AN: Thanks for the reviews, love to hear feedback from those who are reading this. Happy you guy's are enjoying the fluff. And yes, I'm well I aware that I write a lot. I have way to much free time on my hands and at the current moment I am juggling three active Fanfic's around. Although at the current moment, this obviously is my favorite…thus why it's getting updated…yet again.

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Chapter Eleven

(October. 23rd, 1976)

Lily and Kit sat at the Gryffindor table, heads bent together as Lily checked over Kit's homework for Herbology which she had to turn in after lunch. On Thursdays, they were both always the first ones in the Great Hall, their classes were right next to each other and the classrooms were relatively close to the Great Hall. After a few minutes of reading Kit's paper on mugwort, Lily gave it her stamp of approval just as the boys were wandering in from their Potions class.

"Do you girls ever do anything but study?" Had been the question voiced by Sirius as he dropped himself on the table bench, sitting opposite from Kit and Lily. Remus took his seat next to Kit and without a word started to fill up a plate for her, James took his usual seat next to Lily, and Peter climbed onto the bench next to Sirius before filling his plate up with everything and anything he could get his hands on.

"Well, occasionally we snog our boyfriends, and read fashion magazines…" Lily replied with a grin, giving James a quick peck on the lips for good measure before filling her own plate up with a few fresh fruits. Kit nodded at that, but still said nothing. Like usual, Remus was really the only one that had got to hear her talk a lot, although lately Lily was getting the girl to open up more and more.

"It's not healthy to study at lunch." Sirius said, stabbing his piece of chicken with vengeance.

"Someone sounds angry." James and Remus said at nearly the same time, causing a sneer from Sirius.

"That's because Chloe Brown dumped him during our Muggle Studies class." Peter said, looking up from his plate for just a moment, before earning a smack to the back of the head from Sirius.

"She didn't dump me…it was mutual."

The moment that had been said from Sirius, the mail owl's started to pour into the Great Hall from the rafters. As usual nothing came for Kit, Lily received a Daily Prophet, while both Peter and James received letters from home. As their mail was read, the table stayed silent while picking at their food. Kit was currently working on cutting up a piece of chicken when she was nudged rather violently by Lily.

Lily was slightly frantic, no one else seemed to notice though because they were busy with their own food or mail. Kit raised a brow in question, but Lily pointed down to the wizarding newspaper. Kit's stomach dropped to the floor and the fork she had been holding fell out of her hand to clatter onto her plate as her eyes looked over the article.

Muggle-borns were being killed left and right. The only thing that connected all the murders was a symbol that floated above their homes after they were killed. The noise from Kit's fork clattering, caused the boys to be jousted out of their own little worlds. Lily wasted no time in putting the paper in the middle of the table so the boys could read.

It was obvious why Lily had reacted in such a way, it was obvious why Kit reacted in such a way…they were both Muggle-borns.

The article told about how it was assumed that there was a dark wizard gaining power, and he apparently wanted to get rid of those who had dirty blood. Both Lily and Kit had turned slate white, and their boyfriends didn't exactly know what to do, except to comfort them.

"Nothing will happen to you two while you're at Hogwarts." James started as he put his arm around Lily, pulling her close.

"This is the safest place to be." Remus finished, doing the exact same thing for Kit, pulling her as close as their bodies would let them be.

"Dumbledore hasn't even said anything about it" Sirius said, "So it probably isn't that bad."

Although, Lily and Kit shared the same look…

They really weren't sure if they could believe what the boys were saying.

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Kit's day only got worse as it went on, during Dinner, Remus had sheepishly told her that he had detention with Professor Flatwick for disturbing charms class. Although, it really wasn't his fault that Sirius had the bright idea of shoving a fiery feather down Remus's robes. Sure the boys laughed about it, but since Remus had been the one to originally yelp and disturb class while trying to get the feather out of his robes, he was the one that would be serving detention.

It didn't worry Kit that much. Instead of going up to the dormitories to hang out with the gang after Dinner she simply made her way towards the library alone. After all, she really still didn't feel that comfortable with them without Remus around yet.

She was drumming her fingers on the table she sat at, Kit for some reason was nervous. In the back of her mind, she knew without a doubt that something would happen because she went off alone. She knew. Kit wasn't lucky enough to be left alone if she was by herself.

Although, when nothing happened while she was in the library for two hours, she figured that it must just be paranoia after reading that article in the newspaper. Once she finished her homework, books where shut and stuffed back into her book bag which was then slung over her shoulders before she made her way out of the library, giving a small wave to Madam Pince as she did so.

Although, Kit wouldn't be lucky enough to get through the night without a problem. She was halfway back to the Gryffindor Tower, when a voice sneered behind her. "Imagine that, a Mud-blood all alone, and here I thought you ran in packs." She bit her bottom lip, as the cold voice hit her ears. Turning around, it was quite obvious that a Slytherin was behind her. They were the only filth low enough to call someone a mud-blood.

Regulus Black. Kit's heart stopped when she seen him. He was in her year, he even had some classes with her. She had been fairly certain he didn't know that she existed. Although now that she was seen around his older brother…

She blinked, he stepped forward, and she stepped back coming in contact with the wall.

"I don't understand how my brother can stand to be around dirty blood like you." He said, apparently he had inherited the evil genes while Sirius got the good ones. She bit her bottom lip, it really was best not to speak in a situation like this. God, she barely even knew Sirius…and yet his brother was still hounding her because she hung around him. It wasn't fair.

After a moment or two of silence he finally spoke again, obviously a little annoyed at the fact Kit refused to speak or fight back. "You being around him gives him a bad name, you and that Evans girl. I want you to stay away from him." His tone was even and full of ice, all Kit wanted to do was scream at him that the only reason she was even around Sirius was because she was dating Remus and Remus happened to be his friend.

It had been a mistake on her point when she actually said that to him, "I only hang around Sirius because he's Remus's friend." It was quiet, and almost unheard…unfortunately, Regulus seemed to have superb hearing.

One moment she was standing there, trying her hardest to defend herself and not cower in fear, and the next moment Kit was on the ground. Regulus was rather fast, and his arm stretched out, fist hitting her face in a punch, causing the back of her head to hit the castle wall with a crack.

"You are filth…don't you dare speak to me." With that Regulus retreated, Kit watched with blurred vision as his feet carried him away.

At that moment Kit was reminded of her father, and that caused her to shiver rather violently. Her head hurt, her vision swam, and as she reached to feel the back of her head she could feel a sticky liquid. She didn't have to look at her hand to find out that it was blood.

For the first time in her life, Kit was punched because she was a mud-blood. Sure, she knew that some people looked down upon her because of her parentage…but never did she think that something like that would happen, and for something silly like hanging around Sirius whom she barely even talked too.

She struggled to get up, and as she did so needed to use the wall to hold herself up as her sight blurred. Her head hurt, she was well aware how hard people could punch, but she was surprised he didn't use some sort of curse or hex on her. Standing there in the hall, she was really unsure of what to do. Should she go to the hospital wing? Lie and say that she fell on the stairs, or simply ignore it and go up to the dormitories anyway and pray that nobody noticed the blood in her hair and the bruise that would no doubt be forming on her cheek.

Kit couldn't make up her mind, and by the time she actually had something decided someone had found her. The very someone that she was told to avoid. She wasn't aware of who it was at first, after all she was sitting on the steps, trying to pretend like her head didn't hurt as bad as it did and trying to muster up enough energy to stand again.

"Sad Kitten?" She opened her eyes and vision would swim for a moment again, she turned her head to look behind her and was met with concerned eyes. Merlin, why did he even care?

After a few seconds of silence she felt his fingers on the back of her head, she stiffened up a bit and he spoke. "Just looking, you're bleeding a lot…what happened?"

Her tongue felt bigger then her mouth, so it took awhile to tell him what actually happened. When she finally finished speaking (A few sentences had actually taken nearly ten minutes to say), he grabbed her by the elbow and brought her up, telling her simply that she would be going to the hospital wing rather she liked it or not.

Going down the stairs was a bit harder then one would imagine, at one point she missed a step completely thanks to her fuzzy vision, and would have fallen forward had it not been for Sirius who grabbed her by the back of her robes. With that, he lifted her up in his arms and made his way towards the hospital wing. "When Remus got back to the tower he was worried that you hadn't shone up yet because he checked the library before coming up. Has all of us looking for you…ya'know that?" He started, actually explaining her things in order to keep her awake and with the program (That was what he was supposed to do right?).

"I've never seen him so worried, I guess we didn't take today's paper article lightly. I'm just sorry that it was Regulus, it figures he'd do something like that. Probably thinks that if I hang around with people who aren't purebloods that I'll ruin his name as well as my own…"

Sirius kept talking, but Kit wasn't able to pay attention much longer. Although she did feel much relief when she felt herself being laid on something soft…her head hurt so bad…

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Remus had never been so worried in all of his life, when Kit wasn't in the library or the tower he forced everybody into an all out search. They didn't really mind though it would seem, with the article in the paper his friends obviously knew that something really bad could have happened. Remus had to keep telling himself that they were in a well protected school and nothing really bad would happen to her.

He was checking the library once more, maybe she actually was in there and just hidden by the rows and rows of books? Sirius had rushed in, and grabbed onto Remus's hand without saying so much as 'I've found her'. Remus was dragged out of the library and towards the hospital wing in a jog. His stomach dropped when he caught sight of the state of Sirius's white shirt.

It had a bit of blood on the sleeve and upper chest…as if he had to cradle someone in his arms that was bleeding. Since Sirius seemed to have lost his ability to speak, Remus was worried even more. What happened, what was going on, and was his Kitten okay?

All the answers though, were waiting for him in the Hospital wing where Kit rested peacefully on a bed surrounded by James, and Lily who looked as if they had gotten there only a moment before he had. "Is she okay?! What's wrong with her…what happened?" He demanded, and as Madam Pomfrey strolled in, he was scolded for being so loud.

"Be quiet boy, she has a concussion and was bleeding a bit from the head…a simple potion fixed her right up."

Remus let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding as he went to Kit's side, she was pale (but that was normal) and her orange hair was covered in blood. "I'm going to fetch the Headmaster, I'll let the four of you stay here, but if you disturb her you will all be cleaning bed-pans for a week without magic." At that Madam Pomfrey left the room, leaving the group in silence.

Sirius was the first to speak, "It was Regulus who attacked her."

"What?" Had been the collective gasp around the bed.

"Kit managed to tell me that before she passed out, it looked as if he cornered her on the stairs. She looked as if she didn't know if she wanted to go to the Hospital wing or stay on the stairs and bleed to death."

"Why would he attack her?" Had been Remus's question, although the answer was so obvious that Sirius didn't have to answer him. "We'll have to keep a close watch on both Kit and you Lily." Remus finally said, looking up from Kit towards Lily who was being held in James's arms.

"Don't go anywhere without one of us around, even if it's just you and Kit…someone should be there." James said, speaking into Lily's hair as he kissed the top of her head.

"I just don't understand how something like this could happen." Lily spoke, quietly.

"I think this is just the beginning of things to come." Was said by Dumbledore, his voice cutting into the quiet night like a knife as he came to stand next to the bed alongside of the students.

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AN: Holy cow that took me a long time to write. My arms are cramping because I've been writing all day, so I do believe this will be the last chapter I post until tomorrow.

So Kit was attacked by Regulus, it was bound to happen sooner or later (God, how I love to abuse my characters). I made Regulus the same year as Kit because in the books it simply states that he was younger then Sirius, so obviously I have no clue if I'm right or not. If I wasn't to clear on why Regulus attacked Kit, it's simple.

She happened to be alone, and for the last few weeks Regulus seen her hanging around with Sirius and the rest of Remus's gang. Regulus doesn't like the fact that there is mud-bloods hanging around his brother, so he attacked the first one he came across which just happened to be Kit.

Not much fluff in this chapter, but we got to see a lil' bit of action (This will be the last action packed chapter for a few chapters). Next up is a lot of fluff and angst, and hopefully next chapter will be posted by tomorrow night.

Toodles.