Alice and Lily hid away in the back of the library, whispering.
"Lily!" Alice said, shocked.
"I know." Lily said, smiling and blushing slightly, relaying the Quidditch pitch scene.
"Did you like the way you woke up this morning?" Alice asked, curious.
"Yes… I did… More than I should have I think." Lily said, smiling lightly, "How was your night with Frank?"
"Great… Magical actually." Alice said, and they both giggled.
Lily sighed and smiled at her friend.
"If you weren't so damned cute I should be mad at you." Alice said, mock hurt on her face.
"Why?" Lily asked, surprised.
"You didn't save a dance for me." Alice said, pouting.
"Please, you were busy. And when I left I couldn't find you any where little Miss." Lily said, smiling.
"Okay… So how is that potions essay coming along for you?" Alice said, trying desperately to change the subject.
"Please, like that is going to break my concentration. Great though. Now where did you disappear to?" Lily asked, watching her friend squirm in her seat.
"We went up to the Astronomy tower." Alice admitted quietly.
"Really?" Lily said, amused, "I never would have guessed."
"We didn't do THAT…. We just kissed, and it was nice." Alice said, smiling.
"You slut!" Lily said, laughing at her friend.
"Shut up. Miss I sleep on James Potter and nothing else happens." Alice said, sticking her tongue out.
They laughed before getting back to the homework they went there to originally do.
Cara and Brigit were spying on Sirius.
"Where do you think he went?" Cara said, smiling.
"Who knows with that lot." Brigit said, annoyed.
"Come on." Cara said, walking into the Library.
Lily waved to Cara and Brigit, they wondered over to her and Alice.
"What are you up to?" Lily asked, eyeing her friends warily.
"Nothing." Brigit said, sitting down.
"We were trying to stalk Sirius but that is turning out to be more difficult than I thought." Cara said, annoyed, she plopped down in the chair next to her.
"Why don't you just ask him out?" Lily suggested, "Obviously that what they do, and it works… Usually."
Alice looked sideways at Lily.
"Shut up." She whispered, giggling.
Cara and Brigit left the library, certain they could find Sirius.
"Sure the castle is big, but its not huge, there aren't that many places to hide." Cara said, leaving the library.
Alice and Lily giggled when they left.
"He is just going to use and abuse her." Alice said, writing the final lines on her essay.
"It is what he does best." Lily said, putting her head down on the table.
"Argh!" Alice said, stuffing her essay into her bag, "Can we get food now?"
They walked to the Great Hall, hoping for quiet.
There was yelling and screams heard from down the hall, Lily and Alice turned to look at one another, before they took off running.
They both stopped instantly from the sight of all the blood….
"Oh Goddess!" Alice said, breathing fast.
"Whats going on!" Lily yelled to a fellow student.
"I don't know, she was fine two seconds ago, now she…." Lily turned to look where the first year was pointing.
There was a girl tied up and bleeding from her nose and from a wound in her side.
Lily ran to the girl.
"Can you hear me?" She asked, loudly.
The girl didn't say anything.
"Ferula!" Lily said, conjuring a bandage to hold to the girls side. "Get a teacher!" She yelled to anyone.
Alice came to stand beside her, taking a bandage and holding it to the girls nose.
"Oh… That looks bad." Alice whispered.
Lily was looking at the crowd, trying to make a memory of everyone that was there.
Professor Dumbledore appeared at her side, and carried the girl to the hospital wing. Lily and Alice followed, they waited in the hall.
"I'm scared, do you think she'll be alright?" Lily asked, sadly.
"I don't know." Alice said, sitting on the ground.
"I've never seen that much blood." Lily said.
"Me neither." Alice said, shaking her head, eyes distant.
A few more teachers rushed into the infirmary, the girls waited patiently.
Lily stared at the ornate pattern on the wall opposite them, she didn't say anything to Alice, and she couldn't really figure out why she liked it so much, but she did.
Professor Dumbledore finally emerged from the room and smiled sadly down at them.
"Please come with me." He said, leading them to his office.
"Is she okay?" Lily asked, concerned.
"She is not out of the water yet, but I feel safe in saying that she will be well." Dumbledore said, sitting behind his desk.
"Good." Lily said, sighing in relief.
"That was very quick thinking Lily, I am very proud of you, and you should be proud of yourself. If it was not for you I am certain that she would not be alive right now." Dumbledore said, beaming down at them.
"What happened Sir?" Alice asked.
"We have a few speculations, but we really don't know." He said, shaking his head.
"Is there anything we can do?" Alice asked, while Lily nodded.
"Right now I just want you both to be proud of yourselves, go back to your common room, and relax. I'm sure you have worked your selves up. I shall have some food sent up to your room." Dumbledore said, smiling as he pushed them out the door.
The girls walked in silence… confused.
"That was weird." Lily said, turning to look at Alice.
"Yeah, like he didn't want us to be in there." Alice said, when they reached the portrait hole.
"Odd." Lily said, sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace.
Alice gave her a weird look.
"What?" Lily said, "Is there something on my face?"
"No. Should I be afraid to sit on here?" Alice said, smirking.
"Not before now, but I would be afraid to now." Lily said, shaking her head.
Alice sat next to her, staring into the flames.
"I wonder what happened?" Lily said, curious.
"I know…" Alice said.
They sat for a while longer before heading up to their room for a make shift dinner.
They passed out on Lily's bed a while later.
Cara and Brigit had no idea what had happened, but they seemed to realize that they were growing apart from Lily and Alice and played it off as though the other girls had just ditched them.
They all slept a peaceful night in the Gryffindor tower, in Slytherin tower was a completely different matter.
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