Recognizable
Thing were staring to get better with everyone really. James was slowly becoming his old self again, the pain of his father's death hadn't fully left him but it was getting easier to handle. He was visiting his mother as often as he could. He was becoming more and more nervous as the first gathering they were to be attending approached. She and James had been practicing discussing themselves, altering their faces, Dorcas didn't want to participate in this task anymore so it was just going to be the three of them. James had his new identify all sorted out, now the next part was changing Lily so that now one would recognize her. The first thing they had to change was her hair.
The first thing everyone noticed about Lily was her long red hair, but James thought it would be best to make it short and dark brown, he spent about an hour muttering different spells under his breath as Lily felt her face change its shape. When he was done, he took a step back admiring the work he had done.
"Well?" Lily said. "How do I look?"
"No like you." James said still staring at Lily, she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing but she thought it best not to really worry about that for now.
"Can I see a mirror or something?" She asked looking around the room. James quickly shot and ran into their bathroom and brought out one of Lily's smaller hand held mirrors. Lily slowly looked at her reflection and her jaw dropped. Her hair was very dark brown, almost black and her hair barely hit her shoulders. Her nose was much thinner and pointed and her face was much more rounded than before. James had also made her about three inches shorter than before, and James made himself an inch taller, Lily didn't really see the point but he seemed very keen on it. The only thing that was still the same was her bright green eyes.
"You probably need to change those." Lily said pointing at her eyes.
"Do you have to, I mean it will be a good way of knowing whether its you or not."
"Well, alright, its just my eyes, no one will really notice them." She said as she set the mirror down next to her. She stood up and walked over to her dresser, Lily would be needing clothes that weren't recognizable and that wouldn't stand out, she decided just to keep to the darker colors as did James. Once they were both ready, the sat in there living room waiting for Remus. Lily knew Remus was a little disappointed that Dorcas wasn't going to be working with them anymore. Lily had tried to talk to her about it but with no luck, Dorcas was just too nervous to go one a mission like this one, Lily had a feeling James would have preferred that Lily had dropped out of the mission, but there was nothing they could do about that know. Once Remus arrived they were going to be going to a location given to Dumbledore that he had gotten from someone that had been under cover for him for quiet some time. This gathering was apparently more of Death Eaters that were starting out, Dumbledore's source had mentioned the three of them so they wouldn't have any problems getting in. Lily was a little worried about who else might be there, people that she might know like Bellatrix or Avery or Snape, but she didn't want to think about that now, she would just have to be taking it one step at a time tonight.
"Make sure you stay close to—"
"I know James, I'm make sure I can always see you."
"I would rather that I could see you." James said, he had been doing nothing but staring at Lily most of the night since he had changed her, he wanted to remember exactly how she looked so he would be able to pick her out of a crowd. It would be a little harder since she didn't have her red hair anymore. James was also a little upset that he wouldn't be able to wear his glasses, Lily was able to find a spell to fix his eye sight, Lily kind of wished he could wear his glasses but obviously he couldn't.
"Whens Remus going to be getting here?" Lily asked him.
"Not sure, hope he doesn't look too different thought."
"Well, he'll need to."
"Yah I—" Then there was a loud crack behind them, Lily's head spun around and saw a man standing at the door. Lily knew it was probably Remus but she quickly drew her wand out anyway.
"Who are—"
"I'm Remus Lupin also known as Moony, werewolf, and one of the four Mauraders. I met you, Lily Evans during our first year transfiguration class, and you James Potter forced me to sit next to her to try and get you information." Lily quickly looked over at James.
"You did?"
"Well, maybe." James said as he also lowered his wand.
"And what sort of things did you tell him." Lily said looking back at Remus.
"Well, I couldn't really tell him much. Since I hung around with Sirius, James and Peter all the time you hardly talked to me."
"Yah, sorry about that, anyway, where is this taking place." Lily said as she stood up.
"Its supposed to be in some back store down in Knockturn Alley. I was hoping we would meet Dumbledore's insider but he doesn't want to make contact with any of us."
"Shame, well we all set and ready?" Lily said as she stood up.
"Wait, what's are relationships to each other? I mean people are going to ask how we know each other, unless we want to go sep—"
"No, we're staying together." James said quickly.
"Alright, well…" Remus started. "I guess since James and I sort of look similar, we can be related."
"Cousins since Dumbledore gave you two different last names." Lily reminded them.
"Oh yah, and since Lily and I have the same last name we can be married or brother and sisters." Remus said, Lily saw James give Remus a quick look which caused Remus to slightly shiver. "But, brother and sister would probably be best."
"No, we don't look enough alike, I'm know you're going to be uncomfortable James but it would be more believable if we were married." Lily heard James give out a huff and went to stand up next to her.
"Fine." James said, Lily swore James was sometime like a child.
"James lone Remus your ring." James slowly wiggled it off his finger and handed it to Remus."
"Okay, now that we got that out of the way, lets go." Lily took their hands and then closed her eyes. That familiar tightness enclosed all around Lily, she gripped James and Remus' hands tighter and tighter until she was able to breath again. She opened her eyes, looked up and saw she was staring up at the brick wall leading to Diagon Alley. Lily watched as James tapped the three bricks and then the bricks began to part, creating an archway that the three of them quickly stepped through. The streets were nearly empty; most shops were getting ready to close for the day. Lily quickly realized she was still holding James hand, she sadly let go of it but gripped Remus' hand even tighter. She nervously glanced up at James as they turned down Knockturn Alley. They walked down the dark and empty street in silence, after walking for what seemed years the finally reached the place.
It was very plain but Lily didn't eve like looking at it, the place gave her a weird feeling like something wasn't right here. Remus slowly knocked on the door and the three of them stood there waiting for someone to answer. Lily closed her eyes and got into her character, there wasn't any room for error for this, she need to be this woman, this girl who hated Mudbloods and Muggles, this act needed to be convincing. Lily quickly strained up as she saw a very large but short man answer the door.
"What?" He said in a grovely voice as if he had just woken up.
"I'm Martain Harper and this is my wife Susan and my cousin Mike Johnson." Remus said squeezing Lily's hand even tighter. The man eyed the three of them suspiciously but stepped back giving them room to walk into the room. The house was even more dark and depressing than the outside. The main room was cluttered with books and trash, it loked like it had never been cleaned. The followed the man through the hallway and into a back room, there was a very large round table with chairs all around it. Most were filled and Lily was sad to see there weren't three empty chairs next to each other. She turned around and saw James take his own seat between two men that couldn't be much older than them. Lily and Remus found a seat across the table from James, it made Lily feel a little bit safer since she could at least see him. Most of the people in that room was pretty young, some looked like they hadn't even finished school yet. Lily glanced up at Remus nervously and saw in his eyes that he was also very afraid, Lily was sure all three of them were terrified to be in that room.
Suddenly the door to the room burst open and a much older man with short black hair walked into the room. Behind him was a young women with long brown hair and very fair skin. The way she walked and looked, Lily knew this girl thought herself better than everyone in the room, she looked at everyone like they were nothing, then the next person that walked into the room caused Lily's heart to stop, Snape walked in. Lily looked over at James and saw him staring at Lily but she knew he had seen him walk into the room. Lily watched at Snape took one of the empty seats only two spots away from James. Lily looked down at her hands so that she wouldn't have to look at Severus. This would have been so much easier if she didn't know anyone in the room, she had been friends with Snape for years, he knew how she acted so she knew she would have to act completely different. She slowly lifted her head and sat up very strait and kept her hands in her lap. Her eyes wandered to the older man who was currently whispering something into the ear of the young women who had just walked in, he then slowly stood up and looked around the room keeping his fingers on the table.
"Now all of you probably think that after this meeting you'll all be going out on the big missions you read about in the Daily Prophet, well I hate to crush your spirits but this is not what is going to be happening, you all are just staring out, you're nothing right now." He took the time to look at all of them, when he looked at you it felt like he was staring into your soul, just the look in his eyes made the hair on Lily's neck stand up. She glanced around the room again, looking at all of the people that were there when she saw Severus staring right at her, Lily tried to act casual about it by slowly looking back up at the black haired man. Lily was surprised to see the young women next to him begin to rise.
"I hope none of think the Dark Lord will be coming around giving you orders, only those worthy can—"
"Sit down Lori!" The man said in a booming voice. He glared at her until she sat back down and stared at her hands. "Now, you can think of this as an informational meeting of sorts, if this isn't your thing, don't come back, but if you want to help us fight for the greater good then you can stay." Lily had a feeling those that didn't come back would end up getting killed. Suddenly the door flew open and the man who had let them in opened the door, he sighed and turned to look at him. "This had better be—"
"Sir, there are—" There was suddenly a loud explosion from the other room and then there was a chill that settled around the room. Lily looked at Remus and she saw his eyes were wide with fear. She thought she had heard something about the Ministry being there, this got Lily nervous, they might know they were there, they might think she, James and Remus were really Death Eaters. She clung to Remus hand and pulled him through the crowd of people looking for James. Everyone begin opening the windows in the room and hopping out but then the Ministry people burst into the room. Lily finally found James and grabbed his hand. The three of them tried to make it to the windows but Snape blocked their path.
"Let us through." Remus yelled. Snape looked at the three of them and looked strait into Lily's eyes, she felt a chill run down her spine and she felt James squeeze her hand tighter and tighter. Lily stepped forwards and pushed Severus out of the way, she shoved him so hard he feel to the floor. She stepped over him and jumped out of the window and into the alleyway. She turned and glanced up and watched as Remus and then James jumped out as well. The three of them quickly began to walk away from the house until they felt the temperature grow a little warmer. They stopped walking and disapparated into Remus and Sirius' flat. Lily watched as the room around her began to appear around her. She was happy to be somewhere safe again. She let out a relaxing sigh and walked over to one of the couches. She watched as Sirius walked out of his room and went over towards them.
"What happened?" He said looking back and forth between the three of them.
"The Ministry ambushed them." James said.
"They didn't know you guys were there?" Sirius said.
"I guess not, I mean we shouldn't be surprised, the Order and the Ministry aren't really coordinating right now." Lily looked up at James and smiled as she saw he was beginning to change his face back to normal. Lily stood up and slowly wrapped her arms around him and let her head rest on his chest. Lily felt her hait begin to fall past she shoulders and she felt a little tingling sensation in her face. She didn't have to look in a mirror to know James had changed her face.
"Can we go home now?" Lily said looked up at him.
"Yah, we'll see you guys later." James said nodding at Remus and Sirius. Lily had apparated so many time that she had lost count but she had a feeling she would never get used to the way it felt to apparate. Lily relaxed once she knew she was in the comfort of her own home. She slowly moved away from James and took off her coat.
"I think Snape knows it was us." Lily said looking back at James.
"Yah, I kinda got that feeling when he kept staring at you." James said as he started to walk towards there room. "You coming to bed soon?"
"Yah, I'll be in there in a minute." Lily said as she walked over to the table where the newest Daily Prophet was sitting. She quickly glanced through it when something caught her eye. It was a small little article towards the back but it should have been closer to the front page. It was about a man who had found a potion that could make a werewolf's transformation and time as a werewolf easier. He was calling it Wolfsban, it was still in its experimental stage but he knew it worked. Lily reread the article and knew what she would be doing tomorrow. She smiled to herself as she walked towards her bedroom, she had a feeling she would be out by the time her head hit the pillow.
Sorry its been so long since I've updated this, I've had a major case of writers block and I've also been really busy. So I hope you guys like it, I will be trying to update as soon as possible. Remember that you guys are feel to give me ideas and all that good stuff!