~*~GREEN EYES~*~
Chapter 49- Pandora
"Lily, hurry up they're coming!" Sirius said as he ran into her dorm room. She looked over at the clock and saw the time: 6 am.
"Sirius, what are you doing? Go away!" she exclaimed, pulling the pillow over her head. Sirius did a tricky little charm to make her pillows and blankets move to the bottom of her bed and they stayed stuck there. "SIRIUS!" she yelled. He just giggled like a little school girl and went on about his merry way.
"They're coming thery're coming" he exclaimed once again, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Who's coming, and are they taking you away with them?" asked Lily, reluctantly sitting up and rubbing her eyes.
"What do you mean, who's coming? Them, the exchange students of course!" Sirius bounced onto her bed and started jumping on it. Lily threw one of her scarlet pillows at him and he fell off the bed, but he didn't at all seem phased.
"Do you think you can let me sleep for just a little bit longer?" asked Lily sleepily.
"I can...but I'm not going to," replied Sirius.
"Fine, fine, I'm getting up, but I'm not happy about this. You know you're not supposed to be in the girls dorms anyway," said Lily.
"I know, but I don't care. These suction shoes that let you climb up slides are definatly the best purchase I've ever made," Lily smiled as Sirius said this. She had almost forgotten when he had gotten those shose during third year, when he had spent five hours trying to climb up the slide, much to the girls' amusment.
As Lily and Sirius ran down the stairs they bumped into Remus, who was looking especially depressed.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, even thought she was pretty sure she knew what this was about
"Today is Jamie and my anniversary. We were supposed to go out to Hogsmeade, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen," he said. Lily noticed a single tear fall down his cheek, but she didn't say anything. Remus had gotten so depressed lately that she didn't know how to handle it.
"I'm sorry Remus," Sirius said, which was pretty much the only thing he could think of as consolense. He had been saying I'm sorry a lot lately.
"Sirius, don't say that! He's gonna start with his 'You have no idea speech,' and-" Lily whispered in Sirius's ear, but before she could finish her sentance Remus interrupted her.
"You have no idea what this is like, how the hell can you even say you're sorry! You have to be an asshole to think you can relate to this! Can you imagine what it would be like if you lost Lauren?" Remus shouted, pausing so he could get back his breath.
"Remus, I-" Sirius started, but he was cut off.
"Sirius, it was a rhetorical question. You can't imagine it because you've never had to face it, and don't even try because it's millions of times worse than anything you could ever imagine. And you know what I've realized from all of this? I'm going to hell. I mean, look at all the crap this so called God has put me through! What I am, what I've lost, I mean I'm a Goddamn werewolf with a dead girlfriend. It's like he just wishes I would kill myself and get it overwith," Remus was still yelling, but he had tears streaming down his face.
"Remus, don't talk that way! No one wants you to kill yourself, and Jamie may not be dead. I mean, she's just missing and-" Lily started.
"Lily, she's dead. She's gone and she's never coming back," and with that Remus walked out of the common room and slammed the portrait hole shut, causing the fat lady to yell 'That hurts, you know!' as he walked away.
That was when a very tired looking James walked into the common room. "What was all," he yawned loudly, "that about?" he asked, yawning a few more times.
"James, watch Remus, okay? I'm afraid he's about to do something stupid," said Lily, telling James all about what had just happened moments before. "Don't let anything happen! I have to go."
James watched Lily walk out the portrait hole and sarcastically said to himself "Well that's a nice good morning."
***
Although the students wouldn't be arriving until dinner-time, Lily, Sirius and their group were already in the great hall, making arrangements for their arrival.. Most of the group was supposed to be deciding on ways to decorate the great hall for the feast later that afternoon, but instead they were gathered around the table talking about Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Pathos latest breakup. Apparently he thought she spent too much time admiring herself in front of the mirror and not enough staring at him. Sirius, who was apparently quite chummy with the house elfs was down in the kitchens deciding on the food that would be made and Lily had taken the job of getting the sorting hat ready for the students, which proved to be a rather hard task.
"Sorting hat?" Lily asked it, but nothing at all happened. "Sorting hat!" Lily yelled a little louder. Still nothing. 'Hum...maybe I should try it on,' she thought, taking the ancient hat and putting it on her head.
"Ah, Lily Evans. I think I was quite right in placing you in Gryffindor, look at how great you've turned out," the Sorting Hat said.
"Thank you. Actually I need to get your help for something," said Lily.
"Help? Well that's silly, I'm just a hat. But now that you think of it I'm looking for a word to rhyme with valour."
"How about Gryffindor?"
"Ah, that's what I was thinking. Well if you can't help me anymore I guess it is time for you to go," said the Sorting Hat, somehow popping himself off her head. Lily became very angry, then put the hat back on, holding it tight to make sure it wouldn't pop off again.
"There are going to be tweleve more students that need to be sorted," said Lily.
"Well that's silly, school doesn't start for months!" said the Hat.
"No, they're from Beauxbatons," explained Lily. She then recounted the entire story
"Oh. Well I'm afraid we can only accept Hogwarts students. Goodbye," and somehow the hat popped itself off her head again.
"Stupid hat," she mumbled. She heard a voice from behind her.
"Having troubles?" Sirius asked, a grin across his face.
"You think this is amusing?" replied Lily, who was completley frustrated and was using all her self restraint to not throw the hat into a nearby fireplace.
"Yes, I do, because I read a book on hoodwinking magical objects and I know excatly how to fix it," Sirius then mumbled something and shot some sort of bubble at the hat. Just then the hat did a funny thing: it burped very loudly.
"What the..." said Lily, trying to figure out what Sirius had done to the hat. But just then it started talking.
"Give my regards to captian Dumblydob," it said, slurring it's words.
"Sirius, did you make the sorting hat drunk?" asked Lily, dumbfounded.
"I have my ways..." he replied mysteriously. Lily just gave him a look.
"Well at least we have time for a little piece and quiet," said Lily, sitting down on one of the tables and yawning loudly. That was when everyone heard the crash from down the hall.
***
"James, I don't understand why you dragged me here. You know I hate the library," Remus said as he took out a snack from his bag and started munching loudly. Both Madame Pince and James gave him a dirty look.
"Because I thought that the potions homework from the other day was very hard, and we should study it since it will probably be on the final exam," replied James, picking up his quill and writing down a couple of equations on his parchment. "So if the polarity of veritaserum 2 is taken into account, it should be 5.6 times more fluid than veritaserum 6, making it a more dangerous potion because it can move more freely through the body than it's counterpart, right Remus?"
"Whatever you say," he replied, resting his head down on his book.
"Come on, I know you got this much better than I did, so give me the help I so desperatly need," James was trying to be funny, but Remus didn't even look up.
"If veritaserum 2 is a poison, like you said, do you think you can get some of it to me? I could sure use a potion induced heart attack right about now," Remus was still laying down and looking to the side. James sighed and closed his book.
"Look, I know that life has been really hard on all of us lately, especially you. And I know that you don't think I can relate, but can we at least talk about this so you can start to heal a little?"
"Fine, I'll talk, but I can't promise I'll listen to what you say."
"Well at least that's a start. What do you want to talk about?"
"You're the one who wants to talk, remember? You start."
"Ok then. Listen, I know you think this whole thing is the end of the world-:"
"More like the point when the earth stops spinning and you get pulled to an alternate universe where nothing can make sense."
"Right. You may feel like that, but if you look around it's not like you're going to see the four zebras of the apocalypse walking by."
"Zebras? I don't remember that in revelation..."
"Whatever. My point is that life keeps going on even when you wish it would end. The seasons keep changing, people keep going about their lifes, you keep breathing, and this can either be the point that makes you brake down or the point that you pass this test that's been thrown at you and grow."
"So I have to have no emotion about this and then I will 'grow,' is that what you're saying James?"
"I didn't say that. Think about it though, we don't grow up when we sit around in the common room playing exploding snap. It's the hard times that force us to re-examine who we are as people and find out what we need to do to get to the next carefree day. I read this quote in a famous muggle book 'Everything I've learned about life can be summarized in three words: it goes on.'"
"Which muggle book was this?"
"I think it was called Cliff's Not, but it's not the book that matters."
"How can you say life is so wonderful when you know all I can focus on is the fact that Jamie isn't here to share it with us." as Remus finished, James sat up from the table.
"Come on," he said, starting for the door without his books.
"Where are we going?" asked Remus, not exactly wanting to get up.
"Come on, just trust me!" James then sprinted down to the broom closet down the hall and pulled out a pair of school brooms. "Ok, get on."
"James, you may not realize this but sometimes they frown upon us flying indoors," he said. James just shook his head.
"We won't be flying indoors for too long, now come on, don't be such a stick in the mud," and with that James jumped onto his broomstick and flew out the window. Remus didn't quite see the reasoning behind this, but he followed James anyway for lack of a good excuse not to. James lead him up to the castle roof, where they could see the grounds. The lake glistened in the noon sunlight, and students took a break from working to fly around the quidditch pitch.
"How can you look at this and say life isn't wonderful?" asked James. Remus stared off for quite a long time and then stopped a tear from falling.
"You're right. You really are right."
***
"What was that? Sirius, what did you do?" Lily yelled, getting up from her chair and running to the hallway outside.
"What do you mean what did I do? Why do you assume that every loud, crashing noise is my fault?" asked Sirius, taking an offensive tone.
"Because it usually is," Lily stated simply.
"I'll give you that one," replied Sirius, defeated. "Come on, let's go figure out what that was."
They walked down to the entrance, where they saw a girl walking up the stairs. She had very long, brown hair and the most piercing blue eyes Lily had ever seen. She clutched a huge crown in one tiny hand, and a necklace in the other. She was very small, about five feet tall, and she was so thin that it seemed as if the wind would break her.
"Bon jour," she said, and then started speaking in rapid-fire french.
"Um, Sirius, do you by any chance know what she's talking about?" asked Lily. He shock his head.
"I thought your friends from back home taught you french," said Sirius.
"It turns out that the charm only works for a few hours, and you have to do it every day until you establish fluency," explained Lily. "And that doens't really help us here." The girl started talking and gave them a funny look.
"You speak english?" she said slowly, with a french accent. "Where am I?"
"You're at Hogwarts," Lily was quite as confused as the girl; the exchance students weren't set to arrive until later that evening and she definatly wasn't from around here.
"Hogwarts? But zat iz very very far away. Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Sirius Black, and this is Lily Evans. Who are you?" Sirius couldn't help but stare at the necklace she wore around her neck, a moon made completly out of diamond. He knew he'd seen one before.
"My name is Pandora D'leir," she said. "I don't know how I got here. I just picked up zis beautiful crown I was examining it and zen, boom! I was here."
"Well the crown must have been a portkey," Lily thought outloud, "where did you pick it up?"
"Why from Beaubatons castle, of course!" Pandora explaied.
"That would make sense, it would be too much work for the school to get here by other means but they would still want to make it a beautiful object, like a crown," said Lily.
"But they wouldn't just let leave it lying around," said Sirius.
"Yeah, where did you get it from?" asked Lily, but before Pandora could answer a redheaded woman fell from gracefully from the sky to the groud, clutching an old boot.
"Pandora, you naughty girl, how dare you break into the staff room and touch my things? And right before I was supposed meet with the headmaster! If you weren't so hopelessly clueless I would have expelled you a long time ago, but I guess I'll just have to tell the headmaster to give you a detention now that you're out of my juristiction. Give me that crown back, now!" yelled the woman in perfect english, grabbing the crown out of Pandora's hand and walking up to the stairs. "Teenagers, I swear," she mumbled, before they lost sight of her.
"You broke into the staff room?" asked Sirius, very excited now. "I like you already."
"I didn't think I would be discovered. I was just looking for my fireworks," Pandora replied, looking very downcast.
"Fireworks?" Sirius implored.
"Well we only thought zat we could use zem as defense, but zey were confinscated and I wanted zem back," replied Pandora. Lily was about to say something when something clicked in Sirius' head.
"Your necklace, I know where I've seen it! James gave Lily one like that for Christmas, and she wears it all the time. Show her Lily!" he exclaimed. Lily frowned.
"I used to wear it all the time, and then for some reason it started to glow red. I used a whole bunch of charms to make the glowing stop but nothing worked, so I had to take it off," Lily seemed saddened by this, and Sirius knew why. She loved that little necklace.
"It glowed red? Iz someone you know hurt?" asked Pandora, now looking very interested.
"How did you know?" asked Sirius.
"Well, the necklace was originally used for witches and wizards zhat needed divine help. Typically if it glows red a friend iz in trouble," explained Pandora.
"My friend is in trouble. She dissapeared about a month ago and no one can find her. Everyone thinks that she's...dead," Lily could barely even say the last word, she didn't want to admit it.
"Well she can't be dead if the necklace glows. Why have you not used it to find her?" asked Pandora.
"Use it to find her?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, if you have a book you can interpret the sign and help whoever is in trouble. I am surprised you have not done zat," said Pandora.
"Oh my God, we can find her! We have to go tell Remus!" exclaimed Lily, running towards the common room. She was just going up a staircase when she litterally ran into James.
"James, it's great, I-" she started, but he cut her off.
"Lily, Sirius, come quick. Remus commited suicide."
A/N- This has been way too late, but this time I actually reasons.
My grandmother has been very sick and I was at her house practially all summer with no computer. I have been working nonstop on college applications (I'm a senior now, which is really hard) Somehow my computer got a virius, and We're completly redoing our house. I'm really sorry about this, but sometimes life happens and you don't have time to do what you really want to do. Now that school has started I have more structure in my life, and I promise at least weekly updates. I'm hoping to get the fic done by Christmas, and then I can start on the sequal! Well, I'm not going to do a really long author's note. I'll just put this up right now.
Disclaimer- I'm poor. I own nothing except plot.
Chapter 49- Pandora
"Lily, hurry up they're coming!" Sirius said as he ran into her dorm room. She looked over at the clock and saw the time: 6 am.
"Sirius, what are you doing? Go away!" she exclaimed, pulling the pillow over her head. Sirius did a tricky little charm to make her pillows and blankets move to the bottom of her bed and they stayed stuck there. "SIRIUS!" she yelled. He just giggled like a little school girl and went on about his merry way.
"They're coming thery're coming" he exclaimed once again, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Who's coming, and are they taking you away with them?" asked Lily, reluctantly sitting up and rubbing her eyes.
"What do you mean, who's coming? Them, the exchange students of course!" Sirius bounced onto her bed and started jumping on it. Lily threw one of her scarlet pillows at him and he fell off the bed, but he didn't at all seem phased.
"Do you think you can let me sleep for just a little bit longer?" asked Lily sleepily.
"I can...but I'm not going to," replied Sirius.
"Fine, fine, I'm getting up, but I'm not happy about this. You know you're not supposed to be in the girls dorms anyway," said Lily.
"I know, but I don't care. These suction shoes that let you climb up slides are definatly the best purchase I've ever made," Lily smiled as Sirius said this. She had almost forgotten when he had gotten those shose during third year, when he had spent five hours trying to climb up the slide, much to the girls' amusment.
As Lily and Sirius ran down the stairs they bumped into Remus, who was looking especially depressed.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, even thought she was pretty sure she knew what this was about
"Today is Jamie and my anniversary. We were supposed to go out to Hogsmeade, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen," he said. Lily noticed a single tear fall down his cheek, but she didn't say anything. Remus had gotten so depressed lately that she didn't know how to handle it.
"I'm sorry Remus," Sirius said, which was pretty much the only thing he could think of as consolense. He had been saying I'm sorry a lot lately.
"Sirius, don't say that! He's gonna start with his 'You have no idea speech,' and-" Lily whispered in Sirius's ear, but before she could finish her sentance Remus interrupted her.
"You have no idea what this is like, how the hell can you even say you're sorry! You have to be an asshole to think you can relate to this! Can you imagine what it would be like if you lost Lauren?" Remus shouted, pausing so he could get back his breath.
"Remus, I-" Sirius started, but he was cut off.
"Sirius, it was a rhetorical question. You can't imagine it because you've never had to face it, and don't even try because it's millions of times worse than anything you could ever imagine. And you know what I've realized from all of this? I'm going to hell. I mean, look at all the crap this so called God has put me through! What I am, what I've lost, I mean I'm a Goddamn werewolf with a dead girlfriend. It's like he just wishes I would kill myself and get it overwith," Remus was still yelling, but he had tears streaming down his face.
"Remus, don't talk that way! No one wants you to kill yourself, and Jamie may not be dead. I mean, she's just missing and-" Lily started.
"Lily, she's dead. She's gone and she's never coming back," and with that Remus walked out of the common room and slammed the portrait hole shut, causing the fat lady to yell 'That hurts, you know!' as he walked away.
That was when a very tired looking James walked into the common room. "What was all," he yawned loudly, "that about?" he asked, yawning a few more times.
"James, watch Remus, okay? I'm afraid he's about to do something stupid," said Lily, telling James all about what had just happened moments before. "Don't let anything happen! I have to go."
James watched Lily walk out the portrait hole and sarcastically said to himself "Well that's a nice good morning."
***
Although the students wouldn't be arriving until dinner-time, Lily, Sirius and their group were already in the great hall, making arrangements for their arrival.. Most of the group was supposed to be deciding on ways to decorate the great hall for the feast later that afternoon, but instead they were gathered around the table talking about Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Pathos latest breakup. Apparently he thought she spent too much time admiring herself in front of the mirror and not enough staring at him. Sirius, who was apparently quite chummy with the house elfs was down in the kitchens deciding on the food that would be made and Lily had taken the job of getting the sorting hat ready for the students, which proved to be a rather hard task.
"Sorting hat?" Lily asked it, but nothing at all happened. "Sorting hat!" Lily yelled a little louder. Still nothing. 'Hum...maybe I should try it on,' she thought, taking the ancient hat and putting it on her head.
"Ah, Lily Evans. I think I was quite right in placing you in Gryffindor, look at how great you've turned out," the Sorting Hat said.
"Thank you. Actually I need to get your help for something," said Lily.
"Help? Well that's silly, I'm just a hat. But now that you think of it I'm looking for a word to rhyme with valour."
"How about Gryffindor?"
"Ah, that's what I was thinking. Well if you can't help me anymore I guess it is time for you to go," said the Sorting Hat, somehow popping himself off her head. Lily became very angry, then put the hat back on, holding it tight to make sure it wouldn't pop off again.
"There are going to be tweleve more students that need to be sorted," said Lily.
"Well that's silly, school doesn't start for months!" said the Hat.
"No, they're from Beauxbatons," explained Lily. She then recounted the entire story
"Oh. Well I'm afraid we can only accept Hogwarts students. Goodbye," and somehow the hat popped itself off her head again.
"Stupid hat," she mumbled. She heard a voice from behind her.
"Having troubles?" Sirius asked, a grin across his face.
"You think this is amusing?" replied Lily, who was completley frustrated and was using all her self restraint to not throw the hat into a nearby fireplace.
"Yes, I do, because I read a book on hoodwinking magical objects and I know excatly how to fix it," Sirius then mumbled something and shot some sort of bubble at the hat. Just then the hat did a funny thing: it burped very loudly.
"What the..." said Lily, trying to figure out what Sirius had done to the hat. But just then it started talking.
"Give my regards to captian Dumblydob," it said, slurring it's words.
"Sirius, did you make the sorting hat drunk?" asked Lily, dumbfounded.
"I have my ways..." he replied mysteriously. Lily just gave him a look.
"Well at least we have time for a little piece and quiet," said Lily, sitting down on one of the tables and yawning loudly. That was when everyone heard the crash from down the hall.
***
"James, I don't understand why you dragged me here. You know I hate the library," Remus said as he took out a snack from his bag and started munching loudly. Both Madame Pince and James gave him a dirty look.
"Because I thought that the potions homework from the other day was very hard, and we should study it since it will probably be on the final exam," replied James, picking up his quill and writing down a couple of equations on his parchment. "So if the polarity of veritaserum 2 is taken into account, it should be 5.6 times more fluid than veritaserum 6, making it a more dangerous potion because it can move more freely through the body than it's counterpart, right Remus?"
"Whatever you say," he replied, resting his head down on his book.
"Come on, I know you got this much better than I did, so give me the help I so desperatly need," James was trying to be funny, but Remus didn't even look up.
"If veritaserum 2 is a poison, like you said, do you think you can get some of it to me? I could sure use a potion induced heart attack right about now," Remus was still laying down and looking to the side. James sighed and closed his book.
"Look, I know that life has been really hard on all of us lately, especially you. And I know that you don't think I can relate, but can we at least talk about this so you can start to heal a little?"
"Fine, I'll talk, but I can't promise I'll listen to what you say."
"Well at least that's a start. What do you want to talk about?"
"You're the one who wants to talk, remember? You start."
"Ok then. Listen, I know you think this whole thing is the end of the world-:"
"More like the point when the earth stops spinning and you get pulled to an alternate universe where nothing can make sense."
"Right. You may feel like that, but if you look around it's not like you're going to see the four zebras of the apocalypse walking by."
"Zebras? I don't remember that in revelation..."
"Whatever. My point is that life keeps going on even when you wish it would end. The seasons keep changing, people keep going about their lifes, you keep breathing, and this can either be the point that makes you brake down or the point that you pass this test that's been thrown at you and grow."
"So I have to have no emotion about this and then I will 'grow,' is that what you're saying James?"
"I didn't say that. Think about it though, we don't grow up when we sit around in the common room playing exploding snap. It's the hard times that force us to re-examine who we are as people and find out what we need to do to get to the next carefree day. I read this quote in a famous muggle book 'Everything I've learned about life can be summarized in three words: it goes on.'"
"Which muggle book was this?"
"I think it was called Cliff's Not, but it's not the book that matters."
"How can you say life is so wonderful when you know all I can focus on is the fact that Jamie isn't here to share it with us." as Remus finished, James sat up from the table.
"Come on," he said, starting for the door without his books.
"Where are we going?" asked Remus, not exactly wanting to get up.
"Come on, just trust me!" James then sprinted down to the broom closet down the hall and pulled out a pair of school brooms. "Ok, get on."
"James, you may not realize this but sometimes they frown upon us flying indoors," he said. James just shook his head.
"We won't be flying indoors for too long, now come on, don't be such a stick in the mud," and with that James jumped onto his broomstick and flew out the window. Remus didn't quite see the reasoning behind this, but he followed James anyway for lack of a good excuse not to. James lead him up to the castle roof, where they could see the grounds. The lake glistened in the noon sunlight, and students took a break from working to fly around the quidditch pitch.
"How can you look at this and say life isn't wonderful?" asked James. Remus stared off for quite a long time and then stopped a tear from falling.
"You're right. You really are right."
***
"What was that? Sirius, what did you do?" Lily yelled, getting up from her chair and running to the hallway outside.
"What do you mean what did I do? Why do you assume that every loud, crashing noise is my fault?" asked Sirius, taking an offensive tone.
"Because it usually is," Lily stated simply.
"I'll give you that one," replied Sirius, defeated. "Come on, let's go figure out what that was."
They walked down to the entrance, where they saw a girl walking up the stairs. She had very long, brown hair and the most piercing blue eyes Lily had ever seen. She clutched a huge crown in one tiny hand, and a necklace in the other. She was very small, about five feet tall, and she was so thin that it seemed as if the wind would break her.
"Bon jour," she said, and then started speaking in rapid-fire french.
"Um, Sirius, do you by any chance know what she's talking about?" asked Lily. He shock his head.
"I thought your friends from back home taught you french," said Sirius.
"It turns out that the charm only works for a few hours, and you have to do it every day until you establish fluency," explained Lily. "And that doens't really help us here." The girl started talking and gave them a funny look.
"You speak english?" she said slowly, with a french accent. "Where am I?"
"You're at Hogwarts," Lily was quite as confused as the girl; the exchance students weren't set to arrive until later that evening and she definatly wasn't from around here.
"Hogwarts? But zat iz very very far away. Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Sirius Black, and this is Lily Evans. Who are you?" Sirius couldn't help but stare at the necklace she wore around her neck, a moon made completly out of diamond. He knew he'd seen one before.
"My name is Pandora D'leir," she said. "I don't know how I got here. I just picked up zis beautiful crown I was examining it and zen, boom! I was here."
"Well the crown must have been a portkey," Lily thought outloud, "where did you pick it up?"
"Why from Beaubatons castle, of course!" Pandora explaied.
"That would make sense, it would be too much work for the school to get here by other means but they would still want to make it a beautiful object, like a crown," said Lily.
"But they wouldn't just let leave it lying around," said Sirius.
"Yeah, where did you get it from?" asked Lily, but before Pandora could answer a redheaded woman fell from gracefully from the sky to the groud, clutching an old boot.
"Pandora, you naughty girl, how dare you break into the staff room and touch my things? And right before I was supposed meet with the headmaster! If you weren't so hopelessly clueless I would have expelled you a long time ago, but I guess I'll just have to tell the headmaster to give you a detention now that you're out of my juristiction. Give me that crown back, now!" yelled the woman in perfect english, grabbing the crown out of Pandora's hand and walking up to the stairs. "Teenagers, I swear," she mumbled, before they lost sight of her.
"You broke into the staff room?" asked Sirius, very excited now. "I like you already."
"I didn't think I would be discovered. I was just looking for my fireworks," Pandora replied, looking very downcast.
"Fireworks?" Sirius implored.
"Well we only thought zat we could use zem as defense, but zey were confinscated and I wanted zem back," replied Pandora. Lily was about to say something when something clicked in Sirius' head.
"Your necklace, I know where I've seen it! James gave Lily one like that for Christmas, and she wears it all the time. Show her Lily!" he exclaimed. Lily frowned.
"I used to wear it all the time, and then for some reason it started to glow red. I used a whole bunch of charms to make the glowing stop but nothing worked, so I had to take it off," Lily seemed saddened by this, and Sirius knew why. She loved that little necklace.
"It glowed red? Iz someone you know hurt?" asked Pandora, now looking very interested.
"How did you know?" asked Sirius.
"Well, the necklace was originally used for witches and wizards zhat needed divine help. Typically if it glows red a friend iz in trouble," explained Pandora.
"My friend is in trouble. She dissapeared about a month ago and no one can find her. Everyone thinks that she's...dead," Lily could barely even say the last word, she didn't want to admit it.
"Well she can't be dead if the necklace glows. Why have you not used it to find her?" asked Pandora.
"Use it to find her?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, if you have a book you can interpret the sign and help whoever is in trouble. I am surprised you have not done zat," said Pandora.
"Oh my God, we can find her! We have to go tell Remus!" exclaimed Lily, running towards the common room. She was just going up a staircase when she litterally ran into James.
"James, it's great, I-" she started, but he cut her off.
"Lily, Sirius, come quick. Remus commited suicide."
A/N- This has been way too late, but this time I actually reasons.
My grandmother has been very sick and I was at her house practially all summer with no computer. I have been working nonstop on college applications (I'm a senior now, which is really hard) Somehow my computer got a virius, and We're completly redoing our house. I'm really sorry about this, but sometimes life happens and you don't have time to do what you really want to do. Now that school has started I have more structure in my life, and I promise at least weekly updates. I'm hoping to get the fic done by Christmas, and then I can start on the sequal! Well, I'm not going to do a really long author's note. I'll just put this up right now.
Disclaimer- I'm poor. I own nothing except plot.