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A/N: Hey guys! This idea just came into my head and I had to put it up. Tell me how you like this first chapter! The next chapter will be up within two weeks, one week if I get lots of reviews! Lol.

Our Tower

Chapter 1 A Pleasant Reunion

Lily Evans stepped onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters ready for the year at Hogwarts that awaited her. Scanning the platform for any sign of her friends, Lily continued to drag her trunk towards the scarlet train to find a compartment.

At the same time, James Potter found his way into the usual Marauders' compartment at the end of the train. Opening the door, he grinned as he saw his best mates sitting in the compartment already.

"Hey, mates." he greeted, hefting his trunk onto one of the overhead shelves and then placing the safety railing up.

Sirius grinned from where he sat. "Missed you the last couple of days, Prongs. Wish you could have been there." Sirius said. He had spent the last week at Remus' house instead of at the Potters'. James would have stayed, but his mother needed his help with his little sister, Julia, who had come down with a really bad fever. James and his ten year old sister were very close even though they were eight years apart, so James immediately went back home with a few apologies to his best mates.

"Yeah, how's Jules by the way?" Remus asked, looking up from his book. Remus had a lean, almost too lean, figure with sandy blonde hair and metallic baby blue eyes that were easy to get lost in. He stood at an even six foot.

James smiled. "She's getting better, thanks. She sends her regards and orders you guys to owl her once we get to school." His eyes held the amusement evident in his voice. He stood at six foot one with messy black hair that could never be tamed, a lean figure and hazel eyes that showed everything one moment and then nothing the next if he so wished hidden behind round glasses.

Sirius mock saluted. "Aye aye, Captain!" he laughed. Sirius stood the tallest of all the Marauders at six foot two with black shoulder length hair, brown eyes and an equally lean figure as his look-alike. James took a seat across from Sirius and Remus and looked out the window.

"Hey, where's Wormtail?" he asked when he realized the fourth member of their party was still not there. Sirius and Remus shrugged together.

"I don't know." they said simultaneously.

"He'll probably come in right as the train leaves. You know how he is. He never gets on the train until the last minute anyways." Sirius said nonchalantly. Remus nodded in agreement as he looked out the window. James just grinned.

"Oh, hey. There's Lily." Remus said, spotting the redhead on the platform trying to drag her trunk along with her towards the train. "I'm going to go see her." Remus said, putting his book down and getting out of the compartment. Sirius and James looked at each other. They never could figure out how Remus could be friends with her. All she did was study and she was a stickler for the rules. She never broke them and was even one of Professor Slughorn's favorites. But they often heard from the Huffelpuffs that she was good in bed. That didn't seem like Lily but it wasn't like they knew her anyways, so what else were they supposed to believe? She was a hypocrite.

But they didn't really know her so could they really judge her?

"LILY!" Lily heard a somewhat high pitched voice call out her name. Turning around, her questioning face turned into an all out grin as she saw a slim girl with dirty blonde hair racing toward her. Her emerald green eyes sparkled as she saw an two more of her friends coming off the train. She laughed when Amy hugged her tightly.

"AMY! It's so good to see you!" Lily said, hugging her best friend back just as tightly. Once the two girls had let go, Lily found herself in Remus' strong embrace. "REMUS!" she giggled, wrapping her arms around him. Standing on her tip toes, she whispered in his ear. "Did you gather enough courage over the summer to ask Amy out yet?"

Pulling away, she saw Remus blushing red. Shaking his head, he pinched her nose. "No, I didn't and keep it down. She could hear you!" Lily grinned and swatted his hand away. Last year, Lily had discovered Remus' huge crush on Amy. She hadn't told Amy about it, as much as she wanted to. She also knew that Amy had mutual feelings towards Remus, but was too chicken to admit it.

"Honestly, where's their Gryffindor courage?" she muttered. Remus looked down at her five foot four stature as he hefted her trunk.

"I'm sorry, did you say something, Lil?" Lily grinned and shook her head.

"Nope, nothing." she said. Beside Lily and Remus, Amy and Mimi were catching up with everything that happened over the summer. Turning to Mimi, Lily hugged her tightly.

"I missed you so much, Mimi!" Lily said.

Mimi was the tallest of the bunch, standing at five foot nine with brown hair that hung to her shoulders, rare teal eyes and a figure that many of the guys lusted after. She enjoyed many things and liked to take life as it came to her. Mimi Paulini was known to take chances and often had to rely on Lily and Amy to help her get out of trouble. She was intelligent but didn't spend her time studying. Mimi often spoke her mind without thinking of the consequences first which often led to arguments with Amy and Lily. She was a full blooded seventeen year old witch with two older brothers, Mike, who was 19, and Mark, who was 23. Both of them were married with solid jobs as admirable aurors. Mark's wife was expecting a child, who would be born around Christmas. The entire family was excited and Mimi's parents were looking forward to becoming grandparents. Mark was terrified of fatherhood looming so close around the corner, but anyone could tell he was happier than he had ever been.

Amy Roberts stood at five foot four like Lily and had amazing turquoise eyes. She was the shyest of the group, but was certainly no outcast. She was half blooded with a muggle father and an older brother, Joe, who was 21, and was getting married in the spring. Amy was also the new Seventh year Gryffindor Prefect. She also had a younger brother, Ian, entering his fifth year at Hogwarts as a Prefect for Gryffindor. Amy often played Quidditch in their backyard with her brothers and mother, and was rather good, but never went out for the team because she felt it would take away the joy of playing the game if you had to train every night and so on and so forth.

Lily was entering her Seventh year at Hogwarts as Head Girl. She was very pleased that she had gotten this because she had been striving for this position since first year. She was sick and tired of the Slytherins acting as though she was inferior to them, and now she could prove that she wasn't. Lily was the muggleborn of the group with an older sister, Petunia, who she never got along with anymore. Lily loved Quidditch and was an outstanding chaser, but she never went out for the team because she didn't like the idea of being on display for everyone to see her make a fool of herself. Mimi and Amy always told her that she is too hard on herself and doesn't give herself enough credit, but she never listened to them. Aside from being Head Girl, Lily was very stubborn. She was always open to new ideas, but rarely could you talk her out of something once she set her mind to it. Another thing that only her closest friends, aka Amy and Mimi, knew about was that Lily was an avid lyricist and singer, and a very good one at that.

The three girls looked like pushovers, but they certainly weren't. If you messed with one of them, you messed with all of them and dealing with one of them was hard enough. They all were exceptionally accomplished witches.

"C'mon, girls. You can share our compartment if you'd like." Remus said as he held Lily's trunk. The three girls looked at Remus incredulously. Remus sweat dropped.

"You're kidding, right, Remus?" Mimi asked him. Remus laughed nervously. "Share a compartment with the Marauders?"

"Get real, Remus. We love you," Amy blushed furiously when she realized what she just said and looked down so her wouldn't be able to see. "But sharing a compartment with the other Marauders is just asking for trouble."

Lily nodded. "Yes, trouble that we'd rather avoid. Besides, Amy and I have to get to the Prefects' Compartment for the meeting. I made Head Girl." Lily added proudly. Remus smiled and nodded.

"Congrats, Lil. I knew you would." he said. 'This is going to be interesting. I wonder if she knows James is the Head Boy.' Remus thought to himself. "Well, I made Prefect again this year, so if you want, you can store your trunks in our compartment and then we can head over to the meeting." Remus gave a side glance at Amy which only Lily noticed.

Mimi sighed. "Oh all right." she said, looking at Lily and Amy for approval as well. "I guess I can deal with Potter, Black and Pettigrew," she said the last name with more contempt than she did the other names, "for a while whilst you guys are at the meeting." Remus grinned here as they walked onto the train just as its horn blew loud and clear.

"Well, you see, Mimi-" Lily cut him off.

"Remus, did you say you made Prefect!" she blinked at him with her jaw dropped. He nodded. "Damn, I was so sure it was going to be you. Do you know who it is?" she asked quickly before Remus could say anything. He laughed.

"Well, I was getting to that. See, the Head Boy is James."

"James who?" Lily asked not really paying attention to the fact that the James in question was on the other side of the door they were standing next to. Amy slid the door open.

Remus' grin shined from ear to ear. "James Potter."

"NO way!" All three girls whispered. James grinned when he heard his name.

"Yes, that's right, ladies. You get to spend the fabulous ride up to Hogwarts with me, the one, the only, James Potter." he said arrogantly. Sirius just smirked.

"Get real, Potter. They're here to spend the ride up to Hogwarts with me." he winked at them. "Isn't that right?" The three of them just rolled their eyes. Remus stepped into the compartment and stowed Lily's trunk for her. Then, bending down again, he took Amy's trunk from her with a smile and stowed it for her as well.

"Thanks, Remus." she said.

"No problem, Amy." He took a seat next to James and Sirius as Lily, Mimi and Amy situated themselves across from them.

"So, Potter. You're head boy?" Lily asked somewhat curtly. He nodded.

"Yeah. Got a problem with that, Evans?" he asked in the same tone. She shook her head.

"As long as you do the work you're expected to do, no I don't." she said honestly.

"What makes you think I won't?" James asked her. Lily gave a shallow laugh.

"Your reputation for one thing." she said.

"Well, you could be surprised." he retorted. "And you know your reputation isn't squeaky clean either." he said.

He'd hit the mark. Everyone in the room could see it on Lily's face, but Lily, Mimi, Amy, and Remus knew that the reputation was more of a rumor, and a very false rumor at that. Lily had never even dated any Hufflepuff guys. She'd always declined. They'd spread that rumor last year when she declined Amos Diggory's offer to go to the graduation ball with him.

"That was below the belt, James." Remus growled under his breath.

"Potter, we've got nothing more to say to you. If you want to act like a seven year old it's beyond us and we could care less about you. Just watch your back. We know really good neutering charms, and Lily here, is the best at Charms." James, Sirius and even Remus paled when Mimi spoke. Getting up, the three of them left the compartment to head to the Prefects' compartment. Mimi left for the bathroom.

"Lil, don't pay any attention to that asshole. He doesn't know what he's talking about." Amy said. Lily laughed with contempt.

"Actually, if we're talking about sex, I'm sure he does. He's fucked half the girls in the school hasn't he?" Lily knew this for a fact. James and Sirius weren't discreet about their midnight rendezvous with girls. They would tell anyone who was willing to listen, just not the graphic details. Not even they were that daft. And with Bertha Jorkins at the school, it spread like wildfires.

"See you later, girls. I'll plan something to get back at Potter. Maybe I can add Black into the mix just because I don't like him?" she asked with question on her face. Lily and Amy laughed.

"We'll see what you come up with first." Lily said. After waving bye to Mimi, Amy and Lily proceeded to the Prefects' Compartment for the meeting.

Upon arrival, they saw that all they were waiting for were the Slytherin Prefects, Remus and James. Amy saw her brother, Ian, conversing with the other fifth years. Walking over to him, she smiled.

"Hey, Ian. How's it going?" her younger brother looked up at her with his classic blue eyes. He grinned when he saw her.

"Hey, Ames. About time you got here." He got up, standing at a smacking five foot nine, a full five inches taller than his older sister and hugged her to him. The two of them were rather close. Ian had spent the last two weeks of the summer with his friends at his best mates house in northern England. Amy laughed and hugged her brother to her.

"We were a bit detained. We had to deal with Potter and Black." she said as they pulled away. Ian looked over Amy's shoulder to see Lily smiling at him.

"Hey, Lil." He went over and wrapped his arms around her as well.

"Hey, Ian. You've sure gotten taller." she laughed. Height had always been a huge joke between them. In his first year, Ian had only been two inches shorter than Lily. The next year he had been an inch taller than her and started to pay her back for the teasing she had inflicted upon him. All in good fun though. He laughed as well.

"Yeah, and you're just as short as ever." Lily made a face.

"Well aren't we arrogant." she joked.

"Yes, we are." Ian told her. Amy tapped her foot impatiently with a smile on her face.

"I'm waiting for an invite to sit down, Ian." Ian rolled his eyes and then laughed, kneeling.

"Oh great ones," he began, head bent with a hand held out to each of them, "please, have a seat." the girls giggled. They had taught Ian this little 'skit' during their Christmas vacation second year and made him do it every time they needed to sit for dinner. Over the years, it became tradition. Placing a hand in the one he held out to them, he led them to a seat near his friends.

"Thanks, Ian." they giggled. Some of the fifth year girls giggled.

"He's so sweet."

"Did you see that?"

"That was so cute!" Ian blushed as he realized that some of his friends had been watching.

"The fun has arrived!" James and Remus entered the compartment.

"Potter, shut your trap." Lily snapped at him.

"I don't have to listen to you, Evans. You're just a hypocrite." he snapped back.

Lily hated hypocrisy and knew she was anything but, but if James insisted on believing the rumors, then so be it. "Let's get this over with, Potter." she said as the Slytherins came in.

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Hey everyone! This is the first story I've posted online, so tell me what you think! It's going to be a long one that is for sure and I'll probably post twice a month, or more if I get lots of reviews. Flames are allowed, but I really don't like them. Constructive criticism welcome and appreciated! And PRAISE is adored! I Love You All!

Lunar Artemis