Falling

Chapter 1: Chance

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, or anything close to it.

She seems to fall from the sky. Lands in the middle of a land between times. She finds herself grasping the edges of an ancient stone platform. The carvings glow as she traces them with her fingers. There is an imprint of a hand just her size in the center. She looks at it curiously, and pushes her hand upon it. Perfect fit. She keeps pushing and it clicks; she stumbles. The two halves of the platform separate and a blinding light escapes from the cracks and she covers her eyes with her arms. Mistake...she falls through the center. Into the light, but she doesn't hit the ground. Just falls...A figure falls after her, as he catches up to her, she recognizes him. "James?" She calls quietly, reaching her hand out for him. He reaches for her hand. Just as they are about to touch, the light ceases. Darkness.

"James!" She yells, and it startles her. She sits up quickly and scans the room, her vibrant red hair sticking to her paled forehead. "Just a dream" she mumbled to herself.

She stands up and crosses her dorm room, towards her bathroom to splash some water on her face. But just as she reaches her hand for the door, the handle turns. She takes a step back, unsure. The door opens, and who else should step through but the one and only, James Potter?

"Oh, it's only you" she said quietly to herself, relieved. I need to get more sleep. She thought to herself. "What are you doing here?" She asked more audibly.

"What do you mean what am I doing here? You were screaming my name, and I thought maybe you were in trouble or something" He replied, the volume of his voice decreasing with each word.

"Well, I-I'm fine." She shivered. "Just a bad dream is all" She wrapped her arms around herself. It was quite cold in the dormitory, and she was only wearing a tank top and shorts. She at this moment noticed that James was only wearing his boxers, and blushed. Wow, it got hot in here all of a sudden. She thought to herself. At this same moment, James must have noticed the uncomfortableness of the situation, as he too felt the heat rising in his cheeks and seemed to find her scarlet walls very interesting.

"Okay, well...I'm, er, just...bye" He said quickly and as he turned around she found herself watching him leave. She shook any bad thoughts out of her head and walked into the bathroom over to her sink.

She looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her face was pale and so contrasted with the wetness of her auburn hair. The brightness in her emerald eyes was gone and left her with a very dull, glazed look. She let out a shaky breath and steadied herself on the counter. The dream had seemed so real, and consequently took a lot of energy from her. She quickly washed her face then headed back to her bedroom. Glancing out the window, she noticed the sun was just beginning to rise. If I go back to sleep now, I'll never wake up in time for classes. So she put her fluffy white robe on and grabbed one of her favourite books, and headed downstairs to the common room.

As head girl, she had her own dormitory and shared a common room and bathroom with the head boy. She was completely shocked at the when she found out who he was a few weeks ago.

Flashback

She waved goodbye to her parents and quickly ran through the border between platforms 9 and 10. Once through, she made sure to take a good look at the train and station, for it would be her last year at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She loaded her trunk on the train and met up with her friends near the doors of the train.

There was Nadia Turner, who had very light blonde hair and blue green eyes. She was tall and thin, and had the body of a model. Nadia was a Half-blood. She was extremely smart, but didn't have much common sense, and was also quite clumsy. Isis (pronounced Ice-iss) Rah had dark brown hair that was almost black, and equally dark eyes, with a touch of gold in them. She was a Pureblood, and her ancestors could be traced back all the way to ancient Egyptian times. She was a bit quieter, and was Lily's study partner. Isis was very insightful and had a knack for divination due to the seer blood in her. Lily ran up to them and greeted them each with a huge hug.

"I missed you, too, Lily" Nadia managed to choke out as Lily hugged her tight.

Lily then gave Isis a great big bear hug while jumping around happily. "Your smothering me" came the muted voice of Isis from beneath Lily's arms.

"Sorry, guys I was just really excited to see you." She said sheepishly.

"Aw, it's okay, Lil. We understand." Nadia said as they stepped aboard the train. "Now, lets find us an empty compartment to catch up in."

They found a compartment near the middle of the train, and set their stuff down in it. "Oh, hey guys, I forgot to tell you ... I got Head Girl!"she said excitedly.

"Oh, Lily that's wonderful" Nadia said as she pulled Lily and Isis into a group hug.

"Congratulations! We knew you'd make it!" Isis said as they all pulled back.

"Thanks! I just have to go over to the heads compartment for a little so I can meet with the Head Boy and then we'll have a short meeting with the prefects, patrol the train a bit, and I'll come back and chat with you, okay?"

"Alright, see you later, then!" They called after her as she made her way to the front of the train where the heads compartment was located.

She stepped into the compartment, and found it was empty, so she decided to wait for the Head Boy to arrive. A few moments later, A tall, lanky boy stumbled into the compartment. It startled Lily, and she looked up to meet eyes with the Head Boy. Her Bright Green eyes gazed into his warm Hazel eyes, and she almost had a heart attack. No, it's not...He can't be"Potter?" she asked in a strangled voice. She cleared her voice, "Incase you haven't noticed, this is the Heads Compartment" When he didn't seem phased by this comment, she decided to clarify. "For the Head Girl and Boy"

"I know" He said simply, and sat down next to her.

Her jaw went slack, and she stared unbelievingly at him. He is...James Potter is Head Boy! How? She asked herself. He extended his hand toward her. "James Potter, Head Boy." He said, "And you are...?"

She almost giggled at this, but stopped short. Did I just almost giggle at James Potter? She looked down at his still extended hand, and rolled her eyes. "Lily Evans, Head Girl" She said, deciding to play along with his little game.

"Lily, that's a beautiful name; for a beautiful girl." He said charmingly, and she found herself blushing at this comment. She released his hand and glared at him.

"Lily, please. Can we just...start over? Like we've never met before?" He asked pleadingly, "Give a guy a chance, yeah?"

She considered for a moment. Well, if im going to have to work with him for the rest of the year, and share a common room with him, then maybe I should give him a chance to prove himself. "Well...I don't know. I suppose I'll try to tolerate you, but I can't promise anything. You have to prove to me that your not a conceited git, or it goes back to how it always was."

"Cross my hear and hope to die. Anything for you, Lily" He smiled charmingly at her.

"Well, come on, we have to go talk with the prefects. James" He smiled wider and rose to the door. He opened it for her.

"Ladies first" He motioned toward the now empty hallway. She rolled her eyes and brushed past him, walking quickly to the prefects compartment. James let his eyes rest on her bum for a minute before following after her.

Lily and James proceeded to give the prefects pointers on how to be a good prefect, telling them the consequences for abusing their position, and making up a quick schedule for patrolling duties on the train ride to Hogwarts. James explained to them that they could not hand out detentions, and could only take off up to 5 house points off per offense per person, and could not reward house points. They handed the separate house passwords to each of their respecting prefects, and told them how to change the password if necessary. And, lastly, they explained where the weekly meetings were held, and told them the date of the first meeting. Lily and James had to wait until everyone left the compartment before they could start patrolling. Lily decided to take the front of the train to the middle and James would take the middle to the back.

After patrolling the train, Lily headed back to her friends' compartment. They talked about how their summers went.

End Flashback

"Lily?"

She groaned.

"Lily...you have to wake up...classes are starting in 15 minutes"

She shot straight up, pages from her book plastered to her forehead. She peeled them off and glared at James as he laughed at her. She threw her book straight at him and he caught it before it even hit him. She just glared even harder as she stormed off to her room.

Ten minutes later she found herself in the Great Hall scarfing down a quick breakfast before rushing off to Transfiguration.