17Narrowly avoiding the pillow that Sirius had launched at them the red headed tornado rolled of James's
chest onto the floor beside him, the pillow sailed past her and hit the stunned boy square in the face!
Lily couldn't help herself she giggled, then laughed and soon she had collapsed to the floor in full blown
hysterics, James's face was just *too* funny!
"Think that's funny?"
he asked a malicious gleam creeping onto his handsome face, she nodded
helplessly, he arched an eyebrow and launched the pillow strait back at her, there was no way she could
have dodged that shot even if she *hadn't* been helpless with laughter at the time.
"Oomph!"
scrambling to her feet Lily backed off, still giggling but desperately trying to keep a strait
face she said in a mock calming tone "now James, you don't *really* want to hit me with that pillow, so
just put it down and we will all be friends" grinning James just continued his advance rising a
questioning eyebrow and asking
"Don't I? Coz I really think that I do!"
it was clear he too was trying to contain his laughter. By now Lily had backed into the pile of blankets
that had been their bed and began wildly floundering behind her back for a pillow amongst the debris
of bedclothes and blankets. Just as she had one in her hand and was completely distracted by it for a
moment, James seized the opportunity and loosed his ammo and she didn't even see it coming!
Afterwards even Lily had to admit it was a classic, she reeled court unawares by James's attack and let
go of the pillow she had managed to grab, laughing Sirius court her from behind and handed her a
pillow but to his surprise she turned right around and hit him with it ducking behind his tall frame in time
so that James's second pillow also hit Sirius who she was currently using as a human shield.
"Oh!"
he exclaimed trying to act heart broken and not laugh at the same time and succeeding in doing neither
"that's the way it is, is it?"
he continued in a vain attempt to sound betrayed then he rounded on Lily and James who were
watching his performance with interest and stated evilly
"this means *war*!"
Surprisingly this didn't immediately have the required effect, as James seemed to consider this
comment then said solemnly
"A bit clichéd for my tastes but"
dramatic pause and quick shift into a 'tough man' pose
"your *on*!"
Lily just shrugged and threw one of the pillows she had managed to grab during James's armature
dramatics at him and quickly started hitting every part of Sirius she could reach with her other one.
Avoiding a random shot from James's direction (which incidentally hit Lily in the stomach) Sirius
reached into the heap of blankets and drew up a duvet, realizing what he had picked up was most
defiantly *not* a pillow he proceeded to throw it over Lily's small frame covering her entirely, a
muffled giggle from the blanket covered heap that was currently all that could be seen of Lily Flower
Evens was the last at least *semi* sane thought any of the three had for at least the next half an hour.
There were pillows soft toys slippers and anything else not too damaging that the groping hands could
find as a weapon against the other two. There was a confusion of hands and arms in the mêlée as every
one tried to fend off their attackers as well as land their own blows apart from the constant laughter
filling the room the only other human sounds were the occasional 'oomph' or 'ow' as pillows hit their
targets. One of the pillows must have burst; maybe more as there were feathers thick in the already
crowded air occasionally you would catch a glimpse of Lily's startlingly bright hair or James's blue
clad arm.
Lily had no pain from her earlier injuries except when an especially hard pillow hit her right on the worst
effected part of her ribs but she winced and it passed and was soon forgotten.
Feathers literally flew - along with everything else in the room that wasn't nailed down - as the war raged
on and none of the frantic children was willing to admit defeat.
"JUST EXACTLY *WHAT* IS GOING ON HERE?"
it was the universally recognized 'mother voice' even Lily who wasn't exactly overly experienced in the
field of maternal attention recognized this voice instinctively. All three froze as Mrs. Black continued in
a more normal voice and volume "I knew sending James up for you pair was a mistake" it was said with
good natured humor and they all knew she wasn't really angry. Mrs. Black surveyed the heap of bodies
somewhere to the right of the middle of the room and her amusement grew as she saw that Sirius had
one arm around Lily's waist pinning her to his side though she still some how managed to find a free
arm which held a pillow about three millimeters away from thumping her captor to get him to let her go,
Sirius on the other hand seamed oblivious to the girl he held under his left arm as he was trying to hit a
partially-duvet-covered James with a pillow in his free hand *and* defend his best friends attack *and*
try not to fall as James also had both of Sirius's legs pinned to gather in an effort to make the other boy
join him on the floor.
They were like a still image none of them had moved since she had entered and a few stray feathers
were floating down onto them like they were a plastic statuette inside a snow globe that someone had
just shaken up.
Just then James sneezed as a feather tickled his nose so he accidentally managed to pull Sirius over due
to the hold he had on the other boys legs, as Sirius tripped, Lily managed to deliver her last
almost-finished blow with her pillow, but though Sirius let go his arms pin wheeled as he fell and in a
vein attempt to stay upright he grabbed Lily, needless to say all three ended up in a jumbled heap of
arms legs and bed covers.
The spell was broken and all the children laughed helplessly at their predicament as they tried
unsuccessfully to untangle themselves from one another and the contence of the room.
Mrs. Black tried to help, only causing them to get even tighter tangled up together, but eventually all
four were standing in the middle of Lily's room at the 'Leaky Cauldron' brushing feathers from their
clothes and holding their sides which *ached* from laughing so hard.
With a quick wave of the wand that was never far from her hand Mrs. Black righted most of the room,
made the beds and mended the split pillow, miraculously nothing was broken and no major damage had
been done.
Looking at all three and taking in their disheveled state and (in Lily Sirius's case) the fact that they were
still in night things and said
"Right then, you boys go next door and clean your selves up and Lily and I will do the same in here."
Knowing better than to argue both boys trouped out leaving Living Lily and Mrs. Black together.
"I guess I should go take a shower," Lily said sighing. "I feel like I have a dead *cat* on my head"
the girl gingerly touched her vibrant spiraling locks and groaned, she knew with out even needing a
mirror that her hair was 'big' to say the least.
"Never you mind about that dear, you just wash it and I will show you something I used to do with my
hair when I was a girl" comforted Mrs. Black smiling, Lily was a little skeptical but continued into the
here-to-fore unnoticed en suite bathroom to take a shower.
When she stepped out ten minuets later clad only in a towel the older woman beamed at her,
"Well let's do a quick drying charm on you first" and with another wave of her wand the girl before her
was dry.
Lily quickly slipped back into the bathroom to throw her sleeping things back on so she didn't have to
wear her towel the whole time then sat down on a small stool in front of a dressing table with a mirror in
front of her and Mrs. Black behind her.
"Right, now then a small straitening charm on your hair, hmm, would have worked better if your hair
had have been wet but never mind now." Again a quick mumble and a wave of her wand was all it took
Mrs. Black to straiten Lily's claret locks, her hair was extremely long after being straitened and it pooled
on the floor behind the girls stool, Lily winced she had never seen her hair properly straitened before
but as she cautiously opened her eyes and glanced in the mirror before her she was pleasantly surprised,
she didn't look *That* different with strait hair except for the fact that it make her heart shaped face
looked a little longer.
"You will have to stand up Lily dear" she was told, and so she did; shiny, newly straitened hair
wrapping her like a cloak reaching to the floor and then some. Eventually Sirius's mum had Lily
standing on the vanity stool so that she had 'space to work' whatever that meant.
"Now trust me Lily dear" Mrs. Black soothed as she unsheathed a pair of wicked looking black handled
hairdressers scissors.
Lily stiffened, but what could she do? Mrs. Black had been so nice to her she couldn't exactly *not* let
Mrs. Black to what ever she was planning to do to Lily's hair so she just closed her eyes and waited
preying it wouldn't be too bad.
To her surprise when she opened her eyes after Mrs. Black had finished, what she saw in the mirror
wasn't all that different to what had been there when she first closed here eyes. Her iron strait hair now
had more bounce, it looked even thicker than it was naturally and had been feathered around her face
but that was the entire changes Lily could find in her appearance.
"Um…" she began hesitantly "wha - What did you do?" Mrs. Black chuckled and said
"Don't you ever wish that some days you could have shorter hair? Well now you can and you don't
even have to cut it, of course you will have to learn the straitening charm first before you can do it on
you own"
seeing the bewildered look on Lily's face she said
"here let me show you" and the girl watched fascinated as Mrs. Black grabbed a bull dog clip from the
dressing table and lifted about the top third of the girls hair which Lily now realized had been layered
and the amount Mrs. Black had separated (and clipped up in a haphazard twisted tuft on top of Lily's
head to keep it out of the way) was at its longest down to Lily's slim waist. The rest of the almost
scarlet tresses were neatly twisted into a long thin 'bun' type sausage that was held in place with a single
hair pin and lay stretching from a little in from the girls right ear to a little in from her left one, then Mrs.
Black released the rest of the hair letting it fall covering the neat snake of hair on the back of Lily's head.
Lily gapped! She couldn't believe it; it really looked as though her hair was strait and stopped just
above her waist, as realistic as if it had been cut to that length. Smiling, the older woman released the
pin holding the bun and let the rest fall down, she then took only the top couple of layers of the girls
hair and tucked the rest into a slightly fatter snake on the back of her head re securing it with the pin and
now it looked for all the world as though Lily's hair only fell just to her shoulders.
Mrs. Black spent a little while teaching the girl how to do this by her self, and she was nowhere near as
good at is her teacher Mrs. Black assured her practice would help and also said that if she wanted her
hair to be curly she could take the straitening charm off the top layer that was showing after all the rest
was safely tucked into the bun, but again that would take practice. Lily had often wanted to try new cuts
with her hair but her hair was about the only thing her mother noticed about her. At all!
Whenever she was home Delia Evens would sit and brush her youngest daughters luxuriant hair and try
it in different styles and when she was away she would always come back with some 'gift' of a hair
bobble or a new trinket for use in Lily's hair, so for obvious reasons the girl never cut it.
Then Lily struck on a snag:
"What if I want to tie it up?" She asked, "then it would show the rest in a bun on my neck."
Instead if looking perplexed Mrs. Black smiled saying "My you are quick aren't you? Well if you want
to tie it up try some of these styles." And Mrs. Black set about showing her how to double the three
strands of hair used in a plat, concertinaing them like she was folding ribbon, her hands clearly knew
what they were doing showing that she had done this numerous times before, she carefully pinned each
prepared third making sure that the ends were at the bottom of the plat then she nimbly placed one
strand over the other in a familiar plating pattern and picked up two miss matched elastics to secure
the ends, and again for all the world it looked as though that was the true length of Lily's hair, only the
tell tale thickness of each short braid gave the possible impression that there was more hair contained
within the plat that their looked to be.
When she had taught Lily to do her plats like this to all different lengths in both a single plat down her
back or one on each side she set about showing her how to arrange smaller tighter buns at the base of
both a low and high ponytail that were easily covered as the hair that was meant to be showing hung
from the bobble over it.
After Lily had attempted this style too (she managed it to an extent, but it was messy and didn't look as
good as when Mrs. Black had done it for her.) the older lady excused herself and left Lily to get ready
for the day offering to help with anything she needed.
Having thanked Mrs. Black Lily started going through her trunk deciding what to wear. She thought
about it and decided on the 'tough chick' look put on a pair of low slung comfortable quite baggy and
slightly flared combats (A/N: cargo pants to all you non-British people) that were white and light blue
decorated in 'camouflage' patterns (eg random splurges of blur on a white background all over the
place).
She coupled these with a sleeveless (yes *sleeveless* not strappy (A/N: spaghetti strapped no the
non-British) it was sleeveless meaning it had shoulders just that at the point where the selves would be
sewn on there were no sleeves…see?) army green hooded top that was over locked around the arm
holes and round neckline and hem in bright serece pink glittery thread and in 'spray painted' letters
across the front was written (also in sparkly serece pink) the words 'Army Babe'. Looking at her hair
she decided on just-past-shoulder-length messy chunky plats, it took her a while but on the third
attempt she had a passable hairstyle which she secured with her 'lily flower' bobbles from last night,
then as an after thought she guessed where abouts within her plats the right length piece of hair would
be then she carefully pulled one out each side to frame her face, of course this messed up her plats
even further but that was ok because it went with the look, the pieces she had managed to pull out
were about waist length and longer than she would have liked so she wet them from the tap and wound
each piece around a finger and sat there waiting for it to dry.
After a few minuets she unwound the strands (the tips of her fingers were going blue) and there hung
two perfectly formed tight copper ringlets on either side of her face, a matching sparkly pink hair pin
(curby grip) was slid in to stop them falling in her face too much and glancing in the mirror Lily smiled,
'just how she wanted it to look' she thought happily to herself.
Usually Lily wasn't a vein person but she wanted to make a good impression on these people…*her*
people so she reached for her meager supply of make up and put on a bit of tinted lip gloss and touch
of glittery pink 'sparkle dust' eye shadow and clear mascara and finally a spritz of body spray and some
'glitter body gel' on her cheek bones and she was done, Lily ran to her door of her room stuffing her
feet into her old comfy trainers on the way out and vowing not to take this long to get ready all the time
or she would end up like Petunia!
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Mean While in the boys' room
"Wow" said James, "she really is something"
"Yeah" agreed Sirius dreamily
"So you like her then?"
"Of course I like her I just agreed that she 'really is something' didn't I?"
"That's not what I meant! I mean do you *like* her?"
"Well I um…"
"Sirius is in looooooove, Sirius is in loooooove" james sang dancing around the room
"Shut up before I punch you," growled a *very* red Sirius
"Ok, ok sorry, but you are gonna ask her out right?"
"Yeah I guess so"
"Good coz if you don't make a move soon *I* will and that's not even counting the *entire* male
population at Hogworts who will agree with me, she is *hot*!"
"There is more to her than looks you know!" Sirius was angry; while Lily was *beautiful* she was an
equally wonderful person and besides 'hot' seemed a degrading term to describe some one as radiant
as *his* Lily as he now thought of her.
"Yeah ok your right"
"I love it when you say that! Will you say it again?"
"No! But how many girls do you know that will sleep on the floor at the end of your bed and talk all
night even though they are bone tired" (Sirius had filled James in on the basic outline of how the two of
them had ended up how James found them)
"Yeah" Sirius chuckled "I bet you didn't expect *that* reaction to throwing a pillow at 'me' to wake me
up!" then Sirius's voice grew dreamy as he continued "she has a wicked sense of humor and a real
flare for practical joking and mischief, she's good at sports so you never know she may develop a
talent for quiditch and be on the teem with us" Sirius and James had already decided they would play
on the quiditch teem as soon as they possibly could, James was an excellent seeker and Sirius was one
hell of a beater.
"Oh" Sirius continued "and she has plans on getting the most detentions anyone has ever got at
Hogworts, she more than tripled the record at her old muggle school" (mostly because she would do
anything to avoid going home Sirius added to him self but said nothing)
"Sounds like you know this girls life history Sirius!" but his friend just shrugged in reply
"but a detention record…hmm" she sounded as though he was musing over the possibility
"I'd be up for that" he said after a moment
"but only detentions from pranks count, I recon I could give this Lily chick," he ignored Sirius's un
intentional growl of rage
"a run for her money. Yup, he said finally this year is going to be *fun*!"
Nodding and grinning gleefully Sirius bounded out of the door, but James hung back thinking that Lily
was indeed one of a kind, and what he'd said was true, if Sirius didn't make a move on her soon he
*would*!
And you never know, it might not work out between the two of them anyway and until then, he smiled
to himself, Hogworts would be *full* of girls to take his mind off her.
"James? Are you *coming* Sirius' voice floated up the stairs
"Yeah" he yelled back and, still smiling, walked down the stairs to meet the others.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
On getting downstairs Lily found quite a cluster of people sitting with Mrs. Black but Sirius wasn't
down yet and nor was James. She walked over and a little shyly and waited for some one to notice her.
While she was waiting she had time to examine the group around Mrs. Black There were two boys who
looked a lot like James and even more like each other, they were clearly twins, with the very messy
black hair and chocolate brown eyes that apparently all James's family possessed. Sitting on Mrs.
Black's lap was the only member of the group without black hair, she had a sandy gold plat snaking
down to about the middle of her back (on closer inspection Lily decided that this was in fact the actual
length of her hair) the girl had her back to Lily but she could tell the blonde was wearing denim
dungarees that went over a plain white cotton tee shirt and ended in shorts as apposed to trousers,
the girl looked to be a small five year old though she could have been big for a four year old,
'Lucy Black' Lily guessed. The final person sitting at the crowded table looked to be in her mid teens
with raven hair falling in thick waves loose until it just brushed her shoulders her skin was quite tanned
and her eyes almost black, she wasn't skinny, but then like her mother, she wasn't fat either; indeed she seemed to have inherited her mothers build all over, 'Mary Black', Lily concluded.
Just then Sirius came bounding down the stars doing a good impression of a heard of elephants.
A large heard. Clog dancing!
*Everyone* looked towards the cause of the din and Sirius took a bow, having looked up Mrs. Black
saw Lily standing nervously at the back of the small crowd.
"Lily dear, good morning" she looked at the style Lily had chosen for her hair and smiled her approval,
Lily blushed and Mrs. Black gently rearranged a crocked clip that held her two curled front pieces back
in a motherly fashion then ushered her into an empty chair.
Blushing slightly Lily looked around at all the rest who were staring at her, not knowing quite what to
say but thankfully Sirius came to her rescue
"Everyone? This is Lily; Lily this is Skye and Blaze Potter (A/N: I love these names for 2 potter twins
but I know I read them some where, who's ever they are I am using the names, if they belong to you
please inform me so I can amend this chapter to give you credit for these characters where this note is
now. If however you don't want me using them who ever you are tell me that to and I will of course
make the appropriate changes, thank you.)
As you can tell they are twins, they are James's older brothers and will be gong into their third year at
Hogworts, both twins smiled their hello's with appreciative glances at Lily's pretty form, they seemed
to be bright and out going, 'probably pranksters' the girl thought, they had that kind of air about them.
The rest of the group were who she had guessed them to be and after Lily was sitting eating her toast
Sirius yelled up at his best friend asking if he was *ever* planning on coming down stairs to join them.
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James soon came bouncing down the stairs sounding like only *half* a heard of elephants. Grinning he
sat beside his two older brothers and began to eat. After the huge portions she had consumed last night
Lily only had one piece of toast and she left a few bits of that, she wasn't much of one for eating in the
mornings anyway.
"Lily dear!" Exclaimed Mrs. Black reprovingly, "is that all you are going to eat? No wonder you're the
size you are."
"My digestive system doesn't wake up until at lest two hours after the rest of me does, you'll see, I will
make up for this" she waved a small hand in the direction of her plate with a few bits of toast left on it
"when it does." Everyone smiled at this and talk soon turned to school
"So you will be a first year with James and Sirius then?" Asked Skye…or was it Blaze? She guessed
that with time she'd learn to tell them apart.
"Yeah" replied James, looking at his brother as though that ought to have been obvious
"So you are coming into Diagonally with us later then? To get your school things?" the twin seemed to
be trying to ascertain how long the pretty red headed soon-to-be-first-year would be with them
"If you don't mind" came her reply though it was all politeness really as Lily knew she would be
shopping with Sirius and James whether this twin 'minded' or not "I am from a muggle family" she
continued "so I don't really know what I am doing at all, I need some one there to show me the ropes"
"You'll be fine Lil," said Sirius encouragingly giving her a grin "its third year where you take your new
subjects isn't it?" this question was directed at the two twins
"yeah" they agreed in unison "we took muggle studies, maybe you could help us there Lily" and a wink
of a flirty teasing eye accompanied this statement "and arithmancy, I cant actually remember why I
decided to take that now, and I am already regretting it, have you *seen* the *size* of the arithmancy
books in 'Flourish and Blots?" Mrs. Black gave them one of her patented 'mother' looks and the other
twin quickly added (non to convincingly)
"Not that we went into Diagonally last night…quickly…for a look…while our rooms were being
prepared …or anything as…*irresponsible* as that" and a charming grin finished off his ramble.
Mrs. Black raised one eyebrow but left it at that, and her eyes were still smiling so she cant really have
been that angry
Seeing that the black haired teenager had yet to speak, she seemed quite shy and quiet, which surprised
Lily looking at the rest of the family, so looking at the eldest of the Black children she asked
"So…Mary isn't it?" the girl nodded
"what year will you be going into" the youngest of the two pressed
"Forth" it was almost a whisper and the girls sole full dark eyes begged Lily to leave her be and let her
continue trying to bend into the scenery and Lily, shrugging turned her attention back to the rest of the
group.
The varies discussions around the table were silenced quickly as the small girl on Mrs. Blacks lap let
out a wail and pushing herself out of her mothers hug ran out of the room. Instinctively Lily followed.
When she caught up to the fleeing child it was up the staircase that lead to the rooms and down one of
the corridors
"What's the matter?" panted Lily as she caught up to the small blond crying and huddled on the floor
"Go away" spat Lucy spitefully, she looked petulant and was clearly sulking
"What did *I* do?" asked Lily clearly taken aback by this attack, and then Lucy Black looked up at her
and Lily got a surprise: while Lucy had the pail skin and blond hair she didn't have the blue eyes that
usually went with such a completion in fact she had almost clear gray eyes, not gray blue, but steely ice
gray eyes. Noticing her expression change the other girl looked smug saying
"Yes, *Lily*" she crowed "your not the only one with unusual eyes"
"You have very nice eyes" Lily complemented hoping to find out why this girl seemed to hate her so,
privately Lily thought that this five year old was very pretty but her eyes seemed so cold and filled with
malice that it detracted from her whole appearance. The girls' look still did not soften so Lily decided to
be blunt, and sitting down on the floor beside her companion she asked
"You clearly hate me" she stopped to lock her powerful gaze with her adversary before asking,
"Why is that?"
"Why is that?" echoed the other incredulously "why is that?" she repeated growing in rage the girl no
longer held Lily's intense stare but got up and started to pace "before *you* came I was the only girl,
well" she amended "other than Mary, but no one really notices her" Lily thought back to the black
haired tanned girl with slightly haunted black eyes that begged anyone looking into them to leave her alone and silently wondered why Mary was so introverted and shy "any way" the pacing child continued "then *you* came along and they all notice *you* and no one even *spoke* to me! And Blaze said that about you helping him with his muggle study's" it occurred to Lily that the small child had a crush on James's older brother, and was used to being the only girl around that he noticed. "You aren't even one of us, our mums were friends from when *they* went to Hogworts and we have known each other since *forever* and you just come along, and every one notices you *Blaze* notices you"
"Listen," Lily said realizing how right Sirius was when he said it was the 'spoilt youngest child in his
family' and that 'he had as little to do with her as possible'
"I didn't mean to make everyone notice me, you know, its just that I met your mum and Sirius when I
got here really early this morning and I was tired and I didn't know what to do, she helped me out and
Sirius and I became friends that's all" the red head was trying to be rational and take into account threat
the other person in this conversation was a spoilt five year old but it was very hard to do considering
Lily possessed a true red-heads temper and that this particular 'spoilt five year old' was looking at her
through steely eyes as though she were something the cat had brought in. Fighting to keep her voice
steady she continued "and I think they were all just being polite down stairs any way, I need some one
to help me out I have to go and buy potions ingredients and magic wands from a place I have never
*heard* of let alone know how to get to, and that's without going to Gringots or what ever its called,
so can we call it quits?" Lily stuck out a hand that was probably the same size as Lucy's
"Call it quits?" screeched the irate blonde
"There's and echo in here" muttered Lily under her breath but Lucy ignored her
"Your muggle born aren't you?" she demanded and Lily nodded wondering why it made a difference to
them striking up a truce "And you *dare* offer a truce between us? You are as stupid as you are
disgusting" Lily was strongly reminded of petunia and was biting deep into her bottom lip to stop
herself saying something she would regret, after all this was Sirius's sister and Mrs. Black's daughter
and they, at least, had been *very* kind to her but her small face must has showed what she was
thinking because Lucy walked over to the still sitting Lily and put her face right up close to the red
heads face but couldn't hold her, intense green stare, so with her eyes averted Lucy shrieked
"YOU FILTHY *MUDBLOOD*"
and made as if to storm off but had each of her arms caught by James and Sirius who looked as if they
were trying hard not to kill the child
"Apologize" Gritted James in her ear
"No!" yelled the girl pouting, "its true and she deserves it"
"That's it!" said Sirius and both he and James began frog marching her down the corridor in the
direction of her mother.
Stunned Lily followed, she didn't know exactly what the word meant but she knew it was an insult and
had a pretty good idea of its meaning: 'muggle born witch or wizard' Lily wondered how many other
people would think like this girl did, she thought she had found some where, where she would be
accepted: obviously she was wrong!
But she had James and Sirius at least so this had to be better than life with Petunia. That thought caused
her to brighten up a bit and she almost smiled at the irony: her first enemies in either world were Lucy
and Petunia's: both were the spoilt sister of their families and one loathed her for being a witch and the
other hated her for being muggle (or at least muggle *born* but in Lucy's eyes they were the same)
She must have looked quite lost standing there staring into space her small pail face bemused as it had
been when she first entered the 'leaky cauldron' because some one gently took her arm and began
leading her towards the stairs. Looking up she realized it was one of James's brothers
"Um…Skye?" she hazarded. Laughing the boy shook his head his messy hair flapping
"No…Blaze" he answered with a grin, which Lily retuned. Blaze paused for a moment dazed by the
smile and then began leading her down the stairs again.
"Lily Dear, there you are" Mrs. Black stood up looking concerned
"thank you Blaze" she said absently to the boy who had fetched Lily and he shrugged re taking his seat
by his brothers
"I am *so* sorry, I cant think *what* has come over Lucy" then turning a hard look on her youngest
daughter Mrs. Black seethed
"apologize then go to your room until I can think how to punish you, I have *never* been so ashamed
of you in my *life*"
"No!" the same petulant reply was received then turning her most icy look on Lily said in a menacing
whisper
"You'll be sorry!" before turning on her heal and marching up the stairs. Lily could see Mrs. Black was
about to go after her daughter, Lily had *never* seen *anyone* look *that* angry, in fact the girl would
not have been surprised if smoke began to billow from her ears, her face was dead white and her lips
were thinned as she stared after the errant child. Laying a restraining hand on Mrs. Blacks arm she said
"Its ok, leave her" Lily comforted thinking privately that she had made her first enemy in this new life,
and even if it was only a spilt, jealous, five year old girl, the thought still upset her.
"No" Mrs. Black said sighing
"it isn't ok, but thank you for saying so, and we wont let this spoil our day, so all of you go up to your
rooms get everything you need, freshen up and we will meet back here in fifteen minuets"
They all stood and rushed up the stairs
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Goddess Bless luv Aurora xxx