Wands and Wishes

Dreamless

"Lily, I need you to come here." Sirius called out.

Lily looked reluctant to leave her dinner but stood up and made her way to where Sirius stood by the doors of the Great Hall. When she had finally reached him he quickly pulled her into the hall and the grim look on his face was all that was needed.

"Where is Iris?" She immediately asked.

"I don't know." Sirius sighed.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"She ran up the stairs." He explained weakly, the look on Lily's face making him feel like an idiot.

"It never occurred to you to follow her?"

"She was crying and I thought-"

"She was crying and you let her run off to Merlin knows where in this castle alone?" Lily exclaimed in exasperation.

"I thought it would be best to get you!" Sirius defended.

Lily huffed before turning around and hurrying back into the Great Hall. Sirius watched her return to James. They exchanged a few words, Sirius realizing that Lily's nose turned pink when she was angry just like Iris's, before James finally abandoned his plate as well just as he was waiting for dessert to begin and followed her out of the Great Hall.

"Honestly, what do you have against cauldron cakes?" James whined as he and Lily joined Sirius.

"Your best friend let Iris run off crying and now my sister is missing." Lily explained with a harsh glare at Sirius.

"We need to find her then." James said without missing a beat, "But it's going to take more than just the three of us."

"I'll go get Eridanus and Ronan, they're Iris's best friends so maybe they know where she ran off to." Lily said as she ran back into the Great Hall.

"I'll go get Remus, maybe we can use the map to help us." James added as he followed after Lily and left Sirius alone in the hall.

When everyone was gathered no one looked happy and Sirius had a feeling that they were all mad at him for one reason or another. They had all been filled in on what had happened and now it was only a matter of trying to figure out where Iris had gone.

"She ran up the stairs, so she's probably hiding away in one of the towers." Ronan stated.

"She loves high places." Eridanus added.

"Iris has always loved high places, I remember when we were little-"

"Lily darling, childhood stories can wait until later." James said soothingly, wrapping an arm around her.

"I'm sorry, I'm just worried." Lily sighed.

"I'll go and grab the map from my bag." Remus declared as he started for the stairs, "That should show us where she is."

"What map?" Ronan asked curiously.

"Oh just a special little map we have." Sirius laughed half-heartedly.

"So what do the rest of us do, just wait here?" Eridanus asked impatiently.

"No, we go looking for her." James announced.

As everyone began breaking apart James, Lily, and Sirius were joined in the hall by a fourth person.

"What about me?" Peter asked, feeling as though he had been skipped for a reason, "What should I do?"

"It's probably better if you don't help Peter, Iris doesn't like you all too much and if you find her we don't want things to get worse." Lily explained kindly.