Chapter 30 - The Warning
Lily was laying on her bed trying to figure out how to tell them what was going on, but so far all she had was, "oh, and by the way, we all have an evil wizard out to kill us because we have special powers."
Lily sighed in frustration and flipped over onto her stomach and stared at her bed's headboard. 'Maybe I can just tell them straight out,' she thought. 'But what if one of them freaks out, what are you going to do then?' Lily sighed again. 'All of this thinking is giving me a headache.' She flipped back onto her back. Just then, her hangings were pushed back and Kayla and Aria climbed onto her bed and sat down on either side of her.
"What's up?" Kayla asked as she crossed her legs and stared at her best friend.
Lily sighed again. 'Might as well start here,' she thought as she scooted up on the bed until her back rested against her pillows.
"Well you see, Professor Dumbledore told me something that also affects you guys, but I don't know how to tell you what I'm supposed to tell you." Aria and Kayla looked at Lily with frowns gracing their faces.
"Just tell us," Kayla demanded.
"Okay." Lily took a deep breath and retold everything that Dumbledore had told her about the threat with Voldemort, and the training.
"You were worked up over telling us something like that!" Kayla yelled with disbelief. "Jesus Christ. I thought that someone had died or something, only to find out that we are being watched or whatever by some moron who thinks that he can rule the world by killing people!"
Lily looked at her friend with a sheepish expression. "Oops. Sorry. I didn't mean for you to worry," she responded to them with a soft voice.
Aria sighed and shook her head. "Of course we'll worry when the Headmaster requests to see only you, then you come out and don't even notice us!" she scolded.
Lily sighed once again and looked at her friends. "I guess I better find the boys then and tell them what's going on," she groaned out as she swung her legs over to the edge of her bed and stood up. "You willing to come with me?" She looked over her shoulder at her friends while she slipped on her shoes.
Kayla and Aria shrugged their shoulders and got up.
"You know, I just realized something," Lily confided to them as they walked out of the Ravenclaw common room.
"That you are secretly in love with me, Severus Snape?" a voice drawled from behind the girls.
Lily whirled around and glared at Snape. "In your dreams you slimy perverted git!" Lily snapped angrily at him.
Snape shrunk under her glare and said in a little voice, "But Lily darling, we are meant to be together. You love me, you said so yourself, and I love you."
Lily, still glaring daggers at him, growled in a low, dangerous voice, "I have never said any such thing to you!"
Snape smirked and haughtily replied, "You have indeed shown that you love me. I mean, you did after all decide to date my archenemy to get me to notice you, which you need not have done, as I have always noticed you. That alone is a declaration of love if I do say so myself."
"Snape, I wouldn't touch you if you were the last male on Earth. What makes you think that I'd stoop as low as to try to get your attention? I don't even want it in the first place, so leave me alone!" she snarled at him before she stomped off in the opposite direction, towards the Gryffindor common room.
Kayla and Aria looked at each other, amusement dancing in their eyes. Malfoy might be the one who got to Kayla the easiest, but when it came to Lily, no one could push her buttons like Snape. And no matter how hard she tried, Lily always ended up yelling at him every time they crossed paths. It was rather amusing, watching her fight with him. At least it was in Kayla and Aria's mind.
"Lils, do you even know the password for the Gryffindor Tower?" Aria asked inquiringly as they stopped in front of a fat lady in a pink fluffy dress.
"Candle snitchs," Lily told the picture with a strained voice, and it creaked open to reveal a red and gold common room.
The girls walked in to the common room, and searched for the boys. "You guys aren't allowed in here," a first year Gryffindor girl informed them with a superior tone while she was attempting to glare down her nose at the three taller girls.
"You'll get used to seeing us here. We are looking for three guys, can you help us?" Kayla requested of the little girl.
"You are not allowed in the Gryffindor common room. You are not Gryffindors," the girl replied once more.
Lily drew in a deep breath and, beginning to get irritated by people in general, looked around for someone who could help them. "Oy! Brent!" she called out to a sixth year Gryffindor.
Brent McMain looked over his shoulder to see who had called him and smiled and waved at Lily.
Lily took three deep breaths to settle the temper that she knew was quickly going from simmer to boil. "Could you help us, Brent?" she asked in a tight voice, a warning to Kayla and Aria of her repressed anger.
Brent looked at her and wonderingly asked, "Sure, what with?"
Lily pointed to the four-foot-something girl in front of her and asked as politely as she could, "Will you please explain to her that we are forever coming into here, and are welcome so that we can look for those three idiots that we hang out with?"
Brent smiled and looked at the first year that stood defiantly in front of the two of the most temperamental girls in Hogwarts. "You're name is Rachel, isn't it?" he asked of the first year.
"Yes, it is." She gladly replied.
"These three girls right here," he advised her, pointing to Lily, Kayla and Aria, "are in here more times than not, and they have always been welcome in here. Don't ask why, but they are. So, if you see them in here again, don't try to kick them out okay?"
The little girl mumbled a sorry to the girls and ran to sit with her friends.
"Oh, and the boys are up in their room. You know where it is," Brent told them as he walked back to where he was sitting.
"Thank you!" Lily yelled as they began to climb the steps leading to the seventh year boy's dorm room. Aria knocked, and Lily opened the door, not even waiting for an answer.
They hadn't even been back a full day and already clothes were thrown all over the red and gold room. Their red and gold sheets were messed up, and they had candy wrappers littering the ground.
"Lily!" James cried with excitement, regardless that they had parted little over two hours ago.
"Aria!" Remus said, stunned, not expecting to see his shy girlfriend enter the boys' dorm at ten o'clock at night.
"Kayla!" Sirius screamed over-excitedly.
"Oh, no," Peter muttered, disgusted, as he heard his friends. And they were having such a good time talking about all of the girls that they had laid before they came along.
"We need to talk with you guys," Lily said as she hugged James and sat on his bed cross-legged. "Peter, could you go?" she requested, knowing that he would go anyways.
Peter grumbled, but got up anyways and walked out of the door.
"What?" Sirius questioned as he leaned against the headboard on his bed with Kayla leaning on him.
"Well-" she said, then continued to inform them of everything else.
"Let me get this straight," James thought out loud as he paced the floor next to his bed. "Voldemort is after us because he wants our powers, and now we have to train to become stronger so that WE can defeat him?" he asked Lily uncertainly. Lily nodded her head.
James sighed and fell back on his bed with his arms spread. "At least I get what you're talking about," he muttered.
"When do we start our training?" Remus asked Lily as he drew Aria closer to him.
Lily shook her head. "I don't know. I don't even know how we're going to do so without anyone knowing. I think Dumbledore is trying to figure something out."
Everyone became silent.
"What now?" Sirius wondered.
"We get ready to train," Lily explained to them. "Start working up your system so that you are able to withstand more, practice more, outlast longer."
Five sets of groans were heard. It was common knowledge that she meant running and exercise.
"Lily, shut up while you're ahead. We know how you like to run, but the rest of us despise it!" Kayla groaned as she half-heartedly threw one of Sirius' pillows at her. It landed on James' face instead. "Oops," Kayla coyly whispered an instant before the pillow was thrown back at her. Kayla hid behind Sirius so that it would hit him instead.
"That's it!" Sirius called out as he was beaned with the pillow. "All out PILLOW WAR!!"
And the supposedly mature seventh years had them selves a pillow war. That was, until the perfects decided to break it up and banish the pillows away, anyway.
"Hey! I was using that!" Sirius yelled at the retreating fifth year perfect who had banished his pillow in mid-swing and made him lose his balance and fall on top of Kayla.
A loud "Oomph" was heard before Sirius was pushed off of her and on to the hard wooden floor, laughter resounding from the rest of his friends, and thoughts of danger far from their minds.
Lily was laying on her bed trying to figure out how to tell them what was going on, but so far all she had was, "oh, and by the way, we all have an evil wizard out to kill us because we have special powers."
Lily sighed in frustration and flipped over onto her stomach and stared at her bed's headboard. 'Maybe I can just tell them straight out,' she thought. 'But what if one of them freaks out, what are you going to do then?' Lily sighed again. 'All of this thinking is giving me a headache.' She flipped back onto her back. Just then, her hangings were pushed back and Kayla and Aria climbed onto her bed and sat down on either side of her.
"What's up?" Kayla asked as she crossed her legs and stared at her best friend.
Lily sighed again. 'Might as well start here,' she thought as she scooted up on the bed until her back rested against her pillows.
"Well you see, Professor Dumbledore told me something that also affects you guys, but I don't know how to tell you what I'm supposed to tell you." Aria and Kayla looked at Lily with frowns gracing their faces.
"Just tell us," Kayla demanded.
"Okay." Lily took a deep breath and retold everything that Dumbledore had told her about the threat with Voldemort, and the training.
"You were worked up over telling us something like that!" Kayla yelled with disbelief. "Jesus Christ. I thought that someone had died or something, only to find out that we are being watched or whatever by some moron who thinks that he can rule the world by killing people!"
Lily looked at her friend with a sheepish expression. "Oops. Sorry. I didn't mean for you to worry," she responded to them with a soft voice.
Aria sighed and shook her head. "Of course we'll worry when the Headmaster requests to see only you, then you come out and don't even notice us!" she scolded.
Lily sighed once again and looked at her friends. "I guess I better find the boys then and tell them what's going on," she groaned out as she swung her legs over to the edge of her bed and stood up. "You willing to come with me?" She looked over her shoulder at her friends while she slipped on her shoes.
Kayla and Aria shrugged their shoulders and got up.
"You know, I just realized something," Lily confided to them as they walked out of the Ravenclaw common room.
"That you are secretly in love with me, Severus Snape?" a voice drawled from behind the girls.
Lily whirled around and glared at Snape. "In your dreams you slimy perverted git!" Lily snapped angrily at him.
Snape shrunk under her glare and said in a little voice, "But Lily darling, we are meant to be together. You love me, you said so yourself, and I love you."
Lily, still glaring daggers at him, growled in a low, dangerous voice, "I have never said any such thing to you!"
Snape smirked and haughtily replied, "You have indeed shown that you love me. I mean, you did after all decide to date my archenemy to get me to notice you, which you need not have done, as I have always noticed you. That alone is a declaration of love if I do say so myself."
"Snape, I wouldn't touch you if you were the last male on Earth. What makes you think that I'd stoop as low as to try to get your attention? I don't even want it in the first place, so leave me alone!" she snarled at him before she stomped off in the opposite direction, towards the Gryffindor common room.
Kayla and Aria looked at each other, amusement dancing in their eyes. Malfoy might be the one who got to Kayla the easiest, but when it came to Lily, no one could push her buttons like Snape. And no matter how hard she tried, Lily always ended up yelling at him every time they crossed paths. It was rather amusing, watching her fight with him. At least it was in Kayla and Aria's mind.
"Lils, do you even know the password for the Gryffindor Tower?" Aria asked inquiringly as they stopped in front of a fat lady in a pink fluffy dress.
"Candle snitchs," Lily told the picture with a strained voice, and it creaked open to reveal a red and gold common room.
The girls walked in to the common room, and searched for the boys. "You guys aren't allowed in here," a first year Gryffindor girl informed them with a superior tone while she was attempting to glare down her nose at the three taller girls.
"You'll get used to seeing us here. We are looking for three guys, can you help us?" Kayla requested of the little girl.
"You are not allowed in the Gryffindor common room. You are not Gryffindors," the girl replied once more.
Lily drew in a deep breath and, beginning to get irritated by people in general, looked around for someone who could help them. "Oy! Brent!" she called out to a sixth year Gryffindor.
Brent McMain looked over his shoulder to see who had called him and smiled and waved at Lily.
Lily took three deep breaths to settle the temper that she knew was quickly going from simmer to boil. "Could you help us, Brent?" she asked in a tight voice, a warning to Kayla and Aria of her repressed anger.
Brent looked at her and wonderingly asked, "Sure, what with?"
Lily pointed to the four-foot-something girl in front of her and asked as politely as she could, "Will you please explain to her that we are forever coming into here, and are welcome so that we can look for those three idiots that we hang out with?"
Brent smiled and looked at the first year that stood defiantly in front of the two of the most temperamental girls in Hogwarts. "You're name is Rachel, isn't it?" he asked of the first year.
"Yes, it is." She gladly replied.
"These three girls right here," he advised her, pointing to Lily, Kayla and Aria, "are in here more times than not, and they have always been welcome in here. Don't ask why, but they are. So, if you see them in here again, don't try to kick them out okay?"
The little girl mumbled a sorry to the girls and ran to sit with her friends.
"Oh, and the boys are up in their room. You know where it is," Brent told them as he walked back to where he was sitting.
"Thank you!" Lily yelled as they began to climb the steps leading to the seventh year boy's dorm room. Aria knocked, and Lily opened the door, not even waiting for an answer.
They hadn't even been back a full day and already clothes were thrown all over the red and gold room. Their red and gold sheets were messed up, and they had candy wrappers littering the ground.
"Lily!" James cried with excitement, regardless that they had parted little over two hours ago.
"Aria!" Remus said, stunned, not expecting to see his shy girlfriend enter the boys' dorm at ten o'clock at night.
"Kayla!" Sirius screamed over-excitedly.
"Oh, no," Peter muttered, disgusted, as he heard his friends. And they were having such a good time talking about all of the girls that they had laid before they came along.
"We need to talk with you guys," Lily said as she hugged James and sat on his bed cross-legged. "Peter, could you go?" she requested, knowing that he would go anyways.
Peter grumbled, but got up anyways and walked out of the door.
"What?" Sirius questioned as he leaned against the headboard on his bed with Kayla leaning on him.
"Well-" she said, then continued to inform them of everything else.
"Let me get this straight," James thought out loud as he paced the floor next to his bed. "Voldemort is after us because he wants our powers, and now we have to train to become stronger so that WE can defeat him?" he asked Lily uncertainly. Lily nodded her head.
James sighed and fell back on his bed with his arms spread. "At least I get what you're talking about," he muttered.
"When do we start our training?" Remus asked Lily as he drew Aria closer to him.
Lily shook her head. "I don't know. I don't even know how we're going to do so without anyone knowing. I think Dumbledore is trying to figure something out."
Everyone became silent.
"What now?" Sirius wondered.
"We get ready to train," Lily explained to them. "Start working up your system so that you are able to withstand more, practice more, outlast longer."
Five sets of groans were heard. It was common knowledge that she meant running and exercise.
"Lily, shut up while you're ahead. We know how you like to run, but the rest of us despise it!" Kayla groaned as she half-heartedly threw one of Sirius' pillows at her. It landed on James' face instead. "Oops," Kayla coyly whispered an instant before the pillow was thrown back at her. Kayla hid behind Sirius so that it would hit him instead.
"That's it!" Sirius called out as he was beaned with the pillow. "All out PILLOW WAR!!"
And the supposedly mature seventh years had them selves a pillow war. That was, until the perfects decided to break it up and banish the pillows away, anyway.
"Hey! I was using that!" Sirius yelled at the retreating fifth year perfect who had banished his pillow in mid-swing and made him lose his balance and fall on top of Kayla.
A loud "Oomph" was heard before Sirius was pushed off of her and on to the hard wooden floor, laughter resounding from the rest of his friends, and thoughts of danger far from their minds.