Disclaimer: I don't own Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter etc. I do own Vanessa. And probably some others.

AN: I know, I know, I shouldn't start a new fic until I've finished the others I've got going (I didn't need a letter, the diary of Bill (the pony) and a couple of others.), but this just came to me, and I needed to write it. And Jen will probably kill me if I don't. And Jen, don't worry, you're not Vanessa.

Little Eagle

Lily Evans walked into platform nine and three quarters, fifteen minutes before the Hogwarts express was due to leave.

"It is so good to be back," She said to herself.

"No Petunia, huh?" A voice said from behind her.

"Sirius!" Lily squealed, as Sirius swung her up in a giant hug.

"Hey there, Little Lillian!" Sirius grinned.

"Don't call me -Remus!" Lily had spotted another of her friends.

"Don't call you Remus, huh?" Sirius laughed.

"No, I meant: Don't call me - James!" Lily finished hugging Remus, and ran over to another boy, and hugged him.

"Don't call you James?" Sirius raised his eyebrows, but Lily ignored him.

"You made prefect! Like me!" She said to James, and kissed him on the cheek.

"And me," Remus added.

"And me! Do I get a kiss?" Sirius made puppy dog eyes at Lily.

"You are not a prefect!" Lily answered.

"True," Sirius grinned, and James and Remus breathed sighs of relief.

"They'd have to be mad to make him a prefect," Another boy came up to them.

"Peter!" Lily smiled.

"Pete-ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…." Sirius pretended to look miserable, "What did you mean by that comment?"

"You know perfectly well what I meant," Peter answered.

"Lets go get a compartment!" Lily suggested, and -with some help- heaved her trunk onto the train.

"That damn trunk is twice as large as you are!" Sirius complained.

"That's not hard," James said.

"Shut up!" Lily glared at him. She had been a head shorter than everyone else when they had first met, and the joke had continued for six years even though she was the same height as Remus.

"Won't." James answered.

"I'll make you."

"Like to see you try."

"They still fight like an old married couple." Sirius sighed to Remus.

~~FlashBack~~

"SHUT UP POTTER!"

"MAKE ME EVANS!"

"FINE! I WILL!"

"God, you two are like an old married couple," Sirius told Lily and James for the millionth time.

"An old married couple?" Lily snorted, but James was grinning.

"Oh Lily, dearest," He said, kneeling in front of her, "Wilt thou marry me?"

"Oh James!" Lily gasped, and pretended to swoon, "Of course I will!"

"Can I be the best man?" Sirius has asked siriusly (hehe).

"Yes." James laughed.

"Great! And Remus'll be bridesmaid, and Pete-ie can be flower girl!" Sirius said brightly, and Remus choked on his dinner.

~~End FlashBack~~

"Hello?" A fifth year girl stuck her head into their compartment -just in time to get James's curse that was meant to turn Lily's hair pink.

"Vanessa!" Peter leapt up. "Guys, you know Vanessa!"

"Yeah." Sirius nodded, as Peter turned Vanessa's hair back to its natural blonde.

"Can I sit with you, Petie-pie?" Vanessa fluttered her eyelashes at him.

"Um," Peter looked at his friends.
"N-" Sirius opened his mouth to say no, but Lily shook her head.

"How about you two go up to the end of the train, there's a free compartment. We cursed the door, so you just need to do the counter curse to Jelly Legs to get in." Lily suggested, smiling. "I'm sure you need a chance to catch up." She said it all with a poker face.

"That's a wonderful idea!" Vanessa grabbed Peter's arm, "Come on Petie-sweetie." She dragged him out of the compartment.

"Thanks Lily." Sirius nodded, "It's always so boring when girls sit with us. They tell everyone our plots."

"Excuse me? I'm not a girl?" Lily's voice had an icy edge to it.

"You're not a normal girl, Lil, you're one of us."

Lily flopped down in an armchair in the Gryffindor common room. The train ride was over, as was the feast, and all she wanted to do was rest.

"Hey Lily." Remus sat down next to her, and Sirius on her other side. Peter was off with Vanessa somewhere, and James sat down on Sirius's other side.

"What is it?" Lily groaned. "I will not go out and pull a prank tonight, I am too tired."

"Aw, poor baby." Sirius said.

"Shut up Sirius." Lily glared at him. "It's eleven o clock, we have school tomorrow, and there is no one in here but us."

"Come for a stroll with us." James said.

"Where to?"

"Slytherin common room. We want to dye all the boys robes bright pink." Sirius smiled, and Lily laughed.

"Okay. Just this once." She smiled.

"Great." The four of them slipped under James's magically enlarged cloak, and headed to the Slytherin common room.

"So, Lily, who's robes do you want to do?" Remus asked.

"Snape's." Lily answered, and Sirius sighed.

"I wanted to do Snape's." He pouted. "Pwease, Lily Billy…"

"No. You always get Snape. I want a turn."

"Fine."

The four proceeded in silence to the Slytherin rooms. They put all the Slytherins into a deep sleep, so even if they screamed and yelled, none of them would wake up. Then they dyed all the boys robes bright pink, and all the girls robes baby puke green, and had a look at the common room.

"It needs something." Lily smiled at pointed her wand at everything she thought need a change. Everything that her wand pointed to was instantly covered in lots of garish pink hearts.

"Nice one." James nodded his head in approval.

"Well, guys, I think our work here is done." Sirius smiled widely.

"For the last time, I AM NOT A GUY!" Lily snapped, "I am a girl. Female."

"Lily, we don't include you in the general population of girls because you're a marauder." Sirius sighed.

"That's just it." Lily's voice was cold, and the anger she had been feeling for a long time spilled over, "I am not a proper marauder. You wouldn't let me sign you map, even though I did a lot of work on it for you. You deliberately lied to me to stop me from becoming an animagus, even though I did a hell of a lot of research for you, and two years worth of your homework." Lily felt her tears brimming over.

"Lily, we did it to protect you," James said soothingly.

"From what?" Lily spat.

"There are all sorts of things that can go wrong in an animagus transformation-"

"And those things can't happen to you?" Lily snarled, "You wouldn't let me become an animagi to help one of my best friends because I'm a girl. Face it. You're all sexist."

"Lily, we did it because we didn't know if your magic wa-" Sirius started,

"Good enough?" Lily slapped Sirius, "The fact that I get higher grades than all of you, have stronger magic than all of you apart from Potter, The fact that none of you would of been able to become animagi without my help, none of that meant anything?"

"Lily, please-" James said, but Lily had already stormed off, taking the invisibility cloak with her. "Oh shit."

"Oh shit is right." Sirius said, and Remus looked troubled.

"We should go," He said, "The Slytherins are waking up…"

"Yeah." James nodded, and the three hurried out. They got about three corridors away before they walked right into Filtch.

"I hate them." Lily sniffed, stalking back to the Gryffindor tower.

No you don't, a voice inside her said, you're just angry with them.

Damn right. Lily replied to herself.

You should make it up. They're your best friends, and what's this quarrel really about?

Them not letting me be an animagi, because I'm a girl.

And how do you become an animagi? Her inner voice coaxed.

You make the potion, then you put safeguards on your body and mind, and drink the potion, and then you change.

What happened to the fourth part of the potion. The boys only used enough for three people.

Well, it's indestructible… so the must of hidden it somewhere. I just need to find it…

Exactly

Well, that's the first part of Little Eagle done. You like? You hate? Please tell me!

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