Missing Dreams

Prologue

Started:04.27.05

"No!" screamed a sixteen year old girl with long, straight auburn hair, and glistening green eyes as she stood, frozen in the threshold of her home as she watched in horror as a man with a black cloak muttered the simple spell that would kill her parents. The only people in her family that would talk to her. That actually cared for her. Dead. Gone. Just like that.

A sound filled the house as the cloaked figure left. It was the sound of a manic laughing. That sort of laugh that could only come out of the most evil people. The sound sent shivers down Lily's spine as she stood in the same spot looking at the lifeless corpses of her parents.

Why can't I move! her mind screamed frantically.

"I'm sorry," Lily whispered in a hoarse gasp as she crumpled to the ground in a dead faint.

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"She's been out like this since we found her, sir," a small male voice said as Lily was opening her eyes.

Where am I? she wondered as she looked around the room distractedly. The last thing she remembered was standing in the doorway of her home after coming from dance practice and seeing-

Seeing my parents die. she thought with a sob, drawing the two wizards eyes towards the girl lying in the huge bed with white sheets.

"Miss Evans," came the soft, gravelly yet comforting sound of Professor Dumbledore as he walked over to the bed and looked down upon one of his favored students.

Lily looked at her Headmaster through watery eyes. "M-my parents," she cried.

"I'm afraid that you've missed their funeral, Miss Evans," Dumbledore told her softly, guilt and compassion shining in his usual twinkling blue eyes.

Lily closed her eyes and willed the tears away. "Where am I going to stay?" she asked softly. "And when can I see them?"

"For now, you're going to go back to Hogwarts with me, Miss Evans, and you're welcome to see their grave any time you want."

Lily nodded her head and rolled over on her side and curled herself in a ball, crying herself to sleep.

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James sat dumbly at the table as he read over the same article in the Daily Prophet. Lily could have died. he realized as he closed his eyes and brought a hand up to his nose and pinched to get rid of the headache forming.

He didn't know what it was about Lily Evans, but she ruled his thoughts constantly, and no matter how much his ego had been beaten up, he still couldn't get her out of his thoughts.

And now, her parents were gone, and she had no one. She was living at Hogwarts because she had no one to turn to apparently. Or at least that's what was said in the article.

He had to do something. He had to help her. Somehow.

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Lily stood in front of a stone pillar and tried to keep the tears at bay. She seemed so close to the edge lately, and she just didn't want to cry anymore. She was sick of it. It had been a week since she woke up, and a month since she saw that unmentionable sight.

Each day was harder than the last. And its every day that she realized how much she had truly screwed up her life. She had been scared of getting hurt, so she never got close to anyone. Leaving her with no one when she needed someone.

"I'm so sorry, Mum, Dad," Lily sobbed as she dropped to her knees and laid a single white Lily on the base of their shared headstone. "You died just because you believed in me, and supported me. "I'm sorry."

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Authors Notes:

Well that was fast wasn't it? LoL… anyway here's the first chapter. The title though is a work in progress. I have no clue what I want to call this story yet.

Anyways, tell me what you guys think so far! The next chapter is going to be a jump in time, so be prepared for that! Well…not so much of a jump, but I'm going to skip the summer, so yea.

Anyways review please!

Always,

Mistress del Mare