Harry Potter is not my property he's JKRowling's Lyj a.k.a Lydia is though and any other random people or names I choose to put in.
...He took a deep breath and repeated himself "she's in a coma". The friends looked at him shocked.
"A coma?" Alice said.
"You've got to be kidding me" was Sirius' reaction.
"How did this happen?" was Remus'.
"Oh my god." Was Frank's.
"This. Is. All. Your. Fault. Black. You STUPID IDIOT!" Lyj exploded "Because of YOU, one of my best friends is in a COMA!"
"Miss Jones, quiet, this is a hospital wing!" said Madam Pomfery after hearing Lydia's outburst, immediately rushing in from her writing, just as she was drawing out her wand.
"Sorry Madam Pomfery but I figured as Lily is too busy in a COMA to yell at Sirius for his stupidity, someone else should do it off her." Lydia replied to her in a deadly quiet voice. Lydia was usually very calm and only became agitated and mad when someone insulted her, or her friends. But when she's mad EVERYONE knew about it, and if you were the cause of her anger, well, you better watch your back. Sirius was evidently aware of this as the blood left his face leaving him pale as a sheet and he stepped back a couple of steps out of the reach of Lyj's arms and legs. Everyone was left rather speechless at Lyj's comment.
"So" Alice said tentatively "what does all this mean?"
"I'll explain again to you" Madam Pomfery, who was looking sorrowfully at the friends. "Miss Evans has not reacted to any of the spells I have been cast on her, and neither have any of the awakening potions given to her. I am going to give her regular potions until she wakes up. Unfortunately if she doesn't wake up soon, we should send her to to get more testing. Of course despite this we don't know what will happen once Lily wakes up, as it was her head that was bashed. Correct?" when James nodded still sitting next to the bed, she carried on talking "then we can expect the possibility that she won't remember what happens, but other than that she should be okay." James looked particularly relieved, although he would quite like to have Lily waking up and realise she loved James. And if she felt the need to snog his head off, well that wouldn't be too bad. He grinned dreamily off in la la land.
Sirius coughed "Um, James, earth to Prongs. OI!" He yelled "You're drooling." He clicked his fingers in front of his best friend's face. When James didn't show any sign of noticing what had happened... until he received a sharp hit on the back of his head.
"OW" James complained "Padfoot what was that for?"
"You had a weird look on your face and you were drooling" Sirius explained and grinned evilly when he saw James blush. Everyone heard a low rumbling sound coming from James' direction and he turned pink again.
"Mr Potter, have you eaten anything yet?" Madam Pomfery asked.
"Erm, not since before leaving the train."
"Hold on a second." Madam Pomfery left the room to go into her office for a moment, she rooted around in her filing cabinet for a minute and returned to the room. "Here you are Mr Potter" she handed him a bar of Honeydukes chocolate. "Unfortunately I have a suspicion that you may know where the kitchens are." Remus and Frank nodded sheepishly while James and Sirius shook their heads trying to look innocent, but not working. "As I though go up later and ask the house elves for some leftovers okay?" James nodded but looked hesitantly.
"Um, Madam Pomfery, I don't want to leave Evans, I mean uh Lily."
"Go on James, I'll stay with Lils." Alice said gently, knowing that this showed how much James liked Lily. She thought it was incredibly cute how much he liked her, just such a pity that she didn't know it. She pulled James up an pushed him in the direction of the door and claiming his seat for herself. Lydia moved another chair from a different bed next to Lily's bed. As Madam Pomfery had gone back to her office, Lyd took the liberty of telling James go in the nicest possible way.
"James," Lyja started "piss off, have some food and come back after, she isn't going sleepwalking anywhere, and we'll look after her. Sirius -" she gave him a pointed look.
"Oh, right. Come on mate" Sirius said. The four Marauders left fairly quietly, and Lydia and Alice looked at Lily, wondering about what would happen.
"So Lyj" Alice started up the conversation. "You see the same thing I see right?"
"Er, meaning what exactly?" she replied.
"James and Lily"
"Ah, yes I think I can safely say, I see exactly what you see. And you know what we need to do don't you?"
"Definitely" they smiled wickedly at each other.
"Make Lily see sense and go out with James?"
"You got it."
"What's first on the plan?"
"I think that may be getting Lily out of this coma."
"Oh"
"Yeah"
"We should tell her how he's been sitting with her."
"She wouldn't believe it."
"Oh my god, I know what we need to do." Lyja looked excited, you could almost see the light bulb switching on above her head. "We need to film him!" Alice looked confused.
"Um, Lyj. What's a film?"
"Don't you remember from Muggle studies?" she asked although she was a muggleborn so that helped to.
"Oh yeah, DVD."
"Vaguely, well filming is what you do with a special type of camera. The pictures move like in wizarding photographs, and they usually tell a story or are used to keep memories." A look of comprehension dawned on Alice's face.
"Do you have a camera?"
"Er, no. That's the problem."
"Oh, I know a pensieve!" Alice said happily.
"Oh, that's the memory thing right?" Lyd asked, she had read about it once or twice, but hadn't got any further than that.
"Yep, you take your memories and put them in the basin. It can either play the memories like that film thing if you want what someone said or something like that or you go in to the memory."
"So the camera doesn't matter, we just need to keep an eye on James and the guys, and somehow force her to see them without her thinking that he performed a memory charm on us."
"Yeah, because that will be easy." Alice giggled. There was a pause in the conversation before Lydia brought up their new DADA teacher Professor Llewellyn.
"So" Lyj started "What do you think of Llewellyn? - Gunna be any good?"
"Not sure really, hopefully he won't be as bad as Thomas was last year, do you think we learnt ANYTHING last year?"
"Negative. Do you think he's fitt?"
"Yeah, he won't be bad to look at this year" she giggled again.
"Please tell me you're kidding, he's so ugly."
"No he is not."
"Al hunny-pie you have a boyfriend. And Frank is so much better than Mustachio."
"I know that, and good name by the way. Anyhow you're just jealous that the guy you like isn't with you."
"Yet." Lydia smirked "You forgot the yet. And by the way who are we actually talking about?"
"Oh come on, don't deny it"
"Don't deny what?" Lyj said struggling to sound innocent.
"That you like him."
"Who"
"Sirius duh!"
"WHAT!" Lydia screeched. "WHAT would give you that impression?"
"Well it's kinda obvious"
"I repeat WHAT"
"Okay worrying for my life right now."
"You should be. What would I like about Sirius? He's a git."
Suddenly Sirius popped up behind them "talking about me ladies?"
"Oh look, speak of the devil" Lydia said and Sirius grinned "and get a cheap impersonation" Sirius's face turned into a pout.
"Hey, that's mean." He said.
"So's sneaking up on people" Lyj replied.
"I wasn't sneaking up, it's not my fault you didn't hear us"
Alice decided to cut in "Sirius if you didn't sneak up on us then why are James, Frank and Remus only reaching us now?"
"Oh"
"Exactly" Lydia said slightly smug.
"Hey girls," Frank said.
"Hello" said Remus.
"How is she" James said eagerly hoping she might have shown some sign of moving. Lydia and Alice looked at each other knowing what they were thinking; Lily wouldn't believe this.
"Nothing yet" Alice said softly.
"Okay."
"Did he eat something?" Alice asked Remus under her breath.
"A bit, but we could tell this was all he would think about, we didn't spend much time there."
"He's really fallen for her hasn't he?"
"That would be a definite yes, don't tell anyone but I'm pretty sure he dreams about marrying Lily" he said quietly.
"Why do you say that"
"Oh well he mutters in his sleep sometimes"
"Really" she raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, once I heard him saying something about Lily Potter, this was just after he mumbled something about love, ginger and beautiful emerald green eyes"
"Aww that's so cute" she smiled glancing over at James. This would definitely need to be in the memory film to put in the pensieve.
The next few days passed very slowly to the Marauders and the girls. None of them knew what to do about the length of time Lily had been asleep for. Everyone was worried about James as well, no one had seen him this quiet since after Lily had yelled at him after the DADA O.W.L last year. No one wanted a repeat of that. Due to classes James and his friends hadn't been allowed to stay with Lily all the time like they wanted to, they were only allowed out of class a maximum of two lessons a day, only one of them could stay at a time and they couldn't miss the same class twice. They all thought they should be allowed to get off more, but knew that had it been another teacher not McGonagall who rather liked Lily they wouldn't have been able to get even that. It was now Friday and the gang had all come to visit Lily before dinner. It was still relatively early only four o'clock and it was a sunny day outside. The girls were sitting next to Lily while James sat at the end of her bed staring at Lily. Remus was standing next to James behind the bed and Sirius and Frank were sitting on the bed next to Lily. There were a couple of other patients all temporary though.
"So James what do you think of Llewellyn?" Alice asked noticing James was zoning out a bit.
"Huh, oh he's allright I guess Al, I think we need a couple more lessons to decide though."
"True."
"Sirius when's the next Hogsmeade weekend?" Lydia asked.
"Whenever you want baby" he said seductively.
"Okay let me rephrase that before hexing you, when is the next official Hogsmeade weekend?"
"Um, please don't hex me. And I think it's the twenty ninth of September"
"Fine, just this time."
There was a pause of silence, before;
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" a high pitched scream loud enough to wake up the sleeping first year Ravenclaw in a bed the other side of the room.
"WHO ARE YOU? GET AWAY FROM ME!" Everyone looked shocked as they noticed... Lily was awake.