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Mid-November

12 pm

Messalina hummed the tune of some song she hadn't heard in months, having forgotten most of the words as she walked down the corridor to the kitchen. Fabian and Gideon were off somewhere, Lina hadn't seen them since she had woken up.

As she turned a corner, the brunette ran into Lily Evans. "Oh sorry Lily. Lily?"

The nearly always smiling Gryffindor was almost sobbing and Lina grabbed her shoulders before the redhead could get away. "Who did this to you?" Lina's voice had turned steely and it surprised even herself. In the distance someone was screaming 'Lily' and Messalina called back, quick footsteps coming towards her.

"Lily who did this to you?" Messalina asked again as Alice Fortescue and Frank Longbottom came running down the corridor.

"Oh thank Merlin, Lily." Alice cried, briefly hugging the crying girl before starting to walk down the hallway.

"What happened?" Lina asked Frank tapping her foot.

"You didn't see?" Frank asked, the sixth year pulling Messalina aside and lowering his voice.

"I overslept and was going to the kitchens," Lina explained impatiently looking around. "What happened?"

"Snape called her, a you-know." Frank whispered looking back the way they had come.

"Where is he?" Lina growled, standing up straighter.

"By the Black Lake, James was beating him up when we left to find Lily. It was pretty bad, they were taunting him before, Snape I mean." Despite everything it only made Lily cry harder and Alice began to walk her down the hall. "See you Lucien."

"Bye Frank."

"Lina make them stop it!" Lily cried out as Frank caught up to the pair.

Once she turned the corner, the brunette began to run, her mind racing along with her legs. She and Lily weren't exactly the best of friends, but seeing the red head sobbing was enough to make her blood boil. Lily would never hurt anyone except maybe James, even though Snivellus had said that to her she still didn't want him to get beat up. Somewhere inside of her Messalina knew that she should probably be comforting Lily instead of running to stop whatever was happening but she knew she would never be that kind of person, she had never really comforted anyone before.

It took less than two minutes to run all the way to the Black Lake where a big group of people were still gathered and cheering loudly. For once in her life Messalina was grateful that Bentley Wood had made them to so many running drills the previous year in Quidditch and that Fabian and Gideon always stolen her things, forcing her chase after them.

Shoving her way through the crowd of Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs to the center, Messalina saw James Potter bent over Severus Snape punching him. James' glasses were askew and Snape's nose was badly bleeding into the grass. A book lay beside the tree, half open the wind blowing through it's pages. "JAMES!"

It was as if nothing had changed apart from everyone turning to look at her. Remus and Peter each looked terrified and Sirius looked bloodthirsty. "JAMES!" She shrieked again but when nothing happened she marched forward and shoved James off of the Slytherin. In a red haze James grabbed Messalina and shoved her backwards as hard as he could, making her hit her head on the tree hard. Sitting up, she groaned and drew out her wand, murmuring petrificus totalus in the calmest voice she could manage before falling backwards, her head hitting the tree again.

This spurred Remus from his shocked state and he ran forward and yelled for Peter to 'get his arse over here and help' at about the same time that Fabian and Gideon Prewett appeared. All they saw was Remus beside Messalina yelling for someone. Fabian whipped out his wand his face contorted in anger but his twin put his hand in front of him.

"Not here, we've gotta help Lina first." Fabian easily picked the brunette up, the crowd silent and the frozen body of James watched horrified as the unconscious girl was carried away. Severus moaned a few times and picked himself up, crawling away from the blood stained grass. Blood was all over his pale face and no one moved, just staring at the aftermath as McGonagall arrived with a fidgety first year Hufflepuff beside her and Madame Pomfrey in the background talking to the twins.

"Get out of here! All of you, but you five!" McGonagall snapped and most ran but the Marauders came slinking back. "Mr. Black, you and Mr. Lupin-"

"Snape?" Lucius Malfoy's silky voice rang over the immediate area as he and his gang appeared in front of them.

"There you are Mr. Malfoy, take Mr. Snape to the hospital wing now." She murmured the counter-curse and James Potter sat up moaning. There was blood all over his fist and McGonagall glared at him. "My office, now."

When Messalina woke up it was dark in the hospital wing. The twins were laid out across the beds to either side of her, both snoring but Fabian's was far louder than his twin's and it made her smile as she rolled over. Her head ached and on the bedside table there were numerous potions of a variety of colors, from dark green to a putrid yellow. Groaning, Messalina rolled over and fell back asleep.

The Marauders each laid in bed, thinking over the day's events. James felt terribly guilty, he had gotten Messalina put in the hospital wing for Merlin's sakes and Lily and her friends hadn't come down from their room since the fight. Sirius and Peter were upset that they had gotten even more detentions, they had enough to get them through to February and that was if they didn't get into any more trouble which was nearly impossible.

But of all of them Remus felt perhaps the worse. He had watched it all happen and had done nothing. Nothing, he never did anything! And because of this Messalina had gotten hurt, she had been knocked out, nothing bad, not yet at least but he didn't want anything to happen to her whatsoever. He rolled over a few more times before he realized sleep was going to be impossible and threw his covers off of him. He climbed out of bed and went to leave when he heard James' voice through the darkness.

"What makes you think they won't kill you if you show up there?" Remus stopped mid step and retreated back to his bed. He didn't fancy getting attacked by the Prewett twins who would probably never let her talk to them again. He went back to his bed and kept staring at the top of his bed, turning over a few more times.

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