AN: This story is going to be the first part of a triliogy of stories based around the maruarders, Snape & Regulus. It's going to be slightly AU but not by much, most things should stay the same.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter universe, but any o/c are of my own invention.

Chapter one - Hogwarts Bound

An owl flew into the pitch black of the night, towards a large house on the edge of a small village. The house looked old and uninhabited, but the screams from inside betrayed that illusion. The owl flew in through an open window and landed in a room with six people inside it, five standing up and one lying crumpled up on the floor.

"Please no more." the women on the floor moaned.

"That will all depend on the answer of your daughter" the man spoke from above her.

He turned around and fixed his red eyes on a girl of no more then 17 years of age, with long brown hair and a pretty face, who had tears streaming down her cheeks. He asked her "Will you end this pain for your mother and join me like your father, or shall I continue to torture her?"

"Yes I'll join you, I'll do anything you ask, just please don't torture her anymore!" said the girl through her sobs.

"Hold out your arm." The man ordered.

He then pointed his wand at the girls arm and murmured a spell that she couldn't make out and a skull started to appear on her arm, with a snake wrapped round it and coming out of its mouth. The girl stood and stared at the mark for a few moments, and then went over and picked up her mother and carried her out of the room.

"Well Wilkes I am glad that your daughter finally came to her senses and joined us. She shall be quite useful. Although, I am disappointed that you couldn't persuade her." He hissed.

"Yes my lord, I am sorry that you had to get involved." Wilkes grovelled. "We have received word from Malfoy that our other two recruits will be in place by tomorrow and awaiting your orders."

"Good, everything is going to plan then." He replied.

"Come on Prongs, hurry up or your going to miss the train." Sirius shouted.

A boy of 17, with extremely messy hair, glasses and a badge pinned to his chest was running down the platform towards the door where Sirius was standing. He managed to jump onto the train just before it set off.

"Prongs mate, what took you so long?" asked Sirius

"I'm sorry Padfoot, I had to say goodbye to my parents, and I ran into Evans..." James replied

"Let me guess, she ignored you again?" Interrupted Sirius.

"Yes she did Padfoot, I don't know what I'm doing wrong!" whined James.

"Don't worry she can't ignore your for much longer now that your head boy and she's head girl." Said Sirius. "Come on, let's go and find Wormtail and Moony."

James and Sirius headed down the train looking into each compartment. It took them five minutes to find the right one, as it was down the opposite end of the train. When they walked in there was only a short stumpy kid sitting in the compartment.

"Hello Wormtail, where's Moony? Did he miss the train like I nearly did?" asked James.

"No he got on the train, he just went to the prefects meeting. You know, where the head boy and girl are supposed to be giving them their instructions for the train journey." Replied Peter with a smirk on his face.

"Oh yeah, I forgot that Moony was still a prefect." Stated James.

Peter and Sirius stood there looking at James waiting for what was said to sink in. James stood in silence for a few moments before he realised what was going on.

"Oh no, Evans is gonna kill me!" said James.

The next second he was running out of the compartment and down the train corridor. He left Peter and Sirius laughing so hard that they were leaning on each other to keep standing.

An hour later James returned to the compartment looking crestfallen followed by a scrawny looking boy. They both sat down and watched Peter and Sirius finish a game of exploding snap.

"That's five games to four, to me. You owe me three chocolate frogs when the lunch lady comes." gloated Sirius. "So Moony, how bad was it?"

The scrawny boy replied "Well first off Prongs, here was 15 minutes late, then when he finally got there Lilly, shouted at him for another 15 minutes. Something about responsibility, I couldn't really hear because I was covering my ears. When it was over he just sat in the corner for the rest of the meeting looking dejected."

"That bad!" said Sirius with his hand over his mouth to stop himself from laughing.

James finally spoke up "Yeah it was pretty bad but she did speak to me, I think I'm finally getting through to her."

Peter, Sirius and Remus just stood there and stared at him with their mouths hanging open. After a few minutes silence Sirius was the first to speak "Well let's leave Prongs to his delusions and play a few more games of exploding snap, I think I can get a few more chocolate frogs out of Wormtail."