****Lily is a bit of a lonely first year, she doesn't know many people,
especially anyone popular, like James potter. She meets a bit of a weird
future Slytherin, then one of James friends, when she is in a bit of a
sticky situation in the girls loos. Alison helps her out, and introduces
her to her friends, but when James and Lily fall out big time, how will the
rest of the group react? James and Lily are forced to resolve it
themselves, or they will suddenly be friendless. But is there a scheme
going on in this resolution?
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Every Witch has her Silver Lining
Suffocations and Realizations
When Remus awoke, eyes snapping open, the world was spinning around him, and it took a moment before he realised what he was doing lying on the floor of the first year girls' dormitories. He shut his eyes again, and massaged his temples lethargically. He heard foot steps, each one a huge hammer pounding on his brain. When the hammering foot steps reached him, they stopped, and there was the clicking of someone's knee as they bent. Unintelligible whispering filled Remus' brain. They were a mixture of memories and reality. There was the clammy hand closing over his mouth, then his name forming on someone's lips.
When his eyes flickered open a second time, Alison's terrified face came swimming into view. She was slapping his face, and whispering,
"Remus... Remus! Wake up, God damn you! Remus! I didn't *mean* to make you faint!"
The last utterance was one of desperation. When she saw his eyes opening, she gasped in deep relief and pulled him into an almost violent hug. His hand went immediately to his head, and he groaned. Alison giggled giddily at him, but let him go.
"God, Remus, you scared me! I thought I'd killed you!"
Remus 'humphed' grumpily, but this only succeeded in making Alison laugh more. He tried to frown, to show his contempt, but it hurt his head, so he just glared at her without moving his eyebrows. Alison grinned. This was not the desired effect.
"What the hell did you do that for?" He asked, annoyed.
"What, laugh?"
"No, suffocate me!" He practically shouted.
"Shhh," She put her finger to her lips, "You'll wake up the others!"
"Who cares?" Remus asked recklessly. Reckless Remus, to be honest, was a little scary, "Why did you suffocate me?
"Well," Alison started awkwardly, "I wasn't supposed to suffocate you, exactly, just stop you from barging into the girls' dormitory." She blushed, and looked embarrassed, at her feet, "I thought you were James or Sirius." The she added as an after thought, "Sorry!"
Remus smiled,
"So you wanted to suffocate James and Sirius?"
"No!" Alison said, wringing her hands, "I just-"
"Oh, you silly, I was just joking!" Alison helped him up and pulled him into a hug. They stayed like that for a moment, and then she pushed Remus away, frowning, finally posing the question,
"What are you doing up here, anyway, at" She paused to check her watch, "One o'clock in the morning?"
Remus sighed. "It's a long story."
"Well, that doesn't make any difference to me"
"Yes, but it does to Lily."
Alison frowned. "What about Lily?"
"Well, I'll explain to you what happened afterwards, but right now, she isn't in the... safest of places, or in one of the most... comfortable positions, and she needs your help."
"Oh God, what happened to her?" Alison asked, franticly. She ran over to check Lily's bed, almost hopelessly. She sounded truly worried. When she pulled back Lily's drapes, and discovered her absence, her hands flew to her mouth.
"Don't worry," Remus grinned for the second time that night, "She isn't in any danger. It's just... rather embarrassing."
Alison raised a dark eyebrow.
There was a moment's silence, then Remus unexpectedly grabbed her hand, and led her to the boys' dormitory. Alison was surprised, but didn't protest. In fact, she rather enjoyed it. But she wouldn't have admitted it to anyone. She wouldn't even admit it to herself. Remus was completely oblivious to this plethora of thoughts.
He raised a finger to his lips as they reached the doors of the boys dormitories, winked at her, and pressed his ear up against the door, indicating for her to do the same. Loud voices emanated form the room,
"Where the hell is he?...you don't think he just walked into the common room and fell asleep?" Came a voice.
"Only one way to find out." Came a second.
"Well I'm not going." Replied the first one.
"What, are you afraid to leave little lilykins here on her own?" Teased the second. Alison could just picture the smirk.
"No, I just don't want to go out into the common room in my boxers. Why, do you?"
"Well, you could just put your robes on. Or, failing that, you could put them on inside out! That seems to be more your approach to dressing. Look, they're already inside out, just waiting for you..."
"Shut up, I didn't mean to put them on inside out!"
"I know. I just like taking the piss."
"Well... don't."
"Ooooh, Scawy!" That was the second voice, mocking the first now.
"I will not dignify that with an answer."
"That was an answer!"
"Shut up!"
Remus chose that exact moment to open the door, dragging a reluctant Alison along with him. She stared at James and Sirius, then suddenly, as if realising this was rude, averted her gaze to the wooden floor uncomfortably. Remus, however, unabashed, grinned and said, with a raised eyebrow,
"Walked into the common room and fell asleep? My, my, what *do* you think of me?" James blushed, and, obviously thinking along the same lines as Alison, stared hard at the floor. "The reason I took so long, is because Alison, here, decided to suffocate me. Consequently, I fainted."
Remus waited, still hand in hand with Alison. He didn't seem to mind, but Alison was very aware of it. Even through the sheet of hair that now covered her face, you could see the blush. Although, I suppose you could call this fortunate in comparison with James; his hair was cropped short (in a parental attempt to keep it from sticking out messily, presumably, - which, one might add, was an attempt that had failed miserably; his hair still stuck out in all directions) and you could see every embarrassed feature on his red face.
Alison frowned suddenly, trying to overcome the fact that she was in the boys' dormitory and ask something;
"Umm... Remus? I thought you said that Lily was in here... or something..." Her voice faded away uneasily.
A look of remembrance flashed across Remus' face. "Ah yes. James, I brought the answer to your problems."
James raised an eyebrow. He obviously still hadn't forgotten the jibe in the great hall on the first day. "Her? *She's* the answer?" He said, sneering.
"Well, I'm sorry if I'm not up to the Great James Potter's Standards!" She answered hotly.
"Look, you don't even know what the problem is yet, so stop arguing!" Intervened Sirius. Everyone was so astonished that he would act as a peace- maker, that the arguing stopped out of pure shock, and everyone stared.
"What?" He asked, grinning like a chimpanzee high on cocaine, (very high). "It stopped me from arguing!"
"You've got a point," Reasoned Alison. She seemed to have lost her bashfulness after bickering with James. Maybe, Alison thought afterwards, it did that to people, arguing with James, that is. When she later related this to Lily in the dormitories, Lily merely hissed. "Now, about Lily."
Remus was the one to answer her. "Right. Umm, she's on James' bed..." Alison gave him a quizzical look, as if to say , but didn't say anything, and merely traipsed through all the boys' clothes scattered on the floor in messy heaps in the direction of James' bed. "Wait!" Remus called. Alison stopped, mid-wade, and turned to look at Remus, in the same quizzical fashion as before. Remus coloured. "You tell her." He muttered to James.
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"SHUT UP!" Alison yelled, red-faced. "SOMEBODY TELL ME FOR GOD'S SAKE!" Remus, nudged froward by a scared looking James, mumbled incomprehensibly,
"There's something you gotta know. She's mpphhh."
"What? Try opening your mouth when you speak, I can't hear a god damn thing!" James whispered to Sirius, so that only the two of them could hear, "Yeah, that's because you deafened us all with your shouting," Whilst Sirius sniggered, but it was only too obvious that neither of them wanted to get caught by the furious female. Remus, however, sensing that Alison's mood would only worsen if she didn't find out Lily's predicament soon, said, slightly louder, but even more apprehensively,
"She's... topless."
"WHAT!?" Alison exploded. "WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU PERVERTS BEEN *DOING* TO HER!?"
Remus winced. "Shhh, you'll wake up the whole bloody common room!" he hissed. Then, in answer to her question, when he saw the frenzied look on her face, "We haven't been doing anything to her," Here Alison snorted, but Remus ignored her, and carried on, "So she just walked in here and made herself comfortable?" Alison looked incredulously around at all of them.
"I don't believe you." She said flatly. She continued to wade through the mess on the boys' floor, and reached the bed in question. No matter how many times she told herself that this was ridiculous, and that the boys were just playing a practical joke, a tiny part of her, somewhere, knew that they wouldn't get her up at, she checked her watch, five to one in the morning, and make up such a ridiculous lie. And of course, there was the small fact that Lily was gone, that validated it. So she shut her eyes, pulled up the corner of the curtain and slipped inside. She didn't want to move, for fear of accidentally putting her hand somewhere it shouldn't go, so she was forced to open her eyes. Luckily, Lily had pulled James' cover up to her chin, although Alison was still rather disturbed. And annoyed, now she would have to admit to everyone that she was wrong.
Alison gently shook Lily and whispered in her ear. Lily mumbled something, then rolled over, and went back to sleep. Then James' smug voice came floating through his hangings:
"Think I haven't already tried that, O'Neill?" He had addressed Alison be her last name. She was instantly reminded of her argument with him, and sighed irritably.
She tried to shake Lily harder, not whispering this time, for fear James would hear, and send his voice through again with another unpleasant comment. Lily just batted Alison away, and said something that sounded oddly like,
"Go away, I have to feed the parrot." This made everyone snigger, but Alison just wanted to wake Lily up. She had a sudden, daring, idea. Both Lily and James would be furious with her, but... oh well.
"Accio water," She whispered quietly. A glass of water came floating into the hangings. James realized her intentions just a bit to late:
"What- O'Neill, why-?" Splash. It all came out. Over Lily's face. She was sopping wet, and James was yelling, but at least he had the decency not to come in. And Lily was awake. She sat up, the covers falling off her, and Alison quickly turned away. It took Lily a moment to register everything, and this time was occupied with many stuttered half questions. She scrambled into her top, but still couldn't string a full sentence together. Obviously thinking that they were still in the Gryffindor Girls' dormitory, she got out of the bed, frowning. When she saw the boys, she yelped, and clambered back behind the hangings.
When she was safely out of sight, she demanded, "All right, I want a proper explanation of what happened here." Everyone, of course except Peter, who was still fast asleep, burst out laughing, and Lily pouted. She finally managed to shake the story out of everyone, but they, obviously, left the worst till last. She listened intently, until the last moments, where she slapped a hand over her mouth, turned crimson, and fled to her own room. Alison joined her shortly after, stumbling in her mirth.
Lily was sitting bolt upright, on the edge of the bed, hands in her lap, and eyes wide with embarrassment.
"Did he-" She bit her lip, "Did he, you know, see... anything?"
Alison grinned, "I dunno, but you two are getting very hot and steamy!" She joked. Lily shoved her onto her bed. They smiled, at each other, then closed the hangings, and went to sleep. Or tried to.
About five minutes later, Lily heard a snort of laughter. She flung her hangings open incredulously. Alison hand stuffed her hand in her mouth in order to prevent herself from laughing.
Lily shook her head, and gave her friend a piteous look. Then lay back down. About five minutes after that, Lily heard a massive thump. She opened her hangings to find Alison, laid on the floor, spread-eagled, and shaking with laughter, this sight was so ridiculous that Lily promptly joined her, and they laughed themselves to sleep there.
*
In the morning, Alison and Lily were both incredibly stiff. Lily only had to turn her neck, to experience groan-worthy pain.
They followed the boys down to breakfast, pretending they knew their way. Lily tried to sit as far away from James as possible, and he from her, but they ended up sitting opposite. How this worked, neither of them knew, but they both blushed furiously all through breakfast, and no-one said a word.
Finally, the post came, and broke the awkward silence, in a flurry of feathers and bird poo. At least this caused a distraction.
Lily watched everyone else receive their post with interest, but she never expected any. Her parents couldn't even get used to wizarding currency, let alone owl post. And her parents would be the only ones who would ever send anything.
So, naturally, she was surprised to see a school owl swoop down, and drop a letter in her porridge. Well, actually, it was more like a note, than a letter. It wasn't in an envelope, and there were only a few sentences on it.
She frowned, and a pucker appeared in her forehead. She unrolled the note, and quickly scanned it.
It read;
~*~*~*
Lily,
You must come home for the holidays. You must.
~*~*~*
She frowned. It wasn't even signed. She flipped it over, just to make sure. Nope, no signature. It looked like her father's handwriting, although sort of rushed, and aggravated.
But, then again, this note was a rushed and aggravated sort of note.
Alison noticed Lily's change of mood, and said with her mouth full,
"What's up?"
Lily looked broody to Alison, and the moment the words had left her mouth, she new she shouldn't have said them, but they were gone.
Lily looked her friend in the eye, and murmured
"The sky. The sky is up." Grabbed her bag and walked away. Alison looked after her friend with an odd look, and Sirius leant over the table, and said, almost as tactlessly as Alison had,
"All right?"
Alison looked around, on, and under the breakfast table for some clue to her friend's mysterious behavior, and saw the note. Lily had left the note. There it was. Lying there like some kind of prize. Waiting to be read... Alison hastily picked up the note, stuffed it in her bag, and left the table after Lily, meaning to give the note back, but never getting around to it. Her curiosity got the better of her, and she kept it.
*
Lily walked, dazed, to the owlry. If her parents had been the one's who had written to her, then they would surely reply if she wrote back. If they didn't know what she was talking about, then it was a false alarm, and was probably just James Potter being an arse.
It was a win-win situation, and if Lily found out that it was James, she would beat his arse off.
This made sense in Lily's mind, so she quickly scribbled a note to her parents, asking what the note was all about, and telling her father that her didn't sign it, trying to make it light hearted. But it left a lead weight in her stomach all day.
She told the owl, carefully, whilst stroking it's wings, that wherever she was, he should deliver that reply to her, and if they wouldn't reply, stay until they did. The owl looked at her stonily, and flew off out of the window.
*
She kept coming up with theories as to what could make her parents behave in such an odd fashion, and none of them were reassuring. In her heart, Lily knew she was just being stupid, and that it probably wasn't anything at all. She knew she was just overreacting, so she couldn't tell anyone.
History of Magic was possibly one of the most boring classes of all time, and left plenty of time for snoozing, which most of the students did with pleasure. Lily, however, decided it was the best time to think of new theories, but she had to copy down notes at the same time, which proved rather difficult. In the end, Alison, who, like Lily, was one of the few who didn't take advantage of the lesson in order to catch up on last night's missed sleep, eventually had to lean over and whisper,
"Are you okay?"
Lily was awakened abruptly from her reverie, and jumped, completely taken by surprise, "What?"
Alison grinned, "I said, are you alright?"
"Uh- yeah, fine," Lily murmured.
"Only," She pulled Lily's notes towards her, "You've written the same sentence about three times, look, The goblins rebellions were started mainly by the goblins rebellions were started mainly by the goblins rebellions were started mainly by," Alison looked at Lily for an answer.
"Oh no! I bet I missed loads!" She said frantically, scribbling down the last sentences she could remember. Alison saw James look her way and roll his eyes. She scowled unpleasantly at him, but he didn't see, and turned back around.
Once Lily's writing had slowed down a bit, and her face had taken on a stupefied look, Alison carefully unfurled the note. She read it through, trying to ignore the feeling of intrusion in her stomach.
~*~*~*
Lily,
You must come home for the holidays. You must.
~*~*~*
Once she had read it through once, she read it again, and again, then flipped it over, looking for more. There was no more. But, this didn't make sense! Surely, Lily had another piece of paper, an extension of the letter, perhaps, but Alison only remembered the owl delivering one.
Suddenly, a breath next to her ear made her jump. It was Lily. She glowered at Alison.
"Enjoying reading into my private life?" Lily hadn't meant it to came out so nastily, but it had. "No," She whispered, trying to make amends, "Sorry, it wasn't supposed to come out like that-"
But she was cut off by Alison throwing her arms around her, and saying, "Sorry, Lily, I didn't mean to... I just- are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Lily had pulled away. Then Alison realized why. Everyone was gawking lucidly, and Professor Binns had stopped talking and was staring over his smoky glasses at them. James and Peter were sniggering. They had to think fast.
"I'm sorry Professor," It was Alison who spoke first, "Lily feels very sick, and I need to take her down to the hospital wing." She trod on Lily's foot under the table, who immediately got the message, and started groaning, and leaning on Alison. It was brilliant.
Professor Binns, who looked completely taken aback, immediately let them out. They barely managed to make it out of the door without bursting into laughter, and had to sprint down to the hospital wing - after they had told professor Binns that that was what they were doing, they could hardly go anywhere else - in case the class heard their hysterics.
Madam Pomfrey could see that obviously neither of them were sick, but she winked at Lily, and said that they could stay until lunch. Lily grinned, and Alison looked ecstatic.
Madam Pomfrey disappeared away into her office. Suddenly there was a sharp tapping from somewhere behind Lily. She swiveled around. It was the owl she had sent to her parents.
Lily felt very good. Her parents were replying, they were out of lessons till lunch which meant that they missed another forty-five minutes if History of Magic.
Her heart started to beat faster in her chest as she ripped open the envelope.
Alison watched her best friend's face fall, she doubled over, and then came up again.
"Alison," Lily grabbed Alison's sleeve whilst still staring at the letter. "Petunia... She's" Alison leant in closer, "Dying-" Lily whispered, and choked.
"Oh my God..."
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A/N:!! YOU MUST READ THE END OF CHAPTER FIVE AGAIN, I HAVE CHANGED IT. YOU WONT UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER UNLESS YOU READ THE END OF CHAPTER FIVE AGAIN.
Every Witch has her Silver Lining
Suffocations and Realizations
When Remus awoke, eyes snapping open, the world was spinning around him, and it took a moment before he realised what he was doing lying on the floor of the first year girls' dormitories. He shut his eyes again, and massaged his temples lethargically. He heard foot steps, each one a huge hammer pounding on his brain. When the hammering foot steps reached him, they stopped, and there was the clicking of someone's knee as they bent. Unintelligible whispering filled Remus' brain. They were a mixture of memories and reality. There was the clammy hand closing over his mouth, then his name forming on someone's lips.
When his eyes flickered open a second time, Alison's terrified face came swimming into view. She was slapping his face, and whispering,
"Remus... Remus! Wake up, God damn you! Remus! I didn't *mean* to make you faint!"
The last utterance was one of desperation. When she saw his eyes opening, she gasped in deep relief and pulled him into an almost violent hug. His hand went immediately to his head, and he groaned. Alison giggled giddily at him, but let him go.
"God, Remus, you scared me! I thought I'd killed you!"
Remus 'humphed' grumpily, but this only succeeded in making Alison laugh more. He tried to frown, to show his contempt, but it hurt his head, so he just glared at her without moving his eyebrows. Alison grinned. This was not the desired effect.
"What the hell did you do that for?" He asked, annoyed.
"What, laugh?"
"No, suffocate me!" He practically shouted.
"Shhh," She put her finger to her lips, "You'll wake up the others!"
"Who cares?" Remus asked recklessly. Reckless Remus, to be honest, was a little scary, "Why did you suffocate me?
"Well," Alison started awkwardly, "I wasn't supposed to suffocate you, exactly, just stop you from barging into the girls' dormitory." She blushed, and looked embarrassed, at her feet, "I thought you were James or Sirius." The she added as an after thought, "Sorry!"
Remus smiled,
"So you wanted to suffocate James and Sirius?"
"No!" Alison said, wringing her hands, "I just-"
"Oh, you silly, I was just joking!" Alison helped him up and pulled him into a hug. They stayed like that for a moment, and then she pushed Remus away, frowning, finally posing the question,
"What are you doing up here, anyway, at" She paused to check her watch, "One o'clock in the morning?"
Remus sighed. "It's a long story."
"Well, that doesn't make any difference to me"
"Yes, but it does to Lily."
Alison frowned. "What about Lily?"
"Well, I'll explain to you what happened afterwards, but right now, she isn't in the... safest of places, or in one of the most... comfortable positions, and she needs your help."
"Oh God, what happened to her?" Alison asked, franticly. She ran over to check Lily's bed, almost hopelessly. She sounded truly worried. When she pulled back Lily's drapes, and discovered her absence, her hands flew to her mouth.
"Don't worry," Remus grinned for the second time that night, "She isn't in any danger. It's just... rather embarrassing."
Alison raised a dark eyebrow.
There was a moment's silence, then Remus unexpectedly grabbed her hand, and led her to the boys' dormitory. Alison was surprised, but didn't protest. In fact, she rather enjoyed it. But she wouldn't have admitted it to anyone. She wouldn't even admit it to herself. Remus was completely oblivious to this plethora of thoughts.
He raised a finger to his lips as they reached the doors of the boys dormitories, winked at her, and pressed his ear up against the door, indicating for her to do the same. Loud voices emanated form the room,
"Where the hell is he?...you don't think he just walked into the common room and fell asleep?" Came a voice.
"Only one way to find out." Came a second.
"Well I'm not going." Replied the first one.
"What, are you afraid to leave little lilykins here on her own?" Teased the second. Alison could just picture the smirk.
"No, I just don't want to go out into the common room in my boxers. Why, do you?"
"Well, you could just put your robes on. Or, failing that, you could put them on inside out! That seems to be more your approach to dressing. Look, they're already inside out, just waiting for you..."
"Shut up, I didn't mean to put them on inside out!"
"I know. I just like taking the piss."
"Well... don't."
"Ooooh, Scawy!" That was the second voice, mocking the first now.
"I will not dignify that with an answer."
"That was an answer!"
"Shut up!"
Remus chose that exact moment to open the door, dragging a reluctant Alison along with him. She stared at James and Sirius, then suddenly, as if realising this was rude, averted her gaze to the wooden floor uncomfortably. Remus, however, unabashed, grinned and said, with a raised eyebrow,
"Walked into the common room and fell asleep? My, my, what *do* you think of me?" James blushed, and, obviously thinking along the same lines as Alison, stared hard at the floor. "The reason I took so long, is because Alison, here, decided to suffocate me. Consequently, I fainted."
Remus waited, still hand in hand with Alison. He didn't seem to mind, but Alison was very aware of it. Even through the sheet of hair that now covered her face, you could see the blush. Although, I suppose you could call this fortunate in comparison with James; his hair was cropped short (in a parental attempt to keep it from sticking out messily, presumably, - which, one might add, was an attempt that had failed miserably; his hair still stuck out in all directions) and you could see every embarrassed feature on his red face.
Alison frowned suddenly, trying to overcome the fact that she was in the boys' dormitory and ask something;
"Umm... Remus? I thought you said that Lily was in here... or something..." Her voice faded away uneasily.
A look of remembrance flashed across Remus' face. "Ah yes. James, I brought the answer to your problems."
James raised an eyebrow. He obviously still hadn't forgotten the jibe in the great hall on the first day. "Her? *She's* the answer?" He said, sneering.
"Well, I'm sorry if I'm not up to the Great James Potter's Standards!" She answered hotly.
"Look, you don't even know what the problem is yet, so stop arguing!" Intervened Sirius. Everyone was so astonished that he would act as a peace- maker, that the arguing stopped out of pure shock, and everyone stared.
"What?" He asked, grinning like a chimpanzee high on cocaine, (very high). "It stopped me from arguing!"
"You've got a point," Reasoned Alison. She seemed to have lost her bashfulness after bickering with James. Maybe, Alison thought afterwards, it did that to people, arguing with James, that is. When she later related this to Lily in the dormitories, Lily merely hissed. "Now, about Lily."
Remus was the one to answer her. "Right. Umm, she's on James' bed..." Alison gave him a quizzical look, as if to say , but didn't say anything, and merely traipsed through all the boys' clothes scattered on the floor in messy heaps in the direction of James' bed. "Wait!" Remus called. Alison stopped, mid-wade, and turned to look at Remus, in the same quizzical fashion as before. Remus coloured. "You tell her." He muttered to James.
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"No you."
"SHUT UP!" Alison yelled, red-faced. "SOMEBODY TELL ME FOR GOD'S SAKE!" Remus, nudged froward by a scared looking James, mumbled incomprehensibly,
"There's something you gotta know. She's mpphhh."
"What? Try opening your mouth when you speak, I can't hear a god damn thing!" James whispered to Sirius, so that only the two of them could hear, "Yeah, that's because you deafened us all with your shouting," Whilst Sirius sniggered, but it was only too obvious that neither of them wanted to get caught by the furious female. Remus, however, sensing that Alison's mood would only worsen if she didn't find out Lily's predicament soon, said, slightly louder, but even more apprehensively,
"She's... topless."
"WHAT!?" Alison exploded. "WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU PERVERTS BEEN *DOING* TO HER!?"
Remus winced. "Shhh, you'll wake up the whole bloody common room!" he hissed. Then, in answer to her question, when he saw the frenzied look on her face, "We haven't been doing anything to her," Here Alison snorted, but Remus ignored her, and carried on, "So she just walked in here and made herself comfortable?" Alison looked incredulously around at all of them.
"I don't believe you." She said flatly. She continued to wade through the mess on the boys' floor, and reached the bed in question. No matter how many times she told herself that this was ridiculous, and that the boys were just playing a practical joke, a tiny part of her, somewhere, knew that they wouldn't get her up at, she checked her watch, five to one in the morning, and make up such a ridiculous lie. And of course, there was the small fact that Lily was gone, that validated it. So she shut her eyes, pulled up the corner of the curtain and slipped inside. She didn't want to move, for fear of accidentally putting her hand somewhere it shouldn't go, so she was forced to open her eyes. Luckily, Lily had pulled James' cover up to her chin, although Alison was still rather disturbed. And annoyed, now she would have to admit to everyone that she was wrong.
Alison gently shook Lily and whispered in her ear. Lily mumbled something, then rolled over, and went back to sleep. Then James' smug voice came floating through his hangings:
"Think I haven't already tried that, O'Neill?" He had addressed Alison be her last name. She was instantly reminded of her argument with him, and sighed irritably.
She tried to shake Lily harder, not whispering this time, for fear James would hear, and send his voice through again with another unpleasant comment. Lily just batted Alison away, and said something that sounded oddly like,
"Go away, I have to feed the parrot." This made everyone snigger, but Alison just wanted to wake Lily up. She had a sudden, daring, idea. Both Lily and James would be furious with her, but... oh well.
"Accio water," She whispered quietly. A glass of water came floating into the hangings. James realized her intentions just a bit to late:
"What- O'Neill, why-?" Splash. It all came out. Over Lily's face. She was sopping wet, and James was yelling, but at least he had the decency not to come in. And Lily was awake. She sat up, the covers falling off her, and Alison quickly turned away. It took Lily a moment to register everything, and this time was occupied with many stuttered half questions. She scrambled into her top, but still couldn't string a full sentence together. Obviously thinking that they were still in the Gryffindor Girls' dormitory, she got out of the bed, frowning. When she saw the boys, she yelped, and clambered back behind the hangings.
When she was safely out of sight, she demanded, "All right, I want a proper explanation of what happened here." Everyone, of course except Peter, who was still fast asleep, burst out laughing, and Lily pouted. She finally managed to shake the story out of everyone, but they, obviously, left the worst till last. She listened intently, until the last moments, where she slapped a hand over her mouth, turned crimson, and fled to her own room. Alison joined her shortly after, stumbling in her mirth.
Lily was sitting bolt upright, on the edge of the bed, hands in her lap, and eyes wide with embarrassment.
"Did he-" She bit her lip, "Did he, you know, see... anything?"
Alison grinned, "I dunno, but you two are getting very hot and steamy!" She joked. Lily shoved her onto her bed. They smiled, at each other, then closed the hangings, and went to sleep. Or tried to.
About five minutes later, Lily heard a snort of laughter. She flung her hangings open incredulously. Alison hand stuffed her hand in her mouth in order to prevent herself from laughing.
Lily shook her head, and gave her friend a piteous look. Then lay back down. About five minutes after that, Lily heard a massive thump. She opened her hangings to find Alison, laid on the floor, spread-eagled, and shaking with laughter, this sight was so ridiculous that Lily promptly joined her, and they laughed themselves to sleep there.
*
In the morning, Alison and Lily were both incredibly stiff. Lily only had to turn her neck, to experience groan-worthy pain.
They followed the boys down to breakfast, pretending they knew their way. Lily tried to sit as far away from James as possible, and he from her, but they ended up sitting opposite. How this worked, neither of them knew, but they both blushed furiously all through breakfast, and no-one said a word.
Finally, the post came, and broke the awkward silence, in a flurry of feathers and bird poo. At least this caused a distraction.
Lily watched everyone else receive their post with interest, but she never expected any. Her parents couldn't even get used to wizarding currency, let alone owl post. And her parents would be the only ones who would ever send anything.
So, naturally, she was surprised to see a school owl swoop down, and drop a letter in her porridge. Well, actually, it was more like a note, than a letter. It wasn't in an envelope, and there were only a few sentences on it.
She frowned, and a pucker appeared in her forehead. She unrolled the note, and quickly scanned it.
It read;
~*~*~*
Lily,
You must come home for the holidays. You must.
~*~*~*
She frowned. It wasn't even signed. She flipped it over, just to make sure. Nope, no signature. It looked like her father's handwriting, although sort of rushed, and aggravated.
But, then again, this note was a rushed and aggravated sort of note.
Alison noticed Lily's change of mood, and said with her mouth full,
"What's up?"
Lily looked broody to Alison, and the moment the words had left her mouth, she new she shouldn't have said them, but they were gone.
Lily looked her friend in the eye, and murmured
"The sky. The sky is up." Grabbed her bag and walked away. Alison looked after her friend with an odd look, and Sirius leant over the table, and said, almost as tactlessly as Alison had,
"All right?"
Alison looked around, on, and under the breakfast table for some clue to her friend's mysterious behavior, and saw the note. Lily had left the note. There it was. Lying there like some kind of prize. Waiting to be read... Alison hastily picked up the note, stuffed it in her bag, and left the table after Lily, meaning to give the note back, but never getting around to it. Her curiosity got the better of her, and she kept it.
*
Lily walked, dazed, to the owlry. If her parents had been the one's who had written to her, then they would surely reply if she wrote back. If they didn't know what she was talking about, then it was a false alarm, and was probably just James Potter being an arse.
It was a win-win situation, and if Lily found out that it was James, she would beat his arse off.
This made sense in Lily's mind, so she quickly scribbled a note to her parents, asking what the note was all about, and telling her father that her didn't sign it, trying to make it light hearted. But it left a lead weight in her stomach all day.
She told the owl, carefully, whilst stroking it's wings, that wherever she was, he should deliver that reply to her, and if they wouldn't reply, stay until they did. The owl looked at her stonily, and flew off out of the window.
*
She kept coming up with theories as to what could make her parents behave in such an odd fashion, and none of them were reassuring. In her heart, Lily knew she was just being stupid, and that it probably wasn't anything at all. She knew she was just overreacting, so she couldn't tell anyone.
History of Magic was possibly one of the most boring classes of all time, and left plenty of time for snoozing, which most of the students did with pleasure. Lily, however, decided it was the best time to think of new theories, but she had to copy down notes at the same time, which proved rather difficult. In the end, Alison, who, like Lily, was one of the few who didn't take advantage of the lesson in order to catch up on last night's missed sleep, eventually had to lean over and whisper,
"Are you okay?"
Lily was awakened abruptly from her reverie, and jumped, completely taken by surprise, "What?"
Alison grinned, "I said, are you alright?"
"Uh- yeah, fine," Lily murmured.
"Only," She pulled Lily's notes towards her, "You've written the same sentence about three times, look, The goblins rebellions were started mainly by the goblins rebellions were started mainly by the goblins rebellions were started mainly by," Alison looked at Lily for an answer.
"Oh no! I bet I missed loads!" She said frantically, scribbling down the last sentences she could remember. Alison saw James look her way and roll his eyes. She scowled unpleasantly at him, but he didn't see, and turned back around.
Once Lily's writing had slowed down a bit, and her face had taken on a stupefied look, Alison carefully unfurled the note. She read it through, trying to ignore the feeling of intrusion in her stomach.
~*~*~*
Lily,
You must come home for the holidays. You must.
~*~*~*
Once she had read it through once, she read it again, and again, then flipped it over, looking for more. There was no more. But, this didn't make sense! Surely, Lily had another piece of paper, an extension of the letter, perhaps, but Alison only remembered the owl delivering one.
Suddenly, a breath next to her ear made her jump. It was Lily. She glowered at Alison.
"Enjoying reading into my private life?" Lily hadn't meant it to came out so nastily, but it had. "No," She whispered, trying to make amends, "Sorry, it wasn't supposed to come out like that-"
But she was cut off by Alison throwing her arms around her, and saying, "Sorry, Lily, I didn't mean to... I just- are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Lily had pulled away. Then Alison realized why. Everyone was gawking lucidly, and Professor Binns had stopped talking and was staring over his smoky glasses at them. James and Peter were sniggering. They had to think fast.
"I'm sorry Professor," It was Alison who spoke first, "Lily feels very sick, and I need to take her down to the hospital wing." She trod on Lily's foot under the table, who immediately got the message, and started groaning, and leaning on Alison. It was brilliant.
Professor Binns, who looked completely taken aback, immediately let them out. They barely managed to make it out of the door without bursting into laughter, and had to sprint down to the hospital wing - after they had told professor Binns that that was what they were doing, they could hardly go anywhere else - in case the class heard their hysterics.
Madam Pomfrey could see that obviously neither of them were sick, but she winked at Lily, and said that they could stay until lunch. Lily grinned, and Alison looked ecstatic.
Madam Pomfrey disappeared away into her office. Suddenly there was a sharp tapping from somewhere behind Lily. She swiveled around. It was the owl she had sent to her parents.
Lily felt very good. Her parents were replying, they were out of lessons till lunch which meant that they missed another forty-five minutes if History of Magic.
Her heart started to beat faster in her chest as she ripped open the envelope.
Alison watched her best friend's face fall, she doubled over, and then came up again.
"Alison," Lily grabbed Alison's sleeve whilst still staring at the letter. "Petunia... She's" Alison leant in closer, "Dying-" Lily whispered, and choked.
"Oh my God..."
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HAHA! I bet none of you expected that, eh?
Well, see you later. I'm very proud of myself for updating. Sorry I didn't sooner, but a lot's been happening. Thanks to Kit-Kat, for motivating me enough to update today!!!!!!
lots and lots of love,
Glumfrog xxx
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