Chapter Five

The First In The Season

Amy lay tierdly awake, slowly going to sleep again. "Amy wake up!" Kate shouted,
"Nahh." Amy muttered,
"Mary, go tell Padfoot. Did I just call him Padfoot? Oh no, we've became Marauders, Marauder groupies, Marauderettes."
"Kate?" Amy whispered,
"Yeah?"
"Shut. The. Fuck. Up." she heard Mary leave the room, and about five minutes later return, "They say they have a way off coming up." and sure enough Amy heard them come in,
"How-?" Kate asked,
"Fly up. Simple." James said simply. But Amy knew it was the Anamagi forms that could come up.
"Amy, wake up!" Sirius said.
"No, Sirius, I'm tierd, this is your fault for letting me stay up late." and then she curled up. "Wake me up on Halloween day."
"Its Halloween tomorrow!" James said, Amy sat right up, her hair falling over her shoulders gracefully, Sirius watched her and bit his lip, why did she have to be so... so... sexy? "It's Quidditch today! Why didn't anybody wake me!" then she was running and having a shower, and getting dressed, she grabbed her Nimbus (the newest one! James, Sirius and Kate had them too.) grabbed her Quidditch robes and stuff, did her make-up and hair and said, "Food! Let's go!" and they all ran to the hall, to eat before playing Slytherin. They entered the hall and all the houses minus Slytherin cheered, everybody sore there new brooms and gasped, Regulus had one aswell. "Sirius. Amy." rolling there eyes they turned to Prissy,
"Prissy." Amy said with such venom Regulus flinched,
"Congratulations?"
"On beating you? Thanks." Prissy was a Chaser like Amy and Kate and another girl called Juliet. Regulus was another Chaser on the Slytherin team. Sirius was a Beater on the Gryffindor team along with Daniel Spinnet. James was, obviously, there Seeker and William Johnson was their Keeper.
"Err.. no, on both you Blood Traitors going out. It's the talk off Slytherin." Amy and Sirius looked at each other,
"When did you ask me out?" Amy asked confused.
"I didn't I don't think...?"
"Huh?" Amy said turning with Sirius and walking off, "She's such a dick."
"Indeed." Sirius agreed sitting down. Amy grinned and fell into her seat grabbing a bowl of fruit while Sirius stuffed his face with a cooked breakfast, she snorted at him and couldn't help but notice how good he look today.
"See something you like, Vaiyn?" he asked, catching her watching him, she gave him her adorable smile,
"Yeah." she said, his heart stopped and he froze... was she admitting she liked him? "Those mushrooms." she said, sticking her tongue out the side of her mouth and grinning at him. He nodded, he was actually disappointed that she'd said that, she was so close... so close to saying she liked him. He looked round the room, and sore a Slytherin load up there plates on just mushrooms. He took out his wand and said, "Accio." the plate whizzed over to them and he gave it to Amy. She giggled as she began to make a mushroom sandwich out of them and the Slytherin just glared. "We need to go!" she said as she finished her sandwich, Kate looked at the time. "James' will kill us." the trio stood, grabbing there brooms and made there way out the hall, as soon as the doors closed they ran to the changing rooms and burst through the doors to see James' glaring. "Get changed. Now." they nodded sharply.
"Were only five minutes late!" Kate and Amy hissed as they went to the corner, there really should be separate changing rooms... Sirius went to the other side of the room, away from the girls, like he did every game. They got changed quickly and sat down as they took out a mirror deciding whether to put her hair up or not. "Put it up." Gwenog said. "It's windy." They nodded, Gwenog was the only other girl on there team, and for that one of and Amy and Kate's friends. Kate and Amy swept up the long hair and put it at a ponytail at the tops of there head, they bounced there head from side to side so there ponytail went everywhere out of boredem, until James coughed loudly at them. They stopped and put there hands in there laps. "Thank you. Now it's Halloween tomorrow." he began, "And I am prepared to throw a practise on the ball night if we don't win." everybody shouted disagreements.
"Bull shit." Amy said. "You're taking Lily to the ball. Dickhead." Sirius grinned at Amy's language, she did swear a lot.
"Just win." James said with a death glare. "Aye aye captain." They all stood up, their brooms in hand and walked outside to face the Slytherin's. Sirius glared at his younger brother and Amy blew a kiss at her sister. She glared and punched her fist into her palm. Amy raised an eyebrow and turned to Kate, who was stifling a laugh of her own. "Okay, I want a nice, clean match!" Professor McGonagall said, filling in for the usual Quidditch ref. "Captains shake hands!" James stepped forward and so did Avery. Everybody stepped back. "Mount your brooms... and GO!" Amy kicked off the ground hard, zooming through the air. Juliet grabbed the Quaffle and passed it to Kate. Regulus dropped the five feet to her but she dodged him, Kate threw it to Amy just as Regulus crashed into her. Amy winced but continued to the goal post and faked for the right hoop but went for the middle one. It went through! "AND TEN POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR." Amy turned on her broom, doing a little dance and sore that Kate was alright, she smirked at her sister who gave her a death glare back. If looks could kill... "AMY!" Sirius shouted. Confused Amy began to shout "Wha-?" but she didn't finish her question. She felt a Bludger to her head then she felt a bat to her neck, she fell forward, off her broom and didn't even manage to make a sound before Sirius had flew to where she was falling and caught her on his broom. "Whoa." she muttered. "Dude, that hurts." she told him.
"You okay?"
"Yes, where's my broom?"
"Kate's got it."
"Take me too it."
"Amy, you're heads pretty bad, maybe you should go get it-"
"Sirius, we have a free shot! He's not allowed to him me with the bat! Take me to my broom!" sighing Sirius flew to Kate and Amy climbed not so steadily onto her own broom.
"Amy-" Kate began but Amy was flying to take her free shot. She shot, she scored. The crowed cheered but things weren't really clear. She didn't pass out through the game though. Gryffindor won. And as everybody was flying to the ground that was when Amy just couldn't hear. Everything was in black and white and she was wobbling. She sore Sirius lips move as she walked over to where everybody was cheering, she shrugged, "I can't hear you!" she must have shouted because Kate looked at her funny from where she was being congratulated. Sirius put his hand on the back of her head and removed it, Amy sore there was blood on it. She watched his lips move, she read his lips, he was saying 'Amy, Amy can you hear me?' finally things sunk slightly in "Amy, you're heads pretty bad." she heard him say.
"I know." she whispered before her eyes slowly shut and he had to catch her before she hit the floor. She could just about hear him shout. "Kate! She's blacked out!"

"She'll be alright." Sirius looked up to see Madam Pomfrey, hadn't she just had a child? Poppy Pomfrey? "It was serious, I'll admit, but she'll be fine."
"Yeah, she doesn't look so fine." Amy was still asleep, she hadn't woke up, her hair had had to be shaved off, but thanks to magic it had thankfully grown back, she looked peaceful but tormented at the same time. He just wanted her to wake up. He wanted to be here when she woke up. He was the only one here, resulting in everyone knowing he fancied Amy. He didn't care any more. He wanted Amy, he'd get her. He had to. He gently stroked her hair and she unconsciously leaned into his hand. "Are you sure?" Sirius asked, but once he'd looked up he sore Madam Pomfrey had left. Sighing he looked back down at her. He looked at her delicate hand just resting there and hesitantly took it in his own, looking at the size difference. He closed his around hers and gave a tight squeeze, and nearly swore when he felt a weak one back. He looked up and sore Amy was slowly opening her eyes. "Hey..." he whispered.
"Hi." she said weakly, he handed her some water what she took thankfully, "What happened?" she asked, adding a cough at the end.
"Um, you got hit in the head with a Bludger and then a bat to the neck and you continued to play the match and you just blacked out in my arms at the end of the match. They're not sure if it was because of the injury or because of my good lucks." Sirius joked adding his cocky lob-sided grin at the end. Amy rolled her eyes, "Shut up, Snuffles." she muttered. Sirius grinned and scratched the back of his head. "How are you feeling?" he asked, she ignored the question and raised an eyebrow,
"Have you been with me the whole time?"
"Um... yeah." Sirius said,
"How long have I been here?"
"I dunno, five or six hours. It's nearly midnight." Amy smiled softly.
"Sirius..." she let the sentence drop,
"You never answered me, how are you feeling?"
"I feel fine, I have a slight headache, nothing that's going to stop me from going to the Halloween Ball tomorrow night. You know, I remember some of what happened... you caught me, when I fell of my broom and when I blacked out."
"Yeah.." Sirius said confused.
"And you stayed with me."
"Yeah...?" Sirius questioned
"You're really sweet sometimes, Sirius." he raised an eyebrow as she sat up and slowly closed the space between them, her lips were soft on his and he froze there before his lips slowly moved in sync with hers. After a minute she pulled back, she sighed slightly "You're still a good kisser." she whispered.
"Obviously." Sirius said as if she'd stated that they breathe air to survive. "Why'd you do that?" he asked.
"Because everything you've done for me today is really sweet. It was my way of thanking you for being such a good friend." Sirius felt a pang in himself. 'It was my way of thanking you for being such a good friend.' well that certainly hadn't been what he'd hoped she would say.
"Yeah, well it makes up for those years I was a shitty one." she grinned at that.
"Sirius, I know it's alot to ask, but... will you stay for a little while?" he smiled as she moved over and he got in the sheets next to her, she rest her head on his chest and yawned, "I'm just going to close my eyes." and she did just that. And then three seconds later she fell asleep.

Lily Evans lay in her prefect common room, staring into the fire, just thinking. How different had her life really become? Last year... last year it was just her and her girls. Lily lay there smiling like an idiot as a memory came into her mind of last year.

Lily walked across the Hogwarts field, ignoring the yells of abuse from the Slytherin's, and the call of none other then the guy she hated the most - James Potter. She noticed Amy walking towards here, and ran at her bestfriend, jumping into her arms and wrapping her legs around her waist. Amy laughed as she span Lily round and put her down.
"Petal, you're in a good mood." Amy wagged her eyebrows suggestively, Lily hit her on her arm and laughed at her as Kate came running up to them and skidded into Lily to stop.
"Sorry, Lil!" Kate said, shaking her head. Lily smiled at her other bestfriend as she turned and sore Mary coming out of the Forbidden Forest with a guy from Hufflepuff, she pulled down her short skirt and he kissed her on the lips before walking away, Lily raised an eyebrow and Mary did a victory dance before jogging over to them.
"At least someone is getting laid." Kate said, laughing along with the rest of them. And then the doors opened and Alice ran towards them, her short hair blowing in the wind, she jumped on Mary's back and Mary nearly threw her off, but managed to steady herself.
"We leave Hogwarts tomorrow." Kate said, pouting as Alice got put on the floor.
"And then in two months we're back for our last year." Alice said, pouting aswell.
"I don't know why you're upset." Amy said, flipping her long hair over one shoulder, "It's not like we're going to forget eachother, we're going to all get a house together - well, maybe not Alice if her and Frank move in together."
"Shut up!" Alice said, hitting Amy on the arm, Amy grinned and stuck her tongue out at her. Lily looked between her bestfriends, a smile coming on her face.
"Amy's right though, we're never going to forget each other, we're bestfriends - forever and always."
"Forever and always, no secrets, that's a promise." Kate said, smiling at her friends, they all held hands and chanted together:
"Forever and always. No secrets."

Lily laughed at the memory, it seemed so long ago now, it wasn't that she'd drifted from her friends, she hadn't... but this year... it seemed different, she always knew they all had issues, but now with their NEWTs and their last year at Hogwarts, soon going to head into the real world, it all seemed so real, so dangerous. This year they were all maturing. Lily heard the common room door open, and turned to see her boyfriend standing there, dripping from head to toe.
"It's raining." he said, laughing slightly. He ran his hand through his soaking hair, and put his broom down. Sighing, Lily stood up.
"Why was you outside, riding? You just won the match this morning." he grinned at her and took her hand,
"I ride when I need to think about stuff." shaking her head, Lily took out her wand and pointed it at him, hot air coming out the end and drying him. He smiled to show his thanks and wrapped an arm around her waist, and walked to the couch, pulling her into his stomach.
"What was you thinking about?" she asked, lifting her emerald eyes to meet his.
"Nothing, about how different this year is... how I've got you, and Sirius is actually falling in love with someone, how Remus is finally getting a girlfriend, how different Wormtail is acting, how I've got you." he kissed her hair before continuing, "How we've all became friends and we finish Hogwarts this year, we have to go out there, get jobs, face the world... actually deal with the war." Lily smiled up at him.
"I know we do. And anybody could die at any time." James' eyes twitched as he looked down at his girlfriend with his expression clearly reading 'not helping'. Lily smiled before continuing, "But we're all together, and we've all got eachother." she closed her eyes briefly as the memory of last year popped in her head, "Forever and always." she finished, before softly brushing her lips across his.

Mary walked down the corridor's of Hogwarts, looking for Joe. He had sent her an indirect message saying: Meet me at ten. He never thought to say where. Never even left his name, but - come on, it had to be him. Mary whistled to herself as she looked down at what she had choose to wear for their meeting. Black ripped leggings, a green mini skirt, very short, with a white vest top, and a long black cardigan, she also had some flat slip-ons for shoes. Her blonde hair was down and she had a green headband in, she looked pretty cute. she noticed guys eyeing her as she walked past, but ignored them. She was used to it by now. That's when she sore Joe walking with his friends, she smiled but then started wondering why his friends were here, surly he wanted to meet he on his own. Taking a deep breath she hollered,
"Joe!" he looked over and smiled at her, he waved and began walking over.
"Yeah, Mar?" Mary raised an eyebrow,
"Um.. I'm here." it was Joe's turn to raise an eyebrow,
"I... um... I can see that." Mary bit her lip,
"So what are we doing?" Joe looked so confused it was untrue,
"I'm... I'm going back to the Common Room. What're you doing?" Mary blinked a few times,
"I'm meeting you, aren't I?"
"Um... no, did we plan something? I am so sorry, Mar, I totally forgot if we did-"
"Didn't you send me this?" she blushed slightly as she fished the piece of paper out of her bra, she showed him the letter what read:

Mary,
Meet me at ten. Can't wait to see you.

"Sorry Mary, but that wasn't me. Do you have any idea who it was?" Mary shook her head.
"Nope." Joe bit his lip softly.
"I can understand if you go, but I'd rather you not. It doesn't say where, it doesn't say who. It just seems a bit sketchy, but if you have too..." he cupped her cheek with his soft hand and stroked it gently with his thumb, "Please be careful." Mary smiled up at him.
"Always." she promised, she smiled as she stepped away slightly, letting his hand fall and brushed some hair out of her eyes. "Well, I guess I should be off." Joe nodded and Mary coughed awkwardly, before stepping around him and continuing walking, trying to find whoever, whatever wanted to meet her. She turned right and continued going down the hallway, griping her arm so tightly she was sure to break skin. No one was down this hallway... she didn't like it.

It was too quiet. It was too eerie. And that's when Regulus Black, Avery, Snape, McNair, Mulciber. Mary froze. She should have known. Mulciber and Avery always played horrible pranks on her. They'd cast dark magic on her before.
"Oh, for fuck sake." she muttered, "What do you lot want?"
"Well, Mary, that's not very nice is it." Avery said, rolling her eyes, Mary held hands behind her back, trying to look innocent, when in reality, she was searching for her wand.
"Well, sorry Avery, you just don't do it for me." Avery's eyes flashed quickly, before he controlled his anger. "So I'm guessing it was you lot that sent me my little note. Wanna tell me why I'm here? You know, I could be doing other things."
"Like fucking?" Mary rolled her eyes at Snape. Sure she liked sex, everyone knew that. She was almost as bad as Sirius, the only girl worse then Amy - probably because even though Amy enjoyed alot of sex, she only ever did it with certain people - those of whom she was going out with. Mary. Mary just liked a good fuck and then leave.
"Well, you know me, Snivellus." she smirked at the Marauder's nickname for him and his eyes flashed, he drawn his wand but Mary never flinched, and she didn't draw hers. Yet.
"Snape." Regulus said casually, not bothering to look at him. "Put your wand away. We don't want to be rude. Mary, we just want to talk to you." Mary smiled slightly.
"That's a shame. I really don't want to speak to you." She told him flatly.
"Now Mary, please don't make this harder then it had to be." Regulus told her simply.
"Fuck off." Mary dead-panned. Mary heard footsteps, but apparently the Slytherin's didn't. Mary's eyes searched and she found Kate with the Marauder Map. She pulled on an invisibility cloak. Amy's. She crept slowly over next to Mary. Mary let out the breath she never knew she'd been holding. She always felt safer with Kate there, Kate just had that kind of aura.
"Mary, are you going to-"
"Fuck off, Black. Do I look like I have that intention?"
"Regulus, just let me paralyze the bitch." Regulus finally turned his head slightly, and raised an eyebrow on McNair.
"Yes, Regulus, let him try." Mary told him, his name rolling of her tongue. Sighing, Regulus waved his hand to show that McNair could go ahead. He raised his wand and went to cast the spell, but Kate pulled of the cloak and Mary and her countered his spell, knocking him back into the wall. They turned their wands on the other Slytherin's. Sighing Regulus looked at his comrades.
"Let's leave. We'll find another way to speak to her." and with that the Slytherin's turned. So Regulus was in charge of that little shindig. And Regulus was never one to do something that didn't need to be done. Kate sighed.
"Well that was close."
"Yep." Mary said, turning to her.
"How'd you find me?"
"I borrowed the Marauders Map when I couldn't find you." she said, lowering her voice just in case the Slytherin's were still in hearing range. Mary shook her head, and linked her arms through Kate's.
"Let's go to sleep. It's Halloween tomorrow. The ball." Kate grinned, and did a wolf howl. Laughing they both went back to their Common Room.

Okay, there it is. Sorry for long update, life's kind of hectic. Like, all the time. But I'm fully getting back into this story, so yeah.

Am I the only one who's life has gotton more depressing now that they're is no new Harry Potter films or books to read?

I wish JK Rowling will do a spin-off.

Right, anyway. R&R

Nymphadora'Tonks'Tonks.