Kat (POV)
I shuffle through Kings Cross, my owl gaining some odd looks.
"Must you wear that?" Draco sighs, appearing at my side.
I smirk at my green army patterned shirt with: "My middle finger salutes you"
"I'm blending in with the muggles." I smirk. "Which you could learn to do." I adds, looking at his robes. "Where's the shirt I sent you?"
He looks horrified. "I am not wearing that."
I pout. "So ungrateful."
"HEY KITTY!" The Weasley twins yell, running over and pulling me into a hug.
"Hey guys! Have fun in Egypt?" I ask.
They nod excitedly. "It was great." The twin on the left tells me.
I feel kind of guilty for not being able to tell them apart, but the knowledge Ron can't either helps.
"What about you?" The other twins asks.
"Great. I watched some movies, elf sat, went fishing, and visited Ferret Face." I grin.
Draco snorts behind me.
"What's it like having a twin?" They ask as one.
"I don't think either of you would be able to understand." I smirk, making even Draco laugh.
"We should be going." A twin says. "Percy's still upset at us for changing his head boy badge to say big headed."
They then run off before the other red head could find them.
"You really have no sense of taste in friends?" Draco sneers.
"Nope, just no taste in family." I tell him before making my way towards platform 9 ¾
While I was running to the wall, a woman accidently trips me up.
"SORRY!" A familiar voice yells.
I turn to see the stranger's hair start to turn purple with embarrassment.
"TONKS!" I exclaim, hugging her.
Her face transforms to her own. "PUFFIN! I've been meaning on writing you."
"Same. How's Auror training going?" I ask, picking up my bags.
"Great. Mad Eye's a hard ass though. Speaking of which I'm undercover so shhh." She says morphing back to the stranger.
"Undercover for what?" I ask.
"Oh you know, Sirius Black." She shrugs. "So did you hear who his family is?"
"You mean he's my Mother's cousin?" I ask.
She smirks. "And mine."
I freeze. "Wait, is your mother's name Andromeda?"
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Cuz." She smirks.
I cheer. "YASS! An awesome family member!"
"Sorry Draco, but you suck." I say, smirking at Draco standing behind me.
He scoffs. "So you're my blood traitor cousin?"
She smirks at him. "And you're Aunt Cissy's son. We never did officially meet."
I see Narcissa sneer in the distance.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" A terrifying looking man with a creepy fake eye and wooden leg yells.
"Um… saying hi?" Tonks says weakly.
"You're supposed to be blending into the crown and watching out for your cousin, Nymphadora." He hisses.
"Don't call me Nymphadora." She says, her hair turning red in anger. "Besides these two are my cousins."
"Fine, you're proven murderer relatives." He says, glaring over at Lucius.
I snort. I like this guy.
"Whatever, Mad Eye." Tonks says, transforming back into the stranger.
The muggles here must be so confused.
Nico (POV)
After being forced by Will to take an international portkey with him and Lou Ellen I make my way to the station.
After almost being tripped over by a strange, we make our way onto the train and find a compartment for ourselves.
"Where's the long lost princess?" Lou asks, giving herself different animal noses.
"Don't call her that in front of her, she'll probably make some kind of reference I don't understand." I sigh.
The rest of the holidays have definitely been better than the start, but I am far from the condition I was last year.
Will chuckles. "How do you know Lou didn't just make a reference?"
I groan. "I never do."
Before the others could reply the compartment door swings open and Kat and Vergo walk through.
"HEY GUYS!" Kat greets, pulling Will into a hug.
When she finishes hugging him she hugs me as well.
"I feel so loved." Lou Ellen mutters, making Kat smirk. "Sup Ravenwhore."
Lou chuckles. "I don't even need to come up with an insult from your house name. It does it all on its own."
Once Vergo had put away Kat's bags she runs over and hugs my legs. "MASTER! You're still very pale."
They all laugh.
I roll my eyes. "I'm always pale."
"Vergo's right. You look like death." Kat says, looking a bit worried.
"I am death." I state, making Will and Lou scoff. "I'm fine."
"Did you have a good summer?" I ask the elf.
"Oh yes. I had lots of fun serving mistresses Kat and Alexandrea The Great." She tells me.
They all laugh, while I glare at Kat.
"What do you expect when you give two muggle raised kids a santa's elf for the summer?' Kat asks with a grin.
"So how was travelling the world with distant relatives?" Kat asks with a sceptical expression.
"Eventful." I say vaguely.
Lou and Will snort.
"Could you be vaguer? I WANT DETAILS! Why were you in Italy? Who are these people? Why didn't you reply to any of my letters?" she yells.
"I don't think Reyna and Coach Hedge are technically related to you?" Will points out.
"Oh I was travelling the world with strangers then." I shrug.
Her eyes bulge. "Why were you travelling the world with strangers? One of them is a coach?"
I sigh. "It's complicated and they're not strangers anymore. Reyna's one of my best friends and Coach is like a crazy uncle with a baseball bat."
"I'VE BEEN REPLACED AS YOUR BFF!" She squeaches.
I gulp. 'No! Reyna's very different from you."
"She's like a warrior princess." Lou adds. "She walks around in long purple robes and battle armour all the time. Honestly she scares the shit out of me."
I hold back a smile. Reyna can be intimidating, but deep down she's one of the sweetest people I know.
'And before you ask again you're not going to get a straight answer out of me." I tell her, making her pout.
"I never get to know anything."
"So how was your holidays?" Will asks, changing the topic.
She grins. "Great. I found out when my birthday is and spent lots of time with Draco."
"When is it?" I ask. I had never told them my birthday. I remember it now, but I never feel like celebrating.
"June 5th." She grins. "I got a shitload of presents. Oh that reminds me." She opens her trunk and pulls out three journals.
She hands the yellow one to me and the black one to Will. We automatically swap.
I see my name already in it. "Why did you get us diary's?"
Thankfully I can't feel anyone soul in this one, but you never know with Kat.
She smirks and takes out a pen, writing something in her blue one.
I look down at the page to see words forming on it. Sup Grandpa and Glowstick written in Italian.
I glare at her. "How do they work?"
Kat then explains how they work and where she got them.
Lou Ellen peers over Will's shoulder. "HA! Grandpa! I heard about those rumours."
Does she mean camp or school?
"What rumours?' Kat asks.
"Oh." Lou Ellen freezes. "Um last term. Some people said that Nico was apparently I some time freezing casino and is from the 1940's."
I groan. Great, at least that's one secret I don't have to hide.
"Someone must have told or overheard." Will says.
"It's true?" Lou asks.
"Yes." I admit.
"Wow! You are a capsicule." She grins.
"What does that even mean?!" I groan.
"Didn't you watch the movies I gave you last Christmas?" Will pouts.
"I watched the one with the man in the bat costume but I didn't get around to the others." I explain.
"Batman the beginning." Will groans.
"Anyone know who our Defence professor is this year?" Will asks.
We all shake our heads.
"With our luck probably Satan himself." Kat answers.
"I didn't know father was looking for a job." I mutter, making Wil and Lou smirk.
"What about you two? What did you do all holidays?" Kat asks them.
They share a look before answering. "Summer Camp."
"Let's go ask the Golden Trio what they did, maybe they'll give me a straight answer." Kat huffs, pulling me from the compartment, leaving Will, Lou and Vergo.
Eventually we find them in a compartment with a sleeping man.
When they see me Hermione asks. 'Nico? Are you alright? You look a bit sick."
I groan. I've spends weeks in that damn infirmary, but I apparently still look sick.
"I'm fine." I grumble.
"How were your holidays?" Kat asks the trio.
Ron happily starts talking about Egypt.
I am a bit jealous. Those tombs sound interesting.
"What about you, Nico?" Harry asks.
"Travelled the world." I shrug.
"Really?" Hermione asks. "Where did you go?"
"Uh, America, Greece, Rome, Italy, France, Puerto Rico, Spain." I shrug. I hadn't had a chance to enjoy any of it.
They all gape at me.
"Bloody hell." Ron mutters. "Where haven't you been?"
"Egypt." I say, making him grin.
"What about you Harry?" I ask, sitting down.
"I just stayed with my Aunt and Uncle." He says sadly. "But I blew up my Aunt Marge so I had to spend the rest of the holidays in the Leaky Cauldron."
"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT BLEW UP MARGE!?" Kat yells, almost waking the man.
"You know her?" Harry asks surprised.
"I caught her in a fishing net on my apartment roof." She explains, grinning at the memory.
From there she goes on to explain her fishing trip.
By the end of it Harry and Ron were dying of laughing and Hermione was horrified.
"I have pictures!" Kat declares, taking out her phone and showing us pictures of a large screeching woman in a fishing net.
"THAT'S BLOODY BRILLIANT!" Ron exclaims.
A couple hours later when we are once again in our compartment with Vergo (who was serving us pizza and pumpkin juice) the train suddenly stops and the air freezes.
The shadows around us seem to grow stronger as if acting on someone else's control.
"What's going on?" Kat asks, putting her vegie pizza down.
I start twisting my ring. There's something here.
I feel a horrible sadness in my chest, like I was back in Tartarus.
I see a faint black shadowey creature before passing out.
"Child of Hades, what more could I do to you? You are perfect! So much sorrow and pain!" Misery's voice echoes in my mind.
Will (POV)
When the cloaked creature enters out compartment it immediately moves towards Nico, who had already fainted.
"Sirius Black is not here! Leave!" Kat yells, her voice quivering.
I immediately jump in front of Nico, causing the creature to back away and leave the compartment.
"I guess it doesn't like glow sticks." Lou mutters, looking pale.
In seconds Vergo has reappeared with several large blocks of chocolate.
"Oh dear… oh dear." She mutters, handing us all large quantities of chocolate. "Young masters and mistresses must eat." She says, looking at Nico worriedly.
I try to shake Nico awake. "NICO!"
After a minute he stirs. 'Did anyone else hear that?"
"MASTER NICO!" Vergo squeaks, pushing a whole block of chocolate into his hand. "Eat. It will help with the Dementors effects."
"Dementors?" I ask. I suddenly remembering reading about them. "Shouldn't they be in Azkaban?"
"A prisoner escaped Azkaban. The oh so wonderful ministry decided to send the Dementors to look for him."
"Why are they on a school train?" Lou Ellen asks.
"Lucius says they think he's after Harry Potter." Kat explains.
I'm still not used to her father being Lucius Malfoy.
The compartment door slides open, revealing a man in scruffy robes covered in scars. "Are you alright?"
"Master Nico fainted." Vergo sqeaks. 'Vergo gave them all chocolate."
He smiles warmly at the elf. "Are you alright then, Nico?" he asks, looking around us, probably not sure who Nico is.
"I'm fine." Nico grumbles. "I just got a little light headed."
"HEY!" Kat exclaims. "I met you in Grignotts last year! Lupin right?"
He nods. "Kat correct?"
She nods. "So why are you on the train?"
"I'm the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor." He explains.
"I hope you're more competent than the last two." Nico mutters.
"Anything is better than Quirrldimort and Lockhart." Kat says, making Professor Lupin raise his eyebrows.
The compartment door opens again. "Ella, are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Draco." Kat groans, confusing Lupin.
"I thought your name is Kat?" he asks.
"My birth name is Elladora Malfoy." She shrugs. "But please continue calling me Kat Williams."
He nods, a look of realisation of his face.
"I should go check on the other compartments." Lupin tells us. "Make sure you eat all that chocolate."
Vergo then hands Draco chocolate as well.
"Master Ferret Face should eat chocolate as well." She says, smiling at him.
Lupin walks out, not being able to hide his smile.
We all burst into laughter, but Draco sneers. "Ella could you please tell your servant to stop calling me that."
"Technically she's my servant, and I say she can call you whatever she likes." Nico says, with a ghost of a smile on his lips.
"Master Ferret Face." Vergo nods, making Malfoy sneer even more and storm out.
"He's in a mood." Kat declares.
Nico (POV)
"You fainted? Y both really faint?" Malfoy asks, blocking Harry and my way "Is Longbottom telling the truth? You actually fainted?"
"Shove off, Malfoy." Ron says angrily.
"Did you faint as well, Weasley? Did the scary Dementor frighten you too?" he asks, looking as though Christmas came early.
"Stop being a git." Kat tells him, elbowing him in the stomach.
"Ella!" he whines, as though she's spoiling his fun. "Besides is not my fault your little friends are scared of a little darkness."
I snort. If he only knew.
"Is there a problem here?" Professor Lupin asks, making his way out of one of the carriages.
Draco sneers at his, taking in his shabby appearance. "Oh no sir. No problem here, professor." He says with a hint of sarcasm.
Malfoy then walks through the door, once again with Crabbe and Goyle at his side.
"Sorry about my git of a brother." Kat says to us.
We make our way through the corridor to the great hall, but are stopped before we could join the other students.
"Potter, Di Angelo, Granger and Ellen, I want to see you all." McGonagall yells over the crowd.
I am rarely brought to her office for something other than trouble. I don't think I've broken any rules yet.
"You're not in trouble." She tells us. "I merely want a word in my office. "Move along, Malfoy, Weasley, Solace."
Kat glares at the name, before storming off with the others.
We follow McGonagall to her office where she ushers for us all to sit down.
'Professor Lupin sent an owl ahead to say that you two have taken ill on the train." McGonagall tells us.
I feel myself blushing. "I just fainted. Not the first time." I shrug.
She raises her eyebrows. "Do you faint often?"
I feel myself blushing even more. "Exhaustion."
She doesn't seem too relieved by that. Before she could ask any questions Madam Pomfrey comes flying into the room.
"Oh it's you two." She says when she sees me and Harry. "Honestly I might well move your rooms into the hospital wing. What dangerous things did you two do this time?"
Lou Ellen chuckles next to me.
"It was a dementor, Poppy." McGonagall tells her.
They exchange a dark look and Madam Pomphrey clucks disapprovingly.
"Setting Dementors around a school." She mutters, feeling Harry's forehead. "They won't be the first to collapse… yes he's all clammy."
She then moves onto me, feeling my forehead. "You're freezing. And when was the last time you ate? You're skin and bone, and you look terribly ill."
I groan, before muttering. "You sound like Will."
"He's a bright boy. I actually agreed to let him become my assistant this year." She says with a small smile.
Lou Ellen cheers. "He's the head medic at our summer camp infirmary. He practically forced Nico to move in there the last three weeks."
"He did." I grumble.
"Good." She tells me, before looking checking my pulse, and clucking again. "Terrible things they are and the effect they have on those who are already delicate."
"I'M NOT DELICATE!" Harry and I yell together.
I went through Tartarus itself. I am not delicate.
"Of course you're not." She says absent-mindedly.
"What do they need?" McGonagall
"Bed rest should do for Harry, but this one should spend at least one night in the hospital wing." She says, looking at me.
"I'M FINE!" We yell together.
"I am not staying in the hospital wing!' I insist. "I'm perfectly fine."
She snorts, clearly not believing me.
"They should at least have some chocolate." She says.
"While you're here. Will wanted to ask you a healing question." Lou Ellen tells her.
Madam Pomphrey turns to her. "What is it?"
"How do you heal werewolf scratches?" she asks, earning herself a glare from me.
McGonagall and Madam Pomphrey both freeze, before sharing a meaningful look.
"Why do you ask?" Pomphrey asks gruffly.
"Nico has two horrible scratches." Lou Ellen supplies.
Madam Pomphrey turns to me, giving me a glare saying: Why is it always you?
"What happened?" Professor McGonagall asks sharply.
I go to answer, but Lou Ellen does for me. "He had a run in with a pack of werewolves in Puerto Rico."
"It was Portugal." I correct.
Hermione gives me an incredulous look.
"Will's been trying to get that wound to close for the last three weeks." Lou Ellen explains helpfully.
"I must say I am quite impressed he was able to do anything without magic." Pomphrey says. "Well you both need chocolate and you are definitely staying in the hospital wing tonight, Di Angelo."
I groan.
"Professor Lupin already gave us chocolate. He gave it to all of us." Harry says.
"Did he know?" Madam Pomfrey says approvingly, still hovering over my arm. "So we finally got a Defence Against the Dark Arts who knows his remedies?"
"Are you sure you feel alright, Potter?" McGonagall asks sharply.
"Yes." He sighs.
"Now Di Angelo you go with Madam Pomfrey to the hospital wing. Potter you wait outside while I have a word with Ms Granger and Ellen." McGonagll says, ignoring my protests.
"Can you tell Will and Kat that I was kidnapped by Madam Pomfrey?" I ask Harry.
Madam Pomfrey drags me to the hospital wing, muttering about dementors and danger prone students.
When we get to the hospital wing I (reluctantly) remove my shirt, making her gasp.
I know I have plenty of scars. Claw marks from Tartarus and the wars, sword wounds, arrows from upset Apollo kids and Hunters.
"What happened?" she gasps, pulling out more healing potions.
"Nothing I will admit to." I sigh, falling back onto my usual bed. She's right, I should just move in here.