Wow, I can't believe I've finally updated chapter 2 from this story and chapter 7 from "Todo empezó con un rechazo" ("Everything started from a repulse" or something like that)!

GOD!

Listen, I'm sorry to say this, but… this summer I'll be been visiting my family and maybe I'll go to Salta etc, so… etto…

[Star: just say it! ¬¬]

OK, OK!

Listen, I dunno if I'll be able to write too much this summer… but I'll do my best! (OK, in Argentina we're in summer, do you get it?)

Well… Oh, right! Last time, Mirage told Evangeline something about Azarat. First of all: Azarat is a world I created and it's too long to explain something about it, so if you have any questions just ask me. Second: Mirage AND Evangeline are also characters I created, but I've been thinking about borrow a character from another great writer in the future…

And third… oops, I forgot it! ^^'''

OK, here's the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter; I'm just borrowing its characters for a while. I only own Mirage Mystic Asakura Imbers and Evangeline Anatolia (also Azarat, but it's a magical world… And Snape is also mine, but Rowling stole him from the bottom of my mind XD)

To hikaru-chan, 'cuz… Well, ya know why! XD

xoxox

3. Prolein egg

The next day when I woke up, I was in a good mood. That was quite unusual talking about me and at first, I couldn't realise why. But when I opened my eyes and saw the big girl who was also waking up next to me I couldn't do anything but smile, and Alice did the same.

"Damn it!" I said. "Professor Slughorn is going to kill us!"

The other girls had already leaved and we only had 5 minutes to have breakfast. That meant we were late for our Potions class with the professor Horace Slughorn1, one of the best Hogwarts' professors in my opinion.

"You're wrong" she smiled again while we changed our clothes. "He's going to kill me not you. After all, you're one of his favourite's students…"

"Yeah… But if I tell him it was my fault…" why I was half singing? Damn it, I was such in a good mood! Nothing would destroy my happiness that day!

I felt so great I would have started to jump all around singing "Everybody is gonna love today, gonna love today, gonna love today!" with a pink cloak and neko2 ears, while I cooked brownies and kissed babies!

And believe me when I tell you that's something I swore I would NEVER EVER do!

"Hurry up, Alice!" I laughed. We run down every staircase and we eat our breakfast so fast that when we left the Great Hall (yeah, running again) I thought I was going to throw up at any moment.

Alice wasn't exactly the fastest runner I've ever met. When we arrived to the first floor, her face looked quite pale so I told her to stop for a minute. She tried to continue, but it was obvious she needed a stop, so we sat on the floor for around five minutes. I sharpened my hearing (okay, I'm not sure that's the right expression, but…), trying to hear what was going on at the Potions class at the dungeons, a floor under us.

I promised myself I would thank God and every single angel in heaven when I heard the voice of Mr Slughorn calling the roll.

"I think I can continue now, Asakura," said Alice. She was sweating, but her face had recovered its normal colour.

"Ok, but just one thing" she looked at me. "Please, call me Mirage!"

We run as fast as we could, even if we were quite near. Of course, she didn't know I was hurrying up 'cause professor Slughorn hadn't call her surname yet. At least, she wouldn't be late.

"Sorry for being late, professor!" I yelled when we opened the door. Everybody looked at us and I saw how she blushed. The Gryffindors looked happy; the Slytherins, mocking (I didn't pay too much attention to the Hufflepuffs and the Revenclaws, thought).

"Can I ask why are you late, Mrs Asakura, Mrs Peterson?" said the professor.

"Well… You know, we…" I could hardly breathe, so I tried to recover my breath before I answer and I rested on the door. Alice was doing the same with her hands on her knees. "Sorry, we fell asleep and some people- I saw Lily, Helga and Claudette, but this one wasn't looking at me –forgot to wake us up!"

"Ok, I understand" he answered. "As you are one of my best students, I'll forget this situation, but don't be late again! And for you, Mrs Peterson..."

"You hadn't called her surname yet, professor," said Lily.

"Oh, you're right!" he smiled as he saw the roll. "Ok, you arrived just in time, Mrs Peterson"

"Safe!" jumped Sirius, remembering that muggle game Lily told the marauders about a long time ago.

My good mood stayed inside me during every class. For some reason, I was just too much happy with myself. It was like I was inside my… well, I can't say my "pink world" 'cause I actually hate pink, but I can say… my "chocolate world"!

"You look quite different today, Mir!" Sirius smiled as the marauders, Alice and me walked to Defense Against Dark Arts; our last class of the day.

"Do you believe, Padfoot?"

"There's something I don't understand, Sirius," said Alice in a shy way. "Why you're the only one who doesn't call Mirage 'Mirror'?"

"Well, that's a great question Mrs Peterson!" we all roared in laugh with the typical tone of 'Professor Padfoot'. "You see, everybody calls her Mirror so that they'll have a simple way to recognise her. I call her Mir so that she'll have a simple way to recognise me"

Just as I thought, Wormtail didn't understand what he said. Alice's eyes shone with fantasy after she heard the answer.

However, Moony, Prongs and I interchanged accomplished glances before we started to laugh. We had to stop our walk 'cause we couldn't stop laughing! Sirius looked quite angry, but he was used to our reaction. Alice also started to laugh, but she was too scared of Padfoot to do it aloud.

James was having problems to breathe and to stay up, so he was holding from Remus' cloak. He had burst in tears and was trying to stop but when he saw Sirius, he started again and fell to the floor. Of course, James did the same. I was resting on the wall while I hugged my paunch. I started to slide along it so I finished sat down in the floor at the same time they fell.

Some younger students pointed at us as they smiled and laughed with their friends.

"Finish?" asked Padfoot after 3 minutes. We were standing up.

"Yeah" was our answer.

We continued our way in silence, trying hard not to have another laugh attack. Finally, we arrived to our class. The other students were waiting outside the room.

"Why we have to share FOUR classes with all this snakes?!" yelled Padfoot. Of course, the Slytherins were listening, but he didn't care at all. "I mean, it's ok with Potions and Transfigurations but why there are also so many in D.A.D.A. and History of Magic?!"

"Believe me, Black" said Ethan Nott. "It would be a relief for us if you would leave those classes!"

"Oh, shut up, Nott!" jumped James. "I've heard you can hardly manage yourself even without History of Magic, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures…"

That was true: Nott had left all those classes in fifth year 'cause he could hardly pass the other subjects!

"And why is that your problem, Potter?" interfered Bellatrix. Oh, no, harpy! Not this time!

"And why it's yours, after all?" I also said. I walked two steps in her direction, ready to attack if it was necessary. "What? You've gotten tired of jump into Lestrange's arms every night and you've found yourself a new 'teddy bear'?" I smiled and everyone (yeah, even some Slytherins) roared in laugh.

Although, the harpy went mad at me for some reason (I'm being sarcastic, obviously!).

"Oh, you bitch!" she took her wand and was about to bewitch me when…

"Black, Asakura!" yelled Evangeline as she approached with a pile of three boxes in her arms. Each one was covered with a huge handkerchief. "What's going on here?"

Black hid her wand once more.

"Nothing, Mrs Anatolia" she said in a honeyed voice. Yuck, too much sweet! Disgusting!

"Then, come inside" ordered the professor.

xoxox

"Oh, that was SO cool!" shouted Sirius and James when the class finished.

"She has to be the best teacher we've ever had!" I laughed. Alice (who had been my partner that day) agreed.

"She really is a great teacher" Moony smiled as we put our desks in order.

"Thank you very much, guys" Evangeline had heard us! The boys and Alice blushed a bit. "So, you liked our class about the baby Grindylows?"

"Of course, Mrs!" said James. Oh God, he looked so happy!

"Great" she smiled once more and left. The three rectangular fishbowls were on her desk, and three little, green creatures were swimming inside them. They were… Ok, they were disgusting, but cute in some way.

I was putting the last book inside my knapsack when I realised the others were too quite. I raised my sight and saw why: Snape was standing up next to my desk, waiting. I had almost forgotten we had to go to Dumbledore's office.

And I was such an idiot I really had forgotten to tell the marauders about my punishment.

"What do you want here, Snivellus?" asked Sirius in a bad mood. Snape didn't look at him.

"Nothing with you, Black" he answered.

"Calm down, Padfoot" I said. My voice was shaking a bit and I did my best to avoid everyone's sight. "We have to share a punishment. We are going to the director's office. See ya later" I only say this to Alice. After that, I run outside the room and Snape followed me.

"You didn't tell them about the punishment" it wasn't a question. Why he had to get his nose into my life?

"Non of your busyness" I answered coolly. "Hurry up"

"Why?" he asked after some minutes.

"I've already told you: it's nothing of your busyness;" oh, just shut up, idiot! I thought.

"If you say so…"

Silence. Finally! I thought I would have to cut his tongue to be at peace with myself.

"Since when you listen to what I order you?" why I was such an idiot? He was never going to shut up if I asked him something!

"Who knows…?" I knew he was looking at me, but we had already arrived at the office, so I just kept my mouth shut.

The professor gave us our prolein egg. It had the same shape and colour of a normal chicken egg before he asked us to take it.

"Both of you" he added as I took it. I blushed as Snape put his hand over mine to cover the egg with his. "Look at it now"

Severus dropped his hand and I jumped in surprise. The egg looked now a little bit smaller and rounder than before. Also, it was black now and had silver shines. It was like having the same night and the stars inside a glass ball.

"It's…beautiful!" I said as I rotated it with my hands.

"Yes, it is" the professor seemed happy with something.

He didn't say anything else and told us to leave. When we closed the door behind us, a tense atmosphere surrounded us.

"Shall we start now?" he said. I didn't understand and he rolled his eyes before answer. "The composition, I mean"

"Oh, yeah, sure"

We went to the library and sat down at one of the tables at the back of the room. We left our bags and the egg there as we looked for the necessary books. I even asked Mrs Pince to enter the Forbidden Section, and she agreed.

That composition was obviously going to be the easiest part of that punishment.

xoxox

When I came inside the Common Room, I wished a meteorite would fall over me and destroy me as soon as possible. The room was empty, except for two people sitting next to the fire.

"Hi" I said. James looked at me, but Sirius kept looking the fire. "Is everything ok?"

Prongs sighed.

"Mirror… see…We believe you…" he didn't know how to start and he glanced at Sirius once more.

"Why did you left with that damned snake?" he was talking too coolly to me. I felt so bad I thought I would start to cry.

"I've already told you I had to go to the director's office" my voice was shaking, but I did my best to control myself. "He said Snivellus and I have to share this stupid punishment, and because of that…"

"Yeah, sure" he interrupted me. "As you say"

It was too much. I looked at James and our eyes met. He was also a bit angry with me, but it seemed as he had understood what I was trying to say: that punishment was also hurting me. I hadn't asked for it. I would have preferred to clean the entire castle without magic by myself, or had been enclosed for a week with Peeves, the poltergeist.

"Mirror…" he muttered. He stood up and hugged me. "He'll be fine… Are you ok?" he was talking as low as he could, so that Sirius wouldn't hear him.

"I will" I said. He looked at me in the eyes and I kissed his cheek. "It's a prolein" I muttered and his eyes widened in surprise. "I'll show him to you tomorrow, ok?"

And I went to my room. Once more, I wasn't able to sleep. But this time, Alice, Helga and Lily stayed awake with me, even if I told them to go to bed. They didn't and I was so sad and blue and depressed that I couldn't do anything else but cry and cry.

"Do you ever stop crying?" said Clobber around three o'clock in the morning. "C'mon! It's not like the world is finishing tomorrow!"

"N-no" I sobbed. "B-but it-t's n-nea-ar"

And I told them (yes, even Clobber) what happened after she left the director's office the day before.

"With Snape?!" jumped Helga. "What is he thinking about?!"

"Are you sure you're ok?" asked Alice.

"Oh, Mirror! If you need anything just ask me! I'll help you, I swear!" said Lily.

Clobber just looked at me from her bed, but I was sure there was something different in her sight this time. It was like a silent comfort.

"I-it's ok" I sobbed. I cleaned my face with a handkerchief and smiled. "Please, girls go to bed! You'll make me feel guilty!"

After another half an hour, they agreed. When the lights went off, I silently walked to Lily's bed and lied down next to her. I covered with her sheets.

"How old are you?" she muttered. "Five years old?"

I laughed as low as I could.

"Kind of. And I wanna sleep with Okasan, so I won't have nightmares this time!"

"How did you call me?" she smiled.

"O-ka-san" I repeated. "It is 'mom' in Japanese.

I also smiled. And we fell asleep just after that.

xoxox

For some reason, I woke up at six a.m. the next day. I dressed up, took the egg (I was the mother, after all!) and went to the Common Room to read something. I sat down in the floor, next to the fire, with my child lying next to me. But I wasn't able to read: some kind of fog was drowning my thoughts while my head spun.

"What do you think, dear?" I told the egg. "Shall we have breakfast? Or it's too early to go downstairs?" five seconds of silence after that. "What the fucking hell am I doing?"

"Well..." said a voice. "I believe you're talking to an egg"

James laughed. He was wearing his Quidditch cloak. Right, the first match of the season was at half past ten! I had completely forgotten about it! Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.

He sat down on the armchair that was in front of me, also near the fire.

"Nervous?" I asked.

"Kind of" he said. "But after all, the match is in..." he checked his watch. "Well, something like four hours"

We laughed.

"Here you have" I told Prongs as I gave him the Prolein egg. "This is my child" and I laughed again.

"Has it got a name?" he asked.

"Not really" I answered. "But I've got some in mind"

We chatted for some time, but around quarter to seven (yeah, we talked that much) his stomach roared so we went to the kitchens to eat something (it was still too early to go to the Hall). But unfortunately, for me, someone was already there, making his Potions homework.

"Oh, men…" I muttered as James pointed Snape with his wand. I glared at him. "Put your damned wand down, Prongs" I was just too angry for his jokes, so he obeyed me. "And you", I also glared at the Sly" shall do the same if you don't wanna have pink hair and turquoise skin.

He also obeyed, but they kept looking into each other's eyes with fury. I rolled my eyes and went to sit in the same table he was, evading the house-elves that kept revering at me. Before he followed me, James took some muffins and cookies the little creatures offered him.

I sat down in front of Snape, who barely raised his sight from his work. I took the Prolein from my pocket and put it in the middle of the table, above some books and papers. He looked at me, and then et his child.

"What?" was his cold question.

"We need a name for him… or her… or… whatever it is," I finally said. I rolled it with one finger as I talked. "What do you think?"

"Dunno, choose any name, it's the same" he was still writing. Damn! Look at me at least, you idiot!

"What about… Sirius?" I poked. And he glared at me in a scary way, just as I knew he would. I laughed. "Ok, ok, forget about it! It was a joke"

He continued with his work, so I talked to myself, knowing that sooner or later he'd try to kill me.

"Lets see… James? Nah, too…" I looked at Prongs, who had sat down in a huge table, as far as he could; there was a mountain of food in front of him. "Yuck, too conceited… and we have enough with one Quidditch star who believes he's the best" Snape half-smiled. "Remus? Maybe... After all, I love chocolate, but maybe it'll be too much. Lily?" he looked paler. "Ok, forget about Lily. Let me think…"

He wasn't even paying attention to me! Oh, men! Kami-sama, help me, onegai shimasu… And I smiled. Of course! I had the perfect name for our Prolein!

"What about Evangeline?" I asked, still smiling, but trying hard to don't look at him. He stopped writing and looked at me. He looked paler again, and he was shaking a bit.

"W-w-why t-that nam-me?" so, he thought it would be better for me to don't remember his sister's name? Ha! Ok, let's follow his game…

"What? She is a great teacher, isn't she?" I looked at him with fake angry, as if I believed he didn't like her. He relaxed.

"Oh, well… Yeah, she's… fine. Evangeline is ok" how much homework did he have? Why he kept writing, and writing, and writing? And people say I'm weird!

xoxox

When we came back from the Quidditch field, some boys from seventh year (even some Hufflepuffs and Revenclaws!) were carrying the entire Quidditch team over their shoulders. We won the first match! We crushed the Slytherins! –they cried.

And, of course, as James was the most stupid boy I've ever met, he went with Lily and kissed her full in the mouth in front of everybody… The mark that her hiding left stayed in his cheek for two weeks, or so.

"You really are an idiot, do ya know?" I told him, as he rested a huge piece of raw meat on his cheek. He sarcastically smiled.

"You're so sweet, Mirror" and he rolled his eyes.

Prongs, Alice, Moony and I were sitting in front of the fire at the Common Room. It was the night after the match, finally, and we were having our own private congratulations party. We had chocolate frogs, muffins, cakes, chocolate, butter beer and more. Yum, I feel hungry just remembering it!

"So, what about Sirius?" innocently asked Alice. A shadow covered Remus' face as he looked at me for a second.

"He…went to have fun with a Revenclaw, a friend of his. They are coming later" oh, wait, I knew that girl! Oh, Kami-sama, her name was… was… Ok, I had no idea, but they had been friends since fourth year. She was the only one that was a friend, and just a friend.

I just raised my shoulders and smiled. He was able to do anything he wanted; I was not his girlfriend, his nanny or (and I thank God I'm not) his mother. So what?

"I think that when he comes back, she'll no longer gonna be as pure as she was when she left" and I drank some butter beer as Alice and the marauders roared in laughed.

And, talking about the marauders, where the hell was Pettigrew?

Oh, I remember! Malfoy, Nott, Lestrange and other snakes attacked him in the middles of the match, and he finished in the nursery! Dammit, he was such a useless idiot!

xoxox

1Konichiwa everybody! Here's Ktyuza-chan, finally! First of all, I wanna make some things clear:

 Horace Slughorn: if you haven't read the sixth book, then you shall know he was the Potions professor when Harry's parents went to school. He had some priority over the students with a special talent or with high marks. Some examples that are mentioned in the book are Lily Evans, Severus Snape and even Mrs Weasley, if I'm right.

2 Neko: Ok, maybe some people doesn't know 'cuz they don't like manga, or anime, or they don't even know what Japan is (believe me, I had a classmate who didn't know), but neko is the English word for "cat". You shall remember it 'cuz Mirage feels some kind of attraction for black cats and some other creatures that I'll mention in the future. This shall be important, believe me!

So, now… I can't believe that it took me all summer to finish this chapter! Oh, meeeeeeeeeen! TToTT Well, maybe it's because of the hot and…

*someone knocks the door*

Who is it?

[¿?: your pizza, Miss!]

FINALLY!

*leaves*

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