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Compartment 6
Nolan
"Great..." Nolan muttered, stepping forward and shaking Chandler gently. "Not even at school yet and-Come on Chandler, focus!" He walked back to the compartment door, attempting to peak out at what was going on through the window. He was getting restless, and his concern for Chandler only made it worse.
He looked at Caelum, "You know any magic? Or really anything that'll help him?" He noticed the new girl was a bit more made up than most girls their age. Was she trying to look older?
Caelum
The frown on the first year girl's face deepened. Chandlers injury only heightened the pressure of her phobia upon her. When she was going through small spaces she could sometimes comfort herself with the thought that she had nothing to afraid of, that her fear was irrational, that the walls were close together but would not move in to crush her... well... the fallen boy on the ground proved otherwise. Because they were trapped Chandler was hurt. In her frantic mind it was only a matter of time before herself and Nolan would fall victim to the trap. Perhaps they would run out of air, or the ceiling would collapse, or whatever was going on outside would find them and they would have nowhere to run.
"I... I'm a muggle... or I was a muggle... I don't know any magic." She stood. "We... We have to get out of here..." She looked to the window, and saw only the English countryside rushing by. No way out. She looked to the door, scorched by Chandlers spell, a dead end.
She knelt on a seat and pounded her fist into the wall. Perhaps they could communicate with someone on the other side. "Hello? HELLO?!" She slammed her thin fists into the wall. "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Her voice was loud and shrill. (It would be heard in the next compartment as well as the hallway). "WE ARE TRAPPED SOMEONE HELP US!" Her face turned red and her eyes watered, her fear poured through her fists as she struck the wall. She crossed to the other side of compartment and screamed toward and struck that wall as well.
She crossed to the window, as she tried to open it something fell out of her pocket and clattered to the floor. Catching her attention.
A cell phone.
It was pink, with rhinestones glued to it.
She picked it up with shaking hands, her fingers were sore but she dialed the only number she could think of.
"Thank you for calling Dr. Liquin. If this is a medical emergency please hang up and call 9-1-1. Otherwise please leave a message or call my office..."
"DAD! Dad something has happened and... we are trapped and..." She looked to Nolan. "What... What do I tell him? Does the school even have a phone... I... I...." Her hands shook and she could barely keep the phone in her fingers. "HERE!" She thrust the cell phone toward Nolan, surrendering the responsibility to him.
Chandler (and Castiel)
Chandler groaned again and kept trying to look at the people talking but he was seeing double and his vision was still blotched with stars, while the back of his head throbbed, he kept opening and closing his eyes but squeezed them shut when he heard the girl in the compartment start screaming shrilly causing his head to almost explode in pain, his ears ringing and causing him to faint. Castiel looked at the screaming girl and darted up the seats and when she thrusted the phone to Nolan she jumped towards Caelum's feet and started rubbing them hoping she'll stop panicking.
Nolan
Nolan could only watch as Caelum quickly lost whatever control she had managed to keep. Everything felt particularly out of his control as he was locked in a room with a panicking girl and a nearly unconscious kid, and he didn't really know either of them. He just didn't want to be dealing with this, and worse he really didn't even know how. He took a calming breath and began to look around when suddenly the girl shoved a phone in his face.
"Uhh... o-okay," he managed to get out as he took the cellphone. No doubt it was a girl's phone. Did things like this even work on the train? He had heard they didn't at Hogwarts. But sure enough as he put it up to his phone, he just caught the sound of the tone prompting him to leave a message. "Uh, hello... sir? I..." He was at a loss for words, but then saw Castiel trying to comfort the girl, and an idea came to his mind. "Your daughter is in a bit of a state right now, but don't worry. We are perfectly safe..." He realized that the man would likely worry when he couldn't reach his daughter by phone later. "Please don't worry. Call Mr. Thomas Archer at-" There was another beep on the other end signaling that he'd gone over the time limit and the call disconnected.
"Okay, okay. We'll just send him an owl when we get back! I can track down Roy and let you borrow Fletch!" He tossed the phone onto the seat, and bent down to pick up Castiel. "But for now..." he handed the kitten to Cealum. "This is Castiel. I want you to look at her. Pet her, hold her. Nothing outside of you and this kitten exists. Okay?" He had tried to sound certain, to echo Tidus's way of speaking like he knew everything. Instead he sounded as hopeless as if he was trying to convince a starving bear that he tasted like dry grass and twigs and would make a terrible meal. Hopefully it would shut her up though, because her worry was starting to affect him and the noises in the hall were only getting louder.
He walked over to the window and began messing with the latch, talking to Chandler in the process. "Don't die one us now, man. We could use your help. Neither of us can really use our wands." But the boy was even worse than before.
Caelum
Caelum enfolded her arms around the warm furry creature.
Just me and the cat... She closed her eyes, she focused on the feeling of the feline purring against her chest. She began to pet the cat, behind the ears, over her neck, and down to the tip of her tail.
The cat did the trick. Caelum calmed down enough to open her eyes and watch Nolan open the compartment window. "Be... careful..." She said quietly, then looked down at Chandler with a frown. She squeezed Castiel a bit tighter, the kitten meowed quietly, as if to get the girls attention.
Caelum scratched the kitten behind her ear. "You are so cute, you remind me of Sabertooth just a bit... bit... much smaller."
Chandler
Chandler wasn't down long and when he came to he actually did feel a bit better though his head still hurt alot... He stood shakily to his feet and reached out for Nolan when he started falling foward and hoped the other boy caught him otherwise he would get a face full of floor again. If caught Chandler would blink several times and frown at the door, his anger starting to build causing his head to hurt even more. He pointed his wand at the door again and said the incantation, this time his mind seemed to wrap around the spell much easier.
Right after his head was throbbing so much that he passed out again hopefully again back in Nolan's arms so he didn't get injured anymore.
Castiel would have sighed if she was able to but as it was she merely continued to rub all over Caelum purring loudly to keep her attention away from everything else. She briefly watched her master do the spell again and was at least happy no more shenanigans or melarchy occurred with that cast and she snuck a peak at the compartment door to see if he had been successful.
Nolan
Nolan was caught off guard by the sudden movement behind him. So stunned in fact, that when Chandler stumbled he nearly hit the floor, Nolan catching him just in time. Though he tried to talk some more, Chandler seemed to completely ignore him as he stared at the door. "It's okay, Chandler. That sort of thing happens. Why don't you just sit down?" He was cut off by the incantation. Nolan sighed with relief as the room all of sudden felt more open even if the the door hadn't opened. He felt that on his next attempt to open, the door would open without complaint.
His relief was brief, however as Chandler collapsed once more. With a groan, Nolan struggled to support the weight of the other boy. It was lucky he was fit and that Chandler seemed about average in weight. Still, he just managed to get Chandler onto the seat opposite Caelum, though he did fall a little roughly on the cushioned seat.
In the Hallway between compartments
Nolan's eyes turned toward the door as he drew his wand. "Now let's see what's going on." He walked through the doorway to find the door itself had knocked over an older student. Right next to him were two other girls, wands drawn. He held up his own watching the other two warily. There were still loud noises coming out of the other compartments.
"NOLAN?!"
"No, no, NO!" Nolan thought. Not now. He turned to find Judoc, flanked by two of his Quidditch teammates, staring at him. Nolan couldn't tell if he was angry or just surprised.
The older Archer boy strode forward as the two Gryffindor girls joined the brawl in the other compartments. "I heard Slytherin was causing trouble, but you have the nerve to pick on my brother?!" His voice suddenly twice as loud he pointed his wand directly at the third year girl. "Messing with first years, typical mindless beasts."
Zeva scowled, but was visibly nervous. Skill or no, Judoc towered over her and had the magical knowledge of a seventh year. "I haven't touched your brother," she said, her tone shaky but contemptuous. She glanced at the younger brother. "In fact, he's the one who blasted that door off its hinges and knocked out this weirdo," she gestured to Nathaniel on the floor.
A loud blast from the nearest compartment made both Nolan and Zeva flinch, but Judoc didn't blink. His wand still pointed at Zeva, he turned to Nolan and the open compartment behind him. A broken door, an unconscious boy, and a girl who seemed to be in shock. "What did you do?"
Zeva, clearly seeing the situation herself for the first time, was likewise surprised. Which was then followed by a smirk. "Noble, honorable, self-righteous Archer. Watch who you call a mindless beast. This little brother of yours seems like a monster himself. She backed away to rejoin the Slytherins, leaving Judoc with the two first years.
"I-" Nolan's explanation never left his mouth. Suddenly the whole world had gone still. The teachers had arrived.
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