The Blood Clan and the Marauders

Chapter 2: First class, Quidditch and...trouble???

Lizzie entered the Defense Against the Dark Arts' classroom along with Lily. Both girls tried to find an empty table but most were already taken. Lily spotted James and Sirius in the back and seated in front of them was Remus and Peter. There was an empty table beside James and Sirius' one which Sirius had put his feet on the neared chair so no one would take it. When he saw the girls he smiled at them. Lily showed the table to Lizzie and the girls went to sit.

"Where were you?" James whispered has the class began.

"Talking," Lily replied.

"Figures," Sirius said with a grin.

"What do you mean by that?" Lizzie asked with one herself.

"Girls. Talking. Obvious," he simply said.

"Mr. Black, I trust you don't want to have a detention already. Right?" the teacher, Professor Amiguel, said.

Sirius turned to the front of the class, still smiling.

"No, sir. I'll wait for a day or two. Mrs. Potter wouldn't be happy if I had one on the first day and I really don't want to make her angry. I thought my mother was something, but when Mrs. Potter gets mad, it's not even comparable," he replied.

The teacher smiled slightly and shook his head.

"Well, stop talking then."

Most Gryffindors were laughing a little or trying not to.

"Happy you got attention?" Lily asked him.

"Yeah. You owe me one galleon each, guys," the teen told his friends.

Peter shook his head.

"Damn! I should have known it'd be one of you who'd get a warning for a professor first!" he let out.

"We didn't force you to bet," Remus told him.

Lizzie was watching all this with amusement. She could tell she'd have fun if she hanged out with them long enough. She was about to join in the conversation when she was interrupted by the teacher.

"Since we've got Double...we'll make Slytherin/Gryffindor teams," he said simply.

"Did I hear what I just heard?" James said aloud.

"I'm afraid so..." Lizzie let out.

"F*ck!" Lizzie thought she heard Sirius exclaim.

When she turned her gaze to him and saw Remus had thrown him a book, she knew she hadn't been wrong.

"Watch your mouth, Padfoot. There are girls around."

Sirius looked towards Lizzie and Lily.

"Did you ever hear Lil' talk about her sister?" he asked.

The others all started laughing, including Lily. Lizzie had no idea why. Lily explained she didn't like her sister, Petunia, and that Pet, like she called her to annoy her, didn't like her.

Amiguel made the teams as students for both houses changed places with mutters and angry whispers. Lizzie found herself teamed up with Narcissa, Sirius' cousin, James with Snape, Sirius with Malfoy, who was Narcissa's boyfriend, Remus with Miranda, Peter with Goyle and Lily with a guy who played as Beater in the Slytherin Quidditch team.

Miranda sat beside Remus and gave him a cold glare, but her expression suddenly changed, once she was sitting, to a surprised one.

"What?" Remus asked with a mix of confusion and annoyance.

She blinked and shook her head.

"You're like us..." she whispered.

Remus was now completely lost.

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm not all like you!" he asked.

She seemed to retrieve control of herself and grinned easily.

"Yeah. I know. You're still a pathetic Gryffie loser," she snarled.
She looked over at Kevin and smiled at herself, proud of her little discovery. The rest of the class was hell for both houses...and the teacher, who announced that they would choose their teams from the next class on. All the students were relieved. As they were leaving class, Peter dropped something. Lizzie turned and saw that it was some kind of homemade prank (well, she saw something weird, and considering it was one of the Marauders carrying it...). She grabbed Sirius and Lily's arms, who were the closest of her friends, and pulled them behind a desk.

"Duck!" she warned them.

Hearing that, most students just turned around in curiousness, but James and Remus ducked behind another desk. The thing touched the ground and exploded, sending some kind of green glue a little everywhere around. Kevin and Miranda, who were standing just behind Peter, were completely covered by it. Most students started laughing, except some Slytherins, Peter and Lizzie. Peter slowly turned around to face the two glue covered Slytherins.

"I'm sorry," he whispered in a very scared way.

Kevin grabbed in by the shirt and pulled his face in only millimeters from his own.

"Not as much as you will when we'll be done with you," he whispered to him.

Miranda got closer and leaned towards him.

"You'll be sorry you were ever accepted here," she told him.

"Leave him alone," James told the two Slytherins.

"Yeah. Take on somebody your own size," Sirius added.

The Marauders, Lily and Lizzie were furious.

"Calm down. We were just talking, right?" Kevin said.

Peter swallowed hard and nodded slowly in approval. The two Slytherins started to walk away, but Lizzie stepped in their way.

"If you put even just one claw on any of them and you'll regret it," she told them so low that no one else heard what she said.

Kevin smirked at her and Miranda laughed.

"Or you'll do what, bitch?" Kevin replied.

Sirius pushed him violently.
"The bitch here, is the thing that you use as your girlfriend!" Sirius exclaimed, almost yelling.

"F*ck you!" Miranda yelled angrily. Before anyone could do anything, Kevin had hit Sirius.

The teenager took a step backwards and glared at Kevin.

"So, that's how you want to play it?" he muttered, before hitting Kevin back.

He got him on the cheek quite strongly, but Kevin almost didn't react. He punched Sirius in the face. The boy's nose made a cracking noise and blood started to flow out of it. Sirius didn't give up, though. He wiped some of it away and kicked Kevin in the legs. While the Slytherin tried to keep his balance, he punched him in the chest and then kicked him in the limbs. Kevin let out a moan but straightened up to Sirius' surprise and hit him with all his strength in the stomach, cutting the Gryffindor's respiration. Sirius fell on his knees, the room around him a little fuzzy and dark.

Sirius shook his head to try and clear his vision and looked up to his opponent. He was greeted by a kick under the chin. Ignoring the pain, he grabbed the foot as the impact threw him backwards and twisted it. Kevin tried to free his foot, but fell down and Sirius managed to twist his ankle.

All the Gryffindors and Slytherins were watching the fight forming a circle around them. Everyone was surprised at the violence of the fight. Both boys were now on the floor. Kevin got up, but it was obvious his ankle was painful. Sirius started to get up but fell back down. A wave of dizziness came over him and he felt a hand on his shoulder, keeping him from trying to get up again. He turned his head and saw Remus.

Lizzie wished she could have gotten in the fight and saved Sirius from an inevitable beating, but it would have compromised her identity...or at least that she wasn't normal. She bit her lip, knowing very well that Sirius had gotten into that fight for her. He considered her as a friend, which was why she couldn't let him know what she was. He wouldn't accept it. They wouldn't. They'd turn away from her. She was sure of it.

James stepped in front of Sirius and Remus, ready to fight. He knew that if Sirius had gotten beaten up he surely would. After all, his friend was stronger and more enduring than him.

"That's enough!" they heard professor McGonagall's voice exclaim.

She made her way to the crowd and gasped as she saw Sirius and Kevin. Kevin was leaning on William not to walk on his ankle. Sirius was sitting on the ground. Blood was still coming out of his nose, he seemed to have trouble to catch his breath and had a huge bruise under his chin. He seemed not totally conscious. William looked at her and shook his head.

"He started it, professor," Miranda said in an innocent voice.

The witch starred at her and then looked at Kevin.

"Go get that fixed to the infirmary and then go on with you classes, Mr. Murray. We'll talk about this later," she plainly told him.

Once they had turned and started to leave, she turned towards Sirius and Remus. James stepped aside as she stepped towards his friends.

"Professor, Sirius didn't start the fight," Lily told her.

"That's true. He defended me and then Murray hit him," Lizzie added.

"Evans, Rosary, we'll talk about this later," McGonagall told the girls as she kneeled in front of Sirius.

"Can you stand up, Mr. Black?" she asked in a more gentle way.

She didn't like to admit it, but she like the boy and his friends. As much trouble makers as they were, she still loved them. He nodded in a positive way, but Remus shook his head.

"I don't think so, professor," he said.

"Shut up, Moony," Sirius said groggily.

"He's right. Help him up, Mr. Lupin," the teacher ordered.

Remus helped Sirius up and McGonagall made a big tissue appear with her wand and gave it to Sirius. He put it under his nose, muttering something that sounded like, "Thank you!"

"As to everyone else, go back to your classes. Mr. Black will join you as soon as he made a visit to the infirmary," she said leaving with the two boys.

*~*~*~*~*

James, Lily, Lizzie and Peter went to their next class: Divination. The teacher started to tell them what they would do during the year and after fifteen minutes and a lot of comments from Lily, Sirius and Remus coming in interrupted the class.

"Sorry...wait! I'm so stupid! You must have known we'd be late," Sirius said.

"Did you wait for us?" Remus asked.

"Just sit down," the teacher told them.

They shrugged and went to site beside their friends.

"That was quite a fight, Padfoot," Peter let out.
"Yeah, but considering you're the reason it happened, I'd shut up about it," Sirius told him.

"It doesn't happen often," Remus said, more to himself than to the others.

"What are you saying? Sirius often gets into fights with Slytherins...especially with Malfoy, Snape...and, well...Regulus," Lily replied.

"I meant that he gets beaten," Sirius nodded.

"Yeah. And I kicked hard enough in his limbs," he said.

"You mean you didn't go all out?" Lizzie asked, surprised.

"Not at first, but then it was too late," he said, to her amazement.

"Pad- Sirius learned to fight pretty well as a kid," Lily explained.

Sirius looked away.

"It's not like I had that much of a choice. What can you do when your alone, you're angry as hell, hate your whole family, or almost, and have been beaten up more times than you can count," the boy said between his teeth.

"Anyway, the point is, that guy was really strong and all. We better keep an eye on him," James said, changing the subject.

"You mean get revenge?" Remus asked.

"Exactly."

*~*~*~*~*

Meanwhile, in the 7th year Slytherin Potions class...

"That f*cking Gryffindor twisted my ankle!" Kevin let out angrily as he threw some ingredient in his potion.

"But it's just fine now. So why do you keep complaining about it?" Miranda said, taking her feet of the table they were resting on as the teacher walked by, giving her a warning glance.

"The point is that he hurt me," Kevin replied.

"You know, that Pettigrew guy..." William said as he turned from the table in front of them. "We could...get him too. It's all his fault anyway."
Kevin shrugged.

"It's Black I want to kill."

William shrugged just like Kevin had moments before.

"Yeah, but if we kill him right away we won't get to have fun with him," Miranda said with an evil grin.

"We'll see. We better start slow. We don't want everyone knowing the truth before we complete the...mission," Kevin whispered

*~*~*~*~*

A few days past without anything really out of normal (for the Wizard world...and the Marauders anyway). One morning, Lizzie was talking with Lily during breakfast when she realized Remus wasn't eating and didn't look so good.

"Is he all right?" she asked Lily.

The red head looked towards the boy and then back her friend.

"It's the full moon. It's coming," Lily whispered.

"Right. I was forgetting about the werewolf thing," Lizzie muttered as she glared at Remus.

When James turned towards her, though, she smiled at him and hoped he didn't see her glare.

"Hey, girls! You're coming to the game, right?" he asked.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world, James," Lily replied.

"The game?" Lizzie wondered.

"Oh! The Quidditch game. James is the Seeker and Sirius is one of the Beaters. They're going to play against Ravenclaw."

Lizzie nodded, but wasn't really listening anymore. She was looking at Kevin, William and Miranda at the Slytherin table. They seemed a little sick, but it was like they didn't care at all. In fact, Kevin even grinned at her in a way that slightly worried her. They were soon joined by Malfoy and Snape making Kevin's attention turn to them.

"What are you planning? Why are you here? Are you looking for the same thing than I'm supposed to?" Lizzie whispered to herself.

She talked so low that no one, not even Lily heard what she said. But the allusion to the reason of her presence at Hogwarts was enough to remind her that betraying her "adoptive mother" wouldn't be so easy. In fact, it would probably be very dangerous. They would probably send reinforcement. Lizzie shook her head. She couldn't let such thoughts distract her. She didn't care. Maybe they would just let her go...maybe.

"You're going to cheer for us?" Sirius' voice asked.

The half-vampire looked up, surprised and found Sirius, James, Remus and Peter all looking at her.

"Soooo?" James asked.

Lily slapped him gently on the shoulder.

"Give her a break! She was lost in her thoughts," she defended her friend.

"It's ok, Lily," Lizzie said, laughing. "Of course I'll cheer for you, Sirius."

Sirius grinned at her reply.

"You mean for the team," Peter corrected.

"Oh! Right," Lizzie blushed a little as she said that. "I'll cheer for the team."

*~*~*~*~*~*

"You look a little ill," Snape told William.

"We'll be fine," Miranda replied with an evil grin.

Kevin and William had little laugh.

"Yeah. Better than fine!" William added.

"Whatever you say, Will," Snape said, shrugging.

"I think you guys shouldn't let the damn Gryffs get away with the way they humiliated you," Malfoy said with a sneer.

"Geeks like that get what they deserve sooner or later," Miranda said.

"Nature...or I should rather say, evil nature...always somehow avenge it's children," Kevin said in a very calm voice.

His two acolytes nodded in an almost solemn way.

"Whatever you say," Snape repeated

*~*~*~*~*~*

"So, you're going to have to be good to impress her, eh?" James whispered to Sirius.

"Who?" Sirius replied.

"Lizzie, of course." James grinned as his friend glared at him

"Shut up, Prongs! There's no reason I'd..." Sirius was cut off by Robert.

"Hey, guys! Is it possible for you to listen to me for once?" James shrugged.

"We're just impatient to defeat those Ravenclaw!" he exclaimed. All the rest of the team agreed.

The captain smiled at his team.

"Me too. Let's go!"

As they walked out, James caught Sirius by the shoulder and slowed him down a little.

"I want to know. Do you have a crush on Lizzie or not?"

Sirius shook smiled. "Well, she not ugly and she's got a good sense of humor."

James had a laugh. "Does this mean you may be interested in her?" James wondered.

"Yeah. Maybe," Sirius replied. "But you don't say a word about it to anyone...except Moony and Wormtail."

James nodded and put his hand on his heart.

"Of course not. Not even to Lily."

*~*~*~*~*~*

Remus, Peter, Lily and Lizzie found a good place and sat down. Remus seemed exhausted from the exercise they had done by walking all the way from the common room to there.

"Geez! I wish they didn't have games on days like this," Remus let out.

"What do you mean? It's a beautiful day!" Peter replied, confused.

Lily gave him an annoyed look.
"The full moon's tomorrow, Wormtail," Remus told his friend.

"Oh! Right," Peter replied sheepishly.

"Okay, now I really have to ask," Lizzie exclaimed. "Where do these nicknames come from?"

Lily bit her lip and Peter looked at Remus, as if it was up to him to answer that question.

"Erm...We use nicknames for when we do pranks and all. All the students know it's us, but not the teachers."

Lizzie nodded.

"That's great, but why these? Why Moony, Prongs, Padfoot and Wormtail?" she asked.

"They're just names they made up at some point. They don't have any meaning," Lily explained.

"Yeah," Remus added, nodding.

Lizzie smiled as if she believed them, but she doubted that was true. As the others started talking about the game that was going to begin soon, Lizzie decided to seek out the truth. She closed her eyes to concentrate and tried to use one of her greatest vampire powers, but the one she had the most problems to use: Telepathy. She concentrated on Peter, rather than Remus. She knew his mind would be easier to penetrate. Sadly, she didn't control this power very well and only got random thoughts. She was interrupted when someone bumped in her. She grunted as she understood she wouldn't get her answer that way.

"You're okay?" Lily asked her.

"Sure," Lizzie replied.

The players came out on the field at that moment.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Kevin, Miranda and William were in the empty Slytherin common room. The other Slytherin students were all at the game. The three of them, however, had decided not to go. Anyway, they wanted to talk about things and they didn't care who won the game.

"We'll should get on the team. It'd be fun to kick arses and not even be punished for it," William, who was sitting on a couch with his feet on a table, said.

"Yeah. That's not a bad idea. We'll convince them to take us in," Kevin replied.

"And if they don't...we'll make sure they need new players," Miranda added, finishing her boyfriend's thought.

The two of them were sitting together on another couch that was facing William's.

"Okay, so what's the plan for tomorrow?" Miranda asked, playing in Kevin's hair.

"Who'll be the victim? We take whoever we fall upon?" William asked with anticipation.

"Victims, you mea,." Kevin replied with an evil grin.

"That's why I love you. You always find a way to be even more evil," Miranda whispered to him.

"So, who?" William asked, ignoring her.

"Anyone you feel like, except Rosary. I want to know more about her before we kill her."

Miranda made a mock pout.

"I wanted to kill her," she whined.

"Why don't you kill the red head. They seem to be friends," Kevin suggested.

"If the opportunity of killing her comes, she's all yours," William added. "Or Black. We could kill Black."

Kevin pushed Miranda aside and glared at William.

"Black is mine!" he warned on a low and menacing tone. "Is that clear?"

"Sure! Don't get all worked up. You can kill him. Geez!" William replied.

"We could share the red head," Miranda proposed.

The two boys stared laughing.

"Yeah, but then it wouldn't make much meat," William told her.

"Guess we'd just have to kill more than one person then," Kevin said with a smile.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Back at the Quidditch field, the Gryffindor team was leading the game. Their supporters were all cheering while the Ravenclaw's were getting pretty discouraged. When Sirius sent a Bludger that would've surely hit one of the Gryffindor chasers crashing into a Slytherin, Lily and Lizzie jumped off their bench to cheer for him.
"GO SIRIUS!" Lily yelled.

"YOU'RE THE BEST!" Lizzie added as loud, if not louder.

She almost yelled louder than a normal witch could have without a spell, but she restrained herself. As she sat down, Remus gave her a big mischievous smile.

"The best, eh?" he asked her.

She felt herself blush as Lily giggled and the two boys grinned at her.

"He's the best beater I've ever seen, okay?" she replied.

"You've seen a lot of them?" Peter asked.

"I...No," Lizzie answered.

"The Gryffindor Seeker seems to have located the Golden Snitch and is starting the chase for it!" they heard the commentator say.

Their attention was drawn back to the game.

"Oh! The Ravenclaw Seeker is also moving into action! This is going to be a close call. If the Ravenclaw team gets the Snitch, they'll win. Not by much, but they will," the voice added.

Lily jumped off her bench, once more, and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"GO JAMES! YOU CAN DO IT!"

Her three friends soon joined her. The two Seekers dived towards the ground.

"POTTER'S GOT THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!" the commentator yelled.

Both teams landed in the middle of the field.

"Great game, guys," James told the players of the other team.

"Nice dive, Potter. I almost got it before you did, but nice dive," the other Seeker told him as they shook hands.

"What are you saying? He's the best Seeker in the whole world!" Sirius exclaimed, praising his friend.

The other players all started to walk away, shaking their heads.

"Behold the great Potter!" Sirius yelled, his arms spread towards James.
"And don't forget is loyal friend, the amazing Black. The greatest Beater!" James added, almost bursting out in laughter.

Lily, Remus, Peter and Lizzie came running towards them. All the other players were almost inside and they were pretty much alone on the field.

"That was a wonderful catch, Mr. Potter," Lily told her boyfriend as she ran to him and passed her arms around his neck.

"Thank you, Miss. Evans. You did some good quality cheering, on your side," he replied, before kissing her.

"Yeah! And you, Padfoot, what an arm when you went that Slyth flying and down on the ground," Peter exclaimed with great gestures to demonstrate what he was talking about.

"Thanks, Wormy," Sirius said, laughing.

"Don't call me that!" Peter replied, obliviously insulted.

"Don't take it so seriously, Peter," Sirius apologized.

"He's right, though. And Lily too. You two were really good," Remus said as he sat down on the ground.

"Uh huh. At some point I really thought a Bludger was going to hit you on the head!" Lizzie told Sirius.

"That's part of the game," James replied.

"Still. I was really worried," Lizzie told Sirius with a smile.

He smiled back.

"Damn, she pretty when she smiles," he thought as he did so.

"You okay, Remus? You look out of breath," James asked.

"Well, you know..." the teenager replied. "I don't know if I'll go to classes tomorrow," he added after a while.

He got up and dusted his clothes.

"Is it always like this?" Lizzie asked him.

"Well..." Remus answered, embarrassed. "Mostly."
The three other boys went silent.

Lily gave her a questioning look.

"Don't you know that stuff? I mean..." she began to ask.

"No," Lizzie said, cutting her sentence short. "I never cared to learn these things. All I learned was how to keep them away and kill them," she spat out sharply. More than she really wanted.

She hadn't really meant to sound so mean. Remus bit his lip and looked down.

"What are you two talking about?" James wondered.

"Well, she didn't just discover he was a werewolf as I told you, guys."

It was Lizzie's turn to bit her lip. She sighed and nodded, meaning Lily could tell the boys.

"Her father was killed by a werewolf," Lily said.

Remus looked up at Lizzie and took a few steps towards her.

"I'm really sorry," he whispered to her. "I don't feel so well. I'll be in the hospital wing," he told everyone before running off.

Sirius, James and Peter gestured to start running after him, but Lizzie put an hand on Sirius' shoulder.

"Sirius, I didn't mean that I don't like him or that it's not worth it to know him. I just had never met a werewolf that was good and worth knowing at all before. I just put them all in the same bag and hated them...all of them. It's- it's more complicated then you think," she told him.

He brushed her hand off rather roughly.

"Prejudices are never complicated, Elizabeth," he replied coldly before he started running after Remus.

James and Peter followed him. Lizzie looked at them running away, feeling the tears coming to her eyes. She wasn't just looking at the boys who could have been her first real friends run away, but her chance for a more or less normal life.

"I know that you didn't want to be mean to Remus. It's just a touchy subject when it's discussed with someone he knows less...and even with us, in fact. We just know what to say and what not to," Lily told her with a little smiled.

"That makes one out of five. Great average," Lizzie said sarcastically.

She wiped her eyes and saw a few bloody water strains on her sleeves. She bit her lips. Of course, vampire often cried blood in the rare occasions where they did cry. Luckily, she only had a little in hers, so Lily might not realize it.

"We should go after them and then we could explain all of that to them," Lily proposed.

The half-vampire looked at her straight in the eyes.

"You think they'll listen?" she asked.

Lily shrugged as she looked in the direction the boys had taken.

"It's worth the try, no?" she replied.