HI! Here's chapter two! Even though I'm still doing introductions and I've already got some fantastic ideas, more ideas are welcome! Also, for the people who entered OCs, I'm sorry that I had to change some ages and friendships. I tried to keep them as close as possible and the friendships will pop up somewhere (whether they're little-sibling to big-sibling, it changes with each person).
Thanks to SunsetWanderer, my beta. Also to my reviewers; Shiranai Atsune, princessgothicfull, SunlightHurtsMyEyes, Sunshine72, DauntlessInDistrict9 and Alice the B-Rabbit!
~Chapter 2 - A Train Ride~
The train rattled as Albus and Rose stumbled along, trying to find a carriage. So far, they hadn't found anyone they recognised and most of the people they saw were just too damn terrifying to ask. Eventually, they stumbled across their cousins Victoire and Meghan with their friend Zoe, but they were with their boyfriends, so they moved on. After what seemed like eternity, Rose had had enough.
"Albus. The next carriage; unless it is packed to the brim, we are asking to sit down." She said with a tone that left no room for arguing.
He simply nodded and stepped forward to knock on the carriage door. Inside, a girl with brown hair and a blonde boy were comfortably chatting away. Albus felt like entering would be breaking up a private conversation, but a not-so gentle poke between the shoulders forced him onwards. Gently, he rapped on the glass of the door and the two heads inside whipped towards him. He felt as if he was on display as he opened the door and stepped in.
"Can we sit?" Albus timidly questioned, looking towards the girl as she seemed kinder.
The boy seemed hostile and made a comment that sounded suspiciously like "No way, Weasleys." At this comment, though, the girl leaned over and cuffed his ears.
"Don't be such a Pure Blood, Scorpius. Yeah, sure. Come sit down." The girl said sweetly with an Irish accent after directing a harsh stare at the boy.
Rose sat down next to the girl and uncomfortably, Albus sat down next to the boy who continued to death glare him under partially-closed eyelashes. After a few beats of awkward silence, the girl seemed to know that no one else was going to talk, so she took a breath.
"I'm Riona MacNamara. That's Scorpius." Riona said with a lop-sided grin and an extended hand.
Rose spoke with a laugh as she returned the handshake, "I'm Rose Weasley and that's my cousin, Albus Potter."
For a second, Scorpius looked in shock between Rose and Albus, as if he was trying to connect the dots. Riona's eyes widened slightly before she clumsily regained her composure.
"Well, okay then. It's, ahhh, good to meet you… both. Sooooo… Are you guys first-years as well?" Riona continued and slowly, the atmosphere in the room grew more comfortable.
During the train ride, Scorpius even managed to come out of his indignant shell to crack a few witty jokes.
"You did WHAT exactly with Teddy Lupin?!"Danielle squawked indignantly, making her Irish accent sound scratchy, as Arianna casually dropped some gossip into the conversation.
"You heard me; I kissed him." She attempted to sound cool, but secretly, it still made her heart flutter.
Dominique rolled her eyes at her cousin's façade, but still rolled her hand to symbolise more, "So, details? You have hardly told uz anything!"
Arianna brushed her off as she was reminded of a more pressing issue, "Oh, it's nothing. It's a story for later. BUT, Danielle, last time you wrote you said you met someone."
At this, all the eyebrows were raised as Dominique Weasley, Courtney Wood and Arianna Potter regarded the now heavily-blushing Danielle McKnight.
"W-well.." Danielle stammered as she searched for words, "Less of a someone and more of a…"
She was abruptly cut off by the appearance of a dishevelled Erachiel Emerson. He looked quickly out into the corridor before closing the compartment door with a snap. He sunk into a seat and gave a dramatic sigh.
Desperate for any excuse, Danielle quickly asked a question, "What happened to you?"
"Well," he started as his French accent, not dissimilar to Dominique's (though much lighter), shone through, "it seemed every First year girl needed help with her luggage. And getting on the train. And finding a compartment. They don't know to avoid me yet, so I couldn't help but be nice to them. But, when I helped the second batch and another appeared; let's just say I got out of there pretty fast."
Subconsciously, he reached up and rubbed the sides of his head underneath his beanie as the girls sent him looks of empathy. A few seconds of silence filled the carriage, before Erachiel took the initiative and spoke.
"So, what were you talking about when I walked in?" he raised an eyebrow as his cat-like eyes glinted with amusement.
Dominique began to explain, but a terrified look from Danielle stopped her, "Ummm… OWLs! About, um, taking OWLs this year. What classes are you 'oping to get zhis year?"
After a few more seconds of silence, Erachiel passionately launched into a speech about possibly failing just to annoy his father. The resulting laughs rang loudly, making the air seem alive.
In another carriage, a heated game of Charades had begun. It had the occupants yelling and frantically waving arms around to try and act out the words.
"Honestly, guys. You SUCK at this. C'mon, let me act it out." Amiya gave a cheeky grin as she passed the pad of paper over to Fred.
Embarrassedly, he scribbled down a word before once again passing it over. Dawn then took it from his hands and placed it on her forehead. FOX DOING THE POLKA, it read in Fred's precise, neat handwriting which caused the carriage to explode with laughter.
"Where on Earth did you get that idea, Freddy?" James said between snorts as the quiet boy blushed with embarrassment and happiness.
The game begun and after a few minutes of desperately trying to act out the ridiculous card, Amiya let out a giggle. As she watched the others attempt to frantically act out a fox dancing, she sat and screwed up her nose in concentration. Slowly, her features morphed and began to become red and furry with a long, pointed nose. She then began to dance in the cramped compartment to the amusement of the others.
"Honestly, that never gets old." James said as wiped tears from his eyes.
At this, Dawn gave up and finally looked at the card.
"Merlin's beard, HOW was I meant to guess that?!" Dawn said with mild annoyance before she gave into the giggles surrounding her.
Of course, this only caused more laughter and after her failed attempt at doing the Polka, Amiya collapsed on top of Aries. She placed a dramatic hand against her forehead after draping herself over the whole bench.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing? Get off me; you are wrinkling my shirt!" Aries indignantly pushed at the girl, who consequently rolled over to Fred who began to resemble a tomato.
"Oh come off it, Ari! Have a bit of fun!" James rolled his eyes before resuming his conversation with Dawn about a muggle television performance that Aries believed to be called "Sherlock".
Aries' cheeks coloured slightly at the scolding, but she ignored it and tried to join in their conversation.
"Oh, but honestly! When John did that, I thought that Mary was going to slap him! It was SO funny." Dawn spoke loudly as James nodded lightly in agreement.
"When he did what exactly?" Aries spoke quietly, but Dawn heard her nonetheless.
"WELL! It was in episode… I can't remember which.. James! Do you rem… Nope, okay. In WHATEVER episode, John and Mary had just…" Dawn spoke loudly and brightly as if it was her life mission to explain the episode to Aries.
All the while, Amiya was sitting up watching the rapid-fire conversation in amusement, "What are they talking about? What is 'Johnlock'?"
Her voice sounded confused and the slight Indian accent buried under the British became obvious. Fred just laughed quietly and responded, "Honestly, you don't want to know."
"MOLLY, I SWEAR I MAY KILL YOU FOR THIS!" Louis yelled loudly and angrily at his cousin who was holding her stomach while laughing uncontrollably.
Juliette sat on the opposite bench of the carriage in slight fear as she watched blue gloop pour out of Louis' satchel. She let out a tiny laugh, little more than a breath, but Louis heard her anyway. She let a squeak as he fixed her with a glare.
Molly drew back the attention as she talked, "That's what you get for trying to force me to find your school stuff because you were too busy writing letters to your girlfriend."
He blushed at the mention of his good friend, Rebecca Watts, who he had begun a 'relationship' with over the break. He was quite touchy on the subject and he couldn't think of a single thing to say in response. So, he sat down next to Juliette who immediately scrambled away from him.
"Gross, Louis. I don't want to get sick from your slime and you're going to get it on my book!" Juliette sputtered while trying to get as far away as possible while remaining in the carriage.
At this, he raised his arms in a mock zombie pose and came towards her while moaning "Boooooks!"
Juliette panicked and looked towards the amused Molly who saved Juliette from the slime-zombie. She raised her wand and spoke a quiet incantation. Slowly, the gloop drew towards Molly before disappearing with a pop and leaving a foul stench in the air.
"Your brother can be such a pig sometimes, you know that! Like, he hits on me all the time even after my not-at-all subtle rejections. Can you tell him to bugger off?" Zoe was indignant as she spoke harshly at Meghan.
Meghan simply sighed before burying her face in the shoulder of her boyfriend of two years, Seth Jacobs. Subconsciously, he placed a hand on her shoulder and began to draw soothing circles on her arm.
"I have tried!" Her voice was muffled, but the irritation towards her brother was still clear, "He won't listen; sometimes I honestly think that he hates Roxanne, Fred and I. He is such a piggish, misogynist player and he just…"
She trailed off with an angry moan which caused Victoire to pat her sympathetically on the back.
"We know your pain, honey. We know." She shook her head as she thought about her cousin Matthew's antics.
"Anyway," the other boy in the carriage, Daniel Thomas, tried to divert the conversation, "we should be arriving soon, shouldn't we?"
Zoe rolled her eyes at his awkward misdirection before placing her hand over the older boy's hand. He simply looked at her and the others kept quiet as the two couples enjoyed each other's' company. Though, Victoire felt a pang of sadness in her heart, knowing that she had no one as she pushed all potential suitors away. With that, the silence was broken by a sudden surge in activity in the corridor and Victoire looked at the window to see a majestic sight beginning to emerge from behind the hills.
It was Hogwarts.
If it's clunky in places, I'm trying to blame it on trying to get information in. Also, if someone's nationality isn't mentioned, they were entered as British. (If you entered an OC and I missed their nationality; sorry, PM me.) One-shots are now coming into effect as the introductions are mainly finished!
Thanks for reading and CHEERS!
