I call this Chapter, Bathrooms and Handuffs.

(You'll Get It, trust me)

If there is one thing that I have noticed, it is that saying goodbye to an animagus, is the hardest thing in the world. Why? You ask? Well, first, he is my best friend, second, he is convincingly an actual animal, and I mean in EVERY way, finally, he just handcuffed himself to you.

"Damn you, Zahir! Why, in Merlin's name did you do that!?! I am still going!" Zane, is a wolf animagus, he has given teachers rabies, and, like a wolf, is overly protective and affectionate. He is also, a band geek.

"Exactly, but now, I get to go with you! I have enchanted these cuffs so that I alone can undo them." He smiles, bringing our adjoined wrists right in front of my, and his, face. Sometimes he is just as stupid as a wild animal, too.

"Oh, and great Zane, how exactly are you going to go to the bathroom?" he IS an idiot.

"I'll turn into a wolf and go behind a tree." Okay, he got me there.

"New question, how am I going to go to the bathroom?"

"Shit, well I didn't think of that one." He leads me over to my stuff, and helps me put it on my bed. "Listen, we'll both go in the bathroom and I'll turn around and close my eyes! Oh, what if a witch comes in?"

"OOOOOOOHHHHHH, LEXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!! (BLOWED NOSE) WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR SADISTIC, DARK, GUIDANCE AND HUMOR!!!!!" and speaking of a witch, or another word that rhymes.

"Mandy, you will be OKAY!" Mandy, is as you should know, the popular. She is the Minister of Magic's disowned daughter, lovely concept, isn't it?

"Hey, Mandy, didn't you finish all the required courses and hours needed to graduate this year?" Zane asks, flailing around his, and my, arm. And to my disgust, he is holding another hand cuff. You can obviously see where this has gone. CLANG, SNAP, CREEEERRK!!!!

Note to self; find an untraceable way to kill him later, or a way to go to the bathroom. But, to keep things going at a faster pace, I will tell you that Zahir, Mandy, Griffin, Zane, and I end up, locked together by handcuffs. This is our normal cohorts, but it's still strange: Band geek, Popular, Hotty/Bad Boy, Bookworm, and Loner, or in my case: a Loner in bad company.

And to my surprise, Zane really did make them un-openable. So, they did end up going with me. That is, until I got on the train and we all had to go to the bathroom. Zane finally told us the password to get them unlocked: quill. So, we all ran like mad men- going to different carts for extraordinary relief. I was the first to get back to our cart, we had half an hour before the train left platform 9¾, so, I sat down next to Zane, who as always, was reading an insane college textbook, which I could never or probably wouldn't even be asked to read a word from. Today, it was 'The history of Wands' oh, joy. "Is it interesting?" I ask, him curling up beside him. He just smiles and says "I'm going for a run."

"No! You, you can't. The train is going to leave!" I pull on his jacket, and shove against the wall, I might be skinny, and muscle-less, but I do have Veela strength. I corner him and hold onto him. He closes his eyes, and I release, I realize what's going on. Zane is having a stress attack. He does get them, and they pretty much end up looking like a well-groomed werewolf transforming in front of the moon. He opens his eyes and they are red, like blood, like always. He smirks, and his fangs slowly protrude from his canine teeth. I know I have to keep him in the cart, and make sure everyone stays out. So everyone stays safe.

And suddenly the boy, who looks like me, opens the cart door, walks in and stares. He heads back towards the door, "Don't make any sudden movements and you won't bleed too much." I grab his arm slowly, and he looks at me, he shakes free and runs to the door and before I can get to him Zane pounces and attacks him and me from behind. I slam the door and latch it just before Zane bites deep into my calve and pulls me towards the window. He snarls and shows his teeth, I can tell he has completely gone animal. "Draco… are you okay?" I whisper, no answer, "Draco?" I look slowly over to him out of the corner of my eye, I see him, he looks fine, he is curled up against the door, shaking and pointing at Zane, he mouths something, and it looks like 'Devil Shadow'. He obviously doesn't know Zane.

I look back to Zane, he wants to play cat and mouse, I lean forward, and bow to him, while still holding my calve, trying to stop the bleeding. I hold my right arm out to him, he bites again, harder, I can't help it and I scream. It burns like fire in my blood, my hand is going numb. Zane's eyes finally blink back to their normal brown and he starts, slowly to look like a sad puppy. And he passes out. He transformed back, to himself and he still lay there, passed out.

I look over and Draco is still against the door, he wipes his bloody cheek and he has a nose bleed, but he is starting to get up, "You okay?" he says to me. I try to get up too, but fall. I look at him and he says, "I'll be right back," I damn hope he comes right back.

After waiting a minute, writhing in pain, I softly kick Zane's head with my good leg. He groans, so I kick him harder  "OW! What the hell was that for!?!" He says but doesn't look up. "Wait, why does my mouth taste like?"

"Blood?!" he looks up at me finally and he turns ghostly white.

"Oh, Merlin, please tell me that I didn't do that!!!" he gets up quickly and picks me up, Bride-Groom style. He kicks the door to the side and runs me down the hall to the main compartment, with plenty of 'excuse me's I never noticed how strong he was, which is quite weird, considering I have lived with him since I was a baby.

When we get to the main teacher's compartment he kicks the door, and we hear an older woman's voice "For goodness sakes what is it?" She opens the door and looks at me.

"Please help my sister," he says, and that is the last thing I remember before passing out.

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DRACO'S VP

I walk down the hall,

I don't care, call me evil, vile, a bastard, I don't care.

Fine, I will call you that. It suits you, for exactly what you are.

She and that THING are not my problem,

She cared enough about you to make sure you were okay!

I will have my father hear about this though, that THING attacked me!

She told you exactly NOT what to do, you do it, and now, she is dog food! She is back there bleeding to death, and it is because of you!

Serves her right, for insulting me back at Diagon Alley.

She is waiting for you to come back and help her, she probably broke bones for YOUR safety, and she doesn't know you.

I keep walking until I get back to my cart, Blaise stares at me. "What?"

"Mate, your face, its all sort of…mangled." He throws me a towel and a chocolate frog. Nice guy, horny, but nice.

I wipe my face again, "Little girl trouble, that's all," well, a girl and a beast.

"Mate, girls don't have claws," he pulls me over to the mirror. I see that I have three claw marks going down my cheek, with blood running down from them. "Well, they don't have manicures that do that, so what's going on?"

I think of the girl again. What was her name? Lane? Lavender? Lilac? Lexi? Yes, that was it Lex! She was beautiful, I wanted to be mad at her, but, I couldn't TRULY be mad at her. DAMN she has a boyfriend. Oh, well, maybe she'll feed him to her beast!! Wait what if he WAS the beast!?!

"I will be back soon," I grab my wand, a couple of towels, a wet washcloth, and run back to the compartment. I count to three and run in.

"Can we help you?" says a girl in a pink miniskirt. "Say, have you seen our friend, her name is Lex, and she is gone, along with her brother, Zane.

I shake my head yes. "Where? And, OH MY GOD!!!!ZANE HAD AN ATTACK!!???!!!! You guys, look at his cheek!!!!" the strange group look at me and stare.

They told me to sit down, "What happened?" said miniskirt girl.

I sat down the stuff and look out the window "I walk in there is a wolf and a girl, she tells me not to move, I panic and he attacks us. I run to go get help and she and the beast is gone. There, all done." I walk towards the door and start walking down, looking in compartments; I still don't see her anywhere. Finally I stop at the teachers compartment and knock. "May I come in professor? ...Professor?" I walk in and see Lex, and the beast boy and professor McGonagall. She is past out, laying on a bench.

"Ah, Mister Malfoy, you too?" She says to me, "Please, cradle her head Mister Malfoy, and then I will tend to you." I sit down and put her head in my lap, I stroke her cheek. Oh, god, please don't die. She opens her eyes; she smiles at me and closes them again. "Mister Malfoy, I want you to meet two of your new class mates: Alexandria and Zane Creighton. As you can see, Miss Creighton is indisposed at the moment. I will fix you up and out you go. I assure you, Mister Malfoy, she will be fine. Oh, and Mister Malfoy, as your prefect duties, go and let everyone know they should change clothes around this time, we arrive in a few minutes."

So, I go let everyone know anyway, but she is still on my mind.

Lex's VP

I wake up and feel a warm hand stroking my cheek, I smile at him, I din;t know who it is, my vision is blurry. I close my eyes and listen, Draco is still on my mind, even when they escort me to the infirmary. I fall asleep again.