The holidays were soon over, and the gang settled back into their usual monotonous routine of classes and homework, but to their delight, they did so together. Delilah's reappearance had caused quite a stir, as well as the reuniting of all three of the "golden couples". They were back to being the group that everyone wished they could be a part of.

The Saturday of the Quidditch game dawned bright and early on the last weekend of January. The six sat at breakfast, Lily and Loraina relatively isolated from the strategic conversation that was being bounced back and forth between their friends. A bitter black haired fifth year girl sat further down with her arms crossed, sour due to the fact that Delilah had returned and therefore resumed her position as Gryffindor seeker.

"We have this in the bag," Sirius was saying confidently. James hit him over the head with the back of his hand.

"Don't curse it, you git!"

Sirius grimaced and rubbed the back of his black hair. "Oi, mate, unneccesary!"

"He's right," Delilah said unapologetically. "It's bad luck to say things like that. Besides, this is still a game versus the Slytherins."

She shivered as she looked up at the staff table, surprised to find that Orion was still seated there. Loraina followed her gaze.

"Why is he here? He hasn't been to class in weeks, I figured he had been fired."

Lily's green eyes widened, her face turning a pale white. "Oh my God."

Delilah reached over the table to her, squeezing her hand. "Don't worry, Lil, he'll be out of here soon."

Sirius looked at her curiously. "How do you know that?"

Delilah took a deep breath. "I'm going to tell Dumbledore about our...relationship. I have some evidence. I mean, it's illegal. He'd have to be sacked."

"But it happened before he was a teacher here," Lily put in nervously. "And besides, he's only the potions assistant."

Delilah frowned for a moment. "And you have no evidence that he was there?"

Lily shook her head, disheartened. "No, I don't. I wasn't exactly snapping pictures of the Death Eater lair."

James was sitting straight up, staring icily at the other man. Orion turned in their direction suddenly, and sent James such a knowingly sick smile that it took every inch of his will power to not rise and curse him immediately. Lily shivered in fear as his eyes hit her. Sirius's teeth gritted, his jaw set, while Remus clenched his fists. Delilah's eyes were as small as slits, but Loraina, the only one who had yet to be personally victimized by Orion Black, rose with a fury that none had seen in the small blonde. She was stalking toward the front of the Great Hall.

"Where is she-" Lily began, her green eyes clouded with confusion.

"Oh no," Remus said, dropping his fork. "Oh bloody hell."

She reached the staff table and slammed her hands on it. "How dare you!" she screamed. The Hall fell silent, and several teachers looked as though they wanted to intervene, but were in too much shock to actually do so. "How dare you even consider showing your face in here, you filthy, disgusting, pathetic excuse for a human being."

"Miss Parker," Orion said coolly. "I would advise you to not speak to staff in such a manner. 50 points from Gryffindor."

She practically growled at this, her face forming a terrifying glare. "You are the most vindictive, evil, manipulative, revolting man I have ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes on, Black. And I swear to God, the second I graduate from here, you are going to be six feet under ground, you got that?"

Orion stood now, his towering height evident.

"Are you threatening a teacher, Miss Parker? 50 more points."

"No," she said, shaking her head. "I'm threatening the Death Eater bastard who tortured not one, but two of my friends. And in turn, tortured all of us. Keep on taking points, you fucking bastard. I will not sit quietly and let you back in this castle."

"That's a dangerous accusation," he said, leaning his face mere inches from hers. "You might want to mind your words."

"And you might want to mind the company you keep," she hissed.

He laughed humorlessly. "You're nothing but a child. You don't know anything about this."

Loraina blinked at him before regaining her composure with a humorless laugh of her own. "You think that I don't know about this? You think that my best friend wasn't kidnapped from her room here, the safest place in Great Britain? You don't think I saw a boy who is like my brother take Crucio to save the girl he loves? You don't think I was there, that I was fighting you and your little friends along with everyone else? And you don't think that I didn't see you rip your mask off to confront the girl you used to date?"

Orion looked pale now, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. The staff was beginning to hum with these accusations. The Headmaster sat back, watching the exchange with a kind of detached interest.

"What is she doing?" Lily whimpered at the table. "No, no, no."

"God damn it, Loraina," Delilah hissed. "She's putting herself between a wand and a target now."

Remus stood abruptly and walked briskly to the staff table, where his blonde girlfriend was still shouting.

"Oh, that's funny. I guess nobody knew that you dated my best friend. That you abused her. That you made Delilah's life hell on earth! That you tortured my other best friend!"

Her shouts had become screams, and tears had begun to race down her fair cheeks. Remus grabbed her from behind, around the waist, and dragged her from the hall, kicking and screaming. He pushed her into the Entrance Hall, holding her at arms length in front of him.

"Loraina, what you've done is unbelievably dangerous," Remus said seriously, wiping the tears off of his panting girlfriend's face. "From now on, you musn't go anywhere by yourself. I want you with at least one other person at all times."

Loraina nodded with a whimper. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay love," Remus said, pulling her into his arms and kissing her hairline. "You meant well. Just, let's try and mean well a little quieter, yeah?"

Delilah was the next to appear, her face pale. Lily was close behind, James and Sirius right on her tail.

"Loraina," Delilah said. "Do you have any idea what you've just done?"

Loraina extracted herself from Remus long enough to look at her friend with big, guilty eyes. "I'm so sorry, I just...I completely lost control and I don't know why."

Delilah launched herself at her best friend in a tight hug. "I'm not angry. I'm just afraid."

"We all are," Lily said softly. "And you and I have got to talk during the match. But the rest of you, you've got to go play."

Remus shook his head earnestly. "She's not okay, Lil."

"I'm fine, Remus," Loraina said with a watery smile. "I don't know what came over me, but I'm okay. You four need to go win us a match. I'm sorry to have done that right before your big game."

Remus kissed the top of her head before looking her seriously in the eyes. "It's all going to be fine, we'll make sure you're protected. I love you. I'll see you after the game."

"I love you, too," Loraina said, giving him a lingering kiss. "Good luck."

Remus grinned at her, holding her to him while he waited for James to say goodbye to Lily. The redhead was smothering him in kisses, murmuring in between and reassuring him of his abilities.

"Thank you, Lil," James chuckled. He kissed her one last time before untangling himself from him girlfriend, who gave him a sweet smile. The five Quidditch players made their way to the locker room while Lily and Loraina idly began to make their way to the pitch; they would be a little early, but it would give them some time to talk before the match.

They got prime seats in the Gryffindor section, and Loraina turned to Lily. "What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Why you freaked out this morning," Lily said, her tone serious. "Loraina, have you gotten your you know what yet?"

Loraina looked puzzled for a minute before a look of realization came over her features. She seemed to think for a moment before heaving a deep sigh. "No. Not since New Years. But I should have gotten it...I should have had it just two weeks later. I'm two weeks late.."

Lily gasped. "Oh, Loraina, this is bad. This is really bad."

Loraina chewed on her lip, shaking her head. "Oh God. What do we do?"

"During the party tonight, we'll grab Delilah and go take a test," Lily said. "There's a simple potion for it that I can brew in about fifteen minutes. We'll do it in my bathroom."

Their fellow Gryffindors were beginning to file into the bleachers, so the girls lowered their voices. "Okay. Oh Merlin, this is really, really bad."

"Let's just stay positive," Lily assured. "We'll not think about it while we watch the game."

"Not think about it?" Loraina yelped. "How can I just not think about it?"

The stands were full now, and the whistle blew for the Captains to shake hands. "By watching this," Lily said pointedly, watching her boyfriend shake hands with a particularly brute-like Slytherin. The teams shot into the air, and the two girls watched with baited breath as their boyfriends took to the sky.

Delilah flew up to Sirius, gave him a fiery kiss and a wink, before flying back into her position. Cat calls came from the Gryffindor stands. Lily tapped Loraina on the arm as the Slytherins immediately began to boo.

"Look, Orion isn't over there," Lily said, indicating where the staff was seated. "Neither is the headmaster."

Loraina grinned a little bit. "Maybe my crazy stunt worked."

"I hope so," Lily said plainly before turning her attention back to the game.

James flew with the quaffle toward the hoops, weaving in and out so quickly and with such dexterity that it seemed as if the Slytherins hardly had time to react.

"Merlin!" Loraina gasped. "Look at him go!"

Lily was grinning with a tentative pride, her nails digging into her best friend's arm nervously. "Oh, that looks so dangerous."

"He's fine, Lily," Loraina laughed. "He's been doing this for years."

"But he's never so...so...daring!" Lily stuttered as James scored a goal just before being elbowed in the face by the Captain of the Slytherin quidditch team. "Oh my God!"

Sirius whacked a Bludger at the Slytherin, which hit its mark right in the lower back, sending the boy, who the girls were now able to identify as Nott based off of the Slytherin's chanting, reeling.

"You are so lucky your boyfriend just sits in those hoops!" Lily screamed as she hid her face while James dodged a well aimed bludger. Just as she said this, Remus was practically tackled off of his broom by a Slytherin chaser.

"HEY!" Loraina yelled, standing. "THAT'S A FOUL!"

Lily laughed and yanked her friend back onto the bleachers. "Calm yourself, crazy girl, or you'll get us booted."

Delilah had flown down toward the action to see how her friends were faring when a silky voice came from next to her. She gasped and almost fell off of her broom, having not even noticed his approach.

"Hello," Regalus Black grinned at her. "So, you sleep with my brother right? And my cousin?"

"Shut up," Delilah hissed, beginning to fly away from him.

"I mean, I guess if we just keep it in the family," Regalus jeered, flying to her other side now. He winked at her. "You look good in Quidditch robes."

"You little creep!" Delilah growled. "What are you, like thirteen?"

"I'm fifteen," he corrected. "And I bet I'm more of a man than my older brother anyway."

Delilah burst into laughter. "Oh please, Reggie."

"Why don't you give it a go then?" he smirked. She curled her lip in distaste before she felt a sudden rush of pain on her side.

"DAMN!" she screamed, holding her right side. She winced. Probably a broken rib. At least.

"BACK OFF MY GIRLFRIEND REGALUS!" Sirius screamed from across the pitch.

"JUST KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY, BIG BROTHER!"

"SIRIUS! GUARD REMUS DAMN IT!" James shouted. "YOU CAN HAVE YOUR FIGHT OVER YOUR TERRITORY LATER."

Remus was, for whatever reason, taking quite the beating from the Slytherin chasers, who seemed dead set on flying directly into him. The match went on this way for three grueling hours. The chasers were abusing Remus, and the beaters were using Delilah as their main target. James was flying brilliantly, but could not seem to shake the chasers, who would use him as their practice punching bag before finally reaching Remus.

Delilah suddenly caught a glimpse of fluttering gold, right between Lily and Loraina's heads in the stands. She laughed and shot off toward it. Regalus was on her tail almost immediatley. She dove into the stands, directly between Lily and Loraina, who both shrieked and ducked. Delilah triumphantly held up the snitch, floating over her friends. Regalus, however, did not seem to break in time, and skidded sideways, tumbling over the side of the stands with both the blonde and the redhead.

"LIL! RAINA!" Delilah screeched. She flew down to the wreckage of the accident, where Lily was groaning and slowly sitting up, rubbing her arm.

"Bloody hell," she mumbled. "I don't even play Quidditch..."

"LILY!" James was yelling, flying to them with remarkable speed.

"You won, babe!" Lily beamed, kissing him. He let out a relieved laugh.

"I can't let you out of my sight for more than a minute, can I?"

Remus and Sirius approached soon after, Remus shouting to grab his reuniting friends' attention. "She's out cold! Rain! Raina, love, open your eyes baby."

Lily crawled over, her green eyes wide. "Oh no. Oh no. Oh no."

Loraina slowly opened her eyes. She looked straight past Remus, her eyes panicked as they met Lily's. "LILY!"

"It's okay, Loraina, the fall wasn't too hard," Lily soothed. "You mostly hit your head, didn't you? What hurts?"

"Mostly just my back and my head."

"Thank God," Lily breathed. "You landed on your back. I landed on my front."

"What's going on?" Remus asked, looking between them.

"Nothing!" both girls shouted. They stood as quickly as they could.

"You guys clean up, we ought to go to the Wing," Lily said. Delilah went to turn away with the suspicious looking boys, but Lily got her wrist. "Come on."

The three of them made their way up, Loraina hardly breathing.

"It'll be fine," Delilah soothed. "Odds are you aren't."

"And if I am?"

"We're almost out of school," Lily reasoned. "Practically adults now."

"Yeah," Delilah supported. "It's not as if you'll still be in school."

"But what about going to school to be a Healer?" Loraina said, her face pale. "What about Remus? We just got back together a month ago. How's he going to feel?"

"He'll support you," Lily assured. "He's very caring, and he loves you."

Loraina heaved a deep sigh as they reached the Hospital Wing. "Here goes nothing, then."

Madam Gavioti approached them with a grumble of, "Always with the Quidditch!" She first examined Delilah's rips, which she gave her an anti-inflammatory potion for. She then checked Lily's wrists before moving on to Loraina.

"We think she might have gotten a head injury," Lily supplied.

"Well good lord, why didn't you tell me before?" the nurse screeched before sitting Loraina down.

"There's something else I'm more concerned about," the blonde mumbled, her cheeks flushed. "How can I tell if I'm...pregnant...?"

There was a sudden sound of crashing from behind them. All three girls whirled around, eyes wide, to find Sirius standing with his jaw almost on the floor.

"Sirius!" Delilah exclaimed. "You cannot say anything!"

"I...what...how..."

"Just shut up!" Delilah snapped, pulling him over to the group. "Either stay or go, but keep your mouth shut!"

"If you are, you'll glow for a few moments after you drink this," the nurse explained, handing her a vial of a golden liquid. Loraina nodded and breathed deeply for a good minute.

"Bloody hell, woman, we're all dying to know!" Sirius exclaimed. She glared at him but downed the potion like a shot before screwed her eyes shut.

"Don't tell me!" Loraina squeaked, her eyes still shut.

"Loraina-" Lily began, but was cut off by the arrival of two other people.

"Why's my girlfriend glowing?" Remus asked curiously. Loraina dropped the vial, her eyes flying open as she stared at the faint glow on her arm.

"Remus, you two need to talk," Lily said, her voice faint. She indicated the others follow her out, leaving the two blondes in the wing to sort out this new development.