[[ Possibly for a little bit. ]]
The wind was harsh and cold in Al's face.
His robes were whipping around, as if they were dancing.
The castle was in sight, but only just.
A small speck on the horizon, Hogwarts castle was within miles.
Grinning a little, Al sped up, his robes becoming even more thrashed than his travels had made them.
A few minutes later, he was slowly soaring over the Grounds.
The people, tiny ants, at his hight, were running around, more energetic than ever.
Some trying to show off, mainly boys to get the girl.
He smiled.
The good old days.
He looked straight again, and circled the Ravenclaw tower, gradually slowing to his window.
The lock popped open as Al's hand waved, and the window swung open, greeting him in.
Sarah was sitting down in the Ravenclaw common room. She did not normally go out and hang with everyone an much as she used to. Some of that might have been the fact that she would rather sit up in this very chair and dream about the old days. The ones where you had Al always helping her with the training and then her friends would all go out for a butterbeer.
"Man I miss those days." Sarah said not knowing what was going on in the rooms upstairs. She was looking at one of the albums she had marked 'Best Years Of My Life'. They were of everyone that she thought counted well before to her they all left.
"I miss you guys. So much hope you are safe." She then said to herself.
Al walked to the door, his dorm being empty.
The door creaked as it swung open, revealing the warm Ravenclaw Common Room.
He grinned, walking down the steps, his hand feeling the decorated guardrail, reminding him of younger years.
Sarah seemed to always be in the warm common room. "Well I guess I better go and well pratice."
Sarah then stood up. She was not sure she wanted to be in here alone any more.
The door of the girls dorms opened.
Al looked up to see who it was, from his favourite squishy armchair by the fire.
It was Sarah.
Al grinned up at her.
Heyy... he said.
Sarah smiled as she walked yet again down the stairs.
"Hi there Al." Sarah decided she would sit down and talk instead.
"So when you get back. I mean I spend most of my time here now and I know that I have not see you yet." Sarah was not lieing she loved being up here because it would bring back the old days.
Al shrugged.
I dunno... he said.
I guess I'll never really be back. I leave all the time.
He looked around the empty common room.
Though it seems... No one else is here anymore.
He looked at Sarah.
No Sirius? Ginny? Xaver? Albus...? Cho?
Sarah smiled at him as she sat down.
"Well I see Ginny once in a while. Albus more then any of the others actually. I mean we are like the closest friend now." Sarah then started to tear up and turn so where she was not looking at him.
"Cho left a long time ago and well Siruis. I still love him with all my heart but he is even starting to get distances. I mean it has been forever since I last talk to him." She missed those to the most they were the frist ones to be her friend.
Oh nuts... Al thought to himself.
Well... he said, struggling to find words to say.
Dunno what to say. I guess... Hogwarts has changed.
Sarah laughed at they. "Well ya. I mean the new people would rather go out and party the whole time."
The window burst open, loudly, and in rolled a small, winged figure. The boy slowly sat up, rubbing his head and scowling at the window in anger. He was only about 6 years old, though he was rather small for his age. His black obsidian hair seemed at odds with his bright red t-shirt. And strangely enough, he had black feathered wings extending from his shoulders.
"Stupid window." He mumbled, his small voice barely audible to the other two. He stood slowly, dusting himself off, and turned to look at Sarah and Al. He grinned upon recognizing Sarah.
"Hi Miss Sarah!" Cody said, grinning.
Sarah laughed as she then turned to look at this little boy standing there. "Well hi there cody. How have you been."
She was looking at him and smiling. "Does your mother know that your flying around. I mean I would not want her to worry anymore then she already does about you."
Ah... he said.
People who party too much.
At that moment, a small boy who couldn't be over age 7 was looking down at them.
Wings...? he thought.
Well... This is new...
"ya the partys are fun sometimes most the time no." Sarah then smiled as she looked at Cody and messed with his hair.
"Oh Al I would love for you to meet Cody." Sarah said as she pointed to the boy.
"Cody this is one of my friends Al." Sarah did not want to say nothing about him being Ginny's kid yet though.
Cody smiled slightly and inclined his head in a sort of bow, "Mr. Al." He said, "Nice to meet you."
His manners were excellent, but not exactly common. To bow instead of shaking hands, to speak to his elders with honorifics, they weren't from this area obviously. They had a Japanese quality to them, but not quiet. Possibly more of a middle ages feel.
As he straightened, he looked back at the window, partly worried, "Miss Sarah, how do you fix windows when they break?" He asked innocently.
Well... Al began, Parties are better if in moderation. They... overdue it, a bit.
Al, rather shocked by the kid's manners, slightly nodded his head, rather than bowing.
Just... call me Al, he replied.
Sarah smiled at everything.
"Well Al your right there. " She then turned and picked up her wand and pointed it at the window.
"Well Just do this." She then moved her wand in a swift motion. "Repairo"
Cody gave Al a strange little smile, a twisted one that said he was amused at the older man's suggestion to just call him Al. He would do so, if only because he had been asked to do so.
"Ok, Al."
He watched Sarah repair the window then sighed wistfully, "I wish Mom would let me get a wand...or teach me wandless magic."
Sarah smiled. "She might later. I mean come on most people don't learn any of that until they are about 11."
She knew that the Cody really wanted to do magic.
Cody couldn't do simple magic like Sarah could, that was true. But he had powers that far surpassed hers. He had the powers of his father's bloodline. Cody's Fallen ancestors. Powers terrifying, and wonderful. Unfortunately, he didn't know the depth of these powers, and so he did not use them.
Sarah smiled as she then sat down. For some reason she was happy and she had not felt this way in forever.
"So cody and Al what you been up to."
Cody smiled at Sarah brightly, "Entrando nella difficoltà, volando alle alte velocità e nell'avere divertimento." -Getting into trouble, flying at high speeds, and having fun.-
Cody laughed, translating his Italian into English telepathically without realizing it. He couldn't control his psychic abilities just yet.
Sarah smiled.
"Ya you might not want to get into to much. I mean if you do that mother of yours might not let me see you." Sarah then looked at him as she slid to the floor.
"never know she might think I'm a bad role model."
Cody shook his head, "No, Miss Sarah." He told her with a sweet smile, "Mom wouldn't think that. She likes you, and thinks it's good that I'm friends with you."
Cody didn't have many friends, and the few he had were much older than him.He knew few children his own age, as a matter of fact.
Sarah smiled. "Oh okay. I guess she knows I could not do anything bad if I tried."
Sarah looked at Cody she liked being friends with him. "So you here I graduate this year."
Cody laughed, "She knows you would do bad if you needed to. But Mom knows you better than you know yourself. She was your psychic teacher, after all." He smiled at Sarah, running a hand through his obsidian hair, his pale blue eyes watching her with amusement.
Sarah then stood up and walked to a window.
"So at least I know Ginny will never forget me. I mean if she talks to you about me." Sarah was going to miss this school.
"You know I was going to join the Ministry till I work there with her basically my boss. She showed me to shoot for my dreams."
Cody nodded, "Mom hates the Ministry..." He told her softly, "They are trying to make us move."
Then he put a finger up to his lips, "Shhhh! È un segreto..." He had overheard Ginny saying something to his grandmum about it, and knew no one was supposed to know. A secret, but he couldn't keep one for his life.
Sarah looked at him. "okay I won't tell a soul, but between us. I have that vet shop I will open once I leave here. Ya can come there when every you need."
Sarah then sat in the window sill. Cody was so much fun to hang with she could not wait to have some of her own.
Uh... Al said, thinking. Traveling, he finally replied.
He had spaced out for quite a while, and had finally caught up.
Your mum is Ginny? Al asked Cody, surprised.
Cody turned and grinned at Al, showing his white teeth, and shook his hair from his eyes, "Naturally," he made another low bow, this time jokingly, "Can't you tell?"
He knew few could tell him and Ginny were related, much less that she was his mother. Why, she was only about 22 years old now, and he was 5.
He giggled lightly, then nodded seriously, "She's my mother. The only one I ever knew, then only one I want!" He loved Ginny fiercely, as all small children do.