A/n: Is it worth it apologizing. I have excuses for not writing as I've
been busy with an original (no, it's not posted on this site) but I'm
determined to finish this! So R&R and enjoy as always! ~Lilz
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Bea looked astonished. She didn't know what to say to her friend, as a logical girl Bea never though much of premonitions. However, she was also an intelligent girl and she recalled practically ALL of Lily's premonitions turning out to be right.
"You don't have to believe me, I don't expect you to," Lily said loudly so that Bea could hear her. The noise from the crowd was still invading their ears. "But I'm just not in the mood to party, that's all." She said forcing a grin.
"Okay," Bea managed to get out as her only word.
They walked towards the castle and entered it. Walking past a group of Hufflepuffs was unpleasant as they were all talking about how they wanted to curse "that blasted, shit-head Gryffindor seeker". Bea and Lily exchanged apprehensive looks and hurried ahead of the Hufflepuffs, keeping their heads low and doing their best to cover their Gryffindor robes.
They entered the common room and were greeted by a supernatural amount of noise and commotion. The girls searched for their group of friends but weren't having much luck in the uproar that was taking place within the space of the Gryffindor common room.
"Lily!"
Lily turned around when she heard her name being called. It was Sirius.
"Hey you! Bea's over there somewhere I think I lost her." Lily replied getting as close as possible to Sirius so she wouldn't have to yell.
"Oh cool, but I just wanted to tell you that the others will be back soon, they just snuck off to get some food and drink for celebration." Sirius said, and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Seriously do you boys never learn? Don't you have upcoming detention?" she asked.
"Yup," Sirius replied almost proudly. Lily laughed and gave him a light punch on the shoulder. "Well if that's what it takes to have a little fun around here so be it!"
Lily nodded and finally managed to grab Bea by the back of her robes and pull her towards herself and Sirius.
"Thank goodness I found you I was beginning to worry," Lily said and Bea smiled. The two girls just looked at each other for a moment trying to read what they couldn't say out loud on each other's faces. It didn't work, however, and they seemed to silently settle that going to bed early and chatting would be the best bet.
"Sirius, we're going to go to bed, too much commotion for us, thanks." Bea said and gave him a hug before she rushed off to bed slightly behind Lily on the stairs. They god to the bedrooms and as they closed the door behind them a slight hush filled the room.
"I think that my ears are still ringing!" Lily said loudly and Bea nodded in agreement.
"Yeah. so what about this vision you're having? I mean can you tell what's going to happen? Do you know what it is? How to stop it?"
"I don't know anything really." Said Lily punching the pillow on her bed. "I can just tell something bad is going to happen to us, and it's going to be really, REALLY bad. I know I shouldn't be bothered by stupid forewarnings in my head but I am, and the fact that I'm bothered bothers me, too!" she said, trying hard to explain the situation like she wasn't crazy.
"Maybe," Bea said slowly, "you should break up with James." Lily looked at Bea liked she was crazy and forced a small laugh. However, Bea was looking dead serious.
"Seriously! If you're having a bad feeling, something to do with you and James, then maybe you made the wrong decision. Maybe he'll hit you or something, I don't know! All I'm saying is that perhaps you're gut's trying to tell you that you should have picked Remus."
Lily sat on her bed, looking astonished. She kept trying to begin sentences, but she couldn't manage to get them out or finish them. For a few minutes Bea played with her hair and looked out the window at the emerging stars until she couldn't take it anymore.
"I'm not saying that what I think is right though, Lils. If he's treating you right then stick with him. It' just a vision anyway." Bea said, trying to comfort Lily although from the same blank expression on Lily's face Bea wasn't doing much help.
"Maybe we should go to sleep," Lily said suddenly and hopped under the covers. Mentally, Bea kicked herself for bringing her idea up.
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A few minutes after the girls had deserted Sirius, he was rejoined by his buddies who had returned from the kitchens with armfuls of food.
"We weren't found out!" sound James grinning and dropping the food and drink on the table. This, consequently, caused another burst of louder noise as people grabbed for the goodies the boys had brought back. James finally made his way over to Sirius and just grinned.
"So, did Lily show up?" he asked and Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, but she went to bed," he replied and James looked a little hurt.
"Oh, I hope she didn't take any offense because I got caught up in the crowd." Said James frowning and opening a bottle of Butterbeer for himself. Sirius shrugged and the boys partied until most everyone had gone to bed.
"That was fun," Remus said wiping his eyes and smiling thickly. "But I'm so exhausted that I can barely move. so I'm off to bed."
The rest of his friends did the same and soon every single Gryffindor was sleeping snuggly in their beds, sleeping peacefully after a hard days partying and playing.
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Lily woke up to a bright light shinning in her eyes. *The morning sunlight I suppose* she thought but when she opened her eyes she realized it was none other than Bea standing over her with a flashlight. Lily jumped a little when she saw her and laughed.
"You don't ever do that to me again!" Bea laughed and put away the flashlight. They went down to the common room after getting dressed and sat by the fire for a few minutes before pursuing the great hall.
"What are you up to today?" Bea asked and Lily shrugged.
"I'll probably study with Remus a bit." She said thinking again about her choice to be with James.
"Ah." said Bea a little awkwardly. "So you feeling any better about, well, you know?" she asked. Lily nodded and forced a smile. This made Bea feel mildly relieved. She hadn't screwed up Lily and James' relationship, ah that felt nice.
They walked down the hallways to the great hall for breakfast. Not to their surprise there were only about five Gryffindors at the table.
"They sounded like they were really going at it last night, eh?" Bea asked and Lily merely nodded once again for a reply. Eating for a while, Bea made mere observations and Lily would grunt, or nod, or give some other kind of insufficient answer. After about fifteen minutes of that the Marauders joined them and that slightly lightened the tone.
"Hey honey, you didn't come see me last night." James said putting his arm around Lily. Lily shifted a little uncomfortably and said, "Yeah, well I was really tired and so I thought that I'd just nip off to bed and you wouldn't miss me, congratulations though on that win it was brilliant guess I should have stayed to tell you that last night but you know I'm telling you know and how about we go study for a bit, Remus?" she rambled quietly so the group had to lean in to hear what she was saying.
"Sure, Lils, we can study." Remus said, frowning at Lily's odd behavior. James looked slightly confused and also slightly hurt that she was being so unusual and cool towards him. Sirius just looked at her in utter perplexity.
"Good." Lily said coolly, as she grabbed Remus' arm and led him off towards the library without saying another word to her friends.
As soon as they got out of the great hall Remus mouthed stunned at Lily as she strode towards the library paces ahead of Remus who was half jogging to keep up with Lily's giant strides.
"What's wrong Lils, what's going on with you?" he asked, and Lily didn't even bother to look at Remus until they reached the library door and she stopped abruptly to face him. A small smile spread across her face.
"Nothing's wrong Remus, I'm just not in the mood for all of them right now." She said. Remus grinned.
"And you're in the mood for me?" he asked, sounding as collected as possible.
"Yes."
He looked somewhat shocked as Lily beamed up at him and grabbed his hand, leading him towards a table and grabbing a few books off a shelf. She pulled her chair close to Remus' and smiled at him. He smiled back, wondering what kind of game she was playing at.
"Well we could study for the upcoming History of Magic quiz that we're having. I don't think it's major but of course we should be prepared." Remus said looking at Lily who seemed to be more intrigued with him than with the quiz that he was speaking about.
"What's up with you Lils?" he said bemusedly. Lily just laughed, not tearing her eyes away from his.
"Nothing, why are you being so weird!" she asked. "Because you're being weird and when one study buddy starts to act like a gibbering nutter than the other must do the same." Remus said. The two laughed hysterically for a few minutes and the both abruptly stopped. Remus caught Lily's eye. Or Lily caught Remus' it wasn't apparent which. But they stared into each other's eyes, and seemed to be drawn closer together by some magnetic force. Remus leaned in and lightly kissed her. They both seemed taken aback after this happened and Lily picked up a book and began reading it upside down.
~Yes! I did it! Yes~ Remus thought to himself as Lily was thinking somewhere along the lines of *oh shit, what have I done? Thank God no one else saw that*
Remus turned her book right side up for her and Lily blushed.
"Look I'm sorry, I shouldn't have. kissed back. I'm sorry. Please don't think that I'm some sort of slut okay?" she said rambling on yet again. Remus laughed and couldn't stop grinning.
"Of course I don't. My Lils, a slut? No way!" he said and Lily relaxed a little.
"And James." she said trailing off and looking at Remus hopefully.
"James doesn't have to know." He said. Lily looked satisfied as she grinned at Remus and buried herself in her now right side up book. She bit her lip feeling extremely guilty and ashamed of her actions. But the thing that scared her most was that she liked it, and it did feel right. However, Lily wasn't going to take any action at all until the vision became clearer. What if James was really the one for her and she screwed it up because of a silly dream. No, she wouldn't do that. She would wait.
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Bea looked astonished. She didn't know what to say to her friend, as a logical girl Bea never though much of premonitions. However, she was also an intelligent girl and she recalled practically ALL of Lily's premonitions turning out to be right.
"You don't have to believe me, I don't expect you to," Lily said loudly so that Bea could hear her. The noise from the crowd was still invading their ears. "But I'm just not in the mood to party, that's all." She said forcing a grin.
"Okay," Bea managed to get out as her only word.
They walked towards the castle and entered it. Walking past a group of Hufflepuffs was unpleasant as they were all talking about how they wanted to curse "that blasted, shit-head Gryffindor seeker". Bea and Lily exchanged apprehensive looks and hurried ahead of the Hufflepuffs, keeping their heads low and doing their best to cover their Gryffindor robes.
They entered the common room and were greeted by a supernatural amount of noise and commotion. The girls searched for their group of friends but weren't having much luck in the uproar that was taking place within the space of the Gryffindor common room.
"Lily!"
Lily turned around when she heard her name being called. It was Sirius.
"Hey you! Bea's over there somewhere I think I lost her." Lily replied getting as close as possible to Sirius so she wouldn't have to yell.
"Oh cool, but I just wanted to tell you that the others will be back soon, they just snuck off to get some food and drink for celebration." Sirius said, and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Seriously do you boys never learn? Don't you have upcoming detention?" she asked.
"Yup," Sirius replied almost proudly. Lily laughed and gave him a light punch on the shoulder. "Well if that's what it takes to have a little fun around here so be it!"
Lily nodded and finally managed to grab Bea by the back of her robes and pull her towards herself and Sirius.
"Thank goodness I found you I was beginning to worry," Lily said and Bea smiled. The two girls just looked at each other for a moment trying to read what they couldn't say out loud on each other's faces. It didn't work, however, and they seemed to silently settle that going to bed early and chatting would be the best bet.
"Sirius, we're going to go to bed, too much commotion for us, thanks." Bea said and gave him a hug before she rushed off to bed slightly behind Lily on the stairs. They god to the bedrooms and as they closed the door behind them a slight hush filled the room.
"I think that my ears are still ringing!" Lily said loudly and Bea nodded in agreement.
"Yeah. so what about this vision you're having? I mean can you tell what's going to happen? Do you know what it is? How to stop it?"
"I don't know anything really." Said Lily punching the pillow on her bed. "I can just tell something bad is going to happen to us, and it's going to be really, REALLY bad. I know I shouldn't be bothered by stupid forewarnings in my head but I am, and the fact that I'm bothered bothers me, too!" she said, trying hard to explain the situation like she wasn't crazy.
"Maybe," Bea said slowly, "you should break up with James." Lily looked at Bea liked she was crazy and forced a small laugh. However, Bea was looking dead serious.
"Seriously! If you're having a bad feeling, something to do with you and James, then maybe you made the wrong decision. Maybe he'll hit you or something, I don't know! All I'm saying is that perhaps you're gut's trying to tell you that you should have picked Remus."
Lily sat on her bed, looking astonished. She kept trying to begin sentences, but she couldn't manage to get them out or finish them. For a few minutes Bea played with her hair and looked out the window at the emerging stars until she couldn't take it anymore.
"I'm not saying that what I think is right though, Lils. If he's treating you right then stick with him. It' just a vision anyway." Bea said, trying to comfort Lily although from the same blank expression on Lily's face Bea wasn't doing much help.
"Maybe we should go to sleep," Lily said suddenly and hopped under the covers. Mentally, Bea kicked herself for bringing her idea up.
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A few minutes after the girls had deserted Sirius, he was rejoined by his buddies who had returned from the kitchens with armfuls of food.
"We weren't found out!" sound James grinning and dropping the food and drink on the table. This, consequently, caused another burst of louder noise as people grabbed for the goodies the boys had brought back. James finally made his way over to Sirius and just grinned.
"So, did Lily show up?" he asked and Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, but she went to bed," he replied and James looked a little hurt.
"Oh, I hope she didn't take any offense because I got caught up in the crowd." Said James frowning and opening a bottle of Butterbeer for himself. Sirius shrugged and the boys partied until most everyone had gone to bed.
"That was fun," Remus said wiping his eyes and smiling thickly. "But I'm so exhausted that I can barely move. so I'm off to bed."
The rest of his friends did the same and soon every single Gryffindor was sleeping snuggly in their beds, sleeping peacefully after a hard days partying and playing.
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Lily woke up to a bright light shinning in her eyes. *The morning sunlight I suppose* she thought but when she opened her eyes she realized it was none other than Bea standing over her with a flashlight. Lily jumped a little when she saw her and laughed.
"You don't ever do that to me again!" Bea laughed and put away the flashlight. They went down to the common room after getting dressed and sat by the fire for a few minutes before pursuing the great hall.
"What are you up to today?" Bea asked and Lily shrugged.
"I'll probably study with Remus a bit." She said thinking again about her choice to be with James.
"Ah." said Bea a little awkwardly. "So you feeling any better about, well, you know?" she asked. Lily nodded and forced a smile. This made Bea feel mildly relieved. She hadn't screwed up Lily and James' relationship, ah that felt nice.
They walked down the hallways to the great hall for breakfast. Not to their surprise there were only about five Gryffindors at the table.
"They sounded like they were really going at it last night, eh?" Bea asked and Lily merely nodded once again for a reply. Eating for a while, Bea made mere observations and Lily would grunt, or nod, or give some other kind of insufficient answer. After about fifteen minutes of that the Marauders joined them and that slightly lightened the tone.
"Hey honey, you didn't come see me last night." James said putting his arm around Lily. Lily shifted a little uncomfortably and said, "Yeah, well I was really tired and so I thought that I'd just nip off to bed and you wouldn't miss me, congratulations though on that win it was brilliant guess I should have stayed to tell you that last night but you know I'm telling you know and how about we go study for a bit, Remus?" she rambled quietly so the group had to lean in to hear what she was saying.
"Sure, Lils, we can study." Remus said, frowning at Lily's odd behavior. James looked slightly confused and also slightly hurt that she was being so unusual and cool towards him. Sirius just looked at her in utter perplexity.
"Good." Lily said coolly, as she grabbed Remus' arm and led him off towards the library without saying another word to her friends.
As soon as they got out of the great hall Remus mouthed stunned at Lily as she strode towards the library paces ahead of Remus who was half jogging to keep up with Lily's giant strides.
"What's wrong Lils, what's going on with you?" he asked, and Lily didn't even bother to look at Remus until they reached the library door and she stopped abruptly to face him. A small smile spread across her face.
"Nothing's wrong Remus, I'm just not in the mood for all of them right now." She said. Remus grinned.
"And you're in the mood for me?" he asked, sounding as collected as possible.
"Yes."
He looked somewhat shocked as Lily beamed up at him and grabbed his hand, leading him towards a table and grabbing a few books off a shelf. She pulled her chair close to Remus' and smiled at him. He smiled back, wondering what kind of game she was playing at.
"Well we could study for the upcoming History of Magic quiz that we're having. I don't think it's major but of course we should be prepared." Remus said looking at Lily who seemed to be more intrigued with him than with the quiz that he was speaking about.
"What's up with you Lils?" he said bemusedly. Lily just laughed, not tearing her eyes away from his.
"Nothing, why are you being so weird!" she asked. "Because you're being weird and when one study buddy starts to act like a gibbering nutter than the other must do the same." Remus said. The two laughed hysterically for a few minutes and the both abruptly stopped. Remus caught Lily's eye. Or Lily caught Remus' it wasn't apparent which. But they stared into each other's eyes, and seemed to be drawn closer together by some magnetic force. Remus leaned in and lightly kissed her. They both seemed taken aback after this happened and Lily picked up a book and began reading it upside down.
~Yes! I did it! Yes~ Remus thought to himself as Lily was thinking somewhere along the lines of *oh shit, what have I done? Thank God no one else saw that*
Remus turned her book right side up for her and Lily blushed.
"Look I'm sorry, I shouldn't have. kissed back. I'm sorry. Please don't think that I'm some sort of slut okay?" she said rambling on yet again. Remus laughed and couldn't stop grinning.
"Of course I don't. My Lils, a slut? No way!" he said and Lily relaxed a little.
"And James." she said trailing off and looking at Remus hopefully.
"James doesn't have to know." He said. Lily looked satisfied as she grinned at Remus and buried herself in her now right side up book. She bit her lip feeling extremely guilty and ashamed of her actions. But the thing that scared her most was that she liked it, and it did feel right. However, Lily wasn't going to take any action at all until the vision became clearer. What if James was really the one for her and she screwed it up because of a silly dream. No, she wouldn't do that. She would wait.