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Nobody ever said it would be easy.

Chapter three: Unwanted attention, girl talks and arguments.

'WILLIAMS, Amaya'

Frantic whispers broke out around the hall.

'Who is she?'

'She stunned the Slytherin's'

'God she's hot!'

Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat. The whispers subsided.

'This is Amaya, she will be joining the sixth years for sometime. Please make her welcome. Amaya the sorting.'

She glanced around the room and her eyes fell in the Gryffindor table. James and Remus smiled at her, Lily gave her a quick thumbs up, Peter licked his lips which turned her stomach over, Sirius caught her eye and he flashed her a grin that made her go week at the knees. The whole hall was watching her as she approached the stool. Her footsteps echoed through the hall, all eyes were on the mysterious 6th year girl. She sat down and placed the hat on her head.

'Well well well, you don't belong here! It seems you have had an accident. Well we might as well place you for now. Umm, O yes you have great amounts of cunning, you'd defiantly do well in Slytherin. Your brains - my! You would defiantly go far in Ravenclaw. But your loyalty and bravery shine! I've made my decision...'

'GRYFFINDOR!'

Relief spread over her. She was glad that she would be spending her time with the Marauders, people she actually knew. Applause broke out through out the hall, the Marauders were cheering above everyone else and were standing up clapping. She made her way over to the table beaming and sat between Sirius and Peter.

'Congrates Amaya!

'It took along time to sort you.'

'Yeah it was going to put me in Slytherin, but I told it there were to many cute guys here for me to leave.'

She gave a sideward glance at Sirius and he gave her a small wink. She smiled at turned to face the others. Conversation was going well and everyone was enjoying the feast until Peter leaned in and whispered in her ear

'How about we go to the astronomy tower at midnight we can get to know each other a little better?'

He was practically licking her ear. Hermione really didn't like this, she didn't want to embarrass herself by causing a scene so she turned to him politely.

'No thank you Peter, I won't be going anywhere alone with you. I know you well enough.'

She turned away from him and picked up her fork to eat. He wasn't giving up that easy. He slid his hand onto her knee and proceeded under her skirt. She was shifting uncomfortably in her seat, trying to get him to remove his hand, but this only encouraged him. He stopped mid thigh and gave it a squeeze. She shot him a disgusting glance and tried to move again. She whispered to him so no one else would hear.

'Fuck off Peter.'

However Sirius did hear and turned the focus onto them.

'What's going on with you two?'

Hermione turned to Sirius and the others and said in the calmest voice she could.

'What do you mean?'

'Well you and Peter have been whispering to each other all night, so something must be going on.'

'No there's nothing going on. Trust me.'

He didn't look convinced but was satisfied with her answer. He turned away and continued talking with James. A few more minutes past with pleasant conversation when Hermione felt a sudden pressure mid thigh. Before she had time to react with anything it was moving further and further up. It continued to move until he reached her underwear. She was shocked and let her fork drop with a loud clutter. The people near her all turned to look at her.

'Erm Lily, could you show me the dorms, I feel quite sick. I think I saw a filthy rat.'

She looked at Peter, got up and practically ran out of the hall. Lily quickly followed her.

'What was that about?'

Hermione walked back into the girl's dorms and found Lily sitting on her bed. Hermione had a black strap top on and shorts and was drying her hair.

'Thanks for coming with me Lily, I appreciate it, I'm not sure what came over me.'

Hermione couldn't tell her the truth, the Marauders where to close to her for that.

'No problem.'

She pulled her hair back and sat on the bed with Lily.

'So come on Mya, what do you think of the Marauders?'

Hermione giggled and faced Lily.

'Well James is cute, he really reminds me of one of my best friends back home. He seems really loyal to his friends and would make great boyfriend material.'

'What do you mean by that?'

'O come on Lily, I've seen the way you look at each other! I bet by the end of the week you'll be together!'

'Well James is cute, and loving and adorable, he's so sensitive and makes me feel really safe when I'm with him.'

'See!'

'Enough about James, what about Remus?'

'See I know Remus quite well in the future, sort of, so I can't really judge. But... we're not in the future... I think he's got this mysterious feel about him. I reckon he would treat a woman right and defiantly have a few surprises!'

They both laughed and threw pillows at each other.

'To tell you the truth I thought that about him too. Always had a little crush for Remus. But he DOES NOT know about it!'

'Ok Ok!'

'So on to a more interesting person you seem pretty close with...Sirius.'

Hermione heart did a little flutter and she blushed. She sighed and turned to face Lily.

'Sirius is Hot! And I see myself liking him a lot! He's got this rugged manly look about him. You know the type - Tall, dark and hansom! He's so sweet and caring and has the most amazing smile!'

'Someone likes Sirius...'

'Do not!'

'Do too!'

They were both laughing again.

'You have to be careful with those three though. They have a reputation for breaking hearts. I don't want to see you get hurt from any of them.'

'Thanks for the warning but I think I can handle the three of them.'

'So what about Peter?'

Hermione looked away and her face dropped. She wasn't sure of she should tell Lily or not.

'Lily, Can I tell you something?'

' 'Course!'

'Well its Peter, he really creeps me out. I mean today on the platform he was hitting on me, then at dinner he kept making these suggestions to get to know each other better. Then when I turned round and simply told him no, he got worse. He started feeling me up in the most inappropriate ways. His hands were all over my thighs and under my skirt. He even got to my underwear, which's when I got up and left.

Hermione felt some tears forming in her eyes, there was silence between them and Hermione looked up. Lily wasn't looking at her, she was looking at her hands.

'Mya, if I tell you something, promise me you won't tell the others. Nicole doesn't even know and they would flip if they found out, especially James.'

'Sure what is it?'

'Well it was at the end of last term and I was doing one of my nightly patrols. I was on my own for some reason. But I was just finishing off and was heading back to the common room, when somebody pulled me into a classroom. He threw me on the floor. It was really dark but there was some light, so when he came into the light I could see it was Peter.'

She paused for a second but still didn't look up. She found that her hands were far more interesting.

'He kept telling me that I was teasing him with my short skirts and my tight shirts. He said a Mudblood like me deserves everything I had coming to me. He kept trying to kiss me but in the end he settled on felling me up. It really hurt I had bruises for weeks. If it wasn't for a crash outside I think he might have... you know... raped me.'

Hermione hugged Lily and they both had tears coming down their faces. They never noticed the door to the dormitory open and then close again.

'I'm going to kill him.'

'Prongs listen, we weren't supposed to hear that! We weren't supposed to be there. They'd kill us when they find out!'

'Moony, he nearly raped Lily, look at what he did to Amaya on her first day! There is no way he's going to get away with it.'

'Padfoot just think about it-'

'Moony! How can he do that to one of his best friends and a vulnerable woman like that? What if it was Nicole?'

They alls topped and it finally hit Remus the seriousness of Peter's actions. They reached the bottom of the staircase and saw Peter sitting at a table trying to feel up a third year. (A.N that's just nasty)

'Leave her alone Peter!'

He turned around to see his three best friends at the foot of the stairs, fists clenched. The girl practically ran away crying.

'Moony my old friend, you had to go spoil my fun!'

'She didn't seem to enjoy it, just like Amaya and Lily!'

'What are you talking about?'

Remus leapt forward and punched him, Peter was sent flying across the table and smashed many items. James and Sirius were holding a fuming Remus back.

Upstairs the girls continued to talk until they hard a loud crash from below them. They looked at each other and ran down the staircase. They were shocked at the scene before them. Sirius and Remus were now holding back a positively murderous James. Opposite them was a very smug looking Peter who was sporting a bloody lip.

'What's the matter James? Pissed off that I got further with that slag than you did? I must say that she felt so soft, you should try it sometime.'

'You prick! How can you do that to one of your best friends Peter? She never deserved to be treated like that!'

'You're just jealous.'

'Of what?'

'That I got summit off of your precious Lily while Lord James got Jack.'

'Fuck off Peter, we're supposed to be your mates and you go and do that! I should let James at you, you'd deserve it!'

'O I'm sorry I didn't realise King Sirius was here! You lot make me sick, for years I have followed you, always in your shadow, but now I've finally come out, and start to get with girls you don't like it.'

'You're pathetic do you know that? How could you sink so fucking low as to attack and nearly rape one of your best mates?'

'She was asking for it.'

James was fuming, they were all ready just to attack him. Lily had tears down her face and Hermione was confused. How did they know? The guys still never knew that the girls were standing there.

'And Amaya was asking for it too I suppose? Just sitting there asking for her to feel her up? Even though she said no, you still did it!'

'That bitch? O yeah she was decent. I was only giving her a warm welcome, why so protective over the Mudbloods any way?'

That was the final straw for Lily, she ran back up to her dorm. That's when they noticed that Hermione and Lily had heard everything. Hermione had tears in her eyes but just looked at the three Marauders. Out the corner of her eye she saw Peter slowly walking away.

'The second you transform Peter I will hex you into oblivion.'

Peter looked at her shocked. He had no idea how she knew about him. She took her eyes off the Marauders and walked casually over to Peter. She stood in front of him and without any warning she punched him.

'That's for Lily.'

She then kneed him in the groin.

'And that's for me, now fuck off you pathetic rat. If I hear you've hurt another girl I won't hesitate to rip your balls out. Got it?'

He gave her a smirk and then walked off to the dormitory. She looked at the Marauders and turned to walk off.

'Amaya wait.'

She looked and the Marauders, fighting back the tears.

'What?'

'We can explain.'

'I really don't want to hear it.'

He reached over and grabbed the top of her arm, totally forgetting about her bruise. She turned and slapped him hard across the face.

'What the fuck?'

She squared up to him and looked him in the eye.

'Twice in one day I've had guy's threat me like shit. I've got the marks to prove it. I am not letting anyone else threat me like that, especially when they try and manhandle me.'

'I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you.'

She rubbed her arm.

'I don't want to hear it Black.'

She gave the other two filthy looks and again turned around. She stopped on a second thought and faced them.

'I hope that you're happy with you're actions, not only have you lost one of the Marauders, but also you've lost one of your best friends. I couldn't care less about any of you three, but you've hurt Lily...bad. You invaded not only her privacy but also mine. You had no right to do what you did. Lily didn't want to tell you because firstly she was scared of breaking up you fours friendship, but she's scared of him, as most of us are. He is very intimidating and how you've gone and made it 10 times worse.'

'How do you figure that? And we're sorry we shouldn't have been listening but we wanted to know what was up with you. Excuse us for caring, next time we won't bother.'

'Are you completely stupid? Now Peter knows that it's effected you lot like this, he's going to do it again and again. He wants revenge, he wants to be the big man. We're in a worse situation with him now thanks to you. O and if I wanted you to know then I would have told you. You don't have to care much longer, the second I get my time turner fixed, I'm gone. I can't stand to be in the presence of four pathetic excuses for men any longer.

With that she left them lost for words staring after her.

Dark Raven

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