Adaline, Alice and Lily were making their way towards the Quidditch Pitch, moving slightly faster than necessary-as they were running late. It was Quidditch tryouts today, and they had promised Gemma and Adrian that they would be there to show their support (and laugh at the poor people who come just to be close to 'the hot Quidditch guys'). They all knew that their friends would make the team, they had all been on the team for a few years now, but the girls liked showing them their support, and they knew it meant a lot having the other girls there.

They arrived to the pitch (embarrassed that they were all slightly panting from their speed walk) and when they spotted Remus and Peter they made their way over towards them. Lily took the empty seat next to Remus, with Alice sitting next to her. That left the open seat next to Peter for Adaline. She took it, blatantly ignoring Alice and Lily winking at her obnoxiously when Peter turned to talk to her.

"Hey friend," Lily said, smirking at Remus and stopping the annoying winks.

Remus let out a sigh of relief, that Lily was still going to be his friend after everything with James.

"Hello," he responded, laughing at her slightly, "You ladies were almost late…"

"They failed to mention it was this early in the morning…" Alice mumbled, still a little bitter about having to be up so early.

"Alice…" Peter started, "It's always at this time…every year...and you are always here..."

"And I swear James Potter does this just to spite me…" she grumbled, glaring at him as he was on the pitch talking to all the potential players trying out.

"Or this was the only time the Pitch was available as all the teams need to hold tryouts today?" Adaline offered, raising her eyebrows at our friend.

"Yeah, he was not happy to have it this early in the morning…" Remus said, shaking his head.

"Sirius yelled at him, something about needing his beauty sleep…" Peter added, chuckling.

"I am not even a little surprised," Adaline said laughing, "He has never been one to like getting up early."

"You're telling me…" said Remus, giving the girls the sense that there were many painful mornings when he was stuck with the job of waking his friends up.

"How many positions need to be filled this year?" Lily asked, thinking that there couldn't be many, as most didn't graduate.

"Only two positions are actually open, but they need a lot of reserves this year," Alice answered back quickly.

Everyone looked at her blankly.

"What? James wouldn't shut up about how he needed to find the 'perfect chaser' to fit in with Renee and him. It was quite annoying really, it was all I heard him talk about this summer. Then you have Gemma and Sirius chiming in, and it was generally very annoying."

"Oh, look they're starting!" Peter said, grinning like a kid on Christmas.

"Why did you never tryout for the team?" Adaline asked, "You love the sport…"

"I'm not huge on the heights, I'll stick to commentating it…" Peter said with a laugh.

"I can understand that…" Lily said, with a shudder.

That was the thing about Quidditch, Lily loved the sport, she had since she was 11. She loved watching it, oddly enough, but she knew that she would never be able to fly. Even watching everyone else fly around on their brooms made her nervous. She had never told the other girls this because she knew they would feel bad about asking her to come then.

Despite never saying anything, Adrian and Gemma knew that their friend was always nervous when they flew. However, since she had never mentioned it, they figured she didn't want them to know and that she didn't want to talk about it. They would reassure her before they left, and give her reassuring smiles while they flew (if they had a chance). Judging by the relieved looks they got back from Lily they knew it helped.

Lily logically knew that there were precautions in place if anyone fell off their brooms, but it still made her uneasy. Every time she saw people flying she thought about how her mother must have felt when her plane crashed. She knew it was different, logically, but it didn't make a difference to her.

Adaline and Alice always tried to sit next to Lily, so that they could hold her hand. That way she had something to squeeze when she got nervous. It meant a lot to Lily that she had such supportive and caring friends. Friends who knew her and knew what she needed before she had to ask.

As James finished his speech to the potential players, they all got ready to mount their brooms. Alice held out her hand for Lily, which she gladly held on to. From the stands they watched as players flew around, trying to prove that they were going to be the best members for the team, reserve or otherwise.

For potential Seekers, Gemma was kicking everyone's asses, catching the snitch more times than all of them combined. She had come a long way from when she didn't make the team their second year. Adrian and Sirius were not even trying for the positions of Beaters, just hitting the bludgers around and joking with each other, both looking carefree and ignoring Potter's glares at them. The other Beaters eyed them warily (obviously intimidated by their carefree attitude), but honestly they both knew they were on the team, their team work was impeccable. They were two of the best beaters the school had seen in years, since Adrian moved up from reserves their 3rd year the duo had been unstoppable. Potter could be seen flying around, eyeing each of the prospective players, occasionally asking someone to leave. Eventually he made his way over to the chasers and joined in practicing with them. Trying to determine who would work best with him and Renne.

Lily could hear Adaline and Peter having a side conversation next to them, neither paying much attention to the tryouts, despite how excited Peter had been earlier.

"James is going to have a tough choice in the chasers," Remus said, shaking his head, "This means he's going to be extra cranky…"

"Oh Merlin, we do not need an extra cranky Potter wandering around the school, that won't end well for anyone."

"Yeah, this is about to get ugly...essentially we all need to avoid him…" Alice said, shuddering.

"Lucky you, I need to room with him...there is no escaping it…" Remus said with mock horror.

"We are lucky in that sense," Alice said, "You're so fucked."

"Oh thanks…." Remus said, hiding his look of surprise by Alice's language.

"At least the couches in the common room are pretty comfortable?" Lily offered, with a joking smile.

"You joke now Lily, but when we need to kick him out of a broom closet on Tuesday you will not be laughing…"

"Oh my God…" Lily said, eyes widened as Alice almost fell over she was laughing so hard.

"What?" Adaline said, looking at her friends funny.

"You are going to find Lily and James in a broom closet?" Peter asked, looking very concerned and confused.

This sent Alice over the edge, she was on the floor with tears streaming down her face and Remus was not in a much better state. All Lily could do was sit there with her jaw on the floor, completely speechless.

"But maybe I heard that wrong?" he said, glancing at everyone in confusion.

"We definitely heard that wrong…" Adaline said, giggling at her friends antics.

"He said that on patrol, Remus AND I are going to find him in a broom closet because he is going to be so stressed with the decision! He and I...we would...just NEVER…" Lily said, her emerald eyes wide with disgust.

"Lily, you should see-you should see your face right now!" Remus said, through his laughter.

"I hate you all! I am forever going to be scared with that imagine in my mind!"

"So you thought about it enough to have an image there?" Alice cheekily replied, winking at Lily.

"NO! Oh my Merlin...that is not what….that's not what I meant...I am so disturbed…"

All four of the Gryffindors were in stitches they were laughing so hard, and Lily just sat there and glared at them. It really was not that funny.

"You are all the worst…" Lily mumbled, before turning and watching more of the tryouts.

By the time patrol rolled around that Tuesday Remus was still laughing (all Lily could think was: was it really that funny?).

"This has been a long week, and he hasn't been back to the dorms for awhile...I think we might have the misfortune of finding him," Remus said, chuckling, knowing full well that James in the Library helping Peter with his Transfiguration.

"I swear, you are opening all the broom closets, that is not something that I want to see!" Lily said, horrified at the idea.

"But your face would be priceless…"

"If you make me do that, our friendship is over!"

Remus gave Lily an offended look and she laughed, letting him know that she was kidding. She was enjoying being friends with Remus again, it was nice to have another person to talk to and it did make the patrols and Prefect meetings go much faster.

Thankfully they did not find James and a mystery girl in any of the broom closets, and they were on their way back when Lily glanced at Remus and noticed how pale he was.

"Hey Remus, are you alright?" Lily asked, looking at him with great concern.

"Yeah, I just don't feel the best, my head is pounding…" he said, bringing a hand to his head to massage his temples, but trying not to draw attention to himself.

"Let's go to the Hospital Wing," Lily said, gently grabbing his arm, afraid he might fall over.

"I'm fine, I can go later…" he said, but as he said it he stumbled a little.

"You are not fine Remus, we are going."

"I can get up there alone Lily, you really don't need to go all the way up there with me," he said, shaking his head slightly at her (and then wincing).

"Remus, I would not feel comfortable just letting you walk all the way up there alone, especially with your face that white. I would be too nervous that you would pass out in the hallway alone somewhere."

"I'm not going to randomly pass out somewhere Lily…but thank you."

"It's my inner future Healer…" Lily said with a shrug, "That, and as your friend, it's my job to worry about you."

They spent the rest of the walk in silence, slowly moving towards the Hospital Wing. Lily kept glancing at Remus, looking to make sure that he was okay. Remus kept hoping that she would not notice his symptoms and how close it was to the full moon.

"Not feeling well Mr. Lupin?" Madame Pomfrey asked, looking at him sympathetically as they walked through the double doors.

He just groaned in response, his facial expressions clearly showed that he was in pain.

"We were doing our Prefect patrol and when I looked over at him he didn't look well. He says he has a headache…" Lily answered for him.

"Why don't you go and lay down on one of the beds, and I will bring you out a potion?" she said, before looking at Lily and adding, "Thank you, Miss Evans, I will take it from here, why don't you go back and get to bed?"

"Of course, thank you Madame Pomfrey," she said, before turning and adding to Remus, "I will tell your roommates that you are in here. Feel better!"

He just grimaced at Lily in acknowledgement and she made her way out the door and towards the common.

When Lily got back to the common room she looked around for any of the Marauders, hoping to find Peter. Unfortunately, the only Marauder in sight was Potter, who was talking to a group of 5th year girls. Shaking her head and squaring her shoulders Lily confidently walked towards the group. She braced herself for any comments that would be thrown her way, telling herself she was doing this for Remus.

As Lily got closer the girls glared at her while Potter looked slightly confused (not that it was far from his normal look).

"What? Are we being to loud Evans?" Potter asked with a smirk, but his glance was still questioning and Lily could see him looking around for his friend who was supposed to be with her.

Lily rolled her eyes at his antics, "I just wanted to tell you that Remus was not feeling well towards the end of our patrol, so I brought him to the Hospital Wing."

"Thank you, Evans," he said, surprising Lily, before turning to the group of fifth year girls and adding, "I need to go."

He nodded at Lily before standing up and heading towards the boys dormitories.

"What a bitch…did she really need to come and distract him?" Lily could hear the girls mumbling, but she ignored it and made my way towards bed, too tired to care.

Lily had a difficult time getting up on Wednesday morning, which was unusual for her. Gemma was surprised when she had to wake her before heading down to breakfast.

"Hey Lils, wake up. You only have 20 minutes until class," Gemma said, shaking her friend.

She watched as Lily bolted up, a look of horror on her face and dark bags under her eyes, indicating her lack of sleep.

"I'll grab you a muffin and coffee and bring them to Charms," Gemma said, making her way towards the door now that her friend was awake.

"Thanks," Lily said over her shoulder.

Lily quickly through her hair into a messy bun (and not the cute type, but the type where her hair was sticking out at so many angles), she threw on her uniform and raced down the stairs with her bag (thankfully she had it packed before she went on her patrol). She was half-way to Charms when she realized she had on two different socks. Lily knew she must have looked like a hot mess, but she had been so nervous about Remus that she had barely slept that night, despite how exhausted she had felt.

She met up with Gemma around the corner from the classroom, thankful that her friend had grabbed her coffee and food. Lily felt so out of it that she didn't notice the group of Slytherins coming towards them.

"Well, what do we have here?" Lucius Malfoy said, smirking as the group of Slytherins surrounded the two girls.

"A blood traitor and a mudblood," Goyle said, grinning like a buffoon (honestly-Gemma would tell you that the resemblance was uncanny).

"People like you don't belong here!" added Karkaroff, "You should have never attended Hogwarts, there is no room for people with such dirty blood."

"You should probably leave while you have a chance," Rosier said, glaring at them in a threatening manner.

"Get out of our way before I dock points from all of you," Lily said, trying not to let her voice waiver.

She knew that Gemma and her could fight them, but realistically they were outnumbered and she did not trust them not to use dark magic.

"Oh no, do you hear that? She'll dock us points!" Narcissa Black said, her voice full of laughter.

"We're so scared!" Malfoy said, pulling out his wand, "But not as scared as you should be."

Gemma and Lily each whipped out their wands, as did the other Slytherins, all getting ready to attack.

"Is there a problem here?" asked Professor McGonagall, eyeing all of the wands that were drawn and prepared for a fight.

"Of course not Professor," Narcissa Black answered in a fake sweet tone.

"Then I suggest you all get to class before you are late."

Mumbling under their breaths the Slytherins slowly moved away and Gemma and Lily continued our rushed walk to charms.

"Those bloody pricks!" Gemma said, as they were entering the classroom, "those low life piece of scum. Who do they think they are telling us that we don't belong here!"

"That's what happens when they think they are better than everyone else Gem," Lily said, "and they aren't the only ones who think so."

Before Gemma could reply Professor Flitwick entered the room, and the lesson began. Lily was happy for the distraction. She really did not need to think about how there were many people who did not want her here. Many people who didn't think that she belonged or that she didn't deserve to practice magic.

After dinner that night Adaline and Lily made their way towards the Library, thinking of all the work that they were hoping to accomplish. They also knew that if they joined the rest of their friends in the common room they would accomplish nothing with all the noise.

When they entered the Library Adaline's face lit up when she saw a Ravenclaw boy sitting at it. He looked up as we approached and a grin identical to his sister's lit up his face.

"Hey Ada!" he said, smiling at her with a look of pure joy.

"Hello Henry! How are you?" she asked, looking him over as if she was checking to make sure he was okay.

"I'm doing well, classes are keeping me busy and the family has been awfully quiet for a while."

"That is definitely a good thing…" she said, nodding.

"Is it though?" he asked, "What if that means they are busy with stuff from Tom?"

"Do you think they are?"

"I don't honestly know, but I think it's a good possibility. I mean, you read the papers..."

"When did you get so wise?"

"When I was sorted into Ravenclaw and was forced to answer a riddle every time I want to enter the common room?" he joked.

"Fair enough!" Adaline laughed, ruffling her brothers hair.

"How's Adri? And Peter? And Sirius?" he asked, firing off the list of names.

"They're doing well. Adrian and Sirius both had Quidditch tryouts this weekend, and we sat with Peter while we watched them."

"Has he asked you out yet?"

Adaline blushed scarlet and Lily chuckled, "I don't know what you're talking about…"

He just laughed, and then the group continued to do their work in silence for a little while. After about two hours Lily was going stir crazy and knew that she wasn't going to accomplish any more that night.

"Hey guys, I'm going to run and check in on Remus. It was nice to see you Henry, I'll see you back in the room Adaline!"

"See ya!" they both said in unison.

Lily grabbed her stuff and made her way towards the Hospital Wing, hoping that Remus was feeling better. He hadn't been in any of his classes today, and that made Lily nervous. However, when she entered the Hospital Wing the only person in sight was Madam Pomfrey.

"Hello again Miss Evans, can I help you with something?"

"I was just going to come and see how Remus was doing," Lily said, "But it looks like he's not here any more…"

"Oh, you just missed him. He went home to see his mom, she was getting some treatment today. He was feeling much better when he left!"

"Oh…" was all Lily could think to say, "Well, thank you."

With that Lily made my way back towards the common room hoping that Remus' mother was doing all right. She was also thankful that he was feeling better as well.

When Lily entered the common room she found Gemma, Adrian and Alice all sitting around and laughing with Gemma's younger brother Jake and some of his friends.

"Hey guys!" Lily said, setting her stuff down, "How's it going?"

"Good, Jake was just talking to us about Hagrid!"

"Isn't he wonderful?" Lily asked, smiling just thinking about the friendly half-giant.

"Yes, I had detention with him the other night!"

"Like sister like brother…" Alice said, shaking her head grinning at the duo.

"If you take Care of Magical Creatures I recommend bringing your homework to him. He knows his stuff and is always willing to help!" Gemma said, ignoring the fact that her brother knows him from being in detention.

"I often tell him that he should just teach the class, I learn more from him anyways!" Alice added.

"He would be a great teacher!" Holly, one of Jake's friends added, "And his dog, Fang, is just so freaking cute!"

"Whose dog is cute?" Sirius said, butting into the conversation, "Because I personally have a preference to big black dogs."

Potter and Peter just rolled their eyes, Peter adding, "You would Pads…"

"What? They are so fluffy and friendly!"

"You have a problem mate," Potter said, shaking his head at his friend and smirking like there was a secret the rest of them didn't know.

"We were talking about Fang…" Jake said, laughing at the older boys.

"Oh, yeah, he isn't very fluffy...but he is very friendly…" Sirius said with a shrug.

"He's a scaredy cat though, remember when we were in the forest for detention and he heard the Centaurs and went running?"

"Oh yeah! He ran all the way back to Hagrid's" Peter said with a laugh.

"Did he really?" Asked Holly, looking at the boys in awe.

"Dogs are supposed to be really smart!" Sirius added.

"Until you give them a stick, then they are distracted and generally oblivious to the world," Lily added with a smirk.

"I find that very offensive Evans!" Sirius said pouting at her.

"Are you a dog Black?" Lily said, giving him a pointed look (ignoring how his friends looked like they were ready to pee their pants of laughter).

"Well...not in the literal sense," he said, winking at the group.

"Touche…" Lily said, shaking her head with a small smile.

As Lily said that Adrian added, "Pig would be more accurate…"

He clutched his hand to his heart, "You wound me Prince! Let's go boys, these girls are too mean…"

With that they got up and went to sit in their usual seats. Holly and Jake stood shortly later and went to work on a project with some classmates leaving Gemma, Alice, Adrian and Lily to attempt to be productive. Lily was hoping she would have more luck in here than in the Library (which was not really working in her favor).

One by one the common room started emptying save a few other older students who were spreading their work out all over the common room, attempting to find a way to look at everything at once. Lily, for one was laying on the floor with three transfiguration books surrounding her, attempting to write this essay about turning quills into birds, while Adrian was next to her laying her back attempting to read one of the book sections for charms.

Lily looked out the window and noticed how dark it had gotten, losing herself in her thoughts and watching as the moon started to rise. That is until the three boys got up, mumbling something about being late before rushing out of the common room.

"Where do those three think they are going? It's past hours…" Adrian asked, shaking her head.

"It's probably best to not ask questions…" Lily said, rolling her eyes.

"You're probably right, they're probably off to have a three-way somewhere."

Lily just turned and gave her friend a look, before they both burst into laughter at the thought. This earned them some glares from some of the 7th years who were trying to do their work. Lily knew as a Prefect she should have stopped the boys from leaving, but she wasn't in the mood. She would let the Prefects patrolling deal with them instead.

I really enjoyed writing this chapter. It was fun to write the different interactions between all the different characters? Whose are your favorite so far?