Hey guys, sorry for not updating in a while but there has been a lot going on lately and I didn't much writing done but here it is!

In reply to RupeyGiles:

Lily did not completely recognize Evelyn because they haven't seen each other since November and in the story it is currently September of a new year. Although, they did talk through letters so Evelyn was not completely cut off. Hope I answered your question!


The compartment door slid open with a giant bang, and two boys walked in. One had messy black hair and glasses while the other had light brown hair and scars on his face.

James eyes scanned the compartment while Remus found a seat. He looked around when he saw Lily. He opened his mouth, probably to try to seduce her, then remembered that Lily was not the only female he saw in the compartment.

He spun around to find a girl in front of him. She seemed vaguely familiar but not enough to place a name to the face.

She had pretty hair with nice bangs and had lighter hair nearer to the bottom. He knew that girls had a specific name for it but who bothered remembering that stuff?

She had a tattoo along her collarbone and looked nice. Sure, she wasn't that pretty—definitely not as pretty as his Lily flower—but she was different. Maybe she was one of Sirius's old conquests that he never bothered to get to know. But usually his friend's conquests weren't friends with Lily...

"Hi," James stuck his hand out to the girl in a polite gesture. "I'm James. You are?"

The girl looked stunned for a moment before an amused expression dawned on her face. She smirked and looked to Lily, who was sitting across from her and raised an eyebrow.

James lowered his rejected hand and turned to see Lily's reaction. He immediately wished he hadn't when he saw a similar smirk blooming on Lily's face. Something was going to happen and he was going to be the butt of the joke.

"What?" He asked Lily.

Lily shook her head. "You should pay more attention."

"What do you mean?" James asked, rather childishly if you asked Lily.

Lily just gestured toward the girl, indicating to look at her. He turned to look at her and saw that she was talking with Remus, who seemed to have recognized her.

James cleared his throat to gain the attention of Remus. He glanced up and raised an eyebrow in silent question.

"You know, it's only polite to introduce your friend—that's me by the way—to your other friend." James said pointing rather rudely to the girl.

Remus stared at James for a few moments in shock before he could form a proper sentence.

"James. Do you not remember her?" Remus asked seriously, glancing warily at the girl from time to time.

James was getting confused. Was he supposed to know the girl? He squinted at the girl for a moment, taking in her familiar features then sighed and shook his head.

Remus shook his head disappointedly and then realization dawned on his face. He slowly turned his head to the girl in horror, waiting for her reaction.

James was getting annoyed. What was all this hype about a stupid girl? God, his friend was acting so weird.

"Remus, I know you care about your friend here and all, but stop making such a big deal. I don't remember every bloody person I've ever seen in my life. Get over it."

Remus stood up, an expression of pure anger on his face. James stepped back. Remus never got that mad. He would have been impressed at that anger if it were not turned on him.

"How can you say that? She meant as much to you as she did to me! No, she meant more to you! It's not my bloody fault you don't remember! Now look here—" Remus was cut off by the girl.

"That's enough, Remus." Remus looked as if he wanted to protest but was cut off yet again. "Let me handle this."

The girl stood up and drew herself to her full height. She wasn't as tall as James, but she was still pretty intimidating.

"Okay, let us try this again." she said casually. "Hi! My name is Evelyn Reeves. It's a pleasure to meet you." Evelyn smiled sweetly as if that sentence hadn't made the world start spinning.

"The pleasure's all mine." James muttered as he tried to piece together the picture.

So this was Evelyn Reeves. The one that went to Beauxbatons last year. His old friend. His old friend that he betrayed. His old friend that looks extremely different. His old friend that he didn't recognize.

Realization slowly dawned on him as his emotions changed every few seconds. From confusion, to dawning, to happiness and then to horror. He hadn't recognized her. This was bad for two reasons. One because this wasn't helping Evelyn forgive him for not telling her about Sirius, and two Evelyn would murder him.

James felt light-headed and slowly opened his mouth, trying to decide what to say, still not quite comprehending the fact that Evelyn was in front of him.

The only thing he got out was; "Remus, now that I know who you were talking about, I would like to correct you. Didn't she mean more to you than to me?" James asked.

Remus' face flushed. "Shut up, James." He mumbled. Before anyone had the chance to react, the compartment door burst open once more.

Sirius walked in and took in what was going on. James saw his expression turn from questioning and irritated to confused. James turned to see for himself what had confused his friend.

Remus looked shocked and scared as he stared at Sirius. But as he took in Sirius once more he knew it wasn't only Remus's reaction to him being there that had confused him. He looked at Lily and she looked completely horrified at seeing Sirius and that didn't happen often. She was usually the one to stand up to him and hex him or something. Not just sit there in horrified silence. But that wasn't what had confused him he could see, though that most likely had some effect on it.

He finally turned to Evelyn to see that her right hand was balled into a fist and her eyes had hardened. At first glance, she looked very angry, betrayed and upset. But if you looked close enough, which James regrettably did, you could see the smirk forming at her lips and the fingers on her left hand flexing as if getting ready for a fight. The mad-looking glint in her eye and the balls of her feet ready to pounce.

James could almost see all the thoughts of torture coming together like puzzle pieces in her head. And James was 100% sure he didn't want to see that.

Now he understood why Sirius was confused. He hadn't recognized Evelyn either and couldn't understand why she reacted that way to him. For a moment, James felt relieved that he wasn't the only one to not recognize Evelyn but then almost immediately felt incredibly scared for his friend.

He subconsciously backed up and fell onto the compartment chair to make way for the glaring contest between Sirius and Evelyn.

Well, Evelyn was glaring while Sirius just looked confused.

"This isn't going to end well is it, Potter?" James's eyes widened at being directly addressed Lily with her not yelling, who turned out to be sitting right beside him.

He sighed and nodded. "Lets just hope Sirius won't be too bloodied up by the time we get to Hogwarts. We need his charm to pull of our annual pran-ah, I mean food eating contest." He corrected awkwardly. Lily narrowed her eyes but said nothing of it.

"What ever she does to him, he deserves all of it and more for what he did." Lily whispered quietly to herself but James had heard it; and he couldn't help but agree.


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