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  "GUESS WHO'S A MARAUDER NOW!" SIRIUS bellows as the three of them walked into the Head boy and girl dorm. Lily and James jumped in surprise and whirled around, they looked a little worried, but once they noticed Ophelia their expressions became relived ones.

Sirius looks at them with a smirk and his eyes filled with playfulness, "presenting, Ophelia Snape a girl with many nicknames our new marauder!" He says doing jazz hands as he put the cloak down on one of the chairs.

James pretends to do a face, "but to become a marauder you have to prank someone–" he cuts himself short and watches Remus and Sirius glance at Ophelia with grins. "No way."

"Yes way, Ophie here pranked the Slytherin's." He said jabbing his thumb her way, "should've seen her, she's a natural, Prongs."

Lily stood there rolling her eyes at this little conversation, though she was chuckling at the girls reaction to them. The Slytherin and James made eye contact before he croons at her, "awe, I wish I was there to see it." He says walking over and picking her off the ground, spinning her around before settling the now giggling girl down.

He then turns to Sirius and Remus who now had serious faces on, they intensely stared James down which made him sweat a little and look a little worried; what had he done now? The redhead couldn't help but bite her lip as she stared at Ophelia who was trying to look anywhere but them.

"So, James," Sirius didn't even use his nickname, that made him even more nervous. "How come you didn't tell us that you and Lily were going to take Ophelia out on a date? Hm?" He says putting his hands on his hip, doing the exact pose as Remus does when he is interrogating someone.

"Well, I was going to, eventually." He humbles before looking at them, "look, if I had told you guys you would've said no!"

Remus and Sirius look at each other and then smirked at James, "yeah. We would have said no before, but if you swear on Marauders honour that you won't hurt her then you're free to go, but if you hurt her I'll feed you to the giant squid." Sirius says while Remus rolls his eyes, but crosses his arms either way and narrows his eyes on James.

"I swear I won't hurt her, Marauders honour." He says putting his hand upon his chest, this made Lily and Ophelia giggle and smile at each other. James looks at them and then glances at Ophelia who mouth 'sorry' and went back to snickering.

Sirius shrugged with a smirk, "alright then, Prongs. She's all yours!" Remus wraps an arm around the smaller boy and gives a nod in that he is also agreeing with his boyfriend. "Ophie," this got her looking at the Black pureblood, "come to us if anything bad happens! Goodnight!" He says as he drags the lanky boy back to the Gryffindor common room.

Ophelia let out a laugh at James' face, Lily finally joins in – both girls were practically shaking with red faces and tears in their eyes. "Oh! Y'think that was funny do you?" The boy asked towering over the older Snape.

"Well, I wasn't the one shaking in fear when the both of them were practically towering over you." She says lightening up a bit, but still has small chuckles coming from her throat.

James playfully glares, "you told them." He watches as she confidently looked up into his blue eyes with a playful smirk. James grins and tackles her onto the carpet, tickling her sides as she begged him to stop. Lily watches in the background with a soft smile, she grabbed her camera and snapped a picture of the big smile Ophelia had on her face; she'd never seen a smile this big from the girl, it was always small smiles or ones that didn't reach her emotions, but she was so incredibly happy to see her coming through.

"Say James is the best!" "–No!" "–Then I guess you shall be tickled for eternity!" Their little bickering could probably be heard by everyone, the redhead winked at the girl who was practically eyeing her for help. "Lily's the best!" She shouts, James looks at her with a jokingly shocked look.

"Alright, James." Lily steps in with a shit eating grin on her face, "you heard her, I'm the best, now let her up before she begins to wet herself."

James gets onto his knees and helps the gasping girl up, "you got let off lucky, Ophie." The girl glares at him and walks over to Lily and hugging her tightly.

"Oh, Ophie was Jamie being a meanie?" Lily asks Ophelia who nodded along, giving James a sly smirk and sticking her tongue out towards him as he stares with at them with fake hurt.

He whines, "oh, come on! What's this pick on James Potter day?"

Both girls chuckle at his words, they give each other a smile before going over to him and enveloping him into their shared hug. As they shared a hug, they didn't seem to notice their magic swirl around them, their magic entwined with each other's and sparks of electricity shot out. The three of them stayed in each other's embrace a little longer, and Ophelia she relaxed into the warmth, her eyes became a little brighter and she could have sworn that the grey dull that had surrounded the edges of her vision had now cleared, and that was an obvious good sign for her.

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The next day, Ophelia was standing in front of Marlene and the girls in their dorm room wearing a purple dress and black ankle high-top converse boots. They all had a little thinking look upon their faces, "put these on." Mary said handing her a pair of jeans, and Ophelia groaned but still put them on anyways – taking off the dress and shoving on a dark green jumper with a black under shirt. While she was in the girl dorm bathroom she looked into the mirror and put her hair into a side shoulder braid. She smiles and walks back into the room where the girls are all nodding and giving her the thumbs up, "looking good, girl."

"Thanks for helping me get ready for my date," Ophelia began as she looked into the body mirror, "and thank you for putting a little bit of makeup on my face I never thought I'd look this good before." She comments looking at the girls with gratitude, though, she'd never been more nervous than ever; she Ophelia Snape was going on a date.

She was guided out of the Gryffindor common room – blending in with them so non of the other students had seen her and took her down into the hallways of Hogwarts where Lily and James were meeting with her. It had took them a couple of minutes but they found the redhead and the marauder standing outside of the castle grounds waiting for Ophelia to come out, Marlene whistles loudly capturing their attention and smirks grabbing the Slytherin's shoulders and started to present the girl.

"Introducing the most hottest Slytherin in school, Ophelia Snape!" She shouts, shaking the girl by her shoulders as she blushed.

"Marlene," Ophelia said glancing back at her with a small glare. But Alice and the other girls gush over her being good looking causing her to be slightly overwhelmed, she'd never been called good looking or hot. She awkwardly looked back at Lily and James who were smiling at her, "hi."

"Hi, Poppet." James says brushing a hand through his messy hair, watching as Lily threw herself at Ophelia and brought her into a hug. "Y'ready to go?"

"Yeah, I'm ready." She says as she and Lily waved the girls as they all ran away giggling. "So, what do you two have planned?" She asked as the redhead joined their arms together.

James smirks and latches onto her other side, "that, love, is a surprise." Lily chuckles as they began to walk somewhere that seemed unknown to Ophelia, she hadn't been on this part of lands before.

The three of them followed down the pathway talking with one another, Ophelia had never felt so comfortable before, or so confident and talk with them so casually. They soon came to a stop, they were in what seemed to be a secret garden that Hogwarts had, where there was blankets sprawled out in the middle of patched grass along with a basket – the sun and shined brightly down upon them. Ophelia's heart pounded, she couldn't believe something like this existed, this was like something out of a story book her mother had read to both herself and Severus. She couldn't believe someone could put the effort into doing something just for her.

She was enamoured by the place, "oh, it's so beautiful." She whispers and then turns to the two of them who looked at her with similar lovable looks, "thank you."

"You really do have to stop saying that, love." James whispers as he nudged her gently, "a beautiful place for a beautiful girl."

She almost burst into tears, but Lily wrapped her arms around the girl. "I hope those are happy unshed tears, Ophie." – "they are I promise, Lily."

Lily began to get emotional with her, she had so many thoughts running through her head; how could she and James end up having someone so perfect as Ophelia Snape. James glanced at them and rolled his eyes with a smirk, "Aw don't cry, m'loves, you'll make me cry!" He chuckles with a playful pout making both girls laugh and drag each other over to the small picnic area.

The three of them sat down on the blankets while James began to grab the plates out of the basket along with the food, he began to joke around while handing his girls their plates and began to speak in a posh voice; explaining what type of dishes there were causing them to laugh at his antics.

Soon enough after grabbing what they wanted, Ophelia, James and Lily began to eat, it was silent for a couple of minutes before James broke that silence by asking the girl if she has anything she wants to do once she leaves school.

She laughs, "maybe a curse breaker so I can get into the Grimoires." Lily playfully hits her shoulder, "I'm kidding! Maybe a mediwitch."

James laughs at their playful actions, "that sounds good." He says, "I am going try and become an Auror." He looks to Lily who shrugs.

"I'm not sure what I want to do yet," she mumbles while grinning at Ophelia who was drinking some water. "But I'm sure I'll figure it out," she and James glanced at each other and then to the girl next to them.

How could they be so lucky to have someone so beautiful in their life. When they were children Lily had a small crush on Ophelia but hid those feelings when she asked Severus if his sister liked girls or anything like that, and at the time the boy said no. Though, when she got with James he also admitted to thinking that Ophelia was someone that he also wanted to be with, but both of them hid those feelings deep down. But now as they've gotten close with her those feelings have resurfaced, their magic bond was pulling them all together, and they didn't know weather the girl liked them back or not.

Once they all finished eating, they helped tidy up, but stayed seated where they were and just talked about their classes and James noticed how she avoided talking about her parents. The boy couldn't help but think about his Mother who died and his father who was still currently grieving, he knew it wasn't long until his father was next to go. They both have dragonpox and there was no curing it, they did have this discussion when Ophelia brought up Lily's parents and asked about his.

Ophelia frowned and decided to quickly pipe up, "my Mother is dead too." That got him looking up, "sorry to make the date turn sour, I have a tendency to do that." She chuckled bitterly.

"You're doing nothing wrong," James says, "I'm the one who brought up my dead Mother and currently dying Father."

The discussion suddenly went back to happiness when Lily had went behind Ophelia and tickled her. The girl let out a loud squeal and tried to shake the girl off before falling onto her back letting out loud laughs, "Lily! No!" She shouts as the girl went for her sides. She hadn't even seen James come over and bend down and join in, she was practically gasping for air, she couldn't keep her giggles or laughs at bay. "P-Please! I'm gonna pee myself!"

The two look at each other and gave her a kiss to each cheek before pulling away leaving Ophelia looking very red and out of breath on the ground. "I hate you both!" She says still giggling with a small smirk splayed on her face where a frown would always be.

"We love you too, Poppet." James says with one of his grins, he and Lily high five each other with smiles on their faces.

Ophelia debated on what to say but she turned to them with a happy smile on her face, "I know. Love you too," she watches as they both turned to her equally shocked, but they had big shit-eating grins.

Lily and James both bent down as Ophelia lifted herself up, she sat on her knees looking at them. "Ophie," she looks at Lily who softly speaks with her. "I know this maybe sudden and you don't need to say anything yet, but you could think about it if you'd like." She says as she takes the smaller girls hand while James takes the other one, "would you like to be our girlfriend?"

The Slytherin didn't need to think, she already really liked them both, and she tried so hard to avoid them, but they always invaded her privacy and got in the way of her little plans. She gave them a real smile, "I would love to." She says as a blush appeared on both of her cheeks, "I would really like that."

The Gryffindor's pulled her into a tight embrace, she chuckled while putting her face into both of their shoulders. "Thank you for giving us a chance, Poppet." James mutters playing with her loose strands of hair, "you won't regret it. We'll take good care of you, and love you so much that you won't ever feel unloved again, Marauders honour." He whispers, she tightens her arms around them feeling a sudden weight lift from her shoulders at his words.

"Thank you," she mumbles back. She felt their lips on both sides of her head as they slightly pulled away, Lily gave James a nod to which he looked happy with.

"Ophelia," he says staring into her black eyes, "may I kiss you?"

"Please," she whispers to him. She felt a little nervous with it, but she's wanted to do this for awhile now, "kiss me."

They both leaned in slowly, James placing both of his hands on her cheeks – cupping her face – he placed his lips gently onto hers. Their eyes shut, Ophelia felt a deep sensation run through her, her heart banged against her chest as she held her hands over his. The kiss lasted about for a couple of minutes until Lily coughs to grab their attention, she was smirking and looking at James with narrowed eyes.

Ophelia pulls away with a flushed face, she smiles brightly at James' pink cheeks as he looked sheepishly at the redhead. "My turn," she says giving the brunette a look, she pulls the smaller girl into her lap. "This okay?" Ophelia nods, "use your words."

"Yes, this is okay." She says not missing the demanding tone, she felt like she wanted to obey everything they both asked of her. "Please?"

"Good girl." Lily says her hand rubbing over the pink flush as she held the back of their girlfriend's head, she placed her lips onto Ophelia's. The girl on the redheads lap couldn't help but push greedily into the kiss, Lily's lips were much more plumper that James' – much more fuller and softer.

"Looks like we have a needy girl to love, Lils." He mumbles as he soothes his hand on top of Ophelia's head. "Such a good girl for us." He says as he holds both of his girls close to him, hearing the small pop of their lips as they pulled away.

Ophelia licks her lips and sighs happily, she leaned into both of them. The poor girl was touch starved and the two Gryffindor's knew this and were happy to provide their other half of what she needed, they sat like this for awhile before it was time to head back.

The three of them were found holding hands together as they walked back up to the castle, the three of them had big smiles upon their faces as they walked through the gate. They ignored the stairs they got as they were too happy for it to be ruined. Ophelia couldn't help but think that this is what it was like to feel loved, she liked the new feeling, she wanted to keep it this way. She only hoped that she didn't mess it all up, she wanted to just bask herself into them, she wanted to have this everyday she wakes up and every night as they go to bed. This was something she was willing to keep, Ophelia felt horrible for trying to keep them away, and she herself knew it was impossible to even try.

The one thing she knew was that will never ever feel like she didn't belong, she was loved now, and she planned to keep herself within this little bubble they had. Ophelia Snape was in love and for once she felt happy with it!

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all chapters up to this point have been edited!
it's been awhile old friends, hasn't it?

almost 4000 words, wow.

they finally kissed and they're finally together! what do you think?

also very sorry I was away for such a long break, I had writers block and college was kicking my butt so bad! I currently have a lot of assessments going on and it's my off day tomorrow and I was like why not update!

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