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Chapter 10
"Then you have to let her know. She deserves to know that Voldemort wants her dead."
said Sirius.
I glared at my best mate, anger coursing through my veins. Don't they get it? All this time, I've been trying to keep the truth from her for her own safety.
She's unlike any other person I've ever met..remarkably selfless..risking her own life for the sake of others..never hesitating to act. But the thing I fear the
most is the hatred she feels for the Death Eaters..ever since they murdered her mother. The memory of that horrific day is still fresh in my mind ...
Flashback
"Noooooo..."
I caught her around her waist just in time, pinning her against the wall in an alley right beside where she was standing.
Clapping a hand to her mouth I whispered urgently, ". I understand what you are going through..."
"I'll kill them. Kill them all. Each and every fucking Death eater." she snarled, struggling to free herself from my firm hold.
"Lily..please..be sensible. I know..I know how it feels..please..we are outnumbered. Your mum won't want you to waste your life like this..please.."
"No..Let go off me Potter..."
Her voice was drowned by another explosion. Large chunks of rubble fell on the cracked street, crumbling at our feet. Holding her tightly with one arm, I turned on the spot thinking of her home.
She fainted in my arms during the side-along apparition. As I carried her to her room, she opened her eyes and barely whispered in a hoarse voice.
"Why are you doing this?"
I knew from her tone that she was greatful and wanted me to stay. Smiling down at her, I laid her on her bed, kneeling down beside her.
"Lily, these are dark times. Extremely vile and dark times. I completely understand how you feel. Survivor's guilt and the feeling of helplessness in your heart,
shattering you...as if somebody's constricting your windpipe. My grandfather died before my very eyes. Two summers ago...at the hands of a Death Eater.. The last
thing he did was fling his invisibility cloak over me and perform a full body binding curse..." I said bitterly, closing my eyes. I felt her soft hands over mine and
opened my eyes to see her sitting upright, staring into my eyes with such intensity that I felt my breath stopping abruptly. Her emerald eyes were burning with a
wild fire I'd reignited. I stared at the beautiful and extraordinarily kind witch before me. Here she was, comforting me when her mother had just been murdered an
hour ago..
"James...I-I didn't know..I'm so s-sorry." she stammered, fresh tears glistening in her eyes. "We should fight them..all of them.."
"Yes.I'm starting Auror training next year. And you ...you Lily..fight them with the power of healing . Being a healer will expose you to weakened souls..in other
words..easy targets for Voldemort." Heal the wounded, strengthen their minds...do your duty to our world.." I said, placing my hand on her tear stained cheek. She
didn't flinch but stared back at me with a fierce determination.
"And you, James...make sure that you become the best Auror and hunt down those SOB's so there are no more deaths..especially muggles like my mother and kind wizards like your grandfather."
"I will Lily.."
She smiled and leaned closer to kiss me on the cheek. How many times have I imagined her consciously making any sort of body contact with me? As she leaned back, I let go off her hands.
"Lily...you don't want this now. Not now..." I whispered.
She looked sadly at me but nodded. " You are right. I think things will be much easier if they were normal. The pain of losing mum can be truly overcome only if I spend the rest of the year in Hogwarts ...like normally..."
"I understand.."
"James..kiss me.."
My heart crashed wildly as I looked at the broken girl before me. Holding my hand, she leaned closer,
"I won't remember anyway.."
"Precisely Lily...you won't remember." I said as I gently pushed her down on the bed.
She closed her eyes as I raised my wand, concentrating hard to not erase her mother's death...just me..
"Obliviate"
Flashback over
I sat all alone in my room, my head in my hands. The Marauders had retired to their respective bedrooms , patting me sympathetically on the back. I knew
what I had to do...tell her the truth. But what good will it do? If she gets to know that the Death Eaters are after her, she'll mostly suggest me dangerously
stupid ideas. Or worse...regard it as an opportunity to avenge her mother..
Closing my eyes, I felt sleep threatening to overcome me. Merlin! I haven't slept a wink in the last 30 hours or so..
"James..." she whispered as she hid behind the thin white curtains, her beautiful emerald gown whipping gracefully in the wind.
I looked around , trying to find her. There were curtains all around. What were we doing here? Why was she playing games with me?
"James..."
I heard her voice and swiftly located her, moving the curtain separating me from her. She shreiked as I lifted her in my arms and smiled down at her.
"Lils...What are we doing here?"
I said, lowering her to the warm white carpeted floor.
"What we should have done a long time ago." she said, holding my hands in hers and kissing them gently.
My heart did a crazy somersault and I felt the all too familiar feeling in my nether areas.
"Lils...are you sure?" I whispered hoarsely.
She nodded, placing my hand over her heaving chest. Feeling her heartbeat was making mine beat at double its pace. Pure desire was radiating from every inch of my body..only she could make me feel like this..
Cradling her head in one hand, I kissed her soft lips. She moaned against my lips and tilted towards me, deepening the kiss. My hand gripped her hip and I squeezed her as I explored her mouth. She wound her leg around my torso, pulling me closer as her fingers clutched my hair. I kissed the hollow of her neck and she tilted her head back, pulling me closer with her delicate hands.
"James..."
I looked up at her , meeting her stunning emerald green eyes. Damn! I wanted her so fucking badly..
"James! Yo ! Wake up!"
I woke up with a start, head spinning slightly.
"W-what? " I gasped as my eyes focused on Sirius.
"It's McKinnon..she's.."
"No!" I yelled in disbelief as I jumped out of bed, pulling my cloak over me.
"We just got the news. McKinnon and her entire family..killed. The Prewett brothers too..It took five Death Eaters..All this happened a few hours ago."
I swallowed thickly , the pain at the loss of my close friends , fellow Auror and team mates scalding me from the inside much longer was this going to continue? How many more innocent lives will be
lost?
"Any leads?" I said as we headed out towards the beach.
"Kingsley and Mad-Eye are chasing Rookwood and Travers. We may find more on the trail."
"'s do this fast." I said bitterly, grabbing Sirius's cloak as we apparated.
"Avada Kedavra."
The flash of green light narrowly missed us as our feet slammed on the hard pavement of a deserted street. Rather, seemingly deserted. If you weren't counting the ten or so Death Eaters firing curses at us.
"Stupefy" Sirius and I cried in unison, the combined force of our spells knocking a Death Eater down after throwing him ten feet high in the air.
"North. Quick." said Sirius as we saw a few streaks of light from the indicated direction.
As we positioned ourselves behind an old building, we saw Kingsley and Mad-Eye standing with their backs pressed together, firing curses at Death Eaters. One..two..three...four..five..
"That's all of them. The fucking murderers. " I whispered.
"Have your cloak , mate?" Sirius said, looking at me.
I shook my head, focusing on the easiest target. He was well out of sight for Kingsley and Moody, waiting to kill them , his wand poised to attack. There was a ear-splitting scream of laughter as a curse barely missed Kingsley..Bellatrix...
"Pads, 7 o' clock. " I whispered. We both positioned our wands and together blasted our curses at the unprepared Death Eater. There were cries from the other Death Eaters as the hooded figure of the guy we had just killed slammed head-first on the hard, cold pavement.
Rolling quickly behind the opposite corner of the building, we repositioned ourselves. The trick had worked, startling the Death Eaters, giving away their positions. From our vantage point, I caught a glimpse of Moody's face and saw a shadow of a smile momentarily soften his scarred features.
"9 o'clock."
The air was rented with blasts and a brilliant combo of lights..green, red, silver, golden..Pads and I watched in satisfaction as we took down one more Death Eater. Meanwhile Moody stunned the third one.
Two more to go...
Signalling to Sirius, we turned on the spot appearing seconds later beside Kingsley and Mad-Eye.
"That was not too shabby, boys." said Moody in his gruff voice.
I flinched on hearing the derogatory term 'boys' but smiled nevertheless on being complimented by my greatest hero apart from dad. He's gonna call us 'men' soon..I'll make sure of it. We four stood in a perfect circle, backs towards each other, eyes scanning the whole place for any sort of movement.
"Have the scumbags fled?" said Sirius disappointedly.
"No, the fun's not over yet." snarled Kingsley.
"Split up. Black, Potter. East. Kingsley, follow me!" barked Mad-Eye.
Pads and I moved towards the ordered destination . It was totally deserted.
"Should we go back?" said Sirius.
"Wait. I heard something." I whispered.
We strained our ears but heard nothing. I was positive..it sounded like a cloak whipping or something.
"Maybe it's noth-" Sirius began but he was cut off by the force of a curse that blasted him off his feet, slamming him against the wall.
I spun around facing the Death Eater before me.
"Stupefy!"
I yelled , yet as the spell shot from my wand, I saw another streak of red light, mingling with mine as it hit the Death Eater.
I turned to see Sirius swaying slightly, trying to get to his feet. No way..someone tried to put a shielding charm and I'm pretty sure that person shot the Stunning spell at exactly the same time too...
I rushed towards Sirius, helping him get up. He waved me away.."Go help Mad-Eye and Kingsley. I'm okay."
"Shut up. There's no fucking way I'm leaving you alone here."
"Touching. Hope Evans dosen't hear it." he sneered , getting to his feet.
"You are hurt. Transform. Now." I ordered him. I waited for him to change into the huge , shaggy black dog.
That's when it happened. I heard a softly supressed gasp...I'm sure I did. So did Sirius. He barked and wagged his tail , looking from me to the rusty old lamp post a few feet away.
NO ! It can't be.. No way...within seconds I reached the post and pulled the invisibility cloack off my very shocked, slightly frightened and annoyingly beautiful girlfriend...
No bloody effing way...
'Lily ! What the hell are you doing here ?' I snarled, grabbing her wrists and pulling her with me into a narrow passage between two old buildings.
Her hands trembled in mine and she stared blankly at me as I pushed her against the wall. The colour had drained from her face, making her look ghostly pale. Her lips were swollen but a shade of pale pink instead of the lush red ones I was used to staring at for hours in Hogwarts. The wind blew a few strands of her flaming red hair across her face. I shook her impatiently. We were losing precious time and it won't do me any good ogling at Lily.
"James, let go off me." she said finally, placing her frail hands on my chest.
"No Lily. You are going to apparate back to the beach house. Do I make myself clear ?"
"Fuck you , Potter ! I'm here for Mar. She's my bestfriend and I'm here to kill those bastards." she snapped, pushing me away .
"Lily! I know, I understand but this is for your own-"
"Shutup Potter ! Shut the fuck up ! You think you know what is for my own good? Well, for starters..keeping me cooped up in a beach house and lieing to me the whole time isn't!" she yelled, the colour returning to her cheeks, her emerald eyes burning my insides with their intensity.
She knows...she knows... I blinked as I stood motionless, watching her walking away . How could she know ? I took a few uncertain steps, thinking of what to do . She was hurt, yes. That's when it happened.
The flash of silver light hit Lily squarely in the chest. Her shreik of pain rented the air as she fell to the ground, eyes wide open in shock and mouth frozen in a scream that had died in her throat.
"No...NO...NOOOO!"
"Expelliarmus"
I watched my wand flying out of my hand. But it didn't matter. All I wanted to do was run towards Lily, check her pulse and confirm that she was...alive..
"Easy, Potter ? What's the hurry ? You'll join the filthy mudblood soon." cried Bellatrix as she stepped out of the shadows,taking care to step over Lily's hand as she walked upto me.
"Avada Kedavra"