When I got to him he was on his back and I kneeled next to him. I quickly examined his cuts. There were little cuts here and there on his face and hands but the one that worried me most was the giant slice on the right side of his body that was bleeding excessively.
"Lily, move." I heard a voice from behind me and I let out a sob. It was Dumbledore I had to listen to him. I stood on my feet and backed up so I was where Dumbledore stood.
He quickly knelt down next to James and took out his wand.
"Vulnera Sanentur."
I don't know what I expected to do to James if Dumbledore had not come to help him; I didn't even know if Severus had made a countercurse to the spell. But, one thing I knew was that if Severus had made a countercurse, Dumbledore knew.
Slowly, the blood stopped seeping out of his side and the color returned to James' face.
His eyes fluttered open and he whispered one word before falling unconscious again. "Lily."
"Lily, you need to come down and have dinner." Marlene said, pulling on my arm.
"For the last time, Marlene, no! I am staying with James until he wakes up, no matter how long it takes." I was still looking at James.
I sat next to one of the beds in the Hospital Wing. This chair has been my best friend for the past thirty hours, the only time I got up was when Marlene had, literally, forced me to come down to dinner yesterday. The way James looked; he always looked like he would wake up in five more minutes. A couple times he whispered my name and my heart started racing, thinking that he had woken up but realized he had just talked in his sleep, but a smile still grew on my face.
"Lily, this isn't healthy. You haven't eaten in almost twenty-four hours. James wont be able to tell if you leave his bedside for at least—"
She got interrupted by the sound of the Hospital Wing's doors opening and two people walking in, carrying a third man.
The man that looked to be unconscious was Mulciber. One man carrying him was Evan Rosier.
My heart stopped and anger grew throughout my body as I saw who was the third man.
Severus Snape.
"Oh, bring him to the bed, dear." Madam Pomfrey said and she stumbled out of her office. "What happened?"
"He got attacked by the Whomping Willow." Rosier said as he and Severus placed Mulciber down on the bed.
"Shouldn't he know by now never to go near that thing?" She said as she was quickly clearing his cuts.
Severus looked at me and our eyes held for a second before I started to growl.
"Woah, Lily-Flower," Sirius said from the other side of James' bed.
I turned away from Severus and looked at James, peacefully sleeping. I started to feel calm until I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see that is was Severus.
"How's he doing?" He asked me in just above a whisper.
I looked at him in disbelief.
"Oh, I don't know. You did invent that spell, and casted it!" I had turned my whole body towards Snape now I had every one in the room's attention because I was yelling.
"I did not cast that, Lily." He scoffed, crossing his arm and trying to act cool.
"Who else would it have been? You are a coward, Snape!" I spat his name at him . "You cant deal with the idea of James and I dating. Just because you hurt him doesn't change the fact that he is here for me when you aren't. That doesn't change the fact that I chose him over you. Do we need to go back to the summer and replay what you did to me; that you helped Lord Voldemort kill my mother! You helped him, Severus. I knew that we had been growing apart sense we came to Hogwarts but I never, ever, thought that you would go so low. You are a coward, Snape. You have no right to ask if he is ok or not, because you meant for him to be not ok." I huffed and walked out of the Hospital Wing.
I didn't really know where I was planning to go. I didn't really want to go back to the Head's common room so I decided to sit on the edge of the Black Lake.
When I got there I took off my shoes and socks and rolled up my pants so they were above my calves and stuck my feet in the water. It was cold at first but after about five minutes of sitting there the water was warm.
To keep my mind off of things I took my wand out and started making lilies in the water.
I made them all different colors; white, yellow, purple, blue, red, orange, pink and violet. After I made the violet color I changed the color to white because Violet was my mom's name and I cringed at the thought of her.
After about twenty minutes of this I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and saw that it was James.
"Hey," He said quietly. He sat down next to me, took off his sneakers and socks and stuck his feet in the water also. "The water is a little chilly, dont'cha thing?"
I nodded and continued to make my rainbow of lilies.
"Thanks for sticking up for me in there." He said as he watched me make a white lily.
"You were awake?" I asked without looking at him.
"Yeah. I was starting to come back into consciousness and after you left I fully woke. Sirius told me you never left my side."
"Yeah, I guess. I was really scared that we hadn't gotten to you in enough time. I know the spell that Severus used on you and you can die from it."
"Snape made that spell?
"Yeah," I answered. I put my wand back in my robes and watched as the hundreds of lilies drift farther out into the middle of the Black Lake. "He made it back in fifth year. That was when I started to get really worried about our friendship."
"Lily, I am really sorry about what happened after OWLs if fifth year." I looked at him. He was still a little pale from the blood loss but not nearly as pale as yesterday. His hair was a little messy so he wasn't able to flip it but he had put on a new pair of robes.
"It's ok, James. It would have happened anyways. All I could think about while he was apologizing that night was that even though he was saying that he said it accidentally, he was still thinking it. After all the years that we spent as friends, he still thought it. He was already completely changed. I realized that he had changed too much to go back to the way we were when he told me he made that curse to use against you guys. Whenever you cursed him, it never gave him any pain. But this spell, it could kill someone. It really scared me." After I confessed my feelings I took a deep breath and wiped the tear from my cheek that had escaped.
"You were worried about us?" He asked in disbelief. Before I answered, I looked at him, meeting eyes and opened my mouth to talk.
"Even though I hated you Marauders, I never, ever wished death on you guys. I would never wish death on anyone." I grabbed his hand and I laced my fingers in his.
He didnt say anything after that.
We eventually decided to go to dinner even though we were about thirty minutes late, we still had another half hour.
When we walked into the Great Hall we got a lot of stares. I understand because it was Lily Evans and James Potter walking into the Great Hall together, holding hands.
"Wait, Lily. I have a question." James stopped me before we got to our table.
"Yeah?"
"Will you go on the next Hogsmeade trip with me?" His back was toward the whole hall and he had his hands on my shoulders. I smiled and nodded.
"Phwew, that's off my chest." We both chuckled and made our way to our table.
After we had dinner we made our way back to our common room without stopping to talk to anyone, seeing as it was seven, we still had homework to do and tomorrow was Monday.
After finishing my homework for Transfiguration, with a little help from James, it was around ten O'clock and I told James that I needed to go to bed.
I got up from the couch we were sitting on, closed my Transfiguration book, rolled up the parchment I was writing on and started to walk towards the stairs that lead to my bedroom.
"Wait, Lily." James said before he grabbed my arm and spun me around.
"Yes?" I asked my face only an inch from his.
"I want a goodnight kiss." He said before leaning in and closing the gap between us. Our lips touched lightly and then I pressed harder. We stood there for a couple seconds and he broke away.
"Goodnight." He said smiling.
"'Night." I answered. We both walked towards our stairs and when I was half way up mine I decided to say something.
"Hey, James?" I peered around the corner of the wall that covered half of my stair case and he did the same.
"Hm?"
"If anyone asks, say you are my boyfriend." I didn't wait to see his reaction and I continued to walk up my stairs and plopped down on my bed, falling asleep without even changing out of my clothes.
