𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 // 𝑺.𝑩.

4𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒄𝒕: -𝑰-

Dark grey. Definitely not the shade everyone was expecting to see as the colour of Electra's hair. So when she entered the station of 9 ¾ everyone who didn't know what had happened was surprised. She was accompanied by Leia and no one could tell who was helping the other stand. Both of them seemed like they would collapse any time soon. Electra didn't want Leia to accompany her. She had said that she could do it by herself, after all the Marauders would be there, but as soon as she had set her foot on the station she felt glad that she had Leia on her side. Exactly a year ago she was crossing the King's cross station along with her two brothers and Leia  making fun of how Jason Star used to face this day in the past. Perseus had changed his face to match his father's and had deepened his voice quoting his phrases. Or during their way there both he and she were recreating the life-long lectures about blood supremacy which they were hearing before each year. Now Perseus wasn't with them. He wasn't there to make the two girls smile. And Orpheus wasn't with them either trying to be as far as possible from his family. They didn't know the reason he was doing that. They didn't, but it was breaking their hearts. Because to El he was the only person who was actually considering family and for Leia was her brother too. She loved him like one.

"Are you going to be okay?" Leia asked the girl running her arm trying to be as close to her for as longer she could.

Electra looked down at her feet and from her lips left a sound which was half a laughter half a sob. "Are you going to be okay?" She asked and looked back at the Leia. It was her turn to look around and at last her glance met Electra's and she nodded. "Promise me that you'll be alive till I return!" She tried to joke.

Leia smiled down at her and wiped away her tears nodding. She suddenly wrapped her arms around the girl and closed her into a warm hug. "I'll write to you everyday... And I'm not leaving you. Even if I wanted to die I could never leave you behind." She pulled back and Electra closed her eyes letting the warm of her hold to rush over her for one last time. For a moment she felt safe inside the girl's hug. Just like she would feel inside her brothers' or Sirius' or James'.

The sound of carbon being thrown onto the train's machine stopped and the first cloud of smoke from the train's chimney was sounded. The girl opened her eyes and held tight Leia's hands. "Farewell my dear friend." She tried to lighten up the whole atmosphere.

"I always knew that spending so much time with James would harm you." Leia replied as she was rolling her eyes at the girl's words. "Go now, you're going to miss the train."

"Oh no don't worry about it. Sirius and James are talking to the train driver. They're not going to stop until I tell them." Leia smirked and gave the girl a knowing look. "No! Leia I don't have time for that kind of things."

"Write me as soon as you can. We'll be in touch!" She said and after kissing Electra's cheek she teleported living her standing in the station.

She wandered her glance around the train station which was starting to empty. Most of the kids were already on the train. Most of the parents had left. Electra had a strange feeling that someone was touching her shoulder and turn to look behind her. But there was no one apart from a little boy who was saying that goodbye to his grandmother. For a moment she hoped that maybe it was her brother who was trying to reassure her that everything was going to be fine. The girl smiled at the thought and turned to jump onto the train.

The corridor dividing the train in two was empty. All of the students were on their compartments discussing about summer holidays. She walked up to the train's driver wagon to find her two friends and let them know that she was aboard. As she was passing through compartments she was hearing laughs, cries, loud voices, screaming and fighting. Electra smiled. She could see that most of the students were awaiting to return. So they could be themselves. Because she was sure that none of these kids was the same back home.