A.N Ok here is another update... this one goes out to I'mNotJoking-ImSiriusfor actually sticking out and waiting for my updates even after a year has gone. Check out her stories peeps... I like them even though I have never been a Harry/Ginny fan (DONT KILL ME PLEASE) it's just my personal view... well enjoy this chapter.

Silver Burns

Lily sat at the Gryffindor table in a glum mood as she moved her bacon around her plate. It was Wednesday and for some reason she felt down in the dumps. Mooney was officially back to being well Mooney, he replied to her messages now and she kept her promise of not letting his 'Fury Little Problem' as apparently his friends dubbed it, out.

Even though everything was better with Remus, everything was still bad with Cedric. Sneaking a glance at the Hufflepuff table, she found Cedric seated a little closer to the teachers table then she was and whether or not it was on purpose, the fact was he hadn't looked this way for a single moment this morning. Did he know she was seated here or something?

Lily thought it was probably her own fault. She did say those things to him in the Hospital Wing. She had tried to apologise to him but he had made her so angry when she did that she ended up yelling that the whole Great Hall probably heard her. She had tried approaching him again outside at the stone circle that was on the grounds, but he took off without a single turn her way and brushed straight past her not stopping. The young girl didn't want to give up on Cedric, but with it nearly being a month since they stopped talking Lily was beginning to think that there was no chance of them repairing the damage.

"Not hungry Lil?" Harry asked her from across the table.

The girl shook her head. "Not really, though I do have the biggest hankering for chocolate".

Harry laughed. "Of course you do, you always want chocolate. But then so do I"

Lily beamed. Trust Harry to lift her mood for her.

"How's Quidditch training going?" Lily asked her friend trying to subtly change the subject. Since their first flying lesson Harry had been drafted into the Gryffindor Quidditch team due to his amazing flying, and amazing it was. Apparently Harry is the youngest player in a century since only second years and above could get in the team. But McGonagall had seen his illegal flying (Madam Hooch had grounded them whilst she took Neville to the Hospital Wing with a broken Wrist) after he flew after a rememberall one Draco Malfoy had thrown after making fun of Neville's flying skills.

"Yeah it's ok", Harry replied. "Wood is training us into the ground, I mean last week we trained in the rain and I thought you couldn't get any more soaked then soaked, but i was proven wrong."

"Yeah you looked like a drowned rat when you all came back to the dorm" smirked Lily.

"Oh be quiet" Harry played back. "It's fun though, I love flying and I owe it all to Malfoy for getting me onto the team".

Both first years turned their attention to the Slytherin Table and rested their eyes on the platinum blonde boy. True Malfoy had been ruthless in his bullying of all of the other houses, but something deep down told Lily it might have been an act. Surely no one could be that cruel, but then again the stories people told of this 'You-Know-Who' character maybe she was wrong. But putting the mental note of finding out what the go was with Malfoy into her brain's filing cabinet for later Lily turned back towards the breakfast plates and looked around for a jug of some liquid beverage. Of course not pumpkin juice, just the thought made Lily gag. Thankfully the tables were now offering tropical and orange juice alongside the traditionally served juice.

Except what caught her attention was the fact that the new juice jugs stood out against the pumpkin juice jugs. Instead of gold like everything else on the tables of the Great Hall, these jugs were silver in colour.

"Why aren't these jugs gold too?" she asked Harry, pointing to the offending objects.

Harry just shrugged his mouth obviously filled with food. The cut in comment that followed however, made Lily wish she hadn't opened her mouth.

"Well if someone drank pumpkin juice like the rest of us, these jugs wouldn't be needed"

Lily turned to find the offender one Hermione Granger glaring over the thick tome she was reading whilst eating her breakfast.

"Well we can't all be kiss ups that have probably already started their seventh year transfiguration assignments. I mean is it possible to be up McGonagall's ass any further than you are now?" Lily snapped.

Harry turned and looked at his friend shocked. Sure Lily was known for her outbursts but never had he heard a comment of that nature leave her mouth. Lily noticed the look.

"What?" she growled out.

"Are you sure you're alright Lily? I mean you seem to be un-naturally angry today" Harry asked concern marring his features.

Lily sighed dejectedly. "I don't know what's going on, but these past few days every little thing has been angering me. I mean I looked at quill the other day in defence and I got so mad at it. Could this mean anything?"

"Maybe" was the only reply Harry gave her.

Feeling another bout of anger boil inside of her, Lily decided she better fight it down and just ignore it. Harry hadn't done anything wrong so she couldn't understand her misdirected anger. Instead she opted for reaching for the tropical juice jug to pour herself a drink.

The moment her fingers wrapped around the handle, a searing pain spread through her hand. Dropping the jug with a gasp and spilling the juice everywhere, Lily looked down at her fingers to find large burn blisters burning an angry painful red and it seemed to be spreading to cover her entire hand.

"OW OW OW!" she cried as tears sprang to her eyes from the pain.

"LILY!" Harry yelled with concern as he saw what had happened to his friend's hand. "How did that happen?"

"I don't know" she wailed in pain. "It burns" she sniffed.

Quickly pulling a handkerchief from inside his robes, Harry dipped it in the water jug and softly wrapped Lily's hand in it. Hoping that the water would sooth her hand from the mysterious burns she had received.

A bustle of feet approached the small group of Gryffindor first years, and anyone that looked found that they belonged to Professor McGonagall, their Head of House.

"Miss Samuels, what has happened here" the professor asked.

Lily crying too much and obviously in a lot of pain, didn't reply. Instead Harry explained for her.

"She burnt her hand Professor"

"Burnt her hand? I highly doubt that Mr Potter, the utensils are charmed to ensure that doesn't happen"

"It's true. She reached for the jug to have a drink of juice and she burnt herself"

"She burnt herself of a cold juice jug Mr Potter?" clearly she didn't believe what she was hearing. SO instead Harry showed her.

Looking at the burns, McGonagall recognised it immediately. "Which jug had she reached for Mr Potter?"

The raven haired boy simply pointed to the silver jug that was still lying on the table and juice still spilt everywhere on the table.

"Miss Samuels please follow me to the Hospital Wing"

Lily stood up from the table as did Harry. Of course we was going with her, he was worried about her. Those burns didn't look like something small.

"Just Miss Samuels please Mr Potter, unless you are ill too I believe you are fit to attend your classes"

Sighing in defeat Harry sat back down. "I'll come see you if you're not out by lunch ok?"

Lily gave a watery smile and nodded her head. Of course she would like that.

As Lily left for the hospital wing, she didn't notice a pair of concerned grey eyes following her from the Hufflepuff table, where said eyes had witness the entire event with guilt underlying every look they gave toward Lily.

X-X

Lily sat on the hospital wing bed, staring at her now bandaged hand. She was confused.

"I don't understand", she said. "I thought you could heal wounds with magic?"

"Normally we can Miss Samuels" spoke up the ward matron Pomfrey. "But this is no ordinary burn"

This confused Lily even more.

"Lily?" the nurse questioned. "Do you normally have silver items in your home with the Aarons?"

The first year shook her head. "It was stainless steel most of the stuff. I don't think anything was silver"

"What about jewellery?"

"I normally wear a silver necklace, but I haven't worn it since i got to Hogwarts and I've never been burned by it before. Why?"

"Lily what has happened here is you have experienced a silver burn"

"Silver? It doesn't burn"

"Normally it doesn't Lily, but it does burn werewolves"

Lily's eyes widened in shock, this couldn't be happening.

"But you said I hadn't been bitten that night. You said I wasn't becoming a werewolf"

"I know I said you hadn't been bitten, but maybe Lycanthropy can be transmitted through other means than a bite. Did you perhaps get the saliva of the wolf on you when it jumped you?"

"No"

"Ok well what I am going to do Lily, is i am going to take some blood and run some tests on it. Maybe there is another reason as to why this has happened ok? But for now we have to handle this as if you are in fact a werewolf. So I will organise with the headmaster to have someone come talk to you about what this all means to you. But for the mean time please don't mention this to anyone. If it gets out and then something else is wrong we could have a lot of problems with the student's parents if this get out. Can you do that for me Miss Samuels?"

Lily just nodded. All that information processing in her mind left her without a voice. She couldn't handle any of this. What was she going to do? Sure she was interested in werewolves but actually being one?

"I would like you to stay in the wing until at least lunch time Miss Samuels. I am about to go see Dumbledore about getting someone here to talk to you today. With the full moon coming up this Friday night, I would like you to be prepared. I'll be back in a moment." With those final words Madam Pomfrey turned on her heels and bustled out of the Hospital Wing.

Leaving Lily to sit and wallow in all the information she had been told in these few short moments. Everything felt like it was falling apart.

"Lily?" came a voice from the wing's entrance doors.

Turning her head Lily was greeted with someone she thought she wouldn't have anything to do with again, let alone hear them say her first name.

"Cedric?"

The bronzed hair boy walked further into the room, rubbing his hands on the back of his neck in nervousness. His grey eyes cast to the floor never daring to look up at the girl in front of him.

"Why are you here?" Lily asked the boy as it appeared he wasn't going to talk freely.

"Well ... I ... um... I came to see if you were alright", Cedric explained. "I saw what happened at breakfast and I guess I got worried."

"So you skived from class to see me?" Lily enquired. "Not a good action coming from one of the schools best students"

Cedric flinched slightly at her words. They came close enough to saying once again he was a spoilt child. Lily too must have noticed.

"I'm sorry. I've been having anger problems recently. I don't know why but even ask me quill, i wanted to hex it in defence the other day" She tried making the joke to hopefully lighten the mood that had settle around the two of them.

"I'll let it slide if you never mention that I was here. I'm supposed to be back in my dorm after I told Sprout I was ill to the stomach and couldn't go to class after breakfast"

"Deal"

"So... arr... what happened this morning. I saw it happen but I didn't exactly know what happened. You get that right?"

Lily nodded as she quickly looked down to where she was fiddling with the end of her bandage. Madam Pomfrey's words echoing in her head about not letting what happen get out to anyone.

"I got burnt this morning on one of the utensils on the table" she explained failing to mention it was a cold juice jug she burnt herself on. That just made her sound insane in her mind she could only imagine what it made her sound like out loud.

"Isn't it all charmed to prevent us from getting burnt?" Cedric questioned.

Trust Cedric to actually know that little detail. Now how was Lily going to get out of this one.

"They think maybe one of the dishes got missed by the house elves down in the kitchen" God Lily hoped Cedric would believe her.

"Well that's interesting" was his reply. Yeah he didn't believe her.

For a few following minutes, both students stood/sat in their respected places without so much as a word to one another.

"Look, Samuels..." Cedric began.

"It's Lily. You called me that when you came in, don't go back to my last name now... please?"

Cedric took that to note and continued. "Look Lily, I was a jerk, a snob, a complete spoiled child that was actually raised by a carer. I want to say sorry. You tried fixing it and I was so rude to you. I didn't deserve that chocolate you got me even though I have eaten all of it already. I guess I'm just saying that I... umm" Cedric fumbled.

"Forgiven" Lily stated with a smile. "Although we were both as bad as each other and you should be forgiving me. I have bad foot in my mouth disease sometimes it's dangerous and well I guess I'm sorry too"

"Forgiven" Cedric beamed saying the exact words as Lily.

The happiness in the room didn't last long however, for a door slamming in the distance signified the return of the schools mediwitch in a matter of moments.

"I better get going" Cedric said.

"Yeah ok. Hey listen do you reckon you could perhaps tutor me again? I got a new wand and I want to get on top of everything"

"I'll see what I can do"

"Great"

After giving their fair wells, Lily was once again left alone in the wing, waiting for the pending return of Madam Pomfrey.

X-X

Only a few moments passed before the doors opened but instead of Pomfrey walking back into the room. Another person greeted the 11 year old.

"MOONEY!"

It seemed to becoming a regular occurrence of Lily seeing Remus, and it seemed that he thought the same.

"We meet again Lily" he smiled.

"Yeah, it seems to be a regular occurrence doesn't?"

"And in the hospital wing again?"

"Yeah well I think it might be you I'm waiting to talk about the full moon"

Remus' heart dropped to the ground in fear. "Have I turned you?"

He absolutely freaked. They both had accepted what had happened the night of Lily's first detention, even if Remus wouldn't admit out loud he still wasn't comfortable with being around Lily after what he did. But he thought she had cleared it up that she hadn't been bitten.

"Well that's what that confuses us. I wasn't bitten by ... um yeah I wasn't bitten that" Lily though it best that she didn't mention the exact details of the night. Clearly Mooney was still rattled by what he did.

"So then why am I talking to you about the full moon?"

Lily folded a part of her bandage back and flashed him her burns. Straight away Remus knew what they were. He had had them inflicted on him many times.

"Silver burns?"

Lily nodded. "I tried getting a drink of juice out of one of the jugs"

"But they changed everything to gold when I was at school because I couldn't pick anything up to eat"

Inwardly Lily smiled. It had become a discussion of the first years as to why the dishes were gold and not silver. Well now Lily had the answer. Maybe she should push for a bet and laugh when she won.

"Yeah well because I don't like Pumpkin juice they now have orange and tropical juice as well, oh and milk and well maybe they don't have any more gold stuff or they just thought well no one was a...a... well you weren't at school anymore and though it was safe to bring them back"

Remus contemplated this for a moment. "It's possible. But I've never seen a silver burn on anyone that wasn't a werewolf. You hadn't been bitten when you were younger perhaps?"

"No" After a single thought, Lily looked up wide eyed. "Could I have been bitten when m... mu... Delilah got ... ki... when Delilah died?"

"It would have been recorded so the Ministry could keep an eye on you. The Ministry don't like werewolves and they don't hide their hate" The poison in his voice indicated he had been on the receiving end of such hate.

"So... what you got to tell me?"

Remus stared flabbergasted at the girl in front of him. On the outside she seemed to be handling it well, but he remembered his own experience having gone through this talk. Inside it must be killer her.

"Well since you read that book of mine, perhaps you be better off telling me what you know so far and I'll go from there. That sound good?" Remus said.

Lily nodded and shuffled down her bed to allow Mooney to sit on it as well and have the ability to face her and chat comfortably.

"But if your anything like me and are a werewolf in some form, you probably have a huge hankering for this." With those words Remus pulled out a block of Cadbury 'Fruit and Nut' out of his robes and presented it to her.

"My favourite" she beamed.

"It's mine too" Remus confided.

Snapping the block open in one swift movement. Both Lycan and possible Lycan settled down and began their discussion paying no attention to the time that was starting to fly by.

A.N Omg the world must be ending. Another update in just a day... i really must be sick :P

Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favourite and alerted this story. It means a lot and I hope you enjoy it. Well i think I got everything in this chapter that I wanted and it's about time Cedric got his head out of his snobby bum and faced Lily. It's great to see more of Remus and well it's starting to look more like that Lily is a werewolf oooh this shall get interesting... I'm aiming for Harry meeting Remus next chapter instead of waiting till 3rd year... it will make the story change I know but canon has already been broken and i tend to break it more. LONG LIVE SIRIUS! I ain't letting him die in my story... i hope.

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