TIME; SIRIUS BLACK

003.

"I've been looking all over for you," Charlie told Lily as she sat down next to her at the Gryffindor table.

"Oh, sorry, I thought they wouldn't listen to us here," Lily responded, her green eyes scanning the table. Nobody was paying any attention to them, all of them too tired to even register that a Slytherin was sitting at their table.

Though Lily knew one thing for sure, once the quartet that consisted of James, Sirius, Remus and Peter would enter, it was over for them. They noticed everything around them and a girl they had never seen at their table, dressed in a Syltherin sweater nonetheless, would certainly catch their attention.

The only question was: what would happen from there on out?

Her gaze locked onto the table and the various foods and drinks on it, Charlie asked Lily, "So you said you have a list."

"Oh, yeah. It's a bit silly, but there are some ideas on how we could get back at them for the prank they pulled on you," Lily said, pulling out a crumpled piece of parchment.

Putting her hand on her slickback, Charlie nodded along. Revenge was all she wanted, especially because she hadn't been able to get the green glitter out from her hair and now had to somehow live with it until she figured out how to get her hair back to being blonde.

"Actually, before we start, why's there no coffee here?" Charlie asked, something she had already been wondering about at the Slytherin table. There was tea of all kinds, juices, water, milk, cocoa, really anything besides coffee.

"We aren't allowed any coffee since the breakfast incident of '73," Lily responded, however made no sign of wanting to elaborate, so Charlie just accepted the answer and made a mental note to go down to the kitchen (if it was in the same place as in the future) to get some coffee later.

"Okay, then go on, tell me what you have planned for these assholes."

The two girls, one with blonde-green-glittery hair and the other with ginger hair, stuck their heads together for the remainder of breakfast and planned a certain quartet's downfall. That was until said boys arrived for breakfast and sat down right opposite of the two girls.

"Evans, who's the girl next to you?" The one with glasses asked, scanning Charlie and scrunching his nose up when he looked at her Slytherin sweater.

The one right next to him also stared openly at her, or rather, her hair, "Showing a lot of house pride for someone who's sitting at the Gryffindor table, don't you think?"

"Oh, just shut up you two idiots," Lily said in her defence, not knowing what else to say to them. She liked quietly making plans and putting them to action but having to overplay all that and giving sassy remarks wasn't her speciality.

Charlie looked the guys up and down. Once again wanting to throw up.

First, she looked at the quietest and smallest guy in their group. He must be Peter Pettigrew. The person responsible for the tragedy the Potters' had to suffer.

Secondly, she looked at the guy with the many scars on his face, throat, hands and well ... his body was littered with scars, some fresh, others already healed. He must be Remus Lupin. The person who would die in the war and leave Teddy Lupin behind, with no one but his grandparents and godfather. The one who was a werewolf.

Oh, now everything made sense to her. He was the one the wolfsbane potion must've been for.

James and Sirius, the other guys sitting opposite of her, had looked up the potion and brewed it, time and time again. They had perfectioned it for their suffering friend so of course they wouldn't want anybody to read through the pages of the potion book she had in her bag. Of course they would put a spell on it to mark the reader and get revenge on them for trying to take what was theirs.

Suddenly, Charlie didn't feel all that mad about her ruined hair.

"Thanks, I actually think my hair looks like that thanks to you and a little spell of yours," Charlie responded, her tone cold as she looked Sirius straight in the eyes.

Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Oh, really, what proof do you have that it was us?"

"None, but that doesn't matter, I now know everything that I need to know," she responded, not having any of it. Lily looked back and forth between Sirius and Charlie, not getting what was going on. "Can I come and sit here with you at lunch too, Lily? Even if your housemates are annoying, they are still worlds better than mine."

Lily nodded and watched Charlie stand up and walk out of the Great Hall, her steps confident even though her blonde-green hair made her stand out of the crowd.

"Okay, that was interesting," Peter remarked to break the tension. Lily threw a poisonous look in his direction before standing up and looking for Marlene and Dorcas so she could walk to class with them.

"Who was that girl?" James asked as he watched Lily leave, mentally not fully there until Sirius hit him.

Remus looked at him, unsure if he was being serious, "You remember 'that Charlene girl' you two wanted to do something about? That was her."

"Wait, so we planned a whole prank with a getaway and everything and you two don't even know what she looks like?" Peter asked, not that sure if his friends were benign serious, but they apparently were.

Sirius and James looked at each other and then back to the entrance of the Great Hall and back to their other two friends. "Oops."

Peter put his forehead on the table, while Remus could only shake his head in desperation.

"Why was her hair green, though?" Remus asked, "If you two really didn't already pull a prank."

"Well... I actually have no idea why. Maybe she has questionable fashion choices?" Sirius suggested with a shrug of his shoulders.

What he wasn't telling them was that he had placed a charm on one of the books in the library so that no one would be able to find out that they were sneaking into the potions storeroom every month to brew the wolfsbane potion. He didn't want to put even more pressure onto Remus, who would crumble if he knew that someone had connected the dots and found out that he was a werewolf.

But this strange girl had said 'I now know everything I need to know' after she had looked at Remus and she wore the mark of his charm. Had she been able to connect the dots? Would she tell everyone now what Remus really was? She wouldn't, would she? She was a Slytherin though, but she also had breakfast with Lily Evans, a muggle-born.

His thoughts were racing while James and Remus discussed a prank or their next class, whatever, Sirius wasn't listening. Had he messed up? Just like the time last year when he had sent Snivellus to the Shrieking Shack and almost killed him?

No, that couldn't be. The potions book and the spell weren't enough to lead her to the conclusion that Remus was a werewolf, right?

If so many thoughts already ran through his mind in the morning, Sirius would really need a coffee to get through the day without killing someone.

So without a word to his friends, he made his way out of the Great Hall and directly down to the kitchen where a house elf would surely be happy to give him a coffee.

HOPE speaks ! 

having to write Sirius and serious all the time is really exhausting. 

but anyway, I  hope you liked this chapter and as always, 

love you lots <3