What can I say....a Lily and James fic...I owe most of the intellectual property to J.K. Rowling but the plot and some of the characters are of my own invention. Add Lucius in love with a half-blood or less (GASP!) and Narcissa Black raging and scheming a
It was Novermber, and cold. Cloaks and scarves were on all around. Things couldn't have been better for Alex, who had recently become the love interest of the maurauderer, Remus. The glow of happiness seperated her, off on her own little cloud. Nothing was cold to her, not even the sparkling snow that lay in heaping piles on the frozen ground. Icecles hung like great shards of winter from the roof tops, becconing for the children to pick. The first years all leaped about trying to grasp the sparkling swords of ice. Alex watched them with glee. Her daydream was broken by her half-sister, Leif, nearly scaring her half to death by yelling very loudly in her ear. It sounded something like this, "HI!!!!!!" "AGGGGGGG! WHAT!? LEIF!! What on earth? Are you trying to deafen me!!!! "Of course not, but guess what!!!?" "What? Just tell me and then go back to your awful dark, Slytherin common room!" "I just thought you might want to know....sister....that your sugar honey is waiting for you in the library! "OOOOOOHhhhh, thanks, Leif!" Leif had never seen anyone run so fast in her life. It had actually been quite amusing.
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Alex flew up the corridor to the library. Remus was waiting for her! "MOVE!!!!!!" she yelled at random passers by, making them jump, and occaisionally drop things. One though made her stop her hurtling run. Your hair, check your hair, Alex, said her brain. She stopped dead. Professer Flitwick came out of door seconds before that thought, he would have been a goner. There were no mirrors around. Oh, Help, no mirror. Well......she was a prefect.....no one was here at the moment..... She dropped into a nook and conjured a tiny pocket mirror. Perfect as usual, her hair was looking great. Phew, said her brain, we can go to Remus now. She resumed her sprint. Leif was standing and watching Alex dissapear into the distance. A black object in the corner of her eye moved into view. Lucius Malfoy. "Hi, Leif." he tried. Leif was certainly sure that this was a joke. Lucius Malfoy.....talking to.....her. Oh. Brain! Say somthing! "Hey Lucius." she managed, "Did you want something?" He thought for a second, blonde hair gleaming as it caught the sun, then replied, "No, just wanted to say hello." Then he turned,and was gone. *********Well, thought Leif, that was amazingly weird.
Leif took a brief moment to think about what reason Lucius would possibly have for talking to her, then let it go, and took Alex's advice to go to the Slytherin common room. She approached the blank rock face of the dungeon wall and whispered, "Ophelia". It was an odd password for the Slytherins, she suspected they had run out of suitable sinister ones this week. Forgetting all about Malfoy, she stepped into the common room to behold Andromeda Malfoy, and Narcissa Black having a go at eachother. It seemed to be in behalf of Andromeda's brother, the very same, Lucius Malfoy. Andromeda's long blonde hair gleamed as she shook her hair at Narcissa, shouting, "What in the name of Salazar Slytherin are you doing to my brother!?" she demanded, "He is NOT your slave, or didn't you know that?" It was funny that Narcissa was in Slytherin, when her brother, Remus, was in Gryffindor. Leif shrugged, the same held true for her and Alex. Narcissa shrugged as well, she didn't seem to feel she had done anything wrong. Her tightly braided brown-black hair hung like ropes at her still sides. Finally she hissed, "Well you better learn to live with me, Andromeda, because I am the best pureblood witch, and I'm going to make a nice pureblooded maraige with your brother when we get out of school, and then we're going to have nice pureblooded children. So suck it up, Malfoy." Narcissa strode off. Andromeda couldn't follow since they shared a dormitory, so she plopped down on a leather chair and sighed. Leif stepped out from the shadows, "Tough luck, Andromeda!" she said cheekily. She leaped up, and seized Leif by her robes. "Listen Leif, you scrawny half-blood, you repeat any of what you heard, and your for it." She released the younger girl, "Run along and play now!" she added sweetly.
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Leif ran to catch up with the two Slytherin girls ahead of her. They had their backs to eachother, and were quite a distance apart so she chose the middle. Being between them was a right task, keeping them apart, but together at the same time. She managed though, and soon they were all talking, despite what had happened between Narcissa and Andromeda. They reached the common room to put their things away before dinner. Leif's dormitory was several rooms away from the other's partly because they were two years older, and partly because Leif had the smallest room, being only one of two fourth years. Her other year mate was already there, putting her spell books on the small shelf above her four-poster. "Hello, Hannah!" Leif greeted her. Hannah looked up, her wavy brown-blonde hair falling into her face. She brushed it back, "Hi, Leif." she said, and then continued putting away her school things. Leif shrugged. Hannah didn't talk much. She was considered one of the lowly Slytherins as well, but they weren't really friends. It didn't matter, she wasn't going to dinner right away, as she wanted to take a bath in the prefect's bathroom before the after-dinner rush. No one used the baths before dinner, except her, so she was gaurenteed privacy. She turned the corner along the hall and entered the large room, stopping to take a large green towel off of the racks, and get her hair care products. True to her word, the bathroom was empty and quiet as the grave. This was the way Leif liked it. Everything was always so rushed and pushed. No one had time to enjoy things anymore. She liked to be alone and think sometimes. Just think.
********She stripped, pulling layer after layer off of her. She hated the cold, so many layers were a must in this near-Christmas weather. Once undressed, she ran the great bath, green, steaming water pouring out of the carved, brass tap. The water sparkled and eddied around in a vast pool of turquiose, and she stood, and watched it, captivated by the light and the colour. She embraced it; the light and the silence were hers. Hers alone. Nothing mattered. There was no time. Finally, she dived, letting the warm water caress her body. Her silence was broken by a footfall. A soft footstep. She had heard it. But there were no more to follow. She must be imagining. No. There. A black robed student, with a silver Prefect's badge a gleam on his chest? her chest? HE stepped out of the shadows. Leif gasped. No. She hadn't just seen that. It hadn't been. She inhaled again. Yes. It was; Lucius Malfoy.
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Back in the Great Hall, dinner was being eaten in a very noisy fashion. People were everywhere! This year's enrollment had been the largest in almost half of a century. Despite this, Hogwarts continued to have the best standards, beating Durmstrang for eight years running. Lily Evans was responsible for MORE than her part at the school, and it showed. She had been called "Best Head Girl Yet." and even repoted on in 'The Daily Prophet'. A boy would be happy with a girl of her caliber, but add her looks, and she could have any boy Europe could offer. Rumor had it, that she would have married the Prince, if he hadn't been a muggle. James, of course, found this rediculous. With his ego a year ago, somewhat deflated recently,and on Lily's behalf, he thought SHE was priviledged to go out with him. But things had changed, and James had settled into going steady with her. Those months had been some of the best Lily could have asked for, minus James' quick temper. Other than that, things were looking up for them both. They still had a year of school before they had to come to a decision wether to stay together, or to part ways. Lily had been pondering that for a long time lately. But surely a year was plenty of time, so she put it to the back of her mind, and continued eating. **************
At the Slytherin table, things were a lttle difference. Stoney silence prevailed. Finally Narcissa Black broke it with her cutting words, "Where have you taken him, Andromeda. I know you are trying to stop him from seeing me." Andromeda didn't even look up, concerned more by the hair in her food, than by Narcissa. When she got around to it, she said, "I haven't done a thing with him. I can't control my brother any more than you can." With that, she resumed eating.
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Leif stopped dead and reached for the side of the huge bath. What was Lucius Malfoy doing there? No one used the baths before dinner! But he was there, and Leif......needed a towel. It didn't make any sense! Malfoy was sixteen, her half-sister's age, and popular, a real snob of a pure-blood. Good-looking enough to have any girl he wanted, but that was Malfoy for you. She couldn't see why he was talking to her, and now, making an effort to see her. It was common fact in Slytherin house, that the baths were Leif's before dinner. Everyone knew that, including Lucius. She dived deeper in an effort to avoid him, she certainly didn't want him to jump in the huge bath with her. If he did, she would be out like a leaping trout out of the water, naked or not. Her green towel was still sitting on the edge of the bath, and she missed it more than ever. Still underwater, her black hair billowed around her like a curtain of night. Her eyes were wide open and seeing clearly through the blue-green waters. And there it was; the splash and the flurry of water. Lucius Malfoy had in fact jumped in. Leif saw it all. The cascade of water, the pale face and locks of Malfoy. In fact....ALL of Malfoy. She panicked, sending her remaining breath out of her body. She gulped one last time, swallowing water instead of air, and it was done. She was gone to the blackness.
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Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Alex, and Peter all exited the Great Hall laughing and joking. Things were great with everyone, life was looking up. Sirius looked down the hall, obviously interested in something he saw. A second glance, and he went through the portrait hole as well. Peter strolled along behind the group, thinking his own private thoughts, and trying not to furrow his brow too deeply. Alex turned to Remus, "I'm for bed. Good night." she kissed him deeply and left. When she was gone, Remus whistled his appreciation, and looked to James, "Well, Jamesie, want me to beat you at exploding snap again, or have you gotten any better?" James looked up. He took awhile to reply. Finally he said, "No. I don't fancy having my weaknesses rubbed in my face, and I have to get my notes for Sirius, and then...." he trailed off. "What?" Remus prompted. "Uhhh...." he continued, "I'm going to do some Astronomy homework up the Astronomy tower." Remus looked amused, "Oh really!" he retorted, "Is *cough* Lily! *cough* going to study with you?" "What? Sorry didn't catch that." James replied. Remus looked bemusedly back at him, "I said are you going to study with Sirius and me as well?" James smiled, "Well I never thought about it, but if you're planning to try to throw my off of the tower again, it won't work. " he paused for breath, "Well maybe, I might be studying with someone else." "Oh really." Sirius piped up, "Who?" James went a lovely shade of red and mumbled, "Ummm....one of the Hufflepuff boys. Don't think you know him. Well I have to...err....go now." He concluded. With that, the remaining five split up. Lily to the dormitories, Sirius and Remus following James, and Peter to an armchair by the fire. Peter curled up into a ball of security and warmth. He sat still for a long while thinking.
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It was Novermber, and cold. Cloaks and scarves were on all around. Things couldn't have been better for Alex, who had recently become the love interest of the maurauderer, Remus. The glow of happiness seperated her, off on her own little cloud. Nothing was cold to her, not even the sparkling snow that lay in heaping piles on the frozen ground. Icecles hung like great shards of winter from the roof tops, becconing for the children to pick. The first years all leaped about trying to grasp the sparkling swords of ice. Alex watched them with glee. Her daydream was broken by her half-sister, Leif, nearly scaring her half to death by yelling very loudly in her ear. It sounded something like this, "HI!!!!!!" "AGGGGGGG! WHAT!? LEIF!! What on earth? Are you trying to deafen me!!!! "Of course not, but guess what!!!?" "What? Just tell me and then go back to your awful dark, Slytherin common room!" "I just thought you might want to know....sister....that your sugar honey is waiting for you in the library! "OOOOOOHhhhh, thanks, Leif!" Leif had never seen anyone run so fast in her life. It had actually been quite amusing.
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Alex flew up the corridor to the library. Remus was waiting for her! "MOVE!!!!!!" she yelled at random passers by, making them jump, and occaisionally drop things. One though made her stop her hurtling run. Your hair, check your hair, Alex, said her brain. She stopped dead. Professer Flitwick came out of door seconds before that thought, he would have been a goner. There were no mirrors around. Oh, Help, no mirror. Well......she was a prefect.....no one was here at the moment..... She dropped into a nook and conjured a tiny pocket mirror. Perfect as usual, her hair was looking great. Phew, said her brain, we can go to Remus now. She resumed her sprint. Leif was standing and watching Alex dissapear into the distance. A black object in the corner of her eye moved into view. Lucius Malfoy. "Hi, Leif." he tried. Leif was certainly sure that this was a joke. Lucius Malfoy.....talking to.....her. Oh. Brain! Say somthing! "Hey Lucius." she managed, "Did you want something?" He thought for a second, blonde hair gleaming as it caught the sun, then replied, "No, just wanted to say hello." Then he turned,and was gone. *********Well, thought Leif, that was amazingly weird.
Leif took a brief moment to think about what reason Lucius would possibly have for talking to her, then let it go, and took Alex's advice to go to the Slytherin common room. She approached the blank rock face of the dungeon wall and whispered, "Ophelia". It was an odd password for the Slytherins, she suspected they had run out of suitable sinister ones this week. Forgetting all about Malfoy, she stepped into the common room to behold Andromeda Malfoy, and Narcissa Black having a go at eachother. It seemed to be in behalf of Andromeda's brother, the very same, Lucius Malfoy. Andromeda's long blonde hair gleamed as she shook her hair at Narcissa, shouting, "What in the name of Salazar Slytherin are you doing to my brother!?" she demanded, "He is NOT your slave, or didn't you know that?" It was funny that Narcissa was in Slytherin, when her brother, Remus, was in Gryffindor. Leif shrugged, the same held true for her and Alex. Narcissa shrugged as well, she didn't seem to feel she had done anything wrong. Her tightly braided brown-black hair hung like ropes at her still sides. Finally she hissed, "Well you better learn to live with me, Andromeda, because I am the best pureblood witch, and I'm going to make a nice pureblooded maraige with your brother when we get out of school, and then we're going to have nice pureblooded children. So suck it up, Malfoy." Narcissa strode off. Andromeda couldn't follow since they shared a dormitory, so she plopped down on a leather chair and sighed. Leif stepped out from the shadows, "Tough luck, Andromeda!" she said cheekily. She leaped up, and seized Leif by her robes. "Listen Leif, you scrawny half-blood, you repeat any of what you heard, and your for it." She released the younger girl, "Run along and play now!" she added sweetly.
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Leif ran to catch up with the two Slytherin girls ahead of her. They had their backs to eachother, and were quite a distance apart so she chose the middle. Being between them was a right task, keeping them apart, but together at the same time. She managed though, and soon they were all talking, despite what had happened between Narcissa and Andromeda. They reached the common room to put their things away before dinner. Leif's dormitory was several rooms away from the other's partly because they were two years older, and partly because Leif had the smallest room, being only one of two fourth years. Her other year mate was already there, putting her spell books on the small shelf above her four-poster. "Hello, Hannah!" Leif greeted her. Hannah looked up, her wavy brown-blonde hair falling into her face. She brushed it back, "Hi, Leif." she said, and then continued putting away her school things. Leif shrugged. Hannah didn't talk much. She was considered one of the lowly Slytherins as well, but they weren't really friends. It didn't matter, she wasn't going to dinner right away, as she wanted to take a bath in the prefect's bathroom before the after-dinner rush. No one used the baths before dinner, except her, so she was gaurenteed privacy. She turned the corner along the hall and entered the large room, stopping to take a large green towel off of the racks, and get her hair care products. True to her word, the bathroom was empty and quiet as the grave. This was the way Leif liked it. Everything was always so rushed and pushed. No one had time to enjoy things anymore. She liked to be alone and think sometimes. Just think.
********She stripped, pulling layer after layer off of her. She hated the cold, so many layers were a must in this near-Christmas weather. Once undressed, she ran the great bath, green, steaming water pouring out of the carved, brass tap. The water sparkled and eddied around in a vast pool of turquiose, and she stood, and watched it, captivated by the light and the colour. She embraced it; the light and the silence were hers. Hers alone. Nothing mattered. There was no time. Finally, she dived, letting the warm water caress her body. Her silence was broken by a footfall. A soft footstep. She had heard it. But there were no more to follow. She must be imagining. No. There. A black robed student, with a silver Prefect's badge a gleam on his chest? her chest? HE stepped out of the shadows. Leif gasped. No. She hadn't just seen that. It hadn't been. She inhaled again. Yes. It was; Lucius Malfoy.
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Back in the Great Hall, dinner was being eaten in a very noisy fashion. People were everywhere! This year's enrollment had been the largest in almost half of a century. Despite this, Hogwarts continued to have the best standards, beating Durmstrang for eight years running. Lily Evans was responsible for MORE than her part at the school, and it showed. She had been called "Best Head Girl Yet." and even repoted on in 'The Daily Prophet'. A boy would be happy with a girl of her caliber, but add her looks, and she could have any boy Europe could offer. Rumor had it, that she would have married the Prince, if he hadn't been a muggle. James, of course, found this rediculous. With his ego a year ago, somewhat deflated recently,and on Lily's behalf, he thought SHE was priviledged to go out with him. But things had changed, and James had settled into going steady with her. Those months had been some of the best Lily could have asked for, minus James' quick temper. Other than that, things were looking up for them both. They still had a year of school before they had to come to a decision wether to stay together, or to part ways. Lily had been pondering that for a long time lately. But surely a year was plenty of time, so she put it to the back of her mind, and continued eating. **************
At the Slytherin table, things were a lttle difference. Stoney silence prevailed. Finally Narcissa Black broke it with her cutting words, "Where have you taken him, Andromeda. I know you are trying to stop him from seeing me." Andromeda didn't even look up, concerned more by the hair in her food, than by Narcissa. When she got around to it, she said, "I haven't done a thing with him. I can't control my brother any more than you can." With that, she resumed eating.
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Leif stopped dead and reached for the side of the huge bath. What was Lucius Malfoy doing there? No one used the baths before dinner! But he was there, and Leif......needed a towel. It didn't make any sense! Malfoy was sixteen, her half-sister's age, and popular, a real snob of a pure-blood. Good-looking enough to have any girl he wanted, but that was Malfoy for you. She couldn't see why he was talking to her, and now, making an effort to see her. It was common fact in Slytherin house, that the baths were Leif's before dinner. Everyone knew that, including Lucius. She dived deeper in an effort to avoid him, she certainly didn't want him to jump in the huge bath with her. If he did, she would be out like a leaping trout out of the water, naked or not. Her green towel was still sitting on the edge of the bath, and she missed it more than ever. Still underwater, her black hair billowed around her like a curtain of night. Her eyes were wide open and seeing clearly through the blue-green waters. And there it was; the splash and the flurry of water. Lucius Malfoy had in fact jumped in. Leif saw it all. The cascade of water, the pale face and locks of Malfoy. In fact....ALL of Malfoy. She panicked, sending her remaining breath out of her body. She gulped one last time, swallowing water instead of air, and it was done. She was gone to the blackness.
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Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Alex, and Peter all exited the Great Hall laughing and joking. Things were great with everyone, life was looking up. Sirius looked down the hall, obviously interested in something he saw. A second glance, and he went through the portrait hole as well. Peter strolled along behind the group, thinking his own private thoughts, and trying not to furrow his brow too deeply. Alex turned to Remus, "I'm for bed. Good night." she kissed him deeply and left. When she was gone, Remus whistled his appreciation, and looked to James, "Well, Jamesie, want me to beat you at exploding snap again, or have you gotten any better?" James looked up. He took awhile to reply. Finally he said, "No. I don't fancy having my weaknesses rubbed in my face, and I have to get my notes for Sirius, and then...." he trailed off. "What?" Remus prompted. "Uhhh...." he continued, "I'm going to do some Astronomy homework up the Astronomy tower." Remus looked amused, "Oh really!" he retorted, "Is *cough* Lily! *cough* going to study with you?" "What? Sorry didn't catch that." James replied. Remus looked bemusedly back at him, "I said are you going to study with Sirius and me as well?" James smiled, "Well I never thought about it, but if you're planning to try to throw my off of the tower again, it won't work. " he paused for breath, "Well maybe, I might be studying with someone else." "Oh really." Sirius piped up, "Who?" James went a lovely shade of red and mumbled, "Ummm....one of the Hufflepuff boys. Don't think you know him. Well I have to...err....go now." He concluded. With that, the remaining five split up. Lily to the dormitories, Sirius and Remus following James, and Peter to an armchair by the fire. Peter curled up into a ball of security and warmth. He sat still for a long while thinking.
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