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Chapter Two: Deal, Potter.
Lily's current state; unconscious, lying on a pleasantly warm and comfortable Hospital Wing bed. She moved in her sleep. She had yet to awaken from the attack. Assortments of people were placed in beds around her. James sat in a chair by her bed with a bandage above his eye. He hadn't received any major injury. Kaelin watched Lily sleep with worried lines etched into her forehead. Camryn was sitting quietly in a chair, looking out into the inky blackness that was night. Dinah's body lay in the bed next to Lily's. She had a broken arm with a deep cut. Madam Pompfrey quickly mended her break, but had to stitch the cut back together. Sirius, Peter, and Remus sat at a distance. Jensen lingered next to Kaelin, uncertain of what to do.
Madam Pompfrey bustled about the Wing muttering incoherent things about the attack. She came over to check on Lily. "Out of the way Potter. Lily needs to be tended to."
James reluctantly obeyed as Pompfrey closed off Lily's bed. There was still a piece of glass stuck in her cut.
"She's going to be okay, right?" asked Kaelin nervously.
James kept his eyes on the curtains. "It's just a little cut." He was trying to sound positive.
Dinah looked at Camryn. "C, you okay?"
Camryn nodded silently. Dinah nodded her head at Kaelin who rose from her chair. Kaelin moved to Cam, whose eyes were glistening with fresh tears.
"Cam, what's wrong?" asked Kaelin soothingly.
Camryn bit her lip. She hated crying in front of people. She wasn't even sure why she was crying. "I'm fine, just overwhelmed."
"Okay, if you need to talk…"
"I know," said Camryn with a slight smile. Kaelin gave her a hug, and sat back down by Lily's bed.
Jensen watched the girls' exchange in amazement. These girls really, truly cared about each other. They weren't pretending like all the girls at her old school. Jensen never had friends at her school in the States. She was a freak, even at a school for witches. She wished for a bond like that between someone other than her mom. Jensen and her mom got along extremely well. They talked about everything and anything. But Jensen was ready for friends her own age.
Madam Pompfrey pushed back the curtains. "She's awake. But be gentle, she's still quite weak."
Kaelin jumped up onto Lily's bed. Lily began coughing from the sudden movement. "Sorry, sorry!" Kaelin apologized.
"It's okay," muttered Lily.
"How you feeling?" James asked looking at Lily intently.
"Tired," Lily said softly.
"Is her leg going to be okay?" James said turning to Madam Pompfrey.
"Good as new; just needed to get that piece of glass out of her. You should stay away from putting too much pressure on it for a couple days," Pompfrey advised. "I want to keep you in here overnight just incase."
Lily groaned. "Can't I go down to the feast?" she pleaded.
Madam Pompfrey tutted, "Ms. Evans, you've been through a great ordeal tonight. You need your rest."
"But Poppy," tried Black, "it's the first night back, and everyone knows the feast is the best."
Her expression changed but only slightly. Who knew that Pompfrey had a soft spot for the Marauders?
"Don't call me Poppy," she snapped. The exasperated witch let out a giant sigh. "Okay, but Ms. Evans you must go straight back to your dormitory and stay off your leg until the morning. I don't want any running around the castle." She eyed the Marauders pointedly. All four faces stared back at her innocently.
"Thank you," mumbled Lily, attempting to push herself up.
Madam Pompfrey only let Lily leave once a large chunk of chocolate was shoved into her mouth. Lily choked it down, smiling.
"Only you would go and get yourself hurt the first night," laughed Dinah holding onto her sore arm.
"I wouldn't be talking," Lily said laughing quietly.
"Oh, it was just a break."
"Well, how about we go down to the feast now," suggested Sirius.
"Always thinking of yourself Sirius," said Kaelin.
"It is time to eat," he said rubbing his stomach.
"I could do with some food," sighed Lily.
Lily slowly swung her legs over the side of the bed. She stepped down, and winced a bit. "It's good."
Lily swayed as she began to walk. James slipped an arm around her waist to steady her. Lily murmured thanks. He walked beside her to make sure she could walk alright.
Dinah watched in amusement as Lily tried to push away his arm. "Come on mates, we have a feast to attend."
They arrived in the Great Hall after all the first years have been sorted. Julie and Ryan were seated at the Gryffindor table, along with a couple other new first years.
Professor Dumbledore waited until the group was all seated. "Jensen Gregg, could you make your way to the stool, please." Everyone looked around for this new girl.
Kaelin pushed the nervous brunette toward the Sorting Hat. She sat on the stool tentatively. A few seconds later the hat shouted, "Gryffindor!"
The Marauders stood up and whistled while everyone else clapped loudly and excitedly. Jensen sat down next to Kaelin smiling.
Dumbledore put his hands up, asking for silence. "Yet another year has begun here at Hogwarts. Tonight we have witnessed something that I have never seen happen at all my years at Hogwarts. Tonight, the Hogwarts Express was invaded by people that are known as Death Eaters. Why they attacked the train is not known yet. I assure you that whenever we find out why this happened we will inform you. Thankfully no one was fatally hurt in the matter; some did receive a few bumps and bruises." His mystical eyes glittered at Lily. "I'm greatly sorry that everyone had to experience such a wave of panic and terror. And I greatly thank all those who stepped up and tried to get the younger students to safety." His eyes again flickered to the Gryffindor Table. "Finally, due to the attack on the train, classes will start tomorrow at ten o'clock. Now, this year will be somewhat different from years past. Many surprises will be in store, while some will not be so grand. Dark times are ahead, keep your friends close. Make new friends. Now it is time to eat. Also to you new students, the Forbidden Forest is just that, forbidden. Mr. Filch would kindly like me to remind you that dueling and magic is not permitted in the hallways between classes." His eyes rested on the Marauders. "Tuck in, and eat!" As he finished his speech the food appeared as usual. There were the usual squeals of joy and awe.
"Do you think Dumbledore will really explain why we were attacked? Or do you think he is just saying that?" wondered Dinah reaching for a biscuit.
"I don't know it depends on what the reason was. It might frighten the younger kids," Remus said. "Lily, don't forget we have to lead the first years to the dormitory."
"Oh grand," she said sinking her teeth into a big spoonful of mash potatoes and gravy.
Julie appeared next to James' side. "Hey James," she said with a big smile.
"Congratulations on getting in Gryffindor!" shouted Sirius tickling the little girl.
"Come here Jules," James said. She sat in between him and Black. "Where's Ryan?" Ryan instantly appeared next to Julie.
"Merlin, she looks exactly like you Potter," stated Camryn.
Kaelin turned to the girl and hugged her. "Cause they are related, idiot."
Camryn glared at Kaelin. "How was I supposed to know that?"
"Lawler, Evans, this is my little sister Julie, and my cousin Ryan," Potter said introducing everyone.
"See, now I know her," said Camryn sarcastically.
Dinner ended, and Dumbledore spoke once again. He dismissed all the satisfied students to their warm awaiting beds. Lily told her friends she would meet up with them later. Julie and Ryan followed Remus and her, as they explained to the first years about Hogwarts.
"You always have to be alert," Remus explained. "The stairs move whenever they feel like it."
The kid's ooohed and aaahed as they looked all around at Hogwarts magical interior. "The pictures move!" shouted a young boy.
"Yeah, they are as realistic as you can get. You can actually have conversations with them."
"Whoa Remus, are you talking to pictures now?" Lily wondered smiling.
He made a face at her. They stopped at the portrait of the Fat Lady. She smiled down at the new arrivals. "What do we have here?" she asked loudly. "New students I see! Welcome to Hogwarts!"
Lily rolled her eyes at the jabbering portrait. "Moonstone."
The Fat Lady ignored her. "How do you all like Hogwarts so far? Isn't it just magical?"
"Moonstone," Lily said a little more forcefully.
"Don't get all worked up Miss Evans," she said before allowing them entrance.
All the faces grew wide as they took their first look around the cozy common room.
"Girls dorm to the left, boys' dorm to the right," Lily explained. "And boys, no going into the girls dormitory. It won't allow it."
Some of the boys sniggered before the group scattered. Lily took her time going up the stairs. Her leg still ached with some pain. She heard arguing from behind the door. She sighed before going through the barrier.
"Dinah get your shit off my bed!" shrieked Camryn.
"There's nothing on it!"
Camryn looked down to see nothing on her bed. "Oh."
Dinah lost it. She rolled on her bed while shaking with laughter. Tears were falling out of Dinah's eyes from laughing so hard.
Jensen was sitting pleasantly on her bed. Lily noticed the extra bed that hadn't been used since the fifth member of the Gryffindor sixth years left suddenly at the end of third year, was now being occupied by Jensen. The girls all suspected that the last occupant of that bed had been a bit odd. She really hadn't any friends while she was here.
Together, the five beds all fit wonderfully. A large steel heater sat in the middle, which for the time being, was turned off.
Kaelin sat at the end of her bed. Her legs dangled over the edge of the dark maroon comforter. Lily made her way to the other side of the room. Her bed sat in between Kaelin's and Dinah's.
"I'm so tired," groaned Lily settling into the warmth of her covers.
"How are you feeling?" asked Kaelin, jumping onto Lily's bed barely missing her bad leg. "Oh, sorry!"
"It's okay. It's not up to par yet, but I'll be fine in a couple days."
"So, Potter was being your Knight-in-Shining-Armor, eh?" sniggered Camryn, sitting on Dinah's bed.
"Oh, I bet that's what he thinks."
"You should have seen him handled you," explained Dinah standing up. Lily looked at her oddly. "No, not like that, wow you have a dirty mind. He really thought you were going to die or something dreadful."
"It was very sweet of him to carry you all the way up to Hogwarts," Kaelin added dramatically.
By now Lily's friends had surrounded her bed. Jensen admired them from a distance.
"Okay Jensen," Lily said startling the brunette. "You need to put this shy girl thing aside. If you are going to be friends with us, you actually need to talk. So get your ass over here and join the fun!"
Jensen's lime green eyes glowed with happiness. "I'm just nervous, I guess. I've never moved away from my home before."
"You'll feel right at home here."
"By the way, welcome to Hogwarts."
The next morning, people began awakening no later than eight. Kaelin, of course, was the first one to wake. She took her shower in peace, and was underneath her covers before any other sixth year Gryffindor girls were awake. Then the madness started once Camryn and Dinah awoke. Jensen bolted in before either of them could protest.
"Oh Jensen's got a sneaky side!" shouted Camryn at the closed shower.
It doesn't make any sense to only put one shower in a girls' dorm room. It just seems like one of the stupidest things to do. Lily groaned from her bed. "C-Rae, it's not normal for people to yell so loud in the morning."
"Oh Emer," sighed Camryn dramatically. "Did I disrupt your beauty sleep?"
Jensen exited the bathroom with a towel around her head. Dinah beat Camryn to the door.
"Oh you bitch!"
Lily climbed out of bed. Her leg was extremely stiff. She walked around the room for a couple minutes. She winced, it was still sore.
"How is it?" Jensen asked shaking out her wet dark brown hair. Lily did a drying spell for her. "Thanks."
"No problem. It's feeling a lot better, but it still hurts some."
"What did you do exactly?"
"Climbed out of the window, and slit my leg on the broken glass."
"Ouch," she said, pulling on her school robes. "Are you going to shower?"
"I took one early this morning."
"Oh, I see. You've got it covered!"
"Hells yeah I do. Come, I'll take you down to eat."
"Okay."
Lily walked passed Kaelin and slapped her butt. "Breakfast!"
Kaelin threw off her covers, and grabbed her robes. She completely ignored the fact that her hair looked like a nest. Lily pointed her wand at Kaelin's hair. Her hair instantly fell into soft curls.
"Thanks," she said quickly without stopping from running around the room looking for her things.
The three left Dinah and Camryn to come down later. The girls made their way into the busy Great Hall. They crossed the Hufflepuff table to where Gryffindor's table sat against the wall. They sat down in their normal seats at the end of the table.
"It felt good to sleep in a warm bed," sighed Kaelin stretching her arms above her head.
"Tell me about it. I'm all achy though, but it beats my bed at Hell House," said Lily.
"How was the step-mum?" asked Kaelin reaching for a bagel.
"As horrible as she has ever been," Lily grimaced. "I took refuge in my basement skating with Veronica."
"Did you skate a lot?"
"Everyday. It feels like a month since I've skated last, I miss it already."
"You probably won't be able to for awhile," state Kaelin.
"When it starts to snow I'll go on the lake, but for now I'm sticking to the Room of Requirement."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" voiced Jensen.
"Oh, I ice skate," Lily said, "have been since I was about four."
"She's amazing," said Kaelin.
"Oh yeah, I'm just awesome," Lily said sarcastically.
"Wow, I wish I was coordinated enough to do something like that. I only play Quidditch."
Kaelin's face lit up. "You play, wonderful! I'm the Seeker, what are you?"
"Beater."
"Our Beater left last year. You have a good chance of making the team then. Sirius is our other beater."
"I'll just be tuning you people out now," Lily said turning all her attention to her breakfast.
The two girls continued talking about Quidditch. Professor McGonagall walked by the group, and handed out the new course schedules. "Miss Evans and Miss Williams," she said handing the pair their separate schedule. "Miss Gregg, we received recommendations from your other school. If you have any problems you can talk to me. Oh, and welcome to Hogwarts."
"Thank you!" Jensen said brightly. "I'm so excited to begin classes."
"Will you hold onto Miss Lawler and Miss McKeys' tables?" asked McGonagall before she walked away.
"We have all classes together," Kaelin stated, "except I have Ancient Runes, Emer, you have Arithmancy. I bet Cam has Care of Magical Creatures, and Ruby probably didn't take any extra classes. What about you, Jen?" Kaelin said this all extremely fast. It was a habit of hers.
Lily glanced at Jensen's paper. "She has Arithmancy, so do I!"
"How many classes are you taking Lils?"
"Eh, six or seven."
"Freak. Well, look who decided to join us," laughed Kaelin.
Camryn and Dinah plopped onto the bench. "We got our new tables," groaned Camryn, "wonderful."
"So begins the new year of Hogwarts," Dinah said dramatically.
The following week, Dumbledore made an exciting announcement after everyone had finished eating their dinner.
Dumbledore clapped his hands together, the long sleeves of his periwinkle robes sliding over his hands momentarily. "Ah yes, I have a quick announcement to share with you all. It has been many years since this has actually taken place. But it is my pleasure to announce that this year Hogwarts will be hosting the Wizards Musical."
Excitement flooded the faces of those who understood what Dumbledore was talking about. Lily, Jensen, and Camryn looked at Dumbledore oddly. "What the hell is he talking about?" wondered Camryn a little too loudly.
"Well, Miss Lawler," Dumbledore said, smiling, "it is like a play but with music. Surely you've heard of them. Well every couple years the three largest European Wizarding schools come together to make a performance that will be shown at the end of the year to all of the wizarding community. It hasn't happened for the past twenty years, for reasons I am still unclear on. But this year we have talked endlessly about how we were going to accomplish this task. We finally decided that Hogwarts would hold our fellow schools here, since our location is more neutral. The students from our neighboring schools, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, will be arriving in the next month."
"Is Quidditch still on?" Potter asked loudly.
Dumbledore chuckled. "Yes, Quidditch will still be played, Mr. Potter." Potter sighed dramatically, allowing a couple of girls to swoon. "Although, instead of our inner-house Quidditch cup we will form two teams that will compete against those of the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons Quidditch teams. Madam Hooch, Professor Flitwick, and Professor McGonagall will hold a meeting for any of those that wish to compete in this Quidditch season. Sadly, if you wish to play Quidditch you must participate somehow in the Musical."
Groans emitted from Sirius and James. "That's not fair!" shouted Sirius. "We won't have the time."
"I know that when the students arrive, Hogwarts will treat them with the up most respect," he continued as if he hadn't been interrupted. "We will have more information about the Musical and Quidditch Tournament later. For now, off to beds."
With a sweeping gesture, all the food disappeared from the plates. All remained was sparkling clean plates. The students took that as their cue to leave the Great Hall and head up to their common rooms. Chatter of the news followed Lily and her friends out of the Hall.
"A Wizard Musical?" outraged Sirius. "Are they mental? Who wants to do a musical for wizards?"
"I think it sounds like a good idea," said Camryn.
"Yeah, I think it would be fun to be in a musical!" added Dinah.
"But that's not fair that if we want to play Quidditch we have to be in the stupid musical," complained Potter. "It's hard enough to do just Quidditch."
"Oh, quit your complaining," said Lily.
"Well, I don't see you doing anything now Evans," Potter rounded on her.
Everyone in the near vicinity of the pair took one gigantic step back and shook their heads in dismay, knowing what was to come.
"And what is that supposed to mean, Potter?" spat Lily, clearly not finding her being singled out by James Potter anything remotely nice.
"I don't see you doing anything for this school. All you do is study. You don't play Quidditch; you aren't in any other group for this school. What do you do for this school?" he wondered smugly, thinking he had won this argument.
Dinah tried to force herself between the quarrelling pair. Lily shoved her friend out of the way, mentally making a note to apologize for it later.
"I work very hard to do well in my studies. Just because I don't sit on a broom and whiz around a field trying to catch balls doesn't make me anymore inadequate than you," Lily said folding her arms across her chest.
"Fine, if you think you're so grand, why don't you try out for the musical? Seeing as I have to be in it, if I want to play Quidditch, we can decide who is better after it's all over," Potter suggested.
Lily immediately said, "Fine. What happens when I win?"
James smiled. "I'll think of something."
"No, when I win," Lily said firmly, "you will leave me alone forever."
He showed no change of emotion. "Alright, and when I win, you have to go on a date with me."
"Thank Merlin that will never happen," sighed Lily starting off with her friends.
"Wait Evans," Potter said coming up behind her.
"What?" she shouted.
"We each have to try out for the lead part." Then he simply held his hand out to her. "Deal?"
Lily grabbed his hand firmly, shaking it with all the power she could muster. "Deal, Potter."
Kaelin twisted Lily around by the shoulders and walked off. Once around the corner, Lily laid her head on her friends shoulder. "What have I gotten myself into?"
---what fun would it be if James and Lily didnt get into any fights?? review loves.
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