VERY IMPORTANT A/N: So this story originated in about.. 2005? Possibly? Anyway. Since then I've continued it on, redone it a few times etc. But when I went back to fanfiction a few months ago and read it, I wanted to stab my eyes out with forks. Now usually, being the lazy person I am, I would delete the whole thing and forget about it - however, I made a promise to quite a few of you that I would forever keep this story here. Stupid stupid child. Therefore, I have redone, revamped, re -edited, re-faced, re - everythinged the story. It's back. It's better. And it's waiting to be read. Now I've only done 5 odd chapters so far - so bear with me as things go up and down. BEAR. WITH. ME.
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Hogwarts Express and Truth or Dare
Lily Evans stepped onto the Hogwarts Express, waving a hasty goodbye to her parents as she left, blowing her mother a kiss. She entered the busy carriage, grinning as she lugged her heavy trunk behind her.
This had been the routine for the past six years. She made her way down the bustling train, searching for her friends, greeting people as she went, lugging her large trunk embossed with the letters 'L' 'E'.
Eventually, after many pleasantries and wrong compartments, Lily finally found her friends in a compartment at the back. She stood outside it, gathering her bearings, quickly running her fingers through her hair and straightening up her clothes. She peered into the compartment and grinned.
On the right side sat Sirius Black, his dark hair pulled into a messy ponytail, charming grin adorning his face as he mixed up a very colorful potion in a small container on his lap.
Candace, a fiery girl with yellow-blonde hair sat next to Sirius on the right, her heavily ringed fingers gripping a piece of parchment as she read something out to Sirius – possibly ingredients for whatever concoction he was brewing.
On Sirius' other side sat Peter Pettigrew, a boy with a peculiarly rat-like face, whom had his head lying against the wall and looked to be peacefully snoring away.
On the opposite side of the compartment sat two others. James Potter sat on the right, grinning boyishly as he chatted to the girl next to him, whilst twirling his glasses around dangerously in his hand.
The girl whom he was talking to was one of Lily's best friends, Samantha Timms. She had long brown hair and a petite figure, her hands in her lap as she talked away to James, smiling and laughing.
On the floor sat a sixth person – one Remus Lupin. Lily grinned when she saw him. He sat with his legs spread out, head against the window sill, a book open on his lap entitled 'Disguising Werewolves', as he listened intently to the conversation. Lily knew he had chosen to sit there so that he could observe absolutely everything and everyone at once.
Lily picked up her trunk again and shoved the door open, trying to appear as mature and collected as possible. She didn't really have the desired effect though, as the compartment door was a sliding door, and Lily had pushed it so hard that it bounced off its hinge and came straight back to hit her in the side. She turned red and pushed it back a little more gently, stalking into the cabin embarrassedly, though still grinning.
Her friends giggled, barely surprised. Lily had a tendency to be a little clumsy. They offered her hello's and hugs, and once the greetings were over, she sat down on the other side of James, who slung an arm casually over her shoulder.
"Well, Evans, I believe congratulations are in order," said James, staring at her chest region.
"Oh is that so Potter," she said, smiling playfully, removing his arm from her shoulder and placing it back in his lap, "And what would that be for?"
James didn't answer her and she had to click her fingers in front of his face to snap him out of his reverie.
"Don't make me hex you James," she giggled, feeling a little self conscious in front of her friend.
"Oh! I am terribly sorry dear Lilikins. I meant, congratulations are in order for that wonderful addition to your chestal area," he said, smirking.
By that point all the awake occupants of the compartment were watching their exchange, most smiling.
"Now James," chimed in Sirius, "Would you be referring to the rather large addition?"
"Why yes Sirius old boy, I believe I would be, however did you guess old chum?" James inquired regally.
"Well, Prongsy, dear sir, it is hard not to notice something of such enormity protruding from Madame Lily's here chest," said Sirius, giving Lily a toothy grin.
"That is also what I thought, Padfoot. Shall we ask Lily here about it again?" he said, turning to Lily, "Lilikins dear woman, wherever did you get such a beautifully large…er… adornment?"
"Oh shut up James," said Lily, grinning as she slapped him playfully on the arm and folded her arms across her chest.
"Just say it," she said, looking at James then Sirius in exasperation.
The two boys got up, gave each other a look and a grin, and then promptly started dancing on the spot, singing "Lily is Head Girl, Lily's gonna make us hurl, Gonna get us into trouble, so when she calls we'll be there on the double!"
Lily put her head in her arms, making sure her large 'Head Girl' badge was hidden, trying not to laugh as the rest of them cracked up at the boys' antics.
The boys sat down eventually as the laughter died down, looking extremely pleased with themselves.
Lily peeked out from behind her hands to see their expressions and promptly crossed her arms.
"Oh shut up you two," she said, still amused, but pretending to be angry.
"Is that an order, Ms Head Lady?" said Sirius, smirking.
"Oh, no, she's already ordering us around! Better sit up straight and mind my manners," said James, laughing as he sat up straighter and put a pompous expression on his face.
Lily couldn't help but let a giggle escape and the boys whooped, singing something about the head girl being a naughty little girl.
Lily ignored them and leant in front of James, peering round his large frame to see Samantha, smiling when she caught the girl's eye.
"How are you Sammy?" she yelled, trying to talk over the boys.
"The same as I was when I saw you two days ago Lils!" she yelled back, referring to a shopping trip that they had taken with Candace, on which they had spent way too many galleons.
Lily giggled and turned to Candace, yelling across the same question to her.
"Good, Lils! Me and the moron here are turning Peter Pratty's hair pink while he's sleeping! Can you imagine the look on his face…" she giggled, taking the potion from Sirius the 'moron's hands and stirring it a little.
Lily laughed and then leant down over James again to talk to Remus, asking him about his summer, to which he replied the standard 'good,' 'no, no dramas', 'yes, Sirius is a moron'.
She leant back in her seat and smiled, taking in the conversations around her, wondering how Candace and Sirius had managed to work together on the pink potion that long without killing each other.
Suddenly, the door slid open, and Lily looked up in time to see it bang back into someone, who swore loudly.
"Ha!" said Lily, without checking who it was, "I knew it wasn't just me! You got done too, Bel…Oh."
Lily realized whom she had been excitedly talking to and shut her mouth quickly, stiffening and hitting James on the leg to make him look up.
The compartment went quiet as they all realized whom was at the door. Bellatrix Black and Rodolphus Lestrange, their biggest fans.
"Well well well, what do we have here Bella?" inquired Rodolphus smarmily, glaring round the cabin.
"Well Rodolphus," she stated with a smirk on her rather unbeautiful face, "I believe what we have here is three dirty scumbags, a blood traitor, and three mudbloods." All three of the girls were muggle-born, and the Slytherins, particularly those two, loved to take advantage of that fact.
James and Candace both snarled, and Sirius stood up, taking his wand out of his pocket.
"Well, isn't it just dandy to see you cousin?" spat Sirius, advancing towards Bellatrix.
Bellatrix looked to her left, her right, and then behind her, putting a hand to her chest. "Who, moi?" she said, an innocently confused expression on her face, "I am no cousin of yours! Whomever can you be talking about?"
Sirius snarled again but stopped advancing as Remus stood up to hold Sirius back.
The three boys all had their wands out by then, pointing them towards the Slytherins, Peter still asleep.
"Look, you filthy Slytherins, either you get out now, or we'll blast you," warned James, flexing his recently acquired muscles a little.
"Oh, I think we can take you three. Easily," said Rodolphus, taking out his wand and motioning for Bella to do the same.
"No!" yelled Lily a little too loudly, getting up and standing next to James.
Rodolphus turned to stare at her and she blushed a little, but stood her ground.
"There's no need to fight, Lestrange," she spat, moving more in front of James, hearing Sammy and Candace get up behind her, "Just leave us alone. There's six of us, and two of you. Even your small brain can work out the odds of that one."
The young Slytherin man glared at her, the glare unbecoming on his already scarred face.
He looked at Bellatrix, and then around him, sneering.
"Fine. But next time, we'll come for you mudbloods, and you wont have your little guard dogs here to stop us," he spat, staring directly at Lily.
James and Sirius both tried to lunge forward, swearing and cursing, but the girls stopped them, letting the Slytherins leave, to which the boys protested heavily. Lily pointed her wand at their retreating backs and mumbled something under her breath, smiling a little.
Then she whirled around, glaring first at James, then at Sirius.
"What did you two stupid twats think you were doing? Huh? Imagine what could have happened if we hadn't all been here!" she reprimanded.
Both the boys were still fuming, adrenalin rushing through them.
"What the hell Lily, we could have taken them easily," yelled James, throwing up his arms in exasperation.
"Yeah, with our fucking eyes closed," mumbled Sirius, staring at Lily like she had two heads.
"Yeah, that's what you two morons would like to think. Didn't you remember that they're Slytherins? And powerful ones too. They're probably into some pretty dark shit. So imagine if they had managed to get past you three boys! Oh wait, I'm sorry, you would have stopped them with your big guns James," she snapped sarcastically, poking James' upper arm hard.
"Owie!" he yelled, grabbing his arm.
The rest of them stared at him, Lily starting to laugh a little.
"Seriously? Owie?" she inquired, giggling between the words. Within seconds, each and every one of them (except, of course, Peter) was in hysterics, though James didn't seem to find it too funny.
When they had finished laughing however, Lily put her serious face back on.
"But honestly guys, I know you were just trying to stick up for us and all, but think about what you are doing next time okay?" she told them, looking both James and Sirius in the eye, daring them to challenge her.
They looked at each other, seemingly silently deciding to let it go and sat down quietly, mumbling apologies to Lily.
Once everyone was seated, Lily sat down heavily after shutting the evil banging door, rolling her eyes and sighing.
Sirius suddenly looked up and grinned at James.
"Jamesie dear?" he asked, smiling wickedly.
"Yes, Sirius darling?" replied James, going along with whatever Sirius was planning.
"Well, dear boy, I believe that when Lilikins dearest was giving us a good telling off before, she swore!" he said, his expression one of wonderment.
James slapped a horrified expression on and gasped loudly.
"She did too old boy! What a ghastly, terrible, horrifying thing for her to do! The 'S' word too, I believe it was!" he said, stealing a sideways glance at Lily.
"What are you two on about? I always swear," said Lily, confused with where they were going with this one.
"Oh but you can't," started Sirius.
"Not anymore," continued James.
"Not now that you're…" said Sirius.
"Head Girl!" chanted the two together, suddenly in hysterics.
"The head girl swore, she's out the door, we're gonna go tell Dumbledore…"