swinging benches a marauder fanfic

Hogwarts

"Come on Fay, we have to hurry, or else we'll be late." Freya Williams said to her sleeping daughter as she shook her small shoulders.

The two were in a car driving to the train station so they could board the Hogwarts train.

The two, of course, could have ridden with the teachers, but they both said they didn't want to. Fay, because she wanted to see all of the students, and Freya because she wasn't ready to see them all again.

Fay woke up rubbing her eyes before she sat up looking around. She blinked once, then twice, and then she laughed.

It was one of the most angelic sounds anyone could have heard. It was the type of laugh that had you stopping what you were doing to admire it. The kind of smile that could lift your mood just by hearing it.

She jumped out of the car, grabbing her mother's hand and dragging her off to find platform 9 and 3/4.

"Mama, you're walking too slow, we're going to miss the train, come on, come on." Fay begged her mother, but her mom just laughed and stopped at one of the walls separating two platforms from each other.

Fay looked around the train station, confused. "Mama, why are we stopping? shouldn't we be getting on the train?" she questioned, still looking around for any sign of the Hogwarts Express.

"My little star you don't think that they would have a train out here where all these muggles could see it, do you?" The older woman asked while smiling politely at the people who passed her.

"Well, no, but then where could it be, mama. Is it hidden by magic?" Fay was confused about where the train could be if not out here with the muggles.

Her mother just smiled, grabbed her daughter's hand, and said, "Trust me, my little star, close your eyes and run" so that's exactly what Fay did. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and ran forward with her mother still holding her hand tightly.

She felt herself go through something weird, almost like jelly, before reappearing on the other side. Her big, brown eyes still clenched shut.

"You can open your eyes now, Fay, come on, take a look, isn't it breathtaking" her mother urged her on, as she herself reminisced about her Hogwarts times.

When Fay opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a beautiful train, painted red and black, with people bustling all around trying to board their children in quickly.

She blinked once, then twice, and a third time before her mother came into her eye line, and she got over her shock, somewhat.

"Well, come along now Fay, we have to board the train, would you like to sit with me or go find some friends to sit with?" her mother asked hopeful that her daughter would go out and make friends with someone. Even though they were all at least four years older than her.

Fay was always the type of child to let the wind take her places, so she said she would find someone to sit with, or she would let the universe place someone in her path.

Fay departed from her mother and made her way onto the train.

Her brain was in the clouds wondering somewhere so far away, somebody could have been yelling right in her ear, and she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

She was humming the tune she always heard her mother hum while cooking as she bumped into someone making both of them collapse onto the floor.

Fay let out a groan as her back slammed against the carpeted flooring of the train. To her left, she heard another groan being let out as someone else fell with her.

"Oh my, I am so sorry darling, I should have been looking where I was going, are you alright?" A boy with raven black hair, and striking blue eyes asked.