Merigold

Come as you are

"Oi Prongs my deer!" Yelled Sirius Black as he strutted his way into their usual compartment.

"Pads! How was your summer?" James Potter, grinning at the sight of his best friend and partner in crime.

"Eh it was alright I guess. Parents are still the same, Regulus still ignores me. The usual really." His mood dimmed slightly at the mention of his brother while James fought to keep a smile off his face at the thought of him.

"You should really consider trying to make things right with him this year. I mean it couldn't hurt to TRY could it?" James had a tendency of acting motherly in these situations.

"Maybe, we'll see. Anyways how's your summer been mate?" While prongs knew that Sirius was avoiding the topic he also knew that he couldn't rush the boy.

"It was alright, dated a few people, nothing serious though. Have you heard anything from moony?"

"Nope he's gone MIA this past week."

Before they could speak anymore the compartment door swings open and Remus walks in(with Peter in his back). He's sporting a few new scars likely from the latest full moon and seems to have grown to be 6'4 over the summer.

"Alright?" He says it as a sort of greeting while behind him Peter gave a small grin accompanied by a sheepish wave.

While prongs and padfoot were scolding Remus for being MIA (which he couldn't help as he'd simply forgotten they existed after he fell into another random rabbit hole) with Remus smiling softly, touched by how much they cared.

Peter however was looking out of the window and couldn't help but wonder what this year would bring.

At the opposite end of the train a newly out Saffron Snape is chasing a grinning Lucius Malfoy around the compartment (which someone, probably Narcissa had charmed to be nearly the same size as the Slytherin common room so that the whole friend group could fit inside).

Now that 'Saf' had come out she had become a much more light hearted person and easily won the soft spot in every Slytherins heart. So to see her chasing one of the boys around with a make-up brush wasn't a uncommon occurrence.

Finally she caught up with the boy and straddled him before leaning down "should've been faster Lucy, you've lost your touch!" She grinned jokingly as she said it before applying make-up that made the boy look around his age rather than like a 30 year old version of himself.

Had it been anyone else doing this to Lucius, Cissy would've been having a fit and that would have lead to regulus nearly getting trampled while trying to hold back 3 of his very angry cousins. It had happened many times before.

However this wasn't some random girl. This was their best friend. Their LESBIAN best friend at that.

When Narcissa looked back over at her she couldn't help but smile softly when she saw the Snape now making rings the muggle way by the fire whilst all the boys in the compartment were now pouting while their cheeks were decorated with beautiful
Patterns, flowers and sunsets.(how saffron came to be such a artist baffles them all)

Lily Evans was still nursing a wounded soul from the loss of her friendship with 'Sev' however she's grown to accept it during the summer and that brings her to where she is now.

She's currently in a compartment while Mary and Alice are gossiping about Alice's new boyfriend, Frank. While lily on the other hand is trying desperately to sober up a extremely drunk Marlene McKinnon.

"Drink this Marlene honestly you'd think you might wait until, oh I don't know the second day of school to get absolutely plastered!" She had been scolding her friend for the past 40 minutes and while McKinnon has sobered up, her hangover started early.

"Please lils not right now I think I'm gonna boke" "Oh Christ Marlene here eat this! For fucks sake"

Lily hands her a brownie with a piece of chocolate on top. "At least then if you throw up you'll have something in your stomach" where Lily gets these things no one knows but she's Lily fucking Evans so it's on brand for her.

She passes Marlene 2 paracetamol and a bottle of water. "Take these then try to sleep it off alright?" She said in a much gentler voice this time as she's calmed down considerably.

30 minutes and a bit of magic later and Marlene is now fast asleep with her head on Lilys lap. With her best friend finally asleep she leans back and looks out the window only giving her 2 cents into Mary and Alice's conversation occasionally.

She almost falls asleep when a chocolate frog that seems to be tampered with magically climbs in the open window of the compartment.

She's the only one who seems to notice so she looks at it closer and sees that it's holding a note in its mouth. It just stares at her basically telling her to take it. So that's what she does.

There's only one sentence in it but she knows who it's from instantly as it is in the language that she made up with what was her only friend. In primary school.

Occurrit mihi ad nostrum locum post voluptua. Commodo.
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What could he want now?