Chapter 3: Troubles on the Train
The next morning Naomi woke up to the chirping of birds and the pecking of squirrels in the nearby trees. The sun hit her face with its mocking heat. Naomi could still feel the pain in her body from the previous night but she put it away inside her mind in order to sneak into her room, through the window, to get her luggage. Naomi moved over to the window and tried to lift it up but found it locked. No biggie. She looked down at the bush below her crouched body and found the razor sharp leaf. She had cast a spell on 3 of the leaves in her 3rd summer and now they could break open the lock on her window and if it was magically locked than Naomi was screwed. She took the leaf and put it threw the crack where the lock was. Naomi heard a click and was able to open the pane. Her mother must have been too drunk to remember any other spells other than the crucio curse.
Naomi opened the window without a sound being issued and stepped in. She saw her mother's friend sleeping on the bed. Naomi poked her but nothing happened, she grabbed her suitcases one by one and took some handcuffs out of her drawer, two pairs. Naomi put one in a trunk and hooked the friend to the bed. When she had all of her trunks outside on the sidewalk, she then ran back to the window and crawled through. Naomi punched the friend in the face with so much force that she flew her eyes open, then she screamed at her, "That's what you get for taking my room, bitch!" The lady tried to grab her wand but then realized she was stuck, just in case, Naomi threw it across the room and jumped out the window.
Naomi ran to the curb as fast as she could when she saw that her mom had walked into the room to see what the commotion was. She stuck her right hand, fingers spread, and hopped on the Knight Bus. It was 9:30 and Naomi wasn't sure if they were still running but she gave it a shot and what do you know they were! Stan looked at Naomi and was about to start the welcome speech but she stopped him, "You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard it." Naomi walked past and onto the back, there were now chairs because all of the beds that had been there the night before had magically vanished.
The bus picked up on speed and Naomi was on her way to Platform 9 ¾. The bus sped along but made constant stops to avoid pedestrians and let on more wizards. Finally when the clock struck 10 she was at King Cross and jumped off after handing Stan 12 sickles. Naomi grabbed all of her trunks and took the path to the platforms 9 and 10. She saw the dividing wall and looked around. All muggles were looking away as they would due to a spell that was placed on the wall. An officer came up to her and said, "Hogwarts Express?" Naomi nodded. The ministry had wizards working for the station just in case anything was to go wrong.
She proceeded through the barrier and placed her trunks against a wall adjacent to the opening. Naomi walked over to the bathroom and saw Fida flapping behind her so she let Fida in too. She looked at the oversized sink and stood in front while she opened the mirror above it, inside there were bottles of shampoo and conditioner for kids who needed to leave extra early and couldn't get a shower in. Naomi washed her hair quickly and would have dried it too but didn't because she wasn't able to do magic outside of school with her own wand.
Naomi exited the bathroom with Fida on her shoulder and found her trunks again; she then sat there waiting for the train. In the mean time Naomi opened a book and started to read to herself.
"She entered the door and an eerie feeling flew through her body. She knew something was messed up with the area. Jane walked around the corner of the kitchen and saw what she feared most of all. Her best friend, slash roommate, was lying on the floor with a knife pierced through her heart and over her was the murderer, laughing. Jane ducked under a counter but not before knocking a pan off the stove. It clattered on the floor loudly and her heart stopped. The Killer looked around the room and saw a foot print in the soup that was dropped. It was pointing straight at Jane and he laughed again."
"Well looks like we aren't so smart are we? Little Janie!" When he said her name he dropped his face to meet hers. She screamed and-"
The loudness in the platform was so intense now that she couldn't finish her book. Naomi slammed the book shut out of frustration and stood up. She knew that she didn't read that slow, but when she looked at the clock there were 10 minutes before the train would be there. Naomi freaked a little because she wasn't ready to go. She still had to make sure that she had everything, her trunks were behind her but where was Fida. The air chilled around her as she slipped on her favorite jacket. Naomi went back into the bathroom and looked around, no Fida in sight.
Naomi stepped back out and realized she only had 8 more minutes. She started running around asking people if they had seen her bird. All of them either looked at her funny or just said no. It went on for a long time, all the same questions and all of the same answers, "Have you seen my Owl? She is small and coos a lot." Naomi would ask, "No," they would answer.
Before Naomi realized it, the train sped into the platform and she really started to panic. Her bird was nowhere in sight. Fida was all she had. There were officers all around, and Naomi asked them all if they had seen Fida while she watched her own trunks get hauled away. Maybe she was in one of them, Naomi thought, but she knew she wasn't though. Naomi started to hyperventilate after she realized that she had lost her, she tried to search more of the platform but were stopped when an officer pushed Naomi on the train saying she was going to miss the train. Naomi argued but didn't win as he found her an empty compartment. Naomi began to cry but when the first tear drop hit her coat she heard a coo. She looked down and there she was, hiding in the jacket. She stopped crying immediately and scowled.
"I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU, YOU FILTHY WORTHLESS CREATURE." It seemed scared and cuddled back inside her jacket and Naomi remembered why she was put in Slytherin in the first place, her rage. Naomi unzipped the jacket and picked Fida up, stroking her back and cooed to her apologetically. She hugged the small animal and the door opened.
"Why were you yelling? Are you- whoa." The boy who stepped in said.
Naomi looked up and saw that he was blushing madly under his black hair. When he shook out of it he completed his sentence.
"Like I was saying, why are you screaming? Are you all right? And why on Earth are you petting that thing?"
Naomi looked down at her hands and saw that she was still petting Fida and answered his questions, "I was looking for her and she ended up hiding in my jacket I was mad that she hid from me. Yes I'm fine and this isn't a thing her name is Fida."
He nodded to Naomi as if apologizing for his rash actions and words.
"Blaise Andrew Zabini, a pleasure to meet you."
"Taylor Jennings, likewise." Speaking the obvious lie.
He asked if he could sit with her and she nodded. He sat down across from Naomi leaving 6 empty seats.
"I'm from Slytherin, you're not in Gryffindor are you?" he sneered. Naomi shook her head vigorously and told him that she was in the same house as he. He asked if she was an exchange but Naomi told him that she wasn't.
"Really? I've never seen you around before."
"Yes you have." He looked at Naomi questioningly and when she grabbed a robe out of her bag, since she felt like changing early, he recognized her immediately.
"You're that girl, um, Hope right? Yeah I know those robes from anywhere. GOSH! You've certainly changed." Blaise looked Naomi up and Naomi rolled her eyes.
"And you must be that extremely rude yet perverted boy Zabini. Wow you haven't changed one bit!" Naomi mocked and he scowled.
"Awe and there's the same feisty attitude we all love." He said sneering.
Naomi tried to get out of the room but he locked the door and shook his head.
"No, Draco and the gang will be here soon and he wouldn't be pleased if I were here alone, now would he?" He sneered. She glared at him and threw her clothes back in the trunk then threw herself back on the seat. Blaise smirked as if saying to himself, 'good girl'. She smirked back and kicked him super hard in the groin. He doubled over in pain while throwing ever curse word known to man at her. When he was able to stand straight again he grabbed his wand and pointed it at Naomi but before he could cast a spell he noticed someone trying to open the door. Blaise moved toward it and Draco walked through the threshold. She took the chance and stood up to leave but Draco pushed her back.
"Well who do we have here Blaise, you've seemed to catch a good one this time." He glanced over to Pansy and rolled his eyes. Naomi sneered and tried to move aside and get past but he stayed in front of her.
"So Blaise what's her name?" Draco asked. Naomi was now thoroughly offended, he should be asking you that question. She pushed him onto the seat and walked past through the door but not before being picked up off the floor and thrown into the wall by a spell.
Draco was now glaring at Naomi and Pansy was behind him trying to brush the dirt from his back.
"NOBODY and I mean NO ONE AT ALL treats me like that! Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Well it looks to me, like I just did, so I guess that means that I don't fall under your category and, its not who I think I am, it's who I know I am and that would be NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUISINESS!" He slapped her hard across the face and asked her yet again what her name was.
"I've told you once already, must I repeat myself, scum?" Naomi spit in his face. Blaise laughed and handed Draco his wand. She smiled inside; she knew Draco quite well and knew that he was going to do like her mother.
"Silencio!" He said with gusto. Naomi just smiled and waved which really seemed to tick him off. He threw an unforgivable curse at her. She felt pain ripple through her body but she didn't show it one bit. It was no where near her mother's curses. She just stood there shaking slightly but not opening her mouth; instead Naomi sat down, pulled out some cards, and set up a game of solitaire. This seemed to really tick him off and she knew it because he repeated the spell a second and third time. Naomi just sat there shaking and smiling in accomplishment after she had completed a row.
The rage in his eyes was unmistakable but within a minute he stopped and smiled.
"That's not going to get it out is it?" Naomi shook her head and he lifted the silencio spell, "This will, Imperio! Tell me your name." she had never been under this before and didn't know the power of it. All she could do was say her name. The intense thrill made her say it. The feeling was indescribable; it was like it filled her every want, her only want rather. It gave Naomi the feeling that she had her sister back.
"Well, isn't this nice, we have that little bitch from last year here in our compartment and my have you grown!" He smirked, then looked Naomi up just as Blaise had done. "Blaise this one is mine you've got to find a different one. I know I can break her." Blaise looked downcast but Naomi, on the other hand, was livid; no one could break her, no one. He threw the jacket that she still had on, off of her to see his damage but what he found wasn't his. He saw the faint scars on her arms and for a spit second looked angry.
"So that's why you didn't crumble under my own curse, you have been enduring it for a long time and from, what seems like, a much stronger wizard." He threw her jacket back at Naomi and shoved her on the floor. She tried to get back up but the look he gave her made her reconsider. She knew that his power was much greater than what he demonstrated today. With his father and Voldemort combined, Draco must have had lessons; otherwise he would never have learned the curse in the first place. Naomi saw a faint line on his wrist as he held his hand on her shoulder, like the tail of a snake. He was one of them, a deatheater, the kind of people that killed her sister, the kind of people that her own parents were becoming, and the kind of person that Naomi swore never to be!
She saw the eyes of hell and spat back.
