Morning Light
I groaned as the world came back into view. The first few rays of the morning light were hitting my face, and they were seriously aggravating my already pounding headache. I groaned again and muttered "Áre". My palms glowed white like the sunlight and I redirected the light away from my face.
"Wow" a voice muttered. My eyes slowly opened and I sat up to face the three taller boys from the night before. I instinctively reached for an arrow but found that I touched nothing but a rough top that was certainly not mine. I blushed and looked at the boys. They looked back awkwardly , except for the one with a lopsided smile.
"Did .. You… I mean … did you… did you undress me?" I stuttered. The sandy haired boy blushed and the two dark haired boys smirked, laughing at my confusion. The sandy boy smiled kindly
"I'm sorry we don't normally act like this, it was just you slumped over so suddenly I didn't have time to worry about discretion. Anyway by the time we got you upstairs you were wriggling so much you were threatening to strangle yourself with your own hood, so we had to take you clothes off." I looked at him in shock. "Don't worry." he continued "your hood is over there and we didn't see anything you still have your own top on underneath" I glanced over to where he was pointing and saw as he said my cloak was in the corner and after checking I believed that he hadn't removed anything else.
"Satisfied were not pervs?" the one with lopsided grin smirked. I snarled and shot him an evil look which wiped the smile right off his face. I looked the dark one dead in the eye.
"Umm who are you anyway?" the guy with the dark hair asked.
I raised my hand for a small wave "I'm Selene and you are?"
All the boys smiled and dark haired boy who looked like Harry smiled at me
"I'm James Potter" the name caught in my head but I managed to hide my surprise, James Potter was a commonly heard name in the Gryffindor common room. He pointed to the other dark haired guy
"That idiot over there is Sirius Black" once again I tried to bite my tongue and hide my shock, Sirius was another well known name in the order, none the less I managed a small wave and an apologetic smile directed at Sirius. He winked back causing me to automatically roll my eyes at him.
Another boy walked into the room carrying a selection of toast, eggs, pancakes ,bacon and sausages. The smell of bacon reached my nose and I breathed in heavily. All of the boys laughed at my reaction. James continued with the introductions.
"The guys who's just come in with apparently what you were after is Peter Pettigrew". I resisted the urge to hiss, all thankfulness I had towards him for bringing me food disappeared. I curtly nodded my head reminding myself that if what I think has happened , has indeed happened he hadn't done anything yet so I cannot judge him. James seeing my reaction decided to move on.
"And the guy sitting next to you , whose bed your currently occupying is Remus Lupin." I smiled over at Remus and stuck my hand out for him to shake , instead he pulled my hand into his and gently kissed mine.
I felt myself flush, this was typical Remus behaviour even back in my own time he was a charmer but I had never had the Remus charm turned on me it was always on older , more sophisticated women but now I noticed with a start that I was the same age as him and strangely enough I was enjoying it.
Removing his lips from my hand , Remus met my eyes and smiled, "So Selene… I take it your hungry?" I nodded. He motioned for Peter to gather some food from the trays he had brought up with him. I shook my head and whispered "Let me do that". Something about Remus made me want to show off.
I closed my eyes and whispered "Falash". A blue light flashed from my palm and drifted towards the plate .With that the food that I was picturing in my mind floated onto the plate. The boys then watched open mouthed as the plate and food floated over to me and rested on an invisible cushion of air. Noticing I had no cutlery and none of the boys were in any shape to pass me anything, I sighed and quickly muttered another spell causing a knife and fork to appear beside me. The boys continued to gape. I was well over half way through the food when they finally seemed to come through.
James was the first to recover. "How… how.. Did you do that?" he stuttered obviously saying what all of the boys where thinking. I smiled at him glad that someone had broken the silence.
"Well you see. I'm not like other people. I'm a half breed" I saw Remus's eyebrows fly up into his hair, I knew about his condition but I wasn't sure whether his friends knew yet so I didn't mention it. "My father was a wizard ,a very strong wizard have you heard of Disilia family?" All the boys nodded "Well I'm one of them, imagine my families surprise when my father ran off with a wood elf" I grimaced. Que more eyebrow raising and whistling.
Sirius looked up and met my eyes "Well go on then show us what else you can do!" he laughed. I raised one eyebrow and casually winked one eye… immediately Sirius's robe burst into flames but did not burn him. I stayed staring as he tried to pat the fire out as the other boys laughed at him. He stared at me and yelled "Get this bloody fire off me!". I tutted and clicked my fingers. As soon as it started the fire collected into a ball at the front of his robes and flew directly over into the palm of my hand where it stayed flickering in its unusual purple-violet colour, for some reason my conjured fire always started out in this colour and was then influenced by my emotions. The fire in my hand then began to burn black revealing my nervousness about the question I was going to ask.
"So" I started gazing into the fire to avoid the boys eyes "Just out of curiosity what's the date" I said casually. Inside I was anything but casual , I needed to know the date so I knew just how far I had gone back.
Remus looked over at me perplexed and silently passed me a copy of the Daily Prophet, my eyes scanned the newspaper resting on the date… August 4th 1978
"Bullocks" I mumbled. I turned to Sirius "Does Professor Dumbledore work here?" The boys looked at me in confused.
"Yeah" Sirius murmured " what about him?". I bit my bottom lip and sighed " I think im going to have to talk to him about I situation I have just confirmed". All the boys looked at me curiously and Remus nodded and muttered something that sounded like "half-breed".
Suddenly the door that opened into the boys dormitory burst open and a girl stood there hands on her hips , looking absolutely furious. The boys all jumped at the sudden noise and James went very peaky at the sight of this girl and I could see why she was absolutely beautiful. She had long , red hair that was to die for and perfect almond shaped eyes that were now contorted in anger.
"JAMES ROBERT POTTER!" she bellowed in a ear splitting impression of Molly Weasley. I flinched the loud noise upsetting my sensitive hearing. Ignoring this the woman at the door, stormed over to Sirius and James. She stood glaring up at James, which was no easy feat as he was much taller than her yet he still recoiled. She replaced her hands on her hips and let rip again.
"WELL?" she yelled. Sirius and James shot a nervous look to each other and carefully James whispered "Well what Lily?". Finally it clicked Lily Evans, I smiled over at her but found her pointing at me , and glaring at me through dangerously narrowed eyes. She smiled sarcastically and laughed.
"Well what? Well what Lily? Well … who the hell is she?" she snarled. James opened his mouth to explain but Lily cut him off.
"Today at breakfast everyone and I mean everyone was laughing at me… and I had no idea why not until Peony Parkinson came up to me and told me how the WHOLE school was talking about the mystery girl who was last seen in MY boyfriends arms being carried into his room. I thought that CAN'T be true , James isn't like that. Yet here she is". She finished grandly and crossed her arms over her chest.
James sighed and went over to Lily. "If you must know, the mystery girl's name is Selene" Lily's scowl did not improve. "And last night she WAS carried into Remus, Sirius , Peter and MY room after she fainted AND she was carried in the arms of none other than Remus Lupin NOT your boyfriend. So you can tell Peony Parkinson that… and while you're at it tell her she shouldn't spread rumours about people who witnessed her sneaking into the Shrieking Shack with Malfoy a couple of weeks ago.." he smiled and gave her a small peck on the lips. She smiled back and returned the kiss. She turned to me with bright red,
"Yeah sorry about that… Im a bit crabby at the moment, I quess I over reacted. You'll understand it's that time of the month" I sighed and nodded apologetically whilst the boys looked confused until they realised what we were talking about.
"URGH! Lils too much information!" "That's disgusting!" "Yeah , good luck James!". Lily then turned to me noticing what I was wearing and exclaimed in horror. "What are you wearing! You have to borrow some of my clothes!" Without bothering to ask me what size I wore she tore out of the room and returned almost immediately weighed down with t-shirts, shorts, jeans and lots and lots of skirts. James oggled the clothes and asked why she never wore those clothes. Lily blushed and muttered something about them not fitting her. The boys turned away from the bed as I grabbed the two thing nearest to me which was luckily a light blue top and a black skirt, right up my street. When they turned back round Sirius , Remus and Peter openly stared even James eyes widened a little bit but he received a slap around the head from Lily for that.
I hopped off the bed and reached over for my cloak and my bow and arrows. I sensed the guys tense behind me, they obviously hadn't forgotten me pointing the arrows at them no longer than 10 hours ago. Carefully I put the strap over my shoulder and fastened my cloak over my shoulders. I was not going out without these on. I turned to the group of boys that were unfortunately still staring at me.
"So guys about Professor Dumbledore?" I asked waiting for them to snap out of their trance. Sirius and Remus finally snapped out of it and said together "I'll take you!". They then turned and glared at each other
I rolled my eyes again and glanced at Lily who shrugged her shoulders at me. I looked back at them who were still arguing about who would go with me to Dumbledore and unluckily for me and Lily now Peter and James had joined in.
Sensing that this argument was going to take a while, I shook my head and motioned for Lily move slightly away from the boys. I then snapped my fingers causing a large amount of water to fall onto their heads. All the boys immediately stopped arguing and broke apart spluttering and looking at me half angry half amused. Lily was now gaping at me obviously wondering how I had managed that. James leaned over and shook his hair all over Lily causing her to squeal and then continue to look at me
I looked at James pleading with him to explain to which he nodded and casually leaned over to whisper in her ear.
I didn't want to just stand around as James explained to Lily what and who I was and from the looks of it Sirius and Peter were beginning to start up their argument again. I placed my hands on my hips and yelled. Everyone in the room jumped in alarm and I noticed both Remus and James go for their wands. I rolled my eyes and tutted.
"Instead of arguing about who is going to take me to Dumbledore, why don't we all just go?" I asked raising my hands as if to illustrate the point.
I boys all gaped and then agreed that they all would escort me to Dumbledore's office. Lilly excused herself , no doubt to go and tell Parkinson the truth about me and suddenly I was left with the boys again. We stood around awkwardly for a moment but finally we set off for Dumbledore's office.
