Chapter One: Meeting the Characters
Maeve Morrison was walking down the Hogwarts corridors. She was alone, and she liked it. For once no one was annoying her and she could do whatever she wanted. Her best friend, Lily Evans, was off in the library studying. Maeve grinned. She was hungry since she hadn't eaten any breakfast. Classes were cancelled for the day because it was some national holiday. She made her way to the kitchens. She tickled the pear and greeted the elves.
"Hey Tilly!" She greeted an elf with an exceptionally large nose.
"Hello Ms Morrison! What would you like today?" Her enthusiasm in her voice made Maeve smile.
"What did we have for breakfast this morning?" She asked rubbing her tummy.
"Kippers, eggs boiled and eggs fried, bacon, toast, marmalade, butter, milk, coffee, tea, croissants…" Tilly trailed off.
"Hm…Everything except for meat." Tilly bowed and went off to bring her a tray. Maeve sat down on one of the benches and sat down deep in thought. She was in her fifth year. She was one of the prettiest girls in her year and had had many boyfriends over the years. She was tall and curvy. She wasn't thin but her body was in proportion with everything else. She loved to play sport and she loved to eat. Her legs were made up of muscle from playing Quidditch and from her love in athletics. Every morning she woke up at five and before taking a shower she ran three miles. She loved the adrenaline and the feeling of her blood pumping all around her body.
"Here miss." Another elf with huge, blue eyes set a tray full of yummy food in front of her.
"Thanks…"
"Dorcas" The elf smiled at her. Maeve couldn't resist and smiled back. She took a piece of toast and some butter and spread it. She bit into it and smiled. This was the life. Back to her thoughts she continued chewing and thinking of her time at Hogwarts. Her best friend Lily Evans was the prime eye candy of the infamous James Potter. Maeve knew James from a young age and she was friends with him. She never got along with Sirius Black. Well she did get along with him but they never really clicked. This year though, he took a fancy to her and they started talking. Maeve knew she was falling for Black's charm and it wasn't good. He was known to be a woman's man and had dated loads of women throughout his school life. Maeve grinned. She ate her toast and her eggs and washed it down with milk. She wasn't one to drink coffee or tea, she preferred milk or water.
Maeve made her way to the library and decided to study with Lily.
"Hey Lils" Maeve sat next to her and took out her potions books.
"Hey Maeve. Decided to study?" Lily grinned at her. It was known throughout the school that Maeve hated the library. To put it in her own words 'there was something creepy about a place being so quiet, you never know when the books will attack'.
"Decided to write my potions essay without cheating." Lily snorted and said something along the words of 'yeah right'. Minutes passed and Maeve was getting frustrated. Soon she turned to Lily.
"Lily…" She smiled sweetly at her. Lily looked at her. Without saying anything Lily handed over her essay.
"You know I love you? Right?" Maeve said grinning. Lily didn't say anything and continued writing. Maeve looked at her friend for a while longer and went back to copying Lily's essay knowing she wouldn't get a response out of her friend.
Two hours later Lily shut her books.
"We're done?" Maeve asked grinning.
"I think we've earned it." Lily held out her arm and Maeve took hold of it.
"Where to My Lady?" She asked.
"How about dinner? I'm starving!" Lily took her bag and pulled Maeve out of the library. Maeve closed the door and found Lily sporting a devilish grin. She hit Maeve on the shoulder and yelled "you're it!" and started running. Maeve ran after her and soon caught up with her. She grabbed hold of Lily's hair and pulled her back.
"OW" Protested Lily but Maeve only grinned.
"Lily…dearest." Lily was whimpering in pain.
"Anything, anything you want!" She was trying to tug her hair free from Maeve's grasp.
"You let me… hm…." Lily's neck was starting to hurt. She had to level with Maeve's height and it wasn't fun.
"Homework… for a week… anything!" She was in despair.
"Nah… I want… hm…. I want a good book." Lily forgot her pain and looked at her friend.
"A book?" Maeve let go of her hair. She nodded and pushed past Lily. Lily soon caught up with her.
"I went through all that pain… for a BOOK?" Maeve innocently nodded her head. Lily was getting redder.
"Lily dear… now calm down…" Maeve noticed the look on Lily's face, let out a strangled yell and ran. Lily took after her but was too slow. She never was one for running as she was too short. She soon stopped out of breath.
"Ok ::pant pant:: Maeve… stop ::pant pant::" Maeve looked behind her and stopped. She walked back to Lily and was in perfect shape. She prodded Lily in the stomach.
"Ts, ts, Lily, we need to make you more fit." Lily was clutching her side and was red in the face from the running.
"I am not unfit!" Lily said in between pants.
"Lils, we ran, like, thirty metres and you're out of breath!" Lily stood up and looked at Maeve with venom in her eyes.
"Maeve." She said in a warning tone. Maeve knew not to pursue the matter any further.
"Let's just go to lunch, I'm starving!"
"Aren't you always" Lily muttered, hitching her bag higher on her shoulder. Maeve heard her but chose to ignore the comment and smiled. She bounced to the Great Hall doors and opened them.
"Food! Here I come!" She sat down next to a trembling first former and piled her plate sky high with anything that wasn't meat. Lily sat down next to her and organized her plate in a civilized manner.
"You do realize that meat is really important for your organism?" A new voice was heard. She looked and opposite her Sirius Black was sitting, tearing a chicken leg apart with his teeth. When Maeve had swallowed she replied.
"Well, Black, I'm allergic to meat and anyway I hate the smell of it."
"What are you, pregnant?" James asked. He then spotted Lily. "Hey gorgeous!"
"Hey stalker" Lily raised her eyebrows and are her food.
"Come one Evans, you know you want me." James said cockily.
"Oh yeah Potter, I want you so bad." James looked shocked. He then realised she was making fun of him.
"One day, Evans, you'll fall for me. You'll fall for me real bad." Lily laughed, it was a sweet laugh yet sarcastic.
"In your dreams Potter" James grinned at her.
"You're already in my dreams every night sweetheart." Sirius decided to but into the conversation.
"Oh yeah you should hear him. Oh Lily, Oh Lily, be mine and I promise you we'll walk together towards the sunlight and live happily ever after. Oh Lily love me please…" He didn't get to finish because James had kicked him. "Hey Potter, no need to get nasty, it's the truth. Believe me, your wet bed in the morning proves it." Maeve laughed while James and Lily turned red.
"I don't wet my bed!" He exclaimed. Lily laughed.
"Oh does wee Potter wet his bed at night?" She said in her Scottish accent.
"Well you are the reason you know" Sirius told her. She immediately shut up. Maeve was laughing so much that tears were running down her cheeks.
"Dude, it's not that funny" Sirius told her.
"Yeah it is! THE James Potter wets his bed at night? Hahahaha! Wait till I tell Miranda!" James' eyes grew the size of a dinner plate.
"Don't you dare!" He threatened.
"Or what… you'll wet your bed again?" Maeve grinned at him.
"Good one Maeve." Maeve smiled at Sirius and continued eating her food.
"Back to the REAL reason we sat here. Evans, tomorrow I can take you to Hogsmeade." Lily looked at him.
"Thanks. If we go there can you please stay there for ever?" James looked at her.
"Only if you're there with me" Lily gagged.
"Then I guess the date is off."
"It was worth a try." And they finished lunch in silence…until…
"You wanna go with me Maeve?" Sirius asked. Maeve was midway to chewing her food.
"Excuse me?" She said with her mouth full.
"Hogsmeade…you…me? Do you want to?" Maeve nodded and shoveled more food in her mouth.
"Eurgh, Maeve that's nasty. You're eating like a pig."
"We weren't all raised with good table manners"
"That's were you're wrong. I wasn't raised with table manners, I was raised with a brain."
"Ouch" Both boys said at the same time.
"Hm… Lily?" Lily looked at Maeve. "You do know you I sleep next to you at night." Lily looked at her.
"So…?"
"Well, if I, accidentally of course, jinx you…"
"Fine, I take back what I said." Both boys looked at the girls.
"What just happened?" James asked.
"I believe Morrison here threatened Lily." Sirius replied. The two girls finished their lunch and went upstairs.
"I can't believe you're going out with Black!" Lily exclaimed once they were both upstairs in their dormitory.
"Eh?" Maeve was pulling on her pants and not really paying much attention to Lily. Her mind was on a certain black haired boy.
"Sirius? Date?" Lily said refreshing Maeve's memory. Maeve continued to ignore, not on purpose of course. "He's already taking over your mind!" Lily threw a pillow at Maeve. Maeve threw it back and it hit Lily on the nose.
"I do not love Sirius Black, I just like the kid."
"Kid?" Lily asked.
"Guy... whatever."
"Fine, but I'm warning from now, he's baaaad news and don't come crying to me when he breaks your heart." Maeve nodded and went under her covers.
"Hey!" Lily protested. Maeve looked up. She saw Lily standing next to her bed looking down at her.
"What?" Maeve asked. She was really tired and hoped for some sleep.
"It's not even seven o'clock yet, and you're sleeping!" Lily showed Maeve the daylight outside her window. Maeve grunted.
"Lily, I'm tired." Lily threw her blanket off and pulled Maeve by the hand.
"Nuh, uh! It's only three o'clock and you have to live your life…"
"Like it's my last day?" Maeve finished for her, yawning.
"Yup" Lily was beaming. Maeve, too tired to beam back, got and brushed her hair.
"Why are you brushing your hair?"
"Damn it, I thought it was morning." Lily laughed. Maeve gave her a feeble grin and prodded her stomach. Lily was a slim girl, no one knew why she was always seen eating.
"We have to get you more fit." Maeve announced. Lily groaned.
"You tried doing that millions of times! Doesn't work. Not with me." Maeve sighed and took Lily by the hand.
"Fine then. We play wizard's chess."
"Chess?" Lily's grin faltered.
"Yes… You have to beat me at least once… and in this lifetime." Lily shook her hand free.
"Maeve…" She whined.
"Lily…" Maeve copied her.
"Will you two stop that racket?" This came from their bitchy dormitory mate.
"Why?" They said in unison.
"We're trying to sleep!" The other girl said.
"Sorry Kayla, sorry Rhonda." The two girls silently stepped towards the door when Maeve stopped and held Lily back. 'What?' Lily mouthed. Maeve held her hand up to her mouth to indicate silence. She opened the door and then closed it. Then she tiptoed towards Kayla's bed and muttered a spell. She did the same to Rhonda and left the room quietly with Lily.
They were both in the common room when Lily spoke again.
"What did you do?"
"Well you know Rhonda always goes for the guys I seem to go for? I paid her back." Maeve grinned devilishly. Lily laughed just as James was coming down the stairs.
"Is that my sweet Lily I hear?" Lily rolled her eyes and Sirius hit her on the back of the head. Lily yelled and clapped her hand on the back of her neck. Maeve slapped Sirius on the head.
"What the hell was that for?" He yelled rubbing his head.
"What the hell was that for- what you did to Lily" Maeve snapped.
"I wanted her pupils to freeze… she was rolling them and someone told me that if you slap them on the neck, the back of the neck, their eyes freeze." Lily looked aghast.
"You IDIOT!" She screamed and started hitting him, everywhere where she could. James and Maeve were watching and laughing.
"Ah, there goes my Lily." James said wiping his tears-from-the-too-much-laughing. Lily was on the floor on top of Sirius pulling his hair. He was whimpering in pain. She looked up at James when he said his comment.
"Your Lily?" Without knowing it, she was pulling Sirius' hair.
"Lily?" Sirius was begging, his scalp was red from the pain.
"Shut up" Lily punched him one last time and stood up to her full height. She faced James, well he had to look down as she was two heads shorter than him. Lily was not known to be tall.
"What did you say?" Maeve heard the dangerousness in her voice. James paled. He had never seen Lily look so red. It could have been from the punching, or it could have been from the anger. He didn't really know. Maeve grabbed her by the elbow and muttered something about a walk. Lily shrugged her off and stepped closer to James. She grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down to her height. She hissed, rather forcefully, in his ear,
"Call me YOUR Lily again and there will be hell to pay!" She roughly pushed him back and walked to the portrait. She paused and looked back.
"You coming?" Maeve was rooted to the spot from shock. She soon shook herself back to normality and followed Lily.
Back in the common room Sirius got up and fixed the creases in his clothes.
"Man Prongs, you're obsessed with one weird chick!" James was still. Sirius looked at his best friend and was worried.
"Prongs?" He was waving his hand in front of James, to no avail. James wasn't responding. "Okay Prongs," Sirius took him firmly the elbow and led him to the couch. James followed in a trance. "I think we should seat you down and talk about what just happened." James still wasn't responding. Sirius took his chance. "You cannot like her anymore. I forbid it. Marauders honour that you'll forget her." This shook James out of his trance.
"Huh?" Sirius rolled his eyes and stopped midway. It was this action that got him into a lot of trouble.
"You- cannot-like her-anymore" Sirius enunciated.
"Why?" James said rather forcibly.
"Because! She's a MAD woman, Prongs. MAD! She attacked us for NO reason!"
"Padfoot, she's beautiful" Sirius looked at him. It was as if James hadn't heard a word of what was being said.
"Are you even listening?" James smiled and shook his head. Sirius took him by the shoulders and shook him roughly. James' head bobbed back and forth as if suspended by a thin string.
"Listen Prongs. We're having a civilised conversation, something us marauders never have. That girl is bad news." James was still in his weird trance.
"Padfoot, she touched me, she whispered in my ear." Sirius looked at him and understood everything.
"You mean hissed." James shrugged.
"Whatever, she still touched me." Sirius threw his hands in the air. It was a lost case. James was too deep.
"So what are we going to do?" James said snapping out of his trance ten minutes later. Sirius looked at him. James was holding his robe.
"Why did you take off your robe?" James looked at his robe and exclaimed.
"Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me. I have to change my robes and keep these robes locked up. Evans TOUCHED them!" Sirius shook his head and waited while his deranged friend locked up his robes. It was a long day…