DISCLAIMER: don't own much except the plot and some character names!!
A/N pleases review and higher my self esteem!! LOL I love reviews!! Um, fourth year is getting quite long, I'm proud of myself, no more unconsciousness! (not)**scolds herself** I think its fun that way! Hey I was thinking this is like the ultimate damsel in distress story!! Lily's turning out a bit wimpy so don't worry! I fix that! Go girl power!! Okay now where were we… Oh this chapter is very long but it finishes up most of fourth year!
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CHAPTER 12
Lily stayed back in Professor Kenyon's office, wondering what he wanted to yell at her about. She wanted to get out of their and go to lunch, she didn't remember eating breakfast, she wondered if she'd skipped it.
"Miss Evans, I wanted to talk to you about last night in your dorm."
"You know about that Professor?" She asked innocently, for once.
The professor looked a bit flustered. "So, I'd like to talk about what you said at breakfast this morning." 'Oh my gosh, what did I say at breakfast! Did I do something stupid!'.
"Professor, I don't remember breakfast at the moment, I had a forgetfulness potion in Potions today, so basically this conversation is pointless, on my end." Lily told him, trying not to sound snobby.
"Oh, OHh." Kenyon said, finally getting it. "Well since I kept you here, please have a drink, please?"
"Erm, all right." Kenyon went and got something from across the room. He brought back a glass of pumpkin juice. 'Good something normal.' Lily thought, and took a few quick gulps and headed out of the room at top speed. Lily went down the corridor and started feeling dizzy. She managed to get to the Great Hall, and sat next to her friends, and noticed that James was giving her a look that said: 'You-okay?'
Lily just sat there for a moment, and for one moment her eyes glowed yellow, everyone around her gasped, and then they went normal again.
"Lily! What the hell was that?" Jimena yelped.
"What?" Lily asked. "Hey how'd I get down here? What happened, the last thing I remember was winning the Quidditch game?" Lily said, Lily stood up, trying to figure out what had happened.
"Lils that was Saturday! Today is Monday!" Sierra said as calmly as she could, but she couldn't hide the panic.
"Really? Um, this is really weird guys. I can't remember, what was the last thing I did?" Lily asked, still not believing them.
"Um, you walked in here from Kenyon's room!" Jimena and Sierra looked at each other.
"Do you think he did something to her?!" Sierra asked worriedly.
"Who? Professor Kenyon? I don't even remember talking to him or anything, not since… last week."
"We need to tell someone!" Jimena said worriedly, she and Sierra and escorted Lily to Professor McGonagall.
Jimena and Sierra explained everything that had happened at lunch. Including the yellow eyes thing.
"It might have just been a reaction to that forgetfulness potion Professor Blint gave out today, which I find a little out of the ordinary, so don't worry about it, Miss Evans will probably be fine by tomorrow, but just in case send her to the Hospital Wing, all right? There's nothing else we can do." McGonagall said.
"BUT Professor-!" Jimena was cut off.
"Come on Jim let's just go." Sierra said. "Come on Lils." Lily was totally out of it, she was straining to remember, but nothing came to her mind. She remembered James falling and then going to see him, then winning the game, and then they were heading back to the castle…Nothing after that.
Jimena let out a huff, "I can't believe she doesn't believe that Kenyon did something to Lily! I bet he cast a charm that makes her forget her life! Oh what if from now on she has no short term memory!!"
"Calm down Jimena! Lily will be okay, let's get her to Madam Pomfrey!" Sierra shouted at her friend, who was getting a bit hysterical. "Come on Lily!" Sierra grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her towards the Hospital Wing.
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Over the next week, Lily went back to class, and the Professors couldn't seem to figure out what had happened, Professor Kenyon had been questioned, he said he talk to Lily about a paper she had done the week before, and then sent her on her way.
Lily was a bit clueless, and had to be told everything that happened since Saturday, but Lily was still very confused. Lily didn't even remember Saturday night with the intruder, Lily couldn't even be scared of Professor Kenyon, except for the fact that he didn't seem to like her.
But Lily got over it and school went back to normal, and so did Quidditch practice, and of course homework.
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The three girls were sitting in the common room doing homework in a quiet corner of the room, while the rest of the Gryffindor girls flirted shamelessly with The Marauders, even Peter! (A/N sickenly enough!)
"How can those girls throw themselves like that at THEM?" Jimena asked, with a tinge of jealousy.
"Hm, I wonder, did we ourselves do that up until third year?" Sierra asked, also with a tinge of jealousy.
"Hey, not me! I threw myself at Marvin!" Lily laughed, while the other two glared. "You two should stop sitting on your bums, and go find some hot Hufflepuff!" More glares.
"Lily, look over THERE!" Jimena said changing the subject. They all turned and watched, as once again Mindy flirted with Robert, and he flirted with her.
"Awe, those two are so cute!" Lily gushed.
"Yeah, it's so romantical!" Sierra said laughing.
"Do you think they'll get together?" Jimena said falling to the floor and setting her feet on the couch, from her spot on the ground.
"Hm, that would be interesting, fifth sure does change things, wonder what will happen to US in fifth year?!" Lily exclaimed, and fell to the floor laughing.
"What's so funny?!" Sierra demanded.
"I just got a funny picture, of James *gasp for air* and Snape-!" That's all Lily had to say before the two girls got the picture and collapsed to the floor laughing.
They laughed for the rest of the night, mostly at the poor unsuspecting Marauders.
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It was around the third week of November, and Lily was bored out of her mind in the common room all alone. Since it was a Hogsmeade weekend. She then noticed that it was snowing outside; she grabbed her cloak and ran out the portrait hole.
"Snow, snow, snow!" She sang along the hallways. It was the first snow all year. She skipped out the door and onto the grounds. She smiled and stuck her tongue out trying to catch the fat snow flakes.
Her joyful moment was ended, by a loud painful groan, which came from behind some bushes, Lily went to investigate, and stifled a scream.
There was James fighting off someone, they looked like a Death Eater, then Lily recognized him, 'Professor Kenyon!'
Lily didn't say anything surely James would be killed if she didn't do anything, so Lily picked up a twig and transformed it into a baseball bat, something she had learned over the summer.
She picked up the bat, and snuck behind Kenyon, and clubbed him one, right on the head, he went unconscious. (A/N sorry, sorry! **Dives from flying toasters being thrown at her** I had to have Lily be the hero, and it involved someone going unconscious!)
Lily was shocked at what she had done, which to put it bluntly 'knocked out the Professor.'
"Lily!" James gasped. "You saved me!"
"Don't get used to it Potter." She said grinning and pulled Kenyon off of James, as best she could.
"Lils, he was trying to kill me! I got his wand, he got mine, I tackled him!" James burst out, he bent over and picked up his wand.
"Wow James-ey boy slow down! Tell me what happened on the way up to Dumbledore's office with our prisoner…" Lily said and with that she tied Kenyon up with a quick spell.
"All right, so I get a note from him, to meet me out here. I find it a bit weird, but don't want to get into trouble so I go anyways." James pulled out the note and showed it to her. "So I get there and I heard him start to say the killing curse!" Lily gasped. "So I shouted expelleramirus at him! (A/n I don't know spelling sorry!) "Saved my arse just in time! I swear, when it flew in my hand I just about fainted, but then he just grabbed mine right from me! So I tackled him, but he, being much bigger then me started to win, and then you showed up! And on a Hogsmeade Weekend when my friends were all gone! I'm so glad you showed up Lily!"
"No problem James, I sort of owed you one."
"Yeah, you did." The two grew solemn and were quiet the rest of the way hoping Kenyon didn't wake up.
They ran into the Professor Dumbledore on the way up and explained everything to him. He hurried off to take care of things, with Kenyon, and Lily escorted James to the Hospital Wing, he'd gotten some unpleasant bruises, and cuts.
Lily stayed with James while he was taken care of my Madam Pomfrey, then they went back to the common room. Where James and Lily went to tell their friends what happened, but were surprised to find that they were still in Hogsmeade.
Lily and James sat in the common room, Lily chattered on about how she had 'Girl Power.' But they weren't able to keep talking because Lily was trying not to speak to him.
When the rest of the Marauders entered, and very shockingly, accompanied by a very happy Sierra and Jimena, Lily shouted at them, "I saved James' arse today!!"
So the finally got to explain what was had happened.
Lily, Sierra and Jimena went up to their dorm to talk. They were sitting chatting happily about Christmas which was coming up soon.
"Hey Lily, I know you don't remember this, but we had a prank planned a while back before your memory disappeared, and well…I really want to do it!" Sierra said smiling.
"Yeah, while we were at Hogsmeade Sirius, Remus and Peter tricked me into this bet about who could eat the most chocolate frogs: Remus or Peter, and I thought Peter naturally of course-."
"And so did I! But they conveniently left out the fact that Peter had stuffed himself with butter beers, while we were at Madam Malkins!"
"So what do you girls want? Revenge?" Lily said grinning.
"You bet!" The other two said together.
Early Sunday morning before it was light, if you had looked into the Gryffindor Common room you would have seen three fourteen year old girls, dressed all in black and sneaking up into the boys' dorms, carrying a sack of 'goodies.'
They were getting the boy's back for every prank they'd ever pulled on anyone, except Slytherins, and other hateful people.
They stood outside the fourth year dorm, and looked at each other.
"Sierra, you're in charge of itching powder and talking." Sierra nodded. "Jimena, you're in charge of clothing, and make up."
(A/N as I'm writing this, I have playing: Aretha Franklin RESPECT! Just cause it got in my head.) "That leaves me in charge of over doing the cheering charms, and skin." Lily finished.
"Ready?" Jimena grinned brightly as she said this. The other two nodded, and set to work.
They snuck in the room tip toeing around every where. Lily crept over to Sirius' bed and gave him an over powered cheering charm, and then changed his skin color to a bright pink.
Then she tip toed to Peter's bed and did the same except his lovely color was neon yellow.
She did the same to Remus, but made his color deep rosy red.
James was last, and she cheered him the most, and turned his skin bright orange. She was surprised, that like the others he smiled widely since he was under a cheering charm, but her clearly whispered something, "Flower stop tickling me!"
Lily backed up and stifled a laugh, she motioned to her friends her were finishing up. The left a few moments later, and ran to their dorms where they jumped into bed. They couldn't sleep so they got dressed and waited for the boys to wake up from their overly happy dreams.
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James woke up giggling hysterically, and woke up the rest of his dorm, and they too started to laugh. James didn't notice through all his laughing that he and his friends were different colors, or that they had very…interesting make up. Or that they were itching, every part of their body. (A/n yuck!) They also didn't notice that when they finally got into their clothes that they had a lovely design on the back that said either "Lily Evans is hot!" (On James' back) or "Jimena Jenkins is gorgeous!" (On Sirius' back) or "Sierra Sitruc is a babe!" (On Remus' back) or in Peter's case "Vanessa and Catty and delicious!" Compliments of Jimena. If they had been able to talk they would have noticed that they were talking opposite.
The boys stumbled into the common room, and heard laughter, but they were too busy laughing themselves to notice, much.
The charm was wearing off as they got to the Great Hall for break fast, and noticed that everyone in Gryffindor was following them.
"Bye, Black, I know what's going on." James tried to say. The three girls directly behind him cracked up laughing. Unfortunately for the Marauders, most of the school was already at breakfast, and started laughing as the four boys entered the room.
"I get it." Sirius tried to ask, but everything was backwards.
"Me too." Remus tried to disagree.
"I understand what's going on." James said. "Yes, mistake, I don't know what's going on!"
"No?" Sirius asked catching on.
"I don't either." Remus said getting the hang of it.
"Not those boys." James pointed at Jimena, Lily, and Sierra, who were still laughing and on the floor.
"Dinner." Sirius asked referring to breakfast.
"Breakfast." Remus said FINALLY sorting out his words.
"It- was- those girls!" James stuttered trying to get the sentence formed.
"Get them back!" Sirius stuttered too.
"Tonight?" Remus asked, getting it right.
"Yeah, sounds good to me." James said, his sentences were still very slow.
He walked over to Lily and pointed at her. "Undo this curse!" He yelled getting a bit of it confused.
"I can't it wears off in a few hours on its own, but can I ask you if you would stop scratching yourself?" James finally noticed that he was constantly itching, and so were the rest of the Marauders. Then he noticed he was Orange! He looked closely at Remus and noticed he was wearing make up that made him look like a clown, and so did Sirius and Peter that could only mean…
"LILY!!!!" He screamed, Lily had sat down to eat breakfast, when she turned to face him; she was bright red from laughing.
"Notice your make up?" She offered. He nodded his head, he wanted to curse her, but knew it would end in disaster so he stomped off to his dorm followed by the rest of the Marauders, they didn't come out until most of the spell had worn out.
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James was pouting in his dorm waiting for his skin to stop glowing orange.
"You have to hand it to 'em James, they are good, we didn't even see it coming!" Sirius said laughing.
James just grunted.
"Yeah James you should have expected it after what we've done to them." Remus said. "The chicken incident, the itching powder in potions, the fizzing whizbees in their drinks, the several kick me signs that made people actually kick them, the time you told Snape Lily had a crush on him- ."
"Okay I get the point Remus!" James yelled, and laid down on his bed, he just couldn't believe Lily had done that! He didn't know why but it made him get upset, it was fun to pull pranks on her, but turn the sides around and it made him mad!
"Maybe it means they've forgiven us for whatever they think we did!" Sirius said hopefully, although the girls would talk to them every once and a while, it wasn't the same as before.
"Maybe so Sirius, I hope so, I miss talking to Lily." Remus said Lily was always so thoughtful, and he liked to ask her for advice on girls.
"Hey Moony, do you like the lady Lillian?" Sirius asked grinning.
"Nah, she's just fun to talk to, and stuff, plus I think James as a thing for her."
"Do not!" James defended himself. "Where'd you get that idea!?"
"Well, I was thinking that all those times you saved her had gotten to your head!" Remus said laughing and the dodged a pillow.
"Moony!" James yelled, and through another pillow.
"Hey I want a nick name!" Sirius pouted, they'd been calling Remus Moony since second or first year. "I mean it's only fair! When I become an Animagus I want my nickname to reflect what I turn into!"
"Me too, how about you James?" Peter finally said something. (A/N he is very unsocial in this story.)
"Yeah, so if Sirius turns into a bunny rabbit, I can call him cotton tail!" Now James dodged a pillow. "Hey!" So the colorful friends, laughed as they thought of what animal they would be, they were getting quite close to finishing the potion, details, and then they had to work on the incantation some more. Perfect it and be done, but then the whole process of making the potion was going to take a while.
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Christmas break came up quite quickly and Lily sunk into a very depressed and grumpy person. She missed her parents, and Petunia, she tried to write Petunia letters, but only got hate mail, or no answers in return. Lily never told anyone about them, but one day James found out.
Lily was sitting in the common room looking at the letter she was about to send Petunia saying that she didn't want her to be mad at her anymore when another owl came up to her, and dropped another hate letter from Petunia in her lap.
Lily read it, it was one of the worst.
Lily Evans-
I would like to tell you to stop sending me you're none feeling letters and leave me alone! I hate you! Grandmother hates you! Mummy and Daddy probably hate you too! But how could we know that since you killed them!! I hope you die! I hope you are the most unhappy person in the world! I hope you never find true happiness!
Petunia Evans
Lily looked sadly at the letter and wiped the tears from her eyes, she retreated to a back corner of the room and started to cry silently, she hadn't cried in a long time. When she heard someone come up to her she looked up and saw James Potter looking at her with concern.
"What is it Potter, am I in life threatening danger again?" She said harshly.
"No, I just noticed you were crying in a deserted common room." James said not offended at all. "So what's wrong Lils?" He said trying to be friendly, but it's quite hard to be, when you're talking to some one who basically ignores you 90% of the time.
Lily made a move to hide the letters, but James got them easily from her, and read them quickly, his face became sadder and sadder as he read them.
"See, I have a reason for crying, now go away!" She said hotly. Lily tried desperately to stop the tears from falling.
"Lily, do you want to talk about it, I didn't think anything was bothering you, I thought you'd coped with your parents deaths', and so did everyone else. Obviously something's wrong so are you going to tell me?"
"There are so many things wrong James you don't have the time to hear them all! Now please leave me alone!?" Lily begged as more tears fell.
"Lily I have all the time you need to tell me what's wrong if it will make you feel better." James replied.
"No James, you see it won't help me, now please leave me alone!" With that last yell Lily stomped up the stairs to her dorm.
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Neither James nor Lily talked about what had happened, and soon Christmas break started, and Lily and Sierra made their annual snow men and woman. Then before they knew it, it was Christmas morning; Lily was barely able to get out of bed.
"No…I'm too tired!" She moaned. (a/n me too, it's late!)
"Come on Lils get up! I got something for you; you're really going to love!"
Lily managed to sit up and grab Sierra's present and open it: It was a dream catcher, a magical one.
"It helps keep away frequent nightmares; I thought it could help you, and maybe me and Jimena too." Sierra said sadly, but happily all at the same time.
"Thanks Sierra, I hope it helps."
The three girls hadn't been sleeping well that year, since the same nightmare plagued them all, Lily had it the worst, she was still dreaming about her parents being murdered.
"I guess we'll wait and see tonight, if it works or not. It's way better then the muggle kind!" Sierra bragged some more about the wizarding world.
Then the two girls were very, very surprised when there was a knock on the door and in came none other then Robert Saratoga.
"Lily, just the girl I'm looking for." He said trying to be casual, but Lily saw his nervousness.
"What is it Rob?" Lily motioned for Robert to sit on Jimena's empty bed.
"Err, this is uncomfortable for me to talk about, so don't make fun of me okay?" He said sitting down. Lily and Sierra both noticed how nervous he was.
"We won't make fun, will we Lils?" Sierra said trying to make him feel better.
"No, of course not, so what do you want to tell us Rob?" Lily asked him again.
"Well, I don't know if you noticed, but Mindy and me, have…err…started to be friends…" His voice trailed off, Lily and Sierra grinned brightly.
"Go on." Lily encouraged, she knew where this was going.
"Um. Yeah. So. I. Was. Um. Err. Wondering. If. Maybe. You. Thought. Shemihlkmem." He sputtered out very quickly.
"What?" Lily asked looking at him with a grin.
"I SAID I was wondering if maybe she might like me?!" He shouted, totally losing his cool.
"I thought that's what you said." Sierra said grinning at him.
"Shut up! Now has she talked about me or anything, like she likes me or anything?" He asked getting serious, for once.
"Well, not really, but she has talked about hating you for a long time, I think your chances are WAY up from last year. I say go for it!" Lily said smiling, "Honestly, I think she might, but she's a bit nervous about it."
"Great!" He said standing up. "I can't wait to see her, God what am I going to say!?" With that he ran off to his dorm.
Lily and Sierra looked at each other and then burst out laughing.
"I NEVER thought that I would have that conversation!" Lily said after they'd calmed down a bit.
"And I NEVER thought I'd be there to witness it!!" Sierra sputtered.
"BUT, you have to admit, that was really sweet."
"Yeah, I hope she likes him, I'd just cry if she said that she didn't like him…"
Lily grinned, "Let's send our dear Mindy a letter, since she's home for Christmas."
"Didn't she ask you to come?" Sierra asked.
"Yeah, but I told her that Christmas is a time for family, Then she told me that I was like family, but it still didn't feel right, so I stayed here." Lily said calming down a bit more.
"So what are we putting in the letter?" Sierra asked getting out parchment and a quill.
"Let's be casual, like just saying Happy Christmas, and stuff, and then talk about who YOU like and then ask her who she likes. Then some more extra crap." Lily suggested.
"All right, but you write the letter, she's more your friend then mine."
"Okay, whatever." So they sent the letter here's what it said.
Minnie
Happy Christmas! I loved your present! (Mindy had gotten Lily a diary.) Thanks a bunch! This morning since it is Christmas, I've been bugging Sierra about who she likes! She won't tell me, so who do YOU like? I know some one who likes you! So maybe if you tell me who you like, it will be the same person who likes you! Oh by the way, when you get back from break, look at my wonderful snowmen and women, and also the snow owl! It's flying around the place pooping snow balls so look out!
Later!
Lily
They didn't get a reply until later that night, here's what IT said:
Lillian, don't call me MINNIE ever again! That's McGonagall's name!!-
Happy Christmas! I'm glad you liked it! I love yours, can't wait to use it! So have you found out who Sierra likes yet? Do tell me when you do. So you want to know who I like…Hmm…Should I tell you. Well, I'll give you a hint, he loves Quidditch, and is in our house. That's all I'm telling you. Just try and guess! Just wondering but where'd you get the idea for Snowball pooping owls?! All right talk to you later!
Mindy (The correct way to spell it, with a 'D'!)
"Okay, I think she likes Robert! It has to be him, no one, besides The Marauders loves Quidditch as much s him!" Lily decided.
"I hope you're right! They are like perfect for each other!" Sierra said gleefully.
They replied to Mindy's letter and asked if she liked Robert and when they didn't get a reply, they knew they'd guessed right.
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Sierra and Lily were sitting in their dorms, talking quietly, wondering if the dream catcher was going to work, when Lily brought up a different topic.
"Sierra, why don't you go home for Christmas?" Lily never knew why, she just knew that Sierra did.
"Well, I have a few reasons, one of them is YOU are here, second one is my little brother is at home, third reason is I can't stand my family!" Sierra laughed, Lily knew she loved her family, but they got on each others nerves after a while.
"Well, as long as it's not all because of me, because if you wanted to see your family I don't want to hold you back." Lily told her.
"Don't worry about it, I've thought about this. Lots of kids go home just in case something happens to them while they're at school and other are stuck at school, just in case something does happen to their family. It's a weird place at Hogwarts." Sierra and Lily were quiet for a while, lost in their own thoughts.
The Dark Lord was truly messing with people's lives. More and more kid were becoming orphans as the year went on, strangely enough, most of them were in Gryffindor, or Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff, Lily had only heard of one case from Slytherin. Lily knew that there were a lot of Slytherins turning to the Dark Side, and Lily hated it, she hated the fact that she was becoming afraid to go to potions, because she'd have to see them. Defense Against the Dark Arts was another scary class with their new teacher Lily noticed how everyone paid very close attention, and one time she noticed how high Snape's grades were in that class, you can only wonder why, but then again, he was quite good in Potions.
Thinking of Snape made Lily think about something else to, something that gave her the creeps.
"Hey Sierra, do you think Snape…Likes me?!" Lily had been wondering about it all evening since lunch, when he'd came over to her, and had a DECENT conversation, with out the word mudblood in it.
"OH that thing at lunch today?! That was WEIRD! If you didn't notice, my mouth was hanging open the entire time! YOU are so lucky the Marauders weren't around." Sierra said excitedly.
"Yeah, it was so weird; actually, now that I think about it, he hasn't done anything mean to me ALL YEAR? Gross, he likes me!" Lily pouted.
"You poor, poor Lily. Well, you did get a lot prettier over the summer, not that I'm a lesbian, but it's true." Sierra said hiding a laugh.
"Damn, I have problems!!" Lily shouted, and hid under a pillow.
"Let's go to dinner so you can talk to you lover boy!" Sierra said and dodged a pillow that was thrown and her head by Lily.
"Sierra, don't say anything to Jimena about this, okay?!" Lily ordered as they went down to the Great Hall.
"Lily, I can't believe you'd think that!"
"Sierra, you know you'd tell her in a millisecond."
"Yeah, I know, I won't tell her, at least not on purpose." Lily glared a Sierra.
During dinner, they got another visit from the one and only Severus Snape.
"Hello Lily." He said coming up behind her. Lily jumped, but tried to hide her surprise.
"Hello-Sn-Severus." Covering the fact that she almost called him Snape.
"Enjoying your Christmas?"
"Um, yes it's quite lovely." Sierra was looking at them with her mouth open, again. "How's yours?"
"Quite all right, the guys in my dorm were very…over excited this morning about all the presents." The conversation went that way for a good five minutes, until thankfully, Dumbledore made an announcement, about something or rather; Lily didn't pay attention to it. She was too relieved that Snape had left her alone.
"OH my God that was the longest conversation I've had with him in my entire life, not unless I was yelling at him or something, what is going on?!" Lily was in shock still, and so was Sierra.
"I NEVER want to see that happen again." Sierra choked out, and started giggling hysterically, and trying to hide herself from the Slytherin table.
"He HAS to be up to something!" Lily thought aloud. "He's planning on doing something, I don't know what but he probably is!"
"Probably, I feel sorry for you Lils." Sierra mumbled, while buttering a roll.
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Lily woke up the day after Christmas for a nightmare less sleep for once, because of Sierra's frustrated insults at her hair.
"I HATE my hair!" She shrieked.
"Sierra, stop it, I love your hair, it makes you unique!" Lily referred to Sierra curly hair that fit Sierra perfectly.
"Whatever Lily, you liar, I want your hair, I have these stupid tight curls, yours is just perfectly wavy!"
"Yeah right! It's so thick I can barely do anything with it!" Lily fired back.
The two girls continued to argue over their hair, until they went down to breakfast. They got into another argument over hair color, so in anger Lily fired a spell that turned Sierra's hair pink.
"LILY! Why'd you do that?!" Sierra shrieked as she looked at her strands of hair.
Lily didn't get to answer it because a very angry Professor Blint came up to her and gave her detention and took 20 points from Gryffindor.
"You know Lily; it serves you right, changing my hair to pink!"
"Shut up, your not the one stuck with a detention with…HIM!" Lily whispered in horror.
"Yeah Lily I'm really sorry about that. Maybe I should turn your hair green so I can go with you?!" Sierra suggested.
"Nah, its okay, I'll deal with it."
"All right, whatever you say." Sierra muttered and they headed back to the Gryffindor common room.
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Lily's detention was at 9:00 in the potions room. It was awful, scrubbing dried toad brains of the tables.
Lily was scrubbing the last table, when Professor Blint came back into the room, looking very disgruntled. Lily briefly wondered why, but was soon on her way to her dorm, looking for Sierra.
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Lily hurried up through the common room, which had a few 7th years, and skipped up the steps to her dorm. She tried to open the door, but found it was locked. Lily immediately got scared.
"Sierra! Sierra! Open the door! This isn't funny!" Lily shook the door knob. "Alohomora!" She cried and the door was unlocked, Lily burst into the room.
Lily let out a scream, her bed had been shredded, even Floo her bunny. Lily was thankful, that her friends' beds were okay. Sierra's curtains were pulled around the Lily walked over to the bed, preparing for the worst.
(A/N should I stop there? It's not a bad ending…nah!)
Lily pulled open the curtains and found Sierra lying there, looking to be sleeping; Lily let out a sigh of relief, and shook her friend, trying to wake her, nothing.
"Sierra wake up!" Lily called. It was at that moment Lily noticed the window was open, and it hadn't been before. Lily's breathing became unsteady; some one was in the room!
"Sierra, Sierra please please wake up!!" She shook her friend again. Lily held back tears, and looked around the room, what was going on? She couldn't see anyone in the room, but knew someone HAD to be there. She took out her wand ready for attack.
Out of no where she heard "Stupefy!" And Lily passed out. (a/n sorry about that!)
Lily woke up on the floor and looked around her dorm, she looked at the clock and it said 12:11 am, she had only been out for about 10 minutes! Sierra was awake too, and was looking at Lily's bed.
"Lily you're awake!" Sierra cried, and ran over to hug Lily.
"So are you! What happened, I leave you alone for a few hours and look what happens!" Lily joked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Not funny." Sierra said sternly. "Well, what happened from what I saw, was someone came in opened the curtain and two seconds later was out cold! And I guess they did that in the process, I'm surprised you woke up so fast! I was out for like three hours. Lily gulped.
"Sierra, that's how long my detention was, do you think-."
"Professor Blint did it? Was he there the whole time?" Sierra interrupted.
"No, he only came in when I was finishing up; he was leaving, when I left." Lily said thoughtfully.
"Lily, I think you attract trouble! So let's see if he took anything, since he basically attacked your bed. I think one of us should tell a Professor."
"Yeah, let's look to see if anything is missing, but let's not tell a Professor." Lily said.
"LILY! Are your crazy? Not tell a Professor-." Lily cut Sierra's rambling off with a quick cleaning charm, and every thing was back to normal.
"See? Now we can't tell anyone because there's no proof!" Lily smirked.
"Err, okay, is anything missing?" They searched threw Lily's things, and the only thing Lily found missing, was her new diary.
"I must have just misplaced it because, why would some one take it? Unless they are just weird." Lily spoke finally.
"Maybe they thought you had certain information in it. They'll be quite surprised when nothing is in it!" Sierra said grumpily. Lily gave a forced laugh.
"Yeah, real surprised, but hopefully they won't be mad, or at least not mad enough to do something…drastic."
"Well, I'm going to bed; I hope that dream catcher is ready to catch the nightmares I'm going to have." Sierra sighed and started to climb into bed.
"Yeah, me too." Lily started to climb in to bed too, then she gasped. "Sierra, the dream catcher is gone! They took it!"
"Damn, back to those old nightmares!" Sierra moaned, and fell into her pillow.
Lily went to bed, and found it quite hard to get to sleep; she knew she would only be plagued by nightmares. Lily put her hands under her newly remade pillow and found a gem. 'Weird' Lily thought; it was bright green and glowed; she set it on her bed side table and didn't even notice that it fell behind the table, and it soon would be forgotten. Finally late into the night Lily fell asleep.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily found herself in deep murky water, and she couldn't see the bottom. (A/N of course it's deep!) She started to tread water, even though she couldn't see any place to go, it was like the middle of the ocean. Then the water started to thicken, and her legs could barely move.
Lily then saw someone floating towards her, and she knew immediately that they were evil. Their eyes were blood red; he got up close to her, and said something she couldn't understand. Then she felt something move around her legs. (A/N if you haven't figured it out that's Voldemort speaking parseltongue)
She wanted to scream, but found that she was pulled under the water, and was only choking herself. She felt herself sinking deeper into the water, was she drowning?
Then someone was swimming towards her, she tried to see who, but it was too dark. They grabbed her hand and she felt whatever it was that had attacked her legs, release her. The person pulled her to the surface. She looked towards them and the only thing she got a glimpse of was chocolate brown eyes.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up gasping for air, as if she really had been drowning. It was day light outside, morning. Lily was thankful that she could get up, and out of her dorm, which was really starting to scare her.
Lily immediately heard Sierra moaning in her sleep. "Stop, stop! Leave him alone!" Lily ran over to her friend's bed and woke her up. "Thanks Lil, it was getting to that part again…"
"Where they take him away to Azkaban?" Lily supplied, they had talked countless times about their nightmares. Sierra nodded, pushing back tears.
"I hate it, I hope it doesn't come true, I don't even know who they are taking away, but I can just feel that I love them!" Sierra groaned, she was tired of the nightmares.
"Hey, Sierra stop worrying about it, it won't come true, I had a new dream tonight…" Lily explained the dream to Sierra.
"That's creepy; who do you think saved you, James?" Sierra asked.
"Maybe, I mean he always saves me, so you can assume it easily."
"Well, at least you didn't have that dream about your husband dying again, or your parents." Sierra said trying to be cheerful.
"That's a little bit of an improvement I guess. Do you think Jimena has a dream too?"
"Probably, since it happens every night for each of us." Sierra grumped.
Jimena had a very sad dream, and it was quite creepy. According to Jimena, in the dream she's running from the one she thinks she loves, through a forest, then day light comes and he disappears, Jimena thinks its forever.
"Don't we just have the weirdest lives? I mean I don't believe we are having such odd dreams!" Lily exclaimed. "Just out of nowhere! Do you think someone is doing this to us?"
"I wouldn't exclude that from our theories. But remember, we can't let ourselves fall in love with anyone, so that means-."
"No serious relationships." Lily grumbled, "And that can go two ways for you!" Sierra blushed at this comment.
"Right Lily, we have to keep ourselves away from them…Or we might end up giving them their fates, and your husband's fate is the worst!"
"Thanks Sierra." Lily said flatly.
"Sorry, but it's true, Lily I can't believe you disagree with the rule you thought up on your own! And why can't we hang out with the Marauders anymore? It's not like we're going to end up liking THEM." Sierra griped, 'how many times had they had this conversation?' Lily thought to herself.
"Just in case Sierra, just in case." Lily had no idea just how right she was when she said this.
*~*~*~*~*
Soon break was coming to an end, and Lily and Sierra went to meet Mindy, and more or less the Marauders, they were trying not to talk to them. Lily and Sierra had planned a 'welcoming committee' for the Slytherins. A fleet of snowball pooping owls.
Mindy was one of the few to know who did this, and walked over to Lily and Sierra to congratulate them.
"Guys, that was priceless! I love coming home from the holidays to see what you two decide to do!" Mindy said laughing, her laughter was interrupted, by, of course, Robert Saratoga. "Oh, hey Rob." Lily was sure she saw her blush. The two walked up to Hogwarts together.
"Awe, how romantic." Sierra said, but Lily burst out laughing.
"Those two crack me up! I hate her, I love her, I hate him, I love him!" Lily giggled.
"Lily Evans, Sierra Sitruc, fancy seeing you here." Sirius said grinning.
"Black, go away, we weren't coming to meet you here!" Sierra snapped.
"Don't get so touchy!" Remus said coming up next to him, and of course where there's Remus and Sirius, there's James and Peter.
"Hello ladies, coming to greet us at our arrival from Christmas break?" James said with a charming smile.
"Shove it Potter." This time, Lily snapped.
"Hey, I was just greeting you!" He said in mock hurt.
"Come on Lils, let's get out of here." Sierra said tugging on her friends' arm.
*~*~*~*~*
When break was over and they went back to classes, the first day back Professor McGonagall made an announcement to the fourth years.
"As you know, next year Prefects will be chosen for each house, and the prefects will be chosen from your grades so I suggest you do well on your end of the year exams, and study hard." He talked on for a minute, but Lily's thoughts were elsewhere, and she didn't hear it. She wanted to be a prefect badly, so she decided she was going to study her bum off and learn everything she could that might be on exams, plus she had to be on her best behavior.
That's exactly what Lily did; she studied, and didn't get into any trouble.
Lily could easily be found in the library or common room, with a book in her face. Sierra and Jimena would often join her, but weren't as dedicated to it.
"Lils, you need to take a break from this stuff for a while okay? How about we go prank the boys and get them back for turning our beds into jell-o." Sierra suggested.
Lily mumbled something but didn't even look up for her Transfiguration book.
"Lily!" Jimena said exasperatedly. "You are going to over work yourself!"
No answer.
"Oh look its James!" Sierra tried.
No answer.
"Look its Marvin!" Jimena tried hopelessly.
No answer.
"Lily, look Mindy and Robert are snogging!" Sierra said laughing they were quite surprised when once again.
No answer.
"Lily Evans, your no fun anymore." Jimena pouted, and finally the two girls left.
Lily didn't move from her spot in the common room for another hour, until she got a much needed interruption.
"Lily, we got Quidditch Practice come on!" Sirius called, who was standing with the rest of the Quidditch team, minus Robert who was probably already there.
"Coming!" Lily shouted and threw her books in her bag, and left them in the common room.
"Finally, she moves." James joked, and got a glare from Lily.
"Don't start you two, let's get to practice." Sam Wobblesby said stopping the fight before it even started.
They got to practice and were VERY surprised to see that, someone by the name of Robert Saratoga was now actually snogging a pretty blonde fifth year by the name of Mindy Ewing. (A/N did I ever mention her hair color before? It's blonde now!)
"Break it up you two, we got practice!" Sirius said laughing, Mindy and Robert broke apart and both turned a nice shade of red.
Lily was grinning quite brightly at them, but didn't say anything. Quidditch practice started and they'd been doing plays for about an hour, when something interesting finally happened.
Professor Blint came on to the field. The entire team flew down to see what he wanted.
"Yes Professor, do you need something?" Robert asked as kindly as he could, considering this was the Professor he took points from Gryffindor left and right.
"Oh yes Mr. Saratoga, I would be so happy if Miss Evans would come with me, I have, Erm, things to discuss with her, school work you know." Lily was all of a sudden full of dread; she hoped no one noticed how scared she was.
"Lily," James whispered. "Don't go with him, I got a bad feeling about this."
"Me too." Lily said trying to hide the fear that was welling up inside her. "I've got no choice."
"Lily, make it quick we have to be ready for the Ravenclaw game next week." Robert said, and raised an eyebrow at how sick Lily looked.
"Um, okay." She said and was soon off with Professor Blint. Lily half hoped James would come to the rescue; half wished he'd stay there so he wouldn't get himself hurt again.
Lily got really scared that he pulled her in the direction of the Forbidden Forest by her arm so she couldn't get away, then he put I silencing charm on her, then the full body bind. Lily tried to move, but found it was impossible. Professor Blint was definitely going to kill her, she thought despairingly.
'Come on Lily you can get yourself out of this! You don't want to put James in danger again!' 'But that's his job!' another voice in her head said. 'It still doesn't mean I want him hurt!'
Just then the Professor picked her up and carried her into the Forbidden Forest.
'Probably so my murder won't be witnessed." Lily thought with even more despair.
Then at that moment Lily witnessed a funny thing. The rest of the Quidditch team came down upon the Professor, two of them hitting him on the head with clubs, the next two picking him up, and the last two grabbing Lily up into the air. James and Steven were carrying Professor Blint off to the castle, he had some how been deprived of his wand, and was quite hopeless 50 feet into the air. Sam and Robert carried her a little ways, and then set her down, neither of them knew which charms had been put on her, so they carried her off to Hospital Wing, hoping Pomfrey knew how to fix her.
As Sam and Robert carried her they talked to her and she obviously couldn't talk back.
"Lily you sure do get yourself into some odd predicaments." Robert said laughing slightly. 'He doesn't know the half of it.' Lily thought.
"Yeah Lily, as soon as your fixed up, do tell us what you did to Professor Blint that could make him go so crazy!" Sam said in amazement.
"I do think our Professors are going evil! Did you hear what happened to James, earlier this year?" Robert asked.
"Yeah, I heard about that, maybe they are just out to get Gryffindor Quidditch Chasers or something. We should warn Steve about this." Sam said, as serious as he could.
"At least we still have our Chaser, otherwise we might lose against Ravenclaw, and we need to get as many points as possible in that game if we're going to win the house cup!" Robert grumbled some more about the lousy Ravenclaws, who were nothing but trouble.
Lily laughed to herself; Robert still had harsh feelings towards them, ever since the time Lily was almost murdered by a bludger during the game.
*~*~*~*~*
After that, Lily was quite afraid of all her Professors, and always brought a friend with her when she had to stay after, and lucky for Gryffindors the new potions teacher, was a former Gryffindor, and treated them fairly.
Lily found out that James had convinced the team to 'spy' on Lily, and ended up saving her from certain death. Lily thanked James, but they didn't talk much, even after that, no matter how much they wanted to.
Instead of talking Lily's friends and The Marauders would play pranks on each other, as a form of talk. When they were happy, they were harmless and funny. If they got pissed at each other, it was humiliation time. (A/N HAHAHA! I have too much time on my hands this chapter is getting long! Spring Break is great! Ooh rhymes!)
Lily was still studying her brains out though, so the pranks weren't done by her much, plus she didn't want to get into any trouble. The Marauders on the other hand, had increased their detentions quite rapidly.
Easter break finally came, and Lily was very happy for the time to study.
"Lily come on its BREAK! You can't and will not study!" Jimena yelled at her friend.
"Can too." Was all Lily said and continued to memorize the eight Goblin rebellions in Bulgaria.
Jimena threw up her hands in defeat, and ran off with Sierra to play a game of Exploding Snap.
Lily continued to sit in the library all alone, until she got an unsuspected visitor, or two visitors to be exact.
Remus and Sirius took seats across from Lily, she didn't notice them. If Lily would have looked up she would have noticed that they were trying very hard not to laugh. But Lily kept studying and didn't look up.
"Ready Moony?" Sirius asked grinning mischievously.
"Yes, Sirius my friend I do believe I am!" The next thing Lily knew she was being 'kidnapped'. Remus and Sirius had grabbed her feet and arms, and taken her off away from the library, much to the displeasure of the librarian, Madam Zinckier.
"REMUS! SIRIUS! PUT ME DOWN! I HAVE TO STUDY!" Lily screamed and tried to fight, but they were too strong for her.
They ended up taking her into a secret passage, next to a gruesome looking picture of a man with out a head.
When they entered the room, they set Lily down on a couch that happened to be there. Lily immediately reached for her wand, but remembered she'd left it in her dorm, thinking she 'didn't need it.'
"Guys what do you want?!" Lily shrieked, and tried to get through to the door way but they held her back. At that moment James and Peter came in carrying a large amount of books. "If you guys want help studying, this is not the way to ask." Lily said sarcastically.
"Lily this is much more important." Remus said looking at her with pleading eyes that reminded her of her friendship with him in first year that had faded.
"Oh, okay what is it, make it quick." Their faces brightened considerably.
"All right, Lily before we tell you this, you have to promise not to tell anyone, okay?" Remus asked.
"Um, okay." Lily was feeling a little bit of trepidation about what they were going to tell her.
"All right, who wants to say it?" Sirius asked in a way that seemed like a death sentence was being said, not something unimportant, Lily kept these thoughts to herself.
"I guess I will." Remus volunteered. Lily noticed how nervous they all got, a little bit of fear was in each of their eyes.
"Okay, out with it Remus, I don't have all day." Lily said getting impatient, not to mention uncomfortable.
"Wait guys are you sure we should tell her, I mean we could always figure it out by ourselves, even if it does take longer." James said, his voice was strained, probably from worry.
"James, I think it will be best this way." Remus told him, and they all agreed with a nod. "Lily, Erm, Lils, since the end of first year, James, Sirius and Peter have been studying o become Animagus." Lily's eyes got wide with shock that was NOT what she was expecting. "The reason we brought you here is because we need your help with part of it, you're the best person we know at Charms, and we know you'll figure it out easily, compared to us, who have been stuck on it for a few months. So will you help us?"
The Marauders all turned to Lily with puppy dog eyes. 'Might as well' Lily thought.
"Well, I guess so, but let me take a look at it first." Lily looked through most of the books they had brought with them and was amazed at how complicated it was, and was even more surprised at how far the Marauders had gotten. "I'll try guys, but I can't help too much I do have to study. But first I have to know, WHY do you want to become them?"
"That's simple, that way we can-." Peter was quieted by an elbow from Sirius.
"Lily, I'm afraid we can't say." Sirius was very good at changing the subject and that's what he did right then. "So Lily do you want to become an Animagus? (A/N I'm confused is it Animagus or Animagi? Oh well if I get it wrong who cares!)
Lily was surprised by the question, so it took her a minute to answer. "Um, I don't think so, I remember McGonagall telling all of us those stories about how they could go wrong, so I'll save myself some worry and not do it, you guys can have fun with it all you want though, I don't object."
"Wow that surprises me Lil, damn Remus, I owe you 10 galleons!" Sirius said grumpily.
"I told you she wouldn't want to." Remus said grinning.
"Okay guys lets get started on this okay? I think I have those Goblin Rebellions memorized anyways." Lily said, and so they got to work figuring out the permanent charm you used to make it stick.
*~*~*~*~*
So Lily and the Marauders would, after much complaining from Lily, would meet in the secret room, and first study for exams, then work on the charm, sometimes they would split into groups, half of them working on the potion part the other half on the charms, but Lily was always working on the Charm.
Lily was very proud of herself; she still had no feelings for any of them all though Peter seemed to have a bit of a crush on her that was no problem. (A/N Eww Peter! He makes me sick! I think I have to throw up!)
Most of these 'study sessions' were quite fun. The five of them had a bond. Lily desperately wanted to tell her Sierra and Jimena, but she kept making excuses for herself, whenever she was with the Marauders.
Before they knew it the end of the year exams were there. Lily thought she had done pretty well on the, and so did James, who had actually studied.
The last week of school, Lily and the Marauders were sitting in the common room talking about the plans for the summer, since they were going to meet up and work on the Charm, to get ahead.
"We could meet at my house." James suggested, Lily cringed at the memory of James' house, they had been more or less, friends back then, and she then remembered why she was there.
"Nah, let's meet at my house." Sirius said perkily. "That way, we can show my parents that we can get civilized friends." He said referring to Lily.
"Okay, so how many times are we going to meet, or are we going to meet for just an extended time?" Lily asked trying to organize things as usual.
"It doesn't matter to me." Remus said.
"Me either." Peter said.
"I think we should meet at the end of the summer and stay for a few weeks and work on it." James said absent mindedly.
"The only problem with that is we happen to have a girl with us!" Sirius said laughing. "Can you imagine my parents reaction to when I ask them if she can stay?!" Everyone laughed except Lily.
"That's mean guys!" She pouted. "I don't see why they shouldn't mind me coming over, it's not like I'm your girlfriend or anything." And at that moment came James' and Sirius' real girlfriends.
"Hey Jamie boy what are you up to?" Said a third year named Peggy. Lily gagged when she sat in his lap. James had strange girl friends, she thought.
Sirius' girlfriend was much more mature, probably because she was a fifth year. She took a seat next to Lily.
"We were just talking about Quidditch and stuff." James said, knowing that the two girls wouldn't be interested.
"Oh, that's nice." Peggy said, disappointedly. "Hey Lily what are you doing here?"
"Just leaving." Lily said trying not to sound rude, but failing. "Bye, Carrie." Lily said addressing the fifth year.
"Talk to you later Lils!" Remus called, knowing perfectly well, why she'd left.
Lily went up to her dorms, and found Jimena and Sierra talking there already.
"Hey, what're you up to?" She asked plopping on her bed. The Marauders sure were taking up a lot of her time, she and Jimena and Sierra hadn't talked for a while.
"Not much, what have you been up to?" Jimena asked.
"Talking to the Marauders, a bit." Lily said.
"You sure are being friendly with them lately." Sierra pointed out.
"Yeah, well, they needed help studying, and I can't dump them very easily." Lily lied.
"Oh, okay whatever, as long as you don't LIKE any of them." Jimena said coming out with the rule.
"Yeah, yeah I know I know. But Peter seems to like me a bit, but don't worry I don't return his feelings." Lily said laughing.
"That's a relief!" Jimena said joining in on the laughter. The girls talked for a while about nothing in particular, and then the subject came up, like it always did.
"Lily are you still having those dreams?" Jimena asked referring to the creepy ones with the red eyes.
"Yeah, they haven't gone away, ever so often I have the same one from earlier this year, but rarely." Her friends looked at her sadly.
"They started the day after Christmas right?" Jimena questioned.
"Yeah, and they stole my empty diary, and dream catch-." Lily stopped for a moment, she remember something. Her friends watched as Lily scurried to the opposite end of her bed by her pillow, she reached behind her bed table and pulled out the glowing green gem.
"What the hell is that? It's glowing!" Jimena yelped and she and Sierra hurried over to Lily's bed.
"I CAN'T believe I forgot about this, I found this under my pillow, right before I was going to sleep! It must have fallen of my table!" Lily exclaimed examining the gem which she hadn't thought about for about six months.
"Do you think it has something to do with your nightmares changing?" Sierra wondered.
"I think so, maybe we should research or something, maybe destroy it, it could be from that git Professor Blint, the Death Eater!" Lily decided.
"Should we tell a professor?" Jimena asked nervously.
"No, that wouldn't do us any good, that'd be mad I didn't tell them about the attack upon my bed." Lily said shaking her head.
"Let me see it Lils." Sierra asked.
"Sure." Lily tossed it to her.
"Oh my gosh! I think I know what this is!" Sierra screeched, and dropped the gem to the floor as if she'd been burned.
"What?! What is it!?" Lily and Jimena demanded.
Sierra was trembling a bit. "All I know is that it's something dark wizards and witches use, to plague people's minds, it's used to frighten them, or something, Oh I can't remember!" Sierra put her hands on her head, deep within her memories.
Lily didn't like the idea of this gem thing giving her nightmares, it couldn't be good.
"Okay, I think it's used to send messages to people, I think Voldemort's trying to tell you that he wants you dead." Sierra whispered. Lily gulped down her fear; Voldemort had been entering her mind every day since Christmas!
"So what do we do with it?" Jimena asked fearfully.
"I don't think we can just destroy it, I say we hide it." Sierra suggested.
"I'm all for it, but where?!" Lily said, wanting to get rid of it as soon as possible.
"Tonight, you can take it over the Forbidden Forest on your broom, and drop it, it's not going to hurt you to touch it." Sierra told her.
"Okay, I'll do that, I just hope I don't get caught, I want to be prefect you know."
So Lily got rid of it that night, never to see it again.
(A/N I was thinking of ending it right there, but my heart told me to try and finish it, right now I'm at the end of my 28th page that is LONG!)
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and the Marauders made plans to meet at the end of summer and sleep at Sirius' house until school started, Lily just hoped her 'parents' agreed. They didn't at first, but did eventually. After Lily begged them with 10 letters, she felt kind of bad since they weren't even her real parents in the first place, Mindy found it quite amusing.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily, Jimena and Sierra got a compartment, for the first time since first year, all to themselves, it was depressing. Needless to say they were quite pleased to get off the train. Lily met up with Mindy and they found her parents, and left.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily summer this time involved two very Quidditch obsessed people, by the names of Mindy Ewing and Robert Saratoga, who was a constant visitor. They had been a couple for quite a while by then. Lily had the unfortunate experience once again, of them snogging in Mindy's living room.
Because of this Lily wrote her friends quite often, that was until she received a letter from a certain Marauder by the name of Sirius Black.
Lily
We will come by floo powder tomorrow to pick you up. Be ready, by the way we're taking you school shopping so bring your stuff!
-Sirius
Lily was very happy to get away from Mindy's house, since it seemed to involve constant Quidditch or Robert Saratoga talk.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up the next morning with her stuff already down stairs next to the fire place. She went into Mindy's room and woke her up.
"Mindy, I'm leaving soon, don't you want to say good bye to your wonderful little sis-." Lily was silenced by a pillow in her face. "Hey that wasn't very nice!"
"Sorry, but you woke me up!" Mindy said rolling out of bed. "When do they get here?"
"I'm not sure, but I just wanted to wake you up just in case it was in the morning." Lily grinned at the glare she got from Mindy, then to both of theirs surprise an owl flew in the room and dropped a letter on the bed.
"Hey Lily it's addressed to you!" Then another owl flew in with a letter addressed to Mindy.
"Hogwarts!" They said together.
Lily opened hers as quickly as possible, which was pretty fast considering her hands were shaking.
Dear Miss Evans
We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the Gryffindor Prefects of this year-
Lily couldn't read anymore. "I'm PREFECT!!!" She screamed and Mindy and her hugged jumping up and down.
"Yay for you!!" Mindy shouted, and they ran downstairs to tell Mindy's mum.
*~*~*~*~*
The first thing Lily said to Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter when they arrived was-
"I made Prefect!!!" She squealed happily.
"Me too!" James yelped, and the two of them hugged, very briefly.
"Damn, we're stuck with two prefects as friends." Sirius muttered.
"You guys aren't going to take points whenever we do pranks are you?" Remus asked, grinning.
"Maybe." Lily said smiling.
"Hey that's not fair!" Sirius pouted.
"Don't worry Sirius, at least you know that I won't take points, but I might give you detentions!" James said happily.
The five of them headed to Sirius' house and Lily found herself on the floor of yet another mansion. "God are all my friends rich wizards or what?!" she thought to herself.
Lily who had gone first through the fire soon found that she should have gotten up faster, because before she had gotten up some one came crashing on top of her. (A/N guess who!?)
James fell directly on Lily who was lying on her back…Let's just say it didn't look good.
Both of them were too surprised to move quickly, James' thoughts were along the lines of. 'Don't I just have all the luck?'
Lily's were more like. 'Oh my GOD what is he doing still on top of me?!'
James got off her just in time, for Sirius to squash her. "Lily what are you doing there?" Sirius asked pulling her up before Peter could fall on top of her too.
"Let's just say you're not the first person to fall on me today." Lily said nodding towards James who had turned a bit pink at the comment. " I have bad luck with Floo Powder."
"Or maybe it's good luck!" Sirius said proudly, as Lily and James blushed.
Remus was the last to get there, and they headed up to Sirius' room to get to work.
Sirius' room was a lot cleaner then Lily thought it would be. "My mum made me clean it, the muggle way!" He complained.
They ended up working all afternoon, so quite tiredly they headed down to the kitchen where Lily finally met Mrs. Black.
"Oh, hello boys, and you must be Lily!" Mrs. Black said, smiling at them all, as she put dinner on the table. "Have a seat and eat, lord knows what you've been doing all day." She said giving accusing glances at the boys.
"Nothing bad ma'am." James said grinning mischievously, even though it was the honest truth.
Mrs. Black just shook her head, muttering something about dung bombs, and fireworks. They all ate greedily, since they hadn't eaten lunch.
Mrs. Black used this time to 'interview' Lily.
"So are you one of these boys' girlfriend?" Lily laughed.
"Yeah right these guys? That'd be suic-." Lily stopped herself because of the glares she got from the Marauders, including Peter who looked very offended. "Let's just say we are much better off being just friends."
"So how did you find yourself in their little 'circle'?" Mrs. Black asked Lily, ignoring the looks from Sirius who was pleading her to stop.
"Um, I don't know it just sort of happened." Lily lied. "Just one day we were talking and we just seemed to hit it off."
"Well, I've heard stories from Sirius about how you are always getting yourself into these life or death situations."
"Mum!" Sirius said getting embarrassed.
"What, I'm just asking her is all!" Mrs. Black said she had the same look Sirius had right before his prank was completed.
"Well Mrs. Black." Lily said interrupting, "I guess I just have bad luck with things like that, but James here always helps me out." Lily said giving James a playful punch and a smile. James just looked down and kept eating.
Lily unlike Sirius enjoyed dinner a lot, even though she had to lie frequently to get through some of the questions, it was quite fun seeing Sirius turn redder and redder with each question his Mum asked.
They headed up to Sirius' room to talk.
"Lily! I think you told more lies during dinner then your entire life!" Remus said laughing as Sirius shut the door.
"Shh! My mum will hear!" That just made everyone laugh more.
"Scared of your Mummy, Sirius?" Lily asked teasing him.
"Yes actually." He said as serious as he could.
"I'm shocked!" She said and pretended to faint onto the bed next to James. He moved over uncomfortably, trying to make it unnoticeable, but failed.
"Hey James-y afraid of a girl?!" Sirius said turning the attention off him.
"Yeah James afraid of me?" Lily said getting closer to him, and then did something unexpected to everyone, she hopped in his lap.
"Bugger off Lily!" He said half heartedly, and pushed her onto the floor where she pretended to pout.
"That was un called for!" She said and stood up and proceeded to sit on Remus who was sitting in a chair by the window.
"Hey Lily, what is it with you, can't stand to touch Sirius' stuff?" Remus said also pushing Lily away.
"Nope, it's got cooties!" She squealed and pointed to a stray sock.
They continued to make jokes at Sirius having cooties, and James being scared of girls.
Lily at around midnight went to the room next to Sirius' where she would be sleeping. It was a bit smaller then Sirius' but still quite large.
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Lily woke up from a terrible nightmare (no one saved her this time), not long after going to sleep, and was surprised to hear the boys were still awake.
She trudged over to their room in her pajamas, and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Came a much higher pitched voice of Sirius. "Oh look who it is, Lily! Do come in, but make sure to keep at least five feet away from Mr. Potter, because I do believe he's still scared of y-." Sirius was finally silenced by a large blow to his face with a pillow, courtesy of James.
"Lils, I thought you were asleep, what brings you to this terrible, cootie infested place?" Remus said laughing; apparently something funny had happened while Lily was gone.
"Erm, nightmare." Lily said looking at her feet. "I have them far too frequently for my own good." She said taking a seat on the floor.
"You're not alone dear Lillian, for young Mr. Potter does too!" Sirius said getting more glares from James.
"Really, do tell Mr. Potter." Lily said and acted like she was getting told a bed time story.
James started to tell his latest dream (last night) and Lily was shocked to hear that it was exactly like hers! James had to be the one in her dream, it fitted perfectly, he sees someone drowning and swims down to save them, and can barely see, leaving out the gruesome details, he pulls the person from the 'water' and turns to see who they are, but then the dream is over.
Lily stared at James; she wanted to tell him, but not in front of everyone else. "Hey James, can I talk to you for a moment?" James nodded and she pulled him out the door and into her room.
"James, that dream you described is exactly like the one of been having for the longest time, but I thought it was…something else, do you think that the curse works, even for dreams?" James looked a bit shocked, apparently he hadn't expected this.
"Uh, I suppose it could work, but I don't know any more about this then you do. Maybe we should try researching it once we get back to school, what do you think?"
"I guess we could, I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't found anything else about it, he hasn't talked to us about it since…"
"A long time ago." James said.
"He probably thought we would have found out stuff on our own, but obviously we haven't." Lily was beginning to regret not talking to James about this.
"So how about as soon as school starts up again, we start researching this …curse?" James asked again.
"I suppose so, although I have no idea where to look."
"Me either, but I guess we'll figure that out later."
The two returned to Sirius's room.
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Before long, the time at Sirius' was over and they found themselves on the platform of 9 ¾.
(A/N FINALLY I'm got that chapter done, I thought I never would. 33 pages it took, took me a long, time, so I just put in some music and type! Please review, I don't mind answering questions and suck just REVIEW!!)
A/N pleases review and higher my self esteem!! LOL I love reviews!! Um, fourth year is getting quite long, I'm proud of myself, no more unconsciousness! (not)**scolds herself** I think its fun that way! Hey I was thinking this is like the ultimate damsel in distress story!! Lily's turning out a bit wimpy so don't worry! I fix that! Go girl power!! Okay now where were we… Oh this chapter is very long but it finishes up most of fourth year!
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CHAPTER 12
Lily stayed back in Professor Kenyon's office, wondering what he wanted to yell at her about. She wanted to get out of their and go to lunch, she didn't remember eating breakfast, she wondered if she'd skipped it.
"Miss Evans, I wanted to talk to you about last night in your dorm."
"You know about that Professor?" She asked innocently, for once.
The professor looked a bit flustered. "So, I'd like to talk about what you said at breakfast this morning." 'Oh my gosh, what did I say at breakfast! Did I do something stupid!'.
"Professor, I don't remember breakfast at the moment, I had a forgetfulness potion in Potions today, so basically this conversation is pointless, on my end." Lily told him, trying not to sound snobby.
"Oh, OHh." Kenyon said, finally getting it. "Well since I kept you here, please have a drink, please?"
"Erm, all right." Kenyon went and got something from across the room. He brought back a glass of pumpkin juice. 'Good something normal.' Lily thought, and took a few quick gulps and headed out of the room at top speed. Lily went down the corridor and started feeling dizzy. She managed to get to the Great Hall, and sat next to her friends, and noticed that James was giving her a look that said: 'You-okay?'
Lily just sat there for a moment, and for one moment her eyes glowed yellow, everyone around her gasped, and then they went normal again.
"Lily! What the hell was that?" Jimena yelped.
"What?" Lily asked. "Hey how'd I get down here? What happened, the last thing I remember was winning the Quidditch game?" Lily said, Lily stood up, trying to figure out what had happened.
"Lils that was Saturday! Today is Monday!" Sierra said as calmly as she could, but she couldn't hide the panic.
"Really? Um, this is really weird guys. I can't remember, what was the last thing I did?" Lily asked, still not believing them.
"Um, you walked in here from Kenyon's room!" Jimena and Sierra looked at each other.
"Do you think he did something to her?!" Sierra asked worriedly.
"Who? Professor Kenyon? I don't even remember talking to him or anything, not since… last week."
"We need to tell someone!" Jimena said worriedly, she and Sierra and escorted Lily to Professor McGonagall.
Jimena and Sierra explained everything that had happened at lunch. Including the yellow eyes thing.
"It might have just been a reaction to that forgetfulness potion Professor Blint gave out today, which I find a little out of the ordinary, so don't worry about it, Miss Evans will probably be fine by tomorrow, but just in case send her to the Hospital Wing, all right? There's nothing else we can do." McGonagall said.
"BUT Professor-!" Jimena was cut off.
"Come on Jim let's just go." Sierra said. "Come on Lils." Lily was totally out of it, she was straining to remember, but nothing came to her mind. She remembered James falling and then going to see him, then winning the game, and then they were heading back to the castle…Nothing after that.
Jimena let out a huff, "I can't believe she doesn't believe that Kenyon did something to Lily! I bet he cast a charm that makes her forget her life! Oh what if from now on she has no short term memory!!"
"Calm down Jimena! Lily will be okay, let's get her to Madam Pomfrey!" Sierra shouted at her friend, who was getting a bit hysterical. "Come on Lily!" Sierra grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her towards the Hospital Wing.
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Over the next week, Lily went back to class, and the Professors couldn't seem to figure out what had happened, Professor Kenyon had been questioned, he said he talk to Lily about a paper she had done the week before, and then sent her on her way.
Lily was a bit clueless, and had to be told everything that happened since Saturday, but Lily was still very confused. Lily didn't even remember Saturday night with the intruder, Lily couldn't even be scared of Professor Kenyon, except for the fact that he didn't seem to like her.
But Lily got over it and school went back to normal, and so did Quidditch practice, and of course homework.
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The three girls were sitting in the common room doing homework in a quiet corner of the room, while the rest of the Gryffindor girls flirted shamelessly with The Marauders, even Peter! (A/N sickenly enough!)
"How can those girls throw themselves like that at THEM?" Jimena asked, with a tinge of jealousy.
"Hm, I wonder, did we ourselves do that up until third year?" Sierra asked, also with a tinge of jealousy.
"Hey, not me! I threw myself at Marvin!" Lily laughed, while the other two glared. "You two should stop sitting on your bums, and go find some hot Hufflepuff!" More glares.
"Lily, look over THERE!" Jimena said changing the subject. They all turned and watched, as once again Mindy flirted with Robert, and he flirted with her.
"Awe, those two are so cute!" Lily gushed.
"Yeah, it's so romantical!" Sierra said laughing.
"Do you think they'll get together?" Jimena said falling to the floor and setting her feet on the couch, from her spot on the ground.
"Hm, that would be interesting, fifth sure does change things, wonder what will happen to US in fifth year?!" Lily exclaimed, and fell to the floor laughing.
"What's so funny?!" Sierra demanded.
"I just got a funny picture, of James *gasp for air* and Snape-!" That's all Lily had to say before the two girls got the picture and collapsed to the floor laughing.
They laughed for the rest of the night, mostly at the poor unsuspecting Marauders.
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It was around the third week of November, and Lily was bored out of her mind in the common room all alone. Since it was a Hogsmeade weekend. She then noticed that it was snowing outside; she grabbed her cloak and ran out the portrait hole.
"Snow, snow, snow!" She sang along the hallways. It was the first snow all year. She skipped out the door and onto the grounds. She smiled and stuck her tongue out trying to catch the fat snow flakes.
Her joyful moment was ended, by a loud painful groan, which came from behind some bushes, Lily went to investigate, and stifled a scream.
There was James fighting off someone, they looked like a Death Eater, then Lily recognized him, 'Professor Kenyon!'
Lily didn't say anything surely James would be killed if she didn't do anything, so Lily picked up a twig and transformed it into a baseball bat, something she had learned over the summer.
She picked up the bat, and snuck behind Kenyon, and clubbed him one, right on the head, he went unconscious. (A/N sorry, sorry! **Dives from flying toasters being thrown at her** I had to have Lily be the hero, and it involved someone going unconscious!)
Lily was shocked at what she had done, which to put it bluntly 'knocked out the Professor.'
"Lily!" James gasped. "You saved me!"
"Don't get used to it Potter." She said grinning and pulled Kenyon off of James, as best she could.
"Lils, he was trying to kill me! I got his wand, he got mine, I tackled him!" James burst out, he bent over and picked up his wand.
"Wow James-ey boy slow down! Tell me what happened on the way up to Dumbledore's office with our prisoner…" Lily said and with that she tied Kenyon up with a quick spell.
"All right, so I get a note from him, to meet me out here. I find it a bit weird, but don't want to get into trouble so I go anyways." James pulled out the note and showed it to her. "So I get there and I heard him start to say the killing curse!" Lily gasped. "So I shouted expelleramirus at him! (A/n I don't know spelling sorry!) "Saved my arse just in time! I swear, when it flew in my hand I just about fainted, but then he just grabbed mine right from me! So I tackled him, but he, being much bigger then me started to win, and then you showed up! And on a Hogsmeade Weekend when my friends were all gone! I'm so glad you showed up Lily!"
"No problem James, I sort of owed you one."
"Yeah, you did." The two grew solemn and were quiet the rest of the way hoping Kenyon didn't wake up.
They ran into the Professor Dumbledore on the way up and explained everything to him. He hurried off to take care of things, with Kenyon, and Lily escorted James to the Hospital Wing, he'd gotten some unpleasant bruises, and cuts.
Lily stayed with James while he was taken care of my Madam Pomfrey, then they went back to the common room. Where James and Lily went to tell their friends what happened, but were surprised to find that they were still in Hogsmeade.
Lily and James sat in the common room, Lily chattered on about how she had 'Girl Power.' But they weren't able to keep talking because Lily was trying not to speak to him.
When the rest of the Marauders entered, and very shockingly, accompanied by a very happy Sierra and Jimena, Lily shouted at them, "I saved James' arse today!!"
So the finally got to explain what was had happened.
Lily, Sierra and Jimena went up to their dorm to talk. They were sitting chatting happily about Christmas which was coming up soon.
"Hey Lily, I know you don't remember this, but we had a prank planned a while back before your memory disappeared, and well…I really want to do it!" Sierra said smiling.
"Yeah, while we were at Hogsmeade Sirius, Remus and Peter tricked me into this bet about who could eat the most chocolate frogs: Remus or Peter, and I thought Peter naturally of course-."
"And so did I! But they conveniently left out the fact that Peter had stuffed himself with butter beers, while we were at Madam Malkins!"
"So what do you girls want? Revenge?" Lily said grinning.
"You bet!" The other two said together.
Early Sunday morning before it was light, if you had looked into the Gryffindor Common room you would have seen three fourteen year old girls, dressed all in black and sneaking up into the boys' dorms, carrying a sack of 'goodies.'
They were getting the boy's back for every prank they'd ever pulled on anyone, except Slytherins, and other hateful people.
They stood outside the fourth year dorm, and looked at each other.
"Sierra, you're in charge of itching powder and talking." Sierra nodded. "Jimena, you're in charge of clothing, and make up."
(A/N as I'm writing this, I have playing: Aretha Franklin RESPECT! Just cause it got in my head.) "That leaves me in charge of over doing the cheering charms, and skin." Lily finished.
"Ready?" Jimena grinned brightly as she said this. The other two nodded, and set to work.
They snuck in the room tip toeing around every where. Lily crept over to Sirius' bed and gave him an over powered cheering charm, and then changed his skin color to a bright pink.
Then she tip toed to Peter's bed and did the same except his lovely color was neon yellow.
She did the same to Remus, but made his color deep rosy red.
James was last, and she cheered him the most, and turned his skin bright orange. She was surprised, that like the others he smiled widely since he was under a cheering charm, but her clearly whispered something, "Flower stop tickling me!"
Lily backed up and stifled a laugh, she motioned to her friends her were finishing up. The left a few moments later, and ran to their dorms where they jumped into bed. They couldn't sleep so they got dressed and waited for the boys to wake up from their overly happy dreams.
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James woke up giggling hysterically, and woke up the rest of his dorm, and they too started to laugh. James didn't notice through all his laughing that he and his friends were different colors, or that they had very…interesting make up. Or that they were itching, every part of their body. (A/n yuck!) They also didn't notice that when they finally got into their clothes that they had a lovely design on the back that said either "Lily Evans is hot!" (On James' back) or "Jimena Jenkins is gorgeous!" (On Sirius' back) or "Sierra Sitruc is a babe!" (On Remus' back) or in Peter's case "Vanessa and Catty and delicious!" Compliments of Jimena. If they had been able to talk they would have noticed that they were talking opposite.
The boys stumbled into the common room, and heard laughter, but they were too busy laughing themselves to notice, much.
The charm was wearing off as they got to the Great Hall for break fast, and noticed that everyone in Gryffindor was following them.
"Bye, Black, I know what's going on." James tried to say. The three girls directly behind him cracked up laughing. Unfortunately for the Marauders, most of the school was already at breakfast, and started laughing as the four boys entered the room.
"I get it." Sirius tried to ask, but everything was backwards.
"Me too." Remus tried to disagree.
"I understand what's going on." James said. "Yes, mistake, I don't know what's going on!"
"No?" Sirius asked catching on.
"I don't either." Remus said getting the hang of it.
"Not those boys." James pointed at Jimena, Lily, and Sierra, who were still laughing and on the floor.
"Dinner." Sirius asked referring to breakfast.
"Breakfast." Remus said FINALLY sorting out his words.
"It- was- those girls!" James stuttered trying to get the sentence formed.
"Get them back!" Sirius stuttered too.
"Tonight?" Remus asked, getting it right.
"Yeah, sounds good to me." James said, his sentences were still very slow.
He walked over to Lily and pointed at her. "Undo this curse!" He yelled getting a bit of it confused.
"I can't it wears off in a few hours on its own, but can I ask you if you would stop scratching yourself?" James finally noticed that he was constantly itching, and so were the rest of the Marauders. Then he noticed he was Orange! He looked closely at Remus and noticed he was wearing make up that made him look like a clown, and so did Sirius and Peter that could only mean…
"LILY!!!!" He screamed, Lily had sat down to eat breakfast, when she turned to face him; she was bright red from laughing.
"Notice your make up?" She offered. He nodded his head, he wanted to curse her, but knew it would end in disaster so he stomped off to his dorm followed by the rest of the Marauders, they didn't come out until most of the spell had worn out.
*~*~*~*~*
James was pouting in his dorm waiting for his skin to stop glowing orange.
"You have to hand it to 'em James, they are good, we didn't even see it coming!" Sirius said laughing.
James just grunted.
"Yeah James you should have expected it after what we've done to them." Remus said. "The chicken incident, the itching powder in potions, the fizzing whizbees in their drinks, the several kick me signs that made people actually kick them, the time you told Snape Lily had a crush on him- ."
"Okay I get the point Remus!" James yelled, and laid down on his bed, he just couldn't believe Lily had done that! He didn't know why but it made him get upset, it was fun to pull pranks on her, but turn the sides around and it made him mad!
"Maybe it means they've forgiven us for whatever they think we did!" Sirius said hopefully, although the girls would talk to them every once and a while, it wasn't the same as before.
"Maybe so Sirius, I hope so, I miss talking to Lily." Remus said Lily was always so thoughtful, and he liked to ask her for advice on girls.
"Hey Moony, do you like the lady Lillian?" Sirius asked grinning.
"Nah, she's just fun to talk to, and stuff, plus I think James as a thing for her."
"Do not!" James defended himself. "Where'd you get that idea!?"
"Well, I was thinking that all those times you saved her had gotten to your head!" Remus said laughing and the dodged a pillow.
"Moony!" James yelled, and through another pillow.
"Hey I want a nick name!" Sirius pouted, they'd been calling Remus Moony since second or first year. "I mean it's only fair! When I become an Animagus I want my nickname to reflect what I turn into!"
"Me too, how about you James?" Peter finally said something. (A/N he is very unsocial in this story.)
"Yeah, so if Sirius turns into a bunny rabbit, I can call him cotton tail!" Now James dodged a pillow. "Hey!" So the colorful friends, laughed as they thought of what animal they would be, they were getting quite close to finishing the potion, details, and then they had to work on the incantation some more. Perfect it and be done, but then the whole process of making the potion was going to take a while.
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Christmas break came up quite quickly and Lily sunk into a very depressed and grumpy person. She missed her parents, and Petunia, she tried to write Petunia letters, but only got hate mail, or no answers in return. Lily never told anyone about them, but one day James found out.
Lily was sitting in the common room looking at the letter she was about to send Petunia saying that she didn't want her to be mad at her anymore when another owl came up to her, and dropped another hate letter from Petunia in her lap.
Lily read it, it was one of the worst.
Lily Evans-
I would like to tell you to stop sending me you're none feeling letters and leave me alone! I hate you! Grandmother hates you! Mummy and Daddy probably hate you too! But how could we know that since you killed them!! I hope you die! I hope you are the most unhappy person in the world! I hope you never find true happiness!
Petunia Evans
Lily looked sadly at the letter and wiped the tears from her eyes, she retreated to a back corner of the room and started to cry silently, she hadn't cried in a long time. When she heard someone come up to her she looked up and saw James Potter looking at her with concern.
"What is it Potter, am I in life threatening danger again?" She said harshly.
"No, I just noticed you were crying in a deserted common room." James said not offended at all. "So what's wrong Lils?" He said trying to be friendly, but it's quite hard to be, when you're talking to some one who basically ignores you 90% of the time.
Lily made a move to hide the letters, but James got them easily from her, and read them quickly, his face became sadder and sadder as he read them.
"See, I have a reason for crying, now go away!" She said hotly. Lily tried desperately to stop the tears from falling.
"Lily, do you want to talk about it, I didn't think anything was bothering you, I thought you'd coped with your parents deaths', and so did everyone else. Obviously something's wrong so are you going to tell me?"
"There are so many things wrong James you don't have the time to hear them all! Now please leave me alone!?" Lily begged as more tears fell.
"Lily I have all the time you need to tell me what's wrong if it will make you feel better." James replied.
"No James, you see it won't help me, now please leave me alone!" With that last yell Lily stomped up the stairs to her dorm.
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Neither James nor Lily talked about what had happened, and soon Christmas break started, and Lily and Sierra made their annual snow men and woman. Then before they knew it, it was Christmas morning; Lily was barely able to get out of bed.
"No…I'm too tired!" She moaned. (a/n me too, it's late!)
"Come on Lils get up! I got something for you; you're really going to love!"
Lily managed to sit up and grab Sierra's present and open it: It was a dream catcher, a magical one.
"It helps keep away frequent nightmares; I thought it could help you, and maybe me and Jimena too." Sierra said sadly, but happily all at the same time.
"Thanks Sierra, I hope it helps."
The three girls hadn't been sleeping well that year, since the same nightmare plagued them all, Lily had it the worst, she was still dreaming about her parents being murdered.
"I guess we'll wait and see tonight, if it works or not. It's way better then the muggle kind!" Sierra bragged some more about the wizarding world.
Then the two girls were very, very surprised when there was a knock on the door and in came none other then Robert Saratoga.
"Lily, just the girl I'm looking for." He said trying to be casual, but Lily saw his nervousness.
"What is it Rob?" Lily motioned for Robert to sit on Jimena's empty bed.
"Err, this is uncomfortable for me to talk about, so don't make fun of me okay?" He said sitting down. Lily and Sierra both noticed how nervous he was.
"We won't make fun, will we Lils?" Sierra said trying to make him feel better.
"No, of course not, so what do you want to tell us Rob?" Lily asked him again.
"Well, I don't know if you noticed, but Mindy and me, have…err…started to be friends…" His voice trailed off, Lily and Sierra grinned brightly.
"Go on." Lily encouraged, she knew where this was going.
"Um. Yeah. So. I. Was. Um. Err. Wondering. If. Maybe. You. Thought. Shemihlkmem." He sputtered out very quickly.
"What?" Lily asked looking at him with a grin.
"I SAID I was wondering if maybe she might like me?!" He shouted, totally losing his cool.
"I thought that's what you said." Sierra said grinning at him.
"Shut up! Now has she talked about me or anything, like she likes me or anything?" He asked getting serious, for once.
"Well, not really, but she has talked about hating you for a long time, I think your chances are WAY up from last year. I say go for it!" Lily said smiling, "Honestly, I think she might, but she's a bit nervous about it."
"Great!" He said standing up. "I can't wait to see her, God what am I going to say!?" With that he ran off to his dorm.
Lily and Sierra looked at each other and then burst out laughing.
"I NEVER thought that I would have that conversation!" Lily said after they'd calmed down a bit.
"And I NEVER thought I'd be there to witness it!!" Sierra sputtered.
"BUT, you have to admit, that was really sweet."
"Yeah, I hope she likes him, I'd just cry if she said that she didn't like him…"
Lily grinned, "Let's send our dear Mindy a letter, since she's home for Christmas."
"Didn't she ask you to come?" Sierra asked.
"Yeah, but I told her that Christmas is a time for family, Then she told me that I was like family, but it still didn't feel right, so I stayed here." Lily said calming down a bit more.
"So what are we putting in the letter?" Sierra asked getting out parchment and a quill.
"Let's be casual, like just saying Happy Christmas, and stuff, and then talk about who YOU like and then ask her who she likes. Then some more extra crap." Lily suggested.
"All right, but you write the letter, she's more your friend then mine."
"Okay, whatever." So they sent the letter here's what it said.
Minnie
Happy Christmas! I loved your present! (Mindy had gotten Lily a diary.) Thanks a bunch! This morning since it is Christmas, I've been bugging Sierra about who she likes! She won't tell me, so who do YOU like? I know some one who likes you! So maybe if you tell me who you like, it will be the same person who likes you! Oh by the way, when you get back from break, look at my wonderful snowmen and women, and also the snow owl! It's flying around the place pooping snow balls so look out!
Later!
Lily
They didn't get a reply until later that night, here's what IT said:
Lillian, don't call me MINNIE ever again! That's McGonagall's name!!-
Happy Christmas! I'm glad you liked it! I love yours, can't wait to use it! So have you found out who Sierra likes yet? Do tell me when you do. So you want to know who I like…Hmm…Should I tell you. Well, I'll give you a hint, he loves Quidditch, and is in our house. That's all I'm telling you. Just try and guess! Just wondering but where'd you get the idea for Snowball pooping owls?! All right talk to you later!
Mindy (The correct way to spell it, with a 'D'!)
"Okay, I think she likes Robert! It has to be him, no one, besides The Marauders loves Quidditch as much s him!" Lily decided.
"I hope you're right! They are like perfect for each other!" Sierra said gleefully.
They replied to Mindy's letter and asked if she liked Robert and when they didn't get a reply, they knew they'd guessed right.
*~*~*~*~*
Sierra and Lily were sitting in their dorms, talking quietly, wondering if the dream catcher was going to work, when Lily brought up a different topic.
"Sierra, why don't you go home for Christmas?" Lily never knew why, she just knew that Sierra did.
"Well, I have a few reasons, one of them is YOU are here, second one is my little brother is at home, third reason is I can't stand my family!" Sierra laughed, Lily knew she loved her family, but they got on each others nerves after a while.
"Well, as long as it's not all because of me, because if you wanted to see your family I don't want to hold you back." Lily told her.
"Don't worry about it, I've thought about this. Lots of kids go home just in case something happens to them while they're at school and other are stuck at school, just in case something does happen to their family. It's a weird place at Hogwarts." Sierra and Lily were quiet for a while, lost in their own thoughts.
The Dark Lord was truly messing with people's lives. More and more kid were becoming orphans as the year went on, strangely enough, most of them were in Gryffindor, or Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff, Lily had only heard of one case from Slytherin. Lily knew that there were a lot of Slytherins turning to the Dark Side, and Lily hated it, she hated the fact that she was becoming afraid to go to potions, because she'd have to see them. Defense Against the Dark Arts was another scary class with their new teacher Lily noticed how everyone paid very close attention, and one time she noticed how high Snape's grades were in that class, you can only wonder why, but then again, he was quite good in Potions.
Thinking of Snape made Lily think about something else to, something that gave her the creeps.
"Hey Sierra, do you think Snape…Likes me?!" Lily had been wondering about it all evening since lunch, when he'd came over to her, and had a DECENT conversation, with out the word mudblood in it.
"OH that thing at lunch today?! That was WEIRD! If you didn't notice, my mouth was hanging open the entire time! YOU are so lucky the Marauders weren't around." Sierra said excitedly.
"Yeah, it was so weird; actually, now that I think about it, he hasn't done anything mean to me ALL YEAR? Gross, he likes me!" Lily pouted.
"You poor, poor Lily. Well, you did get a lot prettier over the summer, not that I'm a lesbian, but it's true." Sierra said hiding a laugh.
"Damn, I have problems!!" Lily shouted, and hid under a pillow.
"Let's go to dinner so you can talk to you lover boy!" Sierra said and dodged a pillow that was thrown and her head by Lily.
"Sierra, don't say anything to Jimena about this, okay?!" Lily ordered as they went down to the Great Hall.
"Lily, I can't believe you'd think that!"
"Sierra, you know you'd tell her in a millisecond."
"Yeah, I know, I won't tell her, at least not on purpose." Lily glared a Sierra.
During dinner, they got another visit from the one and only Severus Snape.
"Hello Lily." He said coming up behind her. Lily jumped, but tried to hide her surprise.
"Hello-Sn-Severus." Covering the fact that she almost called him Snape.
"Enjoying your Christmas?"
"Um, yes it's quite lovely." Sierra was looking at them with her mouth open, again. "How's yours?"
"Quite all right, the guys in my dorm were very…over excited this morning about all the presents." The conversation went that way for a good five minutes, until thankfully, Dumbledore made an announcement, about something or rather; Lily didn't pay attention to it. She was too relieved that Snape had left her alone.
"OH my God that was the longest conversation I've had with him in my entire life, not unless I was yelling at him or something, what is going on?!" Lily was in shock still, and so was Sierra.
"I NEVER want to see that happen again." Sierra choked out, and started giggling hysterically, and trying to hide herself from the Slytherin table.
"He HAS to be up to something!" Lily thought aloud. "He's planning on doing something, I don't know what but he probably is!"
"Probably, I feel sorry for you Lils." Sierra mumbled, while buttering a roll.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up the day after Christmas for a nightmare less sleep for once, because of Sierra's frustrated insults at her hair.
"I HATE my hair!" She shrieked.
"Sierra, stop it, I love your hair, it makes you unique!" Lily referred to Sierra curly hair that fit Sierra perfectly.
"Whatever Lily, you liar, I want your hair, I have these stupid tight curls, yours is just perfectly wavy!"
"Yeah right! It's so thick I can barely do anything with it!" Lily fired back.
The two girls continued to argue over their hair, until they went down to breakfast. They got into another argument over hair color, so in anger Lily fired a spell that turned Sierra's hair pink.
"LILY! Why'd you do that?!" Sierra shrieked as she looked at her strands of hair.
Lily didn't get to answer it because a very angry Professor Blint came up to her and gave her detention and took 20 points from Gryffindor.
"You know Lily; it serves you right, changing my hair to pink!"
"Shut up, your not the one stuck with a detention with…HIM!" Lily whispered in horror.
"Yeah Lily I'm really sorry about that. Maybe I should turn your hair green so I can go with you?!" Sierra suggested.
"Nah, its okay, I'll deal with it."
"All right, whatever you say." Sierra muttered and they headed back to the Gryffindor common room.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily's detention was at 9:00 in the potions room. It was awful, scrubbing dried toad brains of the tables.
Lily was scrubbing the last table, when Professor Blint came back into the room, looking very disgruntled. Lily briefly wondered why, but was soon on her way to her dorm, looking for Sierra.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily hurried up through the common room, which had a few 7th years, and skipped up the steps to her dorm. She tried to open the door, but found it was locked. Lily immediately got scared.
"Sierra! Sierra! Open the door! This isn't funny!" Lily shook the door knob. "Alohomora!" She cried and the door was unlocked, Lily burst into the room.
Lily let out a scream, her bed had been shredded, even Floo her bunny. Lily was thankful, that her friends' beds were okay. Sierra's curtains were pulled around the Lily walked over to the bed, preparing for the worst.
(A/N should I stop there? It's not a bad ending…nah!)
Lily pulled open the curtains and found Sierra lying there, looking to be sleeping; Lily let out a sigh of relief, and shook her friend, trying to wake her, nothing.
"Sierra wake up!" Lily called. It was at that moment Lily noticed the window was open, and it hadn't been before. Lily's breathing became unsteady; some one was in the room!
"Sierra, Sierra please please wake up!!" She shook her friend again. Lily held back tears, and looked around the room, what was going on? She couldn't see anyone in the room, but knew someone HAD to be there. She took out her wand ready for attack.
Out of no where she heard "Stupefy!" And Lily passed out. (a/n sorry about that!)
Lily woke up on the floor and looked around her dorm, she looked at the clock and it said 12:11 am, she had only been out for about 10 minutes! Sierra was awake too, and was looking at Lily's bed.
"Lily you're awake!" Sierra cried, and ran over to hug Lily.
"So are you! What happened, I leave you alone for a few hours and look what happens!" Lily joked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Not funny." Sierra said sternly. "Well, what happened from what I saw, was someone came in opened the curtain and two seconds later was out cold! And I guess they did that in the process, I'm surprised you woke up so fast! I was out for like three hours. Lily gulped.
"Sierra, that's how long my detention was, do you think-."
"Professor Blint did it? Was he there the whole time?" Sierra interrupted.
"No, he only came in when I was finishing up; he was leaving, when I left." Lily said thoughtfully.
"Lily, I think you attract trouble! So let's see if he took anything, since he basically attacked your bed. I think one of us should tell a Professor."
"Yeah, let's look to see if anything is missing, but let's not tell a Professor." Lily said.
"LILY! Are your crazy? Not tell a Professor-." Lily cut Sierra's rambling off with a quick cleaning charm, and every thing was back to normal.
"See? Now we can't tell anyone because there's no proof!" Lily smirked.
"Err, okay, is anything missing?" They searched threw Lily's things, and the only thing Lily found missing, was her new diary.
"I must have just misplaced it because, why would some one take it? Unless they are just weird." Lily spoke finally.
"Maybe they thought you had certain information in it. They'll be quite surprised when nothing is in it!" Sierra said grumpily. Lily gave a forced laugh.
"Yeah, real surprised, but hopefully they won't be mad, or at least not mad enough to do something…drastic."
"Well, I'm going to bed; I hope that dream catcher is ready to catch the nightmares I'm going to have." Sierra sighed and started to climb into bed.
"Yeah, me too." Lily started to climb in to bed too, then she gasped. "Sierra, the dream catcher is gone! They took it!"
"Damn, back to those old nightmares!" Sierra moaned, and fell into her pillow.
Lily went to bed, and found it quite hard to get to sleep; she knew she would only be plagued by nightmares. Lily put her hands under her newly remade pillow and found a gem. 'Weird' Lily thought; it was bright green and glowed; she set it on her bed side table and didn't even notice that it fell behind the table, and it soon would be forgotten. Finally late into the night Lily fell asleep.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily found herself in deep murky water, and she couldn't see the bottom. (A/N of course it's deep!) She started to tread water, even though she couldn't see any place to go, it was like the middle of the ocean. Then the water started to thicken, and her legs could barely move.
Lily then saw someone floating towards her, and she knew immediately that they were evil. Their eyes were blood red; he got up close to her, and said something she couldn't understand. Then she felt something move around her legs. (A/N if you haven't figured it out that's Voldemort speaking parseltongue)
She wanted to scream, but found that she was pulled under the water, and was only choking herself. She felt herself sinking deeper into the water, was she drowning?
Then someone was swimming towards her, she tried to see who, but it was too dark. They grabbed her hand and she felt whatever it was that had attacked her legs, release her. The person pulled her to the surface. She looked towards them and the only thing she got a glimpse of was chocolate brown eyes.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up gasping for air, as if she really had been drowning. It was day light outside, morning. Lily was thankful that she could get up, and out of her dorm, which was really starting to scare her.
Lily immediately heard Sierra moaning in her sleep. "Stop, stop! Leave him alone!" Lily ran over to her friend's bed and woke her up. "Thanks Lil, it was getting to that part again…"
"Where they take him away to Azkaban?" Lily supplied, they had talked countless times about their nightmares. Sierra nodded, pushing back tears.
"I hate it, I hope it doesn't come true, I don't even know who they are taking away, but I can just feel that I love them!" Sierra groaned, she was tired of the nightmares.
"Hey, Sierra stop worrying about it, it won't come true, I had a new dream tonight…" Lily explained the dream to Sierra.
"That's creepy; who do you think saved you, James?" Sierra asked.
"Maybe, I mean he always saves me, so you can assume it easily."
"Well, at least you didn't have that dream about your husband dying again, or your parents." Sierra said trying to be cheerful.
"That's a little bit of an improvement I guess. Do you think Jimena has a dream too?"
"Probably, since it happens every night for each of us." Sierra grumped.
Jimena had a very sad dream, and it was quite creepy. According to Jimena, in the dream she's running from the one she thinks she loves, through a forest, then day light comes and he disappears, Jimena thinks its forever.
"Don't we just have the weirdest lives? I mean I don't believe we are having such odd dreams!" Lily exclaimed. "Just out of nowhere! Do you think someone is doing this to us?"
"I wouldn't exclude that from our theories. But remember, we can't let ourselves fall in love with anyone, so that means-."
"No serious relationships." Lily grumbled, "And that can go two ways for you!" Sierra blushed at this comment.
"Right Lily, we have to keep ourselves away from them…Or we might end up giving them their fates, and your husband's fate is the worst!"
"Thanks Sierra." Lily said flatly.
"Sorry, but it's true, Lily I can't believe you disagree with the rule you thought up on your own! And why can't we hang out with the Marauders anymore? It's not like we're going to end up liking THEM." Sierra griped, 'how many times had they had this conversation?' Lily thought to herself.
"Just in case Sierra, just in case." Lily had no idea just how right she was when she said this.
*~*~*~*~*
Soon break was coming to an end, and Lily and Sierra went to meet Mindy, and more or less the Marauders, they were trying not to talk to them. Lily and Sierra had planned a 'welcoming committee' for the Slytherins. A fleet of snowball pooping owls.
Mindy was one of the few to know who did this, and walked over to Lily and Sierra to congratulate them.
"Guys, that was priceless! I love coming home from the holidays to see what you two decide to do!" Mindy said laughing, her laughter was interrupted, by, of course, Robert Saratoga. "Oh, hey Rob." Lily was sure she saw her blush. The two walked up to Hogwarts together.
"Awe, how romantic." Sierra said, but Lily burst out laughing.
"Those two crack me up! I hate her, I love her, I hate him, I love him!" Lily giggled.
"Lily Evans, Sierra Sitruc, fancy seeing you here." Sirius said grinning.
"Black, go away, we weren't coming to meet you here!" Sierra snapped.
"Don't get so touchy!" Remus said coming up next to him, and of course where there's Remus and Sirius, there's James and Peter.
"Hello ladies, coming to greet us at our arrival from Christmas break?" James said with a charming smile.
"Shove it Potter." This time, Lily snapped.
"Hey, I was just greeting you!" He said in mock hurt.
"Come on Lils, let's get out of here." Sierra said tugging on her friends' arm.
*~*~*~*~*
When break was over and they went back to classes, the first day back Professor McGonagall made an announcement to the fourth years.
"As you know, next year Prefects will be chosen for each house, and the prefects will be chosen from your grades so I suggest you do well on your end of the year exams, and study hard." He talked on for a minute, but Lily's thoughts were elsewhere, and she didn't hear it. She wanted to be a prefect badly, so she decided she was going to study her bum off and learn everything she could that might be on exams, plus she had to be on her best behavior.
That's exactly what Lily did; she studied, and didn't get into any trouble.
Lily could easily be found in the library or common room, with a book in her face. Sierra and Jimena would often join her, but weren't as dedicated to it.
"Lils, you need to take a break from this stuff for a while okay? How about we go prank the boys and get them back for turning our beds into jell-o." Sierra suggested.
Lily mumbled something but didn't even look up for her Transfiguration book.
"Lily!" Jimena said exasperatedly. "You are going to over work yourself!"
No answer.
"Oh look its James!" Sierra tried.
No answer.
"Look its Marvin!" Jimena tried hopelessly.
No answer.
"Lily, look Mindy and Robert are snogging!" Sierra said laughing they were quite surprised when once again.
No answer.
"Lily Evans, your no fun anymore." Jimena pouted, and finally the two girls left.
Lily didn't move from her spot in the common room for another hour, until she got a much needed interruption.
"Lily, we got Quidditch Practice come on!" Sirius called, who was standing with the rest of the Quidditch team, minus Robert who was probably already there.
"Coming!" Lily shouted and threw her books in her bag, and left them in the common room.
"Finally, she moves." James joked, and got a glare from Lily.
"Don't start you two, let's get to practice." Sam Wobblesby said stopping the fight before it even started.
They got to practice and were VERY surprised to see that, someone by the name of Robert Saratoga was now actually snogging a pretty blonde fifth year by the name of Mindy Ewing. (A/N did I ever mention her hair color before? It's blonde now!)
"Break it up you two, we got practice!" Sirius said laughing, Mindy and Robert broke apart and both turned a nice shade of red.
Lily was grinning quite brightly at them, but didn't say anything. Quidditch practice started and they'd been doing plays for about an hour, when something interesting finally happened.
Professor Blint came on to the field. The entire team flew down to see what he wanted.
"Yes Professor, do you need something?" Robert asked as kindly as he could, considering this was the Professor he took points from Gryffindor left and right.
"Oh yes Mr. Saratoga, I would be so happy if Miss Evans would come with me, I have, Erm, things to discuss with her, school work you know." Lily was all of a sudden full of dread; she hoped no one noticed how scared she was.
"Lily," James whispered. "Don't go with him, I got a bad feeling about this."
"Me too." Lily said trying to hide the fear that was welling up inside her. "I've got no choice."
"Lily, make it quick we have to be ready for the Ravenclaw game next week." Robert said, and raised an eyebrow at how sick Lily looked.
"Um, okay." She said and was soon off with Professor Blint. Lily half hoped James would come to the rescue; half wished he'd stay there so he wouldn't get himself hurt again.
Lily got really scared that he pulled her in the direction of the Forbidden Forest by her arm so she couldn't get away, then he put I silencing charm on her, then the full body bind. Lily tried to move, but found it was impossible. Professor Blint was definitely going to kill her, she thought despairingly.
'Come on Lily you can get yourself out of this! You don't want to put James in danger again!' 'But that's his job!' another voice in her head said. 'It still doesn't mean I want him hurt!'
Just then the Professor picked her up and carried her into the Forbidden Forest.
'Probably so my murder won't be witnessed." Lily thought with even more despair.
Then at that moment Lily witnessed a funny thing. The rest of the Quidditch team came down upon the Professor, two of them hitting him on the head with clubs, the next two picking him up, and the last two grabbing Lily up into the air. James and Steven were carrying Professor Blint off to the castle, he had some how been deprived of his wand, and was quite hopeless 50 feet into the air. Sam and Robert carried her a little ways, and then set her down, neither of them knew which charms had been put on her, so they carried her off to Hospital Wing, hoping Pomfrey knew how to fix her.
As Sam and Robert carried her they talked to her and she obviously couldn't talk back.
"Lily you sure do get yourself into some odd predicaments." Robert said laughing slightly. 'He doesn't know the half of it.' Lily thought.
"Yeah Lily, as soon as your fixed up, do tell us what you did to Professor Blint that could make him go so crazy!" Sam said in amazement.
"I do think our Professors are going evil! Did you hear what happened to James, earlier this year?" Robert asked.
"Yeah, I heard about that, maybe they are just out to get Gryffindor Quidditch Chasers or something. We should warn Steve about this." Sam said, as serious as he could.
"At least we still have our Chaser, otherwise we might lose against Ravenclaw, and we need to get as many points as possible in that game if we're going to win the house cup!" Robert grumbled some more about the lousy Ravenclaws, who were nothing but trouble.
Lily laughed to herself; Robert still had harsh feelings towards them, ever since the time Lily was almost murdered by a bludger during the game.
*~*~*~*~*
After that, Lily was quite afraid of all her Professors, and always brought a friend with her when she had to stay after, and lucky for Gryffindors the new potions teacher, was a former Gryffindor, and treated them fairly.
Lily found out that James had convinced the team to 'spy' on Lily, and ended up saving her from certain death. Lily thanked James, but they didn't talk much, even after that, no matter how much they wanted to.
Instead of talking Lily's friends and The Marauders would play pranks on each other, as a form of talk. When they were happy, they were harmless and funny. If they got pissed at each other, it was humiliation time. (A/N HAHAHA! I have too much time on my hands this chapter is getting long! Spring Break is great! Ooh rhymes!)
Lily was still studying her brains out though, so the pranks weren't done by her much, plus she didn't want to get into any trouble. The Marauders on the other hand, had increased their detentions quite rapidly.
Easter break finally came, and Lily was very happy for the time to study.
"Lily come on its BREAK! You can't and will not study!" Jimena yelled at her friend.
"Can too." Was all Lily said and continued to memorize the eight Goblin rebellions in Bulgaria.
Jimena threw up her hands in defeat, and ran off with Sierra to play a game of Exploding Snap.
Lily continued to sit in the library all alone, until she got an unsuspected visitor, or two visitors to be exact.
Remus and Sirius took seats across from Lily, she didn't notice them. If Lily would have looked up she would have noticed that they were trying very hard not to laugh. But Lily kept studying and didn't look up.
"Ready Moony?" Sirius asked grinning mischievously.
"Yes, Sirius my friend I do believe I am!" The next thing Lily knew she was being 'kidnapped'. Remus and Sirius had grabbed her feet and arms, and taken her off away from the library, much to the displeasure of the librarian, Madam Zinckier.
"REMUS! SIRIUS! PUT ME DOWN! I HAVE TO STUDY!" Lily screamed and tried to fight, but they were too strong for her.
They ended up taking her into a secret passage, next to a gruesome looking picture of a man with out a head.
When they entered the room, they set Lily down on a couch that happened to be there. Lily immediately reached for her wand, but remembered she'd left it in her dorm, thinking she 'didn't need it.'
"Guys what do you want?!" Lily shrieked, and tried to get through to the door way but they held her back. At that moment James and Peter came in carrying a large amount of books. "If you guys want help studying, this is not the way to ask." Lily said sarcastically.
"Lily this is much more important." Remus said looking at her with pleading eyes that reminded her of her friendship with him in first year that had faded.
"Oh, okay what is it, make it quick." Their faces brightened considerably.
"All right, Lily before we tell you this, you have to promise not to tell anyone, okay?" Remus asked.
"Um, okay." Lily was feeling a little bit of trepidation about what they were going to tell her.
"All right, who wants to say it?" Sirius asked in a way that seemed like a death sentence was being said, not something unimportant, Lily kept these thoughts to herself.
"I guess I will." Remus volunteered. Lily noticed how nervous they all got, a little bit of fear was in each of their eyes.
"Okay, out with it Remus, I don't have all day." Lily said getting impatient, not to mention uncomfortable.
"Wait guys are you sure we should tell her, I mean we could always figure it out by ourselves, even if it does take longer." James said, his voice was strained, probably from worry.
"James, I think it will be best this way." Remus told him, and they all agreed with a nod. "Lily, Erm, Lils, since the end of first year, James, Sirius and Peter have been studying o become Animagus." Lily's eyes got wide with shock that was NOT what she was expecting. "The reason we brought you here is because we need your help with part of it, you're the best person we know at Charms, and we know you'll figure it out easily, compared to us, who have been stuck on it for a few months. So will you help us?"
The Marauders all turned to Lily with puppy dog eyes. 'Might as well' Lily thought.
"Well, I guess so, but let me take a look at it first." Lily looked through most of the books they had brought with them and was amazed at how complicated it was, and was even more surprised at how far the Marauders had gotten. "I'll try guys, but I can't help too much I do have to study. But first I have to know, WHY do you want to become them?"
"That's simple, that way we can-." Peter was quieted by an elbow from Sirius.
"Lily, I'm afraid we can't say." Sirius was very good at changing the subject and that's what he did right then. "So Lily do you want to become an Animagus? (A/N I'm confused is it Animagus or Animagi? Oh well if I get it wrong who cares!)
Lily was surprised by the question, so it took her a minute to answer. "Um, I don't think so, I remember McGonagall telling all of us those stories about how they could go wrong, so I'll save myself some worry and not do it, you guys can have fun with it all you want though, I don't object."
"Wow that surprises me Lil, damn Remus, I owe you 10 galleons!" Sirius said grumpily.
"I told you she wouldn't want to." Remus said grinning.
"Okay guys lets get started on this okay? I think I have those Goblin Rebellions memorized anyways." Lily said, and so they got to work figuring out the permanent charm you used to make it stick.
*~*~*~*~*
So Lily and the Marauders would, after much complaining from Lily, would meet in the secret room, and first study for exams, then work on the charm, sometimes they would split into groups, half of them working on the potion part the other half on the charms, but Lily was always working on the Charm.
Lily was very proud of herself; she still had no feelings for any of them all though Peter seemed to have a bit of a crush on her that was no problem. (A/N Eww Peter! He makes me sick! I think I have to throw up!)
Most of these 'study sessions' were quite fun. The five of them had a bond. Lily desperately wanted to tell her Sierra and Jimena, but she kept making excuses for herself, whenever she was with the Marauders.
Before they knew it the end of the year exams were there. Lily thought she had done pretty well on the, and so did James, who had actually studied.
The last week of school, Lily and the Marauders were sitting in the common room talking about the plans for the summer, since they were going to meet up and work on the Charm, to get ahead.
"We could meet at my house." James suggested, Lily cringed at the memory of James' house, they had been more or less, friends back then, and she then remembered why she was there.
"Nah, let's meet at my house." Sirius said perkily. "That way, we can show my parents that we can get civilized friends." He said referring to Lily.
"Okay, so how many times are we going to meet, or are we going to meet for just an extended time?" Lily asked trying to organize things as usual.
"It doesn't matter to me." Remus said.
"Me either." Peter said.
"I think we should meet at the end of the summer and stay for a few weeks and work on it." James said absent mindedly.
"The only problem with that is we happen to have a girl with us!" Sirius said laughing. "Can you imagine my parents reaction to when I ask them if she can stay?!" Everyone laughed except Lily.
"That's mean guys!" She pouted. "I don't see why they shouldn't mind me coming over, it's not like I'm your girlfriend or anything." And at that moment came James' and Sirius' real girlfriends.
"Hey Jamie boy what are you up to?" Said a third year named Peggy. Lily gagged when she sat in his lap. James had strange girl friends, she thought.
Sirius' girlfriend was much more mature, probably because she was a fifth year. She took a seat next to Lily.
"We were just talking about Quidditch and stuff." James said, knowing that the two girls wouldn't be interested.
"Oh, that's nice." Peggy said, disappointedly. "Hey Lily what are you doing here?"
"Just leaving." Lily said trying not to sound rude, but failing. "Bye, Carrie." Lily said addressing the fifth year.
"Talk to you later Lils!" Remus called, knowing perfectly well, why she'd left.
Lily went up to her dorms, and found Jimena and Sierra talking there already.
"Hey, what're you up to?" She asked plopping on her bed. The Marauders sure were taking up a lot of her time, she and Jimena and Sierra hadn't talked for a while.
"Not much, what have you been up to?" Jimena asked.
"Talking to the Marauders, a bit." Lily said.
"You sure are being friendly with them lately." Sierra pointed out.
"Yeah, well, they needed help studying, and I can't dump them very easily." Lily lied.
"Oh, okay whatever, as long as you don't LIKE any of them." Jimena said coming out with the rule.
"Yeah, yeah I know I know. But Peter seems to like me a bit, but don't worry I don't return his feelings." Lily said laughing.
"That's a relief!" Jimena said joining in on the laughter. The girls talked for a while about nothing in particular, and then the subject came up, like it always did.
"Lily are you still having those dreams?" Jimena asked referring to the creepy ones with the red eyes.
"Yeah, they haven't gone away, ever so often I have the same one from earlier this year, but rarely." Her friends looked at her sadly.
"They started the day after Christmas right?" Jimena questioned.
"Yeah, and they stole my empty diary, and dream catch-." Lily stopped for a moment, she remember something. Her friends watched as Lily scurried to the opposite end of her bed by her pillow, she reached behind her bed table and pulled out the glowing green gem.
"What the hell is that? It's glowing!" Jimena yelped and she and Sierra hurried over to Lily's bed.
"I CAN'T believe I forgot about this, I found this under my pillow, right before I was going to sleep! It must have fallen of my table!" Lily exclaimed examining the gem which she hadn't thought about for about six months.
"Do you think it has something to do with your nightmares changing?" Sierra wondered.
"I think so, maybe we should research or something, maybe destroy it, it could be from that git Professor Blint, the Death Eater!" Lily decided.
"Should we tell a professor?" Jimena asked nervously.
"No, that wouldn't do us any good, that'd be mad I didn't tell them about the attack upon my bed." Lily said shaking her head.
"Let me see it Lils." Sierra asked.
"Sure." Lily tossed it to her.
"Oh my gosh! I think I know what this is!" Sierra screeched, and dropped the gem to the floor as if she'd been burned.
"What?! What is it!?" Lily and Jimena demanded.
Sierra was trembling a bit. "All I know is that it's something dark wizards and witches use, to plague people's minds, it's used to frighten them, or something, Oh I can't remember!" Sierra put her hands on her head, deep within her memories.
Lily didn't like the idea of this gem thing giving her nightmares, it couldn't be good.
"Okay, I think it's used to send messages to people, I think Voldemort's trying to tell you that he wants you dead." Sierra whispered. Lily gulped down her fear; Voldemort had been entering her mind every day since Christmas!
"So what do we do with it?" Jimena asked fearfully.
"I don't think we can just destroy it, I say we hide it." Sierra suggested.
"I'm all for it, but where?!" Lily said, wanting to get rid of it as soon as possible.
"Tonight, you can take it over the Forbidden Forest on your broom, and drop it, it's not going to hurt you to touch it." Sierra told her.
"Okay, I'll do that, I just hope I don't get caught, I want to be prefect you know."
So Lily got rid of it that night, never to see it again.
(A/N I was thinking of ending it right there, but my heart told me to try and finish it, right now I'm at the end of my 28th page that is LONG!)
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and the Marauders made plans to meet at the end of summer and sleep at Sirius' house until school started, Lily just hoped her 'parents' agreed. They didn't at first, but did eventually. After Lily begged them with 10 letters, she felt kind of bad since they weren't even her real parents in the first place, Mindy found it quite amusing.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily, Jimena and Sierra got a compartment, for the first time since first year, all to themselves, it was depressing. Needless to say they were quite pleased to get off the train. Lily met up with Mindy and they found her parents, and left.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily summer this time involved two very Quidditch obsessed people, by the names of Mindy Ewing and Robert Saratoga, who was a constant visitor. They had been a couple for quite a while by then. Lily had the unfortunate experience once again, of them snogging in Mindy's living room.
Because of this Lily wrote her friends quite often, that was until she received a letter from a certain Marauder by the name of Sirius Black.
Lily
We will come by floo powder tomorrow to pick you up. Be ready, by the way we're taking you school shopping so bring your stuff!
-Sirius
Lily was very happy to get away from Mindy's house, since it seemed to involve constant Quidditch or Robert Saratoga talk.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up the next morning with her stuff already down stairs next to the fire place. She went into Mindy's room and woke her up.
"Mindy, I'm leaving soon, don't you want to say good bye to your wonderful little sis-." Lily was silenced by a pillow in her face. "Hey that wasn't very nice!"
"Sorry, but you woke me up!" Mindy said rolling out of bed. "When do they get here?"
"I'm not sure, but I just wanted to wake you up just in case it was in the morning." Lily grinned at the glare she got from Mindy, then to both of theirs surprise an owl flew in the room and dropped a letter on the bed.
"Hey Lily it's addressed to you!" Then another owl flew in with a letter addressed to Mindy.
"Hogwarts!" They said together.
Lily opened hers as quickly as possible, which was pretty fast considering her hands were shaking.
Dear Miss Evans
We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the Gryffindor Prefects of this year-
Lily couldn't read anymore. "I'm PREFECT!!!" She screamed and Mindy and her hugged jumping up and down.
"Yay for you!!" Mindy shouted, and they ran downstairs to tell Mindy's mum.
*~*~*~*~*
The first thing Lily said to Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter when they arrived was-
"I made Prefect!!!" She squealed happily.
"Me too!" James yelped, and the two of them hugged, very briefly.
"Damn, we're stuck with two prefects as friends." Sirius muttered.
"You guys aren't going to take points whenever we do pranks are you?" Remus asked, grinning.
"Maybe." Lily said smiling.
"Hey that's not fair!" Sirius pouted.
"Don't worry Sirius, at least you know that I won't take points, but I might give you detentions!" James said happily.
The five of them headed to Sirius' house and Lily found herself on the floor of yet another mansion. "God are all my friends rich wizards or what?!" she thought to herself.
Lily who had gone first through the fire soon found that she should have gotten up faster, because before she had gotten up some one came crashing on top of her. (A/N guess who!?)
James fell directly on Lily who was lying on her back…Let's just say it didn't look good.
Both of them were too surprised to move quickly, James' thoughts were along the lines of. 'Don't I just have all the luck?'
Lily's were more like. 'Oh my GOD what is he doing still on top of me?!'
James got off her just in time, for Sirius to squash her. "Lily what are you doing there?" Sirius asked pulling her up before Peter could fall on top of her too.
"Let's just say you're not the first person to fall on me today." Lily said nodding towards James who had turned a bit pink at the comment. " I have bad luck with Floo Powder."
"Or maybe it's good luck!" Sirius said proudly, as Lily and James blushed.
Remus was the last to get there, and they headed up to Sirius' room to get to work.
Sirius' room was a lot cleaner then Lily thought it would be. "My mum made me clean it, the muggle way!" He complained.
They ended up working all afternoon, so quite tiredly they headed down to the kitchen where Lily finally met Mrs. Black.
"Oh, hello boys, and you must be Lily!" Mrs. Black said, smiling at them all, as she put dinner on the table. "Have a seat and eat, lord knows what you've been doing all day." She said giving accusing glances at the boys.
"Nothing bad ma'am." James said grinning mischievously, even though it was the honest truth.
Mrs. Black just shook her head, muttering something about dung bombs, and fireworks. They all ate greedily, since they hadn't eaten lunch.
Mrs. Black used this time to 'interview' Lily.
"So are you one of these boys' girlfriend?" Lily laughed.
"Yeah right these guys? That'd be suic-." Lily stopped herself because of the glares she got from the Marauders, including Peter who looked very offended. "Let's just say we are much better off being just friends."
"So how did you find yourself in their little 'circle'?" Mrs. Black asked Lily, ignoring the looks from Sirius who was pleading her to stop.
"Um, I don't know it just sort of happened." Lily lied. "Just one day we were talking and we just seemed to hit it off."
"Well, I've heard stories from Sirius about how you are always getting yourself into these life or death situations."
"Mum!" Sirius said getting embarrassed.
"What, I'm just asking her is all!" Mrs. Black said she had the same look Sirius had right before his prank was completed.
"Well Mrs. Black." Lily said interrupting, "I guess I just have bad luck with things like that, but James here always helps me out." Lily said giving James a playful punch and a smile. James just looked down and kept eating.
Lily unlike Sirius enjoyed dinner a lot, even though she had to lie frequently to get through some of the questions, it was quite fun seeing Sirius turn redder and redder with each question his Mum asked.
They headed up to Sirius' room to talk.
"Lily! I think you told more lies during dinner then your entire life!" Remus said laughing as Sirius shut the door.
"Shh! My mum will hear!" That just made everyone laugh more.
"Scared of your Mummy, Sirius?" Lily asked teasing him.
"Yes actually." He said as serious as he could.
"I'm shocked!" She said and pretended to faint onto the bed next to James. He moved over uncomfortably, trying to make it unnoticeable, but failed.
"Hey James-y afraid of a girl?!" Sirius said turning the attention off him.
"Yeah James afraid of me?" Lily said getting closer to him, and then did something unexpected to everyone, she hopped in his lap.
"Bugger off Lily!" He said half heartedly, and pushed her onto the floor where she pretended to pout.
"That was un called for!" She said and stood up and proceeded to sit on Remus who was sitting in a chair by the window.
"Hey Lily, what is it with you, can't stand to touch Sirius' stuff?" Remus said also pushing Lily away.
"Nope, it's got cooties!" She squealed and pointed to a stray sock.
They continued to make jokes at Sirius having cooties, and James being scared of girls.
Lily at around midnight went to the room next to Sirius' where she would be sleeping. It was a bit smaller then Sirius' but still quite large.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up from a terrible nightmare (no one saved her this time), not long after going to sleep, and was surprised to hear the boys were still awake.
She trudged over to their room in her pajamas, and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Came a much higher pitched voice of Sirius. "Oh look who it is, Lily! Do come in, but make sure to keep at least five feet away from Mr. Potter, because I do believe he's still scared of y-." Sirius was finally silenced by a large blow to his face with a pillow, courtesy of James.
"Lils, I thought you were asleep, what brings you to this terrible, cootie infested place?" Remus said laughing; apparently something funny had happened while Lily was gone.
"Erm, nightmare." Lily said looking at her feet. "I have them far too frequently for my own good." She said taking a seat on the floor.
"You're not alone dear Lillian, for young Mr. Potter does too!" Sirius said getting more glares from James.
"Really, do tell Mr. Potter." Lily said and acted like she was getting told a bed time story.
James started to tell his latest dream (last night) and Lily was shocked to hear that it was exactly like hers! James had to be the one in her dream, it fitted perfectly, he sees someone drowning and swims down to save them, and can barely see, leaving out the gruesome details, he pulls the person from the 'water' and turns to see who they are, but then the dream is over.
Lily stared at James; she wanted to tell him, but not in front of everyone else. "Hey James, can I talk to you for a moment?" James nodded and she pulled him out the door and into her room.
"James, that dream you described is exactly like the one of been having for the longest time, but I thought it was…something else, do you think that the curse works, even for dreams?" James looked a bit shocked, apparently he hadn't expected this.
"Uh, I suppose it could work, but I don't know any more about this then you do. Maybe we should try researching it once we get back to school, what do you think?"
"I guess we could, I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't found anything else about it, he hasn't talked to us about it since…"
"A long time ago." James said.
"He probably thought we would have found out stuff on our own, but obviously we haven't." Lily was beginning to regret not talking to James about this.
"So how about as soon as school starts up again, we start researching this …curse?" James asked again.
"I suppose so, although I have no idea where to look."
"Me either, but I guess we'll figure that out later."
The two returned to Sirius's room.
*~*~*~*~*
Before long, the time at Sirius' was over and they found themselves on the platform of 9 ¾.
(A/N FINALLY I'm got that chapter done, I thought I never would. 33 pages it took, took me a long, time, so I just put in some music and type! Please review, I don't mind answering questions and suck just REVIEW!!)