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W*P*S: I am in search of good beta reader, for I have none. (And I'm sure you all can tell. but I think its getting better because the spell check is finally working. Can you believe I have been writing and this I the first time I have spell check? Yeah it sucked) Anyone willing to apply for the job, please, don't refrain from inform me! Thanks to all my reviewers! Love ya guys! Oh and I really wanted to get this out earlier but alas, I have been far too busy (meaning I was grounded again. My parents have found my only weaknesses. My stereo and my computer. Bastards) Plus, I got a Fender and have been playing my fingers to the bone. Then I had to break from anything because my I felt like my digits were going to fall off, but now I'm all better and I can finish. OK! On with the show.
Last chapter: "I dunno about you folks but I already have three detentions and I'd rather not get another, so can we shove off? You know, before anyone passes by and decides to give me another." And with that they headed back to Gryffindor tower.
Lily sat back in her chair. She sure wished that the library had the same ones as the common room. Oh well. These were still really squishy. Good for reading. But she wasn't reading anything. Just sitting. She was having a bit of trouble with her essay. It was for her least favorite class. A History of Magic. Being a ghost, Professor Bins never really explained his assignments, but this just wasn't that good of a day either. First she had a headache earlier, and then she got a kiss that was very...very...well let's just say it was a hell of a lot better than her last boyfriend. But the kiss had come from stupid James Potter. And anything like that from him was nothing good. Third, she had gotten into a scrape with a couple of Slytherins. That was a blast. Her head still throbbed from one of Bella's punches. Afterwards, instead of going back to the common room with her fellow Gryffindors, she had gone to the library, to work on her essay that she had, stupidly, put off until the day before it was due. Dreading what would be in store for her on Monday, she pushed everything out of her head except the dates, names and how many goblins had fought and died in the war. Not the 1st war, or the 2nd, or the 23rd, but the 47th. Merlin's beard! How many stupid wars would they go through? Some only lasted 2 minutes, while others 2 years. Lily was terrible at remembering everything. She was much better at Charms. Give her a new spell and she would learn it, and perfect it in 5 minutes flat. History essays...well that's a different story.
Two hours later she looked over her work. She had the entire foot and a half that she needed. She stretched and gathered all her things. It was almost time for dinner. Stuffing everything in her bag she stood and headed to the Gryffindor common. When she got there she realized that it was the day that they changed the new password, which was posted in the common on the board. With everything that had happened over the day, she had plum forgot to check it. What a wonderful day. She had too much stuff to take down to the Great Hall with her so she sat down and waited for someone to come. She was tired, even thought she had been sleeping in a lot lately and going to bed early. Maybe Riley was right. Maybe there was something wrong with her...
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Ama sighed and patted her full belly. Tonight they had served her favorite! Steak! She had eaten more than Riley AND James. And that was a big feat for someone so small. But there was no competion when it came to Sirius and Remus. When she had reached for her third, Sirius was finishing his and Remus was starting on his fourth. To James and Sirius this was no big shock. Remus could always "wolf" down a lot right before the full moon, which was tomorrow night. But Riley and Ama were giving him funny looks, of course he didn't notice due to the fact he had a big piece of juicy meat right in front of him.
"Jeez Remy, how can you eat so much?" Riley asked, pointing her empty fork at him.
"Yeah! You have the weirdest eating habits." Said Ama. James nodded in agreement. He could barely shove the rest of is roll down his throat. Remus looked up from his plate, and placed his knife and fork down, swallowing slowly. Heat was rising to his face and he didn't look up, merely muttered he was full.
"Oh c'mon now! We didn't mean for you to stop!" exclaimed James "I bet he could get five!" he said excitedly.
"Nah! He could so down six!" Sirius looked at Remus, "Couldn't you Moony! You always get kind of carnivous right before the you-know-what!" Remus's eyes grew wide with a mixture of emotions. Fear, anger, and hurt shone through his glossy light blues. He stood up and with out a word he left the hall, ignoring their cat calls of sorry.
"Looks like you went too far AGAIN!" he said angrily, turning on Sirius.
"Me?! You 're the one who...who...umm...WELL YOU DID IT TOO!" Sirius ranted, poking James in the chest. He stood up and glared at his so called best mate. Still staring angrily at him, he growled,
"C'mon Riley, lets shove off and leave this BAFOON to his own devices." And he stormed off. Riley sighed and got to her feet saying, "No offense Jamsey, I'm not in this fight, but I'm going to go with him." pointing after Sirius.
He muttered a reply and prodded his potatoes with his fork. Great. Just great. Now both his friends were angry with him. He looked up at Ama who was still chewing her last bite, and said, "I guess you're going with them?" she peered at him and patted her belly.
"Nah. I'll walk to the tower with you. You can catch me if I fall over."
"How come you'd fall?"
"Because I'm off balance."
"Dare I ask why?"
"Ate too much" Ama smiled, nodding and rubbing her over-stuffed tummy. James laughed and got to his feet, helping Ama to hers, and they set off.
As James walked with his small friend, he questioned her on many things. Well ok just two things. One, why was she so short, for which she replied that she had some leprechaun blood in her somewhere. He thought that was cool. The other thing was Lily.
"Ama? DoyouthinkIcouldeverhaveachancewithLily?" he asked hurriedly. She giggled.
"I wouldn't know." She said. Still laughing a bit.
"Well... do you think she'd ever like me?" he asked.
"Couldn't tell ye. What I could tell ye is that you're not on her good side. There is something about you, I don't know what, but there is something that just bothers her about you. Yup. Definitely not on her good side." She stumbled a bit and he caught her under her arm.
"Well what guy is?" he spat back at her. But what she said next made him storm away and out on to the grounds outside the castle.
"Remus is."
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"SIRIUS! HEY SIRIUS!" he turned. Riley caught up to him and took his arm. He was a little stunned by this but just shrugged it off.
"Care to go for a walk, milady?" he asked still grimacing from before.
"Sure. Where shall we go?" she asked bobbing along next to him, enjoying the contact between them.
"Umm." Sirius stroked his chin, "and empty class room to snog our brains out?" she gave him a look, while she tried not to laugh. "I knew it. Only Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw girls want to do that. I have to put TIME in with Gryffindor girls. Don't bother to do either with Slytherins, though. How do they expect me to ever loose my virginity when the only ones I want to sleep with are too conservative? This bites the big one." She gave him a confused look.
"You're still a virgin?" he nodded, "I had no idea." Sirius sighed.
"Just because I like to snog and I enjoy having a lovely lady on my arm from time to time, doesn't mean I would do that with just anyone." He said sounding upset, "I respect the girls I am with. Most of the time. Sometimes. Well, you know."
"Oh. So you respect me?" she asked.
"Nope." He said casually.
"Why not?!" she exclaimed.
"Because, love," he stroked her chin, "I'm not WITH you, am I?" his face got closer to her. She smiled and said sweetly, "Which empty class room do you have in mind?" Sirius let out a whoop of glee, latched on to Riley's arm and began to run down the corridor, with her giggling madly the whole way.
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"Oy! Bicarda! Wakie wakie!" opening her eyes slowly, Lily looked up at a frowning Remus Lupin. He straightened up and held out his hand. Lily took it and bent back down to get her bags, but Remus was faster and grabbed them.
"I'll carry these. You look to tired to even walk. Are you alright?"
"Yes I just dozed off."
"Why out here?" he asked.
"Because I didn't check to see the new password and I couldn't get in and I had too much stuff to go down to dinner and I just sat down to wait for someone to come by and...and...do you know it?"
"Know what?" she groaned and pointed to the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Oh yea I do its 'cockroach clusters'" the Fat Lady said thank you and swung open. Lily let out a sigh of relief and climbed through, followed by Remus, who was still holding her things. She looked around. Not a lot of people but still enough. She wondered how many had just let her sleep out there. Nobody would do that to you, she reassured herself. And unless there were some Slytherin sympathizers then she had nothing to worry about. She turned to Remus and took her things.
"Thank you for not letting me sleep forever out there, Remy. See you tomorrow. I'm going to bed where its soft and warm, unlike the passage ways." She gave a small laugh and turned toward the stairs.
"Oy! Lily! Don't fall asleep on those stairs, afraid I can't help you there." Remus called after her. She laughed and continued to climb. Reaching her dorm, she dropped her stuff and flopped down on her bed. Out like a light.
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James didn't get back form his little stress reliving trip to the forest until late. He snuck into the common room; sitting on a sofa in front of the couch was Remus. He knew Remus had heard him come in, but he wasn't looking at James. Merely staring at the flames licking the logs of the ever- lasting fire. James approached him. He had to make up with Remus, even if Remus didn't want to talk. It would be better if they made some kind of agreement. It was never good when he was alone during his transformation. Never. He would tear himself to shreds.
"Moony," he began, "I'm sorry for what happened at dinner. I didn't mean to- "Remus got up and glared at James. "Then why did you even bring it up?"
"I didn't mean to!" James pleaded, "I wasn't thinking about what I was saying. I'm sorr-"Someone, no, two people were coming though the hole. One was laughing while the other was trying to shush them, it was a losing battle. Sirius straightened up and stopped mid-laugh. He spotted the others and hung his head. Riley let go of his arm and bid the others goodnight, then headed up her stairs to her dormitory.
"Remy, I feel terrible about dinner tonight. I pushed it too far. Please don't be angry with me. Please?" said Sirius, his eyes still on the floor. Remus sighed. Tomorrow would be the full moon. He needed them to be there and he didn't need to be upset.
"Alright. Fine. You both are forgiven. I'm going to bed now; I suggest you two do the same because none of us will get much later." He grabbed his book and trudged up the stairs. James looked at Sirius and Sirius looked at James, who was the first to speak, "Well, I suppose if Moony can forgive you I can too. Sorry I yelled at you like that."
"Yeah. I'm sorry I called you a bafoon." Said Sirius.
"Sorry I called you a troll bogie eater." Said James.
"You didn't call me that." Said Sirius, giving him a funny look.
"Oh. Well I was thinking' it."
"Well aren't you a nice one"
"C'mon lets head up. I just a long run. I'm ready to sleep."
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"LILYKINS! WAKE UP LILYKINS! OR ELSE YOU'LL BE LATE TO CLASS!" Lily sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. Who was yelling at her? Riley and Ama were already gone, and she was alone in the room.
"LILY-FLOWER! C'MON TIMES-A-TICKING AWAY! YOU'VE ALREADY MISSED MOST OF BREAKFAST!" Oh it was Sirius. He must have been at the foot of the stairs. She looked over at her clock. Oh man! It was 8:30! Classes started in 25 minutes. She leapt out of her bed then ran to the stairs where she yelled thank you down to Sirius and headed to the bathroom. Ugh, she thought, no time for a shower. Sweeping her hair up in to a ponytail and grabbing new robes out of her trunk she hastily gathered up her books and headed down to the common room, where Sirius, James and Peter were waiting for her.
"Sleep in late, love?" James asked. She growled.
"Why didn't Riley and Ama wake me? Where are they?"
"At breakfast. We didn't see you down there so we decided to come make sure you were alright!" Sirius said cheerfully.
"But to our dismay, you were asleep, atop the stairs that forbid anyone on the male gender to ascend. So Sirius here merely used a little charm to project his mighty voice in order to wake you from your beauty slumber. Not that you need it. I don't think you could get any cuter!" winked James showing his pearly whites in one of his infamous, and so-called innocent grins. Lily blushed. Then her stomach growled. She hadn't had anything to eat since lunch yesterday. This was fantastic.
"Well then" smirked Sirius, hearing her tummy's protest to being empty, "I think its safe to say you're hungry." Lily made a face at him
"Ya think?" she sneered. He let out a hearty laugh and took her arm. With James on the other, they frog-marched her out of the common room and all the way to the great hall.
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They had just sat down to eat when the mail arrived. A large package dropped in front of Remus, whose eyes lit up. "ALRIGHT!" he exclaimed tearing the wrapping off of the box. Sirius and James grinned. Remus's mum always sent him some kind of home made goodie on the full moon. Today cookies, tomorrow brownies and then crumb cakes on the third. They were always superb. Sirius and James jumped for the sweets. Sirius raised the yummy thing to his mouth but before he could eat it a large black owl swooped down and grabbed it form his hand, then glided over to the Slytherin table, landing next to Regulus. Sirius growled, and grabbed another cookie. "Jerk" said James, throwing Regulus an exceedingly dangerous look. "Stupid git, thinking I care whether mummy dearest sends me letters," he spat not taking his eyes off of his increasingly nervous brother, "Look at him gloating. I'd like to wring his little neck. Mum's too." He mumbled.
"I thought you said it didn't bother you." Said Lily. Sirius's eyes still hadn't left his brother, who looked like he was going to have a panic attack.
"Oh. It doesn't. I'm only trying to scare the grimy pants off of the little, fluffy, stupid prat. HA look at him. Gettin' all ancy. Thinks I'm hexin' him. Ha ahahaha. Oy Prongsy, turn and laugh at him. You know just help me out here a bit. Maybe we can get him to run out of the hall again. Stupid little, good-for-nothing, idiotic, you'd think he'd learn by now. How many times have we done this? Is there EVER anything wrong with him? Nope. Nothing. Not a thing. But he still gets freaked when we do it" he kept going, his eyes never leaving Regulus, his stream of insults never faltering. James did just as Sirius told him as did Remus and Riley. Lily looked to and couldn't help but laugh when she saw him stand and start to walk out, his hands creeping to his face. James and Remus laughed harder and Regulus broke out into run. Once he out of the doors, Sirius began to laugh.
"Oy! That was great! HAHA! Little prat. I bet he's gonna find nothing wrong and write to mum to say that I did do something. Maybe I should so I won't be getting in trouble for nothing." He said, laughing the entire time. A large brown and gold owl-eagle came towards them. It circled over the area where the seven were sitting then landed on Lily's right shoulder. Sirius squinted at the chain around the bird's neck, and then held out his hand. It willingly hopped on to his arm.
"Umm Lily-love, can you please tell me why the head eagle of the Evans personal flock has come to land on YOUR shoulder?" Lily looked around; everyone who had seen the bird was staring with interest. All of the Slytherins had very confused looks upon their faces.
"Umm nope, couldn't tell you. Sorry. Why is there something unusual about it?" Sirius looked up at her with a very serious look on his face.
"Only that every pureblooded kid in the wizarding world and all over the damned globe wish that someday an Evans Eagle will come to them. Am I right?" he asked looking at around to his friends. All nodded.
"Care to tell me why?" James smirked,
"Only because the Evans family is the purest family in the world. Never been a squib or a muggle born or some kind of half breed, or something else to disgrace the Evans name, in it." Sirius piped up,
"And they date back about two generations farther that the Black family so there is A LOT of intergrading between the two. I'm related to half the damn wizarding world. Heck the only pure blood families mine doesn't cross with is James's and Riley's, which will soon change." He winked and riley who grinned and turned a light shade of pink," Me and Amara are about...umm...I'd say...6th maybe 7th cousins? Removed once or twice. Yea that sounds about right. Though there hasn't been a Black-Blithe union in quite some time. You all know the reason for that. Care to tick off my family with me, Amara midear?" he grinned.
"Are you PROPOSING TO ME?!?!" Ama exclaimed, laughing. Those around them couldn't help but snicker at the thought of Ama and Sirius. Remus was glaring at Sirius, with a slightly annoyed grin plastered to his face, but still enjoying the joke. Sirius wiped a tear from his eye and continued with his story, handing Lily her letter. "Any who, going with what Prongsy said, if there was a threat to their perfect record, it would be squashed immediately. And when I say squashed I mean slaughtered muggle-style. Nasty stuff they would do. You know, beheading, spearing, man hunting without wand chopping off limbs, implement. Real nasty." Lily winced thinking about it, "and that wasn't in the old days only, they still would do that kind of thing. So you can see why all the damned Slytherin bastards want in." Lily looked up at him questionly.
"Does the Evans family support Voldermort?" Sirius shook his head.
"No they don't. In fact I'd bet anything that they hate him just as much as the rest of us. But he won't mess with them. Not that he fears them, but he wouldn't want them to throw their lot in with Dumbledore. They're their own side in all of this. Completely involved in nothing but educating their own and marrying off their offspring. Keeping the clan together. Everything revolves around the clan. Keeping the blood of the clan pure is their top priority. Nothing angers them more than dirty blood amongst their own ranks. The last time it happened, I mean the last time someone did something like that, was really stupid to be a reason to kill those people. They were all pure bloods anyway. See the first son of the Gerald Evans, who was the current favorite person in the clan of the clan leader, Lady Fiona Evans, was arranged to marry none other than my mother. But instead Jacob, though everyone who knew him well called him Jakey, fell in love with my mother's youngest sister, Lola Black. My coolest aunt. He was eleven years her senior. Not that is mattered to either of them. The day before his marriage to me mum, Jakey "kidnapped" Lola and eloped with her to somewhere in Spain. Man was Lady mad. She made it clear that she believed this to be the fault of Gerald and the Black family. About eight Blacks died and Gerald went with them. But Lady never set out a sentence for Jakey and Lola. She let them be for about two years. Right after the wedding, about a month later, Lola got pregnant. Nine more, out pops their first, and last, child. A girl if I'm not mistaken. Can't recall the name of the lass, not that it matters. Three days after the girls second birthday, the Evans's attacked. Jakey and Lola had let their guard down and it cost them their lives and the life of their little babe. Real sad 'twas. All over the Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly and all the other major magazines and stuff like that. See, Jakey and Lola were quite famous for not being killed yet. Everyone thought they were clear of any real danger coming from Jakey's family. They were so pitifully wrong. The bodies were never found though." He finished. Everyone at the table stared at him in shock.
"How do you know all this?!?" James asked, stunned once again by Sirius's extensive knowledge of things in the wizarding world that quite under wraps. Everybody knew that the Evans's killed Jakey and Lola, but they never knew that much detail.
"Living with me mum, how could you not? She use to drag me and Regulus to that stupid tapestry and point out all the damned place where we were relate to who and who was a blood traitor. 'Course the brat loves it all. I know every inch of it, due to it being practically painted on to me eyelids. She so damned proud of being a Black. Keeps everything in that family. Did you know me dad is me mum's 5th cousin? Yup. Incest is the best, put your family to the test." He said giving a dry laugh.
After Sirius's extensive speech everybody went back to eating. Lily picked up the letter gingerly to see if it really was for her or if she should send it back to its writer with the magnificent bird that brought it. She broke the seal and pulled out thick parchment. "You know that we want to read it too, enlarge it and put it here." said Riley, pushing dishes of food out of the way, clearing a spot on the table for the letter. Lily did so and skimmed over the royal emerald coloring of the ink then back to the top. It read:
'Dear Miss Bicarda,'
"Yup it's for you Lily-Love." Sirius said peering at curly letters.
'I understand this must be overly unusual for you to be receiving such and important letter from someone such as myself.'
"Wow. Doesn't someone sound pompous?" Remus muttered. Lily put on a wily look and nudged James with her elbow.
"Jism? Did you write this?" He flashed his pearly whites at her and winked.
"Maybe."
'I'm sure due to your believed status you are overwhelmed with joy to be on the receiving end of such said document. I assume you are also confused as to why it has been sent to you, as you think yourself to be a "mudblood." I use that word as lightly as it can possibly be. Alas, as I am a person who enjoys getting directly to the point, and I believe I am correct in assuming that you are as well, therefore I will do just that. The point of this letter is to inform you of your correct name and heritage. Though you are now currently lead to believe that you are of impure blood, this is simply not true.'
"Jeez this chick is really snotty." said Remus.
"Yea. What makes her so high and mighty?" asked James. Sirius pointed to the bottom of the scroll.
"That's what makes her so high and mighty. She's the bloody head of the Evans clan." He said, "Keep reading Lilykins."
'I'm sure you are slightly, if not totally, confused at this point. Your true given name is Lilianatha Anadela Welmie Evans. You are the daughter of my grandson Jacob Evans and his unintentional wife Lola Black. I and your parents will soon be present at Hogwarts to claim you and place you in your correct house.
Sincerely,
Lady Fiona Evans
Head of the Evans Clan'
Lily dropped the letter. A million thoughts and questions running through her head. She was an Evans? Not a mudblood? Her parents weren't her parents? Correct house? Collect her? Here at Hogwarts? How soon? Just as she was thinking this, the doors to the great hall burst open and sparkly green fog wafted through, causing the entire room smell like wild flowers.
W*P*S: ok that took forever and a day. Give of take a few. Sorry it has taken me so entirely long but I have been super busy. Well please review. Please? And thank you.
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W*P*S: I am in search of good beta reader, for I have none. (And I'm sure you all can tell. but I think its getting better because the spell check is finally working. Can you believe I have been writing and this I the first time I have spell check? Yeah it sucked) Anyone willing to apply for the job, please, don't refrain from inform me! Thanks to all my reviewers! Love ya guys! Oh and I really wanted to get this out earlier but alas, I have been far too busy (meaning I was grounded again. My parents have found my only weaknesses. My stereo and my computer. Bastards) Plus, I got a Fender and have been playing my fingers to the bone. Then I had to break from anything because my I felt like my digits were going to fall off, but now I'm all better and I can finish. OK! On with the show.
Last chapter: "I dunno about you folks but I already have three detentions and I'd rather not get another, so can we shove off? You know, before anyone passes by and decides to give me another." And with that they headed back to Gryffindor tower.
Lily sat back in her chair. She sure wished that the library had the same ones as the common room. Oh well. These were still really squishy. Good for reading. But she wasn't reading anything. Just sitting. She was having a bit of trouble with her essay. It was for her least favorite class. A History of Magic. Being a ghost, Professor Bins never really explained his assignments, but this just wasn't that good of a day either. First she had a headache earlier, and then she got a kiss that was very...very...well let's just say it was a hell of a lot better than her last boyfriend. But the kiss had come from stupid James Potter. And anything like that from him was nothing good. Third, she had gotten into a scrape with a couple of Slytherins. That was a blast. Her head still throbbed from one of Bella's punches. Afterwards, instead of going back to the common room with her fellow Gryffindors, she had gone to the library, to work on her essay that she had, stupidly, put off until the day before it was due. Dreading what would be in store for her on Monday, she pushed everything out of her head except the dates, names and how many goblins had fought and died in the war. Not the 1st war, or the 2nd, or the 23rd, but the 47th. Merlin's beard! How many stupid wars would they go through? Some only lasted 2 minutes, while others 2 years. Lily was terrible at remembering everything. She was much better at Charms. Give her a new spell and she would learn it, and perfect it in 5 minutes flat. History essays...well that's a different story.
Two hours later she looked over her work. She had the entire foot and a half that she needed. She stretched and gathered all her things. It was almost time for dinner. Stuffing everything in her bag she stood and headed to the Gryffindor common. When she got there she realized that it was the day that they changed the new password, which was posted in the common on the board. With everything that had happened over the day, she had plum forgot to check it. What a wonderful day. She had too much stuff to take down to the Great Hall with her so she sat down and waited for someone to come. She was tired, even thought she had been sleeping in a lot lately and going to bed early. Maybe Riley was right. Maybe there was something wrong with her...
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Ama sighed and patted her full belly. Tonight they had served her favorite! Steak! She had eaten more than Riley AND James. And that was a big feat for someone so small. But there was no competion when it came to Sirius and Remus. When she had reached for her third, Sirius was finishing his and Remus was starting on his fourth. To James and Sirius this was no big shock. Remus could always "wolf" down a lot right before the full moon, which was tomorrow night. But Riley and Ama were giving him funny looks, of course he didn't notice due to the fact he had a big piece of juicy meat right in front of him.
"Jeez Remy, how can you eat so much?" Riley asked, pointing her empty fork at him.
"Yeah! You have the weirdest eating habits." Said Ama. James nodded in agreement. He could barely shove the rest of is roll down his throat. Remus looked up from his plate, and placed his knife and fork down, swallowing slowly. Heat was rising to his face and he didn't look up, merely muttered he was full.
"Oh c'mon now! We didn't mean for you to stop!" exclaimed James "I bet he could get five!" he said excitedly.
"Nah! He could so down six!" Sirius looked at Remus, "Couldn't you Moony! You always get kind of carnivous right before the you-know-what!" Remus's eyes grew wide with a mixture of emotions. Fear, anger, and hurt shone through his glossy light blues. He stood up and with out a word he left the hall, ignoring their cat calls of sorry.
"Looks like you went too far AGAIN!" he said angrily, turning on Sirius.
"Me?! You 're the one who...who...umm...WELL YOU DID IT TOO!" Sirius ranted, poking James in the chest. He stood up and glared at his so called best mate. Still staring angrily at him, he growled,
"C'mon Riley, lets shove off and leave this BAFOON to his own devices." And he stormed off. Riley sighed and got to her feet saying, "No offense Jamsey, I'm not in this fight, but I'm going to go with him." pointing after Sirius.
He muttered a reply and prodded his potatoes with his fork. Great. Just great. Now both his friends were angry with him. He looked up at Ama who was still chewing her last bite, and said, "I guess you're going with them?" she peered at him and patted her belly.
"Nah. I'll walk to the tower with you. You can catch me if I fall over."
"How come you'd fall?"
"Because I'm off balance."
"Dare I ask why?"
"Ate too much" Ama smiled, nodding and rubbing her over-stuffed tummy. James laughed and got to his feet, helping Ama to hers, and they set off.
As James walked with his small friend, he questioned her on many things. Well ok just two things. One, why was she so short, for which she replied that she had some leprechaun blood in her somewhere. He thought that was cool. The other thing was Lily.
"Ama? DoyouthinkIcouldeverhaveachancewithLily?" he asked hurriedly. She giggled.
"I wouldn't know." She said. Still laughing a bit.
"Well... do you think she'd ever like me?" he asked.
"Couldn't tell ye. What I could tell ye is that you're not on her good side. There is something about you, I don't know what, but there is something that just bothers her about you. Yup. Definitely not on her good side." She stumbled a bit and he caught her under her arm.
"Well what guy is?" he spat back at her. But what she said next made him storm away and out on to the grounds outside the castle.
"Remus is."
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"SIRIUS! HEY SIRIUS!" he turned. Riley caught up to him and took his arm. He was a little stunned by this but just shrugged it off.
"Care to go for a walk, milady?" he asked still grimacing from before.
"Sure. Where shall we go?" she asked bobbing along next to him, enjoying the contact between them.
"Umm." Sirius stroked his chin, "and empty class room to snog our brains out?" she gave him a look, while she tried not to laugh. "I knew it. Only Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw girls want to do that. I have to put TIME in with Gryffindor girls. Don't bother to do either with Slytherins, though. How do they expect me to ever loose my virginity when the only ones I want to sleep with are too conservative? This bites the big one." She gave him a confused look.
"You're still a virgin?" he nodded, "I had no idea." Sirius sighed.
"Just because I like to snog and I enjoy having a lovely lady on my arm from time to time, doesn't mean I would do that with just anyone." He said sounding upset, "I respect the girls I am with. Most of the time. Sometimes. Well, you know."
"Oh. So you respect me?" she asked.
"Nope." He said casually.
"Why not?!" she exclaimed.
"Because, love," he stroked her chin, "I'm not WITH you, am I?" his face got closer to her. She smiled and said sweetly, "Which empty class room do you have in mind?" Sirius let out a whoop of glee, latched on to Riley's arm and began to run down the corridor, with her giggling madly the whole way.
~
"Oy! Bicarda! Wakie wakie!" opening her eyes slowly, Lily looked up at a frowning Remus Lupin. He straightened up and held out his hand. Lily took it and bent back down to get her bags, but Remus was faster and grabbed them.
"I'll carry these. You look to tired to even walk. Are you alright?"
"Yes I just dozed off."
"Why out here?" he asked.
"Because I didn't check to see the new password and I couldn't get in and I had too much stuff to go down to dinner and I just sat down to wait for someone to come by and...and...do you know it?"
"Know what?" she groaned and pointed to the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Oh yea I do its 'cockroach clusters'" the Fat Lady said thank you and swung open. Lily let out a sigh of relief and climbed through, followed by Remus, who was still holding her things. She looked around. Not a lot of people but still enough. She wondered how many had just let her sleep out there. Nobody would do that to you, she reassured herself. And unless there were some Slytherin sympathizers then she had nothing to worry about. She turned to Remus and took her things.
"Thank you for not letting me sleep forever out there, Remy. See you tomorrow. I'm going to bed where its soft and warm, unlike the passage ways." She gave a small laugh and turned toward the stairs.
"Oy! Lily! Don't fall asleep on those stairs, afraid I can't help you there." Remus called after her. She laughed and continued to climb. Reaching her dorm, she dropped her stuff and flopped down on her bed. Out like a light.
~
James didn't get back form his little stress reliving trip to the forest until late. He snuck into the common room; sitting on a sofa in front of the couch was Remus. He knew Remus had heard him come in, but he wasn't looking at James. Merely staring at the flames licking the logs of the ever- lasting fire. James approached him. He had to make up with Remus, even if Remus didn't want to talk. It would be better if they made some kind of agreement. It was never good when he was alone during his transformation. Never. He would tear himself to shreds.
"Moony," he began, "I'm sorry for what happened at dinner. I didn't mean to- "Remus got up and glared at James. "Then why did you even bring it up?"
"I didn't mean to!" James pleaded, "I wasn't thinking about what I was saying. I'm sorr-"Someone, no, two people were coming though the hole. One was laughing while the other was trying to shush them, it was a losing battle. Sirius straightened up and stopped mid-laugh. He spotted the others and hung his head. Riley let go of his arm and bid the others goodnight, then headed up her stairs to her dormitory.
"Remy, I feel terrible about dinner tonight. I pushed it too far. Please don't be angry with me. Please?" said Sirius, his eyes still on the floor. Remus sighed. Tomorrow would be the full moon. He needed them to be there and he didn't need to be upset.
"Alright. Fine. You both are forgiven. I'm going to bed now; I suggest you two do the same because none of us will get much later." He grabbed his book and trudged up the stairs. James looked at Sirius and Sirius looked at James, who was the first to speak, "Well, I suppose if Moony can forgive you I can too. Sorry I yelled at you like that."
"Yeah. I'm sorry I called you a bafoon." Said Sirius.
"Sorry I called you a troll bogie eater." Said James.
"You didn't call me that." Said Sirius, giving him a funny look.
"Oh. Well I was thinking' it."
"Well aren't you a nice one"
"C'mon lets head up. I just a long run. I'm ready to sleep."
~
"LILYKINS! WAKE UP LILYKINS! OR ELSE YOU'LL BE LATE TO CLASS!" Lily sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. Who was yelling at her? Riley and Ama were already gone, and she was alone in the room.
"LILY-FLOWER! C'MON TIMES-A-TICKING AWAY! YOU'VE ALREADY MISSED MOST OF BREAKFAST!" Oh it was Sirius. He must have been at the foot of the stairs. She looked over at her clock. Oh man! It was 8:30! Classes started in 25 minutes. She leapt out of her bed then ran to the stairs where she yelled thank you down to Sirius and headed to the bathroom. Ugh, she thought, no time for a shower. Sweeping her hair up in to a ponytail and grabbing new robes out of her trunk she hastily gathered up her books and headed down to the common room, where Sirius, James and Peter were waiting for her.
"Sleep in late, love?" James asked. She growled.
"Why didn't Riley and Ama wake me? Where are they?"
"At breakfast. We didn't see you down there so we decided to come make sure you were alright!" Sirius said cheerfully.
"But to our dismay, you were asleep, atop the stairs that forbid anyone on the male gender to ascend. So Sirius here merely used a little charm to project his mighty voice in order to wake you from your beauty slumber. Not that you need it. I don't think you could get any cuter!" winked James showing his pearly whites in one of his infamous, and so-called innocent grins. Lily blushed. Then her stomach growled. She hadn't had anything to eat since lunch yesterday. This was fantastic.
"Well then" smirked Sirius, hearing her tummy's protest to being empty, "I think its safe to say you're hungry." Lily made a face at him
"Ya think?" she sneered. He let out a hearty laugh and took her arm. With James on the other, they frog-marched her out of the common room and all the way to the great hall.
~
They had just sat down to eat when the mail arrived. A large package dropped in front of Remus, whose eyes lit up. "ALRIGHT!" he exclaimed tearing the wrapping off of the box. Sirius and James grinned. Remus's mum always sent him some kind of home made goodie on the full moon. Today cookies, tomorrow brownies and then crumb cakes on the third. They were always superb. Sirius and James jumped for the sweets. Sirius raised the yummy thing to his mouth but before he could eat it a large black owl swooped down and grabbed it form his hand, then glided over to the Slytherin table, landing next to Regulus. Sirius growled, and grabbed another cookie. "Jerk" said James, throwing Regulus an exceedingly dangerous look. "Stupid git, thinking I care whether mummy dearest sends me letters," he spat not taking his eyes off of his increasingly nervous brother, "Look at him gloating. I'd like to wring his little neck. Mum's too." He mumbled.
"I thought you said it didn't bother you." Said Lily. Sirius's eyes still hadn't left his brother, who looked like he was going to have a panic attack.
"Oh. It doesn't. I'm only trying to scare the grimy pants off of the little, fluffy, stupid prat. HA look at him. Gettin' all ancy. Thinks I'm hexin' him. Ha ahahaha. Oy Prongsy, turn and laugh at him. You know just help me out here a bit. Maybe we can get him to run out of the hall again. Stupid little, good-for-nothing, idiotic, you'd think he'd learn by now. How many times have we done this? Is there EVER anything wrong with him? Nope. Nothing. Not a thing. But he still gets freaked when we do it" he kept going, his eyes never leaving Regulus, his stream of insults never faltering. James did just as Sirius told him as did Remus and Riley. Lily looked to and couldn't help but laugh when she saw him stand and start to walk out, his hands creeping to his face. James and Remus laughed harder and Regulus broke out into run. Once he out of the doors, Sirius began to laugh.
"Oy! That was great! HAHA! Little prat. I bet he's gonna find nothing wrong and write to mum to say that I did do something. Maybe I should so I won't be getting in trouble for nothing." He said, laughing the entire time. A large brown and gold owl-eagle came towards them. It circled over the area where the seven were sitting then landed on Lily's right shoulder. Sirius squinted at the chain around the bird's neck, and then held out his hand. It willingly hopped on to his arm.
"Umm Lily-love, can you please tell me why the head eagle of the Evans personal flock has come to land on YOUR shoulder?" Lily looked around; everyone who had seen the bird was staring with interest. All of the Slytherins had very confused looks upon their faces.
"Umm nope, couldn't tell you. Sorry. Why is there something unusual about it?" Sirius looked up at her with a very serious look on his face.
"Only that every pureblooded kid in the wizarding world and all over the damned globe wish that someday an Evans Eagle will come to them. Am I right?" he asked looking at around to his friends. All nodded.
"Care to tell me why?" James smirked,
"Only because the Evans family is the purest family in the world. Never been a squib or a muggle born or some kind of half breed, or something else to disgrace the Evans name, in it." Sirius piped up,
"And they date back about two generations farther that the Black family so there is A LOT of intergrading between the two. I'm related to half the damn wizarding world. Heck the only pure blood families mine doesn't cross with is James's and Riley's, which will soon change." He winked and riley who grinned and turned a light shade of pink," Me and Amara are about...umm...I'd say...6th maybe 7th cousins? Removed once or twice. Yea that sounds about right. Though there hasn't been a Black-Blithe union in quite some time. You all know the reason for that. Care to tick off my family with me, Amara midear?" he grinned.
"Are you PROPOSING TO ME?!?!" Ama exclaimed, laughing. Those around them couldn't help but snicker at the thought of Ama and Sirius. Remus was glaring at Sirius, with a slightly annoyed grin plastered to his face, but still enjoying the joke. Sirius wiped a tear from his eye and continued with his story, handing Lily her letter. "Any who, going with what Prongsy said, if there was a threat to their perfect record, it would be squashed immediately. And when I say squashed I mean slaughtered muggle-style. Nasty stuff they would do. You know, beheading, spearing, man hunting without wand chopping off limbs, implement. Real nasty." Lily winced thinking about it, "and that wasn't in the old days only, they still would do that kind of thing. So you can see why all the damned Slytherin bastards want in." Lily looked up at him questionly.
"Does the Evans family support Voldermort?" Sirius shook his head.
"No they don't. In fact I'd bet anything that they hate him just as much as the rest of us. But he won't mess with them. Not that he fears them, but he wouldn't want them to throw their lot in with Dumbledore. They're their own side in all of this. Completely involved in nothing but educating their own and marrying off their offspring. Keeping the clan together. Everything revolves around the clan. Keeping the blood of the clan pure is their top priority. Nothing angers them more than dirty blood amongst their own ranks. The last time it happened, I mean the last time someone did something like that, was really stupid to be a reason to kill those people. They were all pure bloods anyway. See the first son of the Gerald Evans, who was the current favorite person in the clan of the clan leader, Lady Fiona Evans, was arranged to marry none other than my mother. But instead Jacob, though everyone who knew him well called him Jakey, fell in love with my mother's youngest sister, Lola Black. My coolest aunt. He was eleven years her senior. Not that is mattered to either of them. The day before his marriage to me mum, Jakey "kidnapped" Lola and eloped with her to somewhere in Spain. Man was Lady mad. She made it clear that she believed this to be the fault of Gerald and the Black family. About eight Blacks died and Gerald went with them. But Lady never set out a sentence for Jakey and Lola. She let them be for about two years. Right after the wedding, about a month later, Lola got pregnant. Nine more, out pops their first, and last, child. A girl if I'm not mistaken. Can't recall the name of the lass, not that it matters. Three days after the girls second birthday, the Evans's attacked. Jakey and Lola had let their guard down and it cost them their lives and the life of their little babe. Real sad 'twas. All over the Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly and all the other major magazines and stuff like that. See, Jakey and Lola were quite famous for not being killed yet. Everyone thought they were clear of any real danger coming from Jakey's family. They were so pitifully wrong. The bodies were never found though." He finished. Everyone at the table stared at him in shock.
"How do you know all this?!?" James asked, stunned once again by Sirius's extensive knowledge of things in the wizarding world that quite under wraps. Everybody knew that the Evans's killed Jakey and Lola, but they never knew that much detail.
"Living with me mum, how could you not? She use to drag me and Regulus to that stupid tapestry and point out all the damned place where we were relate to who and who was a blood traitor. 'Course the brat loves it all. I know every inch of it, due to it being practically painted on to me eyelids. She so damned proud of being a Black. Keeps everything in that family. Did you know me dad is me mum's 5th cousin? Yup. Incest is the best, put your family to the test." He said giving a dry laugh.
After Sirius's extensive speech everybody went back to eating. Lily picked up the letter gingerly to see if it really was for her or if she should send it back to its writer with the magnificent bird that brought it. She broke the seal and pulled out thick parchment. "You know that we want to read it too, enlarge it and put it here." said Riley, pushing dishes of food out of the way, clearing a spot on the table for the letter. Lily did so and skimmed over the royal emerald coloring of the ink then back to the top. It read:
'Dear Miss Bicarda,'
"Yup it's for you Lily-Love." Sirius said peering at curly letters.
'I understand this must be overly unusual for you to be receiving such and important letter from someone such as myself.'
"Wow. Doesn't someone sound pompous?" Remus muttered. Lily put on a wily look and nudged James with her elbow.
"Jism? Did you write this?" He flashed his pearly whites at her and winked.
"Maybe."
'I'm sure due to your believed status you are overwhelmed with joy to be on the receiving end of such said document. I assume you are also confused as to why it has been sent to you, as you think yourself to be a "mudblood." I use that word as lightly as it can possibly be. Alas, as I am a person who enjoys getting directly to the point, and I believe I am correct in assuming that you are as well, therefore I will do just that. The point of this letter is to inform you of your correct name and heritage. Though you are now currently lead to believe that you are of impure blood, this is simply not true.'
"Jeez this chick is really snotty." said Remus.
"Yea. What makes her so high and mighty?" asked James. Sirius pointed to the bottom of the scroll.
"That's what makes her so high and mighty. She's the bloody head of the Evans clan." He said, "Keep reading Lilykins."
'I'm sure you are slightly, if not totally, confused at this point. Your true given name is Lilianatha Anadela Welmie Evans. You are the daughter of my grandson Jacob Evans and his unintentional wife Lola Black. I and your parents will soon be present at Hogwarts to claim you and place you in your correct house.
Sincerely,
Lady Fiona Evans
Head of the Evans Clan'
Lily dropped the letter. A million thoughts and questions running through her head. She was an Evans? Not a mudblood? Her parents weren't her parents? Correct house? Collect her? Here at Hogwarts? How soon? Just as she was thinking this, the doors to the great hall burst open and sparkly green fog wafted through, causing the entire room smell like wild flowers.
W*P*S: ok that took forever and a day. Give of take a few. Sorry it has taken me so entirely long but I have been super busy. Well please review. Please? And thank you.
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