A Break on the Outside
"Where are James and Sirius?" Lily asked Remus. Normally, James would be right on her heels, dragging Sirius along. But now, they were no where in sight. This troubled Lily because it meant that something bad may have happened to them.
Remus took his eyes from his book about the moon to give Lily a bored look. He sighed, "With Elizabeth."
"What!" Lily shouted. What could she be doing to them? Was she torturing them? Why wasn't Remus doing anything to help them?
Remus chuckled, "Sounds like you actually care."
Lily fumed, "Tell me right now what the heck is going on."
Remus gave her yet another bored look, "I don't know. All they said is that they were going to the Quidditch field with Elizabeth."
She pondered aloud, "What could they be doing? From what I know, Elizabeth doesn't know a thing about Quidditch."
Remus shrugged, "I don't know but I'd like to learn."
She said in agreement, "I would too."
They walked to the Quidditch field and Lily had to stifle a laugh. James and Sirius were in shorts and Elizabeth was tauntingly circling over them as they struggled to pull themselves up.
The reason?
They were all hanging upside down on their brooms.
James moaned, "Why exactly are we hanging upside down?"
Elizabeth stopped in front of James and Sirius and jabbed their stomachs.
They both flinched but she took no notice as she said, "Two words. Core. Strength. You need abs to provide strength and support for the rest of the body during flips." She pointed to her own flat stomach, "See? Abs."
Sirius groaned, "Can we switch to pull ups? I think all the blood in my body has drained to my head."
Elizabeth flipped upright and said, "Fine, but they are harder."
The boys flipped right side up and did them with ease.
Elizabeth scoffed, "Show offs."
She then flew up very high and hung by the bends of her knees while her hands held tightly to the broom head.
James yelled, "Show off!"
She laughed while something flared in Lily. Anger. Lily broke out of her trance when she heard a scream and a cry of agony quickly followed it.
She and Remus stood to see Elizabeth lying on the field, crying and hyperventilating. James and Sirius ran to her. She had been a vast distance above the ground, that was for sure, but her grip was solid.
How did she fall? They all wondered.
But Lily knew. She had been deep green with envy, which was very dangerous for her. She could sometimes match her magic with her thoughts. And this time, she thought, was a very bad time for that to happen. Her thoughts had attacked Elizabeth and it caused Elizabeth to fall.
Lily looked back to Elizabeth. She was obviously breathing but why couldn't she move? James saw Lily standing in the stands and he yelled to her, "How could you? Her back is broken!"
Lily was shocked. Her magic had never done this before. Then again, she had never mentally used magic on someone who was on a broomstick that was over a hundred feet above the ground.
James then shouted to Remus, "Remus, get the headmaster and tell him to get a stretcher."
When the stretcher arrived and took a pained Elizabeth away, they all began to walk back to the school.
Lily tried to explain what happened to Sirius but he cut her off sharply before she could utter a sound, "When did you become so heartless, Lily? I thought you were better."
Author's Note: I know, really odd events out of nowhere but it evens out later. Trust me.
