Oh deary. I really do need to start updating more! I just keep getting side tracked, and it sucks big hairy monkey balloons. Now, this chapter might not be the longest I've ever had, but it should be pretty damn long! So, read it, have fun while reading it…and review if you want.
Disclaimer: Sadly, I own nothing in this story that you recognize. What I do own though, is my OC's, my Pepsi, and the blanket wrapped around me.
"What you see depends on what you're looking for." - Anonymous.
"I want a cat," I mumbled, petting Leesh's pretty black cat named Jinx.
"I know you do." Helle sighed for the millionth time since we'd all woken up…so, about an hour?
"So get me one," I insisted.
"I'm not getting you a cat."
"But I thought you were my friend?"
"I am, Jess; I'm your best friend."
"…So where's my cat?"
"Jay Jay!"
"What?"
"Will you two shut up?!" Leesh yelled from across the room.
"Way to go Ms. Bossy, you woke up Ms. Meany..." I grumbled, only to be hit with a pillow. "Oi!"
"Serves you right!" Helle snapped, snuggling under the covers. I pouted.
"Is no one going to stay up with me?" Silence. Wonderful. I sighed before changing into black skinny jeans and a purple tank-top. In case you're wondering, Dumbledore took Helle and I into what he called "Muggle London" to buy some clothing. Well…lots of clothing. So, what's a girl to do early on a Saturday morning? I walked down the stairs into the Common Room and sat on the couch, puffing out a bored sigh.
"Well, isn't it miss suddenly turned into a good girl?" An annoying voice said from behind me. I turned around and glowered at Sirius Black before turning back around and starring at the wall.
"Seems she isn't too happy to see you, Pads," Remus said, plopping down on the couch next to me. I had to seriously refrain myself from jumping up and hitting my head against the wall numerous times. James sat on the other side of me and I groaned as Sirius and Peter plopped down on the floor in front of us all.
"What, aren't you happy to see us?" James questioned, smirking at me.
"No." I said flatly, pulling my legs out from under me and standing up, only to be pulled back down.
"You aren't going anywhere," James stated. I narrowed my eyes.
"Let me go," I said. He snorted and shook his head.
"Nope." I smacked him. Hard. And then jumped up and took off running, only to have them fucking follow me!
"Leave me alone you stupid butt munchers!" I yelled, whipping around a corner. I heard laughing behind me before I heard a bark. I let out a shriek and sped up, hoping what I thought was happening, wasn't happening. There was suddenly a squeak that sounded like a rat and I stopped and slowly turned around. In front of me was a stag, the dog me and James met the other day…and a rat. A fucking RAT. I stared. Where the fuck was Helle?! The dog stepped forward and I stepped back only to crash into someone. I turned around and saw a grinning Remus.
"These animals causing you trouble?" He asked. I slapped him up side the head…hard. "Ow! Bloody hell Jessi!"
"Remus Lupin! You scared me!" I yelled, frowning.
"I scared you, but the fact that a dog, a stag, and a rat are standing behind you doesn't?" I blinked.
"Well, I never did like rats much, and deer's are usually the things that carry the most diseases, but no, they do not scare me as much as everyone seems to wish they did. Now…out of my fucking way!" I charged past him and stormed to the great hall, my stomach growling along the way. I heard muttered voices in front of me and I turned a corner to see a bunch of Slytherins…including Severus Snape and Regulus Black. I inched backwards, attempting to get away…but they, of course, noticed me.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Dumbledore's little niece," A girl said, smirking menacingly at me. I shuddered involuntarily. I mean, sure, this whole magic thing came to me pretty quick and I am learning some pretty snazzy spells…but there's like, five fucking Slytherins, and one measly little Gryffindor. Why did the hat put me in Gryffindor? What not Hufflepuff, like Helle always says?!
"If I say no can I run away?" I questioned. Regulus snorted.
"Nope. I think it's about time we had our fun," Some ugly Slytherin dude said…and I mean ugly. Ever hear of fucking acne cream?!
"Who the hell are you guys?" I burst. Snape snorted.
"I'm Regulus Black, blood traitor. These are my friends and fellow Slytherins, Severus Snape, Jack Flint, Janice Parker, Joelle Ritteller, and Joshua Gates." Black stated, sounding like a cocky mother fucker. I guess that runs in the family.
"Well, nice to meet you, Black, Snape, Flint, Parker, Ritteller, Gates," I nodded to each of them. "But I think I'll be on my way now." I took off running and would have gotten away if the wall in front of me wasn't suddenly blown to bits and pieces. "Oi! That could have killed me you fucking douche bag!" This was one of the times that I should take Helle seriously and listen when she tells me to always keep my dumb ass mouth shut!
"What the hell did you just say?" Flint snarled, getting all up in my face.
"Ew. Ever hear of breath mints, flinty?" I questioned. He slapped me. Hard. I mean really hard. Did I mention the fucking slap hurt?!
"Little bitch. Looks like we'll have to teach you a lesson, eh?" He whispered. My eyes bugged out when suddenly there was a shout from down the hall. James and Remus were standing there, kind of like super heroes. Wow. I can imagine James in a shiny white metal outfit and Remus in green spandex.(1) Ha. Spandex.
"Back off, Potter." Regulus snarled. I rolled my eyes.
"Are all Blacks raised by dogs?" I asked, glancing at Remus and James, who both looked really confused. "I mean, Sirius barks when he laughs, and now Regulus snarls? I mean, jeez…"
"Shut up blood traitor!" Parker snapped, aiming another slap at me. I ducked and she hit the wall, and let out a screech of like…ear shattering death and held her hand. I started to crack up only to be silenced with a kick to my shin. I blinked at her smirking face.
"Dude! You just kicked my shin! Who the hell does that?!" I burst. Snickers were heard when suddenly a bright blast of red light was shot…it went right past my nose. I glared at Remus.
"Whoa there bucky! I do need my nose, thanks." He rolled his eyes. Suddenly a green light was shot at Regulus and the Slytherins took off as if their lives depended on it. I rubbed the back of my neck in confusion as James and Remus came up to me, smirking like maniacs.
"Are you okay?" James asked, raising an eyebrow at me. I rotated my neck until it cracked.
"Just peachy. Come on body guards, I'm pretty hungry," I grumbled, lacing my arms through theirs so I was in between then and walked the rest of the way to the great hall. Walking in, I saw the Slytherins glaring at us. I left James and Remus to go sit with Lily, Alice, and Leesh. I didn't see Helle anywhere…Or Sirius, for that matter. Oh…well then…
"So, where are Helle and Sirius?" James asked. I started to giggle.
"Probably snogging somewh-"
"What was that, O'Reily?" I whipped around to see Helle standing behind me, a wicked grin on her face.
"Helle, what did you just do?" I questioned, tilting my head to the side. She sat down next to me.
"You'll see." She smirked, piling Waffles onto her plate. I rolled my eyes and glanced around before stealing bacon off of Sirius' plate.
"Oi! That was my bacon!"
"And your point would be?"
"You stole my bacon"
"…I didn't see your name on it"
"It was still MY bacon!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure!"
"Do you have HIV?"
"No!"
"Are you positive?"
"Yes!"
"Ha! You're positive for HIV!"
"Will you two shut UP?!" Leesh screeched. I jumped about a foot in the air before staring at her. She smiled innocently and went back to her eggs.
"This reminds me of the time Jay Jay and I were at the lunch table and this stupid kid wouldn't leave us alone and…" I stopped listening to Helle at this point. Why? Because the most amazingly gorgeous person I have ever seen just walked up to the Slytherin table and sat down. Damn. How come no one told me the Slytherins were that hot?
"Hey! Jessi!" James yelled. I looked at him and he sighed in relief. "Thought you had died there for a minute!"
"…Okay?" I said. I glanced back at the Slytherin table before turning around and smiling at everyone. "So, what are we doing today?"
"Remus and I plan on staying in the library to study," Helle stated.
"I'm meeting a friend," Peter said.
"Leesh and I are planning on kidnapping Lily and giving her a make over." Alice grinned.
"…But…that leaves me with Sirius and James!" I exploded. People around me started to snicker. I hit my head on the table. "Just lovely"
"Aw, don't be that way Jessi! I thought we were best buddies?!" James whined. I glared at him.
"Funny you should think that, I was pretty much thinking the opposite," I sad flatly. He gasped dramatically people grabbing the area where his non-existent heart was and pretended to faint.
"That hurts Jessi, that really does," He whispered. I rolled my eyes.
"Good, maybe next time it'll kill you too." I sighed. He pouted before sitting up again.
"Well, we'll be off then," Leesh said, dragging Alice and Lily with her.
"Us too!" Helle said, jumping up. Remus followed her like a lost puppy and Peter went to wherever he was going…which left me with Sirius and James.
"So, boys. What to do?" I questioned hesitantly. Sirius grinned wickedly.
"Let's go prank people!" He said. James started bouncing up and down in excitement and I nodded, already standing.
"What are we going to prank?" I asked, eyeing the boys. Sirius got an evil glint in his eyes.
"There's this Slytherin named Richard Passer. I don't like him much," He stated. I raised an eyebrow but nodded anyways. We made our way into a hiding spot when I saw him again. The amazingly hot Slytherin. "There he is! Prank him now James!" My eyes bulged, but before I could say no there was a bang, and suddenly…nothing happened. I turned around and started giggling hysterically when I saw Sirius with bright pink hair and James with purple. They both glared over my shoulder at the beaming Slytherin.
"Hello there! I'm Richard Passer, and you might be…?" He asked me as I stepped out from where we were. I grinned at him.
"Name's Jessica O'Reily. Sorry about them. I tried to stop them, but no one listens to me anymore." I said with a shrug. His smile grew. Wow, his smile was gorgeous!
"I'll listen to you now if you'll accompany me on a walk around the lake?" He asked. I nodded eagerly, going with him and smirking at the outraged faces of Sirius and James.
"So, which one of the Marauders are you dating?" Richard questioned. My eyes bulged.
"Ew! None of them! That's…disgusting," I concluded. He smirked at me.
"So you like the good guys?" He said softly. I smiled.
"Nope. I just don't like the Marauders. Ask Helle. I've always went for the bad boys. Well…usually."
"That's good to know, then"
"And why is that?"
"Future reference."
I rolled my eyes and grinned, already liking this guy. We walked for awhile in a comfortable silence before I heard his sigh. I looked in the direction he was looking at and saw Helle, Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter all fighting with some Slytherins. I winced. "I don't see how you can hang out with them"
"Helle's my best friend. I don't know." I mumbled, feeling ashamed for my friends. Of my friends. All of it. I suddenly stood straighter and stormed over to them. Richard followed close behind me.
"What are we doing?" He questions.
"What I should have already done." I pulled out my wand and yelled "Finite Incantatem" Everything and everyone seemed to freeze. The red and gold on the Slytherins disappeared, as did the word 'Gryffindor' that was written across their foreheads.
"Jay Jay! What the hell!" Helle snarled. I blanched.
"Are you a Black too?! Is it just me, or do all Blacks-"
"Come from a dog? Yes, Jessi, we got this speech earlier! Now, what the hell are you doing?!" James snapped. I rolled my eyes.
"You're being an insolent prat, like usual. I don't understand why you guys all start pranking people randomly! Especially ones that haven't done anything to you!" I burst dramatically, waving my arms.
"Oh, so now that you have a new Slytherin buddy, you're going to go all anti-Gryffindor?!" Sirius snapped.
"No! Where did that come from?!"
"Oh, come off of it O'Reily. You were all for pranking people earlier but now you hook up with Passer and you don't want anything to do with it?"
"But, Sirius! I didn't hook up with him! We were just walking-"
"Yeah, just walking. I guess when I go out to see a girl, all we do is just walk too, eh?"
"Are you implying that I'm a slut?!"
"Are you implying that I'm one?!" Silence. I glowered and Sirius and he gladly returned it.
"Mates?" Remus said slowly, glancing around carefully at everyone. "Mates?" Still nothing. Everyone seemed frozen. "MATES!" I jumped. Now, there's a reaction.
"Jessi, just last night Moony and I had to actually save your lazy arse from a group of Slytherins! And now all of a sudden you're his friend?!" James snapped, ignoring the startled looks from everyone else. Richard looked at me.
"A group of Slytherins attacked you?" He asked.
"A group of Slytherins attacked her?!" Sirius boomed. I shrunk down slightly.
"Yeah, thought I'd told you?" James said, looking surprised.
"My question is, why didn't she tell me?! I'm supposed to be her best friend!" Helle yelled. I grabbed Richard's hand and took off running, him at my heels.
"Does that happen a lot?" He asked after we'd stopped.
"Oh yeah…" I mumbled. We walked around for a little while, making casual chit chat about ourselves.
"So, let me get this straight. Your favorite color is purple, you love chicken, you're obsessed with wolves and cats, people tend to call you a pervert, and you actually like your name?" Richard asked after awhile. I nodded before grinning.
"And you like the color Orange, love asparagus, tend to be really nice to Gryffindors, stick up for what you believe in, and want to become an Auror?" I said, tilting my head to the side.
"Yeah, but you forgot something."
"And what would that be?"
"I'm not nice to all Gryffindors…"
"Really? Then why are you nice to me?"
"Because I'm only nice to the pretty Gryffindor girls." I flushed a deep shade of red and looked in the opposite direction. I heard him chuckle besides me.
"Er…thanks?" I mumbled.
"No problem. Well, it's about time for lunch. Want to head to the great hall?" He questioned, already heading in that direction. I smiled and followed him, attempting to keep up with his long strides. "So, how do you think Potter and Black will like it when you walk in with me?"
"Probably not at all. I'll have to sit through a long rant about how you're a Slytherin so you're therefore unapproachable. Or about how since you're a Slytherin, you have no heart. All that shit," I said, shaking my head and movie my hands as I said everything. He was laughing.
"You know, not all Slytherins are bad Jess. People just don't want to get to know them."
"Maybe that's because of their scary appearances? "
"Are you calling me ugly?!"
"No, I'm calling Flint ugly."
He laughed heartily and nodded his head.
"Well…I have to agree with you on that." He smiled as we walked into the great hall together. A lot of people stopped what they were doing and turned to stare at us in shock. I rolled my eyes and walked to sit next to Lily after bidding Richard farewell.
"So, looks like Jessi made friends with a Slytherin hottie," Leesh said giggling. I rolled my eyes at her.
"What? I can't have friends from different houses?" I huffed. Alice shook her head.
"No one cares if you're friends with Ravenclaws or Hufflepuffs…it's just the Slytherins that you should stay away from." She said. I scowled.
"I will do no such thing! I'm allowed to be friends with whomever I wish to be friends with," I stated firmly. With a sigh she went back to eating and I started up a lovely conversation with Lily that consisted of…well…nothing. We just commented on the food and ate.
"So, what shall we do for the rest of the day?" I said, tilting my head to the side. Lily smiled.
"How about we teach you and Helle more spells?" She suggested. I beamed and got up.
"Alright, let me go ask Helle." The Marauders stopped talking as I got down to the opposite end of the table where they were located, but I ignored them. "Helle, Lily offered to teach us more spells after lunch. You up for it?" She gave me a weird look.
"No thanks. Remus, James, Sirius, and Peter already planned on teaching me more spells…" She said, eyeing me. I frowned and shrugged, before walking back to Lily.
"What did she say?" Lily asked. I shrugged again.
"The Marauders are already supposed to be teaching her..." I mumbled, stuffing some more sandwich in my mouth. Lily nodded before going back to her soup.
"No! Goodness Jessi, you're doing it all wrong," Lily snapped. She came up to me and attempted to show me the right wand movements for at least the twentieth time. "Right, down, up. Right, down, up. Remember that!" I sighed as she moved back.
"Avis!" I said, finally doing the right wand movements. A line of bright red birds appeared out of my wand and flew around us. I grinned. "I did it!"
"It's about time too," Lily laughed. We've been working for roughly three hours now, and it was probably around four o'clock.
"Can we be done now? I think I'm going to pass out," I whined as the birds disappeared. Lily nodded and smiled as we started up towards the castle. Pretty much all I was taught by her, for today, were defensive spells. But that's okay. I know for a fact they tend to come in handy.
"I wonder what they've been teaching Helle?" Lily pondered, staring up at the sky. I shrugged.
"I don't think I want to know actually. Probably all sorts of things to help with their pranks. By the looks of it, she's the unofficial female Marauder," I mused. I heard Lily grunt and I laughed at her.
"Is it odd for you?" She questioned. I sighed.
"Kind of. I mean she is my best friend and everything."
"That's understandable. I think she fancies Remus."
"Yeah, I think so too." We were silent for awhile, only speaking on occasion when we saw something funny or peculiar. We walked to the common room to find it in complete pandemonium.
"What the hell?" Lily burst. I blinked. "I knew they would teach her bad things!"
"What do we do? Can we do anything?" I asked, glancing back and forth. A firework boomed from above us and I jumped about a foot in the air while letting out a squeak. A freaky looking blue thing flew past me, humming to itself and with the help of a few other blue things, lifted up a student. "Are those pixies?!"
"We have to help these kids!" Lily yelled. Is it just me, or does everyone seem to want to be a super hero? Whipping out her wand, Lily yelled "Immobulus!" All the pixies froze in place. The sparks from the fireworks seemed to freeze in mid-air. I gasped at the sight and threw an annoyed look at Lily, wondering why she hadn't taught me that spell. Grinning, I pulled out my wand as well.
"Finite Incantatem," I hissed. Immediately the fireworks disappeared (2). Lily waved her wand and muttered something, making the pixies disappear.
"One guess at who did this," Lily said flatly.
"Who else would it be other then the Marauders?" I said, mirroring her tone. Just then, the portrait hole swung open and said Marauders and Helle walked into the room eagerly, obviously expecting to see their latest prank in action. They froze when instead of seeing the prank; they saw many people crying and two very angry girls, one being myself of course.
"Um, hi Lily!" James beamed, trying to look innocent. I scoffed.
"You are all pathetic! You never think!" Lily snarled angrily. I frowned.
"She's right. Pixies are dangerous." I said flatly. Lily threw me a look. "And the fireworks could have hurt someone as well!"
"What you did was disgusting. I should report you all right now!" Lily said, shaking with anger.
"Oh, go ahead Lily. You don't scare us," Helle said rolling her eyes.
"So that's how it's going to be then? You'll hurt innocent people with pranks and not even feel a bit remorseful?" I said looking at Helle threw narrowed eyes.
"At least I, unlike you two, know my own enemies." She sneered. I shook my head and stalked out of the common room with Lily following after me. I'm starting to think being sent back in time and into a book wasn't the best idea.
Well, that was actually longer then I had planned. But I got bored, and seeing as I'm really flippen sick, I decided to write/type. Bit of trouble between Helle and Jess, eh? I know I haven't put much romance in, but I'm the type of girl who isn't too straight-forward. You don't have to review, but I like reviews! So…be nice and review?
(1)-Helle and I have a little joke that involves green spandex, Peter Pan, and Gerard Way. If you ask me about it, I'll explain it to you.
(2)-I don't know if that spell tends to do that to fireworks, but it's the only thing I could come up with.