The Blood Clan and the Marauders
Raziel Tepes: Sure. She just likes a lot of human blood. Hehehe. Well, instead of babbling and eventually giving away the few things you won't guess in advance (I'm bad with plots!) I'll just let you read the story.
Dicslaimer: Same as before people.
Now, the dorky title comes from the fact that I'm lacking sleep...a lot!!!!(Again)
Chapter 10: Being Late Seems to Be Contagious
Elizabeth stopped running and leaned on the cold wall, panting slightly. She had no idea where she was in the castle. She hadn't paid attention to where she was going. She knew she had made a lot of turns and went up quite a few stairs, but that was all. She closed her eyes and Sirius' shocked face came back to haunt her mind. Why had she done such a thing?! By the end of the day, the whole school would probably know. She didn't know what she was going to do.
In an expression of her emotions, she punched the wall with all her strength. It cracked and a small piece, about the size of a tea cup, fell on the ground. For a moment, she looked at the wall with surprise. She didn't linger on that for long, though. She heard someone walking and she began to get nervous. What if Sirius had ran to the Headmaster or something right away? Maybe they were already looking for her in hope of catching her before she ran away.
"I'm late! Oh, no! I'm late!" she heard a voice squeak. "Why didn't they wait for me? They know I don't remember the passages the way they do."
Elizabeth frowned as she realized the voice was familiar to her. She closed her eyes and sniffed the air once. Her nervousness only grew as she recognized Peter's odor. She looked around for an escape route, but the only other way than where the boy was coming from was going back on her tracks. She didn't want to do that at all. She took a deep breath and turned to face Peter, all the while standing in front of the damaged wall.
Only seconds after, a very nervous looking Peter turned the corner, looking around frantically. He saw her and his eyes lit up. He walked towards her, almost breaking into a run.
"Lizzie! You're late too!" he exclaimed, looking relieved. "If I'm not he only one I guess it's not as bad...and, huh, you know how to go to the classroom from here, right?"
"Late? Classroom?" she asked Peter, who seemed to panic once more. "Right."
He seemed to settle down and looked expectantly at her. She almost told him to go on his own for some bogus reason, but she stopped at the last second. She looked at a window only a few meters away from them. She could see the dark clouds and the lightning. She walked to it, followed by a very confused and intrigued Peter, who remained silent. He thought that maybe she was trying to figure out the fastest way to the classroom. Elizabeth looked down at the school grounds and the Dark Forest, lost in her dark thoughts.
"Where would I go anyway?" she thought. "What would I do? I'd have to run away all the time; to hide all the time. I would be caught by somebody at some point. I'd rather have wizards than werewolves or vampires capturing me. I have no idea what they'd do to me, but it can't be as bad as what the others would do. I guess that I should go and deal with what will happen."
She turned around and looked at Peter, who was trying to bend down with all his books to pick up the one that he had apparently dropped .
"I don't want to face my friends' anger and rejection, but I know they feel that way anyway. I also don'T want to see them get hurt, so I have to warn the Headmaster about the werewolves or all the students and teachers will be killed."
Peter managed to catch the fallen book, but as he tried to straighten up, two of the other ones fell on the ground. HE let out a contradicted sounding moan as he looked at them with apprehension. Elizabeth smiled somewhat sadly and went to help him with his books.
"I forgot mine, so I'll help you." she offered. "And why do you have so many books for anyway?"
"Oh! It's just that I didn't remember what was the exact name of the book Lily said I should read if I had trouble with Transfiguration, so I took them all from the library to show them to her."
Elizabeth shook her head and started to walk the way she had come.
"I'm not sure of the exact way, but I'm pretty sure we have to go down at least 2 or 3 floors."
Lily was sitting in the back of the Transfiguration classroom beside James and Remus, trying to follow the class. James looking at the pictures in his textbook with a bored look and sometimes gave Remus a worried glance. Remus himself seemed to listen to McGonagall's lecture, but he was actually lost in his thoughts. It was apparent to his friends for he wasn't taking any notes as he usually did.
The door opened with a small creaking sound all the students turned around to see who it was. McGonagall stopped talking and glared severely at the new comers, who happened to be Elizabeth and Peter. They walked silently to two empty places just behind Lily and James. Elizabeth could feel her heart racing, but it seemed they hadn't been told anything yet. She tried to seem natural as she put the books she was carrying in front of Peter and sat down on her chair.
"Where were you?" Lily asked, looking as severe as the teacher.
"What the heck are these?!" James asked Peter as he pointed the many books with bewilderment.
"I got lost and found him. I think he got lost trying to take a secret passage." Elizabeth answered as Peter repeated the explanation he had given her to James.
"You're such an idiot." James told Peter, slapping his own forehead with his hand.
"Potter!" McGonagall warned him.
The boy turned around rapidly as he received a slap from his girlfriend. Elizabeth realized she didn't even have something to write on and nervously held her hands together in front of her on the desk. It probably wouldn't be long before somebody came for her anyway.
Just as McGonagall resumed her lecture the door once again interrupted her, letting Sirius in. She gave him an even more severe glare. He was now all dried up, probably from a spell, but didn't have more books than Elizabeth. He let out a small laugh and rubbed the back of his head.
"I got lost trying to find the Gryffindor Tower to get my books and found myself around here, so I thought I should come right away." he said.
"Instead of making stupid excuses, Mr. Black, you should just sit down and ask someone to share his books and things with you." McGongall told him, obviously not finding him funny, unlike some of the students.
"Yes, m'am." he said before walking to the empty seat next to Remus.
Elizabeth looked down at the ground, trying not to look at Sirius at all cost. The boy had either not seen her or ignored for he sat down beside Remus without talking to her. Remus gave him a quill and some paper to write, not saying a word.
"Hey, Remus, didn't McGonagall give any new lectures?" Sirius asked, confused, as he looked at his friend's empty sheet.
James showed him his own notes, which filled an whole sheet, and Sirius frowned. Lily pulled James arm down before the teacher saw him and gave Sirius then same look she had given Elizabeth and Peter.
"Where were you?" she asked him, whispering. "Lizzie and Peter got lost. That's plausible, but not for you."
"Lizzie didn't get lost." he replied, shaking his head.
The said girl, held her breath and felt her heart skip a beat as he spoke these words. She shut her head up. This was the moment she dreaded so much. Sirius turned his head towards her and then looked back at Lily.
"I should now. We were together." he exlpained.
"And what were you doing?" James asked with a grin, earning a second slap from his girlfriend.
"We were talking. Lizzie told me a little about her family...A real special bunch. They'd get along well with mine, I think."
Elizabeth was now completely confused and the only reason she didn't ask him anything was that she couldn't find the will to speak. She just wanted to hear what he was going to say, even though it would probably be her condemnation.
"We also got caught by the rain, so...that's why were late."
He turned around genlty threw a piece of folded paper on Elizabeth's desk, before turning back to the front of the class. Lily, James and Peter gave her and Sirius suspicious looks, but turned their attention back to the lesson.
Lizzie unfolded the paper and read it:
Hey!
And I thought I had a weird life! Jeez! Okay, now that I said it, let's move on to what I really wanted to tell you.
I guess you're not evil because if you were, there'd be some girls that would have been bit by you...somebody would have said something. I'd say you could be the one that killed Drannaor, but it does look more like a werewolf's doing. As for the Slytherins, it would mean that Remus is innocent, right? So that is a point in favor of your story.
I guess it'll be weird to have a half-vampire as a friend, but can it really be worst than a werewolf? At least, you control your acts al the time...right? I have to say that we'd have to eventually tell the others, I don't like to keep secrets from them. Well, maybe we shouldn't tell Peter.
We'll talk later.
Sirius
P.S. - You must have all kinds of cool powers, huh?
She folded the paper and smiled sadly, looking a Sirius' back as he listened to McGonagall. She was very happy that he thought that, but she had to warn him that if she remained here she would have to stop the werewolves. Those who would know of her nature and the artifact would probably be dragged in the battle, in the war.
