A Word from the Author: Hello everyone, this is jediclonecowgirl, with the ninth chapter of "Legacy of Windy II". This is the first full moon of the year. Well…let's get started.
The next days went by in pretty much of a flash. In Potions Sirius let Slytherin cauldrons fly, which earned him a week of detention, in History of Magic James set off fireworks, which earned him three days of detention and in Herbology Lily didn't watch, where she was going and was grabbed by a Venomous Tentacula, what only earned her a rather soft landing on Snape. It was raining like crazy at this day and as the second years left the greenhouse, they were mostly in a really bad mood. Some used their book bags, so they wouldn't get too wet, some used a simple charm to shield themselves and a few even conjured umbrellas. Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter did none of that though…they never did, when it rained. Instead they would just bend their heads down, take each other's hands and run all the way back to the caste, going through as many mud puddles as possible along the way. Only Remus had a problem with the last thing for some reason. Luckily Herbology was the last class for this afternoon, since they had astronomy this evening.
"I'll say guys, when the weather really goes on like this, they will have to cancel Astronomy for today.", Lily said, as they were sitting in the boys dorm, trying to dry themselves up, since they had had to shower, after running through the mud.
"I won't even be there at all. My mother is ill again. Need to take care of her.", Remus sighed.
"No offense mate, but your mother seems to have very poor health, if she really gets sick that often.", Sirius said.
"Yeah…I remember, what you wrote to me, as I asked you, why you couldn't come to Godric's Hollow with Sirius. You wrote exactly the same thing.", James added.
"Oh for gods sake…", Remus sighed, looking like a bomb, that was about to go off.
"BLOODY HELL! YES YOU ARE RIGHT! MY MOTHER HAS BLOODY POOR HEALTH AND MY FATHER WORKS HIS BUTT OFF AT THE MINISTRY, SO WE WON'T STARVE TO DEATH, SO I AM THE ONE TO GO HOME FROM SCHOOL AND TAKE CARE OF HER! SIRIUS, YOUR PARENTS ARE RICH, SO YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE TO GO HOME FROM SCHOOL AND THE REST OF YOU CAN PROBABLY AFFORD THE MOST FAMOUS HEALERS IN BLOODY BRITAIN, BUT WE ARE NOT THAT WELL OFF OKAY?! I AM SO SORRY, THAT MY LIFE ISN'T A FAIRYTALE, LIKE YOUR LIVES!", Remus yelled afterwards and then he charged outta the room.
After he slammed the door shut, the others dared to breathe again. Lily's breathing was more, like she was gasping.
"What the bloody hell was that?", James asked.
"Gosh…sorry that we care Remus.", Sirius murmured.
"Do you really think, that we are spoiled…it sounded like Remus did think that.", Lily whispered.
"Bloody hell no!", James said, wrapping an arm around Lily.
Neither of them said anything for the next hour. Lily couldn't remember, when she had been sitting still that long, the last time. She came to the solution, that she never had sat still this long. As a kid she had always been a little hyper and at family dinners she had always been jumpy, since she hated sitting on the chair politely. Petunia had often told her off for this and said, that she was embarrassing them in front of the entire family. Remus didn't come back.
"Maybe he had to leave today already.", Peter suggested.
Lily had thought of something different and she noticed the looks, that James and Sirius gave Peter. Obviously they couldn't believe, that Remus was leaving head-over heels either. Not without packing some stuff up and certainly he would not leave his beloved books. It still seemed plausible though, since Remus would be caught up in taking care of his mother, unable to expect any help from his father, and wouldn't have much use for books.
"Do you think, there could be something bigger up with Remus, then we could think of?", Lily asked.
She had never dared to speak about that and certainly not after the talk James and she had had at Potter Manor, but the dreams didn't stop. More and more weird dreams, that involved her and the boys had come and that didn't make sleep easy for her or the other second year girls in the dorm, since she sometimes had woken up screaming or crying.
"If this really was the case, he would confide in us Lily. We are his friends after all.", James mumbled, drawing circles on the thick blanket of his bed with his finger.
Lily risked a glance onto her pocketwatch. Her grandmother had given her a pocket watch for her birthday. She had said, that it used to belong to Lily's great grandfather, who was apperantly born in Scotland.
"We should probably scramble our stuff for Astronomy now.", Lily mumbled.
"Maybe we should say, that Remus can't come…", Peter said.
"Sinistra must know about this. Now hurry up Pete, or we will be late.", James growled.
Astronomy was really a pain in the neck. At least it had stopped raining, but now it was really cold outside and that wasn't much better.
"Autumn comes.", Kelly Spinnet had growled.
Lily couldn't focus today. Not only, because Astronomy was a class she hated, but because she could her very scary sounds coming from the distance. She poked James, who was working at his star chart at this moment, in the side with her elbow. She did it hard though and ink dripped on the parchment James used.
"What is it Lily?", James growled, while he took out his wand to get the ink stains off his star chart.
"Don't you hear this noise? It's distant and in sorta scares me.", Lily whispered.
"Probably just the wind…could also have to do with some of the curses, that Dumbledore put up to shield Hogwarts from muggles.", James whispered back and then turned back to his star chart.
Lily tried the same, but the nosie wouldn't leave her alone. She was fairly certain, that she had heared it somewhere, but she couldn't remember any clear details. She dipped her quill into her inkglass and took a deep breath.
"Okay…focus Evans.", she mentally told herself.
The rest of the class was a pure blur and after Professor Sinistra dismissed them, Lily probably would've left her telescope, if James hadn't reminded her of taking it with her, but there was one thing, that bugged Lily about this class. Remus hadn't come. He probably was already at home, with his mother. Lily opened the door to the dorm of the second year girls and got changed into her PJ's, but she couldn't stop thinking about the stuff she had heared on the Astronomy tower, Remus and her dreams.
"Why am I worrying myself sick? In one or two days things will go back to the normal routines. I shouldn't worry that much about all that and better go to bed.", Lily mumbled to herself, while she slipped under the blanket of her bed and drifted to sleep.
Lily raced into darkness. She didn't care, if she bumped her head at the branches of the trees in the forrest, or got her skirt ripped at twigs with thornes. She had only one thing on her mind: To save herself somehow. She heared the sound of paws and a loud howl behind her. She began to run quicker, until she managed to arrive at a glade, where she saw someone sitting under a tree. James.
"My goodness JAMES!", Lily yelled and ran over to him.
James was covered up in animal-like scratches and mud. His already messy hair was now full of it. All around them everything was full of blood. James's blood. Lily cupped his face and forced James to look at him…and then came the shock. His glasses were gone and the brown eyes…stared at Lily, without seeing.
"No…no…James.", Lily whimpered.
"JAMES!", Lily yelled and shot up from her sleep.
Her head collided with the head of Hestia Jones, who she had obviously woken up with her screaming. Her wand was illuminated.
"Lily…are you alright?", she asked and actually sounded worried.
"Yeah…just a nightmare.", Lily whispered.
"Nox…", Hestia murmured.
The dim wandlight disappeared and the two girls were sitting in the darkness. Hestia scrambled onto Lily's bed.
"You wanna talk about the nightmare…it might help you.", Hestia murmured.
"That's kind Hestia, but it's fine.", Lily whispered.
"Don't hesitate to come, if you change your mind.", Hestia mumbled and slipped off Lily's bed again.
Even though it was really dark in the room, Lily could see Hestia smiling at her. Lily smiled back at her and went back to sleep right afterwards. It was much needed and she didn't want to look, like some kind of horror film creature, when she got to see the boys again tomorrow.
Ending Word: Well…the ending was a bit stupid, but I hope you still liked the chapter. I hope you will leave some reviews behind. Now all I have left to say is bye, bye and mischief managed.
