Bonjour all! I'm BACK! I know alot of you probably hate me. But I will tell you why it took me so long. First off, I was in Canada for 3 weeks on a teen tour, as explained, my uncle had a heart attack, the week I came back ALL my friends were anxious to see me and demanded we see each other, then the week after that I went to Costa Rica (it's SOO beautiful there) and I've been working on updates and this chapter since I got home which was hard cause I had volunteer work, getting ready for school (NOOOO!), see family, have parties, and I was just lazy also.
Something happened with the writings too when I put them in. If you notice, for some reason the last line for the recap isnt in any of them! But i'm too lazy to fix it (sry) so I'm not gonna do that anymore. Sorry.
Also, I will be a little slow in the next xhapter (SO SORRY!) It's just that school starts this Thurs (NOOOOO!!!) and with all honors classes, homework will probably be hell especially in History (My teach is the one I had last year and she is a complete essay-aholic)
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'I can feel something inside of me. A power. It wants to come out.' Lily thought as she did the movements, feeling a faint energy in her chest lightly pounding, as if trying to break free.
…
There was a small bursting sound and Dawn and Alec turned to see Lily holding a small fire in her hand, her eyes wide in amazement. She looked up at them with a smile.
"It worked."
"Oh my god."
Lily smiled wider as the small, but bright flame flickered and grew splowly in her hand but a frown suddenly appeared on her face, confusing the other two. "Umm... now what?"
Alec quickly got over the feeling of shock and being impressed and grabbed the book across the table to see what to do next and quickly scanned the page before finding what Lily wanted.
"Says here, you should first try to make it bigger by imagining it growing. After that, you should slowly try to juggle it between the two hands. If you should get tired, stop immediately by imagining a fire being extinguished, such as with water or stomped out. Failure to immediately stop it says 'is at your own risk of draining all your energy, magical and none, and have placed even the most powerful wizards, into a vegetable state'." He looked up and watched as Lily cautiously made the fire in her hand grow slightly faster, until it was about the size of a soccer ball.
"Wicked," Dawn said to herself smiling.
Lily couldn't help but have a large smile come over her face, feeling proud and accomplished. I mean, wouldn't you? She had created fire and was now manipulating it! How would YOU feel?
After a couple minutes of experimenting and playing around with the flame, Lily began to feel a bit tired from her magic being drained from the fire as the book had warned. She stopped moving it around and after replacing it back to a smaller size (at least the size of a baseball) Lily slowly imagined a fire suddenly being extinguished by water. The fire went out suddenly, as well as did a small tumble of smoke come.
The three coughed slightly at the sudden appearance of smoke and fanned it away.
Before the smoke had even finished clearing up, the group was leaving, Lily carrying the book with Dawn and Alec following.
The three walked in the shadows but talked quietly; so quietly no person but themselves could hear.
"Lily! That was amazing!"
"Yeah. But next time, don't imagine the water. Water on fire equals lots of smoke."
"Yeah Lily. We're gonna totally reek of smoke now."
Lily smiled sheepishly, knowing the others could see her even in the pure blackness of the empty the hallway. "Sorry guys. Kinda forgot."
For a few moments, there was silence with the exception of their very light footsteps before Alec finally spoke spoke, quietly. "How'd you do it?"
Lily paused and thought for a moment. How HAD she done it? Suddenly Remembering, she tried to answer in a way that would make the most sense to them. "I-I don't know. I felt this…power inside of me. I did as the book said and…after awhile... it just sort of… happened."
They continued talking quietly while walking back to the dorm. Needless to say, the Fat Lady wasn't all that happy to be woken at such a late hour, but after only a bit of complaining, she let them in. Upon entering the Common Room, they said their good nights before splitting off to go to their own dorms.
Upon entering his dorm, Alec stopped mid-step seeing that James was awake, currently reading a book that didn't look like a Quidditch book. Did- did that say Great Expectations? Now this was something that surprised Alec (he didn't think James would actually read when bored, especially Charles Dickens!) but he would be sure to tell the girls later.
"Umm… hi," Alec said awkwardly.
James looked up at him surprised at his appearance and put the book down, disabling Alec from seeing the title, though it was already too late. He was surprised to see Alec suddenly. He hadn't even heard the door open. "Oh, hey. How was practice?"
Alec shrugged, deciding he didn't need to embarrass the other boy by asking what he was reading. "It was okay. We didn't get anything but headaches. Well, Lily did but I guess it'll just take time for Dawn and me."
"What did Lily get," James asked, his face questioning and clearly interested in this information.
Alec paused before responding. He knew that Lily had basically told him they could trust the Marauders but he was still pretty uncomfortable with telling them everything.
"She created fire." He said it so softly that he thought James couldn't have heard it but he apparently did as he saw James' eyes widened. "You serious?" Alec just nodded and James looked at him in amazement. "Wow."
"Yeah. Well, is that why you were up? To ask me?"
James shook his head. "No. I just had a bad dream and woke up only a few minutes ago."
"Oh. I see. Well, I'll be going to bed now." Alec went and changed and fell asleep, leaving an awake James to think of what Alec had just told him.
'She created fire? That takes incredible magic… Maybe next time I'll follow them with the cloak…'
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The next few days went on with little difference. The Marauders had gotten closer to the three vampires and were now sitting next to each other at meals and were actually talking to one another on friendly terms.
"So, Dawn has lived with you since first year Lily?" Lily nodded at Peter's question as the others listened. It was currently dinner on Friday and everyone was pretty excited for the Hogsmeade day tomorrow.
"So that why I saw you two together during Christmas!" James had finally put two and two together and was quite proud of himself while this made Lily and Dawn smile slightly.
"Yeah. Every year, we go out to dinner in London for Christmas. I was quite surprised to see you there though," Lily responded.
James nodded. "Yeah, we weren't supposed to go there but my parents decided it would be nice to go to a muggle resteraunt and not a wizarding one. They didnt want to be bothered by paprazzi following them." With James' dad being one of the Ministry's top Aurors, alot of reporters and photgraphers often follwed the family around for stories.
Peter continued asking questions. "But, what about you Alec? Dawn lived at the orphanage and with Lily. Where were you?"
Alec hid the feeling of panic with a cool expression. "I was in America with a family that had adopted me from a different orphanage Dawn had been in." This was the story that Lily and Dawn came up with. No one would be able to question him that much and know whether he was lying as he was from "America" and not from a family residing in England or up north near Hogwarts brother school, Durmstrang. After all, the three vampires couldn't exactly tell everyone that Alec had lived with Voldemort all these years. Think of how the reactions to that would be. They would be sent straight to Azkaban!
Sirius glanced up from his plate full of food with a mischievous look in his eyes. "Oh really? So, are the American girls hot there or what?"
"I guess. I mean, I never really got serious with a girl. Where I lived was all muggles so it would've been a pain to be in a relationship and hiding the fact that I'm a wizard. Also, I was pretty quiet so I didn't really go out that much."
"Oh."
There was an awkward silence before Sirius began ranting on about some hot 5th year girls he had seen earlier and Dawn spoke to Lily. 'Oh yeah Lily. I'm meeting Nick from the other group tonight so don't wait up for me.'
Lily looked concerned for a second before she retained an emotionless appearance. 'Do you want me to go with you?'
Nick was a vampire of the coven Coiratra, a nearby group of vampires that had been going into Lily and Dawn's hunting territory recently. They were scheduled to meet with the co-leader, Nick, about the issue. Vampires were very protective of their hunting grounds and often, would fight over it. The two groups wanted to settle things calmly however, not fight.
'No,' said Dawn. 'I'll be fine. After all, remember the last time you met with another group? Almost tore their bloody heads off.' Lily smiled inwardly at remembering the time she had once been so upset by another coven, she had almost, as Dawn said, LITERALLY ripped their heads off. Dawn continued. 'But how about you and Alec take a break from practice tonight? We've done it every single night and you deserve a break. You could use a reboot.'
"Yeah. That's a good idea." She tuned back to the Marauders and Sirius' interesting conversation on how to know if a girl is a good kisser without actually kissing her. Deciding to end this pointless conversation, Lily interrupted when Sirius paused to take a breath. "I've been meaning to ask you guys. Have you ever considered having the Slytherins sing Pink Floyd?"
The boys just stared at her. "Who?"
Lily rolled her green eyes at their wizard naivety. "They're only one of the best muggle rock bands EVER! I know we're just learning to get along but I've had many ideas for the Slytherins." She smiled innocently though anyone could tell she was anything but.
The boys looked at each other before smiling back at Lily. "Outside the common room tonight. Eleven o'clock."
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As the clock struck 11, most students were already in their dorms sleeping. That is, except for the few slackers pulling all-nighters for projects and essays or simply the students not tired and hanging out down by the fire to avoid awakening their sleeping roommates.
Everyone was so pre-occupied, no one noticed a shadow creep through the shadows from the girls dorm staircase, through the Common Room and opening the portrait door only ever so slightly to fit.
As soon as Lily closed the portrait door, she saw the Marauders already there, James with his invisibility cloak making his holding hand not visible.
James took a glance at the cloak and then the large group in front of him, and then back to the cloak. Lily immediately knew what he was thinking and interrupted. "I don't need the cloak. I can blend into the shadows just fine."
James just nodded and as he put the cloak over him and his 3 friends, Lily saw them disappear behind it.
They began walking down towards the dungeons, Lily ahead of them all with the three wondering how she was so silent and hard to see. They had already passed Filch and two inspecting Heads and not once had she been seen.
Finally arriving, James took out the map and seeing the password, said "Slythering Snakes", opening the large portrait into the dark Common Room. Wasting no time, the group split, Sirius and Remus to the boys dorm and Lily and James to the girls. Peter was to keep watch out in the Common Room and use the Marauder Mirror (a clever invention of Remus made in 2nd year) to contact the others.
As Lily and James came up the stairs, they went to the 7th years first. They planned on going from oldest to youngest, putting not as strong a spell on the younger students. One by one, the two put spells on the girls and went down to the sixth year girls. When Lily reached Bellatrix Black, a cousin to Sirius and a true Dark Arts supporter, Lily smirked as she thought of an idea. She cast the spell and continued on her wayand repeated the same spell only one dorm down for Bellatrix's youngerr sister, Narcissa.
Once reaching the 1st years, Lily and James slipped in and finishing the spells was about to walk out when one of the girls stirred at the sound of James foot on a creaking board. Lily grabbed James and they slipped into a cornerr of the room deep in the shdows, avoiding sight. Slowly the Slytherin first year sat up and looked around tiredly before getting out of her bed to go to the bathroom.
Lily kept her hand on James' mouth to keep him from making a sound, and kept her ears open to hear when the girls would return and fall back asleep. James could only stand there in the corner, watching Lily's face in concentration. It was then that he realized just how close they were. Their bodies were so close to one another and he couldnt help but notice the faint smell of jasmine from her smooth red hair and to feel her smooth skin from her hand covering his lips.
Woah woah WOAH! Where was all this coming from?! He HATED Lily Evans! Well, maybe not HATE anymore, seeing as they were slowly becoming friends, but STILL! The two were complete OPPOSITES! He was cool, popular, and captain of the Quidditch team and she, a loner with only two friend and... Well, basically, NOT HIM!. And now here he was thinking of how good her hair smelt and how nice her nice, soft and cool skin felt against-
Wait. Cool skin? That wasn't right either... Shouldn't skin be WARM? Now James was confused. Shaking his thoughts, he saw Lily now looking where the figure of the girl could be seen walking to her bed.
Lily couldn't help but feel slightly uncomfortable with James Potter so close to her, but it was the only way to avoid being seen or heard. The truth of the matter was that Lily had never actually been this close to a guy except with her ex-boyfriend (a fellow vampire named Jake Masters), but that had ended last summer and on pretty bad terms. She had gotten plenty of offeres throughout the years to go out with guys who risked their social status by asking her out, but she always rejected them, cold and hard. She couldn't afford to have a relationship with a regular human. It was too risky, with her being the way she was and all the trouble she got into.
Her thoughts were interupted when she felt a puff of warm breath blow onto her hand. Such warmth. She could feel it in James' skin against her own cool skin against his mouth. She looked up, away from the figure of the 1st year Slytherin and saw a pair of hazel eyes looking dierectly at her. They seemed so familiar... Almost as if she had seen them before...
Lily quickly shook away her thoughts and turned her head away quickly. She tried again to ignore James' stare and continued watching the girl, listening for her breaths to even.
After about 5 minutes, the Slytherin girl was finally alseep. Lily jerked her hand away from James' mouth and she walked quickly but silently to the girl's bed and performed the spell on her before hurrying to the door. She turned noticing James hadn't moved. She spoke so softly, James almost couldn't hear her. "James. Come on."
James quickly followed making little noise and began following Lily down when she stopped suddenly, making him almost slam into her. "Don't tell anyone." She quickly hurried down the stairs as James stood there for but a second, getting his mind back off of Lily Evans and back into Pranking mode.
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The clock struck one as the Marauders and Lily entered the Common Room, the boys snickering and Lily with a small smile. They had just infiltrated the Slytherin Common Room making everything an electric pink and lime green color and putting a spell on all the Slytherins themselves for a big laugh the next morning.
As they quieted down, Alec came down from the stairs. He had stayed in. "Hey. Take it you guys had fun?"
The boy's laughed and Lily smiled at Alec. "Oh man, Alec. Just wait till you see it tomorrow. It's gonna be hilarious."
"What's gonna be hilarious?"
They turned to see Dawn standing before them in a black miniskirt and black and red tight corset top with black knee length boots and a curious smile on her face, her hair looking a bit messy, all of it covering one side of her neck.
As the boys, minus Alec and Remus just stared at her, Alec spoke. "What are you wearing?"
"Oh, Alec. Relax. What I'm wearing isn't important." She turned towards the Marauders. "I want to know what to expect for tomorrow morning."
Peter spoke, with a blush on his cheeks. "We-we pranked the Sly-Slyth-Slytherins."
She rolled her eyes and replied sarcastically,"Oh wow. Reeaal descriptive. I never would've guessed you PRANKED someone."
'Lily. The deal with Nick's group is good. They got some of our territory but we still have most of the Forest and in the summer months, they get it all.'
'Sounds good to me. And what else did you guys do?' Lily glanced at Dawn's hair covered neck and Dawn flushed slightly.
'I don't know what you're talking about', Dawn responded in fake innocence.
"Now, c'mon. Someone PLEASE tell me."
"We made the Slytherin common room hot pink and lime green and charmed them for tomorrow at breakfast," said Remus.
"Oh man, I can't wait to see it."
At that moment, James suddenly realized something. He and the Marauders and Lily had been out pranking Slytherins, Alec had stayed behind. But Dawn had gone somewhere else and by her appearnce, it certainly wasn't school oriented . "Wait. Where were you?" Dawn smiled innocently and Lily answered seeing her friend's hair move away from her neck slightly to reveal a 2 red marks that looked like hickeys to the guys but Lily and Alec knew better. "Take a good guess."
Lily looked at her watch and saw it to almost be 1:10. "Come Dawn. We should go to sleep now. Same for you guys." She nodded at the boys. "See you tomorrow. Night."
"Night."
The two girls turned towards their staircase and walked up.
Remus glanced to see an angry looking Alec and Peter asked tentatively, "Were those… what I think they were?" The rest of the boys just nodded and were silent.
James was the first to speak. "Well, what do you guys say we get to bed? Don't want to be too tried for tomorrow." The boys agreed and went up with Alec.
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The next morning was a dreary day, with heavy set fog. Everyone was in a crappy mood except Lily who adored this dreary foggy weather. But everyone was about to get a bit cheered up. Well, everyone that except the Slytherins.
It was just like any other breakfast, the Slytherins having not yet arrived due to the problem in their Common Room, word of the new interior of their Common Room already spreading. After about 10 minutes, they all finally came in and sat at the table, ignoring the laughs they received.
The Marauders and Lily all looked at each other. Giving the thumbs up to Remus, he flicked his wand that was underneath the table and the lights turned off. There were screams and murmuring. A light suddenly turned on over the Slytherins who were now standing on top of the table. There was more murmuring before it was stopped by the sound of music suddenly playing and Lucius began singing and quite off-key.
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher leave them kids alone.
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kid alone!
The Slytherins at this pointed at the teachers who were just staring shocked at this sudden performance.
All in all it's just a-nother brick in the wall.
All in all it's just a-nother brick in the wall.
The Slytherins got up off the table and divided themselves up, different groups going to different tables or staying at their own. Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, along with three other Slytherin girls, went up to the Professor's table, dancing with what McGonnagal thought was "profane and disturbing" dance moves. All the Slytherins began to sing again, louder with more enthusiasm, in very off key voices.
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher leaves us kids alone.
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
Suddenly, the lights went back to normal, making the song stop, and the Slytherins jolted, looking around, wondering what they were doing spread out through out the Great Hall. Some jumped off the tables they were on, others ran away from any of the "blood traitors" they were near.
Laughter echoed throughout the Great Hall, McGonnagal looking positively livid.
"MARAUDERS!"
The boys looked up at her and smiled innocently. "Yes Professor McGonnagal?"
McGonnagal's face was red with anger. "What is the MEANING OF THIS?!"
James put his hands in front of him and smiled innocently. "Well Professor, do you have any proof it was us?"
"Yeah Micky. You can't go around saying it was us without evidence." Sirius said, his nickname for McGonnagal getting her angrier.
Her face looked shocked for a moment and as she looked for a response. Remus continued. "Professor, you have no evidence we did this. Thus, we are innocent till proven guilty."
With the last word, the Marauders got up leaving McGonnagal standing there. Lily looked next to Dawn next to her. "Well?"
Dawn just nodded, still laughing. Lily looked at Alec and saw that he too was laughing.
Oh yeah. It felt good to prank the Slytherins.
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Footsteps were heard in the long, dark hallway. The person was scared. Anyone would be when they had to talk to the Dark Lord himself, be it prisoners or even the followers themselves. The respected him but they never knew if they had done the right thing or not in the Lord's eyes until they were either rewarded or destroyed.
Their Lord was powerful. And with this power, came terror and fear.
The man reached a large set of doors and taking in a deep breath, opened them putting a brave face on so the Dark Lord would not see fear.
"Yes?" The horrible voice almost made the man show fear but he stayed cool-faced.
He bowed deep to his master and talked to him in a kneeling position on the floor, his eyes staying to the ground. "My Lord. We've received more information from Agent Delarosa. Apparently, Dumbledore is confused by our attacks. He is unaware as to who we will target next and that scares him slightly. He has a fear for his students' family. Slytherins included."
Keeping his head down, the man heard a rustle of robes. "Hmmm… Dumbledore confused? By me?" There was a pause. "Are you sure this is what the message said?" The man could hear the sound of evil in his masters voice and fought himself to not tremble .
"Yes my Lord," the man said nodding and still looking to the ground. He moved his hand to his sleeve and extracted the note sent by Agent Delarosa. "I have here the message sent."
It was snatched out of his hand and he flinched inwardly knowing that the Dark Lord himself was not pleased at this information he had brought. "Hmm… I see… I want you to tell Malfoy and the Blacks to keep their eyes on him. Got it?"
The man nodded.
"Good. Now leave." The man quickly got up and walked out slowly with a calm disposition. The moment he closed those doors, he breathed a sigh of relief and practically ran from that dark room.
Back in the room, The Dark Lord was looking at the note. 'Something isn't right here… Dumbledore can't scare this easily… Alec is lying.'
OMG! VOLDEMORT KNOWS ALEC IS LYING! What now?! Hee-hee… you'll see soon enough… so sry it took me awhile and if it's not good… But I hope you liked it!
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"It's a pinecone!"- your best friend
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