(A/N): Hey Guys! So, this chapter is from Elaine's point of view, and it's only four days until I start up school again. I've already written the next chapter, and it has a Remus PoV in it! Yay for new things?

I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Nicholai and Quiggly.

Elaine

I stood behind Lily in the doorway, and I watched him pause in his retreat as Lily called his name, before shaking his head and rushing away. I put my hand on Lily's shoulder and steered her out of the doorway, making sure we didn't get yelled at by our classmates or Professor McGonagall for holding them up. The boys from Leo's dorm, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew came out behind us and joined us in our position off to the side of the doorway, out of the way of the crowd of students eager to get away from their transfiguration lesson.

"I don't get it." I heard Lily whisper, her chin pushed into her chest, her arms wrapped around her mid-section, and I could tell that she was holding back tears.

"Don't get what?" I asked her quietly, wrapping an arm around her shoulders, squeezing her reassuringly.

"Why is he doing this?" My forehead wrinkled, and I sat still for a minute, trying to figure out what she was talking about.

"What do you mean?" I asked finally, realising that there was no way I would be able to figure it out on my own. I glanced up at the boys, and they looked confused as well, even Remus, who was just about the smartest person I had ever met.

"I should have seen it earlier!" Lily scolded herself angrily, and I raised an eyebrow.

"Lily, calm down. What should you have seen earlier?" She glanced at me with watery eyes before she sunk to the ground, her back pressed against the wall, and the rest of us soon followed.

"He's doing it on purpose." Again, I was confused. Lily had a way of telling you everything, and yet nothing, all at the same time.

"Who's doing what on purpose?" Remus asked, scooting closer to Lily before resting a hand on her other shoulder comfortingly.

"Leo. He started the fight on purpose. I don't know why, I just know he did." Remus and I shared confused glances before looking back down at Lily concernedly.

"How do you know?" She glanced up at Remus, who gave her a friendly smile, before turning to me.

"Well...it's the things he said. Leo is the only person who knows what gets me the angriest, and usually he avoids them. I didn't realise until just before, but he's doing this on purpose, and now he's avoiding us." I'm pretty sure I must have looked comically confused, but in a split second, it turned to surprise, and then to anger.

"Remember what I said I'd do if he didn't forgive you? I think I might do it anyway." I went to stand up, and to go find a shovel to wack him over the head with, but Lily grabbed my arm and pulled me back down.

"Elaine, don't!" I stared down at her, shocked, and she looked slightly amused.

"Why not?" She turned to Remus to get help to stop me from possibly killing Leo, but he shrugged.

"I don't know what she plans to do, but he did kind of bring it on himself." I raised an eyebrow at him, and gave Lily a smug smile when she turned back around.

"See? I even have Mister Logic on my side. Do you guys know where I could find a shovel, perchance?" The boys raised their eyebrows, and Remus shook his head, probably regretting his decision to side with me.

"Elaine! I don't know why he started the fight, or is avoiding us, but I know Leo, and he must have a damn good reason for it." I refused to look at her for a few seconds, avoiding her knowledgeable gaze before my eyes darted downwards to meet hers, and I sighed, acknowledging her point. "Besides, you know if Leo doesn't want to talk, you won't be able to make him." I nodded with a small smile.

"I don't think he likes it. I mean, you're his best friend Lily, and even though he makes a point of pushing people away, he does care about you, and it must be killing him to pretend to hate you." Sirius said, and for a second, I marveled at the intelligence behind his statement before remembering what Leo had said sometime in the past week.

"Sirius is a lot more intelligent than people give him credit for, because he hides it behind humour and pranks."

People never see Sirius as a clever person, because he doesn't want them to. If he thought it fit, he could probably ace every test, even if the rest of us fail. When I was younger, my father used to have a saying: 'If every fool had gold a plenty, a wise man would have much more, because knowledge is the most valuable of all assets, even if it is kept hidden for years on end.' That's what you get, when your father's a Ravenclaw people, I was six, and didn't understand a word of it at the time, but right now, it kind of applied to Sirius.

"No one likes starting fights, Sirius...well, except for you." James said, before grinning at him to let him know he was joking. Sirius reached over and mussed up his hair, something James was not pleased about.

"Oh, stop worrying about your hair Potter, it looks the same as it always does, like you were in a tornado." I muttered, and Lily shot me a grin while James simply pouted at me.

"Why though?" Remus asked, still puzzled by the revelation that Leo had started the fight between Lily and him.

"Well...most of the time, I don't understand Leo. I mean, he doesn't exactly offer up information about himself easily, now does he?" Something clicked in James's head and he turned to stare at me.

"Elaine, what's Leo's last name?" I was both confused, and intrigued by this question. Why did he need to know? Wasn't that common knowledge?

"Joannis, isn't it?" James shook his head quickly.

"I mean his father's last name, what's his father's last name?" I searched my brain for a few seconds before Lily answered.

"It's-" Remus cut her off by placing a hand over her mouth. After a few seconds, and a nod from Lily, he let go, and she got the message.

"We're not allowed to ask you, Lily. But he never said anything about not asking Elaine!" I raised my eyebrows before shrugging.

"Well...isn't it...doesn't it start with an...E?" I looked to Lily, and she nodded before waving her hand, telling me to continue. "Ell...Eil...Ellwo- Ellwood! It's Ellwood! It is Ellwood, isn't it?" I looked to Lily again, for confirmation, and she nodded eagerly.

"Thank you!" James called over his shoulder, already, halfway down the corridor, leaving behind a puzzled Lily and I, and an amused Sirius, Remus and Peter.

"Think we should follow him?" Sirius asked Remus, who considered it for a second before shaking his head.

"Hey, what's the worst that can happen?"

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I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.