Chapter 10

Thorn and Eden were walking across the grounds of Hogwarts. It was time.

They walked into the forest, following their intuiton to find the fairy coven. Suddenly the moonlight hit their retreating backs as they neared the edge of a clearing in the forest. Thorn and Eden stiffened as they began to transform.

Eden felt her wings break the skin on her back and she let out a gasp of pain. It felt like a thousand knives were all cutting away at the skin on her back. She began to shrink and her skin began to glow golden. Her ears became elongated and pointy at the ends as her eyes changed from their deep blue to an almost golden color. Finally she hovered in the air, her golden wings beating, as a small golden fairy. She flew to her brother as the clearing lit up in an unearthly light.

Fairies of all shape, size and colour filled the clearing. The beating of their wings created beautiful music. Eden felt her soul soar as she began to twirl and flit in the air. She felt so free and at peace. Her heart felt as if it would burst from her chest in its joy. She forgot all her problems and worries as she danced to the music.

Three of the marauders walked silently towards the whomping willow under James's invisibility cloak. As they walked, they heard steps to their right. They stopped in fear of being caught. They watched in wonder as the figures of a short girl and a taller boy walked towards the forbidden forest.

"Who are those idiots?" James whispered to Sirius.

"I don't know," he answered uncertainly.

"That's Eden and Thorn!" Peter whispered in bewilderment.

"What the hell are they doing?" Sirius asked.

"Don't know, why don't you go investigate. We'll tell Remus later," James said. Sirius transformed into the form of a hulking black dog and took off after the twins.

As he ran through the forest after them, he noticed that they obviously knew what they were doing. Because he had to follow them at a distance, he accidentally lost the scent.

"Morning," called Eden as she entered the Great Hall on Sunday morning after a rigorous qudditch practice.

"My, aren't we cheerful this morning," Riley said grinning at her.

"Yea, so don't spoil it," Eden said, sitting down in between Riley and Lily.

"I'll try not to seeing as how rare it is for you to be like this," Riley responded and went back to her toast.

"Lovely morning isn't it Evans," came a voice from behind the trio. Who else would it be except the marauders.

"Great," Lily muttered, hoping that they would go away if she ignored them.

"You know," Eden said as she swiveled around in her seat to address the boys behind her, "I was actually having a good morning until you all showed up."

"Glad to spoil it," Sirius said, sweeping an imaginary hat off his head and bowing to her. His heart was racing as he straitened up and looked into her deep blue eyes. He suddenly noticed that her eyes were amber.

"Wow, what happened to your eyes?" he asked puzzled.

"What's wrong with them?" she asked taken aback by his sudden question.

"They're amber," he told her.

"Oh, my eyes change colour sometimes, some weird family trait," she said quickly, lying.

"Right, so Evans," James said addressing Lily, "will you go out with me?"

"James, get a life and stop asking me that stupid question. You know perfectly well that I won't." Lily said and rose from the table and began to walk off towards the library.

"God, isn't she gorgeous," James said almost breathlessly as he turned to follow her.

"He really likes her you know," Sirius said to Eden conversationally.

"Yea right," she said annoyed.

"He's right, he has loved her since third year," Remus said knowingly. "Take this from someone who has had to listen to him go on about how ravishing she is."

"So you're saying that he really wants to go out with her?" Eden said as she flicked her hair over her shoulder. Sirius watched it fall for a moment, admiring its smoothness and beauty.

"Basically," Remus said.

"You do know that James is going to kill you for saying that," Sirius said.

"Well, he's liked her for so long, it's the least I can do." Remus replied smiling his cute little smile that drove so many girls crazy.

"Well, we think that she likes him, but she'd never admit it," Riley said, tossing her head so the light caught the natural blond streaks in her light brown hair. She was very proud of them for that very reason.

"Um.....yea," Remus said, having lost his train of thought due to the fact that he was staring at Riley's hair. She smiled knowing that he liked it.

"Well, I need to go send an owl to my uncle as a thank you," Eden called. She was ready to leave the scene seeing that Remus and Riley were about to become very busy flirting with each other. "Who wants to come?"

"I will," Sirius said, almost falling over his seat in his haste. Eden looked at him questionably.

"Okay then, but no perverted or annoying comments," she said, eyeing him curiously.

"Oh shit, that's all I'm good for," he said, pretending to be put out.

Eden giggled and began to walk towards the owlery with Sirius in toe. Maybe this marauder wasn't that bad.

"So, why were you out in the Forbidden Forest last night?" Sirius asked as he faced Eden, leaning against the wall of the owlery.

Eden stiffened at this comment. How does he know where I was? Does he know what I am? She stopped tying the letter to her owl, Morgana, and turned around to look him straight in the eye. She always had been good at lying. She could look someone in the eye and lie to them quite easily, but as she looked into Sirius's eyes, she suddenly found it hard to lie to him. She felt as if she had to tell him the truth, like she couldn't lie to him.

She took a deep breath and said, "I wasn't in the forest last night. I was studying in my dormitory."

"Well, then who was it I saw?" he asked.

"Why were you in the forest anyway? What were you doing?" she asked angrily, letting go of her owl so it could deliver the letter.

"That's my business," he responded.

"Well, what I was doing in the forest is my business too, so bugger off you stupid git," she said angrily as she walked out of the owlery slamming the door.

That was interesting, he thought as he stared out the window.

Eden walked down the charms corridor to her next class, charms of course. She was lost in thought when suddenly, someone came up behind her and picked her up off the ground by her waist.

"What the fuck!" she yelled at her attacker.

"You have such a dirty mouth my dear sister," came the voice of her beloved brother Thorn as he set her back down.

"Don't ever do that again unless you want to be hexed into next month," she said angrily at him.

"You need to eat more, you're too light," Thorn told her concernedly.

"I eat plenty enough, thank you," she said.

"No you don't," James said, coming up behind her. "What's up Thorn?"

"Since when did every one become so interested in my eating patterns?" Eden asked annoyed, as Thorn punched James playfully on the shoulder as a way of acknowledging his greeting.

"Since we noticed how much you eat," James said. "We've noticed and it's not healthy. It's a wonder you don't fall off your bloody broom at practice."

"He's right, I've been meaning to say something," Lily said as she walked up beside her.

"Shut up! I am the one who controls what I eat and no one can change that! Leave me alone you bunch of pompous bloated ostriches!" she said as she covered her ears.

"Where did that come from?" Lily asked as the bell rang.

"From the corners of my head that are not occupied with my demented brain," Eden said smiling.

"Right," Thorn said. "You also need more sun."

"Shut up about my health and well being," Eden told him as they filed into charms. "Since when did you become my surrogate mother?"

"You know you love me for it," he said smiling as he took his seat behind Grace Martin, a pretty Ravenclaw.

"You never want a brother," Eden said matter of factly as she sat down in between Lily and Riley.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," he called from across the room.

"You do that," she replied as she got out parchment and a quill. She had the intention of writing a letter to her older brother Gabriel, who was currently somewhere in France.