Disclaimer: Well, I still own nothing, except for my anger toward the fifth book!
Warning: Spoiler for the OotP in the next paragraph...and I have to wonder, if this applies to you, why are you wasting your time reading fanfics and not reading the book?! Haha
A/N: I am soooo sorry that I lied and haven't updated all summer! I've been incredibly lazy with my writing, and I'm so sorry! But thank you for sticking with me. I'm leaving for college on August 21, so it'll probably be awhile until I update again after this chapter, but I'll do my best. So, who all (besides me) was extremely upset with Sirius dying?! All I can say is that he'd best come back to life in the sixth or seventh book! Well, if I ever write any fics in Harry's time, I'll just pretend that that never happened! And, now we know that the way I wrote James and Lily's relationship isn't really how it was (surprise, surprise), but oh well, I'm gonna keep going at this my way. We also know that Lucius is older than the Marauders, so that doesn't really work either, but nobody's perfect, and we'll never get everything right in our fanfics, so if that bothers you, just deal with it or don't read fanfiction! But now, on with the story!!
"Lily Evans wants to join the Dark Lord?" Lucius asked with his familiar drawl.
"Yes, she's tired of the Gryffindors, and realizes that if she is to gain power in the future, she had better be on the Dark Lord's side, with us," Severus answered.
Lucius pondered this for a moment, and then said with delighted malice, "Well, even if that isn't the truth, the Dark Lord will find out soon enough."
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"James! What's wrong? What happened?" Sirius shot out his questions one right after another, without even giving James a chance to answer, as he ran toward James, who was slumped on the abandoned classroom floor.
Sirius and Remus helped James stand up. James stared at Sirius with a blank look and said vaguely, "She broke up with me."
Sirius, Remus, and Peter all looked at each other in shock. "Who broke up with you," Remus asked. "Did you have some other girlfriend that we didn't know about?"
"Lily. Lily broke up with me," James said, as if trying to convince himself. "Lily broke up with me." Now he sounded as if he were trying it out, like a new shirt, to see how it felt. Apparently he didn't like it because he collapsed on the floor again, hitting his head hard on the floor.
"Come on, James, it'll be okay. Just come on back to the Common Room, we're going to get in trouble for being out this late," Peter said, starting to get worried.
"Shut up, Wormtail," Sirius said, irritably. "For one thing, Lily will probably be in there, and that will probably get everyone bugging them about what's going on. And for another, can't you see he can barely speak in coherent sentences? Let him just sit here awhile."
"And for one more thing," Remus piped up, "he's passed out."
Sirius and Peter jumped at that, and realized that James had indeed, passed out when he had hit his head.
"Well, I guess it's for the best," Peter said brightly. "At least now we won't have to deal with this until he gets out of the hospital wing, and we can get back to the Common Room!"
Sirius and Remus didn't even bother snapping at Peter, they just shot him dirty looks and conjured James a stretcher. They all trooped down to the hospital wing together, wondering what excuse they could give Madam Falster on why James's brain was swelled several sizes too large. Peter wandered out loud if that would help James even more on tests. Sirius and Remus just rolled their eyes.
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Lily was starting to get worried. She hadn't seen James in any of their morning classes. And the Marauders weren't talking to her. Remus looked as if he wanted to come over and talk to her, but Sirius was holding him back. Oh well, Lily though, it's probably for the best. I need to cut all ties with them. I only wish I knew where James was. Oh, I hope he's okay.
Lily never found out where James was that day. She continued to distance herself from the Marauders, choosing to hang out with her Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff female friends by day (the other Gryffindors blamed her for James's failing Quidditch skills once they found out Lily and James were broken up), and the Slytherins by night.
The months went by, some slowly, some quickly. However, the day did come when Lily was to be taken to finally come face to face with Lord Voldemort.
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A/N: Okay, so this was really short. But right after I post this, I'm starting to write another chapter, so it should be up possibly tonight, but more likely on Wednesday or Thursday. Btw, I wanted to run something by all of you (since you all love HP just as much as I do!). I was rereading the fifth book, and I noticed (on page 13 of the American version and page 17 of the Australian version, heehee I have both, lucky me!) that Harry mentions a "Mark Evans." EVANS, everybody! And he's ten years old, which means next year, there might be a Mark Evans to be sorted at Hogwarts! Heehee Let me know what you all think of that. And if you think Sirius might come back to life in the next books. I'll definitely always keep that hope alive! But, please let me know what you think about where my story's going and REVIEW!!
