Potter’s cousin
„And you really think that he is here?“
„Believe me, would I lie to you?“
„Maybe, I just know you from 2 Minutes ago.“
„Knock again, please…“
„Okay…“
It knocked again.
Remus Lupin, the only one who hadn‘t a shirt on, because him was warm from the butterbeer they drunk, went to the door and opened it.
„Lily? I thought you were on a girls night with Pandora, Marlene and Dorcas?“
„I am not here to sleep by James, he has just a little guest…“
Lily Evans, the girl Peter found so perfect stood before the door and showed Remus someone.
It must be a girl, Peter thought. The voice he didn‘t recognise talking with Lily was too high for a boy.
And he was right.
Remus moved and an even more beautiful young lady than Lily came across Peter‘s eyes.
She had dark red full lips, long eyelashes, dark brown confused eyes and a body every girl would dream about.
Peter thought he drunk too much and that this was just his imagination, which would like to cancel his plans to become a follower of the dark wizard called Voldemort.
But her Queens top, the doc martins and the mini skirt were to obscure for that little bit of alcohol in his blood.
Her cheekbones are red, Peter recognised. Not one second in the room and she felt immediatly in love with Remus. Peter sighed head shaking. He doesn’t have a chance. Not against Remus, Sirius and James.
Again he felt more lost than ever before, lonely and helpless. Why did he even chose them as his friends? He was a loser to them and himself.
„James, are you there?“, her sweet voice asked and she took a step forward into their dormitory.
„You‘re gotta be kidding! You‘re here? I thought mom and dad…“
Her raising hand stopped Prongs from ending his sentence. „It was a very long day… can we please skip this and discuss all the other things right now?“, she sighed and passed Moony aka Remus to sit right down next to Peter.
„So what? Is there anything you don‘t know about Hogwarts and my friends?“, James laughed, as he would remember old nights where they talked to each other till sunrise.
„Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail, this is my cousin, Alya.“
He introduced the marauders ad they would like to call themselves and grinned.
Something said Peter, that this grin meant she was like them… a troublemaker in disguise.
It seemed like everyone thought the same thing, cause they all got that devilish smile on there face and sat down again.
Except Lily.
„You wanna join us?“, Alya asked her a little too hopefully as if she never talked alone with boys before. Or there was a traumatizing memory behind the question. Peter couldn‘t decide which of the two hypothesis was right. But he sweared to himself, that he would do everything just for her comfort. Merlin, he was already into her. It was unbelievable, that it only needed one little look from her. „I am sorry, the girls wait for me. I can‘t cancel them anymore. Another time?“, Lily asked. „Sure…“ The door closed itself with a swing of Lily‘s wand. Then they were only five left. But they were all just interested in one. „So… why is he the only one shirtless?“
Remus took instinctively his shirt from the bed to put it on again, but she shook her little sweet head.
"You don't need to, I was just confused."
After a little pause from Remus, he pushed his shirt away.
"That's James cousin alike."
"Why?"
Her eyes narrowed at Sirius. But he looked at James like it was obvious.
Peter would likte to know it too. Why was it alike him, if she just said, Remus can go shirtless, she doesn't care?
"I am... uhm... you could say a playboy and troublemaker.". James answered, but he couldn't look her in the eyes, like he was still hiding something from her.
"Oh... okay..."
"So you are cousin's? Why didn't you went here earlier then?"
Remus joined the ground and the conversation again.
"Cause his parents had enough from caring about one child.", Alya teased James and picked him in his side.
"No, really, why?", Peter asked ten with more selfconfidence he ever had.
She sighed, before her eyes locked with his.
"My parents lived somewhere else, so I joined another school than james. After they... After last summer... it wasn't very clear, where I should life and that's why I am so late."
"What do you mean with "It wasn't clear where I should life"?", Sirius the most dumbest one of them when it comes to things like this asked her.
She took her eyes off Peter to look at the red ground from the dormitory.
"They died. So i needed a new home."
Everyone was speechless. Unless their eyes, which were scanning her outfit. Did she say it without tears? And a clear strong voice noone should have at this point in life? She didn't even need to tell them. But everything she just did, tells them, that she trusted them.
"We are there for you, if you need to talk."
Remus put his hand on her shoulder. Peter wished he had done the same thing or a better thing than that, cause she gave Remus a smile, that Peter would kill for.
But after it, she looked at him again, like she forgot about the shirtless Remus talking to her and offered her special treatment.
"I am fine.", she said.
"I think we should plan our first prank of the year then.", James took over the conversation, so Alya wouldn't think too much about what they talked right now. A minute left and his cousin began to grin.
"Can I join you?, she asked all of the four boys. After each of them changed a look, James nodded.
"There are so many new ways for pranks, now that we have a girl in our team. What do you think about the slughorn manoveur?", he asked the group.
„The slughorn manoveur?“
„It‘s nearly impossible to do that, you think she is that good?“
„We will know when it‘s done.“
„Or not done.“
The confused Alya looked at her cousin, then at Sirius and at her cousin again.
„What is a slughorn manoveur?“, she asked them louder than before.
„Oh, just a prank. We find another one if you say no to it.“, Remus replied.
„Seriously? Tell me what kind of prank it is.“
„Years ago, and we need to start from there, Slughorn, our Professor in Potions, talked with you-know-who, when he was just an unimportant student, but Slughorn gave him the answer of how to be the most powerful wizard in the world. A prank that went wrong at Dumbledore, our headmaster, showed us the book Slughorn meant. But it‘s in the forbidden section of the library, so we need an accesscard from a professor. We know, that everyone in the slug club can get one, if they are just nice to Slughorn, but we are not talented enough for Slughorn to join, so none of us is in the club that could bring as those cards. We asked Lily before giving up, but she is not willing to do it for us.“
Peter spoke up, the second time she was here, got a look from her and a little stop from his heart beat.
„So, I need a talent for that? In what?“
„That‘s the problem, you never know what he is searching for.“, James said.
„So I need to be talented in quite everything?“
„Yes and no. You can act it up if you‘re not good enough in… anything. What I mean is, if he thinks you‘re talented, you‘re talented. Even if you are not. How good are you in acting up? Lying?“ Sirius asked.
„I think we should do another prank.“
„Are you so bad in it?“
„No, I just… I hate lying.“
„Come on, it‘s for a good thing.“, Sirius said, followed by a Remus that looked at him, like he‘s gone crazy.
„What?“
„It‘s for a good thing? Really? That‘s how you try to pull her on our side?“
„Like you tried…“
Remus snapped to argue again, but got interrupted by Alya.
„Boys, I will do it!“
„What?“
Everyone starred at her like she said, she doesn‘t like Quidditch at all.
„I will do it. But I need help from all of you. If the little legends of my cousin are true, are you all better in something I am not. So you all need to train me for the prank. Deal?“
„Deal!“
All of them noded.
The school year began. The boys told her everything about everything she will need to know so the prank could start. Peter forgot about his revenge against James. Remus sat on the ground shirtless till the end of the night. Sirius made a plan for training lessons im Quidditch for Alya.
James was the one stopping them.
„Stop it all, right now! Did you just came her and walked right up the stairs to see me? Does Dumbledore even know about you? In which house are you in? Did you eat?“
„Breathe James. Dumbledore knows already. I ate a little thing the elves gave me at the kitchen and I have a house, no need to get a panic attack.“
„So, you share dorms with Lily? And Mary and Marlene?“, James asked nervously and happy at the same time, cause she would be in the same house as him.
But all on her said no.
„Uhm… James? Can we focus on the prank right now? Please?“, she pleased him to change the theme to the old one.
„What house are you in?“, Peter asked then. She was fighting with herself, didn‘t even want to answer him. But in the end, she did.
„Slytherin.“
Everyone was holding their breathe, till Peter was brave enough to broke the silence.
„So, you share your dorm with Meadowes, huh? Hope you‘re gonna be friends and not enemys. Believe me, she is good in making evil plans.“, he said to Alya, like he was gossiping about her roommate. She smiled again and found hope in his little gossip speech, like Peter wanted to. He didn‘t want her to be excluded from the group at her first day, only cause she is in a different house. „Also, Sirius brother is there, so now that we have an official point to be in the Slytherin common room, we can make pranks on his little brother… and Snivellus.“, Peter reminded them all of the amount of pranks that went wrong judt because they hadn‘t a real good and valid point why they were in the Slytherin common room.
„Who is Snivellus?“, Alya asked, one eye brow raising up by that.
„A guy who said… he said to Lily… damn, I don‘t even want to speak it out loud here, not meaning it.“
„You mean mudblood, right?“
All eyes, like so often this night, layed on her.
„Lily talked to me before we went upstairs.“, she explained and got it nod from James.
„So Severus is called Snivellus from you cause-?“
„He stuck his nose in things he shouldn‘t. Like the name said… he sniffes too much.“, Sirius answered.
The ice which was build in on minute broke. Peter saw the relief in Alyas eyes.
„So Slytherin? If mum and dad know about it, they will get overwhelmed faster you can spell Quidditch backwards.“
„Oh really? H-C-T-I-D-D-I-U-Q. Did they get overwhelmed yet?“
„You send them a letter before you came here?“
„No, jut I think you will tell them, the next time you miss mummy and daddy.“
„Okay, know I can see the Slytherin thing.“
She stucked out her tongue at him, then he did the same thing at her. Peter, Sirius and Remus giggled. Yes, they were definetly related.