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As the sun streamed in through the dormitory window, Emily yawned and stretched. She landed back on her pillow lightly as she stared up at the ceiling. She had a major headache from not eating anything before and her cheeks were still stained from tears.

I told you that you needed to eat something, Alicia scolded in her head. Emily rolled her eyes. I saw that too.

Really, Ali, if you want to talk, you can come over here instead of barging through my head, Emily replied sarcastically.

“The boys know something’s up,” Alicia whispered as she slid through the closed hangings.

“Well they’d be stupid if they didn’t with all the crying we’ve been doing.” Emily sat up slowly and started picking at an invisible piece of lint on her sheets. Alicia put her hand over Emily’s and Emily hesitantly looked up.

“This isn’t your fault,” Alicia whispered. Emily looked back at the sheets quickly.

“You don’t know that,” Emily whispered back. Emily yanked her hand free and started to get dressed.

“Emily,” Alicia said carefully.

“I don’t want to hear it,” Emily interrupted. “Can we just not talk about it? I’ll see you at breakfast,” she said quickly as she grabbed her wand and made her way downstairs.

“Morning, Ems,” Jamie said semi brightly.

“Morning. Alicia should be down in a few; I’ll see you later,” Emily muttered as she made her way to the Great Hall, her thoughts going wild. How long was she really going to keep this up? The constant crying and blocking people out? She had to face the music, even if it was the music one hears in movies right before someone dies. The Jaws theme song came to her mind and she had to shake the memory and nightmares that had come after watching it with Remus when she was far too young for that movie. She was put in Gryffindor for a reason and it was time she started to show it. It was what Remus would do. What Sirius would do.

As she moved toward the door, she sighed upon seeing Draco. She knew he wasn’t going to be able to put up with this much more before bursting himself. He gave her a shy smile as she stopped a few feet away from him. Her eyes fell to the ground so she didn’t have to see his pity. And before she knew what was happening, his arms were around her and she was weeping into his jumper as they sunk to the floor. Alicia sat on her other side, Jamie beside her. Alicia took her hand and gave it a small squeeze before Emily finally calmed down.

“I’m f-f-fine,” she managed to say.

“Don’t even try to feed us that lie,” Draco murmured against her hair. She shook her head as she slowly stood. They followed after her and she lifted her chin confidently as she let her last tears fall.

“I am fine…now. Now that I’ve…accepted things,” she whispered as her eyes lock with Alicia.

And she was. She was fine. And when she had a meeting with McGonagall about her future career, even though Umbridge was watching it closely, she proudly told her that she wanted to be exactly like her father. Of course Umbridge had a fit about anything that brought up Sirius, but Emily took her detention with a satisfactory smile.

“Why do you look so cheerful?” Jamie asked skeptically as she rejoined them for lunch.

“No reason in particular,” Emily murmured as she piled some chicken onto her plate.

Alicia gasped suddenly and Jamie and Draco looked at her curiously as Emily smirked.

“You did not say that,” Alicia said quietly to Emily. The boys glanced at each other and then at Emily.

“So, what if I did?” she shrugged. “It would make him proud; like I’m officially a Marauder’s daughter.” Alicia just shook her head with a slow smile.

“Care to share with those that weren’t present and can’t read minds?” Jamie said impatiently.

“Oh, you know, I just told McGonagall that I plan on being exactly like my father… Exactly. Of course, Umbridge was watching the whole meeting and didn’t exactly like the implications. McGonagall had no idea what to say to me. So I just told her to give me the Auror pamphlet and we could be done. Umbridge wasn’t keen on letting me go, so she basically dragged me to her office and tried to make me spill everything I knew. Of course I refused to drink any of her tea and said nothing. So I finally just left her office. She’s not happy with me to say the least, but I don’t care. She did give me detention, but who knows, I might just forget about it…”

“She could have you arrested, Ems,” Draco whispered from her side.

“If she tries, I’ll pull a Dumbledore,” Emily whispered calmly. Draco tensed beside her so she turned and gave him a small smile and a peck on the cheek. “Calm down, love, everything’s fine.” Draco grimaced at her before taking a swig of his pumpkin juice. He was getting sick of hearing that word coming from her mouth. “I overheard the twins earlier,” Emily whispered so only the four of them could hear. “I hear we’re having quite a show this afternoon…”


TAAGGG!