~*Two Worlds Collide*~
~*One Week Later*~
Marionie sighed as she drug her trunk onto the trolley and pet the kitten that was mewing on her shoulder. "Mello, you're going to love it at Hogwarts. Especially with the friends I made. It should be a fun year!"
Close by, Mika was with her father and grandmother. Her father was dragging her trolley with her stuff on it and her grandmother was next to him, holding her kitten Kittana's cage.
"Now, remember, Mika, you have to calm down and watch what you do with that new wand of yours," her grandmother told her.
"I will," Mika replied.
Before anyone else could say anything, Mika noticed Marionie and called for her as she gestured for her father and grandmother to follow.
"MARIONIE!!!"
Marionie spun around in a circle looking in the direction of the voice, "MIKA!!! HI!!!" Waving vigorously Marionie turned around to her mother. "Mum, I'm going over there."
"Alright Mari, but don't get lost. We don't need a repeat of your first year." Marionie's mum was eyeing every person at Kings Cross.
"Don't worry mum, I'll be fine!" Marionie turned and ran towards Mika. "How are you?"
Marionie spun around in a circle looking in the direction of the voice, "MIKA!!! HI!!!" Waving vigorously Marionie turned around to her mother. "Mum, I'm going over there."
"Alright Mari, but don't get lost. We don't need a repeat of your first year." Marionie's mum was eyeing every person at Kings Cross.
"Don't worry mum, I'll be fine!" Marionie turned and ran towards Mika. "How are you?"
"Just fine, really," she replied, "Yourself?"
"I'm great! Other than having a completely distraught and worried mum." Marionie smiled. "Oh, you didn't get to see my kitten when you were over last week! This is Mello." Marionie pet the kitten on her shoulder again.
Mika smiled, and said, "Well, here's my kitty, Kittana, or Kit..." She grabbed the grey kitten out of her cage held by her grandmother and showed it to Marionie.
Melina Avalon smiled at her granddaughter and asked, "Who is your new friend, Mika?"
"Awe how cute! I'm Marionie Hearts madam, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Marionie reached out to pet the kitten as Mello jumped off her shoulder and ran back to her mother in a flash of white fluff. "MELLO! Oh well, at least he's with mum."
"Yeah, shouldn't we get onto the train?"
Julian Avalon said, "It's nice to meet you young lady." He came up from behind Melina with Mika's stuff.
"Yes, I believe you should," Melina replied, "You girls might be late!"
Marionie looked at Mika's father blinking and smiled then gasped. "I forgot how!"
"You didn't forget how, you just don't want to." Marionie's father walked up behind her and stretched his hand out to Mika's father. "Hello, I'm Mathew Hearts, Marionie's father. You must be Mr. Avalon."
"Julian, please. It's a pleasure to meet you." Mika smiled as her father shook hands with Marionie's.
Marionie was glaring up at her father for mentioning her fear. "Alright, I didn't forget. You walk through the barrier separating platforms nine and ten."
"Yep, let's do it! I told the guys to save us a compartment, preferably far away from Malfoy and his Slytherin posse of lame-a-zoids," Mika said excitedly.
Marionie smiled and nodded her head. "Dad, can you bring the trunk? I wanna get on the train! PLEASE?"
"Alright, just stay with Mika alright?" Marionie's father smiled.
"Of course!!! Okay Mika, lets go!" Marionie jumped up and down excitedly.
Mika's father and grandmother took care of Mika's things as Mika crossed the barrier with her friend.
Marionie gasped. "Wow, this is really cool! The train for Westminster is boring compared to this!"
Mika took over the dragging of her school things and brought them to the train's luggage compartment. Then she took her kitten's cage with her pet in it and held it.
"Okay, I'm ready!" she exclaimed, "Bye daddy, bye grams!"
"Goodbye, Mika, behave!" her grandmother said.
Her father added, "Try not to break your wand over anyone's head."
Mika rolled her eyes as she waited for Marionie.
Marionie grabbed her trunk and pushed it in the direction of the compartment and ran back to her father hugging him. "Bye daddy, by mum. I'll see you at Christmas!"
"Bye sweetie. We'll send Harmony with a letter for you since you decided to take Mello. Send lots of letter and behave yourself. I don't want any letters from your uncle." Marionie mum said and she tapped Marionie on the head.
"Alright mum, I promise!" Marionie ran back on the train and waved as she stood next to Mika. "Bye! Love you!"
Mika led Marionie into the train; searching for the compartment their friends had saved. "Maybe we'll get lucky and not have to deal with Malfoy." Mika said screwing up her expression as she said Draco's last name. Mari couldn't help laughing. "What are you laughing at?" Mika asked holding back her own chuckles.
"You look so funny when you do that!" Marionie giggled as she stepped into the compartment becoming instantly quiet at sight of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sitting there already.
"Hi Mari!" Ginny said cheerfully as she tugged at something on her brother's robes. "Ron, how did you get red hair on your robes? It doesn't even look like yours!" The girl muttered confused.
"Ginny, just stop! It's from Hermione's new cat." Ron said blushing at Marionie and smiled. "Lay off!"
"Fine, fine. If you want red cat hair on you, it's no problem to me. I'm going to go find Neville!" She said standing up sticking her tongue out at Ron. "Ronnie and Mari sitting in a tree…" she began singing as she walked further away from the compartment making both Ron and Marionie blush deep crimson.
Harry and Hermione chuckled to themselves as Mari and Mika sat down. "Ah, so I see the mudblood lovers are all together with their little mudblood friends." A cold sneering voice said from the open compartment door making all the heads turn. "Oh, and joined by a weasel too. How quaint."
"Shut up Malfoy." Mika hissed looking at Draco who was flanked on either side by Grabbe and Goyle. "Go away and take the scabs with you." She hissed standing up.
"Or what mudblood. You'll have your friends come after me?" He asked smirking looking around at the group. His eyes landing on his cousin who had a sad and disappointed look on her face. 'How is it possible to have both those looks at once?' He asked himself shaking his head. "Well, erm…" Draco turned around and walked away.
'Well that's unusual. Especially for a Malfoy.' Mika thought to herself. Joining the conversation the rest of the group was having about Quidditch.
~*~*~*~
Mari woke with a start to see Mika looking out the window. They still hadn't arrived at Hogwarts and the temperature had turned rather cold in the compartment. Hermione was looking worriedly at Harry who looked shaken and pale. A man sitting in the back of the compartment with ragged robes. Which looked old and shabby was watching over them closely.
"W… what happened to Harry?" Mari asked quietly making Mika jump. "S… sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
Mika blinked shaking her head. Her eyes looked a bit red and puffy as she looked at her friend. "It's alright." She whispered trying to smile which didn't work out to way she wanted it too. "Dementors." She stated gesturing to Harry. "Came in and did something. You were sleeping… it didn't seem to effect you. Infact… you seemed to turn yellow. Crazy things." She said shrugging looking out the window again.
Marionie decided to leave Mika alone; she didn't seem to want to talk at the moment. Standing up she stretched out her stiff leg muscles. Gulping down sounds of pain. 'How long have I been sleeping anyway?' She thought to herself as she walked to sit by Harry. "Are you alright?" She asked startling Harry. 'I seem to be scaring people a lot today.' She thought taken back by her cousin's reaction.
"Yea I'm fine." He said looking back at the man sitting behind him.
Before Mari could say anything else to Harry, the entrance to the compartment opened up and a tall guy with a shaved head entered, startling the redhead. She watched as the older boy walked in with interest.
Mika glanced at Marionie and followed her gaze. She found Oliver Wood and smiled faintly.
Mari glanced over to her friend and mouthing, "Who's that?"
As Oliver began to talk to the Weasley twins, Mika quickly sat next to Mari and explained, "That's Oliver Wood, the Gryffindor Quidditch Team's captain and keeper. Wanna go say hello?"
Marionie shook her head turning slightly pale. "T... that's alright Mika." She whispered back.
Mika looked up in time to see George, Fred and Oliver deep in conversation, no doubt about Quidditch. "C'mon, Mari!" she whispered then walked over to the guys.
"...so you wanna join the girls in the other compartment? Lee Jordan's there too," Oliver said.
Before the twins said anything, Mika cleared her throat, which caused Oliver to turn around.
"Hey there, pretty boy!" she teased, "I'm surprised you left the company of the chasers to say hello."
"You and your childish theories!" he exclaimed as he hugged her.
"I want you to meet someone," Mika said as soon as Oliver released her.
"Oh yea? Who's that?" he asked.
Marionie walked up behind her friend keeping quiet.
Mika glanced at where Marionie was sitting next to Harry then realized that she was behind her.
"Marionie Hearts, this is Oliver Wood," Mika told her friend, "He's like my older brother at Hogwarts."
"She's nearly as annoying as if she were my actual little sister," he stated, smiling at Marionie.
Marionie laughed a bit and stretched out her hand. "It's very nice to meet you Oliver..."
"Oliver, that's Marionie Hearts, a transfer student from France. She used to go the Westminster School for Underage Witches and Wizards."
"The pleasure's all mine, Marionie," Oliver told her, his charming smile still on his face.
Marionie blushed looking back at Oliver smiling. "So you're the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team? That's what Mika told me."
"Yeah, do you enjoy the sport?" he asked.
"She's a fan of Quidditch and I wanted to introduce her to the greatest team to ever grace the pitch at Hogwarts...do you mind, Oliver?" Mika asked, sensing Marionie's shyness.
"No, not at all, Mika," he answered, "In fact, I was trying to get the twins to come along. I'm being outnumbered by the girls."
Mika glanced at Harry and called out, "Oy, Harry, aren't you gonna come?"
Ron looked at Oliver turning slightly red since he seemed to be getting all the attention from Marionie and looked at Hermione who was smiling at the other girl. 'Fine, I see how it is.' He thought to himself.
"Yes, I love it. I played beater on the team." Marionie looked over at Mika smiling.
Mika asked Marionie, "What's up with Harry?"
Marionie looked over at Harry. "I don't know, he wouldn't tell me... he seemed to have not even wanted to speak to me." She said sighing.
Mika grinned and replied, "You go ahead and have Oliver continue with the introductions. The chasers are a bunch of really nice girls. I'll go try and have a chat with Mr. Potter."
Mari blinked turning pale again looking at Oliver. "Y... you aren't coming?" She asked surprised looking back at Mika.
Mika, wearing an innocent look on her face assured her, "Mari, you're in good hands."
A/N: Okay, so it's short… lol. Anne helped with this chapter too. Fun! Lol. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks bunches to the reviewers!