A/N: To all my readers I'm so sorry for the delay but I hit a mental block with this story for quite a while and now that I've started to get around it I hope that I can continue to get around it. I thank you all for reading and enjoying my story so enjoy!

"Never assume the obvious is true."

Where You Belong

Chapter 14

It had been a week since Remus had found Andrea out on the boulder by the lake and ever since then she had been very quite and reserved even towards him and Lily. Remus knew that Sirius had said or done something to upset Andrea but Sirius claimed innocence and Andrea refused to talk about it. Yet despite the lack of cooperation from either side Remus was determined to find out what was said. He hated seeing Andrea so withdrawn and quiet and had decided to get the answers out of Sirius once and for all.

Remus entered the common room and looked around seeing Sirius off in a corner talking with James. Andrea was sitting by the window staring out over the grounds, and Lily was talking to some of her other dorm mates. Remus swiftly made his way over to James and Sirius.

"Sirius could I have a word with you please?" James and Sirius looked up startled to see Remus standing next to Sirius' chair; they hadn't even heard him enter the common room.

"Sure Moony what's up?"

"Up in our dorm room if you please."

"Um, sure," Sirius looked at James to see if he had any idea what was going on but all he got in return was a shrug of James' shoulders. So Sirius was left to wonder what was going on with Remus leading the way up to their dorm room.

Across the room Andrea watched the whole exchange out of the corner of her eye. She had an inkling as to what Remus was up to but decided to wait a bit before going to confirm her suspicion.

"Ok Rem what's up?"

"I want to know exactly what you said or did to make Andrea so upset and don't feign innocence with me Sirius I know you had something to do with her recent reclusive behavior."

"Ok, ok. I admit I may have said something that upset her but really I was only looking out for you Moony."

"I don't need you to look out for me Sirius I'm not a child."

"I know that Moons but I felt as one of your best friends that I needed to protect you…"

"Protect me from what? Andrea?"

"Well…yea. Look we know that she's your friend but something about her rubs me the wrong way. I just know that she's going to hurt you and you don't deserve to be hurt."

"Sirius that's ridiculous she won't hurt me because she's not the type of person to just hurt people. In all reality you've hurt me more then she probably ever will…"

"I'd never hurt you Remus you're one of my best friends!" Sirius' indigent cry echoed throughout the room but Remus kept right on as if he'd never heard it.

"Sirius you hurt me by hurting Andrea. I hate to see her so upset and know that one of my best friends caused that. She'll barely talk to me or Lily unless she absolutely has to. She's ignoring us and trying to push us away because of what you said and that hurts me!"

The boys sat in silence for a bit, Sirius was going over what Remus said, and Remus calming down so that he didn't completely loose his cool. Neither heard the slight creak of the door as it was pushed open a few inches.

"You all got along so well over Christmas break and even the first week or so afterward so what happened?"

"Yea I was beginning to accept that she was your friend and we had sort of called a truce but then she went and pulled that stunt calling you her boyfriend and that pissed me off because she used you knowing that you wouldn't say no to helping someone in need."

"Sirius she didn't use me in fact it was her that suggested we 'break up' since I had really no say in it."

"Exactly she knew you would help her even though you didn't have a say in the situation."

"Sirius what exactly did you say to her last week?"

"I called her out on using you and told her that I didn't like her or trust her."

"But Siri I don't understand why you don't like her."

"It's because I exist, plain and simple. Had I know that existence was a basis to dislike someone on in England I never would have come, and I would go home but I have no home to go to and I would transfer but it's the middle of the semester and Dumbledore won't let me transfer until the year is over with. Unfortunately you're stuck with me for the next few months," both boys whipped their heads around to see their dorm room door open and Andrea leaning against the door jam.

"How long have you been there?" Sirius asked accusingly.

"Long enough."

"What do you mean transfer? Why would you do that?" Remus questioned.

"I've got Slytherins that hate me and would like nothing more then to turn me over to the Dark lord himself because of the traitor they think I am and I've got Gryffindors who also hate me and would like nothing more then to had me over to the Slytherins. I doubt that I'd be allowed to be resorted again, not like the other houses would really accept me, so I've decided to transfer to somewhere else where nobody knows me."

"But you can't leave…what about Lily and I? We're your friends aren't we, are you just going to leave us?" Andrea looked long and hard at Remus before answering him.

"As long as your friends dislike me, and face it they do and they probably always will, I will always be the source of discontent between the four of you. I hate being the reason that five years of great friendship is falling apart. Face it you need them more then you need me. You and Lily did just fine without me before so you can do it again. So quit your petty squabbles and get on with your friendship," Andrea stated before turning her back on the two and making her way back towards the common room.

"Wait where are you off to now?" Remus asked afraid she was going to leave the school right now.

"I may be leaving Hogwarts but I still need to keep my grades up so I'm going to study," Andrea replied curtly before continuing her way down the steps and into the common room.

It was two days after Andrea had told Remus and Sirius of her plans when she was cornered in the Library but Lily, Remus, Sirius, James and Peter. Andrea was so absorbed in her Defense essay that she didn't notice the five standing in front of her till one of them cleared their throat. Hearing the noise so close Andrea shot her head up to see who it was; she was more then slightly shocked when she saw the five Gryffindors.

"Can I do something for you?"

"We need to talk." Remus answered.

"What do we have to talk about?"

"Andrea don't be like this now come on the six of us have a lot to discuss." Lily pleaded.

Andrea slowly scrutinized each of the five that stood before her and could tell that it took a lot to get the other three marauders to join her ambush team. The others could tell by the look on her face that Andrea wasn't going to agree to this talk easily so Remus decided to use some force to get her to agree.

"Andrea either you come with us and talk with us or I'll carry you off with us."

"You can't do that!"

"Yes I can I did it before and I'll do it again."

"When did you do it before?" Lily asked.

"Over Christmas we were having a snowball fight and I was to stop Andrea from participating so that we could win, in the end I carried her into the castle and up to the common room. So what's it going to be Ang?"

"Oh fine I'll come quietly."

The group made their way out onto the grounds and sat underneath one of the larger trees surrounding the lake. Most of the rest of the school was inside doing their work or staying warm seeing as it was the middle of January.

"Shit it's freezing out here. If you're going to make me sit out here and listen to you, you'd better at least light a fire or something cause I'm not going to sit out here and freeze to death for you chit chat," Andrea complained as her teeth began to chatter.

"Don't worry you won't freeze to death Lils just cast a warming charm around us all," Remus reassured.

"Why are we out here anyway? Why can't we do this inside where it's warm and where normal people have discussions?"

"We wanted privacy and the most private place this time of year is outside since its cold out and everyone else is inside," James answered.

"Ok so we're here to clear everything up between the six of us because frankly Lily and I are sick and tired of this constant fighting," Remus started.

"Ok fine but I've got a few questions Taylor needs to answer," Sirius agreed.

"No, no use of last names Bl…Sirius if we're going to accomplish anything we're going to have to try to get along so that means using first names only," Lily interjected before the conversation could go much further. She looked at everyone in the group as they nodded their heads in understanding of her rules for this discussion.

"Go ahead Bl- Sirius what do you want to know?" Andrea asked. "But keep in mind I may not be able to answer everything you ask."

"Why not?" Sirius asked with mistrust clearly evident in his voice.

"Ever since I got here I've noticed that I can't remember certain things about my past, like where I'm from or what my parent's names are. All I really remember is what I learned in school and fragments of memories that are triggered by a word, phrase, object or whatever. I've asked Dumbledore about it but he says that a traumatic event could cause temporary amnesia like symptoms. The thing is I don't remember any really traumatic event although Dumbledore tells me that my parents died six months before I arrived here and that I'm adopted. I really don't remember anything beyond the first day of classes here and even then those first few days are fuzzy," Andrea looked around the group to see what their reaction would be to her revelation.

"You can't remember anything, like anything at all?" Lily asked.

"No, I mean I know that certain things remind me of my past but I don't remember the event they remind me of. Does that make any sense?"

"No but I think I get it. You remember that there's something you should remember," James said with a bit of confusion in his voice.

"Exactly!" Andrea answered glad that someone sort of understood her predicament.

"Can't Dumbledore give you a potion or something to help you remember or something?" Sirius asked.

"When I went to him and told him what was happening I asked if there was any way I could get around this but he told me that no potion or spell would help and that the best way to get past this was to let it run its course."

"There isn't anything even in its slightest significance that you remember outside of school work?" Remus questioned.

"Well there is one thing I remember, sort of," Andrea responded. Just by the looks on the others faces Andrea could tell that they wanted to know what this memory of hers was. "I remember telling a friend of mine that I didn't belong there, wherever there was. That it was like the right situation but the wrong place or something. When I first arrived here I felt like I belonged, well except for being in the wrong house. Now though, despite three of you disliking me I feel like I belong here and I think that's what confuses me the most."

"So technically you could have been sent here to spy on the school for Voldemort and could have had orders to kill us all but you forgot it all?" Sirius asked skeptically.

"Basically yeah, but somehow I doubt that I was ordered here on Voldemort's orders," Andrea replied.

"Why is that?"

"Well I think I know a little too much about muggles and how they live to be a follower of Voldemort's."

"But you told my cousin that you were a pureblood."

"Yeah I know but I made that up so that they wouldn't be able to bug me about my blood since they had more then enough to bother me about. They weren't very fond of me and my silence. They wanted to know everything about me but I refused to tell them even half of what they wanted to know."

"That's another thing," Sirius interjected. "Why were you put into Slytherin and then two months later resorted into Gryffindor?"

"Look whatever, or whoever, brought me here really pissed me off to the point that I was thinking like a Slytherin. I wanted revenge on whoever caused me to come here. I don't remember who it was or what exactly happened but I knew that I wanted revenge. The sorting hat had made a comment about how my emotions changed which qualities of mine stood out more. Since I was thinking like a Slytherin at the moment and that was all the hat could see it put me where it thought I would fit the best."

"Why didn't you asked to be resorted sooner?" James asked.

"I did. The first night I was too overwhelmed by all that had happened to ask to be resorted but on the first day of classes I went straight to Dumbledore's office and asked to be resorted but he insisted that I stay for at least like a month before he would consider to let me resort. He told me that I needed time to readjust to it all. Despite the fact that he told me to stick it out a month every week I went and asked him, it wasn't until he found out that I was being persecuted by my whole house for the friends I had that he let me resort."

"But didn't the Slytherins pound it into your head that we were below you and that you shouldn't be anywhere near us?" Lily questioned.

"Well yeah they tried but that doesn't mean it worked. Half the time when they went about lecturing me about the privileges of being a Slytherin and the noble image we had to uphold I was off daydreaming. The other half of the time I was mocking them in my head and thinking of ways to wipe those smug looks off their faces."

"So you knew you weren't supposed to talk to us but yet you did anyway… but why?"

"Well Lily you were nice to me and I knew that talking to you would piss them off. Besides you sort of remind me of someone I knew, in fact all of you somehow remind me of people I know. Now I have a question for Sirius, why do you hate me?"

"I don't hate you I just don't trust you."

"But why? What did I do for you to distrust me so?"

"You suddenly appear here and it was obvious that Dumbledore wasn't expecting you. You were sorted into Slytherin and I have a natural distrust of all Slytherins. Next thing I know you're getting all buddy-buddy with two Gryffindors and then you get resorted into Gryffindor. I was kind of getting used to you but then you came up with this half-assed idea of you and Moony dating. I don't know to me there's too much mystery and uncertainty surrounding you for me to trust you as easily as the others. It almost seems like half the time you're using these two to get something," Sirius explained although Andrea could tell that he was having trouble putting some of his feelings into words.

"Look does it help relax you any knowing that I have no hidden agenda or anything like that. Even if I did I wouldn't remember it now."

"I know and I guess your lack of memory is what I picked up on as you keeping this huge secret from us," Sirius reluctantly admitted.

"So can we officially call a truce between you three and Andrea?" Remus asked.

"Yeah I'm cool with her," James replied.

"Me too," Peter added.

"I will but only if I can have your word that you won't hurt any of us intentionally especially those two," Sirius said as he pointed to Remus and Lily.

"Sirius you have my word that even if I get my memory back and remember that I'm supposed to hurt you all I won't hurt any of you," Andrea replied and everyone in the group could tell that she was being sincere.

"Good now that, that's settled you're still not thinking of transferring are you Ang?" Lily questioned.

"I already talked to Dumbledore and even though we called a truce and I feel like I belong here I still feel like I should leave," Andrea explained.

"No! Come on Ang don't go we want you to stay," Remus exclaimed.

"Yeah we're your best friends you can't just leave us," Lily added.

James and Sirius looked at each other while Remus and Lily protested over Andrea still thinking about transferring. They could tell what the other was thinking and decided on what to do.

"No really Andrea, don't leave," James interrupted causing everyone to look at him. "At least don't leave on our behalf. We called the truce so there's no more reason to leave."

"Besides it wouldn't be fair to Lily and Remus if you left just because of us," Sirius added. "You and I may not now or ever be the best of friends but I think we can work on it enough so that you don't have to leave."

Andrea looked long and hard at both James and Sirius and could tell that although they still didn't trust her one hundred percent they were willing to give her a chance. They really didn't want her to go because they knew that she would be leaving because of them and that made them feel guilty. Andrea looked around at the entire group before giving a great sigh.

"Fine I'll stay."

With that Lily and Remus engulfed her in a celebratory hug while Sirius, James, and the ever quite Peter just smiled at her.