Quicky Note: Hey y'all! Sorry it's taken so long to update, but life is killin' me! Anyhooties, this is just a quick note to let my AMAZING readers that there is gonna be a two month time skip. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of time skips, but the story kinda need to get a move on, which means…. IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS TIME! Huzzah! Hope y'all enjoy this chapter!
Hogwarts; December, One Week Before Christmas Break; Friday
"Ugh!" Lily groaned as she bursted into the sixth year girls' dormitory. Izora looked at her friend agitated red haired friend curiously as she continued to plait her pale blonde hair.
"Is something wrong?" The blonde asked quietly from her spot on her bed.
The redhead huffed and dropped her satchel beside her trunk before sitting across from Izora on her bed.
"Everything is wrong!" She cried dramatically.
Izora gave her best friend an exasperated look, "What exactly is everything?"
Lily made a face and crossed her arms moodily, glaring at the comforter the two girls were sitting on.
"It happened again."
Instantly a look of understanding came onto the blonde's face and she quickly tied off the end of her braid and pulled her friend into a hug. Over a month had passed since the incident with James and Lily, as well as the falling out between the four Marauders and Izora, which was now public knowledge. In that time period, both girls had been approached and propositioned by some the male population of Hogwarts. It seemed that they suddenly thought the girls had become 'easy' and were fair game now that Izora and Lily were no longer affiliated with the four heartthrobs.
The redhead returned the hug briefly before pulling away, "I just hate this! I hate it so much!"
Izora could only smile sympathetically, "I know."
Lily sighed and ran a hand through her red hair, "I wish they would just leave us alone."
"I know." Izora said again, though she didn't bother to tell her friend that her potential suitor was bound to end up in the Hospital Wing in a few short hours.
The blonde had noticed that all the boys that had asked either of the girls out on a date suffered such a fate, whether they had boils or other inflictions. The tall girl knew it was the Marauders doing, not that any of the cursed and hexed boys would admit it.
Lily sighed again and gave her best friend a weak smile, "At least Christmas Break is only a week away. Are you still coming over to my house after Christmas Day?"
Izora grinned and nodded rapidly, "Yes. Are you going to be able to come over to Dmitri's on the twenty-third?"
The redhead nodded, smiling at the excited look in the blonde's blue-green eyes, "Of course. Do you mind if I ask, why you're spending Christmas at Dmitri's house?"
Izora fidgeted slightly, "I've always spent Christmas either at Dmitri's home or Galen's." The blonde tugged on the end of her braid, "My family doesn't celebrate the holiday, mother doesn't approve."
"Oh." Lily murmured, she knew a little of Izora's home life from when they practiced controlling the blonde's gift.
Said blonde shook her head slightly and grinned at the redhead to lighten the mood, "Enough of this sad talk, I'm starved!"
The redhead laughed and slipped of the blonde's bed at the same time Izora did.
"Me too, let's head down to the Great Hall, dinner should be ready soon."
The blonde nodded eagerly and lead the way down to the common room.
James huffed and crossed his arms, glaring darkly at the Ravenclaw boy that had dared to ask out his Lily over Remus's shoulder.
"Ah, come on Moony!" Sirius whined from beside James, "We weren't gonna hurt him too badly."
Remus sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "I don't care. The fact that you two have continuously been putting guys in the Hospital Wing isn't right! Do you really think Izora and Lily would approve?"
Remus knew it was a low blow to bring up both girls and he felt slightly guilty when his two friends flinched at their names.
"No." They chorused and looked away, pouting.
Remus sighed again at their petulant attitudes before turning to look at the sixth year Ravenclaw, "I apologize for these two."
The Ravenclaw just huffed, "Whatever, mate. Those two bints aren't worth it, if this is what's going to happen."
James and Sirius growled, taking a threatening step towards the boy, who squeaked and backed away. Even Remus had to refrain from hexing the Ravenclaw into the next millennia because of the insult.
"I suggest you leave. Now." Remus stated firmly, his voice strained with barely contained anger, the fact that the full moon was only a week away doing nothing to help his temper.
The Ravenclaw boy clearly did not need to be told twice and he rushed away before three of the four Marauders could finish was James and Sirius had started.
"Hey, you okay mate?" James asked with concern, clasping a hand on Remus's shoulder.
"Fine." Remus assured, voice still strained.
"Don't sound fine to us, Moony." Sirius stated matter-of-factly.
The taller teen whirled around to face them, a slight snarl on his face, "What would you like me to say?" He demanded harshly, "That I feel like ripping off the face off every guy that even approaches Izora? Is that what you want me to say?"
James and Sirius looked at each before turning to give the scarred teen cheeky looks.
"Feel better?" James asked with amusement while Sirius laughed.
Remus groaned and had to resist the urge to bang his head against the stone wall of the corridor.
"You both are impossible." He muttered as he turned away from them and headed towards the Great Hall for dinner.
Izora and Lily were talking to each other quietly as they walked to the Great Hall, their heads close as they whispered.
"I think all you need is to practice for a few more days before you come completely immune to my memories." Lily whispered her theory to the blonde beside her.
Izora shrugged slightly, "Maybe. It's not as bad as before, I mean I can still function unlike before."
"Exactly!" The redhead whisper-shouted, her excitement obvious, "You can touch my hand without your gloves and not go into the catatonic trance that you used to! You just brush off the memories like they aren't there!"
Izora couldn't help but giggle at her friend's rather contagious excitement, "I kno-Oof!"
The breath was knocked out of the blonde when she collided with what felt like a wall to her and fell on her bottom.
"Izora!" Lily gasped, rushing to help her friend stand.
"Ow…" The skinny blonde groaned and looked up at the impassive face of none other than Regulus Black.
"S-sorry." The blonde stuttered in apology and with Lily's help, she stood.
Regulus Black looked the blonde girl up and down before responding, "You should watch were you're going." He drawled in a bored tone.
Izora flushed with indignant anger and embarrassment, "Maybe if you didn't skulk around the halls then I could have avoid running into you!"
"Izora!" Lily hissed warningly at the blonde, knowing how quick to hex someone the youngest Black brother was.
But the Black brother surprised the redhead Prefect by laughing throatily.
"Ah, so that's what drew my dear older brother's attention." Regulus commented with a smirk, looking the tall girl over again, "I had always wondered, seeing as how he's always preferred girls with fuller assets."
Lily flushed in anger at the lewd and insulting comment directed at her friend, but Izora just sneered.
"I guess that means you and your brother are a lot alike then." She retorted, a satisfied smile appearing on her face at the look on the younger Black brother's face.
"A girl of your social status should know when to hold her tongue." The boy growled and took a step closer to the blonde.
Izora refused to be cowed by the younger boy though, "Perhaps, but then children ofyour social status should be seen and not heard." She said, stressing the word 'children' and successfully reminding the dark haired Slytherin that he was younger than her.
The Slytherin sneered and was about to respond, but Izora just sniffed primly and walked around him.
"If you'll excuse me, my friend and I have better things to do than entertain the likes of you."
And with that, the blonde grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her away from the fuming boy, disappearing down the hall in moments later.
Regulus growled to himself slightly as he glared at the retreating blonde's back before a smirk slowly made its way onto his handsome face.
"What an interesting little Gryffindor." He murmured to himself, before continuing to the Slytherin common room in the dungeons.
"I can't believe you just did that!" Lily all but screeched when the two girls walked down the Grand Staircase and towards the open doors of the Great Hall.
"Did what?" The blonde asked with feigned innocence.
Lily made an exasperated noise and slapped her hands over her face. The blonde gave her friend and odd look before giggling slightly.
"Oh calm down, Lily. The git needed to be put in his place anyway." The blonde mused to herself with another chuckle.
The redhead looked at her friend from between her fingers as they enter the Great Hall and sat down, "Maybe so. But did you have to be so, so confrontational?"
Izora just smiled serenely, "Of course. That's the only way to get your point across to Pureblooded bigots like him."
Lily groaned and thumped her head on the table, causing a few first and second years to look at her strangely and scoot away. Izora giggled and patted her friend's back briefly.
"Stop being so dramatic, Lily." The blonde rolled her eyes fondly and began to pile food onto a plate.
Lily mumbled something against the table before doing the same as the blonde. The sound of boisterously laughter made the two glance towards the entrance of the Great Hall before turning to look at their food when they saw the familiar figures of the Marauders enter.
Izora noticed Lily's hands clench tightly and the blonde placed a gloved hand on her fist. The redhead was still angry and hurt about what happened with James, especially since the next day the two girls had walked into the Great Hall to see one of the Ravenclaw girls that had cornered Lily and Izora the night of the Halloween Ball sitting in the bespectacled boy's lap. Lily had rushed out of the Great Hall and Izora had followed after giving the boy a dark glare usually reserved for the people she was about to hex into oblivion. Needless to say, Lily had spent that day cursing James Potter's very existence.
"Are you okay?" The blonde asked the redhead gently.
Lily gave Izora a tight smile, "Fine. Let's just eat."
Izora gave her a weak smile in return and continued to eat.
Peter had met up with other three Marauders when Remus, James, and Sirius had reached the Grand Staircase and the four boys had entered the Great Hall together, laughing and teasing a blushing Peter about his girlfriend.
Remus paused slightly when he caught sight of Izora sitting with Lily at the far end of the Gryffindor table. The scarred teen had to suppress the desire to go to her and pull her to him. Instead he looked away with a sigh and followed his three friends to an empty spot at the table.
Remus noticed James cast a wistful look towards where the redhead was sitting next to Izora.
"Are you alright James?" Remus asked quietly so that Sirius and Peter, who were sitting across from James and Remus, wouldn't hear.
James gave him a wide and fake grin, "I'm alright. Just miss her I guess, y'know?"
Remus nodded, "Yes, I know."
Both boys shared a look of understanding before returning to the conversation they'd been having with the other two Marauders before they had been distracted.
Author's Note: OHMIMERLIN! Sorry it's taken me so freakin' long to update! As I said above, life has just been kicking my bloody arse! Anyhooties, this is kinda a filler chapter I think. Oh! Did y'all like the little Izzy/Reggy interaction? I know I did! Girl totally verbally kicked his sorry ass! Muahaha, 8 more reviews and I'll be able to post the one-shot/two-shot/ficlet with the couple(s) of your choice! Those couples just so happen to be Remus/Izzy, Sirius/OC, and James/Lily since that option is in the lead, if you don't want to read about them then go VOTE on the POLL on my PROFILE... That was subtle wasn't it? Gigglesnort, I crack myself up sometimes. Anyhooties! Onto the SPECIAL MENTIONS!
Tigerlils: I like Izora too. She's fun to write about, especially her interactions with the Marauders and Lily.
XxBookXxWormXx: Izzy and Sirius would have certainly made an interesting couple, but I agree I much prefer her with Remus. Not only because I love Remus, but because if I put Izzy and Sirius together, I'd have to write something about him being a man-whore which would end up with Izzy getting hurt and all that. And that is just so, so… Cliché? I dunno. You'd be right about Izzy not going out with anyone else, not just because she loves Remus (not that she knows THAT yet…) but because she's very romantically/socially naïve. Phew, James is gonna have to work is idiotic ASS off to get Lily to forgive him, after all redheads are so freakin' stubborn! Anyhooties, hope you like this chapter!
Woodshrew: Thank you! I'm super happy you liked the last chapter! It was both painful and fun to write. James is an ass isn't he? But that's kinda why we love him, that and he's just so adorably idiotic sometimes. Y'know, except when he does stupid things like he did in the last chapter…
DaughterOfAthena8975: Hi new reviewer! I'm glad you love my story! I'm also super glad you like Izora! She was super fun to make and is even more fun to write about. Hope you like this chapter too!
She Who Must Not Be Named 77: Have I ever mentioned that I absolutely LOVE your penname? No? Well then, I absolutely LOVE your penname! Sorry I made you cry! I promise it does get better between Remus and Izora. And you're right it won't be right away, the whole thing kinda set back the whole boyfriend/girlfriend relationship that the two were working towards. I hope you like this chapter too!
Cocoa85715: Thank you! The screaming match was fun to write, because I could just picture it happening in my head, it was quite hilarious! Hope you like this chapter!
Nizuna Fujieda: Thank you! Hope you like this chapter too!
LittleMissMia123: O.O I melted you brain! OMM (Oh my Merlin, haha, I crack myself up). unfortunately (or fortunately if you like Hufflepuffs), the girl was in fact Delilah. That Ravenclaw skank from chapter 23. Huffleslut made me giggle though, I'm going to have to remember that one. Anyhooties! I loved writing a pissed off Izora, it was great fun! And mercy? Psh, Izzy doesn't know the meaning of the word! 'Specially if it involves her friends.
Of course the boys never learn! They're boys! It takes A LOT to get through a teenage boy's thick skull, especially James and Sirius. That's like trying to use a spoon to smash a concrete wall.
Waah! No cookie-brownie! Do I get one now? Even though I didn't update as quickly as I wanted too? –insert puppy dog eyes here-
Cheerfully Blue: Maybe, but really only Sirius and James bounced back kinda quickly. Sirius because he's confident the Marauders are gonna win the girls over and James because, well y'know, he's been bouncing back from rejection since, what? Second year? Remus didn't bounce back as quickly, he just didn't want to crush any hope the other boys had. As for Izzy reaction, boy was THAT just a hoot to write, I was laughing so hard when I wrote it. She's like a stick of dynamite, looks just like an innocent little candle until it explodes in your face.
Yeah, I was a little surprised myself at writing about James almost doing the nasty, but that was the direction MuMu was pulling the story in so I was like 'What the hell, we'll see how it turns out.' Of course I was secretly cheering Snape on when he walked in on James and that hussy before they could get it on. Psh, it's gonna take a freakin' miracle for James to get back into THAT redhead's good graces. Anyhooties, I hope you like this chapter!
Cetacea-of-Time: Haha, yeah, I wasn't too happy with any of the Marauders during that chapter. I hope you like this chapter!
Mira SeverusSirius Black-Snape: Same here. I'm tryin' to make Snape seem less like a bad guy, without deviating to far from the actually story line. Since, y'know, I think he kinda needs to be this bad/good guy.
