Disclaimer: You know the drill, having seen it in many other fanfics... nothing belongs to me, except for a few characters and the plot; the rest belongs to JKR, one of the people who reviewed, or a singer/band that I decided to 'borrow' the music from. (Though the music factor will be decided on how brain dead I manage to get while writing this chapter.)

Thorns by Faerielights

Prologue She is Born

Right from the beginning they knew that she would accomplish great things. Even as a small babe she had done things that would make any normal person wonder. Once, when she was about 4 months old, she had been crying for food, but her mother, not being in the nursery as Lily had been laying down for her daily nap, was in the kitchen, baking cookies with Petunia. When Elizabeth Evans went upstairs to check on her daughter, she got a slight shock seeing as Lily was nestled in her crib with a half empty bottle laying nearby.

Just like her great (times 5) grandmother Aphrodite Dolores Jamison, Lily Marie Evans had the striking features that could make just about any guy fall in love with her instantaneously. The only exception to this would be her one true love. He would not be able to totally fall in love with her until her sixteenth birthday had passed. Together, with her one true love, they will complete a prophecy that had been foretold hundreds or maybe even thousands of years ago. The love of Lily's life (not very surprisingly, as we all know how the story goes) would have short, brown messy hair and chocolate brown eyes.

Although their families did not know it, Lily Evans and James Potter were destined for the completion of a well-known prophecy. And how could Lily's family know? The magic in their bloodlines had almost completely died out. Everyone in the magical world thought the prophecy to be pure rubbish, seeing as there was no dark lord, and even if there ever should be one, he could never be worse than Grindewald. Just the thought that two people defeating a non- existent dark lord was completely and utterly ridiculous.

Both children had been acquainted since an early age, but a move on the Potter's behalf stopped their friendship when James and Lily were about three. Even though they didn't see each other anymore, they kept in contact through letters up until the time they turned about ten. The flow of letters that passed between the two, just kind of slowed down until it had all but totally stopped.

A/N: done with the prologue... let me know what you think...