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Chapter 15 Regular day in Hogwarts
"JAMES! Wake up, breakfast's going to be over if you don't wake up!" Sirius yelled in James ear.
"And you know how Sirius gets if he doesn't get enough sugar in the morning." Remus chuckled from somewhere near James bed. James just groaned and rolled over. It was the first day of school since they got back and needless to say, he wasn't looking forward to it.
He didn't even know how he got to his room without being bombarded with questions the night before. When he stepped into the Common Room, everyone seemed to want to talk to him, until Remus and Sirius threatened to hex the next person who talked to him.
"Well, I'm going to head down there. James, the Common room's clear, just to let you know." Peter said somewhere near James bed. He heard the door open and close and guessed Peter was gone already.
"James," Sirius groaned, "you can't hide in your bed forever."
"Yes I can. You two can get me food from the kitchens and sneak it up here. It should be enough to last me until I graduate." James mumbled sleepily. He heard Sirius sigh.
"Don't say we didn't warn you James." Remus said.
Before James could ask what he was talking about, he suddenly felt something very heavy on top of him, making all the air leave his lungs. James quickly sat up, shoved whatever was on him to the floor, and got out of bed, panting.
"What the bloody hell was that?" James demanded.
"Sirius." Remus said simply, bending down to help Sirius up.
"I weigh so much more than you so I wanted to see if you could hold my weight!" Sirius said innocently, grinning.
James gave him a glare, but his heart wasn't in it. Pretty soon he was grinning too.
"Now can we go down?" Sirius whined.
"After you stop whining." Remus replied.
Sirius crossed his arms and fake pouted.
James sighed. "I really don't want to walk in the Great Hall and be the center of bad news."
"Prongs! You've always been the center of attention- not in a bad way, of course. Worst thing that could happen is girls will swarm you asking what happened. And that, James, should be nothing new. Girls have always been all over you." Remus reasoned.
James sighed in defeat. "Fine."
He got dressed pretty quickly and the three friends rushed down to the Great Hall. They had barely walked into the Great Hall when girls began circling around the three Marauders.
"Oh, James, are you okay?" a girl asked.
"You must be terrified!"
"Of course he's not terrified! He's James Potter! How many Death Eaters were there?
"Weren't you at least a little scared?"
"Oh, Sirius, were you hurt?"
"Of course he wasn't. He's as hot as ever." Some girl gave Sirius a wink.
"Ladies! Even if the Marauders were scared, we'd never back down from a fight!" Sirius stated matter-of-factly. Remus had taken James arm and was trying to lead him away from the crowd of girls, when another voice filled the air.
"You never back down from a fight? Then tell me, Potter, why you left your parents to fight alone when it was clear they were outnumbered? You cared that much about your Mudblood girlfriend to let your parents die?" Snape drawled with a smirk on his face.
James reacted so fast Sirius and Remus didn't have time to stop him. He took out his wand and pointed it at Snape.
"Impedimenta!"
Snape was knocked off his feet and hit against a wall.
"So, Snivellus, I see your jaw finally got fixed? I'm surprised you have the nerve to walk up to us after the lesson we gave to you yesterday." Sirius said coolly, yet a hint of a dangerous tone. Remus put his hand on James wand arm, giving him a pointed look.
"POTTER!" McGonagall yelled, walking over to them. She looked furious. "What is your reason for attacking Mr. Snape here?"
"He wouldn't shut his fat mouth about the night my dad was captured." James snarled, still glaring at Snape and finally putting his wand away. Tears stung the back of his eyes, but he was careful not to let them show. It wasn't the fact that Snape had said that that hurt so much, it was the fact that it was True. He did leave his parents, he did abandon them. He looked up at McGonagall and received a shock.
She was actually looking sympathetic toward him.
"Potter, I will let you off easy this time." She said quietly, then she turned to the crowd that had formed. "Well, what is everyone staring at? Back to breakfast with you all!" McGonagall shooed all the students away. Snape got up and tumbled back into the Great Gall. After everyone was gone, she turned back to the three.
"Potter, I know this may be hard for you, but you must learn not to let others remarks get to you that easily." She said quietly. She then nodded curtly at the three of them and walked off.
Sirius and Remus seemed to be in shock.
"Did she just let us off?" Remus asked in disbelief.
"And for attacking Snape?" Sirius added, shocked.
"Actually, I'm not hungry. I think I'm going to go get more sleep. I'll see you two in Charms class." James said.
Sirius and Remus gave him odd looks, but obeyed nonetheless. James quickly walked down the corridor with his bag over his back, and ran nonstop to the Owlery. When he got there, he sat by a window, took out a quill and parchment, and began to write.
John,
How are you? How's my mom? Is there any news about my dad yet? Do you need any extra help because you know I can be over there in a flash. Listen, one of the kids on the train said something that made me think he knows what (or who) I am. Is that bad? Am I supposed to tell anyone? I'm just so confused and worried. Also, the next Hogsmeade weeknd is coming up. I'll write to you when it is exactly then maybe we could get together? Write back, I'm anxious to know what's going on!
-James Potter
James rolled up the letter and looked around for his owl. He finally caught it, a beautiful brown owl.
"Evans! Hey, Evans! I have a letter for you." James called to the owl. How the owl got that name was quite a story. He got it for his birthday is second year when he hated Lily. James originally wanted to call it Shadow, but Sirius kept on calling it 'Evans' just to annoy James. Now, it was stuck with the name and wouldn't respond to anything else.
The owl flew down gracefully and landed on his shoulder. "I need you to give this to John Kuttle, okay? You know who he is." James whispered to it. The owl nodded in response. After he tied it to the owl's leg, he watched it take off. He stood staring at it, until it was nothing more than a speck in the sky.
How he would love to fly away from this place, to be with his mum, let her know everything would be okay. But no, he was stuck here with his classes-
'Class!' James thought frantically. He looked at his clock and realized it started in five mintues. Charms class was pretty much at the other end of the castle. He grabbed his bag and sprinted out of the Owlery and down the corridors. He kept shoving into people and got giggles from groups of girls. He winked at some of them before sprinting away.
He finally reached the class. He ran in, panting. Everyone in the class turned in their seats to look at him. James ran a hand threw his hair, but figured it probably already looked windswept after all that running.
"Great to see you, Mr. Potter. Although is might be nice if you could make it here on time." Flitwick said from the front of the class.
"Thank you, Professor. Great to see you too. Have a good holiday?" James asked, somewhat indifferently, looking around for the other Marauders. He finally spotted them.
Sirius was waving his hand frantically at him with a silly grin on his face. James smiled and made their way over to them and sat down. He guessed Flitwick had ignored his question, because he continued on with the lesson.
"Where were you?" Sirius whispered to him.
"Had to take care of some business." He replied.
Sirius gave him a skeptical look, but James just shrugged it off.
The rest of the day went by pretty fast after that and before James knew it, he and his friends were heading back to the common room after dinner. James sighed and rubbed his head. The whole day Sirius, Peter, and Remus had been trying to stop people from asking too many questions. They also hadn't talked to Emma or Lily all day.
"Hey, where's Remus?" James asked, noticing one of his friends were missing.
"Library. You know how he gets the day before a full moon." Peter replied.
"What? The full moon's tomorrow?" James asked.
"Yeah." Sirius answered. They reached the Common Room, where girls instantly began swarming them again.
"Sirius, cover for me. I'm heading to bed." James whispered. Sirius nodded.
James ducked and ran into his dormitory. He fell on his bed, his head aching. He turned over.
His eyes slowly closed...........
James opened his eyes. He was in a dark room. There was door in front of him, someone was shouting his name- they sounded oddly familiar....a voice he hadn't heard since Christmas-
He ran to the door and opened it. He walked quickly into the room and gasped. His dad lay there, tied at the ankles and wrists, he had blood dripping from his mouth and a huge gash on his cheek.
"Dad!" James cried. He ran over to him. "Are you okay?" He knelt down, trying to undo the roped.
""James?" his dad repeated, as though in a daze.
"Dad, it's me. I'm going to get you out." James said, relief coming over him.
"No....James, you have to get out of here." His dad choked.
"I won't leave you! Just give me a few moments." James said, his voice shaking, but he now worked harder and faster to undo the ropes.
"James....you have to help him. He needs more help than me. He's the next target." His dad choked.
"Who?" James asked, forgetting the ropes for a second. Justin Potter coughed up blood.
"The pendant, James. Use it."
"How?"
James looked down on his shirt and realized there was blood all over his white polo. His dad's eyes suddenly widened, he was looking at something behind James. James stood up and spun around, only to come face to face with a hooded person.
"Ahh....James Potter, Heir of Gryffindor." The voice breathed.
"Who are you?" James asked, trying not to sound scared. He put his hands in his pockets to look for him wand, but couldn't find it.
"I'm so glad you're here. You can witness your father's death. Remember, James, this is the price you pay for being the Heir of my enemy." The figure said coldly.
He pointed his wand at James dad.
"Crucio."
James eyes widened in horror as his father withered and screamed on the ground.
"NO! Leave him alone! It's me you want!" James shouted.
"This is the price you pay, Potter." The figure hissed. He raised his wand once again.
"Avada Kedavra."
James watched in horror as there was a blinding flash of green light. "NOOOO!!" James screamed..........
"JAMES! JAMES!" Someone was yelling at him, hitting his face. James opened his eyes and sat up quickly, hitting heads with Remus. They both groaned and rubbed their heads, though James was panting heavily.
"James, what's wrong?" Remus asked urgently. James looked around and noticed there was no one else in the dormitory.
"I....what happened?" James asked.
"I came up here to grab my school bag and you were screaming-"Remus suddenly cut off and looked at James arm. "James....what did you do?"
James looked at his sleeve and gasped. Before he went to lay down, he took of his robes so he was wearing the school pants and polo....but the whole sleeve was covered in blood....just like his dream.
"I don't know. Probably cut myself. Listen, sorry Moony, I didn't mean to scare you like that. I'm going to go to the bathroom. See you." James said in a false cheery voice. He walked to the bathroom and shut the door. He examined himself in the mirror. He was sweating so much, his face was as white as snow, and the sleeve of his arm was covered in blood....but how?
'It seemed so real. It must've been though. I have blood on me! My dad's blood.' James thought.
James suddenly noticed something weird. The pendant, which was hiding under his shirt, was glowing. It was hot too, burning his skin. James quickly took it off and stared at it. He then looked from his sweaty face, to his bloody sleeve, to the pendant.
'I need to talk to John. I need more answers. This is getting out of control!' James thought.
A/N. End of the chapter! Hope you liked it, don't forget to review. Hmm....well, I was able to get five reviews last time, can I get eight reviews before I post the next chapter? Lol okay think that may be asking for too much. Next chapter coming soon.
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Amour Lily
Poll:
Who should Emma get together with?
1) Sirius
2)Remus
3)kind of hover between the two
4)Some other random guy
5) stay single