A.N. / And here's the next chapter, once again. Hope you've liked the last few chapters. I'm finally getting the internet installed at my house, so updates should come faster. But don't hold me to that. My husband is in port and my friend from my hometown has been in visiting. She'll be leaving soon. So here's the new chapter. Read, Review, and Enjoy!

Chapter 24

Sirius had gotten Lily and James back to Gryffindor Common Room safe and all their friends were thankful for this. Lily and James hung out with Sirius, Remus, Gabriella, and Cassidy the rest of that night. Peter was still avoiding everyone after Cassidy had once again told him off and he felt embarrassed. Alice hadn't really been talking to the girls that much either, and the girls didn't know if it was because Alice thought she was better then the rest of them or sorry that she and Frank had sat at a table with Ludo and Amos. Cassidy thought it was most likely the first option, but then again Cassidy had been in a real grumpy mood especially when the names Peter or Alice came up. The rest of the weekend had been uneventful. But, Monday was when some trouble began to come up again.

Lily had just walked into the Great Hall with Cassidy, they'd woken up late and their boyfriends were so hungry that they forgot to wait for their girlfriends to come down for breakfast. Cassidy was a little pissed off at Sirius and didn't really talk to him until lunch. But what happen that morning at breakfast is where we start.

Lily sat down beside James and he leaned over to give her a peck on the lips. "Good morning sunshine," he then whispered in her ear.

"Morning," she smiled at him and then began to place food on the plate in front of her.

There was a rush of wind and feathers and somewhere Lily heard Sirius's voice say, "Mail's here."

Sirius got a letter from a very mean looking owl and he groaned, "Great what the hell do they want with me? They haven't talked to me since I moved in with James and his family."

"So you actually moved in with the Potters? I thought you just stayed the whole summer there," Cassidy said eating some scrambled eggs.

"Before we left for Hogwarts, Mr. and Mrs. P talked to James and me. They told me that if I wanted I could live there during holidays and all that…as I practically live there. But they made me swear that I call them Harold and Grace instead of Mr. and Mrs. P. Grace and Harold told me I could live there as long as I needed, but James and I assured them that wouldn't be necessary because after we graduate from Hogwarts James and I are getting a bad ass bachelor pad. The Potters are more like my family than my real family."

"Really?" Cassidy asked, James nodded, and Sirius went on.

"Hell yeah. James and I lived a block a part, we met when we were little at the park down the road. We'd play everyday, my parents didn't care whether I had a friend or not just as long as I got out of the house. So everyday I'd tell them I'd go to the park, but instead I'd hang out with James at his house. And on holidays I'd sneak out from my folks house and end up over at the Potters. Their good people, they've really taken me in."

"So what do you biological parents want?" James said eating some toast.

"Don't know haven't read it yet."

"Maybe you should read it," Lily offered.

Sirius smiled at her, "That's why you're the one with the brains over here." He began to open the letter and read it, but by the end of the letter he looked utterly depressed.

"What's the matter Sirius?" Cassidy asked her boyfriend.

"Auntie Ethel died, the funeral is in two days and I need to ask Dumbledore if I can go to the damned funeral."

"You don't sound too thrilled about going," Lily said.

"Who's ever pleased about going to a funeral, I wasn't even close to this old hag. She hated my guts and it got worse when I was sorted into Gryffindor instead of the usual Slytherin, where everyone was suppose to go. She doesn't like my cousin Nymphadora."

"The girl in Ravenclaw that likes to change her hair color every day?" Cassidy questioned.

"Yeah."

"She's a few years younger than us isn't she?" Lily asked.

Sirius nodded again, "Her and her mother are the only people in our entire family that I actually get along with."

"So you're going to the funeral?"

"I don't know yet, Cass. I need to go talk to my cousin."

"Which one?" James asked, "You've got three here."

Sirius looked at James dumbfounded, "Nymphadora. Why in the hell would I go talk to Bellatrix or Narcissa? I hate both of those dumb bitches. Their both Slytherins and their both dating the biggest Slytherin slime."

"Yeah," Lily helped out. "Lestrange and Malfoy."

Sirius got up and walked over to the Ravenclaw table to talk to a long purple haired girl.

"You think it alright for Sirius to go to this funeral and see all his family, I mean we all know they hate him…well except for her and her mother." Cassidy asked.

"I don't know," James shrugged. "But it doesn't matter what we think. It's all up to Sirius, and you know him once he's got his mind made up, he's not going to change it."

"Isn't that the truth," Cassidy sighed.

November came in cold and harsh on the students skin, and everywhere you turned they were all huddled up in bundles of clothes. If anyone hated the winter up here it was Lily Evans, it was always so much colder here than it was back home in Surrey. As much as she loved Hogwarts, she missed home terribly. If the winter was bugging anyone it wasn't as much as it bugged Lily. They had a little over a month before Christmas Holidays, and she was so excited. She'd be going home, and she didn't know if she'd see James during the holidays or not. Usually Cassidy came to stay a few days during the holidays when her parents went to America to celebrate the New Year, but she didn't know if that would happen this year. Cassidy had a boyfriend now, and she was stuck to him like Lily was stuck to James.

It had been a few weeks since Sirius's Auntie Ethel's funeral, and by the way he was talking it was too miserable to ever go see those people again. Sirius ended up leaving with Nymphadora and her mother just ten minutes after the funeral. Everyone hated Nymphadora because she was a halfblood, and her mother because she was a blood traitor by marrying and having a child with a Muggle. They all hated Sirius because he was in Gryffindor and was hanging out with people like the Potters, the Wizarding World Saints.

Sirius was proud to be friends with James and to be living with Grace and Harold. Harold was worldly know for being one of the best Aurors in his time, and everyone said he was the best Auror in England. Grace was a very good Healer and she was known for saving many lives in her time. Then James, well everyone expected great things out of him. Sirius didn't really see James as a best friend anymore but as a brother, and this is what the Black family hated the most.

Prefect meetings were getting worse and worse after every meeting, Amos was becoming a hassle and if he didn't back off and leave her the hell alone he might end up in St. Mungo's compliments of Lily Evans. Remus of course helped defend Lily as much as he could during the Prefect meetings, and she was thankful of that, Remus had been a really good friend to her. Lily was very happy, all of her friends had fallen for really good men and hopefully it would stay like this and never change.

Paris and Heather had become more of a nuisance since three of the roommates were now girlfriends of the Marauder's, the dreams that Paris and Heather had always had. Although Paris and Heather were dating Amos Diggory and Ludo Bagman. It was true that half the school was in love with a Marauder, Frank Longbottom, Amos Diggory, or Ludo Bagman. But everyone knew that the Marauder's were more popular than the three Ravenclaw boys, and that's what got Paris and Heather's blood pumping. Yes petty stuff like popularity, on who's boyfriend was more know and wanted then the other. Which Lily, Gabriella, and Cassidy just ignored the two sluts that they shared a room with. Burly November came and went faster before any of them could hang on for the ride. Little did they know as December began to come in the plans that were being made by the Dark Lord himself.

In a distant land…

"Seer!" Voldemort hissed slamming his hand down onto the table in anger, and his Seer appeared out of no where.

"Master, you rang?" She said with boredom in her voice, but he was to angry to notice it at the time.

"Potter and the Mudblood have been together almost two months now, I thought you said I'd get rid of them."

"Yes master, and we go over and over this every time. You shall get rid of them, but not anytime soon."

"It's not good enough, we need to get a spy in the Gryffindor House, some one who knows what goes around them. But from what Lucius has told me, Potter and his friends are too close…same thing with the Mudblood and all her friends."

"No, no master. There is one that you might be able to convince to become a spy for you, but it will be tricky and you'll have to really persuade him. He won't do anything unless he gets something out of it."

"What house is this boy from?"

"Gryffindor, same dormitory." The Seer smiled, she knew her master would be happy with her.

"You don't say," putting his hands together his snake like smile became creepy and his red eyes glowed. "But how close is this person we are talking about to Potter and the Mudblood."

The Seer's lip curled up, she knew this would really make her master happy, "Close, very close. One of Potter's three best friends, very close to Potter and the Mudblood."

"Interesting, very interesting. Owl Lucius immediately, and tell him next Hogsmede trip he is to apparate to the lair."

The Seer nodded and left the room to let her master think about how much everything was coming together.

Voldemort sat alone petting his snake over and over again, knowing how perfect this was going. The Seer had seen Potter and the Mudblood conquering over him, but now was the proof that they wouldn't that Lord Voldemort would concur over them as he did so many others. Nothing could go wrong in his mind…

Oh how very wrong he was and how wrong his Seer was. The Seer hadn't seen everything in this vision. Yes, in the end Lord Voldemort would concur over Lily and James, but the Seer never mentioned the child she saw in the vision…and she never was able to finish the vision.

Lord Voldemort would eventually kill Lily and James in cold murder, years later from now. What Lord Voldemort didn't know was that their little boy, Harry Potter, would be the end to Lord Voldemort for fourteen years.

In the Sixth Year Girls' Dormitory…

"I can't believe Christmas is just down the road!" Gabriella squealed, Christmas had always been Gabriella's favorite holiday. "Mama said that all my family is coming in…we haven't seen one another in so long!"

"I thought you had magic in your family?" Cassidy asked.

"I do," Gabriella shook her head yes. "But they all live in Spain, and attend other schools."

"Oh," Cassidy said shaking her head, letting Gabriella she understood. "What about Remus, are you going to see him any this holiday?"

"I don't know," Gabby sighed. "We get two weeks off, and the first week he has a problem."

Cassidy looked confused, but Lily perfectly understood. The first week of vacation was the Full Moon. Cassidy must not have known. Lily was happy that Remus had gotten up the guts to tell Gabriella…but then again he could have told her and she flip out and he give her a memory charm. But, it was obvious now that she had been fine with it.

"What kind of problem?" Cassidy questioned.

"Oh," Gabby looked at Cassidy funny. "You must honestly know.

"Know what?"

"I need to go take a shower," Gabriella used as an excuse to get away from this topic. If Cassidy hadn't found out on her own Gabriella knew she couldn't just tell Cassidy, this was Remus's secret not Gabby's to tell. It seemed as if Lily knew, but Gabriella figured that Lily knew. Not because Lily was dating James, but because Lily was so smart and Lily would find something like that out in like first year. Now Alice…Gabriella knew she could never tell Alice. Alice would flip out and completely disown Remus as a friend…and most likely disown Gabriella for falling in love with a Werewolf. Remus couldn't help what he was, it had been an accident when got bitten as a small child…how was he to know that that forest had been infected with tons of Werewolves?

Speaking of Alice, all of the girls had noticed Alice had been pulling slowly farther and father back from their group. She was now with Frank nonstop, and it seemed as if it didn't faze him that his friends were on Gabriella's cheating ex-fiancée, and Amos had tried to rape Lily…and it looked as if Alice had looked over this too. Making Cassidy more angry with Alice then she'd ever been, yes the dance had really changed things up a lot…and not just with friendships in Gryffindor Tower.

There were more wards put on Hogwarts after the wall crashing in the Great Hall. Students weren't allowed out on the grounds after seven p.m., Hogsmede trips were going to be a little difficult…Lily had remembered the last part from the last Prefect meeting.

The students were to go to the Post Office every hour and a half after they left the castle to check in that they'd been there. Seemed like there was no point in going, and the only reason Lily was going for the short amount of time that she was, was because she needed to get some Christmas presents. Lily had to get presents for James, Cassidy, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Gabriella, Alice, her mum, her dad, and she knew she need to Floo to the Leaky Cauldron and walk into muggle London to get Petunia something…even though Lily didn't really want to get Petunia anything.

"Lily?" A very familiar voice shook her back to reality and he leaned down and kissed her lightly on her forehead. "Where were you? Looked like you were staring off into your own little world."

"Yeah," she sighed grabbing his hand and he sat down beside her, then putting his arm around her waist and pulling her close to him. Lily went on, "A lot of things on my mind."

"Figured that."

"Christmas is always a big thing at my house with my family, and it will be really weird this year. Grandma Rose won't be there, and I won't have you around. We've been inseparable since we got back from Hogwarts…I'm really going to miss you James."

"I'll miss you too, my Lily Flower. But we won't be apart the whole vacation, but we won't be together the entire time."

"So when will we exchange presents?" Lily questioned.

"How about Christmas Eve? We always have dinner with the entire family and mum said she'd like you to come to our Christmas Eve dinner, and there's also a New Years Eve party at the ballroom at the Potter Mansion. Mum told me to invite your entire family."

"Yeah I can come for Christmas Eve and most likely New Years Eve too. Mum and Dad are throwing a New Years Eve party too, so they won't be able to come. Petunia won't come at all."

"I don't want her to come," James said scrunching up his nose.

"Good. She'll probably be shagging Vernon and getting pregnant."

"Yuck Lils!" James groaned, "I really don't want to hear that or imagine it."

Lily giggled, "I never told you to imagine it."

"I think Mum and Dad will be fine with me going to have dinner with your family, but they'll most likely want you to come eat dinner with us too."

"How about December twenty-sixth?" James offered.

"Sure, I'll owl Mum and tell her about Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, and then tell her that you said you come eat dinner with us on the day after Christmas. Okay?"

"Sure."

Lily got up and started walking towards the Girls Dormitories, but James's voice stopped her. "Hurry up so we can start studying for our Herbology exam, okay love?"

"Okay," Lily said running up to her room to owl her mum real quick. All their semester exams were next week and the train left on Friday to bring them for the holidays.

But when Lily got downstairs from sending a letter to her mum through Owl Post, James was gone. Lily looked all over the Common Room and went and checked all the rooms in the Boys' Dormitories…it was as if James had just disappeared.

Two hours later Cassidy and Sirius walked into the Common Room to find Lily studying their Herbology exam alone. Cassidy and Sirius had been visiting Hagrid at his hut, they'd had tea with him and had lots of his food in their pockets. Lily too had witnessed how horrible Hagrid's cooking was, but none of them had ever had the heart to reject Hagrid's food. When Hagrid wasn't looking they'd stuff it in their pocket and never act like anything unusual happened.

"Where's Jamie?" Sirius said looking around the Common Room, "Don't tell me you two got in a fight!"

"No we didn't," Lily sighed. "I think he might be mad at me."

"Why would he be mad at you?" Cassidy questioned, "I thought the two of you were suppose to be studying Herbology together not just you. He obviously bailed on you."

"Babe," Sirius warned. "James cares for Lily too much, he wouldn't just get up and leave. True he has dumped a lot of girls no question asked before, but he's been in love with Lily since…forever! He wouldn't mess this up!"

Cassidy rolled her eyes, "Well I'm just looking out for my friend."

"And I'm looking out for both of my friends, you always seem to twist stuff. The same thing about the whole Alice ordeal."

"Ordeal?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, Cass has this idea that Alice is picking Frank over the rest of you guys…that's why she's also been hanging out with Ludo and Amos."

"I don't really care anymore," Lily said shrugging.

Cassidy looked around and frowned. "Where's Gabby and Remus?"

"Snuck off to Hogsmede."

"Why?" Cassidy questioned. "We only finished lessons three hours ago and we get to go to Hogsmede tomorrow!"

"Hey! If Moony hadn't gotten the map and the cloak tonight we would have gone to Hogsmede."

"And why is that."

"I'm craving Butterbeer really bad," Sirius whined.

"Your getting symptoms of a pregnant woman," Cassidy commented.

"Yeah and you've got the raging hormones of one." As Cassidy and Sirius sat there dogging each other about one another, when everyone in school knew these two were mad for one another, defiantly a match made in Heaven; Lily noticed an owl pecking at a window in the Common Room. While snuck away from the lovebirds to let the owl in and let if fly to whom ever it was sent for, but the bird stopped at her. She didn't recognize this bird, but she took the letter and it in fact had her name on it. Lily opened it, and gasped:

Lily,

There's a problem, your mother and father contacted me just an hour ago. Then minutes after I was done talking to them and putting up more wards on their home James showed up in my office, there has been some bad news to his family. Please accompany Mr. Potter and me in my office. Please find Miss Potter also, we believe Sarah needs to be around and find this. Thank you for your time.

Professor Dumbledore

Lily ran up to Sirius, "Where's Sarah?"

"What? Why?"

"I need to find Sarah, now."

"She was practicing flying on James's broom on the Quidditch field," Cassidy said. "Why? What's going on?"

"I'll have to explain later!" Lily said running out of the Common Room and not saying another word to her two friends.

"Geez, she's starting to inhabit James's habit of not explaining a damn thing." Sirius commented.

"No she hasn't," Cassidy said shaking her head and disagreeing with Sirius. "Lily always explains everything, except in a time of emergency. And if I picked up all the clues she gave us by the way she was acting…I'd say something bad has happened to the Potter family."

"Don't say that!" Sirius hissed, "Their like my family…no let me change it, they are my only family."

"Sirius, honey, I know that. But the fact that James was suppose to study with Lily and then he was gone. When we came in Lily had no clue where James had gone, and after we get in an owl comes in looking for her and she reads a letter that gets her all upset. Lily then approaches us and asks us where Sarah Potter is. Yes Sirius, as much as I hate to say this, because I love the Potter family too…but something has gone wrong…defiantly wrong.

Lily ran as fast as she could through the school and out on Hogwarts grounds until she made it to the Quidditch Pitch. Where in fact Lily Evans did find Sarah Potter, practicing Quidditch.

"SARAH! SARAH!" Lily yelled over and over. After a few times Sarah heard her and flew towards the ground.

"Lily!" Sarah said with a smile and hugged her brother's girlfriend instantly after she'd landed on the ground. "Hey Lily!" The Sarah saw the look of urgency on Lily's face, "Hey don't worry, James said I could borrow his broom…you know after mine broke the other day when we played Hufflepuff. Mum and Dad said I could get a new one for Christmas."

"That's not why I'm down here."

"Okay?" Sarah had a questioning tone, "Then why are you down here?"

"Read this," Lily said stuffing the letter she'd just received minutes ago in Sarah's hand. Sarah's face began to turn from happy to concered as she read more and more into it.

After Sarah was done reading she handed it to Lily and looked as concered as Lily did, "When did you receive this?"

"About five minutes ago."

"Do you know where Professor Dumbledore's Office is?" Sarah asked Lily.

"Of course, this is my second year as a Prefect."

"Well let's go and see what's going on!" Sarah said and the girls headed off towards Professor Dumbledore's office to see what on Earth was going on.