A/N- Just a reminder, Charlie Jonson is the reserve beater, Donna Frayés is the reserve keeper and Emily Allson is the third chaser in the Gryffindor Quiddich team, along with James and Alice. When my beta read this chapter, she was like, 'who are they?', so, yeah… R&R!

GG

Chapter 8:

"Would you shut up?"

"Nope."

"She doesn't look good."

"Well, she got hit by a bulgur twice, and fell of her broom."

"She was two feet from the ground."

"Let's throw you off the Hogwarts Express while it's in full speed, see how you look, shall we?"

"Ahh, well, I get the picture, no need to hurt my handsome face."

"Shut up!"

"Okay."

"Finally."

Lily felt dizzy. She could hear voices around her. She tried to open her eyes and sit up, but she fell back down and her vision was blurry. Lily groaned.

"I think she's waking up." Alice said, and all the people, six to be exact, around the bed moved closer.

"Where- where am I?" Lily grumbled.

"In the hospital wing." Alice said gently.

"Wha' am I doin' here?"

"You fell off your broom." Sirius pointed out, laughing.

"That's not funny." Alice hissed.

"N-no, it's… bloody… hilarious!" Sirius choked out between laughs.

"That's it! What the hell re you doing here?" Alice's voice was rising.

"Um, well, I'm here as a member of the team." Sirius mumbled unconvincingly.

"Black, Emily is here, and Donna, and Charlie, and Frank, and me. We're all on the team, so, why're you really here?" Alice demanded.

"I- I'm going to go now… see ye!" Sirius called over his shoulder, hurrying out of the hospital wing's double doors.

"Idiot." Charlie said, as the girls rolled their eyes and turned their attention back to Lily, who was currently sitting up and holding her hand up to her head.

"My head hurts." She groaned.

"I don't doubt it. You got hit on the head twice." Emily said. Emily Allson was a tall girl, with long legs. She had long, dead straight blond hair and crystal blue eyes. Emily was in sixth year.

"Twice?" Lily asked in confusion.

"You don't remember? Once by the bulgur and once you fell." Donna replied. Donna Frayés was a short girl with short, curly brown hair and dark hazel eyes. She was in fifth year.

"Um, well, who won?" Lily required tiredly.

"We did." Alice whispered happily.

"Oh, good, but did I catch the snitch?" Lily wasn't sure.

"Of course you did, you don't remember that either? That's why you fell." Remus, who was in sitting in the corner, and didn't make his presence known 'till then. "It was bloody amazing, that dive you did, by the way. "

"How- how long h-have I b-been out o-of it?" Lily stumbled over her words.

"Two weeks." Alice said quietly, bowing her head.

"That was some crush, you know. I'm surprised you're alive." Charlie said matter-of-factly. Charlie Jonson was tall for his age, had brown hair and matching eyes, and he was a fourth year.

"Thanks Jonson, you make me feel so much better." Lily rolled her eyes.

"Well, Poppy's gonna be here to check on you soon, so we gotta go, get well." Donna said cheerfully.

"Alice, could you wait a sec?" Lily whispered.

"Sure, what's up?"

"Well, did… did any of them-" Lily nodded at the door, that was just closed behind Remus. "- see the scars?"

"No… but… um Poppy sort of did. She kept asking me about it, but then, after she said she's going to talk to Dumbledore about it, she stopped asking about it. I guess he told her, a long with the rest of the teachers and staff, 'cause some of the professors came to see you." Alice pointed out.

"Okay, well, thanks. I'll see you later" Lily yawned, her eye leads feeling heavy and her head etching.

As Alice left, Lily drifted into a long deep sleep.


Lily woke up to the sound of the door opening. She cracked one eye open to see who it was, but all she could see was a figure in a dark hooded cloak.

"Who's there?" Lily hissed.

"It's just me." Said the hooded fd igure, taking off the hood and revealing a black jet of messy hair and hazel eyes behind silver wire, round gasses.

"Oh, what are you doing here, Potter?" Lily required, rudely.

"Checking on you. You know, you could be a bit nicer to the person that saved your life." James said, plopping on the edge of Lily's bed and grabbing a handful of candy from the bedside table and putting it in his mouth.

"Saved my life?" Lily had a confused look on her face. "What do you mean?"

"Don't tell me that stopping you from falling off a broom from about a hundred feet high doesn't count as saving your life." James said, annoyed.

"You did that?" Lily tried to search her mind for the memory.

"Well, you saw me." James pointed out.

"I can't remember anything from the match." Lily whispered bashfully.

"You don't?" now James's voice was no longer annoyed, but concerned.

"No." Lily said sadly, she was really disappointed that she could not remember her first match as the Quiddich captain of the Gryffindor team.

"I'm sorry." James said, as though it was his fault.

"It's not your fault, it just happened."

"Well, how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine."

"Good."

There was an awkward silence.

"You… you should go, you don't want to get in trouble." Lily said quietly, avoiding eye contact.

James chuckled, "I'm a marauder, Evans. I can handle another detention. I had zillions of detentions, another one can't hurt." He then looked at her thoughtfully, as if trying to decide something. "Besides, you trusted me with your secret, and I have no idea why, but I think I could trust you with one of my secrets."

He took a silver cloak out of is packet and rapped it around himself. Lily gasped as she saw James disappear in thin air, all but his head.

"Is- Is that an invisibility cloak?" James nodded. "Wow. They're really rare."

"They are. And you can't tell anyone, even Jessica doesn't know about it." James warned.

"You're acting like you don't know what I think of secrets, having one of the worst ones there are." Lily huffed, "Secrets are meant to be kept."

"Well, I don't think your secret is the worst there is. It doesn't have your whole life depending on it." James stated, thinking about Moony.

"maybe it's not the worst, but my life do depend on it. if it spreads, my step father is going to deny it, everyone is going to believe him, and then his going to murder me slowly and painfully." Lily looked down to her left shoulder, remembering very clearly the night Robert had told her that, shooting her in the shoulder as a warning.

"Oh…" James didn't say anything.

"Any ways, why are you here now? Why didn't you come during the day?" Lily questioned.

"I- I can't let people think I care, if I do, I'm ruined." James said.

"Why? How?"

"Um… well, you see, I'm supposed to be with Jessica, and if not, I'll- I'll be disowned." James looked at his feet. How come I can tell Evans everything and I can't tell anyone else? Why do I feel so open around her?

"Oh… why do you care?" Lily required. She would have been happy to be kicked out, then she would be free. She had tried to run away a few times, but was found and brought home after a day or two, and all she got was an extra beating.

"I care because I love my parents. If I'm disowned, then I won't be able to see them, and then what would Sirius and I do, live on the streets?" James seemed frustrate.

"Wait, what Black got to do with anything?" Lily was very confused.

"He was disowned last summer, and he's leaving at my place. My parent love him like they love me, they even told him to call them 'mum' and 'dad'."

"Well, they seem nice, so why would they disown you?"

"They won't. my grandmother will. I hate that old hag, she's almost as bad as Sirius's mum, and Sirius's mum is the devil himself." James joked.

Lily gave him a small smile, which he returned. The clock on the wall rang, it was midnight.

"You should rest. I'll see you soon." And with that he left.


Lily was let out of the hospital wing a week later. Every night while she was at the wing, James would come to visit her for an hour or so. On the morning she was let out, a bunch of Gryffindor boys were waiting for her along with Alice and Emily and Donna.

"Um, Guys, why are they here?" Lily whispered to the three other girls.

"they're your bodyguards. Since you won the game, the Slytherins are so pissed, they want revenge. So, as Gryffindors, it's our duty to protect echo there. You secured our chances to win the Quiddich Cup and the House cup, so we have to do everything to protect you from the Slytherins." Emily exclaimed happily.

"Right. Thanks guys, but I can take care of my self." Lily said.

"No, you can't. Lils, those guys don't play by the rules." Alice said, concerned. Lily was about to protest, but saw no point.

"Fine, but why does it have to be fifteen boys following me around?" Lily looked at all the fifth, sixth and seventh year boys. "Can't it be, like, one, or two?"

"Good point. I think three would do. How about we put it to a vote? Any volunteers?" Alice looked around her.

"How about the Marauders?" Frank suggested. "They're in her year, so it would be easier for them, they're in the same classed, almost."

"I'm okay with it." Sirius said.

"Me too." Remus said.

"I guess it's fine by me." James sighed, seeing no way out of it.

"I-" Peter started, but was cut off by Sirius.

"Pete's okay with it too, right?" Sirius exclaimed, glaring at Peter.

"R-right…" Peter replied shakily.

"Great, so it's settled. Can we go now?" One of the fifth year boys, Mathew Stevens, pleaded.

Donna glared at him before sighing, "yeah, you can."

All the boys besides the marauders and Frank walked off. None of them really liked Lily, she was like something untouchable, something you enjoy to look at, but you don't really want to get close to it, because it's dangerous.

"What's up with her?" Lily whispered to Emily nodding at Donna, who was still glaring at Mat.

"Mat used to be her boyfriend, and then she caught him cheating on her, with two other girls." Emily shook her head, "all three of the girls knew nothing of each other. Yesterday he broke up with her, saying she wasn't really the one for him and that he was too good for her."

"He said that?" Lily was furious, Donna was almost her friend. During the week she was in the hospital wing, Donna and Emily came to see her very often, and the three girls got to know each other better and they had such great time together. Lily has started to be nicer, but she still couldn't tell them about her secret. She might when the time comes, and she oped it would.

"Something of the sort." Emily sighed, sorry for her friend.

Lily looked at Donna, when she caught someone else looking at her. It was Remus, he was staring at Donna longingly, but Donna didn't seem to notice, nor did anyone else but Lily.

"Look." Lily nudged Emily on the side, pointing at Remus. Emily grinned mischievously.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Emily whispered excitedly.

"Tell me, do you thing Remus is better then that Mat guy?" Lily asked quietly.

"The marauders are the most wanted boys in school, they're legendary. No guy can be as good looking, smart, and as cool as them." Emily said.

"What do you think about hitting two birds with one stone? Wait, three birds, revenge Stevens, make Donna happy, and get Lupin a descent girlfriend. Alice told me all his girlfriends used him to get to Sirius or James, or just to be more popular."

"So true." Emily nodded. "What's the plan?"

"Okay, first of…"