Hey, its me. Long time, no write! But I promise you, you won't be disappointed with this chapter and I tried to make it long. No real excuse for not updating but busy as hell. Took my midterms, a French Regents, wrote a paper for English, and am now setting up my schedule for nextyear. But I'm sure you all understand I have a life outside of fanfiction. Well, enough about me! Here's the reviewers and then the story!
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Lily ignored Professor Binns as she watched Alec, doodling on his parchment. She wondered what exactly he was thinking about and what exactly he was planning on doing about the new problem at hand.
Voldemort.
After she had revealed Voldemort knowing about the lies, Alec had remained silent all the way back to the Gryffindor dorms and had stayed in his dorm for the rest of Saturday and all day Sunday. She suspected he had been thinking about what to do. Or panicking.
The Marauders had asked if he was ok (they had rarely seen him without the girls) and Lily had replied that he "hadn't been feeling well yesterday and probably had a bug".
But both Dawn and herself had put themselves on top guard. They had gone out hunting both Saturday night and last night to keep their energy at top level, skipping the Dark Arts practice they had scheduled for Sunday night. And they had spent their Breakfast wandering through the minds of the Slytherins, specifically those they were sure were connected as Death Eaters, but had found nothing but pounding headaches.
Lily sighed as she turned back to her notes. She wasn't really in the mood for the development of the Oriental Ministry in Asia in the 16th century today (though it could easily be said her classmates felt the same by their blank faces, note passing, and sleeping, as Dawn and two Marauders were doing).
She couldn't help but glance at James as he sat in his chair arms crossed and head up to the ceiling, mouthing numbers, probably counting the number of tiles in the ceiling (that would take awhile as there were 568 from Lily's past times counting them).
Ever since that night in the Slytherin dorms, she had felt a bit weird when thinking about or looking at James. She felt… Well, she didn't rightfully now how she felt. All she knew was that she hadn't been able to forget the way she had felt so close to him. Couldn't forget looking in his hazel eyes, the feel of his warm skin...
She shook her head, ridding herself of her thoughts. 'No. I won't think about this. He's James Potter, leader of the Marauders, Quidditch captain. This is stupid to even be thinking about him.'
The bell suddenly rang, bringing Lily out of her thoughts and she stuffed her books and quill into her black backpack, hurrying out of the classroom waiting for Dawn and Alec outside the doorway.
She glanced at James as he walked past her, hearing him talk to Sirius about the next full moon which was only next week. Remus was next to them with his head in a book about the Wizard Rebellions in 1490, and Peter lagging behind them as usual.
Alec came up beside her and they waited for Dawn, who was the last on out of the room from sleeping. The three finally came together and going down the hallway to the stairs, they split. Lily and Alec to Ancient Runes and Dawn to Advanced Care of Magical Creatures.
Dawn went off, down the stairs while Lily and Alec went up. Finally reaching their destination, the two sat down, watching other students fill in the seats.
That day, Lily didn't hear a word of what was being taught, but self meditated, trying to calm herself and clear her mind of everything; of Voldemort, of that damn Transfiguration essay due Wednesday, and of James Potter.
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It was after dinner now, with only James and Remus in the dorm. Alec was in the library (he had been acting pretty weird since Saturday night), Sirius was out snogging god knows who and Peter was… well, James and Remus weren't completely sure where he was. He had told them he was going to the owelery but that had been an hour ago. But they didn't worry. Knowing Peter, he probably got distracted by a painting or a ghost.
Remus sighed, looking up at the calendar above his bead, seeing next Tuesday circled. Damn. He really didn't want to go through that pain again. The pain he had felt every month since he was seven was always unbearable. He hated the thing he became; he wasn't himself, but some new monster.
James looked up from his Transfiguration essay to his friend, an understanding look on his face.
But James was focused on other things right now, and it wasn't Transfiguration. He had been reading the Dark Creatures Encyclopedia on vampires since he had bought the book and he was beginning to notice some things that seemed a bit strange and too coincidental.
One thing was the Delarosa coven. The picture, as James had noted in the book store, did indeed look much like Dawn and Alec. AND, they had the same names as two of the four children of the coven leaders, Niall and Alexia.
Then there was Lily. The same went for her, with the extreme similarities of her appearance with the Lumos coven leaders. And she fit the typical description of a vampire.
Pale, tendency to shy away from those she didn't know (a technique many, though not all, vampires used to avoid conflict with Muggles, witches, and wizards), cold skin...
James shook his head at the memory of Lily's cool skin against his own that night in the Slytherin dorms. He had just been starting to forget too.
He was interrupted from his thoughts of vampires and Lily as Sirius came in, hair and clothes a mess, lip gloss showing on his face. He had a pleasant smile on.
"Hey guys. What you up to?"
He grabbed at the parchment James was writing on and after reading for a few seconds, said, "Oy James. Why are you doing this now? It's not due till Wednesday."
James just shrugged. "I dunno. Nothing else really to do with you and Peter out."
"Oh that's all! I was beginning to worry that you were trying to be a good student." Sirius laughed out a bark of a laugh and James chuckled.
Remus suddenly spoke. "You guys want to go to Hogsmeade tonight?"
James and Sirius glanced at each other. That was a very rare non-Remus thing that had just happened. Remus suggesting to go out on a school night. But they decided it was good idea instantly.
"All right Remus. Let's go." Sirius went to go leave at that exact moment but was stopped seeing neither James nor Remus move. "Well, are we going or not?"
"Sirius, we should wait for Peter."
"Oh, yeah."
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Lily thumped onto her bed, letting her body go loose trying to get rid of the tension she felt in her muscles. God it felt good to just relax. Along with the transfiguration essay she was assigned, she had to research some spells for DADA, a paper for
Potions on energy boosting potions, and also had a Astronomy class tomorrow at midnight.
She heard the door open and saw in the corner of her eye Dawn walk in, throwing her bag down and thumping down next to Lily.
"You tired too?"
Lily just nodded as the two girls laid there in peace, letting their minds drift off. The two didn't even notice the other girls come in until they heard Sherry.
"So, I don't know what to wear. I mean, I love my pink blazer with my bell bottoms but I also love my black and red jumper with those black jeans." Sherry was gabbling with her posse, ignoring the other two girls, absorbed in her latest fashion crisis.
'Ugh. I just wanna get out of here.'
'Yeah. Same here. Hey. Let's go out tonight. Unwind a bit, you know. Party and maybe get some drinks.'
Dawn smiled slightly at Lily's reference to both the alcohol and blood they would have. 'Sure, sounds good to me.'
'Kay then. We'll just wait till those swelled-headed witches calm down and fall asleep.'
'Kay.' There was another silence between them as they drifted into their own world, completely ignoring the others.
It wasn't until 11:00 that the girls went to bed, and even then, Lily and Dawn waited another hour, waiting for the giggling and whispers to stop. Hearing silence, the two girls got up silently and changed.
Lily put on her red plaid mini-skirt with a black studded belt, black fishnets and black knee high, laced up boots. She had a black silk corset top on (showing some cleavage) and black, red lined arm gloves. Using a spell, she put pieces of black in her hair and put on her regular eye liner and red lip gloss. Her eyebrow piercing was a plain, small silver hoop, a black choker, and had a simple black studded bracelet on her wrist.
Dawn was wearing a black tank top corset-like top with a blue ribbon tying it together and a dark blue, almost black mini-skirt with silver chains hanging from it, black fishnets and black boots like Lily's. She left her hair the way it was and gave her eyes a smoky effect and using natural colored lip gloss. She had for a bracelet a thin black ribbon braided with charms on it and her usual moon necklace.
The girls placed their wands in their boots and took their fang jackets (A/N: Remember from chapter 4? The black leather with the moon and a fang in the middle) and ran quietly out of the dorm. It was only 15 minutes later that the girls found themselves halfway to Hogsmeade on the path.
"Lily, I'm worried about Alec."
"I know Dawn. But we've got to let him do what he thinks right." She then smiled mischievously. "Though I believe we have the right to intervene when we feel necessary."
Dawn smiled as well and they continued on their way, finally getting to the club Diamond Mine. They walked past the line of people waiting to get in to come to a large guy with a beard.
Lily smiled kindly at him. "Hey Hagrid. What's up?"
Hagris smiled back at the two girls. "Eh, nothing much. Just doin my job. Well, my second job."
Along with providing security for the club, Hagrid was also the Hogwart's "Keeper of the Keys", kind of just watching everything from afar but making sure things were kept in order (there had been an incident when he was younger that had caused his wand to be broken and Dumbledore had been kind enough to take him in).
"So, Hagrid. You wanna let us in," Dawn asked with a sweet smile.
"Oh, yeh girls know I couldin say no." He moved aside to let them in and he made a menacing look to the people waiting who were groaning but stopped at his look.
"Thanks Hagrid," both girls said simultaneously and made their way into the club, entering upon a full room of older teens and young adults dancing and drinking.
The name Diamond Mine was a pretty deceiving name. When thinking about it, a club with the word Diamond in it would seem pretty exclusive and ritzy. Now, it was exclusive but definitely not ritzy. It was a dark place, strobe light flashing and dim lights over the bar changing colors slowly from red to purple to blue and back to red. There were booths and tables along the edge of the large dance floor, with small black leather couches scattered along the edge of the dance floor to lie down on.
The girls went to the bar, and after Dawn downed a Long Island Iced Tea while Lily took a Bloody Mary, they left their jackets at the bar and went to the dance floor where most everyone was and began dancing.
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The hallways were dark and silent, paintings snoozing in their portraits, some snores emitted from them.
The silence was broken with the scuffle of feet, which anyone would probably think were rats. But what no one knew was that these sounds were the footsteps of four boys, stuffed in an invisibility cloak.
The shuffling continued down the hallway, going down a set or stairs, and through more hallways before reaching a statue of a one-eyed witch. A voice spoke in a hushed tone, "Dissendium", making the statue move, and the boys entered a new, pitch-black passageway.
They removed the cloak and each said "Lumos" and walked down the long dark passageway for at least 15 minutes before they came up under a wooden latch. They opened it slowly, after extinguishing their Lumoses. It wasn't long before they had reached their usual club, busy as usual with a long line of people waiting for entry.
Lucky for them, there was James.
He lead hs friends to the giant man at the entrance to the club. "Hello there Hagrid."
The half-giant looked down to see the Marauders in front of him and smiled widely. "Well, 'ello there."
"So Hagrid, I can make you a deal with some more Nifflers-" Seeing Hagrid's excited face, James continued. "-but, you need to let us in."
Hagrid didn't even give it a second thought before moving aside for them. " 'ere you guys are."
The boys passed him, going in with James handing Hagrid a slip of paper. "Owl me tomorrow."
James followed in after his friends to be met with a sudden blast of music and the sounds of laughing and people having a hell of a good time.
James watched as the group separated, Peter going to see the food options and Sirius running towards the closest single-looking pretty girl. James and Remus both went to the bar and watched their friend flirting with a nearby girl while Peter started stuffing his face out with cheese fries that had appeared within seconds.
Remus soon left the bar after seeing a shy looking blonde and James watched as his friend danced and laugh with her. It was good to see Remus happy. He deserved to be.
James was interrupted with the arrival of Sirius, looking none to happy.
"What's up Padfoot?"
Sirius motioned for the bar tender and ordered a Firewhiskey before facing James. "She has a fiancé."
James laughed at his friend who grabbed the Firewhiskey the moment it came into grasp and took a long drink, relaxing him. "Ah, that's good."
Shaking his head, James looked through the crowd for possible girls to flirt and dance with, maybe a snog too.
Apparently, Sirius had the same idea and was looking around finishing his drink in the process. It was only a minute before he pointed out someone.
"There," he pointed. "I claim the black haired one. You can have the red haired one." Without even waiting, Sirius set the empty drink down next to Peter, still eating, and dragged James through the crowded dance floor, to the center where the two girls Sirius had pointed out were.
Sirius broke apart from James, going to the black haired girl and leaving James to find someone for his own.
Seeing a flash of red, James turned slightly to see a redhead with black streaks; that must've been the one Sirius had been talking about. Not seeing her face, James could already tell she was hot. She had a hot body and looked like a rebel in her high knee boots, black fishnets, miniskirt and tight fitting top, showing off her assets, if you know what I mean.
He began walking towards her through the crowd, deciding that she was perfect.
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Lily moved her body to the music, lost in the beat. She had lost Dawn at least 10 minutes ago amongst the large crowd but she knew her friend was fine.
However, Lily couldn't help but feel a presence of some sort getting closer to her. It was familiar too…
As she danced, she tried to look through her hair that was getting in front of her eyes as she danced. Looking for familiar faces. Maybe some other coven's member that she had met at a meeting.
She pushed her hair back and suddenly found herself looking at a pair of hazel eyes. They looked so familiar… She had seen them before.
Letting her eyes break from the other pair was difficult but after doing so, her emerald eyes widened in shock, along with the hazel pair.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" came two voices exclaimed at the same time.
'Shit,' Lily thought to herself, taking in the figure of a surprised looking James Potter.
She knew she had some explaining to do.
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Sirius walked drunkenly to the black haired girl. Firewhiskey always had a quick effect on him… Grabbing her shoulder, he said, "Hey there babe."
The girl turned to him, her face difficult to see in the dark lighting and with the blurriness of his vision.
"Hey there yourself," came a slightly drunken sounding voice that sounded a little familiar. But Sirius didn't notice.
Instead, he smirked and pulled her closer to him. "You wanna have a little fun?"
The girl gave him a steamy kiss before he could say anything else and pulling away. He could hear her amusement. "You bet."
She grabbed his hand and the two went off the dance floor and into a dark corner of the club before they started having a makeout session.
Sirius was in paradise.
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Lily looked around her, realizing it was too loud to talk here. She took his hand and motioned to James to follow her, which he did, leading them back to the bar where the girl's jackets were. Upom arriving, Lily let go of James' hand and found herself missing the feeling of warmth she had felt.
"So, Lily. Never thought you were the clubbing girl." James smirked slightly.
Lily crossed her arms, her eyes remaining neutral, showing no emotion she might have been feeling. "There's a lot you don't know about me. And it's really Dawn that loves this type of thing."
James glanced around the sea of people. "Where is she anyway? I rarely see you guys without one another."
Lily remembered Dawn's favorite spot to have "drinks" and not even telling James yo follow, she began to make her way to a dark corner of the club. Reaching the corner, Lily saw her friend with a dark haired guy.
James came up from behind Lily and interrupted the couple in the corner. "Sirius?"
Sirius's eyes opened hearing his name and seeing James smiled and responded, "Hi there James. I'm jus havin a little fun with- "
He looked down at the girl he had been making out with and suddenly both Dawn and Sirius realized who one another were and…
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
Both ripped themselves from each other and glared.
"W-why are you here Kortz?" Sirius asked, rubbing his sleeve against his mouth.
Dawn crossed her arms before replying, "I should be asking you the same thing Black."
James stopped the developing argument between the two, reaching out to Sirius. "Sirius. What's that?"
James was pointing to two dark marks on Sirius' neck looking a bit bruised with some blood trickling down.
Dawn's eyes widened and she licked the blood off her lips and teeth quickly, not being noticed by the others but Lily.
"What's what? Is there something on me?" Sirius felt around his neck where James was pointing to, and moved his fingers feeling something wet. He pulled his hand away to see blood and his eyes widened.
Lily's head was full of thought wondering what to do, what to say and she glanced at Dawn with a guilty and upset look in her eyes.
Both boys turned now to the girls.
"What exactly happened Dawn?" Dawn glanced at James as he asked the question and seemed to be struggling with an answer, searching for the right words when all of a sudden, Lily spoke, with a slight tint of annoyance in her voice. "Dawn."
Dawn and the boys turned quickly to her, Dawn looking slightly guilty when she noticed Lily's body go tense.
Lily's emerald eyes looked straight into Dawn's blue-purple ones. "They're here. Jake and Caleb."
The two boys stared on, wondering what the hell was going on tonight. About to ask, James was interrupted by the sudden appearance of two boys, about their age.
The taller one had black hair, hanging in his eyes (giving him the bad boy look) which hung over his amber eyes. He was decked out in all black Goth-ware from the black chain pants to the eyeliner and black muscle tee.
The other one, tall but not as tall as his friend, also had black hair, though his shorter, and sea-green eyes, dressed the same as the other boy.
The taller one approached Lily and the other one, Dawn, completely ignoring James and Sirius. This kind of ticked both boys off. They weren't used to being ignored.
"Hey there girls," said the tall one.
James saw Lily clench her hands into fists as she replied in a tense, harsh tone, "Hello Jake."
Dawn glared at the other boy as he smiled at her. "Caleb," she said in a voice that mirrored Lily's.
Sirius and James looked at each other, giving the 'What the fuck is going on' look.
Jake ignored the harsh greeting and went to move towards Lily with his arms opened to give her a hug. James saw her flinch slightly and took a step towards them when Lily grabbed Jake's wrist and flipped him over, onto the hard ground and she placed her boot onto his throat to keep him down.
Caleb stopped smiling at this. "Aww, Lily. What's up with the cold attitude?"
Lily remained silent, focused on Jake and Dawn spoke. "The 'cold attitude' is what you get. We're over. Finished. And we told you jerks to never bother us again."
"You guys still can't be mad at us. It was a simple mist-ACK." Jake's talking was interrupted with Lily pushing her shoe into his throat, choking him slightly.
"Just do yourself a favor Jake, and shut the fuck up."
James had never heard a voice so cold. And he could see not only the annoyance that had been in her eyes before, but now hatred.
Lily stayed where she was for a little longer before moving her foot and stepping back, allowing Jake to get up.
"Damn," he said as he rubbed his throat getting up. "Still haven't lost that attitude or temper, eh, Lily?"
"Get. Out." She now had her wand out, taken from her boot, and held it before Jake, revealing to him her fangs, making special attention so that no one else saw.
This time, instead of talking back, he shrugged and looking at Caleb, nodded his head towards a back exit. Both walked away but not before Caleb yelled over the crowd, "See you later darlings."
Both girls stayed remained where they were until the boys were out of sight and sighing, both turned to James and Sirius, staring at them.
Dawn smiled sheepishly. "Guess you guys want an explanation. Heh-heh," she gave a nervous laugh.
Lily put her wand away and looking at the boys, said "Come. I'll explain." She didn't wait for a response, knowing they would follow, and went to the bar to get her jacket.
'Lily… Are we going to tell them… EVERYTHING?'
'Yes Dawn."
"But-"
"NO buts. We're telling them. They're already wondering what the hell has gone on tonight and Remus already knows. It's just the easiest and most sensible thing to do now. With Jake and Caleb here, some incidents will occur that will make them question what exactly is going on."
"Yeah, you're right Lily."
There was silence between the two girls as they took their jackets from the chairs, and continued to a back exit, James and Sirius following, not bringing Remus or Peter. This was between them and no one else.
"Lily?"
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry. This is all my fault. First, I get us caught by Remus and now I bite Sirius. Can you forgive me?"
Lily smiled softly to herself as she opened the door and walked outside in the cool night with the others following. "Of course I do Dawn. You're my best friend. And we will be always. I'm not going to get mad at you; we're in this together."
She suddenly stopped and turned to James and Sirius as Dawn walked next to her and stopped, looking at the boys as well.
Lily took a deep breath and was about to speak when she was interrupted by James whom she could see, had a knowing look in his hazel eyes, and she could also see wariness and a sliver of fear that she dreaded.
"You're vampires."
OOOO!! They know! And Lily and Dawn have two visitors… And not for the better. Meanwhile, Alec is on his own, trying to figure out the whole Voldemort thing. The plot THICKENS! What will happen next time? Stay tuned!