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Summary: Professor McGonagall sent Lily to fetch James for her. She can't find him anywhere and is furious with him. When she finally finds him and his friends, they head back to the castle, but they spot something shiny on the ground and it magically takes them to the future.
Forwards in Time
Chapter Four: The Quidditch Disaster
They all started walking to the Quidditch pitch so James, Sirius, and Remus could try out for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, but was stopped by a blond haired Slytherin. Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus saw that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were all glaring at him.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Ron asked harshly.
"I was just going to tell you that Professor Snape let us have Quidditch practice, so don't even think about practicing," he spat.
"What, fine" Harry said as they all started to turn around.
"Hah! Pathetic, is this your team?" he laughed annoyingly.
"No, they're just trying out," Ron snapped.
"Hah! Weasley, as if your last team wasn't bad enough last year, you're making these exchange students join your team," he laughed.
"Well, if you forgot, Malfoy, that the Gryffindor team won the Quidditch Cup last year," Hermione pointed out.
"Shut up you filthy little Mudblood!" he spat.
"Hey! Don't call her that!" Lily said angrily.
"Oh, I forgot, you are a Mudblood too," he smirked.
"Shut up, Malfoy! Say sorry to them!" James yelled.
"Sticking up for your girlfriend and no I won't," he said.
"You are just like your father and his bitch, Snape," Sirius grinned then mentally hitting himself for saying it. He looked at Remus' Lily's and James' worried faces and Harry's, Ron's, Hermione's, and Ginny's confused looks.
"WHAT?!" Malfoy yelled, turning red.
"You heard him," Remus smirked.
"Or are you deft?" James asked.
"Shut up!" he yelled.
"You're the one talking," Sirius grinned.
With that Malfoy walked away still red faced. Lily turned to Hermione and asked, "Are you okay Hermione?"
"Yeah, I'm used to it, you?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, I'm used to it too," she laughed.
"Good," Hermione smiled.
"Hey that was really kind of you guys," Hermione said as she turned to Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus.
"No problem," Remus smiled.
"Hey, um, Simon, what did that thing you said to Malfoy mean?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Oh, um that," Sirius started as he thought.
"Well?" Harry asked impatiently.
"Uh, that, wel-," he was about to say something when Lily cut him off and said, "Oh, it's this thing in our old school that we heard. I think one of Malfoy's relatives went there and his whole family hated muggle borns."
"Oh," Ron and Harry said in unison, still confused, but Hermione thought it was a little bit weird.
"Well, let's get back to the Common Room," James suggested, changing the subject.
"Alright," they said as they started to walk.
"I'll have my book back please," Remus grinned.
"Oh, let me read it please, it sounds interesting," Lily whined.
"When I'm done," he said as he yanked it away.
"Urgh," fine she smiled knowing he'll be done in an hour or so.
Once in the Common Room, Lily said, "Umm, can I talk to Simon for a second, we'll be back," she said as she took him by the ear and leaded him up the Boys Dormitories.
"Uh, we'll be back too," James and Remus said as they too ran up the stairs.
Once there they saw Lily let go of Sirius' ear. Luckily no one was there so Remus put a silencing charm on the door so no one else can hear.
"Thank you," she said as she turned to Remus, who simply nodded and then turned back to Sirius.
"What did you think you were doing?!" she shrieked.
"Lily, stop screaming as if my ears don't hurt already," Sirius said as he covered his ears.
"Sirius, that was a close one," Remus pointed out.
"Alright, sorry," he said as he massaged his ear, trying to get it back to normal colour.
"Just be careful next time," Lily sighed as she sat on one of the beds.
"Damn, for one minute I thought Evans wanted me," Sirius grinned as James and Remus laughed.
"Oh get a hold of yourself, Black," she snapped as she opened the door and stormed out.
She was followed by the three Marauders as they all chatted happily together. The rest of the week went by pretty fast but they still competed with each other and raced to finish their homework. Harry found that they were all really smart, even Sirius, and sometimes even smarter than Hermione. He thought it was weird though, how they would say weird things about Snape even though they knew nothing about him.
It was finally Saturday and Ron booked the Quidditch pitch for them to try out. They all got ready as Hermione and Lily waited for them.
James was the first one to finish and sat across from Lily. "Ah, Eve, this is the only thing you can't compete with me, it's going to be fun," he smirked at her.
"Shut up, Topper, and I can play Quidditch," she said. Lily knew she couldn't play but she wasn't going to let him win.
"Really, then why don't you try out," he said.
"Because I don't want to," she said as she turned away.
"Sure, that's what they all say," he laughed.
"Oh, just shut up," she snapped.
"Finally I win for once," he grinned.
"Fine, I'll try out!" she said but was a little worried. She couldn't even fly a broom that well. Heck, she didn't even watch Quidditch.
"Alright then," he said as his smirk grew wider.
Just then the guys came down and asked why he was so happy. "Eve, is trying out for beater," James said as he glanced at Lily who was showing that she was nervous.
"Really, alright then let's go. Gin will be waiting fir you in the girls change room," Harry said as they started to walk out of the Common Room. Lily walked along side Remus who was walking behind James and Sirius and pulled him back a little so James wouldn't hear what they were talking about.
"Lily, what's wrong?" Remus asked.
"Well, as you heard, your stupid friend Potter made me try out for the Quidditch thing," she started.
"Yeah, so," he asked.
"Well, I don't know what the beater does," she sighed.
"Oh, maybe you shouldn't do this then," he said.
"No, I want to," she protested.
"Fine, but it might be dangerous," he said.
"I don't care, as long as I shut his big mouth," she said, glaring at James' back.
"Alright, if you're sure," he said as he started explaining what she had to do.
"Is that all?" she asked as he finished.
"Yeah," he said as they arrived at the Quidditch pitch.
"Thank you so much Remus, you're a lifesaver," she said as she pecked him on the cheek, making him blush. "Oh, and please don't tell Potter," she said as she walked to the girl's change room.
"What was that?" Sirius chuckled at Remus' red face. James couldn't help but feel a little jealous.
"Oh, it was nothing, I just helped her with something," he said as he proceeded into the change room.
When finished changing James went to Harry and asked, "Where's your Quidditch captain?"
"You're looking at him," Harry grinned.
"Oh, umm, okay," was all he could say. He was so proud that his son was the Quidditch captain.
"Where are the brooms?" Sirius asked.
"Over there," Harry said as he pointed to a pile of brooms.
James, Sirius, Remus and Lily got their brooms and mounted them. They all soared up in the air, Lily still nervous but was about to kick off from the ground when she was stopped by Sirius yelling her name.
"What?" she asked.
"Uh, you forgot your bat," he said as he handed her a bat.
"What do I do with this?" she asked, her right eyebrow arched.
"You hit with the bludgers with it," he replied.
"Oh, uh, right," she said as she kicked from the ground.
Lily got to the air and was wobbling a bit. Remus flew to her side and asked, "Are you sure?"
"Positive," she said determined. James saw this and flew over to them, noticing that his broom was really fast.
"Alright, Evans?" he asked.
"Yes," she spat making him laugh.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE, LET'S START!" Harry bellowed to everyone.
"See Evans, unlike your child, if you even have one right now, my child is the Quidditch Captain," he smirked and flew away.
Lily followed, with Remus flying beside her, making sure she wouldn't fall. Once they got in position, Harry released the bludgers and threw up the quaffle. He watched as they played. Remus and James were able to score in the rings and saw that Sirius was a really good beater. He walked over to Hermione who was watching intently and said, "What do you think?"
"I think they're great, except for Lillian, it looks like she's struggling," Hermione pointed out.
"Yeah, I saw that too," He said as he watched her wobbling figure in the air.
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"Lily are you sure about this?!" Remus yelled as to her from high above."Yeah, don't worry!!" she yelled back.
Lily watched as Sirius hit the bludgers. It annoyed her greatly how he would hit it and laugh. She was really low on the ground and she decided to go higher. When she was at Sirius' level, which was really high. A bludger headed towards her and she tried to hit it but with the force she fell off her broom. She screamed and all the players turned to her.
"LILY!!!!" Remus yelled as he dove down and tried to catch her, but in the process flipped upside down. He was holding on his broom, upside down, with one hand and Lily with the other, but he was only holding on to three of her fingers.
"JUST HOLD ON!!!" he yelled, blood rushing up his head and saw tears in Lily's eyes.
"I CAN'T!!" she said as she slipped.
"NO!!!!" Remus yelled.
She fell but felt something catch her, it was James. She looked over to where Remus was and saw Sirius helping him get back on his broom. Lily buried her face in James' chest and was thankful that he didn't comment her.
"WATCH OUT!!!" Lily heard Sirius yell and was knocked out.
A/n: Oh my, this is so exciting to write! Thanks for all the reviews and can you guess what happened? Well I know I'm mean for leaving it here, I really want to get started on the next chapter. LOL, it's like an adrenaline rush!
Kari Black: worry not, I will not put too much Harry and Ginny scenes. To be honest I'm not much of a fan of theirs, but hey I only put them together for the readers. And remember this is supposed to be mostly Lily and James =).
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