This is for The 25 Days of Christmas challenge that I started. The objective is to write twenty-five chapters or twenty-five oneshots leading up to Christmas Day.
Disclaimer: I have never been abused, nor do I own any of the characters you recognize.
A Very Merry Christmas Indeed
First Fight
The yelling coming from the common room was terrific and caused a lot of heads to turn. Every one stared when the portrait opened and a disheveled Lily Evans exited.
"James Potter is a dead man," someone whispered, knowing the look in Lily's eyes.
"Huh?" Lily asked, looking up. She ignored everyone hanging by the portrait and continued her trek down to the great hall.
As she walked by the portrait of Sir Cadogan, the knight watched her with wide eyes. He turned and shrugged when she ignored him.
"What's with her?" someone asked, not sure whether to whisper or talk normally.
"It is the Christmas season," was the reply. "Maybe she didn't get what she absolutely wanted."
"But Christmas doesn't start till tomorrow."
The gossip quieted as Lily's boyfriend of three months exited the common room, a disgruntled look on his face.
"That wasn't James Potter," Ashley Carter was heard to mutter. Everyone in the tower knew that Ashley had never liked the fact that James favored Lily over her and was constantly carping on him.
"Of course it wasn't," Ashley's friend said, "That was Alan Short. You know, Lily's Prefect boyfriend."
"What was the shouting about then?"
No one had the answer to that so the question faded away.
Meanwhile, Lily had made it to her destination, watching out so that she hid the bruises on her arms.
When James looked up from his earnest conversation with Remus Lupin, he noticed the slightly crazed look on Lily's face.
"I'll be right back," he murmured, and stood up. Remus turned in his seat, wondering what James was up to.
When James sauntered over, placing an arm on Lily's shoulder, Lily jumped a mile, running her hands over her arms.
James noticed, but didn't comment, because he had seen the slight fear in her eyes and the bruises on her arms.
He was going to kill Short if it was the last thing he did.
A/N: okay just so everyone knows, I have never been abused, but I didn't know how else to start my Christmas fic challenge. This is going to be about twenty-five chapters. Please tell me what you think?
Serindraxx
