The Confessions

I am so so so so so sorry that I haven't updated in so long! I've had exams and family commitments and things so I haven't really had time to write, and my good friend Writers Block decided to visit again.

I hope that this makes up for your very long wait, and hopefully the next chapter will be up soon too.

RIP Michael Jackson, we will all miss you greatly.

DISCLAIMER - As you may have guessed I am not J.K. Rowling so I don't own anything.

WARNING – Language and Slight Alice OOCness in this chapter.

Is 'The Confessions' even grammatically correct...?

Oh well, on with the chapter:

As Remus and Sirius technically do anything wrong they couldn't be punished. To the great joy of the Marauders.

James was still in the hospital, with no kind of movement. Soon Madam Pomfrey stopped letting people see James and considered sending him to St. Mungo's.

Everyone in school, even Severus, had come into the hospital to see if they could awaken James.

Lily had made herself ill with all of her crying and screaming that she ended up in the hospital wing herself.

One Saturday lunchtime the Marauders got a message sent to them, sending them to Dumbledore's office.

"What have you done this time, Padfoot?" Remus turned to Sirius as they headed up the marble staircase.

"Nothing, Moony my love," Sirius answered, Remus laughed at the phrase "'my love', "Have you seen Wormtail?"

"No, I haven't. Alice have you?"

"I haven't no. Should I take the Map and look for him. Then send him up when I find him?" Alice asked.

Remus handed over the Map and Alice hid behind a tapestry, to check the map. Moments later she re-appeared.

"He's in the dungeons with the Slytherins..." Alice looked down at the, now blank, Map confused.

"He's probably getting the stuffing kicked out of him." Siruis stated bluntly.

Alice looked shocked for a moment, then shrugged and headed of down to the dungeons, slipping the Map in to her robes as she went.

Remus and Sirius looked at each other and headed up the stairs towards Dumbledore's office.

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After being kicked out of another pointless Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson for moving around too much and being noisy, Lily found herself heading, subconsciously, in the direction of the Hospital Wing. Taking a deep breath she threw the doors open and took her seat beside James.

"James… James I – " Lily cut off.

She couldn't bring herself to say the words she was planning to, the words that she hoped would awaken James. Months ago she wouldn't have as much as thought the phrase she was thinking. Let alone say it.

The doors of the Hospital Wing opened and Lily looked up from her position by James's bed and saw Umbridge stride into the room. Lily scowled at her.

"Now, now Miss Evans, there is no need to get mad at me." Grinned Umbridge.

Lily felt herself anger build in her stomach.

Umbridge continued to grin widely and sat in the chair that was normally occupied my Sirius opposite Lily.

"You need to understand that I do everything I do as I care about you. You need to understand - "

"CARE ABOUT ME!" Lily screeched, losing the temper the she had been controlling over all the time that James had been unconscious, "YOU DON'T GIVE TWO FUCKS WHAT HAPPENS TO ME! OR ANY OF US! YOU ARE SO OBSESSED IN THINKING THAT DUMBLEDORE IS BUILDING AN ARMY AGAINST THE MINISTRY THAT YOU ARE - "

"Miss Evans,"

"James," Lily's anger melted as quickly as it came, she looked down at James's face, "I love you."

Lily looked back up at Umbridge, and opened her mouth to begin to rant again.

"Lily."

Lily stopped in mid-rant and looked back down at James.

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"Have a seat boys."

Remus and Sirius sat in the chairs that stood before Dumbledore's desk and looked up at him confused.

Dumbledore didn't speak for a while; he just stared at them over his glasses in silence.

"We haven't technically done anything wrong, sir." Sirius could never sit in silence for too long.

"You are correct there boys, you haven't."

"Then why are we here?"

"Professor Umbridge is trying to create Educational Decree number Fifty-one?" Remus asked.

"We're only on fifty? I thought we would be on about five hundred by now! I can't do anything any more I mean – "

"What is that to do with us, sir?" Remus cut Sirius off.

"Well," Dumbledore pulled a roll of parchment from his robe pocket and handed it over to Remus, "Read this."

Remus unrolled the parchment and read though it. His eyes widening at every word.

"What?"

Siruis snatched the parchment and looked down at the parchment and read though it quickly.

"But sir, surely that's homophobic!"

"Why you are right. It is."

"What can we do?" The teenagers asked together.

Dumbledore didn't speak for a moment. Sirius fidgeted in his seat, waiting for an answer.

The door burst open and Regulus stood in the doorway, panting, clutching a stitch.

"Regulus?" Sirius looked as his brother confused.

"Si – Siri –" Regulus panted, gasping for breath, "James – "

He didn't need to finish his sentence.

Sirius and Remus shot to their feet.

"Sorry sir!" Remus called rushing from the room after the Blacks.

Dumbledore stared at the door after the departed.

"It looks like even I'm illegal now."

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The Hospital doors burst open and Sirius looked straight towards his best friend's bed.

James was sat up in his bed, his back against his pillows, leaning up against the headboard. He turned and smiled to his best friends as they entered.

"Prongs!" Sirius flew across the room and collapsed into his chair, or was going to, "what's this?"

Sirius picked up a neatly folded of parchment from his chair and fell into it trying to unfold the parchment.

"It's not opening…" Sirius tugged at the folds and it wouldn't open.

Remus took the parchment off him and tried. Nothing.

Peter and Alice came into the room.

"Why –" Alice began.

"JAMES!" Peter ran across the room and perched himself on the end of the bed.

"The whole teams here now, James, tell us what happened." Lily took one of James's hands and held it in both of her own.

Flashback

Umbridge was leading James down the grounds towards Hagrid's Hut.

"Professor?" James asked.

Umbridge just grinned at him and sped up her pace.

James jogged to keep up with her and was astonished when she walked straight past Hagrid's and strode directly into the trees behind it.

"Professor?" James asked again.

Umbridge didn't say a word as she lead James deeper and deeper into the forest. It wasn't for another hour until she spoke to him.

"If I get you out of the way now, then there is no chance of your son causing me or the Ministry any trouble in the future." She had dropped her usual high pitched voice.

"Professor?"

"Don't interrupt me, boy!" Umbridge spat. "Now," her voice returned to normal, "I know that by killing you now, your son will never over throw You-Know-Who and save the world. But it will also stop him from lying about his return."

"Professor?"

"SILENCE!" Umbridge barked. "You will listen to me now, and I will give you the same speech I will give that murderer, the half breed and the Mudblood – "

"Don't you DARE call Lily and Remus that!" James yelled, protectively, not having a clue who 'that murderer' was.

"I will have order!" Umbridge lifted her wand and pointed it at James's chest.

James didn't move. He knew he had his Quidditch reflexes he could use to avoid any spell thrown at him.

"Avada – "Umbridge cut off and looked straight over James's shoulder. James turned to see centaurs stood in a line behind him.

"You – you – you don't – don't – " Umbridge began to splutter.

She was scared of Centaurs.

"No, we need her alive; and I have told you about harming calves." Came a voice from behind the centaurs.

End Flashback

"And I woke up here." James finished dully.

"How did you get knocked out?" Sirius asked, eager for more information.

"I don't know. I just heard the voice and I ended up here." James hung his head, upset that he couldn't give more information.

"Centaurs, you say?" Lily asked with a wide sneer.

Again I am so so so so so sorry that I took so long to update. I have given my awful reasons at the beginning of this chapter so there is no point saying them again.

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Extracts from Chapter 12 – The Voice

"How did you find me?"

"That's the third time I've been called that!"

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"I'm so sorry!"

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