Conversations
Lily Evans and her new friends, Valentine Crocifissa and Annabel Lee, headed toward the library in search of books for their extra studies which involved charms for pranks that were heading toward the boys in the utmost quickness. They had woken up all three girls by dumping a pitcher each of ice cold water over their heads. They had been finishing their homework quickly to have a free weekend for fun before Sunday's special holiday and occasion. Their lazing in Saturday morning turned for the worst as the boys had resolved to pranking them everywhere the entire time before noon. Finally, they had escaped and came to the library for ideas and spells. Matti had even helped with the pranks, Lily thought furiously as she searched through the book in front of her.
Valentine had taken to the habit of joining the guys in their pranks and together they had gotten more than twenty or so days of detention and not once had they lost points for some up surd reason Lily couldn't even explain. The Slytherins were scheming against the group of pranksters and none seemed to care. Which Valentine had made sure that none of them would get badly hurt…? Sirius and she had been on great terms with most of the purebloods in the house… except Lucius Malfoy.
The auburn haired girl had met him almost into the second day of the third week of school and she wasn't at all pleased by his manners. He treated his girlfriend, Narcissa Black, as though she was some little woe-be-gone. Valentine had been talking to Narcissa when Lucius started to make advancements on Lily, whom was preoccupied with talking with Sirius. To say that he had an interest in Lily was putting it under stating facts of life. He full out flirted, right in front of his girlfriend, and had harassed her to the point where she turned a very agonized smile and told him to go away.
Sirius stood looking utterly livid and nearly lost his temper had not his cousin (who was Narcissa) and Valentine ended their conversation and the blood red haired girl came over. To say she wasn't pleased was like saying she was the tallest girl of their year; she broke his nose and was given detention at the same time. And she smiled the whole time after while whistling a tune also.
Annabel got into her own dilemma with the charms teacher and nearly squealed when he decided to put his familiar, Bob, on her desk. Bob was a squirrel and a very nutty one at that. He decided to run up her arm and onto her shoulder, making squeaks all the while. She not noticing the squirrel in the first place, screamed and Remus had to grab the squirrel before she strangled it with her wand. The whole class would never let her live that down and by the end of the day, everyone knew.
Remus, James, Sirius, Peter, and Matti currently were harassing some of the other girls which left them to their schemes of revenge. During their time in the library, they had gotten into the usual conversation of Remus' secret, to which Annabel sidled her way into and announced that it was true and nobody could counter that after they noticed the next vacate he took, which was on the full moon as well. Well to say that they came out front and cornered him was something of an understatement because they hadn't been able to make the boy stay in the area long enough to talk to him and they were planning doing exactly that—cornering him.
Suddenly, as though all doom was lied out for them, the boys appeared, or at least it was both Remus and Matti that appeared. Lily ignored them as Valentine hissed venomously as the boys took their seats beside both girls. Annabel came back, but quickly turned around and headed the other direction as if she had forgotten something, which she hadn't. Lily and Valentine looked longingly after her as though dying to be anywhere, but in their current positions. Both boys smiled kindly and put their stack of books onto the table in hopes of making peace.
"That's not going to work," Valentine hissed as Remus handed her an advanced transfiguration book while Matti gave Lily the advanced Charms book.
"We know," both boys growled desperately trying to get a reaction out of Lily now.
She looked at the book she was given and smiled lightly, "All right, you're forgiven."
"You're supposed to be in the house of the stubborn Lily!" Valentine cried mockingly. "Where's that red headed stubbornness?" Lily just grinned and opened the Charms book and laughed.
"Thanks guys," she laughed. "This is exactly what I've been looking for!"
"What is that exactly?" Valentine asked.
"A solution to your and mine curly hair situation," she replied as Valentine flipped her long curly hair over into Remus' face.
"Are you serious?" the girl cried in shock. "You found the bloody counter spell!"
"Yes," the auburn haired girl replied while flicking her long hair behind her shoulder that instinctively curled thickly and annoying bounced back.
"Thank Merlin," Valentine whispered and then launched herself onto Matti and then on Remus and hugging the boys tightly. "Thank you! I can't stand this prim poodle look."
"Your welcome," Remus replied while getting up quickly, but was pulled back by Valentine whom looked at him with a serious look.
"We have something else to talk about too," Lily answered to his questioning look. "We know the others are nearby and probably listening, but can we talk later. We really need to talk about this charm that we found yesterday… Valentine wants us to cover it before winter. It's an advanced charm, but you'll be surprised how much better it is. You and Matti can meet us in the empty classroom we found the other day, right? Say after dinner?" He gulped and looked at Matti imploringly.
"Yeah, we'll meet you there," Matti laughed nervously.
"We'll bring the other charms and defense spells with us, okay?" Valentine laughed. "Don't be worried, it's nothing bad unless you're embarrassed by being seen with us?"
Remus quickly shook his head with a blush, "Sorry, I just thought it was about something else. With you two, anything can happen. Especially an attacking cat that decided I deserve something in return for waking you up." She looked harassed by that since Felix did attack Remus after the prank that morning.
"Sorry about him," she murmured. "He's a bit protective."
"Mmmhmm," Matti harrumphed with annoyance. "Damn cat nearly killed my best friend and you say it's protective." She nodded solemnly.
"I didn't mean to press the control switch," she laughed, remembering something Matti and Lily were talking about earlier that week. "It just happened."
"Well give me the remote because with you holding it, I'm nervous," Matti giggled loudly as he remembered the conversation with endless mirth.
"I'll be over here," Remus laughed as he walked over to a book shelf to lean against it.
"Purebloods talking about such are so funny," Matti laughed as he slung an arm around her shoulders.
"Hey," she exclaimed, but slapped both hands over her mouth in surprise and turned bright red making them laugh harder.
Slowly the day passed after their time in the library. Remus and Matti sat waiting for the girls to appear in high hopes that it wasn't anything bad. Both boys sat talking and laughing nervously about how the girls could figure out something that secret, but Remus shook his head. Both knew that both girls knew everything and would be bound to be the first to figure out anything that seemed out of place. Which wasn't good because let's face it, both girls were obviously the top in their classes and were not to be swayed by changes?
"What if they do know?" Remus asked with sad eyes. "What would they be most likely to do?"
"Easy for Lily," Matti replied. "She doesn't believe in prejudice and racism, she's absolutely against it. Otherwise, Valentine takes a neutral role in the entire situation. She doesn't comment unless she's been in the person's shoes. Or that is how they both seem in my opinion. Both are literally the easiest going of the entire year." Remus growled.
"Why is it that I can tell that they know something I don't want them to?" he asked out loud, but was answered by a laugh that shouldn't have been there.
"Because we know many things," Lily answered as she appeared with a load of books and walked over to him with a friendly smile.
"I would say this is a surprise, but I'm not going to," Matti chuckled nervously as he jumped off the desk he was sitting on and grabbed the books from her and set them on the desk with ease.
"Where's the Gypsy?" Remus asked with a sad smile, but grinned when he noticed the girl sitting in the corner with a stack of parchment in her lap and a cat that was on her shoulder.
"The Gypsy is here," the girl announced with shorter hair that what it was earlier.
"Why in the shadows?" Matti asked. "And something is wrong with your hair!"
"My, aren't we fast?" she hissed and stood up, holding the parchment in front of her and walking over to them.
"It's shorter," Lily laughed. "She thinks it's un-blue-blooded."
"Really, every pureblood girl has long hair," she announced with a hiss. "I'm the only girl that is pureblooded that has short hair. Fear my wrath." She put the parchment down and pulled a strain from the thick hair and smiled darkly. "My parents will be anything, but pleased. The Blacks will be furious and the other families will be also. So who's ready to practice our selection of spells this evening?"
Her hair was down to her shoulders instead of the waist length it was earlier that day. Lily smiled coyly with her tresses up in a bun. Valentine pulled a rubber band that she got from Lily and pulled her hair back into a ponytail. She smiled innocently and winked at the blank expressions she retrieved from all three. She hadn't told Lily or anyone of her plans of cutting her hair and nobody would be happy when they found out. James and Sirius would be furious and yell at her for doing such a stupid thing, but she didn't care. She just relaxed and would ride it out with a relaxed mood.
"You are the most daring girl I've ever met," Matti laughed as he looked at her with a grin. "It looks nice. Are you planning to keep it that way during your Quittich career?"
"What!" Lily exclaimed loudly. "You're going to play that dangerous game?"
"Lily, now calm down," Valentine replied with a frightened expression as she hit Matti on the head. "Matti, don't you know when not to mention things like that?"
"Obviously not," he laughed as Lily grabbed a hold of her friend and hissed furiously.
"What's more?" Lily shrieked. "Please don't say you're going for beater?"
Valentine just smiled and asked, "Remus, why are you pale? Are you feeling okay?"
He smiled widely and shook his head while answering, "No!"
"Valentine," Lily groaned. "Please do not try out for that position!"
The short girl turned and looked at her friend with quiet eyes. Slowly, Lily looked at her with comprehension dawning on her face and then she turned to look at Remus with the same quiet eyes. Matti looked confused as Remus seemed to slowly shrink from the attention he was receiving from both girls. They then looked at each other with serious expressions. Valentine nodded and waited for Lily to start the conversation.
"Remus, are you…" Lily began, but Remus cut her off quickly.
"How about trying a few of those spells before it grows past the time we have."
"Yes, might we start on those?" Matti asked with a paling face and started to go through the parchment that Valentine put down a moment before. "We don't have much time since our load of homework isn't finished."
"Remus, are you or are you not a werewolf?" Valentine asked in a whisper, making the boy stop moving almost completely.
He stared with wide eyes and gulped, giving away the answer almost immediately, which Lily answered for him, "I'm guessing yes."
He nodded and then said, "I thought you wouldn't…" Valentine cut him off.
"Wouldn't have noticed?" He nodded again. "Oh, come off it. It wasn't that hard to spot if you know what to look for."
"And did you?" Matti asked with a bemused expression.
"Of course," Lily answered. "It wouldn't have been any harder to figure out in the span of time we had to connect with. Anywise, I had gotten a book on magical creatures and I read it over the last of the summer."
"Padre Vlad has many textbooks on the subject of dark creatures back in the manor in Spain," Valentine added for good measure. "You know, I don't think he doesn't not have anything on magic in the library. Maybe I should send Tobias to mi Padre Vlad and ask to borrow some. They're very good reads."
"I'm sure," Matti laughed.
"Though I'm not necessarily calling werewolves dark," she added with passion. "I think they're fascinating; even mi Madre thinks so." She was suddenly using a Spanish accent.
"I'm sure," Matti repeated. "Well Remus, they know."
"Now what to do with them," the boy groaned with boredom. "Well, you know, but please don't tell the others." Lily looked up questionably.
"They'll find out soon," she pointed out quickly. "James and Sirius are second best to smarts when it comes to this kind of thing, of that I'm certain."
"They're dumb," Valentine growled. "They wouldn't know the difference between an actual wolf and a werewolf to save their lives."
"I like to counter that thought," Matti laughed. "James is bothersome when it comes to that sort of thing, but of course, so is Sirius as far as I've seen."
"Yes, but extremely slow," Valentine countered with a biting tone. "Now onto spells and the whole materia."
"I hate it when you speak in Spanish," Remus growled lightly as he paged through a book.
"I love you, too," she replied with a sickly sweet smile.
Author's Note: Sorry to be so long. I've cut this in half so the Halloween could be a stand alone. Over the time, it has been really hard to keep up with the story, but I'm hoping to finish first year near my school's spring break. Hopefully, that will happen and also. I might just wait to post it all at once. And please review. I love reviews and I sware if you think the story too fun fun, I'll be trying to make it somewhat serious. I've already finished the last part of the story. Cindy, my luv who keeps telling me to update, has harassed me enough to do this. Also, I don't own any of the characters. Except for Annabel Lee, Valentine, and some others that will be making an appearance. Also I'd like to know what Dracula should be like in the future. I'm hoping to put him in for of course, he is Valentine's ancestor and a really wicked vampyre. I wanted to do Van Helsing's version, what do you guys think? Oh and for reference, this is somewhat comedy. Everything that happens in my life usually gives me ideas to write the kind of jokes I do. Also, if you don't hear from me in a long time, that means I've been swamped with journalism stories as I am one of the editors and I've also been writing my story Through Crazed Eyes: A Storm's Story. Also if I do become a writer in the future, I'd like you to look for a copy of my story. I'm hoping to get it published since it really is a great story. Also, if any of you have questions, review and put them there, or just email me. I love being emailed and I hope you guys can forgive me for taking so long. All right, I'll get to configuring the next chapter. Hasta Luego!
