(A/N): Hey Guys! So, this chapter was supposed to be called 'Hogwarts Express and an Encounter of the Jerk Kind' but it wouldn't fit. So this chapter is a little strange, but yeah.
I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo and his father Nicholai.
Leo
September first had arrived, and today was the day that Lily, Severus and I would be journeying to Hogwarts. I knew i was probably going to miss my father, and that classes would be difficult and all that, but I just couldn't manage to get rid of the excitement bubbling inside of me, instead deciding to mask it with an expression of inquisitive interest. I realised that I was probably going to get used to travelling to Hogwarts, seeing as I would be doing it every year for the next seven years, so I might as well get all the excitement out now. Severus, Lily and her parents were going to meet my father and I at Kings Cross station at ten thirty, half an hour before the train leaves, and it was ten twenty-five now. We were approaching the station now, having walked here all the way from Cokeworth, seeing as we didn't get tired as easily as full humans.
A small smile slipped onto my lips as I saw Lily waiting for us at the barrier between platforms nine and ten, and it turned into a grin as she saw us and starting jogging over.
"I see you made it alright!" She joked as she reached us, her eyes resting on me after she gave my father a polite nod and smile.
"Well, I almost got ran over on the way here, but I think I'm still in one piece." I replied, starting to walk with her to the barrier, my father trailing behind us. "Morning Severus." I don't know why, but I have never called Severus 'Sev' or any other name. It just doesn't feel...well, right.
"Leonides." He rarely calls me Leo as well, it's kind of a mutual understanding to use each others full names, probably mainly because of how much it annoys the other.
I glanced up at the clock before glancing at Lily who nodded slightly before turning to her parents and hugging them both tightly around the middle, and I saw tears threatening to spill from her mothers eyes.
"Oh my little girl, you grew up so fast." I heard her whisper in Lily's ear, and I felt Lily blush. Yes, I could feel people blush, it's a vampire thing. "I love you." I glanced away, at my father, who was staring at me. We had always been close, but more of a friendly way instead of a father-son way. I think that's because I didn't know him for the first seven years of my life. I shuffled closer to him and hugged him tightly around the waist quickly before moving away, as if it hadn't happened. His hand rested on my shoulder and he squeezed lightly before releasing. Severus just stood there, awkwardly waiting for Lily to finish saying her goodbyes. His mother wouldn't come, she didn't care that much, but it didn't really bother him. Sure, he wished he had what lily had, or even what I had, but he felt he was better off without her influence.
"I love you too dad." I heard Lily whisper before she released her father from her embrace and backed away. I looked at her and she nodded to me, so I started towards the barrier at a fast walk, quickly passing straight through it. A few seconds later, Lily joined me, and soon after that so did Severus. Lily and I stared at the Hogwarts express for a few seconds before glancing at each other and grinning. We pushed our trolley's to the side of the train before loading our trunks into the undercarriage. Lily had a cream, knitted bag with her school uniform in it, Severus had tucked his robes into a pocket in his over sized coat and I was carrying a navy blue messenger bag over my shoulder, which held my robes inside, and the cage of my pure black cat, Vex.
"Hellooo Vex-y." Lily cooed, sticking a finger through the cages bars to scratch the lazy cat under his chin, too which he started to purr.
"Oh, yeah, he let's you touch him without getting cut up." I said bitterly before lifting my hand for her to see the various thin scratches that covered the skin there.
"Ouch." Lily said comfortingly, but I glared at her, hearing the laughter she was trying to conceal.
"One day you'll have a pet that hates you, and I'll laugh at you then." I muttered, looking away down the train as we tried to find a compartment.
"This one looks okay." Lily said quietly, and Severus and I turned to look into the compartment we were next to, seeing two boys, one with unruly black hair, hazel eyes and glasses, the other the boy that I had ran into in the Quidditch store. Just as I was about to pull Lily away and to try and avoid this boy- after all, I'd knocked him over and he'd probably talk about it- she pulled the door open.
"Can we sit here?" She asked quietly as the boys looked up at us, and the boy I had knocked over- Sirius I think he'd said his name was- glanced at the other boy before nodding. Of course, as soon as Lily moved, he caught sight of me and smiled slightly at me, which I returned, really more of a grimace. Severus entered after us and sat down furthest from the door and I sat closest to the door, a natural habit, to make for a quick escape, making Lily sit between us, which was probably a good idea.
"You'd better be in Slytherin." Severus told Lily, glancing over her shoulder at me for a second before returning his gaze to her.
"Slytherin?" Lily asked skeptically, one eyebrow raised.
"Slytherin?" The boy, not Sirius, asked, almost as if disgusted. "Who'd want to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" The boy asked the room, though mostly Sirius. He's a Black though! They're basically the definition of Slytherin!
"My whole family has been in Slytherin." The other boy soon realised his mistake and tried to laugh it off.
"Blimey, and I thought you seemed alright!" Sirius smiled, almost sadly.
"Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you going, if you've got the choice?" Sirius asked the other boy, whose glasses were trying to slip off his nose.
"Gryffindor, where the brave dwell at heart. Like my dad!" I smiled slightly as he said this, holding his hand in the air as if holding an invisible sword, and Severus scoffed quietly, causing the boy to turn to him.
"Got a problem with that?" The boy said, glaring him down.
"No. Unless you'd rather be brawny than brainy." Severus said with a smirk, only to have it wiped off his face not seconds later by Sirius.
"Where are you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" Both Lily and Snape glared at him while I tried to hold back a laugh, and I saw the two boys glance at me before smiling slightly in approval. I stood and grabbed Lily and Severus' arms as they sat there, enraged, before pulling them up.
"Come on Lily, Severus, let's go find another compartment." I said quietly, trying to stop the fight that was almost inevitable. I raised an eyebrow at Sirius, questioning his actions before I dragged Lily and Severus out of the compartment with ease.
"What are you doing?" Severus growled, outraged, as I continued dragging them down the hall, trying to pull his arm out of my grip.
"Preventing a fight." I said simply, and Lily stopped struggling in my hand, resigning to fuming in silence.
"But really, who do they think they are?" So much for silence.
"Well, the long haired one is Sirius Black, no clue who the other one is." Lily and Severus tried to stop suddenly, but I kept dragging them.
"How do you know that?" they both asked at the same time, causing me to roll my eyes. God, I hate it when they team up on me.
"I ran into him at a store in Diagon Alley. Literally." Severus smirked and Lily snickered, probably picturing it in her head.
"Serves him right." I rolled my eyes but kept silent, trying to keep the peace still as I pulled open a compartment door as the train started to move, pushing them inside before sitting down next to Lily, Severus sitting across from us. We were close to the end of the train, so no one would be likely to bother us. I lifted Vex's cage onto the overhead luggage carrier and left my messenger bag between me and the wall before scooting slightly closer to Lily before squeezing her hand lightly and quickly before pulling away. We were best friends, and it was my duty- no, my honor, to comfort when she's angry or sad. And right now, I'm pretty sure she was both. I wrapped an arm around her shoulders, pulling her close and resting her head on mine, hearing her sniffle almost silently.
"What if all the kids here are like them?" Lily asked quietly, so that only I could hear, and I smiled slightly.
"They won't be." I said confidently, and she scoffed.
"How can you be so sure of yourself?" I thought about it for a second before shrugging.
"Well, it's not a guy thing, nor a magic thing, so it must just be a me thing. Man, I guess that's another reason I'm weird." Lily giggled quietly, and I could feel Severus' eyes boring into the side of my head. She wrapped her arms around my waist, and slowly but surely fell asleep.
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I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.