Disclaimer: I do not own any of J.K. Rowling's characters. She does. Duh, and if I did own them, I would be richer than the Queen of England, which I'm not. I only own what's mine. If you have a problem with my story, just stop reading, don't sue.

A/N: Hope you liked the last chapter: Ruby's identity won't be revealed till way later. This chapter will mostly be about Lily. Enjoy!

Lily slammed the door shut and slid down to the floor, leaning against it, and started to cry. Not noticing her friends were in the room, she let everything out. She didn't know why she was crying, whether it was for the fact that James had just asked her out again, or that she was going to be walking around school in her bra for the next two days, or whatever else it was for. As soon as she opened the door, the other girls in the dorm got silent, and didn't start talking again for another five or so minutes when Lily was still crying. They decided that it would be better for her to let what she could out, and then they would talk to her, instead of getting her more upset by talking to her so early after she came in.

"Oh my God, Lily, what's the matter?" Flora said, putting her quill down from writing a letter to her parents. Lily just sobbed harder, not wanting to talk to anyone.

"Aw, what's wrong honey?" Caitlyn asked. Lily just got up and moved to Amelia's bed and sobbed into her pillow. Caitlyn, Flora, and Amelia moved chairs around her and rubbed her back. After about ten minutes, Lily fell asleep.

Since it was late, but not too late, the other girls decided to go to the common room to catch up on their summers without waking Lily up. When they got down there, all three pairs of eyes rest on 4 boys, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter.

"Hello ladies!" Sirius came over and put his arms around the three girls.

"Hi…" all three girls said, unenthused.

"Can I assist you in any way tonight?"

"Yes, actually" Flora said. Sirius head whipped around.

"Yes?"

"GET OUT OF OUR FACES!" she shouted. Sirius' face fell, and he went over to sit by the other Marauders. The girls had no choice but to it on the sofa across from the marauders. They were reluctant at first, but didn't want to go back to the dorm, so they stayed.

Remus looked up from the book that he had been reading. "How's Lily? She seemed really upset earlier and when we came back up here she ran to her dorm."

"Well…" Amelia started to say, "We don't really know what happened after she ran out of the Great Hall because she wasn't in the dorm, so we assumed she went to the lake. When we saw her there, we knew to leave her alone because we might just make things worse. When she finally came running into the dorm and slammed the door shut and slid down the back of it, we knew there was more to it then just her being mad at you guys for pulling yet another prank. But she wouldn't talk. When she finally moved from the floor to the bed, we sat around her and rubbed her back, and after a little while she fell asleep, so we came down here."

Remus shot daggers at James and Sirius because it was their idea to do the prank, and he knew that he and James had followed her. But they didn't find her in the forest, he figured she just dodged them because she knew that someone was following her, and just went to the lake.

"I wish I could talk to her…" he said, in a whisper.

"What Moons?" James asked.

"Oh, nothing Prongs, nothing"

"Oh come on what did you say?" Caitlyn tried to get it out of him.

"Nothing guys, forget it."

"You still like Lily don't you!" Flora almost literally jumped out of her seat.

"Er, I never said that…"

"Yes, but it's obvious. You said something about her under your breath!" Flora said, sounding excited.

"I never said anything of the sort."

"I don't mind if you like her, if you went out with her again, it would give me more time to see her, and ask her out myself. You know…if you wanted to use her to help me." James said in a hopeful tone.

"James, you are so thickheaded!" Caitlyn shouted.

"I agree" said the other two girls in unison.

"I have to agree with them James, if I'm going to go out with Lily it's going to be because I want to and I like her. Not so that it gets her closer to you again. Remember what happened last time?"

"Oh…yeah"

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"Hey, Lily!"

"What do you want Potter?"

"Just for you to go out with me!"

"No!."

"Oh, come on Lilybear! Just one trip to Hogsmeade!"

"Potter, I'm going out with Remus, not you, and if you think that just by him dating me it will get me closer to you, you're wrong. Now go study or something."

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Flora and Amelia exchanged knowing glances. Flora whispered something in her ear without anyone seeing.

"James, could I talk to you for a minute?" Caitlyn asked.

"Er, yeah sure. Go ahead."

"Uhm, alone?"

"Right-o."

Caitlyn and James went to a corner of the common room. She went on to talk to him about Lily and what she really expects from him if he really wants her to say yes to going out with him.

"First of all, stop torturing Snape. I know it might be fun or whatever, but Lily hates it."

"I know Lily hates it, but if she knew what Snape was calling her, she would go after him too."

"Oh…and what is he calling her?"

"A…a…mud…a mudblood." James had trouble getting the word out, and hung his head when he finally did. Caitlyn put a hand over her mouth, shocked.

"Does…does he really call her that?"

James nodded his head.

"Oh…wow…but…still don't torture him, Lily hates it. Secondly. At least act mature around her. No pranks and no silly stuff, or at least not to her. You can do them as long as it doesn't involve any people getting hurt or anything like that, and if you do a prank involving the whole school, at least protect your wanna-be girlfriend from it."

James nodded his head again. "You're free to go."

"You know you just sounded like some teacher dismissing from detention, right?"

"Yes, and you would know that oh so well because you're in detention half your life. Now scat, prat."

James hurriedly walked back to the sofa and plopped down.

What he didn't know was that Flora was talking to Remus while Caitlyn was talking to James.

"I think she still likes you, she was talking about you a lot over the summer and how she wanted you back."

"But I don't know if I can trust her again, she almost slipped my deepest darkest secret."

"She was drunk that night, and if you don't want to intervene then let James go out with her and you be miserable… I'm going to bed. Night guys." She walked back up to her dorm to see Lily out of the bed.

"Hey Lils"

"Oh, hey Flora." Lily said sounding like her nose was stuffy.

"You okay?"

"Oh, yeah…I'm…fine."

"No you aren't. What's wrong?"

"Nothing, seriously, I'm fine. I just woke up and thought I should probably get out of Amelia's bed and head up to the Head's common room and dorms."

"It is…two dorms right? I mean at least two beds?" Lily started to laugh.

"Yes Flora, there are two rooms, one for Head Boy and one for Head Girl. It's really nice; we can decorate it any way we like. It's really lovely."

"Cool. Well, I guess I'll see you later then?"

"Yeah, I think I'll be at breakfast tomorrow. I think I'm going to see if I can get the reverse spell for this thing. If I can find it I'll give it to you."

"Haha alright. Night Lils!"

"Night Flora!"

The two girls hugged and Lily braced herself to walk down the stairs out of the girls dorms. She walked to the top of the stairs and saw the four boys and two of her friends. She breathed deeply knowing that she would be bombarded with questions to as if she was okay.

Lily took the first step down the stairs and saw Amelia look at her. Noticing Amelia's gaze, everyone else turned to look at her too. She stopped and started to turn back to go back to her friends dorm.

"NO! LILY, WAIT!" James and Remus shouted at the same time. They looked at each other in confusion but shrugged it off.

Sirius turned to Peter, "They both like her, I wonder how this will turn out."

"Another cat fight I assume" Peter told him, in a squeaky voice.

Both Remus and James were standing at the foot of the stairs leading to the girls' dorms. Lily still on the first step, stunned.

"Sorry guys, I have to go." She ran down the stairs and tried to push past the two boys, but neither of them let her pass.

"No, you have to talk to us first." James said grabbing her wait and lifting her up.

"POTTER! POTTER, YOU TWAT! PUT ME DOWN!" Lily screamed.

"Not until you talk to us," Remus said calmly. Lily stopped trying to kick her way down. James was thankful for this because he was afraid his 'Oh so amazing' face would be kicked and ruined forever.

"What do you want?" She asked through gritted teeth.

"Come with us." James said. Lily's eyes widened as to the thought of what he was going to do to her, but she knew Remus was there and wouldn't let James do anything to hurt her.

"I kind of have no choice, Potter." She looked at her friends for some help but she got no sympathy, or help. Thanks guys. She thought.

James carried her out of the common room and into an empty classroom. They were getting strange looks from people in the corridors and from the Professors walking around the castle. When they finally got there, Remus closed and put a locking and silencing charm on the room, so no one could get in. When James put Lily down, she merely fell to the floor. She looked up groggily at Remus as if to say "where am I?" Then she looked at James and her eyes widened again.

"What am I doing here? Where did you take me? Whhaaaa?" She sounded very confused, but the boys soon cleared things up for her.

"Look, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for tonight and the prank, I could tell it upset you, I at least want to be friends, I really like you Lily, but I know you basically hate me, so whatever, Remus?"

"Yeah, uh, I'll just talk to you when I get up to the Head's common room."

"Yeah, that's where I want to go! You could have just let me go, this wasn't necessary. And Potter, I don't really appreciate the apology, you've said that to me many times before and yet you still prank me and the rest of the school. ACT MATURE FOR ONCE!" She was still on the floor and just noticed. "I'm going to bed. Remus, I might be in the common room reading or something, if not, I'll just talk to you tomorrow." She got up and dusted off her robes and took down the silencing and locking charms on the room, and walked out towards the Head's Dorms.

"Well that went well…" James said, messing up his already mused hair.

"Right…I'll go back to the Gryffindor common room for a bit but I'm getting tired."

"Whatever. Let's go."

When they got back to the common room, Peter had gone to bed, and so had the girls. Sirius sat on the couch talking to a brunette, from what Remus could tell, he wanted to snog her, and he didn't even know her name. He also had another bag of marshmallows that he had obviously tried to hide when the brunette walked in. Remus rolled his eyes and turned on his heel to go to catch up with Lily.

James walked up to his dorm and crashed on his bed. What do I have to do to get her to like me...She's so beautiful and smart, but she doesn't seem to be liking me…I'm smart… not as smart as Remus, but I'm smart! I'm smart enough to think of brilliant pranks! Ughhhh this is the most annoying thing in my life. He spent another 5 minutes thinking, and drifted off to sleep.

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Remus ran out of the common room door and started running to catch up with Lily. When he found her she was sitting in front of the fireplace in the heads common room.

He fidgeted a bit before talking. "Hey Lily…" She didn't look up, and Remus saw a single tear slide down her cheek.

"Um, do you want to go for a walk, or to the kitchens or something?" he asked walking over to her. He sat down next to her and tapped her shoulder, "Lily? Are you ok?" Remus saw another tear slip out of her eyes and down her cheek; he took his thumb and wiped it away. He could tell that she was trying to hold the tears in; she never looked so out of it before.

Remus scooted behind her on the sofa and put his arms around her from behind. Lily rested her head on his shoulder without thinking. Remus smiled to himself and just held her. She started to open up to him a bit and let the tears just fall. She didn't know why she was crying, but it felt good just to let everything out. Soon after, Lily fell asleep in Remus' arms and he kissed her on the top of the head, and soon fell asleep as well.

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Both Lily and Remus were awakened the next morning by James and Sirius coming into the head's common room. They had some how figured out the password and got in, although Lily had given the fat man the portrait that they had to go through, dur strict instructions not to let anyone but she and Remus in.

"Aw, look how cute Jamesie!" Sirius joked.

"Yeah…cute…" James said spacing out.

Sirius decided that he was going to wake them up. He conjured two large buckets of freezing cold water and levitated them over Lily and Remus. He was about to let both of the buckets empty their water when he heard Remus speak groggily.

"Don't even think about it Sirius." He said with his eyes still closed.

"Aw man!" Sirius looked defeated but then an evil grin came to his face.

"What are you doing Sirius!" A female voice came from behind him.

"Oh, hey Flora!" he sang.

"Ohh, what are you doing?" She looked over at the two buckets of water still floating over Remus and Lily, James was still spacing out.

"Shhhh" he said to her. He took out his wand again and pointed it towards the two. He muttered something under his breath and the buckets turned over, but nothing was inside of them.

"Oh, good job Sirius. See when you do that you want to make sure that the water is in there." Flora told him, smacking him in the head.

"But, but, it was in there! I dunno what happened!" When he said this, water, freezing cold water, was poured over his head. He looked up, but nothing was there. He looked over at Lily and Remus to find that both of them had evil smiles on their faces. Sirius laughed.

"Good one guys" He walked over to where they were sitting. James had come out of his spacey moment when Sirius got freezing cold water dumped on him. Sirius took off his soaking wet shirt and looked like he was going to ring it out on top of them. When he tried however, no water came out, but it was still dripping wet.

"WHAT THE FUCK, MATE?" He was so confused that he had to sit down. Lily still lay in Remus' arms and almost simultaneously the each opened only one eye. James saw this and started cracking up. Flora was laughing at Sirius and patting his head like he was a dog. Lily sat up and Remus let go of her, realizing what it must look like to James.

"Why are you guys here? And how did you get the password!" Lily said, looking a bit confused as to why they were there.

"Oh, I dunno, I was walking by here with James and said that I wanted a peanut butter spoon with my marshmallows and James said that he liked peanut butter with Oreos, and then the portrait just kinda opened. We've been here ever since."

Lily glared at Flora, "and how did you get in?"

"Oh, they didn't close the portrait door, so I just kinda came in and saw what Sirius was trying to do to you and James was looking all spacey…" When Flora said this they all noticed that James was turning a bit pink and he walked over to one of the windows and stared at the grounds.

"Oh, gottcha. Where are Amelia and Caitlyn?"

"They went to breakfast already; I saw the portrait open so I decided to drop by."

"I see, well, its Saturday so what should we do today? Peter's off somewhere with some Professor doing something. He wouldn't tell me what it was." Sirius said while jumping from one sofa to the other making Remus and Lily quite uncomfortable.

James snapped out of it again and said that they could take a secret way to Hogsmeade or something.

"Or we could torture Snape!" James got an evil look on his face when he turned around.

"NO! I WILL NOT ALLOW IT! YOU KEEP TORTURING HIM FOR NO REASON, POTTER AND I DON'T LIKE IT! AND YOU WONDER WHY I DON'T GO OUT WITH YOU!"

"Lil, calm down." Remus said, taking her arm so that she wouldn't tackle James. Lily struggled but soon gave up because Remus had a strong hold on her. James just smirked. "Is wittle willy standing up for Snivellous?" he said to her in a baby-like voice.

"DON'T CALL HIM THAT!"

James smirked again, but then his face got serious, "Evans, if you know what he calls you, you would want to kill him as well."

"I DON'T CARE POTTER IT ISN'T NICE!"

Sirius and Flora were both sick and tired of all the fighting.

"CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET BREAKFAST I'M STARVING!" they both oddly said at the same time. They looked at each other and started cracking up laughing. Sirius popped another marshmallow in his mouth, which added to the 4 he already had in there by the way, these are those really big marshmallows

"Want one?" he asked Flora, holding up the bag. Flora laughed and told him no, that she couldn't handle sweets in the morning.

Lily started laughing at Sirius who looked like a chipmunk. "Fwaut arf buf lafing fat?" He tried to say.

"WHAT?" everyone in the room said at once. Sirius put up one finger, chewed and swallowed.

"I asked what you were laughing at." He finally said, and shoved 3 more marshmallows into his mouth. Everyone laughed and started walking towards breakfast. Along the way, they ran into Snape, Lily walked by casually and tried not to noticed him.

"Filthy mudblood." He called after her. James stepped in front of him, and Lily spun around.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME!" Lily yelled at him, she knew that he called her this behind her back, but she had never believed it because he had never said it to her face.

"You heard me, mudblood." He walked casually up to Lily and punched her in the stomach. She keeled over in pain; it hurt so bad she couldn't think of the spell to ease the pain a bit. Snape had a slight smirk on his face and turned to walk back down to his common room, when he was face to face with James.

"Don't you ever, ever, EVER call her that again." He said in a warning tone. Remus, and Sirius were standing on either side of him shooting daggers at him. Snape laughed again and pushed past them.

"Are you ok Lily?" All three boys asked at the same time. By now she was sitting against the wall holding her bare stomach considering she was still in her bra.

"Yeah" Her voice was coarse and sounded almost like she couldn't talk.

They were right next to the Great Hall and Sirius asked if she wanted to get something to eat or go to the Hospital Wing. She told them that she couldn't walk very well because of the pain in her stomach. Remus and James stood on each side of her and helped her up off the ground. When she tried to walk she stumbled a lot and finally gave in to going to the Hospital Wing.

"I'll go find Peter and tell him where we'll be" Remus and James nodded and decided that they would put both of her arms around each of them and lift her up to carry her. … Yeah, that didn't work so well.

"Ugh, now my stomach and arse hurt." Lily complained.

"Well you can't walk so we have to find a way to get you to the hospital." Remus said calmly.

"I can think of an easy solution for that. How about only one of you pick me up and carry me?" She said matter-of-factly. When she said this, James came up behind her and picked her up from her waist.

"NOT LIKE THAT! POTTER! PUT ME DOWN!" James put her down gently with a grin on his face. "I thought you would get what I meant, but I guess I was mistaken."

Remus looked at James, they both knew how she wanted to be lifted, but both of them knew that Remus wouldn't and couldn't because the full moon had just past and he was still feeling the effects. James had no choice. He was quite happy, but Lily was not.

"Potter, what, pray-tell, are you doing?" Lily asked inquisitively as James stood there and put an arm around her back and bent down to lift her legs so he could carry her.

"Lily dear, we both know that Remus is a little weak, he has just gotten over an illness and can not carry anything such as a human being. Now put your arm around my neck or you will be sure to fall." Lily didn't put an arm around his neck, she just scoffed. James said that it was her choice not to grab on when she fell, but she just rolled her eyes. He lifted her up and Lily let out a small yelp in surprise, she instantly grabbed James around the neck.

"Told ya"

"Shut up, Potter."

Remus walked with them to the hospital but did not go in, he knew that Madame Pomfrey would want to treat him for a few of his wounds from a few days ago, so he stood outside and let James carry Lily inside.

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Sirius ran into the Great Hall to find that Peter was not at the Gryffindor table. He scanned the table again and realized that his eyes were truly not deceiving him. He looked at the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables, he wasn't there either. At first he didn't bother to look at the Slytherin table but found himself looking in that direction anyway. Halfway down the table he recognized a plump, mousey haired boy. Peter? What is he doing at the Slytherin table? Sirius thought. He was surrounded by other Slytherin's. Among them were, Regulus Black, Lucious Malfoy, and a few others that he recognized. He scowled when he saw one of his friends with his son-of-a-bitch brother. He's literally a son of a bitch. Sirius thought. But then again, if Regulus was, so was he, but he didn't like to think about that too much. He hated his parents, his whole family. Then he saw Snape running into the Great Hall with something in his hand. That's what he must have been running to get. But he couldn't tell what it was.

Sirius walked right up to where the boys were and stood behind Peter.

"Peter, what are you doing here?"

A/N: Hope you liked it, kind of uneventful. Sorry it took so long to post. I got sidetracked with school about to start and having a bit of writer's block. I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can! Oh, and I probably won't post until I get 5 reviews sooo…

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