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Lily POV

It was hard to explain to James's mum why the four dissapeared. Very hard. She was convenced that they had been taken by You-Know-Who or something. 6th year rolled around, and once again she slaughtered us with questions of why they weren't returning to school. I think James said something about they had to leave with their parents to travel the world or something. That wasn't true of course.

Sighing, I ran my hand through my hair, a habit I had picked up from James. School had already started, the summer had passed quickly after they'd left. Almost everyone noticed that they were gone, and poor Gwenog was heartbroken that Harry wouldn't be there to see her play Quidditch. It had killed me when she came to our table to ask, her long brown hair tied with a bow to the right side of her face. Her eyes had been questioning at first, but it became despression when she found they wouldn't even be coming. The Prewetts were upset too. Fabian and Gideon had become fond of Ginny apparently. The Weasleys were upset as well. Sirius found this funny, because that was the family Ginny and Ron came from.

I wasn't the only one that noticed Regulas pulling Sirius aside to talk the second day of school. He wouldn't tell us what it was about, but he had come back happier and more excited. Yay. Sirius more excited. Sense the sarcasm.

Snape had tried to approach me several times in the corridors, but I just ducked into any secret passagway that was near. I'd studied the Marauder's Map more then once, so I knew where my escape was if I needed it.

"Incoming." Dorcas muttered, and Gracie snatched my wrist, pulling me through a door pretending to be a wall. "Have you seen Lily?" A desperate voice asked Dorcas, a voice that I knew to be Snape's. "No sorry, I haven't." Dorcas's crisp, cool voice responded, and I could almost see the glare she was fixing on him. "A-Are you sure? Cause I thought I'd just seen her here?" He'd gotten bolder when he relized I was hiding from him. He knew that my friends wouldn't hesitate to curse him, so he was still a bit wary."She isn't here, now go away." D.D snapped heatedly.

And this is when she puts her hand on her hip and flips her hair over her shoulder. I thought, grinning slightly. I could feel Gracie laughing silently beside me, because she found the whole thing terribly funny. "Just tell me where she is Meadows!" he growled. "I know she's around here somewhere!" There was a slapping sound, then Doras's heels clicking away. Snape sighed, and walked away as well, blending back into the hustle of the corridor. Gracie stepped out first, then stuck her arm back through and beckond me to come out. "Coast clear!" She called. I stepped out after her. "Now get to whatever class you have. Artrithmacy? I don't know. But have fun!" Giving me a fleeting hug, she dashed off into the other direction. Which was where the kitchens were. Rolling my eyes, I started down the corridor, just to be pushed into another secret passageway by someone.

"I just want to ask you a question." Looking up into the pale nervous face of Snape, I snarled slightly and struggled against his grip. "Let go of me." I grumbled. He tightened his grip, and I spat at him. "I SAID let go of me!"

"Lils please I just-"

"Only my friends can call me Lils." I growled, wrenching free of his suddenly slack hands. Pushing past him, I sighed when he grabbed my arm again and flipped me around. "I SAID to let go of me." His pained face stared down at me, and he took a breath nervously. "Listen Lily, I'm not asking for you to be my friend, I'm not even asking for you to forgive me, I'm just asking for you to hear me out."

"What if I say no?" I countered angrily, not really caring about the hurt flashing across his face. "Then I'm telling you anyway. Listen to me Lily, The Dark Lord is after you. He doesn't care that you're muggleborn he wants you to join him." Agony riped through me. "So you DID join him." I spat. "Get away from me you-you DEATH EATER!" Spinning around I ran, and this time he let me.

o.O.o

"Ms. Evans you're late." Professor Vector droned. "Please take a seat. 5 points from Gryffindor." For once, I was glad that I was one of his favorite students. If anyone else had been late he would have given them detention. Handing me a sheet of paper with questions on it, I sat next to Shelia, a Ravenclaw girl with shoulder-length black hair and bright blue eyes. She flashed me a fleeting grin befor returning to her work. She was already half done with the paper. Skimming the page, I sighed when I discovered there was over 30 questions.

"Anyone not finished with the sheet will be handing it in next class." Vector called over the ringing of the bell. Stuffing it in my bag, I raced out of the classroom to find James. He was lounging by the water with Sirius and Remus. Tonks hovered next to Remus, her bright hair an instant giveaway. She leaned over and hugged him quickly before hustling away to her next class. She high-fived me as she darted past, her cheeks glowing red. Laughing slightly at the younger girls antics, I skipped over to the boys, throwing myself into James's arms. "Hello!" I trilled. He laughed and hugged me tightly. "Hey Lils."

"LILY!" Snape was running towards me, a look of desperation written across his face. Spinning around, I narrowed my eyes and glared at him, hands on my hips. "Go away Snape. I know you're a death eater, I don't want to talk to you anymore. Actually, I haven't wanted to talk to you for a while, so GET AWAY!" Sirius, Remus, and James all stood behind me like a wall, and I knew they were glaring at him with all their might. "Please?" His voice was barely a whisper, and his hair hung around his face, casting a shadow over the pale skin. Steeling myself, I sneered at him and turned away, but inside I felt like something had broken. I felt so guilty. A hand reached out and grabbed my arm. "Lily?"

My mistake was looking back. "Fine." I agreed stiffly. James gave me a look of disbelief, and Sirius made a noise between a snarl and a snort. Remus just gazed at me, a look of pity in his eyes. Jerking my arm away from Snape's hand, I followed him around the castle, to "our" tree as we'd nicknamed it. Not many people came around to this part of the castle, so no one was likely to be there.

Taking a deep breathe, Snape turned around to face me. "No, I'm NOT death eater actually. They think I'm too young, I'v just been to the meetings. And I'm NOT going to join! Neither is Regulas! Tell Black that by the way ok? We both decided not to join!" He looked like he was almost in tears at this. "I ruined everything! Everything ok? They said for me to become a death eater I had to use an unforgivable on a muggleborn. I Couldn't do it Lils, so they used one on me! You have any IDEA how painful crucio is?"

I just stared at him. Gulping, I ran my hand through my hair nervously. Instantly, Sev's face transformed. It twisted up in anger and he snarled. "You never used to do that." He growled. Stepping back cautiously, I did it without relizing it, messing up my hair and smoothing it down. Just like James. Severus looked like he was going to implode. "Why are you doing that?" His voice cracked in misery, and he slumped over. "Listen Snape," I said sternly, "I'm not going to be friends with you. I'll be nice to you, but I wont be friends with you. Yet. Stop trying to verbally and physically attack my friends, and yes, the Marauders are my friends, and no they wont attack you unless you attack them. If you stop being an asshat, I might be friends with you again. A slim chance, but I might."

I spun on my heel and marched away, letting my red hair stream out behind me. I knew it was cruel, but I'd found outa long time ago that Sev was in love with me. I was teasing him, I knew, and It was mean, but he deserved it. He really did.

"So how did it go?" Sirius aked, flinging his arm over my shoulder. He had become like a brother to me over the summer, as did Remus. We saw Peter sulking around in the halls sometimes, and once or twice he had tried to approahc us but it didn't work. Gracie and Dorcas had found their way over to us, and Gracie poked her borther in the chest roughly.

"What was that for?" James cried, straitening his glasses quickly. "For filling my trunk with green goo." Gracie snapped, crossing her arms and tapping her shoe. We tried with all of our might to NOT burst out laughing, but Gracie glaring up at James and making him cower like a dog was too funny. She was pretty much half his size. Remus was the first one to break, then Dorcas, then Sirius, then finally I broke. Rolling around on the grass next to D.D, tears streamed down my face when James and Gracie both looked at us, identical expressions of confusion written across their face. Even their glasses were tilted the same way. Many students were staring at us, but I didn't really care. Not one bit. I hadn't laughed this hard in a while, not since Harry had left. Not since my father had died. Not since I'd been kicked out of my own house. It felt good to laugh.

o.O.o

Exams were almost upon us, and I had forced James, Sirius, and Remus to study. They didn't want to, they claimed they knew it all, but I didn't care. That was until Tonks came trotting into our common room like she was a Gryffindor. "Tonks, no offense, but what the heck are you doing in here?" Sirius questioned, staring at his cousin in scrutiny. "Dumbledore sent me. He said to tell you he likes Sherbert Lemons." She trilled, bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet, her long, bright pink hair tied in a ponytail. We all stood up at once, our books falling to the floor. "Thanks Tonks!" I grinned, hugging her tightly. As I walked quickly out the door, I heard Remus whisper lowly, "See ya later Nymphie." I could almost see her blush, and I grinned again. Only Remus could get away with calling her Nymphie.

We halted outside the headmaster's door. "Sherbert Lemon." I announced, giggling when the statue winked at me and began to turn. All five of us stepped onto the rotating staircase, and Gracie knocked on the door impatiantly. "Come in." A kind voice answered, and we burst into the room.

"Please, take a seat." Dumbledore motioned to the chairs around the edge of the room. Perching myself on the chair in anticipation, I drummed my fingers on my thigh. Sirius was whistling, of all things, and James was running his hand through his hair. Remus and Gracie were relativly calm, or from what I could see they were relativly calm. "I've found one of the horcruxes." Dumbledore announced. "It was in the Riddle House. It's a ring. I also have an idea of where the locket is." Exchanging an excited look with James, I bounced up and down. "Really sir? That's great!" Dumbledore smiled gently at us and pulled the ring out of his pocket, as he did that, Gracie sucked in her breath loudly. We all gave her a quizzical look. "Um sir?" She asked in a small voice, "What happened to your hand?"

I too gasped in shock when Dumbledore lifted his hand from under his desk. It was…. Blackened and shrivled and it just looked….. dead. Lifeless. "Sir!" Sirius screeched, his voice several octaves higher then usual, "You're hand is kinda um… dead." Remus slapped him on the arm, but horror was etched over his features as well. Dumbledore chuckled softly. "This will make my life end slightly quicker then normal," he claimed calmly, "But I have Professor Slughorn brewing me a potion that will prolong what will inevitably happen." His twinkling blue eyes dimmed slightly, but when he blinked again it was back in full force. "Which is why we need to find the other horcruxes before Voldemort makes any more."

"H-Harry said that their were probably only 3 or 4 right now, and that they were probably the Ring, the Locket, the Diadem, and the Cup." Cursing myself for my shaky voice, I tried not to look too relieved when Dumbledore removed his hand from the top of his desk. Dumbledore nodded, looking thoughtful. "And I've been updated each week from Mr. Black and Mr. Snape about these meetings my students have been having…" our Headmaster mused. "Mr. Black told me that last week Voldemort took his house elf to a cave to help him with something." Pain exploded in my chest, and I could see Sirius fighting back a shout. "Are they Death Eaters sir?" I asked, trying to keep my voice neteral, with diffculty. I saw Gracie shoot me a concerned look out of the corner of my eye, but I ignored her. "They had to Miss Evans." Dumbledore told me quietly. Clenching my jaw, I shook my head. I'd met Regulas, he wasn't even that bad, and Severus….

"Why?" I choked out. James wrapped his arm around my shoulder and I leaned into him, incredibly glad he was there. Peering at me over his half-moon specticales, Dumbledore smiled sadly. "If they hadn't, the others would have killed them. And they are spys. Both are extremely good at blocking their mind from Voldermort, and I have faith in them."

Somehow that just wasn't good enough. This man was putting two innocent young men in danger! Willing myself not to explode, (I'd gotten good at that), I breathed deeply and nodded. Keep your cool Tiger-Lily keep your cool. Yet another nickname that my dad used to use. It brought me pain, but it calmed me too. "So what now?" I forced out. "What do we do now?" Accepting my wish to change topic, Dumbledore leaned back. "I have an idea of where the locket is-"

"The lake." James said suddenly. "The locket is at the lake." Sirius slowly nodded his head, before nodding more vigerously. "Yeah yeah that's right! That's what Harry told us!" Dumbledore looked concerned. "Well that was one of the options-"

"That's where it is Headmaster." Remus insisted firmly. "We all know it." Looking like he was at a loss for words since his students ganged up on him, Dumbledore nodded reluctantly. "I suppose so."

"Do you have any idea where the cup or the diadem could be sir?" James asked hopefully. "No Mr. Potter, I don't. I actually think the cup horcrux hasn't even been made yet, so lets focus on destroying the ring, then finding the diadem and the locket. I hope you five have a good exam." Understading that we were dissmissed, I stood up and pulled James up as well. "Thank you headmaster. Please tell us when you need us next."

Romping down the stairs, we slowed when we came to a halt outside the common room. "I don't get it." I muttered. "How do we get rid of the horcrux?" Remus's face lit up, and he ran his hand through his hair. "Wait, I think- I mean that's what he said- I wonder if that's- oh I'm sure it is…." Darting up to their dorm, he left us standing in the middle of the common room. "Well thanks for explaining things!" Sirius bellowed up at him.