Chapter 1

"Katherine please, take my compact, the circles under your eyes are getting horrendously darker."

"I don't want your compact mother." Seventeen-year-old Katherine Reynolds answered as she walked ahead of her parents, hoping to get to platform 9 ¾ as fast as possible, "And I don't want any of your lipstick."

"You come from a very prestigious family Katherine." Her mother, Eleanor Reynolds lectured her as she caught her by the elbow and pulled her back so mother and daughter were walking side by side, "Now take my compact and lipstick so you don't look like a mudblood."

Katherine and her mother shared a long look, stopping right in the middle of King's Cross Station. Katherine's father, Nicholas Reynolds stopped a few feet away, watching the exchange between his wife and daughter. After a few seconds of a heated silent debate, Katherine took the compact from her mother and snapped it open. She picked up some powder on the small sponge and patted it on top of the dark circles, her blue eyes never leaving the steel green of her mother's.

She put the sponge back and snapped it closed, handing it back. Her mother slid the compact back into its place and then took the lid off the lipstick and held it out to her daughter. Katherine's eyes briefly went to the lipstick.

It was her mother's infamous red lipstick; one that she claimed every woman in the Reynolds family wore. Katherine hated the color; it was too bright and too dark. But her mother insisted that she wear it as soon as she had turned sixteen. Katherine's eyes returned back to her mother's and took the lipstick, smudging it across her naturally pink lips and then handed it back.

A smile appeared on her mother's small thin lips, a smile of accomplishment. Katherine turned and walked passed her father, wanting to get to the train. The faster she got on board the faster she could wipe the horrible color off her lips. It took the family about five minutes to get to the wall where they walked through and onto platform 9 ¾. Katherine spotted many of her fellow classmates saying their tearful goodbyes to her parents. Katherine felt no such desire to do so to her parents.

Her mother took her compact out again and gave Katherine a few more pats of powder under her eyes, "I want you to make nice with the boys Katherine, I would very much like to meet my future son in law this Christmas holiday."

Katherine inwardly rolled her eyes, ever since she had turned sixteen, her mother had been saying that to her every time they said goodbye. Just because he mother met her father at Hogwarts didn't mean she was going to meet her husband there as well. Her father on the other hand kept his hands in the deep pockets of his black trousers, his black overcoat hanging off his tall frame. He looked intimidating with his jet-black hair and dark eyes. He stared down at her over his long nose, no emotion across his once handsome face.

"We will talk more about your position this Christmas." He simply said, the way he was staring at her made her feel as if she were a small child being scolded for wanting to play with the muggle children, "Maybe then it will be time for you to take the mark."

Katherine didn't say goodbye to her parents, she simply looked back and forth between them before turning around and walking towards the large black and red train. As soon as her back was turned on her parents she wiped the back of her hand across her lips, glancing down she saw the blood red color smear off her lips onto the back of her hand. Getting onto the train as fast as she could, she wasn't exactly paying attention to the way she was going, deep in thought over her father's words.

Before she even realized it, she had knocked down a fellow student. Her eyes widening in surprise and then shock she instantly stumbled forward towards the person she knocked over and picked up the book that had dropped. "I'm so sorry." Katherine started as she stood up and then saw who it was.

The redheaded beauty that was Lily Evans stood there, her eyes wide and nodding. She looked frightened, Katherine hated that look. Just because she wore green and silver and had a few friends that also wore those colors didn't mean she was like the others.

"I'm sorry." Lily stuttered as she quickly took the book back, "I wasn't-."

"Completely my fault." Katherine interrupted before Lily could run away, scared she would hex her, "I wasn't paying attention."

Lily simply nodded, her green eyes still wide with fear, "Hey Evans!"

Katherine turned her head to see a few students from the same house as Katherine and closed her eyes. She hadn't even gotten to Hogwarts yet and there was going to be a fight, "Maybe you should watch where you're going next time Mudblood."

Katherine saw the color drain from Lily's face and she turned around to glare at the two walking towards her, "It was my fault Avery, not hers so sod off, nobody wants you here."

Avery's dark eyes narrowed at his fellow housemate as he and Katherine shared a harsh look at one another as the crowd around them grew, "How dare you, a woman speak to me that way, just because you come from the house of Reynolds doesn't give you any right to address me with such disrespect," Avery pulled out his wand as Katherine reached for hers, "I'll show you some respect."

"You have to show respect to get respect," Katherine spat at him, noticing how the crowd kept getting bigger, knowing that if it wasn't broken up soon they would all be landed in detention, "Maybe you should keep that in mind next time you address me."

"You little who-"

"Put the wand away Avery." She heard a deep voice from behind her, "I've got a bloody headache and I don't want to hear any more of your child like whining the rest of the ride."

"Black! You blood trader, you're almost worse than the mudblood you defend."

Katherine turned her head slightly to catch the silver grey eyes that belonged to none other than Sirius Black. He stood there, in front of Lily who had a small tear down her cheek with an arm around her shoulders, the arm belonging to her boyfriend James Potter. His black wand was drawn to his side ready to end the heated argument she was in with Avery.

"Back to your compartment." Sirius stated, "Before I lose my temper."

There was a stare down, Katherine watched as Avery's eyes left Sirius and then returned to her and she knew there would be another little spat between them later once they got to Hogwarts. Avery shoved his wand back into its place, seeing that he was out numbered. He turned and walked back the way he had come, his friend following close behind.

Katherine released the grip she hadn't realized she had been holding on her wand and removed her hand from the inside of her jacket. The crowd began to disappear; James still had his arm around his girlfriend. Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew stood a little ways behind them, watching the scene play out. Sirius put his wand back in its place and his eyes met Katherine's.

"I'm sorry." Katherine's eyes left Sirius' and turned to Lily, "His mother never taught him manners." A small smile appeared at the corner of James' lips and Lily could only nod, confusion and fear still in her green eyes. Katherine turned to walk towards her compartment where her few friends were sitting when she heard Lily's soft but strong voice,

"I'm Lily."

Katherine stopped and turned her head as she met those fantastically brilliant green eyes that she had heard Severus Snape whisper about to his friends years ago. "Katherine." Katherine answered and Lily nodded, giving her a soft smile.

Katherine returned her smile and then continued to walk towards her compartment, wondering if she had made her first Gryffindor friend.

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"Well that certainly was a scene I wasn't expecting." Remus Lupin declared as he sat down in the compartment he was sharing with the other Marauders and Lily, "What exactly happened? We came in at the end of it all."

"We ran into each other." Lily explained, "Literally, she was apologizing when Avery walked up and started in. I've only seen her occasionally in the halls and in class but I'd never talked to her, I didn't know she wasn't like the other's."

"You mean the stereotypical Slytherin?" Remus asked and Lily nodded.

"I thought all Slytherin's hated non pure bloods and blood traders."

"Not all of them." Sirius corrected as he leaned back in his spot next to Peter, "My cousin Andromeda married a muggle."

"I can't believe she's in Slytherin." Remus shook his head, "How did she end up in there?"

"Probably her family." James answered and then all eyes fell to Sirius who raised his eyebrows.

"Can I help you?"

"Do you know anything about her?"

"I know her father is friends with my father." Sirius answered, "He's probably a death eater."

"But how did she end up in Slytherin?" Remus re-asked his question, this time his eyes stayed on Sirius.

"That's a question for the sorting hat mate." Sirius answered, "I can't help you there. The last time I spoke with her was when we were nine and it was only for a few seconds."

With that, they all fell into a comfortable silence, their thoughts wondering to the female Slytherin.