Who: Andromeda Black and Ted Tonks
When: September 1970
What: Ding, dong ...
Where: Train to Hogwarts!

When you were trying very hard to be the picture-perfect daughter as far as your mother was concerned in a house that consisted of people who wanted to maim the one person in the world who made you feel like you were even the least bit alive ... things were difficult. Summer at home had been hell, even with the distraction of being able to roam around the estate as far away from Bellatrix as possible.

She was sure that her sister suspected she was involved with Ted. Bellatrix had kept such a close eye on her for the summer that she hadn't even been able to send him letters, and Andromeda had a crippling fear in the pit of her stomach that Ted would think she'd given up on him and gone off to snog some other bird. He'd probably completely moved on by now.

Andromeda, normally confident and as cheerful as a Black could be expected to be, was nervous. She'd avoided getting onto the train until literally the moment before it started to pull away, and now as she stepped into the hallway she couldn't help but start to peer as casually as she could down the cabin. She scanned the visible areas for Ted to no avail ... which meant that he was probably in one of the private cabins.

Bah, this was going to take forever if she was trying to be subtle about it...