A/N: Looking back over Open Doors it needed some serious editing so I decided to start it fresh, but with a lot of the same ideas, so if you've read that story it will be quite similar for the first few chapters. Anyway please review with ideas and comments!
Number Nine Peachdale Close was a normal everyday house, and like every other house down that small avenue was dark at this late hour. The curtains were closed, but you could still see a soft glow shining from a window on the top floor.
The house was empty apart from two teenage girls, who's parents had gone away for the weekend, one was sound asleep while the other sat in her room, where the soft glow was shining from. The young redhead girl tiptoed around her room, trying her best not to wake her sleeping sister down the hall. She rubbed her emerald eyes and yawned, but kept tiptoeing around the room, not allowing herself to go to sleep. She stopped next to her window and pulled the curtains slightly to the side, looking down the street. Outside was in total darkness, except for the orbs of light, the streetlamps provided, glowing brightly against the seemingly never-ending blanket of darkness. She looked again down the street and seeing nothing out of the ordinary quickly moved away from the window.
Lily Evans was a seventeen-year-old witch. She attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and was about to start her seventh and final year there in only two weeks time. She was now of age and could perform magic whenever she liked or needed to. Of course being muggle-born she still did the majority of work manually, which some thought to be silly when she could do anything with the flick of a wand, but she was brought up that way and still wanted some sort of muggle lifestyle in her life.
Lily whisked her long red hair up into a messy pony tail, and pulled out her wand tapping it nervously on the leg of her jeans, causing blue sparks to shoot at her bookshelf making them an all mighty bang when they dropped to the floor. Lily froze waiting to hear her sister, Petunia's; shrill shriek for her to be quiet, but nothing came. Lily let out a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding and padded out her bedroom door and down the hallway to her sister's, carefully closing the door behind her. Open doors were like gate ways to hell, you never know what could jump out.
Her sister's door was painted a dull, in comparison to Lily's bright yellow, white with not a single personal touch. Pushing the door open slightly Lily saw her sister lay on her bed, curly blonde hair in a tight bun, fast asleep. Lily smiled and silently closed the door, rushing back to her room. Once inside she checked the window, but seeing nothing again, almost relaxed. Almost.
He said that they would come. Tonight, he said they would come tonight. He made her promise not to tell, and she wasn't even sure if she could even trust him, but for some foolish reason she still did. She promised not to tell, but was still ready just in case. What would really happen if she did call the Aurors? She didn't have to tell them who had told her. Lily rushed to her owl who was safely asleep in her cage, but stopped mid stride. They would make her tell wouldn't they? Demand for her to tell her the information so they could arrest him. She couldn't do that, because he had warned her. They may not still be friends but Severus had warned her, and she couldn't stab him in the back after what he had told her. She could run, she supposed, but then what would happen Petunia? She couldn't leave her even if she did hate Lily, they were sisters and that was just unthinkable, at least Lily being here she could at least try and protect them both. Even if it was naïve to think she could even try to fight them off.
Taking deep breaths, Lily stood and began pacing again. With every option there were pros and cons. She didn't know what to do. Lily even at one point contemplated owling her friends, but they would tell their parents who would get the Aurors involved anyway. She could tell her Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, whom she knew she could rely on, but wouldn't he tell the Aurors too? Or maybe he would just help her? Yes! Why hadn't she thought of this before?
Lily ran towards her owl again, after pacing while thinking, but just as she opened the cage, a popping sound broke through the silent air of the house, followed by a heart stopping crash.
It was too late. It had already begun.
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