Lily was glad when Monday finally came, it was a time she could properly handle, she had, after all, been top in every class at Beauxbatons. Her first ever lesson at Hogwarts was Potions. She walked into the room and sat beside Mars who had beckoned her over.
"Watch out for the dramatics today." Mars warned her.
"What do you mean? What's happened?" Lily asked curiously.
"James and Dora got into a huge fight last night. I mean HUGE. Their relationship have always been a bit offish but this is a new level for them." Mars explained. The door opened, silencing her as James and Sirius walked in. Sirius remained silent as James looked tired but very pissed off. He had a cut just above his eyebrow, it looked fairly new, well it wasn't there when Lily saw him last night before he went off with Dorcas. Someone else walked in and Dorcas practically steam rolled into the room, she flopped down beside Lily and sighed heavily.
Lily reached into her bag a pulled out a bit of chocolate.
"You look like you need this." Lily said handing the chocolate to Dorcas, the older girl smiled at Lily. While Lily was friends with the other girls, she was still working on it with Dorcas, who seemed to like the redhead more and more with each day.
"Thanks." Dorcas muttered eating the chocolate.
Finally the teacher walked into the room, a short rounded man, thick straw like hair, and he looked like a walrus with a ridiculous gingery moustache. His eyes immediately fell on Lily.
"I shall inform you now Miss Evans, I will not tolerate the kind of behaviour I get from your step brother." Horace Slughorn informed the redhead, who smiled politely at him.
"And I shall inform you, professor, that while Sirius and I share many personality traits, we do differ on our opinion on education, while I see school as a chance to prepare myself fully for life after Hogwarts, Sirius does seem to have the idea that it is a time to act immature, I would like to apologise in advance for any disruption that Sirius will most probably cause." Lily said politely, and then beamed at the professor.
"Ah hoy! Now that is how a student should behave!" Slughorn boomed to the class. "They should treat their teachers with a bit of respect! Why Miss Evans, Lily if you will permit me?" Slughorn asked, Lily nodded. "Well Lily, I must say, I am very impressed, now lets get a better understanding on your knowledge on potions, we'll try a sixth year question. How would you cure most common poisons?"
"There are two ways, by wither applying Golpalott's Third Law, or by using a Bezoar." Lily replied immediately.
"Now the Golpalott's Third Law we do teach, but a Bezoar?" Horace said laughing. "Well I wouldn't have expect that answer from any of my seventh years. Ten points to Gryffindor!"
Lily grinned as she walked out of the potions room, she was proud of herself, she'd done really well.
"Kiss arse." Someone whispered in her ear, she turned to see Mars beside her smirking. "What's all this about Sirius being immature and you preparing for life out of Hogwarts?" Mars demanded grinning at her friend.
"There's no harm in getting the teachers on your side." Lily replied grinning.
"Getting them on your side! HA! You are such a brown nose." Mars teased. Dorcas caught up with them and grinned.
"I'm impressed Lily, didn't realise you knew so much." Dorcas said.
"I'm an impressive person." Lily replied cheekily.
"Whatever, Twitch!" Dorcas called as she disappeared into her Ancient Runs class, and Lily went to Arithmancy.
Lily smiled as she stood before Remus, it was Friday night, but they had opted to stay away from the party and hang out, seeing as both were very studious they hadn't had much time to talk, seeing as they usually just studied together before dragging themselves up to their respective beds.
Sirius of course saw this as a saving grace, knowing that Remus would keep his hands to himself, for they would have time to do little else but school work.
"Come on you." Lily muttered, holding her hand out to Remus. "Time we do something, other then homework." Lily explained as Remus grasped her hand and stood up, he wasn't feeling great, the full moon was tomorrow, so he had calculated, and it always made him feel a bit off, but he wouldn't pass up the chance to hang out with his girlfriend.
Lily lead him all the way down to the entrance and out into the ground, the sun was almost totally hidden, and the sky was rapidly darkening, they walked around the castle, until Remus spotted a secluded area, smirking at Lily he had her up against the wall.
Lily smirked at him, and pulled his head down to hers and kissed him fiercely, later when they needed to part for air Lily smiled up at him before looking into the sky, her smile brightened.
"It's so beautiful." Lily mused quietly, Remus looked up into the night sky to see the clouds parting and a...
"Lily go inside." Remus said fearfully.
"Remus?" Lily asked in concern, he'd gotten very pale very quickly.
"Lily get into the castle." Remus instructed. He started to turn to run away, but Lily caught hold of his arm.
"Remus what's wrong?" Lily asked, her concern turning to fear. Remus grabbed Lily by her upper arms and shook her hard.
"RUN! LILY!" He shouted at her, and then threw her away from him, she landed painfully on the ground, but she clambered to her feet, she followed Remus. "LILY RUN FOR FUCK SAKE!" Remus bellowed at her, Lily watched in horror as the full moon hit him and before her eyes her boyfriend transformed into a monster.
She stood very still, for the pure terror kept her locked in place, she could hear the blood rushing through her veins, and her heart pounding against her chest. Remus turned on her, only it wasn't Remus. He charged forward and just as his great paws latched onto her arms, ripping the skin, a great blood curdling scream emitted from Lily's lips. The wolf threw her, she landed with an awful crunch on her arm, her screams were renewed. He was charging at her again, she was going to die, and then suddenly a huge creature threw the wolf away from her, and beside her appeared James Potter. He was pale and terrified, there was blood everywhere, and the shock was settling in, she felt as if she'd throw up or pass out, her world was spinning, and was only vaguely aware that James had picked her up and was now carrying her.
"Oh god. Lily, keep your eyes open." James was ordering, but the loss of blood was too much for her body to handle and she fell into darkness.