April 29, 1978

"Lils, we have to plan Hogsmeade. Are your abandoning us like Alice, or are you going to stick with your friends who have stood by you for years?" Marlene fluttered her eyelashes as she said this.

"Relax Marlene, I'll come with you. But you know James, he'll probably find us later along anyway. And since he and his pack never go anywhere without the others they will probably come along as well." Lily said casually buttering her toast as Marlene glared at where Alice and Frank were sitting.

"Fine invite the marauders, what the hell sort of name is that anyway?" Marlene asked.

"Are you insulting the fine name of the marauders, Mckinnon?" James said sitting down next Lily and reaching for some sausages.

"Better not be." Sirius said sitting next to Marlene. Remus sat next to Dorcas, looking like he'd rather switch with Marlene, while Peter sat next to James.

"No, I was just wondering how you lot came up with it."

"Yeah I'd like to know as well." Mary voiced from next to Lily.

"Moony's idea, he likes words." Sirius said.

"Came to me in a dream." James said.

"Dictionary fell on Sirius." Remus said.

"We were drunk on Firewhiskey." Peter said.

They all looked at each other and started laughing.

"Aka they won't tell." Lily translated for her friends.

"Figures. Bet Mcgonagall called them that and then they couldn't think of something better and it stuck." Dorcas said. The marauders blushed.

"Anyway you were talking about hogsmeade." Sirius said.

"Yeah want to come with us?" Mary asked. She looked at Remus, but he was busy looking at Sirius.

Lily looked at James to see if he had noticed. Sure enough he was laughing inwardly and looking back and forth between those hopeless teenagers. When would they learn anything.

"Remus, you should take Mary." James said, nearly cackling.

Sirius whipped around at him and looked murderous. Remus blushed and looked at Sirius. Mary blushed and looked at Remus. Lily tried to hold in her laughter best she could.

"Let's just go as a group." Marlene said after several minutes of uncomfortable staring and silence.

"Great idea, Marls!" Lily said clutching her side.

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After they had all finished an uncomfortable breakfast the group made their way out of the castle along with everyone else above second year.

"Poor little first and second years don't get to go to Hogsmeade, stuck in the castle all the time." Sirius said watching them all go away from the entrance hall.

"You were a first year once you know." Remus said, glancing at Sirius.

"Yeah but I was so much cooler than they are."

"That's fair."

They continued on to the town where they paused. It was a cloudy day and the sky threatened to rain.

"Oh, I need another quill!" Lily said rushing to the Scrivenshaft's door. The rest of the group followed her in grumbling. Lily bent down in front of a row of shelves with baskets of various types of quills inside.

"Hmm…" Lily scanned over them all picking up various quills and examining them.

"Merlin Lily, how long do you take to pick a quill?" Sirius called sighing.

"Shut up, Black." Lily said standing with a quill in hand.

As Lily was paying Mr. Scrivenshaft, strange noises entered the shop that made everyone look outside. The sky had turned pitch black and an odd, eerie green light was visible from the town square.

"What's that?" Mary said quietly.

Lily shivered. She looked around at her scared friends' faces and set her jaw.

"Thank you Mr. Scrivenshaft." Lily said and marched out of the shop, the bell jingling in the door as she left.

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Lily pulled out her wand and hid behind the wall of the Three Broomsticks which shielded her from being seen from the square, but she could still see the hooded and masked figures in the square.

"What did you say mudblood?" A high cold voice called to a huddled form on the ground which shivered and shook.

"Please." A tiny timid voice said from the ground, so quietly Lily could barely hear it.

A warm hand pressed into her back and Lily whipped around to see James. "Lily, what are your doing?" He whispered.

"James, where's everyone else?"

"I sent them into the Three Broomsticks. What's going on?"

"Crucio!" The cold voice called out. Instantly the body on the ground convulsed and a heart wrenching scream tore from inside it.

"Merlin." Lily breathed. Without realizing what she was doing Lily was up from behind the wall, shaking off James hand and marching into the square.

"Protego!" She fired the spell between the body and the surrounding figures.

The masked faces turned to her in shock. She walked quickly to the body and turned its head so she could see his face. It didn't help, she didn't recognize him, but she noticed his yellow and black tie so she knew he was a Hogwarts student.

Before she could stand an ethereal hand grasped her throat and lifted her off the ground so she was facing a man who may have once been good looking. Now though, he had scars all over his hands and face. His skin was milky and his eyes popped out strangely.

"You must be Miss Lily Evans." The man said and Lily recognized the high cold voice as the same that had tortured the Hogwarts boy.

"Yes, I have heard about your potions skills." He paused to examine her face. "I could ignore your blood if you could make proper potions." Lily felt like she was choking and didn't know how she was being held off her feet without anything touching her. "So Miss Evans, would you like to join me and my death eaters, I could offer you protection, safety and power. What will it be?"

Lily recognized "death eaters" and realized he must be Voldemort. She couldn't believe this repulsive and evil man had asked her to join his ranks. She couldn't speak because of the choke hold around her neck. So instead she spat at him.

There was a collective gasp behind her as Voldemort slowly raised a hand and wiped the spit off his face.

The invisible hand around her neck let her go and she crumpled to the ground choking and rubbing her neck. She stood quickly and raised her wand.

"Crucio!" The spell hit her back and Lily fell once again and writhed in agony. She heard James rush out grab onto both her and the hogwarts boy and with a loud crack the town square vanished and they were in a dark storage room somewhere.

Lily sat up slowly gripping her sides. "Hey, are you okay kid?" she said to the other boy, who was staring unblinking at the ceiling tears rolling down his cheeks silently. At her words though he sat up and nodded slowly and wiped his eyes.

"Okay, good. James, where are we?" James had been pacing around running his hand through his hair nervously, but now he stopped and sat next to her.

"We're under Honeydukes, there's a latch somewhere that leads to Hogwarts. I'm sorry I couldn't think where else." He put his face in his hands and rubbed his face before standing and pacing again.

"It's okay James, let's get…"

"David."

"Let's get David back to safety and then we'll get Dumbledore and tell him what's happened." Lily stood slowly still clutching her ribs. When she started to move James rushed over and helped her up, but she waved him off.

James lifted a hatch on the floor that Lily hadn't seen and motioned them inside.

A/N: Part 2 next week!