Temperance Brennan sat on the Hogwarts Express contemplating what exactly had happened to her in the past two weeks. She and her brother Russ, currently 11 and 15, were going to live with their annoying eleven year old cousin Tori. Everything was fine until they got letters about going to some special school.
"Dear Temperance Brennan, you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." The words echoed in her head.
Witchcraft and Wizardry couldn't be real. It was probably some boarding school, which was what she thought until they took her to Diagon Alley. She got books, rings, and a wand. She took it out of her pocket and looked at it. I am a witch, she repeated in her head.
"Hello?" A voice pulled her out of her trance.
She looked to the door, and saw a tanned skin brunette in a laced dress. She didn't know how long the brunette must have been standing there or trying to get her attention. "Excuse me?"
"Are these seats taken, this is like the last cart." The girl said, drawing out the word last.
"No, not at all." She smiled.
"My name's Angela Montenegro. You can call me Ange." The brunette
"I'm Temperance Brennan. You can call me Tempe." It was normally just a family name but Tempe felt she could trust this girl.
"By the way, there was this blonde curly haired guy following, adorable if I might add, so he might cradle into this cart by accident." She made sure to use quotations around by accident.
The two laughed, moments later a boy by that exact description appeared in the doorway of their cart. Ange immediately rolled her eyes. but Tempe recognized the boy and he recognized her, causing them to hug.
"Jack, you never told me you were a wizard." Tempe laughed.
"Tempe, you never told me you were a witch." Jack laughed.
Angela coughed and Tempe turned around to her and then back to Jack. "Jack this is Angela Montenegro, Angela this is Jack Hodgins."
"Hi." She waved her hand and tingled her fingers.
"Where's Zack?" Tempe asked him.
"Whose Zack?" Angela said, peering up behind
"My half- brother." Jack states.
"So did he get in?" Tempe asked with excited eyes.
"Tempe, as you know Zack Addy, is only half my blood." Jack began to say and then he was shook.
"Tell me already." The eleven year old cried.
"Yes. He's in the other cart talking to some group of fellow first years." Jack held out his arm in the direction and Tempe and Angela followed.
Sitting in the cart was the dorky brown haired boy. He got up seeing his half-brother."Jack."
Jack stepped aside and showed Temperance, and Zack stood up and gave the girl a large hug. "Tempe! Thankfully someone I know other than my brother."
"Hey." Said one of the kids surrounding him, who had brown hair.
Temperance looked at the four other kids besides Zack. Temperance took a look at all of them and smiled. "Hey why not you guys come back to our cart?"
Zack turned to his friends. "Come on guys."
The eight of them made their way to the other cart. Angela sat herself next to Jack and Tempe. On the other side of Tempe was Zack. They left the four other kids on the other side.
The one across from Angela was a blonde boy named Wendell. Next to him on his left was a girl with brown hair named Daisy. On his right was a dark haired boy named Vincent, and on the end across from Zack was a boy named Colin, who preferred to be called Fisher.
After learning many things about each person, like favorite foods and colors, last names, and that they all wanted to be sorted into Ravenclaw, the house of the geniuses, except for Fisher who was routing Slytherin. Daisy checked her watch for the third time and stood up.
"Well it was very nice meeting you all, especially you Temperance. I am going to change into my robes and go back to my cabin with my neighbor and some friends we met. " Daisy smiled.
"Lance you said his name was." Vincent commented.
"Yeah. And this girl Jessica and a boy named Arastoo." Daisy smiled and left the cart.
Wendell stood up, and looked out the window. "We've got a couple hours to kill, but I think we'll head back to."
The three boys left the cart and Tempe watched as Jack and Angela moved to the other side. Angela nudged Jack and the shoulder and he smiled. "So what do you guys want to do for the next five hours?"
"Five hours? How long have we been on so far?" Tempe asked, sitting forward.
"The train left the station three hours ago." Zack added.
"Ugh." Angela rested her head on the back of the seat.
On the other side of the train, another first year by the name of Seeley Booth sat in a cart surrounded by seven other people. Next to him was a girl with dark hair and tan skin, and he looked at her and sighed.
"When I told Jared and Andrew they could sit with you and I, I meant Jared and Andrew. Not Jared, Andrew, and four other girls from the neighborhood." He said
She laughed. "How about you sneak away?"
"You don't want to come with me Cam?" He asked.
"Nah Seel, you need space. Besides I like Jarhead." Cam laughed.
Just as he was about to stand a brown haired girl across from him, Olivia her name was, stood up and grabbed her trunk from the carrier. "Thanks for letting me sneak in, but I'm going to find my friend."
Seeley stood up, and took his own trunk from the top, and looked back to her. "Hey I'll walk you over, I'm going to look for an open cart to start up on the reading list."
A boy with a brown haired buzz cut, his brother Jared, laughed. "Good luck Seel."
Seeley followed Olivia out of the cart, he took her trunk from her without hesitation. They had brief conversation as she looked in and out of the carts for her friend.
When they reached it, there was four kids sitting in it. A boy with dark hair, a boy with dark hair and brown skin, a girl with long brown hair, and a girl with long red hair.
The dark haired boy stood up. "Olivia you made it, and brought a friend. Here I can take that."
Seeley let him take Olivia's trunk from him and lift it into the hanging carrier. Lance then turned to him and held out his hand and smiled.
"I'm Lance by the way. That's Daisy, Jessica, and Arastoo." Lance said, identifying the redhead as Jessica and the brunette as Daisy, and Arastoo was most definitely the other boy.
"I'm Seeley Booth. Call me Booth." He held out his now free hand.
"So Booth, you want to sit with us?" He asked.
"No, thanks for the offer though. I'm looking for an empty cart." He smiled.
"Yeah, well if you can't find one there's a nice group of boys that Arastoo and I sat with before I found Daisy, and she just met them, they're in the fourth cart down from the end." Lance said, pointing in the direction opposite from Booth's old cart.
"Thanks." Booth said making his way in that direction.
Tempe sat playing 20 questions, a game she'd learned in elementary school in America, with Angela, as Angela learned about Jack and Zack, while Tempe had known the brothers her entire life, her cousin came in soon after.
Booth had passed the cart with the three boys in it. One with brown hair was laying across the one side, the one with blonde hair had his knees up reading a Quidditch magazine, and the one with dark hair was reading The Standard Book of Spells Grade 1.
He recognized that this was probably going to be his cycle throughout the school year. He decided to leave them alone for now and he'd meet them later, reaching the last cart he was about to head back.
Then he saw someone, she had long auburn brown hair and beautiful grey eyes. She was leaning across the open space talking to three kids on the side and there was a girl next to her.
He must of looked like a fool staring at her, because the brunette girl across from her nudged her and she turned in his direction. He smiled. "Is there room for me in this cart? All the others are full."
"Yeah." She said, smiling. She had a beautiful smile.
She and the girl next to her moved down to make room for him. "Hi I'm Temperance Brennan, you can call me Tempe."
"Hi Tempe. I'm Seeley Booth, I usually prefer Booth, but I wouldn't mind you calling me Seeley." He smiled setting his trunk up above them and sitting down next to her , he looked at everyone.
On the other side of her was a girl with hair exactly like hers but she had a pair of blue glasses covering her blue-green eyes. And across from himself, was a brunette with brown eyes. Next to her was a blonde curly haired boy with bright blue eyes, and next to him was a moppy brown haired boy with matching eyes.
"Well there are other people in the cart, Tempe." The curly haired boy pointed out.
"Yes, Seeley this is Jack Hodgins, his half-brother Zack Addy, our new friend Angela Montenegro, and my cousin Tori Brennan." She said, pointing to each of them as she said their name.
"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Seeley Booth." He smiled.
"So another round of twenty questions with our new friend and Tori since she's recently joined us." Zack offered.
Tempe looked to Seeley and he smiled. "Sure why not."