Lily was anxiously waiting for Melanie to return when she heard the
compartment door open. She turned quickly around, smiling sweetly. But her
smile quickly faded when she saw who it really was.
"Look at what I've found here. My old childhood friend. Sorry I had to run off the other day in such a hurry." Snape said from the doorway. Another kid was by his side this time, though. He had white blond hair that was combed back from his face. He had the coldest grey eyes Lily had ever seen.
Lily's heart was beating so loudly in her chest she thought the two boys had heard it. She started to shake a little and spoke nervously. "Go away Snape."
At this the two boys laughed. The blond one spoke. "Oh come now Snape. Aren't you going to introduce me to your cute little friend?" he asked coldly, ignoring Lily's request.
"Oh how thoughtless of me. Lucius Malfoy this is Miss Lily Evans...a.k.a the Mudblood." he said the last part with utter loathing in his eyes. Malfoy narrowed his eyes at the word 'mudblood'.
"Really now. A mudblood, huh? Tsk tsk tsk." he turned to Lily. "I don't like mudbloods Lily. I think they're disgusting creatures that shouldn't be aloud to learn magic." he then turned back to Snape, a dangerous glint in his cold hard eyes. "Shall we teach her a lesson?" Snape smirked and nodded then turned and pointed his wand at the door, muttering a spell to lock it.
Lily's eyes widened in fear. Malfoy was walking over to her. Lily started to scream out for help, which caused Malfoy to rush over to her and clamp his hand over her mouth and grip her upper arm tightly, causing her to wince with pain.
"Shut up, filthy mudblood!" he hissed. Snape appeared over his shoulder and glared at Lily, showing no mercy whatsoever.
~~~One compartment over~~~
"Where's James at. He should have been here ages ago!" Sirius said.
Remus looked up from his game of wizard's chess with Peter to look at Sirius. "I don't know. But he'd better get here quick. The train's going to leave in a couple of minutes." Just then, the compartment door burst open.
"Hey guys. Have you seen my little brother?" Melanie asked. The three boys shook their heads. She sighed. "All right. See you at the sorting." she turned and started to walk out the compartment.
"Oy. If you do see him, tell him to get his lazy arse in here. We've got pranks to plan." Sirius called to her. She just waved her hand over here shoulder in understanding, not looking back to answer.
After she had left, Remus made one last move on the board, "checkmate" he said and stood up off the ground and sat next to Sirius. The second he sat down, Sirius made a movement, "What was that?"
Remus looked at him, confused, "What was what?"
"That noise. Did you hear it? It sounding like it was coming from the next compartment over" Sirius said, pressing his ear against the wall separating the two compartments. Remus, still looking confused, did the same. They heard a muffled scream and they both tensed up.
"Someone's screaming. C'mon. Let's go see what's up." Sirius said.
All three of them stood up and walked out of the compartment and down to the next one. "What's going on guys?" Peter asked.
Remus was struggling with the door, "its locked." he muttered and pulled out his wand. He whispered a spell and the door opened. All three shoved their way in. They instantly gasped at what was in front of them. Lucius Malfoy and Snape were standing over a girl who was huddled in a corner, looking terrified.
"What the bloody hell are you gits doing?!" Remus shouted.
"Get away from her." Sirius snarled, him and Remus pulling out their wands and pointing them straight at the boys.
"Awww. Is the dream team helping out their mudblood girlfriend?" Snape asked with a smirk.
"Go ahead and contaminate yourselves with this piece of trash for now. Might want to keep an eye on her, though. Something a cute as her, she might come across a little trouble when she arrives at Hogwarts." Lucius said, eerily calm.
"Why you stupid son of a-" Sirius then lunged at him. Remus pointed his wand at Snape when he saw him trying to hit Sirius from behind.
"I wouldn't if I were you Snape. Take Malfoy and get out of here now." he said, quietly yet dangerously. Snape glared once more at Remus and then pulled Malfoy away from Sirius and stalked out of the compartment.
Once they were both gone, Sirius and Remus turned and looked at the redhead, who was still huddled in a ball at the ground, staring wide eyed at them and shaking horribly.
Remus knelt down beside her and placed a hand gently on her arm, "Are you alright?"
She looked over at him and slowly nodded. Remus then helped her up and sat her down on one of the seats. Peter was standing in the corner, looking awkward, not quite sure of what to do.
Lily took a deep breath and glance up at both Sirius and Remus. They both noticed a cut on her lip. Sirius' hands clenched in fists when he noticed and Remus was fuming with anger.
Lily noticed this and said, "Really I'm fine. It's just a little cut."
"Hey, you're that girl we met at Diagon Alley. Lily, right?" Remus suddenly asked.
Lily smiled and nodded, happy that she may be making some friends.
Sirius and Remus sat down across from her.
"Do you want one of us to get something for that?" Sirius said, pointing to her cut lip.
"No. That's all right. Thanks, though." she said smiling just a little. Both Remus and Sirius both thought she looked so pure and innocent, they couldn't believe anyone would want to hurt her. She then sighed and said sadly. "I sure do have a way with bumping into people, huh? I'm so sorry. I'm just causing all kinds of problems here. You guys keep having to save me".
"No, it's all right. It's not your fault Snape and Malfoy are pains in the arses." Sirius said, trying to cheer the sad girl up.
"You said you knew Snape when you were younger. Where'd you know him from?" Remus asked, curiously.
Lily shrugged, "I used to live on the same street as him. Even then he was mean. I remember the first time I met him, he came up to me and started to make fun of-" she was cut off when the compartment door opened again. In the doorway stood the other boy Lily had met at Diagon Alley, James.
"There you guys are. I had a bloody hard time finding you guys. Then I ran into Melanie and she told me to go into this compartment for a big surprise. Really didn't trust her though. Oh hi Li-." James said,
When Lily looked at James, she was on the edge of remembering something. Suddenly, both looked as though they were in their own little world.
*Flash*
A little girl was riding her tricycle back and forth between two houses. Her house, and the one next door. The one with a moving van in front of it, with workers unloading all sorts of furniture items. It was quite a funny sight to some neighbors to see this adorable little three year old with red hair just slowly ride to the end of the sidewalk in front of her house and turn around to ride it slowly to the other end of the sidewalk, her bright green, curious eyes never leaving the yard with all the chaos going on. It was as though she were trying to get someone to pay attention to her.
On her 15th time riding towards the other house, by that time the moving van and workers had all cleared out, three year old Lily fell off her bike. Her eyes started to water and she let out a whimper, staring at a scrape that was on her knee.
"Are you ok?" a voice asked.
Lily looked up and saw a boy about her age with glasses. She sniffled, her face set in a pout. "My knee has a boo-boo." she said, softly.
"Come on. My mommy can fix it." he said, helping her up.
"Is she nice?" Lily asked shyly.
James smiled and said, "Of course! My mommy is the bestest mommy in the whole wide world. She even lets me stay up past 8:30!" he said the last part with pride.
Lily stared at him in amazement, forgetting her knee for a moment. "Wow! Really?"
"Yup. Come on. My mommy can heal things really good."
*Flash*
Three and a half year old Lily was sitting with her best friend three and a half year old James. Both had chocolate ice cream cones. Lily accidentally dropped hers and it fell to the ground. She started to whimper, looking at her smushed ice cream.
"Don't cry Lily. Here." James said, handing her his untouched ice cream.
Lily smiled, "Thanks James. You're my bestest friend" she said, hugging him.
*Flash*
4 year old James and Lily were in the Potter's backyard. 9 year old Petunia was stalking over to the two little children.
"Lily Marie Evans!! You and Potter had better apologize to me right now. I know for a fact that it was you two that had set that bucket of hot fudge so it would spill all over me when I got up this morning!!!" shrieked Petunia.
All four grown-ups of their houses to see what their children were fighting about. Lily and James were trying to stifle the laughs that were threatening to abrupt from their mouths.
"What is going on here? Petunia?" Mrs. Evans asked, looking at her eldest child.
"That-that brat, and her 'friend' poured hot fudge all over me this morning!!!" Petunia said, pointing an accusing finger at Lily and James.
All four parents glared down at the two accused.
'Uh-oh. 'The' glare. Time for drastic measures', Lily thought. She looked up at them, her eyes as wide as they would go and an extremely innocent smile on her face. When the four adults saw this, their eyes softened considerably.
"Oh Petunia, she just 4 years old. She and James couldn't have come up with a scheme like that. Come now, breakfast is inside, waiting." Mr. Evans said.
"But-" Petunia started.
"No 'buts' young lady." her father said sternly. Petunia closed her mouth and glared once more at Lily and James before retreating back to the house. Followed closely behind by the Evans and the Potters.
As soon as they were gone, James and Lily both burst out laughing.
"L-Lily, you 'have' to teach me that trick!" James wheezed out.
"Ok. It's simple really. All you do is..."
*Flash*
5 year old James was sitting on the ground under the large oak tree in his yard. He was practicing his reading for his advanced pre-school class, but he couldn't get the hang of it. He sighed in frustration, running a hand through his already messy hair.
"Hi James. Whatcha doin'?" Lily said, walking up to him.
"I'm trying to read this story book, but it's no use. I can't understand any of this." he said, scowling at the pages.
"I'll help you." Lily said, taking the book from him and taking a seat next to him under the tree.
~~30 minutes later~~
"- and they both lived happily ever after. LILY! I did it! I read the book!" James exclaimed, turning and hugged Lily.
*Flash*
"Promise we'll be friends forever, ok James?" 6 year old Lily said, tears in her eyes.
"Forever eternally, Flower." James said, sadly.
"Pinky promise?" Lily said, sticking out her pinky.
James smiled, "Pinky promise." with that, he hooked his pinky onto hers.
*Flash to the Present*
Lily and James both blinked their eyes twice as their flashbacks stopped. Remus and Sirius both had an eyebrow raised, staring at the two intently.
"Aaaare you two ok?" Sirius asked, slowly.
"James?/Lily?" they both said in unison.
Remus and Sirius exchanged confused glances with each other. Then looked back at the two when Lily had jumped up off her seat and the two hugged each other, looking terrified the other one would disappear.
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A/N- ok, a sort-of cliffhanger. Did ya like it? Please review.
"Look at what I've found here. My old childhood friend. Sorry I had to run off the other day in such a hurry." Snape said from the doorway. Another kid was by his side this time, though. He had white blond hair that was combed back from his face. He had the coldest grey eyes Lily had ever seen.
Lily's heart was beating so loudly in her chest she thought the two boys had heard it. She started to shake a little and spoke nervously. "Go away Snape."
At this the two boys laughed. The blond one spoke. "Oh come now Snape. Aren't you going to introduce me to your cute little friend?" he asked coldly, ignoring Lily's request.
"Oh how thoughtless of me. Lucius Malfoy this is Miss Lily Evans...a.k.a the Mudblood." he said the last part with utter loathing in his eyes. Malfoy narrowed his eyes at the word 'mudblood'.
"Really now. A mudblood, huh? Tsk tsk tsk." he turned to Lily. "I don't like mudbloods Lily. I think they're disgusting creatures that shouldn't be aloud to learn magic." he then turned back to Snape, a dangerous glint in his cold hard eyes. "Shall we teach her a lesson?" Snape smirked and nodded then turned and pointed his wand at the door, muttering a spell to lock it.
Lily's eyes widened in fear. Malfoy was walking over to her. Lily started to scream out for help, which caused Malfoy to rush over to her and clamp his hand over her mouth and grip her upper arm tightly, causing her to wince with pain.
"Shut up, filthy mudblood!" he hissed. Snape appeared over his shoulder and glared at Lily, showing no mercy whatsoever.
~~~One compartment over~~~
"Where's James at. He should have been here ages ago!" Sirius said.
Remus looked up from his game of wizard's chess with Peter to look at Sirius. "I don't know. But he'd better get here quick. The train's going to leave in a couple of minutes." Just then, the compartment door burst open.
"Hey guys. Have you seen my little brother?" Melanie asked. The three boys shook their heads. She sighed. "All right. See you at the sorting." she turned and started to walk out the compartment.
"Oy. If you do see him, tell him to get his lazy arse in here. We've got pranks to plan." Sirius called to her. She just waved her hand over here shoulder in understanding, not looking back to answer.
After she had left, Remus made one last move on the board, "checkmate" he said and stood up off the ground and sat next to Sirius. The second he sat down, Sirius made a movement, "What was that?"
Remus looked at him, confused, "What was what?"
"That noise. Did you hear it? It sounding like it was coming from the next compartment over" Sirius said, pressing his ear against the wall separating the two compartments. Remus, still looking confused, did the same. They heard a muffled scream and they both tensed up.
"Someone's screaming. C'mon. Let's go see what's up." Sirius said.
All three of them stood up and walked out of the compartment and down to the next one. "What's going on guys?" Peter asked.
Remus was struggling with the door, "its locked." he muttered and pulled out his wand. He whispered a spell and the door opened. All three shoved their way in. They instantly gasped at what was in front of them. Lucius Malfoy and Snape were standing over a girl who was huddled in a corner, looking terrified.
"What the bloody hell are you gits doing?!" Remus shouted.
"Get away from her." Sirius snarled, him and Remus pulling out their wands and pointing them straight at the boys.
"Awww. Is the dream team helping out their mudblood girlfriend?" Snape asked with a smirk.
"Go ahead and contaminate yourselves with this piece of trash for now. Might want to keep an eye on her, though. Something a cute as her, she might come across a little trouble when she arrives at Hogwarts." Lucius said, eerily calm.
"Why you stupid son of a-" Sirius then lunged at him. Remus pointed his wand at Snape when he saw him trying to hit Sirius from behind.
"I wouldn't if I were you Snape. Take Malfoy and get out of here now." he said, quietly yet dangerously. Snape glared once more at Remus and then pulled Malfoy away from Sirius and stalked out of the compartment.
Once they were both gone, Sirius and Remus turned and looked at the redhead, who was still huddled in a ball at the ground, staring wide eyed at them and shaking horribly.
Remus knelt down beside her and placed a hand gently on her arm, "Are you alright?"
She looked over at him and slowly nodded. Remus then helped her up and sat her down on one of the seats. Peter was standing in the corner, looking awkward, not quite sure of what to do.
Lily took a deep breath and glance up at both Sirius and Remus. They both noticed a cut on her lip. Sirius' hands clenched in fists when he noticed and Remus was fuming with anger.
Lily noticed this and said, "Really I'm fine. It's just a little cut."
"Hey, you're that girl we met at Diagon Alley. Lily, right?" Remus suddenly asked.
Lily smiled and nodded, happy that she may be making some friends.
Sirius and Remus sat down across from her.
"Do you want one of us to get something for that?" Sirius said, pointing to her cut lip.
"No. That's all right. Thanks, though." she said smiling just a little. Both Remus and Sirius both thought she looked so pure and innocent, they couldn't believe anyone would want to hurt her. She then sighed and said sadly. "I sure do have a way with bumping into people, huh? I'm so sorry. I'm just causing all kinds of problems here. You guys keep having to save me".
"No, it's all right. It's not your fault Snape and Malfoy are pains in the arses." Sirius said, trying to cheer the sad girl up.
"You said you knew Snape when you were younger. Where'd you know him from?" Remus asked, curiously.
Lily shrugged, "I used to live on the same street as him. Even then he was mean. I remember the first time I met him, he came up to me and started to make fun of-" she was cut off when the compartment door opened again. In the doorway stood the other boy Lily had met at Diagon Alley, James.
"There you guys are. I had a bloody hard time finding you guys. Then I ran into Melanie and she told me to go into this compartment for a big surprise. Really didn't trust her though. Oh hi Li-." James said,
When Lily looked at James, she was on the edge of remembering something. Suddenly, both looked as though they were in their own little world.
*Flash*
A little girl was riding her tricycle back and forth between two houses. Her house, and the one next door. The one with a moving van in front of it, with workers unloading all sorts of furniture items. It was quite a funny sight to some neighbors to see this adorable little three year old with red hair just slowly ride to the end of the sidewalk in front of her house and turn around to ride it slowly to the other end of the sidewalk, her bright green, curious eyes never leaving the yard with all the chaos going on. It was as though she were trying to get someone to pay attention to her.
On her 15th time riding towards the other house, by that time the moving van and workers had all cleared out, three year old Lily fell off her bike. Her eyes started to water and she let out a whimper, staring at a scrape that was on her knee.
"Are you ok?" a voice asked.
Lily looked up and saw a boy about her age with glasses. She sniffled, her face set in a pout. "My knee has a boo-boo." she said, softly.
"Come on. My mommy can fix it." he said, helping her up.
"Is she nice?" Lily asked shyly.
James smiled and said, "Of course! My mommy is the bestest mommy in the whole wide world. She even lets me stay up past 8:30!" he said the last part with pride.
Lily stared at him in amazement, forgetting her knee for a moment. "Wow! Really?"
"Yup. Come on. My mommy can heal things really good."
*Flash*
Three and a half year old Lily was sitting with her best friend three and a half year old James. Both had chocolate ice cream cones. Lily accidentally dropped hers and it fell to the ground. She started to whimper, looking at her smushed ice cream.
"Don't cry Lily. Here." James said, handing her his untouched ice cream.
Lily smiled, "Thanks James. You're my bestest friend" she said, hugging him.
*Flash*
4 year old James and Lily were in the Potter's backyard. 9 year old Petunia was stalking over to the two little children.
"Lily Marie Evans!! You and Potter had better apologize to me right now. I know for a fact that it was you two that had set that bucket of hot fudge so it would spill all over me when I got up this morning!!!" shrieked Petunia.
All four grown-ups of their houses to see what their children were fighting about. Lily and James were trying to stifle the laughs that were threatening to abrupt from their mouths.
"What is going on here? Petunia?" Mrs. Evans asked, looking at her eldest child.
"That-that brat, and her 'friend' poured hot fudge all over me this morning!!!" Petunia said, pointing an accusing finger at Lily and James.
All four parents glared down at the two accused.
'Uh-oh. 'The' glare. Time for drastic measures', Lily thought. She looked up at them, her eyes as wide as they would go and an extremely innocent smile on her face. When the four adults saw this, their eyes softened considerably.
"Oh Petunia, she just 4 years old. She and James couldn't have come up with a scheme like that. Come now, breakfast is inside, waiting." Mr. Evans said.
"But-" Petunia started.
"No 'buts' young lady." her father said sternly. Petunia closed her mouth and glared once more at Lily and James before retreating back to the house. Followed closely behind by the Evans and the Potters.
As soon as they were gone, James and Lily both burst out laughing.
"L-Lily, you 'have' to teach me that trick!" James wheezed out.
"Ok. It's simple really. All you do is..."
*Flash*
5 year old James was sitting on the ground under the large oak tree in his yard. He was practicing his reading for his advanced pre-school class, but he couldn't get the hang of it. He sighed in frustration, running a hand through his already messy hair.
"Hi James. Whatcha doin'?" Lily said, walking up to him.
"I'm trying to read this story book, but it's no use. I can't understand any of this." he said, scowling at the pages.
"I'll help you." Lily said, taking the book from him and taking a seat next to him under the tree.
~~30 minutes later~~
"- and they both lived happily ever after. LILY! I did it! I read the book!" James exclaimed, turning and hugged Lily.
*Flash*
"Promise we'll be friends forever, ok James?" 6 year old Lily said, tears in her eyes.
"Forever eternally, Flower." James said, sadly.
"Pinky promise?" Lily said, sticking out her pinky.
James smiled, "Pinky promise." with that, he hooked his pinky onto hers.
*Flash to the Present*
Lily and James both blinked their eyes twice as their flashbacks stopped. Remus and Sirius both had an eyebrow raised, staring at the two intently.
"Aaaare you two ok?" Sirius asked, slowly.
"James?/Lily?" they both said in unison.
Remus and Sirius exchanged confused glances with each other. Then looked back at the two when Lily had jumped up off her seat and the two hugged each other, looking terrified the other one would disappear.
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A/N- ok, a sort-of cliffhanger. Did ya like it? Please review.