Disclaimer: Still don't own Harry Potter yet. Maybe someday…. dreaming
Rebecca grabbed her things and briskly started to her next class. Sirius dashed out the door after her. "Hey! Wait up! Sanders!" he called as he chased after her.
Rebecca stopped and turned, "Yes?"
Sirius stopped in front of her, the rest of the Marauders no far behind, "How did you know all that?"
"I'm observant," she replied. "I'm also going to be late for class."
"No you're not," Remus replied. "We have approximately three minutes to get… where are we going?"
Rebecca rolled her eyes, "The dungeons. We have double potions."
"Oh shit!" James exclaimed. He turned to the Marauders, "You thinking what I'm thinking?" They nodded, except for Rebecca who was slightly confused. "Let's go."
The Marauders turned around and started down the hallway, leaving a confused Rebecca standing in the middle of the hallway.
Remus turned back to her, "If you wish to get to class on time, you should come with us!"
She contemplated the consequences and then took off after them. The group rounded a corner, went down an empty hallway, and stopped in front of a large tapestry.
"What are we doing?" Rebecca asked, trying to understand how they could go from three floors up to all the way down to the dungeons in, now, two minutes.
"Can you run fast?" James asked as Sirius opened the secret passage.
"I-I guess so? I don't know. Why?" Rebecca asked.
James pushed her into the passage, while Peter closed it behind them, "Because, if you want to get there on time, you're going to have to. Or be levitated your choice."
"I think I'll run," she said as the group started down the, what turned out to be steep passage.
The Marauders all seemed use to running down the steepness of the passage, however, Rebecca, not being a very athletic person started running too fast and found out that her legs didn't move as fast as she wanted. She ended up rolling down to the end of the passage, with the Marauders all laughing hysterically by the time they reached her.
"Are- are you- you okay?" James asked, shaking with laughter as he helped her off the ground.
"I think so," she answered as she picked up her things that had fallen out of her bag on the way down.
"Well, we have half a minute to be in class," Remus stated smiling. "You made the 'trip' a bit faster."
"Yes, quite. We'll have to see if it really works 'next fall'," Sirius agreed.
"How do we get out of here?" Rebecca asked anxiously. Peter obligingly opened the end of the passage and let her out. Rebecca then dashed to the class room just as Professor Slughorn was about to shut the door.
"Miss Sanders. There you are! I was beginning to worry. You wouldn't happen to know where Mr. Potter, Black, Lupin, or Pettigrew are would you?" the professor asked as he let her in the classroom.
"Yes, Professor, they're on their way. I just passed them in the hallway. Professor Dumbledore held our class late, Sir," Rebecca answered setting down her things at a table next to Lily Evans.
"That's fine. I just hope he doesn't make it a habit. Ah! There you are boys, come, come in. Hurry up, don't hold up the class," Slughorn said, closing the door behind him.
The Marauders all sat down at their tables behind Rebecca and Lily's table. Then, Slughorn started class like normal. Once the students had their instructions, they began to brew their potions. During class, the Headmaster came to the door and asked to talk to Slughorn out in the hallway. When Slughorn left, he shut the door and the students began to, let's say converse.
"So, starting the year off on the right foot are we?" Lucius Malfoy asked the Marauders snidely.
"Staring the year off with the right girl are we?" James replied.
Lucius scowled, "You still haven't learned how to respect your betters, have you, Potter?"
"I'm sorry. I don't see anyone better than me in here. Except for maybe, Evans," James answered.
"Shall I re-introduce you?" Lucius asked.
Rebecca knew better than to say anything, but she was having a hard time concentrating on her potion so, she turned to the arguing pair, "Would you please try to keep it down? I can't concentrate with all the noise you're creating."
"Aww! Is the bookworm having trouble with her potion? Severus, why don't you help her?" Lucius sneered.
"Absolutely," Severus agreed.
"Don't touch her," Lily said, standing up. "If you so much as breathe in her direction, I'll deduct ten points from Slytherin, understood?"
"You don't have the authority to do that," Bellatrix cut in.
Lily pointed to the prefect badge on her lapel, "Yes I do, and should you argue, I'll make it twenty points."
"Twenty points? Ridiculous!" Lucius scoffed.
Lily looked straight at him sternly, "Fine. Thirty points from Slytherin. All thanks to you, Malfoy. Now get back to your potion, before I give you detention to top it all off." She sat down and began to work on her potion again.
Rebecca turned to her, "Thanks. You didn't have to do that."
"Of course I did. I mean, we both know if things had gone on between you and Malfoy with no intervention what-so-ever, you would've been reduced to tears," Lily replied. "I'm not saying you can't defend yourself, we both know you can, but you're too sweet to do anything to anyone. Not that that is a bad thing, but sometimes it's not such a good thing either."
Rebecca nodded, "I know. I can't help it though. I just…I don't know. Thanks again, anyway."
Lily smiled, "No problem. Now, we should get back to our potions."
Rebecca agreed and the rest of the class continued quietly. When Slughorn returned, he seated himself behind his desk and worked on some papers until time was up. Then he asked the students to put away their things to continue working on the same potion next class and dismissed them.
A/N: Hello again! Well, chapter three is up. So, did you like it? Did you not? Anything you think I could've done better? Any mistakes? I won't know unless you tell me, so review to let me know. Thanks!