A Legacy Begins…

Please RR...I'll be editing with comments if you have them....there's at least two chapters for almost every page because my chapters are extremely short...here's the beginning...

PROLOGUE

Summary: A Lily/James fanfiction. Begins before their fifth year. Lily and James both hate each other…or so they think. Lily hates James with a passion, whereas James secretly is in love with Lily. However, he is not alone on that prospect: So do three other men. Three other men who, clearly, would also be more appealing than James….

The three man became two all too quickly. The fifth year changed this prospect…

Vanessa Prewitt, a half-blood witch, was Lily Evans' best friend. Lily had her other friends too of course: the students (mainly girls) in her year at Hogwarts. But two of the men that liked her could change everything…

Severus Snape was a greasy oily-haired git who would do anything to harm Potter and his crew. But Lily only saw this as a positive: she hated Potter, he hated Potter, it was all okay. But something, or rather someone, had changed the future that Snape had been planning. Someone that, until Vanessa came along, everyone had thought to be Lily's destined husband…

Sirius Black was Lily Evans' best guy friend in Gryffindor. She could talk to him about almost everything—except schoolwork. She was top of her year, closely followed by Potter and Sirius. But she didn't know why this was; Potter was always buried in books on pranks and girls, not on schoolwork. Sirius, until fifth year, had always believed that he and Lily were meant to be—until he found out a secret from his friend…the secret that would change this future into dust…

Chapter One: Lily Evans

Lily Evans woke with a start. It was the first day of her summer vacation, which had started upon her arrival home after getting picked up by her parents at King's Cross station the previous day.

She, like anyone else that attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, valued the summer holidays. The workload was enormous, and everyone enjoyed the time to be with their family, as Hogwarts was like a college—dorms and houses and a second family.

As Lily made her way down the stairs of her house, she found her parents fighting. She loved them with all her heart—but when her mother and father got into a fight, it was always over random things. But this was the final straw for her mother.

She hid herself as she tried to listen to what the fight was over this time.

"You know perfectly well that our daughter needs schooling in that—that place, no more! My business is crashing down and I need my money back from her account at her bank!" came the voice of her father, who never really approved of her being a witch. Her sister, Petunia, was a year and a half older than Lily—and wasn't a witch.

Lily's mother had always supported her daughter's entry into the school. However, her father hadn't, and they commonly fought over it. Petunia practically lived in the house next door—where her best friend, Ginger, lived. They were in their own crew called 'The Flowers', as everyone in their group of popular kids from school all had names of flowers: Lily, Tulip, and Poppy just named a few others. The Lily from Petunia's crew was not Lily Evans, she was the twin sister of Daffodil, another girl in 'the flowers' crew.

As Lily's mum kept screaming, she heard some stamping.

"Look, if you want to keep her in that place, then you go ahead. But not under this roof!"

Lily felt rage towards her father. What was he doing, kicking out her mother just because of beliefs? Lily knew what to do, what would stop this argument…

"Father? Mother?" she said, after walking down the stairs. They both resumed a halfway normal position before her mother ran up the stairs, grabbed the few things from the house that mattered most to her, and ran out the door, driving away.

"Father, what happened this time?"

"Unless your mother goes and finds a place to live so you can live there, I don't want you and your abnormality under this roof anymore!" screamed her father, and Lily's eyes teared up. She may not have eaten, may have been starving for food, but she needed to get out of that house, and knew someone who would take her in for the time being: Vanessa.

Vanessa was Lily's best friend, and was in her year/dorm at Hogwarts. Vanessa was a half-blood though, against Lily's Muggle ancestry.

'There's gotta be something I can do to get me out of this mess,' thought Lily, grabbing her trunk, which still had all of her Hogwarts stuff in it (she hadn't unpacked yet), and everything else that was of importance to her. Being that she was always away during the school year, she didn't have very much. She pulled her trunk out and down the stairs in hopes that Vanessa's family wouldn't mind too much her showing up.

Her answer was a smile when she arrived. Granted, it was ten o'clock in the morning, and everyone was awake and happy after a full night's rest, but they took Lily in right away after she explained the situation.

"I just need somewhere to go until my mum can find a place," she said, and Vanessa's mother, Jessica, smiled.

"Of course, darling. We'll try our best to get hold of your mother. For now though we'll just get you settled in a room."

Once Lily got into the room she was going to be living in until she found where her mother was going to, she was greeted by the familiar face of Vanessa.

"LIL!" said Vanessa, giving her best friend a hug.

"Thanks. I needed that," said Lily, stepping backward. Vanessa looked around.

"That's all you have of importance?"

"Well I couldn't really grab much," said Lily, taking the clothes out and putting them in the dresser.

"Lily!" called Mrs. Prewitt, so Vanessa and Lily descended down the stairs.

"Yes, Mrs. Prewitt? Have you gotten ahold of my mother?"

"Yes, I have. She currently is driving to the house she has been renting for awhile, she knew that this day was to come. It's a lovely house down the street a few blocks though," said Mrs. Prewitt.

"Not that far away, that's good. Okay, I'll just go get my stuff," said Lily, grabbing her things once again.

"Your mother will pick you up around eleven o'clock. In the meantime let's have some breakfast," said Mrs. Prewitt, taking the pancakes off the iron and putting them on a plate for Lily.

"Thank you," she said, taking part of the pancake.

"LILY!" called Vanessa five minutes later, and Lily had finished so she therefore went up the stairs.

"What?"

"Here's your birthday present in advance," said Vanessa, smiling. "Your birthday is the third, but I'm not going to see you 'til then, so I figured I'd give this to you," said Vanessa, smiling.

"Thanks," said Lily, taking some of the paper off to reveal a diary along with five Stephen King novels.

"Thank you so much!" she said, a real smile on her face.

That night, Lily was cuddling up in her mother's house, which was just about as big as her former. The room she was to be in could use some serious painting, but besides that it was okay. She lie down that night to think of only one thing: the diary.

'I probably should write something in it,' she thought, picking it up. Inside it was a quill—and a special one at that.

It had a place for every color on it, she noted. She could write in whatever color ink she fancied at the time. She put it on green, to match her eyes, and began to write.

I've never had one of these things before. I know I should put some anti-breaking charm on it, but I'll have to wait until I'm back at Hogwarts for that. Today Mum and Dad had their final fight—they've split. I'm currently at my mum's house writing this.

Anyway, I think I'm supposed to write a day's events in this thing, right? Well here goes.

Today sucked.

And that is the nice way of saying it.

I'm starting to wonder what I'm to do with the rest of my summer vacation. Every time I'm by Vanessa's now my father will probably be showing up. He probably thinks that I'm out of the country with Mum right now.

But that's about all for now. I must get some sleep, as I too get tired. Night.

Lily

She then shut the diary, the door, and her eyes as she fell asleep.

Chapter Two: James Potter

Meanwhile, in the Potter mansion, James was having a jolly old time. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew were all visiting for the summer. James Potter was sitting in his room, daydreaming. As much as he tried to deny it, he still had a soft spot inside him for Lily Evans. She had one of the fieriest personalities possible. But she hated his bloody guts, and would have enjoyed to be the one to kill him.

He was also a prankster, yet one of the smartest guys in the school. He and Sirius were the ringleaders of their crew, the Marauders. They had just finished their small amount of summer homework and were therefore free to do as they pleased.

James felt something was wrong. He didn't know what, but he sensed it. Something was wrong—and it involved Lily.

He went to Sirius about his problem—but he just keeled over laughing.

"James, you've got to get a grip. Ever since we've gone to Hogwarts, you've gone out with at least fifty of the girls in our year and twenty in other years. If you think Lily Evans will be your next, you have got to come back to reality. She hates you James, and she always will. Now me on the other hand, now I'm a different story--" said Sirius, then James hit him.

"Look, Lily's different. She's fiery, abnormal, and, well, beautiful when she wants to be."

"James, listen to me for once! I am friends with Lily! and she never shuts up about her hatred of you!" said Sirius.

'I have to keep Lily away from James,' thought Sirius. 'I didn't think it humanly possible, but Lily might end up falling for him, and I can't risk that.'

An owl came fluttering into the window.

"What's in it?" asked James, as the owl gave the letter to Sirius.

"It's from your infatuation," said Sirius, smiling.

"Lily? She's not my infatuation!"

"Whatever you say, man. Anyway though, yeah this letter is from her," said Sirius, reading the letter aloud.

"Hey Sirius

I'm stuck at my mother's—yeah that's what I mean, my parents got into another fight, but this time my father actuall kicked her out of the house—so I figured I'd let you know in case you were going to owl me something, as I won't be at my old houwse, my father's place, anymore.

Lily."

Tears were all over the page, as made clear by the smudging of the letters. James was stunned—he didn't know that Lily's home life had sucked that badly!

Sirius reread the letter. "So her parents are getting divorced. That's just great," said Sirius.

James fell back upon his pillow and dreamed the night away.

'If Sirius gets to her first, I don't know what I'll do. I think I just may love her, and we haven't even gone out yet.'

Sirius took James' snoring for an answer and he too fell asleep.