Summary of Ch.2: All students are on the Hogwarts Express waiting to arrive at Hogwarts. Lily finds out that someone seems to like, her, and can't help but feel intrigued. On the other hand, James doesn't seem so keen on the idea, but let's it go in an attempt to ignore it and be a more decent fellow.

A/N: Woohoo! Chapter three is here, this will focus more on other characters, I think, remember reviews are always good, :)))))/ Dogfur

Fate

Fate works in funny ways sometimes. Even though coincidences are a natural occurrence, fate is much more formidable explanation of a series of events taken place in a certain way or order. You see, fate doesn't always seem obvious, in fact, it is not obvious most the time. It can occur in the most unlikely places, but once put together in immaculate pieces, it starts to appear much more.

See, Sirius Black, as humorous as he is, sometimes gets these feelings, most commonly known as fear, or anxiety. This, however, is not a natural occurrence to him at all, for he is the most confident sixth year to date. Besides James Potter of course. Though, sometimes, fate just happens to work in funny ways, meaning that in this moment, Sirius Black had in fact, been feeling nervous.

Sirius slowly walked up to the compartment Jade and her friends walked into, a sense of uneasiness rushed over him and he shook his hands.

"Come on, what's the matter with you, it's just a girl." He whispered to himself. These were the only moments Sirius ever felt the slightest bit nervous, things with Jade could go two ways, bad or slightly better than bad. He still loved to try.

He sauntered into the compartment to immediately be met with stares from everyone inside. Sirius stared back and he played it off with a huge grin. He walked over to Jade and she gasped, gritting her teeth so loudly you could hear it. "Black! What are you doing in here?!" She pushed him out and closed the compartment door behind her.

"That place is huge! What is it?" He asked, his eyes growing bigger.

"A secret." She shook her head, "What were you thinking? No one is allowed in there unless you have the stamp." Jade covered her mouth and growled.

"Stamp?" He questioned.

"It's nothing. What did you want?"

"I wanted to talk to you." He put his arm around her shoulder and smirked.

"Sirius, this isn't a good time, you probably got me in trouble." She huffed and started for the door. Sirius jumped right up and grabbed her arm, "Oh come on, I know you can't resist this." He emphasized to his body and Jade stepped back crossing her arms tightly.

"Not a good time." She pushed his fingertips off her and started to say something before Sirius cut her off: "How about we sneak off to Hogsmeade during the feast? Or we can just find somewhere to go in the castle?" Her mouth opened but she didn't know what to say so Sirius answered for her, "Great, meet me by the doors of the Great Hall." He winked and walked away.

Jade wanted to say something but was so confused at this encounter. She blinked and slowly walked back into the compartment.

"What was he here for?!" Mary squealed, pulling Jade over to a corner in the compartment.

"Yeah, what did he want?" Marlene interrupted while she smoothed out her robes and attempted to get some magic paint off.

"It's nothing, he was just being an idiot- oh by the way, I probably won't be at the feast tonight…" She tightened her lips and resumed working on her piece. Both girls looked at each other quizzically but just watched Jade work.

Later in that train ride…

"Hey mates." Sirius walked back into their compartment and sat down next to James.

"How'd it go then? Did you get rejected?" Remus asked.

"Ah, that's the thing Moony, with women you don't give them enough time to reject you, just say what you want and do a little schmoozing, and you're good!" He threw his hands behind his head and grinned.

"So what now? You gonna go snog in a broom cupboard?" James smirked.

"We won't know until we get there, ol' mate." He winked and pulled out his wand, "Who wants to practice a few charms?"

"Oh! I do! I really need to work on charms before school." Peter pleaded out.

"Great, you can be my test dummy." Sirius revealed.

"Wha-" Sirius interrupted him and shushed him like a baby, "Shh, don't worry, I learned some new stuff over vacation and I need to try them out. I promise it won't hurt." He may have lied, he didn't know yet either.

Lincoln

Lincoln Dearborne walked back to his compartment where his friends sat, he opened the door and everyone looked up. "Hey mates." He said cheerfully.

"Hey." A scrawny boy named Charles said. He looked at Lincoln momentarily before going back to his chocolate frog packs, which were scattered all over the compartment.

Fate, as we know it, works in funny ways sometimes. Because if Lincoln had never seen the card which held Dumbledore's figure on it, he never would've remembered that as head boy he was obligated to be at the prefects meeting in that moment. Though, due to his excitement at hearing the news that Lily Evans had agreed to talk with him, he had, in hindsight, forgotten.

Lincoln proceeded to make a face, decidedly of anguish, which to his companions realization cleared up the fact that in that particular moment, he was supposed to be at a certain prefects meeting.

Now back to the subject of fate, as we know, it works in funny ways sometimes. As Lincoln ran to the prefects compartment, pinning his badge onto his robes, he thought of that certain meeting and the panic rose in his chest.

Amid his deep thought, he seemed to have forgotten that he was in fact running at top speed through a closed space car. Now, he had a habit of getting too lost in thought and not noticing where he was going, which was exactly what had occurred in this instance.

In a fairly loud crash, he was knocked to the ground in a heap. Groaning only a little, he opened his eyes and cleared his vision to see that he had presumably hit his head on a compartment door. Even though he had hit his head he had decided once and for all, his responsibilities as headboy were more important to him than a simple injury. After all, it could not have been that bad as to lead him to needing a trip to the infirmary.

Lincoln stood up, dusted off his robes, and looked to the person he had also stumbled into. The girl looked to be a sixth year, or fifth year. He reached out his hand to help her and she instinctively took it, to which she looked up at him and blushed, only a little. "Wow, I am so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." He said.

"Oh, it's alright, I should've been watching out too." She looked to the floor and twisted her foot in a way.

"I hope you didn't get hurt, but I really should go, I'm late."

"Oh- Oh yes, I'm sorry, go ahead." She blushed once more, but only a little.

Lincoln smiled, a charming smile really, and rushed off. As far as he knew, he obtained no serious injury, it certainly felt like he didn't anyways. But, fate works in funny ways sometimes. Lincoln walked into the prefects compartment, considerably late, and stood in front of the awaiting prefects, and head girl. He sighed and smiled the best he could, because even he knew that most couldn't resist his truly, charming smile. Although, he did not know what had transpired before he arrived at the prefects compartment, only minutes before.

Lily

Lily left her friends back in her compartment, in order to make her way to the prefects meeting. Just moments before she had run into Lincoln Dearborne, the chap who had supposedly fancied her. Whom she assumed had remembered about the prefects meeting. Deciding to stop for the trolly full of candy, she waited in a short line which consisted of mostly first years.

In this instance though, Lily realized it would not be a peaceful stop to the trolly at all.

"Lily?"

She looked up to see an oh-too-familiar face. "Severus, please-"

"Lily, please I just want to talk to you." He said this in a hushed tone, which he did most the time, but Lily knew that this time was to conceal the fact to his Slytherin friends that he was conspiring with muggle-born Lily Evans.

"Sev, I've told you already, I just can't talk to you right now."

"Please- I just- I need you to forgive me..."

"I do forgive you, but it doesn't mean we can be mates again."

"I'm sorry about last year... I didn't mean anything I said."

Lily thought for a second and realized this was the first time Severus had ever admitted to being sorry, though how ever much it hurt to admit this to herself, what he did was not okay. "You said it because of your friends."

Severus Snape stood, appearing to be a little dumbfounded, he did not know how to respond to this at all.

"I suppose, it only makes sense doesn't it? Sev, I forgive you for what you did, but I simply cannot be friends with you again." He stood once more silently, taking in the rejection, which we all know he does not take too well.

"I just want to be mates again."

"I know, but... I can't."

He walked away. It was a solemn interaction, though there was one bystander who couldn't help but interject.

"What was that all about?" The head Marauder asked, "I thought you two weren't mates anymore."

"We aren't." She looked up at him, "I don't see how this is any of your business anyways."

"It isn't but seeing as how there is absolutely no source of entertainment around here these days, I decided to take my chances with this."

"Were you eavesdropping?"

"Not exactly, considering I don't know exactly what you two just said. Although by the look of Snivellus' face, it didn't go very well for him?"

"His name is Severus, and again, it doesn't seem to be any of your business." He shrugged and grinned,

"Alright, but don't go consorting with the wrong bunch, Evans, you never know who's out there."

And with that James Potter walked away, leaving a slightly confused Lily to herself once more.

A/N: Welp, here it is, not sure how much I like it, but you know, haven't been here for a very long time and felt as though now was a good time to get started back up, because I'm great at making dates and deadlines. Remember reviews are better than oh I don't know just review for me will you?

- Dogfur