Title: Open the Flower Inside of Me.
Disclaimer: I own nothing that is out of the Harry Potter books or movies. I will be adding some of my own characters.
Summary: Lily Evans is considered an outcast until she befriends with a certain Black. Read to find out more.
*~*~* Chapter 1: Who are you again? *~*~*
It was the morning of September the 1st. A beautiful young red-head woke up only to be thinking about her recurring dream. She had been having these for many weeks now.
*~*~* Lily's dream *~*~*
Lily was running in a field. She was not running away from anyone but running among with a group of people. Suddenly someone grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. Then many others were surrounding her. She was in the middle of a group hug. She had friends.
*~*~* End of dream *~*~*
"Lily dear, time for brekkie." Mrs Rose Evans called from downstairs.
"I'll be down in a minute." Lily called back as she raced to get dressed.
*~*~* In the Kitchen *~*~*
Lily's father Tom Evans was sitting at the table reading the muggle's daily newspaper. The back page was on an article about owls.
"Daddy what is the back article about?" asked a curious Lily
"Oh right I was meaning to tell you." Said her father. "Many news reporters have spotted more owls flying around in the day with letters attached to their legs. It says that if anyone has any information on the subject that they should call the newspaper to give them a small report about it." Her father told her. Tom was always quite interested in magic but if something was wrong in the muggle world and it had something to do with magic he would side with the muggles only to protect them and of course himself.
"Daddy will I be able to take that article with me to Hogwarts?" Lily asked
"Of course you may" he handed her the article just as Petunia, her older sister, came into the kitchen.
"Morning Mum, morning Dad." Petunia said. She always ignored Lily, she didn't want to talk to a 'Freak'. "Mum I'm going to a friends house in an hour." Petunia announced.
"But Pet Lily is leaving today we have to take her to Kings Cross Station and see her off." Her mum protested.
"But mum I don't want to go watch that freak walk through a wall and into another dimension just so she can get to her freak school. There will be more like her there. And what if someone sees her run through the wall? What if someone finds out that she belongs to us? What if someone sees me? I will ruin my reputation." Petunia argued.
"Come on Pet…" but Lily cut her off
"It's alright mum, I don't want Petunia to come anyway." She stated
"Fine you can stay, but at Christmas when Lily comes home, when she has to leave I want Pet to be there to see her off." Rose stated and they knew they couldn't fight it.
"Fine" both Lily and Petunia said at the same time.
"Oh my, look at the time. Lily dear go and get your things and then we will be off." Tom said
So Lily ran upstairs and grabbed her things then ran back down and hopped into the car.
*~*~* At the Station *~*~*
"Be good and…*sob*… write all the time…*sob*… I love you" those were the last words Lily heard from her mother before she broke down in tears.
"Mum I do this all the time." Lily always complained that her parents looked after her too much.
"She will still miss you." Said her father.
Lily just rolled her eyes and turned towards the brick wall between platforms 9 and 10. She quickly ran through to be greeted by a beautiful red train. She quickly piled her trunk onto the pile and made her way onto the train. She straightaway an empty Compartment and went to sit down. Not long after the train began to move signalling that it was 11:00.
Lily started to read her book, facing the window. She heard someone open the door of her Compartment. Before she turned around she pulled out her wand. She turned around only to hear and see someone too familiar.
"Hey guys come in, Evans is the only one in here so she won't mind." Little James Potter knew was while he was calling to his friends Lily had put a charm on his back to say. 'I'm a stupid git who only goes out with girls for fun so kick and curse me all you want.'
"Hello Potter." Lily said right in his ear.
James jumped before he recognised the voice.
"Hi Lily." Sirius Black had said before James could yell at her for sneaking up on him.
"Hello Black, Lupin and…and…and… oh I'm sorry but what is your name again?" she asked
"I'm…I'm…I'm…"
"His name is Peter." James had said. Peter has always had a crush on Lily. She is a very pretty girl, but she never and still didn't fall weak at the knees at the mention or looking at the Marauders (excluding Peter). They thought she was weird and well weird people got pranked so that's how it always was. She had never been able to get them back for it until now.
"So Lily, is it alright if we sit here?" Remus asked hoping for a yes
"You can have it." She announced "I'll just go to the prefects Compartment." At this she grabbed her small backpack with her robes in it and left with her book in one hand and her wand in the other.
"So James you will have to put up with her more often now." Sirius announced
"Poor you." Peter said. Although he liked her she was always mean to any Marauder.
*~*~* The Prefects Compartment *~*~*
Lily had just seated herself on one of the lounges in the prefect's Compartment when another too well known voice erupted in her ear.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" sneered a slimy Slytherin called Severus Snape asked
"Oh leave me alone Snape." Lily snapped
"I'm sorry I didn't catch that last bit. Could you say it again please Mudblood?"
"Watch your mouth young man" the new Head Boy Amos Diggery yelled to him.
"Oooo so your a Mudblood lover?" Snape said
Someone shouted "Feverate". Everyone turned to see James in the doorway holding his wand out to Snape. (Feverate is my own spell if use properly you can make your temperature rise to be over 100°C.)
Snape was now turning red.
"Stop the spell." Lily told James. But he didn't stop.
"I SAID STOP THE SPELL." James was surprised to hear her yell so he stopped the spell. Snape jumped up not waiting for the fight to be over and ran out of the Compartment.
"Why did you…" James never finished the question because the train stopped and Lily ran out of the train and onto a carriage. She was just about to close the door when a hand grabbed hold of the door and James pulled himself in along with Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"Why are you fallowing me?" Lily asked James once the carriage had started to move
"I'm not following you. We just happen to be doing the same things." She answered as if it were nothing.
"GRRRRRRR…" Lily just sat there looking out the window where she was squashed up against the wall with Remus and Sirius sitting next to each other having a Kangaroo Fight. (for those who don't know what a Kangaroo Fight is, it is where two Kangaroos stand on their back legs and with their heads up they stand close to each other while moving their arms up and down trying to scratch each other. I'm sorry if that doesn't make any scene I suck at describing things.)
James sat there looking at Lily as if she were a freak.
"What are you staring at Potter?" Lily asked finally noticing that he was watching her.
"I… uh…I…I was…um…looking at your eyes." James finally spat out by now everyone was looking at him.
Sirius then lent over and whispered in Lily's ear. "Don't worry about him my dear, but you have to admit your eyes are quite beautiful." At this Lily blushed just as the carriage stoped. Yet again she was the first one to leave. She was also the one of the first to get inside the castle.
"Yeah really looking at her eyes Prongs." Sirius teased. "Don't worry mate we will soon get her falling head over heals for you."
At this they headed back up to the castle to get ready for their Feast and along with an even bigger surprise. But just before they were about to enter the Great Hall, Remus started to laugh real hard. He had just noticed the sign on James' back.
Sirius saw what he was laughing at and joined in with the laughing.
Finally Remus could control himself long enough to tell him about the sign. He removed it quickly before he burst into another fit of laughing and he walked into the Great Hall bright red. Lily knew that they had found the sign and that he was laughing about what it said.
Suddenly Professor McGonagall walked in carrying a three-legged stool and an old natty hat. Behind her in a long straight line stood the many new and terrified first years…
A/N: Ok I've left it there otherwise it would have gone on too long. Well I hope you like it. Please review. I'm open to criticism but if you tell me I suck and that I should stop writing well it ain't gonna happen so if you hate it stop reading it. But if you tell me where I went wrong I will try to improve the story. Ok I will update soon *~* Mz Marauder *~*