Tyler woke up the next day well rested. 'That pillow is going home with me' she thought. She pulled her legs up to her chest and rolled them around to crack her spine. She then stood up slowly and squatted beside her bed back straight up. "What are you doing?" Asked Cassidy nastily.

"Stretching," Tyler answered in a dismissive tone. She then sat back on her bed and cracked her fingers and toes.

"Whatever freak." Brittany said.

"So last night you want to be my friend but because I defended my actual friend I'm a freak?" Tyler said condescendingly.

"Anyone who hangs out with that weirdo must be a freak." Defended Cassidy

"Well I guess I'm just going to have to let my freak flag fly" Tyler said with conviction.

"Whatever." This seemed to be Brittany's go to response. The two girls left slamming the door on the way out.

At that moment Nadia came out of the bathroom.

"You know you don't have to do that right?" She asked while toweling off her hair.

"What?" Asked Tyler.

"Defend me. They're not going to change."

"I had girls like that at my old school," Tyler explained, "to this day I have no idea what I did to piss them off. Roxy says that there's something about the two of us that's different. She said that even though it's not visible people feel it and want to distrust us because of it."

Nadia's eyebrows rose. "We need to get Frank. Now!" She threw on her uniform quickly. Tyler followed suit. They burst into the boys' dorm.

"Oi!" Exclaimed a naked Sirius, "You can't just barge in here. If you wanted a glimpse all you had to do was ask love."

"Don't flatter yourself." Nadia said, "Is Frank in here." She walked towards a bed with its curtains closed opening them she found the bed empty. She started digging through his trunk.

"He's in the shower," Remus provided. Nadia looked up and saw he was shirtless. She blushed.

"Could you please tell him that I've taken the book and to meet me outside?"

"Sure," He said

"Thanks Remus," Nadia smiled, "see you in class." And she started to walk out the door.

"No problem, I'll save you seat" but the girls were already gone. Frank came out of the shower. He noticed Remus blushing.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"You just missed Nadia and Tyler. Nadia said she has the book and she'll meet you outside. Whatever that means." James said for Remus.

"Why are you blushing Remus?" Frank asked.

"Nothing!" Remus answered suspiciously quickly.

"She's like my sister you know. If you hurt her I'll kill you."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Remus tried not so convincingly.

"Remus anyone with eyes knows you like her. Just ask her out."

"Thank you Frank!" James exclaimed. "We've been telling him that for months."

"Come on mate. If Frank's telling you to do it you know she's going to say yes." Reasoned Sirius.

"If you tell her I let you know she's going to rip my balls off. In turn I will rip yours off to replace mine." Frank made all the guys wince.

"It doesn't matter if she says yes. She should find someone else. I can't date anyone." He gave James and Sirius a pointed look.

"Why?" Asked Frank, "Because you're a werewolf?" It was as if time froze. Three of his dorm mates where looking at him incredulously. Remus was looking at his feet. "Oh shit Remus. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to out you. I thought they knew."

"We do." James broke the silence.

"Who else knows?" Sirius demanded

"I don't know. Just Nadia and me I guess. We didn't tell anyone if that's what you're implying." Frank defended.

"How long have you known?" Remus asked still looking down.

"I don't know. I think we started suspecting it three months into first year but after you came back from the winter break we were sure." Remus' head shot up.

"You...you've know all this time and haven't said anything?" He asked disbelievingly.

"Why would we have said something? That's your business not ours."

"And you're not afraid?"

"Only a few hours a month if we're outside." Frank joked trying to lighten the situation. "You're Remus over 350 days a year. Who cares about the other 12-15? It's not like you chose it."

Sirius suddenly broke into a huge smile, "now you have to do it!"

"What?" Remus asked.

"Of course," James started smiling catching onto Sirius' point. "You have to ask Nadia out. She knows what you are. I mean Merlin she's known longer than us." He indicated to the other marauders. "She doesn't care Remus! We told you she wouldn't!"

Remus burst out in a smile. Frank smiled at him and started getting dressed. "I've gotta go meet them. If I don't make it to breakfast grab me something please."

"Sure." Said Sirius watching Remus beam. Frank walked out of the room and started towards the cave they were in last night.

Roxy woke up to a banging on her door. She tried to ignore it but whoever was on the other side persisted. "What!?" She yelled

"Get up before you miss breakfast." The voice didn't belong to Andrea so she chose to ignore it. "Fine suit yourself." She heard footsteps walk away. Then heard whoever it was knocking on another door. "Andrea wake up!" She heard the voice yell again.

"I heard you yelling at Roxy already."

"We'll she didn't wake up!" The nameless voice shouted through the door.

"Yes I did." Yelled Roxy. She heard Andrea laugh loudly.

"Fine you both better be on time to class or we will start the year with negative points."

"Go away." Andrea said.

"Fine!" This time Roxy heard the footsteps stomp down the stairs. Roxy rolled out of bed and made her way to the bathroom door. The door next to hers opened at the same time.

"Morning," mumbled Andrea as she started turning the shower taps to the hottest setting. There were three showers and three bathroom stalls staggered between the doors on the walls. In the middle of the room there was a circle of 8 vanities complete with mirrors and stools. Roxy went into one of the bathroom stalls. The room had gotten super steamy. She walked out to see Andrea sitting on a stool.

"Those two are free so pick whichever." Andrea pointed to the sinks to the right of hers. Roxy took the one closest to Andrea. Andrea lit up then passed it to Roxy.

"I was wondering why you were steaming up the bathroom." Roxy laughed.

"I usually wait until Sissy tries to wake me up because then I know everyone's out of their rooms. The steam contains the smell." Andrea explained.

"Tye and I used to do this all the time in our bathroom! We told everyone we were turning it into a steam room to take oil off our faces and keep our complexion clear."

"Hmmm I always wondered why my skin looked so good." Andrea laughed. When they were done she flushed the roach down the toilet and turned off all the showers. "Let's go to breakfast." On their way out of the common room they met up with Russ and Blaize. They were coming from the direction of the room they used last night. "Morning," they all said to each other and started towards the great hall.

Tyler followed Nadia out the window and onto the ledge. Once they got to the end Nadia started talking. "What Roxy said, her theory about something being different, I think I know what it is." She started turning pages. "Frank and I both have always felt that way too and one day in the library I came across this book. It was in the restricted section. It almost seemed to be calling me. I saw its magic shimmering."

"You can see that too then?" Asked Tyler excitedly.

"The shimmering? Yeah Frank and I both can. Everyone has a little but when there's something really powerful it's almost blinding." Nadia was flipping through the book excitedly. "It's a journal of some sort. It's in a different language but we didn't even notice until Brittany stole it and tried to read it. She threw it back saying I was crazy looking at stupid squiggly lines."

Tyler looked at the book, "it looks like English to me." She said.

"Try looking out of the corner of your eye."

"Holy crap!" Tyler exclaimed. Frank walked into the tunnel and smiled.

"You can read it too?" He asked excitedly.

"Yes!" She nearly shouted.

"Here it is." Nadia pointed at a passage.

Dated January third 1772

'I feel so detached from all the other students. I have been here five years and even the teachers don't know my name. It's almost like I don't exist or I'm something nasty they put up with. I'm starting to lose control of my magic. Earlier today Rosalyn was yelling at me telling me my parents gave me up because I was a freak. I don't know how it happened, I didn't even have my wand on me, but her hand burst. It literally blew up! There was a lot of blood and truth be told I didn't mind it. I kind of enjoyed it. I don't know what's happening to me. '

"What does this mean? Are we bound to be monsters?" Tyler asked confused.

"That's what we thought at first," Said Frank, "if you read the first part it seems like she has no control in what he's becoming but as we kept going we found out more." He took the book from Tyler and turned it at least 100 pages. It was

Dated 14 May 1774

'I've been out of school for a few months and have acquired a seamstress job and am living in a women's house in the muggle world. I prefer it this way because I can use magic to finish the jobs while I read. I've been doing a lot of research on my powers. Recently, in knockturn alley, I was in a book store and ran into a man looking for the same book as me. He invited me out to talk. He can see the shimmers too! He was never formally trained as a wizard but he's been able to do more than most teachers at Hogwarts!'

12 August 1774

'Mathew has asked me to go to America with him. I think I'm going to go. He said we could go to the native tribes and try to learn more about ourselves. We've found about 30 books when we were in Greece in the language. We don't know what to call it yet. I'm beginning to suspect we are primes.'

16 August 1774

'Mathew asked me to marry him! We are eloping tomorrow. We are doing a soul binding ceremony. It's risky but he says he's sure I'm his soul mate.

3 September 1774

'Mathew and I got into a fight today. We haven't even been on the boat for half a month. There was an incident with a sailor on board. He tried to corner so I made him suffer. He deserved it too. Mathew says I should have just killed him or thrown him over board but I wanted to see the lights leave his eyes. Mathew says I'm becoming too violent, that I'm acting like my powers make me better than everyone else on board. I am though. We both are. Doesn't he see that we're above them? That they should exist solely to serve us.'

Nadia flipped 3 pages down.

14 September 1774

'We've started on the books we got in Greece. There are spells beyond my wildness dreams in there. And plenty of information about us too. Whatever we are it ties in with the gods. This further proof that we should be in charge but Mathew insists we are supposed to use our powers to help them but I know the truth. We've been given these powers to control the people just like the Roman/Greek gods did. They were able to control two powerful countries at once. Surely we could control the colonies.'

"We should go. Class will start soon." Said Frank. Tyler had almost forgotten they were there.

"You guys go ahead." Tyler wanted to stay and read more.

"We can come back during lunch." Nadia reasoned. "It's the first day we have to get our schedules."

"Alright," Tyler said dejected

"Here," Frank passed her the bong while Nadia put the book away. Tyler took three quick hits then stood up.

"Lead the way." She said. They climbed through the window. "It sounds like Mathew was a decent bloke."

"He really keeps her on track for a while. She wanted blood shed for enjoyment, not unlike the gods and some kings in the past. They have a list of people in history they suspected were what they figured out were primes. There seems to be clusters every few centuries that gain power. Some good, some bad. Then there's individuals that pop up every 100 years or so." Frank said, "It talks about head primes being born in the face of wars and there has to be a head prime in order for a whole cluster to exist. Like Zeus or Jesus."

"So this woman was a head prime?" Tyler asked.

"Not even close," said Nadia, "she writes about some spells she had difficulty with when a head prime wouldn't. They would only have trouble if they were in the process of creating a brand new spell."

"So Mathew was the head prime?" Tyler was trying to put the prices together. She really wanted to read the book cover to cover.

"No. At first we thought they were lieutenants like Peter and Mary Magdalene were for Jesus." Frank said.

"You mean how Jesus and Peter were for Mary Magdalene?" Nadia said.

"He was the famous one."

"No one would listen to them if it was Mary in charge. The past is full of misogynists. They had to have a male cover boy."

"Does it really matter? They were soul mates and that's what matters. They were pretty much on the same level" Nadia looked like she was going to reply but Tyler stopped the discussion.

"So were they?" She asked

"No." Said Nadia, "They never found a head or any others so they couldn't have been. But the woman managed to do a lot of damage though. Well the muggles were able to turn it around. You have to read the rest to really understand."

"We've made a pact that if one of us starts to stray we will confine them until they see reason. Even kill them if need be." Frank said.

"I'm in. Don't ever let me start bloodshed. Ill defends until I die but I never want to start it." Tyler said. "Do you mind if I tell Roxy?"

"If she's one of us then definitely tell her. To be honest I've suspected that Andrea, Blaize, and Severus are too. Maybe even Xeno and Lana." Nadia said.

"So basically the drug circle?" Tyler laughed.

"Yeah. I know that I smoke because it makes it easier to deal with people." Nadia answered.

"I always say that it makes me a nicer person!" Tyler couldn't believe this. They arrived at breakfast just in time to get their schedules. They ran out seeing they had to get to defense against the dark arts. She ran into Roxy on the way out. "Meet me at lunch."

Defense against the dark arts seemed to drag on and on. They read through the syllabus out loud then were given a speech about how important this year was because of O.W.L.S and to stay on top of their homework. Tyler couldn't wait to get out and hopped up when they were dismissed. She looked at her schedule. "Potions next." She said excitedly.

"Favorite subject?" Frank smiled. Tyler nodded. They started towards the dungeons. James caught up to her and tapped her on the shoulder.

"So how are you liking it so far?" He asked pulling her next to him.

"It's wonderful!" She exclaimed. "100X better than Beubatonx. Frank and Nadia are awesome." When they walked into the potions classroom Lily waved James over to her table.

"Do you mind?" James asked.

"Nope. Go ahead. Although you know I'd get you an A."

"Yeah well this might get me a different type of a." He winked. She shook her head and went to a back table.

"You're at my table." She heard from behind here. She turned around and found Severus behind her.

"Sorry I didn't know there were assigned seats." She apologized.

"There isn't. This is my table though."

"No."

"What?"

"This table has the best burners and the most even platform. If there isn't assigned seats I'm sitting here. You can choose which side of the table you want but I'm not leaving."

"Fine but if you mess my table you'll never hear the end of it."

"So you plan to talk to me in the future," she gave him a smirk.

"What? No!" He stuttered. "Shut up." Her smile grew. Professor Slughorn walked in and silence fell over the room.

"Welcome back." He said with joy. "I hope you all had relaxing summers because this year may very well decide your future. This year we will be working on group projects. One part will be due before Christmas break and the other at the end of the semester. You will be working with the person you're currently sharing a table with." Tyler smiled at Severus and he slapped his hand to forehead "today we will be working on a simple boils potion in order for you to get used to working with you're partners. The recipe can be found on pg. 12. Tyler opened her book and looked at the instructions.

"Seriously?" She asked. "This is a first year potion. I'll go get the ingredients. Go ahead and heat up the cauldron. It says to put the base in and light it to 130C but wait for the base we'll do that in the other cauldron and heat it to 95C."

Severus was not used to being treated like that in potions. He was usually the one bossing people around. He looked through the instructions trying to find a fault in her orders. When he couldn't he started to heat the cauldron but he also started to heat the cauldron they'd use for the base. He then started marking in her book his own instructions. She came back looked at them then crossed one off and began to scribble her own.

"Squeezing them works better than cutting them. They release more juice that way." He looked down at what she had written. "Twist them?"

"Yeah it's the best way to extract the juice." The two set to work cutting ingredients. They finished the base and pored it into the heated cauldron. They then had to wait 35min. "So have you thought more about the pocket universes?"

"I have." He said.

"Would you care to discuss it?"

"Yes."

Tyler gave him an exasperated look. "Now?"

"Sure," she could see a smirk start to form on his face.

"I guess I'll start then. I think the apparition part is ridiculous. I mean I understand their thought process behind it but I think it's the wrong direction to go. Apparition is performed on a simple plane. In order to jump universes you need something that transverses a one directional time line"

Severus looked thoughtful, "I agree in the fact that a variation of apparition spells is not the path to go on. However, I believe we could do it on a linear timeline. We want to jump side to side not front to back." They ran their theories and reasonings behind them back and forth several times until the 35 minutes were up. They set to work and finished their potion 20 minutes early. The two were about to start their conversation again but James interrupted them.

"Um Tyler, what color is the potion supposed to be?" He asked.

"Teal."

"So say if you're potion had ended up mauve, how would you fix it?"

Tyler face palmed then said, "Let me see it." They walked in just as Lily was putting in donnabella. She ran and smacked it of her hand and away from the cauldron. "What are you doing?! That's donnabella powder. You're supposed to be putting in antigonon powder!"

Lily turned to James. "You got the wrong stuff?"

"You didn't check." Accused Tyler. "Let me look at your stuff." She took out another ingredient that James had gotten wrong. "James you're an idiot how many could you get wrong when literally everyone else in the classroom were getting the same things." She then paled picking up another one and looking at the temperature under the cauldron. She grabbed Lily and James and yelled, "DUCK!" 3 seconds after she pulled them under the desk their potion exploded straight up onto the ceiling like a volcano. As it started to drip down Tyler pulled them all as close to the desk as possible. "James give me your wand."

"It's in my back pack." She looked at Lily.

"Same." Lily said still in shock. Suddenly something was thrown at them. Tyler caught it, looked at it, and tore the package open and spread it in front of their feet right on time. The boiling potion stopped at the line of sugar and wasn't able to get to them.

"Thanks," Tyler called out to who threw the sugar (she was sure it was Severus. Slughorn wouldn't have thought that fast. "Now we wait." Tyler said angrily.

"What happened?" Lily asked.

"This idiot," she pointed to James, "took out sulfuric acid instead of volcano ash. When heated to high temperature it can combine with water and explode violently. Given the other ingredients in the potion the explosion was sure to be violent and painful. The sugar created a neutralized barrier that stopped it but we're going to have to wait for it to boil out before we can get out. How did you not smell the difference?!"

James rubbed his neck sheepishly, "I was a bit distracted." He looked towards Lily. She was pissed but she still had to work to suppress her blush. "How long will we be here?"

"At least an hour and a half. I had shit to do during break you asshole." Tyler hit James.

"It's the first day Tye. We don't even have homework yet." James reasoned trying to get off Tyler's shit list. He knew from experience it was not a list you wanted to be on.

"I wanted to eat lunch with Roxy and then spend the rest of the day reading a book Nadia and Frank have. God, you're such a fucktard."

"Now now young lady," Slughorn said bending down a safe distance from the boiling potion to see them. "There's no need for foul language. Ill sent a note with Mr. Lupin that you three will be missing the rest of classes today."

"We don't have anymore classes!" Tyler seethed.

"Well then," Slughorn said in a cheerful voice, "you don't have to worry about missing classes! I'll go make a note for the next class to meet me in the classroom further down the hall." He dismissed the class

"lovely," Tyler muttered, "Roxy I'll meet you at dinner." She yelled

"okay I'm going to go somewhere and read, or take a nap, or dance, or talk, or just stretch out in general and wear super comfy clothes." She teased, "or go sit by the lake full of water, or find a river with rushing water, or do anything with a bunch of water around me. Oh, and I'll pee."

"Fuck off," Tyler responded and Roxy laughed loudly, "Now I have to pee!"

"Works everytime," Roxy laughed some more. Tyler debated if the burns were worth leaving their shelter under the desk.

"So," James started, "how have my two favorite ladies been." The girls both huffed.

"Tyler how much would it hurt him if I pushed him in." Lily asked.

"Unbearable agony. I've already thought of it but decided I'd let him live to see another day."

"Nice to know you two are so quick to throw me out," James tried to joke. One look at the girls faces made him gulp. "So um…how about those cannons? Think they'll go to the cup?" One more look and he shut up completely.

"Hey James," his head shot up at Tyler's voice.

"yes?"

"I don't think you're getting that type of A now." She laughed and he punched her jokingly.

"Of course we're not getting an A! Our potion exploded!" Lily exclaimed. This made Tyler laugh more. James would have to work his way up the Lily latter again if he wanted a piece of ass.