Summary: When a Harry Potter fan is reborn into the potter-verse she's not where, when or who she could have ever possibly fathomed to be it would have surprised if she actually remembered…
Chapter One
The chaos theory is a curios thing or as it is better known the butterfly effect. It is said that from a flap of butterflies wing a tornado can be created or ripple upon the waters surface could create a tsunami. In the other words the future in is an impossible thing to predict. It would always change, and it would always find a way to surprise you.
Lily shifted uncomfortably in her bed. It wasn't the bed that was the problem, it was quite comfortable. What bothered little Lily Evans were her thoughts. She was confused each time she woke. For the first few minutes each morning after waking up she found herself not knowing who she was. Every evening that she drifted to sleep she knew without a doubt that she was Lily Evans but each morning that she woke she questioned her reality.
Was she Lily Evans? Or Renee Ordell? Was she the younger sister to Petunia Evans, daughter to Pansy and Lyle Evans, a daughter to a middle-class white family living comfortably behind the blinds of their picket fence? Or was she the older sister to Lyra Ordell, first born daughter to Jasmine and Kai Ordell a struggling mixed raced family defying society?
Lily did not know, she felt her little heart cry out for the Ordells and she couldn't stop the little pang of guilt that swept through when she woke up as Lily Evans with relief. Relief that she wasn't from a struggling family that could barely keep food on the table. She knew she was different from her older sister. Her imagination wild and free, her gratefulness for the smallest things she knew other children paid no attention to, her older sister being the perfect example, no doubt her appreciation could be chalked up to her vivid life-like dreams.
Closing her eyes once more so she wouldn't make creatures of the shadows as she was prone to do. She focused on the smiling faces of both her families. She loved them both. Real and dream. Her parents were mirror images of each other if she could think of what the Ordells would be like if they could provide for their children the way her parents did for her and her sister it would be the same. Spoil them rotten yet never allow them to forget their roots. Thinking on it, Lily knew that if she one day woke up as Renee, she would be okay, because even if she would miss what she couldn't have in that life as she did in this life, she would be happy with the love that she would receive from her family.
Smiling to herself the red headed flower drifted to sleep and into the arms of Jasmine and Kai.
Lily was seven years old when she realized she was magic! She was ecstatic with that fact. She knew it existed even in her dreamworld and now she knew she would never stop believing in fairies, mermaids, unicorns and everything else. Seeing is believing, believing is seeing. A motto that Renee had learned from her older cousin whose head was stuck in the clouds and Renee envied her. She was jealous of the fact that the older girl could see, believe and do what she could not and even though she loved the older girl she wondered when she would stop being apart of the older girl's world and when Tia realized they were different. It had left Renee feeling bitter, she was so close to being a free spirit like her cousin yet being held back by the ideologies of the world that ingrained into her young mind that what Tia believed in wasn't real. It was with this realization that Lily knew that this small stich of envy would grow between her and Tune. She couldn't allow that. Not at all. With a determination so fierce Lily had her mind set she was going to teach her older sister how to use magic.
"Tune. Can you keep a secret?" Lily asked looking up at her sister. Petunia was beautiful in her own way. In no way was she plain as everyone assumed. Lily believed her sister got her name because of her eyes. Petunia was a subtle beauty. Her blonde hair was as lifeless as it got next to her sister's wild auburn. What Lily wouldn't do to be able to tame her hair and where Lily's skin was spotted in freckles Petunias was as flawless as it got. Yet what drew anyone to the Evans sisters where their eyes while Lily had unbelievable green eyes that shone like emeralds Petunia's eyes left you breathless (or so Lily thought) they were an unimaginable shade of purple. Two beautiful young women born to your average everyday couple was surprising. Their faces made you believe they were angels.
Pulled out of her entranced state by Petunia's hand waving in front of her face. Lily smiled sheepishly at her older sister who sighed in exasperation at her willy mind. A fond smile playing across the older girl's pink lips.
"I asked you what is it that you want me to keep secret?" the nine-year old said in a huff.
"I wanted to show you something." Lily said lighting up with excitement as she tugged her reluctant sister towards the stair that led to their bedrooms.
"I've got homework, Lily." Tune grumbled allowing her younger sister to pull her up the stairs.
Opening her bedroom door Lily pushed Petunia into her room and slammed her door shut turning to her sister with her huge smile falling slightly as her gaze fell on to Tune's expectant stance. Her feet slightly apart right foot tapping arms crossed and her perfectly shaped eyes brows furrowed.
"Well, what is it?" Petunia asked masking her curiosity with impatience but Lily wasn't fooled she knew Tune's eyes had taken in the whole room when her back was turned.
"Magic, sis." Lily said moving across to her bed where she sat down Indian style on her bedroom floor. Lily knew that Petunia's eyes had trailed behind as she had moved to sit at the foot of her bed. Nervousness building in her chest Lily silently gestured for her sister to sit in front of her. Mimicking her Indian style Petunia raised a silent questioning and sceptical eyebrow.
"It takes a while, so I really need you to keep quiet and be patient with me." Lily said her nervousness slipping into her voice making it quiver and allowing her sister to notice just how important her silence was. Giving her a stiff nod Petunia shifted her position and leaned back on her arms showing Lily that she was ready to wait patiently.
As much as Lily wanted to panic, she knew she had to keep calm she needed to do this as serenely as she possibly could, or she would never be able to teach Petunia and then they wouldn't be able to fly together. Lily knew the idea of being able to sore through the sky appealed to her sister as much as it did to her. They wanted to fairies and even though they would not have wings if she could teach Petunia this then it wouldn't matter, they'd be wingless fairies.
Taking a deep breath Lily relaxed her body. Imaging a little a waterfall shielded with shrubbery and visible only from the light of the glowing pool, it was truly an enchanting picture Lily silently willed the water from the pool to travel through her body with every exhale Lily pulled the cooling substance toward her finger tips and out of her body. The feeling of the energy leaving her body was amazing. Pulled from her meditative state by her sister's gasp Lily opened her eyes quickly and the light at her finger tips died.
"How did you do that?" Petunia asked in awe and slight envy that made Lily internally wince.
"I practiced…it's kind of hard to do if you can't focus on one thing at first but it gets easier when you know what you're feeling for…" Lily mumbled quietly.
"Could I do that too?" Petunia asked the wonder in her eyes and the hope in her eyes nearly blinding Lily.
"Why do you think I showed you! I want us to both be able to fly!" Lily said quickly.
"Lily, your hands were glowing, you were not even remotely close to even floating." Petunia deadpanned to her sister.
"But that's only the first part!" Lily argued quite quickly and fiercely. "After drawing your energy into you hands you can learn to manipulate it and push it out from under your feet and fly!"
"Lily where did you learn this?" Petunia asked abruptly.
"Why?"
"Because I want to know." Petunia huffed.
"You know curiosity killed the cat." Lily teased.
"Yes, and generosity brought it back so where did you Lily?" Petunia asked once again snappishly.
Leaning away from her volatile sister not that she could say she was any better the pot calling the kettle black and all that. Uncrossing her legs and stretching them out in front of her and in to her sister's lap Lily answered by tapping her head.
Only for Petunia's eyes to widen.
"You thought of it?"
"No, I dreamt about it…"
Lily counted the seconds in her head before Petunia finally snapped back into her senses.
"You did this because you could in your dream?" Petunia asked in disbelief.
"No, I couldn't do it in my dream really, figured I need to awake or something like that." Lily chirped with a smile.
Her smile allowed Petunia break into a grin as she leaned toward her sister and fell into a deep discussion about how to access her energy or as they liked to call it their magic.
Lily didn't know it yet, but she had changed the fate of her sister that day. Petunia would not become a bitter, hollow, ugly creature darkened by envy and loneliness.
And so the changes began…
Chapter one complete.
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