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Chapter 6: First Days Suck

As soon as Lily woke up she knew it was just going to be one of "those days". You know the ones where you just feel like rolling over and pretending the rest of the world, school, chores, siblings, and parents don't exist.

Due to a certain mauderer Lily's hand was painfully throbbing, but she couldn't go to Madame Pomfrey. After all, how was she going to explain the large char mark in the center of her hand and the raw skin around it? Looking closer the char mark looked kind of like a stag.

Odd, I'm a unicorn. Why would the burn mark take the form of another animal unless James was…nah he's not THAT smart.

"Get up City!"

A grunt was her response.

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Slowly, Lily and Felicity made their way down to breakfast and took their usual spots at the end of the table. Though the girls were well liked they preferred to spend the morning alone due to the fact that they both couldn't function before 10a.m. Only an extremely thick person would disturb these two girls before they were finally awake, and who else would be better at disturbing than the mauderers?

"Did you girls see the show last night?" Sirius patted his hair as if he remembered the horrible frizziness might return.

Felicity smirked, "Of course we saw the show. You got your bloody arses kicked."

While Sirius profusely denied such a false claim James didn't seem very intent on sticking up for himself.

"Stag got your tongue Potter?" Lily gauged his reaction and saw a look of shock, surprise, and maybe a bit of horror flash across his features.

"I don't know what you're talking about Evans. I just..I…oh nevermind."

Lily shrugged and went back to trying to eat her French toast using her fork in her left hand.

"Oiy Evans?"

"Yes Black?"

"Since when have you been left-handed?"

Dang it! Lie Lily Lie!

"I just feel like improving my coordination you should try it sometime."

James however had his eyes closed and was scrutinizing her voice. He knew that he had heard that voice from someone other than Lily. If he could just point out who…

"Yo boys, we'd love to stay and chat, but we have DADA first and it's our fave class so we do NOT want to be late." Felicity started toward the door.

"See ya Stag and Dog."

"See ya Lily," both boys responded without thinking. However, just as the door shut after the girls the boys looked at each other in mock horror, "She knows!"

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Felicity looked at the floor as she walked with Lily toward the DADA classroom. She walked on her toes and jumped from stone to stone, loosing her balance every once in a while and flapping her arms like wings to keep her balance. She reminded Lily of a clown she had seen walking a tight rope at a circus when she was younger.

"Hey Lily?" Felicity asked while trying hard to keep her balance. Unconsciously she nibbled at her bottom lip and furrowed her eyebrows. "What was with the dog/stag comment when we left."

"My dear City, it seems the boys, or at least Sirius and James, are animagi."

"Are you kidding? They're so…so…I don't know. They're just something."

Lily laughed, "I get what you mean. But it's true James is a stag for sure, and Sirius well, I just guessed. Over the years Remus and James have cracked so many 'like a dog' jokes about him that it was just logical."

"How did you come to the conclusion that James was a stag then?"

"The burn mark on my hand. It's a stag, and it bloody hurts!"

"What about Remus? You think he's an amimagus?"

"I don't think so City. He just doesn't…it's just a feeling, but I think Remus has something different going on with him. I found out when I got stuck in a coach with them and hid under their cloaks. I'll tell you later."

"Well you better indulge my curiosity soon."

Upon reaching the DADA classroom the girls smiled. DADA was their favorite. No other class could compare. Lily may be amazing at charms and potions and Felicity should be named the Queen of Arithmacy and Transfiguration, but both girls were unchallenged when it came to DADA except by the Mauderers.

"Time to kick some ass, Lily, this will be pay back."

"Do we have a practice class today? I thought for sure we'd do demonstration."

"Nah, we'll just suck up a bit and say we want to get back in the zone after break and warm up." Felicity smirked.

"Since when do we have to warm up, City?"

"Never, but Professor Cabele doesn't need to know that."

Lily rolled her eyes, her hand was stinging profusely and the only thing that kept her off the verge of tears was Felicity's distracting conversation.

"You're in pain Storm, let me help." Felicity kept her voice below a whisper.

"I'll deal, you get back to coming up with an evil plan."

"But the plan won't be fun unless you help, and you know you can't be at your best if you're distracted with pain."

"It'll pass. I'll just concentrate."

Felicity scoffed in disbelief, "On what?"

Lily smirked and her emerald eyes glittered, "Revenge."

Felicity rolled her eyes, "Potter, Black, and Lupin are coming."

"You and your super hearing." Lily mumbled under her breath.

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"Guys it's driving me crazy. I have to find out who Storm is. It's like an obsession."

"Yeah, we can see that, Prongs." Sirius rolled his eyes and faces behind him.

Remus coughed to cover up his laugh. His friends were such idiots sometimes.

"Mooney, will you help me find out who Storm is?"

"I think she'll reveal herself in time Prongs, just be patient."

"Patient…yea right." James grumbled under his breath and scuffed the stone floor with his shoes.

As they neared the DADA classroom Sirius rammed James' in the stomach with his elbow. "Hey Prongs, your 'true love' is just ahead. Don't want her to know your sulking do you?"

"Please, she doesn't care."

"Well, we have to care since she knows our little condition."

"What condition?" Remus raised his eyebrows.

Sirius looked anywhere but at Remus, "She figured Jamsie boy and me out Remus."

"What do you mean 'figured you out'?"

"She knows we're animagi she called us Stag and Dog before she left breakfast and we kinda..sorta…responded."

"I'm friends with a bunch of nit wits." Remus shook his head, "Well, she knows I'm a werewolf, so just stay on her good side and maybe she won't tell on you."

James and Sirius looked at Remus, "She knows you're a WHAT!"

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Lily and Felicity laughed quietly at the boys' exclamation.

"Problem boys?" Felicity asked?

Sirius swooped in, "Just a misunderstanding beloved. So, tell me, how is it you came to know our secret."

"That's for us to know and for you to never discover, Black." Lily responded with smug satisfaction evident in her voice.

"But Lily Flower, surely you won't tell on us." James reached out and took her hand.

Lily yelped in pain at the contact and immediately retracted her right hand. James looked down at his own hand in confusion and found blood on his fingers.

"Lily, you're bleeding!"