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Chapter 2

The Love-Struck Ball

31st December 1975

To say Lily was amazed, astounded, astonished and any other a- suitable words was understatement. She was looking wide eyed at every Witch and Wizard, House elf serving appetizers, and The Great Ball room. She didn't even notice James taking her arm and giving her exclusive tour of ball room and then the Potter Manor. Actually she snapped to her senses after they left the ball room heading towards living room, but still was dazed enough to notice who was leading her.

"...And up there is Sirius and mine Bedroom. Wanna see, Evans?"

That effectively brought Lily out of her daze. She jerked her hand back from James's and flushed and angered; she was in such a compromised position with James Potter, wait, James bloody Potter was alone with her and was leading her to his bedroom... Something was definitely wrong with her now because James was always wrong and she was letting him lead her. God, she was confused and she did only sensible thing she could do, she hexed James with stinging curse and yelled,

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING JAMES POTTER?", and stormed away towards ball her head low and ran into Lucius Malfoy of all bloody people.

Remus and Sirius, watching the interaction from shadows, came out sniggering and Swami Siriusanand, in his sagely voice, said "That's what you get for trying to bed Evans without courting her first and that too on her first visit to manor."

James glared at Sirius while rubbing the spot he was hexed on, which also, unfortunately, was making him aroused. Seeing his predicament, Sirius and Remus decided to pursue Evans to the Ball room still laughing at James.

Peter coming back from loo saw James rubbing himself and couldn't resist a jibe

"Come on Prongsie, it's your own damn Manor. If you wanted release so bad just go to your room and don't forget to lock and silence it. Mrs. Potter would hate to walk on her son 'doing his thing'".

And that was all it took for James to go and vent out his anger in form of hexes and curses on poor Peter.

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Narcissa seriously doubted Lily's orientation. How could she just walk into most beautiful specimen of man ever to be made on earth and then walk away with a simple sorry?

"That's because she sees him for the blonde gay scum he is Cissy and it's about time you saw him so too." Sirius chimed in breaking her line of thought. How he always seemed to know what either of his cousins was thinking was beyond her. He had this habit of giving inputs to Andromeda or Bellatrix or even her since childhood.

"Dear cousin Sirius, I didn't know you were here on cousin patrol seeing Aunt Walburga disowned you?" She snapped maintaining her composure. She couldn't curse Sirius's bowels into next week in presence of her royal family. Though the gesture would be appreciated, she would be disapproved for doing so in presence of so many wizarding esteemed.

"Oh she did now! Thank god! Now I can go doing all sorts of un-Blackish things without having to worry about ruining the name of Most Noble and Ancient House of Black. I was practically begging her to do so since I was taken to Gryffindor" Sirius muttered sarcastically. Narcissa wondered was he really being so. Did he even have enough brains to be sarcastic?

"Yes dear Cissy I was being sarcastic. The great Rousseau taught me the art of sarcasm himself"

"That was Voltaire you idiot..."

"No Cissy dear Voltaire used satire..."

"How astonishing to see you here, muggle-lover, at such an esteemed 'Pureblood' Ball" Sirius was cut in his sentence by none other than Walburga Black the nightmare.

"Mum"

"Sirius"

"Have a Good evening and Happy New year in advance"

Sirius walked away not wishing to spend any more awkward moments with the woman who was featured in his worst nightmares.

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3rd January 1994

"Hermione may I use your time turner please?"

"Harry you know I returned it at the end of the third year..."Hermione said without looking up from whatever she was writing, but a quiver in her voice betrayed her guilt.

"Hermione you as well as I know that a fake simile of time turner that you handed over to Dumbledore would never fool him and I would never fail in reading that twinkle in his eyes whenever he is expecting an adventure. So will you please lend me the damn thing now?"

Admonished by Harry, Hermione quickly shushed him and led him out of common room, "What are you going to do with it and for Merlin's sake don't be this loud next time" Hermione finished with inquisitive glare.

Harry clearly had not thought of a suitable reason to give to Hermione if she asked for one. 'Damn' He thought to himself. Then he saw Ravenclaws on quidditch pitch and immediately thought of a reason.

"I..err.. I wanted to go over the memory of ChowhenshekissedmebeforeChristmas.."

'Damn, good job Harry' He chastised himself as he tried not to let the embarrassment redden his face.

Yet, seeing Hermione's knowing smirk and her hand moving towards her bosom, 'It's not that big why she is hiding it there... Shit Harry she's your best friend', he knew he was about to get what he wanted.

"Harry though it's okay to do that, I really think you should just ask her out and earn a better kiss from her. And even if you want to keep your real reason secret you shouldn't have just lied"

Hermione said handing him the Time-Turner. 'Was he checking me out... Nah, Harry wouldn't do that' with this thought she left a chastised Harry alone in hallway.

Harry, since Christmas, was kind of obsessed with time travel. He was looking for ways to travel to past or to future. Also he was looking to check whether the time turner worked on inanimate objects too. Why? He didn't know. He just couldn't stop his instinct. True, it had saved him from many tight stitches but you cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that it had been the one which had caused those situations.

He snapped out of his thoughts and started towards room of requirements. He was going to stretch the time turner to its limit.

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Seriously, why was she here again? Lily had begun to question herself. First James had tried to bed her, no, tried to "show her his bedroom", as she escaped him she had to run into Malfoy Jr. And the reason she was here was nowhere to be seen. That Malfoy had the guts to 'feel' her under pretence of helping her up, bloody scumbag.

Then she saw the face she was searching for in the crowds. Remus! Thank god. She felt relieved and infuriated as she marched towards him. He was with an older couple, if she had to take a guess, would be James' parents. She walked up with as much grace she could muster towards the smiling couple.

"Ah, here comes the elusive Lily Evans"

Remus smirked as Sirius announced her arrival. The older couple looked up at the name and watched as she awkwardly made way towards them still embarrassed from Sirius' announcement.

"Now this is the young lady my lad has set in his mind. I must approve, but first am I to be sure you are not influencing my boy with love potions Ms. Evans?"

"Charles, don't be a douche bag now. It's her first time. Besides, with looks like that I don't think she would need any potions to get James in control now, would she?"

Lily's blood was suddenly gathering in her face as she heard each passing comment. She was not sure how to react as they both seem quite friendly but both had this mischievous glint in their eyes that made her want to escape their presence as soon as possible. Now that she noticed it, it was exact same to one James has while asking her out or planning a prank.

"Lily, Lily, psst..."

Remus tried to get her back to room as she was lost in thought.

"Now young lady don't mind us. Charles here is senior Auror and I happen to be Mediwitch and with war on us it's hard to get some enjoyment. Even these social events are tainted by verbal politics. Our only freedom is when we can talk to you youngsters. You people are the only ones who would not misinterpret and twist any words that we may say..."

Dorea Potter in her attempt to soothe Lily just blurted her heart out. Seeing the moment turning to an emotional one, Charles decided to step in.

"Though James and Sirius have gotten quite sharp at twisting our words to their benefit. That's how they had their raise in pocket money last year even when they were to be grounded. Damn, we shouldn't have taught them this well Dorea."

He ended with a smirk towards Sirius. His earnings for comment were three very amused glances from Lily, Remus, and Dorea and a half glare half guilty glance from Sirius. It, of course, reminded Sirius of the last summer's incident when James had finally rescued Sirius and though Potters had accepted Sirius as their own since long, James had twisted them into adopting Sirius into family.

"By the way where is the Young man who was supposed to be introducing Lily to us?"Dorea asked, saving Sirius.

"Oh, He won't be making an appearance any time soon as Ms. Fiery Redhead here hexed his balls to his bedroom for trying to SHOW her his bed.."

Sirius replied and fled the scene leaving very angry and flushed Lily, admonishing Dorea and two very loud men in his wake.

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James was wondering why the room was not yet a mass of blubbering and drunk. Had no one taken the spiked or much like switched punch? He had to know. After all, Peter sure had learned how to save his arse. He had been after Peter for his rude and insensitive {ahem...} comment earlier while suddenly Peter had brought his attention to their failed prank.

James obviously had stopped his pursuit to notice Peter indeed was right. He had spotted Frank Longbottom take a go at punch and gulp it down at once and this had just multiplied his mystification. He then went to the bar to see for himself what the hell the matter was when he saw their house-elf Binky tending to drinks. And then James realised his mistake. To assume this would be a normal party... Damn, he needed to get his brains sharper. As he tried to slink away he was seen by Binky who gave him an chastising glance and when he mouthed sorry , she waved him away with smile and returned to her bar tending duties. Binky was like grandma elf to Potter family.

Lily Evans who had fled in toe after Sirius's departure was watching this exchange from distance. Maybe the big head arrogant potter was not that arrogant after all.

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Narcissa was following Lucius around the ball in hopes of dancing with him. Somehow Sirius had hinted that the guys had spiked the drinks. Narcissa was hoping to corner Lucius and express her love for him. She thought he won't remember a thing seeing as he would be under influence of alcohol but she would get a reassurance of what he thought of her. She was really antsy tonight.

Then finally she spotted Malfoy alone near bar, 'Perfect'. She approached him flattening her hair, trying to imitate the Celestina Warbeck style walk. She would have given herself full points had she not shrieked like a hag on seeing a rat climbing up her gown. Half of guests turned towards her including Lucius. She really was red in face. She could see her mother's disapproving look, Aunts glare, Uncle Orion's 'Are you really a Black?' face, her father's resigned look and the one that mattered the most this evening, Lucius' incredulous stare. Then Sirius had the gall to come from behind and whisper in her ear, "What's the matter Cissy? You look 'rat'ttled", and with a dog like laugh he went back to his sniggering marauders.

Narcissa really wanted hurt Sirius and his group of *#x*! But first she really needed to turn invisible.

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7th January 1976

"How is the Project coming Rookwood?"

"It is going on okay my lord. He has assigned two very talented witches on the project. And none of them is wiser."

"I don't have much patience for fooling around Rookwood. It's already been two weeks. You better make some progress or..."

"Y-Yes m-my lord"

"You are dismissed. Send Lestrange in"

Rookwood could do nothing but obey his ruthless new master.

Author's Note:

So how is it going peeps? Next update speed will be proportional to amount of reviews. So review and stay tuned for next update. If you review a lot it may even come on Friday.

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**Looking for cameo role characters. Any suggestions are welcome.

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