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Yay another section! Are you guys proud of me? lol, I worked to get this one done. I would've done it earlier but my hands seized up and I wasn't able to type. I also feel like I'm on a slant and I'm going to tip over any second. I think Lily has rubbed off on me, you'll read why in a second. Enjoy! ~May Reach

Chapter 13

Lily

I sat up shaking my head trying to clear the fuzz. All five boys were standing over me looking concerned. I put one hand behind me and shaded my eyes against the bright sun coming in from the window.

"Hey Lils, you alright?" Severus asked from somewhere to my left, I tried to look at him. I couldn't see anything but fuzz no matter how much I shook my head.

"I don't know." I whispered hoping my vision would return soon.

"Lily, look at me." I heard Remus say and I turned toward his voice, but Remus sighed and pulled my head in the right direction. "What do you see?"

"Well," I shielded my eyes again squinting; I shook my head a few times to clear it but it wasn't clearing. "I see-" I squinted again trying to get something solid, "Fuzzy browns and fuzzy grays."

"We need to get you back to the hospital wing."

"I'll take her." James voice came somewhere from my right and strong arms scooped me up snuggly in them.

"That girl likes skipping and falling, she's a hazard to herself." I heard Sirius say to try and lighten the mood, it didn't work and he stayed in a quiet disposition.

Severus was following closely behind; I could hear the cape material of his robes flapping a bit as he rushed along. I had a feeling that this was not good.

Remus

James had Lily tucked into his arms and I wondered how it worked that I said something from her left but she looked at Severus. It didn't make sense; we were on opposite sides of her.

Severus hauled the door open in front of us and James carried Lily through setting her on one of the beds. Madam Pomfrey came out of her office when Peter knocked on it.

"You again?" Madam Pomfrey exclaimed throwing her hands up in the air. "I'm going to have to start charging you for my services!"

"Please, Madam Pomfrey, Lily, it's worse than last time. I think." James told her and she turned towards Lily lying in the bed.

"I'll be the judge of that Mr. Potter. Shoo, go stand or gape over their on the empty beds, I need to work." Madam Pomfrey told us and we all sat down on a couple beds while she interrogated Lily behind a green curtain.

A few minutes later she stepped out from behind the curtain tucking her wand back into her pocket. All five of us stood to hear her verdict and she looked intimidated for a moment at having five seventh year boys staring her down, but it was so fleeting that I wasn't really sure whether I had seen it or not.

"Well, she will hopefully be fine. Her hearing and sight is seriously messed up from the fall, it probably won't return for several days and it may be permanent damage." Madam Pomfrey paused for a moment.

James

"Permanent damage?" I asked refusing to believe my ears, she nodded slowly in reply and I suddenly became very destructive.

Sirius came up behind me grabbing me around the chest to pull me back. He pushed me down on one of the beds and everyone was staring as Sirius whispered feverishly to me.

"James, you can't do anything now. Listen to me, Lily is going to be okay, you know she is, we all know she is." I threw him off me so hard he almost went through the window on the opposite side.

Lily heard the scuffing and Madam Pomfrey had to rush behind the curtain to make sure she didn't try and do anything. Severus ran out of the room distressed and because no one was there to watch Sirius turned into his giant black dog animagus form. He growled a low growl at me, I stood my ground staying in his human form, then Sirius stopped growling and he was back to his normal form running towards me.

"James this isn't helping anyone! There's nothing you can do for her, Madam Pomfrey is trying with the knowledge she has, but it's going to have to do for now." Sirius was suddenly calm and pulling a shaking James down onto the bed.

"It was my fault, all my fault. I tried to be civil towards Snivellus for her sake but it caused her to fall off the balcony. She was just joking how she couldn't get hurt because it was only a ten foot drop. I should've known, I should've somehow saved her." I was speaking rapidly and in murmurs, my fellow marauders had to lean forward in order to hear me.

"May I ask how this happened exactly?" Madam Pomfrey asked returning from behind the curtain, tucking her wand into her pocket again.

"Well, Lily had just taken her homework upstairs because we," Remus gestured to Sirius and Peter, "had just shown up at the common room to hang out with James. She was being kind and was going to hang out with us, on her way down she pretended to fall off the balcony to freak James out because I guess she wanted to see his reaction.

Then she realized she'd left something upstairs and ran back up to get it. Lily had previously been joking how she couldn't get hurt falling off the balcony because it was only ten feet off the ground. Then Severus showed up knocking on the common room door and James went to let him in. Lily wanted to see who it was and came out; she leaned over the balcony, her hand on the edge to see who it was.

Then James and Severus came in and they were being civil to each other; Lily was so shocked that her hand slipped and the momentum caught her just right that she toppled over the balcony. She was only knocked out for a second before we brought her here." It was freaking creepy and amazing how accurate Remus was when he had been reading his book the whole time.

"Well, this probably being true she wasn't too terribly lucky. I'm going to have to talk to Albus about the safety of that balcony." She muttered to herself. "Well you boys can go behind and visit with her, can't promise she'll be too responsive, or if she is I doubt she'll be looking in the right direction. If anything happens just yell."

Then Madam Pomfrey shut herself up in her office and my friends and I gathered behind the curtain.

"How are you feeling Lily?" I asked her and she looked up and to her right, I was sadly on her left.

"I guess I'm doing okay, can't see anything still; I hope you know it's not your fault." Lily told Sirius and he gave me a sheepish grin.

"Lily, I'm on your left." I whispered and she turned toward me.

"That time you sounded like you were on my left, so if everyone whispers at me I know where you're at." Lily gave us a kind smile and I gave her one too even though she couldn't see it. "By the way, do any of you know what happened to my wand? It's what I was looking for."

"Oh, I have it Lily." Sirius said as quiet as possible and she turned towards him.

"Why do you have it Padfoot? May I have my wand back too?" Lily added the second question as an afterthought, and then she held out her hand expectantly. Sirius pressed the piece of wood into her palm.

"I had because I thought I'd play a little joke on you, but I guess now that was selfish." Sirius explained and Lily shook her head at him.

"That was not selfish Sirius; honestly it would've cheered me up. I love your jokes, even though I can't see or hear very well, I'd kill for one of your pranks right now." She smiled then turned towards the other two boys; I didn't think she knew that she was looking at someone. "Is Sev here?"

"No Lily, he ran out when Madam Pomfrey told us your condition." Remus told her calmly, trying not to hurt her feelings. Lily nodded but despite Remus' calming voice and gently way of putting it, her eyes still teared up quite a bit.

"I'm getting tired of having you in the Hospital Wing Evans, you got to stop hurting yourself." I laughed a bit and Lily gave me a big warm smile before giggling herself.

"Thank you all for coming, can I talk to James in private?" She asked and I gave her a shocked look even if she couldn't see it.

"Sure." Remus replied quietly and he took Sirius by the elbow and he left with Peter, leaving Lily and James alone.

"James, honestly, I didn't mean to get hurt again. I know that when I get hurt it practically tears you apart. It wasn't your fault, it really wasn't. It was my entire fault. James please stop beating yourself up, beat me up instead."

"Lily, you know I could never do that. It would only hurt me worse." I whispered and she reached out and touched my cheek with a tender hand.

"You're never going to get anywhere in life if you keep have to look over your shoulder to make sure I'm alright." Lily told me and I gave her a depressed look.

"I do it because I love you Lily, I can't possibly think of anything happening to you. It's not because I've forced myself to do it, or because it's become habitual; Lily I love you and so I feel a natural urge, I can't control it, all I know is that you have to be safe and happy in order for me to be happy. Not fully, but it's satisfying enough to know that you are okay, even if I'm not." I told her, I had never bared my feelings like this to any of my friends, it was something personal. Sirius just always called it puppy love, but I had a feeling Remus knew all along.

"Come here." Lily said and I was shocked as she sat up enough to wrap me in a hug. "James, I care more about your happiness and safety than I do mine. Please, just look after yourself; you're more important right now."

I breathed in Lily's scent; I was confused by what she was telling me. Did Lily just say that she loved me, the way I had told her, but without the word 'love' included in the sentence? I didn't care, all I knew was that I was holding Lily in my arms and she was hugging me back, gently stroking my messy black hair. I wish I could stay in this moment forever and never leave.

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