A/N: Hey everyone!! I deleted Best Friends until the end because it was a bad story, and it wasn't even L/J!!! Plus the characters were based on real people I know- which isnt a bad thing, but they were solely based on my two best friends! What is that? So I figured you'd rather read something that's Lily and James and all the mauraders (minus Peter of course) instead, so I talked about this idea with a good friend, and asked her advice. Because of Lauren, I decided to write this. JPX3LE gave me some really great advice while im writing this, and she's been reading everything ive written so far. I have four chapters written already, so I'm prepared this time!! And don't worry, I'm still updating so if it never happened, and I'll write a few chapters ahead this time,
Disclaimer: Not mine in the least bit.
Lily Evans sat in the common room, weeping because of the screams she heard outside, because of the laughing and pleasure the Death Eaters got from murdering aurors, people that Lily and her friends knew and cared about. Lily wasn't just crying because she was scared, she wept because of the cruelty that Voldemort and his followers had shown the rest of the magical community since this war had started. She couldn't bear the idea that she would have to raise a child in a world that lived in fear of one man and a handful of his followers that were just as scared of him as everyone else. It wasn't fair that her children would have to go through something this terrible, and at such young ages too.
"Lily? Lily! Whats the matter! Why are you crying!?" James said, silently racing down the set of stairs that led from his dorm. Dispite the loud exploison and scream that could be heard from just outside of Hogwarts, James was still oblivious to why Lily was upset. It's cute that he cars though. Lily thought, as he sat down next to her and akwardly put an arm around her.
"Because, cause its not fair that we have to go through this- those people out there- are dying for us. Because Voldermort wants the muggleborns – like – l –like me, dead." Lily barely whispered.
"Lily, you know that this will all be over soon." James said, hugging her as she wrapped her thing arms around his waist.
"No, I don't know that, James, Voldemort is getting more followers every day."
"So? After we graduate our side will have plenty more 'followers' too."
"But it's only November! Graduation is in May! Don't you think that's a little late? They will have won the war by then!"
"No they won't! I'm sure there are enough Aurors to hold them off until then!"
"James, you and I both know that isnt ture. I heard McGonagall and Dumbledore talking today – they have been asked by the Ministry to send all the 7th year boys as backup if the ministry sees need for it."
"Lily, if we do get shipped off for the ministry, you know nothing'll happen-"
"No, James, that's exaclty what I'm worried about! I'm afraid that I'll-"
"What? Lily?" Lily had started crying so hard that she couldn't finish her sentence.
"…..That I'll never see you again." She replied so softly that James could hardly hear her.
"Then I guess we'll have to make the best of what we have now," James said, leaning down to kiss Lily.
But James never got to kiss Lily. The bigest bomb so far was set off, and the noise it made cause both of them to startle. James stood up suddenly after.
"That sounded like it struck the castle, I'll go-"
"Potter, Evans! Head down to the Great Hall immediatley." McGonagall walked into the common room, startling both Lily and James again.
"Yes ma'am." Lily said, standing up and walking out of the portrait hole with James close behind her.
When Lily and James got to the Great Hall, they found the rest of the school already there, with only a few Gryffindors still missing.
When everyone was present, Dumbledor got up to speak.
"Unfortunatley, not too long ago, Death Eaters were able to penetrate Hogwarts in their attack against the school, and are now in the castle." At this, gasps were heard around the hall. Apparently some of the strudents hadn't caught on by now, but Dumbledore continued.
"I shall ask the prefects to gather up your houses, and for the 7th year prefects along with the Heads to speak with me for directions." Lily and James, along with Remus and lice for Gryffindor walked up to where Dumbledore was standing.
"James, Remus, Frank, Cedric, Sean, Lucius, Chris, and Brett you are going to assist the Professors in the battle. Ladies, you will stay here. Lily, I am leaving you in charge. There is no garuntee that any of us will surive after tonight, and if the Death Eaters are to get past us, Lily you and the other prefects shall protect the younger students. There is a back exit that can be sued in an emergency, but I hope that you won't even have to look at it." Dumbledore looked at Lily with the usual shine in his eyes absent, and a look of concern and worry replacing it. Lily was truly scared at that moment, and she didn't feel like a 17 year old anymore. Instead, she felt as if she were five again, and she could run to her mother and father and they could make it all better. But they couldn't'. Not anymore, now she would have to suck it up. She would have to be strong for the younger students, and herself.
"James!" she called, almost not thinking as Dumbledore an the other 7th year prefects were leaving to go do battle with the Death Eaters that were now in the castle. Dumbledroe and the others walked out of the Greats Hall doors, but James turned and looked at Lily when she called his name.
When she looked at him, her heart broke. There was no doubt in her mind that she loved James now, because she couldn't imagine her life without him. Whenever she closed her eyes, she saw him, and she never stopped thinking about him. She saw the sadness, and worry in his eyes and her heart tore in half.
"James," she repeated, weakly, walking towards him. "James, I love you" she said, and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He put his hand on his face where her lips had touched, and then replied,
"Lily, I have to go," He read her mind, and crushed both their hopes that he would be able to stay with her. "I-I have to help protect the school, to protect you….and the others." James didn't care about anyone else besides Lily thought, she was the only reason in the Great Hall that was forcing him to go, but she didn't even want him to. She wanted him to stay with her; it was the only way she would make sure he would survive throught the night. But James knew that the only way he would make sure that Lily would survive, was to protect her himself, and not allow any Death Eater to reach her. He couldn't possibly say anything to her now that would comfort her, that would make everything better. Anything that he could think of to say now, would make it worse. That's why he left. He didn't tell her that he shared her feelings, that he loved her back, he just turned his back to her, and ignored her when she repeatedly called his name. As James walked out of the Great Hall, Lily thought that he figuredly had walked out of her life forever.