Yay! Starting another one! And on the same day I submitted the last one!

Chapter 4 The Train

Darren closes his eyes and braces himself for impact. They stopped and he hears Vancha chuckling.

Darren opens his eyes, they weren't flat as pancakes!

He turns his head to see Harry appearing out of the pillar behind him laughing.

"Vancha! Stop!" mimics Vancha in a girly voice, rolling his eyes skywards and holding his face.

"Shut up.." Darren grumbled as he scowled at the floor and carried on his quiet picking of the ropes that no body had noticed yet

There was a loud toot from the BIG red train in front of them and Mrs. Weasley ran up to them in a hurry.

"We got your family into the train Harry, but you two need to hurry or else you'll miss the train! It leaves in one minuet! Hurry!" Harry and Vancha looked at each other then Harry sprinted towards the train, trolley in tow. (Vancha just has to jog to keep up) There was a lot of people so it took longer than usual. 'Were not gonna make it!' thought Harry as he struggled to pull his trolley behind him.

He looked behind him to see Vancha watching him, not even breaking a sweat

The train toots once again and starts to move and they weren't even close! The door starts to gain ground and leave them behind when Vancha comes up behind him and grabs him by his waist and tosses him on his shoulder. Vancha grabbed Harry's trunk and then ran up alongside the entrance. He tossed Darren inside and then Harry's trunk. Then he threw Harry in and slowed down to a walk. Harry looked out the door and waved. Vancha waved back before turning around and disappearing into the crowd. Harry turned around at a groan he heard from his trunk.

He looked down to see that his trunk had 'accidentally' squished Darren. He quickly moved his trunk off the poor teen.

"Sorry!"

"No problem (grunt) just a few broken ribs 'sall" Harry started to move his trunk into the compartments hallway when he noticed that Darren wasn't following him. He turned around to see him still on the floor!

"Erm…Coming Darren?"

Darren gave him the deadpan look then turned on his side a bit "I'm kinda stuck." Indicating to the ropes around his middle.

"Oh! Here, I'll help you. "He turned around and pulled out his wand "Reducto" he tapped the ropes and they came loose.

Darren stood up and cracked his back "Thanks" he stretched his arms and yawned then looked at Harry.

"Were do we go now?" asked Darren as he looked at the many doors behind Harry.

"We find my friends so you can meet them." He turned and dragged his trunk down the hallway.

"Cool" He followed Harry until they stopped at one of the doors and opened it.

His friends all stopped talking. They were all there Harry thought excitedly. There was Ron and Hermione, of course, there was Luna, Neville, Seamus, Dean, and Ginny too, all cramped into this small compartment.

Once they saw Harry, the girl's glomped him and the guys patted him on the back, all of them excited about the New Year. Darren stood back from the crowd of people that apparently knew Harry well and watched from the shadows, big crowds weren't his thing. He watched on with interest as he got bombarded with questions.

"Hey Harry! How 'ave you been mate? Did you hear about the Chudley Cannons winning the Quidditch Cup?"asked Dean.

"Of course he hasn't you big oaf! He was at his house remember?" said Seamus as he hit Dean over the head.

"How was your summer Harry?" asked Ginny, a crimson tint to her cheeks.

"It was ok"

"They didn't punish you too hard right?" said Luna, as drifty as ever

"Er…no, Luna. Eh heh" backs away slowly

"The DA is still running this year, right Harry?" asked Neville excitedly

"Ya, it's still going strong"

"Well we better be goin' now. Bye Harry!" said Dean as him and Seamus walked down the corridor.

Ginny, Hermione, and Luna all walked back inside of the compartment.

"So your still alive? Good to hear. I was afraid you'd strangle yourself in that muggle house over the summer from being kept in one room for so long!" Ron chuckled and walked into the compartment as well.

Harry started to follow when he remembered that Darren was there.

"Oh! Sorry Darren! I was so excited about my friends that I forgot to introduce you! Sorry! Hey guys!…"

Darren felt something tug at his heart. 'I was so excited about my friends……' I don't think the gods want me to ever feel that way, the way they keep killing them off….

Flashes of Steve's angry face, swearing revenge. Sam Grest' face as he died, Gavner Purl with a knife through his chest, Arra Sails on her death bed, and Larten falling to his death of a pit of firey stakes.

Darren shook his head and tuned into the conversation as Harry introduced him to his friends.

"Everyone, this is Darren. Darren these are Ron (he pointed to Ron at the front left side of the compartment) Luna (sitting beside Ron) Hermione (sitting at the window seat on the left) Neville (front right) and Ginny (beside Neville)"

"Hi" said Darren with a lousy attempt at a smile.

"Hey Darren!" They all said in usion.

Neville and Ginny squished down so Harry could sit beside Ginny and Darren sat down at the window seat.

"So Darren, were are you from?" asked Hermione

"Up north."

She gave him a funny look but dropped it.

"What school did you used to go to?" asked Neville

Everyone wished in his or her head that he didn't say Durmstrang

"It was privet so you wouldn't know about it."

"Did you parents home school you?" asked Ginny, entwining her hand in Harry's 'secretively', they had gotten together last year.

For the second time that day Darren felt his heart tug. 'Why all the personal questions? And why is this only effecting me now?'

"No." was all he said it was hard to say anything when his chest hurt so much, like something was trying to get out of his rib cage. He looked out the window and watched the trees fly past. 'Like flitting with Larten…..NO! Stop thinking like that! Its in the past, forget about it.' He tore his eyes away from the window and looked at the floor instead. 'No memories there'

Nobody saw the self-conflict going on inside of him except for Hermione, who was sitting across from him, but she didn't say anything.

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Ok, short Chapter today but I want to end it here.

Just so you all know the pairings are HP/GW HG/RW/DM(not sure what its going to be yet) and Darren with nobody.