Irene M. V. Williams

Chapter 9 - First Year

Irene's POV

As they arrived at King's cross and neared the station between 9 and 10, also named 9 ¾, they were both tearing while they hugged. Not wanting to let go of the other.

"Jareth said he would make contact with you after your arrival." Sarah stood her hands on her sister's shoulders, "But don't forget to write me as many letters as you want, I know I will be writing many."

Irene hugged her sister around the waist tightly not wishing to let go. "I don't want to leave you."

Sarah hugged her petite little sister tighter, kissing the top of her head, "I don't want you to either." She sighed before stooping so she could make eye level with her sister, "But we've got to do this. I'm only a letter away, and I'm sure if you really need a hug from me Jareth might be able to finagle something for us."

Irene smile and giggled slightly at the picture of the King coming all the way from the Underground just to transport her to her sister for a hug. A bittersweet smile came to her lips, as she fought the urge to continue crying.

"So you have everything?"

"Yup, I double and triple checked everything before we left."

"Ok, Ok." Sarah didn't like the idea of not seeing her sister for this long of a period. They hadn't been apart for that long before and with their recent more co-dependent relationship with the parting of the old family, it was even harder.  Sarah took a deep breath before continuing.  "Alright just don't forget to be careful, be safe, and beware of old coots."

Irene let out a wet laugh at the last part, "Especially old coots."

Sarah pushed her forward until she was making her way up the stairs of the train inside.

"Love you!"

"Love you too!"

*Time skip brought to you by Nerf, 'cause it's Nerf or nothin*

Irene wondered around the train before finding an empty compartment. She began reading books about the laws in the Underground when the door opened and in came in three boys. Who were obviously not in their first year.

They were talking about a tarantula, when they finally saw her, "Oh, hello. Didn't see you there."

"Didn't see" "Who there" "Lee?" The twins spoke back and forth to the other boy in the compartment, now known as Lee. Then they looked to where Irene was sitting, who was looking at them in amusement and then continued talking but this time to her.

"Well hello," "There. Sorry," "Bout that" "We're Fred,"  "And George" they pointed at each other when they said each name, "Nice to meet you"

"Nice to meet you as well. I'm Irene Williams."

The three of them looked at her as if she were an alien.

Before Lee spoke up, "What have you got an accent for?"

Irene looked at him in amusement at his question, "Well I didn't get to choose my accent, but I'm from America if that answers your question."

The twins just looked at each other before just saying wicked before sitting down across from her. As Lee sat down next to her, for the rest of the train ride they asked her questions about anything and everything. To which she answered but would ask her own questions.

*Time skip brought to you by Stanley's motto being, Life's short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse.*

The train had stopped they had become good friends. The trio promised her that they would be friends with her no matter the house she was in. To which smiled and thanked them before heading off to where she saw the other first years heading.