Author's Note: So I decided this would be a good idea to get my writing mind thinking again after all this stress from school. I think it's rather humorous, but I get humored super easily... Anyways, basically,

WHAT THIS IS...

is a series of chapters of every year on the train either to or from Hogwarts between the years until they graduate. They, meaning Lily and the Marauders. It's a James/Lily fic, and although the first few chapters hold the same theme, it might not continue that way. I haven't really decided yet...

Please don't hate me if I don't finish. I really hope I don't abandon this one, especially because it's not a full-length story. I won't sympathize for myself on this one if I abandon it so keep those reviews coming! (:

Disclaimer: I don't own whatever J.K. does. Well, we might by coincidence. Like an eye liner or something. Anyway...

Eleven year-old Lily Evans stood proudly on platform nine and three-quarters, clutching her belongings in one hand, and bag with a small goldfish in the other. She smiled widely as she looked around at the very few families present for she had come nearly twenty minutes early; she wanted to start fresh and new. Lily saw one boy burst in to tears as he chased a leaping frog around the platform yelling, "TOADSIE, STAY STILL!"

She looked down adoringly at her goldfish, glad that Guppy was in no way at harm. She turned around and trotted slowly towards the train.

"I knew this had to be real," she said quietly to herself.

"JAMSIE!"

James cringed as he heard a little shriek followed the god-awful nickname only his mother was supposed to use. Turning around he saw a flash of bouncy, blond curls before he was engulfed in a massive bear hug.

"JAMSIE I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN AN ETERNITY!" she squealed, turning her giant green eyes on him. He raised one side of his mouth awkwardly.

"Erm, Juilanne, I saw you yesterday."

"Oh," she said absent-mindedly picking some invisible threads hanging off James' shirt, "it seemed longer."

James nodded slowly, and stood on his tip-toes, cranking his neck for another boy his age. Being a pureblood and the richest of the richest granted James the knowledge of other rich pureblood families, though none he liked very much. That is, until he spotted a familiar face and his frown turned into a grin.

The face turned to James and smiled widely. The other boy opened his mouth and yelled out a horrible, banshee-sounding scream. James returned the favor gladly. A few people stopped to stare at the pair as the streaked across the platform, one hand flying wildly in the air.

"SIRIUS!" James bellowed, thumping his hand against his raised hand enthusiastically.

"JAMES!" the other black-haired boy yelled, grabbing James hand and pulling him forward into a hug. Immediately they both backed up.

James beamed at Sirius. "Where've you been?" he asked shoving Sirius on the shoulder.

Rubbing his shoulder with a smile on his face, Sirius shrugged.

"At home of course."

James was quiet for a minute before glaring at him, "What?"

Sirius laughed in his face, then turned around and started to strut strangely next to James.

In a low voice he asked, "So have you seen Remus?"

"Nope," James answered, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Though I wouldn't have, would I?"

"More you than I," Sirius said, his voice growing louder. "OI! PETER!"

A small, chubby boy with sandy blond hair jumped, and turned around. Relief immediately flooded his face as he dropped his belongings and widening his arms.

"Sirius! James!" the boy named Peter said, his voice very high pitched.

James winced, but Sirius grinned and threw an arm over Peter. Peter looked up into James' face and raised his eyebrows as James' face suddenly paled. James froze and turned back to the boys quickly.

"JAMSIE!"

Sirius' smile disappeared quickly as he nudged James in the side.

"Run for it."

James didn't need a second telling. He shot off towards the train, looking over his shoulder continually. Julianne was not in sight, but he could never be sure. Whenever James believed he had lost her, she'd pop up, her green eyes swimming with excitement.

Suddenly, he had tripped over a lost pet toad, and he was soaring in the air. One second his face read a pleasant surprise look, the next he was screaming, "INCOMING!" to a red head who turned around with absolute shock written on her face.

"AHHHH!" she screamed as he toppled onto her. Flattened against the ground, she shoved him off her with both hands, and held her elbow.

"What is wrong with you?" she yelled, narrowing her eyes at him.

James looked up and screamed, startled at seeing giant green orbs like Julianne's only (if possible) larger and greener. The girl jumped at his scream, and they both scrambled backwards.

Suddenly Lily realized that, while nursing the scratch on her elbow, that her hands were vacant.

"GUPPY!" she cried, scrambling to the poor flapping fish hurriedly. LIly scooped the fish in her hands, falling to her knees. She turned her head towards James who was mouthing wordlessly, staring at her fish.

"WELL? Are you happy now?" Lily yelled at him, tears welling up in her eyes. "GUPPY'S DYING AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE WHERE YOU'RE GOING!"

James frowned at her. "That's not what happened! I tripped!" Somehow, Lily didn't find this an adequate excuse for falling on her.

She sniffled, and looked down at her fish helplessly. She looked around. "HE NEEDS WATER!"

Sirius ran over to them, panting. He looked at Lily and at the fish.

"Oh," he said softly. Sirius pulled out his wand and muttered a spell, and a droplet of water fell onto the wriggling fish.

He frowned and tried again. A trickle of water fell onto the fish. "It used to work whenever I set water on my mum. Never liked that joke, she did…"

Lily sighed. "Guppy…" she said miserably.

"I've got it!" James said suddenly. He crawled over to Lily and took the fish from her unabashedly. James looked down at it for a second, and then nodded decidedly. A grumbling sound rose from the back of his throat, and he spit a big wad of saliva on the fish.

Lily screamed. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GUPPY?" she bellowed, grabbing his arm as he screwed up his face for another spit. James looked up.

"What?" he asked genuinely confused.

"You are spitting on Guppy," she stated angrily.

"He's a fish, he needs water if he wants to live!" he replied indignantly.

Lily looked at him questioningly as if an internal battle was taking place in her body. She scratched her head and looked down at Guppy with sympathetic eyes. Finally, she nodded.

"If it'll help Guppy," Lily said bravely, sniffing.

James nodded, and spit on him again. Sirius soon joined him, and Peter, who had just arrived, watched with mild interest. Lily looked at Guppy who was covered in goop. Her lip started to tremble as Sirius and James continued to spray the fish with saliva.

Lily couldn't bear it anymore. "Stop, stop, STOP! This isn't working!" she cried, grabbing her fish from James outstretched hands. She wiped spit off the fish and placed the fish on the ground, biting her lip.

Suddenly, Peter had an idea. "We need to give him CPR!"

Sirius, James, and Lily stared at him as he moved forward, and looked at the fish. "Oh," he said crestfallen. "He's not moving anymore."

"WHAT?" Lily screeched, shoving Peter aside and looking down at the fish. "Guppy? Guppy? GUPPY BABY, MUMMY'S HERE FOR YOU!"

She gathered the fish in her arms and cradled it in both hands as she boarded the train, the boys following close behind.

A light brown-haired boy strode over to the four, grinning, and his hands in his robe pockets.

"I've got a compartment, you three. And you, girl, if you're looking," he said kindly to Lily. She turned around and the boy let a small scream escape his mouth.

Lily's face was a blotchy, stained with tear streaks, her eyes swimming with sadness. Her hair was now jumbled and knotted, and she was sure her nose was running like a hose.

"Er, are you okay?" He asked testily.

James', Sirius', and Peter's eyes widened and Sirius waved his hands wildly.

She sniffed and said croakily, "They killed Guppy."

"They… what? Who?" Remus said uncertainly, guiding them all to the back of the train

"Guppy. My fish is dead," she mumbled incoherently.

"Of course," Remus said, patting her on the shoulder. "I would be very sad if my foot died."

"Fish," she said, looking him in the eye now.

He squinted at her, not really understanding what she meant by that. He was nudged, however, by James and he walked into the compartment without saying anything. Lily opened the window slightly and said loudly.

"Rest in peace, Guppy, don't ever forget me. And even though you're gone, I am going to keep your fish bowl and the little blue shells at the bottom of it. And your toy chest. And your fish food. And your seaweed. Good-bye, Guppy!" she cried, throwing the fish out the window as four voices behind her said foolishly, "Bye, Guppy…"

Lily sighed and sat down between Peter and Remus, across from James. The three were looking at her interestedly, while Sirius looked out the window, twiddling his thumbs. The only sound occupying the compartment was giant sighs from Lily who seemed too miserable to be crying any longer.

"I'm sorry," James said softly.

Lily looked up. "Yeah," she said lamely, not really wanting to forgive him.

"I didn't mean to make you drop him," he said, leaning forward.

"I know," she replied.

The silence that hung in the air was awkward, but Lily seemed to have not take notice of it. James attempted a cheery look.

"He's in a better place now."

Lily was quiet, then she narrowed her eyes maliciously at James.

"Are you saying I was a bad mum to him?" she asked accusingly.

"What? No, where did you get that idea from?" he replied indignantly.

She stood up and placed her hands on her hips. "Well you said he's in a better place now!"

James rolled his eyes. "That's because before he was laying on the ground."

"Oh, sure," Lily said, nodding sarcastically. "I'm sure that's what you meant!"

"That is what I meant!" he said, standing up as well.

"WELL YOU CAN JUST… GO BE STUPID SOMEWHERE ELSE!"

"Think again!" he yelled, gesturing to the boys surrounding him. "These are my friends. If anybody's going to leave, it'll be you."

Lily stared angrily at him, and then slowly relaxed her face. Her lip trembled a bit as she looked around the compartment, then nodded at James who was still glaring at her, and hoisted her trunk from the rack.

"You're right," she said softly. "I'll… just be going then."

She left quietly, and closed the door behind her. James continued to glare in the same place she had been standing. Sirius tore his eyes from the window, and looked at James. He grabbed James sleeve, and sat him down next to him. James still glared at nothing but Sirius stared at James with a confused look on his face.

James was promptly slapped upside the head.

Lily sat quietly in the boat bringing them across the lake, staring at the lake. She had been doing a good job of ignoring the boys, until he heard somebody hiss quite loudly as if he were shouting, "Little giiiirl! YOU THERE! Giiiiiirl!" she ignored this, assuming it wasn't directed towards her. "PSSTTT! YOU! THE ONE WITH THE HAIR!"

Lily sighed uninterestedly picking at a wood splinter on the side of the boat. "GIRL, ARE YOU LISETENI—" Splash.

Lily whipped her head around and stifled a laugh. The messy haired one had just leaned over the boat too far towards her and landed spectacularly in the water and emerged coughing terribly, his arms flailing.

"I CAN'T SWIM!" he yelped, go under the water again.

There was a series of nervous laughs, and for some reason the gamekeeper leading them didn't seem to notice that a first year was currently drowning. He came up for air and yelled some more, then went back under the dark water. The nervous laughing ceased a bit, and people began to cast worried looks at James.

Lily looked around, and it seemed nobody was going to save him. Lily thought for a moment. She had taken swimming lessons when she was eight, and she could do a perfect back dive... yes she could save him, she decided.

"I'LL SAVE YOU!" Lily cried, jumping into the water. There were outbursts from the other first years and the gamekeeper leading them seemed to be deaf to the event taking place.

Lily swam towards the splashing James, his eyes as wide as saucers, before he fell right back into the water, gurgling as he tried to speak. Lily grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her, their robes weighing them down.

"Take off your robe!" she yelled to him, as he splashed around frantically.

"I can't!" he managed to splutter.

"Stop it!" she yelled angrily as he elbowed her in the eye. "Just calm down!"

He looked at her incredulously as he continued thrashing frantically in the water. "I'm dying and you want me to CALM DOWN?"

"You're not dying!" she snapped at him, pulling him towards the shore. The ground was shallower here and she stood watching James flap around more before she cleared her throat.

He looked downwards and stopped waving his arms. He looked up at her, at complete loss of words to say.

"What did you say your name was again?" she asked impatiently.

"James Potter," he said awkwardly, pulling himself up on the land.

"Well James Potter, that was utterly stupid of you. You're lucky I got you in time."

James opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Sirius, Remus, and Peter ambled towards them, Sirius beaming.

"Bloody hell that was amazing, mate! And, girl," he added hastily at the look of indignation on Lily's face. "Cool!"

James stared at him, and then cracked a grin. Remus raised an eyebrow.

"That was pretty dangerous, you know," he said casually.

"Yeah," James said as if he had just been complimented highly.

"You almost died," Peter said in awe.

Sirius laughed appreciatively, then turned to leave and he said, "Lucky you can swim though, isn't it?" The boys laughed at this as they turned around, hitting congratulatory claps on James' back.

They walked away, leaving a stunned, cold Lily in their wake. She frowned, and followed afterwards. Next time James drowns, I am not saving him, she vowed sullenly.

The second chapter will come shortly. Reviews will make me work faster though... hint hint. ;) Tell me what you think of this idea and how it's written? Constructive criticism is welcome as well as compliments. Destructive criticism isn't allowed though.