I personally don't like this chapter. If you agree with me, tell me and I'll be sure to change it. This chapter, if you would like to know, is named after the Muse song "Our Time is Running Out". I'm almost positive that's the group and title, but not 100 sure. More like 75.

Ch. 6 "Time is Running Out"

"Lily! God dammit, Lily wake up!" Sara screamed. Lily just yawned and turned over. Sara threw her head back and groaned. "Why me," she whined to the ceiling. She looked back down at Lily and watched her tun over so she was lying on her stomach. Sara walked up to Lily, stood on her butt and balanced herself. She stood there for a full three seconds before Lily noticed. She flipped over quickly and Sara was now standing on her stomach.

"Ah!" Lily cried out and pushed Sara off. Lily sat up and held her stomach. "Sara," she groaned. Sara got up from the ground and rubbed her leg. "You really are strong when you're half-asleep, did you know that?"

"Sara," Lily groaned again.

"What, are you dying?" Sara asked as she walked over to Lily. "I'm sorry, I wasn't suppose to wind up on your stomach,"

"Wait a minute," Lily muttered. She screamed loudly and paused. "Okay, I'm good," she said and she stood up. "Why were you standing on my stomach?"

"Like I said, I wasn't suppose to end up there. You really need to get ready, by the way. We need to leave like, NOW."

Lily gasped. "No we don't."

"Uh, yeah we do."

Lily gasped again, grabbed her toothbrush and raced into the bathroom. "Why didn't you wake me up sooner?" she screeched. "We're going to miss the train!"

"Hey, don't you go blaming me. I tried to wake you up."

"You know that you could have woken me up sooner if you had to," Lily called from the bathroom.

"Yeah, I know. Hey, Lily?"

"What."

"We actually have about two hours before we have to go." Sara heard the water stop suddenly and a confused Lily Evans walked out of the bathroom. "You mean you woke me up an hour early and scared me half to death about missing the train that we couldn't miss even if we tried?"

"That sounds about right, yes."

Lily blinked. "If I wasn't so tired right now I would be really pissed, just so you know."

"Oh, I know."

"Good," Lily said as she walked slowly back into the bathroom. "Hey, 'Ara?" Sara heard Lily call. "Lily, I can barely understand you, so you might want to repeat that," Sara told her. Lily walked back into Sara's room and took out the toothbrush she had in her mouth. "You know what I was thinking about?" she asked.

"Uh, no. What?"

Lily stuck the toothbrush back in her mouth. "Ah was tinking 'bout you Sirius."

Sara smiled. "Ah, yes, I now know exactly what you just said. But just as a precaution, can you say all that again but without the toothbrush?"

Lily held up one finger and walked back into the bathroom. Sara heard Lily gargle water, spit, and repeat. Lily walked back out of the bathroom carrying her toothbrush and a towel. She put away her toothbrush and wiped her mouth off with the towel. "I was thinking about you and Sirius and that letter he sent you," she said.

Sara's smile shrank. "Well what about it?"

Lily shrugged and sat down beside Sara. "I was just wondering why he sent it. And if you would have told me if I had never found it."

Sara hesitated and nodded her head. "Of course I would have told you. I just forgot about it. See, he sent it to me about a month ago about how he was planning on running away. That's why I forgot about it."

Lily gasped. "He was going to run away? But why?"

"Well," Sara started. "I don't know if you know this, but Sirius doesn't exactly have a very loving family. He did run away, and he's now staying with James Potter and his family. And before you ask about why he sent it, I started talking to Sirius last year, and we became . . . close. Closer, I should say, and he wanted to let me know. Does that answer pretty much everything?"

"I guess so," Lily shrugged. She got up and placed the towel back in the bathroom and walked back out. "I guess I never thought of that possibility before. And I never knew why he hated his brother so much. I just thought it was like me and Petunia."

"It kind of is. The only difference is that his brother is a whiny, slimy, disgusting, filthy, lying, stuck-up, nauseating, spoiled, rude mother -"

Lily placed a hand over Sara's mouth. "I think we get the point."

Sara moved Lily's hand. "Come on, we have to get ready to leave and we just wasted like, five minutes."

"Oh, the horror," Lily teased. "Wait, I thought we had like two hours."

"Well, it's more like eleven minutes, but you can look at it either way," Sara said calmly.

Lily stared at Sara, then laughed. "Sure we do, Sara," she said sarcastically.

"Oh, I'm serious. That's why I'm already ready."

Lily kept staring at Sara. "You're serious, aren't you?" Sara nodded. Lily blinked. "Let me see a clock," she muttered. Sara showed her the clock on her dresser and Lily's eyes widened. "Holy shit, you're right!" she screamed. "What the hell is wrong with you? You could have told me the truth the first time, you turd." Sara laughed as she watched Lily race to her trunk and pull clothes out anxiously. "What time is it?" she asked frantically.

Sara checked the time again. "We have between five to three minutes until we have to leave."

"Well I guess I'll have to skip the shower," she growled.

"I guess so," Sara chuckled. "Oh, so you think this is amusing?" Lily asked fiercely. Sara nodded her head and giggled. "Hilarious," she said.

Lily pulled on her socks and grabbed the brush. She quickly brushed her hair, threw it up in a messy ponytail, grabbed her glasses and dragged Sara out the door. "Did you eat breakfast already?"

"Mm hmm. But I don't think you have enough time, since we have to go like, now."

"I hate you!" Lily called over her shoulder as she raced out the door. "Love you, too," Sara yelled back. "Come on, Mum we have to go!" Sara yelled up the stairs. She too ran out of the door, then she stopped dead in her tracks. "Oh my God, Lily, our trunks!" she said suddenly.

Lily stuck her head out the window. "Well go and get them!" she yelled back. Lily's still mad, Sara thought as she ran back to her room and grabbed the two trunks. She pulled the trunks with all her might about two feet closer to the door. "Oh yeah, I can do this," she muttered. "Bullshit." She took out her wand, levitated the bags and ran down the stairs. "I got 'em!" she called as she stuffed the bags in the trunk of the car. She slid into the backseat next to Lily. "Let's go," she said to her mother.

As she pulled out of the driveway, her mother looked into the rearview mirror and said, "You two girls are lucky if you make it with even one minute to spare."

"Yeah, and I wonder whose fault that is," Lily murmured under her breath. Sara snorted and responded, "Not mine."

Once they got to the station, Sara and Lily hastily got their trunks and hurried to Platform 9 ¾. They ran through the barrier, and got onto the train. Lily breathed a sigh of relief. "You know, if we had somehow missed the train . . ."

"You would have killed me," finished Sara. Lily smiled. "Exactly."

Sara laughed. "Well then, since we didn't miss it, I guess I could be considered a saint."

Lily opened her mouth to respond, but was interrupted by a flying pig that flew crookedly down the aisle and landed on top of her head. "What the hell!" Lily screamed. She heard laughing and looked up and saw Sirius Black laughing so hard he was using the wall for support. "I – you . . . HA!" he sputtered and burst out laughing, even harder than he was a minute ago.

Sara pulled the pig off of Lily's head and threw it at Sirius. He stopped laughing and rubbed his head where the pig had hit him. "Hey, what was that for?"

"Um, I don't know. I know it's not for the flying pig that nearly beaned Lily in the head," she said with a smile playing on her lips. "Right," Sirius said smoothly as he stood up. "Uh, I'll see you later, Williams."

"Right back at you, Black."

Sirius flashed a charming lopsided smile and disappeared into a compartment. Sara was smiling and kept staring at the spot where Sirius just stood. Lily swiveled around and looked Sara in the eye. "You were just flirting with Sirius Black," she informed her.

Sara's smile widened. "I know."

"He's just going to end up hurting you."

Sara stood up straight. "Not if I have a say in it." Lily smiled. "Good. Come on, let's go find a compartment." She walked up to one and looked through the glass. "This one's full."

Sara checked the next compartment. "So is this one."

"And this one."

"Same with this one."

"This one's packed."

"This one isn't, but I don't like her."

"No room anywhere in this one."

"I've never even seen any of these people."

"Is there a free compartment anywhere?" Lily complained.

Sara smiled and opened the door to the last one. "This one has room." Lily peered into the compartment and saw Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, James Potter, and a girl Lily vaguely knew who's name was Tanya Huggins all staring at her.

Okay, I just have a couple comments to a few people, if I forgot you, I am really sorry, it's just that I literally only have about a minute to do this. If I forgot you, tell me and I'll be sure to include you next time. I just want to say that I love all my reviewers, I am getting so many, many more than I expected. Love ya guys.

Lady Cantara: yes! you are once again first! woo hoo. anyway, i promise you that lily will NOT be preppish. that pretty much ruins the whole point of the story, don't you think?

The all mighty and powerfulM: i don't know if you know this, but your review was "d". it's okay, though. you know about me and you actually reviewed. yay!!!

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hikaru: I REMEMBER YOU!! thank you for reviewing the seventh year. i guess you want an explination now, huh? okay, it was fun writing it at first, then i hated it, i didn't like where it was going, i didn't really care about what i was putting in the chapters, so none of it maked sense. was it really good? i thought it was poorly written and had a terrible plot, but that's just me, and i don't think i'll be publishing it again. SORRY IF YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED!!!!