...The Unknown Truth...Beginnings...

(disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of it's characters, they belong to J. K Rowling, and her amazing stroke of amazingness! (=3=)/)

Chapter one: The Express.

James Potter sat fidgeting in his seat, his train compartment was silent at the moment and it was driving him crazy. Really how long could someone sleep before they needed to get up and use the loo, or eat?

Sirius had been sleeping for the last three hours without so much as a snore or even shifting his position. For a bit James had the terrible thought that he'd died, but checking his breathing and steady heart beat had proven that completely wrong, which he had been very glad for. Since losing his best friend wasn't high on his list of things for that year.

While Sirius slept like the dead, Remus and Peter read. Both where neck deep in piles of books, Remus was reading a thick volume on the history of some Muggle war, and while the book had some pictures, they didn't move and James had lost interest after a few minute of mind numbing details, none of which had registered in his mind.

Peter was finishing some last minute reading for the up coming year and since James had already read it, it was boring leaving him with nothing to do to amuse himself, which was never a good thing.

"Remus, I'm bored." he whined after another half hour of silence.

James groaned standing up from his seat and moving to the door, he opened his mouth to say he'd be back, but really no one was listening to him anyway. Slipping out through the door he headed down the long train corridors until he reached the object of his desires.

It was the only compartment on the train that had a member of almost every house in it. Two students from Slytherin sat nearest the window, one a blonde beauty and the other a black haired boy who James was very jealous of right now. Next to him sat the illustrious Lily Evans. James let out a sigh, wishing he could just open that door and...

"What are you doing standing out here for? Just go in already." Emily White said as her cousin Amber shoved him into the compartment.

"No, no! I can't Emily! Stop!" James was horrified as he was almost thrown into the compartment.

"Look-y what we found." Emily smirked.

"Lurking outside the door." Amber finished taking her seat across from the blonde, who James realized was Amelia Patterson, a long time friend from his childhood, someone he hadn't spoken to since there first year at Hogwarts when she was sorted into Slytherin.

"I wasn't lurking." he said getting to his feet, keeping his eyes on Amelia.

"Hi James its been a while."

"Yeah." he said awkwardly rubbing at a sore spot on his head. "How have you been?"

she scoffed getting to her feet. "Well you would know if you were still talking to me," she smiled sadly. "We have been going to the same school for the last five years."

James opened his mouth, but he couldn't actually come up with something to say. No excuse that would fix the last five years of silence between them. "I—well—I..."

"Really nothing?" she asked frowning. "I thought you would at least try." Snape glared at James, as he tugged Amelia's hand trying to pull her back into her seat. "It's okay, i guess we just don't have much in common anymore." Amelia said slipping back into her seat.

"No, that's not it at all!" James looked out the window trying to clear his mind, and find something to say, anything. "Can't we try again? I mean that sounds a little lame but-"

"I'd like that very much." Amelia smiled.

"Good." James suddenly felt awkward, he couldn't talk to her here! She knew things about him that he would die of embarrassment if any one else knew about them. "Um so-"

"James are you in here!" Sirius' voice yelled from the hallway.

James sighed in relief, opening the compartment door for his friend. "Yeah I'm here."

"Are you still alive cause I heard—" James planted a hand over his mouth before he could say anything that might further hurt his friendship with Amelia or Lily.

"James you have to come back Remus is strangling Peter and he won't listen to me!" Sirius smiled at the compartment, stopping on Emily. "Why hello there gorgeous I didn't see you there."

"Sirius!" James said yanking him out my his robes. "We'll talk later Amy!"

"You bet'cha." Amelia said smiling at the old nickname. "I'll find you after dinner."

"Sure thing!" James yelled back smiling a good bye before pushing Sirius all the way back to there compartment.

"I don't know how you stand him Amelia. He's so annoying!" Lily said closing the door behind them.

Emily, Amber and Amelia shared a look before Amber answered. "But that's why you like him right?" the three girls squealed all imitating Lily's voice. "Oh James! When will you grow up and propose already?"

"I've missed you over the summer." Emily mimicked fluttering her eyelashes.

"Won't you ask me to the Halloween Ball?" Amber gashed grasping Lily's hand.

"I want to have dark haired babies just like you some day." Amelia finished faking a blush, while Lily blushed for real, a tomato red colouring her cheeks, making her green eyes flash.

"Stop! I do not!" she protested weakly. "And I would never say any of those things!"

"Good, because I think i would be sick if you did." Snape said holding his stomach and faking gagging to prove him point. The girls all laughed for several minutes before they could slowly get there breathing back in check, tears still rolling down her face Amber asked. "So how was everyone's summers this year?"

"Nothing really new happened, we went camping like we always do. Severus and I hung out in Muggle London a bit." Lily laughed when

Severus added in a low voice. "It was horrible."

"Never again right?"

"Yes." he said shifting in his seat.

"It wasn't that bad, i dressed him up and a bunch of girls where all over him, he didn't know what to do with himself." Lily explained.

"Oh? Severus has been beefing up lately don't you think?" Amelia said squeezing his arm. "I feel a muscle!" she said excitedly puling up his sleeve for the other girls to see.

While everyone was busy poking at his newly found muscle, Amelia noticed a black mark on his left arm, but she couldn't seem to ask him about it. It looked like something she had seen before, but where?

"Severus what is—"

"Oh Amelia how was the summer with the Malfoys?" Emily asked leaning towards her. "Was it horrible?"

"Did Luscious try to kiss you again?" Amber asked wiggling her eyebrow at their new victim.

Amelia blushed. "He didn't 'try'...'

The girls gasped.

"He kissed you!" Emily screamed smacking her head on the luggage rack as she jumped up in her seat. Amber stared unsure of what to do, while Lily just smiled and patting her friends hand. "It's alright, we know you had a crush on him forever."

"No." Amelia shifted uncomfortably. "I mean I did but..."

"But?"

"He's engaged. He got engaged at the end of the summer to Narcissa."

They all looked puzzled until Emily gasped. "You mean Black's cousin?"

Amelia nodded.

"I'm sorry I brought it up Amelia." Amber said sadly. "Forgive me?"

"Of course I knew we weren't ever going to be together anyway. I'll just have to get a boyfriend, then I won't have to worry about him any more."

"You trooper. Good job." Emily said slapping her leg. "I'll help you find candidates."

"NO!" Amber, Lily and Amelia yelled together. Everyone remembered the last time Emily tried to find someone a boyfriend, and they were all still suffering from it. Emily pouted seeming to have forgotten the horror story from just last year.

Remus looked over the top of his book. "James if you're so bored, just go and find Lily or something, and stop pouting it distracting me."

James frowned. "I already did find her, and I'm not pouting."

Remus raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not!" James said annoyed that Remus didn't already know the reason why he was 'pouting'. "I bumped into Amelia Patterson before in Lily's compartment. I didn't know they were friends, did you?"

"No not really." Remus said closing his book. "What did she say?"

"Oh nothing really." James felt stupid bringing it up now. "Sorry Remus."

"It's fine. Honestly I don't mind that much," Remus said rolling his shoulders. "Because you know I can tell you're lying to me. She asked why you haven't talked to her in five years, right?"

"How could you possibly know that!" James asked eyeing him. "Did you put some sort of charm inside my brain that lets you hear what i

hear?"

"No?" Remus looked at him, reaching out a hand, "Do you have a fever?" he asked checking his temperature.

"No, I do not have a fever." James said pushing his hand away as the door opened to reveal Sirius arms full of weird looking candies from the lunch trolly.

"You won't believe what I just saw!" Sirius beamed plopping down into the seat next to James.

"I sure we never will." Remus said going back to his book.

"You'll want to hear this Remus, it's about your girlfriend." Sirius teased smirking.

Remus looked up annoyed. "Amber isn't my girlfriend, she my friend that's a girl."

"Yeah whatever." Sirius said rolling his eyes. "I saw her getting asked out by Diggory in the hall just now. Seems like he wants her to be his girlfriend." Sirius and James watched as Remus' face turned red, and he slammed his book shut.

"You gonna do something about it?" James asked, watching his leaving the compartment, he slammed the door in answer.

"Maybe I shouldn't have lied." Sirius said after a minute biting the head off a chocolate frog. "You lied!" Peter asked sitting up to look at

them.

"Sure." Sirius answered.

"Remus was really mad! He might hurt Diggory because you lied." Peter scolded closing his book.

Sirius smiled. "He'll thank me later."

James laughed, leaning back and waiting, it couldn't be to long before he came back.

And hour passed and the three friends were beginning to worry about their werewolf friend. "Maybe we should try and find him." Peter said yawning.

"Nah." Sirius said. "He's probably snogging Amber or something."

"Or something." a female voice said opening the compartment door. Remus stood bent slightly to ease the pain of his ear being pitched in between Amber's slim finger tips. "Who told Remus that Diggory was asking me out?" she asked yanking down on Remus' ear, so that he had to sit. He groaned, rubbing his ear when she let go. Amber sat down in the seat next to him, blocking the boys exit. "Well?"

"I don't kno-"

"He did it!" Remus, James and Peter said together pointing at Sirius. Who sat opened mouthed staring at his best friends.

"Traitors!" Sirius yelled.

Amber's wand flashed, a second later Sirius was strapped to the ceiling of the compartment, his arms and legs tied tightly together.

"Anyone tries to take him down before we get to Hogwarts and I'll hex you into next week, understand?"

All four boys nodded.

"Where have you been Amber?" Asked Lily as Amber shut the door to their compartment.

"Oh, just releasing some stress." she said pleasantly, sliding into her seat next to her sleeping cousin. The compartment was quite now that Snape and Amelia had left to join the other Slythrins, and Emily had fallen asleep.

Lily smiled shaking her head slightly as she went back to her book. "Anyone I know?" she asked not looking at her friend. Lily didn't have to look to know Amber was smiling.

"Yes, it was someone you know." Amber giggled evilly, slapping a hand down on her knee. "Someone you know very well, I would say."

"Could it be my biggest-pain-in-the-neck James Potter?"

Amber shook her head.

"His number one side-sick?"

she nodded, her smile widening.

"What did he do to warrant that?" Lily asked truly interested, it wasn't easy getting Amber mad enough to hex someone, and for her to be this happy about it, it must have been very bad.

If asked later James would have to say that the rest of the ride to Hogwarts was rather boring. With his friend tied up and the others scared to even leave their compartment, the Marauders had no choice but to remind next to their fallen and keep him entertained.

"Want to play exploding snap?" Sirius asked twitching in his seat, he couldn't handle the uneasy silence that had fallen over the compartment since Amber had glued him to the ceiling.

Remus looked up at him, a strange mix of pity and angry clouding his expression. "No Sirius that wouldn't be a-" Remus trailed off sharing a look with James before he said. "That's an awesome idea."

The game was then set up directly below Sirius who caught on to they're plan too late to stop it. The cards began to explode, smoke streaming into his face as he struggled to get free cursing his friends the whole time.

The ride to Hogwarts seemed quite short after that.

(A/N. Hello wonderful readers! and welcome to the first of the three books i will be writing for the Marauders and their wives (to be)... hope you guys will read them all and I'll be able to keep them funny and new! Thanks please leave a review and tell me what you thought! (=3=)/