~*Chapter 10*~

A/N: don't forget that we're going to be a couple years ahead of the last chapter so don't get to confused!!

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Lily, Rose, and Blair were walking down from the Gryffindor tower. They'd just finished their last OWL exam and had run back to change into something comfortable. Since it was only two weeks away from the end of the school year the teachers had decided to give the students the last two weeks to recuperate. All three had blue jean cut-offs and a different colored tank top from the other two.

Lily's cut-offs were a little older than Rose's or Blair's so they were whiter at the stress points. Her tank top was green and snug across her chest. She was taller but still easily the shortest person in her year. Lily had an hour glass shape and her hair reached mid-back and was still as curly as ever. Her eyes were still the same startling emerald green. She had a towel in her right arm along with sun tan lotion so that she wouldn't burn.

Rose had fortunately gotten into Gryffindor house when she was sorted. Rose's tank top was a bluish gray, the same color her eyes had turned in past couple of years, and was also snug. She was very tall and was all leg. She had a willowy figure. Her hair, unlike Lily's, was cut short into a bob. She'd put two different color streaks in it, dark purple and light blue. She also had a towel in her hand but no lotion because she tanned naturally. She also had the radio that Lily had charmed in third year to work in the castle.

Blair had immediately like Rose when she met her over their Christmas break in first year. Her tank top was purple and had 'Bite me' written on the front and fangs on the back and was snug just like the other two girls' shirts. While Lily and Rose were the two extremes in height Blair was average height. She was curvy too. Blair's hair reached her shoulders and like Rose she had light blue streaks in it. She was also carrying and towel but like Rose carried no lotion. She was in the middle of the two sisters with each of her arms linked with one of the other girls. They were laughing while skipping and singing follow the yellow brick road from the Wizard of Oz. People were staring and laughing but the three of them didn't care. They reached the old tree with low hanging branches that they and the marauders had claimed in second year.

Lily handed her towel to Rose when they sat down, then began to fiddle with the stations of the radio. She found a station that was playing beat it by fall out boy. Lily pulled three sets of head phones out of her pocket. She tapped them with her wand then handed the other two pairs to Blair and Rose. They put them in their ears with the music blaring. Lily rubbed sun tan lotion on her skin while the other two just laid back. When Lily finished, she did exactly what the other two had just done she laid down and put in her earphones. Because they had music blaring in their ears they never heard the marauders come up behind them.

James was the tallest of the three but not by much. His black hair was still as messy as ever and grew even messier when he ran his hand through it. His hazel eyes were hidden behind his glasses that kept falling to the tip of his nose. He was one of the cutest boys in the school. He was tan so he never worried about the sun except for when Lily was outside too. He wasn't worried now because he'd seen her put the sun tan lotion on. He had a giant grin on his face and a mischievous look in his eyes.

The boy on his right was Sirius. He was as tall as James and almost doubly handsome. He let his hair stay in that same shaggy style and his gray eyes only seemed to get darker as he got older. He was also tan but he was tanner than James. He too had a giant grin and a mischievous look.

The boy on James' left was Remus. Remus was the shorter of the two but he was still taller than most. He kept his light brown hair cut short but the front swung in his eyes when he was bent over reading a book. His amber eyes were always in a book or looking around for something. He had a grin on his face but he didn't quite have the mischievous look that the other two. He waved his wand then handed the other two water filled balloons. He held up his hand and counted down from three. When he put down his last finger they threw the water balloons at the girls.

Lily spluttered when she felt the balloon hit her and heard Blair and Rose do the same. She sat up quickly and looked around her. She saw the marauders standing behind them looking innocent. She narrowed her eyes and pointed at them. "You threw the water balloons!" she hissed. "Now we're all wet!" Lily tried to shake her hair out of her face but it just flopped back. She looked down and nearly let out a scream when she saw that it was plastered to her chest and you could see the outline of her bra. She turned her furious eyes on James who backed up a step when he saw her face. "Brother dear, I sure hope you can run fast enough because I'm going to claw your eyes!" After she said that she took off after James who had begun to run already.

The other two were so busy laughing that they didn't notice that the other two girls were just as furious. When Remus finally glanced up, his face paled and he started to back up as Blair stalked after him. He turned around when he nearly tripped and started to run just as James had. They hadn't thought that the girls would react this badly. Remus thanked God that Blair didn't bring out her wand but felt sorry for James when he remembered that Lily had used hers to mess with the head phones. When he glanced back it was to see Blair catching up to him and he cursed her for getting on the quidditch team. He pushed himself to go just a bit faster.

Like Lily Blair was furious that they'd thrown the balloons in a strategic place making all their shirts plastered against their chests. She couldn't believe that Remus would partake in this particular scheme. He was usually such a gentleman and kind. She guessed James and Sirius had rubbed off on him. Blair began to see the fun of it and vowed that she'd get revenge but right now decided to let herself have fun while chasing him. She smiled then sped up to try and catch him.

While the other four were running around Sirius still hadn't clued into Rose being mad at him which was why she was able to tackle him to the ground. Sirius let out an 'oomph' when she rammed into him. They fell so that he was under her to lessen the impact. Rose began to punch him as she got up enough to straddle him. "Wh- what the bloody hell are you doing?!" Sirius tried to catch her hands to keep her from hitting him.

"I'm kicking your ass! You threw a water balloon at me and it hit my chest and now the whole bloody world can see my chest and my bra you idiot!" She continued to pound her frustrations out on him as he fumbled over his words. She was finally starting to calm down. When she was done she just sat back and looked at him. He looked a little frightened and sorry. She smiled at him and patted his cheek. "Now what do you have to say to make everything all right again?" She asked in the most motherly voice she could muster.

"I'm-," Sirius was cut off by a series of cracks and then spells being fired everywhere by deatheaters. He pushed Rose off and the behind him as he stood up. "We have to get back into the castle! Now! Let's go!" Sirius pulled a shaken Rose off the ground and pushed her to run towards the castle with him. They had just reached the entrance hall when they heard James shout and Lily scream. They both turned back and started running to where they heard the screams when they saw something that would be imprinted in their brains for months to come.

~*~*~*~*~Minutes before the attack…

Lily caught up to James and jumped onto his back. She wrapped her legs around his waist and one of her arms around his neck as she rubbed her knuckles against his head. "You better have a good reason as to why you want the whole school to know how big my cup size is and the shape of my bra or so help me you will feel my wrath into the next century!" Lily took her arm from around his neck and put both hands to the job of pulling his hair.

"Alright! Alright! Bloody hell, I'm sorry Lils. We just wanted to have some fun since today was the last of those torturous exams! We just wanted to relieve everybody's stress and we didn't realize that the balloons would hit you guys' chests." James sighed when Lily let go of his hair.

"Okay I can accept that. Just don't do it again unless we say we're going to have a water balloon fight. Got it?" Lily asked then rested her head on his shoulder and swung her legs back and forth while James held her up. "I'm sorry about the rage there James. I was just so mad that you'd do something like that to us in front of the whole school. I'm sure that Rose and Blair are getting back at Sirius and Remus. You know I think that those four like each other. Well at least I know that Rose likes Sirius and Blair likes Remus, but I don't know if Sirius and Remus like them back."

"Well I might be able to help you out but I need some incentive." James smirked when he heard Lily huff and sigh. He took that as a cue to tell her what he had in mind. "I'm thinking that I'm allowed to buy you one expensive gift without any complaints and you obligated to keep it, not return it and give the money back to me." James added since Lily had done this repeatedly in the past.

"That doesn't sound very fair on my part. I think I'll change it to something that is very special. If you find something that you think would be extremely special to me then I won't complain and will whole heartedly tell you that I love it. Deal?" Lily said thinking that the deal sounded fair to her. She got information and James got to buy her something special, expensive or not, with no complaints from Lily.

"Well, I guess that sounds fair and I like your idea about the gift better than mine so yes it is definitely a deal, Lilykins." James used Lily's hated nickname just to mess with her.

"Don't call me that! How many times have I repeatedly told you and Rose that?" Lily sighed in exasperation and slithered down James back to be able to lecture him better.

"I was just kidding, Lils. No need to worry, it won't become permanent. Now to the information you wanted. Remus does, in fact, like Blair. Sirius I believe likes Rose. I'm not really sure as he won't talk to me about it. So there is the information you wanted, now I need to think of a gif-," James was interrupted mid-shout because deatheaters suddenly appeared in a circle around Lily and himself. He pulled Lily behind him and heard her take out her wand as he did. They were standing back to back. He could feel Lily shaking with fear but knew that she'd be okay as long as he was with her. "What do you want?" James looked around at the people around himself and Lily.

"What do we want? Why we want what we couldn't get five years ago. We want the little red head and the other seeing as how they're both muggleborns and for just the fact that we wanted them five years ago too." There was a smirk in the woman's voice, or what sounded like a woman behind the mask.

The voice seemed so familiar to Lily and yet she couldn't place it. She trained her wand on the woman that had just spoken. When she finally began to think of where she could have heard the voice before, she finally realized that it was the same voice of the woman who'd put her under the Cruciatus curse five years before. She looked around and most of the builds in the group around the two of them. She noticed there was a lot more than four deatheaters this time around. There were about ten of them but only five or six were fully focused on the two in the middle. The others were throwing out spells at the students outside. Lily turned back to what was happening around her. She saw that the ones who were paying attention pulled out wands and pointed it at the two of them. When Lily realized what was going to happen, she cast a silent shielding charm just as curses were thrown at her and James. The only thing was that she'd only casted a shielding charm for James and not herself so she was hit with almost three Cruciatus curses at the same time. That's when she screamed.

James was startled when a shielding charm was thrown in front of him just as two curses were thrown at him. He spun around when he heard Lily scream and realized that Lily must have realized what was about to happen and had tried to protect him leaving herself unprotected. He saw Lily screaming and twitching on the ground and realized that the three curses that were used were all Cruciatus and that all three were still in use. He threw a shield charm in front of Lily to stop the curses and then was immediately hit with the Cruciatus himself. James' shield charm dropped and Lily began screaming and twitching just like James was.

Remus and Blair were running and shooting spells at any deatheaters they saw. They saw a group of deatheaters in a loose circle and immediately recognized the two students in the middle of the circle as their friends. They ran faster and started to battle the deatheaters in the circle that were shooting spells at students. They saw Lily and James fall and heard both of them screaming. They both fought with more vengeance than any thought the two kindest students in the school could have. They were soon joined by Rose and Sirius. The former was sheet white and shaking, but still shooting spells with frightening accuracy. They soon heard another series of cracks and were joined by aurors. They soon spotted Harold Potter in the mix. Rose realized that her dad was here and stopped shaking though she was still pale.

When Harold Potter had gotten the notice that there was a deatheater attack on Hogwarts, he'd started praying that his children and their friends weren't caught up in the attack. He gathered a team of the best aurors he had and they apparated to the now accessible Hogwarts. Harold saw a circle of deatheaters around two students who were screaming in pain and almost flashed back to the day he'd rescued Lily and Rose. He couldn't see who the students in the middle of the group of deatheaters were. He looked around and saw his Remus, Blair, Sirius, and Rose all battling some of the deatheaters in the circle.

His blood turned cold when he realized that Lily and James were nowhere to be found. He prayed that they weren't the ones in the middle of the circle. He fired spell after spell at the deatheaters but couldn't seem to hit them. He finally stunned one and looked into the circle to find his son and other daughter were the students screaming in the middle of the circle. He fought harder to reach them. He saw one of the deatheaters near the one that was casting a spell that was making his Lily scream whisper something in the other deatheaters ear. He watched in horror when he wasn't able to reach his children in time to get them before the deatheaters apparated and took an unconscious James and Lily with them.

A/N: As I said before it's going to get pretty dark and gloomy. There is mention of rape but I don't go into detail about the whole thing. I'm preparing you for if you don't like anything to do with rape and you want you can skip over that little part or the whole chapter. I don't think that you'll fall behind if you do skip over the whole thing. Well that's all I have to say for now. Review and tell me your opinions on how I did my first fight scene!!!

~Lauren};]