"How is he?"
"Amazing, especially since both he and Harry should be... well... you know..."
Lily took pity on Remus and silenced him with just a wave of her hand. "I know... I- I just need to know that they will both be fine... That- That..." She couldn't stand it anymore- Lily Evans, strong, bold, independent, Gryfindor, Lily Evans broke down into tears and let Remus and Sirius comfort her for the loved ones she almost lost.
"Shh... Shh... It's going to be fine, Lily-flower. He's alive. Harry's alive. You're alive. You have each other, and you have us. Don't worry. Now, can you tell us what really happened?" Sirius comforted her, and, once her sobs were just hiccups, she tearfully told her story.
"Well... we were just relaxing in the living room and I was about to turn on the Tellyvision. James was asking why it worked since most Muggle things don't when around magic, but I never got to answer him. I had just set down Harry and I quickly picked him up when I heard this huge "Boom". Our front door was in shambles and there stood Voldemort. I was shielding Harry when James stood in front of me and told me to run... but I didn't... I wouldn't leave him... I had left my wand in my house robe in the other room and I knew his was on the kitchen counter, but I wouldn't leave him to defend us on his own... It-It was horrible. He... he kept saying how we didn't have to die if we just let him have Harry and joined him. We both were adamantly against him. Then... he-he said it. He told us who the traitor is..." At this she turned woefully to Remus and Sirius, "The traitor was Peter. Little Peter Pettigrew was the one who kept informing the Death Eaters of our plans... Sirius." She shot him a warning look when he tried to get up with a burning fire in his vividly grey eyes. "You cannot go- not while we need you. Peter will pay, but I'm not about to let you go running off to try and end it here and now. I need you. Harry needs you. Your brother needs you." Lily seemed to be almost imploring and they could clearly see that she wasn't go to let either of them out of her sight until James and Harry were awake and this nightmare had become at least a little more bareable. Sirius nodded, moved by the truth in her words and indicated that she should continue. "He laughed- cold, high, horrible... and he yelled the unforgivable... he yelled Adava Karava. It wasn't aimed at James or me, though. He aimed it at Harry and all I had time to do was scream "No!" and try to shield him... It hit James because he was trying to protect us." At this point it seemed that Lily wouldn't be able to bear it anymore and, after Remus and Sirius had gotten her to calm down, hesitantly continued, "I'm not quite sure after that... It was just so... unimaginable. He-he slumped up against me and I remember yelling at Voldemort. Harry was so upset. I don't even know if he really knew what was going on, or if he was just reacting to seeing me so upset. Voldemort shot me with a different curse- I don't remember what- and it moved me out of the way and held me back. Harry was just sitting there on the floor and... it was the strangest sight. He looked so defiant- he stood up and was staring right back at Voldemort. It was like he was refusing to be scared of the man who hurt his father and pushed away his mother. Harry's definitely our little Grifindor..." Lily grinned, but quickly sombered at remembering what happened next, "The only problem with courage is it scares those close to you... I was so frightened I couldn't even move. I just screamed out "No!" as I watched Voldemort hit him with the curse. It just seemed to bounce back, though, and then Voldemort was gone in a flash of green light. I wasn't really concerned with that, though, because Harry had fallen back next to James... they were both so still. I-I thought that I really had lost them... Luckily they stirred a little- perhaps at my crying. They both were always such light sleepers. A pin could wake them from a coma, it seems sometimes. Then Sirius came bursting in and started yelling and crying and was so worried about James. I swear, if I hadn't been there he probably would have gone racing after Peter all by himself. He called you Remus, and you both know the rest from there." Lily Potter finished with a small, sad smile. She seemed relived to get that off her chest, but still was clearly shaken and would have been taken into another hug session had James not stirred at that moment and murmured, "L-Lily..."