Title: Hate to Say I Told You So

Author: Child of the Wolves

Summery: Takes place when Lily is seven, she lives in London with her mother, and her father lives in New York. One night, Lily's mom leaves and doesn't come back and Lily is sent away from her home to live with her father. Seven years later, about a quarter through her fourth year at Polion, her wizarding school, her father dies of cancer and she is sent straight to Hogwarts to finish off the quarter. Once the quarter is finished Lily goes back to her mother for the winter holidays, but she's met with a surprise.

Disclaimer: I don't own it... ext. ext. I hate disclaimers.

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"Holy shit, man." Remus looks taken aback. All around them, there were tiny rabbits, and grass covered hills with candy growing out of the dirt, topped off with a huge rainbow.

"What a dream," comments Lily, as she breaks off a piece of a candy cane, growing out of the earthen ground. The whole place shakes as she does so and she instantly draws her hand away from it, letting the huge red and white swirled candy fall to the ground. "What? I didn't do it!"

"Do what, Lils?"

"That's the Spirit, Remus."

As they start to walk together in a frightened, huddle up bunch, they pass signs with random squiggles on them, and arrows points in direction. Some with obscene pictures next to them, which could only exist in Sirius's mind.

"Oh Sirius. that's sick." Lily sighs as she stares at one of the signs, an arrow point northeast with a revolting sketch upon it. "Horses and Pigs can't do that, you freak."

They all quickly take the closest path away from the Horse sign, going southwest. Soon, they find a beaten dirt path, worn with age and wear, and then a small village. The door swings as they enter a restaurant. Sitting at tables are tiny midgets eating bananas. Remus and Lily turn to James as though clearly stating, 'this is all you're fault and we hate you for it.'

"What'll it be, dudes?" A small midget woman dressed in a long maroon dress robe with pigtails questions them, cocking her head in a child like manner.

"One, please."

"One what?"

"You know what."

"Coming right up."

"This is getting too weird for me, James," Remus mumbles as they sit at a tiny preschool green and yellow plastic table. The woman comes back with a few glasses of thick oily yellow stuff, which sprouts immense amounts of steam from it. Of course, topped with umbrellas. "Nope, too weird!"

With that, the frightened Remus grabs James's wand and mutters a few words, and they all wake up, gasping in fright at Sirius's chaotic dream.

"Lets never speak of this again." Lily sighs in a hushed voice. If she remembered that when she graduated, it'd be too soon.

"Agreed," James replies as Remus echoes the words after him.

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"WHOO! Winter break! WHOO!" Sirius cries at the top of his lungs as they all pour out of the school, Remus pounding James on the back with a snowball. It breaks, snow cascading down his back, creating a shower for all around him.

Lily snorts as she stands, watching, a girl with long waist length brown hair and long, dark eyelashes standing next to her.

The boys were fine, but when it came to other issues, Lily desperately needed a female friend. And a female friend she had found. Sienna had been a best friend with the three other girls who shared their dorm. But a fight had broken loose halfway into third year, leaving her to pick up the peaces. Lily had yet to find out what the fight was about, but since then, the hazel haired girl had created a wall, letting no emotions out. That is, until she met Lily.

As it turns out, Sienna's parents were divorced as well, and her mother was dead, so she went to live with her father, stepmother, and stepsiblings, Eryca and Logan, during the holidays. She never complained about them, but she never said anything positive about them either.

"Rain drops are falling on my head!" screams Sirius into the sky as snow starts to gently descend from the heavens. "But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turni- UGH!"

A giggle from Lily turns into a chuckle, and guffaw, and soon into a hoot of laughter as Sienna stands nearby, looking as innocent as possible, all the while whipping her slippery, damp hands on the back of her robes.

"Oh that's it. You're dead." Sirius cries, flinging himself after Sienna, an Indian war cry escaping his lips. As he busies himself with the coffee-haired teen, Lily busies herself creating a snowball of mass proportion. Finally, she gives up, breaking the snowball, which is the size of her head, in two, to chuck at both Remus and James.

But before she can deal out her dooms day devices, a large amount of snow comes crashing onto her head, making her loose ringlets of auburn curls damp with moister and cling to her head. She opens her emerald eyes furiously, looking up. "James Potter, you're gonna get it!"

With that, she jumps up, carrying both of the huge snowballs in either one of her hands. She chucks one of them at him and it hits his back. He looks back, his messy hair covering the top of his laughing baby blue eyes. She takes her opportunity, throwing the second, watching as it hits him straight in the face. "Hah!" Her success, however, is quickly damped as she shrieks and runs away as the boy pulls a snowball from under his robe sleeves, racing after her.

Lily races at her full speed, which is unsurprisingly quick, with her lithe build and petite body structure. She makes her way towards the forest, hearing James's ever-present footsteps behind her. From what seems far off in the distance, she can just make out another war cry and Sienna mock shriek in return. She laughs, turning her head around to see how far James was behind her. Oops. Mistake.

She misses a large root, hidden in the snow, and instantly sprawls over it. But her foot latches into the small hole as the rest of her body goes forward. Letting a cry of surprise exit her mouth, her eyes instantly begin to water. She had broken a bone only once, and it had been her toe when she had kicked a ball too hard in elementary school. But pain instantly screams through her body, causing her vivid eyes to water even more.

"Lily! Lily, are you ok?"

"Yea, peachy, James. Never been better. Say how's a game of chess?" she says, sarcasm dripping from her voice.

He bends down, unlatching her foot from the disfigured root, ignoring her comment. Examining it, he rotates the ankle one-way, and then the other. "Does this hurt?"

A quick slap on his hand to get him away from the ankle tells him yes, it does indeed hurt. Groaning slightly, he bends over and lifts the fourteen year old in his arms and makes his way down the trail.

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"Well, we'll have you fixed up fine, broken bones aren't difficult to mend." Exclaims Madam Lorienna, the school nurse, with a tone a bit too happy for Lily's own liking. The middle-aged plump lady walks over to a few cabinets, bustling through them, mixing ingredients. The three boys and Sienna all sit by the bed she rests upon, her swollen ankle resting at the end. All they can do is watch, James with a guilty look upon himself. She reads him like a book.

"James. You didn't do anything. I'm stupid. It's my fault."

"I shouldn't have chased you."

"Dude.. Prongs. shut. up." Comes a smart mouth remark from Sirius. Lily shoots him a grateful look. She's not too great with accepting or making apologies. It just felt awkward.

Madam Lorienna makes her way back to the bed, placing a foaming goblet next to Lily's bed on a stand. "Just drink that in one gulp. The whole thing, mind you, we don't want you growing any extra bones." She laughs. Lily however, looks at her as though she's mad. She instantly picks up the goblet, gulping it all down in one breath, though it wasn't exactly an easy task with all four friends next to her bedside chanting 'Chug, chug, chug, chug."

She rotates her ankle around. It's still sore. But oh well. Who cares? The bone was mended, that's what matters.

"Now you should stay the night and keep the ankle elevated-"

"No, I'm fine," Lily, cries, jumping off the bed, cringing as she lands on the ankle. She immediately waltzes out of the room with Sirius (literally) before the nurse can make her stay.

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"My god, Sirius, you suck! Can't you see you're tower, right there!?" James cries at Sirius on the train. The two brown haired boys, Sirius and Remus, were playing a game of Chess while James had taken the job of pointing out every one of Sirius's false moves. James was the one who taught both wizarding chess, but he had taught Remus first, giving the friendly boy much more of an advantage.

Lily and Sienna sit in the corner of the large compartment, talking in whispers, both of their makeup is spread out on the seats and Lily is currently painting Sienna's toes with a magical beige nail polish which sparkles different shades of gold and brown once applied. Sienna is adding eye shadow to Lily's semi-pale eyelids. Ever since she had arrived at Hogwarts, she had been attempting feebly to get a tan. It was finally starting to show up, her faint freckles were almost invisible now, to her great delight.

"James. God. Shut. Up!"

"Yes. I am James. I am God. I know. I know," James replies sassily, avoiding a back swing of Sirius's at his head. He slowly backs off- Sirius was the Gryffindor beater- he was strong. Rolling his eyes, he heads off to look at what the girls were doing. She instantly makes a face at the scent of the nail polish. Lily sticks her tongue out at him, crossing her eyes on purpose before going back to Sienna's feet.

Muttering about toe fetish's, James walks towards the door of the compartment, ready to open it as it swings open on it's own. Behind it is the fifth year Gryffindor prefect, Arthur Weasley. "Hey James!" Exclaims the freckled red headed boy. "We'll be getting there in about 5 minutes, so you'd better get out of those robes." With that, he pivots to the side, opening the next door, and exclaiming the same thing. "Be sure not to be redundant and repeat yourself," James yells out after him before closing his doors and removing his robes, showing his muggle clothing.

"Arthur says we'll be there soon. Lily, crack a window or something, god that smells worse than the locker room after Sirius takes his socks off!" He ducks to avoid Sirius's shoe, which had conveniently dropped off into Sirius's hand when he bent over to tie it and had mysteriously made it's way over to James's head on it's own.

Lily raises her head, her eyes suddenly full of emotion. Dead. Fear. A bit of Nausea. This was the first Christmas she would be spending with her mother since she was seven. What would she look like? The fourteen year old doesn't even remember, it was too long ago, and she had blocked all those memories out on purpose.

She removes her black robes and puts on a long, black trench coat with huge holes in between each stitching. She had gotten it from Remus as an early Christmas present, since she couldn't wear her warm robes in the muggle world.

"It'll be fine. You're Lily. You're loveable. It's who you are." Sienna says with a reassuring smile. She hadn't told Sirius why she had come back, but Sienna had known for weeks. The redhead knows Sirius would be depressed, he had known Lily's father for a short time, and they had always gotten along. Sienna had never known the man, too bad for her.

She replies with a weak, half-hearted smile. The train slows as they reach the station and then comes to a halt. Staring out the window, she spies loads of parents who resemble their children. A man with flaming red hair and a tall lady with a willowy figure wave to Anther, and Lily spies who she's sure is James's mother. She has dancing brown eyes and a head full of long wavy ebony hair, which she wears in a simple ponytail. James grins to her and waves. A small girl at her side waves back, she wears her dark brown hair in pigtails and she's missing her front teeth.

The Hogwarts Express comes to a slow and the five friends jumps off the train, handing each other their luggage. After a lot of hugs and even more promises to write, they all go off on their own. Lily looks around, hopeless. How could she know whom to go to? She didn't know what the woman looked like. She waves as Sienna leaves with a glum look upon her face as a small girl with tight curly hair hugs her limp body.

"Lily?" She spins around. Who was that? Was it her? Her heart jumps. A woman stands behind her. She has long deep red gold hair, which falls down her back in loose curls. She had Lily's hair. She puts on a smile. This was she. The woman whom she'd thought the most of since she'd heard of her father's cancer.

"Mum.?" Lily's heart starts beating again. Thump.. thump.. thump, steady and rhythmic. It would all be fine. Her mother had changed. She must have, she had come, after all. How she had found the way to Platform 9 ¾ doesn't cross her mind.

A man behind the tall woman whom Lily hadn't seen for seven years comes up, holding her around the waist. Lily immediately backs away. For the first time, her hand glances to her mother's hand. A slender band of white gold encircles her right ring finger.

Her mother had remarried.

"Daniel. this is Lily. Lily, this is Daniel." Lily's newfound mother says, an unsure look upon her face. She didn't know how Lily had been brought up all these years. *She doesn't know how I'll react.* Lily realizes with a start. *She doesn't know me, she can't expect what I'll do next.*

Lily extends a shaky hand to Daniel, ready to accept the inevitable, but before she can a little girl with light blond hair, a light complexion, and a pink shirt on runs up and hugs his leg, a cheery smile upon her thin face. Lily immediately stops in midair, her hand moving not a muscle. Who was this little ankle-biter?

"Lily.. This is Petunia."

She drops her hand to her side and shakes her head as though to clear it. She must be hearing things. Her mother knows this girl. She looks back up to Daniel and Julie, her mother. "Pardon? I just hallucinated. What now?"

Julie decides to rephrase. "Lily. this is.. Petunia. You're half- sister."

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Like it? I know, I haven't got many reviews recently. I'm a bad, bad person. ;) but you still love me, right? You should. Because I loooove you. Review and I'll love you more =P

I don't want to stretch the story out loads and make like 50 chapters, so I decided to put more content in one chapter. It's 6 pages (be proud) and it's got more Lily/James bonding and also the big 'surprise' that will probably change Lily forever.

I haven't yet decided whether or not to make this James/Lily or Sirius/Lily. Review and let me know because I'm lost.

*heart* you all. Review, review, review!

~Kin