Well, well...Sorry for the long delay, I've got writer's block. This is going to be hard to crank out...I love writing...thanks for the reviews even though they are few...I want more reviews people! I NEED this self esteem booster here...basically the reason I write is to get reviews, which is pretty sad, but whatever. On with the show!

Disclaimer: I didn't make any of the characters; however, the plot is mine. Don't sue, it's just not polite.

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Sirius and James walked down the halls of the bookshop. Everything there was a reminder of the OWLS they had had yesteryear. That was a depressing thought. They went through the list that was sent to them that morning, and went out to wander.

Suddenly, there was a sign directing them to Knockturn Alley. "There's an idea," thought James.

"You want to go down Knockturn Alley?" He asked Sirius with a devilish grin on his face.

Sirius looked round. He saw the sign and understood exactly what James was talking about. He returned the grin.

Just as they were starting along the alley, and feminine voice sounded behind them. "JAMES! SIRIUS!" They whirled around.

An impossibly pretty girl with dark red hair was right behind them. She had the look of a very exasperated mother on her face. "Well hello, Lily," James said quietly, while placing his hands on the girl's waist.

Lily pushed him off, and said "DO you have ANY idea what's IN there?!" through clenched teeth.

"Uh, yeah," said Sirius. "I used to go in there with my parents all the time."

Lily was about to say something else when she stopped, looked him up and down once (A/N who can resist Sirius?) and stared. "Your parents TOOK you in there?"

"Haven't you figured out," said Sirius, "that my parents are INSANE?"

"Oh...right." Lily turned back to James. "It doesn't matter. YOU shouldn't have gone in there at any rate," she said.

"Oh stop acting like my mother."

Lily turned white in the face and said "Fine!" and walked away in a huff.

James turned to Sirius and was about to say something when he stopped. He looked around Sirius, looking Knockturn Alley. "Is that your mum?" he asked.

Sirius turned around so fast his neck popped. There, standing next to what looked like a barrel of dead rats, was a dark haired woman who looked like she was run over several times. "Holy shi—" Sirius started.

"Sirius, come ON!" James was tugging on his collar. Sirius snapped out of it, and Apparated with James, home.

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"James! Sirius! Get up!" called James's mother from the kitchen. "You'll miss the train!"

"We're up!" James yelled from bed. That was one of his tricks. Yell loudly and strongly so your mom thinks you're up. Then go back to sleep.

"JAMES!!" She yelled. "Get up NOW!!"

Sirius woke from his stupor, and threw on some clothes. James was already dressed somehow.

They ran downstairs, inhaled the toast, and hurried to pack everything up before they were to leave. They threw themselves into the floo powder fire, and found themselves in the train station. They clambered on the train, and got in the first empty compartment they could find. They were both silent until:

"Did you always have that scar there, on your face, Sirius?" James asked.

Sirius looked in the glass of the window. There was a long, nasty looking, scar running from his eye to his chin. "Yeah," Sirius said quietly.

"Oh," whispered James. He didn't ask what had happened. And Sirius knew why....

FLASHBACK

Sirius, as a very little boy, walked timidly up to his mother. "Is there—he yawned widely—anything else you want me to do?"

Sirius's mother, a young woman then, looked down on her son, and said: "You forgot to say master, yet again, spawn of mine," she said nastily. "You know the punishment for that."

Sirius knew the punishment all too well. He was to be cut, anywhere his mother saw fit. Lately, she had taken to cutting his arms.

"Because this has happened so many times, you get cut a special place tonight, boy. Come here." Sirius moved forward, reluctantly. His mother pulled out her wand, and blew on it. The end sharpened itself, and it became a blade. She held fast to Sirius, and pushed the blade into the skin a half inch below his eye. Sirius tried to stop the tears pouring from his eyes, and his scream, but they both were too strong for him. The scream sounded. His mother grinned evilly, and inserted the blade down his cheek, and to his chin.

"Clean yourself up, boy," she whispered, when she was done, and she closed the blade again.

END OF FLASHBACK

Before they knew it, a trolley was pulled up to their compartment. "Anything off the trolley?" The witch pushing the cart asked.

They both pounced (after all, they were both RICH) and bought a little bit of everything. Soon after, they felt the train start to slow down.

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I'm SOOOOOO sorry for the delay, but I've got writer's block, as I said above. I'll try to update every....Monday? Monday. Perfect. DON'T FORGET: I LOVE REVIEWS!! I NEED SELF ESTEEM BOOSTER!! GIVE SELF ESTEEM BOOSTER!! REVIEW NOW!!