Chapter Thirteen

Nico's POV:

I was sleeping soundly in my bed, wait… when did I get into a bed? I passed out on the floor didn't I? whatever, it doesn't matter. So anyway, I was sleeping soundly in a bed, when I heard rapid knocking on the door. I didn't want to get up, so I ignored it. Then I fell asleep again.

I only woke up when I felt someone shaking me awake. "Nico! Get up! We're going to miss the train! Get up Death Boy!". Who wakes people up like that!? I got annoyed and opened my eyes groggily. There, beside my bed stood Will. Wait, Will!?

But the Will I knew didn't have dark bags under his eyes, or messy hair. I've seen Will right after he woke up a few times, but he never looked like he slept this bad.

"Will!" I got up and tackled him with a tight hug. "you're ok!" "It appears I am," he said. "Tom told me the spell Gerald used on me was such a simple spell an eleven year old could do it. So no worries." "You look terrible!" I pointed out. "Thanks, really, I'm blushing," he said sarcastically. "How did you sleep last night?" I asked him, concerned. "Well, I was sleeping fine until- never mind, I'll tell you later. Right now we need to focus on catching the Hogwarts express. If we miss it… well I don't actually know what would happen, but I don't want to find out." He decided.

-Awkward silence- We just stared at each other for like, a minute in a half, before I just couldn't help myself anymore, and gave Will a kiss. It was like, 3 seconds long, and very awkward after it ended.

"Wow," I paced myself for the criticism. "Thanks," he grinned. "Anytime," I smiled.

After we were dressed and fed (Will had French toast, I had a brioche with jam, I hadn't had something Italian in forever) we headed back into our room to leave the hotel. Sounds stupid right? No, we were shadow travelling, remember? We remembered to return the key and pay (wizard money is weird), I thought we should just leave, but Will made me pay and return the key personally to the owner, Mrs. Abbott for that thought. Hmmph, 'doctors orders'.

We were standing in our room, in a shadowy corner, holding hands (EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK YAAAAY WOOOHOOOO), and I asked Will, "ready?" "Ready as I'll ever be" he assured me. And we disappeared into the shadows.

We appeared in the worst place ever, on the traintracks. "Tooooooot tooooooot" is my impression of the train that was coming straight for us. Is it good? Will screamed and tried to grab onto the wall of the tracks to pull us up, but it was too high. "Nico get us out of here!" he screamed! we heard people coming towards the tracks. They absolutely could not see us! So I grabbed Will's hand and concentrated on shadow traveling to somewhere else.

Right before the train hit us and the people arrived, we were gone. This time we appeared between a wall and a ticket machine. My knees buckled and I fell. I could feel the adrenaline. I was so scared it hurt. Will pulled me up and into a hug tighter than the one this morning. "it's ok," he whispered, "everything will be ok."

"I'm perfectly fine," I grumbled, and pushed him away. I didn't like showing weakness. Will looked surprised. "Where are we supposed to be going, and what time is it?" I asked, trying to change the subject. Will looked at his wrist watch. "Ten to eleven. We've got ten minutes, we better hurry." He said.

So we found some luggage carts and headed for platforms nine and ten. I wasn't going to run into a wall, so we decided to look for some people who looked magically crazy enough to try it.

Chiron said wizards and witches often had owls, cats, or frogs and toads. In front of the platforms a boy of about twelve with dark turquoise hair and bright blue eyes was standing with a much older who looked too old to be his mother, maybe about fifty or fifty five, talking to her. The woman was extremely beautiful and radiated kindness, she had very curly light brown hair, and soft wide eyes. The boy also had a luggage cart, and the tip of a yellow and black necktie was sticking out of an unzipped suitcase. The colors of the puffyhuff house, right?

But the thing that stood out the most was when the boys hair casually turned pink before my eyes. Will stopped walking. I looked at him, he looked like he didn't know what expression to make. He didn't know how to react to color changing hair (apparently that's a thing now or something). Apparently Will decided they must be from the waizarding world. Do you know what he frigging did!? He frigging walked frigging right up to them and frigging introduced his-frigging-self!

"Hi, I'm Will Solace, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm trying to get to platform nine and three quarters. Can you help me?" I ran up behind him and said, "What are you doing!? You don't just go around announcing that you're trying to get to… ummm… that place!" The woman and the boy looked at each other and laughed. The boy's hair turned neon yellow. "You should listen to your friend, young man. You don't know what could happen if you accidentally reveal yourself to a muggle. You could even get arrested by the ministry." "boyfriend, actually," I think my face turned a brighter red than the kids neon hair. I punched will in the shoulder as hard as I could. "Ow!" he exclaimed. The woman's expression didn't change, but the boy's hair turned a pale red. "Besides," Will continued, "Mistakes are how you learn." "You'll never learn," I grunted. "I'm sure he will, anyways, it's a pleasure meeting you too, Will Solace. I'm Andromeda Tonks, and this is my grandson, Teddy Lupin." The boy waved. "What is your name?" she asked me. "Nico di Angelo. But we still need to get to platform nine and three quarters, can you help us?" Andromeda nodded. "Certainly. You just run straight through the wall between platforms nine and ten." She said happily. "Great." I mumbled. "Teddy can show you how he does it, this is his second year at Hogwarts." She said proudly. He grinned. When Andromeda told him to run, he ran straight for the wall and disappeared when he reached it.

Will just stared at the spot where Teddy disappeared like it was magic. GEE NICO HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT IDEA? ALSO YOU'RE A DEMI-GOD, WHAAAAAT!?

"Will!" I snapped my fingers in front of his face. I looked at Andromeda, "Sorry for his reaction, we don't have magical portals in America." I said. "Sorry, Death Boy," Will smiled. "I told you not to call me that!" I said, gritting my teeth. "Do you want to go first?" I asked, trying to calm down. "Nah, you can go first," Will answered, oblivious to the fact that I wanted him to go first. "Fine."

I readied myself for broken bones and probably a concussion. I stood in front of the wall between platforms nine and ten, with my luggage cart in front of me. I ran, faster and faster. I was about to stop right in front of the wall, because I just couldn't do it, but the wheels on my luggage cart kept spinning, and the cart dragged me through the wall.