Rain poured down hard, soaking Lily Evans completely through her robes. It seemed the sky knew exactly what was happening that day at the train station. She watched James Potter and Sirius Black checking in with their supervisor

'At least they will be together,' she thought to herself She hated to think that James, Sirius, and Remus were all leaving her to go fight in the war. Voldemort had been getting more and more powerful so everything had to be kept secret. Lily would have no idea where they were going or when they were coming back.

James turned away from his supervisor and looked at her. His eyes frowned and he walked quickly over to her.

"You're going to get sick!" he said pulling out his wand, "that's the last thing I need to be worring about right now. Now hang on, what is the spell for drying someone?"

"Honestly James!" Lily exclaimed, "That will be a very important spell for you to know! Now stop worrying about me. You're the one who is being shipped off to who knows where and will be in constant danger."

James eyes softened and he pulled her wet body towards his. "Lily, you don't need to be worried about me. Everything is going to be fine."

"And he'll have me to watch over him," exclaimed Sirius Black, James' best friend walking towards the couple.

"I'm worried about you both!" Lily said taking each of their hands and squeezing them tightly. "You two are too reckless for your own good. There is a time for being brave and there is a time for being smart."

"Lils," Sirius sighed, "we are going to be fine. We'll look out for each other. It is you we are worried about."

"I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself Siri." Lily said smirked using the nickname she had made up for him.

"We know that Lils," James said his eyes showing how worried he really was, "but with the disappearances of so many muggleborns happening right now. No where seems safe."

"I'll watch my back," Lily said firmly, "besides St. Mungos has so many protective spells up I won't get in any trouble at work. My biggest problem will be trying to get into my flat with all those spells you put up around it."

"We're just nervous about leaving you here unprotected," Sirius said frowning, "what with me, Prongs, and Moony being gone."

"I'll have Peter and I know what to do in case of an emergency," Lily said looking around for the third Marauder that was mentioned.

"Remus is meeting us at the next check point," James said to Lily kindly.

"Why aren't you guys doing that?" Lily asked getting upset, "we would have more time together!"

"We didn't get to choose," Sirius said honestly.

The sound of a large train horn interrupted their conversation.

"Oh no," Lily said tears filling her eyes, "you have to go don't you?"

"Yeah," James said softly.

Lily grabbed James into a large hug, tears running down her face. "James please take care of yourself. I don't know what I will do without you."

James looked her straight in the eye. "Lily, I love you. I promise I'll be as safe as I can."

Lily kissed him strongly on the lips, wishing that she never had to let go. Eventually, she let go knowing that she had to. She turned to look at Sirius Black. He was not only James' best friend, but he had become hers as well. As soon as he had named himself her surrogate brother they had been almost as close as he was with James.

Lily pulled Sirius into a close hug. "You be safe," Lily said sternly to him, "I know how reckless you can be."

"I promise Lils," Sirius said into her hair, "Those deatheaters won't get me without a fight."

"Look out for him ok?" Lily whispered softly into his ear.

Sirius looked her in the eye and she knew he would.

"Come on you two!" yelled Sirius and James' supervisor from the train.

"Okay," James said looking at Lily sadly, "we got to go."

Lily nodded sadly. She kissed Sirius on the cheek and watched him walk to the train.

"Promise me you'll come back James," Lily said tears running even faster down her face. "I love you so much. I can't live without you."

"I promise you Lily Evans." James said kissed her softly.

Lily watched him walk away to the train.

"WAKE UP MUDBLOOD!"

Lily woke up with a start. She noticed tears were lying on her cheeks. She quickly wiped them away with the back of her hand. Lily loved and hated having that dream. She was able to be with James and Sirius in the dream, but it also reminded her of how much she missed them.

So much had changed since that fateful day at the train station. Voldemort and his followers and completely overthrown the ministry and took over all wizard and muggle life. Blood traitors, muggleborns, half-bloods, half-breeds and anyone else who Voldemore and his deatheaters disliked were put either to death or were put into slavery.

That is exactly where Lily was at this moment. She had gone from a successful, smart, and free healer to a servant of those who hated her.

She knew she was lucky compared to so many others out there. She worked at a very popular pub/inn in Bristol. She worked any job they assigned her, no matter how difficult or degrading. Usually she was assigned to clean or be a waitress. Her least favorite job was to entertain the guests. This usually involved her singing. Lily wasn't a bad singer at all; in fact she was rather good. However, the guests were always vulgar and forced her to sing songs about love to them. Her payment was her survival and a small room for her to sleep in.

She changed quickly out of her pathetic nighty, cleaned herself off with the sponge and bucket of water that had been put into her room that morning and put on her work outfit, which consisted of a very simple white short-sleeve dress that went down to just below her knees and a brown apron. The only reason these clothes were kept clean was because she was seen by many people every day, and the owners of the end did not want a filthy worker in their inn. She pulled her dark red wavy hair into a simple ponytail, slipped on her brown flats and walked out of her room.

She was immediately put to work by the owner's wife, who took great joy in watching Lily be put through terrible tasks. The woman, who was rather large and ugly, was obviously jealous of Lily's natural beauty, so seeing her get dirty or treated like a servant made her feel powerful.

Lily was forced to clean the floors of the inn, which were always filthy from the night before. She honestly didn't mind this job very much because it let her think about better times. Her mind drifted back to the dream and she thought of her old friends.

Lily had watched her best friend Carol Owens get murdered for being a blood traitor and it had taken Lily many years to stop having nightmares about it. Out of some miracle Lily's life was spared and she was merely taken away to be sold into slavery.

Lily shuddered thinking of her time in the "pen" as they called it. It was a lightless place where all of the people who were going to be sold into slavery were put until they were bought. The people were put into large jail cell like places until they were chosen. It was tremendously filthy and full of disease, for the inhabitants were not cleaned or taken care of in anyway. Lily always thought she would die there, for there seemed no hope of survival.

However, Lily was chosen to work at the Inn, and she never forgot that if she hadn't she would have perished.

As for James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter, Lily assumed them to be dead. She had never heard from any of them after that day at the train station, and she had later heard that all aurors were immediately put to death. Lily figured that Peter, being an associate with them was also put to death. Her heart felt heavy at the thought of those four boys. She had truly loved each of them, especially James, who she had planned on marrying one day. Now she knew that no such thing would ever happen. She instead would work at the Inn until she got too old, they got sick of her, or any other reason they had and she would be put to death.