Disclaimer: None of the characters actually belong to me, most of them are J.K. Rowling's creation and the rest of them are Aylala's so I can't really take credit for it. I just wanted to expose this story to a larger public than just the French one.
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What could have happened
Chapter two: Don't leave me.
As Lily opened her eyes, she couldn't remember where she was at first. Then all that had happened came back to her and, ignoring the headache, she sat in her bed and pushed the button to ask for a healer to come. As she looked around, she noticed that neither James nor Harry were in the room and frantically pushed the button. A healer came in, running.
- "Mrs Potter, you're already awake?"
- "Where are my husband and son?"
- "Mrs Potter, I..."
- "WHERE ARE THEY?" she screamed.
- "Calm down... I... I don't know... let me get the Mediwizard"
The healer ran out, leaving Lily all alone, desperate. She only had to wait a few minutes, as a Mediwizard and the healer came back running in »
- "She shouldn't be awake" the Mediwizard was surprised and checked the transfusion on Lily's arm "It isn't normal"
- "Doctor, where are my husband and son?"
- "Angie, please check this calming potion... Mrs Potter should still be sleeping"
- "I want to know how my husband and my son are doing..."
- "Be quick" the Mediwizard said, pretending he hadn't heard what Lily had just said.
The young woman grabbed his arm and forced him to look at her.
- "I want to know what's going on! I want you to tell me what happened to my husband and my son!"
The Mediwizard sighed and signaled to the Healer to leave the room. He then conjured a chair and sat next to his patient's bed.
- "Your son is alright. He was a bit shocked, but he's now resting in the nursery with five Aurors protecting him, by order of Professor Dumbledore"
- "Can I see him?"
- "Of course, we'll take you there in a moment"
- "What about James?" Lily suddenly worried as she saw the look on the Mediwizard's face.
- "Mrs Potter, your husband was seriously injured … He is in a critical state"
- "Doctor, what does it mean?"
- "He's fighting for his life. No one can tell you at this moment whether he'll make it or not. I'm sorry, but you have to wait"
- "WAIT!" Lily yelled "Wait for what?"
- "We need to wait and see how things go. If he doesn't wake up before the night is out, he won't make it. But even if he does wake up, it doesn't mean he'll live. I'll be honest with you: chances are he won't last the night"
Lily had her hands on her mouth so she wouldn't start screaming, and started crying.
- "I want to see him" she sobbed "I want to be close to him!"
- "I don't think I can allow that, I'm sorry"
- "He might die any minute now, I want to be next to him!" she kept sobbing.
The Mediwizard stared for a moment and said
- "I understand. But I can't let you go in there in such a state. You need to calm down. I'll give you a potion and I'll take you to the intensive care unit"
Lily looked at him, trying to hold back her sobs. She had to be strong for James: he needed to feel she would be strong for the both of them. The Mediwizard then conjured a glass filled with an orange liquid he gave to Lily. She drank it straight down, and little by little, she felt her calmness growing. The anxiety and pain and sadness were still there but she could control them better. Very slowly and carefully, the doctor got her out of bed and placed her in a wheelchair he drove himself into the room where James was lying.
Upon seeing him, Lily could not help but shiver. He looked so paled and fragile. He was lying on a large white bed, with numerous transfusions giving him a number of potions. He was breathing through an air bubble and had quite a lot of wounds a Healer was taking care of.
- "Here is Mary" the Mediwizard explained calmly "She's the Healer taking care of her husband and checking up on him"
- "Good evening, Mrs Potter" Mary said, walking towards her.
- "Please call me Lily. How is he?"
- "There has been no change in his condition for an hour. He's stable" Mary explained, while moving the wheelchair so Lily would be close to James's head.
- "We don't know if he can hear you, but if you want to talk to him, go ahead" Mary whispered.
- "Thank you" Lily breathed "Can you bring my baby in here?"
- "I'll see what I can do" the Mediwizard replied before leaving.
Lily looked at her unconscious husband and felt her heartache growing stronger. He had to fight this, he couldn't leave her alone with Harry, she needed him. Very slowly, very carefully, she put her hand on James's cheek. It was frozen. She shivered and took her hand away to put it in her husband's hand.
- "I don't know if you can hear me, but I just wanted to say I love you, and I want you to be okay, my love" she whispered.
There was no reaction and she felt tears welling up in her eyes, but she fought them off. She couldn't afford to let go. The Mediwizard had told her she had to be strong. She stayed that way for a while, just watching him. Mary kept taking care of him as discreetly as she could. The Mediwizard came back after half an hour, with Harry in his arms.
- "Harry" Lily exclaimed upon seeing them.
She tried to get up but she fell back into her chair because she was too feeble to stay up. Mary rushed to her side to check on her, and the Mediwizard put his precious bundle in his mother's arms.
- "He's still under the sleeping potion, but he should wake up anytime now"
- "Thank you, Doctor" she whispered, stroking her son's hair.
She took James's hand in her own and whispered.
- "You see, love, we're all here, all three of us. We're going to be strong and make it out of here. I know it"
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Sirius Black apparated right in front of the place where Peter Pettigrew should have been hidden. He knocked the door down with his elbow and got into the shack.
- "PETER! PETER!"
He screamed until he couldn't anymore. He was imagining his friend hurt, mutilated. He had had to be tortured to death to have given James and Lily to Voldemort. He looked in all the rooms of the small house but couldn't find him anywhere. He sat in the corner and couldn't see any sign of a fight. Apart from the door he had just destroyed, everything was neat and in order. Sirius wondered if he hadn't been mistaken about the hideout. He then got out of the shack and apparated to his friend's flat. Maybe he hadn't gone into hiding? Maybe he had gone back to his place? He knocked a few times on the door, but no one answered. But he saw the cellar window was slightly open and got in through it. The place was empty. He climbed the stairs, his anxiety growing. Peter was obviously endangered, fighting numerous Death Eaters and he needed his help. He should never have offered him as Secret Keeper to James and Lily. He was an easy target for Death Eaters, too easy. Once on the main floor, he looked everywhere, but couldn't find any trace of fighting. It was extremely odd. He then went into his friend's bedroom but couldn't see anything. He started to look through stuff methodically. He opened the wardrobe and started looking through clothes for any clue permitting him to find his friend when, suddenly, something caught his attention. He pulled on a black cloth and suddenly had a Death Eater mask in hand. Horrified, he threw it down on the floor, disgusted. What was this doing here? It couldn't be! Peter couldn't be...
Doubt filled him. He ran to Peter's desk and got through each drawer with growing anger. He looked everywhere, though each piece of paper and finally discovered that one of the drawers had a hiding place in it. From it he took a number of papers and read them. Copies of reports from the Order of the Phoenix of the last year were addressed to the Dark Lord. Every mission James and Lily had been assigned, together with Franck and Alice Longbottom. There were mission orders, missions in which he was working as Death Eater. Tears of rage were falling down his cheeks. Traitor! Since the beginning, he had suspected Remus to be a Death Eater, when it was Peter giving out information to the Dark Lord. And Sirius had given him the occasion to betray his friends. He was feeling immensely guilty to have led his best friend and his wife and son into this bloody trap. Raging, he took the papers and ran out of Peter's flat.
- "Traitor" he was seething "You're going to pay for this"
He apparated to his place, where he carefully hid the papers under the floor. Then, taking his cape, he went out on Diagon Alley, looking for the traitor.
He went through streets and alleys looking for the one he had once called his friend. Peter had to be seen somewhere far from Godric's Hollow not to be suspected of anything. Sirius went into every place he knew there would be people in. It was quite easy on Halloween night. Groups were talking outside each bar. He looked for quite a while before finding him. Peter was talking with some people Sirius didn't know as if nothing had happened. He jumped on Peter, screaming. He put him against the wall, wand on his neck, threatening to kill him.
- "Good evening, Peter" he hissed.
- "Sirius" Peter was chocking "What are you doing here?"
- "Shut up, you traitor!"
- "What are you talking about?"
- "Stop playing dumb with me! I know what happened to James and Lily. I ran to help you. I imagined you dead, hurt. All I found was your Death Eater hood and I find you here, in this trendy bar as if nothing had happened! You gave James out, you traitor!"
- "I don't see what you are talking about, Sirius! I wasn't the Secret Keeper, everyone knew it was you!" Peter screamed, making heads turn in their direction.
- "Shut up!" Sirius yelled, confused.
- "Noooooooo! Help me! He sold our friends and now he wants to kill me too! Heeeeeeeeeeelp!" Peter started yelling.
Sirius grabbed his neck tighter and Peter's screams died in his throat.
- "You are going to pay..." Sirius hissed, raising his wand.
But he couldn't throw any curse, as a strong hand grabbed him and took him away. He was held by a man much stronger than he was. He turned around and recognized Kingsley, who was holding him back quite firmly.
- "Kingsley!" he exclaimed "You have to stop him! It's him! He's the traitor!"
- "SHUT UP!" Kingsley yelled, as loud as he could.
He looked extremely angry and was looking down on Sirius with disgust. The young man understood he was suspecting him of having betrayed Lily and James.
- "I wasn't the Keeper! It was Peter! We were trying to fool them! He's the traitor!" Sirius tried to justify, but to no avail.
Kingsley tightened his grip until it was hurting Sirius, who couldn't move any longer.
- "Take this one also!" he said, pointing at Peter.
Two wizards Sirius hadn't seen came up to Peter and grabbed one of his arms. The young man took his wand and tried to turn into his Animagus form.
- "Be careful! He's an Animagus!" Sirius told them.
Peter stopped for a second, which allowed one of the wizards to take his wand. He put it in his pocket "just in case".
- "So is Sirius" Peter yelled, out of control.
Kingsley took Sirius's wand from his hand.
- "That's enough now! We're taking you to Dumbledore" Kingsley said, looking quite menacing.
With a sign, he gestured his colleagues to apparate to the gate of Hogwarts, where they took Sirius and Peter inside the castle and into two cells in which they threw them violently.
- "Let me out, I'm innocent!" Peter yelled "He's the traitor! Even Professor Dumbledore knows it. Everyone knows he was the Keeper. He even went into hiding afterward!"
- "Shut up, we switched at the last minute and YOU sold James and Lily to Voldemort! You were his spy for almost a year!" Sirius screamed, gripping the bars of the cell.
- "You have no proof!"
- "I do! Let's go see James, he'll tell us who his Secret Keeper was" Sirius growled, mad with anger.
- "We won't ask anything to James Potter" said the cold and menacing voice of Professor Dumbledore who had just entered the dungeons.
- "Professor" Sirius and Peter yelled together.
- "James is now fighting for his life, no one knows if he's going to make it! Lily and Harry are beside him and there's little hope..."
- "WHAT!" Sirius screamed, before falling on the wet ground of his cell, destroyed by the news.
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Sitting on a chair in the waiting room of St Mungo's, her face hidden in her hands, Oceane was waiting. She didn't really know what she was waiting for, but she just stayed there, motionless. There had to be a mistake. Sirius couldn't have betrayed his friends; he loved them more than anything, he couldn't hurt them. And she didn't have any news from Lily and James. She was feeling so sick. A Healer had come by a few times to ask her if she was feeling alright and she had just nodded. But she wasn't feeling alright at all. She closed her eyes and tried not to think, but she couldn't. She could see Sirius asking her to trust him and not believe what people were telling her about him. But on the other side, there was Professor Dumbledore, who seemed to know he was the traitor. But all of this didn't make any sense! Who had betrayed James and Lily if it wasn't their Secret Keeper...
She lifted her head as she heard footsteps in the hall. It was Remus. He was frightfully pale and looked completely out of his mind. She waved at him and the young man ran towards her. She got up to meet him, and fell into his arms. All the tears she couldn't hold back any longer started to fall.
- "Remus... It's horrible!" she sobbed.
- "I know" he answered, forcing her to seat down "Do you have any news?"
- "No... I just know James might not make it through the night, that's all... Merlin, why?"
Remus didn't answer. He just sat next to her. Why? He had asked himself this very question for quite some time. Ever since Emmeline Vance had come to his place to tell him the news. Why did Voldemort try to kill Lily and James? Why them? How had he known where they were? Sirius was the Secret Keeper... There was only one answer. He had been right all along. Sirius was indeed the traitor and he had betrayed his friends to his master. He turned to Oceane and put both hands on her shoulders to force her to look at him.
- "Have you seen Sirius?" he asked, watching her closely.
Even if she knew it was impossible to lie to him without him realizing it, she answered that she didn't.
- "I'm not kidding, Oceane! He's dangerous, he's with Voldemort now, and you're not safe! When did you last see him?"
Oceane just kept shaking her head.
- "Don't do this! You can't protect him, you can't defend him! He might have killed James"
- "I love him, Remus" she was crying "He asked me to trust him"
The young man sighed.
- "Well, I suppose he's now with the Dark Lord, making his report" he growled.
Oceane's sobs got louder. She couldn't and wouldn't believe what she was hearing. Sirius had never been a dark wizard and would never be. He hated Death Eaters so much, he was fighting so hard against them he couldn't have done that.
Everything was confusing; she didn't know what to think and who to believe. She was dearly hoping this would only be a nightmare, and she would wake up any moment now.
- "You can't go back home" Remus declared.
The young woman raised her head and he started again
- "I know you love him and this is very hard for you, but I'm thinking about your security. He's dangerous, you can't see him again he could hurt you. He changed so much, we were all wrong, he can't be allowed to hurt you"
- "He can't hurt me, Remus. He loves me!"
- "He always told us James was his brother..." Remus answered coldly.
- "But..."
- "No buts! I think Dumbledore will agree with me. Do you have anywhere else to go?"
Oceane shook her head. She had been disowned by her parents and had no family she felt close enough to go to.
- "We'll find something... If you have to, you'll live with me... I can't let you near him, we don't know what he's capable of"
Oceane started crying again. A few hours ago, she was so happy, she had seen her boyfriend again. He had told her he loved her and he was happy to have a baby with her. How was it possible to be that sad now when you were so happy right before? She felt Remus's arm on her shoulder.
- "I know it's hard, but we'll all be around you" he whispered.
Oceane took a deep breath and straightened up. Right at this moment, a Healer ran towards them.
- "Is Professor Dumbledore still here?" she asked quickly.
- "No, there was an emergency at Hogwarts, he had to leave" Oceane answered simply "Why?"
- "It's James Potter!"
Oceane and Remus jumped.
- "What happened?" Remus almost growled, in a scorched voice.
- "He just woke up!"
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