Youth Lost Is Never Forgotten by Jasmine Starlight

Disclaimer: "Bwah!" said Voldemort.

Finally, this chapter is dedicated to my first reviewer for this fic. Wind-Sorceress-Pluto. Thanks.

CHAPTER THREE

CONFRONTATIONS

"So, Lily, where do you want to go on our first date?" James asked her smugly.

"I don't care, so long as someone kills me after." she said, head buried in her hands.

Mock saluting, "Will do!" said Arabella. Lily glared at her.

Setsuna sighed, "Look, Lily why don't you just kick Potter out of the compartment, so we can finish what we were talking about."

Falling to the floor, clutching his chest, "Meioh, how could you, you've betrayed me."

Rolling her eyes, "I was never on your side to begin with and it's Setsuna."

Remus blinked, "What were you talking about before?" he asked curiously.

Lily and Arabella looked at Setsuna at her nod Lily explained. "Well, we were trying to get Sev and Akio back together."

"Why would you want to help Snivellus?" at Remus' pointed look he said, "Er… I mean Snape."

"Because if we don't he'll be bitter and angry at you guys for the rest of his life. Do you really want that?" replied Setsuna.

James shook his head, "Well, are you in or not?" she asked.

"Why do you trust us?" asked Remus.

"Because," she replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Lily and Arabella trust you two, well, Remus at least."

"So, are you in or do you want to find another compartment to loiter around in?"

Looking at Remus, James shrugged, "It's not I have anything better to do."

At Remus' nod, leaning toward James she said, "Now, Potter, how are you with unbelievably intricate plans?"

AKIO

What I am supposed to do now? Akio thought confusedly.

"So, where does that take us now?" she asked rather dazedly.

Snogging would be nice Severus' mind said slyly. "Want to snog?" he blurted out. Absolutely brilliant Severus, I couldn't have put it better my self.

I would love to snog you 24/7 instead she said, "Okay."

Moving herself to the seat next to him they proceeded to do exactly that. Up yours brain, I'm snogging her.

SIRIUS

When Sirius had finally located his friends' compartment the sight that greeted him was not the sight he wished to see.

Remus and Arabella were obviously in a deep debate over something, it must have been important because Arabella was getting quite heated.

Lily, James and some girl seemed to be in serious conversation about something.

Noticing that no one had yet realized his arrival Sirius coughed loudly.

Looking up Remus said, "About time you got here, lazy bugger."

"What, no hugs? No food? No cool beverages? And here I thought you all would have missed me." he said mock hurt.

"Lazy buggers like you don't deserve hugs, food, or cool beverages." said James.

Setsuna tensed up, How the hell am I supposed to get out of here without Black noticing?!!

Lily thinking quick, loudly shouted, "Sirius, the food cart is here!"

Sirius ever searching for food to supply his enormous appetite responded in typical Sirius fashion, "What?! Where?!"

Sure enough the compartment door opened and the matronly witch serving snacks asked, "Anything off the cart, dearies?"

Lily sighed in relief; Sirius would be too preoccupied with his food to notice Setsuna's presence in the compartment, thus enabling her to make a quick getaway to avoid carnage.

Unfortunately the best laid plans never go off without a hitch or two. In the commotion that Sirius had caused and James too (to help further conceal Setsuna) had not been enough, for Sirius had noticed the presence of another person in the compartment.

"Who's that?" he whispered loudly to Remus, who smacked a hand to his forehead.

Setsuna felt like slapping something very, hard. Or someone. Someone with a last name that rhymed with "tack."

"You really don't know?" asked James suspiciously, Sirius could be really elaborate with pranks when it came to Setsuna. She couldn't have changed that much in two years. Could she?

"No I don't. Who is she?" he said rudely.

Something sparked inside of Setsuna, apparently being his tormentee for three years didn't warrant a space in Black's memory banks.

"Wow, Black, you're even dumber than you look." she said snidely.

At this he bristled, "I really don't know you."

Setsuna rolled her eyes and muttered, "Kami, I can't believe I'm going to do this twice in one day," taking a deep breath she imitated Sirius, "God, James, who dyes their hair green?"

Sirius' eyes looked about ready to bug out of his head. "Meioh?" he asked incredulously.

"I hate to use clichés but, duh."

"What are you doing in a compartment full of Gryffindors, aren't afraid of catching our lion germs or something?" he sneered.

"No, just yours." she replied, sugar sweet.

"Why don't you go find somewhere to slither off to?"

"Real original, Black. Ooh, slithering, I'm in Slytherin, how creative. Next time why don't you try something that requires neurons?" she said patronizingly.

"Go to hell." he snarled.

"Been there, done that, got the t-shirt." she said boredly.

At that Sirius started growling like, well, like a dog.

"Well, Black, this conversation has been very stimulating, but I have to go find Narcissa."

"Aww, missing your girlfriend?" he sneered.

"Not as much as miss your boyfriend. But I am a total lesbian. Really I am. I now have to go protect my girlfriend from her stalker, Lucius."

"Learn to count Meioh, Malfoy graduated two years ago."

"I realize that, but you know Lucius is a very slippery snake. He uses the train to get to Hogsmeade, even though he could floo there in half the time. He uses the train to "woo" Narcissa. Personally I prefer the term "harass", but that's just me."

"Why do you bother? They're getting married anyway."

"So? That means that he can force himself onto her? Great looking out for the family, Black." she said sarcastically, giving him the thumbs up.

Sirius glared, "I do look out for family."

"Right, everyone else's family but your own."

"Don't talk about things you don't know anything about." he said angrily.

"Right, I don't how Narcissa is the evilest creature to ever walk the earth. No wait that's Bellatrix. She always goes out of her way to torture the Firsties in Gryffindor. No that's Bellatrix. She always picks any Muggle-borns she sees. No that's also Bellatrix. So if Bellatrix is doing all those things then maybe Narcissa isn't so evil. Andromeda graduated last year, who's going to fend off Lucius, now? You? You don't care enough to know what she's actually like." Setsuna scoffed.

Sirius just glared, "Whatever, I don't have time to explain the concept of family to you, Black. Bye guys." she said as she disappeared into the corridor.

Turning to James Sirius he asked calmly, "What was that about?"

"What was what about?" James asked innocently.

"You know what I mean. Answer the question."

"Really, don't know what you're talking about, Si." James continued still innocent.

"Don't give me that crap. You can't lie for shit Jim, I want to know what you were doing talking to a Slytherin." he replied angrily.

"What's the problem here? We were talking." Remus interjected.

"What's the problem? You're asking me what's the problem? You were talking to an effing Slytherin. A snake." he attempted to continued his tirade of derogatory comments about Slytherins but he was interrupted.

"You know, I don't know where you get off treating Setsuna like that. Did it ever occur to you that Slytherins are people too? Maybe they have feelings, as well." said Lily irritatedly.

"Lily! Snape was torturing you for years! How can you say that when you have first hand experience of what it's like for a Slytherin to torture you."

"You know, the funny thing about that was he only started doing that when you started picking on him. He's also apologized for that, you haven't, though."

"Why do I owe you an apology? I didn't do anything to you!" Sirius exclaimed exasperatedly.

"Not to me, you moron! To him!"

"Him?! What are you off your rocker?! He is a Slytherin, S-L-Y-T-H-E-R-I-N. They're all evil! Have you not been going to this school for the past five years?!"

"You were at fault too. As I recall, he started picking on me because you picking on him."

"I was only getting revenge for what he did to you."

"And what was that exactly?" asked Lily.

"I dunno. Maybe he was doing it to boost his ego or maybe he gets a kick out of picking on people weaker than him-" here Lily cut him off.

"What were you doing?"

At Sirius' guilty silence she continued, "That's you no better than him. At least he apologized and grew up. You still haven't, and we're still waiting on that." she said sagely.

"I'm not apologizing to that evil, future Death Eater, sniveling, greasy haired-"

"He's not evil!" Lily shouted once again.

"Yes he is!" Sirius shouted back.

"Well, you apologize to him or to Setsuna, take your pick, either way you're apologizing."

"Why am I supposed to be apologizing to Meioh?" he asked incredulously.

"The same reason you should be apologizing to Sev."

"Oh, you call him Sev, now?"

"Yea, I am. What're you going to do about?" she asked, her eyebrow rising.

"I thought so." said Lily.

END

I used 'apologize' a lot. Oh well.

Kami- God.