Memories Lost: A Marauder's Tale ch. 8
HL: The eighth chapter
Disclaimer: Look at last seven
After a long talk with the Headmaster Emily made her way down to the Great Hall, when the doors opened some of the Syltherin boys saw her blue eyes rimmed with red , most of them smirked nudging each other then the whole table was watching her, "Malfoy blood is running high." "Obviously, she is a Malfoy no matter how much she fights it." "Plus her father's rumored to be a demon." Were some of the whispers as Emily turned her head catching Lucius', Tom, and Severus' eyes as they smirked she did the same as she headed towards the Gryffindor table, Sirius growled standing, "Down." Kayla said pulling her brother down again. Sirius grumbled as she sat across from him sitting between James and Lily, both eyeing her, "You know…there's a seat at the end of table…far away from me…" Sirius hissed earning a kick from Lily.
Emily didn't answer, just shot him a glare, as he glared at her Tom, Severus, and Lucius stood shoving Lily, James, and another out of their seats, "HEY!" All three said in unison as the other three sat down Emily looked at Tom from the corner of her eye, "I thought you were kicked out." She said as Tom smirked, "Hush, they don't need to know, my parents pulled a few strings to get me back in." He said as Lucius rolled his eyes, "Tell us what happened." "Isn't obvious? Sirius was the problem." Sirius growled going to lunge at Severus, but Vince and Kayla pulled him back down, "Obviously, Black's always been a problem, unlike Bella and Narcissa." "He'll end up in Azkaban sometime." "Why you lil…." "SIRIUS! STOP IT!" Kayla said pulling him down again.
Tom, Severus, and Lucius smirked, "Later Emily." Tom said standing, "See you during potions." Lucius said shoving a note into her hand, she looked at him, he smirked as he got up followed by Severus. Lily and James got back in their seats and glared at the three boys, "What the bloody hell was that about?" "What did Lucius give you?" Lily asked trying to grab the note but Emily held it above her head and James tackled her, "GAH JAMES!" Sirius laughed as the two wrestled on the ground, "GET OFF!" "Gimme the note!" "BITE ME!" Emily said as Remus shook his head. After the few more minutes James got it free, "HA!" He said blowing a raspberry at him, "JAMES!" Emily said chasing him. James laughed running around the table. Lily blinked then put her face in her hands shaking her head, "We don't know them." Kayla said hiding her face by putting a hand in front of it.
Emily finally caught James and tackled him then ripped the note away from him and took her spot back next to Lily. As the hall fell quiet the first years walked in hurriedly behind Professor McGonagell, "Wow, were we that short when we were in first year?" "You were always short Lily." Emily said as Lily smacked her, "Shut up." She said as Emily smirked.
As Professor McGonagell set the hat down it started to belt out the new song making the first years jump from shock as Emily, James, Remus, Lily, Kayla, Vince, Sirius, and Peter laughed, "Awe, poor things." "Yeah, I bet we were just as scared, I know Vince and Kayla were." Vince bit his lip as Emily snickered, "Now, as I call your names you will come up to the stool and wait for the hat to sort you into your houses." Professor McGonagell said unrolling a piece of parchment.
"Birch, Thomas!"
The group of Gryffindor's blinked at the familiar name then started whispering to one another, all grades as some went wide eyed then looked at Emily.
"SYLTHERIN!"
"Georgellus, Katie."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
The Gryffindor table whistled as Katie walked over getting welcoming smiles.
"Weasley, Bill."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily leaned over and whispered in Emily's ear, "That one's going to be good looking by the time he's in seventh year." She said as Emily giggled, "Yeah. He's so cute, look at the red hair and the freckles." Sirius leaned over, "You two hitting on a first year?" He asked grinning as both girls shoved him back down in his seat.
"White, Vincent!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"O'Brian, Row!""GRYFFINDOR!"
Sirius laughed, "Row, row, row your boat." "SIRIUS!" "Wot?" He asked blinking as he got three glares from the girls as the boys chuckled.
"Benson, Gia!"
Emily hissed at the last name, "Oh come off it, that was three years ago." James said as Emily rolled her eyes.
"SYLTHERIN!"
"WHERE SHE BELONGS!" "EMILY!" Remus, James, Peter, and Sirius laughed as she smirked and Lily whacked her. Professor McGonagell glared at her as she waved making the boys laugh even harder.
"Quinn, Kelanie!"
Emily went wide eyed then looked at the others who shrugged. Apparently, they didn't remember Kelanie Benson, the 7th year shape-shifter and Animagus.
"RAVENCLAW!"
After all the first years were sorted into their houses Professor Dumbledore stood up, "Before we eat, I'd like to welcome all the first years to Hogwarts." He said as the older grades clapped, "I'd also like to make it known that the Forbidden Forest, is Forbidden to first years unless they are accompanied by a teacher, due to recent events," He said looking straight at Sirius, James, and Remus as the girls, who took the opportunity to shrink in their seats, blushed, "there will also have to be limited visits to Hogsmeade this year for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th years." Groans came from every table, "you have Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, and the others to thank for that." Lucius muttered as the Syltherin table sniggered. Sirius glared at him then flipped him off as Lucius smirked, "Finally, we can eat." Dumbledore said sitting.
"FOOD!" Sirius said starting to attack his meal as Kayla sunk even further, "Why, in the name of Merlin, do I have a brother?" She asked herself as Emily stared at Vince who was also attacking his, "I have no idea…" She said.
After the meal was done the Head boys and girls got the first years out of the Great Hall and to the common rooms, "And don't forget the password." Sirius called as he went upstairs then stuck his head back down, "Emily." Emily glared and threw a pillow at him as he laughed. As she sat on the couch Vince sat down on the armchair, "So…I heard some…uh…interesting sounds last night." Emily went beet red, even redder then the couch she was sitting on, "Y-you did…" She said blushing even harder, "Yeah, luckily, mom didn't hear, she'd of killed you and Remus." "No kidding. You didn't tell her?" "No. I'm not a evil and mean brother you know." Vince said as most of the common room fell quiet Vince stretched and yawned, "Am I keeping you up?" Emily asked smirking, "No…I think I'll just go to sleep." He said stifling a yawn, "N-night…" He said covering his mouth as he yawned.
"Night." Emily said as her brother went upstairs she got off the couch, sneaked upstairs to the boys dorm room, hearing Sirius snore louder then ever, a sure sign he was asleep, she walked over to James' trunk, "Lumos…" she whispered as a tiny light appeared at the end of her wand she opened it, little to her knowledge it creaked. She winced as Sirius gave a snort she froze, seeing if he would wake up, when he didn't then started snoring again she let out a small sigh. She found the cloak that was black and had stars on it, she smirked, and when she went to close the trunk it slammed shut making her jump, this time Sirius' head jolted up, "Nox." She whispered as the light went out she ducked behind the trunk Sirius got out of bed, "Lumos." He whispered in a groggy voice, he saw Peter in bed across from him, Remus next to him was sitting up, "Did you hear that?" Remus asked as Sirius nodded, "I did." Emily held her breath and shut her eyes, she prayed to god that Remus didn't turn on his wand, because he would see her right at the foot of James' bed, "Lumos." Shit…Emily rolled in between James and Vince's bed and stayed there as Remus got out of bed. Her heart was beating in ears really loud and she swore that they could hear it too, "I'll check my side, you check yours." Remus said as Sirius started checking his side of the room Emily quickly pulled the invisibility cloak over her. Remus had seen the movement, however, because his wand was on her at the point in which she did cover herself, Sirius started to go over also, when his hand nearly reached the cloak Emily's breath caught, "It was nothing, Sirius," Remus said as Sirius looked at him eyeing him, "you must of heard something drop, that's all, or it may have been Peeves doing his night time tricks." Sirius looked at Remus then to where Emily was.
"Fine, I'm going back to sleep." Sirius said crawling under the sheets, "Nox." He said as his wand went out he immediately fell asleep again. Remus shook his head, walked foreword keeping his wand low so that it didn't shine in James' or Vince's faces, "Emily….I know that's you." He said as Emily pulled the cloak off he looked at her, "Wot are you doing out of bed?" "I was going for a stroll, I can't sleep." "Very unlikely." "Don't believe me then." Emily said as Remus shook his head, "I really can't sleep." "Wot do you want me to do about it? Wait…don't answer that." He said seeing the smirk on her face, "plus, we'd wake up the others." Emily knelt on her knees smirking still, her head rested on his lower stomach as she smirked, "You and your damn seduction tricks…" He muttered as Emily giggled pulling the cloak over the both of them.
(A/N: And there they go again, forgive my pervertedness XD I've been a pervert all weekend, mostly because my friend Row O'Brian (you saw her name in the list), her cousin Gia, and I have been watching the third Harry Potter movie then made perverted jokes out of it. XD!)
Vince stirred slightly in the morning as James and Sirius sat up rubbing their eyes Vince's eyes traveled to Remus' bed. He stretched and yawned, "Morning Remus….HOLY GOD! EMILY!" James and Sirius fell out of their beds as the other boys sat upright. Remus sat up as the boys stared, "Wot?" "Wasn't Emily just…" Sirius started as the door opened then shut James and Sirius exchanged glances then looked at Remus smirking.
Emily ran downstairs to breakfast and sat next to Lily, "Morning, Emily, where were you this morning? You weren't in the girl's dorm, or the couch." Lily said taking a bite of toast, "I…I-I…." "She was in bed with Remus." Kayla spat out her orange juice as Lily dropped her toast with her mouth open as Emily blushed when Sirius, James, Peter, Vince, and Remus sat down. Lily, seemingly unable to speak, opened her mouth, closed it, opened it again, then closed, then finally, "Y-y-you were…oh god…" Lily couldn't finish her sentence before looking down at her plate intently, "Yes, Lils, they were." James said smirking as Lily glared, "Don't call me that Jimmy." "Oh shut it." James said glaring at her. Emily rolled her eyes, "If you two are finished with your bickering, we have to get to our favorite class of the day." "Potions?" "Nope." "Divination?" Emily glared, "Come on, I know you thick heads have some brains in there somewhere." Emily said rapping on James' head as Lily giggled, "You won't find anything in his head." "Thanks Lily." James said glaring at her again, "Is it with the Syltherin House?" "Yes." "Let's see…not potions…um…oh no…not…." "Herbology." Groans came from the group, "Peachy, I can kick Lucius and Severus' ass in one day." Sirius said as Emily shook her head.
"There will be no 'ass kicking' in my favorite class, that I have been passing for the past six years thank you." "Well, excuse me, miss know-it-all-in-herbology, who was the one that was crying when Severus burnt your monster of a plant." Sirius asked as Emily's eyes became narrow slits, "My plant wasn't a monster, she was a good plant." "Oh yeah, like that time the bloody thing bit me." "You deserved it, you were taunting her." "Remus, tell her the thing was a monster." Sirius said, "Don't drag me into this." Remus said putting his hands up in defense, "Plus, if you hadn't had stuck your finger in her mouth she wouldn't of bit you." Emily said picking up her books and standing, the others following.
She walked ahead and Sirius fell in line with her, "The bloody thing was a monster." "It was not." "Was too." "Was not." "Was." "Not." "Was." "Not!" "WAS!" "NOT!" "WAS!" "Was." "Not! Wait…HEY!" Emily laughed running to the green house Sirius running after her. As they got to the green house Emily stopped sitting on the grass, they were always early, because Emily liked sitting outside and looking in at the plants. The others sat down around them, "What are you guys going to do when we graduate?" Emily asked as Lily bit her lip, "I may go over to America, for a small trip, then come back, I don't know though." She said looking at James, "Well….I'd go anywhere with anyone, normally, but since we're graduating, I may try out for a professional Quidditch team." He said, "You'd definitely make it James, no matter what team, you're a great Seeker." Lily said feeling herself blush the others snickered, "Awe, that's so cute Lily." Emily said as James blushed slightly, "You Emily?" "Well….I can't leave my baby brother can I?" She asked ruffling her brothers already messy black hair, "Knock it off…I thought you were moving out anyway." Vince said as Emily shook her head, "I don't know yet. I may start working for the Ministry. I don't know though." She said looking at Sirius, "Why are you looking at me? I don't know what I'm going to do." "You're an Animagus so you can basically do anything." Kayla said, "True." Sirius answered.
"You Remus?" Sirius asked, "No clue either." He said as James smirked, "Other then raise a group of babies?" He asked as Emily went to whack him he ducked as Sirius laughed high fiving him.
As they sat there they saw the teacher walking foreword, it wasn't their ordinary teacher, she looked…younger, "HOLY SHIT! IS THAT MUM!" Vince practically yelled as Emily clapped her hand to his mouth, "Shush…wait…who's that she's talking to?" She asked squinting her eyes seeing a rather older looking man, his hair was brown, and he looked well built from where Emily was sitting. She stood grabbing Vince's hand, "C'mon, we're doing some eavesdropping." She said dragging her brother behind her. Remus, Sirius, Kayla, Lily, and James looked at each other then followed after the two of them. Emily hid behind a boulder, close enough so she could hear the conversation, "I know this seems to be the wrong time to ask you Mrs. Alden…." "Please, call me Madison." "Very well, Madison, as you probably know, my son, Blaine Birch." "Yes, I've heard of him…" Madison said crossing her arms, "I was wondering if your daughter was able to be engaged to him, if she isn't already taken that is." He said as Madison's face paled. Emily poked her head over the boulder seeing her mom thinking hard, "I know she has a boyfriend…but…I did make a deal with his family, since they've been going out for…quite some time and they've been…well…taking part in physical contact lately, I don't think Blaine would well, want her." Madison backed away slightly as the man bit his lip and his hand disappeared into his cloak, "Very well…" He said as Madison quickly whipped out her wand, she wasn't quick enough, she was hit in the chest with the Avada Kedavra Killing Curse. Emily's eyes went wide, "MUM!" "Emily! No!" Vince said trying to grab his sister as she ran over, "EMILY!" Vince called starting to run after her as a figure with black hair stepped out, he froze, "D-dad…" He stuttered as his wand pointed at Emily, he smirked, "Avada…" "EXPELLIARMUS!" Remus said as his wand flew out of his hand Emily went to grab her mom, but she disappeared, "MUM! MUM!" She yelled as Vince grabbed her, "Emily, stop!" He said as the other man aimed at the group that went to run towards the other two, hitting them with the expelliarmus curse throwing them back as he aimed his wand at Vince and Emily, he smirked, "Avada Kedavra." He said as a shot of red light went towards them Vince dropped Emily then ran as Emily got hit above the eye with the curse throwing her back and slamming her head on the boulder.
Sirius was the first to come too, he sat up as he swayed, dots dancing in front of his eyes. He rubbed them and as his vision came into focus he saw a white haired girl laying on the green grass, "Emily!" He ran foreword and knelt by her pushing her hair back seeing blood running down the left side of her head he ripped off a piece of cloth and wrapped it around her head, felt for a pulse, when he found it, it was very faint, he picked her up then looked at the others as they started to slowly come to, he ran up to Hogwarts and into the Hospital Room, "Madam Pomfrey!" He said out of breath making the nurse turn and seeing the limp form of Emily in his arms she went wide eyed, "Lay her down on the bed, get me some rags, hurry boy!" She said as Sirius nodded and did as told.
Emily had missed a load of classes, and the biggest match against Ravenclaw that Gryffindor ever had. Every once awhile she would be awake when the others visited, or she'd be sleeping, then wake up when they came in. They were happy she was still alive, but the permanent scar was on top of her eyelid to below her eye. She was complaining that she couldn't see out of it, but her eyesight wasn't completely ruined, as Madam Pomfrey thought it would be. One day Remus came in and she wasn't in bed, he looked around for her, "Emily? Emily are you here?" "I'll be there in a second, Remus." She said coming out, leaning on her walking stick, "You shouldn't be up." He said as Emily rolled her eyes, "Okay, mum, whatever you say." She said limping over to her bed then sat down, "Whatcha bring me?" She asked seeing the bag Remus was holding. He laughed sitting next to her. "You don't get any." He said smirking as her mouth dropped then she pouted crossing her arms, "Thanks, I love you too." She said as he laughed, "I didn't say I loved you." "OH ! Quiet you! I know you were thinking it." She said turning her back to him.
Remus shook his head as she pouted even more, "Your face is going to get stuck like that." "Shut up." "Reer, someone didn't wake up on the right side of the bed." "Because your not on the left side." She said smirking as he stared, "That was uncalled for!" "Awe, c'mon don't you miss me?" She asked tilting her head to one side batting her eyelashes. "Nope." Emily glared at him, "Give me the bag." She said diving for it but he held it over his head, "Nuh uh, bad girl." "I've always been a bad girl, GIVE ME!" She said diving again only for him to land on his back and her on top as the door opened Narcissa and Lily stopped laughing and stared as Sirius and James appeared behind them.
"Producing babies again, Remus?" Emily blushed then scrambled off of him seeing the two girls staring and the two boys smirking, "For your information, Potter, we were not." Emily said blushing even more, "Your as red as the fat lady when she tries to break the glass with her voice, so you were." Sirius said as Emily glared, "Were not." "Were" "not" "Oh! Come off it Sirius!" Lily said kicking him. Emily rolled her eyes, "Wot do you guys want?" "Well, if your feeling better," James started, "Syltherin and Gryffindor are having a game, do you want to come?" Narcissa asked as Emily and Remus looked at each other, "Or, you two could stay here, and produce little Remus' and Emily's." Sirius said as Narcissa whacked him, "Your so immature." "OW!" He said as he glared at his cousin, "I wouldn't be talking." He said prodding his cousin's stomach getting a kick on the shin. Emily shook her head, "I'll come, just give me a few minutes." "Great! Grab a coat, it's raining." "Wait, wasn't it raining last time?" "That was Reavenclaw." "Great, let's loose other people while we're at it, fine I'll come." Emily said grabbing her walking stick, that she needed for support anyway, since her knee muscle was pulled from the angle she was laying in (A/N: I've done that, and god is it ever painful.) . Whatever position she landed in, she didn't know how in the world she pulled her quad.
James was up with the rest of the Gryffindor team as Sirius went to make the commentaries as the others went to the Gryffindor side, and across from them, Syltherin stood there. Emily and the others made their way to the front, mostly so Emily didn't have to sit down in the middle of the game, and the other was so that they could see James better. "Alright, it's time for another Quidditch match. Gryffindor vs. Syltherin!" Both sides let out cheers, "First, let's get the Gryffindor team out, since we're special and Syltherin's not.." "Sirius!" "Sorry Professor, anyway, starting us off, is our team captain and seeker, James Potter!" the Gryffindor side cheered as the Syltherin side booed, "YEAH JAMES!" "GO GET THEM JAMES!" "PUT THOSE MORONS WHERE THEY BELONG!" Emily, Kayla, and Lily laughed as Sirius went down the list of names, dissing every Syltherin as he called the names, making the Gryffindor side laugh as the Syltherin team cheered, ignoring the comments.
"Now the Extraordinary James Potter will shake hands with the Scum Bag, signaling that the game will be clean, hah, yeah right, and that the match will be fair, yeah right again." Kayla laughed as Lily and Emily bit their lips. The quaffle was thrown in the air, the bludgers and snitch were released as the game started the quaffle was being intercepted, making it extremely hard for both teams to score on the other, "C'MON JAMES!" Lily yelled as he whizzed by after the snitch. Emily could tell Sirius was getting bored, because he started to fall asleep, Sirius being bored, that wasn't a good sign. "LET'S GO GUYS!" James yelled at the team as they started going after the quaffle again he dove down after the snitch. The snitch was flying low to the ground, "He's going to fall!" Lily said leaning over to see, "That's not good. C'MON JAMES!" Kayla yelled as James went to grab the snitch a bludger came and hit him on the back of the head, "JAMES!" "Oh god." The Gryffindor side whispered trying to see what was going on as both teams flew to the ground, the Syltherin team laughing. Lily went to run down, but Remus grabbed her shirt firmly, "Let go!" "He'll be fine Lily, look." He said as James sat up
Lily let out a sigh of relief, "That's a boy James! Show them that the Gryffindor team NEVER falls!" Kayla shook her head as James looked up to where Sirius was and stuck his tongue out. Emily snickered as the teams mounted their brooms again James was off after the snitch again. The team watched as the quaffle was grabbed and intercepted by both teams, then when Syltherin had it, the Gryffindor keeper, Noah Wood, went to grab it but it had gone in. The other side roared with cheers as the Gryffindor team booed, "It's Syltherin 2 and Gryffindor…………………………………………………………………………..none." Sirius said changing the score, "LET'S GO GUYS!" Kayla yelled as James muttered something going after the snitch again. Soon the two seekers were out of sight and in the clouds, both sides looked up to see if they could see the seekers, or any sign of the snitch, a few minutes later, a broom came down, it's rider missing. Both sides were waiting, either for their player, or another sign of the other. Emily's eyes focused as she narrowed them she looked through the clouds to see James helping the other player onto his broom, even though the girl was reluctant at first, she got on. Emily's eye refocused and saw Kayla looking at her, "James was helping the other Seeker." She said as Lily, Remus, and Vince looked at her, "It's always like him to help." Remus said watching as the other broom descended, "And there's James Potter with….Melanie White!" from the sound of his voice he was more shocked then scared, "Where's the snitch! Or were you too busy helping another player to chase it!" "SHUT UP SIRIUS!" Kayla, Vince, Lily, and Emily yelled up at him as he looked over then flipped them off. James had something clutched in his other hand and held the gold ball in between his fingers, "YES! GRYFFINDOR WINS!" Sirius said as the Gryffindor side cheered the Syltherin side looked confused, also mad that the other team won, "YEAH JAMES!" "WAY TO GO POTTER!" Emily and Lily said as the whole side cheered.
As the teams walked off the Gryffindor side ran back to their common room, well, Lily, Vince, Kayla, Sirius, and Remus held up for Emily as she slowly made her way over to them and they walked to the common room where butterbeer was being sprayed all over the place, "WE DID IT! WE DID IT!" James said as the team tackled him, "We couldn't of done it without you Potter!" Noah said ruffling his hair. Emily sat down on the couch as Sirius held a cup of butterbeer, "I'd like to say something on behalf of James and the team." He said as the older kids started making sounds to quiet the others, "Since this is James' last year at Hogwarts, we did a fine job of kicking some Syltherin ass going out with a bang." He said as the room cheered, "Anyone else want to chip something in?" He asked as Lily stood, "I will, since the seventh years are leaving the end of this term, we'd like to wish you all luck, Wood, and others get us another win, and lead us to the World Cup." She said as she sat down the room whistled, "The next seeker better be good as James, because I don't think anyone would be as good as James, or Noah Wood. They have been the key to our success since 2nd year." Vince said as Emily nodded, "Plus, we will never have a good announcer like Sirius was, with all his witty comments, and the dissing of Syltherin." Noah said as the common room laughed when Sirius took a bow.
"When we leave, we hope that Vince and Kayla don't go off snogging like Remus and Emily." James said as Emily threw a pillow at him, "Bottoms up!" He said grinning as everyone drank down the butterbeer and James belched, "That's disgusting, James." Lily said wrinkling her nose at him, soon all the boys belched and the girls made disgusted faces at them as they laughed. After a few more hours, a few sneaking off to snog, others sleeping on the couch or against each other, and the others were talking until they went upstairs to sleep. Emily and Sirius were the only two left as they looked at their younger siblings, "I'll take Vince up." Sirius said, "Okay, see you in the morning." Emily said standing shaking Kayla awake. Kayla opened her eyes slowly as she sat up as Emily and her went upstairs Vince and Sirius went up to the boy's dorm stepping over a few bodies sprawled out on the floor.
Emily pulled back Kayla's sheets as she crawled in holding her black dog Sirius had given her as a present for her fifth birthday. Emily shook her head, the poor thing had one eye, stuffing coming out of it, a chewed ear, and matted fur. When Emily questioned why she still slept with it, she got rather defensive saying that if Sirius was to ever die she would have it to remind her of him. Emily pulled back her sheets and crawled under them pulling them tightly around her. As she slept many images flashed before her eyes, she closed her eyes tightly gripping the covers as a image showed a figure walking into the girl's dorm, silently, barely breathing, and walked over to her bed silently watching her sleep, then pulled out their wand holding it at her chest. Emily sat up straight gasping looking around the room she grabbed her wand, "Lumos." She whispered as the light at the end of her wand came on she moved it around the room. Her breathing ragged and hard as her heart raced. When she shone the light to her right she jumped ten feet in the air, "Jesus Christ! You gave me a heart attack!" She said rubbing her eyes as Kayla looked at her, "Sorry, I just heard you muttering in your sleep, plus you were tossing and turning." Kayla said sitting on the edge of her bed, "You alright?" "Wot? Oh, yeah, I'm fine, just a bad dream, that's all." She said shrugging. Kayla shook her head, "Well, get some sleep, I heard N.E.W.T's are this year." "Yeah, harder then the O.W.L's." Emily said as Kayla smiled then went back to her bed and fell back asleep. Emily sighed looking at her wand then whispered, "Nox." As the light went out she laid back down falling asleep.
The next morning there was a hustle about the Girl's Dorm, Emily opened her eyes, "Wot's going on?" She asked rubbing her eyes, "I don't know." Kayla said as they both went down to the common room seeing the other students still there, "Wot's going on? Aren't we suppose to be at breakfast?" Emily asked as she walked over to the boys, "We can't, there's been a dark wizard going around, apparently, killing people, and said to be in the castle." Vince answered, "Most of the students are leaving, because their parents are saying it's too dangerous." Remus said, standing by his trunk, "Your leaving?" Emily asked blinking, "Yes, James, Sirius, Kayla, and Lily are too." He said as Emily looked at her brother, "Did we get any word if we were leaving?" "None, I don't think Uncle Blake would want two Gryffindor kids in his house." "We have no where to go, unless, that is, we go back to our house by ourselves." Emily said. Vince shook his head, "The killer is aiming for kids that are alone." "So, what your saying is, all the houses are leaving, besides us?" "Pretty much." "Great." Emily said sitting on the couch sighing, "You guys can stay with me." James said sitting on his trunk, "Thanks, but, I don't want to put your family in danger also." She said.
A few hours went by and the common room slowly filed out as Professor McGonagell told them it was fine to leave, but to line up by grade, first years being first, "Are you sure you don't want to stay with me?" James asked as he hugged Emily, "Yeah, I'm sure." She said giving him a half hearted smile. Lily hugged Emily, "Be careful…okay?" She said as Emily nodded, "I will, keep in touch." She said as Lily smiled, clearly trying not to cry. Lily got beside James as he put an arm around her, "Alden." "Black." Emily said as Sirius held out his hand and she shook it, "Don't cause trouble, I expect a letter every day, if possible." He said as she smiled, "Don't worry. Mum, I'll be careful, and I'll write to you when I can." She said giving him an awkward hug. They had never hugged, plus they were like brother and sister, the way they fought with each other, and it was a very awkward moment for both of them. Kayla and Vince hugged then kissed as Emily snickered when Vince blushed, "Don't worry Kayla, I watch after him for ya, make sure he stays in line." She said as Kayla smiled shaking her head. Remus smiled at Emily and she smiled back giving him a hug also, "Bye…" she said as he kissed her cheek, "We'll be back, hopefully." He said as she shook her head. As the common room completely emptied out, Kayla, Lily, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter took a final look back at Emily and Vince, who smiled weakly then waved 'bye' to them. Lily and Kayla started to cry as they walked out. Emily bit her lip as her eyes watered, only Merlin knew what graduation was going to be like, if they came back.
Professor McGonagell frowned at the two Alden children as the door closed. Emily couldn't hold it in, as she stared at the door tears started to fall. She ran to the window and looked out of it seeing James, Sirius, Kayla, Lily, Remus, and Peter going to their families. She put her hand on the window as the rain fell the six of them looked up at the Gryffindor common room window as Emily smiled at them weakly, tears falling still. As she watched she saw James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter turn quickly, clearly not letting her see the tears in their eyes. Lily and Kayla sobbed as they looked at Emily then waved as she waved back. As Emily watched she saw Narcissa and Bella with their aunt and uncle.
Narcissa rolled her eyes and started walking, Bella following, as the rest of the family followed them, Kayla looked over her shoulder waving desperately as Vince appeared in the window. Vince smiled and waved back to her, "I'm going to miss them…" Vince said as he looked to where his sister was, supposedly standing a few minutes ago, "Em? Emily?" Vince looked around for his sister then saw the door open and the flick of her cloak. He sighed running after her, "Emily! It's not safe!" He called as she ignored him and kept running.
She ran through the doors then tackled James to the ground, "OOF!" "Emily!" Vince said out of breath as his sister clung to James, as if life depended on it, "You can't leave me here alone!" She said into his shirt. James, feeling very awkward at the moment, looked at Remus who shrugged, "Err….it's okay Emily." James said patting her back as she clung onto him, "Emily, we need to go inside." Vince said trying to pry his sister off of James, "NO LET GO!" She said as Lily, Kayla, and Sirius stopped to watch, "I don't want them to go!" "Emily, stop acting like a fucking bloody five year old and let go of James!" Vince said trying to get her off of him again. Emily kicked him where it hurts making him bit his lip and suck in air. Emily clung to James tighter as the rain fell harder, "C'mon James." Mrs. Potter said, "I'd like to mum, but I have my friend clinging to me." He said pointing at Emily, "She doesn't like being alone, plus, her mother was…was murdered." James said feeling Emily's nails dig into him he winced, "She can't stay with us James." "Why? She did once." "We only have three bedrooms, unless she wants to sleep on the floor, we can't have Vince in the house." "We'll let him stay!" Kayla piped up as Narcissa, Bella, Sirius, and her parents rose an eyebrow at her, "Can we mum? Please! I promise he won't cause any trouble." "Yeah, he won't, you will." Sirius said as Kayla growled at him. The Blacks looked at each other then Kayla, "Fine, he can stay, until your allowed to go back to Hogwarts." Mister Black said as Kayla beamed and hugged her parents, "Thank you! Thank you!" She said as Vince smirked.
James looked at his parents that looked at each other, "Okay, Emily can stay." "YES!" Both said as Remus and Lily smiled, "At least we'll be next to each other." "Yup." Emily said as her trunk appeared behind her and Vince's trunk did the same, "See yeah." "Later, see you when school opens up again." Emily said as her, Remus, Lily, and James walked away and the Black family went the other way with Vince.
HL: Want to know who the killer is? –smirks- too bad you have to wait for the next chapter –sticks tongue out-
TBC..
