A/N: Hello Readers! OMG! Thank you so much to those who reviewed I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! Please keep reviewing it makes me so happy! Thank you again and before you all kill me I will get on with the story! Please review! Oh by the way, Peter Pettigrew is not in this story. I HATE him with a passion, so I cut him out. But do not worry I have a huge plot in mind for after school and stuff so don't worry and if you keep reviewing and reading you will learn of what happens! Love from padfootqueen!

Those damn dreams. They always came back when Cory wouldn't want them to. Cory shot up out of bed and held back a scream. She had become very good at not screaming in her sleep like she use to when she would dream about her past. When she would dream she would always dream of her past. Her dreams were mostly of the night her parents died. She would be in her kitchen with her mother and father then their backdoor would explode and her parents would start fighting. The six year old version of herself would crouch in the corner of their kitchen screaming as the fighting took place. Ophelia and Aidan Ash were trained and highly respected Aurors and knew how to defend themselves. They were strongly out numbered ten to two but they managed to get rid of five before Cory's mother got shot with the killing cruse. Her screaming would fill Cory's ears forever and her father would yell in agony, "Ophelia! No!" He would then get killed and then Cory would be left alone. But it would never end there. The laughter. It always followed. That horrid cackle. Then the masks of the remaining five people would come off. The original Deatheaters. And of course their leader. Voldemort. This was back when he actually did his own dirty work. But she guessed that the idea of killing two of the most famous Aurors in history was too tempting not to do. His eyes would then fall upon Cordelia. He would smile. His smile was what tended at haunt her the most. She would keep screaming like she had been when he would then silence her. One of the Deatheaters would then step forward and ask to kill her. But for some reason Voldemort would say, "No. She is the last Ash. Let's let her live. That would be better. Wouldn't it? So, she will have to live with this pain…Yes that is what we will do. Let her suffer. But also let her know this," Then he would with a swish of his wand she would be up on the counter and he would step in font of her and continue, "one day I will return for you Cordelia Ash and the pain that you feel now will be nothing compared to what I will do to you then." That would be it. He and the others would leave and she would silently cry and scream. She went over to her parents bodies and cried on them for awhile not wanting to believe that her parents were really dead. What seemed like hours later men showed up. Even till this day she couldn't remember what the men looked like. All she remembered was one of them picking her up and carrying her away. That was always the dream. Over and over again she would witness it. She never told anyone about. Well, except for Lily of course. Lily always had the perfect way to calm Cory down. It just added to the reasons Cory and Lily were best friends.

Cory rose off her bed and headed to the bathroom. She went in and went over to the sinks. She turned the cold water on and let it run. She took some of it and splashed it on her face. She hated her dreams. She use to cry over them but now that sadness had been put out and now it's place was taken by anger. He said that he would come for her and by then when he did she would be ready. She hated him so much. He was the reason she was left with no family and had to pushed around from one abusive foster home to another one over and over again. She looked at herself in the mirror and starred into her eyes. Sighing at the fact that she would never get to get rid of these dreams that plagued her, she went back out into the bedroom area. Slowly she sank back into her bed. Glancing over at the clock she learned that it was 3:45 in the morning. Just wonderful. Cory laid down on her bed and tried to get some sleep. After about thirty minutes if laying there and replaying the dream in her mind, her eyes finally gave way and she went to sleep.

"Oh move faster damn it!" Lily yelled at a few first years that looked absolutely terrified.

"She doesn't mean it." Cory said as she dragged Cory, quite literally, down the hallway.

"Oh yes I do!" she yelled over her shoulder and continued down the hallway, "I am not being late on the first afternoon of classes! We are getting to those damn dungeons on time!"

Lily of course was freaking out over the fact that they might be late for their very first class of the new term; Potions. She was a woman on a mission and nothing was stopping her. That was just so Lily. Being punctual was something she prided herself on. Hence why Lily woke Cory up at seven and demanded that they be the first ones ready. Why? So early? Cory had thought to herself, Why?

Lily continued her mad dash to potions down a hallway and busted through a group of four people who immediately yelled "Hey, jeez!"

Cory then turned to begin her apologetic speech again. "Look I'm sor-"

But her voice got caught in her throat. The Marauders. As she had learned they called themselves. Bethany seemed to know everything about Sirius. She told Cory it was because her younger sister, Zoë, was best friends with his cousin,Nymphadora and Tonks, as she preferred to be called, loved her cousin and adored talking about him. Sadly though it either way wouldn't have mattered what you said because Lily just kept dragging Cordelia to their first class. Much to her relief, as well as her arm's relief too, they finally made it to the dungeons. Of course Cory and Lily arrived early and were faced with numerous people. They made their way past people till they came across Emma, Bethany and a girl Cory had never met before. Lily made proper introductions and Cory learned that the new girl's name was Ann Runnel. Cory wasn't going to lie she got a weird vibe from Ann that she couldn't explain. But, because Ann was one of Lily's friends Cory kept her mouth shut. They soon were all talking when Ann made this fainting noise. Lily looked at behind Cory and then looked directly at Cory.

"Oh not again." Emma said.

Bethany said, "Oh best time of the day…"

Cory broke Lily's eye contact and turned around. Your eyes then met with none other then Sirius Black and his friends. The four of them seemed to be making their way over to Cory's group and she could fell herself blushing so she quickly turned away. "Oh fucking Merlin, he's coming over here!" Ann squealed

It was now ultimately obvious that Ann was in love Sirius Black as well. For some reason Cory felt herself getting angry. She and Lily looked at each other that was really all she could do. Just look at each other. Either of them wanted to look at the group of people descending upon their little circle. Lily loved James and couldn't let him know, and Cory were totally taken with Sirius but couldn't let him know.

The group had finally reached them and James was first to speak, "Hey Evans."

"Potter." Lily responded putting on her 'I hate you' face.

Then Cory made the catastrophic mistake of looking away from Lily and to Sirius. His black eyes spellbound her and she felt herself slowly drifting off into a cloud nine state. Why does he always do this me? WHY? I feel like an idiot! Thankfully, the teacher showed up then. He was a middle-aged man with brown eyes and had great amount of energy. The Professor went by the name of Senor Sallora.

Sallora had one bad thing about him though; he clapped his hands repeatedly on every word he said. This made it very hard not to burst out laughing in class. Cory to practically grip Lily's arm to keep from laughing. Which Cory felt kind-of bad about later. But, come on, it was funny. Though one thing made class very hard and that was that the Marauders sat themselves in front of Cory and her friends. She by now had learned all their names. First there was obviously Sirius Black, then his best friend James Potter. After that there was Remus Lupin, who Lily was actually pretty good friends with, then there came the only girl in the group Flora Quinn, who would as the girls told Cory, kill you if you even thought of calling her Flora. So she went by Quinn. They were completely inseparable. And if they were apart, assume that a prank was on the way. So because of them sitting in front of Cory, Cory had an increasingly amount of trouble focusing on the potion they were making. But even that didn't stop Cory and Lily finishing the potion first in the class. Cory had always found Potions so easy, that even if Sirius was sitting directly in front of her (which he was) she still could finish.

But besides that all Cory's classes were fine and soon she had found herself through a whole week of classes. But still she had not spoken a word to Sirius. Was this how it was going to be? Were you two just going stare at each other all the time? And he did too. He stared at Cordelia often. But still...the two had still not spoken!

Though because of school getting into full-swing, she had other things on her mind. That was why she found yourself sitting in the library by herself on a Tuesday night with about five books sprawled out in front of her. Lily and Emma had prefect stuff to do so they were gone and Bethany had detention for slapping a Slytherin across the face after he grabbed her ass. So there she sat reading up on Defiance Against the Dark Arts stuff, her favorite subject. When all of a sudden the chair across from her got pulled out. You said not even looking up because you knew it would be Lily or Emma or Bethany, "Well dear Merlin, it is a bout time."

Then Cory looked up. At that moment her heart stopped. Him. There. In front of her. Shhhhhhhiiiiiiitttttt…. "Well... ahhh..." Cory said tring to think of something that would explain herself. She then continued, "Sorry I thought you were Lily."

He then broke into a beautiful smile and said sarcastically, "Ah yea Evans. No problem, happens all the time. We always seem to get mixed up. Like this one time-"

But Cory cut him off with a groan of embarrassment and hid her face in one of her many books. Upon seeing this he laughed. But not in a mean way. A nice, joking way. His laugh was great. It was so full of happiness and joy. She noticed that when he laughed his eyes almost squinted. So prefect! Wait why does a cute guy always catch me in embarrassing situation! "No really, its fine I understand, I get it. You were reading. And I interrupted." he said and smiled.

"Well I really have to go." Cory said despreste to get away from thelibary as soon as possible. It was getting just plain embarrassing!

"Hey don't leave because of that. Oh, come on. Hey look why don't we start with introductions. I'm Sirius. Sirius Black." he said and stood up across from you. God he was tall, He must be around 6'3 Cory thought.

But still there was this awkwardness and she wanted to talk to Lily. She had to go talk to her. She would know hat to do because Cory sure didn't. Which was so odd. Cory was the one who always knew what to do and could solve everyone else's problems. That was when it hit her; all the girls had warmed her about this. She couldn't start flirting or anything like that with Sirius Black. He would just use her. But he didn't seem like a user. He was being nice. Even a little charming. But isn't that how it starts?

Then her mind kicked into play and started to devise a plan. She would play hard to get and not interested. That would show that she wasn't like other girls, which she most certainly wasn't, and that he would have to show her respect if he wanted to be with her. So that was why she turned on her heel and started to leave. She was halfway to Griffindor tower when he caught up with her. "Doesn't that make you want to tell me something."

She turned to him and kept walking up a set of stairs and said "Like what?"

"Ohh I don't know?" he said sarcastically "Maybe your name?"

however, Cory just keep walking till she was standing in front of Griffindor tower entrance and you both said the password and entered. The common room was packed. The rest of Sirius' friends were sitting in front to the fire and were all looking at the two of them. Lily was walking towards Cory and she slightly glanced over at her. Sirius was obviously getting pissed off that Cory wasn't saying anything.

She were about to put her foot of the first step when he stepped in front of her looked mightily peeved. "Tell me your name or say something! Anything don't just ignore me!"

"Fine." Cory said getting mad herself. Who the hell did he think he was? Yelling at her. Sirius obviously thought he had won this little fight thing they were having and he looked pleased with himself. Cory then continued and did as he asked and said something, "Please get the fuck out of my way Sirius Black."

And with that his jaw dropped, James and Quinn started laughing, Remus eyes nearly shot out of his head and Lily snorted in laughter obviously happy that someone had finally told Sirius Black off. Cory grabbed Lily by the wrist and semi-gently pushed a very shocked Sirius Black aside and went up stairs.