I normally don't update so quickly but I had legitimate fun writing this one, I hope you all enjoy, also I think reviewer Amber Talamasca won out with the 'Unseelie Court', I'd considered it before but her reasoning sold me to it, if you all disagree let me know. As always, REVIEW!


It was Samhain, Lilly bloody hated Samhain, she was a practitioner of the old ways, the celebration of life, death, and rebirth was as much a part of her as it was her Aunt's of Black; the problem was it was also the night her parents were brutally murdered by her friend in her head. Tom always left her alone on Samhain, it was the one sticking point in their relationship and he preferred to not strain things, he felt bad enough for orphaning her as is after all. So for the one day a year she was truly alone she sulked, her friends tried to distract her but it didn't work, she appreciated the effort but well...what can you do?

So she sat alone atop the Astronomy tower with lit candles and a smoldering bowl of ritual herbs, she silently sent her prayers to her mother, father, and the forgotten dead, those who had no one to pray for them in the great beyond. When she was finished with her prayers she did her best to clear her mind but it was no use, telling a genius with an overactive imagination to not think was just a losing battle, so she decided to ruminate on recent events.

The past two months had been at the very least mildly interesting if nothing else, Binns *ahem* "disappearance" hadn't been noticed for nearly a week, when a thoroughly befuddled Dumbledore found out he scrambled to find a replacement but was beaten to the punch by the Board of Governors thanks to Lilly's rather scathing letter campaign. The look on his face when Narcissa Malfoy was made the new History of Magic professor held a very special place in Lilly's heart, right up there with murdering the Dursley's, her first real birthday party, and meeting Hermione.

Quirrell was proving to be a semi-decent teacher after evidence of Binns rather violent exorcism was found, he'd been eyeing Lilly warily since then making it fairly obvious he suspected her of taking matters into her own hands and feared the same treatment. That had been unplanned but not unwelcome but it severely limited what she could get away with for the time being, trying to not look suspicious while you were being very suspicious was just not worth the effort when under constant supervision.

Outside of those events nothing of real import had happened, sadly life was becoming rather...static, if she wasn't constantly plotting world domination and twisting the student populace to her will she'd probably have died from boredom at this point.

Huffing she stood and approached the edge of the tower, staring over the parapet she observed the setting sun and shivered a bit as a chill wind blew threw her woolen cloak sending her hair fluttering. Pulling a loose strand behind her ear she took a breath and began singing, it was her final offering to the dead and her personal lament towards the coming winter. Honestly her Gaelic was rather rough, Aunt Andi was the only family member who spoke it fluently so her conversation partners were rather limited, but she felt she did the ancient rite justice.

As her final notes closed and were carried away on the cold winds and darkening skies she jumped when she heard clapping behind her, turning around quickly and surreptitiously gripping her wand she was startled to see Professor Quirrell standing there looking at her oddly.

"Hello child, when I heard singing I came to see who the songstress was, you're quite talented, I'm just a bit shocked to see someone practicing the old ways especially with how cold it is out here at the moment," shrugging stiffly and nervously playing with a loose locke of hair she slowly met his eyes, they were an oddly familiar shade of blue, almost black.

"I always perform my rites outside, I have a rather...different relationship with Samhain than most," he nodded and walked up beside her staring out into the darkening forest,

"You would at that I suppose, if I may ask why perform your rites now rather than earlier in the day?" She gave him a wane smile and shrugged again,

"I find it's fitting to commune with the dead as the last light passes...and well to be honest the Great Hall offends me at the moment, it's insulting how...muggle it is right now." That earned her a curious look from the Professor who remained quiet for a time before responding,

"Not a fan of muggles are you?" She worried her lip a bit before deciding to speak her mind,

"Some of them are brilliant, some of them are amazing decent people, some of them are no better then animals and deserve to die, much like any group of wizards you'll find in our community...what I don't appreciate is their culture subverting ours. Our entire population barely teeters into the ten million mark, there are so few of us that if we continuously let the muggles overwrite our very essence...well.."

She gave him a sad smile before shaking her head, "Well...you get a bunch of witches and wizards dressing up in stupid costumes surrounded by oversize jack 'o' lanterns being supervised by a doddering old man who is ignoring the passing of what makes us us." She hadn't really planned on such a passionate little speech and was honestly now worried she said too much, to her surprise the Professor was smiling down at her,

"You're just full of surprises aren't you little one? Come come it's getting quite cold up here and while you find the decorations offensive you do need to eat," nodding she gathered her things and gently put them away. Putting the package in her bag she pulled it up over her shoulders and followed the Professor down the stairs, wishing him farewell she first made her way down to the dungeons to ditch her things. Entering the empty common room she quickly went to her dorm and tossed her bag into her trunk, as she slammed it shut she hissed out the parseltongue password locking it down, another neat trick Tom taught her.

Whistling to herself quietly she left the Slytherin chambers behind and mulled over what to do tomorrow, tea with Hagrid sounded like it could be a bit of a lark, the giant of a man always had something interesting going on. She, Hermione, and Neville had been meeting with him regularly much to the surprise of her housemates, since apparently he was known to be firmly in Dumbledore's pocket. Funny thing that, subverting your opponents most loyal pawns was a very Slytherin thing to do why they didn't see it was beyond her, the fact that she actually loved his fascination with dangerous magical creatures was just a bonus.

As Lilly meandered down the halls her first indication something was off was the screaming, the second was the horrid stench of septic decay, she was very glad that her stomach was empty at the moment because she'd have thrown up otherwise. Quickening her pace she got around the corner just in time to see a blonde girl dive out of the way of a club strike courtesy of a bloody mountain troll of all the goddess be damned things, the blonde struggled to get to her feet as a redheaded girl quickly helped her up. The two of them ran towards Lillith with absolute horror writ on their faces, she recognized Susan Bones and Hannah Abbot immediately, she rather liked the two Hufflepuffs that were largely considered the sharpest in their house so their near deaths were rather distressing.

"Knock knock Tom, wakey wakey, we've got work to do" Tom stirred from the back of her mind and his immediate reaction of,

"Bloody fucking hell!" Pretty much summed up her feelings rather succinctly,

"Indeed, thoughts?" She calmly asked as the the three meter tall monstrosity charged towards the three girls, Susan was holding her wand in a white knuckled grip the snarl of pure rage on her face immediately putting her on the top of Lillith's acquisition list. She knew the look, she was furious at the troll for threatening her and outraged that she had the potential to destroy it but no knowledge to do so, thank you Hogwarts education system. Quickly making a decision she met Susan's eyes,

"Do you promise to trust me?" Her blue eyes showed fear and resolve, the redhead nodded quickly and that was all Lilly needed,

"CRUCIO!" She roared as she jabbed her wand at the charging troll, the creature bellowed in agony as it fell to the ground rolling to a stop, the curse had no chance of doing permanent damage to the magically resistant beast but it did slow it down. Shaking her head and trying to not black out from the power draw of the curse without her normal focusing she glanced at the shocked 'Puffs and continued speaking as if she hadn't just cast an unforgivable,

"Quick this is the reductor curse, full circle and jab, you need to envision an invisible force smashing something as you say 'reducto', as long as you visualize you can do it," turning back to the troll that was getting back onto its shaky feet Tom whispered,

"Go for the knees, groin, and wrists, they're its only weak points outside of bludgeoning the damn thing senseless," nodding absently she cast a reducto at its knees earning her an angry growl, damn thing was practically made of steel. Susan and Hannah were panicking but after a few failed attempts they actually managed to cast the reductor, suitably impressed with her year mates the trio of now armed and pissed off witches began pummeling the increasingly hesitant troll with the powerful curse.

She had no idea how long they were at it but as they forced the troll into a corner a red spell that looked like an overpowered stunner from hell hit it in the head sending the odorous thing to the ground with a heavy thud. The three girls were panting from the exertion of casting so many spells in such a short time, as they exchanged looks an understanding seemed to have been made between them, hopefully. Turning to see who had finally put the troll down they were surprised to see Professor Sprout and most of the Slytherins and Hufflepuffs standing at the foot of the stairs leading up to the Great Hall, the entire group was eyeing the girls with surprise and respect.

Lilly was honestly terrified the 'puffs would crack and tell their head of house that she'd cast an unforgivable sending her straight to Azkaban, and while she really shouldn't let her mouth go off without asking her brain for permission first her adrenaline shot nerves bypassed this safety.

"So...I guess we missed dinner huh?" Hannah and Susan looked at her wide eyed than at once broke down into hysterical giggles, Lilly soon followed, Professor Sprout than sent the students to their dorms though her trio of Slytherin friends had to be cajoled to leave her there. The professor, bless her patient heart let the girls work the nervous laughs out of their systems and eventually Susan took the lead and explained how she and Hannah had gone to dinner late due to homework. She clarified that they ran headfirst into Lilly and than Susan made her position as Lillith's favorite redhead permanent by explaining how the ravenette had tripped the troll up with a reductor curse and had given the pair of 'puffs a crash course on how to cast it themselves.

Ten minutes, thirty points to Slytherin and Hufflepuff and a visit to the hospital wing later and Lilly finally got a word alone with the girls,

"Thanks, I...I'm really thankful you didn't turn me in for that," Susan and Hannah exchanged looks then nodded to each other, Hannah spoke first,

"I'm...not comfortable you know that curse, but if you didn't there is a good chance we'd be dead, I'm not going to throw you under the wagon because you decided to save our lives," Susan nodded at this quickly whilst twirling her wand and worrying her lip. Eventually she sighed and met Lilly's eyes,

"My auntie has told me how during the war they were allowed to use the unforgivables, even the playing field her boss had called it, as far as I'm concerned you used the resources at hand and...well...I'm alive, we're alive, so no need to thank us, we should be thanking you." Smiling in return they sat in comfortable silence until Madam Pomfrey gave them a once over and released them, as they stood to leave Hannah walked up to her and fiddled around with a silver chain around her neck, taking it off Lilly could see it had a large crystal hanging from it.

Fidgeting a bit the blonde stared at the violet piece of rough crystal a moment and than nodded as if coming to a decision,

"This...this is a fey crystal, my mother found it in Ireland years ago in an old fairy mound, it had been long abandoned but some artefakts remained, I...I want you to have it." Touched Lilly was going to refuse the gift but the small blonde shook her head stubbornly, "No, you saved my life, it's the least I can do, so please take it." Smiling Lilly opened her hand and gasped as the crystal began to glow dimly in her palm, the other two girls were not far behind. Susan eyed her with new found respect as she whispered,

"Those...fey crystals only react like that to those with fey blood...there's only one line in all the isles that can claim that, and to have a reaction like this..." Lilly swallowed hard and nodded slowly,

"So...It would appear I'm related to Morgana le Fey..." this certainly helped explain her animagus form, Tom was giddily cackling in her minds background so apparently he was quite pleased with this turn of events. Palming the necklace she pulled the chain over her head and shoved the crystal under her robes, smiling she pulled both 'puffs into a crushing hug, "Thank you." With that they were escorted back down to the dungeons, someone had apparently carted the troll off at some point but its stench lingered, bidding the girls farewell Lilly hissed at the hidden door and trudged into the Slytherin common room.

She stopped short seeing the entirety of her house staring at her, unlike on her sorting night it wasn't a combination of terror and resentment, there was...respect, an older boy stepped forward, Alexander Nott if her memory served her correctly. Theodore's older brother stared at her a moment longer then broke the silence,

"That was some impressive casting out there Potter, you seemed a bit wiped out though for casting simple reductors," pride commeth before the fall and her mouth once again shot off before her mind could tell it to shut the hell up.

"You try casting the cruciatus on a bloody troll and see how perky you are afterwords, I swear the blasted thing barely felt it after the initial shock..." Lilly felt the blood leave her face as she admitted this, and much...much to her shock this revelation caused most of the rooms occupants to grin at her.

"I see," Alexander said nodding slowly, "Well, if you'd like I can show you how to cast it on the fly, I know normally you have to find your focus to pull it off correctly and it is very draining otherwise but my father showed me some techniques that can limit the power draw." Quickly meeting Hermione's brilliant brown eyes the brunette tilted her head ever so slightly, turning back to Alexander Lilly smiled and nodded,

"I would appreciate that, when Auntie Bellatrix had me practicing on child molesters in Knockturn Alley it was a more...controlled setting." He smirked at that and she distinctly heard Draco snort and say,

"So that was you and Aunt Bella...figures...," Eventually the group broke up and everyone made their way to their respective dorms, assuring Blaise and Draco she was fine she followed Hermione into their room. Rather then getting into her own bed after changing her bookworm friend curled up with her and pulled the curtains closed, looking at the brunette oddly she was pulled into a tight hug.

"I was so worried we'd lost you, please Lilly, you're my first, best, most wonderful friend, don't get yourself killed until we're very old ladies surrounded by a ludicrous amount of cats," laughing Lilly pulled her friend close and sighed.

"I promise, and I'm sorry for scaring you, I really am, hey, wanna see something neat?" Hermione was a sponge for knowledge regardless of its source or purpose, she nodded quickly and so Lilly pulled out her fey crystal, "It ends up I'm likely a descendant of Morgana le Fey, who knew?" Hermione's eyes reached the size of saucers as she stared at the magical gem, after she gathered her wits she smirked and dug her head into the crook of Lilly's neck.

"Only you dear Lilly, only you, if I may suggest you should bring it up to Professor Malfoy tomorrow, I've the strangest feeling it comes from your Black side." Nodding in agreement she pulled her best friend closer and inhaled the scent of blackberries from her bushy hair, after a short silence the brunette spoke up,

"Lilly, you realize they think they're corrupting you, they think they're turning you to the dark by helping you cast unforgivables," Lilly chuckled a bit at that,

"I know, it's rather funny seeing the pawns prance about thinking they're the master of the game." Hermione let out a small laugh causing her to shake a bit, she than cocked her head slightly in amusement,

"Just thought I'd let you know," Lilly smiled in a self satisfied manner and sighed heavily into her friends hair,

"Good night 'Mione..." sighing sleepily the bookworm replied,

"Night Lilly..."

The following morning Lilly awoke to the calm breathing of her best friend, smiling down at Hermione she slowly broke their night long hug and threw the blankets over her friend, stretching she went through her morning rituals and called one of the house elves for a cup of tea an a several pieces of toast. Munching on her light breakfast the emerald eyed young heiress meandered up to the newly renovated history offices, one of the first things Auntie Cissy had done when appointed her new position was clean the horrid series of chambers. So entering the reception area she waved happily to the young wizard manning the desk and made her way to her Aunt's office, she tapped on the mahogany frame quickly with a knuckled fist then dug back into her toast. As the door began to creak slowly Lilly kicked it open in a rather unladylike fashion and plopped in the seat opposite of her blonde aunt who was smirking at her in amusement, Lilly silently offered her one of her pieces of toast and the Lady of Malfoy accepted it gracefully. After Lilly finished her breakfast and tea she grinned openly,

"So it ends up I have fairy blood," pulling the chain around her neck she let the faintly glowing fey crystal rest in her palm, "I was just wondering if it was from who I think it is..." Narcissa stared at the rough crystal a moment before shaking herself to focus, meeting Lilly's eyes her friends mother grinned widely,

"It would appear little one that you are Morgana's heiress, I suppose I should be surprised but I'm not...not at all,, where did you get the crystal?" Explaining everything that happened the night before the blonde woman shook her head slowly her smile never leaving her face, they sat in silence for a time before she spoke again. Clearing her throat she leaned forward meeting Lilly's emerald gaze with her cool silver, almost blue eyes still smirking, "You've been chosen by our founder to bring great things little one, I hope you can live up to it.

"I...I was chosen by our families founder...Morgana was the head of the Black?" If possible Aunt Cissy's grin grew wider as she sipped her tea,

"Well noticed my dear, and she has chosen you specifically, something tells me that little lump of rock will play a part in your near future, keep it close to yourself love, now why don't you clean up and head out to that foolish broom game?" Waving it off Lilly ignored the quiditch match to continue discussing her families origins with her aunt well into the afternoon, after being dismissed Lilly made her way back to the now raucous common room, unsurprisingly they had destroyed the Griffendorks. Curling up next to Draco and Blaise she didn't budge when they both threw an arm over her shoulders, Hermione sat at her feet and rested her head against her legs as she read a book. Grinning to herself she looked up at the stone ceiling, honestly it was the little things in life that made it worth living.

Later that evening she focused on the fey crystal in her hands, it had to serve a purpose but she just didn't know what it was, eventually she let out several unladylike swears in Gaelic as she stared down at the lump of stone and crystal, much to her shock the amethyst crystal began shifting as it glowed in her palms. After a time a three inch long seven sided clean cut violet gem rested in her hands, it glowed brightly in the gloom of her sealed bed curtains, grinning widely she realized what the crystal was immediately and held the stone between her thumb and forefinger, the Potter heiress began cackling as she'd found the first piece to her own wand.

The following weeks quickly fell back into tedium, it was honestly a bother to even consider overthrowing the legitimate government when there was a meter of snow outside the gates, so bundled up to the point were she resembled her favorite silver screen yeti (you could not convince her Chewbacca was anything else) Lilly soon found herself viewing a list to stay behind for the holidays posted by the Deputy Headmistress. She'd already decided that she was going to stay at the castle since Draco and Hermione were so she quickly signed her name and kept walking, as Yule reared it's head the Potter heiress grinned wickedly, while Samhain had a rather large amount of baggage attached to it Yule did not. She awoke in her dorm to see her favorite bushy haired know-it-all carefully unwrapping presents, Lilly smirked when the brunette opened her gift, the copy of the Slytherin family grimmoire would leave her partner in crime in a tizzy for months.

Digging into her own gifts she found piles of candy from the Carrow twins, Susan, Hannah, Daphne, and Tracey, Blaise had sent her a rather fetching silver pin of a raven sitting atop a pile of books. Staring at it in awe she wondered if her Italian friend realized how much it would mean to her as she placed it it reverently on her bed, Hermione had sent her a pair of black and purple stripped stockings and an adorable dark blue jumper, she'd immediately dug out a black skirt to wear with the outfit. Neville and Sally had both sent her books on herbology and charm spells respectfully, the last gift was from Draco and it stilled her heart for a moment, 'For my favorite little fairy', was written on the wood box, she opened it slowly and gasped at what was inside.

Pulling the small silver chain from the box she stared at the charm dangling from it, rubbing her thumb over the raven in flight Lilly grinned as she slid the bracelet on, brushing past Hermione she ran into the common room where Draco was currently sipping on a cup of tea, landing in the blondes arms she held him close and kissed him on the cheek,

"Thank you little dragon, happy yule to you!" Her friend blushed deeply as he returned the hug running a finger down the dragon embroidered tie she'd bought him,

"Not a problem little fairy, not a problem at all," the rest of the winter hols was spent having snow ball fights with the Weasley twins and her friends, Ronald refused to participate because everyone immediately made him their target, outside of that she spent most of her time with Aunt Cissy and Uncle Lucius as they had tea with Draco. Honestly it was ever so much fun, Aunt Cissy had Auntie Bella's screwed up sense of humor and Uncle Lucius' dry wit was just fun to be around, she knew within a couple days that Draco had gotten the best from both of them.

A week before classes resumed Lilly entered her dorm to find a gaily wrapped package sitting on the foot of her bed, intrigued she opened it to find herself holding a magnificent piece of cloth in her hands. It shimmered like the nights sky and felt as light and soft as silk, reading the small note telling her it was her fathers the grin on her face could have stopped wars in their tracks. This was the Marauder cloak, Uncle Moony and Padfoot had told her enough stories about it, which meant the old bastard had her family heirloom all these years. Running a quick series of diagnostic spells Lilly removed the various tracking charms from the cloak then threw it over her shoulders, approaching her wardrobe mirror she couldn't hold in her delighted cackle.

She had the Peverall invisibility cloak and no one else knew about it outside of one incompetent meddler, suddenly 'boredom' became a lost concept to one Lillith Dorea Potter.


Obviously Draco heard about the whole le Fey thing so he's going to start calling Lilly 'Little Fairy', it will both be endearing and annoying or her, anyway as always hope you enjoyed and PLEASE REVIEW!