Past, Present and Future ~ by someone aka dOvE ~
Chapter 4 – Sister
"Sister I see you
Dancing on the stage
Of memory
Sister I miss you"
~ 'Sister' by The Nixons ~
"Rise and shine honey!" said Sirius, attempting (and failing miserably) a high falsetto.
James groaned and rolled over onto his back, feeling like crap.
"Siriuuuuss…it's Saturday…"
"My point exactly. Who doesn't want to enjoy and beautiful, sunny Saturday morning? C'mon. Up, up!" he said, clapping his hands. "Look, Remus and Peter are already up."
"No thanks to you," said Remus in a bitter voice.
"Well, Gus and Frank have already gone down to breakfast!" said Sirius, in
retaliation.
"Because they went to bed at 9!" shouted James, Remus, and Peter at Sirius, who fell over onto the bed. The three of them chuckled in victory.
Thud, thud, thud.
There was a knock on their dorm room door. Peter, the closest to the door, waddled over to answer it. When he opened the door he revealed the knocker to himself only, for the rest of the Marauders could not see the petite and fair blonde girl with hazel eyes standing in the doorway.
"Excuse me," she said, boldly, "But I'd like to speak to my brother… alone."
Peter bent down, rather amused, as the girl didn't appear to be the sister of any of the Marauders. "And who might your brother be?" he asked, mockingly. The door swung open further revealing her to the rest of the Marauders.
She pointed to James. "Him."
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Lily and Gypsy were strolling outside on the chilly, yet surprisingly sunny Saturday morning.
"So the date with the spunk didn't go well I take it?" Lily asked Gypsy.
"What do you think?" Gypsy said.
Lily automatically knew the answer was no. Of course Gypsy's date didn't go well…her relationships never went well. They were either bogus on the first date, or lasted a while, but Gypsy got bored and made up some excuse for the break up.
"Okay, bad or horrible?" asked Lily, referring to Gypsy's date the previous night.
"I'm sick of having fun. That's all I ever do in a relationship. I want someone who actually cares about me. I mean, it's not like Tom didn't care about me, it's just that he didn't understand stuff. Like, he couldn't even tell when I was feeling down. And last night me and Jacob didn't seem to click. I want a guy who knows me. Someone who can live with all my annoying habits, who likes me for just me and who cares and understands and just sort of knows. Get me?"
Lily nodded. "So basically, instead of a serious relationship when your 20, you want a serious relationship now."
Gypsy nodded. "Why can't there be a male version of you?" They both laughed.
They returned to talking about Gypsy's description. "But the problem is that there's no one like that at Hogwarts."
"Oh there is," said Lily without thinking.
"What?" said Gypsy, swishing her head around. "Who?"
"Nothing…no one."
"Lily…what is it? Is this someone you like?"
"Definitely not. That'd just be weird."
"Well, who are they, and what have they got to do with anything?"
"I can't say…"
"And why the hell not?" Gypsy demanded, her hands on her hips.
"Because…"
"Lily Constance Evans, I DEMAND you tell me this instance!"
Lily was having an inner struggle. On the one hand, if she told her then it might hold good prospects for the both of them, but on the other hand if she did tell her it would be rather mean. But she didn't have to tell him that she had told Gypsy...
"Well, someone likes you…"
Gypsy, shocked, stared, blinking and opening and closing her mouth (looking remarkably like a goldfish) at her for a moment before asking, "Who?"
"Guess."
"Lily, that's not fair," Gypsy pouted. "I have absolutely no idea."
"It's someone you know."
Gypsy shrugged. "I don't know. Just tell me."
"Well it's a he," Lily said, a smile tugging at her lips. She winked.
"No shit," replied Gypsy, unamused.
"And he has sandy brown hair."
"I still have no idea."
"And blue eyes."
"Nope. Not a clue."
"And he's a very, very close friend of yours. Of ours."
Gypsy blinked, still in thought, until realisation dawned upon her as her eyes widened. "What?" she cried.
"I'm surprised you're so shocked. He's practically obsessed with you."
"Gus?" Gypsy's face contorted into confusion. "Gus?!"
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"Him." Fiona Jensen looked James Potter straight in the eye. James turned pale once again (A/N: he seems to be doing that a lot lately eh?).
Remus and Sirius just looked back and forth between the two 'siblings' whose eyes were locked in the gaze. They slipped quietly out of the dorm, shutting the door behind them.
"So…" said Fiona, walking towards him.
James gained his composure for the first time in front of Fiona and said two stable words. "Yes. So…"
Fiona just nodded. "Umm…so I hear you're my brother. How'd that come about?" Fiona asked very casually, as if it was just some of the latest news, no big deal.
James almost laughed at her coolness. He certainly smiled. "Well you see…the birds and bees…" He winked at her, suddenly feeling very confident and returning to his usual self for a long time in days.
Fiona laughed a bit. "No but I'm serious. I overheard you and Lily talking and I know you said you're my brother. But I don't understand. How?"
His face returned to its former self, very grave. "Well we have the same parents," he said, choking out the last word, not knowing what else to say.
"I figured. But how come I have absolutely no idea who you are then?"
"Because I left when I was 10. When you were 5. They made you forget…they wiped out your memory of me."
"They? As in mum and dad?" she asked, her brow creased.
James nodded.
"Why'd you leave?" asked Fiona sitting down on the closest bed to James'.
"Long story," said James, sighing.
"I've got all the time in the world."
James sighed again. "Persistent little bugger, aren't you?"
"No," said Fiona shaking her head. "Not at all. It's just that you're my brother and I want to know how and why."
James nodded slightly. "Well, you know how they…" James gulped, "mum and dad…" he said in a quiet and subdued tone, "You know how they're so into divination?"
Fiona nodded. She had a lot of issues with the subject but decided to keep her thoughts quiet and let James continue.
"Well, when I was born, the divinator told them, while he was foreseeing my future, the two words "evil wizard". They hated me for it and I never knew why. Then when you were born, they treated you SO much better and it made me wonder what I had done that was so bad to deserve that treatment."
Fiona's brow crinkled and eyes became glazed in sadness, but once again let James continue.
"When I was 10, they took me to him again. The guy started mumbling stuff that I couldn't understand and then he said 'greatest evil wizard of all time'." James' voice became toneless and flat. "The news spread through the country. People didn't want to have anything to do with me, they like practically kicked me out of the wizarding world and my parents kicked me out of home. I had nowhere to go until Dumbledore took me in and enrolled me into Hogwarts."
By this time tears had started to come out of Fiona's eyes as she went over to hug her brother.
"James…" she sobbed. "I never knew. I never knew. You're my brother…I have a brother. I have a brilliant brother…" sobbed the girl into James' shoulder.
James put his arms around her. "I haven't hugged you since you were 3 years old," he said, his voice wavering a little. "It feels good. I missed you so much. You were my only friend in the house. I'm glad you're here Fiona. I missed you."
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"Gus?!"
Lily nodded.
"But that's so…strange. So…so surprising. Gus is such a sweetie…as if he would ever like me!"
Lily laughed. "You'd be surprised."
"I am," replied Gypsy frankly.
"Well I can see that this is still sinking in. I have a few things to do so I'm going to head back up to our dorm. Do you wanna come?"
"Nah. I'll stay here for a bit ok?"
Lily nodded. "Cya…" Lily remembered something. "And be sure NOT to tell Gus what I told you, ok?" Gypsy still looked shell-shocked, but nodded all the same.
Lily left and wandered back up to the dorm, not in fact to do work like she had told Gypsy, but so that she could talk to James Potter.
She saw three Marauders sitting in the common room as she entered the full common room. She briskly walked over to Sirius who was sitting in a separate armchair. All three of them were doing work.
"Hey Sirius, where's Pot- … where's James?"
Sirius looked confused. "Umm…up in our dorm. Why?"
"Urm…because I have a message for him," said Lily, brushing him off.
"Oh, ok," said Sirius, still sort of confused. Lily had turned to leave. "But you might not want to interrupt. He's with," Sirius' tone dropped as Lily walked briskly up the stairs, "Fiona."
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James hugged his little sister as tears glistened on his cheeks, something he hadn't done in 8 years, when he heard a knock at the door.
Fiona answered automatically. "Come in."
James, figuring it would be Sirius, Remus and Peter, was surprised to see the red-haired, green-eyed, 6th year walk through the door.
He pulled away for Fiona quickly and quickly wiped away the tears from his
cheeks, but it was too late, for Lily had already seen them.
"Oh," said Lily awkwardly. "Um, sorry. I'll um…I was just…um…Sirius said…um…sorry," she said lamely.
"No, it's okay, Lily. It's alright. I was just about to leave anyway," said Fiona.
James crinkled his brow. "Don't go. Please don't go. I just….you just don't go."
"No, really, Fiona, I'll leave. You stay."
"No I really can't. I'm already late. I was supposed to meet Riana and Saminda in the library 15 minutes ago."
"What happened to 'I have all the time in the world'?" asked James, more anxious than joking.
Fiona chuckled. "I guess all the time in the world ran out." She frowned a little at James' still sour expression, but then smiled apologetically. "Look, I'll see you soon, ok James? Don't worry. And we'll talk more about this later. I really have to go. Ok?"
All James could do was nod. Fiona hugged her brother again and kissed him on the cheek. "Goodbye, James." The blonde girl left the room and shut the door behind her.
"Umm…sorry?" provided Lily, once again lamely.
"Evans," said James in an annoyed and almost hurt tone, "what did you do that for? And what do you want?"
Lily looked guilty. "Oops. I really didn't know she was in here. I … I-"
James put his hand up and stopped her mid-sentence. "Look, I don't want to hear it ok?" he said. It was obvious to anyone that he was tired and frustrated.
"Look I'm just trying to apologise. I honestly wouldn't have interrupted if I had known she was in here."
"Well it's too late for that now, isn't it? Perfect Lily, just perfect. As if my life is already screwed up enough as it is! You just had to go and ruin it even more, didn't you?!"
Lily became annoyed at his annoyance. "Why the hell are you getting so angry? I said it was an accident!"
James stood up in anger. "It may have been an accident Evans, but the accident was because of YOU being careless and selfish!" James definitely knew this wasn't true but was feeling so frustrated that he didn't care.
"I'M CARELESS? I'M SELFISH?" cried Lily indignantly. "I think you should have a good look at yourself before you start criticising other people for being careless and selfish, Potter."
And with that Lily stormed out of the dormitory in rage, and left James there feeling like his good day had been ruined, not by Lily Evans being an idiot, but by him being an idiot towards Lily Evans.
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"Argh!" cried Lily, still in a rage. "The nerve of him!"
"Who?" asked Frankie, coming up along behind her. She now realised that she had reached the common room.
"No, wait…let me guess," said Gus, pretending to be deep in thought. He knew perfectly well who that "he" was, but liked to tease Lily about it. But who didn't? "Hmm…" he continued, "someone that could get you this angry, that's of the male gender…hmm….I'm about 100% sure its James Potter."
"Who else?" Lily said, seething.
"Awww, tell Frankie what Potty did now," said Frankie in a baby voice.
"He…James Potter…called ME careless and selfish. He, of all people, had the nerve to call me selfish. Mr King of Selfishness! ARGH!"
"Why did he call you that?"
"Because I walked in on him with his sister-" Lily stopped abruptly, realising what she had just said. She wasn't supposed to tell anyone this. It wasn't even her secret to tell.
"Sister?" asked Frankie, now really confused. "What sister?" Frank was James' roommate for 6 years running and he'd be buggered if he thought James ever had a sister.
"Oh what's the point?" said Lily, softly, before proceeding to explain the story of James Potter's life to Frankie with a thousand "You can't tell ANYBODY" 's in between.
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