Chapter Eleven:
Lily was sitting in Maggie's bedroom for the first time and she was spread out over her bed while Maggie was in the shower. They had decided to have the Christmas party at the larger Lupin estate and Maggie had been happy that she didn't have to spend her Christmas somewhere else. Maggie was actually getting dressed up this Christmas and she wished that she didn't have to but it was for her parents and she would do anything for them.
"Maggie, where's your dress?" Lily asked.
"In the closet, don't look at it, it's a surprise for everyone."
"Come on, I'll help you pick the perfect hairstyle for it."
"Already got it." Maggie said as she came out of the bathroom in her robe. "You need to go to your room and get ready because the party starts in twenty minutes." She said.
"Does it?" Lily asked her eyes going wide.
"Yup." Maggie said as her mother came in to the room.
"Lily why aren't you ready yet?" Laura asked.
"Lost track of time, I'm never going to be ready in time." She muttered as she left the room. Laura closed the door and went to the closet. "I never would have had the courage to wear this when I was your age." Laura said.
"Stop your making me nervous." She said.
"Who are you trying to impress?" Laura asked.
"Sirius, but it's not going to work so I'm just getting really pretty for you and dad." She said as she let her hair down and started to brush it.
'You have to know how to impress him first." Laura said as she set down a box that she had brought in with her and Maggie hadn't noticed when she came in.
'It's Sirius, be a ditzy blonde that wants to have sex with him." Margarita said.
"Yeah well once upon a time, your father was into that too." Laura said grinning.
Laura waved her wand and Maggie's hair went curly and wavy like a Greek goddess. She had light sparkles around her eyes and glimmering lipstick as well as a necklace and bracelet that Laura was letting her wear.
"When is she coming down?" James asked Lily who had already entered the party.
"We haven't seen her either." Remus and Sirius said as they came up.
"I can't believe you dumped Michelle." Lily said.
"She kept insulting you and Maggie, and she got very annoying." Sirius said. "She's got to be here somewhere."
"Well no duh." Lily said.
"Shut up alright." Sirius said grinning at his best friends spunky girlfriend.
"Hey mom have you seen Maggie?" James asked his mother as she came by.
"Yeah she came in with Laura twenty minutes ago, she's suiting her name tonight. I believe she's dancing with her father in the middle of that circle." She said as she pointed to a crowd that was forming on the dance floor. They walked over and they pushed through the crowd to look in the middle. When they saw the two in the middle they stood in awe. Maggie looked nothing like her normal self, she was wearing a spaghetti strap white dress, and it was form-fitting up top and went loose near the bottom. She was wearing strappy white sandals and her hair was past her butt and curled.
They were dancing so beautifully, just the way they moved they definitely knew what they were doing.
"I didn't know that she could dance like that." James said to his girlfriend as he watched her.
"Not like that. That's amazing." Lily said. When the dance was over everyone applauded and the both bowed although Maggie's face was beat red from all the people watching her dance. Everyone grabbed a partner as a slow song came on, and Maggie was with James as Sirius had stolen Lily.
"Having fun?" Maggie asked.
"Yes, at how hard you're trying to get his attention." James said.
"I'm not, alright." She said.
"Really how come none of us could recognize you when we saw you dancing?" He asked.
"Cause you're all blind." She said. "So are you guys doing anything?" She asked.
"Yeah, after this is done we're going to go for the rest of the night I think." James said.
"Cool." Maggie said.
"Yeah, Lily's going to sing something as well." James said grinning.
"Cool." Maggie said.
"Prongs." Remus called to James.
"Well see you." James said grinning as he went up to the little stage that they had set up. Lily came over to her and grabbed her hand.
"Nervous?" Maggie asked.
"You bet." Lily said.
When they walked up on the stage Maggie saw her friend smile. Maggie smiled at how happy she was with James. Maggie laughed without knowing it.
"What?" Lily asked.
"You, you're totally in love with him aren't you?" Maggie asked.
"Yeah, but I can't help that, there's nothing to not love about him." She said.
"Well that's your opinion of him." Maggie said grinning.
"So are you coming to his place after Christmas, we're having our own little celebration and they have some little gigs." Lily said.
"Cool, I don't know about that one." Maggie said.
"Well it's up to you." Lily said as they started to play
Maggie watched the guys as they played and she grinned as James grinned at her and Lily. The guys played almost all night and then Sirius found another girl that he could dance with, while Maggie watched from dancing with Edward Potter.
"He's blind is all." Edward said.
"Excuse me." Maggie said.
"Sirius, he had a hard life with his parents as well. So he lives life to the fullest and that to him means everything." Edward said. "Don't get your hopes up though he might never see it at the rate he's going."
"Thanks Mr. Potter." Maggie said as she hugged him and left the room. She went up the stairs in the kitchen and went to her room where she locked the door.
"Where did she go?" James asked his father.
"I dunno." He said.
"What did you say?" Sirius asked as he came up to the group.
"I was just trying to discourage her so that she didn't get her heart broken Sirius, she's fragile and I'm not the only one who will have your hide if you break her heart. So don't lead her on." Edward said.
"Eddie I wouldn't do that, I swear to god." Sirius said as he walked to the staircase. Sirius walked along the main hallway and walked all the way to Maggie's room, he knew that he liked her but he didn't want to turn out like his mother and father. More specifically his father with beating his kids and his wife. He knocked on the door and he heard her moving around the room, when she opened the door she was surprised to see him standing there of all people.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Seeing what you were doing." He said as he stepped in to her bedroom. He was surprised when he walked in to the midnight blue room. He couldn't get how very feminine she was but all of the things that she could do were so masculine sometimes. She could fight like a guy, she played sports just as well as a guy and she was afraid to admit that anyone was better than her at anything. But then he saw her in that dress and he could see all of her curves and he knew that she was all woman.
"I'm just getting away from everything for a bit." She said.
"Maggie look I know that you like me, and I know that many people would kill me if I broke your heart and that's probably the only thing that's stopping me." Sirius said looking at her trying to read her face.
"Since when did you pay attention to that sort of thing?" She asked as she went over to her mirror and started fidgeting with her dress and her hair. He walked over and grabbed her hands and looked at her in the mirror.
"Since forever when it comes to people that I care about." He said. "Do you think that you could teach me to dance like that?" he asked.
"I guess." She said as she headed towards the door, but she was pulled back and she was in a lip lock with Sirius Black. He massaged her bottom lip with his tongue before she opened her mouth to him; she massaged his tongue with hers and then started sucking on his tongue. But they were interrupted by a knock on the door and they jumped apart seconds before Laura walked in.
"Was I interrupting something?" She asked.
"No, mom." She said. "What did you want?" She asked.
"Your father is making a toast and then everyone is gonna leave." She said. "We want to know if you're going to Sirius' place for your little celebration."
"Yeah I've decided to go." Maggie said. "But we better get down there." Maggie said as she hurried out of the room not looking at her mother.
"I know Sirius, get going." Laura said.
"Sorry Lor, Lor." He said grinning.
"Yeah." She said as she closed Maggie's door behind her. Maggie made her way down the hall and down the stairs to the ballroom where everyone was gathered around the stage where her father stood. Maggie made her way towards where her aunt and her friends were standing and she stopped by them.
"Where did you sneak off to?" Rachael asked.
"I just went up to my room to freshen up Mrs. Potter." She said as she turned towards her father.
"Or more getting a little fresh." Mrs. Evans said as she saw Sirius come in with Laura.
"Like I could get fresh with Sirius Black." She said.
"Alright everyone, I know that we had Remus, James and Sirius up here earlier but now we have two spectacular women who have prepared a duet. It's one we've all heard of, Lillian Evans and Margarita Lupin are going to sing believe by Cher." He said. Maggie and Lily got up on stage not knowing that they volunteered to do this. Lily grabbed one of the microphones.
"Sorry to disappoint everyone but I'll just be dancing tonight my vocals are a little off." She said grinning at her friend.
The music started and Maggie had no other choice but to start with it. Maggie felt as if she had just done something illegal when she finished the song. She was so nervous and she had no idea how she had done it. Everyone was clapping and her and Lily were bowing, Maggie couldn't even remember doing the dance that she and Lily had apparently done.
That night after the party, the group of them climbed into the different cars leaving only Remus behind because the full moon was tomorrow. The four of them were in the car with the Evans' and they were laughing about Emma and Gabby who had both wanted to sing with Maggie.
The Evans' dropped them off and they headed home, but they weren't even at the end of the street and Maggie felt herself lose her breath and then she saw a crash. Everything went black after that.
Maggie woke in the hospital and she sat right up and saw Sirius and James standing there.
"What happened?" She asked.
"It was Lily's parents." James said.
"You saw the crash moments before it happened." Sirius said. "Lily's with her parents before they have to take them off of life support." He said looking at the floor.
"I wanna see her." Maggie said.
"Kay." James said as he helped her out of bed and they walked through the many halls. When they stepped in to Lily's room Maggie couldn't help but start crying.
"I'm so sorry Lily." Maggie said.
"Don't cry Maggie, it wasn't your fault." Lily said as she walked over to her friend.
"I'm sorry Love." Maggie said as they sat down together. When the nurse came in she said that Petunia had signed the papers and that they had to do it now. Maggie was surprised but then Petunia had always been after the Evans' money. It was three days later that they buried them and Lily got the fortune that her mother and father left her. Lily put it away and didn't touch it; she said that it was for her kids when they were older.
They were all sitting at Sirius' place in the living room not doing anything. Maggie knew that her friend was hurting but that didn't stop them having a nice Christmas dinner. Maggie had it all set out on the table and told everyone that it was dinnertime.
"Alright you guys no sad faces alright I don't think that any of us can take anymore pain right now so let's try and have fun." Maggie said.
"Easy for you to say, you haven't lost anyone." Lily said as she sat down.
"I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that." Maggie said as she sat down as well.
"Pretend away." Lily said not looking at her friend.
"Lily watch who your talking to." Maggie said. "I've gone through a hell of a lot more than you." Maggie said as she grabbed some wine.
"Yeah, I forgot you had to live on the bad side of town before you met your father. You had to steal form people that you knew and you had to prostitute yourself." Lily said angrily.
"Yeah I lived on the bad side of town, but I can put that behind me, I stole from people so that I didn't get beat so bad that I died like Jessica, but obviously what I did isn't well awarded in my best friends books. And I guess that you don't know me at all, because I have never prostituted myself I worked at bars but I have never done anything sexual for money. So much for friendship." Maggie said. "I can see that I'm not wanted." She said as she got up and she left the apartment. Maggie walked for hours until she found herself at her old apartment building. She walked in and up to her mothers' apartment and knocked on the door. Mark opened the door and grinned.
"Daddy don't want you anymore." He said before pulling her in. Maggie stepped in and she saw that the place was clean as a whistle.
"Who's been cleaning?" She asked.
"Your mother." He said grinning. Maggie walked down to her mothers' room and saw her on the bed; she was beaten so badly that she could hardly move.
"What the hell have you been doing to her?" Maggie asked.
"What she deserves for letting this place be a mess." He said as he sat down. Maggie flipped the chair and he fell out.
"She may not have stuck up for me when you hit me but that's my mother and she went through the pain of giving birth to me, don't ever touch her ever again." Maggie said.
"Well she doesn't have the guts to leave me." Mark said.
"Yeah well then I'll take her." Maggie said.
"Where are you going to go, daddy won't let her come into his home?" mark asked.
"Well I'm not letting you touch her." Maggie said. Maggie never even saw him coming when she was on the ground, then she realized that he had a wand. "You're a wizard." Maggie said.
"Yeah a death eater, you know the minute I saw you and your mother I knew that I could get to your father." They were on the third floor up and she knew that mark was going to kill her. "He would have done anything for you, he would have but he bargained it down so that I didn't get much of anything because he didn't like me." Mark said.
"That's not hard to believe." Maggie said and she was shot across the room in to the wall and then again back at the counter in the kitchen. He came up to her and he grabbed her up off the floor before he threw her through the glass door that led to the balcony. She went through the glass and hit the balcony railing and flew over it. Maggie landed on her back in the bushes, seconds later the police and an ambulance were speeding down the street and she could hear the wizards popping in to the apartment. Maggie was back at school now and she was happy to be there, Lily and her were still fighting and Sirius was with Maggie despite the fact that James was his best friend.
Maggie and Sirius were in the Gryffindor common room as they had taken to doing a lot since the fight.
"Why are you here with me?" Maggie asked.
"Do we have to go through this one again?" Sirius asked as he looked up from his prank planning.
"Sirius, he's your best friend and I think that he needs you a hell of a lot more than I do. Anyways it's mine and Lily's fight not the four of us." Maggie said.
"Well that's great but if he doesn't want to be around you because of that then I don't want to be around Lily." Sirius said.
"I still say go and talk to him." She said.
"I never had much sense and that's a very sensible thing for me to do." Sirius said.
"Please just talk to him." Maggie asked as she set her quill down.
"Maybe later." Sirius said as he grabbed her and pulled her against him on the couch.
"Sirius I have work to do." She said.
"Come on, you know that you're going to pass with flying colors." Sirius said grinning as he interlocked his fingers with Maggie's.
"And what if I don't?" She asked.
"Then you can hold me responsible." Sirius said.
"I'm so sure." She said as she put her head on his shoulder and looked up at him.
"What? I would take responsibility." He said grinning.
"I'm so sure." She said before she kissed him on the cheek and sat up so that she could go on with her work.
"I'm going to bed." She said as she gathered up her things, kissed Sirius and went to her staircase. When she was just heading down the stairs she heard Alice's voice talking to Sirius.
"Hey there Sirius." Alice said.
"Hey." Sirius said.
"So, I was thinking did you wanna have a little closet fun?" She asked.
"Um, actually Alice I'm expected somewhere." She heard Sirius say and then she bound down the stairs grinning. When she walked into the room she set her books in her trunk, locking it and then she changed into her pajamas. She was just climbing into bed when the door opened and she saw Sirius walk in.
"What are you doing here?" She asked as he stripped down and climbed into her bed.
"Well I thought that I would rather be here with you then having Alice try and get me into the closet." Sirius said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
"Really, so here was where you had to be?" She asked as she curled up next to him.
"Yeah I figured you would like that." Sirius said.
"So when are you going to talk to him?" Maggie asked.
"What are we married now?" Sirius asked. "Look, James and I can deal with our own friendship so you worry about Lily." Sirius said.
"So we're sleeping around again?" Alice asked.
"Yeah, that's it." Maggie said as she climbed on top of Sirius and straddled him in front of Alice.
"Bitch." Alice said as she left and went to the bathroom and Maggie closed the curtains to her bed and she kissed Sirius.
"No Maggie." Sirius said.
"What because I'm not ready?" She asked.
"No because you're trying to please me." Sirius said.
"No I'm not, I don't need you that much." Maggie said as she got off of him and grabbed her book.
"Really, I don't think that's the case." Sirius said, "You were so happy to have me with you but you think that you're going to lose me." Sirius said. "You're very easy to read." Sirius said.
"Whatever." She said as she opened her book and continued to read from where she left off.
"Maggie go to bed." Sirius said.
"I'm not tired." Maggie said as she continued to read her book. Sirius grabbed the book and he held on to it. "Give it back Sirius." Maggie said.
"Nope, I don't think so, I think that you should get some sleep." He said as he threw the book across the room. Maggie got out of bed quickly and picked it up, she grabbed her housecoat and she headed towards the astronomy tower where she would go sometimes when she couldn't sleep. When she got up there she saw Lily sitting on the edge of window staring out over the lake. She walked up and sat down next to her.
"I'm sorry about what I said, I shouldn't have told you to let it go like I do." Maggie said.
"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have said that you hadn't lost anyone, you lost Jessica when you were young and she had been your entire world." Lily said as she wrapped her arm around Maggie.
"I miss them too, they were so nice to me when they didn't even know me." Maggie said as she put her head on her friends shoulder and felt her headrest on hers.
"I know, so how are things going with Sirius? James is a mess." Lily said.
"Really, Sirius is too stubborn for his own good, he thinks that he has to be with me on everything that I do just because he's dating me." Maggie said.
"That's guys for ya." Lily said grinning. "So what are you doing up here in the first place?" Lily asked.
"Getting away from Sirius, he was trying to get me to go to sleep and he wouldn't do anything with me because he thought that I was trying to please him." Maggie said smiling. "Be quiet I hear something." Maggie said and she dragged Lily to the other side of the room behind a couch that was there for classes.
"Shouldn't we just leave?" Lily asked.
"No, they'll see us then and then you would take points because you would have to." Maggie said quietly and Lily sat back down with her friend.
"Are you sure you wanna do this, I mean, wouldn't miss Lupin get angry?" They both heard Alice ask someone.
"Well yeah but she'll never find out." They heard Sirius' voice. They both laid down and watched from under the couch what was going on, and then they heard them kissing and soon they saw clothes dropping to the floor. Maggie and Lily sat up and leant against the wall listening to the sounds of Sirius have sex with someone other than her. Maggie wanted to cry but she told herself that this was bound to happen and that Sirius wasn't the one for her as much as she wanted him to be. The two of them got dressed and left when they came and Maggie watched them walk out together. A few minutes later, they heard footsteps coming up the tower stairs and Maggie saw James step in.
"Lily are you in here?" James asked. James looked as Maggie got up and helped her friend up.
"What are you doing here?" Lily asked.
"Seeing where you were, so has anyone been up here tonight?" He asked.
"Not other then us." Maggie said giving her friend a look that she wanted this kept really low. "You know James, it's really not any of my business but you should talk to Sirius because he's your friend and you guys shouldn't have gotten in to our business." She said as she went up to him and hugged him.
"Maggie why are you so cold?" James asked as she pulled away.
"I'm not cold." She said.
"You're ice cold." James said as he grabbed Lily's hand and Lily pulled back as she touched Maggie's arm.
"I'm fine, I just need to get to my warm bed." Maggie said as she headed down the stairs with them. They walked her back to the Gryffindor common room and then they went off to bed. When she entered she saw Sirius sitting on the couch.
"Where have you been?" He asked.
"Walking around, but I'm going down to bed." She said.
"Alright." He said as he got up to follow her.
"I'm gonna sleep alone tonight." She said as she walked down the stairs. When Maggie got to her dorm room, she climbed into bed and she saw Alice sitting on her bed crying.
"What's the matter with you?" Maggie asked as she set her book on her bedside table and got back out of bed.
"Have you ever loved anyone?" Alice asked.
"What do you mean, like a guy or a sister or something?" Maggie asked as she sat down next to Alice.
"A guy." She asked.
"Sure I guess, but I didn't love deeply enough." Maggie said. "Why?"
"Because I love this guy Frank that I have never told and I don't know how to tell him, plus all the girls think that he's a bit of a weirdo." Alice said.
"Well then they're not very good friends." Maggie said. "Follow your heart, if your heart says tell Frank, then tell him." Maggie said smiling.
"Maggie I'm sorry for whatever I've done to you, I am. I don't know how I could ever make it up to you." Alice said.
"Alice you can make it up to me by being a better person to yourself and to others. Just treat everyone with the same respect you would for yourself, and you know if you're friends ditch you, Lily and I are always here." Maggie said.
"Are you sure?" Alice asked.
"Yeah." Maggie said.
"I'm sorry about tonight, Sirius and I." Alice started to say but was interrupted.
"Lily and I were there, as much as I hate the fact that he did it and you did it but it was bound to happen and I'm glad to know that it happened before I got to attached." Maggie said smiling slightly. "Don't tell him I know, I want him to figure it out himself." Maggie said.
"Alright." Alice said.
"You should get some sleep." Maggie said smiling as she got up off the bed and she sat down in her bed, and grabbed the book that she was reading. Maggie made sure that Alice couldn't see her light and she stayed up all night reading and trying to get to sleep but nothing was working.
Lily was sitting in Maggie's bedroom for the first time and she was spread out over her bed while Maggie was in the shower. They had decided to have the Christmas party at the larger Lupin estate and Maggie had been happy that she didn't have to spend her Christmas somewhere else. Maggie was actually getting dressed up this Christmas and she wished that she didn't have to but it was for her parents and she would do anything for them.
"Maggie, where's your dress?" Lily asked.
"In the closet, don't look at it, it's a surprise for everyone."
"Come on, I'll help you pick the perfect hairstyle for it."
"Already got it." Maggie said as she came out of the bathroom in her robe. "You need to go to your room and get ready because the party starts in twenty minutes." She said.
"Does it?" Lily asked her eyes going wide.
"Yup." Maggie said as her mother came in to the room.
"Lily why aren't you ready yet?" Laura asked.
"Lost track of time, I'm never going to be ready in time." She muttered as she left the room. Laura closed the door and went to the closet. "I never would have had the courage to wear this when I was your age." Laura said.
"Stop your making me nervous." She said.
"Who are you trying to impress?" Laura asked.
"Sirius, but it's not going to work so I'm just getting really pretty for you and dad." She said as she let her hair down and started to brush it.
'You have to know how to impress him first." Laura said as she set down a box that she had brought in with her and Maggie hadn't noticed when she came in.
'It's Sirius, be a ditzy blonde that wants to have sex with him." Margarita said.
"Yeah well once upon a time, your father was into that too." Laura said grinning.
Laura waved her wand and Maggie's hair went curly and wavy like a Greek goddess. She had light sparkles around her eyes and glimmering lipstick as well as a necklace and bracelet that Laura was letting her wear.
"When is she coming down?" James asked Lily who had already entered the party.
"We haven't seen her either." Remus and Sirius said as they came up.
"I can't believe you dumped Michelle." Lily said.
"She kept insulting you and Maggie, and she got very annoying." Sirius said. "She's got to be here somewhere."
"Well no duh." Lily said.
"Shut up alright." Sirius said grinning at his best friends spunky girlfriend.
"Hey mom have you seen Maggie?" James asked his mother as she came by.
"Yeah she came in with Laura twenty minutes ago, she's suiting her name tonight. I believe she's dancing with her father in the middle of that circle." She said as she pointed to a crowd that was forming on the dance floor. They walked over and they pushed through the crowd to look in the middle. When they saw the two in the middle they stood in awe. Maggie looked nothing like her normal self, she was wearing a spaghetti strap white dress, and it was form-fitting up top and went loose near the bottom. She was wearing strappy white sandals and her hair was past her butt and curled.
They were dancing so beautifully, just the way they moved they definitely knew what they were doing.
"I didn't know that she could dance like that." James said to his girlfriend as he watched her.
"Not like that. That's amazing." Lily said. When the dance was over everyone applauded and the both bowed although Maggie's face was beat red from all the people watching her dance. Everyone grabbed a partner as a slow song came on, and Maggie was with James as Sirius had stolen Lily.
"Having fun?" Maggie asked.
"Yes, at how hard you're trying to get his attention." James said.
"I'm not, alright." She said.
"Really how come none of us could recognize you when we saw you dancing?" He asked.
"Cause you're all blind." She said. "So are you guys doing anything?" She asked.
"Yeah, after this is done we're going to go for the rest of the night I think." James said.
"Cool." Maggie said.
"Yeah, Lily's going to sing something as well." James said grinning.
"Cool." Maggie said.
"Prongs." Remus called to James.
"Well see you." James said grinning as he went up to the little stage that they had set up. Lily came over to her and grabbed her hand.
"Nervous?" Maggie asked.
"You bet." Lily said.
When they walked up on the stage Maggie saw her friend smile. Maggie smiled at how happy she was with James. Maggie laughed without knowing it.
"What?" Lily asked.
"You, you're totally in love with him aren't you?" Maggie asked.
"Yeah, but I can't help that, there's nothing to not love about him." She said.
"Well that's your opinion of him." Maggie said grinning.
"So are you coming to his place after Christmas, we're having our own little celebration and they have some little gigs." Lily said.
"Cool, I don't know about that one." Maggie said.
"Well it's up to you." Lily said as they started to play
Maggie watched the guys as they played and she grinned as James grinned at her and Lily. The guys played almost all night and then Sirius found another girl that he could dance with, while Maggie watched from dancing with Edward Potter.
"He's blind is all." Edward said.
"Excuse me." Maggie said.
"Sirius, he had a hard life with his parents as well. So he lives life to the fullest and that to him means everything." Edward said. "Don't get your hopes up though he might never see it at the rate he's going."
"Thanks Mr. Potter." Maggie said as she hugged him and left the room. She went up the stairs in the kitchen and went to her room where she locked the door.
"Where did she go?" James asked his father.
"I dunno." He said.
"What did you say?" Sirius asked as he came up to the group.
"I was just trying to discourage her so that she didn't get her heart broken Sirius, she's fragile and I'm not the only one who will have your hide if you break her heart. So don't lead her on." Edward said.
"Eddie I wouldn't do that, I swear to god." Sirius said as he walked to the staircase. Sirius walked along the main hallway and walked all the way to Maggie's room, he knew that he liked her but he didn't want to turn out like his mother and father. More specifically his father with beating his kids and his wife. He knocked on the door and he heard her moving around the room, when she opened the door she was surprised to see him standing there of all people.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Seeing what you were doing." He said as he stepped in to her bedroom. He was surprised when he walked in to the midnight blue room. He couldn't get how very feminine she was but all of the things that she could do were so masculine sometimes. She could fight like a guy, she played sports just as well as a guy and she was afraid to admit that anyone was better than her at anything. But then he saw her in that dress and he could see all of her curves and he knew that she was all woman.
"I'm just getting away from everything for a bit." She said.
"Maggie look I know that you like me, and I know that many people would kill me if I broke your heart and that's probably the only thing that's stopping me." Sirius said looking at her trying to read her face.
"Since when did you pay attention to that sort of thing?" She asked as she went over to her mirror and started fidgeting with her dress and her hair. He walked over and grabbed her hands and looked at her in the mirror.
"Since forever when it comes to people that I care about." He said. "Do you think that you could teach me to dance like that?" he asked.
"I guess." She said as she headed towards the door, but she was pulled back and she was in a lip lock with Sirius Black. He massaged her bottom lip with his tongue before she opened her mouth to him; she massaged his tongue with hers and then started sucking on his tongue. But they were interrupted by a knock on the door and they jumped apart seconds before Laura walked in.
"Was I interrupting something?" She asked.
"No, mom." She said. "What did you want?" She asked.
"Your father is making a toast and then everyone is gonna leave." She said. "We want to know if you're going to Sirius' place for your little celebration."
"Yeah I've decided to go." Maggie said. "But we better get down there." Maggie said as she hurried out of the room not looking at her mother.
"I know Sirius, get going." Laura said.
"Sorry Lor, Lor." He said grinning.
"Yeah." She said as she closed Maggie's door behind her. Maggie made her way down the hall and down the stairs to the ballroom where everyone was gathered around the stage where her father stood. Maggie made her way towards where her aunt and her friends were standing and she stopped by them.
"Where did you sneak off to?" Rachael asked.
"I just went up to my room to freshen up Mrs. Potter." She said as she turned towards her father.
"Or more getting a little fresh." Mrs. Evans said as she saw Sirius come in with Laura.
"Like I could get fresh with Sirius Black." She said.
"Alright everyone, I know that we had Remus, James and Sirius up here earlier but now we have two spectacular women who have prepared a duet. It's one we've all heard of, Lillian Evans and Margarita Lupin are going to sing believe by Cher." He said. Maggie and Lily got up on stage not knowing that they volunteered to do this. Lily grabbed one of the microphones.
"Sorry to disappoint everyone but I'll just be dancing tonight my vocals are a little off." She said grinning at her friend.
The music started and Maggie had no other choice but to start with it. Maggie felt as if she had just done something illegal when she finished the song. She was so nervous and she had no idea how she had done it. Everyone was clapping and her and Lily were bowing, Maggie couldn't even remember doing the dance that she and Lily had apparently done.
That night after the party, the group of them climbed into the different cars leaving only Remus behind because the full moon was tomorrow. The four of them were in the car with the Evans' and they were laughing about Emma and Gabby who had both wanted to sing with Maggie.
The Evans' dropped them off and they headed home, but they weren't even at the end of the street and Maggie felt herself lose her breath and then she saw a crash. Everything went black after that.
Maggie woke in the hospital and she sat right up and saw Sirius and James standing there.
"What happened?" She asked.
"It was Lily's parents." James said.
"You saw the crash moments before it happened." Sirius said. "Lily's with her parents before they have to take them off of life support." He said looking at the floor.
"I wanna see her." Maggie said.
"Kay." James said as he helped her out of bed and they walked through the many halls. When they stepped in to Lily's room Maggie couldn't help but start crying.
"I'm so sorry Lily." Maggie said.
"Don't cry Maggie, it wasn't your fault." Lily said as she walked over to her friend.
"I'm sorry Love." Maggie said as they sat down together. When the nurse came in she said that Petunia had signed the papers and that they had to do it now. Maggie was surprised but then Petunia had always been after the Evans' money. It was three days later that they buried them and Lily got the fortune that her mother and father left her. Lily put it away and didn't touch it; she said that it was for her kids when they were older.
They were all sitting at Sirius' place in the living room not doing anything. Maggie knew that her friend was hurting but that didn't stop them having a nice Christmas dinner. Maggie had it all set out on the table and told everyone that it was dinnertime.
"Alright you guys no sad faces alright I don't think that any of us can take anymore pain right now so let's try and have fun." Maggie said.
"Easy for you to say, you haven't lost anyone." Lily said as she sat down.
"I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that." Maggie said as she sat down as well.
"Pretend away." Lily said not looking at her friend.
"Lily watch who your talking to." Maggie said. "I've gone through a hell of a lot more than you." Maggie said as she grabbed some wine.
"Yeah, I forgot you had to live on the bad side of town before you met your father. You had to steal form people that you knew and you had to prostitute yourself." Lily said angrily.
"Yeah I lived on the bad side of town, but I can put that behind me, I stole from people so that I didn't get beat so bad that I died like Jessica, but obviously what I did isn't well awarded in my best friends books. And I guess that you don't know me at all, because I have never prostituted myself I worked at bars but I have never done anything sexual for money. So much for friendship." Maggie said. "I can see that I'm not wanted." She said as she got up and she left the apartment. Maggie walked for hours until she found herself at her old apartment building. She walked in and up to her mothers' apartment and knocked on the door. Mark opened the door and grinned.
"Daddy don't want you anymore." He said before pulling her in. Maggie stepped in and she saw that the place was clean as a whistle.
"Who's been cleaning?" She asked.
"Your mother." He said grinning. Maggie walked down to her mothers' room and saw her on the bed; she was beaten so badly that she could hardly move.
"What the hell have you been doing to her?" Maggie asked.
"What she deserves for letting this place be a mess." He said as he sat down. Maggie flipped the chair and he fell out.
"She may not have stuck up for me when you hit me but that's my mother and she went through the pain of giving birth to me, don't ever touch her ever again." Maggie said.
"Well she doesn't have the guts to leave me." Mark said.
"Yeah well then I'll take her." Maggie said.
"Where are you going to go, daddy won't let her come into his home?" mark asked.
"Well I'm not letting you touch her." Maggie said. Maggie never even saw him coming when she was on the ground, then she realized that he had a wand. "You're a wizard." Maggie said.
"Yeah a death eater, you know the minute I saw you and your mother I knew that I could get to your father." They were on the third floor up and she knew that mark was going to kill her. "He would have done anything for you, he would have but he bargained it down so that I didn't get much of anything because he didn't like me." Mark said.
"That's not hard to believe." Maggie said and she was shot across the room in to the wall and then again back at the counter in the kitchen. He came up to her and he grabbed her up off the floor before he threw her through the glass door that led to the balcony. She went through the glass and hit the balcony railing and flew over it. Maggie landed on her back in the bushes, seconds later the police and an ambulance were speeding down the street and she could hear the wizards popping in to the apartment. Maggie was back at school now and she was happy to be there, Lily and her were still fighting and Sirius was with Maggie despite the fact that James was his best friend.
Maggie and Sirius were in the Gryffindor common room as they had taken to doing a lot since the fight.
"Why are you here with me?" Maggie asked.
"Do we have to go through this one again?" Sirius asked as he looked up from his prank planning.
"Sirius, he's your best friend and I think that he needs you a hell of a lot more than I do. Anyways it's mine and Lily's fight not the four of us." Maggie said.
"Well that's great but if he doesn't want to be around you because of that then I don't want to be around Lily." Sirius said.
"I still say go and talk to him." She said.
"I never had much sense and that's a very sensible thing for me to do." Sirius said.
"Please just talk to him." Maggie asked as she set her quill down.
"Maybe later." Sirius said as he grabbed her and pulled her against him on the couch.
"Sirius I have work to do." She said.
"Come on, you know that you're going to pass with flying colors." Sirius said grinning as he interlocked his fingers with Maggie's.
"And what if I don't?" She asked.
"Then you can hold me responsible." Sirius said.
"I'm so sure." She said as she put her head on his shoulder and looked up at him.
"What? I would take responsibility." He said grinning.
"I'm so sure." She said before she kissed him on the cheek and sat up so that she could go on with her work.
"I'm going to bed." She said as she gathered up her things, kissed Sirius and went to her staircase. When she was just heading down the stairs she heard Alice's voice talking to Sirius.
"Hey there Sirius." Alice said.
"Hey." Sirius said.
"So, I was thinking did you wanna have a little closet fun?" She asked.
"Um, actually Alice I'm expected somewhere." She heard Sirius say and then she bound down the stairs grinning. When she walked into the room she set her books in her trunk, locking it and then she changed into her pajamas. She was just climbing into bed when the door opened and she saw Sirius walk in.
"What are you doing here?" She asked as he stripped down and climbed into her bed.
"Well I thought that I would rather be here with you then having Alice try and get me into the closet." Sirius said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
"Really, so here was where you had to be?" She asked as she curled up next to him.
"Yeah I figured you would like that." Sirius said.
"So when are you going to talk to him?" Maggie asked.
"What are we married now?" Sirius asked. "Look, James and I can deal with our own friendship so you worry about Lily." Sirius said.
"So we're sleeping around again?" Alice asked.
"Yeah, that's it." Maggie said as she climbed on top of Sirius and straddled him in front of Alice.
"Bitch." Alice said as she left and went to the bathroom and Maggie closed the curtains to her bed and she kissed Sirius.
"No Maggie." Sirius said.
"What because I'm not ready?" She asked.
"No because you're trying to please me." Sirius said.
"No I'm not, I don't need you that much." Maggie said as she got off of him and grabbed her book.
"Really, I don't think that's the case." Sirius said, "You were so happy to have me with you but you think that you're going to lose me." Sirius said. "You're very easy to read." Sirius said.
"Whatever." She said as she opened her book and continued to read from where she left off.
"Maggie go to bed." Sirius said.
"I'm not tired." Maggie said as she continued to read her book. Sirius grabbed the book and he held on to it. "Give it back Sirius." Maggie said.
"Nope, I don't think so, I think that you should get some sleep." He said as he threw the book across the room. Maggie got out of bed quickly and picked it up, she grabbed her housecoat and she headed towards the astronomy tower where she would go sometimes when she couldn't sleep. When she got up there she saw Lily sitting on the edge of window staring out over the lake. She walked up and sat down next to her.
"I'm sorry about what I said, I shouldn't have told you to let it go like I do." Maggie said.
"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have said that you hadn't lost anyone, you lost Jessica when you were young and she had been your entire world." Lily said as she wrapped her arm around Maggie.
"I miss them too, they were so nice to me when they didn't even know me." Maggie said as she put her head on her friends shoulder and felt her headrest on hers.
"I know, so how are things going with Sirius? James is a mess." Lily said.
"Really, Sirius is too stubborn for his own good, he thinks that he has to be with me on everything that I do just because he's dating me." Maggie said.
"That's guys for ya." Lily said grinning. "So what are you doing up here in the first place?" Lily asked.
"Getting away from Sirius, he was trying to get me to go to sleep and he wouldn't do anything with me because he thought that I was trying to please him." Maggie said smiling. "Be quiet I hear something." Maggie said and she dragged Lily to the other side of the room behind a couch that was there for classes.
"Shouldn't we just leave?" Lily asked.
"No, they'll see us then and then you would take points because you would have to." Maggie said quietly and Lily sat back down with her friend.
"Are you sure you wanna do this, I mean, wouldn't miss Lupin get angry?" They both heard Alice ask someone.
"Well yeah but she'll never find out." They heard Sirius' voice. They both laid down and watched from under the couch what was going on, and then they heard them kissing and soon they saw clothes dropping to the floor. Maggie and Lily sat up and leant against the wall listening to the sounds of Sirius have sex with someone other than her. Maggie wanted to cry but she told herself that this was bound to happen and that Sirius wasn't the one for her as much as she wanted him to be. The two of them got dressed and left when they came and Maggie watched them walk out together. A few minutes later, they heard footsteps coming up the tower stairs and Maggie saw James step in.
"Lily are you in here?" James asked. James looked as Maggie got up and helped her friend up.
"What are you doing here?" Lily asked.
"Seeing where you were, so has anyone been up here tonight?" He asked.
"Not other then us." Maggie said giving her friend a look that she wanted this kept really low. "You know James, it's really not any of my business but you should talk to Sirius because he's your friend and you guys shouldn't have gotten in to our business." She said as she went up to him and hugged him.
"Maggie why are you so cold?" James asked as she pulled away.
"I'm not cold." She said.
"You're ice cold." James said as he grabbed Lily's hand and Lily pulled back as she touched Maggie's arm.
"I'm fine, I just need to get to my warm bed." Maggie said as she headed down the stairs with them. They walked her back to the Gryffindor common room and then they went off to bed. When she entered she saw Sirius sitting on the couch.
"Where have you been?" He asked.
"Walking around, but I'm going down to bed." She said.
"Alright." He said as he got up to follow her.
"I'm gonna sleep alone tonight." She said as she walked down the stairs. When Maggie got to her dorm room, she climbed into bed and she saw Alice sitting on her bed crying.
"What's the matter with you?" Maggie asked as she set her book on her bedside table and got back out of bed.
"Have you ever loved anyone?" Alice asked.
"What do you mean, like a guy or a sister or something?" Maggie asked as she sat down next to Alice.
"A guy." She asked.
"Sure I guess, but I didn't love deeply enough." Maggie said. "Why?"
"Because I love this guy Frank that I have never told and I don't know how to tell him, plus all the girls think that he's a bit of a weirdo." Alice said.
"Well then they're not very good friends." Maggie said. "Follow your heart, if your heart says tell Frank, then tell him." Maggie said smiling.
"Maggie I'm sorry for whatever I've done to you, I am. I don't know how I could ever make it up to you." Alice said.
"Alice you can make it up to me by being a better person to yourself and to others. Just treat everyone with the same respect you would for yourself, and you know if you're friends ditch you, Lily and I are always here." Maggie said.
"Are you sure?" Alice asked.
"Yeah." Maggie said.
"I'm sorry about tonight, Sirius and I." Alice started to say but was interrupted.
"Lily and I were there, as much as I hate the fact that he did it and you did it but it was bound to happen and I'm glad to know that it happened before I got to attached." Maggie said smiling slightly. "Don't tell him I know, I want him to figure it out himself." Maggie said.
"Alright." Alice said.
"You should get some sleep." Maggie said smiling as she got up off the bed and she sat down in her bed, and grabbed the book that she was reading. Maggie made sure that Alice couldn't see her light and she stayed up all night reading and trying to get to sleep but nothing was working.