Aleksandra had to thank her innate ability to get lost, because it led her into interesting situations.
"Umbridge must be checking your mail, Harry." Hermione was telling the other two.
"You think Umbridge attacked Hedwig?" Harry asked
"So, Hedwig is the name of that pretty little owl?" Aleksandra said, quite literally popping up next to Harry. As in she crawled over to the three and jumped up next to them, which had earned her a lot of attention. The people who were staring got a full glare until they went back to what they were doing.
"Yes…" Harry said uneasily.
"And Zhaba attacked her?" Aleksandra asked
"We think so." Hermione said, "Why do you keep calling her Zhaba?"
"I have another nickname for Zhaba, but one, I'm not sure on Hogwarts' policy on profanity and two, calling her it would insult some of my dogs at home." Aleksandra said, she thought for a moment before adding, "I hope Oliver and Jean haven't insulted them…those boys don't know how to handle angry animals…"
"You're just a bit loose, huh?" Ron asked
"I've said I enjoy my insanity, da?" Aleksandra returned his question, "In any case sanity and normality are a relative terms."
"What do you mean by that?" Ron asked
"Oh never mind her." Hermione sighed
Aleksandra shook her head at the trio when they did, in fact, manage to put her out of their minds. She pouted as she walked back towards Kolov, who had decided to not join in on the girl's fun.
"I could lead you back to where we were yesterday." Kolov said, jerking his head in the direction of the uninhabited cabin by the forest.
Aleksandra smirked and gestured for him to lead the way.
~0~
Aleksandra stared at Hermione when she was told where to meet for the Defense club.
"Good to know." Aleksandra said with fake cheeriness before turning to Kolov, "Will it be you or Gin who leads me to random place alpha?"
"I'd get Virginia," Kolov did his version of a smirk, "I'd be too tempted to get you lost and watch you wander."
"Good to know your priorities." Aleksandra sighed.
~0~
So when Aleksandra was lead to the room by Virginia they were horribly early and Aleksandra went into the corner to talk to Kolov and sing whatever song came to mind.
It was during her rendition of a cover of 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' that Virginia came over to her.
"Get up, we're practicing disarming." Virginia sighed.
Aleksandra did get up, and smirked while doing so. The moment she was standing she shot off the charm and sent Virginia's wand flying.
"Alaska declares a state of magical war on Virginia" Aleksandra smirked.
"War it is then" Virginia smirked back and dove for her wand, sending the same charm to Aleksandra, who ducked behind Hermione, though the spell missed them both.
"Pirate King's daughter needs to work on her aim." Aleksandra laughed as she sent an 'Expeliarmious' to Virginia.
"Don't get started." Virginia growled.
"All's fair, Gin, all's fair." Was Aleksandra's reply, "I said this was war."
Aleksandra guessed that it wouldn't last long, especially when her tactics were to use meat-shields against her half-pirate sister.
"Aleksandra, Virginia." Harry sighed as he walked over to them, narrowly missing Aleksandra's spell aimed at Virginia.
"Well what do you have to say to the Queen of the Seas?" Virginia laughed as her spell hit Aleksandra.
"Wait, I thought Arthur was king, so how the hell is his daughter queen?" Aleksandra asked before diving out of the way of Virginia's next spell to grab her wand.
Harry sounded a whistle, causing the two to glance at him.
"Da?" Aleksandra asked
"Do you guys have to be so…active?" Harry asked
"This uses the training our parents gave us with magic training, to increase our abilities." Virginia explained.
"And we must never forget the old adage." Aleksandra said, finger in the air.
"All's fair in love and war." The sisters said in unison.
"Well, we aren't in war yet." Harry sighed.
"Ah," Aleksandra nodded, "Technically we aren't but Virginia and I do have that-"
"Aleksandra, shut the fuck up." Virginia hissed. Aleksandra scoffed before checking the clock that was on the wall.
"I'm heading out, it's nearly curfew and I have to get to the dungeons." Aleksandra sighed before whistling to Kolov and leaving the room.
~0~
The days continued as normal, for the most part. There was a Quidditch game and it didn't phase Aleksandra much. Quidditch wasn't enough like hockey for her tastes, as Virginia had so kindly pointed out. Mainly, Aleksandra did her best to torture Zhaba, and spent most of her time with her vodka stash, which was running low. In fact, she was just about to grab the last of the stash when she noticed someone was in the little hut that she hid it in.
So she was trying to find a way in, and wishing she had a more pronounced version of her maman's invisibility, when the Trouble Trio were approaching the cabin.
"Kolov, you are to infiltrate. Go." Aleksandra told the dog while she searched for a way to get in with out being seen.
There was a barking from the front of the house, but it was queited with a gruff voice.
"Calm down Fang, that pup cant hurt you." The voice said.
"What are you doing here Kolov?" Hermione asked
There was no answer.
"Come on mate, we've seen you talk to Aleksandra." Ron sighed
"Fine," Kolov said, "I'm just coming in here to get something for Leksa before she…yeah just trust it wouldn't be pretty." Then from inside came a rustling and clinking.
"What does that dog have in the bag?" The gruff voice asked.
"Probably vodka." Ron said nonchalantly.
"Vodka?" The voice replied in surprise, "you lot are barely allowed butter beer."
Aleksandra, not able to curb her curiosity, looked in a window. There was a man who was undoubtedly larger than her father, which surprised her, sitting with a very beat up face. Aleksandra decided to try slipping into the house through the back door to help Kolov carry the bag. And as a result, the huge dog, supposedly Fang, barked at her.
"Well that proves it." Aleksandra nodded, "It's only NCA's that like me unconditionally."
"What, like Kumajiro and Gillbird?" Kolov laughed through the mouth full of cloth bag handles.
"And Gilbird." Aleksandra added.
"He said Gilbird." Harry stated
"He was referring to my cousin's bird, Gillbird, with two l's." Aleksandra explained, "I was talking about my mother's friend's bird, Gilbird with one l."
"If you saw the two birds, you'd be able to tell the difference." Kolov explained, "Unlike their owners who like to try being twins…"
"Gillian and Gilbert can be a bit odd." Aleksandra shrugged, "But, I will be on my way as you seem to want to discuss something important, and I'm not sure I'd care to hear it." Aleksandra smirked, "What I do know is there's snow on the ground and there's somewhere that's just begging exploration."
"And to her, exploration requires her brand of 'water'." Kolov sighed
"Now let's go!" Aleksandra smirked as she went out the back door, pointing at the door, and the forest behind it.
After Aleksandra had left them Hagrid looked at the trio.
"She's one of the 'transfers' Dumbledore was talking about, right?" He asked.
"Yeah, her and her cousin are odd." Harry shrugged
~0~
"Alright everyone!" Hagrid said at the front of the class with two halves of a cow when Aleksandra had reached it, right behind Virginia, "We're going to go into the forest a bit." He smiled as he said this, "I've got a real treat for you all."
"This sounds fun, da?" Aleksandra asked both Kolov and Virginia.
"Sounds like you'll get your wish to go into the forest." Virginia laughed
"Silly Virginia, I already got that wish." Aleksandra smiled at her cousin. Virginia sighed as they approached Hagird and went into the forest after him. After about five minutes walk, they reached a clearing. Hagrid threw the cow halves on the ground before turning.
"Now be sure not to startle them." Hagrid instructed
"Startle what?" Malfoy asked from his spot next to Aleksandra right before a thestrel flew into the clearing.
"Pretty." Aleksandra smiled
"You always did like the color red." Virginia scoffed.
"What the bloody hell are you two talking about?" Malfoy asked.
"The red skeletal, winged horse about a yard away." Aleksandra said before her hand connected solidly with the back of Malfoy's head. Hagrid heard and stared at her.
"Yeh said they were red?" Hagird asked.
"Da." Aleksandra nodded
"So she says." Virginia scoffed, "They're more of a gray tone to me."
"Yet I've shown you proof as to why they're red to me." Aleksandra sighed.
"I still don't understand why the Bolsheviks let you in on that when you weren't Russian any more." Virginia stared at her.
The whole class had been staring at the pair when Umbridge came in to the clearing unnoticed.
"Hem hem." Umbridge coughed.
"Zhaba, you really should go to the hospital wing for that cough." Aleksandra said, walking up to the woman and towering over her, "So just go on back to the castle and let a teacher teach their classes, since you don't know the first thing about teenagers or human mind development." She began ushering Umbridge out of the clearing when the woman glared at her.
"Zhaba, you're going to have to do better than that." Aleksandra smirked at the woman, "But we can discuss why you don't intimidate me over a nice ice hockey game."
"Miss Braginsky-Williams, will you allow me to do my job?" Umbridge said in her sugary sweet voice.
"Nyet, I don't think I will." Aleksandra said in an equally sweet voice, "I rather like the beauty of the creatures Professor Hagird is showing. You don't see many creatures with a coat quite that shade of red."
"Red, you say?" Umbridge asked, looking at the thestrel devouring the cow, clearly not seeing it, "Are you saying you see red thestrels?"
"Da," Aleksandra smiled and looked back at the creature.
"Tell me why you were chosen to be a transfer here, Miss Braginsky-Williams." Umbridge asked
"The same reasons the Bolsheviks allowed an Alaskan into the basement with the Romanovs for that little photo shoot." Aleksandra smiled. Umbridge obviously didn't understand the reference, but a few in the class (those who had been paying attention when Aleksandra had interrupted their substitute when she was talking about the Bolshevik rebellion in Russia) were looking at her in horror and confusion. Those few included Hermione and Harry, both of which had been making sure to listen to the Alaskan any chance they get in effort to understand her.
~0~
After the Care of Magical Creatures class, during which Aleksandra was constantly asking to pet the thestrels, Harry and Hermione walked over to Aleksandra, who was being chastised by Virginia.
"And after you explained in great detail about what those people did to that family yesterday!" Virginia had hissed
"Which no one paid attention to." Aleksandra scoffed, "All these…" Aleksandra paused, her nose crinkling in obvious discuss, "What ever they are, they don't care about what Papa went through. Anyway, that fool king wasn't helping his people, keeping them in a war which lost them so many people."
"Like Stalin was any better twenty years later." Virginia snapped.
"Stalin was better to me than Alfred was when he found me." Aleksandra glared, "You're the one he said bought him those damn collars. Didn't you wonder why there were two?"
"You were a liability and had been in the Soviet Union-" Virginia was interupted by a growl from Kolov.
"I had been living with Maman since the curtain fell and the wall was built." Aleksandra glared at her cousin, "You know, Alfred's brother."
"You were still a liability." Virginia glared
"Stay away from me you little…tool of a girl." Aleksandra hissed in Russian, "Don't presume I care what you or the others think of me."
"And you wonder why you're always stuck with desk work?" Virginia yelled at Aleksandra as she walked away, "We can't trust you when you're like this. You'd be just as likely to shoot Wash as you are the enemy should one of us upset you."
"Go to hell, Virginia." Aleksandra glared, "Let's see if you can do as well there as in your little piece of cake section of the world." Aleksandra scoffed, "Little farm girl turned pirate turned perfect little lady. I'd like to see you survive in Siberia. In the frozen hell I had to live in."
Virginia just stared at the girl as she walked, not out of the forest, but further into it. However, Umbridge was still there and had begun chasing after the girl.
"The Forest is forbidden to students!" She yelled after Aleksandra.
"And unless you want to take a small trip to the Arctic Circle, you will leave me." Aleksandra glared at the woman, "I'm done playing with you today Zhaba, quit now while you have all your blood in your body."
Virginia walked up to Umbridge and grabbed the woman by the collar, dragging her away.
"You'll get killed, you fool." Virginia scoffed at the woman, "And not by any of the Forest's beasts."
"What do you mean?" Umbridge looked at Virginia
"I mean, right now, very few people could speak to her and not end up near death." Virginia stated, "And her father has taught her techniques that make the Curtiartous Curse feel like feathers."
"Spells worse that the Crutiartous Curse?" Umbridge asked
"No, she doesn't use magic to cause pain." Virginia glared, "A damned red like her thinks that it'd be to clean."
Umbridge looked at Virginia then to the spot Aleksandra was at. She decided her next letter to the minister would be to ask permission to be let in on this little secret these girls had.
Harry and Hermione slipped past the two who were now at the edge of the clearing, in the direction that Aleksandra went.
~0~
Kolov sat calmly while Aleksandra rampaged around a different clearing.
"What gives that little bastard girl the right to think she's any better than me? That she somehow know more than I do about my life." Aleksandra growled out in Russian
"You weren't exactly born in wedlock either." Kolov reminds her.
"Kolov…" Aleksandra glared at a tree before pulling out her faucet pipe and toppling the young tree with a strong hit. "Does she have loyalty?" Aleksandra asked Kolov.
"She's never left Alfred." Kolov stated.
"She tried to." Aleksandra noted, "and now she'd damning me for keeping loyal to my parents."
There was a rustling on both sides of the clearing. Aleksandra turned to the south to see Hermione and Harry stumble through the bushes.
"Privet." Aleksandra greeted them from next to the fallen tree.
"The Bolsheviks allowed you into the basement with the Romanovs?" Harry asked, "How would you be alive then and now?"
"It was only 1917." Aleksandra stated
"You look fifteen." Hermione countered.
"I use lots of moisteriser." Aleksandra smirked, "Now, I'd like to know why you came all the way out here?" Aleksandra asked, but turned to the blonde men who had appeared behind her.
"Well," The tallest of them all stated, "Kirkland thought you were being trouble."
"Papa, when have I ever been trouble?" Aleksandra smiled at the man, "Thank you for the presents but I'd much rather have had you here." Aleksandra switched easily to Russian
"Work got in the way douchka." The man replied in Russian
That was when Professor Kirkland came out from behind one of the other men.
"Why was it Virginia told me you were ready to maul your professor?" Arthur glared at the girl.
"Hmm…" Aleksanda hummed, "She's sticking her nose far to deep into my business." Aleksandra glared at Arthur.
"No, I don't think she is." The man Professor Kirkland had been behind spoke up, giving Aleksandra a stern look
"And I don't think your opinion is reliable when it involves the original thirteen or me." Aleksandra scoffed.
"Mon Fille." The last man sighed, "I've told you, you can't cause harm to everyone who upsets you."
"Maman…" Aleksandra pouted, "That's why I came out here, hoping to be alone." She then turned to Harry and Hermione, drawing everyone's attention to them.
"We will speak of this elsewhere then." "Maman" Said with a look at the pair.
"I think these kids can leave now, Matthew." Professor Kirkland said, a stern look at the pair making them nod and leave to the outskirts of the clearing, "To the castle." Kirkland called out to them, and they continued walking.
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