A/N: Still don't own a damn thing...
The Rescue Team, as Lily liked to think of it, were running through the Ministry trying to find clues clues as to were the students may have gone. Their trail led them down a flight of stairs and not a moment to soon.
Lily raced down the stairs and began duelling with the first death eater to cross her path. And of course it was none other than Lucius Malfoy. She easily dodged his spells, throwing her own curses at him. Soon she stunned him and he fell to the ground. But before she turned around a spell hit her shoulder and blood splurrted everywhere.
Lily spun around and shouted "Avada Kadavera!" and the death eater fell dead at her feet.
She dodged more curses as she searched for Harry. She was about to go to him when she heard Bellatrix's evil laughter. She started running to Sirius to help him in his duel. She dodged curses and leaped over bodies, she was almost there when everything went into slow motion.
She watched in horror as a curse went straight into his chest. She saw him fall back gracefully and go into the veil. And she knew Sirius Black was no more.
The woman's evil laughter rang in her ears as Lestrange began to run. Lily ignored the tears streaming out of her eyes and ran after the woman she was going to kill. She dodged more spells and ignored her surrondings. Nothing else mattered. She didn't even know her brother was right behind her on the same mission.
They made it to the main lobby where both women stopped and faced each other, wands raised. But Lily was smiling. During the chase Lily was able to get into the other woman's mind and she knew her deepest secret.
"So Bella Poly juice?"
"What?"
"Voldemort makes you drink Poly Juice Potion?"
"How did you?"
Lily's evil smile grew as she tapped her fingers to her temple. "You need to be more careful Bella. So what sickens you more? The fact that he makes you look like me? Or the fact that he'd still rather fuck a traitor like me more than you!"
"Fuck you! CRUCIO!"
Lily dived behind a statue barley missing the curse. "Stupefy!"
But then there was a third voice and Lily was thrown backwards into a wall, hitting her head and passing out.
"Lily, Lily, wake up my child."
Upon hearing the voice Lily stirred. She didn't know how long she was out. She opened her eyes and screamed. Right in front of her where the cold,evil eyes of Lord Voldemort.
She didn't get a chance to speak as Voldemort's snake like hand grasped her throat and she was pushed so far up the wall that her feet didn't even touch the ground.
"Any last words traitor before I kill you."
"Please," she begged gasping for breath. "You can kill me but please leave Harry alone."
Voldemort threw the limp woman to the ground in rage and disgust. "Your so disgusting, just like your pathetic mudblood mother!" He spat. "CRUCIO!"
Lily's screams echoed throughout the room. She'd never felt the curse this bad. It felt as if her blood would burst through her skin, that her scule would be ripped into. Finally her lungs gave out as she fell into darkness once more.
"Lily, Lily you need to wake up now."
Lily slowly opened her eyes and looked into the soft blue eyes of Albus Dumbledore. She tried to sit up, but as soon as she lifted her head she brought it back down. Her head was pounding, she was dizzy and seeing two. She looked at her arms to find them covered in cuts and blood was all around her.
'What the hell happened' she thought. And then it all came crashing back to her, Harry, Sirius, Voldemort! "HARRY!" she screamed sitting up and clinging to Dumbledore.
"I'm right here Lily." She looked over to her side and sighed in relief at the sight of him. He was shaken up but obviously okay. But as she fully examined the room she saw they were surronded by ministry officials. The Minister himself was panting and starring at the trio with wide eyes.
"Voldemort and Harry Potter battling in the Ministry, good heavens." The Minister began. "And who is this young woman? Wasn't she in Azkaban once?"
"Minister," Dumbledore stood, full of authority. "I will explain everything in a moment. Let me get these two back to Hogwarts. Harry help her up and through the fire."
In a matter of minutes Harry and Lily were in the headmasters office. Harry helped her to a chair and no sooner than she was in place he began pacing.
Lily put her head in her hands and took a long deep breath. She could feel the muscle cunvulsions from the crucio curse begin. But she fought them off. She needed to be here for Harry so she wasn't going anywhere til Harry was able to let it all out. And after what seemed like an eternity Dumbledore entered his office and sat down.
All hell broke loose in an instant. Harry screamed and hollared and destroyed anything he could get his hands on. He finally calmed down and he and Dumbledore began to speak.
Lily didn't remember anything after that. She opened her eyes and found herself in the hospital wing. She felt pressure on her left hand. Looking over she saw Severus kneeled down
beside her bed and he was sleeping, all the while holding her hand. She smiled and began running her free hand through his hair. He stirred at the touch and opened his eyes to hers and smiled in relief.
"Hey" she smiled.
"Hey."
"So how long was I out this time?"
Severus ran a hand through his hair. "Five days."
She just nodded. "What all happened to me?"
He took a deep breath and stared into her eyes. "You lost a lot of blood, you were under the crucio curse for longer than fifteen minutes so you have had a lot of siezures. You dislocated your right shoulder and he used Sectumesempra on you, so you have deep slash wounds all over your body."
The two just stared at each other in silence for a long time, not sure what to say. Lily still felt weak, she gave Severus a weak smile and placed her head back on her pillow, closing her eyes.
Before sleep over came her, she felt his hand run through her hair and he began to whisper in her ear. "Sleep my angel, get well soon. I don't know what I would have done if I had lost you again." And his lips touched her temple. She had wonderful dreams for the rest of the night.
