My name is Domino

46.

After the day at the Diagon Alley we still had four full days before deparing to Hogwarts, so I wanted to see London with papa. I had never really been to London even in my origin world and couldn't really tell if they were the same or very different. The big things were obviously the same but even in New York I had noticed differences in the "details". So we decided to go into full tourist mode and took the hop on/hop off -tour bus to see all the major things.

Ofcourse this only took a day but that didn't really matter because Scorpius and Albus had gotten really excited about my new racing broom and after I told them that I really couldn't fly, they made plans to teach me to fly at Scorpius' house the day after my touristing day. 

So just two days before the train left to Hogwarts, papa opened a portal for as to the coordinates Scorpius had given me. And I stepped to the other side holding my broom in my right hand.

What I didn't expect was that we the prtal opened directly to the Malfoy's mansion foyer where Scorpius and Albus were there waiting for us with Scorpius' father. Mr. Malfoy begen by introducing him self and apologizing on his father's behalf. Papa just told him that he did not expect Mr. Malfoy to take responsibility of his father's actions. Or that is what I guess he was about to say but I was bulled outside by the boys who had their own brooms in hand.

From the outside the Malfoy mansion reminded me of the Wayne mansion. Though the inside was clearly different the stonen outside was  very similar. Even the broad gardens were somewhat similar. Exept for the quidditch pitch, that according to Scorpius and Albus was actually only half of the actual size of the real thing. But for now we would just have to make me learn to fly.

- Okay. 

Albus said and laid his broom on the ground. I followed his example and put my broom to the ground next to my feet and looked back to Albus who continued.

- So to start just hold yuor hand over the broom and say "up". Like this. UP.

And Albus' broom jumped to his had. Again I followed his example, lifted my hand and almos yelled the word. But nothing happened.

- How about you close your eyes and picture the broom rising to your hand and then try again.

Scorpius said from the side where he was leaning on his broom. I nodded and closed my eyes. And slill with closed eyes I called for my broom.

-UP.

This time I could feel the wooden handle on my right hand. I closed my fist around the handle and opened my eyes.

- Nice. Now let's continue. Next thing to do is to get on the broom. First just get on the broom like this and gently kick your self to the air, do a little hower and then land back down. 

Albus exlaned the next step followed by a demonstration. I followed his moves and it went okay untill I had to land. I instinctively leaned forward like you would push the yoke on an airplane to land. But instean of landing the Aurora shot forward and didn't stop before I rant to the tall hedge surrounding the pitch.

- Domino! Are you allright?

The boys yelled as they sprinted towards me on their brooms.

- Yes. It kind of stings but mostly just my pride is hurt.

I crunted as I rolled down from the hedge. I checked that my broom hadn't broken. And to my relief it didn't have a scratch.

Scorpius helped me up and to get the hedge out of my hair and clothes.

- Sorry Domino, we forgot to talk about the subtile differences between the controling manuvers. So to go down you push the handle away from you, to go up pull the handle to face up, to go forward lean forward the further you lean the faster you go and  lastly to stop or to slow down lean back.

I nodded and after checking that I was actually not hurt, I was ready to try again. Albus and Scorpius seemed confused that I had to check that I wasn't hurt, but I had a habit of not noticing physical pain. As pain was something I had been raised with.

My second try went drastically better than my first. I was still no where near the skill level Albus and Scorpius displayed as they flew next to me and gave me more directions and even catched me once as I almot fell of my broom.

- Well. I can't lie to you Dee. You are not a genius flyer. But if you practice hard, I don't see why you couldn't try for your house team in a year or two.

Albus said as we landed for the end of my first flying practice. I must have looked very shocked when I turned to look at him and asked:

- Did you just call me Dee?

- Oh- I'm sorry if you don't want to be called by a nickname. It's just that we are friends. And me and Scorp use nicknames with each other.

Albus apologized quikly, so I had to fix the misunderstanding.

- No, no it's just. Well, my twin brother has always been the one called D between the two of us. But honestly, I'd love to use nicknames between us.

- Splendid.

Scorpius exclaimed.

- So from now on, you call us Al and Scorp, and we call you Dee. You'll be the first and last person we will call Dee. Even if we someday meet your twin. By the way. What is his name and why don't you live in the same family?

He continued as we started to walk back to the mansion. I decided that I might as well tell them the truth. If we were going to be friends, we would have to build trust.

- Well actually-