A/N: Okay so this is my first fan fiction! Reviews are appreciated, because only then will I know if I'm any good. So please read, review, and enjoy.

My Thunder

A Harry Potter Fan fiction

James and Lily

Disclaimer: It's not mine. It's J.K.'s. And the song that I took the title from and might be including later on (if there is a later on) isn't mine either. It's "Thunder" and it's Boys like Girls' song.

James

"You will die..." the voice hisses in my ear. I watch, horrified, as in front of my appear my best friends, tied up and suspended in midair: Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black. Next to them floats the love of my life and arch- nemesis, Lily Evans. All four are staring at me with pleading eyes, mouths open but not making a sound. They have Silencing charms placed on them.

I try to run to them, but I find I'm tied up too. Someone approaches me. I turn and gasp.

There is a snakelike face, red eyes, white skin, slits for nostrils. It's Voldemort. I don't know how I know, but I do. He laughs as I struggle against the ropes that bind me, and strolls over to where pudgy Peter hangs.

Voldemort toys with his wand, and then suddenly points it at Peter's head, hissing, "Avada kadavra!" Peter's eyes widen for a moment before the Killing Curse hit him. I writhe, screaming soundlessly as one after another, Remus, Sirius, and Lily's eyes close. Finally, the Dark Lord turns to me, and now the wand is pointed at me, and he hisses, "Avada Kad-"

"What the bloody hell is going on in here?"

I sat up so fast I heard my neck crack. Wincing, I glared at Sirius, resplendent in his Puddlemere United boxers. "Knock much?" I snapped.

My best friend grinned cheekily, but his eyes were worried. "I would have, but you were screaming your head off." I winced again. Sirius raised his eyebrows. "Prongs... have you been crying?"

I swore and leapt up out of bed, rushing into the bathroom connected to my bedroom. My eyes were red and swollen. I scrubbed at them, splashing my face with cold water before returning, shaking my head at Sirius. He nodded and didn't press me.

I sighed and sank to the floor, resting my head against the wall as Sirius searched my night table drawers for candy. As he did so, a prim knock sounded. "James? Sirius?"

"I'm decent, Mum!" I called back.

"It's not you I'm worried about. Is Sirius?" she replied, pointedly.

I grinned. This morning call had stemmed from one fateful morning when my mother had walked in on me and the Marauders playing an early came of Truth, Dare, or Totally Strip.

"Decent, Mrs. P.!" Sirius called cheerily, a chocolate frog in one cheek and a licorice wand in the other.

My mother stepped into the room, in a pink dress, and smiled at me. My nightmare, which had still been nagging at me, turned tail and fled to some dark corner of my mind.

Despite the fact that I'm a teenage boy, my mum still had that effect on me. She can make even my worst moods and nightmares go away just by smiling at me.

Mum handed me a letter, and tossed Sirius one as well. He caught it and winked at her, his mouth to full to reply. She smiled and looked at me searchingly.

"James?"

I shook my head and opened the letter from Hogwarts. In it was my train ticket, my list of books, my list of ingredients for potion, and... a badge.

As I stared at the badge, turning it over in my fingers, Sirius sighed as he flipped through his own papers. "Blah, I don't want to go back."

"Yes, you do," I said, still staring at the badge. "You say the same thing every year, and every time we get there you look like it's Christmas."

Sirius chuckled. "Well, I do get to see Minnie McG. again!" he said.

"And Remus and Peter," added my mother.

Sirius nodded and said, musingly, "Speaking of Remus, hopefully his Head Boy duties won't prevent him from... helping... me with my schoolwork."

I looked up and snorted. "Helping? Doing, you mean. Poor guy, falling in with a git like you."

Sirius cackled. "That's what I am, all right!" Suddenly he noticed what was in my hand. "Uh... Prongsy, what's that?"

I smiled and turned it so he could see the H intertwined with scarlet and gold. A Head Boy's badge.

My mother laughed and hugged me, and Sirius gasped and said, "Congratulations, mate!" before dissolving into laughter.

I watched him for a while before snapping, "What's so funny?"

He gasped for breath, looking up at me, his chest heaving. Finally he said, panting, pointing at the badge, "Lily... will be... furious."

I slowly smiled, then chuckled, and then began to laugh uproariously with Sirius. This year, I thought, should be a lot of fun.