Mimiona's Disclaimer: "Imperio!" I say, pointing my wand at JK Rowling. "Give me the ownership of your characters! I want all of them! Even Winky!" The woman on the other side of my wand shakes her head, and said, "I created the Imperious curse. I can easily resist it. And now." Here she pauses, reaching down to pull out her wand. She lifts her wand and points it at me. "Imperio." My mind turns off and I am ready to follow her every command. A random voice in the back of my mind tells me not to listen to her, to resist her, but I quickly shut it out and turn my attention to the author. "You will never again attempt to steal my characters, especially not using my spells! Now stop bothering me." I nod weakly and walk out of her lovely apartment. Once out of the apartment, I feel the curse lift off me, and what just happened crashes down upon me. I sprint to my apartment, and plop down on my bed. Never again will I attempt to steal the lovely Harry Potter characters. Never again will I pretend that I own them, and I know in my heart that I never will. EVER!
Blossom's Disclaimer: Basically, what Mimiona means is that Rowling's characters don't belong to us, and we won't try to steal it.
Ekaterina's Note: Heeeeeyyyy! Lovely to be writing again, even though we have finals, we have no homework. Hehe... Anyways, I was shown this new band called Birthday Massacre and it is soooo good. If you are into sorta, not really, dark music, that is :) Yeah, so anyhow, I wanted to do a sad, angsty songfic for Lily/Harry to We are the Fallen's "Sleep well my Angel" but I don't really know, it might be too depressing or stupid :( . Love you all, if you know any awesome music, tell us- any language will do :). OH. Evanescence is touring again. Not near me, but heck, the news made my week. You have no idea how many mushrooms were cultivated in the making of this chapter :(
Mimiona's Note!: Well, there certainly are a LOT of notes that you have to read before finally getting to the chapter, but I felt that I needed to include a note of my own. I haven't written any note or disclaimer in a while, and my most sincerest apologies. I hope you missed me. Also, today I got my grade from the science essay test (I'm taking physics, and my teacher is...strange...) and I got a 42 out of 45! For me, in science, that's like an all-time-record! Yay! And, as you probably know, in eighth grade, you have to take CSTs for all your academic classes. That means, along with the normal Language Arts and Mathematics, we have to take 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade history, and physics! AAAA! I'm gonna DIE! But anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Amber's Turn!: Okay, well I know I don't write these very often, and I like it that way, because it's just more like me. BUT! Everybody else got their own little cozy space, and I thought, what the heck, I shall claim my rightful territory too. Anyways, what I want to say is, thanks to all you people who have read our first fanfic up until now and liked it enough to not throw squishy little tomatoes. I don't know about the other authors, but I certainly appreciate. Give yourself a little pat on the back! *Gives you an extra pat just in case ya need it* And I agree with Ekaterina. Many mushrooms were grown in the process of making this chapter.
Blossom's Note: Hello! I don't really read manga (I always end up not understanding it because I
don't view the artwork; I only read) or listen to American music. Or make up random scenes with Rowling and her curses. I just want to apologize for the rather long notes and/or disclaimers my fellow authors have, and also thank our awesome readers! Please enjoy and review!
Chapter 16
Lily woke up the next morning definitely feeling refreshed. The garden the night before had been absolutely gorgeous, leaving her feeling happy and a little dazed. She turned to face the bouquet lying on her dresser next to her, the smell of which had infiltrated her dreams, causing her to sleep with a smile.
Lily wanted to spend another day doing nothing, but today, school resumed and it should be a regular studying day. With a little sigh she got up and shook Lara and Nadia awake, both who had seemed to had a wonderful previous day.
"Huh? Morning already?" Nadia shook herself awake. She sleepily grabbed her clothes. "Bleh!"
Lara got up and smiled. "Hehe..." she said dazedly.
"Are you alright?" Lily asked, worried of her mental health.
"Eh? Oh, um, yeah! Just thinking of yesterday..." Her smile broadened. "Hey! What's our first class today?"
"History of Magic," Nadia answered, brushing through her miserably tangled hair.
"Oh. So I guess, basically free period. Study hall in Lily's case?" continued Lara in amusement. However, Lily was not listening, but staring into space with an extraordinarily blank expression.
"Lily? Earth to Lily!" Nadia said, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Huuuuuhhhh?" she mumbled slowly. Her eyes had a slight vague look to them, and she had absentmindedly worn Alice's clothes instead of hers. And the most bizarre ones at that, too. Alice came over so often that they had a little section for her clothes. Lily had chosen the long frilly purple dress with dancing hippogriffs that had been enchanted to sing "God Rest Ye Hippogriffs" whenever it detected the substance Alice called "whoofle", which she claimed marked the presence of a Drooling Darbingle. The louder it sang, the closer it was. Unfortunately, Lily found out through an unfortunate event (which she does NOT want to talk about, mind you) that "whoofle" was actually ink, which was extremely common in Hogwarts and therefore, the dress had been prohibited from being worn during class hours.
"Lily," Nadia began in a very amused tone, " I don't think you want to wear that to class, do you? If you do, then I have underestimated your creativity for style for several years."
Lily looked down, focused her glassy stare, and saw what she was wearing for the first time. "Ack!" she said, slightly louder than she meant for it to come out. She quickly changed into her robes.
"Much better." Nadia grinned at Lily. "I thought we had a second Alice for a second there. Don't know if I could handle that. She's wonderful. Wonderful enough so that we don't need another."
"Speaking of Alice, where is she?" Lily asked, grabbing her bag and books. Nadia's forehead creased slightly.
"Well, you see, I think something might be wrong with her. She seemed kinda...out of it...earlier. I had to drag her to bed -literally! Her feet weren't working. And, come to think of it, her cheeks seemed pinker than usual. This morning I spotted her back in our dorm, talking to Death, who looked like he hadn't gotten sleep the whole night. He's not the most polite cat. If he's sleepy, he sleeps. I'm guessing Alice shook him awake every time he did."
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Should we go get her, or...?" But Nadia was shaking her head.
"I think it's better to leave her the way she is." Nadia told Lily in an exhausted tone. "Let's go." They passed by Nadia's room, filled with quiet muttering and an occasional yowl. Nadia squeezed her eyes shut tight.
"I'm so sorry, Death." she murmured. "I'll get you a big bag of sardines after this. I promise. It's for the sake of a friend who appears to have lost her mind."
Lily looked at her sympathetically, then took hold of Nadia's hand to show her how she felt. This simple action brought back a sudden flashback of yesterday and she reddened, turning away quickly in the hopes that Nadia wouldn't notice. Nadia did, however notice, but sighed and ignored it. All of her friends seemed to have experienced stressful romantic days past. Now she was not too sure what to do with her unresponsive bumbling friends.
Five minutes later, a very exhausted Lily and a Nadia that had a lot on her mind burst into the practically History of Magic classroom. They were far too early. Professor Binns was so startled he dropped his notes and tried unsuccessfully to pick them up, as his aching back prevented him from doing so.
Nadia rushed over, mumbling an apology.
"It's quite all right, Miss Nadia. But I must say, it appears you have much on your mind." He glanced over at Lily, peering at her from underneath his wide rimmed glasses. Nadia snorted, then realized she was in the presence of a teacher.
"You really have no idea." Nadia said gloomily. "I've got a friend that won't admit that she likes someone. She moped around for, oh, I don't know now, five years?"
At this point she became slightly hysterical. "And then all of a sudden she starts agreeing with us. Think in my shoes. I feel like I've wasted five years of my life!"
"Now, now," the professor began nervously. "There's no need..." But Nadia wasn't listening, just continued loudly ranting.
At this point, students were filing into the room, and Lily had begun to show signs of interest. Nadia showed no signs of stopping. Lily allowed herself a very small smile. She knew Nadia's ways well enough. And she's going to break into hysterical laughter right about...now.
Like on cue, Nadia begin to giggle, high pitched nervous laughs that gave everyone in the room, including the dead professor, goosebumps.
"MY FRIEND ALICE IS IN WONDERLAND TALKING TO DEATH!" she screamed. Professor Binns looked around desperately for help. When none was offered (though plenty of sympathetic looks were) he sighed, took a sheet of paper and began scribbling on it. After a momentary silence, he handed the sheet of paper to Nadia.
"Take this to Madam Pomfrey. She'll know how to fix this...er...problem of yours. And Miss Evans? Would you care to escort your friend to the hospital wing?"
"Yes, Professor. Certainly," Lily answered.
"LALALA! ALICE TALKS TO DEATH! LALA-"
"Nadia, will you-!"
"Will I what? Go louder? Sure!" Nadia inhaled deeply, then began a loud stream of words, "ALICE, I KNOW YOU NEED TO DISCUSS YOUR PROBLEMS NOT WITH YOUR BEST FRIENDS BUT WITH A BLOODY, ADORABLE, AMAZING CAT, AND YOU KNOW WHAT? DON'T FREAKING BLAME YOU! WE ALL SUCK AND HAVE MISERABLE LIVES! AND LILY LIKES POTT-" at this point Lily cast a silencing spell on the still shouting Nadia, turning scarlet.
"Let's get out of here!" she mumbled as other students, by misunderstanding, thought Lily had gotten onto drugs. Their innocent Lily, doing such things?
Nadia was still opening her mouth, but nothing but air came out. Lily's face burned in the obvious silence, in which other students gaped at the girls. With a nervous smile she hurriedly ushered Nadia out the door- the laughing witch now had tears from her hysterical laughter streaming down her face.
The two arrived at the door of the infirmary a moment later, Lily barely clinging to her sanity. "Madam Pomfrey? Are you there?" she called, forcing Nadia down on the bed. Nadia, who was distracted, went down without a fight.
The nurse walked in through the door of her office, and into the main hospital wing. "Yes, dears? How may I- Oh Merlin, what happened?" she interrupted herself when she saw Nadia, who was laying on the bed, shaking in a silent fit of laughter with tears falling.
"I am not quite sure, Madam."
Madam Pomfrey rushed up to the shaking girl, and put her hand on Nadia's forehead. "Well, she is a bit warm, but she seems fine. What on earth made her laugh like this?"
Lily stifled a giggle. "Well, this morning she seemed like she had a lot on her mind, and when Professor asked her about it, she kind of...burst. I had to silencio her."
"Yes, I could tell. But, well, she is a bit...odd, now." She gazed at Nadia with a thoughtful expression.
And you call yourself a nurse? I could have told you that with my eyes shut! Lily thought to herself, before saying, "Yes, I had realized that. But, what do you think we should do?"
Madam Pomfrey sighed. "I'm sure the best thing would be sleep. I would say laughter is the best medicine, but it seems that laughter is what made her strange in the first place. I suggest sleep."
Lily nodded, and pointed her wand at Nadia, murmuring, "Petrificus Totalus." Nadia froze, her eyes blinking rapidly, and her smile instantly vanishing. She glared at Lily while Madam Pomfrey walked back to her office to find the right type of medicine to calm the poor hysterical girl down.
"Ah, I'm really sorry Nadia! But it just wouldn't be good for any of us if you ran around getting hysterical when you got nervous. Seriously, did you see Remus's face, he was brick red. Poppy red! Blood red! Tomato red! Straw-" she was cut off by Nadia's best death chill glare that sent even professors into silence.
"Oh... yeah... Anyhow, I think something happened between Alice and him, so after class I will question Remus. Ah! Lara and Sirius are going off to stroll the castle this afternoon and Alice seems rather preoccupied, so you can come with me if you calm down." she declared.
Nadia's eyes widened and then softened. She seemed to sigh, "Sigh, why do all of my dear innocent friends have to go and... grow up. Love people... Urgh, it makes life a hell of a lot harder... They so would not survive a moment without me..."
"Good Nadia. Sleep well, my angel! Oh, and thanks a lot, now half the class thinks I'm high on pot..." With that, Lily skipped out of the room. Then right back in. "Madam Pomfrey?"
"Yes?" the nurse asked, startled by Lily's strange actions.
"How much time did this take? I hope I didn't miss too much of History of Magic."
"Not much time, dear. You should head back right now."
"Yes," Lily giggled, and rushed to the door.
Lily spent the entire class half her mind on Remus Lupin. Of course, she was paying attention to Professor Binn's dull lecture, but that didn't change the fact that she was staring intensely at Lupin. He quivered nervously under her laser like stare, although he was not facing her it was obvious that she was scheming something that included him. James looked from Remus to Lily with a slightly curious, yet envious expression on his face, unsure about what was going on between them.
As soon as class ended, Remus pushed his belongings into his book bag, and rushed out, with Lily on his tail. He had some pretty good idea about what she wanted, seeing as she was sure to notice that Alice was missing at breakfast and History of Magic.
Speaking of which, what happened to Nadia at the beginning of the class? Remus had no idea, and decided to ask Lily. However, first he would have to gain up the nerves to ask her.
Drawing a deep breath he stopped suddenly and Lily crashed into him. "Woah! Remus, don't-"
"Lily," Remus interrupted, "what in the world was up with Nadia at History of Magic? I mean, I'm aware that she has generally unhealthy morbid tendencies, but this was more frightening than her usual death glares and threatening statements. She scares me most when she isn't trying..." he said, rather matter-of-factly.
"Ah, er...You don't want to know. But, anyhoo, that is most definitely not the issue on hand here! I have no idea what the heck you did to Alice (I blush at the possibilities!) but she is... well, she camped in our house common room (don't ask how she got in. Slytherins, no matter how ditsy, can be a bit frightening) talking to and looking like Death itself!" she exclaimed, but at Remus's confused look, she added, "No, she did not look like a cat, I meant death itself, like, you know, what happens when you die? Seriously Remus, where is your moral conduct! I never thought I'd see the day when Alice, our own lovely out-of-it-"
"Lily, shut up! And, what do you mean, I don't wanna know what happened with Nadia? She's my slave, I have to know things like that! If you are so persistent in covering it up, I might as well order Nadia to tell me. However, I happen to know that you are not on pot, and hmmm... I don't know... that situation sounds an awful lot like you and James. And, I didn't do anything to Alice...bad, that is. As a matter of fact, she blushed and stammered a good night then hugged me and ran. And as for where my moral conduct is, I dumped it when you were not looking. And I definitely can't see any in you! You bothered me the entire time in History of Magic, so much that I could hardly concentrate at all! Now, If you won't answer my question, then I most certainly will not answer yours!"
Lily smiled. "Fine, then. Nadia had an emotional breakdown, in a good way. Currently, she is sleeping in a bed, and is doing fine. Now, what did you do to Alice?"
"Wait, how can an emotional breakdown be good? And what bed is she sleeping in? The hospital wing?"
"Wow, Remus. I thought you were smarter than that. You should know that Nadia would only sleep on a death bed (A/N: are the death jokes getting a bit too much?). It was a good emotional break down because she finally got rid of her feelings. You see, Nadia is extraordinarily calm and peaceful until she suddenly explodes one day. It rarely happens, but when it does it's better not to be there. We barely avoided one today, a bit more and she might have exploded the the room. That would be bad. Just maybe."
"Oh, so she's fine."
"Yep, you could say that! So...? What did you do to Alice?"
"Nothing! And, wait, what pages did we have to read for History of Magic as homework? He spoke too quietly, I couldn't catch it."
"Tsk, tsk, Remus. You're avoiding the inevitable. I want to know what's up with you and Alice, though I have a pretty good idea already." Here Lily grinned evilly.
"I didn't do anything to Alice! I mean it!"
"I can tell you're lying," Lily sang. "Remus, you're blushing. I can tell that you're lying. Did you...hug her?" she leaned closer to Remus with an mischievous smile on her face. "Did you...kiss her?" she asked, her breath tickling his ear.
At that moment James happened to be passing by, panting from running to find Remus and Lily. What he way was not very pleasant, Lily (still with her small evil smile) standing unfathomably close to Remus, Remus blushing, and the word 'kiss' slowly floated down to his ears. That pulled him back. He analyzed the situation then ran to a wall and started to bang his head.
"I am a hallucinating idiot, I am a hallucinating idiot..."
Lily leaned closer to Remus. "Well?" she whispered.
Remus looked left and right, trying to find an escape. Finding none, he slowly nodded.
Lily gasped with joy. "Yes!" she sang. "Yes I knew it! I knew it!" She sprang back from Remus and twirled a couple times, dancing to her own geniusness.
Lily stopped when when she saw James, hitting his head against the wall, yelling, "I am a hallucinating idiot. Lily is not a player, she loves no one at all. But then again, she hates me and can stand Remus. AHHHHHHHH I HATE MY LIFE!"
"James? What are you doing?" Lily asked as she cautiously approached James.
James took deep breath and composed himself, "I am the world's biggest idiot and this will probably get me murdered with only Sirius and Remus to plan my funeral. My life can not get any suckier than this," he murmured to himself. With those words, he ran to Lily and scooped up her up in a princess carry.
"Do not fear, Lily, love! I have rescued you! I will protect you from all evil and stupid courtiers. AHHHHHHHHH!" he cried hysterically, by the end he had a sort of squeaky battle cry. Lily squealed with terror and then with anger as she had lost her moment to question Remus. She then sighed and tried to massage her temples while James carried her. Nadia was not the only one who ended up in the hospital wing that day.
Remus blinked twice, then froze. Did James just call me evil and stupid?he asked himself. Well, James probably didn't mean it. Though, why did he run up and pick Lily up like that? Unless...Oh, Merlin. If James entered the corridor and saw Lily leaning towards him, he probably assumed that she was kissing him. Oh, Merlin. This was bad. Why was his life so screwed up?