Chapter 1: Marauders Strike Again

Lily Marie Evans was laying on her bed, gazing at the ceiling as a soft chilly breeze from her open window swept around her almost cradling her in a weightless blanket. She sighed heavily as she began to think about how the summer holiday had passed so quickly. She recalled spending half of the holiday with her best friend, Hallie Daniels, riding a chestnut brown horse through an open valley and spending time at the beach running and skipping among the open water. Those had been the most cheerful times of her life. But those times had quickly changed as she learned that the mischievous James Potter lived just a couple of houses down from Hallie. James had spent almost every hour that Lily remained with Hallie bugging her as usual.

She loathed James. For the past 6 years of her life, she constantly had been bickered by James, who, like many other guys at Hogwarts, had an almost painfully large crush on her. But James wasn't like the rest of the guys at Hogwarts. Most of the people were sweet and kind and would probably tend to Lily's every need if they dated her. James was an arrogant boy who, in Lily's opinion, spent too many years on a broomstick.

Lily sat up in her bed and crossed to the open window and sighed as she realized that this would be her last night at her house before she would be traveling back to Hogwarts. Lily loved school, but the idea of having to spend another entire year with James was nauseating.

Lily finished packing her trunk with the necessary materials she needed for her learning needs. Lily couldn't help be but nervous, as this was her seventh and final year of schooling and her NEWT testing would be coming up soon. Her NEWTs results would determine whether she would be able to fulfill her goals of becoming an auror. The idea of having dark wizards running about.

Lily placed her new Head Girl badge on her bedside table. She couldn't help but be curious of who would be Head Boy, as they would share the Head's Dorm. Yawning, Lily pulled back her sheets on her bed and flicked off her lamp. She rested her head on her pillow before falling into a deep sleep.

"Oh, Prongs, oh boy, what is Snivellus going to say when he sees you with that Head Boy badge? I'd like to see the look on his face, the old dust bag," Sirius stated, packing socks into his cauldron. "I still don't see what's gotten into Dumbledore. You, Head Boy? I always thought of Moony getting the name."

"Me too. I thought I had the chance of becoming Head Boy as Wormtail has of dating Evans." James replied as he gazed at his badge. "Who do you reckon Head Girl will be?"

"Isn't that obvious? Evans, of course. She's got the whole bloody staff twisted around her little finger. Wonder what she will say, though… She'll probably be appalled at the idea of you two sharing a dorm."

James smiled at this. He was going to spend a whole year sleeping within a few steps of Lily. James began to believe that this was his year. He was going to get Lily Evans if it killed him. His like of her went so deeply that he believed this feeling could turn into love.

"It's getting late," James began, "don't you think we should turn in before mum comes up here and has to wrestle us into bed?"

"Wrestling with Nicolette Potter? Hmm… Sounds very erotic!" Sirius said, grinning.

"Ew, Padfoot, that's my mother you're talking about… Let's go to bed."

James laid down in his four-poster bed which was similar to the one he dawned at Hogwarts. He was excited. A new year and a new chance with Lily Evans.

Lily woke the next morning very early as she was very apprehensive of her first day as Head Girl and as entering her seventh year. She dressed in one of her favorite Muggle outfits and ran downstairs to have breakfast before the long trip on the Hogwarts express.

"Hey mum! Hey dad!" Lily said as she reached the landing in her 3 story house. She kissed her mother, who was at the stove flipping pancakes and pecked her father on the cheek, who was reading his newspaper.

"Hello Petunia, gorgeous day, isn't it?" Lily said smiling at her sister.

"The sun isn't even up you prat! But yes, I do think this is a good day as you're leaving to your little freak school. I hope you catch fire and don't come home."

"Petunia, don't speak to your sister like that! Good of you to be quiet for once." Joanne Evans said. (A/N: Lily's mum.)

Lily rolled her eyes, seeing her sister was still going about rejecting her for what she was. She glanced at the clock. 9:30. She had plenty of time to make it to Kings Cross.

10:30.

"JAMES, SIRIUS ARE YOU UP YET?" Nicolette yelled up the stairs at her son and his friend.

James rolled over in his bed, seeing Sirius, was snoring loudly, having the blankets of his bed falling to the ground and one of his legs stuck straight up in the air. James sniggered and seized the opportunity to wake Sirius with a bang.

James grabbed his wand and flicked it over at Sirius. Icy cold water gushed out of his wand and hit Sirius in the face. Sirius woke with a start.

"What the bloody hell was that?" Sirius yelled, scrambling to get out of his bed.

James, who had cleverly stuck his wand behind his back said, "I have no idea, must have been a ghost. But come on, mum's having a fit. It's 10:30 and we're supposed to be at King's Cross about now."

"Right then." Sirius yawned, scratching his head.

The two boys got ready and had a quick breakfast before being shoved into a Ministry car that James' father, Michael, had borrowed. 10:45. In James' opinion, that was plenty of time to reach Kings Cross.

Lily kissed her mother and father before walking into Kings Cross station, pulling a trolley with her trunk and her pet owl, Snow, on it. She was quite excited for school. She was excited for the work and the exciting lessons. She loved the homework and didn't see why any other person didn't like it as much as she did.

Lily was excited for school for only a short while as she saw James Potter, who was talking to Sirius Black. That wasn't such a big deal, until she saw that he was wearing a Head Boy badge. That had to be a joke. He was only using it as a joke, right? She certainly hoped so. She did not want to spend an entire year living with him.

Whoops. She had looked over at him for too long. James broke his conversation off with Sirius. Sirius went onto the train, carrying some sort of sack and James started to approach Lily, chest puffed out as if to emphasize his badge. Lily couldn't help but notice that he had looked more muscular and his hair was done different since the last time she had seen him at Hallie's. He almost looked… "No, stop it Lily," she said to herself, "Wake up."

"Evans."

"Potter."

"I see you've made Head Girl. I'm Head Boy, you see," he said pointing to his chest, "Pretty impressive, don't you think?"

"That's a horrible joke. Don't you think you should be giving that back to Remus?"

He laughed. "Very funny, Evans. This is mine. I suppose this means that we'll be rooming! Great, huh? Excited?"

"Ecstatic." She replied sarcastically.

Sirius came from back off the train and came over to where James and Lily were conversing.

"It's all set!" Sirius whispered a bit loudly to James.

"Fantastic." James replied, grinning broadly.

"What's all set?" Lily asked.

"You'll see. You might want to move over here." James said, pointing to a spot behind him. "Crouch down. You'll thank me later."

Lily did what she was told and James put his arm around her as if he was comforting her from serious illness.

Sirius, who was crouching near the two was starting to count down.

"3...2...1...Action!"

A green, oozing type of jelly liquid was smashing it's way out of the train's doors and windows. They could hear angry shouts coming from the train and a figure emerged from the train door.

"BLACK! POTTER!"

It was Severus Snape. Sirius, James, and Lily all despised Snape for his rude gestures toward Muggle borns. They hated him, practically.

"What the hell is this stuff! It's burning like mad!"

"What're you asking us for, Snivellus? It looks like your greasy residue to me. What do you guys think?" James said, releasing Lily and standing up, putting his hands in his pockets.

Sirius and Lily shook their heads. Normally, Lily would have objected. But this was different. She suddenly felt rebellious.

"See, Snivelly, a little soap once and a while would cure this mess." Lily said, surprised at her own words.

James and Sirius looked at her disbelievingly. They too seemed to be surprised at what she had said.

"Shut up you…" Snape began, but Lily cut him off.

"Mudblood? Yes, yes, Snivellus. Getting a little childish, aren't we? I've heard it so many times to last me a lifetime that I don't give a damn anymore."

"Well thanks to your bloody friends here, I'll be spending time in the hospital wing. Of course, I'm going to point all evidence at those two." he said, pointing his finger at James and Sirius.

"How could it possibly be their fault? They don't need to monitor your cleanliness, do they?"

"It was bubotuber puss, you idiot."

"Well the two of them have been here this whole time with me talking, do you really expect them to be in two places at once?"

"Yeah, you filthy little scumbag. Do you think we have a Time Turner or something? My God, Prongs… You don't reckon we've been doing Dark Magic again?" Sirius said, putting emphasis on "Dark Magic."

"Jeez, Padfoot, I don't think we did."

"You're an absolute idiot, Potter. I'm going to blame this all on you!"

"But I have a witness." He pointed over at Lily. "And I do believe that the teachers will trust dear Lily more than they will you."

"Shut it, Potter."

Snape walked away, pushing the bubotuber puss off of his fingers. After he was far out of hearing range, Lily turned to James and Sirius.

"Did you guys seriously do that?"

"Yes, I 'seriously' did." Sirius replied, grinning.

Sirius pointed his wand at the train and said, "scorgify!"

"The Marauders strike again." James said, boarding the train.

Sirius and Lily followed him in and began on their quest to find their friends.