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Chapter 2: The Hogwarts Express
Pain. Pure, agonizing pain that spread from his inner core to-
His eyes shot open and he lay panting and tangled in the sheets. His head turned to the loud banging on his door, which he recognized as the sound that had woken him up.
"Get up you wretched excuse for a son!" a shrill voice cut through the door, "The world does not just sit and wait for scum like you!"
Sirius rolled overs o that he was laying on his stomach and picked his watch up off the floor.
"Damn," he muttered, it was already 9:30. The Hogwarts Express left at exactly 11:00.
Sirius sat and pushed his dark wavy hair away from his eyes. It was almost to the point of too long, he thought blankly. He looked around his room and the mess that lay everywhere. Bulgarian quidditch posters lined his walls that were painted a dark scarlet. A Gryffindor flag hung next to an assortment of muggle swimsuit models. Sirius shuffled through his scattered laundry grabbing a clean pair of jeans and a plain gray t-shirt. With a wave of his wand the rest of the clothes were sent flying into his trunk where his books, parchment and quills were already thrown in. He pulled his broom and Gryffindor Quidditch robes from the corner and shoved it in the trunk as well. This only resulted in Sirius having to sit on the cover to jam it closed.
Sirius shrank the trunk and pocketed it. He let his owl, Ares, out his window with instructions to go to Hogwarts. Sirius sighed as he left his bedroom and entered the main house. The walls were bathed in the sickening green of the Slytherin house. He cringed as he heard his mother's wail as she berated the house elf Kreacher. Sirius smiled, he knew just what would make his mother cringe. He smirked as he sauntered into the kitchen.
"Well look who decided to grace us with his presence," sneered his mother.
She continued talking but Sirius ignored her as he always did and set about making his own breakfast. His mother hated it whenever he did 'elf work' and sure enough within seconds she began chastising him for cooking.
Sirius grabbed a piece of toast and an apple, threw on a pair of black convers and slammed the front door on his mother's voice, already feeling a large weight fall from his shoulders. He walked as far from his house as he could before he stopped right in front of a muggle child who was waiting for his bus. Sirius took one last bite of his apple before he quickly turned on the spot and apparated to King's Cross laughing as he did so at the shocked face the kid would have when he realized Sirius had disappeared.
Sirius sauntered onto platform 9 ¾ as if he was suddenly in the spotlight, which in a way he was. Three Hufflepuff girls giggled as he walked by. Sirius sent a flirtatious smirk in their direction; it didn't mean anything. Hufflepuff was known for having the flirtiest girls and Sirius was pretty sure he had dated tow of them already. A genuine though somewhat lopsided grin spread across his face as he made out a familiar voice in the crowd.
"Prongsie!" he yelled drawing the attention of the entire platform, " 'Ow I 'ave meesed you!" he said in a bad imitation of a French accent as he ran to give James a large hug.
"Oh my dear, these days we've been apart!" started James, continuing Sirius's game.
"You tow are worse than when James is with Lily," came a quiet yet amused voice as Remus walked up to the group, a bemused smirk on his face.
Sirius threw back his head and laughed a loud bark like laugh that made all the girls swoon, "Remus," he said putting an arm around his shoulders, "I have missed you."
"Oh come off it," scoffed Remus shoving Sirius's arm off laughing, "have a good summer then?"
Sirius shrugged, "As good as one could have stuck with my family in France for three months."
James' face sobered for a moment. He knew about the Blacks and what Sirius went through when he was stuck with them for a prolonged period of time, yet he chose not to bring it up.
He smiled, "The girls?" he asked quietly, looking around to see if Lily was close.
Sirius grinned, "Mate, there were so many French girls that were charmed by my wonderful charisma, I could have gotten a date for Peter."
James looked at Sirius in disbelief, "Na…you're bluffing. No one could get a date fore that lunk-"
"Hey!" cam a thin voice, "I'm right here!"
"You made it did you?" said James turning towards Peter happy to see him, "almost sent out a search party."
Peter smiled, "I slept late, my mum had to wake me up."
Sirius rolled his eyes, "Classic Wormtail. First day of school and you're already late."
"Oh don't listen to him Peter," said Lily as she joined the group and held James' hand, "Sirius still hasn't gown up since first year."
Sirius smirked and winked at her. Lily rolled her eyes and turned to James who was trying to hide his own grin.
"I haven't seen Kayleigh yet," she asked somewhat worried. If she knew Kayleigh at all she would be causing trouble somewhere.
"Oh yeah," remarked Sirius, "where is ugly anyway?"
"Watch it Sirius," said Remus warningly, "One of these days she'll hear you and next thing you know we'll be trying to fix your broken nose."
Sirius simply smiled as he ran his fingers through his hair. A tall girl was standing several yards away from the group and as he looked closer at her, Sirius realized it was Kayleigh. It was nothing he hadn't seen before; her smile was the same, her laugh hadn't changed. Yet the more he watched her, the more it seemed as if it was the first time he had ever seen her. He quickly brushed the strange feeling away as Kayleigh waved goodbye to the Prewitt brothers and walked over to the group throwing her arms around James and Remus.
Sirius let out a low whistle, "Nice of you to finally join us Miss Potter."
"Watch it Black," said Kayleigh, "I've been made quidditch captain, that means if you want to stay on the team you better not piss me off too much."
She looked around at all the serious face in the group, "Guys," she scoffed, "Come on! Why so serious? Do you realize that this is our last year here at Hogwarts!"
Lily looked at Kayleigh with a small smile, "That's just it, its our last year, our last time to really be together without having to worry about jobs, or finding a flat-"
"No no no," said Kayleigh cutting Lily off from her long list of concerns, "No, it just means that whatever we pull this year, can't stick on us for too long. Now come on, we need to get a compartment before all these 'wide eyed' young people steal them all."
She walked with purpose towards the train. The group quickly followed all glad to finally be together again. Sirius walked up next to James.
"Where are your parents?" he asked James, "I really wanted to thank your mother for the cookies she sent. Completely made my summer."
James laughed, "I'll let her know. They've both been busy with all the raids. Kayleigh and I have hardly-"
He stopped abruptly seeing Kayleigh who had stopped in front of a Daily Prophet distributer. Pictures of a recent raid on a prominent death eater's mansion took up the entire front page. Streams of aurors were processing the scene and leading arrested Death Eaters out to be sent to Azkaban, yet many more lay dead of dying in the grass.
"Bloody hell," murmured Remus seeing the carnage across the page. James shook his head and after receiving a confirming nod from Lily went over to put his arm around his sister. Sirius could hear him assuring her that heir parents were not among them. Sirius grew tense though as he recognized the dark mark above the mansion. The urge to vomit was overwhelming.
"Its not you mate," assured Remus standing next to Sirius.
It was a well known fact that Sirius Black in no way accepted the actions of his family yet at times such as this, he still felt responsible for what they had done.
Kayleigh nodded at something James had said and laughed, "Come on guys, we need to plan!"
The group moved towards the train running to catch it before the doors were closed.
Peter moaned, "Kayleigh, please tell me this plan you're working on is not another one of your brilliant plans that ends up with half of us in detention."
Kayleigh waved Peter off, "Wormtail the only reason you ended up in detention last time was because you didn't run fast enough."
Sirius as well as James and Remus laughed at this as they settled into an empty compartment. The majority of the ride consisted of Kayleigh, James and Sirius all discussing their opening prank with Remus throwing in his opinions now and then. Lily couldn't even keep from offering ideas as the prank become more and more involved. The portly trolley woman came around selling sweets of which both Kayleigh and Sirius bought Bertie Botts Beans. Both soon came to the realization that they each had a conveniently sized projectile to throw at the other person. The compartment was soon swarming with vomit and booger flavored beans while the remaining marauders tried to stay as far away from Kayleigh and Sirius as the could. The compartment doors suddenly slid open.
"My my," came an arrogant drawling voice, "look what we have here Bellatrix. Its our dear cousin Sirius frolicking with the mudbloods and blood traitors."
Lily's face instantly reddened as James, Kayleigh, and Sirius stood up to block her from view. Sirius was seeing red as his hand tightened into a fist. He was contemplating which bone he should break in Lucius's face when he felt a calm hand just barely touch his arm and bring him back to reality.
"I don't recall inviting you here Malfoy," sneered Kayleigh calmly, "I suggest you leave before I let Sirius punch you wherever he wants, as many times as he wants."
Lucius only smirked at Sirius causing Sirius' jaw to clench. A group of first years ran by their compartment and into the one next to theirs. Lucius just smiled snidely, not wanting to start anything with witnesses around.
"On the quidditch field then," he said arrogantly.
"You haven't got a chance," said Kayleigh confidently as she slammed the compartment door shut on his smirking face. James and Sirius sat down, James holding Lily's hand comfortingly.
"Git," said Kayleigh from the window; she was watching to make sure Lucius had actually left.
"You shouldn't let him bother you so much Lily," Kayleigh said as she plopped herself on the seat in-between Remus and Peter pulling out her Bertie Botts.
Lily smiled, "Just make sure you annihilate them in quidditch this year. I don't think I could possibly stand a gloating Malfoy."
Sirius, who had remained silent through out the entire exchange, sat contemplating certain events that had occurred all within the past few hours. He stole a quick glance towards Kayleigh that did not go unnoticed by Remus something was different about her; he was sure of it.
Little did Sirius know, that from that moment on, his life would never be the same.