And now you're on a train

So, brief background:
My MFC has just run away from her home (*ahem* castle) and in the process, she frees an indentured servant (MMC). (Note: She’s not a princess, but she is of noble birth.) I originally had them traveling on foot the entire time, but I decided instead to stick the two of them on a train together, thus only having to walk a tiny bit. Also, they hate each other.

My question is, what exactly should happen during the time when they’re on the train? Right now, all I have is arguments, my MMC continuingly reading the paper in order to ignore her, and some government officials (dunno what they’re called, guards maybe?) searching the train for them. I’m also considering some discussions that will lead into a little about their personal lives/pasts.

So, what would you do if you were stuck on a train with someone you hate? Or, what would you, as a reader, like to see happen?

Thank you :)

Well, my first thought is-why do they hate each other? Leading to, if she hates him, why did she free him? Is this a "they will end up together but they're fighting it" story line?

Getting a little bit more background may help figure out what happens on the train(does he rescue her from the officials, does she give him a good slapping for sarcasm ;) ....kinda things)

Move to another car, unless the tickets forced them to be in the same car. Or just ride it out in the dining car and drown sorrows in frosty chocolate and fairy cakes.

They could do what I do when I'm on a train; they could 'people watch'? I find it interesting and fun to watch how people interact with one-another. It could be a good way for the characters to show their personality and to open up towards each other?

I'm not sure how exactly *you* want the plot to unravel, but if she's run away and taken a servant with her, and there are guards going around the train, my first thought was this - when the train reaches its next stop, one of them could leave their seats for something to eat/washroom/whatnot, and run back to the other with news that a guard has spotted them and is informing the others OR the person who left might not return, and the other has to go looking for him/her and realizes he/she has been taken by one of the guards (maybe sees him/her being dragged away through the window) and has to decide what to do. If the girl is taken away, perhaps the guy goes after her because he feels indebted, and if it's the other way around, perhaps she goes after him because he has some connection to people and she needs him to get away? And while one goes after the other, it could get them to where they needed to go anyways.

And if you decide to do something like the first idea, where whoever left comes back, perhaps they could leave the train and end up having to hitch hike or something?

They could also perhaps meet an orphan or something. I don't know. I'm in the mood to read something about orphans tonight.

Or maybe another girl/guy who has run away? Like someone who had run from the castle a while before, and they run into them?

I hope I helped ! :)

Pointedly ignoring each other, like how cats act around each other sometimes. Maybe saying somebody is on the other person's side of the seat. Kicking each other. Calling each other names which are barely polite. The scene in The Importance of Being Earnest where the two girls are talking together over tea might help. (You can watch the whole part here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rzDkwZIt4, and that scene is near the end. But you should watch the whole thing because it's a good story.) Maybe somebody could want to read part of the newspaper and the other won't give it up.

I guess they could sit far away from each other and pretend the other person didn't exist. Or unless they have to sit beside each other just not talk.