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"Its worse that we thought..." James mummbled, his face straight but drained of all natural color. Lily helped him pull off the invisibility cloak as he threw himself onto the couch by Sirius. We all looked at him, waiting for more details. Upon hearing the announcement to stay in our dorms, we knew something was up and had a miny meeting in the boy's dormitory so no one would overhear. Together we had resolved that one of us would creep out of the portrait and quickly sneek a peek at what was going on within the school walls. All of us had feared the same and the worst, an atack from Voldemort. James had just proven our theory.

"James, what in the name of Merlin happened?" Lily begged, breaking the silence.

"Its...insane. Spells flying everywhere. People down everywhere, its unbelieveable. Never thought I'd see anything like it." He muttered, clearly in shock.

"Oh god, Oh god. My parents...family...everyone's out there...fighting..." I gasped, the reality sinking in. I could feel it in my heart, I knew that everyone in my family who could fight would be. There was no doubt in my mind that my relatives were either on their way or already at my school, because I knew something as huge as this (which I was positive it was) would not go undected for very long.

"Noel, calm down. It'll be alright." Lindsey soothed me, sitting on the arm of the couch by Remus, who was acting very stoic.

"Calm down? You expect me to calm down? My whole bloody family is probably out there!" I screamed, furious. The whole common room turned to look at me briefly before before showing varying emotions. Realizing that our school was under attack from my few words, the muggleborns looked shocked and confused, while most everyone else began to show signs of crying or anger. I had finally cracked after all the days of stress and happiness combined. All those emotions at once for days at a time had gotten under my skin, and I couldn't handle it anymore.

"So are mine" Sirius mumbled incorherently, I just barely understood. Immediatley I felt awful for blowing up at Lindsey and for not thinking of things from the other side of the fence. Sirius had to live with the fact that his parents were some of the snobbiest, filthiest, slimiest, rudest and awful people you'd ever meet. He had said, ever since the news of a possible new Dark Lord, that his parents would support them, and he probably was correct in his theory. And I thought I had it bad...(A/N: Yeah, I know that in OOTP Sirius said his parent's didn't really support Voldemort but I decided to change that a little for interest.)

"Sirius, I'm sorry!" I apologized, moving to sit on his lap. I sat playing with his hair while he sat silently, his face uncomprehendable. (A/N: Sorry for spelling mistakes, but my dad took off microsoft word's spell check.)

"We've got to go out there." Sirius spoke somberly, looking from James to Remus. Peter had stayed in the dorm as soon as our "meeting" was over, and we hadn't seen him since.

"Yeah, Padfoot, we do." James agreed, thinking hard.

"I'm in." Arabella Figg told them, approaching us. She was two years ahead of us, in her 7th year, but we knew her pretty well. We looked up to her greatly and trusted her completely, she had made it known to the school how outspoken she was against Voldemort already.

"Alright" Remus agreed, nodding his head. Upon hearing us, a cluster of sixth years came up to us.

"We want to come as well" They announced, their faces set and we knew they couldn't be convinced otherwise.

"Okay. Besides us there aren't going to be anyone under 6th year. We can't put the younger ones in danger." Sirius said, looking around for approval. Seeing the nods of the others, he continued. "Everyone, get your wands and lets meet...in the 6th year boy dormitory in exactly ten minutes. Don't say a word to anyone else." He grabbed my hand and dragged me up the stairs ahead of everyone else.

"Sirius, whats the matter?" I asked, concerned. He was acting, very, well, serious.

"Noel...this isn't some drill, it's the real damn thing. You can't come with us."

"Oh yes I most certainly can. You can't stop me."

"Noel, I—love you." He confessed, staring at the floor.

"Aww, Sirius, I love you too. But that doesn't mean I'm not going out and fighting beside you." I told him, wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. We stood there for a moment, realizing we had both confessed we were truly in love.

"Guys? You coming?" James asked, stepping into the room and looking at us with a funny expression on his face, before laughing slightly. "You two are bloody insane. It wasn't even a week ago that Sirius was practically stalking you and the only thing you wanted to do was make him suffer, Noel. And now you're cuddling."

"Things can change in a second." I told him, before following him out of the room and up another flight of stairs to the 6th year dormitory. Sirius grabbed my hand as we stepped into the room and squeezed it tightly, making me think that everything would be okay.

"Okay, heres the plan. We'll split up into groups of two, and sneak out into the school in those pairs. If anyone gets hurt, you'll send red sparks into the air if possible, and if you need back up, shoot green. Got it?" James commanded, looking around the room. "Now get into your pairs and then we'll be off." He headed towards Remus, not even bothering to ask Lily for fear I being rejected in something as important as this, I supposed. Lily, however, grabbed him by the hand and pulled him down the stairs. His grin was wide across his face, even with the situation. Remus didn't seem to mind his potential partner being taken, however, because Lindsey soon came up to him and they were off. Beth had already left with sixth year Jeremy Prewett, and soon the room was desolate.

"Okay, go!" Sirius whispered, and we slipped out of the common room. We were the last pair to leave, and so we were the last people to use the Invisibility cloak, which really helped since we'd have it if we needed it. Each pair would use the cloak, and once out would stuff it back in. We got a few 2nd years to cause a scene so all attention was diverted from us, luckily.

"Where to?" I asked him, my voice low. I could hear screams and muffled spell incantaions from somewhere below me. My legs suddenly felt weak and Sirius grabbed me, keeping me from falling to the floor.

"Noel, you can go back. You don't have to do this."

"Yes, Siri', I do. Lets go. I think they're in the Great Hall now."

"If you're sure. Lets go."

Our trip to the Great Hall went smoothly, we ran into James and Lily who came with us down the final staircase. Lily and I exchanged nervous looks before pushing through the hall doors with the boys.

"Sirius...I can't do this." I whispered to him, tears forming in my eyes.

"Huh?" He asked, not able to hear me over all the chaos in the hall. We scooted along the hall, undected. We hadn't planned for this, actually getting into the fight.

"Sirius..." I breathed, but he didn't hear me again. My father had spotted us amongst the chaos somehow and was heading our way while repelling spells.

"What are you four doing out here? Did you not hear the announcement?" He scolded, his face angry but worried.

"Dad...wheres mum?" I asked him, looking around the Great Hall and not finding my Mum who was usually very easy to spot. Before he could respond there was an enormus explosion from the center of the hall and everything went silent. The fog that was spreading in the room was so thick I couldn't even see Sirius, who moments before was directly behind me.

"Sirius?" I called into the fog, not bothering to keep my voice down. My stomach was forming into knots, I just couldn't shake the feeling that something very, very bad was happening. I felt a cool, thin hand grab mine and pull me through out the mayhem. I heard the unmistakable creaking of the Great Hall door being open and once again I could see.

I was struggling to release myself from the person's grasp, but they were too strong.

"Malfoy?" I stuttered, seeing the boy in front of me. .

"Lets go." He ordered, yanking me up the stairs. My eyes traveled to a silver ring he had on his finger that contrasted deeply with the emerald on his middle finger.

"What the bloody hell are you doing?" I screamed, trying to get loose. A thought came to my mind, as I was strongly reminded of a time that Sirius had gotten Lily mad and she threated to kick his family jewels. That was it! I brought myself close to him, causing him to halt on the staircase. He pulled his face towards mine, and before he knew what happened I had kneed in the "jewels" and taken off as he released my arm.

I fled up the staircase to the common room, not bothering to stop for breath. The portrait was slightly ajar as Sirius and I had left it, and I yanked it open and climbed in so fast I almost fell on my face. I heard the pounding of my sneakers against the cold stone of the dormitory steps as I raced to the boy's dormitory. Peter was standing in the middle of the 6th year dormitory, a scary grin on his face. I stopped dead. Something was wrong.

Okay, this is my least favorite chapter. As you can probably tell I'm really bad at writing fight scenes, lol. Well, please r&r!!