Don't have much to say so I'll say RnR and enjoy.


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The group walked down the pathway and took in the beautiful landscape.

"I love this place." Lily murmured to herself, but James over heard.

"I know. I used to come here so much as a child it was so fun. That's where my parents got there inspiration to do something about their garden. I remember going into the forest over and over again…getting lost," he laughed in remembering how he once got caught a glimpse of a Unicorn but it was to fast and he didn't get to it. (A/N yes I am aware that it sounds like the forbidden forest but its not…just similar)

"I can see why, look how dense that place is." Lily pointed to the forest. Tia, who was walking along behind them shuddered after looking at the forest.

"Those sorts of places should be band. There are lots of creepy crawlies in there!" Tia said between cringing at the thought.

"Such a sook aren't you Francis." Sirius said walking up behind Tia making her jump.

"No, I'm a girl." Tia glared.

"A girl that fights off Bludgers on a weekly basis." Tia was about to object since she wasn't even on the team "Don't act like you don't have practises with Jacob. He can hardly sleep afterwards." Sirius smiled mischievously.

"What are you implying Black?" Tia asked suspiciously, eyebrows raised.

"Eh no. You two do not start talking about Simon today…or for the next few days." Lily said stopping in the middle of the track making everyone stop. "In fact I have to make a small yet necessary and obvious announcement: Tia likes Jacob and he likes her so nah get over it." With that Rory, Remus, Mack and Shauna all burst out laughing. "Sorry Tia it had to be done. It's pretty darn obvious anyway. Quit glaring at me like that would you." Lily said carefully backing away and pulling James along to get away.

"You know she's gonna crack?" James asked happily as he watched Tia glaring at Lily.

"Yeah but it was about time that the whole charade came to a close. Next time I'll be telling Jacob to ask her out all ready. Oh that reminds me we have a Hogsmade weekend soon…just before we are forced into the major study time." Lily started rambling on about NEWTS but James only payed half attention.

"Hey lets go into the forest. I need to get lost before I have that talk with Winifred and Darwin." James said interrupting Lily.

"Well can we get to the town first. I wanted to have a look." Lily gave a sweet smile and James agreed that they would go afterwards

James and Lily walked along without realising that only Rory and Remus were following them.

"Where did the others go?" James asked Remus after realising.

"Tia ran off and Sirius followed." Remus started. "Mack kinda drifted off somewhere and Shauna is-"

"Right here." Shauna said popping up next to Remus with a furry thing in her hands.

"With a…thing" Lily said looking at the 'thing' weirdly. "What is it Shauna?"

"I don't know. It's just cute." Shauna lifted the furry thing -that no one could see the face of- and hugged it happily.

"Shauna put it down…" James warned stepping away from her.

"You don't like it?" Shauna asked sadly.

"I don't know what it is." James said.

"It's a Cladrage" Rory rattled off a book she happened to be carrying. "They live in forests and will bite if anything touches it…Shauna put it down, it's poisonous."

"But it likes me." Shauna said holding it closer. "I want to keep it!"

"Shauna! Put that thing down!" Lily said harshly.

"You sound like a mother Lily." Shauna said as she put the Cladrage down on the ground and the fluff ball thing ran into the trees with a hiss.

"Thank you Shauna. Jeez don't pick random things up it isn't a good habit." Lily warned.

"Yes ma'am!" Shauna saluted Lily and started to march forward. Rory giggled and followed suit. Remus shook his head and smiled and joined the end of the line.

"YAY! Conga!" James yelled as he joined the line but instead of marching started to conga. "Join in Lil!"

Lily laughed but just ran to keep up with them.

(The edge of the forest)

"Tia wait up would you!" Sirius called as Tia walked off cursing Lily. "Tia! I already knew, you know! I was teasing!"

"Everyone knows! but that's not what bothers me!" Tia shouted back then continued to curse under her breath.

"Then what is it?" Sirius asked as he caught up.

"I don't want to burden you with my over thinking." Tia said as she started to walk faster.

"Please!" Sirius made a hand movement as in to forget it. "I can think fast to you know. Plus I used to be a good person to turn to when you have trouble correct?"

"Yeah but that was before-" Tia started.

"You broke my heart?" Sirius asked happily. Tia just rolled her eyes. "Come on Tia. Haven't you noticed something different about me?"

"You're happy again…ohhhh spill!" Tia said suddenly with a big smile.

"After you do!" Sirius smiled back.

"Promise?" Tia asked suspiciously.

"Yes I promise." Sirius gave her a reassuring look. Tia stopped and smiled.

"Okay, everyone knows Jacob and I have this thing but we don't! Everything almost worked in the hospital wing but then you burst in and he has hardly said a word to me in ages! It's not fair!" Tia went on.

"Well duh! It's Jacob! He is shy! Just ask him to the Hogsmede weekend and then he might get up the nerve to do it next time!"

"He better!" Tia said with a glare.

"Okay now that's sorted, I have news!" Sirius said and Tia clapped her hands and jumped up and down.

"I've been seeing Mack." Sirius said simply. Tia stopped jumping and stumbled. "For awhile now actually as well. Since she got that detention a month ago." Tia fell over at this. She stood up quickly and opened her mouth to say something but closed it again. She did this a few times before she looked Sirius in the eye and ran off up the lawns to the Mansion. Sirius' heart sank. He was hoping for some sort of happy response from Tia, even if it was fake.

"Tia…" he said quietly.

"I told you not to do that!" Mack said walking up behind him. Sirius jumped slightly but didn't feel sorry. He didn't like Tia not knowing. He didn't like James not knowing either.

"Couldn't help it Mack. She deserved to know." Sirius said with a shrug. He had turned around now and was going back towards the path down to the Muggle town.

"You still could have told me you were going to! Now I have to go find her!" Mack stormed off to find Tia.

"Women…" Sirius muttered under his breath.

Sirius started running and caught up to the others quickly. He found them laughing there heads off as they walked out through the arch into the town.

The town was really small and quiet. There were all the normal stores that they expected in a Muggle town. As they walked down the main road they found there was a street market down one street which Rory and Remus both decided to check out.

Sirius, James Shauna and Lily found the pub that Darwin had been talking about and ordered themselves Butterbeers.

"So where did Tia disappear to. Will she be planning an attack on me?" Lily asked as the sat down in the corner of the considerably quiet pub.

"Doubt she would attack you. She probably won't even remember that." Sirius said with a shrug not looking up from his bottle.

"What did you do to her?" Lily glared at him.

"Lily!" James growled.

"I told her Mack and I are sorta dating." Sirius said still without taking his eyes off his Butterbeer. They all gasped at the news. "Was that because I told her or because it was a surprise?" Sirius finally looked up. Lily noticed he didn't look to happy at the moment but she couldn't tell why.

"Since when?" James asked after a long silence.

"Can't remember dates or anything but it was after she got her detention…I think I got mine 'cos I 'accidentally' spilt ink over Snivellus." Sirius looked down at his drink and took a big swig of it.

"Is it serious?" Shauna asked, frowning slightly.

"Don't know. I didn't think so at first since she doesn't want anyone to know about it, but now…" Sirius shrugged and took another drink.

"Well I think I'm going to have to go find those two…they might be trying to kill each other. James you will have to take a wonder in the forest alone…don't be lost to long" Lily sighed, kissed James on the cheek and slid off her seat. She waved at the boys and left with Shauna tagging along behind her.

On Lily's way out she bumped into Rory and Remus who were laughing over something they bought at the stalls. Lily told them that Mack and Tia were probably getting into a fist fight and James and Sirius were at the bar. Remus went to join the guys as Rory followed Lily out of the town.

"Great. Do you think I'm stronger then Tia?" Shauna asked rolling up her sleeves as they walked up the Mansion pathway.

"I doubt it, she's got a beater arms. Look we don't know what they are doing so…lets just wait and see." Lily said.

They walked into the Mansion and asked one of the House Elves whether Mack and Tia had been seen.

"Peppi saw two girls running up the stairs into one of the guest rooms." The house elf called Pepper told them. Rory and Shauna started up the stairs and Lily followed, when they came to the second landing they started running up the next set of stairs but Lily heard a scream from the room she knew was hers.

"I'll catch up with you. I just heard a scream from my room." Lily told Shauna. Lily had been told she could sleep in the second floor quarters alone, her friends would be just a level up in two rooms. The boys were all sharing a room on the second floor also.

Lily came to the second door closest to the staircase which Winifred told her was hers, and opened the door to find Winifred and Darwin standing looking shocked over the box James had given her.

"Who screamed?" Lily demanded frowning at the two. They may be close to James but they were still in her room uninvited and looking through her box.

"That was me dear." Winifred said. Her face was turning very pale and she looked terrified. Lily looked at the box and walked forward to pick it up. "Don't touch it! It just started glowing and…and…" Winifred warned taking a step backwards.

Lily stopped "Is that why you're in here looking at my stuff?"

"My wife and I were walking past when there was a bright light coming from under the door so we came in just in time to see that box" Darwin pointed to the box on the ground glowing. It stopped suddenly so Winifred picked it up and then it gave out a flash of light again…so she dropped it and it stoped. That was when she screamed."

Lily walked forward and picked her box up and looked inside, "Where's the key James left in here?"

Lily noticed the two adults eyes grow wide with fear and Winifred's hand shot up to her face. "He had a key…" Winifred asked quietly. "Oh no." Winifred took hold of Darwin's hand and dragged him out of the room.

"Hurry! We must leave!" she called. Darwin nodded and they ran down the stairs. The girls up stairs heard them and came down from the third story.

"What's happening?" Shauna asked. Mack and Tia didn't seem too worked up but rather worried.

"I don't know they want to leave…" Lily told them.

Darwin called up the stairs "You have to go back to Hogwarts! Now!"

"Wonder what it is…" Mack said to herself. Tia shrugged and ran after the owners. Mack followed.

Rory turned to Lily and explained the girls seemed to have sorted everything out before she even got there. "Everyone seems to fight like siblings around here…that reminds me I have to kill Caley. He stole my last good quill the other day."

Lily frowned as Rory headed down the stairs still grumbling about her little brother.

She looked at the box she was still holding and lowered it slowly. Winifred and Darwin obviously wouldn't be evacuating everything in there house, they were in a hurry it seemed.

Lily ran out the doors and found Winifred and Darwin with her friends all ready to Apperate.

"What is going on? We have to find James if we're leaving!" Lily yelled. Winifred started to sob into Darwin's robes.

"I am sorry to tell you this Lily but…" He took a deep breath before taking hold of Lily's hand. "it will be too late for James. He would only bring danger to everyone else." Lily's eyes widened as he started to pull her towards the others.

"NO! Let got of me!" Lily called. Darwin put a hand over her mouth and she closed her eyes trying to get free before Lily could she felt a familiar sensation of being squeezed trough a rubber tube. Darwin was Apperating…and forcing Lily along with him.

When Lily opened her eyes she found herself in Hogsmede with Tia, Shauna, Rory and Mack running towards her. Darwin let her go and she fell to the floor. Winifred appeared a moment later next to Darwin. He bent down and whispered in Lily's ear "it's for your own good Lily."

With that, Winifred and Darwin walked away briskly up the Hogwarts path towards the gates before the girls could actually catch up with them.

"What in the name of Merlin is going on?!" Lily exclaimed as Shauna pulled her to her feet.

"I have no idea" the others replied in unison.

Well I know how annoying cliffys are so…I won't do one here though I was seriously considering it :D

(The Muggle town with Remus, James and Sirius- Just after Lily and Shauna leave)

"So what was Lily talking about the Forest for?" Sirius asked looking around the room instead of looking James in the eyes.

"I wanted to take a walk through the forest. Alone time like I used to. You know, before Winifred and Darwin tell me about my parent's deaths…" James replied looking down

"Right. I forgot this is where it happened…" Sirius looked down as well.

"Yeah well…I saw the room it happened in as well… I really need to find out why Voldemort was here in the first place." James sighed. There was a moments silence before Sirius spoke.

"Yeah… look Moony is just out there. Lets head over to the store with all those things hanging off the roof, then go take a wonder in that forest of yours." Sirius said as he patted James on the back. James smiled and they slid off the seats.

"Sure. And I warn you…it gets a bit…weird at times." James smiled as he tried to make the forest sound spooky.

"Sure…" Sirius gave James a weird look as the walked out of the wizard bar and into a street where no one could see what they were just stepping out of. "Moony! We're going into that place over there! It has things hanging off the roof!" Remus walked over and looked to where Sirius was pointing excitedly.

"That is a butcher store Padfoot. That is where Rory and Tia ended up Apperating into…" Remus gave them a smile as he saw there surprised faces.

"Okay…maybe we can just go to the forest?" Sirius added. James nodded and they all started walking.

As they walked through the arch into the Mansion's grounds they heard a shout. James looked up from watching his feet.

"That sounded like Lily…" at that James took off.

Sirius and Remus exchanged looks, Remus bolted after James and Sirius followed after muttering "he sure knows how to pick her scream…"

James came off the path but saw no sign of Lily up ahead on the grounds. She must be inside! He thought to himself. He ran up to the mansion doors and ran inside. He called out her name but no one replied.

"James…where is everyone?" Remus asked as he arrived puffed a moment later with Sirius by his side.

"I don't know…have a look in the dinning room…I'm going up stairs." James ordered as he ran up the stairs two at a time. As the others agreed he had arrived at the top of the second floor he tripped and fell flat on his face. James swore loudly and stood up.

He looked at what he had tripped over. It was Lily's wooden box. James felt his heart sink. What is it doing out here? He walked forward and picked it up. He examined the picture he had carved months before. What the… James looked back at the picture and found a new part of the picture…one he had never seen before…Just like the trap door.

Now the picture was the same clearing and trees but one branch had been broken and were now lying across the half hidden trap door. James looked at where the branch must have fallen from and he found that he could see through the trees…something large and noticeable…a Mansion.

Oooooo evil DanCrazed….I need a new Pen Name...but I won't change before I finish this story! I'm thinking Obsessed&Crazed….let me know if you think it might be a good idea …as well as any comments on the chapter!!!!