Where I Stood
Chapter 2
Sileni was shaken awake, making her blink open her eyes. Through her grogginess, she heard her named being whispered, her body still being shaken. Taking a deep breath, she woke up to see her brother standing over the couch above her head. With a tired groan, she sat up, rubbing her eyes while she yawned.
"Why the hell did you sleep down here, Padfoot?"
Sileni looked to her left at the voice, wondering what was going on. She then became awake and alert, her body going stiff. Sirius stood up, stretching his arms above his head, a very familiar notebook falling to the floor. Quickly standing, Sileni picked up her notebook, glaring angrily at the tall boy before her.
"What the hell are you doing with my notebook?" she asked angrily, forgetting her promise to stay away from them.
Luke's eyes widen in panic, which both James and Remus noticed. They wondered why he was getting scared about a notebook and his sister. Sirius, along with his friends, didn't see the danger of the situation. It was just a notebook after all–well, more, since Sirius had read it.
"Very interesting story you got going on," he said with a smirk.
Sileni flushed bright red, glaring angrily at the boy. She quickly pulled her hand back and slapped Sirius, everyone that was in the common room gasping in shock, their jaws dropping to the floor. Luke cringed and went to step forward but one glare at his way from his sister stopped him. Despite all her kindness and shyness, once Sileni was pissed off, she was pissed off.
"You had no right! That was something private for my eyes only, you asshole!" she yelled angrily, looking back to Sirius. "Should you ever touch my notebook again I will make sure you will never be able to see ever again!"
Despite the anger, the three Marauder's and Luke saw the tears and embarrassment in her eyes. But Sileni merely shook her head and ran up the stairs to the girl's dormitories to quickly change and hide from everyone until classes start.
"Just be grateful that she didn't punch you," the Marauder's turned to Luke confused and incredulously at what he just said. "Trust me that would have been more damaged than just a simple slap. Next time..." Luke shook his head, taking a deep breath. "Don't touch her notebook. And don't tell anyone about the story you read; she will kill you if she finds out."
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Luke had went down for breakfast, not even bothering to take food up to Sileni as she hated eating in the morning. He heard of what happened to Sirius quickly spread throughout the Great hall and knew his sister was not going to be happy. The Marauder's sat around Luke, also hearing the rumor quickly passing from one person to another. They looked to one another before turning to Luke, promising him that they will make a big welcome back prank so everyone could forget what Sileni did to Sirius.
Luke nodded but wondered if they were going to be able to pull it off. After eating quickly, he took his schedule from McGonagall, as well as his sister, and ran back up to the Gryffindor Tower. As he predicated Sileni was sitting at her favorite window, looking out to the grounds.
"It's been spread," Luke told her as he handed her schedule. "New girl slapped Sirius Black. Every girl from second year and up wants to murder you."
Sileni sighed, knocking her head against the glass, "So much for being invisible. Damn it!"
Luke laughed, hugging his sister on the side. "Don't worry, the Marauder's promised me that they were going to make this big, welcome back, prank to get you off the girl's radar."
"You're close to them already, aren't you?" It wasn't a question.
Luke's gripped tighten around his sister's shoulders. "I promise I'm not going to do anything stupid."
Sileni shook her head, looking down at the long bridge, wondering where it connected to. "No, I'm sorry. I'm just being paranoid; you should be able to do stupid things with them. You're still a kid, after all." she whispered the last part to herself. "Let's go before we're late for class."
Luke sighed inaudibly, following his sister out of the Tower. Leave it up to Sileni to change the subject quickly; though he should have known. It was his sister's way of avoiding things, and he won't have it any other way. As they walked up the stairs (both of their classes on the fifth floor), Sileni looked over her schedule, trying to memorize what days are her classes and what time. She groaned at the sight of her first class: Transfiguration. Luke laughed and patted her shoulder before going down one corridor, Sileni going the other way.
Throughout all of her classes she stuck to the back, silent and invisible. Keeping their promise to her brother, the Marauder's had done a welcome back prank that concerned in flooding the east fourth corridor floor, hanging Severus Snape by his ankles above the water (though he was soaked already) with his shirt over his head and his underwear on the outside, and last, but not least, letting Peeves fly around with two buckets of powder paint that turned the water a neon pink and any passerby that happened to come to the scene. Thanks to this, all the girls (as everyone else did) forgot Sileni slapping Sirius that early morning.
At lunch Sileni had went to the Great Hall but as she saw her brother engaging with several kids, she walked back out and towards the kitchen, which she memorized from both the book and Tima's directions, just in case. Looking around quickly, Sileni tickled the pear (making her chuckle in amusement) and entered, smiling at all the house-elves running around. But as soon as they saw her, they all stopped what they were doing in both shock and surprise before Tima walked up to her with a bow.
"What can Tima get Miss Sileni?"
At this all the other house-elves went back to their duty, Sileni smiling at this. She then looked down at the house-elf, tilting her head to the side.
"Is it possible to eat here?"
Tima smiled, motioning the girl over to the table. "What would Miss Sileni like to eat?"
"A tuna sandwich and orange juice is fine, thanks."
Sileni watched Tima go off quickly to do what was asked before looking up at the ceiling to all four tables in the Great Hall. She smiled at her brother getting along with everyone here and hoped that they would leave before they get out of school as half those kids were going to die. She then took out a piece of paper and her pen (which she was only to use outside of classes) and wrote a quick note to her brother. Sileni was then startled out of her thoughts when Tima returned with her lunch.
Sileni thanked the house-elf before asking her to send the note to her brother. Tima nodded and looked up doing so. Smiling at the house-elf, the teenager turned-witch ate her lunch, Tima going back to help the others.
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—Great Hall—
The Marauder's looked down the table and went over to Luke, Sirius slapping him on the back. Luke rolled his eyes and nodded to his other friends before turning to the four popular boys, raising an eyebrow at them. Both James and Sirius were looking up and down the table, making the year younger boy frown in confusion.
"Where's your sister?" Sirius asked, looking to Luke.
"Yeah, we wanted to make sure that she wasn't the center of attention for this morning." James added, though there was something else behind his voice.
Before Luke could answer, a popping sound was heard and looked down to see a note on top of his ham sandwich. He picked it up and read it quickly, shaking his head with a sigh. He holds up the note over an empty plate, took out his wand, and sets it on fire. He looks to the Marauder's, who were looking at him expectantly and in amusement at the way he destroyed that note.
"My sister is fine and she says thank you for switching the attention away from her." he tells them, taking out a piece of paper and pen.
James shakes his head. "Where the hell is she?"
Luke smiled, holding up the note. "Tima," he says loudly.
Some of the kids around gasped as the note in his hand disappeared with a small pop, questioning where it went. Luke ignored them and stood, smirking mysteriously at everyone around him. Like his sister, Luke liked to be mysterious and surprise everyone by what he does and say. Mostly he liked to be this was mostly to get the girl's interested even more and just keep them swarming around him like bees to honey.
"She's fine, don't worry about her; don't look for her. She doesn't want any trouble." he told this to the Marauder's pointing-ly before walking away to his next class.
The Marauder's looked to one another before quickly huddling around Sirius, who took out a plain parchment. Whispering underneath his breath, Sirius tapped the plain parchment that became a map of Hogwarts. They quickly scanned the front of the parchment then opened it (which resulted more hallways that was within Hogwarts), continuing to look for Sileni.
"There she is!" Peter said, pointing in the middle of the parchment.
They were taken aback to see that she was leaving the kitchen. No one—aside from the professor's and themselves—knew about the kitchen or house-elves in Hogwarts. Knowing that they wouldn't be able to catch up to her as they haven't ate anything, Sirius whispered a spell and put the parchment back inside his robes. Despite Luke's warning they were going to speak with his sister one way or another.
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—Half a month later—
Sileni was studying in the back of the library, her hair covering her ears so she was able to listen to music. She was slightly bobbing her head up and down, reading a book for History for her essay homework. Because she was so into her reading and listening to the music, Sileni failed to notice the Marauder's and Severus Snape making their way towards her table, both James and Sirius harassing Severus.
When James pushed Severus quite forcedly, he slammed against the table Sileni was at, spilling the open ink bottle all over her parchments and her lap. She quickly jumped up, cursing like there was no tomorrow, trying to save her nearly finished essay. Sileni glared at the boys briefly before trying to clean up the mess, not hearing a single word they were saying because of her music. So when Severus told Sileni about Remus being a Werewolf the Marauder's had all stiffen, Severus waiting for Sileni's reaction.
But when she only continued to clean up the mess, doing several simple spells but not working out for her, all five boy's frowned in confusion. She sighed in frustration that none of the spells were working out; she looked up to frown back at them. She took out the ear-pieces (the boy's wondering what they were), and raised an eyebrow at them.
"What? You guy's never saw spilled ink before or something?"
Severus shook his head, frowning further. "Didn't you hear what I just said?"
"No, what did you say?" Sileni asked uninterested, looking down at the mess once more.
The Marauder's were about to pounce on Severus should he open his mouth again, but he only walked away angry, not able to believe that the girl didn't hear the first time. He wasn't about to repeat himself; besides, Dumbledore had made him promised not to say anything about Remus' condition. Sileni looked up at him briefly before rolling her eyes, repeating the cleaning spells once more. Having pity on her, Remus cleaned up the mess, Sileni sighing in annoyance. She wanted to prove to herself that she was able to do a simple clean up spell—which obviously wasn't working out for her.
"Thanks." she mumbled before replacing the ear-piece back in.
She gathered her things together, not wanting to be anywhere near the Marauder's. Her brother might be friends with them, but she didn't want to risk her being friends with them too. Both James and Sirius started speaking with her, though noticed that she wasn't paying attention to them. So James took her arm, Sileni looking up at him, startled. She took off the ear-pieces once more, the boy's hearing some kind of strange music (The Kill by 30 second to Mars) playing quite loudly.
"Is there something I can help you all with?" Sileni asked in annoyance, wanting to get as far away from them as possible.
"What the hell is that awful racket?" James asked in distaste.
Sileni rolled her eyes, shrugging her arm out of his grasp. "God, you sound like my mother!"
Sileni froze, realizing what she had just said. The boy's noted her grief and wondered what happened to her family. However, before they can even say a word, let alone do anything, Sileni mumbled a goodbye and quickly walked away. It took a second but the group of boys turned around, looking after the girl. No one did anything, except Remus who went after her, the others frowning in confusion. But they let it be—for now at least—knowing that their friend had a good reason to go after her.
Remus will let them know what was going on later. If they wanted answers, Remus was the one to get the job done. He can get any information out of any of them, and didn't use any sort of force like they did. Knowing that they were thinking the same thing, James and Sirius looked to one another and grinned. Peter only frowned in confusion between the two, wondering what just happened.
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Sileni slowed her walk once she turned the corner into an empty corridor. She sighed in relief and walked over to the window to place her forehead against the cool glass, looking down to the grounds. Her thoughts then started to wonder, as they always do, to the so many questions going through her head that repeated itself for the past three months.
Why where they there? What purpose? How can they return? Does her brother want to return?
She knew for a fact that her brother wouldn't care if he stayed or returned home; however something told her that he somehow connected to this world–which is ironic as it should have been the other way around seeing as he hated Harry Potter and she loved it. Before her thoughts could continue on, she was startled out of them when a hand placed itself on her shoulder. Quickly turning in fear panic, she sighed with some relief to see an amused and apologetic Remus standing before her.
Shaking her head, Sileni bent down and picked up her scattered books and parchments on the floor. Remus had also bent down and helped her, scanning some of the Muggle paper that was written from right to left and knew that it must be a story that she was writing—at least from what he was able to read. He handed them to her (Sileni quickly putting them in the order she liked) and stuttered, wondering if she was able to hear him.
"I can hear you." she told him, standing up along with him. "What do you want?"
Remus raised an eyebrow, smirking in amusement as the girl went right to the point. "I just wanted to apologize for James and Sirius' interrupting your study."
Sileni frowned, shrugging her shoulders. "First of all I don't care, I needed to go to my next class anyways. Second, they should be apologizing, not you." she sighed. "Now if that was all, I have to go."
As she walked away, Remus followed after her, walking slightly in front of her and backwards. Sileni mentally sighed in annoyance, wondering what this guy's problem was. Couldn't he get the hint that she wanted to be left alone and nothing to do with him or any of the Marauder's. For surely that would happen should she start speaking with Remus.
"Okay, I understand that both James and Sirius should be the one's apologizing and not me—"
"I," Sileni corrected.
Remus, however, continued as though he didn't hear her (typical man). "And I know for a fact that you don't have class right now because I have it with you, along with Sirius, and its Charms."
Sileni stopped dead in her tracks, a smug Remus doing so as well. She could understand that the Marauder's were in nearly all her classes except two and wondered why the hell Remus would even keep track of her. Sileni did the best, and knew it was working, of staying invisible from everyone and making her unpredictable.
"What the hell do you want with me?" Sileni finally snapped, catching the werewolf off guard. "I only want to be left alone! Is that too much to ask?"
Remus got serious, looking at her dead in the eyes. "Why would you want to be alone?"
"That's none of your damn business!" she growled.
Sileni intended to walk around him, however Remus took hold of her arm, making her turn to him. She tried to pull her arm out, but his grip tightened a bit to hold her still and not harm her. Whoever thought that this skinny kid was so strong? Then again it could be the werewolf inside him.
"It is when it concerns a friend's family member—a close one at that." Remus told her ever so seriously. "No one ever wants to be left alone!"
Sileni glared at the boy, furiously shrugging her arm out of his grip. "I do!"
With that said she ran off, tears forming in her eyes, Remus watching after her. Of course Sileni didn't want to be alone; only it was by choice that she was, nothing else. One slip up in this time and Harry's life could either be in jeopardize or be completely different. She didn't want to change that. Sileni didn't want that on her conscious nor in her heart.
A/N: Okay, the only thing that I changed was James, Sirius, and Peter were able to turned into Animagus in their third year (they were just that smarter) rather than their fourth. PLEASE review!