Hey Guys! Thanks to those who reviewed! They were greatly appreciated! Sorry I didn't post this yesterday, but I was busy and ididn't get on my computer so I didn't just decided to take a break. My editor did point something out to me that might some up later so I suppose I should clear it up now.
Caleb and Alex are twin half brothers to Lily. No students, and not all of the staff know this. Just like not everyone knows that Sirius and Regulus are brothers, even though they have the same last name. Their freinds don't know this because ...I said so! I guess they never told them because they thought it was a given with the name and all. But anyway, now that that's cleared up... please, if anyone has anymore questions please don't hesitate to ask me in a review! I will be more than happy to explain! Now on with the show!...or story!...or whatever!
The Hogwarts Express
Lily stood near the barrier leading to platform 9 ¾ with her family, saying good-bye to her mother and Dan. It was 10:50 a.m., and she and her brothers were going back to their sixth year at Hogwarts.
"C'mon Lily. We'd better get going if we want to find good seats," announced Caleb cheerfully.
Lily reached up and hugged her mother, then hugged Dan.
"Good luck, kid," he said putting on a fake smile and patting her arm, where he knew a bruise was. Lily did her best not to wince, despite the pain. Thankfully, Caleb and Alex hadn't noticed her momentary cringe.
"Bye Guys!" called Alex running through the barrier.
"See ya next year!" Lily said, though she didn't know why she would be back next year.
"Yeah! What they said," Caleb joked following his brother and sister onto the platform.
Lily had gone two steps when a flurry of hair blinded her vision, and she was overwhelmed by screaming girls.
"LILY!!"
"We missed you so much!"
"Why didn't you write!!?"
"Well!? What do you have to say for yourself!? Why aren't you answering me!!?"
"Heck girls, maybe if you would let her breathe she would answer you! Just a thought, you know!" shouted Alex over the screaming girls.
They backed up, and Lily resurfaced, throwing Alex a grateful look, which he returned with a grin.
"Hey Lil', we're supposed to meet the boys over by the luggage compartment. Do you want us to take your trunk for you?" Caleb suggested, seeing as Lily was surrounded by bunch of excited girls.
"Yeah, thanks guys. That would be great," she thanked, seeing that there was no way out.
"Lily Marie Evans! Why did you not write to us?!" demanded Dion, sounding angry, hurt and concerned at all once.
"I… was busy. Sorry, but there was a lot going on this summer, and I couldn't find anytime to write. I did enjoy your letters very much though," Lily lied. She had not been busy, there was just nothing going on that she wanted to tell her friends about.
"Well, if you were that busy then I want to hear about your summer," said Carrissa, with a knowing look that made Lily nervous.
"Well… Maybe we should find a compartment first?" Lily said trying to stall.
"Yeah, before all the good ones are gone," agreed Jackie.
"We missed you so much!" said Alanna giving her a great big bear hug, that happened to smash all of her bruises on her arms and back.
"OW! Alanna get off me! Please!" Lily cried pleadingly.
"Okay, okay. Just wanted to say how much we missed you," said Alanna sheepishly.
"Yeah Lily. What's gotten into you?" inquired Dion, slightly annoyed and concerned.
"N-Nothing… Sorry. I missed you guys, too," Lily said trying to make up for her outburst.
"Yeah, well, let's just go get a compartment, shall we?" suggested Jackie, heading for the train.
"Yeah, let's do that," agreed Carrissa following Jackie.
They all proceeded onto the train, looking for a compartment.
"Are they all always taken so soon?" asked an annoyed Dion when they were unable to find an empty compartment.
"Oh look! Here's one," called Alanna, finding one of the last empty compartments, and sitting down in it.
Once they were all inside and comfortable, Carrissa shut the door and asked Lily, "So, what exactly did you do this summer that made you so busy you couldn't write to us?"
"Well…, you see, my mother wanted to take us to France for a bit, and we spent all of our time there admiring the shops. Then we came back and the house had been ransacked, so we had to clean that up, and it took about a week," Lily was lying through her teeth, hoping no one noticed, "Then Dan had a business offer made to him, so we had to have tons of people over, then eventually go on a trip to Spain to visit one of his co-workers that was getting him promoted. By the time we got back, we were all exhausted and slept for two days, and I almost didn't get up in time for the train today. Good thing Petunia was screaming her head off at the fact that her most hideous blouse was missing,"
"Well, that does sound very busy. But couldn't you have found one spare minute to write to us?" asked Alanna inquisitively.
"No, sorry. We ran our feet off," Lily lied.
"Well, at least you're here now to fill us all in! Right ladies!?" called Dion happily.
"Yeah!" they all shouted at once.
"Hey, what's all the noise in here?" called a drawling, irritated voice from the doorway, "Oh, filthy mudblood having a party eh? Now we can't have that can we?" Lucius Malfoy pulled out his wand.
"No, we can't. Mudbloods having parties on the train. For shame," Bellatrix Lestrange taunted from behind him.
"Now now, Bella. If the mudblood wants to have a party, let her. It will be disgusting, like her, and then she won't feel so alone anymore," Narcissa drawled beside Bellatrix. She was never good at taunting anyway.
"Piss off, Malfoy," Lily said calmly, "And take your pinch- nosed friends with you,"
"Yeah, before Jackie comes over there and knocks your block off," Carrissa said sweetly, holding Jackie back.
"Why you insolent little piece of filth! I will have to teach you proper respect," Lucius breathed, raising his wand. He was about to say an incantation when all of the sudden, many spells hit him at once.
The outcome was not pretty. They all ended up looking like three great big blobs of goo. Everyone in the compartment was shocked, only one of them had cast a spell, and that was Jackie, unable to get over there and punch his face in herself.
"What the...?" Dion whispered looking at Jackie.
"Hey, don't look at me! I only cast jelly legs on him," she said throwing her hands up in defeat.
Just then five boys appeared in the doorway.
"Why, hello ladies!" Sirius said with a huge grin on his face.
"What do you want, Black?" Jackie said irritably.
"Oh, so that's the thanks we get for saving your skins?" Sirius asked, trying to look offended.
"I could've done it myself," Jackie said, shooting daggers at Carrissa.
"Ah, but you didn't!" Caleb pointed out smiling.
"Boys, go away, would you?" Lily asked annoyed.
"We could," Alex chimed in.
"But we won't," Sirius said, grinning like crazy, trying to hold back laughter.
"Not unless you say the magic words," James spoke up, with a debonair smile.
"And what, dare I ask, are these 'magic words'?" Lily asked crossly, "They wouldn't happen to be a jinx would they?" she added hopefully.
"No, my dear lady, they are… 'I want to go out with James Potter'," James said causing Sirius to fall onto Alex, laughing his heart out.
"In your dreams, Potter," Lily rolled her eyes.
"I do. However, why dream if I can see the real thing?" James teased.
"James, mate, do yourself a favor and shut up now," Remus spoke up.
"What if I don't want to?" James asked haughtily.
"Then you'll have me answer to," Jackie said threateningly.
"Ah! Dost mine ears deceive me? Or 'twas that a threat I did hear?" James said theatrically.
"I believe you dost hear a threat, my good sir," Caleb said playing along.
"A threat?! I must hunt down and destroy this threat! No one can threaten I, James Potter, and live!" James called dramatically, clutching his chest.
"Oh goody, maybe you'll die now," Lily said hopefully.
"James, let's go, before you cause anymore trouble," pleaded Remus, eyeing the situation carefully.
"You wouldn't, so happen, to be trying to save this fair lady from her fate, would you?" Alex called playing along as well.
"Nay, he wouldn't. For then we would have to dispose of him, too!" Sirius said, bounding over to Remus.
"T'would be a noble fight," Caleb said, joining Sirius.
"And ashamed would you all fall. Oh no," Lily said sarcastically, slamming the door shut and locking it.
"Thanks for the support guys," Jackie added sarcastically, to the three girls who had just sat there and watched.
"Well, it's not that we didn't want to help you," Dion began.
"We just thought you had things under control," Carrissa finished.
"Yeah…," Alanna said meekly.
Jackie and Lily exchanged exasperated looks. They knew the reason the three hadn't helped. It was because all of them liked one of the boys standing there.
"You guys are pathetic," Jackie said irritably.
"I'm going for a walk. I need some air," Lily said standing up and walking to the door.
"We're on a moving train," Alanna reasoned.
"With windows and corridors," Lily added, walking out of the compartment and closing the door.
Lily walked down the corridor, away from her compartment. She needed to think, and being in there, thinking was impossible. She stopped at an open window and leaned her head out slightly, catching the wind on her face.
She couldn't do it anymore. This was the third year in a row that she had lied about her summer to the girls. She had to tell someone. She needed a confidant that she could talk about her problems with. Her friends knew about Petunia, and about her parents, but they didn't know about… Dan.
She knew that eventually she would have to tell them. She just didn't want… well, she didn't know anymore. She hadn't even told her best friend, Dion.
Just then her thoughts were interrupted by a harsh sudden stop of the train. The lights flickered on and off. The train started trying to move again, but every time it did, it would come to a sudden stop again. Lily was jarred upward, and her head hit the top of the window.
Everybody was screaming, and she slid to the floor, holding her throbbing head. People started flying out of compartments and running up and down the corridor screaming, not noticing Lily. Jackie and Dion came running out of their compartment looking for Lily.
"LILY!" "LILY WHERE ARE YOU!" Was all Lily heard. She couldn't tell who was calling her or where they were. She started calling out to the voices.
"I'M HERE!" she yelled, her head throbbed painfully.
"LILY!"
"RIGHT HERE!" she called back, ignoring her head.
A few seconds later she saw two people running towards her, shoving people out of their way.
"Lily! Is that you!?" Dion called to a black mound on the ground.
"Dion!" Lily cried out, "You don't know how happy I am to see you!"
"Lily, we've got to get out of here!" Jackie shouted to her, helping her stand.
Lily had just regained her balance when the train stopped again, causing the three to fly into the compartment doors across the hall. One of them opened and they all fell inside, landing on something soft. The lights flickered again.
"Well, hello ladies! Nice of you to join us!" called Sirius through the dark.
None of them could see in the compartment. Jackie felt a hand on her back, feeling her up.
"Sirius Black, get your hands off me right now, before I break them!" Jackie shouted, trying to stand up. She sat down on the only empty seat, beside Remus, and the compartment door.
"Oh, how'd you know it was me?" Sirius said pouting. Jackie glared at him though the dark, but he couldn't see.
"Um, Lily?" Remus asked to the person across his lap.
"Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry Remus!" she cried, jumping up off of him.
"No problem, Lily," Remus said kindly.
"You can come sit here, Lily," said a familiar voice playfully.
"I wouldn't sit with you if my life depended on it, James Potter!" Lily said, "Caleb, Alex! Where are you guys?"
"Over here, Lily," they called together, to her right. She walked over and sat on them, away from James.
"Well, where am I supposed to sit?" inquired Dion.
"Here Di', you sit here," Jackie said getting up and taking a seat on the ground in front of the window.
"Where are Alanna and Carrissa?" Lily asked.
"Their in the compartment, waiting on us," Dion replied.
"Yeah, but unfortunately, we can't get to them, now can we?" Jackie retorted.
"Sure, just make yourselves comfortable. It's not like this is our compartment or anything," Sirius joked. Jackie kicked his leg. "Okay, okay! You're welcome to stay!" he recovered, clutching his legs to his chest.
"Do you guys want us to take you back down to your compartment? Or we could go fetch Alanna and Carrissa," suggested Alex kindly.
"I am not going back out there. I have a bloody headache," Lily said gripping her head.
"Yeah, would you go get them please? I don't want to worry them," Dion said through the pitch, blackness.
"Sure. Who's coming with me?" asked Alex, standing up.
"I'll come, Alex," said Remus, also standing.
"We'll be right back ladies," Alex said directing his comment at everyone in the compartment.
"Why you little-!" called Sirius as they ran out the door. Lily and Jackie temporarily took the empty seats left by Alex and Remus.
"So once they get here, where are they going to sit?" asked James wonderingly.
"They'll join me on the floor," Jackie suggested coolly.
"How comfy," Dion said sarcastically.
"They could sit on us?" recommended Sirius, grinning.
"You wish," said Jackie, punching his arm.
"Hey! Enough with the kicking and the hitting already!" cried Sirius holding his arm, "You have violent friends, Lily!"
"I know," replied Lily, smirking, "Well, I think Sirius has a point… for once. The only other spots for them are sitting on you guys. However, I am not letting them anywhere near you two," she said pointing at Sirius and James, downing their happy faces.
"They can sit on Remus and Alex. If they consent of course. They're the only civilized people in here, other than Caleb, and I'm sitting on him. And I'm not even sure they're civilized!" she finished making her point very clear.
"Hey!" cried Caleb, sounding offended.
"Oh, shut up. You know it's true," Lily retorted.
"Well… yeah, okay," Caleb relented, smiling.
The door burst open and Alex and Remus came staggering in, breathless.
"Where are Alanna and Carrissa?" inquired Dion.
"They're not there!" Alex cried in between breaths.
"What do you mean they're not there!?" shouted Jackie angrily.
"They aren't in your compartment!" cried Remus.
"You idiots!" Jackie yelled, running out of the compartment.
"We have to find them!" said Lily, getting up and dragging Dion out of the compartment, closely followed by the Marauders.
"Alanna! Carrissa!" they all shouted through the crowd. Jackie didn't bother. She just pushed her way through the crowd, trying to get to their compartment.
"Where would they go?" asked Caleb making his way through the crowd.
"I don't know!" Lily shouted nervously, "Alanna! Carrissa!"
"Could the Slytherins have gotten them?" James asked inquiringly.
Lily stopped dead. What if the Slytherins had gotten them? Who knows what they were doing now. Alanna and Carrissa had more sense than to go out of the compartment when they were told to wait.
"Lily!" Alex shouted, shaking her from her thoughts, "C'mon! We've got to keep moving!"
Lily shrugged off the pain now shooting through her arms again, and continued calling to her friends.
"Lily! Dion! I found them!" shouted Jackie, reappearing at their sides, "Follow me! Come quick!" She took off once again through the crowd, Lily and Dion in her wake. Jackie led them through the door of the carriage, up the ladder, and onto the roof.
"Jackie! We're on top of a moving train! Why would they be here!?" called Dion, though the train could hardly be called 'moving'. It was only jerking every few seconds.
"Follow me!" was all Jackie said.
"Where are you guys going?!" called a voice from the ladder.
"Alex! Get down! We'll be back in a minute!" Lily shouted to him.
"Not on your life!" he said, climbing onto the roof, followed by the other Marauders.
Lily gave up and continued after Jackie. They were halfway to the other end of the carriage when Jackie stopped abruptly.
"What are you doing? Where are they?" inquired Lily, looking around her.
"Down there," Jackie said gravely, pointing over the edge of the carriage. Lily looked over the edge and there, sure enough, were Alanna and Carrissa, hanging on for dear life.
"Oh my goodness! How did you get there!?" Lily called to them.
"Help us up, would you!" Carrissa called back, her grip slipping. Lily grabbed Alanna's writs and pulled, as Jackie did the same with Carrissa.
"She's too heavy!" Lily cried to Dion, "I can't hold on!"
"I've got it Lily!" said James from behind her. He grabbed Alanna's wrists as Lily slipped hers off.
"Lily, I'm slipping!" shouted Jackie, who was indeed about to fall over the edge herself. Lily and Dion ran over to Jackie, grabbing her waist and pulling.
"I thought one person was heavy!" cried Lily over to Dion, who laughed causing Jackie to slip some more. "Dion!" Lily shouted in frustration. The train jerked and Lily and Dion lost their grip.
"Jackie! Carrissa!" Dion cried as she let go. Just then Alex bounded forward and grabbed Jackie's ankle. "Caleb! Get over here!" he cried in desperation. Remus and Caleb ran over and grabbed Alex, pulling them back onto the train.
Lily was so relieved, and then it dawned on her, "Alanna!" she turned around to see James and Sirius pulling her up. "Oh my Gosh! You guys scared the wits out of me!" Lily shouted at them regaining her senses, "How did you get there in the first place?!"
"Slytherins," was all Carrissa had to say. Everybody nodded in comprehension. "Oh…," Lily said sheepishly.
"Hey! Aren't you and Remus supposed to be at a meeting?" Alanna asked confused.
"Yes, well… I think it's cancelled now. Seeing as they can't get the train to work, and we're almost to Hogwarts anyway. Just over this next…," Remus said casually then a look of horror struck him, "hill. C'mon guys! We've got to get down off of here NOW!" he said grabbing Alanna and Carrissa's wrists, and running like mad to the ladder.
The others exchanged panicked looks before bolting after them. They found Remus at the ladder ushering the girls down, and motioning for every one to hurry up. Lily and Dion climbed down the ladder and rushed inside awaiting the others. Jackie and the Marauders slid down the ladder to save time, trying to get inside before they arched over the hill.
They made it inside and grabbed the girls' wrists, dragging them to their compartment, bracing for the second they lurched over the hill. They got inside and grabbed onto anything sturdy, ready to catch someone if they fell.
With one last jerk, the train peeked over the hill and began speeding down, uncontrollably. Luggage in the racks started flying out and toppling round the compartment. Everyone in the halls slid to the front, screaming. Compartment doors flew open and shut, causing panic with their slamming.
"Lily! Watch out!" cried Carrissa as a trunk came flying down about to hit her. James leapt forward, pulling Lily down, shielding her with his body, while covering his own head. The trunk hit his back hard, and then slid off onto the floor.
"James, mate! You alright?!" called Sirius, alarmed. James grabbed the seat, and pulled himself up, grabbing onto the hangar rack, and helping Lily up.
"Yeah, I'm okay," he answered, rubbing his back.
"This is why I hate heights!" cried Dion, clinging to the handle by the door for dear life. Just then, the door came slamming shut and crushed her hand. "Ahh! I can't feel my hand!" she screamed, holding the handle with one hand and slipping.
"Dion! You're slipping!" warned Jackie, as Dion slipped off and flew into the seat across from her, hitting her head on the wood, above the seat.
"Dion! Are you okay!?" cried Alanna, frightened. Dion slid off of the seat and onto the floor, unconscious.
"DION!" screamed Lily, letting go to check on Dion, but James held her back.
"She'll be alright! Just hang on tight!" shouted Remus.
The train sped down the hill for about a minute, picking up speed. It reached the bottom of the hill and sped off down the tracks to Hogsmeade station, but instead of stopping, it just kept going.
"How far do the tracks go on for, Remus?!" called Alex.
"About a half-mile!" Remus answered, shakily.
"We're going to crash!" Lily screamed in terror.
"Everybody, brace yourselves!" Caleb shouted, getting down on the floor. They all followed suit.
Suddenly, they found the train slowing down until it was almost to a crawl. Alanna started to get up, but James shouted, "NO! Stay down! You don't know it's safe yet!" pulling her back down.
The train stopped, then slowly, but surely started making its way backwards, to Hogsmeade. The train stopped again, but this time for good. People slowly started standing up, and filing out onto the station. Caleb and Alex peeked out the window, making sure it was safe.
"Guys! We're here!" Alex shouted joyously, "We're at Hogsmeade!"
"We made it!" yelled Caleb, helping the others up.
"How's Di'?" Lily asked making her way to Dion.
"She's okay. Just knocked out… I think," Sirius added mumbling. Lily glared at him.
"Dion. Dion wake up. We're at Hogsmeade. Wake up! Dion!" Lily shouted, trying to make her wake up.
"Lily," Caleb comforted, grabbing her arms. Lily flinched and stood up.
"Lily, she'll be okay," he comforted thinking she was just worried about Dion.
"Yeah, I know," Lily said walking out of the compartment.
They all gave each other confused looks, and shrugged. Sirius picked Dion up and carried her out of the compartment, followed by the rest of the Marauders, Jackie, Alanna, and Carrissa. They walked out onto the platform, and saw Lily standing in the crowd, her gaze fixed on the castle.
"Lily?" James asked, walking up to her.
"Dion needs the hospital wing. Then she'll be just fine," Lily said not taking her gaze off of the school.
"Right, okay. We'll do that, then," James replied confused.
"Have Sirius carry her up there. I'll join her shortly," Lily continued.
"Lily, are you alright?" James asked, thoroughly perplexed.
Lily turned to him. "I'm fine," she said smiling weakly, "Don't worry about me. Just hit my head, you know,"
"Right. Okay then. If you say so," James said, a bit relieved, but still confused. Lily turned and continued off to the horseless carriages.
Sirius caught up with James, "Soo… how'd it go?"
"I'm not sure," replied James, rubbing the back of his head.
"Hey, look at the bright side. At least she didn't yell at you!" Sirius joked.
"Yeah, I guess," James said perking up.
They all made their way to the carriages, where Lily had already gone. They all climbed in, and made their way to the school.
"Well, That was a fun train ride!" said Jackie sarcastically.
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