"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
Lily and Jaeger were THOSE girls, the ones you didn't mess with. You know the bitches. They'd been friends since second year when Jaeger had introduced herself as a Malfoy. At first Lily had been sceptical but when Jaeger had called the rest of the Malfoy's 'the bunch of fuckwitts I'm forced to call family...' She knew they'd be friends.
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Lily looked around, she was wearing a black top and red flared pants, her bright red hair was up in a ponytail and as always sunglasses covered her emerald eyes. In fact she would be surprised if anyone except Jaeger even knew what colour her eyes were. Lily continued to look around until she spotted Jaeger with her family.
Jaeger looked like all the Malfoy's she was small and thin with platinum blonde hair, the only difference was her eyes instead of a cold grey they were a warm blue which didn't suit her personality. She was probably the only person called into Dumbledore's office more than the Marauders and they were forever laughing at his attempts to 'guide' her.
She was wearing the exact opposite as Lily a red top that bared her stomach showing off her navel piercing and black cargo pants with metal threaded through all the loops and black Doc. Martins. If Lily was never seen without her sunglasses then Jaeger was never seen without her intuitive eye. Jaeger turned away from her family and headed toward Lily. A plump boy with a cart cut across her making her fall over.
"If you removed you're head from your arse you could push the car properly!" She screamed at him.
The boy stuttered an apology before scampering off to his friends who were glaring at her. She waved brightly at them before turning back and muttering 'Bloody Marauders' under her breath.
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The Marauders were a group of four boys who played pranks on everyone. They consisted of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew.
James Potter was a tall skinny boy with glasses. He had messy black hair and hazel eyes and was considered by Lily and Jaeger as a total prick.
Remus Lupin was of average height he was pale and looked sickly. He had light brown hair and amber eyes that looked almost wild. He was an inch shorter than Potter at 6"1.
Sirius Black or Man-Whore as they called him was a player. Anyone could see he was gorgeous with his black hair and blue eyes. He was the tallest marauder and the biggest prankster but that only made them detest him more.
Peter Pettigrew was a rat. To explain him all you have to do is think of a rat and then slowly morph him into human features just before you've finished stop. That is what Peter was a small boy with watery eyes and a pointy sniffling nose.
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Lily came over and helped her up just as the afore-mentioned marauders walked up.
"Now, now, was it really necessary to scare poor little Peter like that?" James grinned at them, well, Lily really. Everyone knew that he wanted Lily more than anything in the world, just like everyone knew that the only reason Lily would get anywhere near him would be to pull his wand out from up his arse so that she could ram something larger and much more painful up there.
They weren't looking at him at the moment though, they were instead looking at a girl standing next to Sirius, matching him in height and almost out-doing him in muscle. With waist-length, thick black hair, bangs falling low over her face obscuring her blue eyes, dark make-up, and heavy, goth clothes, she was quite a formidable sight. That and the fact that her permanent accessory of choice was a metal studded leather dog collar.
"Hey Arty!" They greeted her and she glared at them.
"My name isn't fucking Arty!" She growled out and Jaeger and Lily looked at each other in shock.
"Her name isn't Arty?" Jaeger asked in confusion with which Lily echoed. "I thought her name was Arty?"
"What is your name?" Lily asked.
"Ar-te-MIS!" She said angrily.
"Really?" said Sirius, in shock. "Come on, dear Arty, don't tell me you've been lying to me for all these years!"
Artemis stood stock still for a moment, before turning and launching herself at her twin. Lily was sophisticated, and looked down her nose at the world. Jaeger was a cold hard bitch, always ready with a cutting comment.
Artemis got what she wanted by brute force.
The marauders and the anti-marauders calmly formed a ring around the brawling siblings, cheering their own on. This was a frequent occurrence, and didn't faze the students anymore. However, it did faze the official at the entrance to the platform as the brawling duo rolled through the barrier into the Muggle trainstation, causing screams and yells to come echoing through.
In a matter of moments, Sirius and Artemis were pulled back in by the scruffs of their necks, still glaring at each other. They were dragged over to the others and dumped before them.
"Would you care to explain what just happened?" He ground out from between clenched teeth.
Now, another difference which should be brought to your attention, this time between the Marauders and the girls. While the boys would smile and attempt to charm their way out of anything, the girls did not have it in their nature to be nice to anyone, not even to save their own arses.
This, as I'm sure you can imagine, can lead to some interesting encounters.
"Isn't it great to watch family arguments?" James sighed as Artemis cracked her knuckles threateningly at the guard. He dropped an arm over Lily's shoulder, who without so much as bating an eyelid turned their position around so James's arm was twisted behind his back.
"If you so much as touch me again, Potter, I will make sure you will never be able to sire children!" She spat out.
"Really?" He drawled, "Oh you know you love me, you seem pretty comfortable cuddling me there." Lily obviously wasn't impressed as she twisted his arm up so that he groaned in pain.
"True." Remus laughed sending a sideways glance to Jaeger.
"Is that so?" Jaeger asked cynically, "Well that explains a lot about you and Peter." She said raising an eyebrow at the small boy who looked like he was trying to disappear into Remus's Robes rather than have Jaeger look at him.
Remus quickly pushed Peter away blushing as Artemis and Sirius joined them.
"So what did you get?" Lily asked at the grinning and slightly bloody couple.
"Well, lets see..." Sirius contemplated. "First, we should explain exactly what the guards were looking at- Artemis, cracking her knuckles and glowering, me, reaching for my wand, and mother, storming up and screaming." he jerked his head behind him, where the official was cowering before Mrs Black.
Artemis grinned ferally. "It started with a punishment, progressed downwards towards a letter to the school, then to an official caution, then to a caution, then to a don't do it again or else, then, finally, please-don't-do-it-again-you-mother-scares-me-so-much-i-think-i-might-wet-myself."
She turned to her brother. "Well, Sirius dear, I would say there are upsides to having a noble bitch of a mother, wouldn't you?"
"Yes, Artemis dear, I believe I would." he smirked in reply.
"You would, would you?" They cried out in pain as the owner of the snarling voice grabbed their ears in her claw-like hands and twisted their heads to look at her. It would have been rather amusing to see this frail old woman make two 6 foot 4 teenagers whimper in fright, were it not for the fact that she scared the others shitless as well.
Sirius swallowed hard. "Just a joke mother, just a little fun..."
"We didn't mean it, honestly mother!" Artemis followed up desperately, but too late. Mrs Black let go of their ears and proceeded to vent.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT IN PUBLIC!" she screeched. It was enough to make you want to clap you hands over your ears, except for the fact that if you did, the consequences would be rather dire. Instead the twins stood there, tense, looking at the ground with their hands clenched by their sides.
"WE ARE NOBLES, YOU INSOLENT BRATS! WE MUST BEHAVE AND NOT CAUSE A FUSS IN PUBLIC! BEHAVE AS IS FIT OF A BLACK, NOT LIKE A BUNCH OF UNCOUTH MUDBLOODS!"
No one dared to scold her for using such strong language, not even Lily. However, it did not escape anyone's notice that she was being a hypocrite about causing a scene. Everyone in the area tried to slowly back away from her instead.
Marauders both true and anti stuck together, but only until parents became involved. Especially Mrs Black.
Jaeger sighed, glad she wasn't included in the wrath of her best friends devil-bitch of a mother, and turned, only to find a three pairs of cold eyes looking at her, four furious, and two terrified.
"Oh, shit." She said, which pretty much seemed to sum it up. Her parents stood there glaring at her in much the same way as Mrs. Black was there glaring at her children except the Malfoy's looked as if they were about to through Unforgivables around and Jaeger was glad that she'd already ordered her tombstone. She looked at her brother but Lucius was looking at her sympathetically or as close to it as he could come. "Hey!"
"'Hey!'?" Her parents said together. "Don't use slang like a common wench!"
"You do know wench is slang to?" She asked but her parents continued on it was pretty much the usual start of year speech, no dishonouring the family, top of her year, new friends, try to get resorted into Slytherin (the fact that this had never been done was of no consequence) and she looked around at her friends who were all being given similar speeches by their respective parents. Mind you Lily had already been given hers so she was standing there keeping watching the others. The others though seemed to be friendlier as James was squashed against his mother and Remus's father had a hand on his sons shoulder as Remus rolled his eyes. The others catching Jaeger and lily watching them rolled their eyes, this as all people know is not a good idea in front of you parents and all 4 pairs of them demanded in almost unison "Are you listening to us?" while this would make most kids grudgingly answer yes, these were no normal kids and answered with a resounding "NO!" before running to the safety of the train the Black's and Malfoy's screaming after them.
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