What is Real, and what is fiction?
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT! Wish I did though, I could settle down with a lot of money…lol. But Robyn Young, her family, and her friends are MINE!
This is my first proper fan fiction that I intend to finish, lol. So any comments or whatever will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Chapter 1 – Meetings of more than one manor
"Wake up Robyn! Wake up! We're seeing revenge of the Sith today!" Said an annoying young male voice from the bottom of a bunk bed; who seemed to be trying (and failing miserably) to pull the striped covers off a rather annoyed older sister.
"Andrew, I'm going to count to 3, then I'm going to pummel your head into mush!" Said the lump in the bed sheets. "1…2…3…"
As soon as a head appeared out of the bed sheets, there was a mad rush of feet from the younger (most annoying) brother and a clunk as the door closed.
Robyn smirked evilly as she scratched her head and yawned. She decided that now she was up, she had better get ready. She stretched as she looked around her messed up room. The walls were of a washed green, the carpet a blood red and the curtains a paler red. The wardrobes were yellow, and the shelving silver, the same as the bunk bed.
"Yet another tiresome day with the family." She murmured quietly to herself as she slid down the stairs to her bunk. She smiled as her feet landed softly on the winnie the pooh rug at the bottom of the stairs.
"ARE YOU UP YET ROBYN ELINOR YOUNG!" Roared an angry female voice.
Robyn flinched, she only ever heard her full name when her mother was angry, and today, Robyn had taken it too far and slept in too late. She glanced at the clock. It was 10:00am. Yeah, I've slept in, she thought.
"YEAH!" Robyn shouted back as she delved deep into her wardrobe to find a suitable outfit to wear to the cinema.
After a while she found a pair of worn but comfy blue jeans, a denim jacket and a blue t-shirt. Robyn chucked them on her chair, then proceeded to wash and clean her teeth, after which she put on her clothes.
She yawned once again as she slipped on her socks. She wasn't one for getting up. More for one of a lie in.
Robyn got up off the floor and walked to the mirror to check her hair and maybe apply a bit of eyeliner. She stared at her reflection. Robyn had short light brown hair with a red tint, hazel eyes and rather pale skin, due to the fact that she preferred to be reading a good book inside than outside playing a sport, basically, the total opposite to her brother.
She sighed and grabbed the eyeliner off her cluttered desk, knocking several sheets of paper onto the floor in the process. Robyn looked at them and shrugged. I'll pick them up later, she thought lazily.
After applying a quick coat of eyeliner she hurried out of her bedroom, taking the stairs two at a time to reach the bottom where her brother and mother waited for her.
"You took your time." Andrew, her brother, said impatiently.
"Shut up. I'll take as long as I want you little wart…"Robyn sneered angrily back at him. How her brother annoyed her, sometimes she just felt like hitting him with a mallet. But her fantasies were interrupted by the murderous stare her mother was giving her. Robyn gulped and headed for the shoe cupboard where her trainers were kept.
She knelt down and looked at her seven pairs of trainers. Which one to wear, she thought undecidedly.
After a lot of thought and several angry comments and murderous stares later,Robyn settled on a pair of denim blue slip on trainers. Not the easiest things to keep on your feet, but they went with her outfit and were comfy.
"Ready." Robyn stated, shutting the cupboard door and straightening up.
"Finally. Now get in the car." Her mother sighed impatiently as Robyn's younger brother swept past them and stood by the silvery blue astra.
Robyn followed soon after and sat in the back next to her brother since she didn't fancy sitting in the front next to her mother at this particular moment.
Andrew was bouncing up and down in the car excitedly, annoying the hell out of Robyn, who ended up hitting him extremely hard just as their mother stepped into the car, who then proceeded to shout at Jen for hitting her younger brother.
For the rest of the journey, Robyn sat in a silent sulk. It's not fair, why do I always get blamed when he always starts it, and at this thought she gave her brother a vicious glare. But to her annoyance, he was grinning happily and staring out of the window at passers by.
Robyn rolled her eyes, but she couldn't help as a smile started to spread across her face. She was also excited, as they were going to see the final star wars episode that day; Star wars, episode three, revenge of the Sith. It was the final episode in the Star wars saga, and this one held the explanation as to how Darth Vader became Darth Vader. But she still preferred Harry Potter.
As these thoughts flitted across her mind, they had arrived at the car park and her mum and brother had un-done their seat belts. Robyn proceeded to do likewise and stepped out of the car.
"Oh Great Aunt Godric's bloomers!" Said an open mouthed, black haired teenager.
A righteous chorus of laughter came after this particular outburst from the teenager's three companions.
"Ok Sirius. We know you have problems, but its best not to say them in public." Laughed one of the companions. This one had messy black hair and glasses.
Another burst of laughter erupted from the three boys, leaving Sirius looking particularly annoyed.
"Ha ha. Very funny James." Sirius said to the black haired boy with glasses, pushing him lightly.
"I know it was." James grinned manically, before chuckling.
"He does have a point James though. How are we supposed to get across this?" A mousey brown haired boy said, who was noticeably shorter than the other three.
"We cross it. And it's called a road Peter." Said a brown haired boy who rolled his eyes.
"And how, may I ask my dear Remus, are we supposed to do that!" Sirius pointed out. "I mean, we could get killed with all those 'things' zooming down it! And I want to see Star Wars!" He pouted folding his arms like a three-year-old kid having a tantrum.
Remus rolled his eyes and sighed. "We get to a special crossing point. Like that one." He pointed just down the road.
The other three boys looked down to where their friend was pointing, and there, as he had said, lay a crossing. They all looked back across the road to their goal, the cinema.
Earlier that year, Remus had introduced his three best friends to Star wars and they had gotten hooked from the first film. Luckily Remus had all but one star wars episode on video so they could watch it safely at his house. But then the final episode of the saga came out in the cinema and Remus's three best friends had gone mad. They had kept bugging him to take them until he said yes. Since he lived with his grandparents, who were muggles (non-wizarding folk), he was the only one out of the four who actually knew how muggles worked.
Remus wandered down to the crossing with his three friends in tow. He stopped at the crossing and pressed the button, waiting for the man to turn green, to signal it was safe to go.
"Ermmmm, Remus, what are you doing?" James asked his friend as he pushed the button.
"I'm pushing the button on the crossing. It tells the traffic lights someone wants to cross and then little man over there..." Remus pointed to a red man on the traffic lights across the road. "…turns green to tell us its safe to cross."
At this the other three boys stared at the little red man intently, waiting for it to turn green. Remus just rolled his eyes and chuckled to himself.
After what seemed like an age to the three boys, who were staring now very impatiently at the red man, it turned green. Remus jumped as Sirius, James and Peter all gave a loud 'whoop!' of happiness and charged across the road to the cinema.
"Hurry up Remie-poo!" Sirius shouted back as they stopped at the entrance.
Remus just shock his head, laughed, and headed off after them.
Robyn followed her brother and mother down the tunnel that connected the cinema and the car park, cheering up all the way. Her brother seemed to have a burst of energy and was running around like a headless chicken.
Robyn laughed as Andrew went zooming through the tunnel pretending to be a Jedi.
It didn't take long to reach the cinema since they had to walk quite quickly to keep pace with Andrew.
"Hurry up." Andrew whined as he went through the doors into the cinema.
"We're coming, we're coming." Robyn laughed as she also went through the doors but held them open for her mum.
Her mother went to catch up with her younger brother and try and keep him under control so Robyn lagged behind, walking at her own pace.
She had just gotten past the escalators when she stumbled forward and her shoe fell off. She swore and looked up to see four teenage boys looking at her and the shoe, she blushed.
Remus had caught up with his three friends who were all staring at the escalator.
"Yet another task for the brave Sir. Padfoot to undertake." Sirius smirked, standing tall.
James laughed. "Brave my arse." He laughed.
Remus and Peter laughed too as Sirius's smile turned into a pout and he folded his arms again.
"Ok guys. This is an escalator. It's an electronic stairway basically. You just step on it and it takes you up, like so." Remus smiled and stepped on the escalator. Immediately after the other three boys saw it was all right, they too jumped on it.
Then an infamous marauder accident occurred, James stumbled and fell into Sirius, and then Sirius fell into Peter and they nearly caused an avalanche of people falling down the escalator if it wasn't for Remus who somehow managed to grab them all.
After their little mishap earlier, Sirius, Peter and James managed to find their balance and continue up the escalator without fault. Although at some points Sirius let out 'oooos' and 'ahhhhhs' of wonder much to the annoyance of Remus.
After what seemed like an age to Remus they finally reached the top of the escalator. Remus smiled thankfully. Suddenly he saw a girl stumble and he also saw the she had lost her show. By the looks of it so did Sirius, James and Peter.
Sirius stifled his laughter. "I bet she's thinking 'where's my shoe gotten too'." He cackled, James and Peter joined in, Remus just rolled his eyes.
He saw her look up and blush. Remus felt sorry for her. It's not exactly the best thing to loose your shoe in public, he thought and chuckled to himself.
Remus decided he had better do something. So, he jumped the last few steps of the escalator and strode towards the shoe. He then picked it up and walked over to the girl.
"I take it this is your shoe?" Remus smiled handing it over to her.
Robyn smiled thankfully and took it, placing it back on her foot. "Yup, thanks. Stupid thing slips off now and again." She laughed.
Remus smiled but flinched as he heard a crash behind him, he turned to see his friends had forgotten to step off and instead had fallen over in a heap.
Robyn laughed, gesturing to the pile of arms and legs. "You know them?" She asked
"You could say that." He asked, laughing as he watched his friends pick themselves off the ground swearing and pushing one another. Quite the sight to muggle passers by.
Once they had gotten themselves up Sirius called over to Remus as they made their way to the ticket booths.
"Come on Remus!" Sirius beckoned him, though Remus swore he saw a wink, followed by fits of giggles from James and Peter.
Robyn's eyes widened. It can't be, she thought. Robyn loved the Harry Potter books and the films, she had read and seen them a thousand times and couldn't wait for the next book and film to be released. She had always wanted to go to Hogwarts, to experience the magic. And here standing in front of her was one of the marauders.
"I'm coming!" Remus smiled as he turned back to the girl.
Robyn shook her head as if trying to awaken herself from a trance. "Remus? Remus Lupin?"
"Yes." Remus said, then he did a replay on what she had said. "How'd you know my last name?"
"And they would be Sirius Black, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew?" Robyn asked eagerly.
"Yes they would. And how do you know all this?" Remus asked, starting to get a bit worried.
"Don't say your real names too loudly in public. Trust me on this." Robyn warned him.
"Ok ok, but how did you know our names?" Remus asked, he was starting to get really quite worried, plus he wasn't getting any answers.
Robyn turned and saw her mother calling for her. She made a gesture as if to say 'I'll be there in a minute'. Then she turned back to Remus.
"Listen, I've got to go. I'll see you round." She smiled and in her head she mentally slapped herself. She had seen Remus Lupin in real life...
She felt someone grab her arm, and she turned back round.
"How do you know our names when I don't even know yours?" Remus asked letting go of her arm.
"My names Robyn, but most of my friends call me Rob. And please don't ask me how I know your names, because I can't explain, too dangerous." Robyn said her eyes pleading with Remus not to ask her.
Remus looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Ok, I'll stop asking, if you can tell me what film your seeing?" He smiled. My gods, he thought, I'm flirting with a girl I haven't even known for five minutes. I'm turning into Sirius! Mentally slapping himself he returned from his own little world.
Robyn let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, relieved she was. "Star wars, episode three, revenge of the Sith." She smiled back and they walked towards the ticket booth.
Sirius and James had identical grins of their faces as they let out wolf whistles at Remus and Robyn, who both rolled their eyes and laughed.
"What are you seeing?" Robyn asked, she was very surprised with herself, it had never been this easy to talk to a boy before. It was like they had known each other for years.
"Same thing." He smiled. "I introduced that gang of hoodlums over there to star wars earlier this year. They've been bugging me to go with them to see it since it was advertised." Remus laughed, also surprised with himself. He was usually really shy around girls. It was like he'd known her for an age.
Robyn laughed along with him. "Come on then. Introduce me to them." She smirked.
"But you already know their names." Remus said, confused.
"Yeah, but they don't know that." Robyn smiled and nudged Remus, putting on puppy dog eyes. "Go on, please." She fluttered her eyelashes.
"Alright." Remus rolled his eyes and smirked, leading her over to his band of friends.
Andrew suddenly came running up to her. "Mum said here's your ticket and there's a tenner to buy some popcorn. She says she doesn't want to wait any longer for you. And she'll meet you outside after the film if you want to sit with your friends. I hope you do, that way I won't be stuck sitting next to you." He placed the ticket and the ten-pound note in Robyn's hand before running away to avoid getting hit.
"Who was that?" Remus smirked as Robyn scowled after her little brother.
"An annoying brat that I have to live with." Robyn sneered as her mother and brother disappeared into the screen that the film was being shown in.
"Your younger brother I take it." Remus laughed as they finally reached Sirius, James and Peter who were fussing around with the muggle money and arguing over it.
"Yup." Robyn smiled, and couldn't help but laugh at the sight that met them.
"It's £4.50 for a ticket each. And I take it this is a fiver?" James said holding up a twenty-pound note.
"No it's not. Jeez James. Your as bright as Snivellys hair." Sirius said, snatching the money from James and grinning.
"How dare you! And after all I've done for you!" James pretended to weep and covered his eyes with his hands. "You never even buy me flowers anymore." He started to sob into his hands.
Sirius went to his knees.
"I'm so sorry my sugar plum fairy. Will you forgive me?" Sirius went all puppy eyes on James who peeked out through his fingers.
"Depends." James said, taking his hands away and putting them on his hips, a manic grin plastered on his face.
"On what?" Sirius raised his eyebrow.
James looked thoughtful for a second. "On whether you'll wear pink knickers!"
"Anything for my Jamesy-poo." Sirius got up and grinned manically. "Would you like me to do ballet dancing as well?" He asked prancing around in circles.
"You two are idiots." Peter smirked.
James looked shocked and Sirius stopped in mid-pirouette, crashing to the floor. Once picking himself up rather quickly to a fit of giggles from the rest of the group, he joined James in being shocked.
"We're hurt wormtail." James pouted.
"We prefer the term mentally challenged." Sirius folded his arms.
"So this is what it's like being with those two?" Robyn asked, grinning as she looked to Sirius and James.
"Yeah, total and utter chaos." Remus laughed.
"You love us really moony." James smiled putting an arm round Remus's shoulder.
"So who's this lovely lady?" Sirius smirked, bowing down, taking Robyn's hand and kissing it.
"Sirius Black, isn't it? I know about you slick. Your not as good looking as I thought you'd be." Robyn smirked taking her hand away from Sirius's gaping mouth.
Remus, James and Peter all burst out laughing as Sirius's hand dropped and he frowned in disbelief. Robyn folded her arms in triumph.
"I think you've found yourself a match their Sirius." James smirked, liking Robyn already.
"I agree with James." Peter grinned.
"Yeah. She's got one up on you Sirius." Remus laughed.
"I'm being abandoned by my own best friends for a girl!" Sirius said in monotone, his mouth hanging open, and his eyes still staring at Robyn.
"I should take that as an honour." Robyn laughed.
"Then I will." Sirius said regaining his composure, and laughing along with her. "You know, I'm beginning to like you."
"Touché." Robyn said. "Names Robyn, but my friends call me Rob." She smiled, putting out her hand for him to shake.
"Nice to meetcha." Sirius smiled, taking her hand.
"I'm James." James smiled, shaking her hand.
"And I'm Peter." Peter smiled, also shaking Robyn's hand, which Robyn only took because she didn't want to show her anger against him.
"I beileve you already have met our beloved Mr. Lupin." James smirked.
Remus just smiled and nodded politely. Robyn smiled back.
"So..." Sirius said, smirking as Robyn and Remus gazed at each other and at his words they seemed to 'awake' from a dream. "We still need to buy our tickets!"
"Ah. Yeh. Do ya think we could get any help?" Peter asked Robyn, plonking the money in her hands that he had taken off Sirius.
"Help!" Sirius looked shocked. "We were getting on perfec...ok, maybe we do need help."
The group laughed and Robyn shook her head and muttered "Boys." Before heading over to the ticket booths leaving the four marauders behind.
"Hey hey hey." James and Sirius taunted in unison, smirking. Sirius nudged Remus.
"What?" Remus said, puzzled.
" 'What', he says!" James said, rolling his eyes, a manic grin plastered across his face.
Sirius slumped an arm over Remus's shoulder while James and Peter snickered.
"Remie remie remie." Sirius shook his head. "I think someone has a crush." He taunted poking Remus's nose.
"I'm truly sorry to disappoint you Sirius, but your not my type." Remus smirked, pushing Sirius's arm off his shoulder to a burst of giggles from James and Peter. When, at that moment Robyn came back with the tickets. She handed one to each of the marauders and then gave the change to Remus.
"Well, the films gonna be over by the time you gaping fish even get in your seats!" Robyn smirked, walking over to the barrier and handing over her ticket.
The four marauders looked and each other, then, with Remus leading them, they took off after Robyn.