A/N They're all together! Well all the characters I'd intended to get together, but we still have a few more chapters so who knows what could happen!

Chapter 10

Lily didn't think she had ever been so happy, after about half a year of liking James and knowing that he liked her back they where finally together, she didn't know why it had taken them so long.

However the faces of everyone in the great hall, as they walked in hand in hand, were enough to make it all so much better. Everyone from 2nd years to the 7th years knew of the famous feud that had gone on between Lily Evans and James Potter. They could practically hear jaws dropping to the floor and up at the teachers table she could see Professors Flitwick and Sprout passing galleons to a very smug looking McGonagall.

Then came the cacophony of whispering, Lily hid slightly behind James arm, uncomfortable at being the centre of so many conversations. They sat opposite each other, talking and laughing all the way through breakfast, and soon the curious stares of the school started melting away and she happily concentrated on what James was saying.

Their friends joined them, Marlene and Sirius and Alice and Frank, Peter and Remus. They all happily chatted until the mail came. A large brown barn owl swooped down towards Lily dropping a letter in her lap and clipping the top of her head, aggressively.

"Ouch," She grumbled reproachfully, glaring at the owl as it soared off.

"You ok?" James asked her, he was worried about her; she smiled and nodded, touched by his concern. However when she opened the letter all her happy thoughts left her mind and were replaced by pain. Her hands were covered in a purple potion that when it connected with the skin caused it too become blistered and sore. She hissed in pain.

"Holy crap," James yelped, pouring water on her hands in an attempt to help sooth the burning. She whimpered uselessly. James, muttering curses under his breath, dashed with her out the hall to the hospital wing.

Madame Pomfrey had Lily fixed in no time but she had to bandage up her hands and keep her in the hospital wing for a couple of hours so she sent James to his lessons, refusing to let him stay, when he was resistant Lily too told him to go to his lesson and with a worried frown he left.

Madame Pomfrey left Lily, going into the office, muttering about unruly boys and their inability to listen to authority. Lily laughed quietly to herself but the laughter was short lived.

In swooped the large brown barn owl, new letter clutched in it claws.

Dear Mudblood,

Did you enjoy your potion this morning, I hope you did, certainly looked that way from where I was sitting.

If you want to save your precious boyfriend you better meet me in the astronomy tower this evening at 6:00pm.

If you do not, bad things will happen to those you love.

Do not underestimate me; I will not fail in making your life a living hell.

Lily stared at the letter in shock, the fact that it had been sent without an envelope and the way the first sentence had been written suggested this had been sent by someone in Hogwarts, and the fact that it was the same owl from this morning suggested that the person who had sent her this had also sent her the letter containing the potion.

'If you want to save your precious boyfriend' Well that sounded like someone was going to hurt James. Her heart flopped slightly at the thought of anyone hurting James.

She stared resolutely at the letter. No one was going to hurt her friends or ruin her life, if whoever it was that did this, wanted a fight; they were going to get a fight.

Lily heard Madame Pomfrey coming, and with great difficulty she shoved the letter into her pocket before the matron came over. Madame Pomfrey untied the bandages and showed lily her healed hands before sending her to her lessons.

Lily could not concentrate however and the day passed in a blur. Too soon it was 5:45, the end of lessons and everyone was making their way down to the Great Hall for supper. She however made her excuses and climbed up the stairs to the astronomy tower, one hand clutching the letter in one pocket and her wand in the other.

She stepped into the tower, looking round at the railings that stood round the open space. There where no windows so the room was drafty and cold, the light was fading but still there and she could see the Gryffindor Quidditch team practising on the pitch.

She walked over towards the edge of the room, but wheeled around suddenly when she heard the bang of the astronomy tower door. There was no one there.

"Accio cloak," She whispered, but no one appeared. Could it have been the wind? The cold metal railing was pressing into her back and she knew that if she looked over her shoulder she could see how far down it was to the floor and she shuddered. She didn't mind heights on her broom but she was a bit nervier when there was nothing to catch her fall.

"Mudblood," A voice whispered in the darkness, she froze, that had definitely not been the wind. Her heart was now beating incredibly fast in her chest. "I did not think you would be so stupid as to come, when you knew death would be impending, or where you too stupid to realise that?" The darkness hissed.

Lily's heart jumped into her throat, this was no silly prank, whoever this was wanted to kill her. Her hand gripped her wand tighter.

"Who are you?" She questioned the darkness, trying to keep the tremble out her voice.

"That does not matter, the question is what are you?" The darkness questioned, but did not wait for a reply. "You are dirt, you do not belong in our society, you are a Mudblood, the scum of the magical world, and it all scum must be destroyed, now its your turn." The voice jeered.

Before Lily could act, she was raised into the air, and lifted over the rail that had been digging into her back. She was as helpless as a marionette on strings, and as she floated out over the side of Hogwarts she heard the darkness whisper

"No one will even hear you scream,"

Lily felt the strings above snap, and she hurtled down to earth.

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James grinned at the team, please with the progress they were making, Jane Howard was back on form, the beaters were finally working together and Sirius, Arthur and himself were working like never before, it was all going so well until towards the end of the session he saw Alice running onto the pitch.

He could tell something was wrong straight away, she was shaking, clutching herself as great sobs racked her small body. James flew down to her immediately.

"Lily." She said only one word before great sobs shook through her, he waited not a moment longer before tearing away towards the school, the wind whipping his face as his broom seemed to sense his urgency and carried him faster than ever before.

He flew through the doors, through the halls, not listening to the cries of annoyance and outrage from students and teachers alike. He burst through the hospital wing and he did not like what he saw.

A huge screen had been set up around one of the beds and he could see Madame Pomfrey fussing around a body, Dumbledore and McGonagall were discussing something, both very gravely. They both looked up when they heard James rush in and for the first time, Dumbledore looked wary.

"James…" He started but James barrelled past him and dash past the screen and looked at the body on the bed.

It was Lily and she was covered in blood.

James hand rose to his mouth to suppress the scream he wanted to unleash. Hands grasped he shoulders and pulled him back, turning him to face the owner of the hands. The piercing blue eyes stared into his own hazel eyes.

"Sir…" James started, but he was cut off.

"James, you must understand one crucial thing, Miss Evans is not dead," James felt the relief surge through his body. "However, she is in a very dangerous state." The relief was replaced with ice and James suddenly felt very numb.

"What happened?" He croaked out, his mouth was very dry.

"We are, regretfully, unsure. I have an idea but it distresses me to my very core. The facts of the matter are this: She was found below the astronomy tower, and we think it had been made to look like she had committed suicide." Dumbledore looked very solemn.

"Made to look like?" James questioned in a weak voice.

"Yes, that was my initial thought when I saw her, however we found a letter," He brandished a letter from the insides of his purple robes; the edges were tinged with blood. "It was told her to meet this person at the astronomy tower, the letter was threatening you," Dumbledore passed him the letter and James read it with shaking hands.

Lily had been trying to protect him and now she was hurt, he could throw himself off the astronomy tower for being so stupid, he'd seen she had been distracted today and he hadn't even asked her about it, he could've stopped this!

Dumbledore must've seen the pain and anger in his eyes and guessed his thoughts as he spoke quickly.

"James you have to know, this is not your fault." Dumbledore's eyes searched his.

"Who did this to her." James spoke, anger like he had never felt was coursing through him.

"I don't know, but we will find them." Dumbledore said warily.

"You mean," James was shook with barely constrained anger. "The person who did this is just waltzing around Hogwarts." Dumbledore looked at him evenly.

"I will find out, who did this." He promised to him and James anger suddenly depleted as though all the air had been let out of him like a popped balloon.

"What happened to her?" James asked weakly, dropping onto the bed behind him.

"Something quite miraculous," Dumbledore said and James was surprised to hear a level of pride in his voice, Dumbledore was impressed. "Something happened to Lily which resulted in her falling from the Astronomy tower." Dumbledore explained. "She had her wand on her and in the seconds she was falling she managed to charm the floor to be slightly bouncier and to slow herself down slightly enough not to kill her. James she will live but right now she is in critical condition."

"Please can I see her?" James begged. Dumbledore nodded and James got off the bed and walked through the screen once again.

Lily lay there, Madame Pomfrey had cleaned her up and she was no longer covered in blood and she appeared to be asleep.

"I put her in a magically induced coma…" Madame Pomfrey explained, "…it will help her mend." She placed a hand on his shoulder and walked away.

James stumbled into the chair by her side and stared, he couldn't believe it was her, she had been so alive this morning and to see her like this took the oxygen from his lungs. Over the next few hours he was completely unaware of anything that happened, he knew friends and teachers came and went, he knew Madame Pomfrey tried to make him leave but he could not be moved, in the end she extended the screen to fit two beds so he could sleep beside her. He moved only to wash, his friends brought him food from the great hall but he ate very little.

Lily had shattered most of the bones in her body and she had several ruptured organs, it was two weeks before Madame Pomfrey had finished mending her, James was there the whole time.

"Potter, you have to remember it may take a while for her to come round, she may not open her eyes immediately, if she does that means she may have been aware of your presence this whole time but I'm still not sure of the extent of some of her injuries." Madame Pomfrey explained delicately, as though she was worried she might break him.

James nodded and looked down at Lily's pale hand, rubbing soothing circles around her knuckle.

"Okay," Madame Pomfrey said, taking a deep breath, "One, two, and three…" She waved her wand over Lily's limp body. A fog rose from within her, through the of the hospital bed and was sucked back into Madame Pomfrey's wand, James searched Lily's face desperately. She twitched

And then Lily opened her beautiful green eyes.

A/N I am sooooooo sorry this took so long, I kinda forgot about it. More chapters on the way.