A/N Disclaimer: Just to refresh everyone's memories, Lily, James, the whole crew and Lord Voldemort do not belong to me! No matter how much I wish they did, they belong to J.K. Rowling. I do own the little voice, Janice Marilee and any other character I claimed to own in chapter 8. But I don't own Suz, Patricia C. Wrede owns him and I have decided that every story needs a talking gecko, so I kidnapped him out of his home in the Enchanted Forest an forced him into my story.
POWER TO THE TALKING GECKO!
The day started out uneventful, it had started like every morning that Lily had lived through by the sun coming up in the east. This was followed by an alarm a few hours later and after snooze bar being hit several times, a very sleepy girl would drag herself out of bed and attempt to wake up. It's not that Lily wasn't a morning person, she just had trouble doing weekdays. All the normal ness of the day changed at dinner.
James had told Lily that he and the Marauders were planning a prank for the evening and James wouldn't get a chance to eat dinner with her. James had given her a quick kiss and then run off. Many would think this put out Lily, but she wasn't. She was used to it and she understood that James needed to hang out with his friends.
Lily took her food down to the far end of the table where she usually ate and read her book. In the middle of a sentence, an owl caught her attention. It was a barn owl with a letter. It was red.
Lily had seen a lot of people get red letters. It usually meant something bad. Lily held her breath as she opened the letter.
Miss Evans,
Your house was targeted by the Dark Lord and it has been reported that you father has died. Your mother and sister were out shopping at the time the Dark Lord attacked and are safe. I'm sorry for your lose.
Sincerely,
Janice Marilee
Janice Marilee
Lily sat there. This couldn't have happened. No, this hadn't happened. They were lying. Dad is safe, Lily thought. There was no attack and no one died. Lily ran outside and into the Forbidden Forest.
But the letter? Why would they lie to her? Not being one to lie to herself for long, Lily realized her father was gone.
Lily had never fit in. She never had. In pre-school kids had dumped paint all over her, in elementary school, kids teased her and hit her. Up until recently, the students at Hogwarts had ignored her. All of this had given Lily ample opportunity to spend her afternoons learning how to cook with her mom and how to ski with her dad. Her parents had been her defenders and had comforted her when she was picked on. They had taught her to ignore it. Petunia had had friends to hang out with and wasn't as close to her parents as Lily was.
Her mom and dad had been her best friends her whole life, and now her dad was gone. She only had one of her two best friends left. Lily walked down a dark path, not caring where she was going.
'You also have James,' the little voice told her.
'For once I agree with you. I have James, he will stay with me, he won't leave me.' Lily stopped and sat down on a nearby log.
"Watch it!" cried a little voice from on the log.
"I'm sorry," Lily apologized, looking down to see whom she was addressing. On the spot the voice had come from was a gecko, an orange gecko. There was nothing particular about this gecko except that it looked a bit hurt an offended. An offended gecko is a funny sight.
"You are? You really are. How amazing I accept," said the gecko. "I am Suz."
"Hello Suz, I am Lily, I am pleased to meet you."
"You are? You really are, how extraordinary."
"If I might ask, what you doing here?" Lily asked.
"I'm here for you."
"Why?"
"I can't tell you. Follow me," Suz instructed and he dashed off into the forest. "Keep up!" He yelled back at Lily.
"Can you please slow down?" Lily panted. Lily had lost sight of Suz. Where was he? Lily turned around and gasped.
A/N I really don't wanna leave you here, but I can't think of what she sees. I'm really sorry this chapter is void of emotion, I'm kind of a zombie right now and I know if I put off this chapter any ideas I have for it will go out of my head so I'm safe writing this crummy chapter. And I'm very, very, very, very, very proud of myself, I didn't interrupt the story once. It's a world record. Sorry for not updating for a while, my internet decided it hated me. (mutters incoherently about the uselessness of verizon) now I have optimum and is a lot better. And just because I wrote more chapters does not mean you guys have to stop voting about which song you want to have in my story. Gots it?
