Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!
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Right after Lily passed out, James, Sirius, Remus, and Marissa rushed her to the hospital wing. The whole time they were walking, James was cursing Snape forever living.
Once they got there, they told Madame Pomfrey how Lily passed out. She tried to shoo them out of the wing while she was fixing a bed for Lily but all four of them refused to leave until she woke.
Madame Pomfrey rolled her eyes. "All right, but I'm only letting you stay because tomorrow is a Sunday."
After she did a few spells she told the group Lily was suffering from post-traumatic shock. "What exactly happened tonight?" Madame Pomfrey asked suspiciously.
The four people looked at each other, then Remus spoke. "We were all walking to the common room, when Snape pulled Lily inside a classroom and sealed the door shut. We were trying to open it because Lily was screaming, but it was muffled. When we got the door open, Snape was kissing Lily. We had a hard time pulling him off of her, and when we actually did, James beat the living he-, er, daylights out of him. As you can see, Snape punched him in the nose."
Madame Pomfrey gasped, and rushed out of the room to bring the headmaster. When she came back, Dumbledore was following her with his calm expression. "May I ask what happened tonight?"
Remus gulped. Lying to Madame Pomfrey was one thing, but to the headmaster was a totally different. Remus took a deep breath and put on his I-didn't-do-it Marauder face. He retold the whole story without even blinking.
Dumbledore nodded when he was finished and looked over to James, seeing his fists clenched into tight balls. "Is there anything else you wish to tell me?" he asked Remus, looking at him over his eye spectacles.
"I don't think so," Remus said in the same calm manner.
Dumbledore nodded again and swiftly walked out of the room. He peeked back in and said, "By the way, Mr. Snape will get suspended for a week. Goodnight."
When Madame Pomfrey left, Marissa smiled. "Good job Remus! Snape got the hell beat out of him and he's suspended."
"Do you think Dumbledore knew what really happened?" Sirius asked Remus.
"I don't know, most likely. Bloody hell, it was hard lying to him," Remus said, rubbing his eyes. He looked over at James, who was just staring at Lily and stroking her hand.
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The next day Remus tracked down Peter and even found Kiah. On the way, Remus told each of them the truth about what happened the night before.
When they got there, everyone went over the details again. Lily was still in a deep sleep and James was sharing the bed with her, under the Invisibility Cloak so Madame Pomfrey wouldn't see him. He stayed up all night just thinking.
"You know what I think," Marissa said, "we should pay back Snape for all the damage he caused. I don't think suspension and broken ribs is enough."
"Give him a rest, he has gotten a lot of damage," Peter said quietly. Remus looked at him strangely, but Sirius interrupted his thoughts.
"I have a brilliant idea! And I only need to look up a few spells in the library!" Sirius said excitedly, rubbing his hands together. "Here's what we do . . . "
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Remus, Sirius, Peter, Kiah, and Marissa were all under the Invisibility Cloak, heading towards the Slytherin common room. James was still with Lily. She finally woke up and James refused to leave her, even if it was payback.
When they got to the entrance to the Slytherin common room, Peter muttered the password. "How do you always know the password?" Remus asked.
"I come down here for potions tutoring, so I always hear someone go in and say the password," Peter said a little too quickly.
They went inside the common room and up the boy's dormitories to Snape's room. They creaked open the door and slipped inside without being heard.
Soon all five of them were muttering spells and waving their wands around Snape and Wilcox. A black bubble started forming around each of them. Then it changed to purple, then to red, and then finally resting on gold.
After the gold light slowly faded to a shimmer around their bodies, the five students left the Slytherin common room and went back to the hospital wing.
Once they got there, they saw James asleep with Lily on her bed. Sirius pulled the cloak off and shook him awake.
"Whatsa mattar?" James asked groggily.
"We're not supposed to be in here, you already have three different detentions this week," Sirius said. James yawned and tried to fall back asleep, but Sirius pulled him up and threw the Invisibility Cloak back on the six of them as they crept back to the Gryffindor common room, Remus seeing Kiah off to Ravenclaw's.
Sirius steered James to his bed, then went back to the common room where Marissa was staring at the fire, playing with her necklace. Sirius snuck up behind her and kissed her head.
Marissa pulled him down on the couch. Sirius wrapped his arms around her and they lay down, staring at the fire in silence, just enjoying each other's company.
"Do you think Lily is going to be okay?" Marissa asked after a while.
"Of course, Madame Pomfrey said she can be out after breakfast," Sirius said.
"I know, but I mean post-traumatic stress. She could suffer a life-long trauma after that awful experience. Every time she sees the slimy grease ball, she might start having seizures or she might pass out or she might just loose control," Marissa said in a low voice.
Sirius looked down in her eyes. "You've thought about this, haven't you?"
"I looked it up in the library," Mara said, grinning.
Sirius smiled and pulled her closer. "I love you Marissa."
"I love you too," Marissa said, leaning up to kiss him.
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At breakfast the next morning, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Marissa, and Kiah were all waiting for Snape to come to the Great Hall. They couldn't wait to see how the spells went.
"I still don't see why you didn't let me come along," James grumbled, piling bacon onto his plate.
"A few reasons. One, we tried to ask you but you ignored us because you were to busy staring at Lily. Two, if you saw him again with no professors around, you might just kill him and I didn't feel like making up a good excuse to why Snape was missing," Sirius said through a mouthful of toast.
James glared at him, but stopped when he saw someone enter the Great Hall. Snape and Wilcox came in, both of them beaming profusely. And to everyone's surprise, Snape actually washed his hair. It was sleek and shiny and full, and it even made his cold gray eyes seem bright. His evil sneer was a whitened smile and his prefect badge was so shiny that it looked new.
"Good job guys, but what's the deal, did you make Snape normal?" James said.
Remus laughed and said, "He has to be nice to everyone, and he can't tell a lie, only the truth. This goes on for a month."
Snape caught James' eye and stood up to walk over to Gryffindor table. James tensed up and he reached for his wand, along with the Marauders and Mara and Kiah. Even the professors seemed to be alert, along with the Great Hall.
Snape walked over to James and grinned. "Look, I'm sorry about what happened. I guess I was just jealous that you have everything, including the most beautiful girl in school." James narrowed his eyes. Snape held out his hand and James hesitantly took it.
When their hands broke apart, Snape shoved them in his pockets. "Well, I'll guess I'll see you around." He started walking back to the table, but turned around and said, "tell Lily I'm sorry." James gave a short nod and turned back to the table. The professors relaxed, and the Great Hall started to get noisy again.
"That was weird," James said.
"Yes it was, but hey, at least you know he's not lying," Marissa said.
James looked deep in thought. "Yeah I guess so. I'm going to go save Lily from Madame Pomfrey."
"I'll come with you," Marissa said.
When they got there, Madame Pomfrey shooed them out. "She needs to stay another day without any visitors. Come back tomorrow before breakfast and you can see her then. And if I catch you sneaking in Mr. Potter, you will help me clean bedpans without magic for a month!" James glared at her and Marissa pulled him along to their first class before anything could happen.
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The next morning James yanked on his clothes and ran down to the hospital wing to get Lily. When he got there, Lily leapt into his arms and wouldn't let go. After a while, they finally separated and headed down to breakfast. On the way, James told her about the payback on Snape that their fellow students performed and what Snape said to him yesterday.
When they reached the Great Hall entryway, they saw Snape coming towards them. Lily's eyes widened and her breathing became deeper. She stepped behind James and clutched his hand.
Snape saw her fear and said, "Lily I'm sorry for what I did. You're just so beautiful and I am very jealous of Potter. I hope you can accept my apology, and even if you can't, I'm still sorry," Snape walked off without even glancing back.
James turned around to Lily and saw that she had tears in her eyes. He pulled her into a hug and Lily cried into his shoulder. "It's okay, he's gone. Let's go sit down and have some breakfast," James said, wiping away Lily's tears and taking her hand.
When they got closer to the Gryffindor table, Marissa stood up and rushed over to Lily, giving her a huge hug. Lily smiled and her tears disappeared.
The three of them sat down and saw Sirius spit his orange juice all over the front page of the Daily Prophet. "What is it?" Marissa asked hurriedly, taking the paper from Sirius and skimming the front page, her mouth dropping open. She passed it to James.
The title of the article read; Slytherin student at Hogwarts killed by Voldemort! James read the front page aloud.
"This morning Ministry officials got a tip-off to where Voldemort was hiding out. Aurors headed to the location immediately, and instead of finding Voldemort, they found a dead Death Eater. After a few confirmations, the Ministry concluded that the Death Eater was Leila Hadley, a Slytherin 5th year at Hogwarts. The Daily Prophet asked Minister Millicent Bagnold about this disturbing scene. 'Well, from what the Ministry has learned, we believed that Leila wanted to get out of being a Death Eater,' The Minister of Magic commented. 'Professor Dumbledore stated that Leila wasn't in school because she had gotten an owl saying her mother was dying and had to rush back home. We now know there is some one inside Hogwarts recruiting students to join Voldemort and possibly giving Voldemort insider information from our side. We are not yet entirely sure if it is a teacher or a student who is passing the information.' There will be an examination of all teachers at Hogwarts by using the widely known Truth Potion."
James scanned the page. "That's all that's interesting."
Lily shook her head. "I can't believe it. She was only in fifth year! How could she already be a Death Eater?"
"I'm not sure, but I think the magical world is slowly coming to an end," Marissa said tonelessly. Peter snuck away from the table and went to the common room, beginning to change his mind to back out of being a Death Eater. James, Sirius, and Remus can't save me now... Peter thought.
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Remus yawned loudly. The young Gryffindors were sitting in History of Magic and were desperately trying to survive Professor Binn's slow drawl.
Sirius was sitting next to James, with Remus and Peter behind them and Marissa and Lily in front of them. Lily and Marissa were passing notes back and forth on a piece of parchment while Remus and Peter were playing hangman.
Sirius glanced over at the other side of the room and silently groaned. She's staring at me again, Sirius wrote on a piece of parchment and slid it over to James.
Who, the one girl from Hufflepuff? James wrote back.
Yes, her name's Calypso Aldrich, and she's been staring at me for the past week.
James looked over at her. She's pretty, what does Marissa think of this?
Sirius hesitated before writing a response. She doesn't know, she would go mental and probably kick her arse for even thinking about looking at me. Don't tell her.
'Course I won't, but you need to tell this Calypso girl that your going out with Marissa.
All right, I will after class. You have to get Marissa and Lily down to the Great Hall for lunch really fast so I can tall to Calypso without Marissa seeing.
Hmm, we may need back up, give this parchment to Remus and Peter. Sirius nodded and wrote a note on the side explaining the situation and then he casually passed it back to Remus and Peter.
Remus wrote back saying, No problem, but good luck with Marissa not catching on, she's good about that kind of stuff.
Peter wrote a note on the bottom saying, The girl with the short brown hair and the blue eyes?
That's the one, her name's Calypso. Hey, maybe I could fix you two up once she stops staring at me! Sirius wrote back.
Peter started blushing. You don't have to, but if you want to you can, if she likes little fat ugly guys.
James rolled his eyes. Peter, you are not fat or ugly! But you are rather short...
No, I am fat and ugly.
Remus grabbed the paper. Peter, you are not fat at all or ugly at all, you just need more self-confidence in yourself.
Sirius groaned and grabbed the paper from Remus in mid-sentence, leaving a long ink mark on the parchment. We all sound like a bunch of girls. Let's shut up about how much self-confidence Peter has and figure out an excuse to where I'm going and why you guys are hurrying to lunch.
Little did they know that Lily and Marissa were watching them passing notes. Mara tried to glance at them but she could only see their handwriting and couldn't make out any words.
Lily wrote, What do you think they were talking about?
Marissa wrote back saying, I'm not sure, but they were probably planning something.
That's never good; do you want to follow them after class?
Of course my dear Lily.
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The bell rang, signaling lunch, and the Marauders, Lily, and Marissa sped out of class. A few steps out of the classroom, Sirius groaned. "I left my best quill in there. See you at lunch." He kissed Marissa and walked back into the classroom. The remaining Marauders quickly dragged Lily and Marissa down to the Great Hall.
"What's the rush?" Lily asked.
"Hungry," all three boys said at one time. Lily and Marissa shared a knowing look as they sped down the staircase.
Marissa grinned and quirked an eyebrow at Lily. "I think I dropped my Transfiguration homework a corridor back. See you at lunch!" Marissa said quickly and yanked her hand away from Peter's as she ran up the stairs and through a few hallways to get back to the History of Magic classroom. Little did she know that her world was about to fall apart.
Meanwhile, Sirius caught Calypso coming out of the classroom. "Can I talk to you for a second?" he asked her.
Calypso grinned. "You could talk to me forever if you wanted.
"Um right," Sirius said as he pushed back into the empty classroom. "Listen, I don't know if you like me or not-"
"If it helps, I think you're the sexiest guy in school," Calypso said in a seductive voice.
"Um, thanks? Anyways, nothing can happen between us. I'm with Marissa now and I love her. I'm sorry, but I would never do anything to hurt her," Sirius said.
Calypso just grinned and walked towards him. Sirius backed up a few steps. "You know you want me more than that Marissa girl."
"No I don't-"Sirius was interrupted when Calypso crossed her leg with his and kissed him passionately. Sirius was shocked for a second, and then he was trying to push her off. "Get off!" he was trying to say, but it was hard to do when Calypso's lips were pressed so hard against his.
Sirius continued to struggle until he heard an audible gasp from the doorway. Calypso let go a little and Sirius quickly pushed her off and turned towards the doorway expecting to see McGonagall, but instead seeing Marissa, tears streaming down her face.
"Marissa I can explain!" Sirius said quickly.
"I don't want to hear anything you say. I don't even want to look at you right now!" Marissa yelled and turned on her heel, running to the Gryffindor common room, with Sirius running after her and leaving a very annoyed Caylpso behind.
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Author Notes: Another cliffhanger…mwah ha ha ha. It's getting hard to keep editing this chapters over and over, I'm getting sick of this story and can't wait to start on my next project; an L/J love/hate story that is inspired by many many songs. Don't worry; I'm going to finish this one out, but it seems that hardly anyone reads it anymore..
Demi: Yeah I know the fight was random, but it was sorta last minute. That's why I can't wait to start on a new story; I have a million ideas already planned out so it's going to go perfectly. Yes! I hate Katherine! (see my xanga for a full rant: xanga dot com slash descorzonado) I heard about the dial thing too…one of my friends actually dialed in for Chris and Katherine started talking, she got so pissed lol. I've also said that Taylor and Chris would be final two and the first final 12 performance Chris did, I said his voice sounded perfect for Creed or Nickelback. I hope he goes with Creed, but I heard he's leaning more towards Fuel. At this point, all I want is for Katherine to not win. I even voted forever for Elliot, but it didn't work. There is this site that somehow tallies home phone calls and gives a pretty accurate estimate of who is going off. Like When Elliot was voted off, the percentages it showed on the board were the exact same the website had. It's www dot dialidol dot com and you can track who is in the lead so you can vote for the ones who need help the most
xx-Heartbroken: With the touching thing, use your imagination. What would be bad enough to make her have post-traumatic stress? Yeah I was thinking the fighting was a little much, but I decided to see if anyone else caught it, thanks for mentioning it! I've had a lot of authors get pissed at me too for critique, but the only way to grow as a writer is for people to tell you what you're doing wrong (I've actually learned all this from color guard, I used to hate critique but when you join that sport you breath criticism). For AI, the winners have been Kelly (the best EVER…my favorite artist), Ruben (nice guy, good voice, didn't sell many albums), Fantasia (worst ever!), and Carrie (blahh no personality). No it wasn't embarrassing, it was amazing lol. It reminded me of some movie like when they say "Good GOD man! Pull yourself together!" And thank you for the review comment! I miss having my 808…I guess the third time isn't a charm.
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