A/N: Nothing huge happens here but there are loads of significant hints and stuff. BUT My God I'm on speed over drive. I've just tapped out two chapters in a row, not including the one I've just posted. That's three chapters already. If everything goes to plan then I've got two more before I go away! Did I mention I love it when you guys review every chapter? Because I do!


"What a blathering fool she has turned him into." Sirius said distastefully although he secretly took great pleasure in seeing James tripping over his own feet. Ever since the dinner he'd been floating around in a bubble of euphoric state that no one had the heart to pierce. "No one could possibly be that happy!"

"Let him be." Remus said from where he was sprawled across the seat in the train compartment. The holidays had flown by at an alarming speed and before they knew it they were packed and on the Hogwarts Express.

"He sends about sixty owls to her everyday, how can anyone possibly have that much to say? He treats owling like bloody...bloody...what you call those Muggle things again?" Sirius mimed that he was holding an object and was pressing buttons on it and then holding to his ear. He snapped his finger remembering before Remus could tell him. "Like bloody telephones!!!" Sirius slapped a hand to his forehead while shaking his head, "I think we've lost a brother." He sighed dramatically.

"You're starting to sound like Bent West."

"Oi! Watch it! You crossed both lines there!" Sirius crossed his arms pretending to be offended. "I'm much better looking, and I have the advantage of having brains and guts."

Remus stretched his arms and yawned. "Any word about St. Mungo's?"

Sirius shook his head. "I didn't hear anything about it from my good old family but then I only went back once this time. And James' dad promised to look into it but so far nothing. Lid is on tight. Nobody knows what happened and why the security was upped."

"So nothing?"

"Zip."

"At least Yoanna is out of there now."

Sirius smirked. "What is this interest in Yoanna?"

Remus looked away and was saved from answering by Peter opening the door.

"Hi guys!" he began to shove his heavy trunk through the doorway but it got stuck.

"All right, Wormtail?" Sirius greeted and helped him lift his trunk up.

Peter nodded enthusiastically. "I've been making good use of my holidays. Done loads of research and stuff."

"Research on what?" Remus asked.

"On some cool stuff that we could do this term." He said his eyes gleaming with pride.

"Like what?" Sirius asked lazily with his head hanging out the window.

"Well, I checked out a few things in books." He opened his trunk and fumbled about before pulling out a grayed book. "We could make us be able to see things that no one else could see and they tell us stuff." He flicked through the pages. "Like...urm...we could make us be able to see Grievers! They're way cool! These things are always around us but we just can't see them, kind of like Thestrals but these things are way more interesting and it's not the case they you have to have seen death before you can see them. They hang around people that are about to suffer because they are attracted to a certain aura."

"That's a bit morbid. I'm not sure I want to see things like that." Remus thought it was a very bad idea to see things that foretold misery.

"That's not cool man!" Sirius said dismissively. "Who'd want to see something like that?"

Peter's expression fell. "But we'd be exclusive because only we could see them! We'd be able to use that knowledge somehow." he'd spent most of his holidays trying to come up with an original and cool plan that the other guys always seemed have. He thought Grievers were a fantastic idea; they'd be able to scare people and maybe even learn to control them! Yes! That's what they'd do, they'd each have one to control.

"We already are exclusive." Sirius said with every bit of the big headedness that he had been said to possess.

"But this is just like the time we-"

"No it's not. That was a good idea. This one is not." Sirius said not realizing how cutting it sounded. Peter went quiet. He had loads of other ideas but Grievers was his best one.

Remus tried to correct Sirius words. "What Padfoot is trying to say is that it might not be a very good idea. I mean what if we saw Grievers following ourselves? I don't know how brave you feel but that would haunt me and I'd be scared of every shadow thinking it will cause me grief."

Peter nodded but he wasn't really listening.

The door opened again and James came in dragging his trunk. "Well lookie here, if it ain't our local Romeo."

James cast Sirius a withering look. "Are your fleas making you itch that much?"

Everyone smiled. There was nothing like getting together again.

- - -

Lily wiped her eyes amazed at how emotional she had gotten. It seemed extra tough this time waving to her parents before passing through the wall. She hadn't cried about a departure to school since her first year and wondered why it had happened this time.

The train loomed in front of her and she dragged her trunk aboard waving cheerfully to her friends.

"That's such a cute cat!" Joey Canwright from Hufflepuff exclaimed. "What's its name?"

"Nutmeg." Lily hadn't known what to call the kitten so as a result Kitten became it's name for the first few days and it wasn't until it managed to break a pot of powered nutmeg and rolled in it that a name was decided.

Joey stroked Nutmeg's silky ears and cooed. "She's still a baby. Did you get her for Christmas?"

"She was a present."

"Really? I would love to be given a cat! Who is it from?"

Lily hesitated knowing it wasn't wise to tell the truth. She searched the crowded platform trying to think of something to say but a familiar head caught her attention. "Urm...Yoanna!"

"From Yoanna?"

"No sorry, I've just spotted Yoanna. I'm sorry, I haven't seen her for a while. Excuse me." Lily gratefully left and went to catch Yoanna.

"Yoannie!" Lily gave her a huge hug. Yoanna was surprised but she returned the hug happily. "How have you been?"

"Really well!"

"I tried to visit you at the hospital but they wouldn't let me."

"You did?"

"Yeah, but that doesn't matter now because you're back!"

"I'm so glad to be back too. All those days when they kept checking me over but I was absolutely fine. There was nothing wrong with me at all! Look, there's Rosie. Rosie!" Yoanna waved to her but Rosie didn't seem to have heard or seen her. "Doesn't matter I'll catch her later."

The whistle went and everyone began to pile onto the train. Yoanna followed Lily and together they pushed themselves among the first and second years until they stopped outside a compartment.

Lily slid the door open and stuck her head in. "Hi guys, guess who I've got with me." She pushed door open fully. "Ta da!" Yoanna found herself faced with the Marauders. They looked eager to see her although it was not in the way that she would have expected. Sirius bared his teeth almost like a grimace and James looked worried and kept glancing at Lily and then back at her. Peter just stared and Remus was the only one who seemed genuinely happy to see her although he also looked uncomfortable.

Remus was the first to speak. "Yoanna! Hi!" he shuffled along so there was enough room for the two girls to sit down. "How have you been?"

"Not bad." Yoanna sat down next to Remus and Lily ended up next to Peter and opposite James.

"We haven't seen you for ages! Not since..." Remus trailed off not knowing exactly what to call it.

"Since the nightmare?" Yoanna finished.

All eyebrows went up. "Nightmare?"

Yoanna nodded firmly. "I don't remember much but it turns out that I was having a very bad nightmare and somehow I went berserk in my sleep and destroyed my bed. At least that was the explanation that was given me. The nurse told me I had some sort of dreaming disorder. I can't quite remember the name they gave it."

James and Sirius exchanged a glance. "You don't remember any of it?"

Yoanna shook her head. "Too fuzzy to make sense out of. At least I've been cured of it."

"Nothing? So you don't even remember any visitors? Like Rosie didn't visit you?" James elbowed Sirius making him continue less obviously. "Or Remus or us coming in after?"

"Nope, none of it."

Lily could tell that the guys were disappointed. What could they have been expecting her to say? She for one was relieved because if Yoanna hadn't been attacked all their suspicions involving someone manipulating dreams was pretty much refuted. There were still many mysteries but if Lily had learnt anything in the past seven years, it was that there were many things could never be explained. She would feel very happy to write off her nightmares as a freak incident and the events that ensued after her overreaction to them would be something she could laugh about when she was old. What a wild goose chase they had been through!

"Hey! I've heard about these." Lily pointed at a rough sketch on Peter's open book.

"It's a Griever." Peter said glad that someone was finally taking interest.

"Yeah, aren't they attracted to bad mojo?" Lily shivered. "I'm glad I can't see those." Peter closed his book wisely and returned it back to his trunk.

Normal chatter followed and soon they had all changed into their robes and were leaving the train. Lily cradled Nutmeg in one arm and did not object when James' hand brushed hers a few times before taking it completely. His grip was firm and warm and to top it off he was wearing the scarf she made. The two walked on; oblivious to the curious stares and the other Marauders' glee that James and Lily were finally a couple.


A/N: Muwahaha! The whole incident isn't finished. There's a lot of holes in Yoanna's explanation and I know none of you guys are as naïve as Lily. And why in the world would she wave at Rosie is Rosie had attacked her? Keep thinking people but not too much because a fluffy chapter is coming up! xXx