A/N: Hi y'all! I'm Kate and this should be around a 20 chapter fic! Everything is the same story line lately. Lily and James feud, fall in love in 7th year. But what happens before Voldy enters the picture? This is a fantasy of it.
Please review, this is my first story!
Chapter One: The Sometimes
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"I took a sip of something poison, but I hold on tight"
Sometimes Lily Evans thought, as she watched the smoke from her dying cigarette pirouette upwards, that she would like to be alone forever.
"Sometimes," Remus Lupin spat, face marred uncharacteristically with exasperation, as he tossed the freshly lit cigarette over his shoulder into the recesses of the lake "you can be a real idiot, you know?"
Marlene Belanger sometimes whispered "I love you," when she thought no one was listening.
Sirius Black wanted more, sometimes.
Sometimes, Dorcas Meadowes wished she had thrown the glinting diamond back into the Thames.
Sometimes Ted Tonks wondered what have would have happened if he had been a bit more careful, and then hates himself for the mere thought.
Julia Finnegan was sometimes kicked out of training for laughing too hard.
"Sometimes I think I'm crazy," James Potter whispered conflicted with inner agony, face a twisted mask attempting to display a cool nonchalance he could never seem to obtain.
There is always a moment of doubt. A moment where life turns so sharply you are thrown to the window. A beat of regret, a second of hope. A silent epiphany, several moments of indecision. There is always a sometimes.
Before the grandeur of how these people lived and loved, first the details of their connection.
James Potter was the central strand. Ringleader of the Marauders, the mischievous brotherhood of four, as brave and reckless as a Gryffindor should be. He illustrated that to Sirius Black, his future best mate, the day they met as he brandished a sword like his hero.
That was coincidentally, also the day he first met Lily Evans.
James was connected to Sirius.
Sirius Black's uncle, Alphard Black, a handsome and promising young Slytherin, shamed his brother and the Noble and most Ancient House of Black when he married James Potter's maternal aunt, Henrietta Dearborn, who died two years after their hushed-up wedding, under mysterious circumstances at a strictly pureblood banquet at which several of the more radical Blacks were present.
Whenever James' mother, Irene Potter nee Dearborn, caught a distorted glimpse of Sirius under candlelight, she flinched.
Sirius was connected to Ted.
Ted Tonks, the sloppily handsome Ravenclaw Head Boy, met Sirius in detention his sixth year at Hogwarts. Ted had cursed several Slytherins, for calling him "mudblood" leaving them missing several appendages and changing numerous of their species. Sirius Black felt instantly bonded.
Roughly three years later they would become family.
Ted was connected to Lily
Lily Evans fervently adored her neighbor Ted from the ages six to ten. Her face turned a shade so fiery it could combat the ferocity of her hair in his presence and little did he know, Lily Evans, concocted a Barbie wedding ceremony in their honor.
Less than a decade in the future, she would utter two words that would change his life.
Lily was connected to Julia.
Julia Finnegan was the wrong form of Irish. Thoroughly lacking in red hair and freckles, she had uncharacteristically dark hair and shockingly blue eyes, and often lamented how her roommate Lily Evans, looked more the part than she did. Had she looked more traditionally Irish, she would have never made it into the Auror Program, hence never contributed to this tale.
Her bright blue eyes, were what first caught Alastor Moody's attention.
Julia was connected to Marlene.
If Julia Finnegan was gorgeous, once you got over the astonishment of such shocking attributes of ivory pale skin, rich black hair, and alarmingly blue eyes combined; then Marlene Belanger was pretty in an exceedingly common sort of way. She was averagely pretty, and very much so, her face symmetrical and body type typical. Not a type of beauty to be shocked by or to be remembered and commemorated through art, but just simply, pleasant to look at, a forgettable sort of pretty. Dorcas Meadowes, often her partner throughout Auror training jokingly said she got top points in concealment because she was so used to being looked at and passed over in favor of her more beautiful friends.
No one forgot her face when she died.
Marlene was connected to Dorcas.
The first person Dorcas Meadowes talked to on the Hogwarts Express was Remus Lupin. He was sitting uncomfortably next to the chatty Marlene Belanger, who was so pretty and cheery and everything Dorcas most certainly wasn't, that she hated the smiling blond immediately, and by association Remus Lupin. Later, when he offered Dorcas, well know for being simply a sullen, condescending, cold Slytherin girl, chocolate after catching her sobbing in the third floor corridor, the two struck up the most genuine and unlikely friendship in their decade.
Later on their friendship would keep Dorcas and Remus alive, in situations almost as different as the pair themselves.
Dorcas was connected to Remus.
Out of this whole group Remus was the sole survivor to go on to the second Order of the Phoenix, to fight in the second war. Remus was the sole one to bear the guilt of his friends' deaths, betrayals, and triumphs.
Remus was tired.
And connected they all were, and as the story unfolds their connections will change everything.