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RECAP: Sirius and James left to fetch the mirrors, Severus accepted to give Harry some private lessons, two wizards are currently on the Dursley's front porch, no one heard from Bertha Jorkins yet, James has yet to tell Lily about Emmeline.

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Chapter 13 – 24 hours

James had followed Sirius to Wormtail's old hiding place both disguised as their animagus. The house he had used for hiding was one in the deep end of nowhere. It was a good thing that it was near London because apparating would have been tricky since they couldn't be seen, so they ran for about an hour to the deep end of woods.

In was dark and damp in the woods. The small wooden cabin that had served as a hiding place was still standing. Once Sirius had run around the cabin to make sure no one was around, they both returned to their human form.

'Let's just hope he doesn't use this place anymore.' James said quietly as they stared at the cabin.

'He'd be pretty stupid to do so, but it's Peter, mind you.' Sirius reminded him.

'It looks empty. Shall we?' James asked with a smirk.

James and Sirius lived for the thrill and it was the first time since this summer that either of them had one.

Sirius entered the house first, wand ready. James followed at his heel, wand ready as well. It was dark and it smelled of seaweed.

'Lumos.' They both said at the same time. They were in a small squared room where the walls were made of wood.

James approached the table. 'Doesn't it seem like someone's been here recently?'

There were marks on the dirty floor, almost like someone had pulled the chairs to sit down at the table. The table was clean; making it seem like someone had cleaned it to put it in used.

'Maybe we shouldn't linger to long.' Sirius suggested. 'Imagine Peter's face if he came in and we were both just lingering about his cabin.'

'It'd be pretty funny, but I don't fancy a talk with him.' James said truthfully. 'I'm not really in the mood to be provoked.'

'Do you think he'd provoked you?' Sirius asked quite surprised.

'He already did.' James said through his teeth.

'Right…' Sirius said looking around. 'Let's get these mirrors. There here, come on.'

Sirius led him to the bathroom.

'Nobody ever checks the bathrooms you know.' Sirius said proudly. 'Wingardium Laviosa.' He murmured.

The bathtub flew in the air making a great deal of noise as the pips came apart.

James laughed. 'You took the bathtub apart to hide the mirrors?'

'Yeah.' Sirius shrugged. 'I can mend it back together with the repair spell. It should be in the dead center, you just need to dig a bit.'

James took out his wand. 'Let's do it the easy way.'

He did not have to dig for long, after a few minutes of digging he found two wrapped packages. 'Found them!'

'Good.' Sirius said and five minutes later, the bathtub was repaired. 'That was easy.'

The word had not finished escaping Sirius' mouth when they heard voices coming from the outside.

'Do you think someone lives here?' James asked in sudden panicked.

'Maybe it's Peter?' Sirius suggested.

'Should we dissaparate or should we eavesdrop?' James asked knowing exactly which one Sirius would vote for.

Sirius closed the bathroom door and took out two shiny strings. 'Fred and George's.' He explained at James' confused face. 'They're actually brilliant. Put your ear in it.'

They heard the front door opened a few seconds later. James heard the voices as though they were right beside him.

'...It's been three months, Wormtail.' Said a male's voice they didn't recognise.

Sirius and James exchange a glance. There were noises of scratching chairs.

'I know,' Wormtail's voice rang through nervously. 'Why am I taking the blame for this?'

'Why would you think I'm blaming you?' The voice said dangerously. 'Do you have anything to hide?'

'No, do you?' Wormtail said a bit less nervously.

'Of course not, my alliance is to the Dark Lord.' The other men said thoughtfully. 'I'm merely wondering why we seem to be the only two without a job… We don't know anything that's going on…'

Sirius mimicked dissaparating and James nodded. He took Sirius' arm and was in the forest the second later.

'Where are we?' Sirius asked looking around.

'Not too far from the cabin.' James replied.

'What a waste!' Sirius said annoyed. 'We had to eavesdrop on the only two Death Eaters that are clueless.'

'At least we've got the mirrors.' James said, but he too was disappointed.

'Should we tell Dumbledore that Wormtail and… did you know who that other guy was?'

'No idea, but telling Dumbledore would mean telling him we went here.' James pointed out.

'Yeah…' Sirius said thoughtfully. 'But, he's the one who shoved us under the same roof, what did he expect?'

James grinned. 'We'll tell Lily and she'll-

'Have a go at us.'

'-know what to do.'

James took the packages out of his pockets to unravel the mirrors. 'Good as new.'

'Who are you?' Petunia said when the men wanted to come in.

'We're wizards, you muggle.' One of them replied taking out his wand. 'We can do this the easy way, but if you test us,' He twirled his wand. 'We'll have to use other measures.'

Petunia jumped out of the way instantly. She had no plan in being turn into a bat. Vernon came into the hall at that second slowly followed by Dudley.

'The whole family's here.' One of them said closing the door behind him and laughed. 'Good.'

'Who the ruddy hell-?' Vernon started, but both wizards pointed their wand at them.

'We will ask question, you will answer.' Said one of the man in as if this was the most hilarious thing he'd ever said. 'If you don't… it'd take three seconds to kill you… rest assure that I won't hesitate on filthy muggles like yourselves.'

It became very clear to Petunia that these two men were bad wizards. She suddenly remembered Harry telling her that Voldemort was back. Dudley was hiding behind his father.

'Where's Harry Potter?'

Vernon's eyes narrowed, but Petunia answered, 'At school I suppose.'

'There used to be a charm on this house.' One of them explained. 'We couldn't trans past it. You must know that. Why can we now pass?'

Vernon was mumbling something, but Petunia's moral was to answer every question hoping they'd go away. 'I don't know, it was supposed d to hold until he's of age.'

They looked at each other and nodded. A second later, Petunia found herself bonded with ropes. She fell to the ground and heard two more thumps which she assumed was Vernon and Dudley.

'LET GO OF US!' Vernon screamed before his voice became muffled.

Petunia couldn't see anything but the ceiling as she could not move. She heard their feet going around the house, perhaps looking for Harry. She was terrified. We're they going to be murdered?

It was all Lily's fault. Lily had brought this upon them. Lily had been murdered and now it was her turn.

Lily refused to go to bed before James and Sirius were back, no matter how tired she was. She had no idea where they were going or when they would return.

What if something went wrong? What if they get caught? What would the Ministry think if they saw a well alive James Potter? Dark magic.

She drummed her fingers on the kitchen table. Don't think about it.

It was almost midnight when James and Sirius returned from their adventure.

'Oh, thank God!' Lily said wrapping her arms around James's neck. 'I've been worried!'

James kissed her forehead quickly before showing her the mirrors.

'I've forgotten about those.' Lily said and then she smiled. 'This is brilliant, James!'

'It is.' Sirius said sitting down with the front legs of his chair up. 'I don't know how you're going to get those mirrors to Harry. You might have to send it by owl and hope for the best or wait 'till Christmas.'

Lily shook her head. 'I'm not waiting until Christmas. That's three months away! I say we send it by owl, but not Hedwig. We stick a not to the mirror saying 'say my real first name'. We don't sign it. If it gets intercepted, there's no way the person is going to say guess that it's from us, were dead! Harry will probably guess that it's us, and we'll only answer the mirror if we hear either 'Lily' or 'James'.'

James and Sirius blinked at her.

'Why didn't we think of that?' Sirius asked James in complete awes.

'This is why I love you!' James said to Lily.

Lily smiled at James.

'Okay….' Sirius dragged the word. 'Once you're finished your little love festival we could talk about Wormtail.'

'Wormtail?' Lily asked snapping out of it. 'What's Wormtail has to do with anything?'

'The mirrors were sort of at Wormtail's old hiding place.' James said quietly.

'The cabin in the woods?' Lily asked.

James and Sirius nodded.

'He came by while we were there…' James explained what had happen.

'So, he's not being told what's going on?' Lily asked.

'It doesn't seem like it, but we were thinking…' Sirius shot a look at James who nodded. 'Maybe we should go to his place again.'

'Why?'

'To have a look around.' James said quickly.

'You think they'll be stuff in there? I mean, no offence but Peter knows you know about that place. He'd be stupid to hide stuff in there.' Lily said reasonably.

'Yeah, well he's still using it, which is pretty stupid!' Sirius pointed out.

'He thinks you and I are dead.' James added. 'As long as the Death Eaters don't found out about us or Cedric or whoever else, they would still use it, because they know Sirius has to stay hidden.'

Bertha Jorkins found!

The Ministry is pleased to announce that Bertha Jorkins, who rumored to be missing all through the past year, returned to work yesterday with apologies of having lost track of time. The ministry will investigate, but seemed quite sure that this story is probably plausible.

'She always has her head somewhere else.' One of her co-worker admitted. 'I'm surprised she remembered she works here.'

Hermione did not read the morning Prophet any further. 'It's rubbish like that for the rest of the article. This is bad!'

'Why?' Ron asked bewildered. 'The ministry didn't know she was dead. I don't see what the problem is? They can't know she came back to life.'

'Of course the ministry can't, Ron.' Hermione said impatiently. 'It's not them we have to worry about, it's You-Know-Who!'

Harry finally understood what Hermione was angry about. 'Voldemort knew she was dead. He'll know something's up.'

Ron gawped.

'Voldemort's smart enough to put one and one together.' Harry mumbled.

'Harry.' A voice beside him made him jumped. It was Ginny. 'You have a package.'

Harry, who had been occupied in Hermione's article, did not notice the little black owl carrying a package beside him. Ginny sat down beside them.

'Have you seen the Prophet this morning?'

Hermione nodded, but Ron interrupted. 'You shouldn't bother yourself with things like that, Ginny.'

Ginny raised her eyebrows. 'What do you mean by that?'

'I mean-'

'It's always so secretive with you three.' Ginny sniffed. 'If you would open your eyes, you'd see that I care for the same people as you three, including Harry's parents. Harry's mum didn't send me her book because we hate each other you know.'

'I don't want to broadcast my life.' Harry told her. 'It's nothing against you.'

'I didn't ask you to.' Ginny said exasperated. 'Anyways, I should go. Apparently, Dean wants to take me for a walk.'

'Dean?' Ron asked. 'Dean Thomas?'

'Well, yeah, I just broke up with Michael, so I'm free now.' Ginny aired the question away with her hand.

'Who's Michael?' Ron asked suspiciously. 'Why did I not know about this?'

'Oh, I just don't want to broadcast my life.' Ginny said with a smirked while walking away.

Ron stared at her with his mouth half opened as she left. 'Wh-what?' He rounded up at Hermione. 'Did you know about this?'

'Yes, if you must know.' Hermione told him.

'You didn't tell me?' Ron said impatiently.

Harry took this moment to open his package. It was a mirror, a simple looking hand mirror. A note was attached to it.

Say one of our real first names.

'…and anyways, it's her business, Ron!'

'I'm still her brother! If you know something, you have to-'

'Oi!' Harry said to the both of them. 'Look at this! What do you think it does?'

Harry didn't have time to hear their opinions. Cho Chang had just arrive to the Gryffindor table. Harry's mouth had gone dry.

'Harry.' She said breathlessly. 'I – er – was sent to tell you that Professor Snape wants to see you before classes start this morning.'

'Oh – er – have you?'

She nodded. Harry could feel the Great Hall warming up.

'Well, thank you.'

Cho left.

'Wonder why Snape wants to talk to you?' Ron asked in shocked, not to mention oblivious to Harry's discomfort while Cho was there.

The shock of Cho was slowly drifting away and Harry just realised what she had said. 'He probably wants to dock points or something!'

Harry slowly made his way to the Potion Master's office. He knocked twice on the door.

'Come in.' He heard the familiar voice sound through.

Wanting more than anything to walk away from the door, Harry opened it. Snape was sitting behind his desk.

'Ah. Potter,' He said with a touch if dislike in his voice. 'Close the door and take a seat.'

Harry did as told. Snape smirked slightly.

'I'm here because your mother requested it.'

If Harry would have been less wondering, he would have noticed the slight hint of proudness in Snape's voice. 'Er-?'

'She wishes for you to learn Occlumency.'

'What's that? Sir?' Harry asked quickly.

'Of course you wouldn't know.' Snape said smirking again. Harry felt like jinxing his stupid smirk. 'You seem to be sharing some of the Dark Lord's obsessions with your dreams-'

'You mean the corridor one?'

'Do not interrupt me, Potter.' Snape said dangerously. 'Occlumency will be of help. You will block any external penetration-'

'External? Am I being possessed? Sir?'

Snape seemed mad. 'I thought I just told you to stop interrupting me. Classes will be starting soon, but you will meet me here at eight tomorrow night.'

Harry stayed seated. 'But-'

'Leave!'

Harry left hurriedly.

Remus came to Grimmauld Place that afternoon. Lily decided the boys might want to spend some times as 'boys' so she left them in the living room and settle in the kitchen. She could start on dinner, she thought. Dinner would have to wait, however.

Emmeline came in. 'Oh, hi.' She said awkwardly.

'Hi.' Lily smiled.

Emmeline opened her mouth then reclosed it.

'Is something wrong?' Lily asked feeling she was missing something.

'I just- Where is James?'

'In the living room with Sirius and Remus. Why?'

Emmeline was silent for three or four seconds then she spoke in some kind of matter-of-factly manner. 'Listen, Lily. I know you're all saint-like and stuff-'

'Saint-like?'

'You know… You believe the best in people and you believe in second chances… you like everybody… but, you don't have to pretend to like me… not after what I've done…'

Lily frowned trying to think of something Emmeline would have done to her. Was it perhaps before she died, because she hasn't really been around Headquarters since Lily was back? 'I don't understand-?'

'All I'm trying to say is… sorry… It was wrong and I – I guess I was just… I hope you didn't gave James too much medicine, because it truly is-'

Lily waved her hand to stop her. 'Woah, Emmeline, I have no idea what you're on about?'

Emmeline blinked. 'You don't? Oh… well, I just came to dropped these off, ' She left the parchments on the table. 'I'll be off.'

'No, wait.' Lily said taking her by the wrist. 'What were you on about?'

Emmeline looked very awkward. 'It's nothing.'

'What was that about James?'

'I don't know if I should be the one to tell you this.' Emmeline said to the floor.

Lily felt strange, almost like she knew was Emmeline was going on about. She felt like hitting her physically in the face. She felt like ripping out every single hair on that stupid head of hers.

'What happen?' She said through her teeth.

'We- well that's to say I - kissed him.' She said holding her breath.

Lily felt like throwing up. 'What?' She said harshly.

Emmeline let go of her grip. 'I'm sorry, Lily.'

Lily blinked very fast so she wouldn't cry. 'When?'

'End of August.' Emmeline said quietly.

Before she knew what she was doing, Lily slapped her across the cheek with all the force she could find in her. 'Stay. Away. From. My. Husband.'

Her hand was printed on Emmeline's cheek. Emmeline was now holding it with her hand. 'I know I'm in the wrong…'

'Of course you are. You knew we were married.' Lily said loudly and angrily. 'They are plenty of single guys in the Order: Sirius, Remus, Kingsley, Dung, Severus… Oh, but you went after one of the only married guy. Maybe you could chase Arthur next since he's the only other married guy! And here you thought Lily would be okay, because she's all 'saint-like'! Just because I'm not a slut doesn't mean I'll be okay that you do it! It doesn't even make sense! How the hell did you come up with that conclusion? What do you think I do? Eat, love and pray?!'

Lily pushed her so hard that Emmeline was on the floor. She stormed out of the kitchen and opened the living room door with such force that it almost rebounded on her face. She kicked it away as the three boys jumped.

'Sirius, Remus, leave!' She said coldly.

'Lily-?' Remus frowned.

'Emmeline's in the kitchen. She might need some help up.' She said and James's eyes were wide.

'Let's go, Remus.' Sirius said dragging his friend along.

James was pale.

'So?' Lily snapped at him when the door closed behind the two Marauders.

James looked like he would never speak again.

'Is there anything you would like to tell me, James?' Lily said crossing her arms.

James opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He reclosed it and tried again. This time a tiny squeak came out. He got up and walked zombie-like towards her. He reached out like he was going to touch her, but Lily stepped back leaning on the door.

'Lily…' He said somewhat pitifully.

Lily looked away from him.

'Please… look at me…' He said his voice shaking.

She shook her head feeling her throat tightening.

'I was going to tell you.' James said weakly after a few seconds of silence.

'When, James? It's been a month!' She said letting a few tears fall down.

'I was going to tell you that day when Harry left and I told Sirius to get out of the kitchen, remember? But, you dropped the pregnancy bomb.' James said putting one shaky hand on her arm. 'I was going to tell you last week when you wake up, but then your soul got all… you know…'

Lily cleared her throat. 'Do you know how embarrassing it is to know that from Emmeline a month later?'

'I'm sorry… I should have told you… but you weren't supposed to be stressed out and… Lily, I love you.'

'I'm not worried that you don't love me. I'm worried that I can't trust you!'

James didn't say anything to this.

'What did you do when she kissed you?' Lily asked looking at him again.

James was still white, but his face showed a bit of surprise. 'I pushed her away.'

Lily nodded. 'I'm going to bed.'

'But, it's not even dinner yet. Can we talk about this?' James pleaded.

'We've talked. I need to lie down.' Lily sniffed. 'I – I need to process this.'

Petunia woke up on a cold floor. The last thing she remembered was being tied up in her entrance hall. She knew immediately that wherever she was, it wasn't at home.

Wherever she was, it was cold and dark.

'Dudley?' She said hoarsely. 'Vernon?'

'Mum?' She heard the familiar voice somewhere to her right.

She reached out until she found Dudley's arm. Dudley was sitting, so Petunia dragged herself beside her son. 'Are you alright, Diddy? Where are we? Where's your father?'

'I think we're in someone's basement.' Dudley said sounding highly afraid. 'I thought I was alone. Dad must be somewhere, probably still asleep. I don't remember falling asleep or getting here.'

'Me neither.' Petunia said hugging her son.

'How are we going to get out of here?' Dudley asked his voice cracking. 'Are they going to kill us?'

Petunia was lost for word.

I'll try and be punctual for the next chapter; I was in a reading, not writing mode lately!

I have a confession now that we're at chapter 13. I'm actually French, so my English vocabulary might be poor because of it. If something doesn't make sense, please let me know. I really won't be insulted. Constructively!

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