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Chapter fourteen- The Unanswered Questions.
-James' POV-
I'm sitting with the boys planning our next prank for when we go back to Hogwarts when there I a loud bang on the door. I shrug it off, my mum will get it.
"-Anyways I was thinking we should-"
"JAMES! Go answer the door please!" I sigh and stand up.
"I got it!"
I pull open the door and stop dead in my tracks. Lu was standing there with black hair, her eyes electric blue and blood caked on her forehead and some still running down the side of her face, her lip was split open, and I could see shards of glass sticking out throughout her whole face. The dress she was wearing was supposed to be white I could tell but it was completely colored red from the blood. Then I took notice that the shards of glass weren't just on her face but her chest, arms, legs, and sto- Oh merlin. It was then that I noticed a handle sticking out of her stomach a handle that could only known as that muggle thing that they used to kill each other.
"I made it." She says before she falls forward into my arms, I catch her.
"MUM!" Sirius, Remus, and Peter come and stand in front of me as I kick the door shut, Lu in my arms. They all instantly pale. Then my mum comes running in, she takes one look at Lu and yells,
"Take her upstairs, the room between Sirius and Remus! Hurry!" I start sprinting up the stairs with her in my arms. Suddenly Pads is there opening the door. I lay her down on the large king size bed. She's breathing heavy but at least I know she's still alive.
"James move!" She yells, and Remus grabs my arm and pulls me back to the wall with Sirius and Peter. Sirius' hand automatically goes to my shoulder.
"Harry get up by her head." My mum instructs. Thank merlin she's a healer. An owl starts pecking at the window and I let it inside.
"Miss Brooks, you have violated the wizarding law by revealing yourself to a muggle at 1:22 pm. You will be trialed on the 5 of January. Hoping you are well, Mrs. Thompson." The howler tears a part.
"I have to go take care of that." My dad says exiting the room. With a swipe of her wand Lu's clothes are removed leaving her in her bra and knickers. My mum starts pulling at the shards of glass removing it from her skin.
"Shouldn't you take out the knife?" My mum shakes her head and pulls three more shards adding it to the pile on the dresser.
"No, I have to take that out last if not she will bleed out and I can't have that right now." Lu makes little whimpers as each shard is pulled out. After a few more minutes all the shards are removed leaving pools of blood from each gash. She grabs Lu's face and tilts her head to the side. Then she moves down and presses one hand to her stomach and the other on the knife handle. At the same time she presses down on her stomach she slowly removes the knife. Lu starts making gurgling noises.
"Mum, what's she doing? Is that supposed to happen?"
"Be quiet James." With one final tug the knife is free and Lu screams, gags, and throws up blood.
"MUM!"
"Remus, quiet him!" She yells as she puts her hand on the wound.
"Sorry mate, Silencio!" And then I can't talk, no matter how much I scream there is not sound. She grabs a vile full of potion and starts pouring it into the knife wound, it starts steaming and bubbling. Then Lucie starts shaking madly, and this time white foamy stuff comes out of her mouth.
"She's seizing." I rip myself from Sirius' grip and run to Lu and sit by her head.
"Mum what's happening?" I say the spell broken.
"James keep her steady." She tells me, I hold down Lu's arms getting blood all over my hands while she shakes. Finally it's over and I wipe her mouth with my sleeve. I start rubbing her forehead pushing her black hair back from her face. Feeling her forehead I notice that it's burning up.
"Mum, I think she has a fever." I say panicked.
"She has an infection. James open her mouth." I pull her jaw open and tilt back her head while my mum pours another potion in her mouth. She goes back down to her stomach waving her wand and muttering under her breath. It takes at least five minutes until the wound was closed leaving a thick scar. A bruise was starting to form at her ribs where I could tell they were broken and her arm was hanging at an unnatural angle. It was quiet while my mum healed all the other gashes on her body stopping the bleeding.
When she was done, Lu's whole torso was wrapped tightly; as was her left thigh, her arm was in a sling and she had a bruise on her head along with a piece of gauze and tape covering a large gash. I got up and removed the blood off the floor from where she threw up and cleaned the sheet under her with a wave of my wand. Sirius and the boys stepped forward then. Then I just stopped and stared at the blood on my hands. My friend who almost died blood was on my hands. Sirius reached forward with a rag he conjured sprayed water on it and started wiping at the caked blood on her skin.
"She'll be alright, it was close but she'll make it." My mum announced from where she had stepped back. I looked up and saw her staring at where Lu was breathing steadily. "I don't know when she'll wake up, but she will." She said as she picked up the bloody clothes and vanished the large pile of glass. "Did any of you know this was going on?"
"No." Sirius and I state together.
"I didn't have a clue." We all noticed that Remus didn't say anything.
"Remus?" My mother asked. He looked up from the hand he was holding and I saw tears on his face.
"I-I knew." More tears leaked out. "She told me first year when I told her I was a werewolf. I kept trying to get her to leave and to tell someone but she wouldn't."
"Do you know why?" He laughed bitterly.
"Yeah, her parents are wizard haters is the best way I can describe. She was born with a full head of lavender hair and golden eyes. Her mother nearly had a heart attack. A wizard was working in the hospital and contacted Dumbledore. Dumbledore came and explained magic to them but they were disgusted. They tried to have her killed or sent away." My blood boiled while my mum gasped and put her hand to her mouth.
"She was only a baby."
"I know." Remus stated angrily. "They treated her that way ever since. They've always called her a freak and that's why Lu gets mad when she hears the word."
"So when she came back from suspension.." Sirius asks trailing off.
"Her dad punched her, kicked her, and threw her sideways into a glass table." I cringe and closed my eyes.
"I'll have to inform your father." My mum says quickly running out of the room.
"So you knew?" I ask Remus bitterly.
"Yeah…" He says looking down.
"And you didn't say anything to anyone!" I yell. "What the hell is your problem Remus?!"
"Prongs maybe he-" I cut Sirius off.
"How could you not tell anyone?! How could you stand knowing that someone you think of as a sister was getting physically abused by her parents and you didn't say a word!" He gulps. "Look at her now Remus! Look at her! She almost died today Remus! Died!" I shake my head bitterly.
"James listen mate, what would you have done? She asked him not to tell anyone. What would you have done if it was one of us?" I look at Sirius.
"Go to the house pack their bags and bring them back with me."
"James." He says eyeing me.
"Dammit!" I curse as I sit down and put my head in my hands.
"We're all upset mate, don't take it out on Remus." I'm shocked to find tears on my cheek. I rub them off quickly and turn to Remus.
"Moony, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you I'm just so- UH!" He puts a hand on my shoulder.
"I know."
XxX
That whole day my mum was in and out of the room checking on us, and on Lu tilting her head back and giving her more potion. We hadn't moved from the room. Sirius and I were both laying on either side of her in the bed. Remus was lounging at the end and Peter was in a chair close to the bed.
"Boys, why don't you come get something to eat?" My mum says about four hours later when she walks into the room. No one answers her. It's been that way all day; we haven't said a word to each other after I yelled at Remus.
"Boys?" When we don't answer again she walks back out. I just continue staring into her face hoping that I'll see her eyes open. But the whole day passed with nothing, no flicker of movement, no noises, absolutely nothing. We slept in the room that night. I know for a fact even if the boys had left I wouldn't have. There was no way in hell I was leaving that room until she was awake and talking. I didn't care how long it took, I was going to be here until she woke up.
"James hunny? Sirius?" My mum says while walking in the room about noon the next day. I sit up out of my half sleep and stare at her. Her facial expression is nervous as she eyes the two of us that were awake. Peter and Remus were both asleep in the lounge chairs against the wall.
"Yes?" Sirius said, his voice thick from not speaking.
"Your father and I decided, and we're not letting her go back there. I truly like Lucie and I don't want her anywhere but here." I perk up.
"Really?"
"Of course James, you all seem really taken with her and I can't ever let her leave knowing her father tried to kill her." My mum eyes fill up with tears, as she exits the room.
"I like her." I turn my head quickly towards Sirius.
"Excuse me?"
"I like her, like really like her. I've never like anyone as much as I liked her."
"Sirius you like a lot of girls." He shakes his head his eyes never leaving mine.
"She's different James, Lu is one of a kind and I like her." I smile, thinking of how much in love she was with him.
"You're right, she is one of a kind. So treat her right."
"How do you know she even likes me back?"
"A marauder never reveals his secrets."
XxX
"Boys are you hungry?" A loud chorus of no's filled the room. "Are you sure I could make some-."
"Mum, we're not hungry."
"Lu's been cleared of her charges. The owl just came in." I nod.
"That's good." Remus says monotone.
"You guys should really get packing, you have school tomorrow and it's already eight."
"I'm not going to school." She raises an eye brow.
"James you can't just not miss school."
"I'm not going back without her. I'm not." She glares at me.
"James Potter, you and Sirius are going to school tomorrow."
"I'm not going either." Sirius tells her.
"She will be fine, I'll take good care of her."
"But you have work! We can watch over her while you go!" Sirius protests.
"Mum, I can't leave until I know she's okay. Please don't make us go." Her face cracks and she frowns.
"Fine." And with that she sweeps out of the room.
The time that the Hogwarts express went had come and gone and we were still sitting in the same spots as before, just staring at her hoping from something, anything. We haven't eaten yet and the only time we left was to use the bathroom and the bathroom was still in the same room. Lu's clothes and things were now piled in the corner from where my mum and dad had gotten them yesterday, I didn't ask how. It was so quiet in the room that you could hear a pin drop. My mum having gone back to work hasn't been bothering us to eat and leave the room which I was grateful for. I just wish so many things right now. I wish she's wake up, and I wish I bugged her for more information about her parents after we visited and I wish she had told someone, had told us.
At noon, we got our first flicker of movement. Sirius was holding her tightly, when she squeezed it back. That made Sirius smile widely. I couldn't have been happier because the only sign of her actually being alive was her slow and shallow breathing, and the steady rhythm of her heart. At 3 we got another sigh, her leg twitched. Than at four her arm moved. We didn't get any more signs that night.
The next day, she started making noises and tossing and turning. We were all so relieved even if the noises she made were from pain. At least we could hear something. A
"James." Peter calls, I turn to where he was standing by the window to see an owl.
"Well let it in mate." He nods and the owl flies to me and drops a letter on my shoulder. I open in it recognizing Lily's beautiful cursive.
James,
I know it's been two full days at Hogwarts but you're not there, and either is Sirius, Remus, Peter, or Lu. And I know you guys could have missed the train, or decided I don't know not to come back. But I know it's none of that. Listen, Lucie told me about her parents about a few weeks ago, and Alice and I are extremely nervous. I just keep getting the feeling something happened to her and I'm freaking out. If you don't owl me back and tell me what happened, rules or no rules I am coming to your house and if you're not there I'll check every single one of your houses. I'll even go to Sirius'! You better owl me back James Potter or so help me god I will kick your arse and I mean it! Please James, just please tell me if my friend's okay.
Love always,
Lily.
I pass the note around and hear the boys laughing while I head over to the desk to right a reply back.
Lils,
Relax, don't do anything drastic. I'm sorry I didn't owl you to tell you myself we weren't there but I was a little busy. You're right something did happen with Lu's parents. She arrived at my house two days before we were supposed to come back. I won't write the details in a letter, we'll tell you in person. She's hasn't woken up yet but I assure you my mum healed her as best as she could. Though we're hopeful she'll wake up soon. She started moving around and making little noises. It's given us hope. I'm sorry I can't be there to help you with the heads work and such but I can't come back until Lu comes with us. We all can't. Dumbledore knows we might not be back for a while but it would be helpful if you owled us our work so we can get caught up for however long we will be here. It would really be a great help. Thanks Lils, I'll have her owl you as soon as she can.
Love,
James.
I attached the letter to the owl and sent her off. Then I just sat there and watched it fly off until I couldn't see it anymore.
"Why do parent's do this to their kids?" Sirius asks. This is the first time we had really spoken about the whole ordeal since we found her.
"I don't know Sirius, sometime they just aren't good people." Remus says. "There is no better way I could put it."
"I mean you have someone like Lu, who is funny, caring, passionate, loving, and brave. How could you do something like that to her? That is everything a parent dreams of yet they threw it away!" I turn to him.
"Take you for example, you're funny, caring, strong, brave, and the best friend I ever had and your parents did that to you." He looks away from me. "Sirius, you are all of those things. I know that this brings up bad memories for you. I wouldn't be a very good best mate if I didn't know that. But it's there loss not yours, just like it's not Lu's loss but her parents' loss."
"Don't you get it Sirius? You need to stop acting like you did something wrong because you didn't." Remus says.
"Padfoot, they really do know what they're saying. Just listen mate." Peter tells him. Sirius takes in a long shaky breath and wipes his face where I know he had tears falling down.
"Thanks." He says thickly. "I just wish I understood why."
"It's just something we'll never know, mate." He grimaces.
"I just wish it didn't happen to her."
"I wish I could have went through it for her." Remus announces. "But I can't, none of us could. All we can do is be here for her when she needs us."
"No one, wanted this to happen mate." Peter says. "No one."
XxX
-Sirius' POV-
"James! You've this is the fifth day you haven't left this room! Peter, Remus, Sirius! I want you all up!" Jackie yells as she walks into the room dressed her in work clothes.
"I don't want to mum." James whines from his spot on the bed. Peter falls off the couch that we conjured from the noise and Remus lifts his head from the wooden chair.
"I don't care! You all haven't showered, or eaten. You will get up right now!"
"Go on mates, I'll stay with her while you take showers." After seeing Jackie's face add, "While I'm waiting for you all to get done." Jackie with a satisfied look on her face walks out. Remus slowly gets up and takes a long look at Lu, before walking out the door as does Peter and James. I pull the chair up closer to the bed and grab her hand tightly.
"Merlin Lu, just wake up now okay?" I beg. I stare at the dark black of her hair, knowing exactly what color her eyes would be. I had seen her this way once, and that was when she was scared, I wonder how bad it was this time. "We all need you to wake up, it will be exactly five days in a few hours. Come on, do it for us." She mumbles but doesn't wake up. I take a deep breath and sit on the bed next to her by her head. My hand comes up on it's own and strokes her cheek, pushing the hair from her face. Her face leans into my hand and I almost cry out when I hear,
"Sirius?" I swear my heart stopped just then, and I had to fight myself hard not to cry. Hoping I didn't imagine it I stare down at the electric blue eyes staring up at me. "Where am I?"
"James'" I say, swallowing the lump. Before my eyes, her hair changes back to lavender and her eyes to gold that bore into mine.
"I got away." She says closing her eyes and letting a tear slip down her cheek. "I got away."
"Only just." Her eyes open and she looks back down, staring at her injuries. She stifles a sob. I lay down next to her and carefully pull her into my arms, avoiding all the bad spots. "It's okay, you're okay now." She just continues to cry while I speak softly into her ear hoping to calm her down.
"It was terrible." She cries out. "I don't ever remember being that scared."
"Me either." She stops as I sit up again and look down at her. "You have no idea how bad you scared me. James caught you and called for his mum, I knew something was wrong. When I saw you in James' arm half dead, bloody. I just couldn't think, I couldn't do anything. She brought you to this room, and you had glass everywhere." I blink back tears. "She kept pulling them out one by one and you'd whimper and I wished there was something I could have done, but I just couldn't. James was a mess, he was screaming the whole time. When his mum pulled out the knife, you started throwing up blood." She winces. "James was so hysterical that Remus had to silence him to be quiet. Then you had a seizure, and I just watched you shake. James went to you and tried to hold you down while Jackie poured potion in your mouth. He was traumatized. After you were banaged up he just looked at the blood on his hands. I've never seen him like and I never want to see it again. You really had us scared Lucie." She wipes the tears from her eyes.
"I never thought he'd take it that far. I never thought he'd try to kill me." She shook her head. "I was just done. I didn't have anything left to give. I was so mad when they introduced me to who I was supposed to be marrying that my hair changed before I could control it. The boy was terrified. He asked me what I was and I told him. He ran out screaming and my Father went crazy. I was so frightened of him. He punched me, and banged my head against the table. He picked me up and through my completely through my glass door." I grimaced and she squeezed my hand. "I don't know how I got up, but I found myself in the closet where they hide my school things. I was just about to leave when I felt the knife." She closes her eyes tightly. "I have never felt anything like that before in my life. The only thing I could think of when I apparated were you're faces because you all were the ones I wanted to see most. When I saw James, I just couldn't handle it anymore. I guess my body knew it was okay to let go." I put my face in my hands and she rubs my head.
"I was so helpless and James was screaming at everyone and I didn't know what to do. I don't understand why you? Why did you have to go through it?"
"Everything happens for a reason Sirius."
"No, you didn't deserve it! You're passionate, brave, loving, caring, funny. Why you? Why not the people who actually deserve it?" I put my head back up and stared into her face. "Why?"
"I-I don't know." She looked completely shocked at my out burst. I didn't care that she just woke up, or that she just went through the most pain she had ever been through in her life. I was going to tell her how I felt.
"I like you Lucie, I mean I really like you." Her lower lip trembles.
"Sirius I-"
"No, you're different from every other girl. I know that I have a reputation and you don't date but I really, really like you."
"I have something confess." I furrow my eye brows.
"James and I didn't just fake date to make Lily jealous. We were- I was trying to make you jealous as well." I just stared blankly at her, she bit her lip. "I liked you a lot and then you went out with Jenna. James was upset about Diggery, and well I was upset. We were sitting in the kitchens and James mentioned that I should make you jealous because he thought you liked me. So then it came to me that we should date each other because it wouldn't be awkward and we'd be killing two birds with one stone." She finished and I couldn't say anything. She was trying to make me jealous? James and her had came up with a plan to make me jealous? "Sirius say something please." But it didn't matter, not anymore.
"I don't care. It did work, but that doesn't matter. All that it matters is that I really care about you." She smiles at me, though it's more painful than anything.
"I like you too, but I'm dating James."
"So?"
"Sirius, I'm not going to break up with him until Lily cracks. It was for both of us, and until he get's Lily-"
"I'll wait." I tell her. "I don't care how long." She smiles.
"Sirius?" I swallow.
"Yes?"
"Just kiss me already." I sigh out and relief and our lips meet. It was like nothing I had ever felt before. Her lips were soft under mine, she parted her lips and our tongues met. It was tentative, passionate, soft, and fiery all in one. I can't explain how it felt. I just, I can't even imagine anything being better than this. This was-
"Oh." A voice says from behind me. I break apart and turn towards the door to see, James, Remus, and Peter all wet from their showers grinning like idiots.
-Luella's POV-
"You're cheating on me?" I smile at the sound of James' voice.
"Sorry Jamie." I say not sorry at all. He pushes Sirius off the bed, who lands with an "umphf" and pulls me into his arms. I lean into the embrace ignoring all my pains screaming in protest.
"Lu Lu, I was so scared." He whispers into my ear.
"I know." He shakes his head and lays it on my shoulder.
"No, you don't know. It was terrible. I can't even think about it. When I had your blood on-"
"Shh, it's alright James." He sighs and pulls back. I look over James shoulder at Moony and Sirius who were talking.
"OY Moony!" He looks at me and smiles brightly. Now James is being pushed out of the way by Remus who hugs me tightly.
"I wish I could turn back time, because than I wouldn't have listened to you. I would have told anyone that could have helped you and gotten you the hell out of there." I pat his shoulder.
"It's okay Remmie, I'm fine now."
"Yeah now, what would have happened if you died? Where would that leave me?" I swallow thickly.
"You'd be fine."
"No I wouldn't." I shake my head.
"I would make sure of it." He doesn't answer. Then I push him aside and pull Peter close to me.
"Hey, you okay?" He nods.
"I've never seen anything scarier in my life."
"So I've heard." That gets a chuckle from him.
"I'm okay now Wormy. I'm okay now." He leans back and the boys just stare at me.
"I'm okay really." They still eye me nervously. I roll my eyes and start putting myself in a sitting position. They stare at me with wide eyes as I try to get to me feet. At the same time four hands grip me.
"Where are you going?!" Remus demands.
"Jeeze, let me go! I'm going to the bathroom." They all drop their hands.
"Oh."
XxX
The next week was gruesome. I spent the whole time getting my strength back, well after I wrote Lily a letter after James explained to me who crazy she went. Sirius and I didn't really get a chance to define what we were but he always sat near me, or went out of his way to help me. We haven't kissed since he told me that he liked me, and I was really hoping he'd just kiss me. It was like nothing I ever felt before. I can't explain it. James asked me about it when it was just us an everyone had fallen asleep. Well at least I hope they were, because they were still sleeping in what is now my room since the Potter's invited me to live here. I tried explaining how I felt and he just laughed madly at my blushing face. It was pretty infuriating to say the least. But tomorrow I would be going back to Hogwarts and that made it worthwhile. Lily and Alice had been sending our work which Jackie made sure we did every day. I just couldn't wait to go back.
"Lu Lu!" Someone yells as a jet of water hits my face. I sit up and clutch at my bruised torso.
"Jamie!" I yell back wiping water from my eyes. I stare at him and he grins.
"James, I said wake her up not spray her with water!" Jackie says from the door way, before she walks out. Sirius rolls his eyes, and lifts me off the bed and sets me on my feet. His arms are still clutching mine, and the way he smiles makes my heart drop. He grins at the expression on my face obviously realizing the effect he has on me and kisses my nose before releasing me.
"Go get a shower." He says pushing me to the bathroom. James grins at me as I walk past and I reach out and smack his shoulder.
"Hey!" I roll my eyes and wall past him. Before getting in the shower I look in the mirror, I still have a bruise on my forehead though it's lost a lot of it's color, the gash is gone. Actually all the cuts from the glass are gone. I look down to my stomach and carefully untape it. I still have a mark from where the knife pierced me but it's closing up considerably and my ribs and such are still bruised. I'm just glad that I got to take off my sling. I slip into the shower, sighing in relief as the warm water hits my skin. I take my time washing my long hair and conditioning it. After probably about a half hour someone starts pounding at the door.
"Alright! I'm coming!" I call back. I hurriedly get out of the shower and wrap my towel around me. I pull open the door and come face to face with Sirius. He pushes me back in.
"We have ten minutes before they come looking for us." With that being said he leans in and kisses me. His hands tangle in my wet hair as my pull his body closer to me. He pushes me back against the counter and places me so I'm sitting on it, him standing between my legs. My mouth parts under his, and this kiss is everything and more to what it was the last time. I sigh into his mouth. Finally after what could have been hours he pulled back and I was blushing like an idiot. I don't remember the last time I actually blushed at a guy snogging the pants off me. He laughs at the blush on my face.
"You're really adorable." I, if even possible, blush harder. "Since when do you blush after a bloke kisses you?"
"I didn't even know I could still blush until you came along." I answer truthfully.
"Good, I like the effect I have on you." My breath catches at his smile, and I find myself smiling back. "This is exactly what I like about you. You can match me in everything."
"Not everything." I tell him.
"Oh just about." He leans in a kisses me once again this time quicker. "You have to finish getting ready. Meet you down stairs?" I nod, and he sets me back on my feet. He leaves me standing there and walks towards the door. I bite my lip and call out his name.
"Yes love?" He says turning around.
"You actually like me?" He reaches for me and pulls me in for another kiss that leaves me dazed.
"Does that answer your question?" He asks smiling as he does, and he walks out. I stare at the spot where he just was. Man, that boy could snog!
XxX
The train ride was long and effective. We planned out a few pranks we could do since we were coming back to school a week later. All of our homework was done and I was bouncing up and down eagerly. The train came to a stop and I allowed Sirius to grab my trunk as well as his. I stepped off the train with a sigh of relief then "umphed" as I felt two people launch themselves at me. I ignored in the pain in my stomach and hugged them back as I recognized that scent of Alice and Lily.
"Oh god Lu!" Lily said I could tell she was crying.
"Don't ever do that again!" Alice sobs. I hug them tighter.
"Don't worry I won't because I'll never go back to that house again." The both pull back and wipe their tears off their faces.
"Where are you going to stay because-"
"James' house of course." Lily's eye pop out of her head.
"Your boyfriends house?"
"Where else would I go?" Alice just stares at me.
"What if you two break up?"
"Then we break up." I announce as James comes up and grabs my hand.
"Yes but you'll be living with him." Lily says.
"Yeah and?"
"Wouldn't that be awkward?" James grins at me first and then at Lily.
"Flower, you could never possibly understand the relationship Lu Lu and I share."
"That's right Jamie."
"So what you're saying is you're going to get married or something?" Lily asked bitterly. James and I share a look before laughing madly, remembering the time back in the tunnel. We don't answer her, just start walking forward.
"Are you going to answer me?" She calls out. I laugh harder along with everyone else, and don't look back. She screams out again,
"LU!"