"Do you have everything you need? You're books? Clothes? Robes? Hogsmaede permission slip? Cassian?" Mirelle Thorns fussed as soon as Finley along with Blaise and missus Zabini arrived in King's Cross.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, and," she turned towards her ever growing cat who was out of the cage sitting on her trunks like he was a king. She scratched his ear causing him to purr. "And yes."
Mirelle sighed in relief, she gave Finley a kiss on the head wishing her a good school year. "Come, we don't want to be late," Mirelle had said smiling at Missus Zabini who looked like she was in for a great gossip.
"Want me to push the cart for you darling?"
"No thank you," Finley had said as she fixed her dress' skirt.
It was the one time that Missus Zabini went all out on her, and she still thinks its much. The woman had her wear a black off shoulder flare dress that reached at least a few inches above her thighs, she also wore white knee length boots. And Mirelle had thought about how grown up she looked, the beautiful little girl she watched over was turning into a woman in front of her eyes and she was in love at how she was growing up with her witnessing.
"Finney, make sure to owl me if you forget anything," Mirelle had said as they finished loading Finley and Blaise's thing in the train.
"I will," the girl smiled.
"Have you withdrawn some money for your Hogsmaede trips?" She asked again making sure the girl left with money in her pocket.
"I did with Blaise just last week when we got our things," the girl replied again.
The woman have her another hug as she heard the train signal for its departure. "I will be here when you get back from school, if you change your plans on spending Christmas at Hogwarts owl me ahead okay?"
The girl giggled and nodded her head as she waved at the woman good bye getting in the train to leave.
"My Finney Winney, you look like a billion galleons," Theo whistled as he entered Finley and Blaise's compartment with his own bags in tow.
"You under estimate her worth Nott," Blaise smirked at him, Finley buried her face in her hands. The bloke could never let go of the fact that she was richer than either of them combined. "What do you mean?"
Blaise motioned towards Finley smile wider that could rip off his cheeks if it was physically possible. "You're looking at the heiress of sixteen single digit vaults in Gringotts."
"No fucking way!" Theo awed almost falling on to the compartment floor, his behind missing the seat as he dropped in shock.
"Blaise, please shut up," Finley groaned once more.
"I'm telling you Nott! Sixteen vaults!" Blaise mused as he tried to get under Finley's skin.
Theo couldn't help but muse as well, even he was impressed at how his best friend was rich and not knowing. It clearly explained the expensive well thought out gifts that he and Blaise received every birthday and Christmas. Finley was humble enough to not mention it and it freaked both boys when they found out who her ancestors were, but not too much to question who her parents were.
"I'm telling you Finney Winney, as rich and as hot as you are, you need a stable man," Theo said brushing his hair to the side giving Finley his best smoulder. This caused the girl to laugh even harder, for the past hour both boys fought on who was going to marry her after Hogwarts. Of course to them it was all fun and games, they loved her like a sister in the most innocent and yet too protective way possible.
"Yeah and I would let you marry Cassian, but I doubt you like to commit something immoral," Finley snorted at Theo.
"Oh please Finley, he's the definition of immoral," Blaise retorted again causing Finley to have another fit of laughter.
The door slid open, and it was someone the three Slytherins wondered when he would arrive. "Hello Malfoy," greeted Blaise who suddenly went serious towards Draco.
"Zabini, Nott, Evans," Draco nodded yet his eyes lingered towards Finley who couldn't stop giggling until she felt his gaze.
To say that Draco Malfoy didn't mature for the better over the summer was the biggest most fattest lie one could ever say in the whole world. The prat finally looked like someone a girl would fawn over, and that didn't mean Finley wasn't a girl a boy would cut his leg off for. Draco Malfoy had matured to be an aristocratic man who suddenly earned muscles that replaced his scrawny limbs back in second year, he was handsome alright, the level that would somehow rival Blaise all together if given the attention.
As Draco stared at Finley, he froze. She looked more refined as a lady rather than a girl in her teenage years, she looked more radiant that she did last year. Her hair grew longer, her fair skin looked smoother, her cheeks were rosy, and Merlin help the bloke for he might kiss her for it was too inviting. He smirked at her, leaning against the compartment door.
"Well, I see that you now look like an actual girl Evans. Maybe perhaps you would go on a Hogsmaede trip with me," Draco smirked.
Scoffing at his remark, Finley grew red but not flustered, she was upset. "Like I would go on a date with a toe rag like you," she said giving him a snide glare.
"I mean who wouldn't want to go out with me?"
"Seeing as you can't differentiate a girl from a pug, then I guess Pansy would likely want to go with you," Finley snapped back at him.
In no way shape or form did Blaise and Theo think of Draco Malfoy flirting with their dear Finley. The gents rules were clearly still in place and yet none of them made a move to stop him, still smirking at Finley, Draco made the power move that costed him his nose.
"Go out with me to Hogsmaede Evans, I'm sure no one else but me would want to take you," Draco said. He was a complete idiot, of course boys from Slytherin would try and find a way to date her.
Finley stood up and gave him a sweet smile before frowning, pushing him off the compartment door frame.
"Go out with yourself Malfoy, clearly you would find yourself to be attractive enough to go on a date by yourself."
"So you find me attractive?"
Frustrated Finley was now completely red. "Go to Hell!"
"I'll take you with me, then it's a date."
Slamming the door on Draco's face, closing the blinds after she was fuming. Both her friends knew she was flustered and pissed at how the blond slytherin prat asked her out. Admittedly enough if Draco had asked her any nicer she would've said yes, but he was a bastard at that moment she had no choice but to shove him.
"You know that it doesn't stop there," Theo laughed taking out a pack of licorish wands for the fuming girl to eat.
"Do me a favour and shove him off the astronomy tower for me," she grumbled as she took a wand from the packet and started eating.
"Mr Malfoy would have your head darling, he isn't worth it."
The train suddenly stopped, too harshly for anyone's good. "What happened?" Finley managed to ask as she looked out the window.
"We can't be there yet," Theo wondered as he opened the blinds. The train's corridor was empty, Finley stood up and looked out the compartment doors.
"Finley get back here!" Blaise scolded pulling her arm and she just wouldn't budge. Then she felt cold, colder than she felt when she was with her consciousness when she was petrified. She felt as if she would never be happy again.
"Finley sit down," Theo now harshly pulled her to sit down, closing the compartment door locking it.
"What did you see Theo?" Blaise asked as he held a now shivering Finley in his arms.
"Dementors," Theo only said as the compartment doors rattled aggressively as a hooded figure floated in the corridor. It stopped in front of their door, even with the lock it was useless.
"Fuck!" Blaise cursed. Taking off his coat laying it in front of a horrified Finley, him and Theo took out their wands together.
"Leave!" Blaise had yelled at it. It did not listen, it still tried to reach for Finley who was shaking in fear.
Before casting a spell, something repelled the dementor. A silvery white doe, it shielded the three Slytherins, the Dementor eventually left and so did the doe. The train's power went back on and the train resumed its course.
"Finley!"
Theo shook his trembling friend who was anything but calm, she didn't pass out, she was just shaking in fear.
"Finn, hey. It's alright, the dementor is gone," Blaise assures pulling the girl into a hug.
But that wasn't it, when the dementor was close she heard a laugh, a scream, and a cry. She heard them and she was terrified on whose sounds they were, she felt all of her happiness drained from her system.
The door slid open once again and there stood a tall thin man with a scar on his face, " Are you three alright?" The man asked.
"She's shaking," explained Theo who didn't care who the man was, he needed his friend to be okay.
"Here, give her chocolate and she'll be fine," the man gave them a smile as they gave them a bar of chocolate and leaving. Ripping the chocolate bar open, they gave it to Finley who shook in fear.
"The man told us that you should eat this," Blaise said.
"It's not gluten-free—"
"Theo shut the fuck up."
In the end after eating the chocolate, Finley fell asleep, too bloody tired to speak anymore. The fear of the screams and the cries and the laughs were too much that it was another item added in her nightmares list.
With Finley asleep, she missed the sorting and the dinner. Passed out she was admitted to the hospital wing to be checked on until she woke up.