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Close Calls

Lily stared out the window at the rain streaking down, while Remus was going for a piss. They were one hour into the train ride and Remus had taught Lily how to play exploding snap, she loved it!

The witch with the food came along and Lily ate lots of new and exciting food and lollies and then went to sleep.

Ten minutes later Remus fell asleep on Lily's shoulder.

"SNAP!" Sirius and Roxy both hollered.

"Haha, I won!" Sirius smirked.

"No you didn't, I did!"

"No me!"

"No me!"

"My hands on the bottom!"

"No, mine is!"

"You just moved it!"

"I don't stoop, that low."

"Whatever. James whose hand is on the bottom?" Roxy spun on her cousin.

"Ah, er, well," they were both shooting him death glares "Ah, Sirius'"

"WHAT! Just because he's you're best friend!" Sirius was looking smug.

"I mean, Roxy's."

"Hey! You can't change your mind like that!"

"Erm, ah, do you guys think we'll see Lily again?

"We know who's on your mind," Roxy said with a raise of the eyebrows.

"Rox, come on! I don't like her!"

"Sure you don't…."

"I don't!"

Unbeknown to James, Roxy and Sirius. Lily had woken up and was thinking about the three of them, if she'd ever see them again, what they were doing at that point in time. She hadn't told Remus about them, because she found it pointless also the fact that she forgot about them when she was with him, he was so interesting and liked a lot of the same things as Lily.

Finally they reached the Hogsmeade station Sirius, Roxy and James jumped off the train talking about all the pranks they could do with all the new spells and magical equipment available.

"I'm so excited!" Sirius squealed jumping around and into some poor person, he'd didn't acknowledge.

"Asshole," they hissed.

Sirius was going to turn around and face them, but Roxy grabbed his arm and hissed 'Just leave it'

Lily woke Remus up when they pulled into the station.

"Remus we're here!" Lily pawed at his arm like a puppy.

Remus was going to mention that she was acting like an eight year old, but excitement overtook him and he pawed Lily back.

The two were going crazy as they exited the train.

" I can't believe it! After my whole life I'm finally here!" Remus did a sort of excited jump in a totally un-homosexual way.

"Neither! And to think one month ago I didn't know what Hogwarts was!"

"Firs' years over here! Firs' years!" a booming voice interrupted Remus and Lily's conversation.

Lily and Remus followed the voice and found it to be coming from the biggest person that they'd ever seen!

Once all of the first years had been gathered the giant introduced himself "'Ello, an welcome to Hogwarts. My name is Hagrid and I'm the caretaker and such. Now, if you'd follow me down to the lake, we will be getting into boats, er, four to a boat thanks."

Hagrid finished his speech and everyone moved down towards the lake, following the large silhouette that was Hagrid.

They finally reached the boat Remus and Lily got into a boat with a set of twins; they both had shoulder length honey coloured hair.

"Hey, um, I'm Mala Franz, and this is my sister Jasmine."

"Hi, I'm Lily Evans"

"Remus Lupin"

"So do you have any older brothers or sisters?" Jasmine asked.

"I have an older sister," Lily responded.

"Oh, what year is she?" Mala asked.

"She doesn't go here, but she's a year older than me," Lily sighed.

The twins both had confused looks on their faces.

"Lily's a muggle-born" Remus helped out.

"Oh." They both said in unison.

"Yeah, do you two have any older brothers or sisters?" Remus inquired.

"Yeah we have an older brother here, he's a sixth year and in Gryfinndor," Mala said.

"Cool."

SPLASH!

"Oh that poor person, I wouldn't want to be in this water tonight, it's freezing," Jasmine commented, Lily and mala nodding in agreement. Remus was staring over at the other boat- It couldn't be them.

By now they were half way across the lake and Lily was starting to feel a bit queasy.

"Remus?"

"Yeah?"

"I think I'm going to -," Lily ducked her head over the side of the boat.

"Be sick?"

"I won that game fair and square," Roxy stated as they were getting into the boat.

"No you didn't!"

"Yes I did!"

"Guys! Calm down for just 10 minutes okay?"

"Sorry James."

"Yeah sorry dude."

"It's not me you should be apologising to," James nodded his head to the fourth person in their boat who was staring at Roxy and Sirius as if they were aliens.

"Uh, hello?" Roxy waved her hand in front of the scrawny boy's face.

He jerked out of his gaze, "Uh, Hi, um, I'm, er, Peter, Peter Pettigrew."

"James Potter."

"Roxy Derwin"

"Sirius Black"

Peter looked at Sirius in awe.

Sirius was getting a bit freaked, "Um, are you okay?"

"You can talk to girls without getting all nervous? How do you do it?" Peter whispered, but it was audible enough for James and Roxy to hear, they gave each other worried glances.

"Well, you see Pete, can I call you Pete?" Peter nodded eagerly, "Roxy here, isn't much of a girl, more a fellow male."

"Shut up Sirius!" Roxy splashed Sirius.

"Hey!" Sirius splashed Roxy back, getting James in the process.

"You little-!" James was cut off by a mouthful of water.

So, clearly this ended up as a fully-fledged water fight, between Roxy, James and Sirius. When Peter tried to join in he got so excited and fell out of the boat, causing Sirius, Roxy and James to crack up laughing only calming down when Hagrid called out to them, "Get 'im back inter yer boat!" And the hauled him over the side, still laughing.

"Are you okay Peter?" Roxy asked with half a smile on her face.

"Yeah, just really cold," Peter blushed and looked down, giving Sirius and James time to nudge Roxy encouragingly.

"Ew."

"Mind your heads," Hagrid advised as they entered a small cove. Everyone who was tall enough ducked his or her heads. The boats came to a halt and everyone got out of their boats and followed Hagrid again to a large wooden door, where he knocked. The door creaked open.

"Professor McGonagall, the firs' years."

"Thank you Hagrid,"

Hagrid went through the door and the sound of another door opening and closing could be heard as the first years followed Professor McGonagall down towards a small chamber, where the sound of talking and laughing could be heard faintly.

"Hello. My name is professor McGonagall. I am the deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts. Soon you will pass through these doors and be sorted, I will return soon." With that she turned around and left through the door they entered.

"Are you alright Lily?"

"Yeah, I think, I'll just get sorted and go straight to bed afterward."

"I think that's a good idea."

The door opened and Prof. McGonagall re-entered with a scroll of parchment.

"Follow me."

She opened a door and led the first years into a large hall, lit by floating candles, with four large tables that had students placed around them who were all staring at the first years entering.

James nudged Roxy, "Look up." Roxy did so and her face filled with amazement. The roof held the sky, opening up to the heavens; it was a crystal clear night, so all the stars could be seen.

"As much as I've heard about it, it's more amazing than I thought it would be."

James and Sirius grinned at Roxy's delight; she was always staring away into the night.

When Lily looked up, she stopped breathing. The roof was beautiful; she had never seen anything look so amazing in her whole life. She noticed all the other first years looking up in awe.

"When I call your name, you shall come up to the hat, place it on your head and take a seat at the appropriate table," McGonagall instructed.

"Remus, I don't feel to good," Lily mumbled as 'Kyle Alli' got called up.

"Just wait Lils, not long to go."

Lily didn't concentrate on names, she felt to sick; Remus said he'd tell her when to go.

"I so won" Sirius whispered.

"Whatever, I did, deal with it."

"Sirius Black!" McGonagall's sharp voice called out.

Sirius glared at Roxy and went and sat on the stool.

He knew his family wanted him into Slytherin, but he wasn't like his family he wanted to be in-

"GRYFINNDOR!"

The Gryfinndor table burst into applause, shocked of the fact that they had a Black in their house.

Sirius immediately started to make friends with the older students and Tyler Alli, a triplet who was already sorted into Gryfinndor, the other two triplets were in Ravenclaw.

"Jeez, I'm sick of this," James whispered to Roxy.

"You've only been here ten minutes!" Roxy exclaimed in a whispery voice.

"What can I say? I have a short attention span."

"And to think you're going to have to go through this every year."

"Not if I can help it."

"James." Roxy put on a warning voice.

"I never said you couldn't join me."

"James!"

"Roxanne Derwin!" McGonagall called out.

"Remus, I'm going to vomit!" Lily cried.

"Just wait here, you're now," Remus shoved Lily up the steps.

Lily placed the hat on her head.

Well, you are a smart wee dumpling aren't you? A but a fiery temper 'I do not!' A very fiery temper. Where to put you? I see that you would be best in-

"GRYFINNDOR!"

Lily, shuffled down to her seat.

"Escuse, me," Lily tugged on an older students sleeve.

"Yeah?"

"I think I'm going to be sick," Lily mumbled.

"Oh, pixies crap! Come on, I never did like these much," the senior grabbed Lily's arm and led her quietly out of the hall down into the Infirmary, where there were two house-elves there in case of an emergency.

"She, has a fever, help her please," The senior instructed the elves.

"Thank you," Lily smiled weakly as she got led to a ward, where she got changed, drunk a potion and fell into a deep, deep sleep.

Supersis24- Cheers for the review, it this better? No author notes, and longer….I hope

Ella Potter- thank you!

Mel12c- Thank you Melanie!

BTW I own nothing that is recognisable to the original HP series, it belongs to JKR, cept Roxy, she is mine!

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