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A/N: Oh, I've been reading some of my chapters and I realised that I translated some words directly from Portugese, so if I say something that doesn't make too much sense, it's translated! Sorry.
Chapter 20- Sisters and Training
Lily woke up with her mother banging on her door excitedly. She groaned and opened the door.
"So, dear, how was Alex's wedding? I hope it was a success, she deserve's it. Where are they going to again?"
"Mum, the wedding was great. And I have some news for you."
"Yes?"
"James proposed! It was so romantic, he asked Alex to put a note inside her bouquet and when she threw it I caught it and inside it was this note, which asked me if I wanted to marry him! Look at the ring he gave me, isn't it beautiful?" Lily said excitedly.
"Oh, Lily, congratulation! Nathan, James proposed to Lily!"
"What, Marisa?"
"Yesterday, your future son-in-law proposed to Lily!"
"Ah, I suppose I'll have to talk to this young man."
"You'll love him, Father. He's great!"
"How about we have tea today with his family?" Marisa suggested.
"Mum, his parents are dead."
"Dead? Oh, poor boy. Well, invite him for tea today, okay?"
"Yes, Mum, I'll go owl him."
As soon as Lily entered her room, Petunia appeared. She'd been living in a flat at London for an year already and she rarely visited the family since Lily was back from Hogwarts.
"Mum? Dad? It's Petunia!" Petunia shouted from the living room. Lily heard her and froze momentarily. She shook her head as she heard her parents greeting Petunia and sent her brief note to James.
"Lily, darling, come here to speak to your sister!" Marisa called.
"Yes, Mum." Lily went to the living room and muttered a hello to Petunia, who merely sneered at her.
"Lily, Petunia's fiancee, Vernon Dursley, you haven't met him yet, has invited us to meet his family tomorrow for dinner. You don't mind going do you?" Nathan asked.
"Not at all. Ah, here is James's reply. He says he'd be delighted to have tea with us."
"Excellent! Petunia, James proposed to Lily yesterday, and he's going to meet us today for tea."
"Congratulations, Lily," Petunia said, smiling. Her smile didn't reach her eyes, which were icy.
"Thanks Petunia."
"Mum, I have to go now. And I probably won't make it for tea today, so..."
"Petunia Elizabeth Evans, you are coming to the tea today. You and Lily have had your differences, but you are sisters, and today is an important day for Lily. Not to mention that tomorrow Lily will be going to dinner and I don't see her complaining and making excuses!" Nathan said.
"Yes, Father. I'm sorry." Petunia turned around and left the house.
A few hours later the Evans were seated, waiting for James. Lily was rather nervous since she was quite aware that Petunia would be at least rude. Finally a small pop was heard and James appeared. Lily smiled, and made the introductions.
"Well, James, how would you like your tea?" Marisa asked.
"Plain tea with just a little bit of sugar, please, Mrs. Evans. Thank you," James said, rather nervously. Lily giggled silently, she had never seen James nervous.
"Oh, dear, call me Marisa please. So, what do you do for a living?"
"Well, at the moment I don't do anything, because I'm going to start Auror training with Lily next month. But I inherited a rather big amount of money when my parents passed away."
"Ah, yes, I think Lily mentioned that to us."
And so on. Towards the end of the tea, after James had long since conquered Marisa Evans and gained Nathan Evans friendship, he recieved a note. His face was grim when he finished reading it and Lily asked him what happened.
"The Death Eater that killed Remus's uncle last year was caught. They're going to perform the kiss anytime now."
"The kiss?" Lily asked curiously.
"Yeah, the dementor's kiss. You know, dementors are the guards of the wizard prison, Azkaban. And they perform this thing in which they suck your soul. It's worse than death, because you're still alive, but you don't have a soul."
"Oh yes, I think Alex mentioned that once or twice to me."
"Anyway, Marisa, Nathan, I better get going. It was a pleasure to have tea with you. Thanks for inviting me over."
"Ah, James, the pleasure was ours. You're welcome to come here anytime you want," Marisa said, smiling broadly.
For the second night in a row, the Evans were all together. This time, however, they were making their way to the Dursley household, at Surrey. Lily was dreading the dinner like the devil dreads the cross, since she knew Petunia didn't have the best taste in men. Finally they arrived, and they were greeted by a fat girl with a hint of a mustach. Petunia threw her arms at the girl and they started babbling.
"Mum, Dad, this is Marge, Vernon's sister. Marge, this is Mum, Dad, and my sister, Lily." Marge glanced at Lily and sniffed. Lily merely ignored her.
"A pleasure to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Please come in." Marge lead them to the living room where three huge people were sitting. The youngest one, which Lily figured was Vernon, was an incredibly fat boy, with an incredibly small neck and he made Lily feel rather sick. The other two people smiled, and they seemed to be an older version of their two children.
"Veronica, George, these are my parents, Marisa and Nathan Evans. That is my sister, Lily," Petunia said. Marisa looked horrified with the Dursley's but tried her best to conceal her horror. Nathan didn't look very surprised, but he still wasn't too pleased.
The rest of the night went from bad to worse. Marisa was revolted with Veronica's cooking skills, or lack of it, and Nathan was revolted with George's political view. The Evans left the house as soon as possible and the ride back home was silent, for Petunia's sake. As soon as they dropped her off, they began criticizing the Dursleys.
A month later Lily met with Alex, Jake, Sirius, James, and Carrie at the Ministry of Magic. They were all nervous with their training, but knowing that they couldn't exactly do badly since they all excelled in DADA. After waiting a few minutes a short and old man appeared.
"Welcome everyone. I hope that in three years we're going to have a rather good group of Aurors. Ah, Miss Owens, Mr. Potter, your parents were excellent Aurors, I hope you're as good as they are."
"Actually, it's Mrs. Perry, now, Mr. Howe," Alex said politely, though she was smiling widely.
"Married so young? Anyway, straight to business, everyone pair up!"
Two months later, Lily found sitting in her room, recovering from the shock. She had just arrived from Petunia's wedding, and it had been ridiculous. Firstly, Petunia had bought banana yellow dresses for the bridesmaids. Then, during the reception, one of Vernon's various cousins tried to make a move on her, but Lily quickly stopped him by kicking him a little beneath the stomach, with high heels. Lastly, Lily discovered that Petunia had made her sit with Vernon's lunatic grandmother, who actually thought that Lily was Marge.
A loud crack interrupted Lily's thoughts. James appeared next to her bed and hugged Lily.
"Dumbledore wants to meet us over at my house. How was Petunia's wedding?"
"Awful. Too bad she didn't invite you, at least I would have had some fun."
"Well, you'll have enough fun during our wedding. Come on, let's go to my house."
"Now?"
"Yep. Leave your parents a note."
"Okay." Lily scribbled a note and disapparated with James to his house. She found Alex, Jake, Peter, Ellen, Esther, Remus, Sirius, and Carrie waiting for them. Dumbledore was sitting next to Alex.
"Hello Lily, how are you?" Dumbledore asked with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Not very well. My sisters wedding was horrible. But I'm sure you didn't come here to talk about Petunia."
"Yes, you're right. I came here to invite all of you to be part of the Order of the Phoenix."
"Be part of what?" Carrie asked.
"The Order of the Phoenix. We are group who fight Voldemort and his followers, although we fight in a more subtle way than the Aurors. The Ministry doesn't know about us and only few people who aren't part of the Order know about it. So, will you join us?"
"I will," Alex and Jake said in unison.
"Me too," James said.
"I will, Dumbledore," Lily said.
"Yeah, so will I!" Sirius said.
"A true Gryffindor would never refuse, therefore I will," Remus said.
"Me too," Peter said.
"I agree with Remus, so I'll join," Ellen said.
"Of course Dumbledore," Esther said.
"I will," Carrie said.
"Very well, I will inform you when our first meeting will be. Now if you wish, please sign this paper." Dumbledore handed them a piece of parchment covered in signatures. The group signed it, and Dumbledore bid them farewell.
"Before you guys go, I want to tell you something!" Alex said, smiling.
"What?" Carrie asked.
"I'm pregnant!" Everyone was quiet, except for Jake, who already knew. Then Lily snapped out of her reverie and hugged Alex tightly. The girls were all jumping up and down, screaming happily, while the guys just stared at them.
"Alex, will you quit being the first to do the things? Our girlfriends are starting to get jealous," Remus said.
"Well, if you guys actually did something instead of waiting for life to go by, then maybe they'd be first!" Alex said.
"When is it due?" Peter asked.
"Oh, sometime in the end of May and beginning of June."
"But what about Auror training, will you be able to do it while taking care of a baby?" Lily asked.
"Sure, that's the least of our problems. But enough talk about the baby, we have to talk about events that are getting closer each day. For instance, your wedding, Miss Evans."
"Yeah, it's already coming! It's going to be next month!"
"Everything is ready, though?" Ellen asked.
"Yeah."
The next day Lily found herself being pecked by an extremely angry owl. After Lily got the letter it was carrying, it huffed and left the house in a hurry. The letter said:
Dearest Lily,
Guess what? Giorgio proposed to Esther, Remus proposed to Ellen, and Sirius to me! We decided to have our weddings together, and Ellen s seeing if our church is available for New Years Day! I feel bad for Peter though, he's the only one of the group who still hasn't hooked up with someone. Perhaps we can ask Alex to present him to one of her cousins, eh? Ooh, gotta go, Mum is all over me about the wedding. Understandable, since I'm her only daughter, but still!
Kisses,
Carrie
Lily smiled, and apparated to James's house after she took a quick bath and grabbed a toast. She found James pretending to be asleep, and smirking a little, she snuggled next to him. James muttered something incoherent and put an arm over Lily, who giggled. He pulled her closer to him and opened his eyes.
"Good morning, sleeping beauty," Lily said, grinning widely.
"Good morning. I suppose you've heard?"
"About the proposals yesterday? Yep, Carrie sent me a letter. The owl she sent the letter with was annoyed for some reason and he wouldn't stop pecking."
"Aww, did he hurt you, Lilykins?"
"Yeah. But I think the pain would go away if you kissed me."
"You've spent too much time with me, Lils. But if you insist..." James started kissing Lily but was rudely interrupted by a voice in the hallway.
"Honestly, you two, get a room," Sirius said, smirking at them.
"We were using a room, but we were rudely interrupted," James said, standing up.
"Before you two start fighting, congratulations Sirius," Lily said as she went to the kitchen. "James, what would you like for breakfast?"
"How about 'Sirius what would you like for breakfast?" Sirius said.
"Padfoot, shut up. I would love pancakes, Lily dear," James said.
"Which reminds me, what do these stupid nicknames mean? I asked once in Hogwarts but you never answered me!"
"Oh, right..." Sirius said.
"Er..."
James Terence Potter, tell me right now what they mean."
"Okay! You know about Remus's condition don't you?"
"Yeah."
"So, when we discovered about it we knew we should do something to help him. So we decided to become Animagi."
"So Alex wasn't the only Animagus."
"No, she discovered and joined us. Anyway, I became a stag, Sirius became a dog, and Peter a rat. That's why we have these nicknames."
"Oh, now it makes sense. Prongs, Wormtail, and Padfoot. And of course, Moony. It's brilliant."
"Yeah, according to Moony we had a brilliant time at Hogwarts. At about the same time we became Animagi, we invented the Marauders Map," Sirius said.
"The Marauders Map? Oh that map thingy James used to carry around when we...er, I mean..."
"When you and James hid in broom closets to make out?" Sirius offered, smirking.
"Yes! I mean, no, no!" Lily was becoming increasingly red and James and Sirius were laughing their head off. "Oh shut up both of you! Your pancakes are ready!" Lily said.