Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine, they all belong to JKRowling, but the plot is just mine.
A/N: Contains Spoilers, rated M for mature, pay attention to this for this chapter
Chapter 7: More Waiting and Confrontation
Lily could not count the days as she lay there, her back a constant, grinding pain. The cuts that littered her body reopened now and again and bled sluggishly when she moved. Alice had awoken not long after Voldemort had raped Lily, and the latter was forced to watch as performed the exact same act on her friend. Every time she closed her eyes, another barb stung and she was forced to keep her eyes on Alice, her face screwed up in pain.
Lily tried to calculate the nights she had gone through, and the days she had forced down a sip of stale water and a morsel of bread. In the end, exhausted, she forced herself not to think, not to count every second ticking by like a lifetime.
In the outside world, James attempted the exact same technique to no avail. Every day she was watched, but five days went by and they could not rescue her. Lord Voldemort was in the house and there were too many Death Eaters on site and on edge.
"Lily," Alice whispered on the fifth night, "Lily"
"What?" came the strained reply
"Lily, what can we do? We can't very well just lay here for the rest of our lives. What are they going to do to us next?"
"I have no idea; all we can do is wait for the time to pass us by, even if we're here forever. The Order knows where we are, I'm sure of it. If anyone can organise a rescue, it's Dumbledore. He's a genius, he'll figure it out"
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That night there was tension in the air, wound as thick as a rope round a reel. Two Death Eaters came back from their patrols with blood on their faces, though they didn't know what had happened.
When Lord Voldemort probed their minds, he found the memory had completely disappeared.
"Dumbledore" he growled
From then on, that night, the girls were under double guard and managed to tweak out the information that a Death Eater had completely disappeared. Voldemort was restless; he could feel the powerful Order magics combined. All at once, three explosions went off, one at the east end of the house and two along the perimeter of the land.
Fire raged at the borders, most Death Eaters had gone to save the house. Voldemort swept away, face darkened in anger, to the north end of the fences, where the fire and destruction was the worst. The panicked guards moved closer to Lily and Alice. Without a sign, two bolts of red came out of the darkness, stunning the guards and allowing Remus and Benjy Fenwick to open Lily and Alice's clasps.
Alice fell upon Benjy's shoulder, sobbing with relief, whilst Lily rubbed her sore wrists and ankles and whispered to Lupin.
"Remus, our wands"
Voldemort had not considered the possibility that the wands might be retrieved, trusting too much in the competence of his servants. Proof of this came zooming towards them, hitting Alice in the back and landing gently in Lily's hand.
Stifling hysterical laughter, the four apparated home to their families.
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The first real argument between Remus and James was breaking out in the kitchen of the Potter's home in Godric Hollow.
"How can you go out and be with my wife whilst I'm stuck here under virtual house arrest?" fumed James
"I just saved your wife!" stormed Remus "I needn't have risked my life, I could have stayed home, you should be thanking me"
"You don't get it do you? You never fitted in with us, bookworm. When all we wanted to do was enjoy ourselves, you pulled us back to study things we already knew"
"What are you on?" bellowed Remus "Never once did I get thanked for saving your behinds from Dumbledore or McGonagall, or anyone of the teachers. But I did that, there wouldn't be a week where I wasn't in some teachers office trying to explain away your actions"
Lily looked on in silence, her face was gaunt and sunken from starvation and her eyes were haunted.
"For the amount of prank you pulled," continued Lupin "You could be in jail"
"Oh yeah? What about you? All the people you could have killed; that village you nearly attacked? If it wasn't for us, if it wasn't for me and Padfoot – you could have been put down like some dog" ranted James
Lupin recoiled and paled visibly.
"James, that's enough" intruded Lily, "Why don't you just sit down and discuss this like sensible, mature adults?"
The boys both spoke at once
"You were always butting in Lily; can't you let me do things myself?"
"Sensible, mature adults?" laughed Remus cynically "James will never be mature"
With that Lupin left the house
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Lily buried her auburn head in her hands, her hair hiding her pale face. Sobs racked her body.
"Lils…" started James "I'm…"
"Stop it James, just stop it
"Haven't you done enough?"
A/N: wow, this is a small chapter, sorry guys but I think this is a good place to end, so here we are. Please review, your comments really do make a difference to what I write.
I'm sorry that I didn't update yesterday or the day before but I was working on my other story, anyway hope you enjoyed