Yay! New chapter! I started it on Wednesday and finished it today (Saturday morning).

To BeckettSimpleton: Don't worry, I didn't take it offensively, I love that you're giving me suggestions. Haha, and I kind of knew the story had to have some fighting in it anyways, I just had trouble figuring out when to put it in (I was planning on putting it in when they left that one house or something like that).

Hope you guys enjoy! :D

Oh and I got my braces off! :D


"Goodnight, James,"

" 'Night, Lily," James kissed Lily's forehead and turned off the light. They laid in silence.

"James, I'm hungry," Lily said.

James sighed, "Not again, Lily."

"James, I'm pregnant. You can't expect me not to eat. And you can't expect me not to want something other than what we've been eating the last month. I'm really sick of it."

"Lily, I'm truly, truly sorry, but there's nothing we can do. You're just gonna have to deal with that."

"But I'm pregnant. And I want cookie dough ice cream and pickles and bacon and maybe some fries on that. And trust me, I'm going to get that."

"Why don't you just put the damn ice cream on the burger?"


"Put an Expanding Charm on your purse and put our stuff in it. I'm not sure if we'll be able to come back here. We should probably clean up the house and just bring everything else."

"James, that's not going to happen. It's the grocery store. Relax."

"But they're everywhere. Voldemort is everywhere. We won't be safe, I've told you hundreds of times. Can you just please let the food thing go?"

"We're getting the food. Whether you like it or not," Lily said firmly.

"Gosh, I can't believe I'm letting you do this. Well, I told you so."


Oh, glorious food. Lily's stomach rumbled as she walked down the aisles, full of everything she had been deprived of within the last month. Here's her favorite cereal, Cheerios, and ooh, look at that, doesn't that cereal look good too? It's a sugar-packed child's cereal that normally wouldn't appeal to her, but under the certain circumstances…well, she could buy another box, couldn't she? And look at all the type of pickles…deli-sliced, sweet pickles…mmm, which one to pick? Good thing James suggested they split up in order to get out quicker, otherwise he'd never let her buy all this stuff.

Mmmm…ice cream. Sundaes or sandwiches? Lily paced the entire aisle, debating what flavors. Moosetracks, cookie dough, strawberry, French vanilla, double chocolate fudge, frozen yogurt? Frozen yogurt? Who wants frozen yogurt? She picked up one anyways and continued to decide what ice cream she wanted.

Lily swore. She dropped the ice cream on the ground because her hands were full juggling all the food she was carrying. Lily glanced around, hoping no one saw, just as a tall, thin man with dark hair and circles around his eyes came around with a mop and a caution sign.

"Need help, darling?"

"Thank you," she smiled lightly. Lily clutched her purse and then gave him some money for cleaning up her mess.

He stood up. "Ah, expecting, are we? When's the baby due?"

"Late July or so."

"Ah, yes. My wife is due in June. You'd like to meet her. Fiery Irish girl, hair like yours. Brighter, even."

"Oh, that's lovely. I'd love to meet her, but I'm afraid I'm busy for the next few weeks and won't be able to."

"Ah, too bad," he leaned against the freezer and placed his hand on the top of the tall mop. His left sleeve rode up his arm slightly.

"Is that a tattoo?" Lily pointed at his left arm.

"Ah, no, it's a birth mark. Never wanted a tattoo, and my wife wouldn't let me even if I did want one."

"Oh…I thought…well, never mind. Thank you though," Lily turned her back and went off to find James. She wanted to leave.


Lily hurried along the ends of the aisles, scanning them for her husband. She started to worry when James was no where to be found. She was searching the fresh fruit and vegetable section when all of a sudden—

"Stupefy!" A flash of red light streaked by Lily, hitting a carton of mushrooms on the wall. Mushroom bits scattered everywhere, and Lily ducked from the source of the voice. Muggles in the store screamed when they heard the explosion.

Lily whipped out her wand and crawled around the table of apples and oranges.

"Where'd she go?" the voice of the man yelled out, the same man she had talked to not more than five minutes ago. The man with the pregnant wife and the birthmark on his arm. Not a birthmark, a tattoo.

"Split up, you moron!" a shrill female voice commanded.

Lily's heart thumped like the wings of a hummingbird. She couldn't get out of the fruit section without a fight. She peeked over the piles of apples and located the female. It was Bellatrix, her hair wild and curly, her eyes haunting but beautiful.

Lily stood, "Stupefy!" and aimed for Bellatrix, but missed and instead sent pieces of lettuce flying. Bellatrix saw where Lily was, even though she ducked back down. Lily crouched and ran, but Bellatrix ran full out after her.

"Crucio!" Lily collapsed to the floor, her back arching and her joints burning. She fought and tried to keep her back straight, but Bellatrix was too strong. Once Bellatrix stopped, Lily began to breathe heavily, her face an angry mask of stone. Her fingers gripped her purse tightly as she lay vulnerable on her side.

Bellatrix stowed away her wand. She had time to fool around some. She sat on Lily's side and yanked back her hair, leaving Lily to scream in pain. Bellatrix leaned in close and whispered into Lily's ear. "You filthy Mudblood."

Lily clawed at Bellatrix's face and slapped her cheek, shocking both women. Lily shifted off her side so Bellatrix rolled off of her. She then pulled the Bellatrix's hair back, bending her neck so her face was in the light.

"You dirty whore, you won't even live to see your child," Bellatrix smiled tauntingly, and with that Lily shattered a nearby bottle of pre-squeezed lemon juice. Bellatrix struggled, but with a determined look Lily poured the contents onto the Death Eater's face.

Bellatrix screamed in agony as her eyes burned and watered. She could not see Lily through the tears, and Lily ran away looking for James. She ran across the aisles as fast as she could, her back aching and Muggles running, screaming everywhere. The doors had been locked and no one could get out.

She kept running across the grocery store, when suddenly a man ran the opposite way, across the aisle. He was short, burly, and had brown hair, and he started running in the same direction as Lily. She recognized him as Rodolphus Lestrange.

"Stupefy!" Lily sent a spell down at Rodolphus, barely missing him and instead rocking the shelves. He sent another hex back, and she slid to a stop and reversed directions, going back where she came from. Rodolphus did the same on the other side of the aisle. Lily reversed directions again, and this time he got her. He sent a nonverbal curse that paralyze her legs, and she laid on the floor, unable to move. Lily's wand clattered a few feet away from her.

Rodolphus came and picked up Lily's wand, then dragged her back to the storage room. "Bella! Bella, I got her!" Rodolphus yelled, and Lily could hear his wife's gleeful shriek from across the store as she lifted a Muggle off the floor by the ankle and hung them over the rafters and lamps above. They lay there, limp or bleeding, some conscious but too terrified to move. Lily looked down and closed her eyes in defeat; she could not find her husband, her child was about to die, and more Muggles were dying because of her.

Lily was brought to the back, where she was dumped onto the floor. James' limbs were tied up in tough plastic strips to the metal shelves, so he could no longer move. The Death Eater she had talked to before, the one disguised as a janitor, held James' wand. Bellatrix sauntered in, and the two other male Death Eaters tossed her the extra wands. Lily looked up and saw the red in Bellatrix's eyes, the eyeliner smeared and running down her face. The woman's eyes flashed and she screamed, kicking Lily. Lily predicted where her foot was to go, and rolled over into a rock-like pose, knees on the ground and back protecting her unborn child. Bellatrix kicked Lily in the back and in the legs, while she laid there helpless but still managing to protect her child.

"Get up. Get up!" Bellatrix commanded, but Lily's legs were still too weak. "Get up, you dumb bitch! Now!" she roared. Lily tried to stagger up, but she couldn't stand. "Crucio!" Bellatrix screamed, her dark eyes wild with excitement. Lily screamed in agony, and James shut his eyes and tried to block out his wife's pain. When a very long minute passed, the two men hauled Lily up and bound her to the metal shelf like James.

A Muggle walked in, and Lily recognized his blank stare as one someone under the Imperius Curse would have. He handed Bellatrix a kitchen knife. "Thank you, darling," said Bellatrix, false sweetness enveloping her words. His blank stare then melted away as Bellatrix lifted the curse, but before he could fully come back to his senses, she twisted his arms behind his back, disarming him. His eyes filled with terror as she yanked his hair back, revealing his throat.

Bellatrix pressed the knife up to his throat and whispered into his ear as he struggled, "See that? That is what happens when you're not wanted," she pointed at Lily. "And that, that there is what happens when you affiliate with filthy Muggles like yourself and don't respect your Pureblood status," she pointed at James. She stared at Lily, then cocked her head sideways. "But of course you wouldn't know," she breathed into his ear. Bellatrix smiled, then slit his throat. The Muggle collapsed on the floor, bleeding a great deal.

"Rosier, Rodulphus, dispose of him," Bellatrix said nonchalantly, wiping his blood on her black dress. Both men dragged the body out of the storage room.

Bellatrix stood up. "You know, Lily, there's a great controversy with Muggles concerning abortions these days. The magical community doesn't worry about it; after all, there's nothing bad about more Purebloods," Lily inhaled. "But it seems that you have a problem, and we must take it out." Silent tears streamed down Lily's face, and Bellatrix leaned in close and brushed aside Lily's dark red hair. Lily squeezed her eyes shut. "Don't worry, Darling. This will only hurt for the rest of your sorry life," Bellatrix smiled.

Lily opened her eyes and spat in Bellatrix's face. She stumbled backwards and dropped the wands. James saw what happened and focused his mind, concentrating on summoning his wand from five feet away.

"Accio wand!" he shouted, and it flew to his hand, bound by the plastic to the shelf. Once he had freed himself he freed Lily, and she stumbled out and caught her wand, which James had tossed to her.

Lily turned around and aimed for Bellatrix before she could recover, "Stupefy!" and Bellatrix lay on the floor, unconscious. Lily and James ran out of the storage room and towards the exit, but Evan Rosier and Rodolphus intersected them.

"Expelliarmus!" Lily aimed for Rosier, and his wand flew out of his hand.

"Avada Kedavra!" Rodolphus yelled, and James pulled Lily down behind the checkout. The spell hit the glass door and it shattered, sending sharp pieces everywhere.

"Crucio!" Rodolphus aimed for the couple again, but again it missed.

"Stupefy!" James yelled, stunning Rodolphus.

James grabbed Lily's hand and they ran outside together into the morning sun, Disapparating with a crack.


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