I ran through the crowd of injured witches and wizards being tended to by healers. I couldn't see her anywhere, I was starting to panic and crazy ideas of what might of happened to her ran through my mid.
'She could have been captured, tortured or KILLED' my breathing was becoming heavy and I could feel my heart pounding so fast that any minute it would grow tired and stop.
I jumped up to see if I could spot her and to my great relief I saw the raven haired girl I was looking for having a deeply cut and bruised arm being healed by an old sour looking medi-witch.
I darted around everyone in my way and came up to her. The old medi-witch said one quick spell and the wound vanished, Tanie said a quick "Thanks" and rubbed her arm.
"Tanie" I shouted above the noise. She looked up when she heard her name being called and raced over and we embraced each other.
"Lily I thought you were a goner" she cried, "Are you alright?"
"No, not really" I said when she gave me a confused look I carried on explaining what had gone on between James and I earlier on. Tanie gasped when I finished.
"Oh Lily it was bound to happen soon. At least you got it over with and you'll know how to handle it in the future" she said in a reassuring voice. I nodded sadly. I looked to the side and saw Moody, Remus, Sirius, Alex and two other Aurors.
I took hold of Tanie and steered her in the direction of the 6 men. As they saw us approaching relieved expressions covered their faces. Sirius and Remus came over and engulfed us in tight hugs. When I was released I turned to address Moody.
"Sir James Potter was here I encountered him," I said with as little emotion as possible, though I could tell that everyone could see right through me.
"Well what did he do, what were his tactics?" growled Moody. All seven eyes were stuck on me.
"He did nothing sir he stood there looking at me, I am ashamed to admit that I did the same sir, and then he walked away" I felt my cheeks grow slightly pink.
Me, my team, Remus and his team stood in Mad-eye Moody's office all were wearing our Auror robes with our wands gripped tightly in our hands. Although you could not see it all of them were afraid of what awaited them.
"Alright" said Moody " We know the location of his home but it will most defiantly be impossible for anyone other than Evans and Lupin to get in if we are lucky" over the past few days we had all been working with Mad-eye on what we were going to do. It had been decided for now that they would just put the house under watch and wait for James to lead us to some form of a death eater hid out.
"If by chance we lose him we will have a quick chance to see weather Evans and Lupin can get in, snoop around and get out before he returns:" Moody continued.
"I want you all to get lots of good food in you and get a long sleep, were starting tomorrow. I expect to see you all in here at 5:00am. Now all of you out."
I walked out along side Remus who was looking extremely pale from the last full moon.
"Can you believe its finally happening" Remus muttered, I shook my head "at least we get to see the potter mansion again, I haven't been there in so long and no matter what he's done I'm gonna be happy to see James and how different he looks"
"He looks more handsome than ever," I said looking at the floor. When I looked up I saw Remus smiling sadly at me. I smiled back at him and we continued walking. As we neared the apparition station we were held back by someone calling out to me.
"Lily, Lily hey can I talk to you" called Alex Ringer. I turned quickly back to Remus.
"I'll wait over here" he said. I walked over to Alex and plastered the best fake smile I could muster on.
"Hey Alex what can I do for you" I really wasn't in the mood to talk to him but I didn't want to seem rude.
"Well you see I was wondering whether you wanted to go out with me some time" he said in a confident and cocky tone that made me want to ring his neck.
I hated it when guys thought that they could get any girl they wanted but I calmed down and remembered what my mother always said to me when meeting new people "Don't judge a book by its cove". I had judged James and Sirius too quickly and they ended up as my boyfriend and the brother I never had.
"I'm sorry Alex I can't at the moment not with this assignments I don't want any distractions" I said covering up for what I really meant as "Sorry I'm still in love with my old boyfriend I'll call you when I get over him"
"Oh come on it doesn't even have to count as a date we could just go out to lunch as friends" he suggested.
"I don't know-" I started but was cut off.
"Please just go out with me once and if you don't think it will work you can back away" he said pleadingly. I sighed heavily.
'What better way to get over James than to go on a date with another guy' I thought.
"Alright" I said I pulled out a small piece of parchment and a long black quill, "Here's my address floo me and we can set up a time and place" I scribbled on the parchment and handed it to him. He smiled widely and took the paper.
"You won't regret this I promise you Lily, see you tomorrow" He picked up my hand, kissed it and walked away.
I sighed again and walked over to Remus who was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, his eyebrows raised and a smirk on his face.
"Sirius is going to be very angry" he said cockily. I groaned and we continued walking.
