Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character(s) I place in here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. This is a Sirius Black/OC Fanfiction, or at least it will get to that point. I do have terrible spelling sometimes, but I do my best. However, if I misspell something that I have not caught I do appreciate having a correction mentioned. But I love reading Fanfiction's from here, and I hope I can bring others the same joys they have brought me, I figured it was time I give it a shot.

This WAS, my FIRST Fanfiction that I had the courage enough to put up for all to read. I started small and did my best to update as soon, and as much, as I could. I know tend to forget things so try to have some patience, even though I sometimes fail at having some myself. *cough, cough*Please Enjoy the story, for the pages have yet to turn for new, or returning, readers of journeys untold. Also, please be aware that this story is 100% mine. This is a work of mine that I did under a different account of fanfiction under the username Nattie8516 and now shares the same username under this Fanfiction site as well. So rest assured, I am the same person and same owner of this work and other's I shall be posting on this new site as well.

Chapter 2

Emma sighed with defeat.

She had no idea where her sister was and she had been looking for about an hour, if possible, and found absolutely nothing. Not even Marlene or Alice. "How big is this train!" She grumbled. Walking into the nearest compartment to her left, Emma froze. Eyes wide and feeling very out of place.

Sitting in the compartment she found four boys. Three were laughing and the other was reading what looked like, 'Is that... Peter Pan?' She thought, her eyes studying them with slight interest.

One boy, having brownish hair and blue eyes, the second boy had messy black hair and glasses over his hazel eyes, the third was a rather interesting one with shaggy black hair, grey eyes and a charm that seemed to roll off him.

'May want to steer clear of him'.

The last one, who was reading the book, had light brown hair and pale skin. He looked as though he was sick, though that was just an assumption, she wasn't entirely sure. Unable to see his eyes because of the book which was in his face, Emma glanced back around for a second look. It never occurred to her that as she stood there that she had drawn their attention.

'How do I always get myself into this kind of trouble?'

Emma had completely forgotten about her burning lip as she unintentionally stared at them rather rudely. Her mind wandered at all the sudden events that had happened since she stepped foot onto the train, and honestly, she'd rather be reading the book then having gone through that the first time. Emma's attention was grasped by the boy with glasses as he pointed out her lip with curiosity and worry. "What happened to your lip?"

Unable to find her voice she stayed where she stood, mouth agap, dry blood caking to her lip and chin she'd ignored taking care of earlier.

"Well, are you coming in or not, Love?" the one with a charmed smile asked her.

He wasn't trying to charm her, but she couldn't help when her heart fluttered a little. His grin was just a teasing grin directed at her. She may have been a kid, but she knew a handsome person when she saw one, and he was the definition of handsome, and it seemed like he knew it too. Emma's body moved all its own as she walked all the way in, the door clipped behind her, signaling that she had just sealed her doom. She figured, maybe, she could just relax in there until she got to Hogwarts, until she took in everyone's appearance once again, for a third or fourth time, then it hit her who these boys' descriptions matched perfectly to a 'T'. Her sister always ranted about them.

'Lily's going to kill me!'

"Do you talk or not?" the boy closest to her asked, his brownish hair hung close to his shoulders, a fashion all the boys seemed to enjoy having these days. He was smiling welcoming at her, and the notion let her relax a little.

"Uh, sorry. Got lost." Was all that came out.

'Seriously, Rose! Is that all you can think to say!? Got lost?'

She was by far doomed.

It was official.

"So, she does talk. Now, about that lip of yours, what happened?" the boy with glasses asked again, this time he seemed set on knowing what had caused it.

And why wouldn't she tell them?

Yes, she was clumsy, but she wasn't that talented! Lily would instantly see through it and know she had lied and that would start this year off as a very bad year, especially if she lied to them. She opened her mouth to tell them, but what came next was completely the opposite, and blunt. "You're the Marauders, aren't you?"

This had all four boys bursting into laughter. The grey eyed boy was the first to make a remark, "Right to the point, not even sorted into a house and you already know us, how wonderful. James, we're famous!"

"Yes, I agree. However, she hasn't answered my question about that lip of hers." His laughter was cut short, unfortunately, turning a stern look at her.

His stare sent small shivers through her. Emma swore his expression reminded her of Lily's. When Emma had meant to pull a prank on Petunia the prank had backfired and gotten Lily instead. The aftermath made her shiver as she remembered what her punishment had been from Lily. Her sister had a mean side, believe it or not.

"I ran into a group of bullies when I got separated from my sister." To say she was nervous was an understatement.

"Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Now, who's your sister?" James asked, moving from his seat and in front of her to check the damage done. A deep scowl grew on his face as he looked her over. His laughter was long gone and had turned remarkably serious as he looked over the injury, "Who did this?" he asked blankly.

She hadn't answered either of his two questions, which he had to admit was beginning to get a little annoying.

"Uh, which question did you want the answer to?" She gently laughed to herself, attempting to distract him from wanting either one.

James gave a dry grin. This was a trick that none of the Marauder boys would fall for. They'd done it too many times themselves.

But this time, it was the boy reading the book that spoke up. Those happened to be the ones you need to watch out for, according to Petunia, and she was right. "How about both, who's your sister? So, we can return you to her care, and who did the damage to your lip." He stated with a sternness all his own. Even while he was stern, he was subtle about his tone. He wasn't exactly demanding but he also wasn't asking.

Emma knew there was no way out of this. Not. At. All.

So, what did she do?

Emma sighed and gave up the information, there was no point in trying to avoid the conversation of information, her sister would be demanding answers eventually. It was only a few names, what could the harm be from this? From what Lily had told her, more like ranted, about them.

"They're never mature! Especially Potter, stay clear of him, he and his pals are pranking trouble masters -" Lily had instantly regretted telling her sister that much. So, in Emma's mind for them to try to do something remotely mature it was fine.

"My sister is Lily Evans, and I ran into a group of boys from Slytherin, one of them did this." She told them, pointing to her lip. This time Emma was the one regretting something. But just as soon as she had placed the group responsible the room felt cold, nearly void of the energy it had previously been filled with. Unsure how to respond to this, Emma backed herself towards the compartment door, an attempt to leave. "Uh... I think I'll be going." She said with soft, anxious, laughter of nerviousness. She was shot down in seconds by the grey eyed boy in the corner, dark hair and all. His tone was angry, but not at her, he seemed to be doing his best at regaining his composer. He must have had plenty of practice.

"How about you stay here with us until the train arrives at Hogwarts where we can return you back to your sister. While you're here we'll get that lip of yours cleaned up." He wasn't loud or obnoxious, but remarkably calm on the outside. Yet, dare she say, he was dangerous. The closer she looked into his eyes, the more she noticed a deeper story laid behind him. A darker one as they all shifted uncomfortably.

"And since you're already in your uniform, I think it's safe to say you don't need to worry at all about rushing to find your sister and your belongings." The brownish haired boy stated, attempting to lighten the mood.

They seemed pretty set in this happening and there was no way she was going to refuse help from someone, Marauder or not.

"Agreed... Well, I suppose introductions are in order. I'm Remus Lupin, the one that looks like he's trying to charm the window is Sirius Black, that there is Peter Pettigrew, and you already know James Potter, especially if Lily is your sister." Remus said with a warm grin while James shuffled around in a bag of his own for a clean handkerchief and muttered a quick 'Aguamenti'.

The white handkerchief was suddenly soaked in cold water that her burning lip wonderfully appreciated as a dark, angry filled look returned to James eyes whilst he cleaned Emma's hurting lip as gently as he could. "They did do some damage. Remus come take a look at this. It's practically vicious." His voice sounded pain filled, like it was his own sister he was cleaning up.

Emma couldn't help but wonder if Lily had ever seen this side of him, if not, that would be the answer as to why they weren't together... Yet. However, upon hearing that her lip looked "vicious" Emma's eyes had widened with an unsettling feeling sinking deep in her gut. She didn't like the way it sounded at all.

Remus shuffled himself over to the two, looking for himself and nearly failing at withholding a dangerous growl that almost erupted from his chest. The cut was deep, nasty too. She got lucky finding them, otherwise it had likely been infected by morning or by the time they arrived at school without proper care. Not to mention that it was still trying to clot. It was red, angry and hot to the touch. Already swollen and puffed with a bit of dried blood, the rest in the mix of drying. These factors made the cut look much worse than it may have been. Either way, she had been attacked and no one had stepped in to stop this from happening, before it happened.

"Yes, I see why. It's deep, like someone got you with a ring I suppose. I got her James." Remus said looking a bit closer at her lip.

"Any closer Remus and you'll be kissing her." Sirius snickered. Peter and James giggling along with their friend while James handed both the cloth and the wounded girl over to Remus's care.

Rolling his eyes, Remus sighed as he looked back to her. "Now, do you remember who did this to you?" He questioned, hoping, for once in his life, to tear the person a part for this. Remus continued cleaning the wound and silently apologizing every now and again when she would wince while she was in thought.

Trying to remember the name that Narcissa had screamed when she had her head knocked half off the wall and seeing stars, Emma sighed with some little luck, until the memory hit her full force. A lightbulb going off in her mind. "I think the name was Avery? That's the only one I can remember a girl called Sissy said, besides the name Lucie, or something like that."

The boys would have laughed at her description of Lucius's name, one the seventh-year boy would have been burnt up about had he heard it, but this information suddenly made the boys stiffen.

From the tension in the room, Emma was sure she could cut with a butcher's knife if she ever got the chance.

Relaxing, Remus smiled. An idea as to how to change the topic, "What was your name again?" he asked, pulling her from her thoughts and hoping to direct the negative energy into a different direction.

She could finally see his eyes, noticing they were green. Realizing he had asked her name she snapped herself from her ogling. "Emma. Emma Rose Evans... Sorry, I'm used to having to give my full name. My parents wanted to name me Rose, but my middle and first name didn't flow together well with Rose Emma and they said they fell out of love with Aurelia, so Emma Rose it was." she said trying to smile, but winced, yet again as the pain from her lip began coming back full force.

After all the excitement of what had happened, then forgetting about it for a while to look for Lily, Emma had neglected to clean it before it had a chance to get infected. She could just hear Petunia's snarky remark, "Well, aren't you just a bright one?" Her heart broke instantly at knowing she had lost Petunia when she had gotten her letter. She could still remember the heated glare her older sister had given her when their mother came in smiling so wide. "I knew it, I knew you were like Lily. Look Emma, you've received a letter from Hogwarts!" and that was the end of the playful and loving big sister.

Truthfully, she thought Petunia was jealous of her and Lily. She didn't know why she would be though, to have a normal life, she'd be jealous of Petunia sometimes. But, then again, if she was in Petunia's place and both her sisters got to go off without her and do otherworldly things while she was left out, she'd be jealous too.

In truth, Lily and Emma both felt bad for their older sister. They both still loved Petunia dearly and missed the closeness they had all once had with Petunia. Pushing those thoughts aside with a silent sigh, Emma focused back on Remus. He was kind and gentle, but he too had a dark back story, but one that wasn't hers' to ask about, nor to find out. So, she abandoned the idea and let her curiosity itch itself out at the back of her mind and hoped it wouldn't cause a problem. "Emma's a nice name. You're a first year, yes?" Even though he knew the answer she still nodded. "Do you like books?"

At this, her smile widened, pain be damned, books made her smile. Her sisters' and mother used to read to her before bed every night until she turned eight years old, then it was her turn to read to herself. This had made her mother smile wide with happy tears, because their last little girl was growing up. However, Emma was still sneaky and would sneak into either Petunia's or Lily's room to sleep at night when she got scared. But, that had been almost four years ago

Remus's light laughter pulled her back from her memory lane and she couldn't help but smile back, again, even though she was only eleven, she knew a cute boy when she saw one. And Remus, like his friend Sirius, was cute, at least in her eyes he was. "I'll take that smile as a yes," Remus lightly laughed. He may have looked pale and sick, like he would have been cold and clammy, but it was the total opposite. Remus was warm to the touch, but still looked sick, which again brought about her deadly curiosity that a cat would not be jealous of.

Though, she thought it'd be a good idea to focus on a different subject, one that embarrassingly slipped from her lips the next second the thought hit her mind. "You're very good with people, Remus... I like you." Emma's forwardness didn't only shock the group but Emma herself. Watching his pale cheeks flush a light shade of pink, Emma couldn't help but blush herself, "Sorry," she muttered softly.

The boys laughed at this, making Emma blush a bit deeper at embarrassing them both.

Sirius was laughing so hard he was almost off his seat. "Don't be. Anyone who can make Moony blush is always welcomed around us." he cracked, laughing with everyone at Remus's expense. Eventually, Emma and Remus too joined with a small giggle session.

Emma had taken a closer look around at the boys, each one had caught her attention. Peter was sweet, and James was protective with a big goofy side to him, but it was Sirius's eyes and charm that she had to fight back her blushes. He was good, even without trying to be charming.

'Still need to watch him... And myself.'

However, Remus made short work of it and smiled kindly at her before calmly speaking to one of the others. "Peter, do you have any ointment?"

Peter nodded, still laughing as he looked around in his bag and handed off the ointment to Remus, "Shouldn't need much. Just a few dabs should do for now. When we get to Hogwarts, have your sister take you to Madam Pomfrey in the morning to get that looked at." Peter stated, ruffling her hair gently, this pulled a giggle from her and seemed to lighten the mood.

It was like that the rest of the way to Hogwarts, laughter and giggles, even speaking of the pranks and giving Emma advice. Laughing at one another while telling funny jokes and stories of pranks that went right, those that went wrong, or worse. Emma had even told them what had happened when her water bucket prank had gone so very wrong. The memory still made her want to cry.

By the time they had reached Hogwarts, Emma was seated between Remus and James, fast asleep against Remus, an arm of his draped around her protectively as they both slept silently and unbothered.

The three left awake couldn't refrain from the smile that graced their faces, not one of planning mischief, but one of pure joy.

Remus looked peaceful for once.

A sudden flash came from the corner of James and Sirius's eyes. Confused, they looked at one another then glanced between them to find a smiling Peter. He was holding a camera, smiling wide with a shrug. "I couldn't pass it up." Memories made and able to be captured in a photo.

'Remus will love this picture,' Peter thought, thoughtfully.

The boys smiled brighter and bigger at the two sleeping newly made friends.

"Come on, time to wake up the sleeping beauties." James lightly laughed at the thought of waking the two up then proceeded to shake Remus and Emma awake. "Wake up, we've arrived at school," Peter said, grinning with amusement at both their reactions.

Emma yawned and laid back down, curling up into a ball while Remus grinned, stood and stretched himself awake.

Sirius couldn't help but chuckle. Kneeling beside Emma, he shook her gently and whispered into her ear, something he didn't normally do, but it felt right nonetheless. "Come along Love. How about a back ride? Can't have you stumbling around, now can we?"

This got Emma moving with a blushing smile. "No, thank you. I'll wake up." She said yawning. Walking off the train with the boys and holding onto Sirius's cloak, his arm around her with a laughing smile.

James sighed as he looked around after stepping off the train for a specific someone.

Remus smirked at James's excitement to seeing Lily. This would be interesting indeed. "Now, to find your sister. Oh, there she is..." Remus said sarcastically. A silent laugh shook his shoulders at James heading into the Lion's den.

'Poor Prongs.'

Sighing with nervousness, "And it looks as though she's having a panic attack, how lovely." James looked at the short redheaded Evans next to Sirius, "Come on Emma, hopefully seeing you alive and well will calm her down." And with that, James swept her from Sirius.

Sirius had to fight back a small glare, this however, did not go unnoticed by a grinning Remus, doing rather well at hiding his silent laughter as the rest of them followed closely behind James towards a very panicked Lily Evans.

"Lily, just calm down, we'll find her alright? Oh, well. It looks like she's found us, look." the girl said, pointing behind Lily.

Looking in the direction her friend was pointing, Lily almost groaned since the first-person Lily saw was none other than the famous James Potter, 'Great-' gasping with worry upon seeing the wild red mess of hair Lily smiled with relief. "Emma!" Instantly forgetting James, Lily wrapped her arms around her little sister and looked her over and her fretting about Emma's busted lip began.

"She's alright, promise. Had a run in with Lucius and his crazy group and got a nice busted lip in the process, as you can clearly see. I got as much about the situation as I could from her. Unfortunately, no one was around to witness this. So, we only have Emma and the wound. I'll be reporting this back to Professor McGonagall once we get to Hogwarts since it was us that found her...Well, technically she found us." James said, stumbling over his words with a wide smile of excitement.

Not really shocked that James Potter was doing this for anyone, simply because it was something anyone, she knew in their right mind would, or at least should, do. But she was grateful none the less that he had looked after Emma where she couldn't, "Uhhh... Thanks, Potter." Glancing behind him, Lily nodded her head to the boys walking up behind James. "Boys. Emma, you need to go with the other first years and Hagrid, I'll see you in the Great Hall for your sorting, alright?" She said to her sister, not wishing to let Emma go, but reluctantly had to.

They could tell Lily was not wanting to let her little sister out of her sight, even after finding her with the wounded lip. Sadly, she had to force herself to let Emma go and they all watched the first-year nod tiredly, hugging her sister then went about hugging the Marauder boys and thanking them.

Sirius was the first to speak up. "Is she always that tired?"

Lily sighed and gave him a nod, "Yes, she's more likely had one interesting day. Thank you for caring for her. Really, it means a lot." She said, looked directly at James, an eyebrow raised as she found his wide and happy, grin, "Don't let it go to your head Potter. Enjoy your night, boys." And with that, Lily and her friends walked off to find a carriage.

"Well, I can't decide if that was a strike or a goal, either way let's go. I doubt we want to walk to school, I'm hungry." Remus and Peter laughed at Sirius as they found a carriage and left with James slightly pouting up at the sky wishfully.

An hour had gone by, the sorting ceremony was nearly done but Emma had yet to be called. This seemed to just put Lily in an even more fidgety mood.

Seeing this, Marlene giggled and placed a comforting hand to Lily's and gently squeezed, "Lily, it'll be fine. Emma will be fine."

"But what if -"

Instantly Marlene interrupted her friends' panic, "Lily Evans! Don't you dare question your sister. Emma is practically a miniature you, she'll be placed in Gryffindor. If you don't believe me, then believe in your sister."

Lily had to hand it to her, Marlene was good at making her feel better, especially when Lily worried unnecessarily, like she was now.

McGonagall's voice broke the girls back into reality, bringing them back from their conversation, "McKinnon, Gabrielle!"

A girl with dirty blonde hair and bright blue eyes bounced up confidently to the stool and placed the hat on her head. The Hall was quiet for several moments, until, "GRYFFINDOR!" was shouted into the Hall, cheers from the Gryffindor table erupted with many to all students clapping and screaming with pride as the girl skipped down the aisles and into Marlene's open arms.

"I'm so proud of you Gabby, your father will be so excited!" Marlene cheered to the now blushing new Gryffindor and moved over to let her sit next to her and Lily, who smiled and hugged the young girl saying, "Welcome to Gryffindor, Gabby."

Now, all they had to do was hold their breaths for Emma.

"Evans, Emma!" McGonagall's voice called, and there, walking up to the stool, was the red haired, emerald eyed, Emma Evans.

Sitting on the stool, she took a breath and placed the hat atop her head and watched the Hall disappear under the hat's rims, and they both began their own thoughts.

'How does this work again...Please be Gryffindor?'

"Gryffindor, eh? I wonder why?" Asked the hat, a bit of a chuckle left him.

'Wait? Can you read my mind!? How embarrassing!' This only seemed to make the Hat laugh as he continued searching. "Loyal, like a Hufflepuff, however, your heart cries differently, a heart of a Lioness, quick on your feet and a joy for fun. A fighter and smarts I can see. Kindness is key, you are right. Great potential too I can see..." He was silent after making her blush like a red apple that was, but it was his silence that was unnerving her, until he shouted out loudly, "GRYFFINDOR!"

Cheers and shouts roared up, everyone holding their breaths let it go with relief, and unbeknownst to Emma and Lily, the Marauders were a few of the ones cheering the loudest over the roar of the House, smiling with great relief.

"Did you ever doubt her?" Remus asked, leaning over to one of his pals, a wide grin on their faces as he saw how Sirius's face was lit with joy, excitement and pride but he could see hidden behind everything was relief.

"No, but sometimes the sorting hat makes mistakes." Sirius clarified.

Emma jumped off the stole with excitement, taking the Hat off, she sat him back on the stool and was the first one in many years to smile warmly at him and say, "Thank you," which did not go unnoticed by any of the staff nor half the students who were still watching her rushing down the hall to her sister's open arms. "Lily!"

Catching Emma in her arms Lily spun her around and kissed the top of her head several times. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Emma giggled as Lily practically chanted the words.

Fifteen more minutes of sorting and they were finished and ate their dinner. Dumbledore gave his usual speech, then finally releasing the students to their common rooms. Emma was speaking with Gabrielle McKinnon on their way to the common room. She found she liked Gabrielle, she also happened to be Marlene's cousin.

"Any idea what will happen this year?" Gabrielle asked with excitement, though it was honestly making Emma drowsier as they went on about their walk but having a friend like Gabrielle would be wonderful.

She was someone who was full of fun, enthusiastic and very outgoing.

'Who's to say I'll have a boring time here anyways? Make the right friends and anything can become wonderful!' According to what Lily had always told her.

Emma smiled as she looked along the walls at the paintings and watched the stairs move below and above them, not to mention she was silently praying the stairs they were on now did not move on them, she was clumsy enough as it was.

"I don't know, we'll just have to wait and find- Ah!" It was a gentle scream, one of shock, not fear, as Emma was lifted off her feet and swept away from a gasping Gabrielle who had ran after her new friend through the portal of their common room and watched as Sirius danced with a laughing Emma while he shouted in a singing voice, "Welcome to Gryffindor!" multiple times causing everyone to laugh and clap at the display of fun.

Sirius danced around with her, set her on her feet, grabbed her hands and began spinning then finally picked her back up again then passed her off to James, Remus then Peter who all did the same, until finally, and shockingly, Sirius Black kissed her knuckles.

Emma was so suddenly swept away by James, lifting the out of breath eleven-year-old up and sitting her next to her laughing sister on the sofa before the fireplace.

"Glad you've joined us. Now, I think it's late enough. However, Padfoot! Moony! Wormtail! First night back to Hogwarts, what time is it boys!" James called with fun and excitement.

Lily and the other girls groaned and rolled their eyes, a half grin and half annoyed look on their faces as they sighed. Lily was the only one that spoke her thoughts, "Oh no, not again. I thought you would have learned from -"

"MISCHIEF TIME IS BACK IN PLAY!" all four shouted together and began laughing even harder as the rest of the remaining people in the room joined in.

While Lily was left to state, to herself mostly, "Never mind."

"Do I want to ask, Lily?" Emma giggled to her sister, obviously curious but at her sister's shaking head she dropped it.

'I'll ask the boys later.'

The girls and Lily moved from the sofa and stretched their tired limbs while some stifled back yawns. "Time for bed Emma, it's late." Lily said, stifling back yet another yawn. Knowing it was useless to try staying up longer, Emma nodded and moved along to follow her sister. She liked following her sister around, eventually it would annoy the older girl halfway out of her mind, "Alright... Oh, I'll meet you up there, promise... I forgot something."

"Alright, see you in the morning." Lily lazily called back, barely paying attention. They were safely in Hogwarts, in the same house where Lily knew her little sister would be safe. Even against her better judgment she was shocked to find she was comfortable with leaving Emma with the very boys she'd told her to steer clear of.

Emma waited until the older girls were closing the dorm door and rushed to Sirius, motioned for him to lean down a bit, and in doing so she whispered something into his ear that made him grin wickedly. "You're a genius Foxy, now off to bed like your sister said."

Smiling wide with a slight blush on her cheeks she thought curiously about the nickname, it had definitely gotten her attention. "Where'd you get 'Foxy' from?" she asked curiously.

Sirius grinned, ruffling her hair. "My little secret gorgeous. Now, hurry up to your sister before she has my head for keeping you."

The boys grinned wide and knowingly at him as they all watched Emma rush up to go to bed. Mostly to tease him at how close he and Remus had both grown fond of the young Evans. "What?" Sirius was indeed curious as to why they kept giving him that look, even Remus, but James was continuing to give him the "I see your future and it's adorable" look was becoming a bit suspicious.

It was James that spoke up, "I think you're in love, Pads," he said with a playful grin until they'd broken into a fit of laughter together.

Knowing how to get back at them, he played his own little joke. He started with a dreamlike sigh, "Prongs, I hate to break it to you... But I think you're right." This succeeded in silencing the group's laughter immediately as they looked at him in shock, hoping this was one of his pranks.

"Sirius... She's a first year!" Peter all but sputtered in utter shock, obviously the first to think this was more likely not a joke.

Clearly unbothered by this, and why should he have been? Logically, they were all only three to five years apart from her. However, school grade wise and how young she was, the idea was a very bad idea, but they didn't need to know that, yet. "And we are... Four, maybe five, years older than her. Yes, I know... But you see, it got you lot to quit the belly rolls." It was Sirius's turn to burst into his own rolls of laughter.

The three boys sighed in relief at this, they'd let him have this laugh. "By the way. What did she say?" Remus asked curiously.

Sirius's grin grew wicked once again at the ideas, but they'd have to wait.

"You'll see in the morning. Now, I have some work to do." and with that Sirius Black was gone and hadn't returned until nearly 2 a.m. Falling asleep with a wicked grin as he thought of how pissed Avery and the rest of that rotten group would react when they woke up.

''They favor their hair, if you get them with a charm while they sleep, it'll do their ego some damage for the beginning of the year.'' Emma had told Sirius before she ran off to bed.

To be honest, he and the others hadn't ever thought of that with getting at the few rotten Slytherins' in said house. But, for everything they had done, Sirius was most furious when he had heard it was Avery that had caused Emma's busted lip.

Morning – first day of classes -

"Emma! wake up, we'll be late for breakfast!" Gabby sang loudly. Shockingly, Gabby was far from being off key as she jumped on Emma's bed, pulling the covers from her new sleeping friend.

In truth, Gabrielle McKinnon, had a very lovely voice, even at the young age of eleven years old. But Emma had an agenda today, eat breakfast, see Madam Pomfrey and classes.

'Yippy,'

"I'm up. I'm up." Emma yawned, stretching herself out a bit she got dressed for the day and started for the Great Hall for Breakfast. Upon entering the Hall for Breakfast Emma and the other's she'd walked down to breakfast with, she saw the gang of boys from Slytherin covering their heads with their cloak hoods. It took a lot for Emma not to laugh. Honestly, she didn't think Sirius would do it, but the suggestion couldn't have hurt, especially after her and the Marauders conversation about getting back at the group that chased her and other cruel things to others over the past years.

Emma and Gabby ate, Lily then excused them both and walked her to Hospital wing, getting some ointment put on her cut and a small jar of ointment for the rest of the week, which Emma gladly took, said her thanks and wandered off to class. Rejoining Gabby for the rest of the day while learning their class routes and schedules.

It wasn't until after classes were finished on the fourth day that she was told to join Professor McGonagall in her office, which made her nervous. She was very grateful Gabby had come with her, with classes done for the day she gladly went with her new friend for support. It wasn't until they entered McGonagall's office that Emma really started to relax a bit after seeing the four Marauders and a few Professors. But her anxiety quickly returned. "Is everything alright, Professor?" Emma asked timidly.

Gabby, sensing her friends rattling nerves seconds after she had finally calmed down, grabbed a hold of Emma's hand, a kind gesture Emma, again, greatly appreciated.

"It has come to my attention that a few days ago, on the train here, Mr. Avery attacked you and is the reason you have that wound upon your lip, Miss. Evans." This was not a question, not even an interrogation, that was a simple, clean cut, statement.

'Well, she certainly gets to the point.'

"Uhhh, yes, Professor. Unfortunately, I have no witnesses except for my lip and the trauma I was left with." Emma tried to sound confident, but it seemed to be failing her. Her eyes found Sirius doing a motion for her off to the side of the Professors with his hands and silent breathing in. This brought a smile to Emma's face. He was trying to help her realize all she needed to do was breathe in deeply ever once in a while to calm her nerves.

"It has also come to my attention, Miss Evans, that these boys found you and then proceeded to Hex, not only Mr. Avery, but a few other students that very night! Including Slytherin's Head Boy."

Emma's eyes shot wide with shock. 'Oh crap... Think fast Emma!'

"No ma'am... I talked about pranking the boys responsible, but they discouraged me. If those boys were pranked, then I'd assume it was someone from their own house. James, Remus, Peter and Sirius were all in the Gryffindor common room all night, and went to their dorm room right before myself and Gabrielle." Emma said as calmly and confidently as she could.

She just lied to a Professor!

McGonagall was quiet for several minutes, until finally making her decision. "Very well, Miss. Evans. You all may go." With that, the students left her office leaving her and the rest of the Professors to talk.

The boys laughed as they walked down the halls. But the two first years were trying not to shake in their shoes.

"Relax," James laughed, "I reported the incident straight to McGonagall when we got here the night we arrived, the next day she found said accused group with a color charm on their heads," Laughed James, "Courtesy of Padfoot." He snickered rather loudly, which nearly gave Emma and Gabby a heart attack as they looked around for any of the Professors that had been present for that conversation, while Emma failed at trying to shush the laughing boys.

"Shhh! James, are you trying to get Sirius a detention?" Emma shushed him in a panic.

The Marauders found this adorable.

Sirius grinned and ruffled Emma's hair with his signature wink at her, "Nothin' I'm not used to Love." That succeeded in bringing a blush to the young Evans cheeks, only making their laughter louder and her more embarrassed.

'Chill it Missy, he's a fourth year, you're a first year. He's a Marauder, not to mention his best pal is trying to hook up with your sister, and sadly failing...'

A thought suddenly struck her, and a wicked grin spread across her face, "Hey Jamie? Still wanna date with my Sis?"

James instantly froze mid-walk and turned a wolfish grin to young Evans, "What do you have in mind, Foxy?"

Gabby giggled and poked Emma's head playfully, "Bad idea 'Foxy', Lily would murder you if she found out." Gabby teased her. The boys seemed to like calling Emma that, and Gabby found it kind of cute but also a bit weird.

"I know, but that's what makes this fun. Come on Gabs! You've heard what Marlene and the other's laugh about, every time she rants about 'The Marauders', it's mostly James she screams about... Come on, it's not like this'll happen overnight, I know that much. It's going to take time, planning and some big fun... However, I know my sister, and I for one, like the idea of her with James." Emma admitted.

Gabby couldn't contain her laughter. It was like Emma had completely forgot they were standing right there grinning mischievously at her and what she was saying. Unable to hold back, Gabby had to know if she just simply ignored the fourth-year boys or literally forgot they were standing not three feet from them. "Emma? They're still here..." Gabby laughed, pointing at a grinning James.

"She really does that?" He couldn't help it, his heart was nearly jumping in his throat with excitement.

Emma bit back as much of her laugh as she could, James looked like a kid ready to jump on a candy train, "You should hear her on a good day. It's hilarious." She said with a giggle.

But Sirius had wiped the laugh from Emma's face quickly. "I told you I was in love Prongs."

Emma stared at the boy in shock.

'He's joking, right?' she thought, unable to continue her sputtered giggles after he'd said what he said. "Wait, what was that?"

Sirius simply winked at her and shrugged, "Nothin'" and the boys walked away laughing, leaving the two girls standing there in shock. "You heard that too? Right, Gabby?" She received no response. Looking at her friend next to her, she found Gabby was mentally M.I.A.

Emma guessed she wasn't hearing things after all, she only hoped he was joking. If not, Emma Evans was in big trouble.

I know, a 'nice Bellatrix?' is a bit of a shocker, but even the cruelest of people once had a soft spot, hints the word, "Once,".

Quick note, I found dates, ones that I am not so sure of, but it took me a bit to find these. Honestly, I had to really look for this information, so, technically, I SHOULD go back and take both Malfoy and Bellatrix out of the category... Especially, since she was born in 1951 and Malfoy born in 54. Oups, you'll have to forgive me. Please? However, I personally love this format so, I apologize for the mix up on some dates I did not know, but unfortunately, or fortunately, I'm keeping Bella and Lucius, for just a while longer. Same year, 7th, their last, even though it's not right. Then time can go on as it should :)

Approximately 1954- Lucius Malfoy is born

Approximately 1959/1960- James, Lily, Remus, Sirius, Peter, and Severus are born (Severus Snape born January 9th, 1959)

Approximately 1965- Lucius Malfoy starts his first year at Hogwarts, sorted into Slytherin

Approximately 1970- Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter begin Hogwarts. Lucius Malfoy is in seventh year Slytherin.

(Thanks for the heads up. Honestly, I had to really look for anything like this, sadly. So, technically, I SHOULD go back and take both Malfoy and Bellatrix out of the category... Especally, since she was born in 1951 and Malfoy born in 54, oups, you'll have to forgive me, please? However, I personally love this format, and so do many other reviewers. So, I apologize for the mix up on some dates I did not know, but unfortunately, or fortunately, I'm keeping Bella and Lucius, for just a while longer. Same year, 7th, their last, even though it's not right. Then time can go on as it should :))

I hope you enjoyed! I know I am! I am loving the wonderful reviews I am getting, thank you so much. One chapter, now two, and that many reviews? You all are AMAZING! And yes, I know, A 'nice Bellatrix?' is a bit of a shocker, but even the cruelest of people once had a soft spot. Hints the word, "Once,".