The Beginning- A Love Story.
By: blackandlupin
Disclaimer: we do not own any of the original characters, except for the ones we created; the original characters belong to the brilliant J.K Rowling.
Chapter 5: Revenge can be so sweet.
The early morning of the sun slowly rises from the horizons as the birds nearby twittered in delight by its warmness, but as comforting as the feeling and thought were; up in the girls dormitory of Gryffindor tower a sweet and innocent vision with graciously fair skin and fiery red hair that was framing her soft delicate face awoke with a start as she bolt right up into a sitting position in her bed.
Her abrupt awaking startled the three girls that were already awake; Rose had dropped her hair brush, Nicole was turning from the mirror and Sasha jumping almost a foot in the air from her bed. All three of her room mates stared at her in fear.
"Are you alright Lily?" Sasha asked as her heart beat came back to normal.
Lily turns to her friends who were wearing similar expressions; her eyes that had gone wide like bludgers returns to its average size and buried her face in her hands, pulling her hair back at the same time.
"Yeah… fine,' she replied, 'bad dream."
"Bad dream?' Rose asked which Lily nodded to… 'Want to talk about it?" she offered.
As caring and motherly Rose was and Lily could always come to her with her troubles, this particular dream was something she didn't really wanted to share and so she shook her head.
"I'm sure it wasn't that bad Lils…' Nicole commented as she made her way across the room and stood in front of Lily's bed, holding onto one of the post, 'I bet you dreamt about your date with Tom and the mishaps that happened." She laughs.
Lily's eyes once again grew wide at almost how accurate Nicole's guess was; every time Nicole would make a guess of something, it's scary at how closely accurate she was at times, but that's what makes her unique in Lily's opinion aside from also having magic of the mind; just as Sasha has the ability to know when one of her friends were in need of comfort with out a word spoken and Rose always knowing how best to make ease at difficult situations. These were the few things Lily admires about her best friends.
"Actually the opposite." She replies.
All three girls before her bore looks of confusion… "Come again?" Nicole asked.
"I did dream about the date, but instead of what happened to Tom… it was happening to me." She informed which took her friends by surprise; amusing in Nicole's opinion but she didn't dare voiced it out; lets just say that Lily Evans weren't much of a morning person and neither was she to be honest, but Nicole didn't want to be blasted into oblivion so early in the morning.
"And I keep thinking that someone was behind it and that's not the worse part to the dream,' she confessed and looked to her friends who were looking at her in confusion… 'I keep seeing James Potter." She mumbles.
Both Rose and Nicole's eyes widen and they instantly made eye contact with each other with hidden smiles, remembering the little interrogation they had made on James the previous night and with the aid of Sirius, they were successful in their quest.
That night as James had feared and somehow knew his secret would be safe, the two hasn't told Lily or Sasha of that little information they had discovered.
"I swear it felt like he had something to do with it but I know that's impossible because I didn't see him at all yesterday except in the three broomstick." Lily ran her fingers through her hair again.
Again both Nicole and Rose's eyes darted towards each other; as much as they love Lily and are very loyal to their friend, the two thought it was best that she didn't know about it and deep inside they were hoping Lily would change her mind about James and see the side of him many rarely sees.
Sasha puts a sympathetic hand on Lily's arm; like her other two best friends, Sasha hoped that someday Lily and James would eventually get together… but right now all she can do is try and feel her friend's agony… "It was just a dream Lils, it's over now,' she pulled Lily's hair back as Lily looked up to her with soft eyes… 'Now get your big arse out of that bed and into the bathroom or we'll all miss breakfast."
Lily groans inwardly as Sasha pulled her out of bed and into the bathroom throwing her towel before closing the door.
As the door was about to close… "I hate it when you get all motherly like this." Lily mumbles.
"You know you love me!" Sasha shouted through the door as Rose and Nicole laughed.
As the majority of the school got ready for the day and making their way down towards breakfast, the four Gryffindor girls sat together and enjoyed a well deserved breakfast before tackling the heavy load of work that they would have to endure shortly.
A few rows ahead of them, a pair of deep brown eyes behind round rimmed spectacles was watching one particular girl among the four Gryffindor girls. As his eyes observed her from where he sat with his comrades of mischief makers, he watched her as she looked around the hall for a particular something… but it seemed that what she was looking for and he knew what she was looking for, was unable to be spotted throughout the many faces in the room.
Her eyes darted to every direction of the hall and all the while James was watching her; even though her constant fast movement made him dizzy, he couldn't take his eyes away from her beauty as her fast movements finally stop, turning towards Nicole who was by her side.
"He probably had an early start." Nicole mumbles to Lily.
"Yeah your probably right." Lily conceded taking one last look around the hall.
Throughout the day, Lily hoped so much that she would bumped into Tom since she didn't she him at all during breakfast and lunch and now it was nearing dinner and she still had no such luck of locating him; if her thoughts were right, which she had been dwelling on for the whole day… perhaps could he be avoiding her?
If he had been, then Lily didn't quite understand as to why… apart from the mishaps during their date, she thought they had gotten along pretty well. Rose told her she was just being paranoid and Sasha assured her she will see Tom at dinner and as Nicole proclaim that if he was a no show at dinner, they would do a search for him.
Tracking the familiar steps leading to the Great Hall, Lily made her way towards the hall alone as her three best friends had gone to their dormitory to put their bags away; Sasha offered to take Lily's bag up with her as she knew how anxious she was to see Tom.
The hall was filled by a small number of students as others were either in their dormitory or slowly making their way after a long day. Upon reaching the entrance doors, Lily stopped and looked around the hall again where she can see a few people at the Gryffindor table and her friend Amanda at the Ravenclaw table sitting next to her twin brother Ayden.
As her eyes continue to roam the room, her magnificent emerald green eyes finally soughed the features of Tom Raggan who were standing with his friends. Her eyes widen as a smile stretched across her face as she began to approach him.
Taking quick and long strides towards the small group, his friends began to notice her as one of the girls next to him nudged him in the ribs and tilted her head towards Lily. Lily's smile widen as Tom drifted his gaze on her; his friends around him began to murmur as Lily presented herself in front of Tom… all his friends eyed her questioningly but Lily didn't took notice and focused her attention at Tom.
"Hi Tom…" she greeted with a beaming smile.
"Err… hi." He greeted back looking at her slightly odd, but again Lily didn't take any notice.
"I've been looking for you all day." She said, her beaming smile intact.
"You have?" Tom asked rather surprised.
"Yeah…" Lily nodded, "I was just wondering if you're feeling any better from yesterday and to tell you that even with the little mishaps that happened… I had a good time." She said all in one breathe; where all of these words came from Lily had no clue but she had the urge just to speak them even though feeling slightly embarrass at the same time.
Tom again eyed her oddly as the people around him began… was it silent laughter, this time Lily took a little notice but brushed it off… "Um… yeah. I feel fine." he replied.
Lily's smile had gotten even bigger as she found herself nodding her head again… "That's good." She paused for a moment before she found the courage to ask him what she had been hoping to be able to ask him all day if she happens to bump into him at all… "Um I was wondering if you'd like to do that again some times, of course without the little mishaps." Lily asked hopefully as she began to fiddle with the sleeve of her robes but maintain her eye contact with him.
What happened next was utter and complete shock to Lily as the people around Tom began to laugh and Tom joining in with them. Lily's eyes began to dart at the faces around her as her forehead creased. "What's so funny?" she asked laughing slightly.
The girl who had nudge Tom earlier was the first to revive from her fit of laughter as she turned to Lily… "You honestly didn't take that date seriously now did you?" she asked and at Lily's widen eyes she began to holler in laughter again which caught the attention of the hall… "Oh my god you did." She gasped.
Lily's breathing began to grow heavy as she stared at the burnet and asked; "What do you mean?"
The girl again revived from her laughter and once again turned to Lily; "It was a joke…" she said as Lily's forehead creased and her mouth slightly open as she could feel her heart beating faster with each second that passed by… "Darling it was a silly little dare." She said carelessly.
Lily's face fell as she slowly began to feel dizzy and her breathing became even heavier… "You don't honestly think he would ever like you do you?" she asked snidely, "in case you haven't noticed… his mine." She said, stepping towards Tom and wrapped his arms around her which he held on to the burnet tightly as the others around them began to laugh even harder.
Tom smirked at Lily as she began to tremble in her spot… "Oh, your not going to cry now are you?" his girlfriend asked.
Lily just stares at them feeling utter shock and stupid for ever thinking that someone like Tom Raggan could ever like someone like her; with one quick turn… Lily bolted for the entrance way as both Amanda and Ayden saw the whole ordeal and called out her name, but Lily didn't stop.
Outside the Great Hall, the three remaining Gryffindor girls made their way towards dinner accompanied by the Marauders; unknowns to them of what had happened inside the hall… a flutter of red hair came charging their way as it bumped into Sirius.
Sirius caught the trembling figure in his arms as they all could see it was Lily, her eyes red as tears trailed down her soft face.
"Lily?" the three girls said in unison, but Lily released herself from Sirius' grasp and began to run again with her friend calling out her name behind her.
Sasha instantly ran after her with Remus and James hot on her heels. The rest however were rooted to the spot in shock as Rose and Nicole saw Amanda and Ayden looking their way from the entrance doors; the two began to walk up to them followed by Sirius and Peter. As they reached the twins, they could hear laughter from inside the hall and saw the little group that had embarrassed their friend.
"What happened?" Rose asked the twins as the others listened eagerly.
The twins deliberated to the four Gryffindors in front of them of what made their friend so distress, as Ayden began to tell them that they heard Lily's date was a stupid dare for a laugh; Nicole's eyes immediately darkens as she glared at the group of Hufflepuffs with her jaws and fist clenched; one thing to know and to remember about Nicole Jones is that never under any circumstances do you ever mess with anyone she cares about.
"She started to run and we tried to call her but she just kept on running." Amanda spoke.
Without a word spoke, Nicole began to stride over to the Hufflepuffs with Rose by her side, it took the other four a moment to realize that they were gone as Sirius and Peter following behind them with Amanda and Ayden.
The two Gryffindor girls stood before the laughing group with their face livid with anger. The group of Hufflepuffs merely stared at the two with their eyebrows raised.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Nicole gritted her teeth, her eyes set on Tom.
"Excuse me?" his girlfriend spoke stepping forwards.
"I wasn't talking to you!" Nicole bellowed in her face which made the people around her jumped as she turns her focus back to Tom… "You think it's funny to humiliate and break a girl's heart like that?" she shouted which now has caught the attention of everyone in the hall.
Tom stared at the out rage fourth year as a small smirk quivered at the end of his lip.
"It wasn't my fault she took it seriously." He replies with a small laugh which was followed by his friends.
"Of course it's your fault… you were the one who made her believe it was real!" it was Rose who bellowed this time.
The volume Rose had reached startled both Sirius and Peter as they looked at each other, silently agreeing to never get on any of their bad sides.
"No!" Tom yelled, "It was her fault for believing that I would fall for a silly little girl like her." He declared and then looked intently at the both of them… "Like the both of you are."
Nicole's head immediately snapped towards him with her deep chocolate brown eyes almost turning into the shade of black as though she was poses by something.
"A silly little girl?" she asked slowly taking little steps towards him with her fist clenched… "A silly little girl?" she asked again as a smile appeared on Tom's face; "Well can a silly little girl do this?"
In one motion, Nicole stomp on Tom's feet causing a painful moan to escape from him as she elbowed him in the gut causing him to bend in pain and punching him square on the nose which caused blood to splutter everywhere.
An eruption of screams and cheers sounded around the hall. Both Sirius and Peter had to step back as Tom tumble to the ground in a heap; his group of friends came rushing to his aid, but before they could even retaliate, the forth years had their wands drawn to the group of sixth years.
"Don't even think about it." Sirius growled.
As menacing his gaze was, that however didn't stop Tom's girlfriend to try casting a spell at Nicole for hurting her boyfriend, at her lead the others followed. Bright lights began to spill among the little group as the others in the hall watched with interest; one tried to stop the confrontation for fear they might get caught in the cross fire; fortunately for the group their were no teachers around or the head girl and boy.
"Impedimenta!" Tom's girlfriend shouted towards Nicole.
With her attention on Tom and her wand still in her robes; with deep anger and pain she was feeling for her best friend… all Nicole did was held her right hand in front of her as the jet of light hovered before her; she slowly turned her focus to the burnet with a murderous glare… with a quick flick of her wrist, the jet of light Nicole had hovered before her disappeared in thin air.
Much to the shock and utter surprise of everyone watching and to herself, Nicole had no idea where that power came from or even that it was there; reviving quickly… Sirius took this opportunity to cast his own spell at the group of sixth year as an invisible force suddenly began to round them up placing them in a tight huddle.
Still shock by her own actions, Nicole stood rigid to her spot, not even noticing Rose standing beside her until she had spoke… "Nic…" Rose said lightly, placing a hand on her friend's shoulder.
Nicole slowly turned to face her friend who eyed her with concern, but Nicole's eyes darted to Sirius and Ayden who were circling the huddling group.
"Now, now…' Sirius began, 'what to do with them." He continued to circle around them with his wand twirling around his fingers as both Peter and Amanda began laughing.
"Sirius!' Ayden should to get his attention, 'how bout we…' he twirls his wand and with one quick movement pointed it at the group with a shout … 'Inpadair!"
A burst of laughter erupted throughout the hall as the hairs of the huddled sixth years turned into that of an afro with stripy colors resembling of a clown.
Sirius hollered with laughter beside Peter; sobering he turns to Ayden… "Not bad mate." he said as he began to laugh again. "Now what else to do to them?" Sirius pondered for a minute.
But before he even had a chance to think of something, beside him, Peter had a suggestion.
"How- how bout if we paint their faces like clowns?" he asked nervously.
"Hey, that's not bad Pete,' Sirius conceded, 'go for it." Sirius said.
Peter eyed Sirius fearfully, but with an encourage nod of the head by Sirius, Peter stepped forward and raised his wand and shouted the spell… "Petrium!"
Within seconds, the faces of the sixth years who were trying to set free and shouting insults and threats, where plastered white with black pointed eyebrows, red nose and a big red goofy smile. The hall once again erupted with laughter; Amanda had to lean on her brother for support from laughing so hard.
"Excellent Pete!" Ayden commented; Peter smiled widely at the praise and slightly blushed with pride.
"Let me have a turn." Amanda chuckles as she stepped forwards.
The chuckles that sounded around the hall died down as they anticipated what Amanda was about to do but the only noise that sounded still were the threats the captive sixth years were bellowing at the forth years. Amanda's posture suddenly became still as she closed her eyes and pointed her wand at the captives and summons the spell with a shout of…
"Clotham!"
The familiar uniform of the Hufflepuff's disappeared from their bodies and were replaced by costumes of clown suits; immediately a howl of laughter exploded at the sight as Amanda observed her work with a wide grin on her face whilst her brother and Sirius and Peter joining in the laughter; both Rose and Nicole couldn't contain their giggles.
"Now they truly look the like the clowns that they are." Amanda smiles.
The eyes of the burnet who belonged to Tom's girlfriend narrowed at Amanda as she stomp on her big long foot, advancing towards her like a hunter closing in on its prey.
Amanda jumped back by the sudden movement and glared at the sixth year before her lips curling into a smirk.
"Ooh feisty aren't we?" Amanda taunts.
"You'll pay for this!" Tom shouted over the laughter, but his threats only caused more laughter to erupt.
Sirius eyed him as though he was thinking about something; when Sirius Black shows that look of concentration… it never ends as pleasantly as you would hope; then his lips curled into that oh so famous smirk of his which would make any girls knees weak, but the smirk on his handsome face wasn't to charm the ladies at this precise moment, but a plan was stirring in that mischievous mind of his.
"Not quite…' Sirius suddenly spoke as he surveyed Tom; Peter frowns wondering what Sirius was on about, 'something's missing…" and then Sirius pulled out his wand and within seconds shouted a spell.
"Voldikarum!"
As the spell Sirius had just conquers came into effect; to Sirius it felt like he was in some type of déjà vu as the threats that Tom was screaming suddenly resembled the sound of a chipmunk, in fact all the voices of the sixth years resembled the sound of a herd of chipmunk; the entire hall cried out laughing, some even had tears in their eyes.
The high pitched volume that came from the Hufflepuff's instantly seized with the hall remaining in hysterics; Nicole walked slowly towards the huddled group and glared at Tom as though she was the hunter and they were the prey; Tom held fear in his eyes as he stared at Nicole.
"If you ever mess with my girl again or any of my friends,' Nicole spoke dangerously, 'I will make sure you will regret it for the rest of your life." She hissed, but before she turned her back to them, Nicole's eyes darted to the others… "And that goes for the rest of you." She whispered.
Nicole followed Rose towards the entrance with Sirius and Peter at her side and Amanda and Ayden returning to their table receiving praises from their fellow house mates and those of Gryffindor.
"Not bad Sirius." Nicole turned to him as they walked.
"You too Nic." Sirius replied giving her a wink.
Nicole blushed slightly and turned to Peter… "And I'm impress by you Peter… didn't know you had that in you, you're full of surprises aren't you?" Nicole smiles which made Peter smile in embarrassment and pride.
Rose lowered her pace and caught up to the others… "I still can't believe you guys actually did that to them." Rose laughed as they walked through the corridor.
"Well they definitely deserved it." Peter commented.
"Yeah Pete's right,' Sirius agreed, 'I'm kind of ashamed that we didn't do more." He pouted.
Nicole couldn't help to feel all warm from the expression on Sirius's face and it didn't go unknown to Rose who quickly took Nicole away from her trance before she could make a full of herself.
"All in good time Sirius, all in good time. At least now they know and the others in the hall too that if they mess with one of us, they mess with all of us." Rose stated.
Nicole nodded in agreement as they four continued to walk.
"Uh guys,' Peter piped up, 'where exactly are we going?" he asked.
The others stopped in their tracks as they all turned to Peter and then to each other.
"Um well the only place to go now is to find Lily and see if she's all right." Nicole said.
"But where would she be?" Rose asked.
Just as the words escaped from her mouth both Remus and James came striding towards them; James looking distress and angry where as Remus looking calm and slightly concern.
By the murderous glint in his eyes, Sirius knew that James had found out what had happened to Lily; he could almost feel his anger from where he stood.
"If you girls are looking for Lily and Sasha, their in your dormitory." Remus said looking at Rose and Nicole.
Both girls nodded their heads bidding him thanks and left the boy to attend to their heart broken friend who was in serious need of comfort. As the girls left, both Remus and Sirius looked at each other and then Sirius tuned to James who seemed to be in a state of trance as he stared at the open space before him.
"James?' Sirius called his name, but James made no movements or sound… 'James!" Sirius called again.
"I'm going to kill that bastard!" James suddenly growls as he began to take strides towards the hall.
Sirius quickly stood in his way, preventing James from taking another step. The two best friends stared at each other as their other two friends watched on in silence; Peter glanced at Remus wondering if they should do something, however, Remus remains to focus his attention to James.
"Padfoot, get out of my way." James hissed.
Sirius stared at his best friend before replying… "No James."
"Get out of my way Sirius." James hissed again.
Sirius shook his head; James tried to push pass him but to no avail.
James stared at Sirius… "He needs to be taught a lesson." James growled.
"He already has." Sirius replied.
James looked at him questioningly as a smirk appeared at the edge of Sirius's lips.
"What did you do?" Remus asked as he stood beside the two.
Sirius turns to Remus with a smile… "Lets just day that this is the day that Tom Raggan and his friends will never forget any time soon."
Peter began to laugh next to Sirius as both Remus and James observed their two comrades.
"I think they've been humiliated enough tonight." Peter said.
"And not to mention the physical damage that Nicole left on Tom." Sirius commented, "Remind me to never get that girl angry." He added.
"What did she do?" James asked in interest and he wasn't the only one as Remus looked eager to know.
"Lets head to the kitchen and we'll tell you all about it." Sirius nodded his head towards Peter and putting an arm around James' shoulder.
As Sirius lead his friends to the familiar route to their destination, in the shadows of the corridor, a set of light hazel eyes were watching the students that has now vacated the area. The form that belonged to the set of eyes had followed the students of Gryffindor from the Great Hall; the figure emrged from their shadowy hiding place as a sound of a cat's meow echoed through the corridor watching after the four boys.
A/N: alas the next chapter is up and as we promise the misfortune continued… poor Tom, that'll teach him for messing with a fourth year. Hahahaha.
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