I still don't own Harry Potter and never will. I am just writing this for my own enjoyment. I would like to ask that people review just so I know that you like the story. Plus, if you have a good idea or you want to see something happen, I can try to work it into later chapters.
Without further adieu, here is the second chapter of A Black and White Story.
September 1st, 1971~ King's Cross Station
"Come on Sirius! We're going to miss the train!" A small girl said pulling a boy that looked a lot like her behind her. The said boy was laughing and was strong enough to hold his sister back.
"Calm down, Sissy," Sirius said with a smile on his face.
She let go of his hand and turned to glare at him, which probably wasn't the smartest idea since the platform was crowded with parents saying goodbye to their children. Sirius was just about to warn her that she was going to run into someone when they collided.
The boy had fire red hair and dark brown eyes that were full of laughter as Ursula tries to untangle herself from the boy. Once she was free, Ursula quickly got off the boy while her brother offered his hand to him.
"Sorry about that. She loves to knock people off their feet." Sirius said with his silver eyes twinkling with mischief.
Ursula glared at her brother and slapped him on the arm before turning to the boy she had run over,
"Sorry about that. Ursula Black. That dolt over there is my brother Sirius."
He smiled,
"It's no problem. Benjamin White. Just call me Ben."
They were about to start talking when the whistle blew, signaling the train was about to leave. In the mad dash to get on the train, Ursula and Sirius were separated from the boy they had just met. The twins quickly put their trunks in an overhead compartment and began to look for a place to sit.
"So, Sissy, where do you suggest we sit?" Sirius asked agitated. She had just turned down three offers from other kids who offered them spots in their compartments.
She shrugged and then peaked into another compartment before turning back to her brother with a smile on her face,
"We're sitting here."
She slid open the door that revealed a girl with copper colored hair. Ursula sauntered in and sat down across from the girl,
"Hello, I'm Ursula Black. That's my twin Sirius. Mind if we sit here?"
The copper haired girl shook her head,
"Be me guest." She spoke with a heavy Irish accent.
Ursula opened her mouth to say something when the door flew open. There were two boys standing in the doorway. She recognized one of the boys as James Potter. She had never met him, per say, but she had seen his father. The resemblance between them was eerie, the only difference was that his dad has pale blue eyes and his are hazel.
Recognition flashed in James' eyes and he looked a little suspicious. But in an act that would affect the entire world, he walked into the compartment.
"Oh hey Blacks and girl I have never met," James said and without even asking if he could sit, he walked in and sat across from Sirius. The other boy was still awkwardly standing in the doorway.
"You going to come in or what?" Ursula asked him.
He seemed to snap out of his daze and turned a little red,
"Sorry about that. Remus Lupin." He shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you Lupin. I'm Ursula and that one sitting across from James that has no manners is my brother Sirius. I already apologize in advance when he does something to you. Oh, and that is…honestly I have no idea. I was about to ask when someone," she turned to give James a look, "barged in here."
James didn't even look embarrassed; he just continued to chat with Sirius. The copper haired girl then said,
"Me name's Elyse O'Brien. Are all yeh's first years too?"
The group nodded and James decided to elaborate,
"I've been waiting for years to get my letter. My 11th birthday couldn't come fast enough!"
Elyse's eyes were wide,
"Yeh knew yeh was getting a letta! Me mum 'n pop 'ad no idear I were a witch."
Sirius raised his eyebrows,
"You're muggle born?" He asked.
Her eyebrows furrowed,
"What's a muggle?"
James and Sirius went into a long winded explanation about muggle-borns, half-bloods, and purebloods. While they were talking about that, Ursula started talking to the boy that had remained very quiet and looked nervous. Ursula nudged his leg with her leg,
"We don't bite…well that hard anyway."
He chuckled nervously at the joke and seemed to loosen up a tad,
"I'm just nervous about the sorting." He said but Ursula could tell something else was really bothering him.
She decided to ignore that for the time being,
"What house do you want to be in?" She asked him.
He just shrugged, but Elyse heard about houses,
"What are Houses?"
Ursula answered before James or Sirius could,
"There are four houses at Hogwarts, one for each of the founders. Ravenclaw is for the smart and studious. Hufflepuff is for the loyal, but really it takes everyone that doesn't belong in another hose. Slytherin is for the cunning aka the dark wizards. You really don't want to be in Slytherin, it's the worse house. The house you want to be in is Gryffindor, the home of the pure of heart with courage and bravery running through their veins."
Elyse laughed,
"Wonder what 'ouse yeh want te be in?" she asked sarcastically.
Sirius' eyes darkened,
"Our family has been in Slytherin for centuries."
James looked horrified at them,
"Merlin, I thought you two were okay."
"If I get put into that Death Eater house, I will leave Hogwarts." He asserted.
Ursula nodded,
"I would take Hufflepuff over Slytherin."
James laughed,
"I have nothing to worry about. My family has been in Gryffindor as long as the Blacks have been in Slytherin. I know where I'm going to be sorted."
"Ye shouldn't count yeh's chicks before 'ey 'atch James." Elyse scolded.
James looked confused,
"What's a chick?"
"They're baby hens." Remus finally spoke up.
His confusion only grew,
"What's a hen?"
Remus let out his first genuine laugh but it was cut short with two boys falling into the compartments, one on top of the other. The one on the bottom was the boy they had met earlier, Ben White. The other Ursula easily recognized as Peter Pettigrew. They struggled for a couple seconds until Ben finally stood up.
"Sorry 'bout that. Peter here got in a little scuffle with some Slytherins. My sister and I tried to help him out, but let's just say running became the safer option."
Sirius immediately pulled them farther into the compartment and locked the door shut. He said some spell that Ursula didn't hear, but she had a pretty good idea that he was probably just reinforcing the lock.
"Do you know who it was? Can your sister handle it?" James asked as he quickly looked over the two boys making sure they hadn't gotten hexed with something bad.
Ben shrugged and shot a nervous look at the Black twins,
"I didn't get a good look, but it looked like Bellatrix and Lucius Malfoy. I think Narcissa was with them too."
Ursula swore while Sirius cursed their cousins.
"Sorry about them. We don't really count them as family anymore."
"It's okay. Anna's been dealing with them for years now. She can take them."
Ursula looked at him with new admiration in her eyes,
"You're the little brother of Annabelle White! I knew you looked familiar. Your sister is so wicked. The amount of times she has cursed Bellatrix or any of our lovely cousins – you got to introduce us."
Ben looked amused and nodded, his fiery red hair flopping into his eyes.
"But 'y don't yeh like yeh's family? I knew me family gets on me nerves, but they's me family neh matta what." Elyse said, looking at them oddly after Ursula's outburst.
Sirius and Ursula shared a look before Ursula began to explain,
"Sirius and I come from a family that thinks that people like you don't deserve to be taught magic. They follow this dark wizard named Lord Voldemort. They believe all muggle-born and half-blood witches and wizards…well they think they should be killed. But not all people are like that! James' family is considered blood traitors because they don't care about someone's family."
"So ye's a blood traitor 'cause yeh don't care 'bout me blood?"
Ursula nodded, happy that this girl didn't run screaming from the compartment,
"Exactly."
"Anything from the trolley?" They heard from the hallway.
James and Sirius jump and went to fling the door open, but Sirius had magically locked it and they ran into the door with a loud bang. Ursula laughed and stepped over their bodies and said the unlocking spells before opening the door. She turned back to the compartment that now held six people.
"Everyone pick something. My treat."
James and Sirius seemed to fly off the ground and grabbed their favorite treats off the cart; chocolate frogs. Peter grabbed some liquorish wands, stuttering out a thank you before returning to their seats. Elyse had never had magical candy before so she asked the trolley lady what she suggested and got a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans.
Then there was Ben and Remus.
"I'll get something myself. You don't have to spend money on me." Remus tried to argue.
His argument was met with three chocolate frogs being shoved into his arms. He took one look at Ursula before smiling and moving back into the compartment.
Ben was something else.
"I refuse to let a pretty lady pay for me. I wasn't raised like that." He argued.
"Too bad. I want to buy something for you." Ursula shot back.
"What if I refuse?" He challenged.
She raised an eyebrow,
"Why are you making this difficult?"
He smiled,
"I'm not being difficult. I just don't want you to spend your money on me."
"Ben, I want to. It's not going to be a dent in my pocket."
He seemed to consider that a moment and Ursula could sense his resolve cracking. Finally he smiled and took a Pumpkin Pastry off the cart and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before he went back into the compartment.
Ursula felt her cheeks flush and she ducked her head when the Trolley Lady gave her a knowing look. She went though her pockets and paid the proper amount of galleons, while also grabbing her own Pumpkin Pastry.
"Thanks for the candy Sissy." Sirius said while he was stuffing his face with a chocolate frog.
Ursula looked at him in disgust and tried to reach over and wipe some of the chocolate off his face, but he just shooed her away. She in turn turned to Elyse and asked,
"So how's your first magic candy treating you?"
Elyse shrugged and then she popped another candy in her mouth and spit it out. The candy flew across the aisle and hit a familiar face; or at least familiar to the Black twins.
Bellatrix stopped, as did the rest of her little group that consisted of Narcissa, Lucius Malfoy, and Greg Goyle. Bella turned and glared into the compartment,
"Who did that," she hissed at the group of first years. Remus, Peter, and Elyse looked like they were about to pass out. Ben, James, Ursula, and Sirius looked…bored. When no one answered immediately, Bellatrix whipped out her wand and help it to Peter's throat,
"Who. Did. That?" She demanded.
His eyes widened and he looked like he was about to soil himself,
"It was Elyse!" He cried, pointing at the girl in the other corner.
The second that the wand was taken away from his throat, he seemed to sink into the cushions. Bellatrix's ice cold silver eyes shot towards the copper haired girl sitting across from Ursula. She raised her wand and there was a curse on her lips when Ursula shot up and brandished her own wand, protecting Elyse.
"Get away from the mudblood," Bellatrix growled.
Ursula shook her head,
"You will walk out of here and no one will get hurt." Ursula growled back.
After a moment, Bellatrix put her wand away and cocked her head to the side,
"Fine, protect your little mudblood. See you in Slytherin cousins." She called the last part over her shoulder after she left with the others trailing behind her.
Sirius and James were all smiles,
"Nice job Sissy." Sirius congratulated her.
Elyse's eyes were wide as she stared at the spot that Bellatrix had gone. She turned her eyes up to Ursula, who was still standing in front of her,
"Wow, now I knew what ye mean 'bout ye's family. I thought she were aboot teh kill me!"
"She probably would have," Sirius said nonchalantly. That only brought a new level of panic for Elyse. Ursula sat down between her and Remus and glared at her brother.
"Don't worry Elyse. Just stay near us and we'll make sure that nothing happens to you," she said giving a look to the others in the compartment. All of them nodded except Peter, who looked like he was about to pass out after that confrontation with Bellatrix. Poor kid…
They sat talking amongst themselves for about an hour. Remus and Elyse were talking about some muggle books they had both read over the summer. James and Sirius were planning a prank on the teachers once the school year got started. Ursula and Ben were talking with Peter about charms they knew and when the conversation moved to Quidditch, James and Sirius got involved. They were just discussing which was worse, the Holly Harpies or the Chudley Cannons when the compartment door opened.
In the doorway there was a pretty red-head girl with a greasy, hooked-nosed boy. All the conversations stopped in the compartment and the girl cleared her throat before she said,
"We are getting close to the school. You should change into your robes."
Ursula nodded and said,
"Thanks for letting us know. What's your name?" She asked.
The red head smiled
"Lily Evans. This is Severus Snape." She said gesturing towards the boy that was looking reproachfully at James, Ben, and Sirius.
"Ursula Black, Elyse O'Brien, that oaf is my twin Sirius; the other oaf is his friend James Potter. The red headed one is Ben White and the blonde is Remus Lupin. The one that looks like he's about to cry is Peter Pettigrew." She gestured towards each person. Lily looked at the boys who were now in an argument with Severus about which house was better.
"-If you prefer brawns over brains-" Severus was cut off by Sirius,
"And what about you since you don't have either?"
Ursula started to laugh but when she saw Lily's glare she turned it into a cough.
Then she turned to Severus,
"You know what? That lot is all brawn and no brains."
She saw Severus' smug smile and James', Sirius', and Ben's mouths hit the floor but she continued; her eyes glaring at Severus, "But they have hearts full of gold. Get out of this compartment before I make you because I'm all brawn and no brains too," She growled the last part. She would never let someone get away with insulting her family and/or friends.
Severus looked shocked before a scowl made him look more ridiculous than before. He put a hand on Lily's shoulder and led her out of the compartment. Lily didn't even try to fight him.
"What a grease ball," Sirius said in disgust.
"Did you see his hair? It looked like he hadn't showered in a week!" James said laughing.
Ursula cracked a smile, but ignored the boys that went into a Snape bashing tirade. She turned to Elyse who was staring out the window.
"Elyse, do you want to change into our robes now or later?"
Elyse thought a moment,
"Now," she finally decided.
Ursula nodded and with a smile stood in the middle of the packed compartment,
"Okay, boys out! Elyse and I are going to change."
Sirius shook his head,
"There are two girls and five guys. You leave." He said before going back to his conversation with the guys.
She just shrugged and turned and grinned mischievously at Elyse who seemed to catch on to what she was thinking. Elyse joined Ursula standing and kicked off her shoes while Ursula pulled off her hoodie to reveal her white camisole.
"Oi! Bloody hell, what are you doing?" James exclaimed covering his eyes dramatically with his hands. Peter and Remus did the same and Ben just stared at them in shock until Sirius threw a hand over Ben's eyes.
"You guys won't leave. We aren't so…" she trailed off and started taking off her own shoes while Elyse got out her robes.
"We get it, we get it, we'll leave," Sirius said. The guys ran out of the compartment and Ursula closed the curtains over the door and the girls changed, laughing the entire time. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.