Lily managed to find all the information Tom said he would need and send it to him, but there was one she wanted to read to know what she would have to do, and that one was in the Restricted Section. After a moment of contemplation, she decided that she would ask Professor Peele if she could check out the book for a bit of "backround work". She would enact her plan as soon as possible and since she had Transfiguration as her first class, it would be no problem.

The class passed quickly and unexcitingly. They had to transfigure a pocket watch into a wristwatch, which Lily did fairly easy.

"Lily, please help Ms. Kiersted. It seems she is having a bit of problems." Professor Peele said.

"Yes, Ma'am." Lily said walking over to help her friend. By the end of class, Sarah had managed to transfigure her pocket watch into a reasonable wristwatch.

"Thanks, Lily." Sarah said.

"Sure. Hey, save me a seat next class please." Lily said. "I have to talk to the Professor."

"Sure." She said walking to the charms corridor.

"Professor?" Lily asked.

"Yes, Miss Evans?" Professor Peele lowering her spectacles.

"I was wondering if you would write me a note to check out a book on Animagi from the Restricted Section? I would like to do some background reading." Lily said.

Professor Peele smiled at her, "Of course, just give me a moment." She quickly penned Lily a note and handed it to her as the bell rang, "I guess you'll need another one, not to worry though, here you are." She finished, handing Lily both notes.

"Thank you, Professor!" Lily said.

"No problem, Lily." She said smiling. 'How can such a sweet girl hang around with such pranksters as Potter and Black? Well, I have a feeling they'll get more than just a sweet girl.' she thought to herself, "Yes, they'll get more than they bargained for."

That night, Lily went straight to the Library and got the book she needed. "Well, that's done. Now, for step two." Lily said to herself, then headed out towards an empty classroom. Walking up to a tall mirror she closed her eyes. Focusing all her thoughts on helping Tom find his book, she opened her eyes and saw what looked like a wall, except there was a hand, her hand, placed on a slate blue stone with a small notch being it's only blemish. Lily saw herself placing something on a silver chain into that one rock. Suddenly, the rock dematerialized and opened into a short but dark hallway leading under the school, but that was it, the Mirror went blank.

"Oh, great! Now I have to find one particular stone, on one particular wall, in one particular hallway, in this giant castle they call a school!" Lily said disappointed. "Well, I guess I should tell Riddle what I have found out." She added heading up to the Owlery.

T.R.

I have managed to get a hold of all the books you wanted, and to copy down what you thought you would need. I also have some more information on the Sred Nowsdl Row, but I'll need a little of your help.

L.E.

"Well, that's done. Now, lets look at this book." Lily muttered to herself, retreating to the Common Room. She plopped herself down on a couch in the empty common room. She was quiet content reading up on the process of becoming Animagus. "Geez, this looks like it could be hard," she muttered to herself.

"What could be hard?" Remus asked.

"Oh nothing." Lily sighed. She was glad that she could help Remus, but-had he told his friends?

"Mk, so, where have you be these past LONG days?" he asked.

"Just eloping with a Slytherin!" she said, her eyes glinting playfully.

"Oh, God! Please no!" he prayed.

Lily laughed, "I'm just kidding. That is the farthest thing from my mind. And the grossest!" she added shuddering.

 "Or so you think." Sirius said tugging on her hair from behind her.

"OH, no you don't, Black!" Lily said pulling her hair out of his grasp, only to find it was a light shade of blue. "SIRIUS! BLACK! WHAT! DID! YOU! DO?" Lily yelled.

"Me? I did nothing at all." Sirius said trying to look innocent.

"OH, so, you did nothing at all to turn my hair colors? Did you?" Lily had regained her coolness but lost none of her anger, which was worse for Sirius who was beginning to become terrified of this fierce tiger like human.

"Nope." No matter how scared Sirius was, he wouldn't let himself show it.

"Oh, so you believe that my hair just decided to become blue? You believe that some little devil's minion just popped up out of nowhere and muttered a few specific Latin words and waved a bit of wood and POOF! My hair was blue? No wait, you are a little minion of the devil!" Lily spat, her green eyes darkening, forming slits, and flashing dangerously, she was standing straight up and seemed to be getting taller, her red lips were pulled back to show her glistening white teeth, her hair was cascading down her shoulders like a wall of blue flames in the light of the fire giving her a radiating glow.

Now Sirius was beginning to get scared. "Lily, I'm sorry! I'll fix it! I'm sorry!" he almost whimpered.

"Oh, so I should just forgive you? Just like that, say, oh it's ok Sirius, you just damaged one of my most prized possessions, but that's ok? Is that what you want?" she said calmly, though her voice held so much anger that it was like ice to those around them.

"Please, Lily, I'm sorry, I'll fix it, I promise, I didn't mean to make you mad, it was just a harmless prank." Sirius said this so fast it all ran together.

"Black! Did I-" "Lily, stop, he's going to wet himself if you keep that up." Remus interrupted quietly.

"Remus!" she growled, "Stay out of this."

"Lily, he's right." James said, pulling Lily around to look at him.

"Potter!" she said, but when she looked into his clear blues eyes, something stopped her. "Fine. Black, get your sorry arse over here and change my hair back."  She said calmly, her voice starting to lose its edge.

"Yes, ma'am." Sirius quickly muttered the counter curse, "Lily, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have changed your hair."

"Sirius, I'm sorry I yelled at you. But, never ever mess with my hair again!" she added smiling.

"If and only if, you promise to never get mad at me again!" he said, "That was bloody scary!"

Sirius quickly changed her hair back to it's normal color and turned to sit on an evacuated chair, but before he could, Lily had grabbed his wrist and turned him around. "I promise, but if you EVER do anything like that again, I will personally seek revenge." She said before walking up to her dorm. Sirius shuddered at her tone, but noticed the playfulness in her eyes and smiled at her retreating back.

The next morning, Lily walked downstairs for breakfast just as if nothing had happened. She didn't seem to notice the people edging away from her in the Common Room or vacating seats when she sat down at the Gryffindor table. But she did notice that she was sitting alone, "Well, everyone is certainly friendly today." Lily said sarcastically.

"Nah, they're just frightened you'll start yelling again." Remus said sitting down next to her.

"Glad to know somebody cares!"

"Course we care about you. You're our partner in crime." Sirius said sitting across from Remus.

"Yeah, after all, look what we did to the Slytherins the other day." James said sitting down next to her.

"Potter! Evans! Black! Burke! Phillips! And Nagano! Please come here!" Elijah Chang yelled.

"Comin'" James said, grabbing a couple biscuits, with Sirius following in suit.

"Ok, guys!" Elijah said.

"And girls!" Mariko added.

"And girls. Practice will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night. Be at the pitch fifteen minutes early, please." He said to his team.

"Ok." "Sure." "I'll be there." etc. followed from the players.

"You may go back to breakfast, except Lily." Elijah said.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Oh, Adriana and I would like to thank you for singing at the ball the other night."

"Of course, it was no problem." Lily said smiling.

"And to thank you, we would like to give you this!" Elijah said, bringing out a long thin box. "But don't open it now, take it to your dorm and open it later."

"Ok, thank you!" Lily said giving him a hug, before hurrying to her dorm. After placing the package on her bed, Lily looked at her watch, "Ten minutes, guess I'll have to wait till lunch." She sighed, heading for class.