Where I Stood
Chapter 3
Luke looked over to his sister in sheer amusement, Sileni glaring at him as he was trying hard not to laugh. For the past week the Marauder's have been sticking to his sister like unwanted gum beneath their shoe. Every time she tried to get rid of them they would find her a second later. So his sister ignored them and continued to do her thing, all the while Luke laughed his ass off.
Also this past week, McGonagall and Dumbledore told Luke he, too, would be taking classes with his sister as he learned the fourth year quickly and more advance than regular fourth years do. So whenever his sister could, she would make him sit next to her in the classes they had that way none of the Marauder's would not. Of course that didn't stop them from sitting around them and trying to make her speak to them.
That Saturday the Marauder's were all in the common room, occasionally looking towards the girl's staircase. Luke only shook his head, grinning in amusement. He knew what they were doing and wondered why they were so interested in his sister. He wondered just how far they will go just to befriend her.
"She's not gonna come down," he told the four older boy's by a year old, ignoring Peter. "If the only way for her to have any privacy, and be left alone, Sileni will stay in the dorm room all day and all weekend."
All four boys frowned in disapproval, though Peter didn't really seem all that concerned if she stayed in the dorm or not. And Luke didn't mind Peter staying away from his sister, which he would make sure that that was to happen.
"That's no fun!" James muttered.
"There has to be a way to get her down here?" Sirius stated with a nod.
"Shit!" they heard Sileni yell, watching her run down the steps. "I'm so sorry Charlie, I'll be there as soon as I can!"
She jumped off the last two steps, quickly placing her phone in her pant pocket. She pointed at her brother, who quickly put up his hands in defense, her eyes narrowing just slightly.
"Working both jobs tonight, don't wait up! And don't get into trouble with them!" she said when running past them, pointing at the Marauder's at the last part.
He didn't even have time to reply or anyone to react to what Sileni had just said as she was out of the portrait hole in record time.
"Wait," Luke looked over to a confused Sirius. "She has a job? How is that possible?"
"We don't get anyone else into trouble with us!" James suddenly said with a frown. "We always man up to our pranks!"
Luke sighed, shaking his head, not knowing if he should laugh or not at what James just said. These older boys were definitely like his best friends, it was both scary and amusing at the same time.
"First of all, she has two jobs. And secondly..." Luke sighed. "Look, I can't answer why she got the jobs. Not because I made a promise to my sister, it's because I can't." he quickly explained when they went to argue. "We promised Dumbledore we wouldn't tell."
With that said Luke walked towards the portrait hole, the Marauder's following right behind. They may not get any answers seeing as it concerned the headmaster but it didn't stop them from trying to figure these siblings out. Something was terribly wrong and they wanted to know what it was.
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—Leaky Cauldron—
"It's now dead, Sileni; why don't you go back to Hogwarts?" Tom, the owner of Leaky Cauldron, told her.
The fifteen year old sighed, taking off her apron after pocketing her bag of coins from both her shift and tips. It was midnight and she was beyond tired as it was usually busy that day. If one job wasn't hard enough, working two on the same day was even worse. She bid goodnight to Tom and walked over to the fireplace, taking a pinch of floo powder. Once at Hogwarts, Sileni stepped out of the fireplace, dusting off the soot from her clothes.
She looked around the unused classroom she was now standing in. It was on the first floor in the South end, a bit ways from the Hospital Wing. Dumbledore gave her the key to use as it would give her both privacy and unwanted questions from those who did not know of her jobs. And not for the fact that it were only for her use as there was a pot full of floo powder that the students could use to leave as they pleased. Thus the room was always locked, she and McGonagall the only ones having keys and a password should someone take hold of one of the keys.
Walking out, she nodded to Filch, who sneered back at her, and walked away. Filch hated that he couldn't do anything to her—as the other professor's and student's on duty—as Dumbledore explained why she was out past curfew. Entering the Gryffindor Tower, she walked over to the couch as she was too tired to go up stairs. She had missed the other presence in the common room when she fell back on the couch, her legs dangling over the arm.
Sileni was than asleep in seconds, the other person looking on in amusement. They stepped out of the corner shadow and towards the sleeping teen. Remus picked her up and walked towards the boy's staircase as he couldn't go up the girl's. Being ever quiet, he walked over to his bed and placed her on it, quickly taking off her shoes and jacket. He had no reason to stay up that late to do homework (despite what he told his friends), for he could have finished it Sunday night.
Though, something about this girl interested him—even more than Luke. He intended to find out why she wanted to be alone and away from everyone, while Luke, on the other hand, was out there and easily made friends–two completely different people with only a couple of things in common.
Pulling the covers over her, Remus closed the curtains and turned to the floor that was on the other side of the bed facing the window. He conjured some blankets and lied down, wanting to sleep. Before he did, however, the werewolf placed a silent charm on his bed, that way when his best friends woke up they won't wake Sileni.
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"Get up, Remus! It's nearly noon!" Sirius yelled towards the closed bed.
"Yeah, you're usually up by ten!" James said teasingly.
Remus eyes snapped open in panic and sat up, but it was too late. Sirius had thrown open the curtains on the other side, ready to jump with James.
"Wake—holy shit!" Sirius cried, stopping himself from jumping on the bed.
James, on the other hand, jumped on the bed only to fall off as he jumped back from shock and surprise. Sileni screamed and scrambled backwards only to fall off the bed, twisting her body to prevent her from getting injured. Remus grunted as Sileni fell on top of him, James and Peter running around the bed as Sirius jumped on the other side of the bed and opened the curtains.
Remus looked up to see a blushing Sileni, feeling his own face turning red. Their faces were very close to one another, so close that they were each able to know the exact color iris they had around the pupil of the eyes. Sileni's heart stopped as her breath was caught in her throat, thinking in confusion. Why would she feel like this with Remus if she hardly knew him? And why was he staring at her so intently, trying hard to figure her out?
"Well, if you two wanted to be alone, all you had to do was say so." Sirius teased with a smirk.
In result of Sileni turning her shirt rose up a bit, and then some more as Remus took hold of her waist on instinct. Though it seemed that neither of them seemed to mind this as they both felt very comfortable for some odd reason. However, Sileni knew that this was very wrong for so many reasons. Not saying a word, the fifteen year old quickly stood and ran out of the dorm, ignoring the curious looks and glares from the other students. Luke raised an eyebrow at James and Sirius, the latter holding up his hands in defense.
"It was Remus' fault this time, not mine!" Sirius exclaimed happily.
Luke rolled his eyes, going back to his Herbology homework. He knew he won't get an answer from his sister as she was due to go to work at the restaurant in an hour.
"Luke, I can explain about your sister up in our room!" Remus said as soon as he came down.
Luke sighed in annoyance knowing that he was not going to be able to finish his homework. He took his sister's shoes and jacket from the werewolf with a nod of thanks, setting them on the floor next to him.
"Remus, I don't care. I kinda figured that you found her on the couch last night and took her to your bed so she could be comfortable. I know it's hard on her to have worked both of her jobs yesterday; she's just lucky that she's only working one today." Luke shrugged, stretching his arms above his head, several girls that were in the common room sighing at this. "Besides, I would have know if you wanted to do her harm a long time ago; and I know you don't."
The Marauder's sat around the younger boy, Luke giving Peter a look that he sat furthest away from him. But Luke quickly grinned towards a couple of older girl's that were looking towards him, making them giggle and blush, turning away quickly.
"How were you able to convince the Headmaster and the Ministry?" James asked curiously.
Before Luke can replied, James had suddenly jumped over the couch and ran over to the girl's staircase, yelling out one single name on his way.
"Lily! My beautiful flower, how are you doing this fine afternoon?"
Lily Evans pushed James away as he placed his arm around her shoulders. She glared in hatred at him, but Luke saw something more and merely grinned at the scene going on before him. He wondered if he could possibly push them together before their seventh year? It would save a lot of heartache and pretense on both parties.
"I was doing just fine until you showed up." she retorted back, walking around him.
"Oh, Lily my love, do me the honors of going out with me?" James continued as if he hadn't heard her.
"No!" Lily screeched before walking out of the portrait hole.
James rushed back to his friends and jumped to his seat, sitting down. He put his hands around both Sirius' and Luke's shoulders, the younger boy raising an amused eyebrow.
"She loves me, just doesn't know it yet." James claimed.
"Right," his friends muttered, but Luke knew better so kept his mouth shut.
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Charlie Alan, the owner of the Muggle restaurant that Sileni worked as a busgirl, had told her to go home early. Having two hours before curfew, Sileni had went straight to the library, having need to finish up some last minute homework. However, her mind was on anything but her homework. Having been in that position with Remus had her thinking about it all day. Perhaps that was the reason for Charlie to send her home so early as she was doing things so slow at work; her mind a thousand miles away.
With a sigh, Sileni closed the book and started to pack her things away. There was no way that she was going to finish on time if she continues to not pay attention. She walked though the book shelves and turned only to bump into someone, dropping her notebook and a few books on the process. She flushed a bit to see Severus scowling at her before they both kneeled down to gather their things. Both standing up, Severus walked around Sileni without a word or a second glance. However he glared at her as she took hold of his arm.
"I believe this is yours." she said quietly, handing him a notebook.
Severus hesitated, Sileni smiling with patients. The older boy by six months took the notebook with a barely visible nod. Giving him her own nod, Sileni turned and walked away, leaving the library. She was thinking about of speaking with Dumbledore of using the Time-Turner, though that would mean the world of Harry Potter was always, and truly, real. Would it be really that bad if it was real?
The fifteen year old musing was interrupted when a force threw her against the wall as she turned the corner, her bag falling to the floor.
"Well, well, looky what we got here."
Sileni glared in hatred, and with a hint of fear, into the face of Bellatrix Black. Quickly scanning without her eyes moving (a little talent she had come to do so well) to see Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black, and two more boys she did not recognized.
"What the hell do you all want?" Sileni snarled, wanting to get as far away as possible.
"We got ourselves a mouth-er here." Lucius grinned evilly.
"They did say Gryffindor was brave. I think it's just stupidity." Narcissa sneered.
Bellatrix cocked her head to a side, her eyes shining evilly and her lips rising to a snarl. "I do say that we should teach this tart of an American."
"Crabbe, Goyle." Lucius ordered.
The two boys Sileni did not recognize, though she should have known, moved forward with a chuckle. One of them roughly took her arm as the other grabbed her hair, pulling her head back sharply, making Sileni cry out. Suddenly there was an incoherent word shouted and the one holding her hair went flying off to the side. The other stumbled to the floor, face first, and not getting up.
Sileni looked down to see Remus and Luke standing before her, wands drawn. Sirius and James were on the other side, glaring with much hatred at the two year older Slytherin's. The Black's glared at their young cousin in distaste and angry, as he was a traitor to all pure bloods.
"Walk away cousins or you'll regret it!" Sirius sneered.
Bellatrix held up her head. "Don't think your mother wouldn't be informed of what you are doing, cousin!"
With that they walked away, floating their unconscious House members behind them. Once they disappeared around the corner, Sileni gasped in fear and anxiety, falling back against the wall. Remus and Luke quickly looked her over before Remus brought her into a hug. He felt her whole body shaking, Sileni burying her tear stained face into his shoulder, trying hard not to cry out loud.
"Are you okay, Sileni? They didn't hurt you?" Sirius asked softly in regret.
Sileni shook her head, not able to find her voice without them knowing that she wanted to cry.
"She's fine; just shaken up a bit." Remus answered instead.
Luke picked up his sister's bag, looking at Sileni in concern. "Let's take her to the Tower to rest."
The group agreed, Remus picking her up without a second thought. Sileni inhaled deeply, feeling herself relax to the smell of Remus. Holding his robes tightly, Sileni soon found herself falling asleep, not noticing Remus' grip tightening around her form.
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Another month has passed since the incident with Sileni and the older Slytherin's. The Marauder's—except Peter—and Luke had been keeping a closer eye on Sileni, irritating the teenager, though she was grateful. Remus was the only Marauder who was meeting Sileni at the two classes she didn't have with them while Luke met her when none of the others had classes with her and his were closer.
Sileni was soon finding herself becoming visible to the school thanks to the four boy's always hanging around her. Even during the meals—especially breakfast—they made sure Sileni was going with them and was not alone. It was Halloween and Sileni had 'managed' to escape the four overprotective boys (the boy's just really let her go on by herself, Remus checking the map every five minutes).
She was in an empty (more like deserted as it was a bit dusty with many cobwebs) corridor, sitting on the floor Indian style, facing the large windows with the setting sun coming through them. It lit up the whole corridor, some places being shown with rainbow colors from some of the stained parts on the windows. It was almost mystical and picturesque. It was on the fourteenth floor, Sileni wanting to see how high she was able to go. The suit-in-armors had actually stopped her from going further, surprising the teenager. She never figured that she was able to go up that high and now wondered what was up in the higher floors.
Taking a deep breath, Sileni took out a deck of Adrian tarot cards and shuffled them. Then she did the three card spread, looking at the face down cards intently. The one mistake she did was not ask the questions during the shuffling, as you are suppose to if you wanted a certain question to be answered. Thinking very hard, a serious question did turn up so she opened her mouth to ask out loud, but was startled from a voice.
"What are you doing all the way up here?"
Sileni's head snapped to the right, Lily Evans walking towards her with a frown of curiosity. She sighed in relief, the other girl smiling in amusement.
"I suppose you thought I was one of the Marauder's or even your brother?" she asked, though knew the answer already.
Sileni nodded, smiling at the other teenager. "I guess you have noticed their over protectiveness and my irritation to such accusation." she said with a small laugh.
Lily chuckles as well, nodding. "I suppose that is why you are all the way up here. But what are you doing?"
Sileni nodded down to the still three faced down tarot cards, "Practicing."
Lily hummed, walking closer and sitting next to the other girl. "You like doing tarot cards?"
"I find it interesting." Sileni said thoughtfully before looking down at the cards. "What does my future hold here?" she finally asked.
Lily frowned at the question and wanted to ask but decided to keep quiet as she watched the other girl. The one on the far left, the past, was the three of swords upside down that had the words 'Grief' on the side, the one in the middle, the present, was the two of wands with the words 'Indifference' on the bottom, and the one on the far right, the future, was the eight of cups upside down with the word 'Separation' on the bottom too.
Sileni groaned, quickly picking up the cards and shuffling them into the deck, mumbling the question under her breath before putting down the cards once more. Taking a deep breath, she flips them over and once again the cards were the same and in the same position. Lily frowned at this, looking to the girl next to her.
"I saw you shuffle them the first time into the deck; you can't possibly put down the same cards again a second time right after!" Lily said a bit confused.
"It could only mean that the question I asked will not change the answer. So no matter how many times I re-shuffle them into the deck, it will always give me the same answer." Sileni shook her head. "It could only mean that this will be my answer unless I decided to change it."
Lily frowned, looking down at the cards with both interest and confusion. "What do the cards say?"
"That we're stuck here."
A/N: Okay, I researched a few people that had to do with this time era and I would like to say that Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa (Black) Malfoy, and Bellatrix (Black) Lestrange were not in fact with the Marauder's. Only Lucius and Narcissa, Lucius in the Marauder's first year then he left, and Narcissa until the Marauder's second year when she left. I just wanted to clarify that. Now, PLEASE review!