Disclaimer: Everything you recognize is not mine, everything you don't recognize is all mine.
Rating: Rather mature subject, do be supervised while reading this, if not, don't say I didn't warn you!!!
A/N: Wow, hahaha, I am so evil for leaving you in this total unhappiness about the cliffy. The reason for the boggart has a sort of big part with in the plot, and I give Kassie credit for the boggart idea because she scared the living hell out of me with a stupid vision that popped in her head one night, then decided to tell me about it. Freaking loser! Hopefully you all like this chapter, some things are going to get really crazy here for a while, but yeah, hope you like it. But after the party, James is going to get a little heated, and stuff will happen.
Too answer a question I saw: DustBunny907-No I have not seen Anna and the King, it was just a name that I thought would be very interesting, considering I think with all the house elves, they would run out of names like Winky, Dobby, Pixie, and so one, so like J.K. Rowling I decided to use a name that was quite different than the others just to keep my brain from exploding. But in other words, thank you for taking consideration in the name I decided for him. But Tuptim is just a misunderstood house elf who doesn't always get things straight the first time around(mainly because he is so old.) But thank you for asking me a question!!!
Thoughts for later: My thoughts is to "get rid" of one of the characters later. But you won't know why. Lily and James fluff-stuff will go one, perhaps another fantasy? Later on things will get really sad, perhaps...
Chapter 10: The Band and The Bus
As they reached the closet, they heard her screaming. Trying to open and unlock the door was impossible, even with magic, (or the key). But the task was becoming even more difficult with the very ruff sounds and when the light was suddenly broken and the closet door shook.
"Shit man, it sounds like lions in there," Sirius jumped back.
"I'm in so much fucking trouble if we can't get her out of there!!" James yelled, he ran his hands through his hair nervously. He was white in the face, and was shaking quite noticeably. Suddenly the closet rattled, and Lily stopped screaming. They waited for a few seconds, the closet door unlocked by itself and something large hit the door.
James quickly opened the door and Lily fell, James barley caught her before she hit the groung, he sat on his knees, she was unconscious. The boggart came out, saw Remus, (you got the idea) James pulled Lily away from the closed, and Remus got rid of the boggart. Lily had several cuts and bruises all over her body, especially on her arms and legs. Everyone was dead silent.
"Go get me a cold damp washcloth!" James shouted, Peter hurriedly ran upstairs to get a washcloth.
"Remind me again why we keep a boggart?" Remus tilted his head.
"I don't remember, but Peter better hurry the hell up!" James began to get angry.
"Wormtail, hurry up, dammit!" Sirius shouted. Peter began to go down the steps when Sirius shouted, causing him to fall down the stairs, he landed on his back, he seemed to be fine, he lifted the cloth with a sort of stiffness in his arm, and dropped his arm to the ground as if it was a brick in water. Sirius grabbed the rag and handed it to James, he gently pressed it to her forehead and neck, and cheeks. She was still out.
"After this, we really need to get rid of the boggart, for reals, cause I told you something like this was bound to happen again, your parents are going to kill us if they find out, again." Sirius smiled guiltily. Remus nodded in agreement. Slowly Lily began to come around, the guys were silent. When she opened her eyes she began to scream, as if screaming was the only thing she could accomplish. James cradled her in his arms, and stroked her hair, trying to calm her down. It wasn't easy, but she stopped screaming and crying.
She sat quiet for a while, staring at the closet, no one made a sound. Tuptim shifted, he knew he was in trouble later. He moved over to Lily, and bowed in front of her, "Sorry for that miss, Tuptim is a very bad, bad house elf, he deserves to be punished severely." Tuptim began to hit his head against the closet door.
"Dude, you really need to stop the bashing yourself thing, it's kinda sickening." Sirius stopped Tuptim from hitting himself anymore. Peter finally pulled himself from the floor, and sat down on a couch by another wall.
"Tuptim, it's fine, I never want to go back in there ever again, ever." she said in a final tone. James was still placing the cloth gently against her.
"What's your boggart look like, it seems violent." Peter said behind them.
"It's just something terrible, I never wanna see it again. Yes it is violent, look at me, it tried to kill me!" she said, her voice raising becoming a weird tone.
"Well are you okay, I think is the real question." Remus said, not wanting to get into a discussion about boggarts.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, my cuts will go away, actually they aren't even cuts, just scratches,"her voice was normal again.
"We have some bruise tonic in the bathroom." James smiled.
"But first of all I want to know," she paused, "Who the hell do you think you are keeping a boggart in the house?!" she yelled at them, "Don't you know that I could've been killed!" she yelled. Everyone was quiet for a few minutes.
"Better?" Remus said quickly.
"Yeah."Lily replied just as fast, "This is a very interesting day."
James ran upstairs to get the tonic, everyone got up and turned the lights up to see better. Lily's eyes went wide when a drum set, three guitars, and a few other things. There were pictures of an American rock band called KISS, Lily had heard of them very well. They were like the best band in the world. Several people had said goodbye disco, and hello Rock n' Roll!
"Nice instruments, who's are they?" Lily asked.
"Well, they're ours! Remey here plays the drums, I am lead singer (sometimes) and Peter, James, and (sometimes) I, play the base guitars, we also have electric guitars, but they're put away right now, we got in trouble with James' mom, we kinda pissed her off." Sirius scratched his head guiltily.
"How, why?" Lily asked, slowly walking over and slowly rubbing the top of the drum set.
"Well when we all come over, we play as loud as we can, mainly to piss off the boggart, well one day, we broke James' base, and it was such an expensive one that we got in trouble." Sirius looked up the stairs as James came down the steps.
"Yeah, and neither of us have forgiven you since." James smiled, "Here," he handed Lily a small vile of purple liquid.
Lily took the vile and drank the whole bottle in one gulp.
"But you should hear James play the piano, it's so cool." Peter smiled.
"Yeah, but only thanks to my uncle. He taught me how to play. The piano is in one of our living rooms." James said thinking of where it was.
"Well I better be getting ready to go, Robyn and everyone are waiting for me at Robyn's house." everyone smiled at the mention of them. The boggart shook the closet violently, which made everyone jump and begin to walk upstairs.
"Robyn, what's going on at Robyn's house?" Remus looked at Lily anxiously.
"Dude, chill you are going out with Rachel, but when is that relationship going to end?" Sirius said as if he were going to rip out his hair at the mentioning of Robyn or Rachel.
"Um, there is a sleep over, and just to let you know, please don't talk about anyone breaking up with one of my friends right in front of me." Lily put her hands on her hips.
"How long are you going to be gone?" James said rumpling his hair in a way Lily disliked.
"For two days. Is that okay?" Lily said looking around.
"Perfect, well you better go get ready, you don't want to be late." James began to push her up the stairs to her room, he noticed her bruises were gone.
She was finished packing and smiled to hear the boys singing and playing their instruments. She was surprised to hear someone playing the guitar, but didn't go watch. She walked into her bathroom, and looked herself over in the mirror. She began to think of her mom, and how life was treating her. But she wished away the thought of home, she hated home, and was hoping to never go home again. Ever...
Later, James handed her some money as Sirius called the night bus, it was pretty dark outside, as Lily walked outside, Sirius was helping John Shunpike put her trunk onto the night bus, she looked out over the hill and could see the lights of her house. Several thoughts crossed her mind, until she discarded the thoughts. She looked away and quickly walked onto the night bus. Sirius told John the directions to Robyn's house. And off they went.
"'Ello Miss Lily, so off to a party eh?" John had an annoying accent, but she learned to cope with it. "I remembe' when I was youn', always goin' off to a party an' such."
"Yes, I suppose so." She sat on a couch, and stared out the window.
"Come on Ern, we 'ave a lot of other 'ouses to go to." John sighed. "Well, sorry, but you will be one of the last to ge' off. John was pretty young, and oddly handsome, but Lily had to admit that even Lucius Malfoy had to be more attractive than him, but she kept it to herself.
She leaned her head against the window, and slowly fell asleep. Slowly she woke to John's voice, telling her to wake up. She looked out the window to see that they were almost in Bristol, but why were they stopped, "John, what's going on?" The shrunken head in the front was quietly squeaking, probably from fright.
"Someone 'as stopped us, but if they don't move then they will find themselves being part of the pavemen'. She looked out the front window, it was the same people who followed her from her house, what did they want, besides her of course. They moved to the sides of the road and the night bus had a slow start, as they slowly drove by, the men stared at her and she sank down to the floor. Soon the night bus was off like a flash again. "Well tha' was strange." John scoffed.
A/N: That was very interesting, what is going on, why do they keep following her? Hmm, you'll find out later, if you keep reading and reviewing that is. Well here are a few questions for a while.
Q # 1: What might Lily's boggart be?
Q # 2: What might happen if "they" get too close to Lily and her friends?
Q # 3: Will Lily ever return home? And how long will she stay?