(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I started this chapter last night but I had some trouble with it. I had to go to school today, and we made pizza in Home Ec. We did subject selection yesterday, and me and mum were in and out in under ten minutes. I would like to thank you for all the reviews, but alert you that since I'm trying to end this year, because nothing important ever really happens in first year, I will be skipping through time a lot in the next few chapters.

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Leo

Damn Sirius for being observant. The other turned to look at me, and Elaine and Remus rolled their eyes. What were the chances of that happening?

"Well, yes." I stated, as if it was blatantly obvious. Which, of course, it was.

"Then why does your father not want you to play? If what I think is correct, your father was there as well. In fact, he seemed more obsessed with Quidditch than James, and that's saying something." James whacked him over the back of the head, and I saw Lily's lips twitch up in amusement. Must watch out for that.

"Just because he's obsessed with it, doesn't mean he doesn't think it dangerous." James, Sirius and Lily stared at me for a minute, and I knew they knew I was lying, but they let it drop.

"Still, you should try out. I mean, I've seen your punch, you'd be a great beater, or even a chaser."

The others stared at Remus now, looking confused.

"When did you see him throw a punch? I haven't seen him punch." Sirius said, sounding slightly left-out.

"It was just before he made up with Lily. He punched a wall." The others winced and I shrugged.

"At least I didn't break my hand that time." They all stared at me, shocked.

"Wait, when did you break your hand?" Elaine and Lily asked at the same time, voices full of concern, making me sigh.

"Just after Lily and I had our 'fight'. I punched a wall, very hard, and broke my hand. Shattered it, actually." I lifted up my right hand, scrunching it into a fist to show the light scars that coated my knuckles, and the back of my hand. Elaine moved her hand beneath mine, lifting it up slightly to inspect it.

"How have we never noticed this before?" I cracked a smile before shrugging.

"Because you're horribly unobservant?" She clenched her lips together, her eyebrows lowering slightly in a sign of her anger. "Relax Damsel, stress is slowly killing you." I told her with a roll of the eyes, and the others, except for Remus, stared at us.

"Why do you call her Damsel? Remus does it too." I raised an eyebrow at Peter's question, and I saw him swallow nervously under my gaze. Wuss.

"It's a nickname."

"Yeah, a stupid nickname." I heard Elaine mutter under her breath, and grabbed her hand, helping her off the ground.

"Really? Do you and Remus have nicknames as well?" I nodded, slightly cautiously at Lily's inquiry.

"I'm Blue, Remus is Moony." The others eyebrows lower as they try to work something out.

"I get Elaine's name," She looked up and glared at James as he said this. "It's purely ironic," She grinned at him now, apologetically. "But why are you guys called Blue," He pointed to me. "and Moony?" He now turned his finger to Remus, who glanced at me.

"I don't know, it just seems to fit. Half the time, I wake up in the middle of the night, and Remus is staring out the window at the moon. Hence, Moony. Me- I mean, obviously I have blue eyes, but I think it's really because of this." I pointed to the old, chunky yet ornate ring on my left hand. It had a large piece of lapis lazuli at the front, though the ring itself was made of gold.

"What is that?" Elaine asked first, curious as the rest of them were, though Remus was trying to hide it.

"It's a family heirloom. From my mothers side." Well, my mothers' fathers' side, to be more specific. The Meliflua side. Their eyes widened slightly, and Sirius leaned away from it before attempting to scan my face- clearly he'd gotten the full Black Family education, and could translate the inscription engraved upon the band.

"What does it mean?" Lily asked, studying the writing intensely.

"Purus Usque Mortem means, 'Pure until death'." The others drew back slightly, staring at me, probably deciding that the engraving on the face wasn't nearly as menacing in comparison- a bee, perched upon a bell.

"Why do you wear it?" I shrug, trying to avoid their gazes even though I knew it to be hopeless.

"Maybe because it's the only thing I have of my mother's. Or maybe, it's because it doesn't come off." I pulled at the ring roughly to demonstrate, and the ring didn't budge in the slightest. "She glued it there before she threw me out." The others, except for Remus and Lily raised their eyebrows.

"I knew you lived with your dad and didn't see your mum, but I didn't know that. Why'd she kick you out?" I grinned at her, still fiddling with the ring.

"I wouldn't behave." Of course, this was an absolute lie, but they seemed to buy it.

"So, you were a rebel even at seven, nice." Elaine commented, trying to draw the attention away a little, for which I thanked her with my eyes. I may seem confident and calm, but inside I'm really just a big ball of angst and nerves that didn't like attention.

"Seven?! Your mother kicked you out when you were seven?!" James demanded to know, seemingly outraged, and I shrugged, silently trying to make myself smaller, to hide and disappear.

"Well...yeah." I said nervously, and slightly obviously, and James and Sirius stared at me while Lily tackled me with a tight hug.

"Gee, Lily, that's a great help." I told her sarcastically, and I felt James get slightly angry before Elaine smacked me on the shoulder.

"Be nice!" She scolded me quietly, causing me to roll my eyes at her.

"Now where's the fun in that?"

"Just because there's no fun in it, and trust me, I know there's no fun in it, doesn't mean you don't still have to do it." I raised an eyebrow at her and she shrugged slightly.

"I swear, sometimes it's like you two have your own little language." James commented, and we turned to look at him, confused and curious.

"How so?" I asked, to which he shrugged.

"Well, you two always share these looks, and then one of you shrugs, or smiles, or frowns to let them know what they think." I turned to look at Elaine and she shrugged slightly before raising an eyebrow and shaking her head.

"Like that! What did that just mean?" It turned to look at him, eyebrow raised in confusion.

"Well...I asked if we did that, she said maybe so and then she asked if I was going to get into it further before shaking her head to tell me not to." The others turned from whatever they were doing to stare at us.

"What? You can't communicate by using body actions? Elaine, we can talk silently whenever we want without them understanding us!" She rolled her eyes at me and I frowned at her before stomping my foot. "So unfair!" The others stared at us for an explanation but we shrugged. Only we needed to know that Elaine wouldn't let us have secret facial conversation when the others were around because it would piss them off! Sniff, it's so unfair!

(A/N): When did Leo turn into such a drama queen?

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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.

This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 25/12/22

This chapter has had more minor edits made to it on 6/1/23 - Changed Leo's ring from a blue sapphire to lapis lazuli, since I found examples of those engraved with family crests way more readily, and they more fit the look I was going for. Added the Meliflua family crest to the ring, because I thought that was already on there, but apparently I had confused it with the letter he gets from his mother in chapter 199, which is the Joannis Family crest. Since Meliflua comes from the word 'Mellifluous', which means 'sweet sounding', and 'Mellifluous' comes from the latin word 'Mellifluus', meaning 'flowing like honey', I made the Meliflua family crest have a bee on it. Apparently a bee on a coat of arms or family crest is a 'symbol of industry', or it 'denotes a self made man'. And a bell is 'the emblem of warning'.