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Chapter 13: waking

Lily woke up with the sun's light shining through her eyelids. She slowly sat up realising the pounding ache all over her body, especially in her head. It felt as though a herd of Thestrals had danced the cha-cha in her head over night. She looked around her room noticing that it was not her normal head girl room. She was sitting in a single bed with a light pink blanket over her body. Half of the room was painted pink while the other side was painted a light sky blue and looked like a blue version of her side. It was a very cute little room but why, oh why was she in it? Over in the blue side of the room she noticed something shuffling under the covers. Lily reached for her wand and cringed as pain shot up through her arm and back, her head still throbbing. After her first bout of pain she grabbed her wand and slowly threw the covers off herself and swung her legs out of bed. She pointed the wand in the direction of the shuffling. The figure that was shuffling was slowly getting up and reaching for something on it's side table. The 'thing' stopped moving and very quickly jumped out of the bed with it's wand pointed at her. The 'thing' turned out to be a boy – he was very cute -, he staggered a bit and finally reached his full height. Oh Dear God Lily though desperately. Both of the teens opened their mouths and let out a scream to wake the dead.

James rolled over in his blue sheets and gradually opened his eyes. Blue? I have red sheets. Great whose bed's this then? He reached for his glasses on the bedside table and noticed a feeling as though someone was watching him. He sat stock still and thought about what he should do. After a moments consideration he picked up his glasses as though nothing had happened, snatched up his wand and jumped out of bed. Only after standing did he notice the massive amount of pain in his body and mainly in his head. He felt as though a gang of Sirius's had been partying for a week over his body and especially in his head. He staggered at first not used to the amount pain in his body. His pulled himself up to his full height to see none other than the Head Girl sitting in the room with him surrounded by pink. Hmmm... She's actually quiet cute in pink he thought before shaking the disturbing thoughts out of his head. It finally clicked he was sitting in a room with Lily Evans both of them in their pyjamas. Out of shock he dropped his wand and screamed – Lily doing the same.

James quickly grabbed his wand from the floor and pointed it towards Evans. Lily doing the same to Potter. While staring at each other a barrage of memories flooded their heads. In unison they dropped to their knees, hands flying to their heads as their eyes rolled in their sockets and they fainted.

Remus and Is ran to the room where all the noise was coming from. Both frantic in case the potion had backfired. Is was worried about what would happen if the potion didn't work. What if they accidentally poisoned them? What if they caused their age to be permanent? What if? What if? What if?

While Is worried about the 'Brats' Remus opened the large oak door that separated them from the screaming in the other room. Standing next to their bed stood a full grown Lily Evans and James Potter suddenly the screaming stopped and they both dropped to the ground. Is rushed over to Lily while Remus to James. Is and Remus helped each other ease their 'Brats' up onto their beds. Is grabbed a book off Lily's shelf and started reading while Remus went to Floo the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall.

Soon both professors arrived quiet puffed out and noticing the quiet in the common room walked quietly up the stairs. Opening the oak door they saw Lily and James once again in bed and Is and Remus sitting by each bed reading a book. Seeing the door open both the reading students raised their heads and promptly stood up smoothing the crinkles out of their robes.

"ah 'ello professor" Is said nervously. She had been pretending to read. In truth she was worried for her grown up 'Brats'. They were always fighting before they were de-aged but now she was used to them hugging or giggling about some kind of prank that Remus and her would discover the next day. Lily and James got along really well as children but not as teens. Lily and James as children loved each other like brother and sister. Is smiled when she remembered their first public growing and Lily coming to James's rescue and then him coming to her's. It was very heart warming. She worried that everything would change when they came back. Lily would never forgive her for fraternising with a Marauder and would definitely NEVER forgive her for making her childhood include James.

Remus looked over at his gorgeous girlfriend and felt a lead weight drop in his stomach. 'James is going to kill me' he though gloomily, not for the first time. He had forced James to experience another childhood with his arch nemesis. It wasn't really Remus's fault though. Lily and James actually asked them to be their parents. So it was all James's fault really Remus concluded but still felt uneasy about his friend's reaction to his girlfriend and first mother figure.

At the thought of a mother figure another weight dropped in his stomach. There was a difference this weight felt like it was going to suffocate him, it had dropped and kept dropping till it had reached China, and then kept going. Remus had told Lily James's story, his entire life story. 'He is definitely going to kill me' he once again thought miserably.

James Potter woke up feeling like any other day, no Sirius jumping around in his head causing pain and his back was niggle-free. He picked himself up off of the soft green turf underneath him and noticed he was lying on an indoor Quidditch field. Leaning on one elbow he took in his surrounding. To the left of him was a shed that he assumed held his Quidditch gear, in one area was a cornered off region and in the other was a dark red couch surrounded by books. He heaved himself upwards and started exploring his room. He didn't know how he knew it but it was his room. Looking at his books he noticed one he hadn't seen before. The title: Ocummely.

It suddenly hit him this was his Soul Room that was connected to Lily's. His memories returned to him and he sat down on his sofa with his head in his hands thinking over his many new experiences.

The one thing that really got to him was how much of a prat he had been to her. She had lost her best friend and was treated horribly at home and then she came to school and what did he have to do? Torture and ridicule her for every school day. It was humiliating to see himself in a different light. He had been horrible to her all because she let him have a piece of her mind for being rude. If only I said sorry he thought miserably.

Meanwhile Lily was waking up, all her aches had disappeared. She was sitting a rather peculiar room made of books. She got herself off of the swinging bed and looked over the large tomes. History of Magic, Advance Charms, Transfiguration for Dummies. She was a bit shocked to see all her books and many others she had read lined along the walls. Wow I have my own library she thought to herself. While exploring the room she came across some Quidditch gear, a potions lab, a large almost complete painting of Hogwarts and a small kitchenette.

"I love this room" she shouted out loud as she twirled around in the middle of the room and falling backwards onto her swinging bed. When she thought of some music for her to listen to a sweet melody filled the room and she listened contently not noticing the hazel eyes peeping through the door in the side of the room.

After a few hours of self loathing he got himself off the couch and made his way to Lily's room. He opened the door joining the two rooms. Inside he could see a twirling mass of red hair laughing in joy and happiness. James laughed to himself she really isn't any different than when she was little. He watched her for a little while and saw her jumped backwards onto her bed and lay there thinking. While she was lying down he quietly opened the door and made his way over to her.

She looked like an angel. Her hair was standing out against the dark red bed and splayed out around her head. Her eyes though shut were flicking around under head eyelids and a glowing smile plastered on her face.

"I'm sorry Lily" he said quietly. At the sound of a voice Lily's eyelids opened and her emerald eyes stared at her 'brother'.

She jumped off of the couch and grabbed him a hug around is middle. Her head buried in his chest he felt wet patches form on his stomach as Lily cried.

His heart was shattering. Even when he was younger he never wanted to see Lily cry and he had promised himself he never would. He wrapped his arms around the crying girl and rocked backwards and forwards while whispering nothings in her ears. Eventually she stopped crying and with a sniffle she unwrapped her self from his and sat down, with him next to her.

"I'm so sorry James. I honestly had no idea about your mum." She said sincerely while looking down in shame.

"It's alright it was a long time ago." He said stoically. Talking about his mother opens a gate that he wished never to again. Once this gate was open it was often very hard to close. He knew that Lily had it worse off than him. She actually had a mother and father and a sister but instead of loving and supporting her they bring her down because they blame her for her sister's death.

After a few more tears, sharing each other's stories and venting of emotions about their families they decided to make a snack. Lily went over to her kitchenette and got ready to make James a snack.

An arm snaked around her waist and twirled her out of her own kitchen. Looking innocent as ever, James started to make them both milkshakes: Lily's chocolate, James's vanilla. Lily watched him with fascination till she remembered teaching him when they were younger. He was gliding smoothly through the kitchen grabbing two glasses, ice-cream and other things needed. He knew exactly where everything was and completed the milkshakes in record time. She did have to admit that if the milkshakes were anything to go by she was definitely a very good teacher.

They sat there in Lily's kitchenette talking about things from when they were younger. A few chuckles were heard while remembering events such as their first display of magic, the Malfoy kid, playing with Uncle Siri and Aunty Jo, being tucked in at night and being stories by Remus and Is. Being Crystal and Alex let them experience a whole new childhood and a different view on life. Lily no longer thought her family life was normal and James no longer agreed with how his father treated him. Just because he reminded him of something painful didn't mean he could run away from it. Soon they were both back to becoming depressed about their family situations when James jumped up, ran to Lily's little shed and pulled out two brooms.

An excited Lily ran to James grabbed the broom and flew through the door to James's Quidditch field.

James and Lily spent hours playing Quidditch and just generally flying around the room playing tag or having races.

Meanwhile outside of the soul rooms were 6 very scared friends and 2 anxious professors waiting for them to wake up from their sleep. Remus and Is were hugging each other while the others were trying to comfort each other without so much touching. Since Alice and Frank had only just started going out they were still hesitant to public displays of affection especially at a time like this. Sirius was arguing with Jo over nothing but it seemed to be a stress reliever for the both of them. Headmaster Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall sat in the waiting area watching and waiting for news from Poppy the school nurse. Dumbledore was watching the beds with calm, though interested face. McGonagall was sitting in her chair, back ram-rod straight, her face crinkled with concern and her hand clutching her tea cup making her knuckles go white.

McGonagall was sitting there very worried over her students. James may not be the most attentive and Lily not the best but they were still her favourite. She refused to show favouritism and so was especially hard on the two. Though you never had to be hard on Lily, she never set a foot out of line. James though was another matter. Walking around hexing students, arriving late to class, not listening, talking during lessons the list goes on and on. Though over the last month or so he was perfectly adorable and quiet shy, which was not what she expected at all. She came to love the 'Brats' as they were nicknamed as her own nephew and niece. They were always so bubbly and cheerful. Maybe they should open Hogwarts to younger students as well; they made her feel young, though she already was rather young compared to some teachers.

As McGonagall loved thinking of ways to make her younger Poppy came over with a cup of coffee, tea wasn't strong enough and a clipboard of notes. She had a perplexed look on her face, as though she couldn't figure out a puzzle.

"Well" she began to get everyone's attention "they have just been sleeping". Everyone was confused. How can they be sleeping? We yelled at them, we poured cold water over them, Sirius almost kicked them. How could they just be asleep?

Dumbledore seemed to voice everyone's questions. "How can they be asleep I tried to wake them?" Poppy had the same baffled look on her face but mixed with worry.

She bent her head down and inspected the sheet of paper once more. Quietly she voiced where they were "they're in their Corplexis Intellectular."

Most gave dumb looks, including the Headmaster. The only one who knew what she said gave a sharp intake of breathe. Everyone looked in their direction. Remus shifted under their gaze and explained the importance of a Corplexis Intellectular. "They're in their Soul Rooms" he explained slowly. The Headmaster and Sirius finally got it – after all they were accomplished in the arts of Occumelicy – while the others still looked out of the loop.

The headmaster then took over explaining to the confused.

"A Soul Room is a room which represents you in everyway. You can only get there after a lot of meditation. I myself have only managed it once in my life. It is essentially your soul. It's your source of magic, it's your talents, your faults, it's you. It is also a form of mind protection and is very rare to stumble across your Soul Room." He finished to a quiet audience until Jo turned on Sirius and started arguing about anything to let off her worry. Sirius understood this and so continued to argue with her. he knew that she was just stressed and scared for the now grown 'Brats' and he was the best target since he didn't take offence to anything she said. Half way through their rant two voices were heard behind the closed off white curtains.

"Would you cut it out?" a annoyed voice rang out

"Yeah I had enough when you babysat us" giggled another. After each statement both voice erupted into laughter.

Pulling back the curtains the worried adults and teens looked in on Lily and James rolling around in their beds tears leaking down their faces as the laughed hard.

"What are you laughing about?" Jo sounded affronted. She had been sitting by her bed worried sick for the last few hours and what payback did she get. LAUGHTER!! How could they be laughing it was serious.

"You two" James and Lily said in unison as Lily pointed to Jo and James to Sirius.

"Sirius you ol' dog" James said in between laughs as he got out of his bed and captured the stunned Sirius in a head lock giving him a nuggy. Both boys were struggling, Sirius trying to get to James, James trying to stay away.

"BOYS!!" madam Pomfrey roared. James and Sirius stood stock still in their positions. James was halfway up a curtain and Sirius standing on a chair that was slowly tipping while he reached for James. The chair finally tipped and Sirius fell grabbing the curtain as he went down causing James to fall also.

Since neither was screaming in pain the hospital wing was heard to ring with laughter. After everyone had made sure that both Lily and James were ok they all trickled out of the room.

The last people to leave were Remus and Isidora who still contain their parental instincts and couldn't quite let them go just yet.

Finally standing up to leave they were called over to James and Lily's beds.

"Yes?" Remus asked after hearing their names called.

"We just wanted to say we appreciate you looking after us. It made the whole ordeal much better." Lily thanked her cheeks flushing red.

Is was feeling so guilty. She had her best friend's complete trust when Lily told her about her family and then she told her worst enemy. And then Lily thanks her. Most of the day Isidora had been dreading when they would wake and she would have to explain to Lily why she did it. finally not able to stand the guilt any more she threw herself and Lily and tried to explain through sobs.

"Lily I'm so sorry I told James." She finally got out.

"It's alright." Lily said reassuringly

"No it's not I know you hate him and then I go and tell him your biggest secret. I'm so sorry I never should have done it. Please don't be angry all I wanted to do was help." She wailed into the sheets.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not angry."

"You're just saying that so I don't feel guilty." Is said and started sobbing louder

"Is look at me!" Lily commanded.

Is looked up into Lily's eyes and saw no hate, she saw no sadness, she saw happiness and freedom. Lily looked content and open. Is had never seen Lily look so free, like a weight was lifted off of her shoulders. 'Maybe I didn't do something wrong' Is thought to herself.

"Is I already told James myself about Daisy." Is's head shot up and looked in James direction. He had moved from his bed and was standing behind Lily holding her hand while she tried to calm Is down. 'Well this is new' Is thought.

Remus was thinking along the same lines.

Is and Remus looked at James and Lily in confusion as they continued to hold hands and smile at their dumbfounded faces.

AN:

Yeah I like the ending of this chapter.

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