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Goody-two-Shoes Lily isn't everything she appears to be when she saves James' mom from potential rape and pays dearly for it. Where does Lily go sometimes at night when she isn't in her room? James is determined to find out where and why and who exactly Lily Marie Evans is.


This was James' first time on a case with his mother. He may just be entering his 7th year at Hogwarts but his mother thought his skills good enough to take him along as a partner on an illegal use of magic case.

Their job was to infiltrate the underground club 'Bone' and find out if there is illegal magic going on. Anna and James entered the dingy club and started to look casually around.

The normal drunk muggles and the occasional wizard by the look of it. Suddenly Anna stiffened as a knife pressed against her throat. James drew his wand and muttered a stunning spell but nothing happened.

'What the hell!' The man holding Anna chuckled, "no magic can be done in my magic barrier little boy." The mans raspy voice chuckled, amused.

"Since it seems you too have nothing to offer why don't I take this little chick and I'll let me friends take you boy." Several men came over and grasped James' arms.

James struggled but the man pressed the knife to his mother's throat and drew blood. "Keep that up and I'll slit her pretty throat you-" He was cut off as a knife flew out of nowhere and hit the wall less than an inch from his face.

"Let them go Jerome." A sultry voice said from the shadows. Jerome smirked, "why should I Shadow? You never have any interest in what I do. Plus I like this one and since you won't give me yourself why should I give her up?"

A woman came out of the shadows and looked the guy in the eye, "let them go and you get me for a night. No one goes after them and you get me to do as you wish as long as you don't kill me."

Jerome's eyes darkened wickedly, "I want by your honor Shadow so you don't try to escape." The woman looked disgusted and said, "Fine I swear by my honor I won't escape/leave until the light of dawn."

Jerome grinned and let Anna go and signaled his minions to let James go. James looked at his savior and barely suppressed a gasp of surprise. It was Goody-two-shoes Lily from school.

Everyone knew Lily since she hated the Marauders and followed everything by the rules. She was a teacher pet and top of her class.

The last place James expected her to be was in this crappy bar, wearing a black leather skirt that went to mid-thigh and a wrap-around black tube top showing off her pierced midriff.

In her hand was a switchblade that was opened and pointed at Jerome. She turned her head and her blazing green eyes meant his own, "get the hell out of here before he changes his mind you idiots.

Don't come back either cause this isn't a place for Nobles." Anna got the drift and shoved James out the door. The moment they were out James strained against his mother, "no we have to go back in and get Lily.

Not leave her there with that monster." Grimly James' mother dragged him out of the ally where they mingled with the crowd.


Damn. That was the only thing on Lily Evans mind at the moment. It was a week since the trade off for the Potters' lives and her own honor. Jerome not only raped her but he beat her, sliced her, and did every thing in his power to hurt her.

She had mended for the most part but he had broken every damn bone in her body with the exception of her spine. She had a very slight limp in her left leg since it had been broken before that would go away with time and a few remaining bruises.

But what cost her the most was that she had a scar on her face, just under her jaw, where he had scraped his knife on her. She had scars but they could be covered up easily. It was pretty small but annoying.

While she normally dressed in a tank top for the train ride, she was wearing an emerald green, thin, long sleeved shirt with her favorite black flare jeans with holes in the knees.

She was in the Head carriage of the train and was finishing braiding her hair since she had left in kind of a rush. She had had an assignment from her only friend and mentor Alastor Moody and had needed to get it done quickly before school started and she hadn't finished with her wild mass of hair.

With her braid finished she leaned back onto the wall of the cabin. She was weary and it had nothing to do with her lingering injuries. She had lived on the streets since her stepfather had raped her when she had been 7.

Moody had found her and her unique magic when she had been 8 and had started training her. She was weary from all the fighting, all the death and destruction, and all of the memories.

Flashback

"Daddy?" A 3-year-old Lily whispered from the closet where her father had told her to hide. Her mother had gone to work a while ago and people had come into her house when her and daddy were playing with her cool power of lifting things.

He had told her to hide and she heard things crashing and breaking in the kitchen. Finally she couldn't wait anymore. She rushed from the closet and into the kitchen as a knife came out from the drawer and embedded itself in her daddy's chest.

He fell and a man came from out of the shadows with a wand, something her father always had with him. The man came forward with a sneer on his face. Lily was grief-stricken and stared hard at the man with menace and anger in her young eyes.

The man laughed and said, "Avada Kedavra." The green light came forward and words popped into Lily's mind, "Francistos Amorha." Purple light came from Lily's outstretched hand and sliced straight through the green light and hit the man dead on.

The man's eyes widened with surprise and pain as he fell to the ground, dead by his own curse. Lily ran over to her father, "daddy!" She fell to his side.

Her fathers cobalt blue eyes were darkened with pain as he looked into hid daughters eyes. He reached into his jeans and pulled out a small golden book, "keep this, my flower. It will help you through years when there is nothing left."

He took a painful breath and looked into his daughters scared, green eyes, "I love you honey and I will always be there with you. I love you Lily, good-bye." Her father's eyes closed and Lily screamed, "DADDY!"

End flashback

Lily shook her head to dislodge the painful memories that kept creeping up. The past stayed in the past and she could do nothing to change it.

The door to the Heads cabin opened and she seen messy black hair and suppressed a groan. Why Dumbledore, why torture her. Then with a mental sigh she stood, this was going to be a long year.

James was relived to see Lily sitting in the Heads cabin. She seemed more…wary then the last time he had seen her. Then again he had found out Goody-two-shoes Lily wasn't everything she appeared to be. James looked at her when she stood and noticed the very slight wince. What had Lily paid for him and his mother's mistake? "Lily-"

"don't Potter. The trade was done and you and your mother weren't hurt. Lets get this done with so I can take a nap." With that said she pulled on her robes and stepped into the room with the waiting prefects.

Lily flopped down on her bed in the Head chambers. Life was hell. After the meeting she had escaped to her own compartment to escape the Marauders. After awhile she put an Imperious Charm on the door since James and Remus insisted on talking to her.

She had petted the Threshels that were pulling the carriages, whom she had been able to see since she had come there. Then she had to face the entire Great Hall when Dumbledore had called out her and James' name for announcing the Heads.

After the normal prank and seeing the Head rooms, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter (he's going to be about non-existent for my fic cause I don't have a part for him and don't like him) had come and raised hell in the Head common room to the point Lily glued them together with a sticking charm and banished them to the Gryffindor common room right in front of the fire where they would hopefully melt.

Lily sat up as she heard a yowl from the mirror in the far corner of her room. Two panthers came out of the mirror followed by a house elf. "Mimi! Leo! Tear!" The panthers, Leo and Tear, yowled again and hoped on the bed with her to lick her in welcome then settled down.

The house elf hugged Lily hard, "Lily! The cats said you had a hard time this summer and asked this Mimi to bring food." She appeared with food and Lily could have kissed her. The feast had been too loud for her and she hadn't eaten much.

She chatted with Mimi for an hour before she had to start her duties and left. Lily lay back on the bed, a cat on each side of her. Well this was better. Leo and Tear would forever be her friends and loved her dearly.

She smiled as she slipped off to sleep thinking of her magical animal friends.

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