Always….
Whooooo chapter 10!
Hope you all like it, it's my longest one yet XD
Lily awoke to ragged breathing, "Scorpius! You're alive!" there was a cough, then a splutter, "you didn't think I'd leave you, did you? I came to rescue you!" he said proudly, then clutched his chest and moaned.
"I'm gonna take you to see Madam Pomfrey… Where are we anyway?"
"Very far away from Hogwarts… I don't think you'll get me back in time," he then burst into a fit of coughs.
"I'm gonna apparate back!" she said with confidence, "I've seen my dad do it loads of times, all you have to do is turn on the spot and think really hard about where you want to go." She then set about trying to apparate forward a few metres.
"AAAAARRRGGGHHH! I can't do this! It's impossible!" she looked round, expecting a reply from Scorpius, but nothing, he was lying slumped on the ground, unconscious.
She ran over and lifted him over her shoulder, not quite sure where she had gotten the strength from, and turned once on the spot, thinking hard of the town outside of Hogwarts; Hogsmeade.
Lily heard a loud crack, got a glimpse of a small snow-covered village, the felt a searing pain in her arm and cried out in pain.
But that wasn't going to stop her from getting Scorpius to safety. She was now aware of something warm trickling down her arm but that didn't matter, all that mattered was that Scorpius was alive.
She didn't care if she died saving him, she couldn't live without him anyway, he had to live!
Eventually she reached the school gates, stumbling from the weight on her shoulder, and grabbed the bars, screaming for help, no-one came.
Lily looked up, searching for something to help her, it was the dead of night, the only things in the sky were stars, the moon and a couple of owls.
This is it, she thought, he's going to die, and then I'll have nothing to live for.
She collapsed and sat on the ground, with her back to the gates, sobbing into her hands, more aware now of the intense pain burning through her arm. Eventually, the immense pain overcame her and she slumped over into the thick blanket of snow beneath her and slept, a deep, unwaking sleep.
Lily awoke, startled to see her father sitting next to her bed, "Lily…" he said breathlessly, before bending down to hug her.
"Is he okay? Scorpius, is he okay?" she asked, a sense of dread creeping through her,
"Yes, he's absolutely fine, look, here he is now," he said, pointing to the door behind her bed.
She turned, "Scorpius!" he said nothing, but came over and hugged her tightly, "I was so worried, I couldn't bear the thought of you dying, and all because of me." Scorpius then began to cry into her shoulder. "I love you so much," he said from where his head was buried; inside her bedclothes.
"Maybe I should leave you two alone," her father said awkwardly, "I'll come and see you later Lily."
Lily pushed Scorpius away slowly, "What happened? Back in the forest where I was, I mean."
"Yes," Professor Lovegood had suddenly appeared behind them, "I would like to know that too."
So Scorpius began to tell;
"I was searching, we all were, we thought at first that Lily had just flown in the wrong direction and gotten lost. But we soon realised that she hadn't just gone off, we had searched the grounds and Hogsmeade, but she wasn't there. Around a week after you had vanished," he was talking to her now Lily realised suddenly, "I went off, I had to find you, I couldn't bear the thought of you being alone out there somewhere. Then, after about a week or so, I found you, in Alaska…"
"Alaska! That's thousands of miles away!" Lily blurted out.
"Anyway, I found you, but this thing was kind of… well guarding you, as if you were really important or something. The first time that I tried to get near to it, I walked right in front of it, and it never even noticed me, then I saw you, slumped up against a rotting tree and began to panic, that was when it came after me. I realised eventually that it could only find you if it sensed your fear and I managed to get away, but I had to leave you alone. The next time I tried to get you, I banished all fear from my mind and strode over to you; I woke you up and was planning to fly back on the brooms with you. But when we got into the forest I got so afraid, I don't even know what of, I was just afraid and it came for me. Just before I blacked-out I told you to not be afraid, I think that's what saved you. I don't know what happened next…" he trailed off.
"I can tell you that," came the familiar voice of Professor Lovegood, "You seemed to have apparated to Hogsmeade and managed to make your way to the school gates. Then you must have fainted at the school gates and we only found you just in time, you would have died in the cold if we had been any later. We brought you inside and found the injuries that you both had, you, Lily Potter had splinched yourself whilst apparating back to the school. And, Scorpius Malfoy, you were covered in deep cuts, we had no idea where they had come from, but I have a good idea now, though I have no idea what this thing you're describing could be."
Professor Lovegood then excited the room, turning only as she reached the door to say, "you two had better go to bed, it's very late."
Scorpius kissed Lily goodnight, before exciting the room, leaving Lily with a lot to think about.
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