Just as Lily was getting ready to sneak out her window to meet James, her phone buzzed. She looked down to see a message from James.

Can't get away from Al, he's watching me like a hawk.
I'll meet you at the three broomsticks tomorrow at 8.

Lily sighed as she took off her shoes and dressed in her pajamas, then collapsed on her bed. But she wouldn't sleep. She wanted to know what the hell was going on with her brother. He had never acted this weird before, and she wondered why he was now. Had something happened to set him off? Was he planning something? She didn't know, but she had to find out, fast. As the night progressed, Lily heard everyone leaving, and then her family heading to bed. But she didn't ever hear Albus, whos room was directly across from hers, enter his room. She waited silently for him to, but he never did. She decided that she would go downstairs and talk to him, so she made her way quietly down the stairs. However, just as she reached the bottom step, she saw the door closing silently. That was it, she'd had enough. As fast as she could, she grabbed her father's invisibility cloak out of the closet, covered herself, and silently went after him. As she followed him, she wondered why the hell he was going into the woods at 11 pm. But soon she realized that he was heading to the tree house that had been built in the woods years ago when Lily and her siblings were little children. As he reached the tree house and entered, Lily heard quiet conversation, which progressed to yelling, then saw bursts of light. Someone else was obviously up there, and she feared for her brothers safety, but relaxed when she saw him coming down the ladder. He took a drink out of a flask, and started to walk away. Lily quickly dialed James' number, and when he answered, she quickly said, "Stay on the line," that's when Lily took her invisibility cloak off and stepped in front of him, crossing her arms, "What the hell are you doing, Albus?"

Before Albus could respond, Lily heard a voice coming from the treehouse, which sounded an awful lot like her brothers, "Lily, get out of there!" whoever it was shouted, startling Lily.

Lily quickly drew her wand and pointed it at her brother, who also drew his wand, but Lily was faster, "Expelliarmus!" she shouted, sending Albus' wand flying out of his hand. He looked at her, then ran at full speed towards her, but Lily was still too quick for him, and she shouted, "Everte Statum!" Making him fly backwards, hitting the ground with a thud. Then she cried out, "Albus, what's gotten into you?!"

But the boy laying on the ground merely laughed angrily as he slowly stood up, glaring at Lily, "You aren't the smartest girl ever, are you?!" he shouted with a grin on his face, laughing.

That's when it all clicked in Lilys head as she took a step back, her eyes wide and face pale, "Oh my god," she croaked, "You aren't Albus."

He clapped slowly, "Of course I'm not! You see, Lily, I knew you'd figure it out."

Lily creased her eyebrows in confusion, "B-But why? Who are you?"

The man laughed again, "Do you really have to ask that, my dear?"

Then she realized, and she whispered, "Lorcan."

He clapped again, "Why aren't you a clever one? As to why I did this, I had to show you?"

"Show me what?"

"That you staying away from me, is only going to put those you love in danger," he shrugged, and pouted his lips, "Now is that really want you want?" He took a step towards her, extending his hand, "Come with me, and no one you love will ever be harmed again."

She felt so many emotions rising up inside her; Anger, confusion, fear, and guilt. She couldn't let her family be hurt anymore, she just couldn't, "So if I go with you," she asked in a shaky voice, "You'll never hurt anyone I love again?" And when he nodded, she added, "Including Scorpius?"

He rolled his eyes, growing impatient, "Yes, yes, including Scorpius. Now, what's your decision?"

She felt tears pouring down her face, but she didn't care, she knew what she had to do to protect her family; to protect Scorpius. "I'll go with you," she whispered. But, before she could extend her hand to his, someone started yelling from the treehouse again. Lily looked up, to find a weak, bloody Albus hanging his arm out the window, obviously struggling to stand up. In his hand was a wand, and he pointed it directly at Lorcan.

Before anyone could do anything, Albus shouted something Lily couldn't quite understand, and a flash of green light came out of his wand. Lily backed away, shielding her face. Then she heard Lorcan scream. A terrible, agonizing scream, and when she looked at him, he lay on the ground, eyes wide open, dead, and Albus' wand fell from the window as his hand went limp. Lily snapped back into reality, she didn't care about the body laying in front of her, she cared about her brother. She quickly made her way up the ladder, and immediately ran to her brother. She wasn't sure what to do. He was covered in long, bloody gashes, and his face was bruised. She began to cry as she collapsed to her knees beside him, and pulled him onto her lap, "Al, wake up," she croaked through her sobs, "Please, I need you," she stroked his hair, the cupped his face in her hands," Please don't leave me."

Lily started screaming at the top of her lungs when Albus didn't respond. She reached for her phone, but she must've dropped it somewhere outside. She felt defeated, and was sure Albus was on the verge of death when she heard someone coming up the ladder. At first she panicked, thinking Lorcan had somehow faked his death, but then James came through the door. He stared at Lily, then at Albus is disbelief. He fell to his knees, "When need to get him to Mungos, now."

While the three were in the tree house, a girl sat by Lorcans body, letting tears fall silently down her face. She had loved Lorcan, very much, though he only looked at her as a dear friend and partner in crime. She would grieve for Lorcan heavily, and couldn't believe that her love had finally been defeated. She had known that his obsession with Lily would be the end of him, but she couldn't bring herself to tell him that. Because whenever he talked about his plans to get Lily, he looked so happy, and that was all she'd ever wanted for him. She heard shuffling in the tree house and knew that she had to go. So she leaned over him. Letting her straight red hair cover his face and kissed his forehead, "Goodbye, my love," Rose Weasley whispered as she stood up. She pulled a pencil and piece of paper out of her purse and left a note right over Lorcans heart. She then turned around and disappeared into the darkness, thinking I will avenge him. I will destroy Lily.

As the Potter family sat in the waiting room at , Lily couldn't help letting a feeling of guilt consume her. This was all her fault, she thought. Lorcan was after her, so he hurt her brother. What if he died, then what would happen? He would be dead, and his blood on Lilys hands. Lily just sat there, acknowledging no one, staring at the floor. She was covered in Albus' blood, and shaking. Because she knew that he'd lost too much blood, and that his life was clearly on the line.

As Hermione and Ron walked in, they looked to Harry and Ginny, expecting news, but they just shook their heads, because no one knew anything at this point. Hermione looked at Lily, and sat down beside her, digging around in her purse until she pulled out a clean white tee shirt. "Here, sweetie, why don't you go change into this?"

Lily looked over at Hermione and tried to smile, but she just couldn't bring herself to do it. But, she did take the shirt and thank Hermione, then she headed to the bathroom to change. She threw the blood soaked shirt in the garbage can, and cleaned herself up. 30 minutes later, she made her way back out to the waiting room. But when she arrived everyone was gone. Panic set in, and she searched everywhere she could think of, frantic. When she could find no trace of her family, she went to the front desk and asked if Albus was in a room and allowed visitors. The young healer nodded, and escorted Lily to Albus' room, which was empty. Albus was unconsciousness, but a healer was in there with him. As Lily stepped in the room, she asked, "Has his family been here?"

The healer nodded and smiled back at Lily, "Yes, a whole parade of people just left to go home and rest."

Lily thought that meant that Albus must be okay, but she had to make sure, "Is he uh . . Is my brother going to be okay?"

The healer nodded, and Lily sighed in relief, "He'll be okay. He might be with us for a while, but he will get out of here eventually."

Lily thanked the healer, who then left, and sat beside Albus, taking his hand gently in her. She cried, thankful to god that her brother was going to be okay. She then started talking to him, as if he were awake, "I was so scared, Al," she whispered as she started sobbing, "I-I thought I was going to lose you."

Then, to Lilys' surprise, Albus slowly opened his eyes, and squeezed her hand, "It's okay Lils," he whispered, "I'm okay."

Lily nodded as she wiped her face with her free hand, then looked in his eye, smiling, "You saved me, Albus, thank you."

Albus smiled weakly at his little sister, "Don't thank me, you're my baby sister, it's my job to protect you."

Lily hung her head, looking at the floor, and the feeling of guilt came back, "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."

Before Albus could respond, a frantic looking Scorpius opened the door, and at seeing Lily, he ran towards her, holding her in his arms for what seemed like a lifetime, while he stroked her hair, "It's all over, baby girl, he's gone," when he was done holding Lily, Scorpius took a seat right next to her, and smiled at Albus, "You're one hell of a fighter, Albus. "

Albus smiled back at Scorpius, drifting back off to sleep. But before he fell back asleep, he yawned and whispered, "Thanks, mate."

With Albus now sleeping, Lily turned her attention to Scorpius, smiling, "I can't believe it's all over."Scorpius nodded and smiled, but he was hesitant. Lily knew that he knew something she didn't, "Scorp, what do you know?"

Legally, Scorpius wasn't supposed to tell Lily anything, but the look in her eyes told him that he had to. He took her hand and sighed, "It's not over."

Lily stared at Scorpius, unbelieving of what she was hearing, "But he's dead."

Scorpius nodded, "Yes, Lily, Lorcan is dead. But, uhm," he didn't know if he could bring himself to show Lily the note they had found, as it was a personal threat to her and Albus, but he knew that Lily would rather know than be oblivious, so he sighed and handed her the note out of his pocket.

Albus, how dare you kill Lorcan. You would've been better off letting him live and dying.
You will pay for this. You will feel the hurt that I hurt. You will feel like the whole world
has been taken from you and you will grieve heavily. I loved Lorcan more than anybody.
You love your sister more than anybody. Therefore, you will pay, with your sisters life.

Lily kept on re-reading the note, just to be sure that she was reading it right. Just as she thought she was safe, and this whole living in fear thing was done with, yet another idiot comes after her life. She looked up to Scorpius, "Do we know who this is?"

Scorpius held his breath a moment before answering, "I'm sorry Lily, we don't."

Lily thought about if carefully for a moment, then put her head in her hands and groaned, "Why is it always me?"

When Lily woke up the next morning sitting in a chair next to Albus, she noticed Scorpius was gone, then she noticed that she had bad nausea in her stomach, just as a healer came in she ran to the bathroom and threw up, yet again. When she came out, the healer, an old lady who had eyes of stone looked at Lily. "You know," the healer began while writing something down on a chart, "You shouldn't really be around sick people if you're ill yourself."

"I'm not ill," Lily snapped as she took a seat next to her brother, who was now awake, "I only throw up when I smell onions."

"Did you smell onions just now?" The healer asked, a smirk on her face.

"Well, no, I just woke up."

The healer shut her folder and looked at Lily seriously, "Is there any way you could be –" but she was cut off when James and Harry walked in the room. She looked at the three boys then back to Lily, "I'll talk to you later, dear," she said, then walked out of the room.

Albus cheerfully greeted his visitors as they sat around him, excitement building up inside him, as soon as everyone was settled, he decided he would tell everyone his decision, "Dad, James, Lily, there's something I want to tell you all."

"We're all ears, Al," Lily said gently as she smiled and placed her hand on his.

Albus took a deep breath, "You see, well, it's just that, I should really just come out and say it, it's just that –"

"Are you gay?" James asked, suppressing a smile.

Albus laughed as he reached over and hit his brother on the shoulder, "No, I'm perfectly straight, thank you very much. It's just that . . I don't want to be an Auror anymore," the whole room turned silent in an instant as everyone stared at Albus, "I want to be a healer."

As the weeks drug on, Albus progressively got better and was soon released. Lily, the only one without a job, put her arm around his waist to support him as they walked through the door, and lead him to the couch. She sat down beside him and looked at him, smiling. He returned her gaze, "What?"

She shook her head, still grinning, "I'm just so glad to see you home."

Albus patted his sister on the shoulder as he closed his eye and rested his head on the back of couch, honestly relaxed for the first time in months, under the impression that his sister was out of danger and everything was over, "Me too Lils, me too.

PS for right now don't pay too much attention to the whole Rose avenging Lorcan thing. That honestly won't be of issue for a while, i just need it there to keep the story going later on. :) For right now, the story will just focus more on the Potters and Weasley as a family (and obviously Scorpius and Lilys relationship, but the family will be more involved as of now.) Hope you guys enjoyed, i'll update soon!