DISCLAIMER: All right! AS you have probably figured out…I don't own
anything, but the stuff you don't recognize! WARNING! If you don't read the
Harry Potter books, its not a good idea cause I assume that you know what
I'm talking about and don't go into details…
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Chapter 3
Lily woke up Christmas morning to Sierra screaming something about "PRESENTS!!!"
"Sierra, what TIME is it?!" Lily mumbled groggily.
"10 am! We have to get ready for the Christmas Feast! We already missed breakfast…" Sierra explained.
"Really? 10 o'clock! Wow how did I sleep in so-."
"Remember all that researching we did?" Sierra reminded her.
"Oh, yeah of course!" Lily remembered the werewolf thing. What if Remus really was one! She thought to herself. What was he doing at their school! And why wouldn't he tell them he was one? Did he not trust them? Well, she had only know him for four months…Nothing to brag about, but she thought they had a good friendship maybe she was wrong…
"Lily! Lily? Are you in there?" Sierra called to her.
"Um, yeah I was just thinking is all? Let's open presents!" She said quickly changing the subject.
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"Yes! I got the book I wanted!" Lily exclaimed opening her second to last present. It was Hogwarts, a History. The book had just been published that month.
"A Book? You asked for a book, for Christmas!?" Sierra said shocked.
"Yes actually. There's nothing wrong with that!" Lily said defending herself.
"Whatever, it's your Christmas!" Sierra muttered. "Oh wow look at this!" Sierra held up a piece of parchment. She sat there quiet for a moment.
"Well? What is it! I can only wait so long!" Lily said after a while.
"It-It's a love letter!!" She finally sputtered.
"NO way!! That's crazy! We're eleven! Who sends love letters?!" Lily wondered out loud as she stumbled over to Sierra's bed.
"Yes way! Here it is!" She held it out to Lily. Lily read through it quickly. It sounded like rubbish, but if an eleven year old boy wrote it, you couldn't expect much…
"Amazing! I can't believe it! Err, not that anyone wouldn't like you, but just that they sent it to you, on Christmas!" Lily added quickly. "I wonder who it is…" (A/N sorry I'm not writing a love letter, but since I lack creativity… you know I'm not going to even try!)
"Okay, lets brain storm here…Who could possibly like me, enough to send…this?" Sierra asked Lily giggling a bit.
"Hmm…" Lily looked thoughtful, and then smiled. "Peter!" She burst out laughing, Sierra looked horrified, but couldn't keep a straight face, they were both in too good of moods to get mad.
"No way! That's disgusting! Don't get me wrong, he's nice but…"
"He's no cutey!" Lily put in.
"Nope."
"Hmm, James seems to like you, he's always flirting with you." Lily said seriously.
"Yeah, but I don't know I always kind of liked…" Sierra started, but stopped. Lily was looking at her with complete interest. Did Sierra like Remus too? She wondered to herself.
"Who? Come on tell me! Or I will, assume you like Peter and Owl him as soon as possible!" Lily threatened.
"Okay okay! Don't get harsh…I like…" Sierra sighed. "Ikinawikesiwius." She mumbled quietly.
"What? I couldn't hear you speak up!" Lily was too excited. They had gotten hyper while opening presents.
"I like Sirius, Okay?!" She shouted at Lily. Lily fell off the bed backwards.
"Really!? Wow I wouldn't have guessed!" Lily grinned at Sierra from her place on the floor. "Do you think HE wrote the letter?"
"Nah, he wouldn't do that. When he likes a girl he goes right out and says it." Sierra said sadly.
"Well, maybe he doesn't say it because he thinks you like James, because James won't stop flirting with you!" Lily said, trying to figure this new puzzle out.
"Maybe, he probably wouldn't want to get in the way of his friend, liking a girl. But I don't like James, I've told him so!" Sierra was frustrated.
"Well, we could always try to get James to stop liking you…"Lily started thinking of what they could do.
"I could start flirting with Sirius, and you can start flirting with James whenever he starts flirting with me!" Lily didn't like where this was going.
"No! I don't like James, and I certainly don't want to pretend to." Lily said quickly, James Potter was nice, but…No, he wasn't her type.
"Please!?" Sierra begged.
"No, ask Jimena to do it. Think of it Jimena and James, Sierra and Sirius!" The names go perfect…" Lily persuaded.
"Hmm…" Sierra was grinning, did she know something! "You like Remus! I thought you were just doing harmless flirting, but your practically throwing yourself at him! You want Remus!" Sierra said figuring it out.
"Err!" It was too hard keeping a secret from Sierra. "Well, maybe a little, but don't tell anyone! Or your dead meat!"
"Hmm, how does Remus and Lily Lupin sound?" Sierra teased.
Lily grinned, it sounded good. "How about Mrs. Sierra Black!?" Lily fired back.
"Mrs. Lily Potter!" Sierra got back at her.
"Hey!" For some reason to Lily thought that had sounded…Perfect. "How about Mrs. Sierra Snape! Isn't that wonderful?!" Sierra got really mad at that one, and threw her pillow at Lily's face. "Ouch!"
That began a very violent pillow fight between the two girls which ended up in the common room when Lily had her pillow confiscated by Sierra and Lily ran for dear life.
The two girls screaming and laughing carried on for a while longer, then realizing the time they raced upstairs following the trail of feathers back to their dorm.
They got down to the Great Hall barely on time. They were still laughing about the "fight".
Lily had one of the best Christmases of her life. They at until they were stuffed, and Dumbledore laughed along with them when their wishbone exploded into spaghetti, on Professor McGonagall's head while they were trying to make a wish. (A/N You know the pulling the wish bone of a turkey thing? My little sister and I do that all the time!)
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Then while they were walking back to their dorms later that night Sierra brought up the subject of flirting with James for her.
"I've said it once I've said it a million times, I will not FLIRT WITH JAMES POTTER!!" Lily screamed.
"I was just asking." Sierra said apologetically. "I guess I'll ask Jimena…"
When they got to their dorms Lily remembered she had forgotten to open her last present. It turned out to be a Christmas card from Petunia, Lily was in shock. Her sister my actually miss her…She felt bad since Lily hadn't gotten anything for her sister…
Then she remembered, something, werewolves. For a moment she smiled thinking that her sister had reminded her of werewolves, but pushed that thought from her mind. She glanced at the clock, she still had time to go see if Remus was in the hospital wing…But how would she get rid of Sierra?
"Uh, Sierra I'm going to go research some more, in the library, and if its okay I'm going alone." She told Sierra.
"Oh okay, I'm glad you wanted to go alone because I'm going to bed early anyway. Good luck, I guess." With that Lily grabbed the book from last night, and went to the Hospital Wing.
This was the last night of the full moon, her only chance. She rushed quickly; she didn't want to miss anything. If she got caught she would just say she had a headache and fake her way out of the situation.
Poor Remus, Lily thought. From what she read about werewolves, it sounded painful, but wasn't it dangerous keeping him in the Hospital Wing during his changes? Or did they take him somewhere else? All these thought were zooming through her mind and before she knew she was standing right out side the hospital wing door.
She listened for Remus. "How's everything?" She heard a woman ask, probably Madame Pomfrey
"Its okay, but it still hurts a whole lot." A voice she could only assume was Remus. "So are we leaving now?"
"No not yet, I have to go take care of some things in my office." She heard Madame Pomfrey leave and she knew this was her only chance to catch Remus alone.
"Remus!" She whispered. Remus looked at her and paled.
"Lily what are you doing here, again?"
"And again, I can ask you the same thing. Actually I know why you're here!" Lily said still whispering.
"WH-what?" Remus said, the rest of the color from his face drained.
"I KNOW what you are." Lily informed him; she decided to be firm, but supportive.
"What are you talking about; I'm just me, that's all." Remus tried to lie.
"Remus, come on. I know that you're a-err, werewolf." She said in a dead whisper. Remus started pacing around the room.
"How? HOW! I was so careful! What are they going to do, does Sierra know? Does James or Sirius? Oh my, this is awful!" Remus started to get frantic.
"Calm down Remus," He didn't listen. "Remus CALM DOWN!" She said keeping her voice down, she shoved him onto the bed. And sat down next to him.
"Remus I'm here to help, no one knows but me, as far as I know."
"Well, that's a relief." Remus muttered. "Are you going to report me?"
"Of course not! Remus you're my friend, I'd never do anything like that to you!"
"Of course, I should have known that." Remus said. "Can we talk about this later? I don't want you to get into trouble with Madame Pomfrey Don't tell anyone."
"All right, bye Remus, Good night, and good luck!" She said with a quick hug. She thought it could have gone better, but it could have gone worse. She went back to her dorm and fell asleep, only to dream about Remus screaming about werewolves.
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Sierra and Lily spent the rest of break, doing homework, and playing around in the snow. When the Hogwarts students came back they would be greeted, by rainbow colored snowmen (and women since one of them had a pink bow.) Lily had even created a little snow puppy that wagged its tail, she was very proud of her wand work.
They had even charmed some snowballs to attack the Slytherins, but the girls had to wait one more week to see it in action.
Remus showed up and started helping a few days before break ended, he made a snow cat to match Lily's puppy. His cat meowed at everyone who passed, which scared some Hufflepuff first years.
That night they were drinking hot chocolate in the Gryffindor Common room. When Sierra went up to bed, Lily started talking to Remus about his 'situation'.
"So, Remus are we just going to keep going on like we have been?" Lily asked.
"I suppose so, I mean, I wasn't really suppose to tell anyone about it, for the students' safety as Dumbledore said. I don't want to leave school, if any of the Slytherins found out, I'm expelled for sure!"
Lily pondered this. "Remus I promise I won't tell anyone, ever! I swear!" She said crossing her heart.
Remus grinned. "So, now that you know my secret…I get to know one of yours!" he said hopping around a bit.
"No, no, I don't think so." Lily said getting up. She didn't want Remus to know any of her secrets. Then she thought of one, one she didn't mind telling him, it had a similar effect as his. "Okay Remus, you want a secret, you have to swear on your grave not to tell anyone!"
"Okay." He said, he got serious. "If I ever tell you secret you can tell mine and vice versa, that way we can keep each other in line. We'll use magic to make sure."
"Magic?"
"Yeah there's a spell on keeping deals…" So Remus explained it, if the other person broke the deal the other person would immediately find out.
"Okay I'm ready." She said finally. She looked at Remus, she couldn't believe she was telling him this, but she really wanted him to trust her. Here goes nothing she thought.
"Remus, I'm under a curse." She looked at his face looking for his reaction, he just kept listening quietly. "I was born with it. I don't know how. I only know that it has something to do with magic, and me being protected by someone else. Not exactly a guardian angel or anything. When I'm around that person, I have more strength, in courage, physical, and magical ability, but I have no idea who they are. I'm suppose to have already have met them according Dumbledore, he knows all about it. God, it could be anyone…I'm always looking around at people, I'm not even sure if they know who they are…You know what I mean?" Remus looked at her, they talked about it some more, guessing who it could be and then went to bed. Lily felt better with that off her chest.
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Remus was going crazy he needed to tell him, he knew who the protector was, but he couldn't tell, or Lily could tell his secret, they were binded by magic! Damn, he shouldn't have even asked…
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(A/N SO WHAT did you all think? I got this one done pretty quick so sorry if there's grammar mistakes…Read AND REVIEW!! Please?? I'm gonna try and get the next chapter up soon…)
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Chapter 3
Lily woke up Christmas morning to Sierra screaming something about "PRESENTS!!!"
"Sierra, what TIME is it?!" Lily mumbled groggily.
"10 am! We have to get ready for the Christmas Feast! We already missed breakfast…" Sierra explained.
"Really? 10 o'clock! Wow how did I sleep in so-."
"Remember all that researching we did?" Sierra reminded her.
"Oh, yeah of course!" Lily remembered the werewolf thing. What if Remus really was one! She thought to herself. What was he doing at their school! And why wouldn't he tell them he was one? Did he not trust them? Well, she had only know him for four months…Nothing to brag about, but she thought they had a good friendship maybe she was wrong…
"Lily! Lily? Are you in there?" Sierra called to her.
"Um, yeah I was just thinking is all? Let's open presents!" She said quickly changing the subject.
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"Yes! I got the book I wanted!" Lily exclaimed opening her second to last present. It was Hogwarts, a History. The book had just been published that month.
"A Book? You asked for a book, for Christmas!?" Sierra said shocked.
"Yes actually. There's nothing wrong with that!" Lily said defending herself.
"Whatever, it's your Christmas!" Sierra muttered. "Oh wow look at this!" Sierra held up a piece of parchment. She sat there quiet for a moment.
"Well? What is it! I can only wait so long!" Lily said after a while.
"It-It's a love letter!!" She finally sputtered.
"NO way!! That's crazy! We're eleven! Who sends love letters?!" Lily wondered out loud as she stumbled over to Sierra's bed.
"Yes way! Here it is!" She held it out to Lily. Lily read through it quickly. It sounded like rubbish, but if an eleven year old boy wrote it, you couldn't expect much…
"Amazing! I can't believe it! Err, not that anyone wouldn't like you, but just that they sent it to you, on Christmas!" Lily added quickly. "I wonder who it is…" (A/N sorry I'm not writing a love letter, but since I lack creativity… you know I'm not going to even try!)
"Okay, lets brain storm here…Who could possibly like me, enough to send…this?" Sierra asked Lily giggling a bit.
"Hmm…" Lily looked thoughtful, and then smiled. "Peter!" She burst out laughing, Sierra looked horrified, but couldn't keep a straight face, they were both in too good of moods to get mad.
"No way! That's disgusting! Don't get me wrong, he's nice but…"
"He's no cutey!" Lily put in.
"Nope."
"Hmm, James seems to like you, he's always flirting with you." Lily said seriously.
"Yeah, but I don't know I always kind of liked…" Sierra started, but stopped. Lily was looking at her with complete interest. Did Sierra like Remus too? She wondered to herself.
"Who? Come on tell me! Or I will, assume you like Peter and Owl him as soon as possible!" Lily threatened.
"Okay okay! Don't get harsh…I like…" Sierra sighed. "Ikinawikesiwius." She mumbled quietly.
"What? I couldn't hear you speak up!" Lily was too excited. They had gotten hyper while opening presents.
"I like Sirius, Okay?!" She shouted at Lily. Lily fell off the bed backwards.
"Really!? Wow I wouldn't have guessed!" Lily grinned at Sierra from her place on the floor. "Do you think HE wrote the letter?"
"Nah, he wouldn't do that. When he likes a girl he goes right out and says it." Sierra said sadly.
"Well, maybe he doesn't say it because he thinks you like James, because James won't stop flirting with you!" Lily said, trying to figure this new puzzle out.
"Maybe, he probably wouldn't want to get in the way of his friend, liking a girl. But I don't like James, I've told him so!" Sierra was frustrated.
"Well, we could always try to get James to stop liking you…"Lily started thinking of what they could do.
"I could start flirting with Sirius, and you can start flirting with James whenever he starts flirting with me!" Lily didn't like where this was going.
"No! I don't like James, and I certainly don't want to pretend to." Lily said quickly, James Potter was nice, but…No, he wasn't her type.
"Please!?" Sierra begged.
"No, ask Jimena to do it. Think of it Jimena and James, Sierra and Sirius!" The names go perfect…" Lily persuaded.
"Hmm…" Sierra was grinning, did she know something! "You like Remus! I thought you were just doing harmless flirting, but your practically throwing yourself at him! You want Remus!" Sierra said figuring it out.
"Err!" It was too hard keeping a secret from Sierra. "Well, maybe a little, but don't tell anyone! Or your dead meat!"
"Hmm, how does Remus and Lily Lupin sound?" Sierra teased.
Lily grinned, it sounded good. "How about Mrs. Sierra Black!?" Lily fired back.
"Mrs. Lily Potter!" Sierra got back at her.
"Hey!" For some reason to Lily thought that had sounded…Perfect. "How about Mrs. Sierra Snape! Isn't that wonderful?!" Sierra got really mad at that one, and threw her pillow at Lily's face. "Ouch!"
That began a very violent pillow fight between the two girls which ended up in the common room when Lily had her pillow confiscated by Sierra and Lily ran for dear life.
The two girls screaming and laughing carried on for a while longer, then realizing the time they raced upstairs following the trail of feathers back to their dorm.
They got down to the Great Hall barely on time. They were still laughing about the "fight".
Lily had one of the best Christmases of her life. They at until they were stuffed, and Dumbledore laughed along with them when their wishbone exploded into spaghetti, on Professor McGonagall's head while they were trying to make a wish. (A/N You know the pulling the wish bone of a turkey thing? My little sister and I do that all the time!)
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Then while they were walking back to their dorms later that night Sierra brought up the subject of flirting with James for her.
"I've said it once I've said it a million times, I will not FLIRT WITH JAMES POTTER!!" Lily screamed.
"I was just asking." Sierra said apologetically. "I guess I'll ask Jimena…"
When they got to their dorms Lily remembered she had forgotten to open her last present. It turned out to be a Christmas card from Petunia, Lily was in shock. Her sister my actually miss her…She felt bad since Lily hadn't gotten anything for her sister…
Then she remembered, something, werewolves. For a moment she smiled thinking that her sister had reminded her of werewolves, but pushed that thought from her mind. She glanced at the clock, she still had time to go see if Remus was in the hospital wing…But how would she get rid of Sierra?
"Uh, Sierra I'm going to go research some more, in the library, and if its okay I'm going alone." She told Sierra.
"Oh okay, I'm glad you wanted to go alone because I'm going to bed early anyway. Good luck, I guess." With that Lily grabbed the book from last night, and went to the Hospital Wing.
This was the last night of the full moon, her only chance. She rushed quickly; she didn't want to miss anything. If she got caught she would just say she had a headache and fake her way out of the situation.
Poor Remus, Lily thought. From what she read about werewolves, it sounded painful, but wasn't it dangerous keeping him in the Hospital Wing during his changes? Or did they take him somewhere else? All these thought were zooming through her mind and before she knew she was standing right out side the hospital wing door.
She listened for Remus. "How's everything?" She heard a woman ask, probably Madame Pomfrey
"Its okay, but it still hurts a whole lot." A voice she could only assume was Remus. "So are we leaving now?"
"No not yet, I have to go take care of some things in my office." She heard Madame Pomfrey leave and she knew this was her only chance to catch Remus alone.
"Remus!" She whispered. Remus looked at her and paled.
"Lily what are you doing here, again?"
"And again, I can ask you the same thing. Actually I know why you're here!" Lily said still whispering.
"WH-what?" Remus said, the rest of the color from his face drained.
"I KNOW what you are." Lily informed him; she decided to be firm, but supportive.
"What are you talking about; I'm just me, that's all." Remus tried to lie.
"Remus, come on. I know that you're a-err, werewolf." She said in a dead whisper. Remus started pacing around the room.
"How? HOW! I was so careful! What are they going to do, does Sierra know? Does James or Sirius? Oh my, this is awful!" Remus started to get frantic.
"Calm down Remus," He didn't listen. "Remus CALM DOWN!" She said keeping her voice down, she shoved him onto the bed. And sat down next to him.
"Remus I'm here to help, no one knows but me, as far as I know."
"Well, that's a relief." Remus muttered. "Are you going to report me?"
"Of course not! Remus you're my friend, I'd never do anything like that to you!"
"Of course, I should have known that." Remus said. "Can we talk about this later? I don't want you to get into trouble with Madame Pomfrey Don't tell anyone."
"All right, bye Remus, Good night, and good luck!" She said with a quick hug. She thought it could have gone better, but it could have gone worse. She went back to her dorm and fell asleep, only to dream about Remus screaming about werewolves.
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Sierra and Lily spent the rest of break, doing homework, and playing around in the snow. When the Hogwarts students came back they would be greeted, by rainbow colored snowmen (and women since one of them had a pink bow.) Lily had even created a little snow puppy that wagged its tail, she was very proud of her wand work.
They had even charmed some snowballs to attack the Slytherins, but the girls had to wait one more week to see it in action.
Remus showed up and started helping a few days before break ended, he made a snow cat to match Lily's puppy. His cat meowed at everyone who passed, which scared some Hufflepuff first years.
That night they were drinking hot chocolate in the Gryffindor Common room. When Sierra went up to bed, Lily started talking to Remus about his 'situation'.
"So, Remus are we just going to keep going on like we have been?" Lily asked.
"I suppose so, I mean, I wasn't really suppose to tell anyone about it, for the students' safety as Dumbledore said. I don't want to leave school, if any of the Slytherins found out, I'm expelled for sure!"
Lily pondered this. "Remus I promise I won't tell anyone, ever! I swear!" She said crossing her heart.
Remus grinned. "So, now that you know my secret…I get to know one of yours!" he said hopping around a bit.
"No, no, I don't think so." Lily said getting up. She didn't want Remus to know any of her secrets. Then she thought of one, one she didn't mind telling him, it had a similar effect as his. "Okay Remus, you want a secret, you have to swear on your grave not to tell anyone!"
"Okay." He said, he got serious. "If I ever tell you secret you can tell mine and vice versa, that way we can keep each other in line. We'll use magic to make sure."
"Magic?"
"Yeah there's a spell on keeping deals…" So Remus explained it, if the other person broke the deal the other person would immediately find out.
"Okay I'm ready." She said finally. She looked at Remus, she couldn't believe she was telling him this, but she really wanted him to trust her. Here goes nothing she thought.
"Remus, I'm under a curse." She looked at his face looking for his reaction, he just kept listening quietly. "I was born with it. I don't know how. I only know that it has something to do with magic, and me being protected by someone else. Not exactly a guardian angel or anything. When I'm around that person, I have more strength, in courage, physical, and magical ability, but I have no idea who they are. I'm suppose to have already have met them according Dumbledore, he knows all about it. God, it could be anyone…I'm always looking around at people, I'm not even sure if they know who they are…You know what I mean?" Remus looked at her, they talked about it some more, guessing who it could be and then went to bed. Lily felt better with that off her chest.
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Remus was going crazy he needed to tell him, he knew who the protector was, but he couldn't tell, or Lily could tell his secret, they were binded by magic! Damn, he shouldn't have even asked…
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(A/N SO WHAT did you all think? I got this one done pretty quick so sorry if there's grammar mistakes…Read AND REVIEW!! Please?? I'm gonna try and get the next chapter up soon…)