Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my made OC(s), belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. THIS IS A TRIAL RUN! I would very much like to hear your thoughts. I was originally never going to upload this fiction. However, I know it was something I was looking forward to sharing. This is a Sirius Black/OC. So, welcome back readers! I hope you enjoy this one as much as you have the first 2 Harry Potter stories! :) Do enjoy, this is the PRE-Harry Potter Era, so it's going to be a bit. If she survives long enough. Keep your heads up and Enjoy!

Chapter 7

Looking up for the ones responsible, James grew red in the face as he saw a group of Slytherins running down the halls, laughing. Sixth years from the looks of them, "Hey!" he shouted after them, but returned to Aurelia, gently grabbing her arms as she looked at him with a look of accusing and hurt. The look made him want to gut himself, he may have been a prankster, but he'd never loured anyone into something like this. He was relieved when her accusing expression washed away with the running water still washing down her face. But the look of pure humiliation still stung him. "Okay, um, co-come on, let's get you dried off. We'll go to class, stay in the halls and I'll-I'll talk to the Professor, come on. It's okay." James said to her, taking his cloak off himself, eased her arms out of her own drenched cloak and slipped his around her trembling arms. "I'd try a drying spell, but, um, I don't really want it to back fair, literally," James admitted, grabbing her fallen and soaked satchel and the now wet photograph. He was relieved to find that the water hadn't quite touched it and the ink writing had not bled. Sighing with regret of even bringing her out to this hall, James wrapped his arm around her, hoping to keep her somewhat warm as they walked down the halls as she softly cried. Feeling like crap as she tried not to cry, James lifted his hood up and over her head, her long blonde hair still dripping wet. "I'm sorry Kit," he told her with a sigh.

Coming to their classroom for that morning's Transfiguration, James left her in the hall as he opened the door, and waved his hand at the back of the class for McGonagall to see him so he wasn't verbally disrupting class.

"Ah, Mr. Potter, have you decided to join us?" McGonagall scolded with burning aggravation.

Blushing at her question, he knew he'd honestly deserved that, but he cleared his throat gently, "Um, I would rather prefer that Professor. But, um, I'm afraid I ran into… Well, a bit of a problem on my way here. Can I speak with you in the halls? Please?" James asked her a bit nervously.

Looking around to the students currently looking back and forth, McGonagall knew this was out of character for James to display, "Read chapter ten please." She said as she walked down the aisle of her classroom and out into the halls with James, closing the door to only leave a crack.

James felt his heart hammering in his chest as McGonagall walked out of the classroom with a look of worry, sighing he stepped beside Aurelia and began to explain that they'd simply been talking in a hallway when the water had been dumped over her. When McGonagall hadn't believed him, thinking it had been him responsible, James sighed and removed the hood over Aurelia's head and teary-eyed face. But the deep red, wet curly hair that fell around her shoulders had James swallowing his tongue and his eyes growing wide with complete shock as McGonagall beginning to shout at him.

"Heavens! What happened! Mr. Potter, I expected better of you -"

"I had nothing to do with this!" James said with utmost shock. However, he could fully understand why Professor McGonagall would think this had been him and the other guys. only a) the others were in class, hopefully, and b) James was the one to have brought this to her attention

"It wasn't him Professor!" Aurelia said with fear he'd get in trouble for something that was clearly not his doing.

He was sure he'd have gotten weeks of Detentions, extra schoolwork, or worse, an ass beating from how angry McGonagall was if Aurelia hadn't spoken up with him, pleading with the Professor that it truly hadn't been his fault. James had felt a weight of fear breaking off him as she had defended him, that she believed he hadn't been a part of it since she had not seen the group of boys running from the scene.

However, what had floored McGonagall was both students had claimed the same thing in unison and worry he'd be blamed for. But their voices and the reaction McGonagall had voiced at what she had walked out had already gathered the attention of the other students.

Lily shared a curious and worried look with Mary beside her, and back to Marlene sitting behind her then over to Kathrine and Heather discussing something, and from what she could see Heather looked right out angry. Turning back around in front of her to Sirius who seemed to be looking at the door with his own confusion as he looked a second look around the classroom.

"Sirius? Do you know what's going on?" Lily asked him with worry.

Turning to face Lily, Sirius shook his head with some worry. James hadn't made it to class, and Aurelia was also missing, she's always walked in with Kathrine and Heather, but today she hadn't. "No," he answered softly, his mind running in circles as to what could have possibly happened.

Huffing, McGonagall looked between Potter and Aurelia, forcing herself to calm down. Angry for the soaked girl before her. The dry Gryffindor cloak wrapped around her shoulders was very much noted, but the girls' platinum blonde hair had been color charmed into a deep red of long wet locks. "Very well, but I will talk with you later, Mr. Potter, I'd like to know who did this." She huffed, and with a wave of her wand, Aurelia, and everything else which had gotten wet, was dry in seconds. And just as fast as she was dry, McGonagall opened the classroom door fr them, "Take your seats please," she said calmly. Watching as James took his not warm and dry cloak from Aurelia and slipping hers back around her. Her head hung low with humiliation at her hair no longer being the beautiful blonde. She smiled softly as she watched James look at her, knowing he felt responsible but was not the one to have caused it, she felt her smile falter when those around the classroom gasped and began to whisper. Her smile was replaced when James ruffled her new hair with a smile.

"Looks like we have a new redhead," James gently poked, looking to Lily and Sirius, "Looks like we found your long-lost sister Evans."

Her jaw-dropping with shock at what had happened to Aurelia's pretty blonde hair, Lily shot to her feet, "James Potter, what did you -"

"Wasn't me," James quickly told her, his hands raised in surrender and a fallen smile, "A group of Slytherin's ran off laughing, I didn't see who, but I intend to find out." He said. Sighing he walked Aurliea over to her seat before taking his own beside Sirius.

"You will do no such thing, Mr. Potter! That will be to the Professors to find, not you students, now please, take your seat." McGonagall scolded.

Kathrine and Heather sighed softly, silently giving the girl soft smiles as her olive-tanned hand gently ran her fingers through Aurelia's new dark red and soft hair.

Heather sighed softly but continued to look Aurelia over, glad she wasn't hurt at least, "You look good in red." She told her with a smile. She felt her smile bright when she and Katherine got a smile in return that had less humiliation and sadness. Sadly, all was not alright.

Aurelia had hidden rather than going to supper, crying in a tower away from people. She hadn't expected anyone to come looking for her.

But, of course, one of the mischief boys had to be smart enough to look for her in the towers after they had left supper and all gathered around as they all had left and asked one another if any of them had seen the newly color charmed redhead. It was definitely something they were all getting used to.

James had sighed as he walked up the small WI ding staircase of the lady tower he could think of. He's been about to give up and turn back when he had suddenly heard someone's soft whimpers up ahead. Curious and worried, James continued up the stairs, hoping he'd find the missing Ravenclaw. he was momentarily relieved when he found her. 'At least she's alright, physically that is,' "Aurelia?" He called for her.

Hearing James's voice and looking up from her face buried hands, she wat he'd as his head popping around the corner of the stairs. Humiliated further at being found, she buried her face and knees once more and cried harder. She had avoided supper for a reason.

He froze as she looked at him then her red puffy eyes looking away from him and returned to hide her humiliation. Sighing softly, James walked over to her and knelt beside her, resting a gentle hand on her shoulder. He'd listened to her crying for what felt like hours before he sighed, having enough of it, "Alright, come here, I can't stand to hear a woman cry. Come here, that's it." He told her, wrapping her up in his arms letting her cry into him. While he was the only child, he felt like a big brother in this moment, and he seemed to not be so bothered by the idea of having a sibling. Unfortunately, his parents could not have any more children.

Sighing with a small sense of relief of her in good hands, Albus left the staircase he'd been hiding in and looked to the blonde leaning against the wall, her deep burgundy front fastened dress and skirt. "A color charm in the water? My dear, you are positively cruel. You have the dear girl crying." Albus gently asked her.

Smiling, she pushed off the wall and joined him in his walk, "Grandmother Renee did say she was a sensitive girl, she said that if Aurelia would not cry now and toughen up, she'd remain a Cryer. And as much as Grandmother loves her, she wants Auntie at her best as soon and as fast as possible. She also, made it very adamant that Auntie was to not be entirely recognized upon Bane looking at her with a glimpse." The young blonde said, her bright blue eyes shining with some regret at making the girl cry. But she wasn't just crying government her hair, she was crying over everything. She hadn't fully mourned her time. She was, after all, still just a thirteen-year-old kid.

Softly laughing, Albus sighed and wrapped an arm around her small shoulders, "You surely are a mischievous little thing, Rora."

Feeling her mischief excitement leaving her in a flood gate of worry, Aurora took the man's hand around her shoulders sadly, "It's not like I truly enjoy being the bad mojo for her, I just have to be creative. She can't see me, she can't know I exist… Yet. Not until the time is right. Then it'll be over and time fixed… What happens when it's all fixed when things go the way they're meant to be?" she asked softly, her voice had a hint of fear. She couldn't help fear the possible outcomes. She liked being alive, she didn't want to not exist.

Looking to the young blonde in his arm, her small hand holding his aged hand like a lifeline, a habit the child had gotten from the moment he'd held her. "I do not know to be honest. Time could wipe clean what was disrupted? Renee said there were many time loops now, the question is, will all these loops finally syn up and become one once more, or will they remain in the loop of infinite possibilities? We will just have to find out, unfortunately." Albus admitted to her, his own fears hidden well underneath his mask. He feared for all of them, he feared never knowing Nesrin, he feared losing the little family had, the young girl on his arm now, a daughter figure he had raised in secret. A daughter that no one knew existed. Because if they knew she would be in danger. "How did you know she would be there?" He asked curiously.

Smiling, Rora nodded with a small sigh, "I have someone on the inside helping me… Ghosts come in great handy."

"And the story of Godric Gryffindor and the secret child?"

"Oh that? Those were old paints I found. I questioned Helena about them, that's what she told me, but there's no proof of it that I can find, I've been looking for years like Grandmother Renee asked me to do. No such luck. I have no idea where this Professor of hers has the idea that Aurelia is the descendent of Rowena and Godric. Unless she is using the paints as her proof. But I am still looking."

"Well, the paintings you showed me are very curiously similar." He admitted.

Sighing softly, Aurora looked at him with a soft smile, she had thought the same thing at first. "Everyone eventually has a Doppelganger, grandfather."

"And this Bane? According to Renee, he looks very close as well to Trian," he continued on.

"Helena's stories are all we have to go off. But again, everyone eventually has a Dooplerganger, maybe they come in three's? Bane is Riddle's son, and Riddle is the descendants of Salazar Slytherin, it stands to reason that if anyone would have a Dooplerganger it would come to form his line, of course, another crazy man to deal with." she said with a shrug.

"Two more questions," Albus asked her as they approached the front gate, he was escorting her out of Hogwarts since no one was allowed in and out via disapperation.

"Yes?" she asked curiously.

"Why red?" he teased her.

Laughing at the question, Aurora sighed as she sobered a little, "It was better than pink. For that, I think she may have cursed me, the red will slowly wear out, and I mean very slowly. Don't let her mess with it otherwise it'll backfire and go deeper, rather than pulling the color. Or her hair could fall out. And she has pretty hair, so, no touching the hair." She said with small playfulness. "Okay, that was one, what's the other question?" she said with a smile.

"Why didn't you girls ever tell me about this?" He asked her, watching her happy smile fade slowly into a sad frown of sadness.

"After Leta was killed, Renee was petrified of telling anyone. She was going to tell you, she just didn't know how and she was terrified of losing you like Leta and Gerellet. She loved you both too much, and when he did what he did, she was conflicted. So, she decided to not tell you until Aurelia arrived. She made us all swear to not say anything to anyone. But unlike Aurelia, we had others who understood what was going on, what was at risk, she had no one this morning, or when she arrived. Now she does. And don't count yourself and the Professors, I'm sorry, but adults can't possibly imagine the strain it puts on a young heart, on a young soul who has no idea what was going on, someone who was frightened in the heat of the moment, messed up and went the wrong way and got lost. Right now, she's not alone, but in the end, she will be if she doesn't have someone there she can trust, someone her age that can relate to her and try to imagine the fear and pain she is struggling with every day. You did fantastic raising me after my parents died, Albus, but she's going to be a different package deal."

Sighing at her, Albus nodded, "I will never understand the hearts of women,"

"Oh? But you understand the hearts of men?" she teased him.

Chuckling, Albus kissed her cheek farewell, "Not even I could understand the hearts of a man, and I am one." He joked, hugged her, said their farewells, and sighed heavily as she left.

James sighed, leaning back against the wall behind him to relax a bit, as Aurelia simply leaned into his arm, accepting the brotherly comfort while he asked questions and listening as she answered his questions. However, she had kept quiet a bit to herself.

Like Potter and Lily having a son and dying.

While she wanted to save them of that, she could not tell him everything, she'd have to try to do it on her own, try to prevent it.

She also kept names to herself. Aurelia hardly any specific names, hardly naming a person, other than Nesrin, whom she believed she'd never seen again aside from one more time. When? She wasn't truly sure of it, but Professor Dumbledore's words gave her hope. He'd said Nesrin had told him her sister had saved her, and aside from Aurelia, Nesrin had no other sibling relations, because Louie was a boy so she couldn't count him.

And Bane, she had told James a little about the young man, who he used to be before his lies were revealed to them all before her Uncle had been killed. With them being in the third year, hearing Voldemort's name was something she wanted to avoid telling anyone by name, only that a Dark Wizard was on his path towards destruction and ruling the world. James had tried asking if she knew anything about any of them, that being his friends and Lily, but Aurelia had given James a smirked look of 'You know better', but told had told him the truth, "No, I'm sorry." And it wasn't entirely a lie, especially on James Potter's side, she really only knew he was the father of Harry Potter and was killed shortly after Harry was born as she sniffed back her long ago cried tears.

Watching her calm from the complete roller-coaster she had taken as she answered their questions, James sighed and asked a very sensitive question. "Who is Bane and why does he frighten you so much?" he asked.

Her eyes snapped to him at the memories of him lying to her for years, of him killing her godmother, Draco, Mr. Dursely. Unable to say it all, Aurelia stood and held her hand out for him, "I can show you," she whispered, waited until he took her hand and stood and watched her curiously as she gently placed her fingertips at his temple, closed her eyes and concentrated.

James waited for something to happen, feeling his tension settle when nothing did, he sighed and opened his mouth to make a joked comment. Until he suddenly shouted in pain and his eyes clenched closed, his hands reaching up to her hands and held her hands wanting to rip her figured from his skull, but the images that flashed in his mind, of a little girl running and laughing down halls of an underground place with a boy laughing and chasing after her, from a child to the very young teenager now ages in glimpse and her anger and annoyance at his cruel pranks, she was apparently the main target of every prank. Then the dreadful night everything happened. The goblet that had been laced with something making her sick, the boy had tried taking her from the hall of students and teaches and had been stopped by two young teenagers, neither looked happy to see him.

"Where are you taking our cousin, Gaius Gallows," A blond boy accused Gaius with glaring eyes. "Well," the boy said, wanting his question answered.

Rolling his eyes, Gaius answered, huffing to the two, "Oh shut it, Louie. You're not even her real cousin, her godmother just happens to be your mother. And if you can't tell, she's not feeling good. I think she ate something from lunch, maybe breakfast this morning. It just suddenly hit her." Gaius told them a clear lie.

Sirius watched Aurelia trying to say something to them, but she looked so ill. He turned to look at the pretty blonde who huffed and approached them, her deep emerald silk dress was crafted just like Aurelia's, the front was even clasped together like Aurelia's. The only flaw in their outfits was that the top was clasped together with no cover underneath with a deep dip at the front as well as spaces between said clasps that gave a view of the wears skin. It seemed too mature for either of them but Sirius being a young teen himself he was not bothered in the least. But his worry returned to Aurelia as her hand trembled, reaching out for the blonde, "Nesrin -" she stopped there, Sirius could tell she had a fear of losing her stomach contents, and likely would have if she'd continued.

Well, now he knew who Nesrin was, her cousin apparently, and she was beautiful. He could definitely see them being related.

James followed them out and down the halls after a moment and began to panic when 'Gaius' veered off and went down a secret passage, but even as he tried to call fr these people's attention, his voice wouldn't sound. Worried for Aurelia, he ran down the halls after them, forced to listen to the screams and the attacks taking place that filled the underground as the boy came out the side of an exit near the Shrieking Shake and sat Aurelia against a tree.

"Rest here for a little while Aurora, I have something I need to do." He told her, pressed his lips to hers, knowing she couldn't fight him. James swore he had seen red for a split second and with every ounce of his power, he wanted to tare the boy to shreds. Watching him leave, James knelt beside a crying Aurelia, his hands going through her, "Kit?" He was useless here, he couldn't help her. He couldn't even hold her hair as she began to throw up. Her body was making her vomit whatever had been in her body making her ill.

"It's just a memory James, you can't change a memory," Aurelia told him softly.

Turning to the sound of her sad voice, James grabbed from her and began to check her over, relieved she was real. "Thank Merlin, I thought I was alone here… So, this was your world?" He asked, looking back to the hidden passage that was now closed from anyone entering then back around the memory, watching her memory self move from the tree and stumbling out into a small opening towards the Shrieking Shake as curses flew everywhere around them and following Aurelia out after her memory self rushed towards the fight, screaming and begging for Gaius to stop. James felt his heart clench painfully as her memory self screamed in dreaded shock when the woman was stuck, her blood flew around and soaked her shirt and skirt. It struck a deeper blow to him when he heard Aurelia calling the woman her mother, as well as her dropping to her knees, beside the dying woman, crying over her. He watched the encounter sadly as a blond came running towards them, screaming for the woman and Aurelia, none of them had time to mourn. But what stuck with him the most was the woman's words to Aurelia before the memory changed, 'Save them… Save us.'

He saw the ruins of Hogwarts, what the school he knew he was still standing in now, he watched the encounter with Bane, watched the Muggle man running up the steps with her, the panic she saw on her face as he fired his gun helplessly at Bane, the way she swallowed her tears as she ran into the ruins, and up the stairs and hid as soon as she firing stopped, the way she covered her mouth to keep from screaming or crying out loud for him to find her. The way the ghosts saved her, and then the trip back. The trip back to them. To 1973.

Gasping awake, James coughed as he jolted upright with a pounding headache and fell back into the cold stone with a groan. "What happened?" he asked.

"I showed you what happed, well, most of what happened, a lot of it you didn't need to hear, just witness. But yes, that was my world. A world full of fear and darkness. That is the world I left. Not so pretty huh?" she asked a bit sadly, picking at her nails sadly.

"Well, it was still your home, you had people who loved you, your cousins a bit cute herself," James said with a teased grin. Sighing, he cracked his stiff neck and patted her knee, "Come on, it's late and after supper, Kathrine has some food waiting for you in your dorm, eat and sleep, we'll see you in the morning."

With that, they walked from the tower just chatting about anything and everything, even Lily. Aurelia had admitted beginning taught her animagus form, and he'd had a lot of questions. Then he'd asked her a strange question, "Can you teach me, I mean, us, me and the boys? Me, Sirius, and Peter?"

"What about Remus? And isn't that illegal?" she asked in thought.

"… Well, a good friend of mine, mine and the boys, sort of has something going on with him, and he can't keep doing things alone." James admitted he couldn't tell her Remus was a werewolf, the boy had been frantic when they had learned about it themselves not too long ago. He was in pain and he was hurting himself. The transformation was dangerous for them to witness without some form of protection, and they had none right now. If they were Animagus, then they'd have no issues being with Remus on the full-moons.

"Okay, but it's illegal James, your too young and you'll be illegally doing this. Have you guys even considered the consequences,"

"Please, Kit, I'm begging you. We aren't doing this for any self-surviving reason, we're doing this for… Someone. He's alone and he in pain, and we don't have any other idea what to do to help him." James didn't know how to ask her and tell her it was for a good reason without outing Remus.

Aurelia sighed as she watched him for a moment. "You do realize I will find out why eventually. I don't want you guys to get in trouble."

"We won't, we'll be careful, please. I will do anything you ask if you help us, help him." James felt like crap asking this, he felt terrible even asking her to 'help us, help him,' it was almost like verbally punching her in the chest from what her mother had told her. 'save them… save us…'

Sighing, she nodded and gently pushed him forward back into their walk down the halls. "Fine, but we'll need somewhere to practice."

"Room of requirements?" James asked curiously with a small shrug.

"No, definitely not in the school, we will so be grounded." She grumbled.

James chuckled, "Fine, Christmas or summer break, my place," he said with a gleeful smile. Hearing the clock strike ten o'clock, both shared a looked of 'we're so dead', James hugged her in thanks before they took off from their dorms.

Sirius placed the boy's dorm waiting for James to come back, they'd all been told to return to their common rooms when they had been found out of their common rooms after curfew, honestly, they were all lucky they hadn't gotten detentions when Professor Dumbeldor found them. Hearing the door open softly then close, Sirius turned to find James trying to sneak in before looking at him sheepishly when he was caught. "Where were you?" he asked.

Quickly putting a figure to his mouth to silence;y shush Sirius's aggravation, James picked up the pencil and little notebook on his nightstand and wrote; found Aurelia, she's fine, she's back in her dorms, but I found a way we can help Remus, a little if anything else.

Reading the note, Sirius's brow frowned with confusion and mouthed "What," to James. He sighed when his friend took the note pad then handed it back to him to read. The word had him even more confused, as well as somewhat worried, "Animagus?" he asked his friend.

"Aurelia," James whispered, "I'll tell you in the morning." He told Sirius as he got ready for bed and climbed in between his sheets. He was asleep in a matter of minutes.

As the days drew on, Aurelia had become quick friends with many people in many different houses, she was the sweet, cute popular girl. Unfortunately, a few people had accidentally called her Lily a few times because of the cursed color charm that had been prank on her the month before. Even her eyebrows had been color charmed!

And even against Albus's warning not to mess with it, she had, she, Lily and James had tried, even Remus and Sirius, even Poppy had attempted to pull the color from her hair. Aurelia's hair was now, after several attempts, deeper red than Lily's. Thankfully she hadn't lost any of her hair unless it was via stress, other than that, she was lucky. The once platinum blonde Ravenclaw was not happy whatsoever. "I just want my blonde back." She told Kathrine and heather with an annoyed huff. "And I know he knows who did, because every time I speak to him about it, he just grins that mischievous annoying grin and says, 'I'm still searching for the culprits, my dear,'." Aurelia said, attempting to mock Albus, but it had failed and she had been gifted with laughter from the girls.

Trying her best to not laugh as hard as the other girls as she stood behind the seated Aurelia, Lily laughed into her sleeved arm to try controlling herself as she Dutch Braided pigtails along with her head, and they were turning out rather lovely. "It's going back eventually, but at least it isn't an obnoxious color, they could have been much crueler in the terribly done prank and made your hair pink or blue, or purple… Or worse, moss green, or -"

"I get it, thank you Lily for the positivity of how lucky I was," Aurelia sighed with small annoyance to the girl, but she knew deep down she couldn't be aggravated at Lily, she was simply trying to help her feel better.

"Okay, so, in two years, all of the Wizarding family are hosting a party, a Christmas party -" Kathrine had started but Heather had groaned at the mention of it with a huge eye roll.

"You know I can't go, Kat, our parents would murder one another," Heather huffed with annoyance.

Raising a brow, Lily looked between the two girls, "Why?"

Realizing they had mentioned something that could spill a whole lot of Ravenclaw beans that did not even need to be opened for them since they already had people saying nasty things about them. Both girls um'ed and uh-oh'ed before they excused themselves with a terrible excuse of needing to get to the library.

With their brows raised curiously, Mary, Marlene, and Lily watched them leave before all three Gryffindor girls looked to Aurelia with suspicion, "Spill," they all three said, Lily gently and playfully pulled on the Dutch pigtail Braid she was currently working on, which had pulled a small yelp and playful laughing cry from Aurelia.

"Careful there Evans, you don't want someone to think you're both something else," a boy said walking past them with a perverted glint in his eyes.

Lily and the other girls sneered at him as he walked by with his other friends, "Keep walking Montgomery, no one is interested in hearing your perverseness. Ever." Lily said, her attention returning to Aurelia's deep red had turned into one of the deepest red hair. She had to wonder how they had done that little trick, it was not something students would have done if she thought of it. But her natural curls and waves she had were honestly Pheonominal to her. While there was a mixture of curls and waves here and there, it matched Aurelia perfectly.

Montgomery playfully winced at her backlash but continued walking on with his Hufflepuff classmates. While none of the girls present had issues with anyone else from any houses, unless they were given direct reasons, Montgomery was one they couldn't help but not like, and they disliked him with little difficulty in doing so. "Sev is trying out for the Quidditch team, would you all care to go with me and watch the tryouts?" Lily asked.

"I can't, I'm sorry, my marks in Points are terrible, I have a study session with the Professor Saturday. All-day, no joke, I go from Potions study session to Magic Creatures." Mary said with a deflated sigh, she was terrible at potions.

"Me either, Divinations has me drawing with confusion." Marlene sighed, resting her cheek in the cup of her hand as she rested her elbow on the stone table.

"I'll go with you," Aurelia told Lily with a smile, she'd never seen a Quidditch game, least of all ridden a broom outdoors properly until she'd arrived in 1973. And she loved it. The freedom was fantastic.

Friday - Oct. 5th, 1973

Aurelia smiled with hope for Severus, but the poor boy looked so frightened in the Slytherin gear, even more so worried when he wobbled his way up to start the trials. It hadn't gone very well, especially when James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter showed up to watch, laughing at the boy. "Is there ever such a thing as too mean? I mean I already knew two of the four of you were bullies to the boy, do you have to help in his humiliation?" Aurelia snapped at them after Severus had missed several Quaffle pitches. She hadn't been paying attention when Lily gasped with fright, calling for Severus in terror, even the boys were looking on in fear, "Oh this won't be good," Remus said, his face paler than normal. Suddenly worried Aurelia's head snapped to the air, looking for what they were finding, but to her dismay, Severus Snape was not on the ground, nor was he on his broom. The body was falling and no one was rushing to catch him. Filled with absolute fear, she swished her wand to Severus's falling broom, leaped on, and took off, praying she'd make it in time, "Severus!" she screamed for him, his black hair flying in his way, his eyes watering with fear of being a flat human pancake, his hands reaching for her desperately.

Everyone watched with fright and shock, those who had worried in the first place, then breathed easy as their hands latched onto one another desperately, Aurelia gliding him towards the ground to slow his fall as much as she could with as close to the ground as he already was. When they hit the ground and the broom bounced away from their fallen forms, Lily, James, Peter, Remus, and Sirius took off from the stands.

"Kit!" James shouted from across the field as they ran as fast as they could for them. While he wasn't shouting in worry for Severus, because he didn't like the boy, it didn't mean he wasn't worried. He didn't want the boy dead, but he wasn't going to scream over him.

Sirius felt his heart in his throat, about ready to throw up with fear as they ran across the field, hearing one of them moaning and groaning, but Severus seemed to be the only one conscious. It appeared they were having difficulty moving. He didn't care much for Severus, he was more panicked over Aurelia. He felt his anger towards Severus for being so damned clumsy and falling. Had he not, even though it was not his fault, Sirius wanted to throttle the boy for having her put her life in danger like that. "Relia! Oh shit, if she's hurt I'm gonna kill him!"

"Maybe you should throttle to fool who caused the fall, instead of the boy who she just saved!" Remus scolded him.

"Sev! Aurora!" Lily shouted, her heart jumping in her throat as she dropped to her knees beside them, Severus sitting up, shaking still frightened from the trauma of falling. With an arm held close to him and sweat on his brow, he tried his best to stifle back his cries of pain. "I tried, I-I'm sorry, I think she hit her head. I think I broke my arm though. I tried to guard her against the fall. It-it didn't work I don't think. She isn't moving. Lily I-I'm sorry." Severus said, looking from Aurelia's still form as the boys dropped down beside her. He could have sworn they were going to kill him from the pissed-off look Sirius Black had on his face. That was until his so-called 'Team' the beater that had hit the Quaffle his way and made it hit him, had made a laughable comment about Ravenclaws supposing to be smart and how stupid she had been to fly out like that during their Trials. Sirius had the burning anger in his they all worried he was going to turn and curse the fool. But he'd ignored the Slytherin Beater as their team captain, Emma Vanity swooped down with an angry look on her face and quite coldly told the boy to get off her field and to turn in his gear.

And while that had helped defuse the mass tension on the field, they all felt Vanity should have been demoted and removed from Captain as well because she had not acted to saving Severus herself. Aurelia had done it. Vanity hadn't even stopped her team, and those trying out, from their bullying him on the field. It was what had lead to the boy falling.

Bitting his tongue, Sirius check her over frantically, "James, she isn't waking up,"

"She has a pulse, she likely just hit her head. Where's Pomfrey? Is there no one here for medical?" James asked, turning to Vanity who shook her head to them. "Fool," James growled, "Sirius, move, move damn it!" he shouted, swinging Aurelia up into his arms, sending a heated glare to Vanity, "If anything happens to her, you and your team will regret it," James told them coldly.

Hospital Wing

Remus grabbed Sirius by the arm to still his pacing, pulled a chair over to them, and made the anxious boy sit, "You're pacing was giving me a headache, you heard Madam Pomfrey, she's fine. James sit down please, the last thing Lily needs to for you to go over to her and Severus and make a bit fuse. It was not his fault." Remus sighed at both the boy's behaviors, they were ridiculous today. And he felt like a parent!

Hearing the soft moan of the girl resting in the bed, Remus sighed a sigh of relief, "Hey Kit, how are you holding up?"

"Did anyone get the train number of the train that hit me?" she asked, a hand resting against her forehead.

"You're lucky you don't have a concussion," Katherin told her, running down from the bed Severus laid in. Madam Pomfrey was still fixing his arm. He'd shattered his elbow, fractured his writs, and broke a clean break in his radius bone.

"Severus? Where is he? Is he alright?" she asked, suddenly remembering what had happened. She'd tried sitting up, but the sudden headrush she was slapped with had James and Sirius easing her back into the bed,

"Take it easy Kit. He's fine, a few broken bones in his arm but other than that," Sirius informed the worried girl. He hated that she was worried, Severus. But, she had risked her skull to save him from being a flat pancake

"He's actually the reason your head hadn't split open," Peter told her. He blushed and shied away when James and Sirius gave him a look that kind of had his stomach knotting. They apparently did not want her knowing that. He didn't see why, since it was the truth.

Sirius felt his heart clench at her surprise.

"Really?" She asked.

"Yeah well -"

"He broke his arm because of me?" She asked with worry.

Sighing, Sirius patted her knee, "No, he broke his arm keeping that pretty head of yours intact. And you both got hurt because the Slytherin team has no sportsmanship."

"Wait, aren't you guys having tryouts for Gryffindor this week also?"

"Friday at Five o'clock," James told her with an excited smile. "Why? You plan on coming to see us?" he asked.

"Yes, I wouldn't miss your guys' tryouts," Aurelia told them with a smile, resting back into the pillow before she fell back asleep.

Aurelia was back to classes by Monday, letting the days tick by, waiting with excitement. Kathrine and Heather were trying their best to convince her to go out for Ravenclaw's Quidditch. "Oh come on, Relia," Heather begged as they ented Defense Against the Dark Arts. Everyone's conversations were cut short at the desks being shoved aside, with a wardrobe in the middle of the room. She jumped along with everyone when it began to shake as if someone were inside. But she knew all too well what that thing was.

Kathrine and Heather hid behind Aurelia, both girls holding onto the redhead with dear life and fear. "Wh-what is that thing?" Heather asked. Her insides turning with fearful knots.

With her words clogged in her throat, Aurelia cleared the clog with little determination, "It's, um, it's a Boggart." She whispered.

"A what?" Heather asked.

"A Boggart, it's a creature that shifts into the thing you fear the most. The trick is to turn it into something laughable, something funny." Remus said walking up beside them. His own fears plain on his face.

Seeing Remus's worry, and the likelihood it was fear, Aurelia gently took hold of his hand, "You'll be okay Remus."

Smiling gently in return to her, Remus gave her hand a gentle squeeze, "Thank you."

It had not gone all so well, many students succeded, however, Heather and Kathrine had asked the Professor if they could perform in a private setting, fearing others of seeing their fears. He's allowed it, but their Professor had explained that they'd be docked points for not doing so in class with. They had willingly accepted it.

Remus's Boggart was something that confused many people, but it had gotten Aurelia's attention. 'A full moon?' It was in that moment, Aurelia's mind came full circle with an impossible thought. 'Lycanthtropy,' Because if that were true, the School wouldn't have allowed Remus to attend, even if she thought it ridiculous they'd have refused him access to learning his magical abilities. But James's pleas to help him, Sirius, and Peter become Animagus. Because if they held such forms, Remus, or any other Were-wolf, could not infect them, just tare them apart. Which neither thought was pleasant at all, however, it made so much sense to her now. But, she needed proof before she confronted them, and Remus. The last thing you wanted to do was go around accusing someone of being a creature that was violent by nature, nor ask his best friends that kind of question when all they've been towards you was kind. And Remus was not a violent person. Not to mention a very sweet boy. And since she was already an Animagus, he couldn't infect her. The Full Moon was this coming Friday, October 12th.

She'd find out then. Just four days. All she had to do was wait for four days and the full moon would be there, high in the night sky.

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