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Previously...

So far Sirius has been disowned. He and Relgus talked it over but are not meant to see each other again. Sirius and Marlene who were friends with benefits had an argument and Sirius told her he was giving up on her. Marlene pretended to be over him to and started dating someone called Betram. James also told Sirius he was giving up on Lily as he was dating Sarah. Lily has a crush on James but won't tell him as he is dating Sarah but she spends time with him and Sirius over the Christmas holidays. Their are attacks nearly everyday from the war and everyone is worried.

Sirius sat in the common room furiously scribbling a letter, Remus dared to ask what was up to which Sirius ignored but glared at the parchment with such intensity that Peter was surprised it didn't burst into flames. James then asked to which Sirius replied "My last name." James looked at his best friend then snatched up the letter. Sirius gave a cry of anger as he tried to snatch it back. James read it as a wave of sympathy crossed his face "Sirius mate who is your family?" Sirius looked surprised by this as he answered his voice croaky "You lot." Remus pulled him in for a hug and James said "Then you can't change your last name to White you can change it to Potter." Sirius blinked back tears of emotion "Really? Won't Mum and Dad mind?" James gave a little laugh "You are their son, maybe not by blood, you are my brother, all of you." Sirius then hugged James as he said "I have never had a proper family before." Peter looked at the boy "You have, you just didn't realise it Sirius mate." The four Marauders all hugged then broke apart. They were the marauders, a family despite blood, despite anything they were brothers.

It was soon real that Sirius Black was not officially Sirius Potter as the transaction took a few months; however all the teachers had kindly taken to call him by his preferred last name. Which caused a great number of jokes among the Slytherins; Snape called from across the hall "Ah the newlyweds." The two boys ignored this but Dumbledore said in a rumbling voice "30 points of Slytherin, don't taunt what you don't understand Severus." The hall looked in surprise at the unusually grave headmaster. Lily came over then and hugged Sirius "Ignore them- I think what you did was brave Sirius."

Marlene was looking for Betram deciding she might surprise him, when she saw him in a deserted corridor- he was not alone, he as snogging the living day light out of some girl. Marlene turned smartly away and strode off unnoticed by the occupied pair. When she arrived at the tower, she wasn't angry or upset to be honest a tiny bit annoyed but the truth was she didn't care about Betram that much. However she told her friends what she had just witnessed. Lily leapt up at the same time as James and Sirius. James said in a commanding voice "Evans sit down, we have something planned that could get you in trouble." Sirius smirked at his best friend, their minds of mischief almost identical. "Let's go." And the two raced off to find the boy.

When they came back they had lost 20 points from Gryffindor, received double detentions but were smirking. Betram had now got an enlarged head and was carted off to St Mungos. Sirius stared laughing as he retold what had happened "Minnie would have been really mad but we told her he had cheated on you, she was probably given us a month otherwise" Marlene gave a little snort. Her eyes met his and locked- she felt an urge of lust then she reminded herself that he had let her go. With this thought she struck up a conversation with Alice but soon was engaged by something Sirius had said. Lily watched them slightly enviously, she was happy for them but now everyone seemed to be in love, Alice had Frank, Marlene had Sirius (not that they admit it) and Mary well Mary was defiantly not in, love but she had been seeing this boy from Hufflepuff and they were going strong, James had Sarah. Lily was alone. She looked at the boy with a scarred face opposite her "Remus why do you never date?" She had asked the boy the previous year. With a heavy look on his face he replied "Because I am dangerous." Lily shook her head "No you are not aside from once a month." Remus shook his head "It is dangerous to be associated with a monster Lily." Lily looked had looked at him her eyes full of pity "Remus you are one of the kindness people I know, you are not a monster you have a condition." He had smiled at this "Lily don't worry about me I do this to protect the world from me." Lily shoulders sagged at the memory; Remus had such strong self-hatred it was painful to see, he had such a big heart.

Sarah and James were sitting intertwined in the Ravenclaw common room "Babe" Sarah said in a seductive voice which actually had the opposite effect on James who found it irritating, "Yeah?" He replied with forced nonchalance "Have the Marauders got any plans coming up?" James gave his signature smirk and said in a mock of professional tone "Why ma'am that is classified information." Then he winked as Sarah giggled. James and the marauders didn't actually have anything planned for a change but he decided to sound mysterious.

A while later James went up to leave and bumped into Lily who was on prefect duties. "Evans." He nodded as he went to walk past, Lily stared at him in disbelief "It is 11 o'clock Potter! You are out of curfew!" James smirked and said "Me and Sarah were busy…" This nettled Lily, perhaps because it implied that Sarah had done things with him which she so longed to do, she said her voice dangerously close to cracking "That's disgusting- detention." James seemed to be nettled by this as he responded with heat "Stop being so stuck up Evans." Lily gave her death glare at the boy, "Stuck up? I am responsible Potter! Unlike you who couldn't look after a flobworm" She screeched. James glared at her "Responsible? I am I just like fun, you just don't. " He snarled in response. The two quickly engaged in a heated argument; "ARAGONT TOERAG!" "AT LEAST I CAN PICK DECENT FRIENDS!" James bellowed and Lily stopped in her tracks as he pressed on a little sneer only reserved for Snape on his face, "who was your best friend a death eater? Great character judge- shows who you really…" He was cut off by Lily who hissed her voice barely audible but injected in so much venom Voldemort himself would of flinched "Potter how dare you use that against me, you are just as bad, you are a bully, you are cruel, you ARE the most disgusting, low life human being this school has ever seen, I almost pity you." James started laughing; a hollow humourless laugh which made the hairs on Lily's neck stand up "Evans you judge on a death eater wannabe thoughts." Lily's bright green eyes were lined with salty tears "You turned him into that Potter, maybe I do have a bad character judge- I thought you were a good guy." With that Lily turned and walked smartly away abandoning her rounds. The second she turned the corner her shield broke and she sank to her knees as the tears streamed down her face. She loved him dammit why couldn't he have changed?

The second Betram was back from St Mungos Marlene cornered him in the hall told him exactly what she thought about him turned away with her head held high. Sirius grinned at her as she sat down, Remus he asked whilst trying very hard not to laugh "Why so happy?" Sirius just grinned even more so "Lovely weather." Then carried on eating ravenously. Peter observed the celling; it was misty, grey and downright miserable. Peter smirked and said sarcastically "Very." Everyone but Marlene and Sirius snorted in to their breakfast. Lily then returned to glaring at her cereal her mind only making one thought, of James Potter. The man himself, if you could call him a man was two tables along with Sarah. Lily wished James could change- the day he stopped hexing people for fun, and making mean comments would be the day Lily would admit to him that she loved him. But did she love him? She wasn't sure- perhaps she just had a crush on a bad boy, she would get over it…right?

The next few weeks lived up to the dismal mood the harsh January weather chilled the increasingly miserable 6th years to the bone. Marlene had started dating another boy; Sirius was kissing another girl every time he was seen; both of them being insanely jealous. James and Sarah were still going strong but James seemed to get annoyed easily as he was still moody from his argument with Lily, whilst she was only seen at meal times. The others seemed to sit miserably in their own thoughts aside from Peter who kept vanishing and taking the map with him. The only people who seemed genuinely happy were Frank and Alice. They were in love; the deaths every day, and their friends broken hearts effected them but couldn't burst their bubble. Before anyone knew what was happening it was one of the worst holidays to celebrate whilst you were lonely and heartbroken; Valentine's Day.

Lily woke up dreading the day she opened one dreary eye praying her friends were already up, they were. Lily sighed in relief she put on a baggy jumper a top and some skinny jeans which were a little too big. She scraped her hair back and went straight to the library as she felt to nauseous of seeing Sarah open her Valentine 's Day card. She was not surprised to see it was almost empty. She got out a book and started reading.

Marlene was fully dolled up and had a river full of cards; James had a fair few but gave one to Sarah. Sirius smirked and had the hugest collection of cards, Marlene pointedly refused to look as he opened them, she felt a bit queasy thinking all those girls had got him a card. Peter had a couple as did Mary, Remus had at least 7 but looked at them uneasily. Lily then entered dragged in by Alice and Frank who were wearing matching jumpers. Lily turned a magnificent shade of green when she saw the love hearts in front of James Potter. Lily moodily ate breakfast- nearly everyone in the hall had a card, she didn't. She stabbed her breakfast as though it had committed a crime when in front of her was a 7th year Ravenclaw he nervously stammered "Hi Lily." Lily looked up glaring up; he was holding a box of chocolates "Those from Marlene?" She asked icily she had already been given 2 for her best friend as people were too nervous to talk to the girl herself "No... They are for you I mean if you…" The boy trailed of awkwardly, Lily expression softened "Thank you… Jason" The boy grinned at her and she smiled back "I wasn't sure you remembered my name I am a prefect so I thought you might…" Lily grinned "I did Jason" She opened the card which read "Will you be my valentines?" Lily looked up he was handsome with bright blue eyes and a strong jawline. He seemed smart and nice so she replied "Yes… I will meet you at the gate at 12 o'clock?" Jason smiled "See you then." And he walked off to the Ravenclaw table his friends waiting anxiously and cheered when he gave them a thumbs up. Lily laughed. James had watched this exchange an expression of up most jealousy on his face.

At 12 o'clock on the dot Lily met Jason who looked very nice and smart the two walked down to hogsmead at first the conversation was slow and awkward but soon it became more interesting. Jason looked down at Lily's cold flushed cheeks "Fancy a butter beer?" Lily nodded and the two walked in- the place was fairly busy but Lily only noticed one person- James Potter. Lily felt herself pale as she ignored him her mind replaying every bad thing the boy had ever done. "Lily!" Lily broke her trance "Yeah?" Jason then laughed "I was talking sorry was I boring you?" Lily shook her head vigorously "Sorry I was in a daydream, you were saying?" The conversation went on but Lily couldn't help but think how sweet he was as well as handsome but he just wasn't… exciting. Then Lily had a terrible thought, what if she was boring? Jason was so like her…

James watched with narrowed eyes as Lily laughed and flicked her hair at something Jason had said he blocked out what his girlfriend was saying and strained his ears to try and hear their conversation, he was interrupted by Sarah "James are you even listening to me." James whipped his head round at her and said in pretend exasperation "Yes." Sarah glowered "No you were looking at Lily. Again. You are ignoring your girlfriend Valentine's Day for someone who hates you and has a boyfriend." James went to apologise but Sarah cut him off "James do you still love her?" James looked at the girl in front of him, she was beautiful but she didn't make his world light up just looking at her nor did she make him breathless just with her smile. Sarah was clever but not so intelligent it was pointless worrying about beating her, as you couldn't. Sure Sarah was funny but… she wasn't Lily so he decided to be honest. "Yes- I am so sorry." Sarah didn't cry or shout, she didn't wine or plead. she smiled a sad smile "I know James, good luck." They kissed one last time it was passionate but there was no love, no heat. She pulled away, observed him for few seconds and then she winked as she exclaimed loudly "Right Potter we are done." And flounced out every eye in the pub on her. A few people started at James as did Lily but James just grinned then got himself another drink. Lily was wondering why the toe rag wasn't looking more upset "Probably already thinking off another girl." She had thought scathingly then continued her conversation with her boyfriend. She was right but he was thinking of her, he nearly always was.

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