Life in the Fast Lane
Just as a forewarning. This chapter is a bit all over the place. Timing with certain things had to come into play. Like I said I am keeping this as true to the books and movies as I can. Meaning some deaths are inevitable. Now this chapter has some fluff and seriousness in it so try to keep an open mind. Please enjoy and please review!
Chapter 11: I Don't Want to Grow Up!
Cassidy's POV:
Christmas morning came and went. Lily told James and just as I expected he was over the moon. The New Year came and we were all back to work before we knew it. After nearly a year I was still trying to crack the case of who broke into the Department of Mysteries. The Auror Department and my boss tried to shut down my investigation, but I wasn't going to give up. Lily and James were set to be married on Valentine's day and there was so much to do!
"Will you please go and get your dresses fitted!?" Lily begged as Marlene and I lounged around one Sunday afternoon. "The wedding is in three weeks and you two haven't even seen them yet."
"We'll go right now," I agreed pulling Marlene up. "Let's go Marly!"
"But I-," I cut her off with a glare and a nod. She groaned and moved to get her stuff. I stopped her with my arm.
"Let me," I smirked. I waved my hand and two pairs of boots came sailing into the room. I skillfully caught mine, but Marlene's flew right into her stomach.
"Yeah," she wheezed. "I'm never gonna get use to that." I let out a giggle as I pulled my boots on over my jeans. We pulled our coats on over our sweaters and floo'd to the Leaky so we could head into Diagon Alley.
"Merlin's beard," I shivered. "It's freezing out here."
"Quit talking about it and hurry up," Marlene stuttered. We hurried down the cobblestone road into Madame Malkins. She brought us to the back and gave us our dresses. Marlene went first and she came out in a beautiful black dress that was identical to the one I was holding. It was short and covered with lace and flared out at the waist.
"That looks great Marls," I said in awe. "Lily has good taste."
"And it fits perfect," she said twirling. "Lily should really trust my judgement."
"You mean your procrastination?" I teased. She poked her tongue at me and I threw my coat at her. We switched places and I tried on my dress and then we went out to lunch.
"We're grown ups," Marlene stated out of the blue as we waited for our food.
"Indeed we are," I smiled and picked up my drink. "To being grown up."
"To being grown-up," she laughed and clinked her drink with mine. As we both took sips of our drinks we heard a noise from outside. We looked at each other knowingly and raced out the door. Right in the middle of the streets of muggle London, spells and curses were flying every which way. Dozens of people in dark cloaks and white masks were torturing muggles left and right.
"Death eaters," I whispered. "Marlene go floo the Auror department and anyone in the Order who will fight. I'll get Dumbledore." She raced into the Leaky and I disappeared into an alley to send a patronus.
"Go to Dumbledore," I whispered to the fox that came from my wand. "Tell him to get the Order down to Muggle London outside the Leaky Cauldron. Death Eaters are attacking." The silver fox whisked away. I turned to head back into the action, but was blasted back by a man in a white mask. I looked up and saw him start to approach me again.
"Shouldn't have done that," I croaked out. I pulled myself up and flashed my hand out sending the Death Eater backwards. I smirked and hurried over and pulled them up pushing them against the wall.
"Let's see the man behind the mask," I said reaching for their mask. They slapped my hand away and pushed me against the opposite wall, hard. My head hit the hard brick and I could feel the warm sticky blood begin to creep onto my neck. My captor began to strike my face making the sticky red liquid spill over my skin. With all my strength I needed them in the stomach and pushed them off of me. I put my hand out read to shout a spell, but was beat to it by my brother who stunned the Death Eater.
"I was handling it," I grumbled wiping some of the blood from my mouth.
"Sure you were," he said rolling his eyes. He bound the Death Eater with a spell and then turned to me again. "Go to the hospital. I'll be along in a while. Got it?"
I nodded and then pulled him into a quick hug before he could leave. He kissed my head and then went back into the street. I quickly apparated to St. Mungo's where people were quickly piling up.
"Cassidy!" I heard Lily's worried voice shout. I turned and saw the red fireball running towards me. I encased her in a hug and held on tight. She lead me to a room and quickly healed my wounds and then told me to stay put until someone came to pick me up. A few hours later Sirius entered the room and checked me over himself before taking me home.
"I'm going to shower real quick," I told him as we entered my flat. He nodded and sat down on the couch. After my shower I changed into jeans and gray sweatshirt.
"Ready?" I asked pulling on a leather jacket. He nodded and we apparated to Headquarters. All of our friends were there already including Peter, whom I haven't seen in months. We exchanged hello's and sat as Dumbledore began the meeting. Before everyone left we, everyone gathered for a picture. Sirius had his arms wrapped around me and pulled me in close making me smile and nuzzle closer to him. We said goodbye to everyone and went back to his flat where we cuddled late into the night.
"Would you ever consider moving in with me?" he asked absentmindedly playing with my curly hair.
"What?" I asked in surprise.
"I mean you don't have to," he said quickly. "My Uncle Alfred just died and as a 'screw you' to the rest of my family he left everything to me, including a flat. I thought it might be good for us."
"Wow...I mean….wow…," I stumbled not sure of what to say. "Yes Sirius...I'd love too!"
"Really?" he asked surprised.
"Of course you dolt," I laughed hitting his shoulder. "I'd love to move in with you Sirius!" We spent the rest of the night and well into the morning making plans about moving in.
"And you promise you'll be back in time for the wedding?" Lily asked for the fourth time that morning. "I don't want to be down a bridesmaid."
"I promise Lily," Marlene said. "I couldn't possibly think of missing your wedding."
"Good! I very well can't have a wedding without the maid of honor," she exclaimed. Picking who was going to be Lily's maid of honor was easy. Marlene is better at helping plan and pick things out. And in exchange I got to be her baby's godmother.
"I'm sure Cassi could fill in," she said.
"And give up my position as godmother? I don't think so!" I teased. "Now go! You're family reunion can't happen without the best McKinnon out there."
She hugged us both goodbye and floo'd away. Soon after the boys came over and helped me pack up my things and transport them to the new flat Sirius and I would be moving into tonight. After everything was packed we all apparated (Lily floo'd) over to the flat. Sirius had gotten his things moved over last night and had started unpacking already. Our friends left leaving us to finish unpacking.
"Alright," I said. "We can start with the kitchen and then move on to the-"
Sirius cut me off with a passionate kiss.
"Or we could do some other stuff and worry about unpacking tomorrow," he suggested untying the back of my dress and slowly working the zipper. I rolled my eyes but kissed him once more and left unpacking to the next day.
Sirius and I spent most of Sunday lounging around and finishing putting things in their rightful places. With my enhanced magic things went quicker than planned so we were able to do...other stuff. After we ate dinner we went out to the abandoned farmhouse for the Order meeting.
"Sassy! Over here!" Spencer called as Sirius and I entered the basement. I walked over and gave him a big hug.
"Hey big bro," I smiled up at him. "What have you been up too?"
"Oh you know, the usual bad guy fighting," he smirked. "You're prat of a boyfriend isn't too bad of a partner."
"Who knew that you would ever say something nice about bad boy Sirius Black," I tease. "Hell must have frozen over."
"You're the one dating the bloke," he commented back. I punched him in the arm and retreated back to said bad boy. Lily and James had shown up, but Remus was nowhere to be found.
"Where's the wolf boy? It's not a full moon is it?" I asked quietly as I approached.
"He's visiting his half sister in the States," James replied. "She just had a baby."
"Remus has a half-sister across the pond?" I questioned. "How did I not know this?"
"Doesn't really talk about her much," James said. "She's not the friendliest."
"You can say that again," Sirius muttered. "The crazy bird nearly hexed my lips off."
"Well you did kiss her," James mentioned.
"You what?!" I hissed. Sirius gave James a 'thanks a lot' look and then grabbed my hand.
"I was young and dumb love," he defended. "Merely me being me."
"Uh-huh," I clucked moving to sit down as Dumbledore called us together.
"Hello all," he greeted. "As you can see we are missing a few members today. Not to worry though, the McKinnon family is off having family time, Mr. Lupin is visiting family as well, and Grace and Christopher Potter haven't being feeling their best lately. But we shall carry on nonetheless."As he said we continued through the meeting talking of issues that have come up and patrols that are going to be sent out.
"Now are there any volunteers to go on patrol next-"
Dumbledore was cut off when a silver wispy looking fish soared into the room.
"Help," was the only thing that came from its mouth before it disappeared. Everyone remained silent until Dumbledore collected his thoughts and spoke.
"Does anyone know whose patrons that was," he asked briskly. I swallowed thickly and stood up.
"That was Marlene's sir," I replied my voice shaking.
Like I said, sadly some deaths are inevitable. When I first started this story I completely forgot about the McKinnon's death's. But when I finally remembered I wanted to keep it to add some more to the plot and conflict etc. We will also have two other character deaths that I haven't quite mentioned yet, but it will be a bit obvious once I mention the pair next chapter. Also a small reminder I won't post for a while because I'm going away on vacation for a little bit and won't be able to post so please bear with me! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
XOXO,
SophieElizabeth630