace. When she was finally released she looked up to find herself staring into a pair of wild, violet eyes.

"DUO!" she exclaimed.

"Hey Gaëlle!" Duo Maxwell replied cheerfully. He had long chestnut colored hair to contrast to his violet eyes. He wore his hair plaited and though with his cheery personality he wore black clothing. And he was in the Gryffindor House none-the-less and a Fifth year.

"How long have you been "stalking" me?" she asked suspiciously.

"Me stalking people! As if!" Duo innocently replied.

"Uh…like you did to that girl in Hufflepuff?…What was her name? Oh, right…it was Hilde." Gaëlle said, slanting her eyes up at him.

"Now why would I ever do that?" Duo said with mock innocence.

"Because you would, now come on Duo. We need to look for the others." Another male voice said.

They turned and found Duo's best friend Heero Yui. He was also a Fifth year in the Gryffindor House. He had dark brown hair and cobalt blue eyes.

"Hey Hee-chan!" Gaëlle exclaimed.

Heero looked at the younger girl and gave a very small smirk. She was always the sweet one and he made an effort to be nice to her, especially since her feelings were easy to hurt.

"Come on Duo. We'll see her later at school. She is in our House," Heero added, turning his attention back to the braided boy.

"Okay," Duo sighed. He walked off with his friend as Gaëlle giggled.

When they disappeared from sight, two other people joined Gaëlle.

"Elly!" one girl exclaimed. She was a Fifth year and also in Gryffindor. She was 5'5 with curly red hair and green eyes.

"Hey Ivy! Nathalie! I mean Lie, when did you two get here!" Gaëlle exclaimed. (((And Lie is pronounced like "Lee"…..just so you people get it right!)))

"We just got here." Lie replied. She carried a cat that was black and white with amber eyes. And with her other hand she pulled her trunk.

Ivy pulled a trolley containing her trunk behind her along with an owl cage.

"Well let's go get on the train. I don't want to be stuck with any annoying people on the way to school." Lie said looking around her.

"Oh please you just don't want to be with Duo since he is in our House and since you'll see him more than you want to when we get to school." Gaëlle said with Ivy nodding vigorously.

Lie stuck her tongue out at her two friends and they loaded their trunks and cages onto the train. Then they found a car for themselves. Lie also still held her cat, who jumped down once they settled in their seats.

"Hey Stardust." Gaëlle said to the cat.

Stardust, the cat, looked up at the girl and blinked, twitched its tail and jumped up into her lap where she settled down as Gaëlle petted her. Stardust placed her head in the crook of Gaëlle's arm and fell asleep purring.

The train started moving and soon there was a knock on their door.

"Come in." Ivy said.

The door slid open and revealed a quiet 5th year. He had brown hair with bangs draping over one of his emerald green eyes.

"Hi Trowa!" Gaëlle said.

For an instant there was a warm smile on his lips for the girl, but it quickly disappeared, his face taking on his usual impassive expression. He walked into the car and asked,

"Have you seen any of the others?"

As Nathalie and Ivy shook their heads, Gaëlle replied, "I saw Duo and Hee-chan about ten minutes before we came onto the train."

"Would you have any idea which car any of them are in?" he asked.

"They never found you? Hee-chan said that he was going to look for the rest of you guys, or something of the likes." Gaëlle said puzzled.

"Oh, they found me, but they never told me which car they'd be in." he replied.

"Well, you know how we all meet each other outside the school before we go to our House tables. You'll see them then." Lie said.

"Stay with us please. We haven't seen you all summer." Ivy said as he turned to leave. She caught how Gaëlle was trying not to stare at the fifteen-year-old.

Gaëlle glared slightly at the redhead, but ceased when he agreed and slid the door closed. He tentatively took the seat beside Gaëlle. She slightly flushed and turned her head to where her gold-brown hair would hide her face.

"So Stardust is back is she?" Trowa asked Lie.

"Of course she is!" Lie replied indignantly. Trowa reached over and scratched the cat behind her ears and was rewarded with purring.

"So where's you sister?" Ivy asked.

"Cathrine is with her friends." Trowa replied.

"Have you seen Quatre yet?" Gaëlle asked.

"He was talking to his sisters last time I saw him. But I haven't seen anybody else since we boarded the train." He said.

Ivy stood and said, "Well, I'm going to walk around for a bit. See ya later."

"I'll come too." Lie said also rising.

Gaëlle watched them leave and eyed them suspiciously before they closed the door. That left Gaëlle Summers alone with her crush, Trowa Barton. But the girl soon found that she was having trouble keeping her eyes open.

"Now I remember…I always fall asleep on trains. I hate trains." Trowa heard Gaëlle say quietly.

He looked down at the small girl and found her falling asleep to the soothing rhythm of the train. He slid an arm around her and received a sleepy protest.

"No, I've…gotta…stay awake…" she tried to push him away but Stardust was still in her arms and protested of any movement.

"I'll wake you in time for lunch, I promise." Trowa said.

"No…" Gaëlle said but was cut off when the door opened.

"Trowa! Gaëlle! I found you. Ivy told me where you two were…" a blond 5th year said. He took one look at the girl and realized that the train was putting her to sleep. "Just quit fighting it Gaëlle. It's a losing battle and you know it."

Gaëlle looked up and sighed. She reluctantly nodded and closed her eyes, letting sleep take a hold of her. Trowa drew the small body of the girl closer till her head rested against him.

"You like her don't you?" the boy asked Trowa quietly. He entered the car and sat across from his friends.

Trowa immediately looked at the other boy, his face unreadable. But then he glanced at the sleeping girl up against him and slowly nodded.

"I knew it." The boy named Quatre said. He shook his head causing his blond bangs to fall in his face. He quickly brushed them out of his bright green eyes. Quatre was in the Hufflepuff House while Trowa (also his best friend) was in Ravenclaw.

"Was it that obvious?" Trowa quietly asked.

Quatre nodded and said, "Lie told me that she likes you too. But don't tell anyone I told you that. You weren't supposed to know." He added.

Trowa nodded and gazed back at Gaëlle, who slightly snuggled up against him a bit more. He could picture her warm smile and her deep blue eyes laughing merrily like Duo when he just pulled a prank…Wait a minute, how did Duo fit into her description? Trowa wondered. Neither Gaëlle nor Duo had any siblings and both had only one parent. Or at least they should. They both never really talked much about their family lives. But he couldn't figure why he would think of them at the same time.

"Does she always fall asleep like this?" the usually quiet boy asked.

"Yes. It's the train. It always makes her fall asleep and usually it's a good thing. She's told me that she can never fall asleep the night before we go back to school or going home. But it's the train itself that does it, whether she's tired or not." Quatre replied, looking at the girl, "Don't worry about her though. She'll be back to normal by lunchtime."

Trowa nodded as the train continued its way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

An hour before they reached the school Ivy, Gaëlle, who had been wide awake since lunch, and Lie were back in their car changing into their school robes. The two boys had left at lunchtime, returning to their own siblings and their cars.

"So how was you nap this morning?" Lie asked slyly.

"How could you do that to me! I didn't want to go to sleep. But then Trowa put his arm around me and Quatre came in here. Quatre told me just to give up fighting sleep." Gaëlle continued in a quiet voice. Her friends giggled as they finished changing.

By the time they reached the train station in Hogsmeade, every student was more or less ready to get back to school. The three friends boarded one of the carriages and were joined by a second year.

"Irisa! It's so good to see you again!" Gaëlle and Ivy exclaimed.

Quatre's little sister smiled and said, "Quatre, Adele, Trowa and Cathrine are in the carriage behind us."

"Good. Then all we'll have to do is wait for Duo and Hee-chan, since I know Wufei will be there by the time we get there." Gaëlle said.

The others all nodded. Soon the carriage stopped and they disembarked.

"Gaëlle! Irisa, over here!" the four girls heard Quatre call. They all met the other four halfway as other fellow students streamed past them up the stone stairs into the castle. There were hugs all around and even more (or less) when Duo and Heero joined the group.

Then Cathrine and Quatre's sisters left the group of friends and went inside the castle.

"Come on. I already see Wufei waiting for us." Lie said leading the group to spot near the staircase where another 5th Year and the only one in the group from the Slytherin House, stood.

Wufei Chang was Chinese with black hair and very dark brown eyes. He was 5'6 and impatiently waiting for his friends. Though he was Slytherin, he was an "outcast" of his House, but that was mainly because he hung out with the friends he did.

"What took you so long?" Wufei demanded once they all joined him.

"Hugging fest." Duo replied grinning. Then he finally spotted Lie who had been deliberately avoiding him. "Hey Nathalie!" he exclaimed going to her.

Lie's eyes narrowed at the older boy; he always did this whenever he could. She hated being called by her real name and punished whoever (not adults) called her Nathalie. And Duo was always the first one of the school year to be punished. Nathalie Savenick stalked right up in front of Duo and punched him in the stomach…everybody was expecting that…But then she kicked him in the private spot and walked away from him…NOBODY expected that.

Duo sank to the ground in agony while most of the others tried not to laugh.

"Well now that we are reunited, let's go into the castle to finish seeing the Sorting." Ivy said with Quatre echoing her, both holding their sides to keep in their laughter.

Quatre and Gaëlle went to Duo and helped him off the ground.

"You knew she'd get fed up with you pestering her baka." Heero said, passing the three.

When they were seated at their House tables with the rest of the student body (the 1st Years had already been Sorted). There were some news and announcements from Professor Dumbledore (he was still the Headmaster). Then they had their feast and shortly after went to their dormitories and to bed.

TBC