Maruading Hearts
Chapter 1: A crash
Lily Evans woke up because in her dream she had heard a loud crash and several screams. It took her a moment to realise that it wasn't a dream. She sat up in bed and looked around for the creator. Her various posters of different pop-stars and actors smiled garishly at her, it was the 70s so there were lots of brightly clad men with creepy combos.
Harold Evans ran into her room and cried: "Did you hear that? Your mother and I are going out to investigate." He turned to leave and remembered: " You are to stay in the house, Lily. D'you hear? Stay in the house with your sister." She giggled and mimed crossing her heart. He shook his head and waited outside the door for Lily's mother to give her a kiss.
"Darling, it'll be fine, probably just some young people messing around." She bent down and kissed her youngest daughter's forehead fondly. "Precious Lily." She smiled and glanced at their elder daughter, peering out of her room. "Petunia, dear, please stay in your room like I asked."
"Yes Mummy." She mumbled, but not before shooting her sister a look of deep hatred.
As the couple gingerly stepped out of their warm and safe abode, into the calamity of the street they hugged each other even tighter.
"It will be alright, Rosie." He whispered to her.
"I'm not worried…"
"You're sweating bullets, sweetheart." Her husband said sternly to her. She laughed quietly and wiped her damp forehead.
It turned out to be not nearly as bad as they had expected. There was a haughty looking man dressed in a black garment and a women looking sheepish and angry. Hiding behind them was a little boy, not more than eight years old, dressed in a white blouse that was six sizes too big for him, and reached past his knees.
The man stepped forward and held out his hand. "Good morning, I'm Tobias Snape. So sorry if we woke you." Usually the Evans would've engaged conversation and been more than welcoming but today, after being woken up and have their excitable children woken up, they were not happy. This man seemed to have a pompous manner that set their teeth on edge. "Yes, well, we'll be living in Spinner's End, I believe the house called the 'Water Mill'. If you would be so kind as to point us in the direction?" He had, by this time, dropped his revoked hand and jutted his nose up as if not wanting to make eye contact with his neighbours. They pointed vaguely in the direction that the supposedly run-down mill was supposed to be. "I don't suppose we'll be seeing much of each other." And he turned his back on them.
His family looked apologetic and the mother stepped forward to introduce herself. "I'm Eileen. Dreadfully sorry for my husband's behaviour, he doesn't like travelling." She whispered as they moved on.
"Severus." Mumbled the little boy. Rosie Evan's heart went out to him, the poor boy.
"Thank you. It's quite alright, we have two daughters as well who are a pain in the car!" The woman didn't notice the look of confusion that swept across Eileen's face. "Goodbye." She called as they ran after the haughty father.
The Evans looked at each other with complete confusion and annoyance. "They didn't even explain what the crash was!"
A/N I do not own any characters, the wonderful J. does! x