Like I said at the beginning of last chapter this will not be fluff, there might be some funny moments, depending on your sense of humor. Anyway... enjoy.

Still lacking on reviews... kind of saddening :(


Chapter 2- Andromeda's POV

I gasped and felt my face burn as my sister's voice interrupted the conversation I had been holding with the Badgers I'd decided in my second year were much kinder and more interesting than Snakes.

"What do you think you are doing, Meda?" Bellatrix asked again through gritted teeth, as usual gripping her wand, looking particularly angry.

"She's sitting with her friends, what does it matter to you?" Ted Tonks, a Hufflepuff in my year, who happened to be my best friend, piped up, glaring right back at the angry seventeen year old.

"Hmm... I don't recall asking you anything, mudblood," Bella hissed dangerously. "I was speaking to my sister," she finished, extenuating every word as if Ted were particularly stupid.

"Hey! Don't talk to him like that!" I said, anger growing in my voice. My eyebrows knitted together as I met Bellatrix's glare with one equally as fierce.

"Awww... does widdle Anny got hersewf a boyfwiend?" Bella asked, sticking out her lower lip, and using the baby voice she generally reserved for when she speaking to Gryffindors.

"No!" Ted and I bellowed at the same moment.

"We're friends, that's all," Ted clarified, still glaring. "And it's really none of your business anyway,"

"Andromeda is my sister, so rest assured filthy mudblood, it sure as hell is my business," Bellatrix growled.

"Whatever," I shook my head. "Just... go away Bella," I sighed wearily.

"I'm not leaving alone, you're coming with me," she shook her head, grabbing my arm before I had the chance to move.

"Let go of her!" one of Ted's friends, Brett Christensen: a bulky 7th year beater on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, demanded. "She doesn't have to go with you if she doesn't want to.

"No... just... I-i'll go with her. I'll see you all later," I sighed hoping Bella would get over her anger, or at least not be too harsh. Suffice it to say with her renowned fiery temper, I wasn't counting on it.

"No," Bella chuckled, sounding altogether pleased with herself, digging her fingers further into my arm. "She won't see you all later,"

"Yes I will," I mouthed to Ted, grinning despite the anger I felt, and the pain in my arm from my obviously insane sister's death grip. He nodded, looking sad, and Bellatrix proceeded to drag me back to the compartment we'd been in earlier.

As we entered (Bella throwing me in ahead of her, and slamming the compartment door closed behind her) it became eerily quiet. It seemed as though Narcissa had been in the middle of a sentence and was now staring wide-eyed at the two of us, her mouth agape.

"I thought you were going to go get some air, Trixie," Lucius smirk, causing Bellatrix's already bright red face to flush even more red, if that was even possible.

"Apparently going to get air entails spying on your sister," I muttered, angrily, sitting down in-between Cissy and the window with my arms folded over my chest.

"What exactly happened?" asked Rodolphus, he sounded very interested, as a small smile passed across his face.

"Andromeda here was sitting with a bunch of mudblood Hufflepuffs," Bellatrix hissed, sitting down as a collective gasp spread through the small group of pureblood Slytherins, all of whom had serious superiority complexes, causing me to roll my eyes.

"Meda! Is she serious?" Cissy asked, horrified.

"When have you known Bellatrix to be anything but serious, Narcissa?" I asked, glaring out the window, before looking at my younger sister, shrugging.

"Mum and Dad are going to murder you when they find out!" the young blonde gasped, and she looked to be on the verge of tears.

"That's why we're not telling them," Bellatrix said quietly, and I looked over at her, wide-eyed.

"What?" I asked, dumbfounded, this was so unlike her.

"Despite how it may seem, the reason I pulled you out of there was because I care about you...those mudbloods have not been brought up as well as we have, they're unpredictable, you never know what they're going to pull,"

"Well, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'd like to pick my own friends, thanks," I grumbled, looking out the window again.

"Would you like me to tell them, then?" she asked, her tone teasing.

"Fine. I won't see them anymore," I sighed, 'When you're around,' I added mentally.

"Good,"

"So, that was a rather... uh... touching moment there," Walden muttered after a few moments of complete silence. "What now?"

Bella smiled, and lowered her voice, as if she was worried someone was listening in. "Have you heard about the new dark wizard who is apparently rising up? Killing Muggles and mudbloods?" she asked eagerly. "He's supposed to be more evil than that Gellert Grindelwald that Dumbledore defeated,"

"No," Rodolphus shook his head after a moment of looking eager along with her. "I haven't,"

"Neither have I," Lucius and Walden shook their heads at the same time. I looked at Cissy.

"We've only heard of him because you keep talking about him," I said, shrugging.

"Are all of you total idiots?" Bella asked, looking at all of us with an expression full of incredulity. "Obviously you must be, if you don't even know about the rising of who will soon be the most powerful dark wizard in the history of the magical world!" she hissed, sounding appalled.

"I honestly don't care for the Dark Arts too much," I shrugged again, dismissing her statement

"Well, I know you do Lucy, and Walden, and Roddy. I don't know about Jenna-Anne or Cissy, but you three ought to be more interested in this!"

I rolled my eyes, and looked out the window again. Bella was on a rant. It wasn't likely she would give up until everyone else in the compartment was completely engulfed in the idea of this dark wizard. I really didn't see what was so great about it, but this was Bellatrix we were talking about, so I should have been surprised.

"Andy?" Cissy whispered, shaking my shoulder. I glanced over at her.

"Yes, Narcissa?" I asked, blinking a couple times at the unexpected light in the compartment. Had it been that bright a few seconds ago?

"You fell asleep, we're at the school," she smiled and stood up. She was in her Slytherin robes already, and I was glad I'd changed into mine at home before leaving, it made life so much easier if you were to say, fall asleep on the train.

"Oh. Really?" I asked, standing up as well, and looking around. Everyone else had left, and the trunks were all gone.

"Yeah. We might want to go before Bella scares some second year to death for trying to take our seats on one of the carriages," she chuckled.

"Sounds like something she'd do," I nodded, smiling. "Let's go then,"

Cissy nodded, and the two of us walked quickly to get off the train before it started moving again, which it did right after we jumped off. 'Impeccable timing there,' I grinned to myself.

"What're you smiling about?" Narcissa asked, laughing.

"Oh, just that amazing timing you seem to have, of getting us off the train right before it starts moving again," I told her, my smile growing.

"Well, you didn't want to wake up, it took me a few minutes," she explained. "We'll be lucky if we won't have to walk to the school,"

"Looks like we're lucky," I told her, as we started running to the last carriage that held Bella and all the others who'd been in the compartment with us on the train. Cissy got ahead of me as I slowed down a little. The next thing I knew, I'd tripped over something on the ground and looked down, gasping when I saw what, or rather who it was.