Paige and Fabiola stepped out of the connection tunnel and out into the airport. Paige immediately spotted her 2nd cousin and his adopted children.

"Hey Uncle Joe! What's up?" she said, greeting him with a hug.

"Oh, you know the sky," he said, amiably as usual.

"Hey Missy, hey Ben!" Paige was beaming from ear to ear now.

"Hey!" they chorused.

"This is my friend Fabiola!" she said, stepping aside to present her crazy friend.

"Hi! Thank you so much for inviting me out here to stay with you," said Fabi, always the polite angel…in front of adults.

"No problem!" said Joe smiling. "Well, should we get moving then? I imagine you all are hungry."

Paige and Fabi nodded, just now noting their disgruntled stomachs. The small company left the airport.

"Wow! Your house is really beautiful Uncle Joe!" said Paige, finding it hard to stop calling her cousin "Uncle" as her childhood habit dictated.

"Thank you Paige. You and Fabi will be sharing the guest bedroom. There's two twin sized beds in there, ok?" said Joe, playing host perfectly.

"Yes, thank you! That's perfect! Thank you already for everything you've done for us!" Said Fabi.

"No problem! I think it's good for you to see the rest of the world," Joe said.

"Hey, do you guys need help unpacking?" said Missy. They nodded. "Here, I'll show you the way. Ben would help, but he has football practice."

The trio marched up the stairs on the way to their rooms.

Fabi and Paige stayed up until midnight, talking about nothing in particular. That is, until Paige brought up the fact that her cousins were going to take them to King's Cross-Station tomorrow.

"Wow, what if we, like, I don't know, try to go through to Platform 9 ¾! We could, like, meet Harry Potter!" Fabi said, laughing her silly laugh at the thought. "No, seriously though, what if we did get through?"

"Fabz, as much as I like to pretend I belonged there and that that actually existed, I know we can't get through there!" said Paige, teasingly but sounding a little depressed.

"Why can't we?" Fabi persisted.

"Well, I dun no Fabz, maybe cause we would RUN RIGHT INTO THE WALL?"

"Seriously Paige, I don't know why you get so upset. I mean, come on! Harry thought like that and, well, he got through!" said Fabi, enjoying her friend's annoyance.

"Whatever Fabz. I'll run at it if you will," said Paige trying to shut her friend up. She should be just as jet-lagged as I am! Why isn't she! Oh, it's Fabz. Thought a tired Paige.

"Ok! Let's go to sleep! 'Night Paige!" said Fabi, taking the bait hook, line, and sinker.

"'Night Fabz!"

The next morning, Paige, Fabi and their entourage flocked to King's Cross-. They were going to go to see the old castles, and Paige and Fabz had fun imagining seeing one dilapidated one with a sign saying, " Do not enter. Not safe," like in Harry Potter.

Joe, Ben, Missy, and Paige's "Aunt" Betsie (who hadn't been there last night when they got back because she was at work late) had gone to get tickets. Fabiola spotted Platform 9 first. She grabbed Paige's arm and dragged her, though really, seeing as Paige weighed more than her and Fabi wasn't the strongest skinny girl in the world, Paige helped by walking.

"Come on Paige! Let's run through!" Fabi begged excitedly.

"Fabi! Are you crazy? On second thought, don't answer that. Fabz, we'll break our noses! Not to mention our friends in the white jackets will come to get us!" Paige said, rather excited herself. Paige was fighting hard not to let herself get too excited. She knew it wouldn't happen, they wouldn't get through, but she couldn't suppress the rising hope that they would go into Harry Potter world.

"Come on, Please!" Fabi begged loudly.

"Fine! Think of it as an early birthday present, seeing as Christmas has come and gone and-,"

"Yay! Let's go!" shouted Fabiola.

They raced towards the pillar, running faster than Paige's "sensible" mind would have liked. They ran through and, closing her eyes, Paige waited to feel the cold hard pillar collide with her. Instead, she felt something less hard and cold. It was as warm as a human. She felt cloth, and then cold hard stone underneath her. Paige opened her eyes.

"Oh Shitake mushrooms!"