Under the Virgo Moon | James Potter

Chapter Fourteen- December 22nd, 1977: The Hogwarts Express

"I got boulders on my shoulders
Collar bones begin to crack
There is very little left of me and it's never coming back"

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Cassiopeia- Cass woke up with tear stained cheeks. She could barley survive a night without James. How was she going to manage the rest of the year with him thinking she's a death eater?

But Cass didn't have time to think about this now, because she had five minutes to get downstairs to get on a carriage to take her to the Hogwarts Express. Where her oldest brother thinks she will be going to her cousins, and where her twin brother knows she is going to their atrocious parents house. The house where they grew up to think love was earned.

Cass got to the carriages that moved all by themselves right on time. Thankfully she got onto an empty one because she really, really didn't want to ride with someone. They got to the platform to enter the train and Cass found an empty compartment and shut the blinds.

She didn't even have it in her to open a book, or try to fall asleep. She just sat there, starring at the seat in front of her. The seat that should be filled with Remus Lupin and his sarcastic remarks, or with Peter Petigrew and his jokes that will make your ribs hurt so bad, or Sirius Black and his dramatic retellings of stories, or Regulus Black and his intellectual jokes only Lily and Remus get, or Mary and her jokes about how she turned Sirius gay after sleeping with him one time in their fifth year, or Marlene McKinnon and her jabs to Sirius about how she is the better beater, or Lily Evans and her jokes about how with the amount of pure bloods in the compartment she should be dead, Or James Potter.

James and the way he looks at his Cassiopeia.

The way he looked at Cass.

"There you are!" Regulus said sitting in the seat across from Cass. She just had enough time to wipe the tears that were streaming from her eyes, "It took forever to find you. How was the rest of the meeting with Dumbledore?"

"He was just telling me how he wants me to go home and become a death eater, Reg. "

"Cass- if you don't want to do this, i'll take your place. Please let me take your place." Regulus knew better than to try and talk Cass out of it.

"No. I am doing this to protect you. And Sirius" and James.

"Cas-"

"Regulus, I am doing this okay. How is Sirius? Does he think I am going to Andromeda's?" She needed to change the subject.

"Yes, but he doesn't understand why you are sitting here and I told him that you are with your teammates going over some drills to do over break." Regulus was so good at lying. How could he do that?

"I quit quidditch."

"You what!?" Cass loved quidditch, it was a part of her why would she do this, you as the reader may ask. Don't ask me, I don't know. Neither does Cass, maybe she though it would be easier than having to see her brothers and James on the field. Or maybe she needed more time to think. I guess we will never know.

"Dumbledore thought it would be best if I did." This is a lie. He doesn't know that though.

"Cass... I know this mission, or task, or whatever you want to call it will be hard. But please don't let this break you." Regulus didn't want to lose his sister.

But he already has.

She is already broken, and it will only get worse in the months to come.

"I won't. Promise." Yet another lie. You'd think they were getting easier, but they weren't

"I should be going." Regulus said as he got up, "I'll see you soon, write to me."

"I will, good bye, Reg." She won't write to him.

Regulus left the compartment amd he left the door open. But Cass wasn't able to use the bones in her body to close the door.

When they were about five minutes to Platform 9 3/4 Robert  Wood walked into Cass's compartment.

"Is it true? There is a rumor you quit the team! We can't win without Cass, please tell me you are joking." The second year boy pleaded.

"Yeah it's true." Cass couldn't even look at him, earlier he called her his idol, and now she is breaking his heart, "But it's for the better trust me."

"How is for the better?"

"Do you know what the Order is Rob?"

"Yeah, i'm joining it in five years, the once I graduate."

"Then you will understand then, you'll understand why I am doing what i'm about to do."

"Cass, this makes to sense."

"That's a good thing for now,  Wood. But in the mean time I have this for you." Cass reached to her bag, she was planning on having Dumbledore give it to an older player, but Rob deserved it more, "Here, you'll be the best captain Hufflepuff has ever known." She said giving him her captains badge.

"But- Cass I am only a second year." He said as the train came to a halt.

"Don't let them push you around kid, you'll do great. I'll see you around." Cass said grabbing her trunk and leaving the compartment.

Cass didn't leave the train, she hid in another compartment until everyone left then, she walked in the the platform. It was weird seeing it so empty. But it was also weird she was going back home to be a death eater.

She walked through the barrier and left Kings Cross station and started walked the street. She sat on the curb and waited for the Night Bus to come and get her. Now her act was truly on.

After a few minutes the bus arrived she got in it, this was her second time riding the bus. The first was when she thought she left that house for good.

"Where to?" The bus boy asked, Cass didn't know his name, it was a different guy from when she last rode the bus.

"Number 12 Grimmuald Place ple-" Cass caught herself. Belatrix or her mother wouldn't say please, so she didn't. She held herself high liked she owned the place, but also looked as if that bus was so below her. It was scum.

After a very bumpy ride, Cass arrived. What was she getting herself into? The only thing that made her put one foot in front of the other was her brothers safety. She knocked on the door, gripping her wand tighter than ever. And waited for the door to open. When it did, Kreature the house elf opened the door. The elf always had a liking to Regulus, hopefully he'd show the same liking to Cass.

"Master Walpurga! I think you'd want to see who this is." The wrinkly elf yelled to his master. Cass hated how they kept elves. It was so inhuman. But she'd have to suck it up for now.

"What is the point of having you if you can't open the door by yoursel- Cassiopeia." Her mother was as wicked as ever. She held her wand up to her only daughters face as if she was a stranger. "What are you doing here?"

(song- Be Nice To Me, The Front Bottoms)