Kings Cross Chapter 1, a harry potter fanfic

Disclamer -none of its mine (well anything that rowling has previously written about that is)

Alright want to hear a story? Good, because I have one hell of a story. It makes me appear to be a bloody psycho but so what.

You are a psycho…

Awe, Millie, if I am a psycho you're a psycho.

Now Millie and I have started this documentary as a record for what happened.

And so people will know what happens to us if you get us killed.

Exactly, Millie and I are sisters, we have another sister Petunia.

She's lovely.

Quite, but not the point. Our father Clark, from the Americas married Petunia's mother, Lizzy. And so we got to move to England. It would have been scary or what not but I have my Millie and she will guide me through, right Millie?

Ha! You're on your own.

Anyways, so we came to England and we were allowed to wonder and visit all the lovely tourist attractions. Which we did; it was a lot of fun.

Are you to the good part yet?

I will let you know back off.

There was a very handsome young man by the name of Francis; he was a waiter at a local restaurant and he asked for my number.

What does that have to do with anything?

I want it documented. You saw him Lily the man was hot.

Moving on, our next place to visit was the Kings Cross Station.

Keep in mind folks she pulled me away from the mind blowing handsome Francis to look at a Train Station.

A famous train station and that was interesting was it not?

It was weird and has made me believe I currently am sharing schizophrenia with you darling sister.

Which we will soon be proving either way! So we we're walking through and the station itself really didn't hold our interest.

We noticed a weird animal convention happening. Like 4H in American except replace bunnies, cows and pigs with owls, frogs, and cats.

There were tons of these people running about and we were minding our own business-

When you pushed me to the ground!

I didn't push you. I stopped and you walked into me. Oh and why did I stop, because I saw someone walk through a freaking wall!

Good point. So us, being stealthy people by nature hid behind a garbage can and waited and then I saw it. Oh yes, I wish I could say my darling sister has just cracked, but she hasn't cause if she did so did I and I don't want to.

So now, were debating whether to run at a wall.

Yes, we have to run not nicely touch it and see if our finger goes through.

I don't half ass anything my dear. And my vote is to try it, and the weird people are becoming scarcer so we have to make a decision quick.

Ahhhhh, okay let's go.

She grabbed my hand and now we are running at the wall… and now we are through.

Oh my God it worked. How did it work?

Ah move! I said as I grabbed your hand and dragged you away as two gargantuan guys ran full speed at us from out of nowhere.

And then they laughed at you. It wasn't your fault you tripped.

No it was yours. You freaked and pushed me over.

The point is there is no need to laugh. And by the way this is spectacular, wonder of wonders it a train station.

-Hidden behind a wall that people pass through.

Maybe the wall is a… what are they called? An illusion?

Well said, maybe it's a government conspiracy. We should find out?

What is with you? It's usually me who gets us in to trouble.

We need to get on that train.

You're ignoring me and we are going on that train, aren't we.

I just want to see. We can get off at the next exit.

- Unless we are killed first.

We can get an empty cabin, just don't talk to people.

Okay Millie and I got an empty cabin after pushing our way through people.

Those people were giving us really weird looks.

You looked like you were about to cry.

Sod off!

Nice attempt to be British.

Thank you. Shhh, people are coming.

They might not be coming in here, if they are, don't freak.

Why because these people have weird animal fetishes and can walk through walls!

Oh my God!

What?

We can walk through walls too!

I think I am going to faint. Ahh door is opening.

I can see that.

"Oh look people," said one of the four guys whowalked into the cabin.

I tried to mentally tell Millie to leave with me. I forgot she was dumb and couldn't figure out what I was saying so I stood up and grabbed her hand.

"We can leave, no worries," I said looking at my shoes as not to make eye contact.

"No stay, there's plenty of room."

I was going to say 'No thanks,' but my coward of a sister already complied and sat down.

"I'm Sirius Black; I haven't seen you lovely ladies around before."

Millie because she is ridiculous, giggled like a shy girl and looked at her foot. She risked a glance at me and rolled her eyes, but had a slight terrified expression. It was good of her because she didn't answer and risk saying something stupid, the coward, so I had to.

"Um… we are shy," clever me.

"Alright." He said kind of funny. "Well this is James, Peter, and Remus. You don't know of us?" He sort of directed at Millie who finally looked at him. I could tell she panicked to find a way not to answer. So she started fake-coughing hysterically, looking at me to help her out. Not to mention all the guys looked at me for an explanation.

"Not only are we shy but we are a sickly lot too. We weren't handed a good deck of cards in life." And then I laughed anxiously cause they were staring at us like we were nuts.

"So what year are you guys in?" said James, I think in an effort to be polite more then actual interest.

Millie started coughing again.

"Sorry," I said apologetically and hit her on the back, sort of hard because she glared at me.

"What year are you guys in?" I asked as she settled down. They looked around our age so I would just say 'me too' to whatever they said and hope they bought it.

"Seventh," said James slowly.

"Us too," I was grinning at how well my plan worked when the train started to move.

"Train's moving," whispered Millie rather harshly.

"Shh."

"Is she afraid of trains too," said Remus a little concerned.

"Claustrophobic, it's the small cabin that brings this on." To this she promptly elbowed me in the stomach.

"Alright well you ladies are certainly unusual… but we are going to wonder a bit, we'll come back later," said Sirius raising an eyebrow at us like we were crazy people that could attack him at any second.

"Okay take care now, bye," I said waving (a little as if I was crazy) at them as they left and then shut the door behind them and sat back down across from Millie.

Oh my God where they hot! But did you notice how awesome I was, how I didn't talk to them. Instead due to my love of you I looked like a complete idiot in front of the hot men.

They were very nice, but now I am a little worried.

Why, all we are doing is going to a school or something. Sirius was the hottest or maybe James. Sirius had that dark Southern European look. You know with the grown out black hair, tan well built body, and a smile to die for.

That's nice but-

But James he has that Irish look. Untamable brown hair and did you see that body! Sweet Jesus I thought I would faint. Tan skin too but you know the tan from being outside and those eyes. Did you see his eyes? I don't even mind the glasses. Oh I forgot about Remus, he seemed deep, and did you notice how concerned he was for me? Dirty blond hair nice body but a little more wirily like a soccer player or something. The other one was Peter, right? Did he say anything? Doesn't matter, he was shorter –not my thing but he had blond hair blue eyed boy, slightly pudgy, just made him look cute, didn't it?

Um I was there and don't you try anything with them. We don't know what is going on yet, this could be a secret camp for English Parliament assassins.

Dramatic much?

Horny much?

The door opened so I broke out in a horrible coughing fit. I am amazing aren't I? Lily was looking at me funny. Screw you Lily, I'm doing this for you, you ungrateful twit.

"So you want water or something," said Sirius with a slight grossed out look on his face. Oh don't judge me hottie I'm normally not disgusting. Ooo he sat right next to me. Like nearly touching me, much closer then he had too. Is he hitting on me when I'm coughing up a lung? That's a little concerning, is he that desperate? I know I'm amazingly attractive on a normal basis…

"I'll" cough, cough, hack! "Be fine" and then followed it up with another little fit then cleared my throat and stopped. Didn't want to over due it.

I looked at Lily who looked a little panicked. This was your idea dearest. Oo and the boy named James had sat down as close to her as Sirius had to me, which also explains the panic. She scooted herself as close to the window as she could get.

The train started to slow down.

"What's going on?" asked Lily a little excited, couldn't wait to get off could she?

"Trains being searched, did you miss it last year because they did it then too," said Remus.

Lily mumbled something that could have had the word 'forgot' or 'foot rot' in it.

"Millie?" lily asked. She was scared. I looked at her and she was staring out the window which was now covered in ice. I turned back to Lily who was let out a massive breath and you could see it, like you can do in the winter.

"What's going on?" asked Lily with her fake calm voice.

"Dementors are the things that search the trains, you forgot about them too?" answered Remus not even trying to hide his suspicion at this.

Lily mumbled something about sleeping.

I looked at her incredulously, where was her priorities. Keeping up a cover or finding out what the soothingly named dementors are. But she just sat there and my panic was just rising and I snapped, "What are dementors?"

"How did you people get to seventh year, seriously?" said Sirius.

"Please answer the question?" I said smiling my most charming smile to make him apply and he did.

"They guard Azkaban, remember, they suck the happiness out of people so they have no will just lethargic bodies."

"How you doing?" asked James of Lily.

"You know that sucking the happiness out of people thing, starting to feel it, is that normal?"

"Calm down and think of something happy," I said smiling. She glared at me knowing it was my pure bullshit. But bullshit was the best I could do because I also was starting to feel a little terrified. There was a rattling outside our door, like hoarse breathing and I heard the door next to ours open.

"Calm down they will just come in for a second, but they will stay longer if you're really scared, they will feed off of it," said James. I think it was his attempt to calm us down. How can we be calm when we might be seeing a monster? The door made a clicking sound and I freaked and jumped onto Lily's lap and hugged her for dear life.

That thing and yes it was a thing. It wasn't human. It was completely covered in a cloak, veiling its head. It was tall almost breaching on seven feet. People can be really tall and wear cloaks so that's not what made him a monster. It was his damn, rotting, and greenish bluish hand. Not a human hand people. You could hear it sniffing, looking towards the left of the cabin where Sirius and Peter sat and I just vacated. I stifled a scream when it looked at us. I know I couldn't see its eyes but it was looking at us.

"Don't panic," said James quietly and oh so calm.

Panic a monster was looking at me and I was surrounded by people who didn't care. I wanted to see what Lily was doing but I am sure that the monster and I were having a staring contest and if I looked away he would eat me.

"Move on, there are no death eaters in there, are you blind? Oh yeah you are, aren't you? I forgot," said some adult who was wearing a dress as he sort of shooed the horrendous monster out of the room.

As soon as the door closed I screamed and got off of Lily's lap so I could look at her. I kind of jumped up and down to relieve the energy. Lily was just gritting her teeth and still looking at the door.

"Where are we at?" she asked her voice so calm it was scary.

"We stopped on some bridge." I said looking out the window. She wanted to leave. "Looks like you became claustrophobic too? Funny that." I was trying to lighten the mood.

"You feeling better?" she said very angrily.

"Funny thing when you're scared out of your mind it clears out the lungs," I said with a brilliant smile.

You might wonder what I am doing right. It's simple, I am protecting my sister. When she becomes grim that means she is in fight mood. This is how she handles stress. And if she's stressed she might do something to get us eaten by monsters or something else in this crazy place. So I am protecting myself too, but I swear my reasons are mostly un-selfish.

I fell back to my seat, next to Sirius when the train started to move again.

I glared at my sister who was grinning like an idiot. We have just seen a monster. In one day we have walked through a wall and seen a monster. But somehow she is still smiling; maybe she really does have schizophrenia and is pulling me down with her.

Thank God the four boys were talking to each other again. James had been getting awfully close to me.

I looked at Millie who was still grinning at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing dear, how are you doing? You look a bit peeked."

"Piss off," she raised an eyebrow. "Alright I am sorry I am a little wound up –Ah!"

Someone knocked on our cabin door. My little scream caused all the Marauders to look at me like I was nuts, once again. So Millie started to cough again, hehe she's so messed up.

Sirius looked at her, kind of annoyed. She stopped coughing and smiled apologetically.

"Come in," said James leaning back, causing him to be annoyingly close to me again.

In came three girls who attempted to squeeze their way into our tiny cabin.

"Millie, now don't freak out, just picture open spaces and remember to breath," I said smirking.

She very sneakily gave me the middle finger.

"Hi guys!" said a tiny little blond girl, "James you have a good summer?"

He smiled, "Yeah, how about you Libby?"

"Oh it was good and then blah blah blah blah…" I stopped listening instead watched Millie getting squeezed into a corner as Sirius pushed her down the seat to make room for the two girls.

"Son of a… You remember I am claustrophobic? You insensitive ass –"and then she made an audible gasp as she realized she just cursed out someone who lives in this crazily little world.

Everyone was staring at her, she looked at me pleading. I shrugged my shoulders; I didn't know what to do.

"So… sorry, I freaked a little bit."

"No need dear, you're sick we understand." Sirius said slow like he was talking to someone who was volatile. And she just gritted her teeth. Sirius ignored her and started talking to a girl with short brown hair. Remus was talking to the other girl.

"Do you mind if I sat down?" said the Libby girl to me. Um… was she blind? James basically had me smooshed against the window. I just shrugged, get them to move.

She of course had to glare at me.

"Who are you; I don't think I know you? I mean it's not like I could forget the carrot top." She said the last part lightly and laughing. It was meant to offend me but if I said something I would be me who seemed like the bitch.

Millie burst out laughing, the loyalty of that girl.

"We're shy." I said glaring but with a smile plastered on my face.

"How sad, alright well we're going to go then since there is no room." She raised an eyebrow at me. Which in girl speak meant, 'there's no room because you're fat.'

As soon as they closed the door Millie had to say, "I forgot how easily you make friends."

"Piss off." I said sing-songly.

They were staring at us again. My toleration level was very quickly declining. I am getting us killed. Millie please forgive me.

"So… "Said Sirius. "You're name is Lily and yours is Millie."

"It's Melinda; she calls me Millie to upset me."

"Cause it rhymes, Millie and Lily?"

"Yep," I said, grinning at him, "Because it rhymes."

"That's clever of you."

"Ease up; I thought of it when I was five or something."

"You should change up your material every once and awhile, you know for variety's sake."

"Um, that's really not the point of it." Where the hell is he going with this?

"You guys know each other since you were five?" interrupted James. I relaxed with this question which was good turns out I was digging my fingernails in my palm.

"We're sisters," Millie said lightheartedly.

"You look nothing like her!" said Sirius in a way that made it seem like to look like me would be a bad thing.

"Fact still remains, hehe." She said interrupting my comment.

"We are going to be there soon-"started Remus.

"Eek" said Millie as she clasped her hands over her mouth, "sorry."

"So we should change into our robes."

Millie raised an eyebrow.

"It was nice meeting you ladies even though you both were a little eccentric," said Sirius.

"Yes it was nice meeting you as well even though you-"

"My thoughts exactly now goodbye," said Millie effectively interrupting me as she got them out of the cabin.

Did you hear that, robes?

Cult

What you think?

Yep

What are we going to do? Eek it's slowing down.

Alright we are going to blend, find out where we are and then walk away from the cult, effectively leaving this experience behind us.

What happens if those monsters are there?

Then we run; we don't walk.

We won't blend without robes.

We're going to have to try now let's go.

As soon as we moved out of the room we where caught in a current of people that pushed us out of the train.

"Where are you robes?" said a guy with gelled black hair and a long noise, looking at us disdainfully.

"Um…"

"Get in the carriage."

"One second!"

"Now!"

Then he shoved us into a carriage that didn't have any horses or anything attached. As soon as he moved away from us we were going to jump out but then those girls came in.

"Oh it's you!"

"And you!" I replied.

"Where are the boys?"

"Another carriage, Sirius wants to keep up the pretence we are not madly in love," said Millie.

"Millie!" I tried to hush.

"Of course he does. Sirius is the biggest player in the school dear. If you think your keeping for yourself your sadly naïve," said the brown haired girl.

"Maybe," Millie said with a mysterious confidence that only she could convey.

Now the carriage started to move with her waste of time.

I looked out the door, "You want to jump it… holy…"

"What?"

"Nothing, It's nothing." There was no horse pulling the carriage.

"We're going pretty fast, we will probably break something- What? We weren't talking to you ladies," snapped Millie to the girls who were eaves dropping.

"Don't panic," I said.

"I'm not panicking."

"I am."

Lily are we standing in front of a castle, sourrounded by a mote, a lake and an un-climbable wall?

Yes

How did we get in? I mean I am looking around but I can't see any opening besides those two chained doors. Oh there are boats on the lake. We can steal a boat.

Good enough for me. Come on.

Really?

Yes I am getting the hell out of here.

"Where do you ladies think you're going? Get in the castle, and where are your robes!" The lady with the bun knotted too tightly to her head, effectively cut off any response from us and pushed up into the castle.

"Now, let's see your faces," she spun us around. "Oh dear, who are you?"

"Um we're shy?" said Millie.

The lady looked around horridly, "Potter! Take them to Dumbledoors!"

And then James came into view with his three friends.

"McGonagal you look lovely as ever!" said Sirius.

"I'm still amazed by your ability to take my breath away," said James with a big smile on his face.

"For Pete's sake just take them and go! Hey you do not go in that room soaking wet!" And then she took off to yell at someone else.

"You have no robes?" asked Remus.

"I burned Millie's because she stole my boyfriend and then she burned mine in retribution," said Lily without missing a step and sounding rather bored. It was a stupid lie, but believable.

"And you have no luggage."

"Minimalists," she said smiling at him. I could tell she wanted to hit him.

"Right"

"Sirius!" the brown haired girl came running up to him, "Are you going out with her?"

"Oh shit," I mumbled suddenly becoming interested in my fingernails, he was looking at me, smirking.

"Not that I am aware of, but I didn't know the lady had an interest?" he posed it as a question to me.

"What was that?"

"You want to go out with me," that wasn't a question.

"I want to go see Dundledoor." Was that even his name?

"Dumbledoor," Lily said hidden in a cough.

"Dumbledoor"

"She said you're guys were madly in love!" chimed in my favorite tattle tale in the whole wide world

"I'm sorry to break up your lover's spat, but can we go now? I really want to get this over with."

Thank you Lily

Sirius nodded apologetically to the mouse girl and then we went on our way. I couldn't stand the sly knowing glances he was throwing my way.

"Look I only said it to piss her off!"

Then the whole troop stopped to look at me, these people stare a lot.

"Can you guys just tell me the way so I don't have to stop every five minutes!" huffed Lily.

"We're here," said James, he was giving Lily a funny look, not joker funny though.

"It's a statue." She said fuming. Oh I love my sister and her crazy temper.

"Hold on," he said and stood in front of it, "caldron cakes."

"You've got to be kidding me." Lily said as the statue started to twist upward into a staircase as a result of James words.

"You guys aren't from around here," said Remus.

I should have seen this coming, Lily snapped. She panicked and pushed Remus up against the wall. Being that she is weak she only managed to do this by surprise alone.

"Of course not! It's completely obvious we know nothing about this crazy little monster world of yours."

"Holy shit!" said James, "You're muggles!"

"What did you call me," I said getting in his face; see how well I support my sister? But Sirius grabbed my arm.

"Eek Lily, he's trying to kill me!"

"Oh my, what is going on here?" said a man in a dress with a beard down to his knees. This didn't surprise me, I was desensitized already.

"Lily?" I said kind of scared.

"They're muggles!" said Peter, the first words he said since I seen him and they were to rat us out. If I wasn't going to be murdered or brainwashed I would hate him.

"Dear boy that's impossible. How would they have gotten through the barrier at King's Cross or see Hogwarts as a matter of fact?"

"What's a muggle?" Lily asked.

"It's a slang term for non-magical people." You hear that we're in a magic land. Million dollars I am locked up in an insane asylum imagining this.

"Where are you from, America?" asked Dumbledoor.

"Yes… we moved here."

"I wonder how you were overlooked."

"They're shy," said James.

"Alright, take them to the great hall to be sorted."

"Are they going to be first years?" said Sirius barely able to contain his excitement.

"No, they will be put in seventh year; they went to a muggle school up to now so they have to be fairly smart. But don't worry if that is to complicated we will find what you're best suited for and take it from there. Now you can go I am sure you all want to eat."

"They have no wands, books, or clothes." Said James.

"Marauders can help them out with that, I am sure. Keep them safe though. Now hurry."

Lily still had Remus pinned against the wall with one arm, I don't even think she was aware of it now, "Hold on! Wait just one moment. We have a family; they will be worried if we get kidnapped by a cult! And for the record I am not okay with getting kidnapped by a cult!"

"You're parents will be informed and we will obtain their permission. Now I am sorry but you all really must be going."

"Come on," said James nicely as not to anger the clearly worked up Lily. Who was right now staring incredulously at Dumbledoor.

Lily guided by James let go of Remus, muttering to her self, something to the effect, " fairly smart, I'd run circles around this stupid-brainwashing-hopped up on drugs-oh I can do magic cause some guy who can grow a really long ass beard tells me to-school. That's what all the frogs were about, to keep them tripping."

"Lily," I said nervously watching the glares coming from the now magical guys, "you're being rude."

"Look, you want to see some magic?" asked James, taking out what I can only assume to be a wand.

"Oh I do!" I said

He pointed his wand at Sirius, who just had enough time to yell, 'James' when his hair turned green.

I squealed like a little girl and in the back ground I heard Lily say, "I feel like I am going to throw up," as she slide down the wall.

"Oh do it again!" I said clapping my hands, mainly to annoy Lily but still that was pretty cool.

"Do you want to try?" James asked Lily.

Lily looked suspiciously at the wand he was extending. She smiled and raised an eyebrow at me as she stood up and took a hold of the wand.

"What do I do?" she asked still looking at me weird.

James moved behind her. Ah Lily it's a move, watch out! Hehe, anyways he put a hand on the wand, "Move it to the right, like this, and say, 'Pellocolour' and think of the color you want to turn the hair. It might be hard because it's not your wand but I am sure you can do it."

Lily was now openly grinning at me, which was making me nervous.

"Lily?" I said worriedly.

"Pellocolour!" she said and a jet of light streamed towards me. I shrieked and tried to get out of the way but it clearly didn't work because the hair that fell in my face was now bright purple.

"Son of a B Lily!"

"Oh Mils that felt so weird," she said smiling widely, "But amazing." She gave the wand back to James, and looked at me who was pouting.

"Oh suck it up, Millie, did the man with the insanely long facial hair mention food?"

"Yes," I said trying to sound sad.

"And do you not want to eat," she asked.

"I always want to eat but I want my hair back more. I mean purple, I hate purple."

Sirius took out his wand and mumbled something and another blast of light speed at my head. But my hair was now normal; he pointed the wand at himself too and fixed his own hair.

We then followed them into a giant hall, aptly called the great hall. There were tons of students sitting at tables and a line of little kids running along the wall.

I turned to ask them what we do but they had already left us and sat down at a table by the opposite wall. Dumbledoor was already sitting at the head table in the biggest stage. Old man must have been quick.

The lady with the bun came up from behind us, "Where were you two? Come on you're up first." She pushed us up to the front of the line of little kids. "No alphabetical Lily you're first."

Everyone in the hall was staring at us and I felt the need to inform Lily of this who just said we are three feet taller then everyone else in the line that could have something to do with it.

Then the lady brought out a really old hat whom of course could talk and sang a lovely uplifting song about dark wizards and evil things that can only be weathered if everyone stayed true to what was right and stuck together. What!

But that was no longer important because they were talking about us, "We have new transfer students to our seventh year," said the lady gesturing to us. I smiled brightly at the gawking crowd but I could see Lily swallow nervously, she hated to be the center of attention and this fact only made me smile even more.

"Lily Evans," she called. Lily just stood there so I very covertly pushed her and then she moved. Someone catcalled (I think it was Sirius, then half the male population took up the call. Oh Lily she got so red hehe). The lady walked her to the chair removed the talking hat so Lily could sit in it's place and as soon as she did she shoved the hat on her head. Ha! I could see Lily squirm.

But then something weird happened, she seemed to be holding a conversation with that hat and she might have giggled.

"Gryffindor!" the hat called out. Then the lady to the hat off of her as the students erupted in cheers. Lily just stood their dumbly silently asking the lady where to go.

"Lily!" I heard Sirius shout, "You're with us!"

I might have heard Lily curse but I could have imagined it.

"Melinda Evans," called the lady so I went to chair and she sat the hat on my head, "You're not all that brave are you." said a voice, I assumed to be the hat (something I never thought I would say).

"Sod off, yes I am."

"You don't really have any motivation to succeed, you're not amazingly clever, and you're not even all that kind."

"Oh come on! I think I am brave and I know I am kind, I would give someone the shirt of my back, and I am very smart, thank you, I was in the top of my class. I will give you that I have little motivation. But that is because I have to find a passion. Once I find one I am sure I will be motivated." Stupid hat making me justify myself.

"I know exactly where to put you…"

"Gryffindor!"

Hell yeah, I was worried I wouldn't get to be with Lily, the stupid hat.

So I went and sat across from her, next to James. Lily was sitting next to Sirius.

"That was a stupid insulting hat." I said a little angry by the happy grin she had.

"It was very complimentary to me actually," she said confused.

"Of course it was; how could it find a fault in you?" asked Sirius, "except for your crazy temper."

"You see how she tried to hit me," said Remus smiling.

"The ease at which you make friends," added James who nodded towards the tiny blond who was glaring daggers at Lily.

"Got the point, thank you," said Lily.

"I thought there was supposed to be food." I said still a little angry and wanted to find comfort in food.

"See that long line?" asked Sirius.

"Yes"

"Well after they are all sorted then there are some speeches and then we get to eat."

Bye silver lining, see you in four hours.

"Anyways after the feast we are going to take you to Hogsmead, to get you your stuff. We'll have to be quick because will have about an hour before the stores close, not to mention we don't want to spend our first day back chaperoning you two," said James rather rudely.

"Sorry to take up all your valuable time you selfish prat."

"Lily!" I said kicking her under the table.

"What, that was rude."

"James, Lily has had a trying day so ignore her. We will be very thankful if you could take us to Hogshead."

"Hogsmead," corrected Lily as she was returning the glare James was sending her way. "And what is it James? Didn't what you say sound a little selfish?"

"I am selfish you are taking this for granted, we are illegally sneaking out of the castle-"

"Dumbledoor told you to, I was there!"

"He is turning his back on this, it's still illegal. If we get caught we get expelled. Not to mention, going to Hogsmead during these times is a dangerous thing to do, especially so close to dark. And I'm being selfish?"

"Yes! So you're doing this amazing favor, being such a good person, why rub our noises in it? I didn't know this could get you expelled or be dangerous."

"Shut up James!" said Sirius, and then under his breath, "You two are causing a scene," as he smiled nicely at all the onlookers.

You could cut the tension with a bloody knife…

I want to go home. I want to go home. Look at the ass, casting dirty looks my way, like I care. Go on and hate me Potter but know that I wouldn't be here if I could help it. That is the last time I let my curiosity get the best of me. Stupid James, stop looking at me, between you and that girl of yours, I think I realize I am hated here.

Oooo food! And it just appeared; now that is service. As soon as I get used to you know food just appearing out of thin air I could like the service. Hehe and now my plate is completely heaped with food. Don't know what half of it is but I have never been shy with food. Unlike Millie who has an appetite to match my own but was staring at the food like it was dangerous.

"What?" I said as I swallowed.

"This food is weird and what is that orange drink?"

I sniffed the goblet of stuff in front of me and crinkled my nose, "smells like pumpkin pie, now eat something."

"I'll eat if you drink that." What a turd she knows I hate pumpkin.

So I shook my head no.

"You remember the last time we ate? We were in a normal safe restaurant being served by my could-have-been-husband Francis." Oh the guilt trip tactic to bad for me I can't handle guilt, so I swigged it and nearly gagged. Sirius whacked me on the back making it so much worse.

"Argh that was soo icky, it was all cinnamony, happy now?"

"Yes and your face is all red." Oh I love my sister.

"That's what happens when there's a lack of oxygen to your brain. Now shut up so I can eat." I went back to my food, when James passed me a glass of some other juice.

"Here," he said.

"Poison?" I asked not sure if I was joking or not due to his recent death glares.

"It's clean."

"Sweet," and then I took a gulp trying to get the gross pumpkin taste out of my mouth, "Loads better," I said with a slight smile.

"You're like the world's biggest wuss," said Millie.

After that, they to us to Hogsmead. We got to buy the cult uniform of robes, our very own wand (that part was sort of cool, before when James showed me that magic trick, it was seriously the most neatest feeling I have ever felt), and then we bought books. It wasn't really all that fun because they wouldn't let us window shop or anything and just kept rushing us along. I don't blame them though there certainly was a creepy feeling. Most stores were boarded up; there were hardly many people around and those who were around looked shifty like they were hiding themselves. This didn't help that James was guiding me buy the arm (Remus was guiding Millie) and anytime any one of those shifty people made a twitchy little move his grip on my arm tightened. This was a little annoying and it was making me nervous and jumpy.

So finally I said a dumb thing, but I said it trying to be funny and I was all smiles and polite when I whispered, after he tightened the vice grip he had on my arm another notch, "Don't worry Potter if something happens I will protect you."

I couldn't read his look but he was looking at me so that made me blush. I swear it wasn't cause he was looking at me and he was hot (I did not admit that he is hot, in actuality he is rather foul looking and makes me want to puke). I blush whenever anyone stares at me.

"Come on," he whispered and pulled me even quicker.

They led us out of the main town to a very scary looking house.

"This isn't the way we got here," I said very concerned about the haunted house.

"That shop is closed now," he said as he held up some wiring so Millie and I could climb underneath. The guys just jumped it.

They took their positions leading us again into the pitch black house. I took three steps into the place and slipped.

"Ewww! James! James!"

"What are you okay?"

"Lily," Millie said worried.

"I'm in a pile of some things that are wet and oddly textured ewww."

"Lumnious," mumbled Sirius as he scanned the room for me. When the light reached me I had the distinct pleasure to realize I was in what appeared to be a pile of animal carcasses all in varying form of decay.

I was paralyzed by the sheer grossness and just screamed, when James pulled me up by one arm, I slipped on some of the blood and clung to him for dear life.

When I steadied myself and moved away from the grotesqueness. Millie stood in front of me and said very dead pan, "I will never look at you in the same way."

I just whimpered, "Oh my God I can smell it."

And then she broke out of her shock and laughed, tried to hug her.

She screeched bloody murder and kept pushing me away.

James grabbed by arm again and started moving again, "Oh yeah I forgot you stressed haste."

"Lily you smell something awful, I am doing you a favor and getting you to a place where you can shower before the smell sticks."

"Good point, come on everyone no slacking," I said as I picked up my pace

They lead us to our new home and all my lovely new Gryffindor compatriots first look at me was covered in blood smelling horrible. James pointed me to where my room would be and I hurried up there, found a room with my name on it and entered to find a bathroom and then just raced into the shower. I didn't stop to think that I had no clothes.

"Lily, are you in here?" called Millie.

"Yeah, Millie I neeeed clothes!"

"Clothes?"

"Yeah"

"Ok be back."

Ten minutes later there was a knock on the door, "Got them." I opened the door just a crack and she passed me the clothes. It was a guys t-shirt and pajama pants, so they were both huge, I was swimming in them.

I came out of the bathroom and to my appearance Millie said priceless.

"Now come on we are going to meet our new housemates."

"But I came in covered with animal guts now I'm dressed in men's pajamas –they're going to think I am weird."

"Not so. Sirius said they pulled a prank on you because you are new and people accepted it, apparently those people play jokes on everyone. And for the males cloths thing we will say you have a fetish."

Anyways we go downstairs and Millie led me to a group of girls, most of them were living with us in our dorm room, and they were pretty nice. There was Kyle (short blond hair and rather skinny), Jenna (she had long brown curly hair and a little on the chubby side), and then there was Isabelle (she was short and had long straight dark hair). They were all very pretty and rather funny.

"Lily! You look amazing in my cloths!" shouted James as he just came into the common room through the portrait that served as a door. The rest of his friends followed behind him.

"These are James," I said trying to hide from his smirk so I didn't blush, that would have been embarrassing.

"Well I had to do something. And I just met them," she motioned to the girls, "I thought it would have been rude."

"Oh you guys need to be careful," said Jenna. "The Marauders (that's what they call themselves) are horrible players, different girlfriend every week. See, look at them."

I tried to very casually look over at them, wasn't hard they were like ten feet away. James was talking to the blond that hated me, Sirius was talking to that short haired brunette I mentioned earlier. Remus and Peter weren't there but I saw them by the fire, Remus was reading and Peter was sleeping.

"James, you spent a lot of time with the carrot top" (Whore! Sorry the blond haired girl is getting on my nerves. You want to piss off a red head, refer to her hair as the color orange that should do the trick). "You told me during the summer you wanted to start to spend more time with me."

Hehe another embarrassing thing happened because after I heard her call me a carrot top my anger sort of made me forget that I was supposed to be casually watching and more or less was gawking in a sort of angry shock, which James had to catch and smirk at. I really don't like him.

"Stop staring at James, geesh you're obvious," said Millie way too loudly, all the girls laughed.

"Did you hear what that twit called me?"

"Carrot top"

"Yes!"

"So? you're hair is orange-"

I whacked her in the face with a pillow.

"Come again."

"Ladies, cause you are going to be rooming with her I think its fair to warn you she's always this quick to lean towards violence." And then Isabelle hit me with a pillow.

"Oh really?" she said, "I don't think that will be too much of a problem."

Then Sirius called chick fight. So we all stopped. But his attention was already turned to us so he sat down on the couches we were at (leaving that girl) right next to Millie.

"Why are you grinning at me stupidly?" asked Millie.

"No reason, you know you're really pretty."

"I know, Francis tells me all the time."

"Is Francis that waiter you were talking about?"

Clearly she didn't think he would remember that, "Yes, he is for a part time job, but he is my boyfriend."

"I thought you said that we were madly in love, you're cheating on me."

"I'm sorry Sirius I tied to love you but I just can't get over him."

"Lily, is she really going out with Francis?" Sirius asked me.

"Nope, she is free and clear for you Sirius," teach her to call my hair orange.

"Did you not pick up on the fact that I was lying to him, you're supposed to be my sister, my lovely orange haired sister."

"Don't worry about her Sirius; she's been hurt before so she's weary. But she hasn't stopped talking about you since we met you. Sirius is so handsome and he is soo funny."

"Really," he said smirking, "You don't have to worry sweetheart I would be-"

"James!" Millie screamed. Oh shit.

James said something to the blond then came over and sat down (next to me, with his arm draped on the back of the coach, over my shoulders, but not around them –he really likes to get in my personal space).

"Yes, Millie?"

"Lily thinks you're hot," oh that backstabbing-stupid-tit for tat-horrible sister.

"Do not." I said automatically then cause of my nervousness and his shift in expression to sadness (whether faked or not), "I mean you're nice looking and what not but not for me sorry um… nun?" I don't really do well under pressure. Hopefully I said this in a really fast mumbled blur that he couldn't catch. The bad thing is he could mistake my nervousness for actually liking him, which could be the case given Millie's smug look of accomplishment.

"Did you just say you're a nun?"

"I did," God could people stop looking at me; it only makes me blush so much worse. Damn fair skin and its betraying nature!

"Was that a lie?"

"Yes," I mumbled, "I am not a nun," like I needed to clarify that.

"Do you think I am hot because I think you are," AHHHH Millie I haaaaate you!

"Umm…"

"Well you think about it dear," he said as he brushed some hair out of my face. I froze trying very hard not to move, he really likes to get into my personal space "Sirius, are you ready?" he said standing up.

Sirius, one apparently not to be outdone, turned to Millie and said quietly, "You really are beautiful and if we were madly in love I would tell you that all the time." Then gave her a grin and left with James.

She was smiling sort of dreamily when she finally noticed me and the look of murder in my face.

"Now Lily…"

"Millie, you're my sister and since I'm supposed to love you I'm going to warn you that right now I'm planning on murdering you so you might want to leave,"

"Okay ladies! Well I have had a very trying day and am tired, see you all back up in the dorm." She said and then raced up the stairs.

"You're in trouble now you know? Said Jenna, "so is your sister they are going to be bothering you so bad." I tried to cry- I couldn't.

"Do you like him though? You looked like you did, I mean we won't think worse of you if you do, every girl does. I mean I would kill to have been in your place," said Kyle. Um... kill to be in my place? Eek.

"No I don't, at the moment, though I don't know him well, actually leaning towards disliking him."

"Really you'd be the first person outside of Slytherins to say that."

"Alright everyone clear out, you all have class tomorrow morning. Yes, yes I know you're all excited to be back but go!" said some students with flashy badges.

"Come on," said Isabelle.

We climbed up to our dorm, "Truce?" I asked Millie when I saw her on her bed.

"Always"

I climbed into my bed and in the silence I couldn't help but notice James pajamas smelt really good and then I tried to suffocate myself with a pillow until finally, one way or another I past out.

So I am not a school work kind of girl, that's Lily's deal, I'm the free spirit. I can't be contained by the walls of a classroom. Okay that sounds a little like hippy speak, but nonetheless school is ick. I was top in my class (I didn't lie to the stupid hat) by Lily's shear force of will alone. I am smart don't get me wrong even Lily doesn't have the power to take my tests for me, I just can't handle studying. It seems like such a waste of time. You learn all this stuff that you will never need again, turns out folks the world has no real use for people who are scholars in Shakespeare.

So here I am with Lily at breakfast in the great hall looking over our schedules, we have the same schedules and I am so going to try to cheat of Lily. Try is key she has a very strong belief in right and wrong and unless I put her through an unbelievable guilt trip she won't let me cheat of her.

I am slightly depressed school will do that to me. And this is a crazy magic school and I don't know anything about magic. I am over my head, by lunch time I think I shall have already drowned. Lily doesn't look worried she loves to learn, its cause she is good at it and people compliment her about it. I hope she doesn't understand anything so she drowns with me, it would be a pity to drown by your lonesome… Told you I was depressed.

Sirius called me beautiful last night, Sirius is hot, too bad he didn't mean it. I am hot but he didn't say it to compliment me. I might be many things but I am not naïve. But when a hot man calls you beautiful in front of a lot of people you take it at face value and gloat. Lily is not gloating over the fact that hot James called her hot, the girl is weird. She seems like she is offended by what he said saying he meant to embarrass her. I know she is not offended we Evans girls love compliments.

So I was right about school, it sucks, but not as bad as I thought. It sucks because it actually contains work but magic is novel and exciting to me right now I don't mind. People are getting really annoyed with me and Lily oohing and aweing over the slightest thing. For example, the lady with the tight bun turns out to be Professor McGonagall who teaches a class called transfiguration which basically means you use magic to turn one thing into another one. We had to turn a chair into a cat! It was freaking awesome! Took me forever but brace yourselves, I turned a chair into a cat, A CAT! Lily couldn't she gave the chair cat fur but that's all she could do. But that basically the only thing she couldn't do, we had a potions class (just picture chem. lab with cooler results) and she made the best potion on her first attempt at any potion ever. The Proffesor (I think it was Slughorn, slug something) was blown away. We both could do the activity for Charms class and Defense against Dark Arts. (Side note: all of the Marauders are in these classes with us). We also had Muggle Studies and Arithmetic. Last year me and Lily were in calculus so yeah arithmetic is going to be a walk in the park and I don't even think I need to mention how easy Muggle Studies will be.

Now on to more important things then school, I am officially in a war.

I was walking down the hallway after lunch with Lily and the Marauders were walking a head of us. I thought nothing about it just merrily meandering down the hall when I heard an explosion and the next thing I knew I was wipping paint off my face.

"Lily what happened I blinked and now I'm covered in paint. And you are too, ha! Funny"

"I got your splatter dear, I fear you got the worst of it."

"Worst of it."

"Well… the Marauders dropped a piece of paper and you stepped on it and then KaBOOM! Hehe."

Sure enough I turn to find the four of them laughing at us. "I WAS PRANKED! YOU DIDN'T JUST PRANK ME! WHO KNEW THE INFAMOUS MARAUDERS WERE LOW ENOUGH TO PICK ON THE NEW KIDS, GOOD TO KNOW THEY SETTLE FOR THE WEEKEST TARGETS!-"

"Whoa Millie, calm down, its okay, you're causing a scene."

"KEEP LAUGHING PUNKS, Lily I need revenge."

"I don't, have at it," and then she pointed the wand at herself, "scourgify," and all the paint disappeared.

"Whoa where did you learn that?"

"I've been reading."

"See this is why I need you to help. I have the big grandiose ideas and you're the smart girl who actually manages to get them to work. Please, you can get back at James for embarrassing you and once you do he will realize you won't let him mess with you he will leave you alone." Watch as I manipulate her.

"Well…alright I have an idea, you know that spell they showed us we could use that and then there would be some ironical poetry to it."

"Yeah, whatever, so you in?"

"You need to find us a kitchen."

"Good I like where your heads at."

See WAR, I love wars, there good at relieving stress. Everyone thinks Lily is the diabolical one but she just wears her emotions on her sleeve. No folks, it's me, mess with me and you best believe there will be repercussions. REPERCUSSIONS

So the day slowly progressed as I thought of all the clever ways Lily could be thinking of how to get back at them. I was a little let down when all she wanted to do was die their hair. BORING, but that was the plan, so after dinner we went into the kitchens. (It actually wasn't as easy as I thought to find the kitchens apparently they are hidden and had to bribe several people to get its whereabouts).

When we found the kitchen we met unusual lovely (personality wise, they really weren't the cutest things ever, grey skins and bat ears that kind of thing) creatures that called themselves house elves. So they helped us make cookies, Lily had me distract them when she put a couple of drops of some liquid into four cookies.

Then we went upstairs and waited for the Marauders to arrive Wahahahaha!

When they came in Lily started passing out cookies while I announced some bullshit story about how they were a thank you for being so nice to us, all the kindness they have shown, and that they were a welcome gift for them from us. When we got to them, Lily who has an amazing gift of slight of hand put the tainted ones out for them to take. We didn't pause or anything we just moved on, it was very professional and fluid. I swear me and Lily should become thieves.

Then we sat back and waited or at least I did. Lily started to do homework.

"Psst Lily, nothing is happening."

"I know."

"Clarify?"

"Okay well I thought there should be a time delay; it's a slow working potion. The effects won't be seen for another six hours at the least. Now keep in mind this is all a guess, because I changed the potion a little bit, but don't worry I checked that none of the ingredients are poisonous or poisonous in that particular combination. I don't even really know if it will work or what it will do, I do know that it won't kill them and that is at least something."

"Okay… so what you're telling me is I might not have my revenge that I could have spent all day in a kitchen for nothing?"

"Yes, do homework or something, either way you won't find out till tomorrow morning."

Morning, glorious morning, this magic stuff has put me in a good mood. I mean I am still a little wary that all this could be in my head, but I figured I can't do anything about it anyways; I might as well roll with it.

So I am rolling with it and currently rolling means jumping on Millie's bed until she wakes.

It worked and now we are on are ways to breakfast, when someone grabbed my arm and pulled me into a deserted classroom I heard Millie curse. I freaked and kicked my attacker in the shins.

"Son of a –Lily calm down!" said James hopping on one leg, a James currently sporting blue hair. Who's awesome? I am!

"What are you doing! Don't you try to kidnap us Potter, that's not how I roll (I think I got a little carried away with my rolling metaphors).

"Did you turn our hair blue?"

"No, and by the way nice hair."

"Lily we know you and Millie did this." He said smiling, apparently the pain in his shin stopped.

"Oh yeah try to prove it!"

"Look, we're not dumb we're very careful the only opening we gave anyone to do this was when we ate your guy's cookies."

"Sure you're just not going even crazier, sounds like paranoia to me," said Millie, glaring at Sirius.

"You guys did this."

"Alright we did, it was for revenge, remember the paint? Oh I didn't forget and now revenge is mine," she said sounding very much like an evil genius.

"You're going to fix this…" Sirius said taking out his wand. Millie took hers out too.

"Um Lily I don't really know how to use this. Maybe you should fix their hair."

"What if I said I don't know how…" James slowly took out his wand and I grabbed out mind.

"I don't want to hex you Evans. And thankfully I don't think I will have to, you know how to fix this or you can at least tell us how you did this and we will. The normal counter curse wouldn't work."

"It didn't?" I said excited. "Millie you hear that? That was one of the alterations I made to the potion that and the slow affects thing."

"You did, impressive" said Remus.

"Quite. Now Lily," continued James.

"Lily tell them how to fix it, Sirius' maniacal look is making me nervous."

I pulled out four little candies that I previous laced with the counter potion. See what a good person I am. I thought to make an antidote. "These should do it."

"Poison?" asked James.

"They're clean." I replied grinning.

They ate them and looked at each other, "Lily you sure you made it right?"

"As sure as I made the other one." I was trying very hard not to laugh as I secretly nudged Millie trying to get her to move to the door. I know what I am going to say next will cause them to probably hex us.

"Why are you laughing Lilykins," said Sirius moving towards me.

"Because I couldn't let the fact that we pranked the infamous Marauders go unnoticed!"

"Meaning?" said James coming towards me with the rest of the Marauders following.

"If my measurements are correct," I said biding time so I can get to the door, "then you have around six more hours with the blue hair." I said as we ran out the door.

I heard Sirius laugh and say I like her but don't be deceived they were throwing hexes at us when we ran down the hall into the safety of the great hall where we very suavely walked to the Gryffindor table.

A second after we sat they walked in and the whole hall became silent following an audible gasp.

"Fellow students," called James breaking the silence, "It is true, we have been pranked! And I am very please to announce this because it was none other then our fellow Gryffindors that pulled it off."

"What is he doing?" I whispered to Millie.

"Prepared to be embarrassed Lily."

"As you know this will bring about a war of epic proportions but ladies there is no need to fear, as I Sirius will personal ensure that none of you suffer the fallout well all but two ladies that is…"

"What the hell are you guys talking about!" shouted some guy at our table.

"Who did it, I want to shake his hand!" called a Slytherin.

"Its okay guys you're still really hot with the blue hair," shouted the blond haired girl who hates me.

"I'm sorry, fellow students, that's all we can say for now, we have discussed it and we don't want to embarrass the students who did this," said Remus.

"Bullshit!"

"Millie!" I replied in horror as she stood up.

"Yes Millie?" said Sirius.

"I call bullshit, you can't take away my glory. We pranked them and it was damn easy too."

Oh my God where am I? Why is everyone looking at me? Oh yeah I just yelled and made me look like an arrogant prat hehe. You know that whole thinking before you speak thing I should try it.

"No freaking way, the muggles? You got pranked by the muggles, that's pathetic!" called a slytherin. And what the hell does that mean.

"Ahh, yes and there lays our weakness. See these beautiful women offered us cookies and being that we were temporary blinded by their beauty we forgot that we had pulled a devastating prank on them earlier that day and that their motives could have been for revenge," said James.

"Oh it was much more clever then that!" Lily retorted, shocking me. I could see the panic on her face that she was standing up in front of everyone as she turned red and slowly sunk back to her chair.

"I know Lily dear. But anyways we just wanted to explain this special situation and remind any of you that if your last name isn't Evans and you try something like this you better be prepared for one hell of a year!"

"Here Here!" Someone called, I think from Ravenclaw, who the hell would here here! that? They just threatened them, I mean in a good natured comical way but so not the point.