Gbaby's note: Hey everyone. Ok in the last chapter there was a typo. Bonne chance! Meaning good luck was spelled wrong. Actually it was spelled write just my computer was being a jerk and wouldn't loaded up. Anyways enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimers: All the characters and settings in this story belong to J. K. Rowling. Anything else that you do not recognize is mine. The song belongs to 3 Doors Down, it is called "Love Me When I'm Gone."

Summery: Lily and her family move around a lot. At the beginning of her seventh year her family moves to London. She starts at Hogworts as Head Girl and as an apprentice to the swordsmanship professor. Lily is cold and harsh, but what will happen when the mask cracks, what's her secret and why does she hate the Dark Side so much that she almost kills a Death Eater? Read and find out!

Authors Note: One word; ENJOY

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PIERCED AT THE HEART
3. Potion Lessons

There's another world inside of me

That you may never see

There's secrets in this life

That I can't hide

Somewhere in this darkness

There's a light that I can't find

Maybe it's too far away...

Or Maybe I'm just blind...

When your education x-ray

Cannot see under my skin

I won't tell you a damn thing

That I could not tell my friends

Roaming through this darkness

I'm alive but I'm alone

Part of me is fighting this

But part of me is gone

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The Halloween feast drew closer and classes increased in difficulty. Lily found herself

spending her time in the library and in the practice room. When people asked her why she

spent her time studying, she answered simply and honestly.

"Where I stand now is the product of my hard work, for my only talent lies in the sword."

Her studies usually went far into the night. Or so her fellow Gryffindors though. No one

realized why the cushions on the window-seal had holes in them or why, when the

weather turned cold, frozen drops appeared on the window's glass overnight.

The Marauders still spent their time pulling pranks and getting aught. Yet to the

amazement of their professors they managed to receive decent marks. They snuck out

once every full moon to explore the Forbidden Forest, at the same time keeping Remus

distracted from sensing human blood. Then they arrived at breakfast half asleep.

"Sirius, please pass the eggs," a blond girl told the black-haired boy, who was literally

using the scrambled eggs as a pillow."

"Mmphum." he told the girl.

"Excuse me?"

"leeeaaaaveeemeeeaaaloooone." he repeated.

"What?"

"LEAVE ME ALONE." he yelled, causing the hall to stare at him, and waking James up.

James looked at the Hufflepuff table with disgust.

"How can Peter be awake?"

"Caffeine," Sirius answered, wiping the eggs remains from his face.

"Where is Moony?" James asked, readjusting his glasses after his early morning nap.

"If you are wondering about Mr. Lupin, he is fine," a voice said.

James looked up to find Lily taking a seat opposite his.

"You know, huh?"

"All of the staff does," she answered simply.

James was about to comment when the mail came in. James's owl dropped the Daily

Prophet onto his head and flew off to the owlry.

"Oi, Prongs, Zonko's catalog here," Sirius called.

Lily was removing a letter from a white owl. James watched as Lily read the letter, her

face falling. He nudged Sirius, silently telling him to look at Lily.

"Lily, anything the matter?" Sirius asked.

"N-nothing." she stuttered. "Are you going to Potions?"

"Yeah, we'll walk you there." James suggested.

"Okay."

What started out as a simple potions class turned into a catastrophe. The dungeon was

filled with a red smoke coming from Lily's cauldron.

"Miss Evans, I don't believe I told you to add the Wyvern scale until you have mixed in

the Phoenix tear," the professor commented. "Do remember that you will be testing the

Fire Skin Potion on yourself."

"Yes'm" Lily answered.

"Add two drops of liquid lacewing, Mudblood," a harsh but quiet voice said into Lily's

left ear.

Lily jumped, tipping over a vial of Quik-Gold. Turning around, she found the smirking

face of Severus Snape.

"So your lightning reflexes aren't as quick today," he said, gray eyes studying Lily's slim

figure. "Add two drops of liquid lacewing, unless you wish to have your skin behave like

kerosene and burst into flames as soon as the fire charm hits you."

Lily studied the Slytherin. He was tall, but unlike the breathing bean poles that paraded

the halls or the monstrous, towering, over-built beaters, he was graceful and panther

like. His longish, black hair was slicked back, accenting his strange nose. He was quite

handsome, in a cold, vampire way.

"Since when do Slytherins help anyone?" she snapped.

"Since when do you believe in stereotypes?" he retorted, taking a flask of the liquid

lacewing and placing the two drops into the red, boiling liquid in Lily's cauldron. It

immediately turned a glowing blue, Severus smiled coldly at Lily's gaping face and

turned back to his own cauldron.

"Alright," the professor shouted. "Lupin, up to the board."

Remus slowly drudged up to the blackboard, vial of his Fair Skin Potion in hand. His two

friends watched him with worried eyes. Remus was still weak after the previous night's

transformation. His amber eyes were surrounded by puffy, blue-tinted skin. His face was

a translucent white. He took two sips of his milky-beige potion and with a sour look on

his face his skin turned a into a warm gold color then back to its translucent white after

the professor preformed the fire charm.

"Good, Mr. Lupin," the professor praised, a rare occurrence since her favorite student

was Severus. One by one the students were called up, the effect of their potions

mimicked Remus's potion. Professor Morten looked around the classroom, her eyes

locked on Lily.

"Miss Evans, would you be so kind as to show the class what a lit person looks like?" the

professor beckoned Lily forward.

Lily's hand trembled as she placed the vial to her lips, quite aware of the difference in

color between her potion and those of her classmates.

The potion chilled her mouth as it speed towered her throat. She looked at her hands and

realized with a shadow of fear that she wasn't the same gold that Remus became after he

drank his potion. She fixed her gaze on the herb table posted on the opposite wall. She

felt the charm hit her. Gasps coming from the students floated to her ears. Lily looked

around to find an aura of lavender crystals dancing around her. Her hand closed on one of

the drifting crystals. She scrutinized the shimmering speck, her eyes widening in awe as

she realized that what she held was a shining red flame within a sapphire ice. Lily looked

at Severus, and their eyes met.

Why does she have to be so beautiful, Severus thought as he watched the class disappear

through the door. A sharp pain attacked his left arm. He bit back a scream and pulled up

the sleeve of his robes. He clenched his teeth as he saw the tattoo on his arm darken and

then turn a crimson that closely resembled the color of freshly spilled blood. Why does

my master want her dead? He reflected as he watched the image of a skull with a snake

immersing from its mouth, the image that Voldemort had branded onto his arm.

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GBABY'S NOTE: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm sorry it took me so long to put this one up. I took a two and a half month vacation to the other part of the world (...Armenia). Yeah and now that I'm back I'll try to put up what I have so far and then start getting on Rivers nerves to write the rest of the story. Anyways G2G! Luv ya all!

PS. Any misspelled words, names or anything are my mistakes. I probably didn't notice them while I was typing.

Later!