This is the third chapter.i hope you all like it! please review at the end! disclaimer: I don't own any harry potter character's only people i make up!
James got to the prefects carriage thinking about who the head girl was. He was the first one there so he sat down and thought about his parents if they had been there to see him off at the station. His mother would most likely be in tears telling him to write home and come home for the holidays. His father would say he was so proud of him and give him the advice he needed.
Just then the door to the carriage opened and james sat up right rubbing his eyes as he had started to cry without realising it.
He looked up to see who had come in and he saw a shocked and mad red-head with piercing green eyes.
"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE ?! Lily Evans shouted.
The old james would have marvelled at her long curly red hair, big beautiful green eyes and light skin tone. Well to be honest that part was still present james but he answered her to avoid any more shouting.
"I-I'm head boy" he stammered out.
She just laughed and said "you ? head boy ? What kind of prank is that ?"
James reached into his bag and gave her the letter from Dumbledore. She snatched it out of my hand and scanned through it. Her face showed her shock.
"This can't be right ! This has to be a fake ! I'll go to Dumbledore and..."
James ignored the rest of the rant as it hurt him to hear her desperation to think of a way of him not being head boy. He then noticed a badge on her jumper with the letter HG.
"Your head girl? Congratulations" he said hoping to stop her rant she glared right at him until she saw his red puffy eyes and pale face.
He guessed she knew he was crying because she looked confused. He looked away and said "Seen as we're gonna be head boy and girl this year do you want to go over what we have to do ? I mean I wasn't a prefect but I hope I can catch up"
Lily was even more confused but before she could say anything there were people coming in. They were most likely the prefects james thought as he saw moony in the crowd.
Lily cleared her throat and said "welcome prefects to your new year at Hogwarts. You have all been chosen to represent Hogwarts as prefects. I am Lily Evans and this is james potter" (james felt warm when she said his name) "he will be your (sigh) head boy" there was stunned silence for ten seconds then everyone started whispering thinking it was a prank.
James kept his eyes to the floor in case they were still red but he said "this isn't a prank ! You can ask Dumbledore yourself ! I got a letter saying I was head boy ! Ok ? Can we get this over with !"
Everyone was silent so lily continued on with what she was saying before. "As I was saying, we are your head boy and girl. You will have extra responsibilities this year like patrolling halls at night for an *hour*" she pronounced hour louder "and you can give or take away house points only if required. If you will all please sign this sheet I'm passing around to what night you will do your patrolling I think that will be all unless you have anything to add pot-james ?"
She caught herself saying potter. While it was no secret she loathed potter she had to set an example.
"Err no I think you have about covered everything. I hope you all enjoyed your summer-he winced at that part which lily noticed- and I hope you all do well on your O. ."
And with that everyone started to leave. Lily saw Remus look at potter with a pitying look but potter just shook his head, and Remus left the compartment.
Lily was now left alone with potter and they had to stay there the whole trip in case anyone needed help.
After an hour of silence lily couldn't take it anymore! "So potter how was your summer ? Did daddy boy you an island where you could live with your big head of yours ?" She said it with so much venom and she was surprised by his silence. She knew he didn't do anything to deserve it but she did notice that he was visibly shaking when she said 'daddy'.
"It was...ok" he said and left it at that. He wasnt going to mention anything about his parents even though what she said was uncalled for.
She was shocked by his vague answer! The old potter would have pounced at the chance of her talking to him. And now he was as silent as a wall !.
"Ugh ok ? I'm just going to go for a walk." And with that she left the compartment in search of one of the marauders
She found them on the other side of the train ! She entered the compartment to the three boys shock. Sirius grinned evilly
'Well, well, well. Look who it is! What can the three of us innocent handsome men do for you miss Lily flower Evans ?" Said Sirius.
Lily snorted at Sirius words. Innocent her arse ! "I want to know what happened to potter over the summer. He's too quiet and he's obviously been crying!"
Lily noticed all the teens had turned pale and Sirius never looked more concerned!
"Listen, can you just give james a break for a while ? He's had it rough the last two weeks. He shouldn't even be going back to school yet !" Said Sirius.
Lily was even more shocked at black! He looked really worried about potter.
"What happened to him ?" She asked. She had to know or else she'd ask potter and it was obviously a touchy subject.
Remus was the one who answered her. "His parents died lily. James was the one who found them. He hasnt been the same since."
Lily gasped! His parents died ! How could she be so stupid ! She saw him wince when she mentioned his dad and that explained him shaking.
"O no !" She said.
Remus could easily read people emotions and saw regret all over Lily face.
"What's wrong ?" He asked.
" I might have asked james if his dad bought him an island to fit the size of his head" she said sheepishly.
"WHAT ?! HOW COULD YOU BE SO INSENSITVE !" Shouted Sirius.
"HOW COULD I KNOW HIS PARENTS DIED ?!" Lily huffed then walked out the door and returned to the prefects carriage.
James saw her all flustered and asked her "what happened ?"
Lily looked at him and said "I'm really sorry about what I said earlier. It wasn't fair."
"Who told you ?" Said james knowing that she now knew about his parents.
"I asked black and Remus. They didn't want to tell me but I guess I had to know. I hate when people hide things from me."
"I hate that too." Said james leading to awkward silence. James realised this was the longest conversation they ever had without lily screaming at him !.
"Um Lily ? I wanted to apologise. I'm sorry for everything I did to you for the last six years. It wasn't fair. I hope we can be friends."
Lily was shocked! This was not the same potter that tormented her for the last six years! Where was the real james potter ?!. He also called her lily! Not Evans or Lily flower! She felt even worse for her outburst and the fact his eyes were even more red since she came back.
"Thank you. I hope we can be friends too po-james." She caught herself saying potter. If he was actually going to try and be civil so would she.
For the rest of the trip lily and james talked and told a few jokes (james mainly did the jokes) which made lily laugh! He had made lily laugh!
He then told her all the pranks the marauders had done that went wrong
"When we were in third year we were going to go this anti-gravity spell in the great hall so that if a person sits on a chair for more than ten minutes, they stick to the ceiling."
"What about the enchantment's on the ceiling ?"
"Well we figured that everyone would just go through them to the ceiling. Anyway we had to do the spell to each individual chair because it wouldn't work right if we did a group of chairs together. But Sirius really wanted to know what it was like up there so he did the spell on himself and he went right up! Our theory was right. You can go through the enchantment's, unfortunately we didn't think about how thick it was. We couldn't find him in it he kept shouting which didn't make it easier. Eventually Filch found us but he didn't know where the shouting was coming from, until the spell stopped working and Sirius started to fall down so moony quickly conjured a huge tranpaloane ?"
"Tranpaloane? Do you mean trampoline ?"
"O ya ! Trampoline ! He conjured that somehow and Sirius landed in it then bounced repeatedly! He kept screaming. It was so funny! Till McGonagall found us. We didn't see Filch leave the room. That earned us detention for a month, 15 house points taken off and 10 house points rewarded for succeeding in a tricky spell and saving a student's life! So really it was 5 points taken away and a months detention."
Lily was now laughing so hard there was tears! James had never heard her laugh so much!
"Are you ok ?"
"Yeah! I just can't imagine that one of your pranks would fail!"
"It would have succeeded if padfoot had a brain and had not screamed for help ! Though If he hadn't then we would have most likely killed people when the spell wore off if we didn't get everyone down in time."
For some reason this caused lily to laugh even harder which made james laugh. He had'nt laughed in so long and it felt good.
For the rest of the trip lily and james exchanged different stories from their times at Hogwarts their childhood. Lily tried to keep the subject off Snape and james parents, knowing they were going to be touchy subjects.
Eventually the train made its way to Hogsmeade and as they were the heads it was their duty to stay behind and make sure everyone got off the train.
As they searched through the train and finally got off after giving the all clear signal james heard the familiar voice of the gameskeeper Hagrid who was a half giant.
"Any more Firs'-years ? Follow me firs'-years !"
"Hello hagrid." Said james.
"Ah hello james. You keepin well ?" Asked Hagrid in what james suspected was sympathy.
"I'm fine Hagrid. Thank you for asking. well I won't keep you. You must be busy with all the first years and what not" said an awkward james.
"Aye. Best be gettin back. B'fore I foget congrats on being head boy !"
"Thanks Hagrid see you at the feast and most likely a lot of detentions !" Said james chuckling at the last part.
"Not even head boy could stop you gettin into trouble can it ?" Said Hagrid grinning before walking back to the first years.
James turned around expecting to have to walk to the castle by himself and was shocked to see lily waiting for him.
"You didn't have to wait for me. You could have gone ahead."
"Its fine. I didn't think you would want to walk up to the castle by yourself. You could have gotten lost and then they might make Sirius head boy and I would go crazy if I had to work with him !" Said a joking lily.
"What makes you think Sirius would be made head boy ?" Asked a near laughing james.
"Well if Dumbledore had enough brain trauma to make you head boy, I'm sure he would have made Sirius a back up." Said lily giggling.
"The term hasn't even started yet and you already think I'm going to make a bad head boy !" said james with a mock hurt expression.
Lily couldn't take it anymore. She started laughing so hard her ribs hurt ! James glared at her before he cracked and laughed with her.
They made their way up to the castle still laughing and ready to start their last year at Hogwarts as friends.
