A/N. This follows directly after Untittled. As in, next day, directly after. I suppose you could read this by itself, but it really loses a bit of the emotional impact. Also, there is a bit of spanish in here as it is Massi's first language. She'll generally translate, if she doesn't, there's a key at the bottom of the chapter. In this AU, Massi and Sirius are a year older than the other Maruders, but started school later, so they are all still in the same year.
Disclaimer: The Maruders, the train, nothing belongs to me except for Massi. But that's okay. I like My well enough for that to be okay. The idea of Lily as a Maruder also isn't mine, but it's not J.K's either. It's fannon, so I guess it's ours. Hey! lol.
By the way, I don't have a definative tittle yet, so anyone who can help me will be my hero for the duration of the story and beyond.
In which everything is normal, but isn't
" Hola mi amigos!" Three of four male Maruders peered over the top of their chairs as the last member of their group made her presance known in the last car of the Hogwarts express.
" Massi!" She grinned, cerulean eyes wide and delighted as she glomped onto James and Remus.
" Ceul esta encime de mi Maruders?" The young woman chirped in her native, liting spanish.
" My, I'm from bloody Yorkshire." Peter chided laughingly as he and Lily embraced her. " Maruders I understood, but the rest of it?" The girl smiled at him, glancing around the compartment.
" I simply asked, what's up my Maruders?" Lifting a slender hand, she brushed back a long strand of dark brown hair. " So um, where's Siri?" James frowned, leaning in, speaking lowly.
" He's asleep in the ass end. He, uh, he had another fight with Hank..."
" Maldraion del dios!" She swore, marching past James towards the back, kneeling by where Sirius slept fitfully, his long frame curled tightly into the chair. With a small growled curse, she touched his face above a fresh bruise, tilting his head towards the side. " Mi Dios! Guys, come look at this!" She hissed, beckoning the others over towards her. " The son of a bitch choked him!" Her fingers traced lightly over the necklace of bruises encircling Sirius' neck, her eyes narrowing as he shuddered beneath her. " Remmy, hand me my wand? It's in my carry on." He handed her the supple rosewood wand. "Contusionare." She murmured, healing the marks on Sirius' skin. The youth relaxed slightly in the seat.
" Poor Padfoot." Lily murmured sitting next to James, curling into his side. " It just gets worse every term." There was a moments silence as everyone took a seat. " What do you think he's dreaming about?"
" Knowing Sirius?" Peter snorted. The others smiled some.
" Sex." They chorused.
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Sept 1 1977
I don't know why I always think it will be diffrent. Why I think things will get better over the summer. They always get worse instead. I didn't want to belive it could keep getting worse. That he would send Siri to school with those God be damned bruises. That he would choke him. I hate Hank Lonwell. I hate him more than anything. Maybe even more that the rumored Voldemort. What gives him the right to hurt Sirius like that? Sirius is asleep still and everyone is busy, but I wonder if they're all really thinking about Padfoot too?
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" Please?!" Sirius fell to his knees before the spider queen, who sat on her delicate throne. " IT's going to get me, you have to help me!" She turned her empty black eyes on Sirius.
" Sorry mate." She rose, the silver silk webbing of her gown clinging to her dark body. " Not my problem." And she stepped aside and IT began to chase him again. Ahead, the glowing light that could drive IT away and Sirius smiled tiredly, running a bit faster until a blur of silver streaked by his vision, encasing him totally, knocking him to the ground and dimming the light.
" NO! You bastard!" Sirius began to writhe and fight to free himself. " Let me go or I'll kill you!" A voice chuckled, filling the air around him. " I swear I will. I will...! I'll kill you!"
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" I'll kill you!" Everyone looked up in shock as Sirius sat upright in his seat, yelling. Massi and Remus dropped to his side almost immediantly.
" Sirius, what's wrong?" Massi fretted, placing her hand against his forehead as Remus took Sirius' hand in his own.
" Yeah, are you okay?" The black-haired youth shook his head.
" I'm fine.. Just had a nightmare." Massi's eyes clouded in concern.
" A nightmare? About what?" Sirius shrugged, barely concerned.
" Don't really remeber. Something about a woman in spiderwebs?" He shrugged. " Nothing important though if I can't remeber it."
" What do you mean not important?" The others sighed as Sirius adn Massi settled for what could be one of their typical hour long arguments. " Sirius, you were screaming, 'I'll kill you, I swear I will, I'll kill you. ' That sounds pretty damn important to me!"
" Hell My, if I was screaming that it was probally a great dream concerning Snape and a chain saw." He snorted. Massi simply glared at him. " Look, My, i'm not in the mood to be analyzed by you right now. It's been a rough summer." And turning pointedly, he leaned over to Remus and kissed the sandy-haired youth enthuastically. Beside them, Massi rolled her eyes and sighed as the two made up for the kiss Remus hadn't recived at the begining. " Now see?" Sirius finally asked a few moents later. " That is how you bring a man back to the land of the living My, not by shooting him silly with questions!" Massi snorted.
" Humph, Remus would slap me from here back to Tobago if I tried that." Remus looked over at her, raising an eyebrow.
" I resent the implication that I bitch-slap." Massi grinned at him appolegetically and Sirius smiled as he settled down between them, content that he had managed to destract Massi.
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9-1-77
11:36 pm
We've been back at Hogwarts for an entire six and a half hours and already things are getting weird. Sirius didn't want to come to bed tonight. He tried to stay up past sixth year curfew and then tried to sneak into Lily, Massi, Elenore's and dormroom, but it wasn't his normal, "I can do it, so I will do it and you can suck my arse"(I love it when he says it like that, arse) attitude. He looked desperately confused, like the girls knew something he needed, but Lily-billy's a prefect now and couldn't get in trouble this early in the year, so now Sirius is in his bed (which hasn't seen him on a first night since he was fifteen) and tossing around, murmuring and making little whimpering noises. He always sleeps badly the night term begins. That's why he always sleeps with me. Why he always used to sleep with me... It's too late at night to be insecure.
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So yeah, that's the end of the first chapter. By the way, can anyone who read Untittled tell what's going on in Sirius' dream? Here's the translations for Massi's various curses. Maldraion del dios: God Damnit. This list will generally be longer, but I didn't feel the need to over do it. Please review. I need to know if this story has any effect like the first did.
And finally, for all of you who wanted to healing process to begin, for those of you who let me know how much Untittled really meant to some people... To RavenLady, Katharos, Lorelei, Echo, Lindsay Beth, *Altra*, Siria Snape, Padfoot's girl, Eloria, my darling King Zoe and espically nortylaK, who through this has become a dear friend. This one is for you.