A/N
Sorry for skipping straight to this but I figured I'd dragged it out a little too long 3
I clung to Leo's hand as the plane engine rumbled to life. To be perfectly honest, I was terrified. I'd never been a fan of heights, and now I was flying to London.
Leo chuckled and I glared at him.
"You suck." I growled.
"You swallow." He retorted.
I gaped at im. "You choke!"
"You gag."
"You moan."
"You scream."
"You're disgusting."
"You're off the ground."
"You- oh my God, we are."
I stared out of the small, round window as the plane levelled out. Leo laughed as he ruffled my hair.
"You're so immature." I shook my head and grinned.
"I know. It's great. You should try and sleep some of the way, it's a long trip."
"Yea, good luck with that. I'm not sleeping anytime soon."
I was asleep within the next hour.
"Annie. Annie, wake up."
Leo shook my shoulder roughly and I groaned. "What is it this time? If it's food again, I will hit you."
"No, we're preparing to land."
That woke me up.
I wriggled back into a comfortable position and yawned, rubbing my eyes.
I had slept surprisingly well for a first-timer. My mind was still a little fuzzy with tiredness as the plane started its descent and Leo clipped my seatbelt up for my currently incompetent self.
It was another fifteen minutes before the wheels hit the runway painfully slowly. I tried not to look out of the window.
Butterflies erupted in my stomach and I bounced my leg up and down excitedly. Leo's grin distracted me and the robotic male voice crackled over the intercom.
"Please exit the plane in an orderly fashion. Do not leave your passenger luggage behind. Thank you for flying with LyreByrd Airlines."
There was a clamour of retracting seat belts and excited chatter as everyone stood up, stretching and groaning and whatnot. Leo and I shuffled out from our seats and grabbed our laptop bags from the compartment above our heads, pulling them down and stepping into the line of people filing out of the massive aircraft.
The airport was enormous- almost twice the size of the one back home. Leo's hand found mine and I clutched it nervously.
"Lose me and you'll never walk again." I growled and the tall man smiled reassuringly.
"Don't worry, Aria, I don't plan on it."
I eyed him nervously. We scanned our tickets at the mechanical gates.
Carefully staying close to Leo's side, we made our way towards the unloading luggage belt and startled when his phone rang.
"Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfri-"
"Hello?" Leo hastily answered while I snorted at his ringtone.
"Where are you?" I could hear Vicky's enraged shriek myself and Leo made a quirky face at me.
"Uh. In London."
Vicky was silent for a moment and Leo bit his lip awkwardly, holding the phone away.
"Why... Are you... In London...?" She seethed slowly.
"Because in order to get to Diagon Alley and Hogwarts, you need to be in Britain, Victoria!" Leo snapped and ended the call. HIs eyes widened and he stared at the phone uncomprehendingly.
"Temper, temper!" I teased nudging his waist with my elbow. He gave me an uneasy chuckle and pointed.
"They your bags?"
"Yep!" My face lit up and I dashed over, hauling them off the belt. Not long afterwards, Leo's seemingly insufficient suitcase came along.
The airport was filled to the brim and we struggled to get out, and hailing a taxi was even harder.
"Where we off to?" The cabbie asked.
"Um..." Leo thought for a moment. "Near Woodland freeway."
"Can do!" The taxi moved out of the bay.
"I'll hail the Knight Bus. Not the most comfortable way to travel, but it'll get us near Diagon."
The driver gave us a strange look in the mirror and I smiled at him tiredly.
I wonder when the jet lag will kick in.
The taxi disappeared into the distance and Leo knelt on the ground, unzipping his suitcase.
"What are you doing?" I raised an eyebrow.
He pulled out a stick and I stared at him, unimpressed. He caught my expression and rolled his eyes.
"It's my wand, you twit. Twelve inches, hawthorn and dragon scale." He explained proudly, spinning it between his fingers before thrusting his hand out and leaping backwards.
There was a loud BANG echoed and a massive black bus screeched to a halt in front of us and the door slid open grumpily.
"Welcome to the Knigh' Bus, the-" the bored and scruffy-looking conductor stopped and blinked at us.
"Wotsis? Thatchu, Leo?"
"The one and only. 'Ello Stan, Ernie." Leo grinned and Stan threw his head back, laughing.
"Look a' vese two, Ern! Look who i' is! Who's da loovely lady, Leo?"
Leo gently pushed me forwards and I smiled shyly. "This is my goddaughter, Aria. I'm taking her to Diagon." Leo chuckled and I spun around as I heard a weak screech.
"Aries!" I cried. The exhausted bird tumbled to the ground a few meters away and I ran to him.
"You stupid thing." I knelt down and cradled the large ball of feathers in my arms, scolding him.
"Did 'e follow yous here or summin?" Stan called, dumbfounded.
Leo answered for me as I stood back up, finding Aries surprisingly light. "All the way from Australia, apparently."
Stan moved aside to let us on the bus.
"Blimey! Izzat where you was hidin'? Wot about Victoria?"
Leo's expression turned stony and Stan backed off hastily, showing us a free booth.
The bus shot forwards, I yelped and almost faceplanted, and Leo burst out laughing while holding my shoulder to stop me from falling again.
I stared at Leo as the bus squeezed between two houses, popping out the other side and I squeaked," officially my least favourite way to travel!"
