This is just a little something to tide you guys over until I get the next series up. I guess it's kind of set between the two series, but it doesn't really have much to do with them. It's still Lily/James, when they're together, but you find out a lot more about Eve and there's more Sirius for all you Sirius-lovers out there! It's almost a cross-over, but not really, I don't bring in different characters or anything. And once you find out what's going on, please keep reading because I'll explain where I got my insane ideas at the end okay? So just keep going!
It all belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers.
The Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was busy, full of students trying to scarf down their breakfasts in the remaining ten minutes before classes. Lily Evans scooped up spoonfuls of Cheerios as fast she possibly could, there was nothing worse than soggy cereal. She looked at her best friend, Eve Willis, who was rocking anxiously on the edge of her seat.
"Eve, dear, what is wrong?" Lily asked, a dribble of milk came out of her mouth.
"Huh? Oh, I'm just waiting for the mail to come."
"I've never known anyone who likes their vitamins so much, my mother would be so proud of you," Lily shook her head in mock disgust, remembering when Eve had told her that her grandmother sent her vitamins everyday in the mail.
"I've told you already, these are special nutrients that only the witches familiar with ancient herbology in China can make. And it's all natural, so it has to be taken right away. Or else it rots. Trust me, I've tasted it, you do not want to have rotting vitamins," Eve replied, scanning the room again.
"Okay, okay, you do things your way and I'll do them mine, swami," Lily retorted between gulps of pumpkin juice.
"Well, we only have a few minutes left, I'm going the check the dorm. Those owls have to come all the way from China, some of them aren't sure where to take the packages," she said the Lily, flashing a smile full of straight white teeth.
"No prob, I'll meet you in our first class…Charms with Slytherins," she responded as she glanced at her schedule, "Yahoo. Well, at least it's charms."
A few minutes later, Lily had made her way up to the Charms room where she saw a seat next to James and Sirius. James. Just the name itself made her smile. But she held it back, couldn't let him get too complacent.
Before they spotted her, however, she snuck up behind James and grabbed him into an unbreakable headlock.
"Uurrrghhh…" came his incomprehensible reply.
"Good morning, gentlemen," she greeted cheerfully as she released James. "And ladies too," she added, tipping her head toward Sirius. But he shook it off.
"Lily! Dahhhh-ling!" came the terrible French accent of a hyper Sirius. "Jamsie here was just telling us about how much he looooooved you! And I can certainly see why." He looked at James who was still rubbing his neck.
Lily was just in the middle of thinking up a comeback when Eve, followed by an angry looking Professor Tille, the charms teacher, entered the room.
"Miss Willis! You are late! Again!" she announced loudly. Then her expression turned soft. "Kidding. Who do I look like, Venere?" Chuckles came from everyone in the class, except the Slytherins. Professor Venere, the potions teacher, was the head of their house. It was well known that Tille, a vivacious young blonde teacher did not get along with Professor Venere.
"Okay, sit down, get comfy, whatever. Today we will be working on—" she stopped in the middle of her sentence when an unbelievable rolling could be heard outside.
All the students peered out the windows. The sky was dark, almost like night. Thick clouds formed almost in front of their eyes. Spears of lightning illuminated the sky and the ground shook with each roll of thunder.
"What on earth?" the young teacher walked to one of the windows. Her shock was evident, but she had to prove to the rest of the staff that she was just as competent in an unusual situation as they were. "Well, this will not do." She tapped her wand toward the windows, and heavy black drapes appeared in front of them.
All the kids slumped in their chairs, desperate to know how bad the storm was going to be. It was unlike anything they had ever seen.
"Now, we'll be doing advanced levitation today, on ourselves."
The students were once again excited. This was something they had wanted to learn to do for years. But it was difficult magic, and very few books printed the spell because too many young wizards tried it. Most ended up hanging upside-down for a week. Others zoomed around their rooms for months straight.
"I'll demonstrate," she continued, "It's easiest if you begin sitting on the floor. Close your eyes and picture yourself floating in the air. Hold out your wand. Now the word is levitamo. Use the loop and flick wand movement and then—"
Professor Tille was interrupted for the second time. A small scroll of paper appeared out of thin air in front of her. She looked at it for a moment, then unrolled and read it. Her face was hard to read, but then she spoke.
"K guys, here's the deal. This note's from the headmaster. They're predicting that it's going to be a pretty severe storm with earthquakes. Which means that we're all going to be up in our house towers until it's over. So let's go. And um…they don't know how long it's going to last, maybe days."
"Days?" Eve asked weakly. She looked nervous and afraid. Nothing like the usual Eve.
"Don't worry, it's just going to be us. They'll bring us food and everything," Lily answered matter-of-factly. But she noticed that Eve still looked uncomfortable. "What's the matter? You're not claustrophobic or anything. Are you?"
"No. I'm fine. I'm just worried though…do you think the owls will be able to fly in this weather?" she asked, fearing the answer.
"C'mon Eve. Look outside. Nothing's gonna be flying in that. Expecting an owl from some secret guy?" Lily smiled devilishly.
"I wish. It's just that…well, my vitamins didn't come today. That's all," her eyes wandered to the floor as they climbed more and more stairs.
"I'm sure you'll live, my darling."
"Yeah…" Eve replied softly.
Lily, being Head Girl, lead their house up to the tower, making sure that every little first year was accounted for.
"And…Jennifer Zambezi," Lily read the list and found a little brunette in the back of the common room. "Okay, now that everyone's here, all you have to know is that you are to stay here in the tower. No excuses. If you need anything, tell one of the prefects, myself, or James. Professor McGonagall will be bringing food up to us later so don't worry about going hungry."
As Lily finished her little speech, about half of the Gryffindors raced up to their dorm rooms, and the rest of them stayed in the common room. She decided to stay in the common room with the guys.
Lily threw herself in a squashy armchair next to James and listened in on the guys' conversation.
"Let's sneak out! There's not gonna be another storm like this for decades, we'll be able to tell our kids about it!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Providing that you find a girl crazy enough to marry you," Lily retorted.
"Who said you needed to be married to have kids?"
"You don't even have a date to the Fall Ball," James chipped in.
"Whose side on you on, Prongs? Besides, I have nothing to worry about," Sirius said confidently.
"Oh yeah? Who're you going with?" Lily asked.
"Our very favorite Dragonlady," he leaned back with elation.
"Eve?!" Lily exclaimed with disbelief. James coughed up the juice that he was drinking.
"No way, she said yes?"
"Oh yeah, I should probably ask her."
Lily shook her head and looked around for Eve.
"Hey, where is she anyway?" Lily inquired. Her best friend was out of sight.
"Haven't seen her," James answered, wrapping his arms around her waist and.
She pulled his arms off of her.
"Can this wait?" she asked him. "I want to find Eve, I have a funny feeling about her."
"Ouch. Dude, you just got DE-NIED!" Sirius yelled loudly toward James.
Lily hopped up and looked around the room for Eve again. But she was nowhere to be found. Lily decided to check the dorm room, even though she had no idea why Eve would be up there. She jumped up the stairs two at a time and opened her dorm door. It was deathly dark as she walked in. The drapes around Eve's bed were closed.
"Eve? Are you in here?"
Silence. Lily went to Eve's bed and pulled the curtains open.
Inside was the scariest sight she had ever seen.
Eve was sitting on her bed, looking as if she hadn't eaten or slept for days. She had her knees pulled up and her arms around them. Her favorite black rose necklace was clenched in her hand. Her usually tan face was pale and blue-looking. But the scariest thing was her eyes. Normally warm and brown, they glowed silver.
Lily had never ever been afraid of her best friend. But she was.
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Sorry, I wasn't planning on making it a series, but it will probably only be two or three chapters. Sorry about the cliffhanger, but I wanted to at least get this part up today! Keep reading and please review! Thanks!