Waiting and Waiting and Waiting Again


Alma Aleron was a large school in New York City, as it serviced the north eastern students of America as well as others from across the country who chose to go there rather than the school they were districted for. There were seven 'houses' where new students would pledge to go to, and if they were accepted would stay until their graduation. If they weren't accepted, they would get assigned to another house. The Zombie House -Greek name Hermes- was characterized by perseverance and the ability to adapt to any situation, their uniforms were yellow and black. The Vampire House -Greek name Ebrus- is characterized by being dramatic and very serious, their uniforms are red and black. With pink and yellow colors, the Pixie House -Greek name Aphrodite- are characterized by their persuasion. The jocks of the school belong to the Werewolf House -Greek name Ares- which is the more military set up, their colors are slate grey and burgundy. Most of the genius' of the school come from the next house, the Igor House -Greek name Hephaestus- who are known for their mathematical thought process, they're very logical and known by their acid green uniforms. Lastly, there is the bigfoots. Bigfoots are friendly, hard working people. Their Greek name is Apollo and their colors are orange and blue.

On their first day back from break Alpha and John walked onto the school campus with high hopes.

"Well," Said Alpha, "I've got to set up in my dorm, meet up around 2 in the library?"

John nodded and gave her a sideways hug before walking into the Werewolf house. Alpha watched him walk in and smiled lightly before heading to her own dorm, Bigfoot.

"Hey guys!" Alpha yelled as she entered the Bigfoot house, feeling at home with the mix-matched furniture.

"ALPHA!" A fellow sophomore yelled, running down the stairs. Katrina's thick black hair was up in a ponytail, her think bangs masking her face of joy at seeing her best friend.

"KATRINA!" Alpha yelled with the same happy tone of voice. They hugged and stepped back before heading to their dorm. "So," Alpha asked, "how was your break? Have a good Hanukkah?"

"Very good," She said with a smile, "We went down to Florida, spent time with my Dad's family. What about you?"

Alpha shrugged, "Nothing too crazy, turned the cat green."

"You kissed John didn't you!" Katrina said, jumping up and down with excitement as her pink faced counterpart unpacked.

"Yes," She said, knowing there was no use lying about it happening, "But it's no big deal, I mean, I've kissed tons of guys."

"Not, you can't fool me so easy," Katrina said. "The two of you live on the landmines of your sexual tension, this was bound to happen. Let me guess, during one of the muggle movies?" As Alpha blushed deeper Katrina laughed, "I so told you so, this is great."

"Seriously though," Alpha said, "It's no big-"

"Don't bother lying to me," Katrina interrupted.

"Look," Alpha said, frustrated at her embarrassment. "I have to unpack, and dinner starts soon, can I do that."

Katrina rolled her eyes, "Fine, don't forget that you scheduled the cheer meeting tonight."

Alpha nodded and continued putting her stuff up in her closet/dresser and desk.

Alpha did not set her dorm up like a dorm, it was her home while she was there and she didn't intend on being a guest there. She had two small tubs under her bed, one for spare sheets and blankets, and one for her record player and records, something she was known to bring out frequently. It had been a gift from her biological father in Europe and one of her favorite possessions. Her bed was, like the others in the room, a thick wood framed twin mattress. Unlike the others, however, her bed was charmed to look light yellow (though the charm was taken off when she left for breaks) and her rainbow quilt, something she had made as a child, with matching pillow case was atop it. She also brought two spare pillows, donning rainbow quilted pillow cases on them. On her desk she had a typewriter, paper, pens and pencils, a framed picture of her family, a variety of books, and all of her school supplies. Where her desk was school focused, her closet/dresser combo was not (excluding, of course, her potions kit on the floor). In the closet was a built in dresser on the right half with a mirror-door covering the cubby like compartment on the top. Alpha used her cubby for her money, letters, her camera, and anything else she wanted even slightly hidden because the top cubby of everyone's closet was charmed to only open at a tap of the owners wand. She used her drawers to hold her shirts, pants, sleepwear, underwear, games (she had Monopoly, Uno, and a deck of cards), and her last one she used for random things like spare bags and film. Hanging in her closet she had dresses from past dances, her cheer uniform, a bath robe, jackets, her jeans, and shoes. To finish filling her well organized (and filled) closet on a small shelf above her hanging portion of her closet, Alpha kept her towels and bathroom like things. Due to the (charmed to be blurry glass) doors covering her closet and dresser, the closet was not the popping part of Alpha's windowed corner of the dorm, the walls were. Alpha's walls were a light pink charmed to stick to anything she put on the wall and tapped twice with her wand (another double tap removed it).

As Alpha left the room when she finished packing, her fellow dorm mate Mary thought that the reason she never got in trouble for her walls was simply because it was advanced magic that the girl had essentially made up in a project her second year, and the teachers were scared of the large amount of uncontrolled magic the girl so obviously possessed.

Alpha pulled her hair into a ponytail as she walked down the a stairs into the common room. Those in the big foot house usually spent time in the upstairs living area, but whenever someone from other 'houses' came over, they were only allowed in the downstairs living area, and Alpha was hoping that John was there.

"Hey, there she is!" Katrina said, "John look."

Alpha rolled her eyes, only just waving off the blush from her face. She would never admit how happy she was to see John.

"You here for the paper?" She asked with a grin.

"I'm not sure, will you chuck an alarm clock in my face if I am?"

Alpha shrugged, and Katrina rolled her eyes.

"Of course any kissing with you two involved is violent," She said as if she should have known.

"You two kissed?" Asked Jacob, Johns friend who came partially because he had a thing for Alpha.

Alpha just winked at him and Mary, who had just walked in, laughed. She walked up to Jacob and grabbed his hand, the couple smiling at each other. Mary knew about Jacobs puppy love, but did not hold it against Alpha. She had seen Alpha try to have a relationship before, it hadn't worked. Why? Most of it was that guys just got to jealous, then controlling, because -no matter what Alpha did- she constantly had guys chasing after her and guys just didn't get it. That was part of the reason she thought that Alpha and John would be such a great couple. While John was protective, he had girls chasing after him and understood that, yeah, it was fun, but that was because in some cases it was best to look at the (granted obvious) upside.

"It's not exactly a shock," Mary said, "I mean look at them."

Katrina agreed, "It's always the jock and the cheerleader, or have you never seen a movie?"

"Most of the movies I watch are filled mostly with explosions and gore," Jacob said.

"Okay, okay," Said Alpha, "As much as I enjoy my physical relations with guys, can we pick another topic?"

John nodded, "I second that."

"Fine," Said Katrina, "But we are talking, tonight."

Mary nodded in agreement as they headed out, by the time she had nodded -however- John and Alpha were engaged in a conversation. Mary murdered to Jacob.

"Oh yeah," She murmured, "Those two aren't a couple at all."

Katrina nudged Mary and pointed slightly at their intertwined hands by their closely connected bodies.

-0-

"Hey, James," Lily said lightly, as if Alpha were sleeping and she didn't want to wake her, as she entered the room at St. Mungos.

James looked up from his book, "You've been a bad influence on me." He said with a smirk as she sat on the two seating chair next to him, she smiled and laughed lightly.

"Really now?"

"Really," He said, "I'm reading now."

Lily smiled then took a deep breath,

"What is it?" James asked, concerned and confused.

"I was called to the Headmasters office because they wanted to inform me that I'm new Quidditch Captain." She said softly, feeling bad about stealing his job.

"What?" James asked, angry, confused, sad, and a mix of other negative emotions. His body slumped, how could they do that? He had earned that position, it wasn't fair for them to just take it away.

"You haven't been getting the job done, sweetie," Lily said. "I've been running practices for the last week and a half, you don't even show. You're not sleeping, and you've lost weight. You've got missing assignments in all of your classes."

"I'm going through a rough time and you know it," James said harshly, leaving Lily hoping they wouldn't fight again, they'd only just gotten on again and that was only because they dropped the issue.

"I know," Lily said, "But James, all of this responsibility isn't helping, and regardless, you can't have a job you're just not doing."

"You're my helper" He said, "Its your job to help me out with being Captain!"

"Yeah," Lily said, "Help, not do, there's a difference."

James huffed, much like a young child, and Lily sat next to him on the love seat type chair he was in.

"James it's okay," She said. "Everyone understands, with everything that's been going on-"

James sighed, "You're probably right, I can't keep up Head duties and Captain duties."

"That is not the problem," Lily said. "You can lie to the others, fine, but you can't lie to me."

"Lily you don't actually know what's going on in my head." James said, anger fueling harsh words he would regret later.

Lily gasped internally, over dramatic, she knew, but a fair definition of her opinion on his response. "That's only because you refuse to tell me! You've shoved yourself into this bubble of pity where you refuse to talk about it! You're being such a prick about all of this and you're hurting everyone around you. You have to talk about your parents, you just do, and there is no way around that."

James glared at Lily and stormed out, upset with her. How could she not understand that he was not strong enough to talk about it, he had barely accepted it happened yet; how could be possibly talk about how it was hurting him? As he got to the floo and headed back to Hogwarts the anger didn't leave, but the anger was joined by a combination of the feeling of death flowing throughout his body (which, if you didn't assume already,was an unpleasant feeling) and a pang of realization that, yes, he was angry, but he was most probably wrong. Once getting to Hogwarts he felt the all too familiar draining of his magic and he sighed. On so many levels, arguing with Lily sucked.

Back in the hospital room, Lily was in tears. She felt all that James had, that and betrayal. How could he just leave her? Rather than feeling angry, she was just sad, more sad than she could ever remember feeling. With James, she never thought that anything could separate them. Granted, she never in a million years thought his father would die and his mother would kill herself all right before Alpha went into a coma for mysterious reasons. Now though, feeling uncertain, Lily felt as if her world was falling apart. How could she have been so stupid? She was Lily Evans, he was James Potter, they were school sweethearts, not an old married couple. Why had she thought that it would last?

"Oh Alpha," She said, looking at her sleeping friend. "I know that this is a terrible reason, but I need you back. I need a girlfriend again, I need someone who understands me and James." She gave a watery chuckle as she waved her wand and cleared away most of the evidence of her tears. "You're gonna give me hell for life if you remember this when you wake up, aren't you?"

Minutes after Lily's confession, Sirius ran in. He stopped shortly at Alpha's bed, looking her over and looking at the clipboard that magically monitored her status, he let out a breath of air. She hadn't woken up, but she also hadn't died.

"Where's James?" He asked Lily, taking the seat next to Alphas bed that nobody else bothered to sit at, because they knew it was Sirius' seat.

"Heads duties," Lily said, not ready to accept herself that she'd had a fight with James, much less talk to someone about it. Besides, she justified, Sirius was worried enough about Alpha as it was, he didn't need to worry about her silly little problems.

"Ahh," Sirius said.

"Yeah," Lily agreed, "How was astronomy?"

Sirius just shrugged and Lily sighed, the situation with Alpha was killing him inside. Lily knew it, James knew it, Professor McGonagall knew it, heck even the cat that someone had snuck into the school that hung out in the dungeons knew.

"Well," Lily said, "I've got to go, homework."

Sirius nodded and Lily left, he wondered briefly why Lily wasn't doing rounds with James before talking to Alpha, letting her know what she had missed.

"It's me again," He said, "Sirius. Not much has happened, Morgan asked Alexis to Hogsmead. Malcolm's been teasing him for ages, trying to get him to do it. Alexis said yes, which I was surprised about. That Snape prefect is still missing, I don't know what they care, he probably just skipped out to join Tom..."

-0-

Cerys Whitehead was a nurse at St. Mungos who worked in the POSI Wing, People of Special Interest. Her best friend, Keira Stanley, worked with her.

"Who is he?" Keira asked about the boy in Alpha's room.

"Sirius Black," Cerys said, "With the Black stereotype, I was expecting a rude lunatic, but he's actually really sweet. For the first couple of days all he did was read books on comas, and in that he read something about the people being able to hear and ever since then that's what he does."

"I feel bad," Keira said as they worked on the room, checking on the girl. "In the POSI wing with a teen boy as her next of kin? She's got a rough life."

"A brilliant boyfriend too," Cerys said, "But I'm fine with my Hogwarts age boyfriends in trade to not be her." Keira nodded, "Well, it's 12:30, our shifts off, let's head to the pub, Lexer is already waiting."

"Oh you just want to shag him." Keira laughed as they walked out.

Slipping in after them, Tom Riddle smiled lightly, happy the nurses were gone. He slipped past Sirius and went to the other side of Alpha's bed.

"Hey sweetie," Tom said, he noticed her mind shields up, full alert. He really didn't know how long she could keep it up, he squeezed her hand. "It's going to be okay, I have Snape and he will pay if this doesn't work out."

Sirius stirred in his sleep and Tom shot a low powered sleeping spell at him, not wanting anyone to know he was there.

He stood up and walked out, murmuring as he left, "I don't care how many die, you will get better."

-0-

"I really don't need to go," Sirius objected the next afternoon.

"Sirius," Remus said, "Lily is captain now, if you miss a practice there's actually a problem."

"Besides," Juliana said, "You can't drop everything."

"Alpha would kill you if you got kicked off the team," Remus continued, not wanting Juliana to be victim of Sirius' ever shortening temper.

"Fine," Sirius said, kissing Alpha's cheek before storming out.

"She's got to come back soon," Juliana said. "Sirius is tearing himself apart."

"If anything," Remus said, "She is needed for the team. I'm happy she planned out the entire season, but the squad is missing her."

"She's needed so much at school, much less in the war," Juliana agreed as they sat down.

"Both sides have basically paused, waiting for her." Remus agreed.

"There's also the obvious," Juliana said. "That we miss her."

Remus agreed, but didn't get a chance to say so as Travis had just walked in. Remus glared fiercely and Juliana rolled her eyes.

"Well," She said, "I have Herbology homework, and I really don't want to be in here, the testosterone is simply too high."

You could hear Juliana walk out as the two teen boys stared at each other, one with more anger than anyone ever knew he could possess, one in confusion. They stood like that for a while much like in old western films when the good guy would stare at the bad guy until finally, finally one of them shot the other.

"I don't know why you are so mad at me," Travis said, breaking the tense silence during the entirety of Remus devoted everything he had into glaring.

Remus thought for a second before replying, taking a short break from the glaring. Then he spoke, "What you need to understand is that Alpha here is my sister. Not by blood, but by what's important. I let her know everything she knows about the discrimination against werewolves, she taught me a lot of things to help with the transformations. For a while she was in outs with the Marauders, and we got real close Eaters attacked Hogsmead last year, we fought together and if Alpha wouldn't have brought me to my sense I would have died. When they first started hunting werewolves, we were on the run you see, she is very important to me. More important to me than say, you." Remus stopped looking at Alpha then, glaring his new found impressive glare as he spoke, making Travis really wish he were eaten by the floor.

"You are selfish," Remus spoke, "You are stupid, thanks to that and your unrequited crush on Alpha you kept her condition from us. She could have died. Why? Because we know things about her, I know more things about her than you can ever imagine, that could affect that. After that you didn't ever tell us, you didn't even tell us late. You're cowardly and a shame to the wizarding world. Most importantly though," Remus said, standing up and going to Travis, looking down to glare at the slightly shorter seventh year. "If you ever give me the chance, I will kill you."

Searching Remus, Travis looked for any doubt. After close analysis Travis gulped. Remus was not lying, he would kill him as soon as he had the chance.

"Now why don't you leave like the coward you are," Remus said.

Travis left quickly.

-0-

In a small damp room, with no windows or lights, a bloody teen sat with his head leaning on the wall. He sat in a small cot by the wall of the room. If he opened his eyes he would see his bloody robes due to a faint glow that never left the room. He would also see a toilet and a sink, both dirty. Of course that wasn't a worry he had right now. Neither was his NEWTS or his prefect duties. Somehow, when captured by Lord Voldemort those things seemed unimportant.

Severus Snape could only assume the room was charmed, or maybe the water, because -though he was never fed- he was never hungry. He got thirsty though, and drank out of his hands from the sink when he did. However, the water didn't always work so he often went an entire day with nothing to drink.

Severus looked up, opening his eyes, as Lord Voldemort walked in. By the mans walk, Severus was pretty sure he had no intentions to torture him anymore, but he wouldn't be too sure about that.

"I see you are still keeping your shields up," The Dark Lord said. "Regardless, Alpha Omega is still in a coma, if she doesn't heal soon you will pay the price." He said nothing further and turned to walk out, Severus watched as he did so.

Why does he care so much about Alpha? Severus questioned inside. Why did he care from the start? Alpha clearly wasn't on his side, in fact she rejects it just as much as Black. In fact, her mannerism towards it was very similar to Black. Is she related to him? No, she's not related to Black, at least not knowingly, no-one would do the things that I've seen her do with Black with someone they were related to. Related to the Dark Lord? No, couldn't be. The eyebrows though, the hair curling, the eyes. Severus ran through the similarities, and the power. She's his daughter, that's why he cares, it's simple human intuition, he can't help it. Alpha, Alpha is his weakness and that's why he won't let anyone know.

-0-

Authors Note: So I know it's been awhile, sorry guys. We just moved and that was madness. Bright side, here is a chappie! I know Alpha still isn't awake, but give it time! (Or maybe I'm just gonna have her die, you never know.)

Biggie: The set up for Alma Aleron, even the name, I got from the author of the James Potter series, G. Norman Lippert. he graciously agreed to let me borrow it, and in turn you guys should seriously read the books, they're good.

Also, to my English readers, how is my 'english'? Is it realistic to how someone in England would talk?