A/N: Back! Omg-isn't OotP good?..it's sad though. Don't worry for anyone
reading this who hasn't read the book..I won't put ne spoilers in this
story. Also, as a response to some reviewers, yes I know the whole chamber
of secrets thing happened 50 years ago, but that wasn't my first plan. See
I was going to have Lily's dad "mysteriously" die, but after much thought I
decided I wanted him alive to take Lily out of school. My second thought
was her mom, but for moral reasons I couldn't do that. (long story but in a
nutshell it's cuz my mom is always throwing a fit about how moms always
die..and since I didn't want to deal with her commenting about it I was
left with no ideas.) So, hence the whole messed up time thing..at the
moment I'm trying to find a way to maybe throw them forward into time to
make it fit..if you have ne ideas tell me in your reviews, or if you think
I should jest leave it the way it is and not bother to go along timewise
with the book you can tell me that too. Well anyways thank you so much to
those of you who reviewed, all of your comments were very helpful! I'm
going to do personal thank-yous at the bottom! So onto the story..
With a loud "boom" Lily rolled off her bed and onto the floor. She had never been a very graceful person, so she was used to this by now. It had been just over a week since she had returned from Hogwarts, and her spirits still hadn't lifted. Her mom seemed very worried, but her father just kept insisting that it was the best thing to do.
Lily untangled herself from her sheets, changed into a pair on faded flare jeans, and a shirt that said, "I'm out of bed, what more do you want?" and slowly walked downstairs to eat breakfast.
When she sat down her dad glanced up from his paper to look at her, but quickly looked back down. Soon after her mom walked in carrying big plates full of food and sat down without a word. All mornings had been like this since the first, none of them talking to each other, but that was probably because they didn't want a repeat of that first morning after. The arguing and yelling from the Evans household could be heard clearly down the street, and they had gotten many complaints and nervous looks from their neighbors.
After she was done, Lily stood to leave but was stopped by her mother. "Lily, dear, stay for a minute, we need to talk for a moment." Startled, Lily sat down raising an eyebrow, and waiting for her mom to continue. "Honey, trust me when I say that this isn't an easy thing to tell you, but your father and I have decided that you cannot be sulking around here anymore. It's just not healthy."
"What do you want me to do? It wasn't me who chose to take me out of my school! It's both of you who took me away from my friends, didn't you even stop to think that I don't have many real friends here?" Lily shouted standing up and glaring at both her mom and dad.
"Lily," her dad said sternly setting down his paper, "that is quite enough. Now sit down and let your mother finish."
"As I was saying it's not healthy for you to be here all day, so we've decided to send you back to school."
"Back?!? You mean I get to go back to Hogwarts?"
"No, Lily, that's not what I meant at all. You will be going back to school, but to one of our schools, not a wizard one."
"You mean a muggle school? How can you do this to me? Mom I want to be a witch, I want to learn magic!"
At this statement Lily's dad stood and glared down at his daughter. "You don't know what you want. You want to be killed? Because if you go back to that school that's exactly what'll happen. You almost died, and you had only been there a week!" after this he sat down. "Now, you will be returning to school, a 'muggle' school as you put it. If your grades remain in the A range we will let you also continue to study your magic with a tutor from our house, once a week. However, if your grades drop below an A- , even for one test, you will stop with the entire magic, forever."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, Sisius! Slow down, we need to talk." James had been trying to talk to Sirius ever since Lily left, but had never been able to keep up. James rushed up to him, and breathing heavily dragged him over to the side of the corridor so they could talk. "What's up?"
"Nothing that has to do with you, now if you please I have to get to class."
"Wow, since when does Sirius care about classes?" But Sirius didn't hear this question because by the time it was asked he had already been swallowed up onto a large crowd on his way down to the dungeons.
James stood there for only a moment more, deciding that he couldn't avoid him forever, and that soon, he'd be able to talk with him. His chance however came sooner than he expected.
"Class, silently take your seats. I will have no fooling around today." Professor Wermen said in her babyish voice. "Today, we will be making a simple truth potion. I will assign you partners, and after yours is made, you will test it on your partner. The directions," she said with a wave of his wand, "are on the board, and partners are as follows: Snape and Malfoy, Goyle and Crabby, Potter and Black..."
After all of the partners were called, James hurried quickly over to Sirius. "Hey..." James said apprehensively. Sirius ignored him and started to cut the ingredients. With a hint of disappointment in his face, James turned toward his ingredients and started to do the same.
With 15 minutes left in the class all of the potions were a light blue with a white mist coming off of the top. Each of them filled two small vials with their potion, one to be graded, and one to test on their partner. James looked at Sirius, and offered him his potion, while Sirius did the same for James.
When James drank it, he felt a cooling sensation run through his entire body. He looked at Sirius, "What is your name?"
Sirius tried to say Harold but instead a voice he barely recognized as his own answered, "Sirius," so he knew his was working, and after doing the same procedure to James, they began asking questions.
"Why won't you talk to me? What did I do to make you so mad?"
"It's your fault Lily's gone. If it hadn't been for you and your stupid ideas we wouldn't have left the common room, and she'd still be here."
"Why do..."
"It's my turn to ask a question," Sirius interrupted, "Why were you so mean to Lily when she was here? What did she ever do to deserve the way you treated her?"
"I-I guess I was sort of, jealous. I mean you were like always with her, and talking to her all of the time and ignoring me. I've known you longer and I was mad that you were forgetting about me, and only paying attention to her."
"But the first time I was with her you were mean to her. I hadn't been ignoring you before then."
"Well maybe you should have done a better job on your potion. It's not very strong." James had a smirk on his face, "Now, why would you care that Lily is gone?"
Sirius looked dumbfounded. 'How dare he! Well I guess it is partly my fault this time...' He looked at James, and noticed his eyes were wide and his mouth was hanging slightly open. "What?"
"Do you know what you just said?!?"
"I didn't say anything though, I haven't answered you yet."
"That's where your wrong buddy," James said still looking very surprised, "Y-you just said that it's because you l-loved her..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily was on her bed with her tear-stained face thrown into her sage green pillow. She had been in her room all day, had skipped lunch, and wasn't planning on going to dinner.
Right when she was about to fall asleep, she heard a small tap on her window. Slowly she looked up and saw a barn owl. She got up, opened her window, and took the note off of its leg. When she saw the writing, she immediately knew who it was from, Sirius.
My dearest Lily,
How are you? I've missed you so much since
you left. Classes seem so boring and particularly
hard without you there to explain things to me.
I hope you are using your present, and not forgetting
about all of us here. I know none of us have forgotton
about you. Please write back soon!
Love Your Friend,
Sirius
Lily looked at the parchment as her eyes began to fill with tears. She knew she should write back, but she was just too tired at the moment. She gestured for the owl to leave, but it just looked at her with wide eyes and gave a small "hoo"
Confused she looked at the letter again, and noticed a small p.s. on the back. Curious, she turned the paper over and read.
P.S. I know you're probably drowning yourself in your sorrows, and will be too lazy to reply. So, I have told Sugar (the owl) not to leave until you have given her a reply. Now, because it's a school owl it really should be back as soon as possible, if you know what I mean. Ttyl!
~Sirius
Lily couldn't help a small smile. She decided her nap could wait a few minutes and sat down to write a note to Sirius. When she was done, she attached it to the owl leg, and it flew out the window.
Sighing, Lily changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed. Before sleep took over she couldn't help but think back to Sirius' letter, 'My Dearest Lily' and 'Love Your Friend'. 'Maybe he does like me...' Lily thought before she fell asleep with a small smile on her face.
A/N: Alright, I know that's a very stupid way to end the chapter, but my idea has to come into the next chapter, so this was here mainly to fill up the time gap...
Thank-You so much to my wonderful reviewers, you have no idea how much it mean to me that you took the time not only to read my story, but to also review
Lacy, Arwen Delacour, Missie, mirrioronthewall, sly, James-Lily-Potter, wouldn't you like to know, Lily-James-Potter, ..., Celine, liz, and Anonymous
Thank you all of you!
I'll update asap, but I'm going up north for the fourth of july, so it will probably be around wed. of next week. C u all then!
With a loud "boom" Lily rolled off her bed and onto the floor. She had never been a very graceful person, so she was used to this by now. It had been just over a week since she had returned from Hogwarts, and her spirits still hadn't lifted. Her mom seemed very worried, but her father just kept insisting that it was the best thing to do.
Lily untangled herself from her sheets, changed into a pair on faded flare jeans, and a shirt that said, "I'm out of bed, what more do you want?" and slowly walked downstairs to eat breakfast.
When she sat down her dad glanced up from his paper to look at her, but quickly looked back down. Soon after her mom walked in carrying big plates full of food and sat down without a word. All mornings had been like this since the first, none of them talking to each other, but that was probably because they didn't want a repeat of that first morning after. The arguing and yelling from the Evans household could be heard clearly down the street, and they had gotten many complaints and nervous looks from their neighbors.
After she was done, Lily stood to leave but was stopped by her mother. "Lily, dear, stay for a minute, we need to talk for a moment." Startled, Lily sat down raising an eyebrow, and waiting for her mom to continue. "Honey, trust me when I say that this isn't an easy thing to tell you, but your father and I have decided that you cannot be sulking around here anymore. It's just not healthy."
"What do you want me to do? It wasn't me who chose to take me out of my school! It's both of you who took me away from my friends, didn't you even stop to think that I don't have many real friends here?" Lily shouted standing up and glaring at both her mom and dad.
"Lily," her dad said sternly setting down his paper, "that is quite enough. Now sit down and let your mother finish."
"As I was saying it's not healthy for you to be here all day, so we've decided to send you back to school."
"Back?!? You mean I get to go back to Hogwarts?"
"No, Lily, that's not what I meant at all. You will be going back to school, but to one of our schools, not a wizard one."
"You mean a muggle school? How can you do this to me? Mom I want to be a witch, I want to learn magic!"
At this statement Lily's dad stood and glared down at his daughter. "You don't know what you want. You want to be killed? Because if you go back to that school that's exactly what'll happen. You almost died, and you had only been there a week!" after this he sat down. "Now, you will be returning to school, a 'muggle' school as you put it. If your grades remain in the A range we will let you also continue to study your magic with a tutor from our house, once a week. However, if your grades drop below an A- , even for one test, you will stop with the entire magic, forever."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, Sisius! Slow down, we need to talk." James had been trying to talk to Sirius ever since Lily left, but had never been able to keep up. James rushed up to him, and breathing heavily dragged him over to the side of the corridor so they could talk. "What's up?"
"Nothing that has to do with you, now if you please I have to get to class."
"Wow, since when does Sirius care about classes?" But Sirius didn't hear this question because by the time it was asked he had already been swallowed up onto a large crowd on his way down to the dungeons.
James stood there for only a moment more, deciding that he couldn't avoid him forever, and that soon, he'd be able to talk with him. His chance however came sooner than he expected.
"Class, silently take your seats. I will have no fooling around today." Professor Wermen said in her babyish voice. "Today, we will be making a simple truth potion. I will assign you partners, and after yours is made, you will test it on your partner. The directions," she said with a wave of his wand, "are on the board, and partners are as follows: Snape and Malfoy, Goyle and Crabby, Potter and Black..."
After all of the partners were called, James hurried quickly over to Sirius. "Hey..." James said apprehensively. Sirius ignored him and started to cut the ingredients. With a hint of disappointment in his face, James turned toward his ingredients and started to do the same.
With 15 minutes left in the class all of the potions were a light blue with a white mist coming off of the top. Each of them filled two small vials with their potion, one to be graded, and one to test on their partner. James looked at Sirius, and offered him his potion, while Sirius did the same for James.
When James drank it, he felt a cooling sensation run through his entire body. He looked at Sirius, "What is your name?"
Sirius tried to say Harold but instead a voice he barely recognized as his own answered, "Sirius," so he knew his was working, and after doing the same procedure to James, they began asking questions.
"Why won't you talk to me? What did I do to make you so mad?"
"It's your fault Lily's gone. If it hadn't been for you and your stupid ideas we wouldn't have left the common room, and she'd still be here."
"Why do..."
"It's my turn to ask a question," Sirius interrupted, "Why were you so mean to Lily when she was here? What did she ever do to deserve the way you treated her?"
"I-I guess I was sort of, jealous. I mean you were like always with her, and talking to her all of the time and ignoring me. I've known you longer and I was mad that you were forgetting about me, and only paying attention to her."
"But the first time I was with her you were mean to her. I hadn't been ignoring you before then."
"Well maybe you should have done a better job on your potion. It's not very strong." James had a smirk on his face, "Now, why would you care that Lily is gone?"
Sirius looked dumbfounded. 'How dare he! Well I guess it is partly my fault this time...' He looked at James, and noticed his eyes were wide and his mouth was hanging slightly open. "What?"
"Do you know what you just said?!?"
"I didn't say anything though, I haven't answered you yet."
"That's where your wrong buddy," James said still looking very surprised, "Y-you just said that it's because you l-loved her..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily was on her bed with her tear-stained face thrown into her sage green pillow. She had been in her room all day, had skipped lunch, and wasn't planning on going to dinner.
Right when she was about to fall asleep, she heard a small tap on her window. Slowly she looked up and saw a barn owl. She got up, opened her window, and took the note off of its leg. When she saw the writing, she immediately knew who it was from, Sirius.
My dearest Lily,
How are you? I've missed you so much since
you left. Classes seem so boring and particularly
hard without you there to explain things to me.
I hope you are using your present, and not forgetting
about all of us here. I know none of us have forgotton
about you. Please write back soon!
Love Your Friend,
Sirius
Lily looked at the parchment as her eyes began to fill with tears. She knew she should write back, but she was just too tired at the moment. She gestured for the owl to leave, but it just looked at her with wide eyes and gave a small "hoo"
Confused she looked at the letter again, and noticed a small p.s. on the back. Curious, she turned the paper over and read.
P.S. I know you're probably drowning yourself in your sorrows, and will be too lazy to reply. So, I have told Sugar (the owl) not to leave until you have given her a reply. Now, because it's a school owl it really should be back as soon as possible, if you know what I mean. Ttyl!
~Sirius
Lily couldn't help a small smile. She decided her nap could wait a few minutes and sat down to write a note to Sirius. When she was done, she attached it to the owl leg, and it flew out the window.
Sighing, Lily changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed. Before sleep took over she couldn't help but think back to Sirius' letter, 'My Dearest Lily' and 'Love Your Friend'. 'Maybe he does like me...' Lily thought before she fell asleep with a small smile on her face.
A/N: Alright, I know that's a very stupid way to end the chapter, but my idea has to come into the next chapter, so this was here mainly to fill up the time gap...
Thank-You so much to my wonderful reviewers, you have no idea how much it mean to me that you took the time not only to read my story, but to also review
Lacy, Arwen Delacour, Missie, mirrioronthewall, sly, James-Lily-Potter, wouldn't you like to know, Lily-James-Potter, ..., Celine, liz, and Anonymous
Thank you all of you!
I'll update asap, but I'm going up north for the fourth of july, so it will probably be around wed. of next week. C u all then!