Hey guys!!! I told you that I would have the second one up shortly and here it is! This one is way more serious than any other chapter I have done before but I had to do it to get the whole love thing going. Thanks for all the great reviews I really appreciate them! REVIEW!!!

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"Kat, I need your help." James yelled from across the grounds watching as Kat and the girls dipped their feet in the water.

"What?" The three girls asked in unison not looking up at the raven haired boy.

"We need to schedule tryouts for Quidditch in a week and I have no idea how to write out the dates." James said stopping at the lakes edge to dip his hand in the water and grab Lily's foot.

"Potter I swear if you push me off this log there will be hell to pay." Lily growled at him aggravated from potions.

"Potter, why don't you ask your co captain to help you with that?" Kat asked lazily dragging her feet through the muddy water.

"I am." James said with a smirk on his face.

"What about Sirius?" Kat asked skeptically looking in James' eyes for silent laughter.

"We decided, together, that you should be the one to be co captain." James said still holding Lily's foot and leaning against the log.

"Are you kidding? Oh my God thank you!" Kat yelped as she jumped on James, causing him to lose his balance. The four girls and James flew into the water along with the log with a resounding splash.

"KAT!" Lily screamed as she jumped onto James who was holding her around the waist.

"Sorry, I guess I got just a little excited. Where's Lisi?" Kat asked as she turned to Paige.

"I don't know she just fell in." Paige said looking into Kat's eyes with worry.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Something jumped out of the water with a big splash making Lily tighten her death grip on James before screaming.

Lisi broke into a fit of laughter at Lily's reaction to her joke as she went to sit on the shore. "Is Lily afraid of a little water?"

"With good reason! I almost drowned when I was little." Lily said shivering into James wet shirt. "I have never been able to swim again."

"Do you want to?" Paige asked ringing her hair out on the dry grass.

"Yeah, but there was never anyone to teach me." Lily said as she held on tight to James.

"I can teach you." He said starting to walk through the murky water.

"If I knew for sure that you wouldn't hit on me than I would take that offer." Lily laughed as she jumped off of James and onto the warm earth.

"What if I say I promise not to do that?" James said giving Lily a sad face that closely resembled his best friend's.

"James I will be in a bathing suit with you in water; is it possible for you to not to hit on me?" Lily asked raising her eyebrows beneath her matted wet hair.

"Give me a chance and if I do break the promise than I will stop giving you lessons." James said looking into her green eyes earnestly.

"Fine, I will meet you here tomorrow at three." Lily said grabbing her shoes off the ground.

"I will be here." James grinned before kissing Lily on the cheek and running back into the forbidden forest.

"What do you think their doing in there?" Paige asked.

"Don't you mean him because I only saw James run in there?" Lisi said hooking her arm with her best friend's.

"Wherever there's one marauder there's the rest of them." Lily said looking into the thick brush as if something would pop out of it.

They stood there watching the forest sway in the breeze until Kat started running towards it.

"Kat, what in the hell do you think you're doing?" Lily yelled at her friend who was now at the forest's edge.

"Seeing what the boys are up to." Kat said before darting into the forest. Lily rolled her eyes worriedly before running behind her best friend. She could hear two other sets of footsteps running behind her and realized Paige and Lisi had joined the chase.

Kat took deep breaths as she ran into an opening where the sun came through the trees and a breeze swept through, cooling the temperature off a bit. She looked around at the amazingly tall trees as she heard her friends come to a stop behind her.

"What in the hell are you thinking? We could get expelled for this." Lily panted trying to catch her breath.

"Then why did you come?" Kat asked with a snort. Leave it to her best friend to bring up school when they had come outside to forget it.

"Someone had to come save your ass if something eats you." Lily laughed letting her chest length red hair dry out in the afternoon sun.

"This place is beautiful." Paige said in awe. She was looking up at the towering trees with all of their beautiful flowers.

"I know, I saw it on the marauders map." Kat said letting her hair fall down to her waist as she pulled out her wet ponytail.

"You weren't even paying attention that night." Lisi said indifferently as she laid on the soft grass and was shortly followed by the other three.

"I stole it from Sirius' pocket in History of Magic. He fell asleep so I thought I might explore." Kat said yawning.

"Does Sirius know you… explored?" Paige asked as she closed her eyes.

"Of course not." Kat said as she drifted off to sleep, along with her three best friends.

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Lily opened her eyes when she heard a huge crash in the distance and then a green flash of light. Everything had gotten dark and all that had shown now was the moon and the stars that glared at them through the dark night sky. Lily looked around skeptically before sitting up and looking around. This was not good, not good at all.

"Kat, wake up!" Lily cried as another crack hit through the air and scaring her. She could see red flashes through the night sky while cracks of spells escaped their wands. She could feel tears sting her eyes from fear as she shook her best friend with anxiousness. Another loud crack went through the air wakening the other three girls who had wide eyes.

"What time is it?" Kat asked Lily looking at her best friend. "And what is that noise."

"It's nine thirty and that noise is spells." Lily said chocking on her last words.

"Spells for what?" Paige asked in a small, frightened voice as Lisi pulled her up.

"I don't know I woke up and all I could see were these red and green lights and cracks, I tried to wake you guys but the noise did it before I could."

"We are going to be knee deep in shit." Lisi said pulling on her shoes. She watched as the other girls did the same.

Another crack ran through the sky with a red light, scaring the four girls who stopped to look at the sky.

"Forget getting in trouble, we need to get out of here." Kat yelled tugging on her friends' arms.

"What in the hell are you talking about? You're not worried about getting expelled?" Paige asked her friend, eyes brimming with tears.

"Those cracks aren't just any spells." Kat said seriously looking at the three girls earnestly.

"What are they?" Lisi asked trying to keep her control intact.

"Dark spells. That is why they are blood red… that's why they are so loud." Lily said grabbing her friends and walking into the bush.

"How do you know?" Lisi asked her two friends while tying up her hair.

"I saw Avery…" Kat said looking at her friend with dark eyes.

"But Dumbledore…" Paige said looking at her friends desperately.

"Dumbledore ain't here, so right about now all we have is us." Kat yelled over a particularly loud crash that lit up the sky a striking green.

"Someone is fighting back…" Kat trailed off looking into the night sky.

"How do you know?" Paige squeaked her tears streaking her porcelain skin.

"Green is defensive spells." Lily said simply, looking up at the night sky.

"Who do you think is fighting?" Lisi asked, bringing Lily from her thoughts.

Lily stopped mid step before turning a pale white. "James…"

"What?" Kat asked shaking her friends' shoulders with fear.

"JAMES..." Lily yelled at her best friend. "The marauders were in the forest remember."

"Lily they probably left… I had detention with Sirius, he knew that." Kat yelled as she heard the cracks of spells getting closer.

"NO I HAVE TO FIND HIM… oh my God… Kat?" Lily said picking something up from the ground. "They are here…"

"Who?... Oh my God." Kat said as she took the tattered Marauders map out of Lily's hand. She saw the names James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew on the map along with the names Avery Lossing, Crabbe Goyle, and a few names she had never seen before.

"Look." Lily said pointing at a dot across from James that said Severus Snape.

Kat's face went pale after seeing Sirius' name on the map. "Come on."

"Let's go help our boys." Paige said to the girls turning around.

The four girls ran faster towards the lightning cracks of red and green hopping out of the way of ones in the air. They watched from behind trees at a piece of opening where the men were fighting.

"Sirius…" Kat watched as blood ran down Sirius fore head. She stood there in shock at the sight before her along with her friends, totally speechless. A pile of unconscious bodies lay around the trees, some familiar, as the others continued to fight, their blood drenching their clothes.

They watched as Severus and James came into view, firing spells at one another and expertly dodging. Severus had a nasty looking cut across the length of his neck and James had his shirt of and his chest was battered and bloodied. They watched as the rest of the marauders finished off their opponents with ease before turning to Snape.

"Pay back is a bitch Potter." Snape sneered at James while holding his wand at an angle that was even with James chest.

"She didn't want you." James said seriously. There was no hate in his voice, only dignified truth.

"How in the hell would you know? She didn't talk to you until that dirty little bitch started fucking Black." Snape shot at James, the two of them still circling each other.

James heard Sirius growl but never took his eyes off of his opponent who looked ready to strike at any minute.

"Her name is Kat and Lily wouldn't like that you called her that." James retorted back to the greasy haired boy in front of him who only reached to his nose.

"What in the hell do you care about what she would like? All you will ever care about is having someone to fuck at night and God as my witness I won't let it be my Lily." Snape yelled at James before raising his arm to shoot out a spell.

Kat heard Lily scream and saw a jet of red hair stop in between the two boys before getting hit by the spell. She watched as blood instantly started pooling onto the ground and ran into the opening.

"LILY!" She screamed as she knelt down next to her friend's unconscious body which had long gashes across her face and neck. "LILY PLEASE WAKE UP!"

"She could hear someone throwing up and turned around to see Paige by a tree with Lisi and Remus holding her up. She looked up at James who was holding onto Lily with tears covering his cheeks, she heard more sobbing at the other end of the forest and saw Snape standing still next to a tree.

"RANDIFY." Kat screamed at him and watched as his limp body fell to the ground with a soft thump. She would need to pass him out for proof of what he did, so Dumbledore could punish the right people.

She stood up as she listened to James tell the others about going to the hospital wing but her mind was on something else; Sirius. He had disappeared the minute the fight was over and had not even tried to help her when she knew everyone could see the pain and blood on her face. She had a whole new kind of pain caused by Sirius Black because the one time she needed him there, he wasn't.

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"WHAT HAPPENED?" Dumbledore boomed as he smashed open the doors to the infirmary looking at the five teens who around a bed. Not one of them looked up but just looked down at Lily's scarred face which had just stopped bleeding.

"IS SOMEONE GOING TO ANSWER ME?" He said to the group a little less roughly.

Kat turned around her face covered in dried blood and tears and simply said. "Snape wanted to hurt James and Lily wouldn't let him." She could feel the hate bubble in her as she thought of what Snape had achieved in doing to her best friend.

"So Mr. Black has told me." Dumbledore said before sitting on the edge of Lily's bed. "He came to me about fifteen minutes ago."

"No one found him then." James said looking at Dumbledore.

"No, he did exactly as you told him Mr. Potter." Dumbledore said before smiling softly at James who went back to staring at Lily. "Mr. Pettigrew ran off as soon as Sirius told me, any clue where he is?"

"No, sir. I would have thought he would be here." James said softly the anger slowly coming out of his voice.

They stayed like that for what seemed like hours standing next to Lily until the doors to the infirmary opened and Sirius appeared.

"How is she, mate?" Sirius said before grabbing James' shoulders softly.

"She's going to be fine. How are you?" James asked his best friend he looked to his side to see Kat who was looking at the ground, her face red.

"Sore, but I think I'll make it." Sirius let out a strained laugh. "I was just worried about you all."

"Mr. Black is it taken care of?" Dumbledore asked him. Sirius looked up at the old man looking like he had yet to notice him.

"McGonagall is out there settling it right now." Sirius said, leaning against the bedpost.

"I better go help her then. You all are excused from your classes on Monday; I think you will need more time to recover." Dumbledore said who did not look at Lily but Kat who had silent angry tears running down her face.

Kat looked around her room at her friends who were all in their own little worlds. Remus was holding Paige who was letting out continuing sobs and hiccups and was rocking her back and forth lovingly. Lisi was sitting calmly by the side of Lily's bed looking down at her friend with concerned eyes. Last was James who was holding Lily's hand and telling her it was going to be okay and giving her light kisses on the fore head. Sirius was holding onto James' shoulders and looked down at Lily; he never even looked at Kat.

Kat could feel the sobs rise in her as she thought about how much she needed him to help her pull it together in the forest. She knew that he would never love her like James loved Lily but he could have at least helped her before he had to go to Dumbledore, but instead she was by herself. She had never felt so alone and her best friend wasn't even there to comfort her.

"I have to go." She said softly before getting off of the uncomfortable chair. She could feel the pain shoot up her body and couldn't support herself so she toppled to the ground in a heap thankful for the icy cold of the tile floors that were pressing on her face.

"Kat." Lisi yelled as she went to pick up her friend off the floor.

"Leave me here." Kat said as she started to feel herself slip into a restful sleep.

"Kat are you crazy? You need to get into bed." James said as he left Lily's bed for the first time to help her up. "I should have known this was too much for you."

"She just wants attention. Leave her alone and then she'll stop faking" Sirius said harshly as he grabbed Lily's hand.

"SIRIUS!" James yelled at his best friend. "You know Kat wouldn't do that, not when Lily is hurt."

Kat felt the sting of Sirius as James lifted her up in one fast motion. The sudden movements caused her to heave and she threw up all over the floor and heard everyone scream. She opened her eyes to see blood on the floor before everything went black.

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Kat felt something light on her body and lifted her hand to touch her face. "Where am I?"

"Somebody's finally up?" she heard a light voice ask before laughing.

"Lily, you're up!" Kat squealed before jumping out of her bed to hug her best friend. "Are you okay?"

"I feel great but you know Madam Pomfrey, she wouldn't let me take a toe out of bed." Lily said as Kat walked to her friend's bed.

"When did she come back?" Kat yawned as she laid down next to Lily whose scratches were now just little white marks.

"About five this morning, or at least that's what the boys told me." Lily said as she grabbed Kat's tiny wrist.

"The boys? Where are they?" Kat asked while looking out the window.

"Getting some breakfast. They were so hungry they turned pale so I told them to go eat and then I would be here when you woke up." Lily said as she looked at her best friend with wet eyes.

"How are you?" Kat asked.

"Me? What about you? You're the one who threw up blood and then passed out. The screams from Paige woke me up and I saw the whole thing, I could have sworn you were dying." Lily said squeezing Kat's hand gently.

"You scared me to…" Kat trailed off as she thought of last night's events.

"I did what I had to do and that's all that mattered." Lily said with a strong voice her eyes cloudy with memories. "What happened with you and Sirius?"

"What do you mean?" Kat asked afraid that she had said something in her sleep.

"I remember what Sirius said when you dropped, I was awake by then, and then when we thought you were dying he just stood there… crying." Lily said looking at Paige with curious eyes.

"He had been distant the whole night and wouldn't even look at me and I couldn't take it any more so I tried to leave. I think he just went into shock."Kat said looking up at the ceiling.

"He didn't look like he was in shock. He looked really sad and really pissed all at the same time." Lily said as she gave Kat one of her knowing looks.

"All I know Lils is that when I needed him in the forest when we thought you were dead he wasn't there to help me." Kat said feeling the tears sting her eyes at the memory of Sirius trying to avoid her.

"Maybe he's thinking the same thing." Lily tried to wipe the tears off of Kat's cheek.

"What are you saying? That I did this to myself." Kat said bitterly looking towards Lily.

"I had closed my eyes for a while and James and Sirius were the only ones left in the room; they thought I was asleep. James started talking to Sirius about what had happened to Snape…" Lily started.

"What did happen to Snape?" Kat asked rising one of her eyebrows in curiosity.

"He and his minions are on probation and have yearly detentions, or at least that is what's being said. I honestly think something else happened because James seemed pretty satisfied of Snape's punishment and I know that he would have wanted him expelled at least. But to go on, James then started asking Sirius what was wrong and Sirius spilled the beans." Lily said letting go of Kat's hand to crack her knuckles.

"What do you mean?" Kat asked more riveted by their conversation by every minute.

"He thought you weren't in love with him." Lily said softly almost inaudibly.

"I'm not and he knows that. So what's the problem?" Kat asked impatiently not getting Lily's point.

"Maybe I shouldn't be the one to tell you." Lily said more to herself than Kat.

"Tell me what?" Kat asked frustrated.

"That he's in love with you."

Kat looked at Lily and almost dry heaved. She couldn't believe that in the past twenty four hours more drama had occurred than in her entire Hogwarts career so far. First falling asleep in the forest, then seeing Lily almost die, and almost dying herself was a complete shock to her system.

"Are you okay?" Lily asked looking close to tears.

"So much has happened and I just think it's all starting to hit at once… I think I'm just scared."

"Scared about what? No one is going to hurt us anymore Kat, Dumbledore guaranteed us that."

"It's not that."

"Than what is it?"

"I think I love him back."

"Liar." Came a voice from the other side of the room.

Sirius Black stood in the corner of the room with the invisibility cloak in his hands, his face still caked with dried blood.