A/N: So I am in the process of writing a Sirius and OC story and this Remus and OC story; let's hope that I can keep up!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything included in the wonderful books of Harry Potter, I'm just using them for my amusement…and the amusement of you lovely readers who I hope will review!

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"If only we could stop murdering one another we would be a wonderfully humorous species."

-Arthur Miller

Autumn Layton walked out of her kitchen and into her living room; she stopped and took a bite of her toast then walked around the room. Okay, she was bored, not just bored, but bored out of her freaking mind. Her mom and brother were both at work and Autumn was left alone to her thoughts.

Her mom, Audrey Layton, was a widower, single-mom to Autumn and her brother Ryan, and she worked at the Ministry of Magic as the assistant to the Minister himself. Her father was a muggle, Roger Layton, who died three years ago of cancer. It had been hard for the three of them but they got by and when her mom was promoted last year she received a huge raise which helped out; although Autumn still had the suspicion that the real reason her mom got the promotion and raise was because the Minister had a thing for her. Not that her mom didn't deserve the job, she was better at the job than any of the other slack-job men would be.

Along with her job, Audrey also homeschooled her two children; well now she only homeschooled Autumn because her brother was three years older and already graduated. Her mom was superwoman and Autumn never failed to tell her that.

Ryan Layton was an Auror and he was completely in love with his job. Before you say it, no, not enough to marry it. He was single, loved coffee as much as his sister and mom, and lived at home with them. The three of them were very close and before their father died they were just as close. Now don't get me wrong they weren't the perfect family, they had their arguments, they certainly didn't eat dinner at the dining table every night and talk about what they did that day and Ryan and Autumn definitely had their spats of sibling rivalry. In fact, they were very competitive: whenever they were in a period of rivalry they had little competitions and they were usually very pointless.

Autumn walked around the living room for the third time before she actually thought about what she was doing, and then she shook her head at her silliness and sat in her favorite chair. She sighed; it was only the middle of April and it already felt like it should be summer. That morning before her mom went off to work she finished her last test and that was it she was officially finished with her sixth year of wizard training. Haha, she silently laughed to herself she actually finished before her best friend.

Oh! Her best friend, Lily Evans and Autumn had lived next to each other on Privet Drive since they were little kids. Their parents were pretty good friends and each pair of parents treated each girl like their own daughter. Lily and Autumn had met each other at the park in their neighborhood on the swings and it just happened to be a coincidence that Lily and her family had moved into the house next door to Autumn's home.

The first big fight they had was when the two of them were nine years old and Lily met Severus Snape. Autumn had not told Lily that she was a witch because her mom mentioned once that it might not be the best idea, but if she really wanted to she could tell Lily. Autumn didn't though, and about a week later she and her family went to Ireland to visit her grandparents. When she came back Lily raced over about two minutes after they got back and burst through the door.

"Autumn! Autumn! Where are you? I have the most amazing news!" Autumn came over to Lily but before she could say anything Lily pulled her out the door and onto the front lawn where she sat down.

"Geeze, not even a nice 'Hello Autumn, how was Ireland'?" Autumn said but smiled and sat down next to her friend. "So what is the amazing news?"

Lily looked around to make sure no one was listening then bent in close to Autumn and whispered, "I'm a witch."

Autumn didn't know what to say. Lily couldn't be a witch; her parents were muggles weren't they? 'But', she thought to herself, 'I guess she could be a muggle born…'

"I-" she started but Lily cut her off.

"I met this boy at the park while you were gone. I was swinging with Petunia and I was doing that jumping off thing that you and I like to do and he saw me. Then when I came to the ground he told me I was a witch." Lily laughed and then continued, "I told him that wasn't a very nice thing to say but then he explained it to me, he said the reason I didn't get hurt when I jumped off the swing was because I have magic. And, oh! You can do that too, so maybe you're a witch too! The boy's name is Severus Snape and he doesn't live far from here. He's a wizard, his mom is a witch and his dad is non-magical. Well wizards and witches call them muggles but-"

"I know." Autumn said softly looking at the grass.

"What?"

"I know about all that stuff. Well except I haven't ever met that Severus boy…"

"You know? How do you know?"

"I…my mom is a witch Lily. I am too and Ryan is a wizard."

"What! Why…why didn't you ever tell me?" Lily yelled standing up and putting her hands on her hips.

"I'm sorry Lily I just thought that-"

"You thought what? That I would be jealous? That I would tell someone your secret? I can't believe you Autumn, I thought you knew me better." And with those last words Lily walked away, but not to her home she went in the opposite direction. Autumn went inside and told her brother what happened then she walked to her room and cried her eyes out.

The two made up about a week later when Lily came over to Autumn's home and knocked on the door. When Autumn answered Lily burst into tears and hugged her.

"I'm so sorry Autumn! I just got so mad. I went to talk to Severus and I told him what happened. He said that most magical families have to keep it a secret so they won't scare off muggles and so the magic world isn't exposed and I'm just so sorry!" Autumn hugged Lily back then let her into the house.

"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner I just thought you would be to mad at me." Lily sniffed.

"I'm sorry as well; I should have known you wouldn't tell anyone." The two friends then talked about everything they knew about the wizarding world and then went out so Autumn could meet this Severus Snape.

Sixteen year old Autumn sat in her favorite chair and mulled over her memories as she finished her toast. Then she decided she should probably respond to the letter Lily sent from Hogwarts three days ago. Autumn always was a bit lazy, but before she could cross the hallway to her down-stairs bedroom she heard a loud pop that told her someone had come home. She walked back to the living room and found her brother standing with his back to her. 'Why is he home? It was only just now lunch time'.

"Ryan?" She said softly walking a little closer to him and he spun around to face her. The look on his face scared her. She knew something must be wrong. He looked shocked, sad beyond belief, and scared. Autumn didn't have to ask him what was wrong because he handed her a letter the purple ministry seal broken.

Dear Mr. Layton,

We are terribly sorry to inform you of this news. At precisely eleven-fifty-four this afternoon we found the Minister Goodfellow and his assistant Audrey Layton dead. We have our best Aurors on the case and we have assumed that the person responsible for this was the Dark Wizard Voldemort or one of his followers. We will inform you when the culprit is caught. Again we are terribly sorry for your loss.

Dewy Stratton,

Ministry of Magic

Autumn wasn't going to believe this it just couldn't be happening. She dropped the letter and sat on their big red couch. No tears would come. She was too shocked, and scared. This was happening and she couldn't change it. She slowly lay on the couch, closed her eyes, and instantly fell asleep.

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Lily walked into the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table for lunch. The only people in there were first and second years, and a few other seventh years who had grown a bit tired of going to Hogsmade. Lily herself just wanted to study more, she was nervous for her first exam on Monday: Potions. She helped herself to some food and enjoyed the feeling of her empty stomach beginning to fill. However, after only two bites of her mashed potatoes an owl came swooping in, 'how odd' she thought, but wait, she knew that owl it was Kitty, her best friend Autumn's family owl. Lily rolled her eyes. Autumn always was the laziest person it always took her a few days to reply to Lily's letters. When Kitty landed Lily gave her a bit of toast and untied the letter from her leg and watched her fly away before opening the letter.

It wasn't Autumn's handwriting, it was all squiggly like the person had a hard time writing it, but she could see that it was Ryan's.

Dear Lily,

I don't have any words to describe what is happening so I will just come out with it. Our mother was found dead about thirty minutes ago. I've already told Autumn and she just laid onto the couch and fell asleep. I'm not going to wake her up, but I don't know what to do. We're all alone and I, I just don't know what to do at all.

Ryan

Lily read the letter once, then two more times and she didn't even feel herself crying. She just kept reading the letter over and over wanting the words to change. She felt a hand on her shoulder suddenly and she let out a sob.

"Miss Evans are you all right?" It was Professor McGonagall. Lily shook her head and put a hand over her mouth.

"No. No, no, no, no, no." She couldn't stop crying to tell McGonagall what happened so she just gave her the letter and she read it quickly.

"A close friend?" she asked and Lily nodded.

"Come, we will go to the headmaster." She gently helped Lily up and walked her out of the great hall and towards Dumbledore's office.

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Remus couldn't believe he was in this position again. This to be the what, tenth blind date James and Sirius had set him up on this year? Remus quickly counted in his head. Yes this would exactly make it ten this year. Of course, Remus didn't really blame them. They just wanted to make him happy.

But it wasn't like Remus had never had a girlfriend. He had exactly one serious girlfriend and maybe two more that he didn't really count. The serious girlfriend was Emily Collins, a Ravenclaw with the classic blonde hair and blue eyes. He definitely cared about her, he certainly liked her enough, and she was pretty and easy to talk to. They had gone out for about four and a half months before he broke it off. He just…didn't love her and he didn't see it going anywhere, and he certainly couldn't tell her about his, uh, furry little problem.

But, back to the present predicament he was in: the tenth blind date with Laura Finnegan. She was a Hufflepuff girl sixth year like himself. She was pretty enough, Sirius always made sure they were cute, but again she wasn't someone he saw a future with. She was talking about how much Professor Slughorn scared her. Remus couldn't help but mentally laugh at this; seriously, Slughorn? He was probably the nicest, although he showed some favoritism, teacher at the school.

When they had finished their tea and sandwiches at, yes, Madam Puddifoot's, Remus suggested that they leave.

"Sure" Laura responded and they left.

"So do you want me to walk you back to your friends?" He asked politely and she nodded. They didn't talk and when they reached her group of laughing friends he gave her a small wave. Then, he got the hell out of there as quickly as he could without being obvious. Remus found his friends in Honeyduke's; Sirius was standing near the door waiting for James and Peter to buy their giant slabs of chocolate.

"Hey, how was the date?" Sirius asked grinning like a buffoon.

"Do you really have to ask?"

"Oh come on what was wrong with this one?" Sirius asked exasperated.

"Nothing she was fine, just not my type."

"Oh come on Moony, another one?" James asked breaking of squares of chocolate and handing one to Sirius and one to Remus.

"I wish you two would just stop. I know you care and all, but really I can find my own girl." Remus replied and the four friends started to head back to the castle.

"God Moony, why should we believe you? You've only had one girlfriend that you truly cared about and that was in fifth year!" Sirius almost yelled and the four of them kept up the conversation until they were outside the castle doors and Remus finally told them to give it a rest.

"Fine, but Remus in five years if you don't have a serious girlfriend, or fiancée, or if you aren't married, James and I will pick this right back up and find more great girls for you to go out with." Sirius sighed giving up. The four boys were about to walk down the main hallway towards one of their shortcuts back to the Gryffindor common room when they saw Professor McGonagall standing outside the gargoyle that guarded Dumbledore's office. She was talking to a very upset Lily Evans.

"Just try to calm down dear, alright and sit down here, I'll be right back." She guided Lily to the bench sitting against the wall and then waved her wand and a neat, small stack of tissues landed on Lily's lap. She nodded gratefully and just sobbed more.

"I wonder what is wrong with her." Peter said thoughtfully as they watched McGonagall say the password and climb the stairs to the office. None of the other three Marauders said anything, but James silently pulled out his big chocolate slab and walked over to Lily and sat down.

"I won't ask you what's wrong." He told her softly, and then he broke off a few squares and handed them to her. She gave him a watery smile and took the chocolate and wrapped it in one of her tissues for later. She was still crying but she could actually breathe now and she hugged James.

Of course James was shocked but he hugged Lily just hoping he could take some pain away.

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Autumn didn't know if she was dreaming or not. She felt like she was floating through darkness and she could hear voices. She listened harder and she thought she recognized them as Ryan and Lily. And suddenly she was awake; Lily was at school, why would she be here? Autumn got out of her bed and looked around, it was dark but there was a crack of light coming through her partly open door. She walked out of her room and into her kitchen where she did in fact see Lily and her brother sitting at the table with two cups of untouched tea in front of them. Lily's cheeks were tear-stained and her nose was slightly red and Ryan's eyes were closed both his hands in fists.

That was when it all flooded back to her. Her mom was dead. Dead

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A/N: So the first chapter of my first Harry Potter fanfic! Reviews are greatly appreciated. I would love to know what you think and what you think needs work! (If anything does! Just Kidding.)

Sorry! To anyone who is reading this, this isn't the next chapter I just noticed that I repeated something so I have edited this chapter. I was having some problem with my computer but I think I have got it fixed now, so hopefully I can finish the second chapter today and post it before tomorrow!