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Chapter Four

A Long Train Ride



"Everything loaded?" Lily's father asked on the morning of September 1st.

"Yeah, I think that's it." Lily answered, crawling into the passenger seat of the car.

"Have a good term, Lily flower." Her mother said, smiling down at her fondly.

"Thanks, mom. Love you!" She called out the window as her father drove towards King's Cross Station. They arrived there about forty-five minutes later. Her father plunked her trunk onto a trolley and Lily began to steer it inside.

"Can't come in with you, and I've got to run to work, so have a good term."

"Thanks, daddy." Lily said giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"Be good!"

"Of course I will!" Lily waved as her father disappeared into a crowd of people. Lily strolled her trolley towards Platform 9 ¾. The platform finally loomed into view, and Lily smiled in anticipation..

"How do I get in?" A small boy asked, looking around in a panic, all alone.

"Hi." Lily said approaching him.

He looked up at her in fear. "H...hi." He responded.

"Need help?" She asked.

"I...I can't find my platform." Lily looked at his trolley. On the bottom there was a large trunk with initials on the side, and on top of that was an oddly wrapped package that looked strangely like an owl. 'New Hogwarts student.' Lily concluded in to herself.

"Nine and three-quarters?" She stooped to whisper to him. His eyes went round, and then he nodded with comprehension dawning on his face. "Just walk straight towards the barrier. You'll slip right through." Lily said kindly.

"You...you're kidding right?" He asked anxiously.

"No. Run if you're nervous. If you get hurt, I'll pay all the bills to nurse you back to health, you have my word." Lily smiled.

"W...what? You're crazy!" He gasped.

"I'm not crazy. If you're going to attend Hogwarts you need to be ready to see the abnormal, and believe it. I know. I'm a Muggle born too. It takes a while to get used to the world of magic, but this is the first step."

He finally nodded. He turned his trolley to face to barrier with a determined look on his face. He started running towards, and soon disappeared into the wizarding world.

"And again, Evans plays the role of a hero." Came the voice of James Potter.

"What was I supposed to do? Just leave him here and let him miss the train? The poor kid! You have absolutely no sympathy."

"You make me sound so cruel." James smirked, rumpling his hair

"This is new news to you...how?" Lily retorted.

"Be nice now." James grinned.

"Isn't a whole train ride with you enough?" Lily snapped.

"Nope. I will endlessly follow your trail." James said, taking a deep bow. Lily took his lack of attention to her advantage and wheeled her trolley through the barrier and out of sight from James. He appeared moments after her, but she had already stepped onto the train and loaded her trunk in the Head Student compartment.

"Lil!" A voice called.

"Hey, Candace." Lily answered. "I hear you went to James Potter's birthday party. When will you learn?" She shook her head in disgust.

"Never." Candace admitted. "I got drunk as shit and ended up snogging him."

"Eew. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather not imagine that." Lily laughed, flipping her hair behind her shoulder.

"Would the Head Boy and Head Girl please report to their compartment at this time." A voice on the loud speaker called.

"Have fun with Potter." Candace smiled. "I've gotta go tend to some matters with Sirius Black."

"You little slut! Getting involved with him!"

"Oh trust me, if he wants that, he's not getting it from me." Candace assured her. "Now run along, you don't want to be late for James." She grinned waving Lily off.

"Oh shut up." Lily snapped heading down the corridor towards the Head Students compartment. She slid the door open revealing James sitting down, arms folded, watching the door waiting for her.

"Ah Evans, lovely for you to grace me with your presence now. You're late." He grinned. Lily rolled her eyes and sat down on the opposite side from him, thinking the train ride would last an eternity.

James eyes roamed her figure, her tight, off the shoulders, striped green shirt that matched her eyes perfectly, and her hip hugging jeans that revealed a bit of her stomach. She was purely beautiful.

Lily squirmed in discomfort as she noticed his eyes roaming all over her. "Potter, what are you looking at?" Lily snapped.

"Your eyes." He replied. Lily expected him to deny he was looking at her at all.

Lily looked down to try and divert his gaze. She remembered the prefects were to come in and get information from them, so she grabbed the two packets of parchment off the compartment table and tossed one roughly to James.

Twenty minutes later, the prefects arrived into the compartment, and Lily took control.

"OK, passwords for your Common Rooms," Lily said handing four sheets out to the prefects for each house. "Those who were prefects last year may go, new prefects stay." Lily ordered. Half the group departed, and the other eight waited in an anxious silence.

"Congratulations for getting the fifth year prefects." Lily smiled. "But along with your new power, comes responsibility. You must maintain high grades in order to set a good example to students younger then you. A warning that teachers will be extremely strict with you in order to shape your rule breaking up, down to a minimum.

"Every other hour on the train ride today, you are to patrol the corridors of each train car for about twenty minutes and write out a list of rule breakers to be turned in to Professor McGonagall.

"You will have nightly rounds as well, Slytherin prefects have rounds Monday nights, Gryffindor's have Tuesday nights, Ravenclaw's on Wednesday nights and Hufflepuff's on Thursday nights. Myself and James will be on rounds as well with you, every night, and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. The rounds will go from nine to ten for the prefects and nine to eleven for Head Boy and Head Girl. Those who wish to become Head Boy or Head Girl must take responsibility now in order to gain the trust from your teachers in order to become a Head Student. Any questions?"

"Yeah, how did he get Head Boy?" A fifth year boy from Gryffindor asked. James grinned broadly.

"Yeah, Evans. Tell them how I got Head Boy." James said.

"Uh...well," Lily stuttered in surprise. "He has extremely good marks if you haven't noticed, and he's well, pretty responsible when it comes to that." Lily said blushing. 'Damn it Potter!' She thought to herself. 'Note to self, make his life miserable!'

"Er...right." The Gryffindor prefects laughed.

"You guys can go now. Patrol corridors in two hours." Lily slammed the compartment door shut after them.

"I have extremely good marks now, eh?" James asked grinning at the flustered look on her face.

"You little rat." Lily growled.

"Nah, that's Wormtail." James answered.

"What?" Lily snapped.

"Never mind." James answered.

"Pig." Lily muttered under her breath. James laughed at her remark, and slouched back in his seat. Lily rolled her eyes and passed her gaze out the window. She couldn't believe him! He had to stoop that low to make her say nice things about him! She sat a moment in thought, then realized James eyes were on her once again. She flipped her hair behind her shoulder and tried to ignore his gaze.

'Oh god, she had to flip the hair.' James thought to himself. She looked so beautiful, so pure, like a flower; a Lily flower.

Her eyes, so green, so beautiful. He loved every bit of her features. She bit her lip, still looking out the window, hair falling into her face. She was so ravishing.

"Ergh, Potter!" Lily snapped pulling James out of his stupor. "What are you looking at?"

"Why does it matter? Are you afraid I'm looking at something other then you?" James asked trying to redeem himself.

"You know you were staring at nothing but me! If there's something you want to say to me, say it now and get it over with!" Lily snapped.

"I'm sorry, is it a bad thing I think you're beautiful?" He asked before thinking. 'Oh shit.' He thought to myself. 'Of all things to say, you had to say that.'

Lily sat a moment in silence. Did he just say what she thought he had? "Corridor patrol." Lily said jumping up quickly making her way out of the train compartment.

She quickly made her way down looking for Candace. She poked her head slightly into each compartment after a small knock, saying she was just checking that everything was under control.

She opened one of the compartments to reveal Remus, Peter, and one of the girls who shared a dormitory with Lily, named Harmony.

"Oh, hey Remus." Lily smiled. "Hey Peter, Harmony."

"Hey Lily." They answered.

"Just checking up on everyone, making sure everything's going OK."

"Everything's just peachy in here." Harmony said cheerfully.

"Great. See you guys later." She hurried out and continued searching the compartments until she found Candace and Sirius laughing like mad in the very last compartment of the train.

"Candace!" Lily said sharply, getting her attention.

"Oh, hi Lily." Candace said wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Yeah, hi Candace. Bathroom, now." Lily said. Candace reluctantly got up.

She shut the compartment door looking longingly back at Sirius before they headed down the hall. They filed into the small bathroom and slid the door shut. The torches flickered on, and Lily quickly and vainly looked at her reflection.

"What?" Candace asked.

"It's just...he keeps staring at me and it's driving me insane!"

"Ah, boy problems. You're confiding in me after we just made up after a seven month fight, which I almost spilled all the details about to Sirius, James and Roselle?"

"Yeah. Wait, you spilled?"

"No, I passed out before I spilled, I guess."

"Well, before the seven month fight we were best friends, so yes, I'm confiding in you." Lily said quickly.

"OK, what is the problem with a guy staring at you, thinking you are absolutely gorgeous?"

"It's just...disturbing!" Lily exclaimed.

"You know, he's really head over heels for you." Candace answered, examining her eye makeup in the mirror.

"I don't care! I'm with Remus so that doesn't matter to me."

"So basically, you left the compartment to escape the distraction of him staring at you, and dragged me out so you wouldn't feel like a loser all by yourself?"

"Am I really that transparent?" Lily asked, slightly upset that she had finally been figured out. No one else had figured her out before when she did things like that.

"Yes you are. I was really having a good time with Sirius. I think we might hook up." She grinned, dimples shining on her face.

"Did he say anything?"

"No, but I can just tell."

"Congratulations, Candace. You're his new flavor of the week." Lily laughed.

"Once I've tamed him, I'll be his flavor of the week for the next three months at least." She said waving her wand to fix her makeup. "And now I am forcing you to either go back to you compartment or stay here and feel like a loser." Candace said sliding the door open and leaving. Lily sighed and left as well.

'He better not sit there and stare at me again.' Lily thought to herself. Despite what she wanted to feel, she couldn't help but be thrilled by the fact that he had called her beautiful. She fixed her hair quickly before she re-entered the compartment. 'Did you just primp for Potter?' She asked herself disgustedly.

She took her seat and looked out the window, yet not really looking at anything at all, just thinking.

"I got some food for you if you wanted. You were out in the corridor's when the cart came by." James said, looking up from his book, nodding at the table in the middle of the compartment.

"Oh, thanks." Lily said quietly.

"What's a Head Boy for?" He grinned, then resumed reading what Lily saw as Muggle Studies Made Simple.

"James Potter is studying?" Lily asked with an air of surprise.

"Amazing isn't it?" James grinned. He looked back to his page, and a bewildered look spread across his face.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked, taking a bite of a Pumpkin Pastie.

"I don't get this at all." He said gesturing to the page. "What's electricity used for anyways?"

"It runs everything." Lily answered. He looked up, and grinned when he realized he was looking at Lily Evans, a Muggle born.

"Like what?" He asked taking out a piece of parchment and a quill.

"Last minute homework?" Lily asked disapprovingly.

"Yeah." James grinned guiltily. "I have to explain on one scroll what electricity is."

Lily sighed, and began to explain. "It's a power source. Televisions, radios, lights, computers, all that runs off of electricity. Muggle's can't live without it. It would be like going back to the middle ages."

"Who invented this ingenious thing called electricity?" James asked, quill zooming over his parchment.

"It wasn't invented. It was discovered. But Thomas Edison came up with the first light bulb." Lily answered.

The only sound made throughout the compartment was the scratching of James's quill as he tried to copy down everything she said as she said it.

"One question." Lily interjected.

"Yeah?" James asked, still writing.

"How did you get through three years of Muggle Studies without knowing what electricity is?" She looked into his eyes sternly, yet part of her was entertained by his lack of attention.

"Let's just say that old Professor Grennich had a slight blind spot when it came to me and rule breaking, and not doing homework." James grinned. "But now that she retired and we're getting a new teacher, I think I might need to do some more work."

"That could help." Lily said, her entertainment increasing.

"Do I hear something other then hatred in your voice?" He asked, forgetting his homework for the moment.

"No." Lily answered flatly. "Anyways, you should be trying harder to set a good example." Lily scolded.

"Yeah, you know it." James grinned, going back to his homework.



Lily had finished dressing in the bathroom of their Head Student compartment, and she was eagerly waiting for the train to stop in front of Hogwarts, her home. James had disappeared somewhere in the train, and Lily had been silently scolding herself for being less then cruel to him during their ride, yet she was still giddy with happiness that he had called her beautiful.

Finally the train slowed to a stop at Hogsmeade station, and Lily hurried out to the carriages. She found Candace and Sirius still together, still laughing like mad, so she skipped the idea of sitting with them. Remus was nowhere to be found, and Harmony was having another one of her sobbing breakdowns.

"It's OK, sweetie!" Bianca cooed. "He didn't mean it! Seriously! Oh please just stop crying!" Harmony continued to sob.

In the end, Lily was stuck in a carriage with none other then James.

'This is going to be a long ride.' Lily thought to herself. 'Another note to self, keep mouth shut to prevent being nice to him.'

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MPPSexxySiriusJamesRemus: Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs are sexy characters aren't they? But no Peter. Gross little watery eyed rat. LOL. Thanx for your review!

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