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A/N I hope you like this chapter. I guess you all didn't like last chapter much, I only got one review! I'm having an off day I guess…no one was reviewing on either of my stories! *sigh* I guess you can't have everything. This chapter is really exciting in my opinion. Jimena gets into some trouble dragging others in with her. Oh and a lot of crying…Lots of talking…death…
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CHAPTER 29
Lily and Sierra were looking for the Marauders in Diagon Alley. Sierra was the one who was almost always at Lily's house keeping her company.
"Jaaaaaaames!" Lily screamed annoyed that they'd run off again, to most likely go to the joke shop.
"Siiiiiiiiiirius!" Sierra yelled.
"Reeeeeeeemus!" Lily called.
"Peeeeter!" Sierra screamed even louder.
"Lillllllllllllllly!" James called from behind Lily giving her a hug.
"James Potter where were you guys?" Lily asked noticing the rest of the Marauders were back from their 'school' shopping. Their bags were filled with all sorts of prank goodies.
"Just shopping!" Sirius said grinning.
"Let's go to the Robe Shop!" Peter said perkier then normal.
"Let's Gooo Fly a Kite! Up where-." Sirius started singing a Marry Poppins song, but was interrupted by several ("SIRIUS!") and so he shut up.
School shopping was fun, but it kept depressing them knowing that it would their last year for shopping. Plus they were all worrying about Jimena, the Dark Lord had recently found several families that were in hiding and had murdered them all.
Remus was constantly worrying about her. "I hope Jimena's okay." And "I wonder what Jimena is doing." And "I bet Jimena's bored right now." It was quite a pathetic site to see him talk about her. His eyes would then turn all dreamy and he'd lick his lips and you'd wonder what he was thinking about. No one ever asked.
They were busily shopping and went back to their separate houses with their bags full.
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That night Lily was wondering where Mr. Ewing was, since it was past eleven and he was normally home by then. She was sitting in front of the fire place in the main room; finishing up the last of her homework which she'd found at the bottom of her trunk and had been horrified she hadn't done it already.
She was starting to get a bad feeling about something, she knew something was up, and she was starting to worry about Mr. Ewing, James and Jimena. The people she was worried about the most.
Mr. Ewing because he had a dangerous job and wasn't home late and could be dead.
James because she got bad feelings when he was in trouble because the whole curse situation.
Jimena because she was worried that Voldemort might find her hiding place and kill her, Jimena was only with her mother since she was an only child and her father was dead.
She became lost in thought and was tuning out the rest of the world.
So this should go without saying, when a person crashed into her living room through the fire place she was very surprised and scared.
It didn't take two seconds to recognize the sobbing girl who lay on the floor as Jimena Jenkins.
"JIM! What's going on are you okay?" Lily asked loudly running over and hugging her best friend.
"I'm fine, it's just- Lily we HAVE to get out of here! Is Mr. Ewing home?!" Jimena said grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her into the kitchen.
"Uh, no why?"
"Great, come on we have to leave right now! You-know-who is going to be here soon! God, I'm so sorry I put you into this mess!" Jimena said mostly to herself, but the two teenagers ran out of the house at top speed, and were a good distance away when they heard a loud band, and a scream of anger.
"Is that-?"
"You-know-who! He's after *gasp* me and now *gasp* you!" Jimena said running out of breath from running.
"Just don't *gasp* look back and don't stop running!" Lily said equally out of breath. Lily's thoughts were zooming at top speed wondering what to do to get out of their situation. They needed to get somewhere as quick as possible, some place safe. Though at the same time Lily didn't want to endanger anyone, then Lily's thoughts turned to James. If her life was endanger he'd be getting there soon and sure enough a small figure appeared in the sky and there flying on a broom was James.
Lily and Jimena ran as fast as they could in his direction. When he was close enough they started calling him.
"Lily? JIMENA!?" James asked thoroughly confused at seeing Jimena, who was supposed to be hiding.
With some quick thinking they enlarged James broom and jumped on it taking off for the Weasley's which was much closer to the Ewing home then Sirius' house where James had come from.
The three of them were quite uncomfortable on the broom and tumbled off as soon as they reached the ground.
They knocked on the door of a small house, and it was answered by a tired looking woman, with fiery red hair.
"May I help you?" She asked looking at them curiously.
"Is Remus here? It's urgent, and may we use your fire place to contact the Ministry, there's been an attack." Lily said bravely, Jimena was too busy sobbing, and they hadn't told James what had happened yet.
"OH, yes come in, come in. Sit down here; I'll get Arthur- would you like some tea? Oh I'll get Remus too, or-."
"Is it Mrs. Weasley? Well, just go get Remus and your husband and then we'll inform the ministry of what happened. Doesn't you husband work for them?" Lily asked.
Mrs. Weasley got Remus who was surprised to see Jimena but quickly hugged her, and soon everything was being sorted out. Jimena was trying to recover enough to tell the Ministry Worker who came by what had happened.
"My Mum and I were getting ready to go to bed when we heard a loud 'pop' outside our front door, Mum went to go see and she *sniff* came back scared looking and-." Jimena had to take a few deep breaths before she could continue. "She started yelling at me that it was the Dark Lord; he'd found us and then the door exploded open and she handed me floo powder and told me to get out of there." Jimena's voice cracked. "She went to distract him and I went to Lily's because I knew Mr. Ewing was an Auror and might be able to help me, but when I was saying 'The Ewings' ' The Dark Lord heard me, and by then my Mum was already- gone-. I heard him screaming that he was coming after me. I got to Lily's and we ran off as fast as we could. He was there- we heard him come." Jimena couldn't take it anymore and burst into tears and Remus just hugged her.
"Thank you miss, a team of Ministry workers will be at the Ewing home soon to take care of things. You kids seem to be getting into a lot of trouble, not by your own fault mind you. I think it would be best if we move Miss Evans and Miss Jenkins to a new living place to be safe. The Ewing's home isn't safe anymore for you, even with all the precautions we took. I don't know where we're going to put you, not many people will take in kids that are wanted by You-know-who. I think since all four of you seem to be getting mixed in this mess, we may just put you all together some where new, but I'm not sure yet. I'll be back with you soon. I must be going." With that the man left with a small 'pop' as he apparated away somewhere.
Mrs. Weasley offered for them to stay the night, and Lily and Jimena said yes without hesitation, but James contacted the Blacks before making a decision, and he too stayed.
Everyone spent a good full hour trying to comfort Jimena. Mrs. Weasley's children woke up and she had to try and put them back to sleep. All four teenagers were orphans, and they knew what to do to help each other. In the end Lily ended up sobbing as well. She knew Mrs. Jenkins from the time she'd stayed at Jimena's house.
Life wasn't being fair to them at all. Jimena was finally calming down and ended up falling asleep on a squashy chair in the living room. Leaving the other three still awake.
"Poor Jimena, life just isn't FAIR!" Lily whispered harshly.
"I know, look at us, no parents, all of us wanted by the Dark Lord for no REAL reason. Except I'm a werewolf, you two have that curse- but Jimena should be! She didn't do anything but have her father be a seer!" Remus said angrily.
"Where do you think they'll put us? I mean that guy was talking about moving us? I'm just fine at Sirius' house, why can't you guys come there?" James wondered aloud.
"I know, that would be fine with me, but I don't think they'd want us to all be in danger at once."
"Maybe Jimena can at least stay here with me." Remus suggested, looking at his girlfriend. Lily had never known much about that relationship, only as much as she knew about Sierra and Sirius'; everyone knew they were together, but you didn't know WHY they got together or WHAT they did when they were alone- which most people didn't want to know anyway-just in case.
"That could work, but I don't know, we'll have to ask her what she thinks when she wakes up." Lily said quietly. "It's just NOT fair! I hate this! Why!? Why, do they have to kill our parents! Why are we still living and our families are dead?!" Lily whispered with hatred filling her voice.
"Lils, no one knows why- the only thing we know is that Voldemort is a crazy lunatic who wants power, but he won't get it. The only reason you, and Jimena are alive is because Voldemort isn't as good as he thinks, he doesn't plan on everything that could happen when he goes to kill someone, and that's why I was able to save you and Jimena was able to escape. And whoever said life was fair? We're going to have to adjust to the way life is going to be for a while, and have to deal with this and don't let Voldemort get to you, that's just what he wants." James said firmly, they soon went to sleep, worried about what would happen to them in the morning.
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When Lily woke up one thing she HAD expected would have been a letter from the Ministry, one thing she WASN'T expecting was a letter from Petunia. They hadn't spoken for years, no letters, none at all. And then THIS? Lily was in shock.
Lily looked at the letter, and read through it quickly then burst out laughing.
"What's so funny?" James asked rather annoyed at being woken up.
"THIS!" And she burst into quieter giggles. James snatched the letter up and read it but didn't laugh.
"What's so funny about her getting married?" He asked curiously.
"Who's getting married?" Remus asked waking up.
"My sister! To that fat bozo guy she calls her boyfriend! God, he's going to be my brother-in-law! She ACTUALLY invited me! We haven't spoken in years- and then this! HA! Petunia Dursley that sounds perfect!" Lily started laughing again. "God, what will their KID look like? I'm afraid to think of it!"
"So are you going to the wedding?" James asked.
"No-well maybe it depends, I'm not sure if she REALLY wants me to go or if she just wants to annoy me. Oh well, at least it cheered me up." Lily said with a contented sigh, as she watched Jimena wake up.
"What's going on?" Jimena asked groggily.
"Petunia's getting married, and she invited ME!" Lily said, hoping to cheer her friend up.
"Oh that's great." Jimena said absent-mindedly and Lily burst into laughter. "What? Oh never mind." Jimena finally remembered how much Lily was hated by her sister.
Lily continued laughing at the weird situation. "So," Lily said recovering again. "Should I go? It doesn't really matter, but she did go to all that trouble of getting me the invitation…I just don't know, I thought I'd never speak to her again!"
"I think you should go, I mean you never know what could happen…it might be the last time you ever get to see her." Jimena said quietly, and her eyes shined with tears.
Lily sighed, "I just don't want to go, and I mean what would I do? I'd just end up sitting there watching and then I'd leave; she probably just invited me to call me a freak, or to never talk to her again, or something really stupid like that.
"LILY you should go! You don't want to regret it do you?!" Jimena asked loudly, Jimena was upset and now she was getting angry at Lily for almost know reason.
"If I don't want to go, I shouldn't have to Jimena, just because she's my sister doesn't mean I have to go to her wedding, she hates me anyways!" Lily shouted getting angry herself.
"LILY MARIE EVANS! I can't believe you can be so SELFISH! Your sister obviously wants you to go; because she DID invite you! She's your sister and you love her and she loves you even if you don't show it! Or MAYBE you don't love her! She's your SISTER it's your responsibility!" Jimena screamed, tears were flowing down her face, but Lily was too angry to care, this was getting out of hand.
"JIMENA JACQULINE JENKINS! HOW DARE YOU, say that I don't love my sister! You don't know ANTYTHING about our relationship! You weren't THERE, she HATES me and that's that!" Lily screamed and stormed out of the Weasley's living room and ran out of the house James quickly behind her.
Lily ran into the garden and sat down sobbing; ignoring the gnomes that scurried away from her.
"Lily? What's wrong? You never fight with Jimena! What's going on? Is there something you not telling me?" James asked concernedly.
Lily didn't reply. "Lils, come on tell me what's up." James ordered. Lily took a shaky breath and continued.
"My sister and mine's relationship has always been a bit, I don't know- shifty? Then she sent me this letter a long time ago- she hates me for it, she asked me to stay with her and I said no…I'm just confused, I was laughing, not because it was funny, but because I didn't know what else to do! I DO love my sister, but Jimena KNOWS how I feel about Petunia and she just pushed my buttons and something just went off in my head. I didn't care that Jimena is really upset right now, I just was angry and frustrated and needed to take it out on someone, and she obviously was feeling the same way. I never did anything like that to HER when my parents died…maybe because it was summer- but I didn't do anything like that to anyone…well not really- I did yell at you, but that doesn't count." Lily said hotly, she was cooling off then, but she didn't know what to do about her and Jimena.
"Jimena, is really upset right now, you're going to have to let it pass by, her Mum just died, and she's going to be grieving for a while we all know what it's like, everyone handle's it differently. We're just going to have to be there for her, not yell at her and make it worse…I think you should go apologize to her. Before it's too late." James said, and gave Lily a quick hug and walked back to the Weasley's house. And Lily was left alone with her thoughts.
~Right after Lily left in the Weasley living room~
"God, what's up with HER!?" Jimena shouted angrily.
"Jimena, I'm not sure, but I don't think she liked you talking about her sister like that. Lily's touchy about her family; you know that." Remus said softly and wiped the tears off Jimena's face.
"Oh, Remus I know I shouldn't have said it, but she was being so insensitive, my Mum just DIED!" Jimena screeched and started sobbing again. "It's not fair, it's not fair!" Jimena repeated.
"No Jim, it's not fair, but you aren't alone, just remember that. My parents died, Lily's parent died, and so did James' no one is safe. The ministry is trying, but some things can't be stopped as soon as we'd like. Voldemort will be defeated."
"Remus?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't say that bastard's name in my presence okay? It upsets me." Jimena said and started sobbing loudly again. Remus just let her cry on his shoulder for a while and then James walked in.
"How is she?" Remus asked, referring to Lily.
"Oh, she's thinking, she was crying. Jimena you know she's feeling guilty about it, I know nothing much was said between you, but I think it was the way you guys said it that hurt the most."
"I didn't MEAN to hurt her, I was just angry and she was talking about her sister- I don't have a sister, but if I did I'd do anything for her. Plus Lily and Sierra are like my sisters, and if Lily can hate her sister like that, then what about me?" Jimena said after she had stopped crying.
"Jim, you know Lily wasn't thinking like that. You know that her sister has hurt her a lot. I don't know the WHOLE story, I don't even know if there is one, but I don't think we should bring Petunia up in front of Lily again. Lily will decide whatever she decides-. Hey Lils." James said as Lily walked into the room.
Lily's face was stained with tears. "Jim, I'm sorry, I'll go to the wedding, and- I'm so sorry!" She cried and started sobbing and hugging her best friend.
"It's okay Lils, I forgive you and I'm sorry too!" Jimena said and started sobbing as well. They sat their hugging for a long time with the two boys just standing there awkwardly. Mrs. Weasley came down with her kids and they ate breakfast, in much better moods.
Sitting at the table Sierra came up.
"I think we need to tell Sierra and maybe Peter neither of them knows, Sirius found out- he might have told them- but I don't know he can be so irresponsible." Remus said buttering some toast.
"Yeah, owl or floo?" Lily asked grinning slightly.
"Well, if we owl she'll come over, if we go over there we have to deal with Steve, but she'll want to talk to us- Err. Let's just go over there." Jimena said, she wasn't looking forward to telling Sierra what happened, Sierra knew Jimena's Mum well, and she wasn't going to take it well.
"I'll go first!" Lily volunteered and took out so Floo she carried with her. "We won't be gone long Mrs. Weasley if the Ministry comes by tell them to wait, we're talking to one of our friends. James will you stay here and owl Pete? He'll want to know too."
"Sure, have fun guys." James said and waved to his friends as they went to the living room to go through the fire place. An owl flew in from the window and landed on his plate.
It was addressed to Lily so he decided he should read it. It was from Mr. Ewing, saying he would stop by the Weasley's at 10:00 that morning and then discuss the situation with a ministry worker about where Lily would go, Mr. Ewing was going to try and get the kids at his new house, since he was deciding on moving.
'That's good news.' James thought to himself, and folded the letter up and put it back in the envelope. All of a sudden James had terrible feeling wash over him. "Lily." James whispered, and ran for the fire place and grabbed the floo powder and jumped through calling out "The Sitruc's!"
When he arrived everything was normal, sort of.
Sierra, Lily, and Jimena were hugging sobbing and Remus was talking to Mrs. Sitruc. Who looked upset as well, Mrs. Sitruc looked remarkably like Sierra, curly brown hair that was the trade mark that Steven carried as well.
Just at that moment Steven walked in looking…different. He wore and expression of hatred that flickered the moment her noticed the visitors. He had an aura of evil around him, that everyone noticed and they all looked at him with questioning eyes.
"Steve?" Sierra asked through her tears, her brother had changed so much she scarcely recognized him.
"Ah, just the people I'm looking for. Lily, James, Remus and JIMENA." He said Jimena's name with slight disgust that had been fainter on the other three names.
"Steve are you feeling okay? You look…different." Mrs. Sitruc said, walking up to her son, who flinched when she put her hand on his forehead.
"Mum, have you ever thought about which side you were on? You know with the Dark Lord or with…Dumbledore?" Mrs. Sitruc's eyes wavered in a weird way James' couldn't put his finger on, was it 'fear', or 'worry'?
"Son, you know VERY well, what side I'm on, it's the same side as you." James had never thought about this before… but the look on her face didn't seem to be that her side was with Dumbledore, but with VOLDEMORT!
Mrs. Sitruc eyes seemed to change when she looked at James, her eyes filled with hatred and disgust. "I know what side YOU'RE on James Potter."
Sierra stood up swiftly. "Mum, don't, please. Leave him alone." Sierra's eyes filled with fear and she walked in front of her mother and whispered some things between them. James thoughts were swirling, what was UP with Sierra's Mum! The only things he'd heard about her was that she was a nice lady with two kids; he'd assumed she was on the good side since Sierra was.
And what about Steven, what was his looks for? Had he turned too? Traded to the Dark Side? James wasn't sure, but he knew he'd better get Lily out of there quick and everyone else too.
"Guys, we have to go, the Ministry guy is there already. It's urgent." Lily locked eyes with James and saw the look.
"Okay, come on Jim, Remus, Sierra will you come along too?" Lily asked quickly.
"Yeah, is it okay Mum? Steve why don't you come too?" Sierra asked grabbing her brother's arm. Steven's looks changed; they softened as they looked at his sister, but her eyes were still panicked when she looked at her Mum.
"I don't-." Mrs. Sitruc started to say.
"Thanks Mum lets go quick guys don't want to keep them waiting!" Sierra shouted and ran for the Floor powder instructed her brother and shoved him through.
"You next Jim, hurry, then Lily, then James, then Remus and I'll be right behind you, hurry now!" Sierra said panic filling her voice as she hurried her friends through.
~Sierra's POV~
"God, guys go quickly!"
'My Mum has Steve soon she'll have me, she won't have them! This is awful! Why'd Mum do this? She's too cowardly to say no! I did! Steven did, but she said no! No wonder she was in Ravenclaw, she had no bravery, I wonder where those brains went!?' Sierra's thoughts were rushed as she hurried everyone through.
James had just gone through and had given me an odd look- I think he knows what's going on. "Hurry Remus!" I shouted my Mum was looking steamed and she wasn't moving at all, just standing there staring at me.
Remus yelled "The BURROW!" and I looked at my Mum.
"Don't even try and follow, the ministry's there and I'll have them arrest you as quick as I can, don't think I won't hesitate!" I hissed at my Mum, I couldn't believe she had tried to convert my FRIENDS! It's one thing with me, but them? That just made me explode!
"Listen here Sierra Selene Sitruc! I'm your Mother and you obey whatever I say!"
"You're not my Mother! Not anymore! You're a vile creature I don't ever want to see again! Let Steven go! Take the curse off! I'll report you if you don't! Don't think I won't!" I screamed and I held up my wand, I knew that my Mum had her wand on the kitchen table; she'd left it there at 'breakfast'.
"Sierra, I only answer to my master-."
"MUM! Don't think I won't take it OFF NOW!" I bellowed as loud as I could and I held up my wand, my Mum knew what I was capable of and I knew she'd listen if she knew what was good for her.
"All right, but I need my wand." 'Oh shit, I forgot about that. Now what do I do?' I thought worriedly.
"Okay, get it, but that's the only thing you can do." I followed my Mum into the kitchen and she picked up her wand, I kept my wand poised for attack.
"Finite Incantetum." She said and I ran out of the room grabbing Floo Powder, I shouted back at my Mum.
"If you want to live longer then a week, I suggest you leave." And I stepped through the flames and arrived at the burrow, and burst into tears.
~Back To Normal~
"Sierra!" Lily screamed and ran over and hugged Sierra who was sobbing like a maniac. "What happened?"
Steven ran over. "Sierra, you got her to take it off! Thank you! Oh God I was trying so hard to fight it, I did for a minute…Thank you! What happened to Mum?" Steven asked hugging his sister hard.
"Steve, we need to tell them, it's the only way- she'd of killed them or something if I hadn't got them out of there…" Sierra said sadly. The rest of their friends exchanged confused glanced. "Is the ministry guy here?" Sierra asked hopefully.
"Uh, sorry, that was a lie I made up to get you all out of there, I had a feeling Lily's life was in danger so I got over there as quick as possible." James said sheepishly.
"Arthur does work for the ministry though- just not in the area we'd like." Remus said comfortingly.
"I want to talk to Sirius. Can we bring him over?" Sierra had a look of sadness, and sorrow on her face, and then determination.
"Yeah, but first you have to explain what the Hell that was about!?" Jimena demanded.
"I'm really sorry about your Mum Jim." Sierra said sadly.
"It's okay." Jimena said with a shrug. "We were trying to prepare for our deaths anyway."
"Okay, now I'll explain, but I really would like Sirius to be here when I do."
"Oh all right."
And so soon Sirius was in the living room next to Sierra with his arm around her.
"Steve, you don't have to help if you don't want to- I know it's hard for you." Sierra said taking a deep breath.
"It's okay, if I can help I will, but there's so much I couldn't control-."
"I know, okay here it goes. This summer when I came back home, my Mum seemed the same, everything was normal. I'd been expecting something to be wrong, since she hadn't been writing to me, she and Dad were in constant fights…Me and Steve didn't know what they were about, but we found out quickly. My Mum had joined the Dark Side and was planning on taking Dad, Steve and Me with her. Dad was fighting against her saying he would never join. She kicked him out of the house last night, locked Dad out so he couldn't get to me and Steven; Dad was going to report her, so she stunned him and sent him off to so deserted island he'll be awake soon and will hopefully apparate here, I think he still has his wand. Then me and Steven started fighting back, and she put the Imperious curse on Steven, she had complete control over him! I was terrified and so I decided not to say anything- that was at breakfast. Then you guys came in and I was scared, but decided that Mum might not try anything if you guys were there- she was out numbered. But then she did as soon as James got there, I figured I'd better get you guys out quick, she'd Avada Kedavra you guys without a second thought! I threatened Mum that I'd report her as soon as I got out of the house if she didn't take the curse off…and she finally did after some arguing and now I'm here, I told Mum to leave…since after all she is still my Mum and I don't want her to die!" Sierra said and burst out crying again, and Sirius comforted her. He seemed to know the most out of all of them; Lily figured she'd talked to him about it before or something.
"Oh, Sierra why did you tell us? Or come over?" Jimena asked worriedly, but before anything else could be said the ministry worker guy (Bob) walked in the room from the kitchen and right behind him was Mr. Sitruc who was looking very disgruntled.
"DAD!" Steven and Sierra yelped and ran to hug their dad in a child like way. Their father looked very relieved to see them okay.
"I'm glad your okay, where's…you Mother." Mr. Sitruc hissed with slight hate and sorrow.
"I told Mum to leave, Dad." Sierra said hanging her head guiltily. "I know she's turned evil, but she's still my Mum."
Bob the ministry guy finally spoke up. "Now we have to figure out what to do with all of you kids." It was going to be a long day.
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A/N is it just me or am I making all the parents die, and certain Mums turn evil? Eh, who cares, I'm trying to make it dark and evil like Arthur Weasley tries to describe it in the books. How am I doing? REVIEW or I might not write more! This is going to be longer then I thought, I thought of some more ideas, and I'm going to do a LITTLE post Hogwarts, but not much and then I'll sum up where Remus, Sierra and Jimena end up and maybe Mindy and Robert and others…so yeah. REVIEW!!
*~Sierra~* (The author)
A/N I hope you like this chapter. I guess you all didn't like last chapter much, I only got one review! I'm having an off day I guess…no one was reviewing on either of my stories! *sigh* I guess you can't have everything. This chapter is really exciting in my opinion. Jimena gets into some trouble dragging others in with her. Oh and a lot of crying…Lots of talking…death…
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CHAPTER 29
Lily and Sierra were looking for the Marauders in Diagon Alley. Sierra was the one who was almost always at Lily's house keeping her company.
"Jaaaaaaames!" Lily screamed annoyed that they'd run off again, to most likely go to the joke shop.
"Siiiiiiiiiirius!" Sierra yelled.
"Reeeeeeeemus!" Lily called.
"Peeeeter!" Sierra screamed even louder.
"Lillllllllllllllly!" James called from behind Lily giving her a hug.
"James Potter where were you guys?" Lily asked noticing the rest of the Marauders were back from their 'school' shopping. Their bags were filled with all sorts of prank goodies.
"Just shopping!" Sirius said grinning.
"Let's go to the Robe Shop!" Peter said perkier then normal.
"Let's Gooo Fly a Kite! Up where-." Sirius started singing a Marry Poppins song, but was interrupted by several ("SIRIUS!") and so he shut up.
School shopping was fun, but it kept depressing them knowing that it would their last year for shopping. Plus they were all worrying about Jimena, the Dark Lord had recently found several families that were in hiding and had murdered them all.
Remus was constantly worrying about her. "I hope Jimena's okay." And "I wonder what Jimena is doing." And "I bet Jimena's bored right now." It was quite a pathetic site to see him talk about her. His eyes would then turn all dreamy and he'd lick his lips and you'd wonder what he was thinking about. No one ever asked.
They were busily shopping and went back to their separate houses with their bags full.
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That night Lily was wondering where Mr. Ewing was, since it was past eleven and he was normally home by then. She was sitting in front of the fire place in the main room; finishing up the last of her homework which she'd found at the bottom of her trunk and had been horrified she hadn't done it already.
She was starting to get a bad feeling about something, she knew something was up, and she was starting to worry about Mr. Ewing, James and Jimena. The people she was worried about the most.
Mr. Ewing because he had a dangerous job and wasn't home late and could be dead.
James because she got bad feelings when he was in trouble because the whole curse situation.
Jimena because she was worried that Voldemort might find her hiding place and kill her, Jimena was only with her mother since she was an only child and her father was dead.
She became lost in thought and was tuning out the rest of the world.
So this should go without saying, when a person crashed into her living room through the fire place she was very surprised and scared.
It didn't take two seconds to recognize the sobbing girl who lay on the floor as Jimena Jenkins.
"JIM! What's going on are you okay?" Lily asked loudly running over and hugging her best friend.
"I'm fine, it's just- Lily we HAVE to get out of here! Is Mr. Ewing home?!" Jimena said grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her into the kitchen.
"Uh, no why?"
"Great, come on we have to leave right now! You-know-who is going to be here soon! God, I'm so sorry I put you into this mess!" Jimena said mostly to herself, but the two teenagers ran out of the house at top speed, and were a good distance away when they heard a loud band, and a scream of anger.
"Is that-?"
"You-know-who! He's after *gasp* me and now *gasp* you!" Jimena said running out of breath from running.
"Just don't *gasp* look back and don't stop running!" Lily said equally out of breath. Lily's thoughts were zooming at top speed wondering what to do to get out of their situation. They needed to get somewhere as quick as possible, some place safe. Though at the same time Lily didn't want to endanger anyone, then Lily's thoughts turned to James. If her life was endanger he'd be getting there soon and sure enough a small figure appeared in the sky and there flying on a broom was James.
Lily and Jimena ran as fast as they could in his direction. When he was close enough they started calling him.
"Lily? JIMENA!?" James asked thoroughly confused at seeing Jimena, who was supposed to be hiding.
With some quick thinking they enlarged James broom and jumped on it taking off for the Weasley's which was much closer to the Ewing home then Sirius' house where James had come from.
The three of them were quite uncomfortable on the broom and tumbled off as soon as they reached the ground.
They knocked on the door of a small house, and it was answered by a tired looking woman, with fiery red hair.
"May I help you?" She asked looking at them curiously.
"Is Remus here? It's urgent, and may we use your fire place to contact the Ministry, there's been an attack." Lily said bravely, Jimena was too busy sobbing, and they hadn't told James what had happened yet.
"OH, yes come in, come in. Sit down here; I'll get Arthur- would you like some tea? Oh I'll get Remus too, or-."
"Is it Mrs. Weasley? Well, just go get Remus and your husband and then we'll inform the ministry of what happened. Doesn't you husband work for them?" Lily asked.
Mrs. Weasley got Remus who was surprised to see Jimena but quickly hugged her, and soon everything was being sorted out. Jimena was trying to recover enough to tell the Ministry Worker who came by what had happened.
"My Mum and I were getting ready to go to bed when we heard a loud 'pop' outside our front door, Mum went to go see and she *sniff* came back scared looking and-." Jimena had to take a few deep breaths before she could continue. "She started yelling at me that it was the Dark Lord; he'd found us and then the door exploded open and she handed me floo powder and told me to get out of there." Jimena's voice cracked. "She went to distract him and I went to Lily's because I knew Mr. Ewing was an Auror and might be able to help me, but when I was saying 'The Ewings' ' The Dark Lord heard me, and by then my Mum was already- gone-. I heard him screaming that he was coming after me. I got to Lily's and we ran off as fast as we could. He was there- we heard him come." Jimena couldn't take it anymore and burst into tears and Remus just hugged her.
"Thank you miss, a team of Ministry workers will be at the Ewing home soon to take care of things. You kids seem to be getting into a lot of trouble, not by your own fault mind you. I think it would be best if we move Miss Evans and Miss Jenkins to a new living place to be safe. The Ewing's home isn't safe anymore for you, even with all the precautions we took. I don't know where we're going to put you, not many people will take in kids that are wanted by You-know-who. I think since all four of you seem to be getting mixed in this mess, we may just put you all together some where new, but I'm not sure yet. I'll be back with you soon. I must be going." With that the man left with a small 'pop' as he apparated away somewhere.
Mrs. Weasley offered for them to stay the night, and Lily and Jimena said yes without hesitation, but James contacted the Blacks before making a decision, and he too stayed.
Everyone spent a good full hour trying to comfort Jimena. Mrs. Weasley's children woke up and she had to try and put them back to sleep. All four teenagers were orphans, and they knew what to do to help each other. In the end Lily ended up sobbing as well. She knew Mrs. Jenkins from the time she'd stayed at Jimena's house.
Life wasn't being fair to them at all. Jimena was finally calming down and ended up falling asleep on a squashy chair in the living room. Leaving the other three still awake.
"Poor Jimena, life just isn't FAIR!" Lily whispered harshly.
"I know, look at us, no parents, all of us wanted by the Dark Lord for no REAL reason. Except I'm a werewolf, you two have that curse- but Jimena should be! She didn't do anything but have her father be a seer!" Remus said angrily.
"Where do you think they'll put us? I mean that guy was talking about moving us? I'm just fine at Sirius' house, why can't you guys come there?" James wondered aloud.
"I know, that would be fine with me, but I don't think they'd want us to all be in danger at once."
"Maybe Jimena can at least stay here with me." Remus suggested, looking at his girlfriend. Lily had never known much about that relationship, only as much as she knew about Sierra and Sirius'; everyone knew they were together, but you didn't know WHY they got together or WHAT they did when they were alone- which most people didn't want to know anyway-just in case.
"That could work, but I don't know, we'll have to ask her what she thinks when she wakes up." Lily said quietly. "It's just NOT fair! I hate this! Why!? Why, do they have to kill our parents! Why are we still living and our families are dead?!" Lily whispered with hatred filling her voice.
"Lils, no one knows why- the only thing we know is that Voldemort is a crazy lunatic who wants power, but he won't get it. The only reason you, and Jimena are alive is because Voldemort isn't as good as he thinks, he doesn't plan on everything that could happen when he goes to kill someone, and that's why I was able to save you and Jimena was able to escape. And whoever said life was fair? We're going to have to adjust to the way life is going to be for a while, and have to deal with this and don't let Voldemort get to you, that's just what he wants." James said firmly, they soon went to sleep, worried about what would happen to them in the morning.
*~*~*~*~*
When Lily woke up one thing she HAD expected would have been a letter from the Ministry, one thing she WASN'T expecting was a letter from Petunia. They hadn't spoken for years, no letters, none at all. And then THIS? Lily was in shock.
Lily looked at the letter, and read through it quickly then burst out laughing.
"What's so funny?" James asked rather annoyed at being woken up.
"THIS!" And she burst into quieter giggles. James snatched the letter up and read it but didn't laugh.
"What's so funny about her getting married?" He asked curiously.
"Who's getting married?" Remus asked waking up.
"My sister! To that fat bozo guy she calls her boyfriend! God, he's going to be my brother-in-law! She ACTUALLY invited me! We haven't spoken in years- and then this! HA! Petunia Dursley that sounds perfect!" Lily started laughing again. "God, what will their KID look like? I'm afraid to think of it!"
"So are you going to the wedding?" James asked.
"No-well maybe it depends, I'm not sure if she REALLY wants me to go or if she just wants to annoy me. Oh well, at least it cheered me up." Lily said with a contented sigh, as she watched Jimena wake up.
"What's going on?" Jimena asked groggily.
"Petunia's getting married, and she invited ME!" Lily said, hoping to cheer her friend up.
"Oh that's great." Jimena said absent-mindedly and Lily burst into laughter. "What? Oh never mind." Jimena finally remembered how much Lily was hated by her sister.
Lily continued laughing at the weird situation. "So," Lily said recovering again. "Should I go? It doesn't really matter, but she did go to all that trouble of getting me the invitation…I just don't know, I thought I'd never speak to her again!"
"I think you should go, I mean you never know what could happen…it might be the last time you ever get to see her." Jimena said quietly, and her eyes shined with tears.
Lily sighed, "I just don't want to go, and I mean what would I do? I'd just end up sitting there watching and then I'd leave; she probably just invited me to call me a freak, or to never talk to her again, or something really stupid like that.
"LILY you should go! You don't want to regret it do you?!" Jimena asked loudly, Jimena was upset and now she was getting angry at Lily for almost know reason.
"If I don't want to go, I shouldn't have to Jimena, just because she's my sister doesn't mean I have to go to her wedding, she hates me anyways!" Lily shouted getting angry herself.
"LILY MARIE EVANS! I can't believe you can be so SELFISH! Your sister obviously wants you to go; because she DID invite you! She's your sister and you love her and she loves you even if you don't show it! Or MAYBE you don't love her! She's your SISTER it's your responsibility!" Jimena screamed, tears were flowing down her face, but Lily was too angry to care, this was getting out of hand.
"JIMENA JACQULINE JENKINS! HOW DARE YOU, say that I don't love my sister! You don't know ANTYTHING about our relationship! You weren't THERE, she HATES me and that's that!" Lily screamed and stormed out of the Weasley's living room and ran out of the house James quickly behind her.
Lily ran into the garden and sat down sobbing; ignoring the gnomes that scurried away from her.
"Lily? What's wrong? You never fight with Jimena! What's going on? Is there something you not telling me?" James asked concernedly.
Lily didn't reply. "Lils, come on tell me what's up." James ordered. Lily took a shaky breath and continued.
"My sister and mine's relationship has always been a bit, I don't know- shifty? Then she sent me this letter a long time ago- she hates me for it, she asked me to stay with her and I said no…I'm just confused, I was laughing, not because it was funny, but because I didn't know what else to do! I DO love my sister, but Jimena KNOWS how I feel about Petunia and she just pushed my buttons and something just went off in my head. I didn't care that Jimena is really upset right now, I just was angry and frustrated and needed to take it out on someone, and she obviously was feeling the same way. I never did anything like that to HER when my parents died…maybe because it was summer- but I didn't do anything like that to anyone…well not really- I did yell at you, but that doesn't count." Lily said hotly, she was cooling off then, but she didn't know what to do about her and Jimena.
"Jimena, is really upset right now, you're going to have to let it pass by, her Mum just died, and she's going to be grieving for a while we all know what it's like, everyone handle's it differently. We're just going to have to be there for her, not yell at her and make it worse…I think you should go apologize to her. Before it's too late." James said, and gave Lily a quick hug and walked back to the Weasley's house. And Lily was left alone with her thoughts.
~Right after Lily left in the Weasley living room~
"God, what's up with HER!?" Jimena shouted angrily.
"Jimena, I'm not sure, but I don't think she liked you talking about her sister like that. Lily's touchy about her family; you know that." Remus said softly and wiped the tears off Jimena's face.
"Oh, Remus I know I shouldn't have said it, but she was being so insensitive, my Mum just DIED!" Jimena screeched and started sobbing again. "It's not fair, it's not fair!" Jimena repeated.
"No Jim, it's not fair, but you aren't alone, just remember that. My parents died, Lily's parent died, and so did James' no one is safe. The ministry is trying, but some things can't be stopped as soon as we'd like. Voldemort will be defeated."
"Remus?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't say that bastard's name in my presence okay? It upsets me." Jimena said and started sobbing loudly again. Remus just let her cry on his shoulder for a while and then James walked in.
"How is she?" Remus asked, referring to Lily.
"Oh, she's thinking, she was crying. Jimena you know she's feeling guilty about it, I know nothing much was said between you, but I think it was the way you guys said it that hurt the most."
"I didn't MEAN to hurt her, I was just angry and she was talking about her sister- I don't have a sister, but if I did I'd do anything for her. Plus Lily and Sierra are like my sisters, and if Lily can hate her sister like that, then what about me?" Jimena said after she had stopped crying.
"Jim, you know Lily wasn't thinking like that. You know that her sister has hurt her a lot. I don't know the WHOLE story, I don't even know if there is one, but I don't think we should bring Petunia up in front of Lily again. Lily will decide whatever she decides-. Hey Lils." James said as Lily walked into the room.
Lily's face was stained with tears. "Jim, I'm sorry, I'll go to the wedding, and- I'm so sorry!" She cried and started sobbing and hugging her best friend.
"It's okay Lils, I forgive you and I'm sorry too!" Jimena said and started sobbing as well. They sat their hugging for a long time with the two boys just standing there awkwardly. Mrs. Weasley came down with her kids and they ate breakfast, in much better moods.
Sitting at the table Sierra came up.
"I think we need to tell Sierra and maybe Peter neither of them knows, Sirius found out- he might have told them- but I don't know he can be so irresponsible." Remus said buttering some toast.
"Yeah, owl or floo?" Lily asked grinning slightly.
"Well, if we owl she'll come over, if we go over there we have to deal with Steve, but she'll want to talk to us- Err. Let's just go over there." Jimena said, she wasn't looking forward to telling Sierra what happened, Sierra knew Jimena's Mum well, and she wasn't going to take it well.
"I'll go first!" Lily volunteered and took out so Floo she carried with her. "We won't be gone long Mrs. Weasley if the Ministry comes by tell them to wait, we're talking to one of our friends. James will you stay here and owl Pete? He'll want to know too."
"Sure, have fun guys." James said and waved to his friends as they went to the living room to go through the fire place. An owl flew in from the window and landed on his plate.
It was addressed to Lily so he decided he should read it. It was from Mr. Ewing, saying he would stop by the Weasley's at 10:00 that morning and then discuss the situation with a ministry worker about where Lily would go, Mr. Ewing was going to try and get the kids at his new house, since he was deciding on moving.
'That's good news.' James thought to himself, and folded the letter up and put it back in the envelope. All of a sudden James had terrible feeling wash over him. "Lily." James whispered, and ran for the fire place and grabbed the floo powder and jumped through calling out "The Sitruc's!"
When he arrived everything was normal, sort of.
Sierra, Lily, and Jimena were hugging sobbing and Remus was talking to Mrs. Sitruc. Who looked upset as well, Mrs. Sitruc looked remarkably like Sierra, curly brown hair that was the trade mark that Steven carried as well.
Just at that moment Steven walked in looking…different. He wore and expression of hatred that flickered the moment her noticed the visitors. He had an aura of evil around him, that everyone noticed and they all looked at him with questioning eyes.
"Steve?" Sierra asked through her tears, her brother had changed so much she scarcely recognized him.
"Ah, just the people I'm looking for. Lily, James, Remus and JIMENA." He said Jimena's name with slight disgust that had been fainter on the other three names.
"Steve are you feeling okay? You look…different." Mrs. Sitruc said, walking up to her son, who flinched when she put her hand on his forehead.
"Mum, have you ever thought about which side you were on? You know with the Dark Lord or with…Dumbledore?" Mrs. Sitruc's eyes wavered in a weird way James' couldn't put his finger on, was it 'fear', or 'worry'?
"Son, you know VERY well, what side I'm on, it's the same side as you." James had never thought about this before… but the look on her face didn't seem to be that her side was with Dumbledore, but with VOLDEMORT!
Mrs. Sitruc eyes seemed to change when she looked at James, her eyes filled with hatred and disgust. "I know what side YOU'RE on James Potter."
Sierra stood up swiftly. "Mum, don't, please. Leave him alone." Sierra's eyes filled with fear and she walked in front of her mother and whispered some things between them. James thoughts were swirling, what was UP with Sierra's Mum! The only things he'd heard about her was that she was a nice lady with two kids; he'd assumed she was on the good side since Sierra was.
And what about Steven, what was his looks for? Had he turned too? Traded to the Dark Side? James wasn't sure, but he knew he'd better get Lily out of there quick and everyone else too.
"Guys, we have to go, the Ministry guy is there already. It's urgent." Lily locked eyes with James and saw the look.
"Okay, come on Jim, Remus, Sierra will you come along too?" Lily asked quickly.
"Yeah, is it okay Mum? Steve why don't you come too?" Sierra asked grabbing her brother's arm. Steven's looks changed; they softened as they looked at his sister, but her eyes were still panicked when she looked at her Mum.
"I don't-." Mrs. Sitruc started to say.
"Thanks Mum lets go quick guys don't want to keep them waiting!" Sierra shouted and ran for the Floor powder instructed her brother and shoved him through.
"You next Jim, hurry, then Lily, then James, then Remus and I'll be right behind you, hurry now!" Sierra said panic filling her voice as she hurried her friends through.
~Sierra's POV~
"God, guys go quickly!"
'My Mum has Steve soon she'll have me, she won't have them! This is awful! Why'd Mum do this? She's too cowardly to say no! I did! Steven did, but she said no! No wonder she was in Ravenclaw, she had no bravery, I wonder where those brains went!?' Sierra's thoughts were rushed as she hurried everyone through.
James had just gone through and had given me an odd look- I think he knows what's going on. "Hurry Remus!" I shouted my Mum was looking steamed and she wasn't moving at all, just standing there staring at me.
Remus yelled "The BURROW!" and I looked at my Mum.
"Don't even try and follow, the ministry's there and I'll have them arrest you as quick as I can, don't think I won't hesitate!" I hissed at my Mum, I couldn't believe she had tried to convert my FRIENDS! It's one thing with me, but them? That just made me explode!
"Listen here Sierra Selene Sitruc! I'm your Mother and you obey whatever I say!"
"You're not my Mother! Not anymore! You're a vile creature I don't ever want to see again! Let Steven go! Take the curse off! I'll report you if you don't! Don't think I won't!" I screamed and I held up my wand, I knew that my Mum had her wand on the kitchen table; she'd left it there at 'breakfast'.
"Sierra, I only answer to my master-."
"MUM! Don't think I won't take it OFF NOW!" I bellowed as loud as I could and I held up my wand, my Mum knew what I was capable of and I knew she'd listen if she knew what was good for her.
"All right, but I need my wand." 'Oh shit, I forgot about that. Now what do I do?' I thought worriedly.
"Okay, get it, but that's the only thing you can do." I followed my Mum into the kitchen and she picked up her wand, I kept my wand poised for attack.
"Finite Incantetum." She said and I ran out of the room grabbing Floo Powder, I shouted back at my Mum.
"If you want to live longer then a week, I suggest you leave." And I stepped through the flames and arrived at the burrow, and burst into tears.
~Back To Normal~
"Sierra!" Lily screamed and ran over and hugged Sierra who was sobbing like a maniac. "What happened?"
Steven ran over. "Sierra, you got her to take it off! Thank you! Oh God I was trying so hard to fight it, I did for a minute…Thank you! What happened to Mum?" Steven asked hugging his sister hard.
"Steve, we need to tell them, it's the only way- she'd of killed them or something if I hadn't got them out of there…" Sierra said sadly. The rest of their friends exchanged confused glanced. "Is the ministry guy here?" Sierra asked hopefully.
"Uh, sorry, that was a lie I made up to get you all out of there, I had a feeling Lily's life was in danger so I got over there as quick as possible." James said sheepishly.
"Arthur does work for the ministry though- just not in the area we'd like." Remus said comfortingly.
"I want to talk to Sirius. Can we bring him over?" Sierra had a look of sadness, and sorrow on her face, and then determination.
"Yeah, but first you have to explain what the Hell that was about!?" Jimena demanded.
"I'm really sorry about your Mum Jim." Sierra said sadly.
"It's okay." Jimena said with a shrug. "We were trying to prepare for our deaths anyway."
"Okay, now I'll explain, but I really would like Sirius to be here when I do."
"Oh all right."
And so soon Sirius was in the living room next to Sierra with his arm around her.
"Steve, you don't have to help if you don't want to- I know it's hard for you." Sierra said taking a deep breath.
"It's okay, if I can help I will, but there's so much I couldn't control-."
"I know, okay here it goes. This summer when I came back home, my Mum seemed the same, everything was normal. I'd been expecting something to be wrong, since she hadn't been writing to me, she and Dad were in constant fights…Me and Steve didn't know what they were about, but we found out quickly. My Mum had joined the Dark Side and was planning on taking Dad, Steve and Me with her. Dad was fighting against her saying he would never join. She kicked him out of the house last night, locked Dad out so he couldn't get to me and Steven; Dad was going to report her, so she stunned him and sent him off to so deserted island he'll be awake soon and will hopefully apparate here, I think he still has his wand. Then me and Steven started fighting back, and she put the Imperious curse on Steven, she had complete control over him! I was terrified and so I decided not to say anything- that was at breakfast. Then you guys came in and I was scared, but decided that Mum might not try anything if you guys were there- she was out numbered. But then she did as soon as James got there, I figured I'd better get you guys out quick, she'd Avada Kedavra you guys without a second thought! I threatened Mum that I'd report her as soon as I got out of the house if she didn't take the curse off…and she finally did after some arguing and now I'm here, I told Mum to leave…since after all she is still my Mum and I don't want her to die!" Sierra said and burst out crying again, and Sirius comforted her. He seemed to know the most out of all of them; Lily figured she'd talked to him about it before or something.
"Oh, Sierra why did you tell us? Or come over?" Jimena asked worriedly, but before anything else could be said the ministry worker guy (Bob) walked in the room from the kitchen and right behind him was Mr. Sitruc who was looking very disgruntled.
"DAD!" Steven and Sierra yelped and ran to hug their dad in a child like way. Their father looked very relieved to see them okay.
"I'm glad your okay, where's…you Mother." Mr. Sitruc hissed with slight hate and sorrow.
"I told Mum to leave, Dad." Sierra said hanging her head guiltily. "I know she's turned evil, but she's still my Mum."
Bob the ministry guy finally spoke up. "Now we have to figure out what to do with all of you kids." It was going to be a long day.
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A/N is it just me or am I making all the parents die, and certain Mums turn evil? Eh, who cares, I'm trying to make it dark and evil like Arthur Weasley tries to describe it in the books. How am I doing? REVIEW or I might not write more! This is going to be longer then I thought, I thought of some more ideas, and I'm going to do a LITTLE post Hogwarts, but not much and then I'll sum up where Remus, Sierra and Jimena end up and maybe Mindy and Robert and others…so yeah. REVIEW!!
*~Sierra~* (The author)