A Mission Gone Wrong
A/N: Hey guys! While I was on tumblr I asked for people to send me drabble requests and they did! The first one I got was this: "Anonymous → lily is waiting for james to come back from a mission when sirius comes & tell her he's in the hospital" I was very sad because of the topic and it hurt me but I wrote it anyway so I hope you guys like it!
Lily sat on the couch, her foot tapping away and her fingers drumming away.
James should have been home 2 hours ago according to the owl she got from him yesterday. He wasn't supposed to be sending owls while he was on a mission but he cared about easing her ever-worrying mind more. They even established a code so no one could trace them.
But what if someone did this time? What if someone managed to figure it out and found him? What if he was a hostage or getting tortured right now? What if they tried to get her next? What if he was a pawn for her to come? There were rumors of a prophecy involving them. Should she leave the house and go to the Order, abandon their house, and find James?
What if he was dead?
Her eyes started to sting as she shook her head.
No, he always came back. He promised he would always come back. He had to come back, he just had to.
Just then a she heard a knock on the door. She quickly jumped up, ran and threw the door open.
"James!"
"Not quite," Sirius said half-joking and frowning.
Her face fell. "Where is he?"
He stepped in looking down and made his way to the couch and motioned for her to sit with him.
She looked at him for a moment. He looked extremely tired and his clothes were extremely tattered. He looked like he hasn't slept for 3 days. He had dark circles under his eyes and his smile was gone. His knuckles looked bloody, had some cuts on his face along with looking filthy. His eyes no longer were lit up with happiness. His laugh lines looked more like wrinkles. He looked older now.
She walked over terrified and sat down. "Sirius, is he…?"
"No, he isn't dead but just barley." he said looking down.
She squeezed her eyes shut and sighed heavily. She felt her eyes begin to sting and squeezed her eyes even tighter when a tear fell. She felt Sirius grab her hands as another tear fell. She took a deep breath to collect herself and finally asked what she'd been dying to ask for an hour and a half. "What happened?"
He sighed and said, "While on the way home from mission Moody, James, the Prewetts and I ran into about seven death eaters. All masked of course the cowards. James was dueling two at once when one sent a spell that none of us recognized and it hit him in the stomach. He instantly collapsed to the ground. Then the cowards apparted away before we could get them. We all rushed over and James was in a pool of blood and when I say a pool I mean a pool of blood, Lily. We tried some spells but the blood didn't stop so we took him straight to headquarters but no one knew what to do. He's at Mungo's now, no longer bleeding but he lost a lot of blood." His voice cracked. "He was so pale Lil, I thought he was…He's my brother Lil and I thought he wasn't going to make it. I didn't know what to do."
Lily let the tears fall freely now and embraced the broken man in front of her. "But he's okay now?" She choked out.
She felt him nod.
"Then that's all that matters."
She heard Sirius let out a choking noise and hugged him tighter while they both cried.
A/N: Again, I hope you liked it!