The Beginning- A Love Story.
By: BlackandLupin.
A/N: Hello viewers, yes its BlackandLupin here, and we have return to fan fiction. We apologies for not updating with our previous stories, for those who doesn't know us, we have written a fan fiction story before but were unable to update and we have a very good reason for it. Well you see it was our 12th year of High School and it was our H.S.C and plus we were both out of the country, so we couldn't really update the stories. We're very sorry indeed. Hope you don't hate us, please forgive us . For those who have read our previous stories, we are sorry to say that it will have to be postponed because we are going to write a new story of Harry Potter from the beginning, were it all started, with Lily and The Marauders and many other characters. The story will start from their 4th year and upwards, where that will lead into the stories we've already done. Believe us, it will all make sense and it will be really good. So we hope you will enjoy this one and this time we promise to up date as soon as possible. So VERY SORRY again and enjoy and please, please review because that will make us up date faster. Thank you and come again.
Disclaimer: we do not own any of the original characters, except for the ones we created, the original characters belongs to the brilliant J.K Rowling.
Chapter 1: The beginning of all new things.
"Lily, Lily!"
Lily Evans was suddenly engulfed into an embrace by a girl with long black hair, as she stood at platform 9 ¾, her face shinning with a smile as Lily hugged her friend. They pulled away from their embrace as Lily stared at her dark skin friend as the engine of the Hogwarts Express warmed up for the long journey to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Hi Nicole, how are you?" she smiled at her friend.
"I'm good… oh it's so good to see you. How was your holiday?" Nicole asked.
Lily was just about to reply when she noticed two people standing behind Nicole. It was Nicole's parents, Alexander and Olivia Jones.
"Hello Lily dear, how are you?" Nicole's mother asked her.
"Hello Mrs Jones, Mr Jones, I'm good thank you." Mr Jones smiled at her in his muggle clothing.
Nicole Jones was half witch from her mother's side and part muggle from her father's side.
Lily notice that Nicole and her father shared the same smile as she looked at her friend and then to Mr Jones, but her beautiful long black hair was an inheritance from her mother as it was a family tradition.
"Where are your parents Lily?" Mr Jones asked.
"Their right over there." Lily pointed to her parents, who were talking to an elderly woman.
Mrs Evans long red hair was very noticeable among the crowd, which Lily inherited, but her emerald green eyes belonged to her father.
Standing next to Mr and Mrs Evans was Lily's older sister Petunia, who was standing nervously beside her father, looking at all of the students greeting their friends. Her appearance did not look anything like Lily's as she tucked her short brunet hair which she had inherited from their father, nervously. She was still unease with the fact that her sister was suddenly a witch, and lately she has been distancing herself from Lily.
"Mary, Harold!" Mrs. Jones greeted them as she and her husband made their way towards the Evans and the elderly woman.
The two girls watched as Nicole's parents made their way towards Lily's, who smiled at the Jones. Nicole noticed how odd Petunia was acting and turned to Lily.
"What's wrong with your sister?" she asked. Lily just merely stared at her older sister.
"I don't… during the holidays, she's been acting very odd. I asked mum what was wrong with her, but she just said that Petunia's school work was weighing down on her… but lately, I don't know, it seems that she's been distancing herself from me."
"What do you mean?" Nicole asked with confusion.
"Usually when I come back home from Hogwarts, we would always spent a lot of time together, but now, it seems she was trying to avoid me or something." Nicole looked at Lily as Lily looked at Petunia.
Just as Nicole about to ask another question, they heard their names being called.
"Lily, Nicole!" the two girls looked toward the source of the person who had called their names. Two girls were making their way towards them with warm smiles.
"Sasha, Rose!' Nicole and Lily exclaimed as they ran to each other, hugging in turns.
"Oh how are you two, I've missed you guys so much." Sasha asked as she placed her light grey eyes on her two best friends, her eyes glistening as she smiled.
"We're good… where's your parents Sash?" Lily asked looking around.
"Oh they had to leave early for work so they dropped me off earlier. I just took Rose into our compartment to put away her things… come on I'll take you two there to put your trunks away."
They headed towards the compartment that Sasha made reserved for them. Sasha Willings came from a pure blood line of witches and wizards and both of her parents worked for the Ministry of Magic.
"I still can't believe what you did with your hair Rose." Nicole exclaimed as she observed her friends appearance, Rose's deep hazel eyes shining.
"I still can't believe you cut that long hair of yours." Lily added.
"Yeah well, I thought I change a bit for this year." She replied as they made their way out to the platform again to say goodbye to their families.
As they made their way out of the train, they past four boys who were in their year and from the same house of Gryffindor. They were all crowding together as they exchange tales of what they did on their holidays.
One of the boys noticed the four girls walking past them as he nudged his friends, they all stared at them.
"Ladies!' the boy who noticed them first exclaimed, 'how are you all to day?" he asked in his usual charming manner.
"Sirius, hello." Nicole said shyly.
Sirius Black was one of the handsomest boys in their year along with his best friend James Potter and their other two friends Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. They were very popular among their peers and was also known as The Marauders, which was given to them by their transfiguration professor, Professor McGonagall, after pulling a prank on a few of their fellow peers from the house of Slytherins in their second year.
Sirius smiled at Nicole as she blushed. Lily and Sasha noticed her blushing as they smiled at their friend. They knew that Nicole had the biggest crush on Sirius from the first day they started Hogwarts when she saw him for the first time at their sorting ceremony.
"So are you all ready to start another year with us?" Sirius asked gesturing to his friends.
"Oh yeah, I forgot starting fourth year would mean that we have to start it with you lot, how could I forget that?" Sasha replied sarcastically as her friends laughed with her.
"Ah Sasha, always with the jokes, how do you do it?" James asked, flashing one of his charming smiles that made any girls knees go weak.
"Oh I try." Sasha replied innocently.
"More like she learns it from Nicole." Lily pointed out as she looked at her friend.
Sirius looked at Nicole with a smirk, looking rather impressed.
"Is this true?" Peter squeaked behind Remus.
"Guilty as charged." Nicole replied with an innocent smile.
Lily smiled at her friend which caught the attention of James Potter. His three best friends knew that James had a massive crush on Lily after she once helped him in their potions class in their third year and ever since then, James has been fascinated by Lily.
Remus noticed James staring at Lily through his round glasses as Remus cleared his throat to break James' trance.
"So what did you girls get up to on your holidays?" Remus asked but before any of them could answer him, the engine of the train roared and the whistle blew to indicate to its passengers that it was time to board the train.
"Um, we should say goodbye to our families,' Rose said, 'see you guys in the train." And with that they wave at the boys and made their way towards their families.
Nicole hugged both of her parents whilst Lily hugged her father after she hugged her mother as Mrs Evan said goodbye to Sasha. Rose was saying goodbye to the elderly woman who had been talking to the Evans. The elderly woman was Rose's grandmother.
Rosezanna Underwood came from a muggle family, just like Lily, but her grandmother was the only family Rose had left, after both of her parents died in a car accident when she was only seven and since then she had been living with her grandmother.
Her grandmother had tears running down her face as she held her only Granddaughter tightly in her arms.
"Don't worry Grandma Lisa; we'll take care of Rose for you." Lily said to the elderly woman as she gathered the four girls in her arms, hugging them goodbye.
From across the platform, Remus saw the scene as he smiled catching Sasha's eyes. They clocked eyes for a moment before Remus quickly turned away as he bid his parents farewell, his mother hugging him tightly in her arms, not wanting to let him go.
"Mum I can't breath." Remus tried to breathe as his mother released him.
"It's alright Megan, we'll see him soon." Mr Lupin said to his hysteric wife as she looked down at her son.
"I know Jon… I just can't believe how much his grown." Mrs Lupin said wiping away her tears, stroking her son's sandy blonde hair, looking into his deep blue eyes, which he inherited from his father, Jonathan.
"I know exactly how you feel Megan… I can't believe how much James and Sirius have grown too." Mrs Potter agreed as James rolled his eyes.
"Dad stop her before she starts crying again." James looked at his father.
"Oh leave your mum alone James." Sirius said smile up at Mrs Potter.
"Sirius, you've only spend one holiday with my family… you have no idea how my mum can get."
Mr Potter ruffled up his son's already messed up hair.
"Don't worry about your mum, she'll be fine." Mr Potter said as he looked at his wife.
The engine started to get louder indicating to the students to board the train.
"Well, you lot should get going." Mrs Pettigrew said to the boys as she hugged her son, Mrs Potter smothering James with kisses, Remus hugging both his mother and father and Sirius shaking Mr Potter's hand.
"Thanks again for having me." Sirius said, smiling at him then to Mrs Potter.
"Oh it wasn't a problem… as long you and James had fun." Mr Potter smiled back at him as Mrs Potter pulled him into an embrace.
"Bye mummy, bye daddy." Lily waved one last time as she and her three best friends boarded the train.
Mr and Mrs Evans, Mr and Mrs Jones and Rose's grandmother waved to them as the train started to move, pulling away from the platform, the girls could no longer see their parents or the platform.
The four Marauders made their way towards their compartment at the back of the train as they greeted their fellow peers along the way.
As they finally made it to their compartment both James and Sirius slouched down on to the seat beside each other as Remus and Peter slouched on the opposite side.
There was a moment silence before any of them spoke, but it was Sirius who spoke.
"Is it just me or is James grinning like an idiot?" he said as he observed his best friend, who was staring into space, a huge smile plastered on his handsome face.
"Well there's only one reason as to why his grinning like that." Remus put in.
"Lily!" Sirius, Remus and Peter said in unison. James' smile got even wider if it was possible.
"How long do you think he'll be like this?' Peter asked looking at James with amusement, 'hello James, earth to James?" he waved his hand in front of James.
"What?" James asked with a soft sigh.
"Oh man… his got it bad for that girl." Remus laughed as Sirius joined him.
James finally pulled out of his trance from imagining what it would be like to be with Lily.
"Your one to talk Moony,' James said as Remus' face became puzzled, 'I saw the way you looked at Sasha."
"What are you talking about?" Remus asked looking even more confused.
"Oh come off it, I saw you two locking eyes together as Rose's grandmother hugged them." James said as a grin spread across his face, seeing the sight of Remus blushing slightly.
It was true, Remus did lock eyes with Sasha, but he thought that no one had seen them, but he guessed he was wrong.
"What is this true? How come I didn't see this?" Sirius demanded, looking from James to Remus.
"You were to busy talking to my dad." James replied as he still eyed his blushing friend.
'Do you like her Remus… do you have a crush on Sasha Willings?" Peter asked excitedly as the other two Marauders listened eagerly.
Remus looked at them, but said nothing instead a small smile quivered on to his soft delicate face. That was all the others needed for confirmation.
They all yelled in delight for their friend. Remus has known to be rather popular with the girls at Hogwarts, ones who are his age and younger, some older. His boyish good looks made a big impact to the girls, just like James and Sirius does with every girl who fancies them.
Peter is not as popular with the girls as his other three best friends. His shyness hides away his true potential, but he does get notice with friends like the Marauders.
"Oh my god… here she goes again." Sasah exasperated as she looked at Nicole, who was sitting directly opposite her.
A dreamy expression over came Nicole's tanned face as she played the event that just happened on the platform with Sirius.
"Hey I can't help it if I'm in love with him." She sighed.
"Yeah… you and a hundred other girls at school." Rose chuckled.
Nicole scowled at her… "Don't remind me." She scowled folding her arms.
Lily, Rose and Sasah laughed at their friend. They know too well that their friend has fallen heads over heels for one of the most popular guy in their year, Sirius Black.
Every time one of them mention that she was not the only girl at Hogwarts that fancies him, they all know that she would start cursing every single girl who'd fancy him in her mind.
"So what's going with you and James, Lily?" Sasha asked looking at her as Nicole revived from her thoughts of cursing every girl that has fallen for Sirius, turning to Lily eagerly.
Lily looked at her best friends with confusion.
"What are you going on about?" she asked, her forehead creased.
"You know, you and James. What's going there? Are you together or what?" Rose asked.
Lily looked at their eager faces as though they have all gone mad.
"What I think these two are trying to say,' Nicole looked at Lily's confused expression as she nodded her head towards Sasah and Rose, 'is do you fancy James?"
Lily's eyes widen in bewilderment at what Nicole had just said. She looked at them in the eyes, opened mouthed.
"Have you all gone mad!' she exclaimed, 'what on earth made you think that I fancy James Potter?"
Nicole, Sasha and Rose looked at each other. Rose turned to look at Lily.
"Well… since he has a crush on you, we thought that you like him." She said a little apprehensively.
"What, he doesn't have a crush on me."
"Ah sorry to burst your bubble sweetie, but he does." Nicole corrected.
"Big time!" Sasha added.
Nicole grinned at Sasha and then to Lily as her eyes was literally popping out of her head from what her three best friends has told her.
"You've all gone mad, he doesn't have a crush on me and I don't like him any ways. He so arrogant, I thought he was an ok guy, but with the stuff he did at the end of last year… he's completely is not the kind of guy I though he was." Lily finished, folding her arms as though that settled the matter.
"You mean when he started to pull those pranks on the Slytherin's?" Sasha asked.
"Not the just the Slytherin's… he acts like he owns the school or something. Him and Sirius." Lily exclaimed, getting angrier at the thought of James."
"Hey don't drag Sirius into this." Nicole said defensively.
"I'm sorry Nic, but those two are so much alike."
"What do expect… their the Marauders!" Nicole exclaimed as a slight smile appeared.
"What kind of guy did you think he was Lily?" Rose asked, leaning forward to hear.
"I don't now…', she shrugged looking at Rose, 'when I had to help in third year for potions, he was so nice and I thought he was a descend guy, you know and now I can't really stand him." Lily sighed as she leaned back.
Sasha took a quick glance at Rose and Nicole and turn to Lily with her forehead creased.
"What?" Lily asked.
"Well, it's just that…
"What is it Sasha?" Lily demanded.
"Well haven't you thought that maybe his trying to impress you by doing the things his been doing?" She said, starring at Lily into her emerald green eyes.
"What! His trying to impress me? That's a weird way to impressing someone. You know what I think… I think his trying to annoy the bleeding hell out of me. Impress me, please."
Nicole couldn't help but to laugh at her friend's reaction.
"Denial, denial, denial!" she sang out as she leaned on Rose from her laughter as Rose tried to cover her own laughter, smothering her mouth with her hands.
"He doesn't like me!" Lily proclaimed angrily, sending death glares at her so called best friends.
"What ever you say Lils." Sasha remarked, hiding away her laugher from watching at Lily's expression to Nicole desperately trying to breath from laughing so much.
The train ride to Hogsmeade station finally ended. It was a fast and easy trip, but for Lily, it felt as though she had been trapped in her compartment, constantly telling her friends that their theory of James Potter having a crush on her was nothing but their wild imagination, but they finally stopped after Lily threatened them that she would hex them.
Nicole, Rose and Sasha took the threat immediately from the fire burning inside of Lily's innocent emerald green eyes, and for the fact that they did not want to be hex by the one person who is brilliant at Charms and Defense Against The Dark Arts.
They made their way to a horseless carriage and enjoyed the trip up to the castle, where the warmth and feast, which the house elves have out done themselves yet again, awaits them.
The students stepped out of the carriage and made their way towards the great hall where they could feel the warmth sipping out of the two large doors.
As the four girls made their way, the Marauders weren't too far behind them.
"Oh look who it is up ahead." Sirius nudged Remus on his side and pointed to the girls.
Remus' gaze fell on Sasha as she greeted a friend from Ravenclaw. His eyes twinkled as he watched her.
"She'd not the only one there too." Peter said as his gaze followed James' and landed on Lily as she was talking and laughing with Nicole and Rose.
Both Sirius and Peter looked at each other and burst out laughing at their friends. Their laughter caught the attention of the people around them as they all turn to look at the source of the laughter.
Both Lily and Sasha's eye fell on Sirius and Peter. Lily noticed that James was watching her and quickly turned her attention to the friend from Ravenclaw, but Sasha's eyes continued to look at the two laughing Marauders.
She focused her gaze slightly to the left and found herself locking eyes with Remus Lupin again. She smiled warmly at him, blushing slightly as Remus smiled back at her, showing his pearly white even teeth.
Nicole noticed their little exchange and smile to herself. But her trance was interrupted of watching Remus and Sasha's little exchange from squeals and shouts of girls crowding the Marauders, especially Sirius.
She scowled at them all as she clenched her jaw.
"Pathetic, all of them!" she hissed.
Sasha and Rose had heard her and looked at her livid face, watching all the girls crowding the Marauders.
The two exchanged glances at each other with smirks, knowing too well that Nicole had done something like that in the pass, but not as obvious, but they near voiced that opinion to her for they do not want to feel the wrath of Nicole Jones.
They had made that mistake once and was not about to repeat that unfortunate event. They both grabbed Nicole by the arm and led her towards the great hall, before those poor innocent unfortunate girls felt her wrath or yet before she would do any serious damage to them.
The students seated themselves in their house tables once they all made it inside the great hall. Their chattering commenced for a moment, but soon the hall fell into silence as their head master, Professor Dumbledore stood in front of them.
His ancient face shinning as he beamed at his students, his eyes glittering behind his half moon spectacles as his deep ocean blue robe, embroidered with moons and stars dragged to the floor, he smiled behind his long white beard at them all before addressing his students.
"Welcome back my wonderful students', he beamed at them all, 'I am so glad to see you all happy and healthy and returning back to Hogwarts safe and sound. Now I know that you are all anxious to tuck into the feast, but I am afraid that you must all wait until the sorting have ended, so with no further ado…"
He raised his right hand up to indicate to Filch, the care taker to open the doors.
Once the doors were opened, thirty two young and frightened faces walked slowly and carefully into the hall walking behind Professor McGonagall, the deputy head mistress, the Professor of Transfiguration and the head of house to Gryffindor, they were all crowding each other as though they were a pack afraid that if one would stray away, it would be chased down by a lion.
"Oh the poor things!" Nicole whispered to Lily.
"Do you remember when we were like that?" The two girls laughed quietly, watching them as they marched up the hall.
Professor McGonagall stopped and turn to the frighten faces. Her expression almost seemed sympathetic towards the frighten souls, her lips pursed and her eyes giving a warm touch, which hardly not many students would see her hold.
"When I called out your name… you must step up to the chair and place the hat on top of your head and then it will place you into your houses." McGonagall indicated to a stool behind her, sitting on top was an old worn out wizards hat.
Her voice rang out around the hall as she started too called out names from a long list on a piece of parchment. The students walked out one by one as their name was being called out; looking more frightened and nervous than from the moment they came in.
"Tamia Soolin!" Professor McGonagall called out.
A very pretty Asian girl stepped up to the stool and placed the hat on top of her head. She waited for a moment, waiting for the sorting hat to place her into her house as she fidgeted with her fingers.
Every eye in the great hall was on her as she waited, but suddenly she gave a small shriek as the hat started to talk, making her jump and all most making her fall off the stool.
"Hmm, I see a lot of potential and cleverness in you and bravery… it would be wise to put you in Gryffindor, but I think you would do very well in… Ravenclaw!"
Cheers and whistles of delight coma from the Ravenclaw table as Tamia made her way towards her new house table.
Silence fell again as the next name was about to be called out.
"Rupert Conson!"
A very tall pale boy made his way up to the stool and places the hat on him.
"Interesting, I sense that you have certain fierceness in you… but there's something else. You would do very well in any of the four houses, but we must put you into one off them, so it would have to be… Hufflepuff!"
The boy scrambled off the stool and sat himself down with his new house mates at the Hufflepuff table.
The hall once again died down after the Hufflepuff shouted in delight for their newest member.
"Candice Abby!" McGonagall called out looking at the students in front of her.
A small girl with light brown hair walked nervously up to the stool as she waited for the hat to speak.
"Abby? Ah you must be Dominic's sister, am I right?" the girl nodded nervously as her brother watched her from the Gryffindor table who was in his fifth year.
He smiled at her to make her feel at ease.
"Yes I remember how hard it was to place your brother into a house and I sense it in you too."
The girl started to fidget on the stool as she closed her eyes, fingers cross in hoping that she would be placed in Gryffindor with her brother.
"Please put me in Gryffindor, please put me in Gryffindor." She whispered under her breath.
"You are a lot like your brother, so there for you should be in… GRYFFINDOR!"
The hat announce as Candice opened her eyes with a sigh of relief and made her way towards the Gryffindor; her face shinning with a smile as she joined her brother.
The hall once again rang in silence as the next student was called out.
"Christopher Ungerrary!"
A very pale boy stepped up to the stool and placed the hat on his short sleek black hair and waited.
His face was so pale, it looked like he was about to pass out at any moment.
It didn't take as long as the others for Christopher to sorted into a house. It only took the sorting hat a few minutes to decide to put him in…
"SLYTHERIN!"
As the hat was taken off from his head by McGonagall, the pale boy's eyes flattered wildly before collapsing and falling on to the ground. A girl screamed as his body fell to the ground with a loud thud echoing around the hall.
N/A: Well that's it for the first chapter. We know it's a bit slow, but believe us; it will get very interesting as the story continues. We promise we will update as soon as we can, but you have to tell us what you think of this first chapter… ok?
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"He must go to the hospital wing."
The rushing of footsteps bounced off the walls of the great hall.
"What is your fascination about him?"
"You should really cover your tracks."
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