Hey! I've actually had this chapter written out for awhile now, but then I had vacation and went away, 2 funerals, and other personal junk. I can say though that the next chapter wont take as long to bring out. I know EXACTLY what I'm gonna write. Well, I'll just get to the the thank yous.
Thanks You's:
feisty black head
hell's queen 666
firewalker32
BitterBeginnings
insane-rocker
csi-freak100
Lady Knight Keladry- thank you SOO much for showing me that whole 'delarosa' thing. I made sure I didnt do any of those kinds of mistakes here (I think...) If so, please, do tell tell me! And as for cliffies, I'm sorry I left you with one here... I'll try not to as much from now on though. I just kind of like feeling evil... hehheh :
kirsty
steponme6013- Awww... THANKS! I can't believe you've put up with me for a year! lol I'm really sry. And it doesn't matter that you didnt review. You did this time! As for Caleb and Jake, they're actually NOT from Twilight. Honest to god, I came up with the characters before the 2nd Twilight book (New Moon).
This Chapter is dedicated to Randi and Jen. I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lily or James or anyone else from the original Harry Potter series. It all belongs to J.K Rowling/ I do own Dawn and Alec though… AND the new characters, Jake and Caleb.
There was only silence and the dull sounds of the music and people inside the club as the teenagers stared at one another; James and Lily looking at one another while Dawn glanced around nervously and Sirius was trying to comprehend what exactly was going on
The silence was broken as Lily released a heavy sigh and responded to James looking him straight in the eyes, emerald clashing with hazel. "I guess you figured it out." She knew it was a stupid response, but then again, she didn't exactly know what to say to the trouble makers in front of her.
Sirius' eyes widened as he stared at the two girls in front of him, mouth open in disbelief.
Dawn crossed her arms over her black top, glaring slightly at him. She got him out of his daze, sarcastically saying, "Careful Black. Don't wanna catch any flies."
Sirius closed his mouth quickly and shook his head in disbelief, glaring at Dawn. "Well I'm sorry that I'm a bit shocked to find out that two of my classmates for the past six years have been hiding the fact that they're VAMPIRES."
Lily glanced at Sirius and raised an eyebrow questioningly at him. "Oh, so now it's okay that there's a werewolf at the school but not three vampires?"
Sirius and James' suddenly tensed up at the mention of "werewolf". They obviously hadn't expected the two girls to know one of the Marauders' most important secret. Remus' secret.
"We-we don't know what you're talking about. Werewolf?" James questioned, failing miserably at hiding the nervous edge in his voice.
Both Lily and Dawn couldn't help but roll their eyes at James horrible cover up. Lily shook her head and said in an amused voice, "Cut the act James. We've known about Remus and his 'furry little problem' since first year."
'And your Animagi since fifth year.'
James and Sirius almost jumped out of their skins, looking shell-shocked at having heard the two girl's voices… IN THEIR HEADS!
James suddenly recalled having read in the Dark Creatures Encyclopedia, that powerful vampires had powerful physical and mental abilities including communication through the mind. That must mean the Lily and Dawn were more then the ordinary vampire; they were quite powerful.
Lily smiled for a split second at the boy's reactions before sighing. "Look, let's get back to the subject at hand. You know what we are-"
"-And you don't want us to tell anyone," James finished her sentence earning a nod from Lily.
"Naturally."
Sirius shook his head. "Wait a second. Three vampires? You mean, Alec is one too?"
"Sirius. He's my brother. I'm a vampire. Why wouldn't he be one?" Dawn asked, seriously wondering, along with Lily, if he was really that stupid not to realize that obvious fact.
Sirius held up his hand in defense. "Hey! You never know! Maybe the whole vampire gene skipped over him. It's been known to happen."
Dawn was ready to go at him, but decided not to and took a deep breath, calming herself. Lily glanced at her before speaking again. "So… any questions?"
'Wow Lily. Smooth. Of course they're going to have questions! How else would they react after discovering that both Dawnand I are vampires, the 'creatures of the night'.' Lily suddenly felt stupid for thinking they wouldn't have any questions. Truth be told, she kind of hoped that they were like Remus. He had barely asked any questions when he found out about them.
James nodded his head, seemed to think for a moment, and then asked, "Dawn, are you really Dawn Kortz?"
Dawn tensed and seeing her friend's response, Lily answered for her. "No, her real name isn't Dawn Kortz. And Alec's last name isn't Totero." Lily glanced at Dawn to see if she was okay with her going further.
Dawn was the one who finished, taking breath before speaking in a clear unwavering voice full of authority. "I am Dawn Delarosa and Alec is Alec Delarosa, son and daughter of Niall and Alexia Delarosa. We are the only living members of the Delarosa vampire coven."
James nodded his head, remembering his vague belief that Dawn was part of the Delarosa coven from the information given in the book. He turned to Lily, expecting the same to come from her about the Lumen coven.
Lily looked at James, expecting more questions but he stayed silent and seemed to be waiting for her to say something. One eyebrow went up questioningly. "What?"
"Well, aren't you going to say what coven you're from?"
Lily shook her head slowly, her eyes showing a tint if sadness for only a second before reverting back to their cool, unemotional look. "I'm not part of any coven. I was adopted at an orphanage when I was a baby and have been living with my family now ever since. And they're muggles."
"Oh," James replied, suddenly feeling a bit guilty for bringing up something as personal as Lily being an orphan. He suddenly remembered all the times the Slytherins had called her and Dawn 'Mudbloods'. He could only imagine how it must have felt for the two girls. To hide who they really were and being unable to stop the bullying from the merciless Slytherins. To have to live a completely different life while at school.
Sirius interrupted James' thoughts as he turned to Dawn with wide, horrified eyes. "You BIT me!"
Lily and Dawn (and even James) couldn't help but think how SLOW Sirius was. Here they were in the middle of an important conversation and Sirius suddenly decides to speakup, questioning the obvious.
"Relax Black. I barely took any of your blood. The mark will go away by tomorrow."
James glanced over to see that that hadn't helped Sirius get over the fact he had been bitten.
Lily spoke before Sirius could respond. "It's okay Black. Whatever blood she did take, which as she said wasn't that much, will just come back. Simple biology. Blood cells in the blood stream re-grow."
"But… I don't want to become a vampire." Sirius looked dead terrified and absolutely serious about becoming a vampire.
This time James was the one to contradict him. "Sirius, we've learned about vampires in Defense Against the Dark Arts. You don't get bitten once and automatically become one."
Lily nodded. "James is right. That whole you get bitten and get turned into a vampire thing is all Hollywood and a deal with America's branch of the V Slaying Organization, which is for vampire slaying. Hollywood would earn big bucks and V Slaying wanted muggles, and other witches and wizards, to fear us so that they'd be more likely to get calls to do slayings and earn more cash. Bloody Americans... All those guys want is more money and power."
The boys looked surprised at this sudden history lesson and Lily went back to the main topic of discussion. "But anyway, back to the matter at hand. Human turnings for vampires are actually very rare. And extremely dangerous. You might want to relearn some Vampire 101 Sirius." She couldn't help but say that last sentence almost mockingly.
Sirius still didn't seem all that fine about having gotten bitten, but he calmed down ever so slightly. James gave an apologetic look towards the girls for his friend's idiocy to which they just shrugged.
There was a silence between the teenagers for a minute before James spoke yet again, this time softer. "Remus knew didn't he?"
Lily only nodded not bothering to mention how he had found out. Remus could tell them himself.
Dawn turned suddenly and returned inside to the club through the back door, music emitting loudly as it was opened and suddenly cut off from the door closing. The others just stared after her. James and Sirius looked at Lily for an answer but she just shrugged. "She's not good with the whole revealing our secrets thing."
James simply nodded, remembering the time that she had been upset at Remus for thinking that he had told the Marauders their secret.
Sirius' hand went nervously back to his neck where he had been bitten not even 10 minutes ago and Lily couldn't help rolling her eyes. "Sirius, I repeat, you'll be fine. You won't become a vampire from Dawn's bite. She's bitten tons of boys before, none of them changed."
His eyes widened and James couldn't help but chuckle at his friend's wide eyed stare.
"Well Lily." Lily looked to James. "Shall we return inside? We should tell Remus and Peter about this."
Lily didn't really like the idea of Peter knowing about this. Knowing the boy, he would probably faint from shock and act skittish 24/7 with Alec, Dawn, or herself. Plus she didn't trust him all that much. But he was one of the Marauders so the boys obviously trusted him... And she knew that she had no right to tell them not to tell Peter.
The three walked back into the club and through the throngs of people on the dance floor to the bar where they saw Peter with empty plates around him and finishnig off a piece of pizza and Remus drinking some Butterbeer. Remus never was that much a drinker.
After explaining the situation to Remus, they told Peter who, as Lily had predicted, fainted, though he recovered faster than she had thought he would have. She noticed his cautious looks at her though.
Seeing that that issue was dealt with, Lily decided to search for Dawn. 'Dawn. Where are you?'
'I'm having fun if that's what you wanna know.'
Lily shook her head and laughed to herself. Dawn was already with a tall blonde guy. Noticing the Marauders were doing their own thing, Lily decided to follow Dawn's lead and have a little treat of her own.
Scanning the dance floor, her eyes caught on an attractive guy about two or three years older. He had dark brown hair, blue eyes, and was quite tall. Very handsome.
Moving herself towards him on the dance floor, Lily "accidentally" bumped into him.
"Oh, sorry," she said apologetically, smiling flirtatiously at him.
He looked down at her and smile back. She could see him falling for her charm already and her smile grew slightly larger. "Hey, no problem. You wanna dance?"
Lily nodded and grabbing her hand, the guy pulled her further into the crowd. They began dancing and slowly got closer and closer to another until their bodies almost felt connected to one another. They smiled and laughed and held onto eachother and it wasn't long till Lily whispered huskily into his ear, "Let's go somewhere a bit more... private."
He just grinned and the two got out of the crowd before going into a darker part of the room and sat on a spare black leather couch.
Upon sitting, Lily felt the boy touch her thigh right below her red plaid miniskirt and she couldn't help but glance into his mind. 'Man, she is HOT! I can't wait to tell Rick and Jacob about this!"
She made the first move, kissing him lightly on the lips before pulling back enough for him to see her coy mischievous smile. He then went in and it wasn't long before the two were heavily making out.
Lily pulled away from the kiss and nibbled on his ear making him groan slightly. She slowly moved down his jaw and onto his neck. Reaching where the vein was, her red lips kissed it and she co9uld feel his oulse racing. This made her chuckle and smile as she held his shoulders before letting her fangs out and pressed on his skin and ever so slowly, letting them break the skin.
She heard his soft gasp of surprise and pain andbegan to suck his blood. It tasted like heaven! The warm liquid went into her mouth and down her throat, warming everything in her body. This boy's blood tasted sweet and sugary; everybody's blood had a different taste. It had been awhile since she had done this with a guy and Lily cursed herself for not doing it more often like Dawn did.
She was only like that for another ten seconds before she retracted her fangs and licked the two puncture holes in his neck getting rid of any spilt blood, before moving her mouth away and back up to kiss him.
As she did so, she went into his mind and slowly began getting him more and more tired, making him feel drowsy until he was about half asleep. Lily moved away slowly and he fell back on the small couch, lying down as if drunk.
She stood and seeing everyone nearby preoccupied and no one watching her, she walked away. Lily knew the guy would be fine. His friends would find him and the mark would simply look like a hickey by tomorrow. He would have only a vague recollection of her in his mind.
Lily licked her lips making sure all signs of blood were gone. Seeing Dawn done from her good time, and vice versa, the two met up in the crowd of people, before continuing to the bar to find a passed out Sirius and a drunken James singing The Monkees song "Last Train to Clarksville", VERY badly.
"Remus, what the hell happened?"
Remus looked up from his Butterbeer and seeing the two girls, he shook his head with a sigh. "Too much Firewhiskey. Almost always happens."
Lily glanced at the clock on the wall. It read 3:07.
"Do you need any help with them? We're heading back right now."
Remus nodded at Lily's offer. "Please. I have to take care of Peter. He got food poisoning from something. Would you mind taking them back to the dorms?"
Both girls shook their heads and Remus thanked them again before going to the bathroom to find Peter.
Putting on their jackets that they had taken from the chairs that they had been placed on and making sure they had everything, Lily took James while Dawn took Sirius and they walked out the front door and past the crowds of people with the two useless boys.
Walking through the dark streets of Hogsmeade, James' continued singing the Monkees quite loudly while Sirius was still out like a rock.
Lily cringed at James' horrible singing before taking her wand out and doing a silencing charm on James, watching as he sang his heart out but no sound was emitted from his mouth. "Damn. Why do drunk guys always sing?"
"I dunno. But at least he can walk. I have to carry this guy and he's pretty heavy," Dawn responded, shrugging Sirius' arm over her neck again to drag him.
The two began their own conversation as they began up the path for Hogwarts.
"Dawn, did you really not know that that boy you bit was Sirius?"
It was a few seconds before Dawn responded. "I knew he was familiar, but I didn't think it was Sirius."
Lily just nodded her head leaving it at that, and the two continued walking. As they approached the school, Lily performed a silencing charm on Sirius should he wake up at any point they were in the hallways of the castle. He could totally get them busted for being in the halways after curfew, and for sneaking out. It was only 10 minutes later that the girls entered the empty common room free of any people or anymess, the fire full alive. The house elves must have just been here.
Bringing the boys upstairs proved to be a bit of a challenge, specifically for Lily. Sirius was out cold but James started to dance. Or at least that what he was trying to do, Lily guessed, after him having attempted to do a pirouette that almost sent him flying down the stairs.
As the girls brought the boys to the room, they saw Alec awake, sitting on his bed and watching them with his figure illuminated by a lit candle, being the only light source in the room, on his nightstand.
"Hey Alec," Lily said upon placing James down.
Alec didn't respond until Sirius was placed in his bed. "Hey. You guys have fun?"
Lily glanced at Dawn who glanced at her. They had to tell him; it was only right that he know. It was hissecret as well as theirs. Lily cleared her throat, not really sure how to say this. "Well, we had a good time. And you know us and good times. We just cant stay out of trouble sometimes."She laughed nervously.
Alec's blue eyes narrowed suspiciously at Lily. "What happened?"
Dawn nodded at Lily telling her to go on and Lily smiled innocently. "Well uh… you know how Remus knew about us right?" Alec nodded his head slowly and Lily continued. "Well, um... now we don't have to keep it a secret from his friends."
Alec sat there for 10 seconds taking in what Lily had just said before responding with a nod and lying down on his bed.
Lily and Dawn were instantly confused anf glanced at one another wondering what was up with him. They both had thought Alec would be furious at them, maybe some screaming but... nothing.
Alec must've seen their confused looks and softly laughed. "I've got more important things to worry about than 3 pretty boys and their lackey knowing about us. Besides, I'm sure they'll keep our secret. Probably too scared what we would do to them if they did tell anyone."
Realization suddenly hit the two girls. 'I've got more important things to worry about'. AKA: Voldemort.
"Alec." Alec looked up at Lily. "Tomorrow night we're meeting up for practice, then we're going to discuss what happened."
"And don't even think that you're getting out of it," Dawn added.
Alec just rolled his eyes, saying, "Yeah, yeah. Whatever" and got up from his bed and went into the bathroom closing the door hard behind him and then the sound of running water. They knew that he had just agreed to meet them.
Turning towards the door, Lily suddenly felt something stop her and, looking down, she found James, half conscious, holding on to the edge of her plaid miniskirt. She tried pulling away but he held on to it steadfast.
Nodding for Dawn to go on to the girls dormitories without her, Lily turned back to James and leaned down to him, her face directly next to his. "James," she said softly, barely a whisper so Alec wouldn't hear her in the bathroom, even with him in a shower. "You have to let go. I need to go to my dorm."
James continued to ignore her and still held onto her skirt. Now, Lily could easily break his hand to get him to let go of her... but that seemed a bit harsh considering the poor boy was drunk and he had gone through enough surprises for one night.
She took his arm and pulled it in an attempt to get him to release. She was still close to him and was about to tell him again to let go when he did the unthinkable.
Grabbing her arm and tugging her closer with his hand grabbing her skirt, James' eyes remained closed while Lily's emerald eyes could only widen in absolute shock.
And watch as he kissed her.
OMG! He kissed her! The plot thickens! (LUV that phrase...) What will happen next I wonder/know... Tune in soon for the next chapter of Dark Friends!