Midnight in August

My first fanfic. Don't be mean. This story is about lily and MWPP. It probably will have a plot, even tho I don't like plots, since life doesn't have a plot. I'll try to get romance and humor in there, I don't know, I'm very new at this. By the way, this fanfic will be pretty modern and sorry to all u other ppl, but also very American-ish. I can't help it! :-D

Disclaimer- Kay, I'm new at this too. Anything you recognize is NOT mine. Most likely JK Rowling's. Anything you DON'T recognize is MINE! Please ask before you take anything.

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Ch. 1 The Young and the Hopeless

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And if i make it through today

Will tomorrow be the same

Am i just running in place

And if i stumble and i fall

Should i get up and carry on

Will it all just be the same

Cause im young and im hopeless

im lost and i know this

im going nowhere fast thats what they say

im troublesome i've fallen

im angry at my father

its me against this world and i dont care

i dont care

-The Young and the Hopeless, Good Charlotte

"Lily, I hope you don't plan on spending your whole summer vacation moping around like that. You kids are getting so annoying around here." Claire Evans, Lily's mom, said while carrying a basket of laundry down the stairs.
"Well excuse me for living, mom. You don't have to freak at me!!" Lily snapped at her. Immediately, as her mom's face contorted into a frown, she thought, 'Uh-oh. Shouldn't have said THAT...but it's not MY fault! She's just uptight.' And before she heard anything from her mom, Lily bolted out of the kitchen and up the stairs to her room. As soon as she got there, she spotted her twin brother sitting in front of her laptop. "Ugh! Get out of my room you freak, Mike! Mom told you to get lost from my stuff, WHICH INCLUDES MY ROOM!" Lily burst. "Whatever you say, sis." Mike said with a grin as he got up and exited.

He was at that age where he thought he could get away with murder no matter what. Lily, 13, and unfortunately twins with the kid, was at the age where everything could suck at one point, and then be absolutely wonderful the next. Between Lily and Mike, Claire and Kevin Evans had their hands full. Inconveniently, they had another daughter, Petunia, who was 18, and by some miracle of god, was also at a stage in her life. The "I'm-an-adult-now-I- can't-wait-to-get-the-hell-to-college-I-can-break-curfew-there-are-no-rules- for-me" stage, which didn't come as any relief to Claire or her husband.

Lily, now contently listening to music on her headphones, was also gazing about her room. It was a shocking thing to wake up to, but Lily loved it. It was square, big, had several windows on the west side of it, and a bathroom and walk in closet on the south side. The north side had nothing but a storage closet and her bed, and the east was all but blank. There was her TV and the numerous posters of bands that were plastered across all four walls. Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park, Switchfoot, AFI, Story of the Year, Something Corporate, Guster, Blink 182 were a few of them.

The walls, though covered by the magazine pictures, had vibrant colors solidly painted on them. One wall, the north wall, was painted that kind of orange you get during a sunset, the opposite wall to that, the south wall, was a cherry red. Her west wall was an intense lime green, and her east side was an electric blue, like a blue raspberry Slush Puppy. Lily got up and decided to see if any of her friends were online. She logged on to her AIM screen name, TiGeRLilY816. Her buddy list popped up and she saw that her best friends from Hogwarts were on. Among them were the Marauders, as she was one of the few that were trusted to keep them in line. The first to talk was her best girl, and whose sn was Punk Rocker319.

Punk Rocker319: hey hun, how's the summer vaca goin?

TiGeRLilY816: hey anne

TiGeRLilY816: I suppose you could say its alright.

Punk Rocker319: ur family got ya worked up again?

TiGeRLilY816: how'd u guess

Punk Rocker319:I've got ESP remember? :-D

TiGeRLilY816: oh yes, how could I forget lol

During their second year in Hogwarts, Anne had made a game of guessing what Lily was thinking. The marauders thought it was such an enjoyable game they joined in. Needless to say, Lily got a bit ticked but thought it was utterly hilarious with the things that they dreamed up.

Punk Rocker319: u no wut happens in 1 week, 4 days, 8 hours, 34 minutes?

TiGeRLilY816: sigh no, anne, I don't lol

TiGeRLilY816: u've only told me about a million times that its ur b'day!

Punk Rocker319: heh heh just checkin that u didn't forget that wonderful, wonderful day!

TiGeRLilY816: how COULD I forget? u tell me about every 5 seconds!u even CALLED me at MIDNIGHT to tell me it was in exactly a month!

Punk Rocker319: hey thats right...hah!

Punk Rocker319: HEY! Guess WUT!

TiGeRLilY816: tell me I don't feel like guessin

Punk Rocker319: aww I g2g I'll tell ya tomorrow

TiGeRLilY816: aw, u can't just leave me wondering!

Punk Rocker319: mom's yellin I'll ttyl

Punk Rocker319: lyl bff

TiGeRLilY816: lyl ttfn bffeaeaeaea

Punk Rocker319 signed off at 3:57 PM.

Lily sighed and signed off too. 'Maybe I'll call her...' she thought. She dashed over to the other side of her room and grabbed her portable phone off its charger on her bedside table. The one good thing about all her friends, including Anne, was that they were all equipped with muggle things, like computers and phones. By now, Lily's fingers could dial Anne's number without thinking so as she absentmindedly pressed the buttons; she glanced at her computer screen, which just popped up a message with the always-cheerful voice saying "error!" While Lily heard the busy signal beep on Anne's line, she trundled over to her computer thinking, 'that's funny... I didn't tell it to do anything...' she clicked okay to the "Check for viruses?" box.

As soon as the old box went away a new one came up. It was a window saying that a Spyware company was attacking her computer repeatedly. Before she could do a thing, her screen turned a sickening blood red and the box dissolved into words as black as night that said, "You have been warned, Mudblood, once before. You have three chances. BEWARE!" and then it too disappeared. The screen flashed blue then went back to normal. Her virus check came back negative. That joyful voice piped up from the speakers and asked, "Restart computer?" Numbly, Lily clicked OK and dropped down into her desk chair.

The force was too much to keep the chair stable, so it being with wheels, shot backwards as soon as she hit the cushion. Still in her shocked state, Lily let it roll her to her west wall and once she got there, descended into a couch built into the wall with three windows surrounding it. With a loud bang her attention was brought to her still rolling chair, running into her music stand. Which created a domino effect, and knocked down her guitar, which pushed off her box of picks and thing for her guitar, and it went on and on.

Lily just watched, unnerved, as her room came undone. Finally it ended. Her shelved were on her wall no more, her various lamps had gotten smashed, her dressers were on the floor, face down, her stereo was in a heap, there WASN'T a display of her artwork anymore and her bulletin board, along with all the papers on it had flown across the room. She narrowed her eyes. "This could NOT have happened by pure gravity!" Lily muttered.

Groaning, she got up to fix the mess, and to yell down to her mom that her room was hit by a tornado. She knew her mom would give her hell, but she was too used to that to care. As was expected, the shriek of "LILLIAN! GET DOWN HERE AND TELL ME WHAT THAT NOISE WAS!" came soon enough. Just before exiting, Lily could have sworn she heard a malicious voice whisper, "Next time it'll be your house and your family MUDBLOOD..." she froze, stock-still. When nothing else came, she mumbled, "I am SO hallucinating..."

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"Argh that sucked! My back hurts!"
Did we fail to mention Lily's pet parrot, Bilbo?
"Shut up, Bilbo!"
"Shut up, Bilbo!"
Lily had near to no patience with the bird; she didn't even remember why she got Bilbo. However, she brings him to Hogwarts along with her cat, Fée De Pluie (A/N: it means rain fairy in French, and for further notices, they call her Pluie for short.) and her owl, her owl, Wonder.
Lily rolled onto one side of her bed and grabbed the remote to her TV. Flipping mindlessly through channels on her big flat screen TV set upon her east wall, her brain went back to the words her computer had shown.

'Have I been warned once before?' Lily wondered. Flashing back through the past couple of years, she found that she HAD in fact, been warned, just in her second year.

'But that was just a dream...' she feebly protested to her mind.

'Oh, was it now?' replied that god-awful voice inside your head.

'Yes! It was!'

'Are you sure about that? Anne looked quite a bit worried for it to be just a nightmare, and you yourself said it seemed so real!' the voice said smartly.

'Well, Anne's a worrywart, and I couldn't help saying it was real, I was scared and over-tired!' Lily shot back, but she forced herself to relive that night again.

Flashback

It was Halloween night, and after the traditional All Hallows Eve feast in the Great Hall, everyone went back to their common rooms. Lily, Anne, Jen, Lindsey (A/N: those are Lily's friends from her dormitory.) and the marauders headed back in a huge group, getting sugar high from all the sweets they had. Once there, someone had the brilliant idea of forming a party. The marauders, especially Sirius, whole-heartedly jumped right in. Soon it was being run too far by the old students, like the alcoholic beverages were being brought out.
Lily, although a good partier, noticed that it was 3 in the morning, wondered why McGonagall hadn't come to end the recklessness by now, and shouted over to Jen, the closest one to her, that she was going to bed. Climbing up the girls' staircase, she heaved a sigh as the music faded into a blissful silence and her hyper overtired side effects fell away. Out of habit, she gathered enough energy to slip into pajamas and brush her teeth. Curling into bed under cool sheets, she yawned and closed her eyes.

She snapped them open again. Searching frantically around the room for someone from her place in bed, Lily let the feeling that had been creeping up on her since lessons that day fall upon her. It was a feeling of someone watching you, anticipation, and that something just wasn't right, something bad was going to happen. Closing her bed curtains in hopes to cease the unnerving feeling, Lily sighed and shut her eyes once more.
Amongst pushing the feeling away and trying to calm herself down enough to get to REM cycles, Lily fell into a fitful, but deep sleep. It might have been an hour or two later when Lily experienced something like lucid dreaming, but not quite. It felt too real. She was walking, steadily, as with a purpose, in the halls of what she identified as Hogwarts. Which floor it was, she honestly wasn't sure. It looked strange to her, unfamiliar, and not right, like the shadows in the corner were too long, the night outside the windows too dark, the hall she was walking in too black.

Lily kept walking, turning corners, and walking through tapestries, but always seemingly on the same floor. A feeling, same as the one she'd had before falling into sleep, grew on her, along with dread. It surrounded her, she didn't want her back to anyone, everything was a danger, and so she started to run. So fast, she couldn't stop, but as she turned another corner, her greatest fear came true.

There was someone there, someone right in front of her, and Lily jumped right out of her skin. She still didn't want her back to anyone, or anything, so she carefully slid to the wall and glanced around her. Thump-thump-thump, went her heart, the only thing she could hear except for her heavy breathing in this eerie silence. The person, still in front of her, did not have a face, it did not have a body, it seemed, either. However, Lily, a fan of magical creatures, knew it wasn't a dementor, it was too short, though it looked like one. Just an empty cloak taking the form of an invisible man.

Even without a face, it seemed to glare leeringly at her, and it stepped closer. In a low hiss, it said, "Beware, you filthy mudblood. Leave this place, or look out for yourself." Cold fear shot through her veins. Adrenaline pumped through her body as the thing somehow took hold of her wrists, whipped her around, and pulled her arms behind her back. Lily gasped as pain jumped in her shoulders and she let out a blood curdling scream, hearing it come back to her in the empty Hogwarts hallway, yet never letting it go.

That same shrill scream woke up all of Gryffindor Tower, especially her dorm mates. Anne, the lightest sleeper of them all, and the one with the bed closest to Lily's had rushed over first, still while Lily screamed her never-ending scream. "Lily! Lily! Wake UP Lily! It's just a dream Lily!" was what ceased her from her screaming and pulled her from the world of sleeping- or whatever it was. After explaining it to all her friends, including the marauders who knew Lily scream and had come up as soon as they could, they all agreed that it was just a dream. Lily however, broke that agreement by saying, "But it was so REAL...it was too real..." the answer to that was that all dreams feel real. Only Anne said, "Yeah...yeah I guess so..." and she, too, looked worried about it being just a nightmare. One of the seventh years, who was the Head Girl, came down to check what happened and sent them to bed. She offered a dreamless sleep potion, but Lily declined, she just went to stew her thoughts.

End flashback

Lily's forehead creased as she thought about that night, that dream, that so called warning. 'Was it real? How could it have possibly been, though?' she thought, curling a little tighter and hugging her knees under her covers. She glanced over her shoulder at her west wall to see if her windows were open. They weren't. It was one of those balmy, warm, summer nights, and Lily's body was sticky with humidity as her sheets were heavy with it too. Kicking them off, she lay there for a few seconds before slipping out of bed. Her cold wooden floor sent a jolt through her bare feet as she walked to her windows and pushed them open as wide as they could go. Lily rested her head on the windowsill and she stared up into the gorgeous night sky.

The stars were shining like silver in sunlight and Lily started to pick out all the summer constellations. Looking at the northwest sky she saw a zodiac sign, Leo. Above it was Virgo, Bootes, Hercules. To the right of it were Ursa Major and Minor, Draco, and Lynx. Shifting her gaze southwest she saw Libra, Serpens Caput, Ophiuchus, Scorpius and the very beginning of Sagittarius. Almost falling asleep while standing she stumbled back into her bed and immediately felt the falling sensation you get before you sleep.
It was at least ten hours later, though it felt like 10 seconds to Lily, when a rock came clear over her window, into her room and landed with a crash on her bedside table. Along with the rocks, came shouts from outside her window. Her friends. She could tell.
"Lily! Come over here dear!" that was Anne...
"Hey Miss Froggy!" that was Sirius...
"Lilyyyyy..." that was Jen...
"Hey Lils! Get out of bed you fool!" that was James... "Lillian Anastasia! Come ON! Hurry up!" that was Lindsey and Remus... (A/N: I hate peter I'm NOT putting him in here. He'll only be mentioned quite briefly every once in a while. Sorry if you're disappointed.)
With a loud groan she rolled out of her comfy bed. THUD. This caused laughter from her friends. Getting up and walking over to the window, she said with a scowl, "Jesus, you IDIOTS! I was SLEEPING! I wake up to a ROCK crashing into my table!"
"Aw, but you still love us, right Lils?" joked Sirius
"Hmmm I dunno...you guys might not deserve it..." Lily replied, biting her lip and faking uncertainty.
All of them adopted a puppy dog look and she said, "Oh, you guys!" with a roll of her eyes and a shake of her head.
Catapulting herself out of her window, and landing gracefully on both feet she greeted her friends. "Hey guys, what's up? And WHY did you decide to wake me up at-"Lily checked her watch, "-8:07 AM?! You KNOW I wake up at ten!"
"Just felt like it?" Sirius tried with a grin.
"There's monkeys attacking your house, we needed to get you up." James added.
"Nuh-uh they're attacking MY house!" Sirius shot back.
"Nope. Not a chance."
"Yuh-huh. Definitely. I saw them."
"You did not!"
"I did too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
"N-"
"Alright, alright, that's good." Anne interrupted before it went too far. "Honestly! Fighting over Sirius's house being attacked by monkeys! Jesus!"
Sirius and James, who were shooting glares at eachother, bounced back and glanced at Lily, who was rubbing sleep out of her eyes and looking at the bright summer morning.
"Guys," she said, "I gotta take a shower before I do anything."
"Sure Lily. We'll come back later." Lindsey said kindly, who had been watching most words exchanged like others, and glared at Sirius and James who appeared to be on a sugar high, and dragged the rest of her friends away. "Come ON Sirius. No, N-no let's not lick the fence." Lily heard as she watched them disappear down the path leading to her front door.
Getting up from her spot on the ground where she sat down from tiredness, Lily grimaced at her wet backside from the dew, and went inside to her kitchen where her mother and father were speaking quietly in hushed and grim voices. Glancing between them, Lily declared her presence by saying "Mom? Dad? What's up?" with raised eyebrows. The unusually dark hush that followed her questioning stare was unnerving and she had a sense of foreboding.
"Honey," her mom said carefully at last, "Daddy's job isn't going as well as we thought. We're pretty sure we're going to have to move..."
The same unnatural silence came after that announcement also. Once Lily's eyes returned to their normal size, and her brain properly processed and understood what her mother had said, the first words out of her mouth were, "You can't do that to me!!! I WON'T! You can't make me!" and with that she fled from the kitchen, stomped up the first staircase and slammed into her room.

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there's the first chapter! whew

review ppl! i'd appreciate it greatly!

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