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Train Ride~4

As we got to the platform I felt very strange. There were a lot of little kids and their parents saying goodbye and a bunch of laughter and smiles, which I was definitely not used to. Narcissa gave Draco one last hug as I just waited for him to get on the train. as I waited I saw a family with a bunch of redheads, they seemed really happy. I turned back to Draco and he was walking back to me and then got on the train, I waved at the Malfoy couple and quickly got on the train following Draco. Draco headed to the very front, or back, I don't really know but he went there and sat at a compartment. I was aware that this train ride was going to take 9 hours, that was a very long time, and I had to tell Draco the details on the task and what was to happen If he didn't do it. He was really quiet so I decided to see what he was thinking. He was really scared of me apparently because of all the things a have done, all the things I have touched, like my dad and Nagini, that's why he was so scared when I touched his shoulder. I accidentally let out a giggle and he turned to me confused, at least that could get him to start a conversation. But nothing. so I took things into my own....hands.

"You don't have to be scared of me, you know," I told him with a smirk on my face.

He looked up at me. "I'm not," he said shakily.

"Ok then, prove it" I smirked once more.

"What?" He said confused. At least not shaking anymore.

I sighed. "I don't like to repeat myself" I looked at him firmly.

"Prove. It." I told him once more.

He stayed silent not moving a muscle, I could tell he didn't know what to do.

"Fine, I'll give you a simple task to do to prove it, ok?" He slightly nodded.

I extended my hand out for him to touch, my left hand particularly.

"Grab my hand" I demanded.

He looked like he had just seen death itself staring at my hand. Although he slowly brought his right hand to mine. He stopped, he couldn't do it.

"What do you think I'll do?" I asked him curiously.

"Do you think I'll kill you?" I whispered to him.

"Or maybe the Crucio curse?"

"Or maybe I'll Imperio you to grab my hand?" At this point, I was leaning over whispering right into his left ear.

I could hear his breath unsteady. I leaned back in my seat, waiting for him to say something, anything.

"You know this isn't going to work if you can't even look at me in the eye," I told him, but he didn't even look up at me.

I sighed, "Muffliato," I said pointing my wand at the door

"You know you're going to get killed if you don't do this task," I told him to give him a reason to try.

"And If you're scared of me then we can't finish the task," I told him.

"The Cabinet is in the Room of Requirements, you know where that is?" I asked him.

He sighed, "um, yeah," He said still looking down. At least he talked.

"They're planning to come in June, we have until then to fix the cabinet," I told him.

He sighed running a hand through his blonde hair in frustration.

"Do you think we'll finish fixing it by then?" He asked. That was the first actual sentence he spoke to me.

"I don't know, it's ten months, and I've done some research, it just really depends on the cabinet," I told him.

"So you have an idea on how to fix it?" He asked me still hesitant about talking to me.

"Yeah," I told him a little more confidently.

I knew he was worried before and now that I told him that he'd get killed if we didn't fix it, he was worried enough to actually talk to me.

"You're just really on this to show me where to go, you don't really have to do anything" I didn't want to tell him that but he was worried and it was the truth.

"Not like I can't do it, I just need you since you know the school" he did still had to be there since well that's what my dad said.

He didn't say anything so I went into his head. he was thinking as to why he got the mark if he was just going to be a map.

I giggled, "You're the one who technically has to kill Dumbledore if not then I will"

He looked at me confused. Then scared again, thinking he had to kill someone. It seriously took all of me to not burst out laughing but he'd never killed someone before, so I guess it was normal?

He looked up at me noticing me trying to contain my laughter.

"What?" He said a little scared to talk too loud.

"Nothing, um so, prefer getting killed or grab my hand?" I asked him.

He looked down at my hand.

"Can I at least grab the other hand? please?" He asked.

"No" "it'll prove that you ARE scared of me," I said.

 He sighed, closed his eyes, and grabbed my hand, thinking of it as someone else's hand. It was just two seconds and he slowly pulled away so I wouldn't notice.

"Ok, good," I told him as he tried to calm down.

"It's fine, we'll get there" I sighed.

~

There was 1 hour left until we got to Hogwarts. I had told Draco about how after dinner we'd go to the Room of Requirements, to start on the cabinet. We didn't really talk about the whole Dumbledore situation, I just thought that if Draco didn't find any other way to kill Dumbledore, I'd just kill him the night the Death Eaters came, but I still had to help him a little, as he'd help me a little on the cabinet. We didn't talk after that, but suddenly I felt the compartment door come open to see two tallboys and a girl.

"Hey Draco, how was your summer dude, long time no see," A tall dark-skinned boy said.

"And who's she?" The boy with brown hair said.

"Ow, finally another girl!" the dark-haired girl said.

"Oh, um hi, I'm Stephanie R-, Snape, Stephanie Snape," I said holding my hand out to the brown-haired boy who took it right away.

"Theodore Nott" He greeted me.

"Hi, I'm Blaise Zabini," The dark-skinned boy said holding his hand out as I took it and nodded.

"And I'm Pansy Parkinson!" The girl said as she took me into a hug. I just shrugged a little before lightly, very lightly hugging her back as Draco shot dangers at the girl as I would've killed her.

"Nice to meet you all," I said as I sat back down. I knew their parents, they were followers of my father.

"So, Snape huh? Didn't know Snape had a daughter" Blaise said as I remembered the background story my father told me.

"Yeah, I was homeschooled until now, I guess he thought it was Dangerous," I told them.

Draco looked really nervous which the group started to notice so I tried to make conversation to distract them from the blonde.

"So, you good friends with blondie?" I asked them.

"Yeah, I guess you can say that," Theodore said jokingly. 

They just laughed.