title: Unforeseen
disclaimer: All Harry Potter realted stuff belongs to JK...OC's and plot belongs to me.
summary: The summer before 6th year, an under-appreciated and bullied Lily Evans is off to Australia. She's ready to forget her tough life at Hogwarts and unreturned crush on James Potter...until one night on the town she runs into a familiar face...
rated: PG-13
A/N- hey guys! Welcome to unforseen...mmmmm, full of Love/hatey goodness and Lily loving James cookies. Oh, and at some point, Sirius is going to be wearing a leather Jacket...yeah baby!
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"This party is going to rock!"
Sirius Black, as usual overly enthusiastic, was bouncing up and down in his seat facing the others with obvious excitement.
"Remember the first rule of partying,"added Remus Lupin, a more sensible person belonging to the group,"Never say a party is going to be good- if you do...it sucks."
"Really? How so?" questioned Sirius.
"Well there are three rules of throwing a party..."
Natasha Read, a pretty, blonde girl seated next to Remus on the red, Gryffindor common-room couch rolled her eyes and took out her nail file.
"Well, come on then," she said dryly, filing away. "Please enlighten us."
Kate Hutchins, another girl giggled from her spot on the floor, as Remus held up three fingers and began to tick them off, one by one.
"Number one, never say a party is going to rock...because it won't. Number two, don't eat all the party food at once, because it will make you sick, thus rendering you dateless."
Sirius gasped in pure horror and began to hyperventilate. Peter Pedigrew, a chubby boy sitting next to Kate on the floor, reached up and hit him a few times on the back. Sirius recovered after the first bash and had to wrestle Peter's arm away from where it was still whacking his back.
"And the third rule is?" asked Natasha, who had moved off her nails and was now re-applying her lipstick carefully.
"Uh...um. Lets just say I'm working on it."
"Oh, God. Look, can we please just forget about these bloody party rules and discuss who we're actually inviting," snapped Kate, trying to imitate Natasha's careless voice.
"Fine, whatever," replied an annoyed Remus, looking around at them all.
They were in the large, warm Gryffindor Common room. The four forth year students had managed to stay up late to try and organize the big Halloween bash they were throwing for other forth year students.
Kate, a tall brunette had organised for all the younger students to be in bed, and her best friend Natasha, along with Sirius, a tall, handsome flirt, had managed to convince the older student to go to bed early. Peter and Remus were in charge of getting refreshments, a task they handled with flair, judging by the tall beakers of Pumpkin juice and baskets of chrisps...yes, they were all set to have a meeting.
The only two missing were their friends Emily Bell and James Potter. They had played up one to many times in Herbology, and Prof. Mikney, the head of Slytherin had granted them both a detention for that night.
"So who are we going to invite?" questioned Sirius.
"Lets see," Natasha said slowly, holding her lipstick still,"So we agreed to all the forth year students?"
"But what about the Slytherins...who want to invite greasy, old Snape," complained Remus.
Sirius nodded furiously, "And why don't we invite the forth years! They have some pretty hot chicks."
"Look, said Natasha angrily, "You know that if we extend it past forth year, all sorts of randoms will be showing up. Besides, you know that my dad only promised to have this damned party if there wasn't the whole of Britain there!"
"Wow, take a chill pill, Tash," came James Potters voice from across the room. He was filthy, his tall muscular frame was dusted with cobwebs and dirt. Obviously detention had not been too easy on him.
"James!" exclaimed Natasha, her anger disappearing instantly as she jumped up and preceded to brush the dirt off him. "I was just saying that Daddy only promised to have this party if there was only 30 people there. You know how it is...besides, it took 3 letters to convince him to even considering this party! We can't just ruin it now!"
James grabbed her hand before she effectively managed to brush the cobwebs from his crouch and strode over to sit on his favourite armchair.
"She's right." Kate agreed, staring at them all firmly, "I think we're just going to have to invite Griffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw...That is, those three houses minus anyone we DON'T want to come. Anyone got any requests?"
"Cindy, from Hufflepuff," said James thoughtfully, "She really pisses me off."
"Ok," replied Remus, writing her name down on the not to invite list. "Anyone else?"
The room was thrown into a frenzy as people called out names left right and centre. Eventually they were only down to a list of twenty-seven.
"Anyone else?" questioned James.
"Well....um...there is one more person." Natasha was looking uncomfortable now, as Kate continued, "You know that small, mousy, redheaded one...with the mega thick glasses and dusty looking hair."
"Hang on- I think I know who your talking about." Remus looked although he was thinking hard,"the library girl!."
"Remus you dolt, she's been in Griffindor for as long as we have."
Emily Bell had just reappeared from detention and had eagerly joined their discussion.
"Her Name's Lily. Lily Evans."
"Her?" exclaimed Sirius, "No way!"
"As much as i hate to say it, Sirius is right!" Natasha commented,"she'd probably just spend the whole time in the corner reading or something...remember the other day Katie? We were being perfectly nice- even offered to do her makeup!"
Kate nodded solemnly, her lips pursed together. With Kate's support, Natasha continued, "But she wouldn't hear of it! The stuck-up mouse...she just told us to please leave her alone so she could continue her book in peace...what a bitch."
"I'm sure she wouldn't want to come any way." Emily said this very quietly, as though she was trying to convince not just the others, but herself.
"Ok, ok. So we've decided. Lily is definitely crossed out...not that she was even on the list to begin with."
James seemed satisfied and he moved right along and started to ask the group about other guests.
"Now, who do you lot think should come from Hufflepuff."
With all their excitement, Nobody noticed a small, mousy, redhead leave the room quietly. Tears were pouring down her face before she reached up and pulled off her glasses, swiping at them angrily.
Her heart was shattered.
* * * * *
Nearly 2 years later.
That was one day Lily was always sure she would remember.
She would have wanted to have forgotten it by now...after all, it was 2 years after that night when her personality had been so cruelly disregarded. The only thing that kept her hanging onto the memory, reliving it daily so that it would never be lost into the depths of her mind, was the fact that Lily believed this memory was the key.
The key to unlocking herself.
She believed this so completely for one reason, that day, that one moment in time was a turning point for her...the moment, that moment was the second she realised she needed to change.
Lily wouldn't say that she was hideous looking- sure she was geeky, how could you not be when your mother expected you to be the creme' da 'la creme of any kind of intellectual activity.
Lily supposed that the side of her that had actually once enjoyed life, had run away from her body in terror the second she won "little miss Encyclopedia adventurer" when she was 8.
Yes, Lily Kate Evans was defiantly no party princess.
It was now the summer before her Sixth year and Lily was determined to change herself. She had tried of course...the last two summers to be honest. But there was something keeping her back...something she couldn't quite figure out.
But not this summer. This was the summer Lily was breaking free.
It had all started 2 weeks ago when she was eating her breakfast. Just a normal boring bowl of cereal. At least it was boring until...
"Lily!" Petunia, her boring older sister had screeched. "You've got a letter, and guess what!"
"What," Lily had answered in a bored tone, expecting junk mail.
"Its got a long distance sticker on it!"
Lily had jumped out of her chair and raced across to Petunia. Sure enough, pasted to the front of the thick, white envelope was a sticker, saying Airmail- Australia.
Lily didn't have time to wonder who the hell in Australia would be writing to her. In that split second all she cared about was discovering what the letter said!
Ripping it open, she pulled out a long letter. As she read it, Lily believed her heart had stopped beating. Grabbing the letter she sprinted up to her Mothers bedroom. Not bothering to knock, she burst in excitedly. Her mother looked up from curling her hair in frustration.
"What is it 'Lil? I just missed a piece of hair!"
"Mum! Its Aunt Karen! She wrote me a letter from Australia! Guess what!?"
"What?" her mother said, her voice picking up a pitch. It was obvious from her daughters excitement that something marvelous had happened.
"She want me to come and stay! In muggle Sydney. Oh, Mum..." Lily ran and jumped into Rose's arms. "You wrote to her! You knew I wanted to get away..."
Rose laughed delightedly and hugged Lily back.
"Yes dear, but I didn't want to get your hopes up. I haven't seen Karen in ages and I wasn't sure if she would mind...Oh Lily! I'm delighted."
"So I can go?"
"Yes dear, you can."
"Gosh...so much to do! Mummy...I love you, you know?"
"Yes Lily," laughed her mum, fixing a curl, "I know."
Lily smiled, thinking back over the day that had promised to bring her a new beginning. From that moment on life had become a frenzy. There was so much to organize, so much to do. For the first time in her life Lily was glad she had no friends...saying good-bye would have been too hard.
But now here she was.
On flight 17, destined for Sydney, Australia.
Lily stared out of the small cabin window. Being muggle-born, she had flown before, but this was the first time she had ever gone further than the short trip to France. The trip was a long one, that was for sure. Lily wasn't sure exactly she would survive almost 24 hours of being in this small stuffy space. Only the dreams of Sydney kept her hanging on.
"Would you like anything to drink?" asked a painfully polite voice next to her.
Lily turned around and was faced with a tall, blonde air hostess, that looked suspiciously like her bitchy room-mate Natasha.
"No thanks," Lily smiled back.
The air hostess gave her a smile and continued up the aisle. Lily could hear her asking the same question in exactly the same voice to the man sitting in front her.
Why did you think of Natasha. Lily asked herself furiously. Remember this holiday is supposed to be a time to forget.
But Lily couldn't forget.
The 10 hours she had completed of the flight already, was wearing down her defences...especially when a handsome voice kept trying to invade her thoughts.
As if you don't spend enough time thinking about him already. a voice scoffed inside her head. Just forget about him already...its never going to happen.
Lily sighed again and tried to focus on the in-flight movie. It was hard though...all she seemed to be able to think about was James Potter.
Lily had a crush on him since the first time she had seen him. It was her first day of Hogwarts and she had been trying to find an empty carriage on the Hogwarts express.
She had been looking up and down the train for about 10 minutes, before she had run into something she didn't think was a luggage cart. Looking up, she had been faced with the most enormous pair of blue eyes she had ever seen.
"Hi," He had said,"New this year as well?"
Lily had been to scared to speak, merely nodding.
"Hope to see you in Griffindor..best house there is!"
He had then waved at her and continued down the hallway. Leaving behind one very smitten girl. She had gotten into Griffindor, but she had never spoken to James Potter again.
From the moment he had arrived he was Mr Cool. Kids wanted to be friends with him, and girls (even at age 11) had wanted to date him. Things never changed, and 5 years later he was still the most popular guy in the school.
Meanwhile Lily was having problems.
She didn't get on with her roommates and her thick glasses and dull hair left her open for ridicule. The fact she was getting perfect grades hardy helped the matter and soon she had completed a technique of blending into the walls. If the bullies couldn't see her, they couldn't mock her, right?
It was a perfect theory...pity it didn't work. Without anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to her, Lily faded more into the background. Lonely as ever.
She was given a prefect badge last year, along with James. He still didn't notice her though, choosing instead to spend the majority of Prefect meetings feeling up Patricia Tinney, a pretty prefect from Hufflepuff. She knew that she was supposed to come out of her shell that year- after the events of forth year she had promised herself. But somehow she couldn't do it.
She continued to watch James from afar however, wishing he would walk up and say, "Lily Evans, right? I'm secretly in love with you..."
Like all pretty daydreams the idea was surreal...and it would never happen.
How did I get onto this train on thought? Lily scolded herself. I'm about to go on the most amazing holiday of my life. No Natasha...No Snape or Patricia. Especially no infatuation with Bloody James Potter.
Lily was determined to break free. She was sure this long absence from James would rid her of this ridiculous crush forever...
At least that was what Lily thought.
She had no idea that at that very moment, one handsome, Gryffindor Chaser was sitting 20 feet in front of her (in first class) trying to chat up the blonde hostess and score a free alcohol.
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Thanks for reading guys!
Gee..I wonder who that little happy chappy chatting up the hostess is! hmmmm...snape? NO!
Next chapter-
Lily meets her aunt and cousins. Make-over..yeah! Anyone for clubbing ohhh....snogs abound!
Remember! REVIEW!
Im not continuing till I get 10! (just to see if this is worth continuing)
disclaimer: All Harry Potter realted stuff belongs to JK...OC's and plot belongs to me.
summary: The summer before 6th year, an under-appreciated and bullied Lily Evans is off to Australia. She's ready to forget her tough life at Hogwarts and unreturned crush on James Potter...until one night on the town she runs into a familiar face...
rated: PG-13
A/N- hey guys! Welcome to unforseen...mmmmm, full of Love/hatey goodness and Lily loving James cookies. Oh, and at some point, Sirius is going to be wearing a leather Jacket...yeah baby!
* * * * *
"This party is going to rock!"
Sirius Black, as usual overly enthusiastic, was bouncing up and down in his seat facing the others with obvious excitement.
"Remember the first rule of partying,"added Remus Lupin, a more sensible person belonging to the group,"Never say a party is going to be good- if you do...it sucks."
"Really? How so?" questioned Sirius.
"Well there are three rules of throwing a party..."
Natasha Read, a pretty, blonde girl seated next to Remus on the red, Gryffindor common-room couch rolled her eyes and took out her nail file.
"Well, come on then," she said dryly, filing away. "Please enlighten us."
Kate Hutchins, another girl giggled from her spot on the floor, as Remus held up three fingers and began to tick them off, one by one.
"Number one, never say a party is going to rock...because it won't. Number two, don't eat all the party food at once, because it will make you sick, thus rendering you dateless."
Sirius gasped in pure horror and began to hyperventilate. Peter Pedigrew, a chubby boy sitting next to Kate on the floor, reached up and hit him a few times on the back. Sirius recovered after the first bash and had to wrestle Peter's arm away from where it was still whacking his back.
"And the third rule is?" asked Natasha, who had moved off her nails and was now re-applying her lipstick carefully.
"Uh...um. Lets just say I'm working on it."
"Oh, God. Look, can we please just forget about these bloody party rules and discuss who we're actually inviting," snapped Kate, trying to imitate Natasha's careless voice.
"Fine, whatever," replied an annoyed Remus, looking around at them all.
They were in the large, warm Gryffindor Common room. The four forth year students had managed to stay up late to try and organize the big Halloween bash they were throwing for other forth year students.
Kate, a tall brunette had organised for all the younger students to be in bed, and her best friend Natasha, along with Sirius, a tall, handsome flirt, had managed to convince the older student to go to bed early. Peter and Remus were in charge of getting refreshments, a task they handled with flair, judging by the tall beakers of Pumpkin juice and baskets of chrisps...yes, they were all set to have a meeting.
The only two missing were their friends Emily Bell and James Potter. They had played up one to many times in Herbology, and Prof. Mikney, the head of Slytherin had granted them both a detention for that night.
"So who are we going to invite?" questioned Sirius.
"Lets see," Natasha said slowly, holding her lipstick still,"So we agreed to all the forth year students?"
"But what about the Slytherins...who want to invite greasy, old Snape," complained Remus.
Sirius nodded furiously, "And why don't we invite the forth years! They have some pretty hot chicks."
"Look, said Natasha angrily, "You know that if we extend it past forth year, all sorts of randoms will be showing up. Besides, you know that my dad only promised to have this damned party if there wasn't the whole of Britain there!"
"Wow, take a chill pill, Tash," came James Potters voice from across the room. He was filthy, his tall muscular frame was dusted with cobwebs and dirt. Obviously detention had not been too easy on him.
"James!" exclaimed Natasha, her anger disappearing instantly as she jumped up and preceded to brush the dirt off him. "I was just saying that Daddy only promised to have this party if there was only 30 people there. You know how it is...besides, it took 3 letters to convince him to even considering this party! We can't just ruin it now!"
James grabbed her hand before she effectively managed to brush the cobwebs from his crouch and strode over to sit on his favourite armchair.
"She's right." Kate agreed, staring at them all firmly, "I think we're just going to have to invite Griffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw...That is, those three houses minus anyone we DON'T want to come. Anyone got any requests?"
"Cindy, from Hufflepuff," said James thoughtfully, "She really pisses me off."
"Ok," replied Remus, writing her name down on the not to invite list. "Anyone else?"
The room was thrown into a frenzy as people called out names left right and centre. Eventually they were only down to a list of twenty-seven.
"Anyone else?" questioned James.
"Well....um...there is one more person." Natasha was looking uncomfortable now, as Kate continued, "You know that small, mousy, redheaded one...with the mega thick glasses and dusty looking hair."
"Hang on- I think I know who your talking about." Remus looked although he was thinking hard,"the library girl!."
"Remus you dolt, she's been in Griffindor for as long as we have."
Emily Bell had just reappeared from detention and had eagerly joined their discussion.
"Her Name's Lily. Lily Evans."
"Her?" exclaimed Sirius, "No way!"
"As much as i hate to say it, Sirius is right!" Natasha commented,"she'd probably just spend the whole time in the corner reading or something...remember the other day Katie? We were being perfectly nice- even offered to do her makeup!"
Kate nodded solemnly, her lips pursed together. With Kate's support, Natasha continued, "But she wouldn't hear of it! The stuck-up mouse...she just told us to please leave her alone so she could continue her book in peace...what a bitch."
"I'm sure she wouldn't want to come any way." Emily said this very quietly, as though she was trying to convince not just the others, but herself.
"Ok, ok. So we've decided. Lily is definitely crossed out...not that she was even on the list to begin with."
James seemed satisfied and he moved right along and started to ask the group about other guests.
"Now, who do you lot think should come from Hufflepuff."
With all their excitement, Nobody noticed a small, mousy, redhead leave the room quietly. Tears were pouring down her face before she reached up and pulled off her glasses, swiping at them angrily.
Her heart was shattered.
* * * * *
Nearly 2 years later.
That was one day Lily was always sure she would remember.
She would have wanted to have forgotten it by now...after all, it was 2 years after that night when her personality had been so cruelly disregarded. The only thing that kept her hanging onto the memory, reliving it daily so that it would never be lost into the depths of her mind, was the fact that Lily believed this memory was the key.
The key to unlocking herself.
She believed this so completely for one reason, that day, that one moment in time was a turning point for her...the moment, that moment was the second she realised she needed to change.
Lily wouldn't say that she was hideous looking- sure she was geeky, how could you not be when your mother expected you to be the creme' da 'la creme of any kind of intellectual activity.
Lily supposed that the side of her that had actually once enjoyed life, had run away from her body in terror the second she won "little miss Encyclopedia adventurer" when she was 8.
Yes, Lily Kate Evans was defiantly no party princess.
It was now the summer before her Sixth year and Lily was determined to change herself. She had tried of course...the last two summers to be honest. But there was something keeping her back...something she couldn't quite figure out.
But not this summer. This was the summer Lily was breaking free.
It had all started 2 weeks ago when she was eating her breakfast. Just a normal boring bowl of cereal. At least it was boring until...
"Lily!" Petunia, her boring older sister had screeched. "You've got a letter, and guess what!"
"What," Lily had answered in a bored tone, expecting junk mail.
"Its got a long distance sticker on it!"
Lily had jumped out of her chair and raced across to Petunia. Sure enough, pasted to the front of the thick, white envelope was a sticker, saying Airmail- Australia.
Lily didn't have time to wonder who the hell in Australia would be writing to her. In that split second all she cared about was discovering what the letter said!
Ripping it open, she pulled out a long letter. As she read it, Lily believed her heart had stopped beating. Grabbing the letter she sprinted up to her Mothers bedroom. Not bothering to knock, she burst in excitedly. Her mother looked up from curling her hair in frustration.
"What is it 'Lil? I just missed a piece of hair!"
"Mum! Its Aunt Karen! She wrote me a letter from Australia! Guess what!?"
"What?" her mother said, her voice picking up a pitch. It was obvious from her daughters excitement that something marvelous had happened.
"She want me to come and stay! In muggle Sydney. Oh, Mum..." Lily ran and jumped into Rose's arms. "You wrote to her! You knew I wanted to get away..."
Rose laughed delightedly and hugged Lily back.
"Yes dear, but I didn't want to get your hopes up. I haven't seen Karen in ages and I wasn't sure if she would mind...Oh Lily! I'm delighted."
"So I can go?"
"Yes dear, you can."
"Gosh...so much to do! Mummy...I love you, you know?"
"Yes Lily," laughed her mum, fixing a curl, "I know."
Lily smiled, thinking back over the day that had promised to bring her a new beginning. From that moment on life had become a frenzy. There was so much to organize, so much to do. For the first time in her life Lily was glad she had no friends...saying good-bye would have been too hard.
But now here she was.
On flight 17, destined for Sydney, Australia.
Lily stared out of the small cabin window. Being muggle-born, she had flown before, but this was the first time she had ever gone further than the short trip to France. The trip was a long one, that was for sure. Lily wasn't sure exactly she would survive almost 24 hours of being in this small stuffy space. Only the dreams of Sydney kept her hanging on.
"Would you like anything to drink?" asked a painfully polite voice next to her.
Lily turned around and was faced with a tall, blonde air hostess, that looked suspiciously like her bitchy room-mate Natasha.
"No thanks," Lily smiled back.
The air hostess gave her a smile and continued up the aisle. Lily could hear her asking the same question in exactly the same voice to the man sitting in front her.
Why did you think of Natasha. Lily asked herself furiously. Remember this holiday is supposed to be a time to forget.
But Lily couldn't forget.
The 10 hours she had completed of the flight already, was wearing down her defences...especially when a handsome voice kept trying to invade her thoughts.
As if you don't spend enough time thinking about him already. a voice scoffed inside her head. Just forget about him already...its never going to happen.
Lily sighed again and tried to focus on the in-flight movie. It was hard though...all she seemed to be able to think about was James Potter.
Lily had a crush on him since the first time she had seen him. It was her first day of Hogwarts and she had been trying to find an empty carriage on the Hogwarts express.
She had been looking up and down the train for about 10 minutes, before she had run into something she didn't think was a luggage cart. Looking up, she had been faced with the most enormous pair of blue eyes she had ever seen.
"Hi," He had said,"New this year as well?"
Lily had been to scared to speak, merely nodding.
"Hope to see you in Griffindor..best house there is!"
He had then waved at her and continued down the hallway. Leaving behind one very smitten girl. She had gotten into Griffindor, but she had never spoken to James Potter again.
From the moment he had arrived he was Mr Cool. Kids wanted to be friends with him, and girls (even at age 11) had wanted to date him. Things never changed, and 5 years later he was still the most popular guy in the school.
Meanwhile Lily was having problems.
She didn't get on with her roommates and her thick glasses and dull hair left her open for ridicule. The fact she was getting perfect grades hardy helped the matter and soon she had completed a technique of blending into the walls. If the bullies couldn't see her, they couldn't mock her, right?
It was a perfect theory...pity it didn't work. Without anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to her, Lily faded more into the background. Lonely as ever.
She was given a prefect badge last year, along with James. He still didn't notice her though, choosing instead to spend the majority of Prefect meetings feeling up Patricia Tinney, a pretty prefect from Hufflepuff. She knew that she was supposed to come out of her shell that year- after the events of forth year she had promised herself. But somehow she couldn't do it.
She continued to watch James from afar however, wishing he would walk up and say, "Lily Evans, right? I'm secretly in love with you..."
Like all pretty daydreams the idea was surreal...and it would never happen.
How did I get onto this train on thought? Lily scolded herself. I'm about to go on the most amazing holiday of my life. No Natasha...No Snape or Patricia. Especially no infatuation with Bloody James Potter.
Lily was determined to break free. She was sure this long absence from James would rid her of this ridiculous crush forever...
At least that was what Lily thought.
She had no idea that at that very moment, one handsome, Gryffindor Chaser was sitting 20 feet in front of her (in first class) trying to chat up the blonde hostess and score a free alcohol.
* * * * *
Thanks for reading guys!
Gee..I wonder who that little happy chappy chatting up the hostess is! hmmmm...snape? NO!
Next chapter-
Lily meets her aunt and cousins. Make-over..yeah! Anyone for clubbing ohhh....snogs abound!
Remember! REVIEW!
Im not continuing till I get 10! (just to see if this is worth continuing)
