HL: Hmmmmm 6th chapter there's already been secrets revealed, but one, Emily's secret.
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Lily woke up, expecting to see Emily in her bed, but she wasn't there, "Emily?" Lily asked sitting up in bed, she went downstairs to see if she was in the Common Room. She checked the couch, there wasn't any Emily, it was still early so she couldn't of gone down to breakfast. Lily's mind reeled, trying to think of where Emily would go, but she double checked the common room, "Emily? Come on Emily, this isn't funny…" Lily said looking around, "Emily isn't here…" Lily jumped hearing a voice coming from one of the armchairs. There were at least four or five possibilities of who said that, Blaine, Peter, Sirius, Remus, James, or…someone else.
Lily walked foreword, "James?" No answer, "Remus?" still none, "Sirius? Blaine? Peter?" Her hand extended out to a hood, but as she grabbed it the figure wrapped long and skinny fingers around her wrist, the nails pitch black. She froze as the head turned slightly revealing a skull. Lily screamed yanking her hand away, "Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god…" She muttered backing away as the skeleton rose it's hand reached out to her again, this time for her throat, Lily screamed again, this time she heard the sound of feet running down the boy dorm stairs, "STUPEFY!" Blaine yelled as the skeleton got thrown back James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter ran down. "Lily!" "Are you alright? We heard you scream!" James said grabbing Lily's shoulders without thinking, "I'm…I'm fine, but…Emily's not here." She said as Blaine, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter's eyes went wide, "WOT DO YOU MEAN NOT HERE!" All four asked at the same time.
"She wasn't in the dorm, she's not down here, but…" Lily looked over at the hooded figure that had tried to grab her less then five seconds ago laid in a crumbled heap from hitting the wall, "I-I don't know where she went." Lily said as Remus recovered he turned on Blaine and pinned him to the wall, "Where is she! You weren't in the dorm when I woke up!" "How the bloody hell should I know!" Blaine spat as Remus grabbed his throat James and Sirius ran foreword to grab his arms, "YOU KNOW WHERE SHE IS! I HEARD YOU COME IN LESS THEN AN HOUR AGO!" "I WAS OUT! EMILY WASN'T HERE! SHE WAS ON THE COUCH WHEN I LEFT!" Blaine said as James and Sirius finally got Remus off of him. The tension between the two boys was intense and the others could feel it around them, suffocating them, "Come on mate, she'll be back." Sirius said holding onto Remus' left arm tightly so that he didn't suddenly lash out at Blaine.
"You know where she is, your going to tell us." "I don't know Remus! How would I know? Unless Tom came in here himself…shit…" Blaine realized what he had just said, then made a dash for the stairs, but was stopped by James and Remus grabbing him then throwing him onto the couch with force. When he tried to scramble off, five wands were pointed at his chest, "Your going to take us to Riddle…NOW!" James said gripping his wand tightly. Blaine looked at each of them, 5 against 1 wasn't a good chance of him winning, "Fine, I'll take you." He said standing. They still had their wands pointed at him as they left the common room, down the corridors, then out to the courtyard where they all lowered their wands then rose their eyebrows at him.
Blaine smirked, put two fingers in his mouth, then whistled. A moment of silence was around them until four, then five, then ten, up to twenty figures surrounded them. The group pressed themselves against each other at the twenty wands pointed in their direction, then Sirius hissed from the corner of his mouth, "Any BRILLIANT ideas, James?" "Oh shut up." James hissed back as the group looked like five lost deer surrounded by a rather large pack of wolves, "Hey, Remus, I have a riddle for you." Blaine said smirking as Remus glared, "What's white, blond, red, black, and blue all over?" EMILY! He thought to himself as Blaine's smirk widened then motioned to another of the group that threw the girl into the center circle as she landed on her arms and knees, her head down, and her shoulders shaking, a clear sign she was crying. Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter looked at each other, then Remus went to go foreword but Sirius grabbed his shoulder, "Don't, it's a trap, I guarantee it is." He said as Remus looked at Emily, who's head snapped back down. Remus glared then went over to her, "Are you alright?" Sucker…he fell for it. Blaine thought to himself as Emily's nails dug into the ground she smirked then elbowed him in the stomach.
"I also have a riddle, what only hunts down her prey that shows signs of weakness?" Emily asked as the others went wide eyed with fear, "Remus…get away from her…NOW!" "It's not her! She's being possessed!" James and Lily said as the fake chuckled, "Too late." She said then slashed Remus across the stomach, "REMUS!" Twenty-five heads snapped up to see the real Emily standing there, "Oh shit…RUN." "The hell your not getting away!" Another female voice said and with one swipe of her wand all twenty figures screamed then went flying into the air and crashed into the ground. "Well…that was rather interesting." The other girl said blowing her bangs out of her eyes. Emily looked at the fake then realized it was Kelanie Benson, a seventh year Syltherin girl. She snorted, "Nice try Kelanie, but your little trick didn't work on me." She said kicking the girl out of the way then put Remus' arm around her shoulder, "Gigi, can you take the others back while I bring Remus to the Hospital Wing?" The other girl nodded, "Gigi will explain…mostly everything, until I get back." Emily said as the boys glared at Remus' back, suddenly jealous of him. "Well, might as well head back, shall we?" Gigi said walking away, the others following.
Emily was starting to get tired of dragging Remus half way to the Hospital Wing, she needed to talk to him, no doubt he probably knew she was affiliated with Tom Riddle and company, but she would never betray her only friends, even though it was considered betraying siding with Tom. As she walked into the Hospital Wing Madame Pomfrey came out, "Oh, hello de-GOD WHAT HAPPENED!" "He got attacked." Emily said sitting down, then ducked out from under Remus' arm and swung his legs onto the bed, "Oh my, remove his shirt so I can clean that wound." She said walking off to get some gauze and other supplies. Emily felt a blush rise in her cheeks, take off his shirt? It seemed to be a simple task, but, it wasn't that easy, for her anyway. She sighed and started to unbutton his shirt, her mind wandering, it was also killing her, because she could feel a premonition coming, plus she figured it was about Remus and her the way her head wouldn't let her suppress it.
She stopped, sighed again, then closed her eyes as small images flashed before her eyes of a bed, her, Remus, GAH! OKAY! ENOUGH OF THAT VISION! MORE THEN I NEEDED TO KNOW! She screamed at herself in her mind as she shook her head violently to get rid of it, God…like that'd ever happen. Let alone some fricking private time, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo James, Peter, dumb ass Blaine, and Sirius ruin it. She thought to herself as she unbuttoned the last button, then gently pulled his arms out his eyes opened slightly, "Emily…" Emily looked down at him as he tried to sit up but she pushed him back down, "Don't sit up, Kelanie tricked you into thinking she was me, but she wasn't and…" She was going a mile a minute with the sentence, but Remus put a finger on her lips, "Don't speak, I just want to know where you were this morning." She knew this was coming, "Um…I…" She started before Madame Pomfrey came back in, "Move over girl. I need to clean that scratch." Emily stood as Madame Pomfrey sat down in her spot, grabbed a cloth, then rubbed it gently over the scratch as Remus made a hissing noise.
"Relax Mr. Lupin, it will hurt only for a minute." Madame Pomfrey said, "I'll let that settle for a few minutes then get the healing potion before I wrap you up." She said getting up and Emily sat back down. Remus made sure that Madame Pomfrey was out of ear ranged then turned back to Emily, "Tell me, where were you this morning? Lily was freaking out, because a skeleton attacked her." Emily needed a diversion, she couldn't tell Remus where she had been, he'd tell the others, which meant a long time for a cold shoulder, "I-I can't tell you." "So much fore being your mate." "It's not that Remus…I just can't tell you, you'll tell the others." Wrong thing to say, "Wot? Wot makes you think I'd do that?" He asked chuckling slightly that turned into a cough, "Because…I…" He didn't need to hear what she was going to say, but he sat up straight despite the shooting pain in his stomach, "You told Tom didn't you?" "No…I…" "Don't lie Emily, I can tell when your lying." Remus said, his tone harsh, like hers was the other night.
Emily became interested in her own two feet at this point, not daring to make eye contact with him, "Emily." "Fine, I didn't tell Tom, but you can just think I did, maybe I do belong in Syltherin." She said standing then started to walk out of the Hospital Wing. He sighed and laid back down, when he didn't tell her to stop, she stopped and looked over her shoulder, "Well?" "Well wot?" "Aren't you going to stop me?" "No, go ahead." Emily was crushed, her best friend was shunning her out, just like everyone else would. Her eyes watered as she turned her head, she whispered, though audible to Remus' enhanced hearing, "I'm sorry Remus…I…I just…" Before she could even get the sentence out she started to cry, then she ran away from the Hospital Wing, as Remus propped up on his elbow he knew she couldn't run that fast so he called after her, "EMILY! EMILY COME BACK!" He said, but he heard her sobs echo as she ran down the stairs.
He sighed laying back down as he saw, from the corner of his eye, a figure standing there, arms crossed, with something tucked under his or hers arm, "Happy Remus? I hope you are, because there's no way in hell Emily's coming back, to you, at least." The voice said as he advanced. It sounded like Blaine, because it most likely was him, "She's going to be mine." "Stay away from her." Remus hissed as Blaine came into the light, "Touchy aren't we?" Blaine asked chucking, "Her friend Gigi didn't knock me out with that pathetic excuse of a spell, but I'm sure you don't mind me saying, I've liked Emily since I've met her." "You just want to use her." "Who doesn't?" Blaine asked chuckling, "She's about as dumb as a blond can get. Why do you want me to stay away from her Remus? Is it true that you like, no, care, wait…perhaps even love her?" Blaine asked smirking putting stress on the word 'love'. Remus paled slightly, he had just backed him into a corner, was beating him down with every word, and wasn't going to stop until he admitted anything.
"Why do you care?" Remus snapped as Blaine smirked, "Aha! So you do admit it." "Wot?" "Don't play dumb. Everyone knows you do." Blaine said taking the knife out, "So, to get you out of the way, I'll have to kill you so I can get to her, maybe she'll come when she hears you scream in pain." He said his smirk getting wider then it turned into a twisted grin. Little did they know that Emily, Narcissa, Lucius, and Lily were standing right outside. Emily inched closer to the door to poke her head around it slightly to see, Blaine was standing over Remus, the knife at the ready, her eyes went wide, "NO!" She screamed as Blaine's head turned, "REMUS!" Remus looked up when she ran through, "Emily! Don't!" Lily said after her. Blaine glared bringing the knife down as Emily threw herself over Remus Blaine stopped. Narcissa, Lucius, and Lily let out a short sigh of some relief, that Blaine had stopped the decent of the knife with Emily's stupid move.
Emily had her head down on Remus' chest, her hands clutching the shirt, "Emily, move." Blaine hissed raising the knife again, "No! If you kill him, you'll have to do the same to me." She said glaring as Lucius stood stunned, "Emily…" Remus whispered as Blaine's eyes lit with fury, "You DARE defy me?" Emily didn't answer, but glared at him. Blaine let out a growl before back handing her hard across the face. The resounding slap made Narcissa run in and jump on Blaine's back as Remus got off his bed, and Lily and Lucius ran in to Emily's side. Narcissa grabbed the knife out of Blaine's hand, but he threw her off sending her into a wall, "NARCISSA!" Lucius said running over to her leaving Lily and Remus with Emily as she sat up holding her cheek. Blaine walked foreword kicking Remus in the stomach, "STOP IT!" Lily screeched holding onto Emily tight as she buried her face in her shoulder, "Make me mudblood." "Don't call Lily that, Blaine Birch." Blaine turned to see James, Sirius, Peter, and Gigi there. Gigi glared and with another flick of her wand Blaine was thrown out the window. (A/N: HEH he deserved it P) Madame Pomfrey came back as Gigi fixed the glass then she looked at Narcissa, who was out cold, Emily, and Remus.
She sighed as Lucius put Narcissa on a bed, Remus got onto his own, and Emily sat in a chair with an ice pack on her cheek. The others eventually left so it was just Emily, Narcissa, and Remus in the hospital wing, "So…um…Remus…" Emily started as Remus looked at her in the other bed, "Yeah?" "About what Blaine said…" "Oh Merlin. You heard what he said?" "Yes…." Emily said looking at him, "Do you like me as a friend or more?" She asked as she heard him shift to his side so he could look at her fully, but winced slightly from the pain, "Fifty fifty. Sometimes a friend, sometimes more." Emily smiled softly, "That's not enough Remus Lupin." She said closing her eyes. As she did, however, she saw a church, her overly large family, then another family on the other side, not as large as hers but a decent size, then outlines of a priest, a groom, and the best men. Emily opened her eyes and blinked seeing Remus' amber eyes staring into hers, "Can you not stare at me?" She asked as he smirked, "Sorry, just noticed you probably had another premonition." "Uh…well…sort of." She said blushing, thank god it was night and he couldn't see, well, he probably could.
He smirked, "Really?" He said as she blushed even more, "Yeah." She said closing her eyes again, this time she could make out the outlines, it was Remus as the groom, Sirius, James, and Peter as the best men. In front of her were Lily and Gigi as the maids of honor, plus a girl that looked around fifteen-years-old was the flower girl, when she looked to the left she saw her mother holding two more babies in her arms. Emily opened her eyes and blinked seeing Remus still looking at her with his amber eyes, "STOP IT!" She said as he laughed, "Why are you so flustered Emmers?" "Shut up." She said glaring at him, if she had something in her hand she would surely chuck it at his head. Remus grinned, he had an idea, but he was sure it would get him slapped, but it was all in good fun. He went to turn onto his back, but he smirked in his mind, and hissed making Emily's head pop up, "You okay?" "No…I think I reopened it." He said as Emily stood, "Lumios." She said as the end of her wand lit she walked over and sat on the edge of his bed. She ran her hand down his stomach, only to try to find the bandage, making Remus shudder, she found the bandages then pressed down making him hiss again, "That hurt?" "Damn, yes it does." He said.
Emily swung her other leg over to the other side as she held her wand and started unbuttoning his shirt then took it off again like she had done earlier. Her hand ran down his stomach again, making him shudder once again, "Can you not do that?" "Sorry, the light from my wand isn't sufficient for me." She said finding the bandages then took them off then put the light near the wound, seeing that it had indeed reopened, "I'll be right back." She said going to stand but her other foot got caught on the edge of the bed, and before she fell flat on her face Remus caught her by the waist putting his chin on her shoulder, "You're a klutz." He whispered in her ear and half against her neck making her shudder this time, "Yeah, well, you're the one that's always there to catch me before I fall." She said turning her head slightly to look at him. Narcissa watched from her bed hearing Emily trip over Remus' bed. The pair didn't talk for a few minutes, both looking at the other as a voice in both of their heads screamed Kiss already damn it! (A/N: XD me and my mind. 3) Emily was the first to lean in then Remus leaned in slightly, both hesitated a minute, then their lips met.
Narcissa had to cover her mouth to cover up a squeal and a giggle. The two broke away, there was an awkward moment, then Emily stood, walked into another room, closed the door lightly then let out a scream that would surely wake the castle. Narcissa laughed hysterically as Remus turned over sharply then winced again, "DO NOT tell ANYONE what you just saw." He said as Narcissa giggled, "Don't worry….I won't…" She said between giggles as Emily came out with a red face and a smile on it. "Done?" "Yeah.." She said going back to her bed then laid down, "Uh…" "Wot?" "I'm alone…." "Good, it can stay that way." She said pulling the cover over her and closing her eyes with that smile on her face again. Narcissa let out a snort of laughter as Emily threw a roll of gauze at her head.
The next morning Narcissa was allowed to leave, so was Emily, but she refused to leave because she wanted to stay with Remus, but Madame Pomfrey shooed her out for the day of classes, then she came back at the end sitting on her bed as he rested still. She was in the middle of doing Divination homework when she saw Remus' eyes open slightly and he stretched, "Afternoon." She said smiling at him as he looked to the left and gave her a half hearted smile, "A-Afternoon." He said between a yawn. She closed her Divination book and put the quill beside her parchment, then pulled out a box of Peppermint Toads, "Peppermint Toad?" Remus shook his head as she shrugged put three into her mouth then swallowed, "Rest well?" "Eh…depends, Lily and James came in this morning making a ruckus," Emily laughed, "then Sirius came about an hour later during double potions, and Peter came during History." Remus said as Emily giggled, "Guess James, Lily, and I were the only ones that didn't skip classes. I figured Sirius would disappear during double potions, it was rather annoying you know. He gave us a test." She said and Remus sat up, "He did?" "Yup." She said pulling out his homework then dropped it on the table as it landed with a 'thunk' the table gave way and the legs broke. The two looked down at it, then at each other and laughed.
After awhile the two were eating lunch then that subject came up, "Why are you affiliated with Tom Riddle?" Remus asked as Emily nearly dropped her fork, "Remus, I-I…I'm not affiliated with him." She said as she narrowed her eyes cutting the meat on her plate, "You wouldn't be murdering your meat if you weren't plus, your eyes wouldn't be narrowed." He said stating the fact of the agitated look on her face, "Why do you care?" "Because, a) you're my friend, b) you owe, and c…" "Whoa, whoa, back up, I owe you? I owe you wot?" She asked raising an eyebrow at him, "I'm not done, c) you owe me, because, 1) I've gotten you out of bad spots, 2) if you do that again I'll hurt you." He said seeing Emily mocking him by moving her hand as he talked then rolling her eyes, "3) I love…I mean…like you," she nearly dropped her fork again blinking at him, "and 4) you're my best friend, you know my secret, and now I need to know yours." "No you don't, mind your own wolf business." "That's the best you can come up with?" "Oh shut up." Emily said flicking a pea at his head.
Remus shook his head, "So…you love me huh?" Emily asked smirking as Remus glared, "Don't change the subject." She shook her head, "Answer my question." "Okay fine, I'll tell you, Lucius told Tom that I liked one of my close friends. Blaine went to Tom after you and I got a scare when Sirius scared us after we got back from Hogsmeade, apparently Blaine already knew you guys were Animagi, and when he told Tom he didn't believe him at first. Blaine told me that Tom wanted to see me, so I went with him, then he…" She trailed off as she watched a few kids walked by then she looked down at her plate again, "He threatened to…well…if I didn't tell him who the Animagi were, which I told him I didn't know, he threatened to kill you." She said meeting his amber eyes then looked away.
The two were quiet as more students walked by, "So you told him…" Remus said quietly, "He told Blaine to kick us out that night when we went to the courtyard…he wanted to see for his own eyes that you were one of them. I knew I was probably going to get hurt, Lucius was there to watch both of us, so he pulled me away before anything could happen to me." She said in one breath then looked at Remus, "So yes, I did tell him, Remus, I didn't want to see you dead, from my own mistake. I'm sorry…I didn't mean to, I really, really, really, really didn't mean too." Emily said as Remus looked at her then shifted turning his back to her. She sighed then stood and went over to the other side of his bed to look at him, "Your mad at me…." "No, I'm pissed." "What else do you want me to say Remus? That I don't care if your dead or not? Fine then, I'll go tell Tom to kill you." She said standing as Remus growled, "Fine! Go I don't care!" "FINE!" "FINE!" "FINE!" Emily yelled slamming the doors.
Remus fell back onto the bed as Emily walked back in, "Forgot my books." She muttered grabbing them, "Fine." "Fine." "Emily." "Wot?" "Come here." Emily walked over as Remus pulled her down she fell face first into the bed, "Thanks…" "Any time." He said smirking as she crawled onto the bed, "Move your ass." "Hey, be nice to me. I'm injured." "So?" Remus shook his head as he saw a bed in the air, "Um…Emily…." "Yeah?" The bed started crashing down and Remus shoved her off the bed and the bed landed on him. He yelled in pain as Emily sprung to her feet wiping her wand out, "STUPEFY!" She yelled as a wand flew across the wand, she saw Lucius there, "L-Lucius?" She stammered as he glared, "So…you are…" She said as Lucius looked out the window, "Its your fault." He said turning his head back to her, "Mine? Wot…" "You were suppose to kill him, James, Lily, and Sirius." Her cousin said as Remus yelled again as the bed's legs wrapped around his bed and the bed crushing him. Emily looked at him then at Lucius, "LET HIM GO!" She yelled as Lucius smirked, "Never." He said as the bed kept crushing Remus Emily looked back and forth.
She felt a fury in her that she had never felt before her eyes had fire in them, "Crucio." She hissed as Lucius' legs gave way he fell on his back. Emily hook her head then blinked, she went over to the bed that was crushing Remus at the moment, "Stupefy!" She said as the bed stopped she kicked the legs that broke and she lifted the bed off, "Come on, we've got to get out of here." She said putting Remus' arm around her shoulders. At least he was able to walk somewhat, but was limping, as they made their way a spell hit Emily full in the back making her scream as he tumbled down the stairs, Remus catching himself on the railing before he tumbled after her, "EMILY! EMILY!" he yelled to the unconscious girl at the bottom of the steps. Remus turned to see three more of Tom's goons walking towards him, he didn't have a wand on him, so that was potentially dangerous, "STUPEFY!" was the chorus as the goons froze then fell on their backs. James, Lily, and Sirius came down the stairs, well, James and Sirius jumped over the railing as Lily ran down, and stood in front of Remus, "Get Emily, we'll hold off these jerks." Sirius said smirking.
Remus flew down the stairs to get to Emily, when he did he knelt by her then shook her gently, "Emily, Emily, come on, I can't carry you." He said as her eyes opened slightly she lifted her head before it crashed back to the ground. Remus sighed picking her up hissing when he bent over to pick her up. He stood then ran down the corridors, when he went out the door, he realized they were no longer at Hogwarts. Oh damn…this isn't good…he thought to himself as he looked around. As he ran across the lawn he saw a sign that read 'Riddle Manor', he went wide eyed. Tom had teleported them to his house. Remus looked down at Emily as her head rested below his chest he ran as fast as he could into a forest. He shoved twigs aside as he shielded Emily's face with his arm. As he kept running however, he tripped over a raised root, Emily was only a few feet away from him. He got on his hands and knees starting to crawl over but as he got there a boot came down on his hand crushing it. He groaned pulling it out from under the boot looking up seeing Tom standing over him smirking.
He growled as a black dog came out of the woods biting Tom's hand, Tom glared then tossed the dog to the side, it skidded on his paws then lunged at Tom again. Kayla Black and Vince were hiding in the darkness of the woods watching from their spots, "Should we help?" Vince asked as Kayla, a third year, shook her head, "No, we'll help when they need it." She said as her brother kept up the repetitive attacks on Tom. Tom growled, finally getting fed up, and as Sirius latched onto his arm he threw him into a tree, making him yipe. Kayla growled changing into her white wolf form then bit Tom's leg. Lily, James, and Remus looked as the younger Black shook Tom's leg growling, "Kayla!" Vince hissed as her ear turned to the side hearing another figure. She growled as a wizard stepped out, he had a club in his hand, "KAYLA!" Vince yelled making Sirius' eyes fly open he growled and grabbed the others arm then dragged him off.
Tom smacked Kayla on the nose, making her let go for a moment, then she grabbed the leg again and pulled it out from under him making him fall flat on his back. She shook it violently growling, then Tom disappeared as an explosion followed throwing them all back.
Back at Hogwarts-
At Hogwarts Emily groaned opening her eyes seeing her uncle, aunt, mom, the Black family, the Riddle Family, the Potter, and the Lupin family standing there. Emily looked to her left seeing Kayla with a broken arm, Sirius had a deep gash across his face, James had a broken arm, leg, and his face was scratched, Lily had gotten away with a minor cut on her arm, but it was still deep, Remus had a broken ankle, and Tom had half of his leg missing. Judging by the looks the parents were giving them, they were in deep trouble. Emily had never seen her mom with an angry look on her face, because she was always smiling, but this scared her to the bone seeing the look she was getting. Professor Dumbledore walked in and the adults looked bowing their heads slightly, "I'm sure you all know why I called you here." He said stopping right beside Emily's bed, then she wished he hadn't, because her mom looked like she was going to murder her.
If Emily was a hermit crab, she would definitely crawl into her shell and stay there for the rest of the day, "Sorry to say that, this is mostly Tom's fault," Madison's eyes snapped to her old professor then her daughter again, "no matter what you think, Mrs. Alden, it was not Emily." Madison's eyes softened slightly as he let out a sigh then smiled again, "Indeed, it was Tom, he caused the trouble between Emily and her friends, but I think it would be best if he stayed away from Hogwarts, sorry to say that Mister and Misses Riddle." The pair nodded as Tom scowled, "I think it would be best if they took a holiday a bit early, to recover from their injuries." The parents nodded, as the Blacks casted glares at their two older children making them cringe, "Emily, would you be a dear and pack Remus' and James' things for them?" Professor Dumbledore asked as Emily nodded, "I can help her too Professor!" Lily and Kayla said as he chuckled, "Very well." The three girls got off their beds and made their way back to the common room, Sirius got up and walked off also, with a slight limp, after them, "Stay here Sirius." Dumbledore said as he muttered then sat on the bed.
In the common room the girls packed the trunks and Emily counted, "Mine, yours, James', Sirius', and Remus' trunks, Kayla, did you pack yours?" "Yeah, its already in the Hospital Wing." She said, "Alright, Accio trunks." Emily said as the trunks levitated in front of her then zoomed off up to the Hospital Wing as they walked behind them. When they got back to the Hospital Wing they saw the adults standing outside, well, beside the Blacks, who were probably yelling at Sirius, because that was all they could hear, "Wot's going on?" Emily asked as the trunks stopped, "Sirius is getting reprimanded." James said, "Why?" "I don't know, because his parents are evil, conniving…" "James!" "Wot? It's true mum." He said as his mom shook her head. After the yelling had died down a sound of something making contact with something else flowed out threw the door.
Emily had had enough, she went to open the door, but Remus grabbed her wrist squeezing it. She looked at him and he shook his head. Emily sighed sitting on the floor, after a few moments, the Blacks came out of the Hospital Wing, Sirius had his head down, "Let's go Kayla." Mister Black said as he levitated the trunks then walked down the stairs, "I'll see you guys sometime this summer." Kayla whispered, but before she walked away, she grabbed Vince and kissed his cheek. Vince blushed as Emily giggled the boys made 'oooo'ing noises. Kayla smiled as Vince blushed even more, "Um…bye Kayla…" He said as Emily waited until they were gone, she put her arm around her brother's shoulders, pulled him close, then gave him a noogie, "Awe, does wittle Vincent have a wittle girwlfriwend?" She mimicked in a baby voice as he tried to duck away the boys laughed. "Ouch! She's not my girlfriend! We're just friends!" Vince said finally getting away from his sister, "Yeah, uh huh, sure, I believe you." Emily said then turned towards her mom, "Mum, can we set up the wedding date and everything?" She asked as the boys laughed again Vince lunged at her tackling her to the ground, "SHUT UP!" "OUCH! MUM!" "Alright you two, calm down." Madison said pulling Vince off of his sister, "Say bye to the others, we're moving out of your uncle's house, and we're moving to Knockturn Alley." "That's where I live!" James said beaming as Emily nearly tackled him to the ground, "We'll be neighbors!" Madison shook her head.
"Mum, can I stay with James until we move? Pleassse…" "As long as it's okay with his parents." James looked at his mum and dad, both nodded, "It's fine with us." Mrs. Potter said as Emily jumped in the air, "YES!" She said high fiving James. Madison shook her head, "Just be good." "Mum, I'm always good." Remus scoffed, "Yeah right." "Quiet you." She said glaring at him. After the 'byes' and the 'see you next term' were done Emily and James left with his parents. Even though the term wasn't over, they were happy to get away from Tom, and he was kicked out of Hogwarts for good.
Over the summer James and Emily became closer, but right before the term started Emily fell deathly ill, and she as unable to move, so she was bedded for the year, but during 6th year she fell ill again, so couldn't attend the year. James came over to talk to her as, and both talked to each other about the year, the doctor also came to check on her, on her birthdays everyone would come over, that was the only time she was seen out of bed, but her color was drained out of her face, her legs wobbled as she stood or walked, and as she would sit at the table her body would be shaking. Madison was constantly urging her to eat, but she would refuse, because what ever she tried to keep down always came up. The last time anyone had seen her, she didn't let James, Remus, Lily, Lucius, Narcissa, her own mother, Sirius, Vince, or Kayla see her.
Nighttime was when she refused her mother to come into her room, there was obviously something wrong, and Madison wanted to know what it was, "Emily, sweetie, let me in." "NO!" Came her voice from the other side of the door, "Emily Marie, open this door, right now. I'm giving you till the count of three. One…two…t…" The door opened on two slightly as Emily's eye appeared Madison put her hand on her hip, "All the way." Emily shook her head and Madison glared, "Now or your grounded." Emily groaned opening the door all the way. Madison's eyes went wide, she didn't look like Emily anymore, she had white hair, a slender figure, was taller then she thought she was, then there were her blue eyes that seemed to be a pale sky blue, "E-Emily?" "Yeah…" Madison nearly fainted from the sight of her daughter, but before she did Emily turned the railing into a chair so her mom could sit down.
Madison knew that her mother was a Veera, but, she also forgot that Emily would get it since it skipped her generation, "Do you mind telling me what the bloody hell I am?" Emily asked putting a hand on her hip, "Your half Veera, your grandmother was one." Madison said as a photo album appeared in front of her, she opened the book then found the picture, "That's her." She said pointing a finger at a woman that looked exactly like Emily did now, "It skipped me, because my father's genes over powered hers, and only the girls get or carry the gene." She said as Emily blinked, "So, wot your saying is…that I was sick because of…" "Of your transformation? Most likely." "I look half dead! I'm not going to Hogwarts looking like this!" Emily said, "Mum, do you know where Bir…Emily!" Vince said. Emily blinked, "Hi?" "Whoa…you look…different, but you look pretty." He said as Emily smiled, "Awe, your such a charmer Vince." Emily said as Vince smirked, "I know." "How's Kayla?" "She's good. She misses you though." He said as Emily smiled, "Of course she does, she doesn't have anyone to hang out with. Lily and James going out yet?" "Yeah." "HA! MY PREMONITION WAS RIGHT!" Emily said doing a little victory dance as Vince laughed.
"Oh yeah, just to tell you, Remus, James, Sirius, Kayla, Lily, Lucius, and Narcissa are coming over to celebrate your 17th birthday." He said as Emily smirked, "Okay. I'm going to get ready." She said dashing into her room. Madison smiled at her son, then both went downstairs. A few minutes later Vince came upstairs and knocked on his sister's door, "Emily, their here!" "Be down in a few minutes!" She said tearing her wardrobe to look for something that wouldn't make her look dead, "Eureka!" She said pulling out a pair of blue shorts and a baby blue tank-top to match then grabbed her blue sandals, she shook her head then pulled her hair out from her shirt then smoothed it down. She smiled at her reflection, opened her door, then made her way downstairs.
Vince looked at the head of the stairs to see Emily standing there, "Here she is, ladies and gentlemen, the guest of honor, Emily Marie Alden." He said as Emily walked down smiling she saw the boys breathes get caught in their throats then James' mouth dropped as Lily closed it, it opened again. Remus, Sirius, and Lucius stared, Narcissa glared waving a hand in front of Lucius' face. When he didn't show notice she crossed her arms over her chest, pouted, then glared at Emily. Sirius shook his head, the first to recover, as he stood smiling at Emily, "Hello, Miss Alden." "Hello Sirius." She said giving him a hug then a quick kiss on each cheek. Lily hugged Emily, "It's so good to see that your feeling better." "Yeah, would you believe it was because of this transformation?" Lily shrugged, "Doesn't surprise me." She said while thinking to her self, You better stay away from my James. As the line moved on with hugs Emily sat down, "Move it mate, let the single men sit next to her." He said shoving James off the couch then sat next to Emily, who snickered.
As Emily talked with the others, giggling and laughing, Narcissa, Lily, Vince, and Kayla sat away from them, "I can't believe this, she gets sick, and she turns out to be like this." Narcissa said glaring at her, "No kidding, look at the boys, they like, love her." Kayla said crossing her arms, "Wot's wrong with that?" "Wot's wrong with it?" Lily asked inclining her head towards James and Lucius, "My boyfriend is flirting with her, so is Lucius." "Oh, come off it, Lucius always does that." Vince said taking a sip of Butterbeer, "Besides, I thought Emily and Remus were going out." "No, not since fourth year." Lily said still watching Emily, "I'm going to talk to her." She said putting down her Butterbeer then walked over, "Emily?" Emily looked up at her, "Yes?" "Can I talk to you, for a moment, alone?" Lily asked grabbing Emily's wrist, "Yeah, I'll be right back." She said as Lily dragged her away from the oogling boys.
After Lily had dragged her away, a good distance from the boys she said, "Okay, look, just because you went through this new 'transformation' doesn't mean that you can hit on James." Lily said as Emily rose an eyebrow, "I'm not hitting on him, I'm just making some small talk, wow Lily." "Well, don't!" "Why?" "Because, you don't know these boys anymore, they'll just try to get you in bed." Emily rolled her eyes shaking her head, "I see what's going on, your just jealous." "Wot?" "Your jealous, of me." "No, no, I'm not! It's just that these boys are willing to get even the lowest girl into bed, I don't need that happening to you." Emily rolled her eyes again, "Okay, whatever." She said starting to walk away, but Lily grabbed her wrist again, "I'm serious." "Okay, I take your word seriously." She said taking her arm away from her, "Now if you'll excuse me, my guests are waiting." She said walking back to the couch. Lily appeared again beside Narcissa, "She's screwed." Narcissa said as Lily took her Butterbeer, "Yup." She said taking a sip.
HL: Longest chapter yet. Eleven pages and 7,023 words.
TBC….
