With All My Heart
The Hogwarts Express part 1
The next morning was hectic. James had Wendy awake everyone at eight in the morning in hopes that they would not run late. Though there was still stuff to be packed, food to be eaten, and a limo to pile into.
The group was all up and about by half past eight. The girls had taken turns in the shower. The boys used their own showers (they each had a bathroom off of their rooms from staying there so often).
By nine everyone was stuffing their mouths with food. When they finished each went up to their room and made sure they had everything.
Lily, Natalie, and Andromeda left a note with Wendy thanking the Potters for letting them stay, and then they headed out the door at nine thirty.
No one had yet mentioned what had occurred last night in truth or dare. They all held their silences that it would never leave that room.
"James, how far are we from Kings Cross Station?" Lily asked tentatively.
"About an hour away." James replied. Lily looked down at her watch and saw that it was twenty till ten. James smirked when he saw the relieved look on her face. "What, you think I would try and not go to school?" James questioned teasingly.
"Nah, I know you would not skive off school completely." Lily laughed.
"So what couples do you guys think lasted through the summer?" Natalie asked; she loved gossip.
"I think Alice and Frank will be together still." Andromeda replied referring to Alice Morgan and Frank Longbottom. They were Hufflepuff seventh years.
"Yeah those two are inseparable." Lily said.
Lily had just realized how truly big it was in this vehicle. There was a mini bar right behind the front seats, though there was a big mirror that separated it. There were two long benches and the third one had been folded out from the bottom. It was the one next to the door.
The seats were leather and extremely comfortable. Lily was sitting next to James and they were holding hands. Natalie was sitting with Sirius; he had his arm around her waste. Andromeda and Remus looked slightly sad about something, but were holding hands, so Lily shrugged it off.
"Yeah, the only other couple last year that were serious were… well you and Remus…" Lily said. Luckily they just shrugged it off.
"Well now there is you and James. James I am so sorry your fan club is going to be disappointed because you have a stead girlfriend." Natalie said slyly. James just shrugged.
"I do not care. Though Sirius's is more dangerous than mine, so you might want to watch out Nat. Remus, your fan club is just weird… No offence." James said with a nervous laugh.
"Non taken, they creep me out. Then again they are my fan club, so…" Remus trailed off.
The rest of the ride was quiet with just small talk about the past. At ten thirty the group arrived at platform 9 ¾.
Upon sight Lily smiled. The Marauders went and claimed their usual compartment for them and the girls of course. After they had put their luggage on they waited for Peter to show up.
They did not see anyone very interesting. There was one red headed family that was sending what looked to be their oldest boy to the train. They seemed to have a lot of kids. They had counted a total of four. Two were infants.
Peter showed up minutes before the train was scheduled to depart.
James, Lily, and Remus had to go down to the prefect's compartment for their meeting. Lily did most of the speaking because she had been a prefect. They set up a schedule for patrolling. Before everyone left James spoke.
"This year Professor Dumbledore had informed us that we will throw a ball, so we will let you discuss ideas amongst your selves. Let us know what you come up with, and remember, we can make most anything happen." James said with a smirk. Everyone cleared out after Lily gave out the passwords.
"Well that went smoothly." Lily said.
"Yeah, c'mon lets go join everyone." James said. Remus led the way down the hall.
When they returned they walked in to find Andromeda sitting and talking to a nervous Peter who excused himself when the three walked in. Natalie and Sirius were making out, but no one bothered to stop them. In fact Remus went and started snogging Andromeda when he saw her. Lily gave a weak laugh before falling into James' arms. James took the chance to kiss her passionately, but as their lips touched the compartment door slid open.
"Well, I guess the rumors on the train are true, Potter and Evans are dating, and what else have we got here? Black and Kerrie, Black I thought you were with Teri. She was better than the slut you have with you now, what did you do? Oh stole her from your best friend? Who happens to have your cousin, wow you have a twisted family." It was Lucious Malfoy and some of his Slytherin friends, Severus Snape, William Terret, and Regulus Black were standing beside him.
James, Sirius, and Remus all stood up ready for a fight.
"No need to ask whom your dating though." It was Andromeda who spoke. "Cissy, nice choice. Though I think you might want to go find Lestrange, you can have a double wedding!" She stated with Sirius's trademark smirk.
"At least she is not a blood traitor." Malfoy shot back.
"No, she is a slut though, last I heard she was cheating on you with Snape. Hm, now who is the screwed up one now?" It was Sirius who spoke.
"Sirius? Wow, it's amazing, seems like your dating my girlfriend's sister. Imagine, I should dump her now, though she is nothing like your little play mate." Regulus said trying to sound strong.
"My sister, that's a joke! She is more screwed up than you Reggy." Natalie used the pet name her sister seemed to have had for him for the whole letter she had written to Natalie all summer. Regulus turned red.
"Do not call me that." He said threateningly.
"Why my dear sister does." Natalie smirked. She loved screwing up her sister's friends.
"Okay boys, time to break this fun up. You do not really want to mess with the Head Girl and Boy, we would hate to put you in detention before term even begins." Lily said joyfully.
James decided now was a great time to wrap his arm around Lily.
"Leave now, or pay the consequences." James said threateningly.
"I think we'll take the consequences." It was Terret who spoke.
"EXPELIARMUS!" Lily screamed. Terret's wand came flying to her. She looked around, James was battling with Snape he had just sent a jelly leg curse at him. Sirius had just sent his brother flying backwards, and Remus had disarmed Malfoy.
"You have guts Evans, I'll give you that." Terret said with a smirk. He started moving closer to her. Lily was frozen to the spot. Natalie and Andromeda came to her wands at the ready. Peter was cowering in a corner, no one seemed to know why, or care for that matter.
"Send them off! They will never be worth our time." Andromeda said over the noise.
Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus all yelled "POTRIFICUS TOTALUS" at the same time pointing their wands at whomever it was they were fighting. The guys unceremoniously threw the four other guys out of their compartment. James locked the compartment with a flick of his wand. Sirius put a silencing charm on it so they could not be over heard.
A/N: Okay, today is August the 16th... So in 6days time my updating is going to slow down because I start swimming, and thats about 5hrs at the pool everyday, and in between swimming I take a nap and eat, so I will work on writing like 6 more chapters in 6 days so I should have... up till chapter 20 pre-written. So I will just have to update which does not take nearly as long as writing it.
I hope you guys liked this chapter, I know Lily should have done more to Will, but there is a reason that she did not which will be explained in the next chapter. I liked the battle scene.
Firefly4u: Yeah I know, that is part of the later plot, to explain why Remus is not keen to get together with Tonks... bit depressing...
Okay, that was the only review I had to address, so thank you, I'm glad everyone found truth or dare funny, as I said i had fun writing that...
Okay, this is getting rather long... I'll end it here with REVIEW!
love,
Crazy Lily