Okay just so everyone knows a long line of this ******* means scene change or change or POV however I will tell you if it's POV and then to who. Also sorry about no updates but I'm not a updaty person but I am not abandoning the story though if you really want you can copy parts of it or use ideas but you have to ask, okay? Moving on this is only part one because when I originally did it I thought it was rather long what I had planned so I split it in two. Again sorry about how I didn't update thank you for reading this and if your not... well it's your loss. Any Italics will be thoughts or just to stress a word but I'm assuming that your smart enough to know which is which and just so you know anything Important I will put up here or at the end of the chapter and any bold part inbetween little comments that you might find useful but you can ignore.
Chapter two – Filler Part one
The Trio and Seth became good friends though Harry still saw the unbearable pain in her eyes every now and then. When he went to Ron and Hermione to ask them about it they didn't know what he was talking about them. Seth quickly became the most popular person in school and she seemed to take to the roll naturally, as if she had been there her entire life, and it was lucky for Harry that they were friends as she had managed to stop almost all the whispers about him and Dumbledore, within a week the school believed that Voldemort had returned and were telling their parents this.
In Quidditch she had come up with some good tactics that were helping them immensely. One of the things that frustrated Ron and Hermione most about her was that she could leave her homework till last minute then sit down and without looking anything up could write it well enough to beat Hermione in first in the class. Luckily for her she seemed to know how to deal with a jealous bookworms or at the very least avoid them. Though she was good enough friends with the Trio she was definitely closer to the twins, who she constantly pranked with (half of their new ideas were hers and between the three of them they wrecked enough havoc to remind the teachers painfully of the Marauders) she was also friends with Ginny, Luna and bizarrely Draco Malfoy.
"We need a proper teacher Harry!" Hermione said as if that was a big revelation
"If you're thinking about Lupin..." Harry started only to be cut of once more by Hermione
"No Harry we're thinking about you!" She sounded exasperated now,
"Me?" Harry was shocked
"Obviously, you would be the best person." Seth said rolling her eyes at Harry's cluelessness, "I mean not many people could defeat a basilisk at the age of twelve or perform a corporal patronus at thirteen." Seth smiled at him from where she was sitting
"Exactly harry!" Ron added, "You've always been great at DADA."
"But that was just luck!" Harry said feeling panic rise, "Half the time I didn't even know what I was doing!"
"But you still did it!" Seth told him, "We all believe in you, but what you have to understand is that we're not asking you to give us an amazing education, just enough to help us with the exams and last against a Death Eater until an Aurora can help." She wasn't looking at him but at a place in the air only she could see. It was the pain in her gaze that really got to him, so much anguish that he felt that she of all people could understand what he was going through.
"Okay," He found himself saying, "I'll do it."
And as she turned to look at them and smiled that truly perfect, the-whole-world's-a-joke smile, he felt his heart clench tightly and an unknown feeling made him feel on cloud 9, warming him like Butterbeer.
If harry lived to be one hundred he would always remember the day everyone found out Seths' secret. Oh no! Not that secret, not the BIG secret that this story is about, another one that she happened to have lying around.
Seth had been acting for days, her eyes slowly getting darker and darker as she got more irritable and snappish. She also seemed to in a row with her closest friends, they were worried about her and wanted her to let them help but she stubbornly refused. It was in the middle of the Great Hall and Gryffindor Quidditch team had just trudged in from their worst practise ever with Katie still bleeding from her broken nose. Fred and George were acting like mother hens and helping her to sit down when they saw her; Seth had gone ridged and pale and her eyes were flashing from her usual sky blue to purple to black.
"Draco!" Fred, George and Seth said it together but it was Seths' voice that got Draco to look up worried for his new friends; her voice was high and scared sounding and Harry got the mental picture of a little girl calling on her brother to scare the demons of the night away.
Draco, the calm, proper pureblood, took one look at the situation and swore loudly and violently before rushing to Seths' side leaving a group of shocked students behind.
"Seth, listen to me," Draco had crouched by her side and was holding her face in his cupped hands, forcing her to look at him and no one else, "Just look at me, deep breathes and focus on blocking it out. You don't need to listen to your instincts, just listen to my voice and block it out."
Seth closed her eyes obediently and breathed deeply a couple of times relaxing slowly, but then Katie moved again and she froze suddenly. Seth opened her eyes and they were the darkest black, colder than Snape's (I'm not sure about the grammatical correctness of this) own pitch black orbs, they had none of Hagrids warmth and none of Snapes' (Or this) emotion. They were like black holes sucking up all the light without reflecting it, sucking up all emotion, they were empty and dead.
This was no longer the Seth they knew but a different, ruthless Seth. Her teeth flashed white and ... pointy? Fangs were slowly emerging and her last words as Seth were,
"Get me out of here," She gasped her face translating her pain, "Run." This time it was a snarl, more animal than human and utterly feral. It managed in five seconds flat to get everyone panicking and running around.
"Someone stun her!" Fred shouted from where he was by Katie with his brother, and it was Draco who pulled out his wand to perform the simple but effective spell.
For a moment it worked, she froze and seemed to be unable to move, but in a wave of powerful, foreign, (Foreign as in not wizard) magic she ripped through the spell and hurled herself at Katie. Seth was jumping, twisting, leaping, running around people faster than you could blink until all of a sudden she was in front of George who was standing in front of Fred and Katie.
Calmly, unhesitating, George proffered his wrist with a small smile on his face. As if to make up for George's lack of it doubt entered her face before she caught sight of Katie again and bit into his wrist quickly. They fell to the ground, George automatically breaking Seth's fall and cradling her head while Fred turned to Katie as if that was perfectly natural,
"We need to get you cleaned up and stop you bleeding fast." Fred stated calmly holding out a tissue, "She doesn't usually lose control like that but when she hasn't eaten in a while..." he shrugged as if that explained everything
"You knew!" Umbridge yelled in fear and fury, "You knew there was a beast roaming these corridors, a dark and dangerous creature in this school!" Draco suddenly bunched up the front of her robes in his fist so that he was holding her quite severely and glared at her through narrowed eyes baring his teeth.
"Listen here Umbridge," He growled out, "Seth is not a creature and even if she were she'd be a thousand times better than you. She is a girl who has lived a very hard life and needs help every now and then. If you ever insult my friends again you will be speaking to the Malfoy lawyers!"
"Speaking of help." Fred murmured sitting down next to George, "Seth, you killing him now, let him go. Stop honey, you need to let go!" and gradually they saw Seth return her cheeks flushed and healthy and her eyes a vivid violet.
"Christ, George, I'm so sorry!" Seth shrieked sounding normal though worried, "are you okay?"
"Fine, honest! Don't worry, I'm okay!" George groaned but smiling happily if slightly dazed, "I swear you're going to be the death of me woman!"
They both laughed and looked up to find the entire hall staring with faces identical masks of horror and disgust on them.
"You filthy Half-Breed!" Umbridge yelled at her pointing her wand, whilst Katie, Alicia and the other people around them tried to pull Fred and George away. In the now silent Hall one word was heard, muttered by a Hufflepuff fourth year; "Monster"
"Don't you dare call her a monster Burton!" Draco Malfoy yelled standing up, "She is ten times the person you could ever hope to be!"
And the fourth year was surprised to see that every house had a number of people breaking off to stand behind her.
Gryffindor's people were : The Weasley twins and Ginny, Lee Jordan ( albeit slightly reluctantly and warily), Neville Longbottom and Colin Creevy. (Not sure how to spell creevy)
From Hufflepuff came ; Eloise Midgen (Can be found in second book; tried to hex her wart or pimples off) who had been friends and followed Seth around devotedly ever since Seth had stood up for her against the people who bullied her for her unfortunate skin problems, an old friend of Cedric's and Susan Bones.
The Ravenclaw students were; Luna Lovegood and, surprisingly, Roger Davies who was thought to be a bit narrow minded and the type of person who followed the crowd.
But the biggest shock of all came from Slytherin, the people thought to be most narrow minded and prejudiced came forward; Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini and Astoria and Daphne Greengrass.
"Seth is an amazing person who suffers from a problem she can't control," Fred Weasley said looking at the people of Hogwarts with a slight sneer on his face, "And if you're going to turn on her for that then shame on you."
"Fred," Katie said in astonishment, "She just attacked George! She need to be put down."
"By Merlins old and mouldy underwear she is not a rabid dog!" Pansy yelled furious.
"That's the reaction of most wizards then?"Luna asked voice filled with loathing and her dreamy look gone, instead her eyes were blazing like fire and her hair whipped around her with accidental magic, "Anything more powerful than them or that they are afraid of must be ...exterminated...hum?" ("Hum" being a demanding sound made without opening you mouth)
Several people looked down ashamed but most continued to look confused about why they were defending Seth.
Despite the odds and people against them that group of people stayed strong and faithful to one another even taking up the motto of the Musketeers';
"One for all, and all for one"
(Which basically means that every person worked for the good of the whole, and that the whole would always be there to help that one person)
Harry was fighting furiously at the ministry of magic in the department of mysteries. He could see his friends from the order and DA fighting around him; there was Ron and Hermione, Luna, and there was Seth. She was fighting two Death Eaters at once and boy did she look good.
A cutting hex on his lower left arm brought him out of his revere and he quickly stunned the person he was facing, feeling a pit of acid worry bubble in his stomache when he thought about Seth, now out of his line of sight. He saw Bellatrix Lestrange fighting Sirius and heard Sirius give a half crazed laugh before a vivid green curse shot out of Bellatrix's wand and hit the place Sirius had been in a moment ago.
************************** Sirius's Point of View (POV)*********************************
I felt myself hit the ground and surprisingly, or rather unsurprisingly if you actually know me, my first thought was no a relieved "I'm alive!" but a rather grumpy "OWWWW! Who thought concrete floors would be a good thing here 'cause they hurt! A lot!"
But never mind that because the next second I became aware of a warm body on top of me and I had to open my eyes to see who had fallen on top of me. She was a pretty girl with light brown, curly hair and the most stunning eyes that reminded him of her.
"What can I do for you, gorgeous?" he asked cheekily to hide the pain he was feeling.
"What? No thank you?" she joked raising an eyebrow, he chuckled as pain lanced through his heart, she would have probably said something like that.
"Sorry to have offended you so grievously, milady." He said giving a little mock bow
"Believe me, you'll make up for it later!" she laughed as she walked off and he found himself wondering where she was and what she was doing?
'Why hasn't she returned?' Sirius thought forlornly but then shook himself an ice hard look coming into his eyes that never belonged to the old him, the happy him, the him at Hogwarts as a kid.
'Forget about her Sirius, she left and she's never coming back, not for you, not for anybody ; not for James'
People always say that eaves droppers never hear anything they want to (Eg. when harry overheard MadEye say that he might be possessed) but they never say that what you hear might drive you up the wall with curiosity and that was the predicament that Harry found himself in
The Golden Trio all had one ear pressed against a not so golden wall, in fact it was a rather dirty, horrid wall, and were listening to Sirius and Remus fight which was in itself extraordinary thing as since the two were reunited they tried their best not fight since there had already been too many years where they weren't friends and they were the last True Marauder; 'True' was always said with raised eyebrows as if the words didn't just talk about Wormtails betrayal but an all together different betrayal, yet here they were fighting.
"Harry deserves to know Sirius!" Remus was yelling at the top of his lungs.
"It would break his heart!" Sirius screamed back at him, "Finding out the truth about Lily and James and the whole story! Can't we leave him this one small comfort?"
"You know what Lily and James would have wanted!" Remus told him, "You know that," here he lowered his voice carefully, "You know that she deserves it."
"Lily hated her and would hate us for telling him as for James; you know how much that bitch hurt him, he never would have wanted to hear her name again. And don't tell that she deserves it!" Sirius growled menacingly, "She betrayed us; she deserves nothing!"
Remus sighed,
"If she came back now," he asked softly as if himself didn't know what to do, "Hugged you and begged forgiveness, what would you?"
"I don't know." Sirius admitted sadly, "She hurt me so bad and then I had to watch James be hurt as well; she hurt us all. But on the other hand she her, you know?"
Remus nodded and Sirius continued,
"I used to sometimes think that 'she has us all wrapped around her little finger, yet there is no where I'd rather be' and I used to beg for her to come back, but after all this time..."
Harry took a peek through the keyhole and what he saw shocked him; Sirius was sitting down at a stool crying into his hands with Remus standing, one arm on his shoulder in a comforting gesture and tears fall freely down his face.
"Why didn't she come back Remus?" Sirius said in a broken voice looking up at the man next to him who just shook his head hopelessly, "Why didn't she return to us?"
"I don't think she's ever coming back, Sirius." He said it hesitantly as if willing himself to believe the words because it was clear that in the heads and hearts of the two men were in a direct conflict.
"Please, don't make us tell Harry." Sirius begged, "I can't go through it all; I can never forget her, but it hurts too much to remember."
Remus sighed, "I don't think I could have gotten the strength to tell him either, he's a good kid; the best of both Lily and James and he's had too hard a life to learn this now." He admitted
"You know that girl," Sirius asked his brow creasing with confusion, "Seth, I think she's called, she reminds me of her; just in the way she speaks and what she says is so much like what I think she'd be like now. As always she's perfect; always knew how to fit in she did, to match us perfectly, like a mirror. And it was a hundred percent natural, us being sad just made her sad as well or rather when she laughed it was so contagious that everyone just had to laugh."
"I remember thinking that if we could stay together like that forever then I could be happy forever." Remus told him with a small smile, his eyes far in the past and he seemed automatically to drop years and started to look less tired , "How pathetic is it that my happiest days were at school, how like you always said."
"You know what Moony," Sirius said drooping and giving a pained, longing smile, as if saying 'look at the irony of it', "I miss her." He practically breathed the last part so quiet it was and his eyes welled with tears again,
"Me too, Padfoot." Moony murmured as the tears always so close to the surface with the mention of her fell once more and moved to comfort his oldest friend, to stand beside him and remiss over something that no one else could quite feel the loss over as much as they did.
To look at the past and wish stupidly that he was a teenager again, part of the invincible Marauders and happy, "Me too."
