Chapter 4: The Start of Term
That morning Bailey woke up, got changed, and sat in the common room waiting for the others. "Good morning." Sirius said finally waking up. "Did you sleep alright?"
"Shh. Everyone is still asleep. Yes I slept fine, thank you for last night. I felt a lot better when you told me how safe I was." Bailey said whispering.
"You're welcome. I use to have nightmares like that. If you ever want to talk I promise not to tell James or Professor Dumbledore." Sirius got up and walked over to Bailey. His hair was just as bad in the morning as James' hair was on a regular basis. Sirius hugged her.
"Thanks, you better get dressed before the others lock you out of the room." Bialey said remembering how James locked Sirius out of the house once over break. Once everyone woke up they made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast where they recieved their schedules.
"Double Trafiguration, double Potions, and a short Care of Magical Creatures lesson. This day is going to be so boring and long." James complained.
"It's not that bad Prongs, We could be stuck with Potions all day." Bailey said smiling.
"You're right about that, being stuck with Snivellus is bad enough on a regular basis, but being stuck with him all day is unbearable." James said following Sirius' eyes over to the Slytherin table.
"Snivellus? That's an unusual name." Bailey commented looking over at the Slytherins also.
"His name is Severus Snape. He's actually very kind. I can introduce you if you'd like." Lily said getting everyone's attention.
"Evans you are not introducing my niece to that git!" James yelled attracting even more attention.
"Now that I think about it Lily I would love to meet him. Come on." Bailey pulled Lily from the table and over to Snape.
"Hi Severus, I wanted you to meet a friend of mine Bailey." Lily said taking a seat.
"Hi Lily, Bailey it's nice meeting you. So what was Potter upset about?" Snape asked watching the four boys stare at him.
"They didn't want me to meet you. I have no idea what is up with them." Bailey said shaking Snape's hand.
"They've hated me sicne I dated Lily, James is a berk though. If he decided it wasn't cool to breath most of the school would die." Severus said turning his gaze back to the girls.
"Severus you might want to lay off insulting James for a while." Lily warned.
"Why would I do that?" Snape said coldly.
"Besides the fact that I'm dating him, Bailey here is James' niece!" Lily said leaving the table with Bailey and joining the Marauders while they started to leave for class.
"Is what Severus said true?" Bailey asked Lily.
"Which part?" Lily asked, this got the attention of the four boys.
"That if James decided it was uncool to breath that half of Hogwars students would die?" Bailey said looking around the school with a new perspective.
"Well James or Sirius. They practically own Hogwarts. I'm sure when the guys find out who you are the other half of the school would die." Lily said smiling and running to catch up with James.
"Are you serious?" Bailey asked shocked.
"Yeah I am, just watch you'll see." Lily said as they entered the classroom.
"Welcome to Transfiguration seventh years, as you will notice the class has only 15 students, this is so I can work with you all personally." McGonagall said once class had started. "Today we will work on self-transfigureation. The only person excused from today's lesson is mister Lupin since he has already shown mastery in it." Remus was offered to stay and help later which he kindly accepted.
"For this all you have to do is repeat the word Transfigura in your head and stay focused on that word." With in five minutes James, Sirius, Peter, and Bailey had all transfigured into their animals. Bailey and James were almost identical, Sirius had turned inot a black dog, and Peter into a rat. When class ended there was only three people who couldn't transfigure and the four of them had won Gryffindor 50 points each. Next was Potions with Professor Goldenheart.
"Please pair up, whoever you are paired with will be your partner for the rest of the year." Professor Goldenheart said. James and Lily paired up, Lupin and Peter, then Bailey and Sirius. "Alright if your partners can get the supplies, the potion is on the board for you to copy down." Then the professor went into his office.
"I'll get the potion ingrediants if you can copy down the rest." Sirius said walking towards the cabinet. Halfway through class Bailey and Sirius were waiting for their potion to bubble before they could move on.
"So what was your nightmare about?" Bailey asked.
"I think I'm the one whose suppose to be asking you that." Sirius said smiling.
"You probably are but are you going to tell me?" Bailey asked checking on the potion.
"Ok, if I tell you then you have to tell me about last night. Promise?" Sirius said looking her in the eyes. "I'm still holding up me end of the promise also. Whatever you tell me will not be repeated to James or Dumbledore."
"I promise." Bailey said sitting back down.
"My nightmare was about me being a Death Eater and killing my family. I had that dream for weeks last year. It scares me to even think about it. My brother had become a Death Eater then that's why I was dreaming it."
"I'm sorry about that. The nightmares I keep having are about my mum and dad dieing. I lied to Dumbledore that day. I wasn't at the park, I just said that because that's where my dad and I were going to go the next day. I was in the kitchen when they burst through the door, and hid in the cabinet under the sink. I opened the door just in time to see them be killed." Bailey said staring out an enchanted window, looking at Sirius and telling him was just to hard to do.
"Bailey I know what you're thinking but you didn't just let your parents die, there was nothing you could do." Sirius said trying to get her attention back on the potion.
"Yeah, um, It's time to add the dragon tears. Remember three drops or we'll have to start over." Bailey said passing him the vial.
"Don't worry. So anything else you want to talk about?" Sirius asked noticing her fear stricken face.
"Nope, that's it." Bailey said cleaning up the mess and putting stuff away so they wouldn't have to be bothered with the rush of students at the end of class. After Potions was over they headed off to their Care of Magical Creatures lesson. The class was only 20 minutes long since it was close to dinner.
"Welcome back seventh years. We are going to study some of the creature from your last six years deeper than usual. We're going to start with Werewolves tomorrow and go from there, since we only have 10 minutes left of class the rest of it is yours." The professor then started to grade papers.
"So Bailey what's going on between you and Sirius?" Lily asked pulling her away from the group of guys.
"Nothing we're just friends." Bailey said looking over at James. "James would kill me if I ended up liking one of his friends espically Sirius."
"Well maybe he would rather have you date Sirius than date a total stranger." Lily said smiling.
"What are you trying to say? Did James tell you something?" Bailey finally looked at Lily.
"Well, actually I heard him tell Remuss. He said that he's sick of hearing Sirius constantly talk abotu you, and he's noticed you two staring at each other when oyu think no one is looking." Lily said smiling.
"Oh, well then that changes everything." Bailey said smiling goinng back towards the boys when the bell rang. The group then headed towards the Great Hall for dinner.
"Potter whose the hot girl by Lily Evans?" Do you know if she has a boyfriend?" Asked Mark Davis of Slytherin.
"Davis you even look at that girl the wrong way and I'll make sure you never cast a spell again." James said dangerously.
"Is that a threat Potter?" Mark said loudly so everyone heard.
"In your case it is." Sirius said backing James up. "And if James doesn't do it then I will." Severus then walked up to pull Mark back to the table.
"Mark, that's James niece Bailey. My advice if you want to live stay away from her or they won't be the only ones you will have to deal with." Severus said. After dinner the group went back to the Common Room.
"I sort of like having our own common room." James said pulling Lily onton his lap.
"So when's Quidditch tryouts? I heard you needed a new beater." Bailey asked.
"Saturday unless we find someone before then." James said smiling. "Should I count you in before I post the notice?"
"Well since your position isn't open, heck yeah!" Bailey said smiling.
"Great, now our team is unbeatable." James said smiling.
"I wish we had a day off tomorrow." Sirius said yawning.
"Well we're seventh years, next month we'll only have classes every other day." Lily said smiling. Everyone started to go to bed, LIly slept in the boys form with James, leaving Sirius and Bailey alone in the common room again.
"I better be going to bed." Sirius said getting up.
"Please don't leave me alone." Bailey said getting up and walking towards him.
"I won't I promise." Sirius said holding on to Bailey. Bailey led Sirius to the girls room.
"Which one is your bed?" Sirius asked, Bailey pointed to the bed under a window. "Ok, then I'll take Lily's, okay?" Bailey shook her head. Sirius kissed her on her forehead then turned aroudn so Bailey could put on her pajamas. She did the same for him. Sirius then put a silencing charm on teh room jsut in case Bailey had another nightmare.
"Your absolutely right Draco." Edward said, "Who knew you'd become a Death Eater."
"Well I've been on the right side of this war where you haven't."
"Edward, what's going on?" Elizabeth asked.
"Avada Kevadra!" Two Death Eaters shouted.
"Mum, Dad! NO!" Bailey started crying while still asleep.
"Bailey wake up it's ok." Sirius said running towards Bailey. "Come on it's going to be ok." Bailey shot out of bed and grabbed onto Sirius. He rubbed her back to try to calm her down.
"Sirius I have to admit something to you. I tried to fight back. Sirius I killed one of the Death Eaters. I killed someone." Bailey said crying.
"Bailey you only did it to save your parents life, and you made the world a bit safer. Don't think of it as a murder, think of it as saving more then one life." Sirius said softly. "We should get back to sleep." Sirius got up off the bed.
"Stay, please." Bailey said looking at him.
"Okay," Sirius layed on top of the blankets, and fell asleep holding Bailey. "I love you Bailey Potter."