Um... I didn't really receive a lot of response for the last chapter. That's why I won't be posting the two chapters together. Did I do something wrong? Negative response is still response, while complete ignoration is just disheartening. Please tell me what I did wrong, and why you did not like the last chapter.

This one is going to be a transition chapter. The kind of chapter that has all the useless information, but you can't really remove it from the list.

I really don't own Harry Potter. I doubt I have the intellectual capability to do that.

Disappearing Within

June felt awful.

Sirius hadn't spoken to her for a few days now, and Lily was too busy to spend time with her. June spent days on end on her little terrace, doing massive batches of homework and at the same time making a million squiggly notes in different notebooks. Her research for the various behavioural aspects of people wasn't going really well and her constant headache wasn't helping anything.

She slipped into the library and saw Lily and the marauders sitting and discussing something.

"-Need another identification spell, it's simply not possible without it!" Lily said, and June watched from behind bookshelves.

"Evans, that's all fine -" James said in a hushed voice. Luckily for June she had perfected her auditory senses during her second grade. "But how on earth do you propose to get another spell?" James finished.

"We hide at the entrance and listen." Lily said.

Sirius took his feet off the table. "I agree with Evans." He said, getting up. He glanced around once, and began "We -" but stopped immediately, as he noticed June hiding behind the bookshelves. Her yellow eyes could not be mistaken for anyone else - they were completely and utterly different.

Everyone looked towards where Sirius was looking and June ducked uncomfortably. "What is it?" asked Remus impatiently.

"Nothing." Sirius said shortly, and continued to stare at the corner. "Ever noticed Leto's eyes, Evans?" Sirius addressed Lily quite suddenly.

"I... Not really." Lily said, shifting uncomfortably.

"Do give them a look, Evans. She becomes quiet unforgettable once you've seen them." Sirius said, giving a pointed look at where June's eyes had been a second ago.

June blushed red, disappeared from the library, and rushed to the terrace.

Had they really thought June wasn't watching them? June had been noticing everything. She understood they were planning something, she understood it was a break in of sorts, she understood they had a plan, she understood that they were doing it on Halloween.

She waited for a few minutes, before Sirius burst into the terrace, and June backed instinctively to the railings. Sirius looked freakishly angry, and horribly out of place. He paced around for sometime before fixing her with a stare.

"What were you doing there Leto?" he asked in a deceptively calm voice.

"I-I-I..." June began, her stammer worsening with every word.

"Stop that!" Sirius yelled, his voice echoing off the mountains.

June swallowed. "I-I did-didn't mea-mean to..."

"You just had a wonderful idea concerning eavesdropping?" Sirius asked scathingly.

June's eyes fell, and her eyes stung.

"Don't act like that!" Sirius said angrily.

"Wha-what do yo-you mea-mean?" asked June sadly.

"All the 'I'm so terrified' thing. Don't. It won't work."

"Y-you thi-think it's an ac-act?" asked June angrily.

"There isn't any possible explanation as to why you are so scared of everything Leto. I am forced to conclude that you don't have a backbone and that it's an act."

"Peo-people ha-have more per-personality tha-than you se-see, Sir-Sirius Black." June said softly.

"Don't give me that rubbish." Sirius said coldly. "Shut up, and do something for yourself, Leto - doesn't hurt anyone."

June shut her eyes. She walked out of the terrace, her skirt rippling at her knees. She stepped inside and slid down the wall, and broke into tears properly. She didn't know why she was crying exactly. People had often said mean things to her. Sirius Black had done something different. He had used the cold truth against her.

Sirius waited on the terrace for a second before her left. Serves her right, he thought vehemently as he saw her crying. Silly little eavesdropper. Someone had to point the truth out to her properly. She was crying too! The nerve! A completely normal girl who seemed to burst into tears at the drop of a hat! Hah!

Then why did everything feel so wrong?

And June didn't know what felt worse - the feeling of helplessness, or the fact that she felt him walk away without sparing her a glance.

Sirius felt awful.

He felt awful because he broke her so bad. He had seen her crying, and had simply walked out of there, as if he didn't have a care in the world. There were many wrong things with June Leto, but they didn't match up to the wrong in him.

But when he asked himself about the overall good, and he thought that his little speech might do her good. She may be able to break out of the little shell she had created.

It was doubtful.

"Remus... do you think there's something wrong with Padfoot?" asked James slowly.

Remus Lupin and James Potter were sitting in the sunlight outside, under the lemon tree by the black lake.

"Why do you ask?" Remus asked.

"He's been acting weird lately." James said, playing with a sprig of grass.

"What do you mean?" Remus asked, lying back on the grass, his eyes shut tight, soaking in the sun.

"He... He's been talking in his sleep. He keeps saying stuff. 'Yellow.' He says that a lot."

"That could mean anything, Prongs."

"But he says other stuff as well... he once yelled, 'who is she?' And on another time he said gently, 'Why're you afraid?'"

"I don't know James." Remus said, "Ask him."

"I'm not sure if he'll answer."

"Ask him anyway."

James gave it a bit of thought.

"Alright."

"Moony , do you think Lily is my friend?" James asked.

"Merlin, James I didn't expect you to be on talking terms, let alone be friends."

"Such little faith by my own friends."

"She hexed you enough times to kill any faith I had during my first year." Remus said.

James made a face.

"Moony, you really must stop ruining it," came the drawling voice of Sirius Black.

"Ruining what?" asked Remus.

"The dynamic! You must never destroy the dynamic!" Sirius exclaimed.

"I don't understand half of what you say Padfoot," Remus said, rubbing his eyes.

"Ah, the tragedy of a misunderstood genius," Sirius said dramatically.

"Hardly," coughed James.

"James, you should ask Lily is she is your friend, Sirius don't do whatever you're doing." Remus said annoyed, "Now keep quiet. A werewolf must get his beauty sleep." Remus said.

"I didn't know you had a wolf girlfriend to please." James sniggered.

"That's because I won't let her meet you. Poor thing might die of shock," Remus said dryly.

"Whatever you say, Remus."

"Anyway," Remus said, getting up and shaking the grass off him. "I have to meet Marlene."

"So you do have a girlfriend!" James said, tauntingly.

To James' and Sirius' intense surprise, Remus went red.

"It's not like that," he said sheepishly, "I help her in herbology."

"Sure, Remus," Sirius said with a grin. "Go and 'help' her."

Remus walked off meekly. Sirius and James shared one look of intense surprise before bursting into peels of uncontrolled laughter.

"Who would have thought that would happen?" asked Sirius, doubled over on the grass.

"And all those times you snogged McKinnon!" James exclaimed, "Dear me, dear me... what a funny world we live in."

"Well, me and McKinnon never really liked each other," Sirius said reasonably, "We were merely curious about the other sex's anatomy."

"I really wonder what you would do when you meet a girl you like, Padfoot." James said, wiping his eyes.

"I would do the same thing my Uncle Alphard would do," Sirius said with a shrug.

"And what's that?" James asked, twiddling with some stems of grass.

"My great Uncle Alphard said to me, 'Son, if you ever actually like a girl, make a toast to her.' And the toast was 'Here's to looking at you, kid,'"

"What does that mean?"

"It's from a movie, casablanca." Sirius explained.

"What's a movie?" James asked.

Sirius laughed, "My uncle had an answer to that as well. 'Walburga is going to hate me for this, but to find out the answer to that question, you will have to take muggle studies,'" Sirius fell into another fit of laughter. "I forgot you didn't take muggle studies," he chuckled, "Why don't you ask Evans? She'll know."

Dumbledore was twiddling his thumbs in the teacher's archives.

Every time he was in this room he thanked his lucky stars he had not let Tom Riddle take the post as a defence against the dark arts teacher. Not only would he be in power and would be able to exploit everything in Hogwarts at will, he would also have control of this room, with its many secrets.

Dumbledore had seen thousands of students under his tutelage but none had surprised him as much as Tom Riddle, and June Leto.

The girl had prospered after he had gently pushed her towards (forced) a friendship with the marauders. It had been nice to see her talk for the first time, and equally pleasing to know that she had visited Lily Evans when she was sick.

Dumbledore wondered if the marauders and Lily Evans would actually manage to break into the teacher's archives. He had no idea why they were doing it, but he wanted to see if they could. Dumbledore wasn't going to make it any easier for them though. It was important to see if they could pull it off with all the adversities.

He had specifically asked Professor McGonagal to not give the marauders detention on Halloween day. If they couldn't do it on Halloween they would have to make do with Christmas, and that would mean twice the challenge.

And what was better Halloween entertainment than the students themselves?

After days of horror, June had felt a hot rage.

Sirius had constantly taunted her through the classes, making pointed remarks of people who didn't deserve to be in Gryffindor, and those who were actually stupid enough that they didn't talk. He had made her go into tears multiple times, and had made people laugh at her. He had been downright awful.

The day before Halloween, June stood at the top of her terrace, wind blowing gently across her face.

She shook her sleeve back and pulled up her arm in front of her face.

The scars were cold on her skin, as if they belonged to someone else. It was silly that they were there anyway, but so they were. June could only take refuge in the fact that she hadn't put most of them where they were right now. A bubbling rage evolved into a small volcano that simply questioned exactly why she was going through this. Why should she be the one who had those horrible scars?

She hated Sirius Black for pointing out truths that she had buried long ago.

She hated him because he had no right to say anything like that.

She hated him because he had been the only one to get to her after so long.

Well. To hell with him. She knew they were planning something for tomorrow. She could do her own bit and help them. She could provide distraction so that they didn't get caught. She could play a prank and not get caught.

He had told her to do something for herself hadn't he? She might as well take his advice.

Don't guess yet, it's a pretty big something you will have to guess.

I hope I'm making myself explicitly clear when I say this is not a comedy. People expect it to be since it concerns marauders. It's not a drama. It's not a mystery. It's a mix of everything.

And also, cheers to everyone who got the movie reference!

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