Nothing in This World
Chapter 1: Lily's life before Hogwarts.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters with the exception of Marie.
AN: I did some revisions to this story deciding that it wasn't going quite the way I would have liked it to. I'd really appreciate it if people would review this story after they read it and tell me what they think about it or just to say hi and let me know that they read it.
'What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger' Nietzshe (There is no reason to this quote I just like it so I thought I'd share it before we got started with the story.)
Lily looking up at the calendar on her wall and grabbed the red pen from the side holder and put a large red X across the day that had just passed by yesterday.
'Only one day to go before its summer vacation!' she reminded herself excitedly.
Just at the thought of finally being allowed into the clubhouse and hanging out with her sister's friends and being accepted as one of them made her smile. Her smile faded as she suddenly remembered her sister's boyfriend Vernon the first and only guy ever to be allowed to join the clubhouse. He had only been initiated a couple weeks ago but he had already been voted the new vice president.
Lily hated him because he has always been a complete and utter jerk pushing and shoving her, pulling her hair and calling her names. Petunia would just stand by and watch as he did this and laughed at her when she cried and call her a wimp or crybaby.
Broken out of her thoughts by her mother's voice calling her to come downstairs and eat breakfast along with Petunia's loud whining and Lily rolled her eyes. She got up and went to her dresser to grab her favorite scrunchy...
DOWNSTAIRS
"Mom I thought you said that you were going to make me blueberry pancakes this morning!" Petunia whined as she looked at her plate with disgust at the pile of scramble eggs and ketchup.
"Well I said that before I realized we were all out of pancake mix. Now I suggest you eat it before it gets cold because your not leaving this table until that plate is empty." was all her mother said as she received a cold glare from her daughter.
Rolling her eyes and wondering why she deserved to get such a temperamental child she went back to the bottom of the stair case to call Lily down again.
"Lillian Evans get down here this instant! Your food is getting cold!"
"Be right down Mum!" came the muffled reply. A few seconds later sounds a loud crash could be heard from the upstairs.
"LILY?! Are you alright?! What was that?!"
"I'm alright mum... It was nothing!"
"Ya right." her mom huffed under her breath.
"I don't care what you say! I'd rather starve than eat this garbage that you cooked!" Petunia got up sticking her nose high up in the air making sure her feet stomped loudly as she went upstairs.
Her mother could only shake her head.
"What am I going to do with that girl." She muttered under her breath irritated by Petunia's temper. She had realized a long time ago there was nothing she could really do about the girl's temperament. Punishing her only seemed to make it worse and when they sent her to the anger management class she got kicked out in less then a week for tearing the teacher's hair out.
She was about to call Lily down again for the third time when she saw the small ten year old red head slide down the railing and land on her feet from years of Practice. She knew she should tell Lily how unlady like that had been to slide down the stairs like that but she could not bring herself to say it and instead smiled softly at her youngest daughter.
"Mornin' Mum" She said with her usual cheerful smile.
'Their like night and day' Rose thought to herself.
"There's a plate of scrambled eggs for you on the table."
"Mum have you seen my hair scrunchy?" Lily asked curiously as she sat down where Petunia had just been and started shoving the scrambled eggs in her mouth and swallowing before she even chewed with out a second thought.
"Lily how many times have I told you to chew then swallow?" Her mother rolled her eyes looking quite amused that at least one of her daughters didn't really care a whole lot about what they ate for breakfast.
"Sorry Mum..." She continued shoving the food in her mouth but made sure to chew once or twice before swallowing.
"No I haven't seen it...did you check the handle of your hair brush?"
Lily quickly swallowed what was left of the eggs before she answered.
"Ya I already did. I also checked all over the house where I normally would have left it but I can't find it..."
Just then Petunia walked by with her hair in its usual tight bun the only difference was that today it was held in with a scrunchy that caught Lily's eyes. It was sparkly, white and the one she had been looking all over for. She kept her mouth shut seeing that Petunia was already mad enough with out her asking if she would give back the scrunchy back. Lily didn't want to risk Petunia telling her that she wouldn't be initiated into the clubhouse even if she disliked the fact that Vernon was in it over a simple srunchy.
" Never mind Mum I forgot I lent it to Petty." She smiled but her mother didn't look to convinced with Lily's excuse but decided to let Lily handle this herself.
Grabbing her backpack Lily got up and headed for the door to catch the school bus.
"Hey! Where's my good bye hug?" Lily turned around to see her mother's pouting face but didn't miss that glint of laughter in her eyes. Laughing and calling her a faker she ran back to her mother and gave her a bear grip hug.
"See you after school Mum." She let go and started towards the door again.
"Lily!" She turned to face her mom again. "Here!" She tossed Lily a scrunch that look similar to the other one except instead of being white it was dark green.
"Thanks Mum!" She ran and gave her mother another bear hug before running out the door to just barely catch her bus.
SCHOOL-BUS
As soon as she stepped on the bus she heard the familiar voice of her best friend scream her name above the chaos of noise in the school bus.
"Lil! Over Here!" Marie hollered once again trying to get her friend's attention.
Pushing herself between the people sitting in the aisle trying hard not to knock anyone over or hit them in the head with her bag she tried to make her way to the back where Marie's voice was coming from.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry" she replied as she stepped on the girl's foot.
"Hey watch it carrot top!" a boy hollered as she hit him in the head with her bag by accident. She didn't feel she owed him an apology after he called her carrot top and nearly considered 'accidentally' hitting him again.
'They really need to get more buses.' she thought to herself 'I mean three to four people to a seat is ridiculous!'
(AN: I've had to go with an over crowded bus like this since I got out of elementary school. So I thought I'd make lily's bus like that also since I can't really remember what it is like not to be on a bus that crowded.)
"So did you do the homework?" Marie asked as she pushed in to give Lily enough room to sit down receiving grunts of disapproval from her younger brothers who barely had any space as it was.
Lily shook her head. "Nope didn't realize we had any."
"Who am I suppose to copy from then?" she whined almost sounding as annoying as Petunia but not quite.
" Well you could always copy from Peter. I heard he is a heard he is a major push over who couldn't stand up for himself even if his life depended on him so I bet with a few threats of a blood nose it shouldn't be to hard to get him to let you copy his homework." Lily said not really paying attention to those who were around her until she felt someone push past her nearly causing her to fall off the seat.
"Um...Lil?"
" What?"
"Peter was behind us and heard what you said."
"Oh...so what...like I even care that he heard me...besides maybe it will do him some good you know... make him a little less of a coward." Lily said trying not to sound like she cared even though she felt guilty that Peter had over heard her and shoot a quick sympathetic over at him when no one was looking.
"Well not only did you just make him cry like the crybaby he is but you probably just blew our only chance of having our homework done! Do you really think he'd let us copy it even with the threats now?"
Lily just rolled her eyes saying whatever as the bus stopped quickly in front of their school causing kids to fall in the aisles and knock into each other.
"Um...Marie I just thought of something..."
"What?"
"Why would we have homework if it's the last day of school?!"
Six Hours Later.3:30 in the afternoon
As Lily got off the bus she couldn't help herself and looked over at the small clubhouse located in the front lawn under the large oak tree. To most it just look like an over run green army tent but to Lily it was the club house of her dreams that she has wanted to be apart of since Petunia and her friends first started it.
"Only a week and a half left!" She murmured excitedly under her breath.
For a moment she just stood there daydreaming about what it would be like to finally be in the club. She wondered what they would make her wear for the initiation and what she was going to have to do. She had tried asking Petunia about what she should expect for the initiation but was told that she would have to wait and see.
So she could only imagine that they would make her wear a long black robe and for the challenge make her call up the geekiest guy in school and ask him out.
Just as she got to the part where her sister was hugging her to welcome her into the club she was shoved from behind and went tumbling to the ground scraping her knees on the gravel.
"Move it or lose it nerd!" Vernon told her as he walked past with Petunia on his arm who seemed to be trying hard to hold back a fit of giggles.
Lily glanced down at her bloody knee then back up with tears of hatred glaring at his back. 'Who does he think he is?!' Her mind screamed as her anger slowly grew more intense 'Always treating me like this!'
Half of her just wanted to get up and shove him right back and hurt him like he had just hurt her but her other half held her back reminding her of the consequences.
"Oh how I wish he would fall on his ugly, big, fat, pig like face!" She muttered to no one in particular.
Just as she finished saying the word 'face' she felt a strange sensation pass through her before she heard Petunia scream as Vernon fell to the ground pulling her with him.
When he got up his nose looked like it had been smashed in and was a bloody mess.
2 hours later
"Mum I'm the one who broke his nose I swear it!"
"Lily your sister told me you had fallen down and were behind them by five feet or so. There is no possible way you could have done it." Rose tried to reason getting frustrated by her daughter who was continuously claiming for the past hour that she was to blame for the boy's broken nose.
"I know its not logical and hard to believe mum but I know I'm the one who caused him to fall. It was almost like it was magic that flowed through me and granted my wish!"
Looking down at her youngest daughter Rose contemplated on what she should do it was obviously that this conversation was going no where and that Lily was still convinced that she had been the one to cause Vernon to fall and break his nose.
Going over and opening the kitchen window Lily stared out into the darkness.
"You don't believe me do you?"
"How can I Lily? Your claiming you did the impossible and used magic that doesn't exist. There is no such thing as magic hunny."
Lily's eyes widened as she spotted something flying straight at her head and quickly ran from the window. Rose took it as she had upset Lily with what she said.
"Lily I didn't mean it, I'm..." before she could finish her sentence a letter was dropped on her head and it fell to the floor. She heard a soft hoot come from the chair next to her and jumped back in fright as she saw an owl sitting there watching her with it's beady black eyes.
Lily who had been hiding on the stairwell crept back down when she heard the owl hoot and realized it wasn't some flying monster out to get her.
"Mum." Lily said softly as she noticed how afraid her mother was of the owl.
"I don't think it means us any harm." looking on the ground by her mother's feet she noticed an envelope addressed to her.
"Mum! It's for me!" Lily quickly grabbed the envelope and ripped it open taking out several pieces of paper.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)
Dear Miss Evans, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1st. We await your owl by no later then July 31st.Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Minerva McGonagall Deputy Headmistress
Lily put the letter aside for her mother to read then picked up the next letter. She was expecting it to be the book list the first letter had talked about but was surprised to find it was not. It was a letter telling her that some family named the Potters were going to come by on the 28th of June and bring her to Diagon Alley and help her get the school supplies. It also said to send Duncan back to them with the letters signed by Rose if they would like to refuse the Potter's offer or send him to Hogwarts with a letter saying that Lily would be attending Hogwarts next fall.
"Mum can I go?" Lily asked excitedly.
"Go where?" A voice asked from behind. "And what is that filthy creature doing in here in our house?!"
"He is not some filthy creature Petty and for your information I'm going to Diagon Alley then to Hogwarts!" Lily said in a tone as if Petunia should have known.
"Oh." She looked at Lily strangely for a moment before looking over towards their mother. "Mom I think Lily has finally gone off her rocker?"
Mrs. Evan shook her head to her daughter's question. "I'm afraid not because if she has then I have as well." She handed Petunia the letter who read it then looked up at her sister is shock.
"Told you so." Lily said.
"Oh shut up! This letter proves nothing except that you're a freak." glaring at her younger sister she crumpled the letter and threw it at Lily's face. "And as a rule of my clubhouse there are no freaks allowed."
Lily's eyes teared up. "Bu.but you promised."
"Rules are rules and I suggest you stay away from me you freak!"
Bursting into tears Lily ran from the room leaving only Petunia and their mother.
"Petunia I believe it's time we had a talk." Her mother said sternly with a hint of anger in her voice.