A/N: hi guy, uhm I hope you like it and all, this chapter is more of a character building thing and getting me used to writing this. I haven't written a fanfic in a while so I'm happy to be back on the boat. Uh so I obviously don't own any of the characters, except for the OC's they are all created by J.K Rowling, obviously but yeah just probably should say that or something.
Uh enjoy? Review? Yeaahh? bye
The first week of school was always the worst, Milly had a load of homework already. She was camped up in the astronomy tower this night, for the third time this week. She didn't mind though the stars comforted her. The galaxy was just so vast it just amazed her how little the humans, muggles and wizards, knew about the universe. She hummed an American band's song, that her brother listened to a lot this summer, to keep her concentrated. The tip of her cigarette was getting close to her lips. She had gotten into the bad habit of smoking a couple of summers ago, when she was 14. That summer her and her brother got into a lot of trouble, but that was when they got really close.
Milly liked to sit on the top of the towers, where it was open for people to sit out there and get closer to the sky. Not many people went up there to actually do work, many couples would have romantics nights out here, or people would go to drink once and awhile. But Milly went out there to have some peace and quiet, she would do her work most of the time. And no one came up here at 1 in the morning, Flitch barely came up here that late at night, he stayed mostly to the hallways. She scribbled down a couple of observations she made on Jupiter, she had to do a essay on a planet. Her teacher said it would be most visible tonight so she thought it would be a good idea to actually try to see it instead of just reading about it. She took a long drag before putting it on the concrete floor.
She yawned, and began to pack up her stuff. She couldn't concentrate any more. Her sight was beginning to fuzz and she could feel herself falling asleep. She stuffed her papers into her backpack and crept down the ladder. She took her shoes off and put them into her bags, they made too much noise when it came to sneaking and she didn't want to get caught. Her 2 year she really learned how to be sneaky, it was something her brother had taught her. She was walking slowly down the hallway to the common room when she heard a meow behind her, most people wouldn't be scared of a cat but when it was 1 in the morning and you were out in the hallways. You were scared of Mrs. Norris.
"Shit," Milly hissed as she began to run.
Normally not far behind Mrs. Norris was Flitch, and Milly didn't want to have an encounter with Flitch at this time of night. She bolted to the fat lady who was asleep at the ivory table.
"hey! hey! wake up," she whispered to the fat lady as loud as she could without attracting attention to herself.
The fat lady was awoken from her sleep and wasn't too happy about it, she was used to kids waking her up in the dead of the night. She never liked it but she always let them in ever since her first year as a entrance she let the kids in.
"What's the password?"
"uh uh uh Oddsbodikins!" she said louder than she wanted to.
The fat lady opened up the door and Milly ran in. She grinned when she got inside, she hasn't been caught yet this is a new record.
"Weeeeeell look who isn't in bed," a voice said from the seat next to the fire place. Milly jumped and her eyes followed the voice.
"Sirius what the hell are you doing?" she hissed, moving towards the stairs to her dorm.
"I would ask the same thing about you Milly," he said, she could hear the smirk in his voice, his words were always dripping with aggorgence.
"I was doing homework,"
"At one in the morning?" He got a little bit closer to her "And smelling of smoke?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Yes and yes, now goodnight Sirius. I'm tired," she yawned as she turned around to go into her room.
He waved to her, most girls would jump on him if he was that close to them. But he was just a stupid boy like any other guy in the school. She rolled her eyes and flopped onto her bed. Luckily for her, her friends either never slept or they could sleep if there was a duel going on right next to their bed. She was too lazy to change or brush her teeth, which was probably gross but she didn't care at the moment. The pillow and bed were super comfy and she couldn't get up.
She quickly fell asleep. But it didn't feel like she slept because it felt as soon as she closed her eyes she was being shaken by Darcie to get up.
"No, 5 more minutes," she mumbled into the pillow.
"Oh no we are not doing that this year," Darcie tugged Milly from her ankles. "You smell and you need a shower."
"Well fine mum," Milly grumbled as she got up, she stuck her tongue out at her friend
and went into the bathroom to take a shower. She let her stress of the rising school year wash down the drain with the water. She didn't have a long shower because Sabrina was baning on the door for her to get out. She wrapped herself with a towel and slipped out of the bathroom.
"All yours," she mumbled as she past Sabrina, still very tired and not yet awake.
The dorm was empty so Milly was free to drop the towel. She put on the uniform and laced up her boots. She threw her wet hair into a bun at the top of her head and walked out the dorm door in a sleepy haze. Darcie and Lilly were not in the common room, they must have left for the great hall. She yawned and walked to the great hall by herself. Kids passed by her, some in the same state as her, they tended to walk slower than the other people. As she got closer to the hall more and more people appeared, it's like the kids just came out of the walls when someone mentioned food or even smelt it. When Milly got into the great hall she saw Darcie and Lilly in conversation. She made her way over to her friends. Milly sat down on the cold bench and let her head fall onto her empty plate.
"I hate you," Milly said as she yawned.
"Hey it's not my fault that you stayed up super late knowing we had to get up early," Darcie said putting some bacon onto her plate.
"Yeah but you could have just let me sleep in and miss my first class, I don't need to take potions I'm fine without it," she said lifting her head up off her plate and put a piece of sausage on it.
"You do need potions you know," Darcie chuckled.
"Yeah but Slughorn is weird and so are the Slytherins," she said stuffing the sausage into her mouth.
Darcie looked away in disgust "Yes they are weird but you have to do potions to graduate next year and you already missed three days and it's not even the second week of school."
Milly shrugged and poured herself some coffee as she swallowed the sausage. Two of the marauders sat down in front of the three girls, Remus and James. They were muttering to one another, Remus didn't look so well it was almost the full moon so that was probably the reasoning behind the whispering and ill-looking Remus. Milly gave them a weak morning smile and they returned it. They all sat in silence, except for the clinking of their utensils against the china. The first week of school was normally very heavy for 6th years, the teachers were loading them up on work to help them prepare for their NEWTS. Even though they had to take them next year their teachers were still making sure they didn't sleep and were able to learn everything they needed for it.
Sabrina came down 10 minutes after Milly, she looked more awake than anyone. She was the morning person of the group. She said hello to everyone and got mumbles of 'hellos' from her friends. She was used to that, she was used to being the morning person in the group, except for Lilly. Lilly and her are the two morning people, but Lilly had been up late the night before doing homework for charms. Milly drunk all of her coffee and got up, slinging her book bag over her shoulder.
"I'm gonna go to potions, get one of the back seats before someone grabs them," she was a little more awake that she had been.
"I'll come with you," Remus said softly, getting up. "We can save a seat for Sirius."
"If we must," Milly sighed. They said goodbye to their friends and walked off to the dungeons.
"So how are you feeling?" Milly asked, looking over at her peaked looking friend.
He shrugged "You know, the best I can be," he looked down at his scruffy shoes and pushed his hair out of his eyes.
"And what is the best you can be?" She hated to prod but she knew the first full moon in the new school year was always the worst.
"I dunno, my whole body is just super sore and it feels like I am about to puke," he said softly.
"Rem you should go to Madame P," she said softly looking at him. She didn't want him to suffer. But she knew he wouldn't do that before the full moon. He was already in there enough as it was, he didn't like to be there when he didn't need to be.
"Nah, it's fine." He drew in a slow breath "I'll be fine."
"If you're sure," she smiled at him and opened up the Potions door for him.
"Thanks," he mumbled.
They took their usual seats and waited for the class to start. They talked quietly about the things the three other marauders were planning on doing to make the school crazy as people began to trickle in. Sirius walked in looking like he had just rolled out of bed, which probably was what happened. His hair was all askew and his shirt was barely tucked in. A couple of girls giggled as he entered, they blushed and looked away as he winked at them.
"You are too much," Milly exhaled to herself. She pulled out some paper and a pen to doodle on while Slughorn droned on about something that was supposed to be useful. She missed the smirk Sirius had thrown at her. Slughorn began his lecture and lost half of the class in the first 5 minutes. Milly tuned him out and focused on the portrait she was drawing.
"Mildred what is-" Slughorn began to say but Milly cut him off.
"It's Milly," she cringed at her given name. She did not like it, it was her grandmothers name, and her grandmother disowned her fathers side of the family when she was 2, which meant she disowned her.
Slughorn gave a sigh and continued on with the sentence, "Milly what does Alihotsy Draught do?"
Milly squinted her eyes when she thought, "Uhh I don't know what?"
"If you were listening you would know."
"I'm sorry, won't happen again," her voice was dripping with sarcasm "So what does it do?"
"It's fumes induces hysteria which is why are not going to be producing this potion."
"Lame I would like to see that," she muttered to herself, Remus and Sirius stifled a laugh.
He continued on with his lesson without much disturbance. They did not get to making any potions that day, which was really the only fun part of potions class but Slughorn was known for giving very boring lectures. Sirius was about to fall asleep on his notebook and Remus was even doodling on his notebook. Milly had continued on with the portrait she was drawing, but she soon realized it looked like a lot like the sleeping boy a few seats down next to her. She swore and shut her notebook, not wanting people to see what she drew. She put her notebook back in her bag with a pinkish hue on her cheeks. She needed to burn it.