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Another chapter for you my lovely faithful reviewers. Went and saw HP6 not as disappointing as I was expecting, even inspired me to get back home and write, write, write for you guys, started another story too… dunno when it'll make it out to you guys but you know.

Any way a big thank you to lmurph2592 – sorry about your teeth, Marieheart – I hate writers block and thank you for making me feel better about the not so sucky suckiness of the last chapter, Kaladelia Undomiel – I'm getting awesome at writing your name I don't even have to look up how to spell it any more and yeah it was Alice shocker, LilyHeartsMarauders – Ah James 'nough said, PT. Ladybug – you'll be happy to know I laughed the other day, first time in a month everyone cheer for me yay! I'm kidding it hasn't been that long feels like though but yay!, Taylorxxsue, lunerflower, SilverSkyPrincess – I'm not that good but thanks anyway…

And of course a thank you to my favouriters and alerters, I'd love to hear from you guys even if it's just a word…

Well on with the chapter, thanks again guys, Penny

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Chapter Twenty-One: Fear

James

I held Lily's hand walking along the hallway. She followed obediently in silence completely unaware of in how much danger she was in. I mean her being a pretty young girl put her in a certain amount of danger already but now it was a little more. There were a number of people who would hurt her because of what she was, also to get to me or dad but… well… I just hope that Alice in her confusion had stuffed up what he'd said. Though I doubted it I would still cling desperately to that hope.

Poor Alice had walked into the office last night and was greeted by her family. Frank hadn't let go of her hand since and I didn't blame him. She was shaken obviously her face pale and drawn but she still tried to put on a smile and answer any questions Moody asked.

Moody had called me into his office to firstly yell at me for being a wiseass and then to tell me what Alice had been able to tell them.

They had branded her with an E and none of us could figure out what it meant. Well… not until a little while ago. Voldemort had graded our rescue mission; we'd 'exceeded expectations'. But that wasn't what I cared about, though yeah it pissed me off slightly that we didn't get an O that was so not the point. Alice had said he had told her he was going to keep trying our forces, testing us and apparently grading us till he had pushed us to our limits. But there was something else Alice had said that disturbed me.

'I like the red haired girl better'

That was what he'd told Alice and of course we all knew exactly who that red haired girl was. I glanced at her following me along the hallway, her face drawn into a slight frown as she thought about whatever it was that was troubling her at this particular moment.

We stopped in front of dad's office waiting in front of the secretary. Carla looked up at me with raised eyebrows.

"See you got promoted" I said noticing the little plaque with secretary written on it. She said nothing and continued to stare at me.

"Just here to see the minister" I said politely.

"Do you have an appointment?" she asked I smiled

"No I don't it's not a social call"

"Then you should really have an appointment. I'll go see if he's busy" she said standing up and heading over to the sleek office with my fathers full title written on it in glossy letters.

"I'd prefer to be his secretary then his personal assistant. She was running his life, if I didn't know better I'd have sworn she even got his dry cleaning for him" Lily said. I smiled

"Yeah she probably did but still… it's a pretty big demotion. To think she could have been the Ministers personal assistant. Now she's just the secretary" I said Lily shrugged.

"Secretary is the one they sleep with anyway" she muttered I shot her a sharp look and she stared determinedly in the other direction.

"The Minister will see you" Carla said.

"You stay here" I said to Lily who looked relieved

"Oh thank God" she said I smiled and kissed her before heading into dad's office.

Dad sat at his desk on the other end of the large room, I headed across the royal green carpet past the large black tiled fireplace and plush green sofa that sat in front of it.

"Minister" I said curtly he looked up at me.

"What is it James?" he asked

"I was wondering if we could get some ponies for the department. I was thinking it'd really improve the efficiency of our office permitting us to get from one side to the other a lot quicker thus promoting proper work conduct and allowing our department to move more smoothly"

"You're not getting ponies"

"I'm dangerously close to a tantrum"

"We'll see at Christmas. Carla told me this was a work visit" he said

"Of course I always start off with a joke even when I'm asking to borrow a mop…"

"Need to borrow something?" he asked

"Yes… I need to borrow your security team"

"I'm kind of using them right now James" he said I smiled.

"Yeah but I just need them to watch someone for me… she's made it to Voldemort's most wanted list"

"Wow… really? What she do?"

"Kneed him in the crotch"

"Damn… I can spare a few I suppose. Little more details would be welcomed before I agree fully"

"Of course. We retrieved Alice Longbottom yesterday and she told us that Voldemort would continue to take girls to test our forces. She indicated that Voldemort may take one red haired girl in particular" I said

"Your Lily?" he asked I nodded once. "You don't want her to know your having her tailed?"

"I think she'd knee me in the crotch" I said.

"So you take my security?"

"Well you've probably got like what five guys in here and I can't see any of them" I said glancing around.

"Hey James"

I screamed and then gave Dean a dirty look. Dean was head of dad's security and would often be charged with the task of watching me when I went somewhere dad felt I needed protection for.

"Dean one day your going to kill me" I muttered he smiled and I turned back to stare at dad.

"You don't think she can take care of herself" he said

"I know she can… but I still can't help worrying that if she gets kidnapped again she's going to leave that castle in a body bag" I said.

"Fine. Granted"

"Cool now about that pony"

"Leave" he said I smiled

"Thank you Minister" I said with a bow and an exaggerated flourish of my hand.

"Not a problem" he said I nodded and headed toward the door.

"So you'll be staying with us for the weekend then?" he asked I turned back

"Uh… well…" I trailed off. That was only if I couldn't get the security team. There was no safer place for Lily then my parent's home, protected by ancient magic it was only able to be found by those who knew where it was. I could always send her to Hogwarts which was undoubtedly eight hundred times safer but I think she'd get suspicious.

"Yes" I said dad nodded

"Your mother will be immensely pleased" he said. I smiled and quickly left before he some how guilt tripped me into retiling the roof.

I didn't like lying to Lily, and I knew I should probably tell her that Voldemort has high hopes of getting her into his strangely thin hands once more. But I couldn't bring myself to do it, I knew she'd be pissed I was lying to her, not trusting her enough to take care of herself. But in my few short months on the job I'd seem some pretty awful things… and I knew what could happen. Those people who did manage to escape Voldemort were better off dead. In fact Lily and Alice were the only two victims to be rescued in tact and that was only because he'd basically let them go.

"Everything good?" Lily asked as I slipped an arm around her shoulders and led her off down the corridor.

"It most certainly is… how do you feel about ponies?" I asked her she raised her eyebrows at me.

"I'm a girl… it's like a law we have to love them" she said with a smile. "Are you feeling ok? You seem… I don't know if this is at all possible but a lot brighter then you usually are"

"It's because I've realised I'm marrying the girl I love in two months" I said giving her a soft kiss.

"Aw…" she said

"Yes, I'm quite happy about it. I'll even shout it down this hallway"

"Don't" she said with a small smile

"All right, I won't. For you" I said she gave me a smile.

"Hey" she said softly, I looked down at her

"Yes sweetheart" I said knowing she was going to ask me something I probably wouldn't like.

"What did you two talk about?" she asked

"I'll tell you but it'll ruin the surprise" I said she frowned. "You might be getting a pony"

"A pony? Really!" she said so excitedly I had to laugh "It won't fit in our house you jackass"

"Well we wouldn't keep it at the house, it'd die of boredom" I replied.

"I am not boring. I am quite entertaining thank you, and with your nutty friends around life is always a party"

"They are a bit strange"

"I'll say, poor Remus is so jumpy thanks to Sirius being stupid"

"Yeah I can see how his stupidity would make one anxious, he took up knife juggling in sixth year, none of us were to keen on it"

"No I mean – Sirius can juggle knives?"

"No, nice contortionist though, I know you wouldn't expect it but he's bendy" I said she smiled.

"So did you really go in there to talk about ponies?"

"It was brought up; I was trying to finagle you a unicorn"

"You've been using that word a day calendar?" she asked

"No, I'm just smart. Want to get some food?"

"Sure why not?" she asked. I led her down to the cafeteria and immediately spotted poor Remus being undoubtedly tortured by Sirius.

"Hi" I said letting Lily sit down first before I sat next to Sirius. Remus threw his arms around Lily

"My saviours. I'd hug you to James but you're a little far" Remus said

"That's all right, I'll some how find the strength to keep living" I said he smiled

"Was Sirius being mean to you again?" Lily asked him

"I was not being mean, I was being blunt and he just didn't appreciate it, though the lovely ladies there did" Sirius said nodding his head to a group of girls in their twenties watching Sirius and Remus with interest.

"Well you are cute" Lily muttered picking at Remus' fries. I scoffed

"Not as cute as you baby" she said in an almost bored voice making me smile.

"So what did Moody say?" Sirius asked deliberately brushing his hand over Remus chest as he reached for the fries Lily was now devouring. Remus jumped and moved back slightly.

"Not much, blah, blah wiseass, blah going to get killed, blah, blah stop smarting off, blah" I said subtly pointing to Lily Sirius nodded knowing what I meant.

"So he's McGonagall?" he asked Lily laughed and leant forward to grab his drink.

"My she's hungry" Sirius said Lily looked at him

"Your not pregnant again are you?" I asked she gave me a look.

"Just because I eat doesn't mean I'm pregnant. I have to eat to live you know" she said

"I know I was just wondering" I said

"Oh you're so going on the couch tonight" she said I stared at her in confusion

"You basically just told her she was fat" Sirius said

"Ah" I said

"Hmm" Lily said before throwing some fries at me.

"I deserved that" I said she nodded.

After another ten minutes we all headed off home, I walked along the street side by side with Lily while Remus and Sirius walked in front of us arguing about something.

"Still hasn't kissed him" Lily said

"Oh now I get it" I said she took my hand in hers as we walked.

"Hey, this time last year I was trying to kill you with a cauldron" she muttered I looked down at her.

"Slughorn did not like that"

"Yeah he did, told me so" she said

"What? Really?"

"Yeah, he didn't like you" she smiled "he's coming to the wedding"

"You invited Slughorn?" Sirius asked

"Hah! No James' mum did, she invited everyone, and she was even trying to invite Snape because… 'We have so much history'" Lily said the last part dramatically.

"Like the trying to kill you kind?" I asked

"No the first kiss kind" she said then froze. Sirius, Remus and I all stared at her incredulously.

"You let that thing touch you?" I asked

"James you have to understand we used to be friends, once upon a time" she said.

"Heh?"

"Well your friends with Sirius" she snapped

"What's wrong with Sirius?" I asked

"Yeah what's wrong with Sirius?" Sirius asked.

"Nothing your great I'm just saying, not all of us have made the best choices in friends" she said awkwardly.

"He's a great choice in a friend" I said

"What's wrong with Sirius?" Sirius asked

"Nothing! But you see my point, what's wrong with Sev?"

"Sev?"

"Serverus – I mean Snape" she said

"Uh he's a git" Sirius said

"You're a git"

"He's a bully" I said

"You're a bully" she said

"He calls you mudblood" I said

"So? You've all called me that at least once, Sirius used to nearly on a daily basis"

"What?" I asked turning to glare at Sirius

"Only in first year" he said defensively. "He's a Deatheater" he turned back to Lily who was glaring at him.

"I said we used to be friends! I'm not friends with him now! God you're all such fucking arseholes. I can be friends with whoever I want to be. Why does it matter if we kissed?"

"Because Lily the guy has it in for me! He hates me! This was like his most ultimate way to get back at me" I said

"I was fucking nine! Neither of us knew you existed you bastard"

"Oh… well… it's still disgusting" I cried

"Fuck you Potter, I'm going to go stay at Hannah's" she said before stalking off down the street.

"Wait! Lily! At least go to Kim's!"

She turned to flip me off before breaking into a sprint. I ran off after her Remus and Sirius right behind me.

This was not what I needed, she was probably going to get kidnapped, again and probably wind up dead and the guilt of that and the pain of losing her would kill me.

"How the fuck is she so fast?" Sirius asked

"She won state championship hurdling or something" I said as Lily picked up speed.

"Those are only like what, a hundred meters, she'll tire out" Sirius said gasping for air.

"Sometimes they can be four hundred" Remus said

"Awesome!" Sirius snapped. We continued to run after her trying to catch up.

"Stop following me you jerks!" she snapped

"No!"

"Just give me a day to cool off" she cried

"NO!"

There was a squeal of tires and Lily's unmistakable scream and then a sickening thud accompanied by a crash.

The three of us stopped dead staring at white Toyota on which Lily's unconscious body lay.

We all hurried over to the car, I stared down at Lily her red hair flipped over her face as she lay on her back on top of the car. The back of her head was bleeding staining those bright red locks with dark sticky crimson.

"Oh God!"

"Someone call triple nine!"

"That was lucky" Sirius whispered quietly. I knew exactly what he meant. It was harder to kidnap her if she was in a hospital.

"Oh God"

We all watched as the driver shakily climbed out of the car and stood on the other side staring down at Lily.

"Mr Evans" I said recognising the man immediately. He stared at me then looked down at his daughter who lay bleeding and unconscious on the hood of the car.

"Huh, small world" Sirius said

A few moments later and ambulance pulled up. They did what they could before hauling her on the gurney. Her father followed her inside and the ambulance sped off. I glanced at Sirius and Remus and we all Apparated.

Ten minutes later we were all sitting in the waiting room of the nearest hospital as the paramedics wheeled Lily in. They hurried through a set of double doors leaving Mr Evans to stand there staring after his daughter.

He glanced over and saw the three of us staring back at him and slowly made his way over to us.

"How did-"

"Magic" Sirius said quickly answering the unasked question. He nodded slowly, accepting this.

"I should go call her mother" he muttered before walking off.

"They're probably going to keep her for at least a few days so you can be sure she'll be safe" Sirius said

"Yeah, I thought she was safe in our house she got kidnapped thought she was safe on the street with me she gets hit by a car. I haven't got a lot of confidence in her guardian angel right now" I muttered.

"What are the odds though right? That it's daddy dearest behind the wheel?" Sirius asked "think he saw that flip of red hair and sped up just a little?"

"No, she made up with her father. It was her mother she still hasn't spoken to" Remus said

"That'll be a nice surprise when she wakes up" Sirius said we glanced over at Mr Evans who was talking on a pay phone.

"Well we can always talk about their seriously outdated magazines. Look they've still got that special issue on the coronation of Queen Lizzie. That was at least twenty years ago. You could sell that as a collectable it's so damn old" Sirius said holding up the magazine as Remus sniggered.

"Why is he talking to… what are they called cops?" Sirius asked. Remus and I glanced over to Mr Evans who stood talking to two police officers.

"What is it with these muggles and pairs, like they can't do anything on their own?" Sirius asked

"Well we have threes…" I said

"Well… that's more practical, you've got no arguing, there's always a tie breaker. Two is just stupid" Sirius muttered.

"Yes let's argue about their stupidity while my wife dies in upstairs" I said

"Lets" Sirius replied I gave him a look.

"He's probably just explaining the accident. It's actually illegal to run over people with your car" Remus said Sirius looked at him.

"Muggles are so weird"

"We're not to keen on hospitalising people either" I said pointedly Sirius grinned

"What a fun day that was…" he muttered.

"She'll be ok James… she'll stay here for a couple days, a week even then when she gets out you can then not heal her injuries so she can't leave the house for a while… it'll be good" Sirius said

"That'd be mean"

"But it'd keep her safe"

"I can't believe this is happening…"

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Lily

I groaned and rolled over regretting it instantly. A faint beeping sound filled my ears and I opened my eyes slowly. A bag of IV was pumping into my right arm and there was a heart monitor beeping away beside it. So it was a normal hospital. I glanced around, my vision slightly blurred and my thoughts all to gluggy. It was dark out and I wondered how long I'd been unconscious. What on earth had happened? And I miss those numbing draughts; morphine is just no where near as good.

"Hey"

I looked over and saw James sitting in a chair beside my bed.

"We have to stop meeting like this" I said he smiled

"Hospitals are like our special place" he said I smiled and then stopped, it actually hurt to smile. I gingerly held a hand up to my face and felt a bandage running down my face and neck.

"You got hit by a car" he said

"A car?" I repeated he nodded. I looked down at my bandaged hand and then began to inspect myself for more injuries.

"It wasn't too bad, just some deep cuts, bump on the noggin'. You should be fine in a few weeks"

"Weeks?"

"Yeah, they're going to keep you here till… I think they said Tuesday"

"Tuesday? That's like… six days"

"Yeah well muggles heal slower"

"Well… can't you… take me elsewhere?"

"No, you were hit by a car, a muggle car, and so you have to follow their rules. Besides your still seventeen so you'd have to be released into your parents care if you did want to go home"

"But you're my husband…"

"In the wizarding world…" he finished I sighed.

"Well can you at least make my head stop hurting?"

"Sorry love"

I sighed, "Do you know who hit me? In society it's common courtesy to wait around until I wake up…" I aid

"Yeah, it was your dad"

"What?"

"Yep, you got hit and just lay on the hood, and then your dad climbs out of the car we were all a bit shocked"

"No way"

"Yeah, your parents are in the waiting room now, your dad hasn't been arrested. Not until you want to press charges of course"

"But it was my fault"

"Not really, he shouldn't have been speeding"

"I guess you should send my parents in… your not allowed to leave ok?" I said he nodded. "So when they come in you have to, we're clear on that"

"Don't worry Lils" he said kissing my forehead I winced and he apologised before leaving the room. A second later he walked back in followed by my parents and instead of sitting on the chair he sat on the bed.

"Squish over Lils" he said I shifted and let him sit beside me wrapping his arm around my shoulder being careful not to hurt me.

"Hi" I said my parents just stared down at me.

"Apparently you hit me with your car" I said dad gave James a look.

"Sorry about that, how're you feeling?" dad asked

"Like I got hit with your car" I replied.

"Sweetheart… your father and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to you for the way we reacted…" mum said

"Dad already apologised…" I said mum smiled. "For him, I want to hear you say it"

"I apologise for jumping to conclusions"

"That's not what I want to hear you say sorry for. You've never approved of what I am… and well to be honest I'm quite over it… you're never going to accept what I am, are you?" I asked. She stared at me her green eyes wide with shame and hurt. I could see the unshed tears forming before they began to fall down her pale pink cheeks.

"I'm sorry…" she said

"There it is…" I said she shook her head, maybe out of sadness, or denial I don't know… nor did I want to.

"Lily…" dad began but just trailed off.

"I think you both should go or I might actually consider pressing charges" I said quietly.

"Lily" mum said

"Guys… I'm getting some strong magic vibes… I would leave" James said nodding. My parents both looked at me this powerful emotion predominant in both their eyes and on their faces. I stared at them… it was unbelievable. I just… I couldn't… my brain couldn't understand them. I was their daughter… and they were afraid of me. I watched them both slowly leave.

"I'm not sending our scary magic vibes am I? I don't mean to… I just get… I can't control it…" I rambled turning to look at James.

"No, you're only sending out Lily vibes" he said

"I send out Lily vibes?" I asked he nodded

"They're all cute and powerful, drawing me in…" he said kissing me softly.

"You saw it…" I whispered "on their faces… they're… scared of me…"

"Lily… I'm scared of you"

"What?" I asked in alarm

"I've seen you knock a guy unconscious with a text book" he said.

"In my defence it was that time of the month" I muttered he took my face in his hands.

"It's stupid I know most people in the world are scared of what they don't understand…" he said "you going to be ok?"

"Yeah" I nodded

"All right, well I have to go talk to the doctor; I'll be back tomorrow all right?" he said climbing off the bed and kissing my forehead gently. "You get better hmm, my house doesn't clean itself"

I scoffed and let him kiss me quickly

"Love you" he said

"You too" I said watching him leave before settling down on the pillows. I fell into an uneasy sleep, my head throbbing and my arm aching dully.

I awoke the next day to the shrill voice of a chirpy nurse.

"Hiya Lily I'm Nurse Camilla, call me Cam please how you feeling this morning?" she asked cheerfully. Like ripping out your vocal cord so I don't have to hear you talk.

"So-so" I replied.

"Grrr-reat" she said oh my God I'm going to kill her. I glanced round and found Remus sleeping in the chair beside my bed. I smiled to myself, just like James to never leave me alone for more then ten minutes…

"Looking a little tired hun, how'd you sleep?" Nurse Cam asked.

"Uh… the headache kind of prevented a nice sleep…" I muttered

"Oh, guess we'll just up your meds huh? No sense in feeling pain when you're trying to get better" she said I smiled and let her put a tray of food in front of me.

"Now you eat all of that, even though it tastes crummy" she said

"Will do Nurse Cam" I said she smiled and then left. I glanced around, I was thankful for the private room. I'd never really liked hospitals and if I had to spend time in one I really want to hear other people suffering.

I stared down at the hospital food consisting of porridge, or what I hoped was porridge, a fruit cup and some orange juice. I debated whether or not to eat and just wound up sticking to the fruit cup and juice. After that I sat and idly flipped through a magazine before Nurse Cam walked back in.

"Here are your painkillers… nothing too flashy; they'll make you sleep though so…"

"That's all right, sleeping will pass the time" I said she smiled and handed me two white pills with a glass of water. I put them in my mouth and then swallowed them with the aid of the water before putting the glass on my bedside table.

"Anything else you need just buzz the little button and one of us will run on in" Nurse Cam said I nodded and smiled starting to feel those pills. I settled back down into my bed and then drifted off into a nice painless sleep.

When I woke up next it was night time and I had twelve wands pointing at my face.

"Oh…" I said

"Crap" Sirius finished for me. I glanced over at him sitting in the chair beside my bed. Looks like he'd switched shifts with Remus on watching over me. I looked back at the twelve people standing in front of me; they were Deatheaters no mistaking that.

"Fuck it's always me…" Sirius sighed

"I've noticed that pattern Black" Voldemort said stepping forward from between his Deatheater shield.

"Wow, head honcho himself, jeez Lily you merit quite a lot" Sirius said I glanced at him apologetically.

"Hmm… Lillian what on earth seems to be the problem dear, your looking a little ill" Voldemort said picking up my chart from the end of the bed. "You're not a healthy girl are you?"

"I got hit by a car" I said

"Oh that's quite funny. So you won't be up for a little chase then?" Voldemort said

"No but I've got a mouth so I can still bruise that ego" I replied

"Defiant till the end, come on dear up you get your being kidnapped"

"Can I ask why?"

"You can but I'm not going to answer" he said. I pushed the covers off

"Are you nuts?" Sirius snapped going to stand up but five Deatheaters pointed their wands at him.

"Please don't hurt him again" I said

"You're not really in the position to make requests" Voldemort said.

"No please do hurt me, if you think I'm just going to let her go you are sorely mistaken" Sirius said

"Regulus your brother cannot count; does he not see he's clearly outnumbered?"

"Regulus! Damn it man! Why aren't you at school?" Sirius snapped. One Deatheater threw off his hood and stared pleadingly at Sirius.

"Well… I don't… I was… I'm going back, maybe…" Regulus muttered glancing at Voldemort who stared back at him plainly.

"Whatever… this was fun, we should do it again some time" Sirius said standing up and quickly throwing his chair at the Deatheaters closest. He then grabbed my arms and whirled me round hitting whoever was near us. The exit was blocked and so we sprinted over to the unguarded window.

"Not again. No!" I screamed as we dived through it. The shattering glass fell with us as we landed on the roof of a one story building right next to the hospital.

"Oh God…" I muttered rolling off him he groaned and slowly sat up. We lay right on the edge of the building and I shuffled away from it, knowing my luck I'd fall right off.

"We are so dead…" he said staring up at the broken window and into the room which was now empty.

"Got that right boy"

Sirius and I turned to see Voldemort standing behind us with his Deatheater posse.

"Ah…" Sirius said

"Hmm… two for one, I like it" Voldemort said "what are the odds of you surviving another jump?"

"I dunno you tell me" Sirius said grabbing me and quickly rolling off the roof. I screamed as we went down landing on top of a car, the glass shattered as the roof went down on impact and the car alarm began blaring.

"That's two!" Voldemort shouted after us.

"Fuck go!" Sirius said as we both scrambled up.

"Why do they want me?" I asked as he grabbed my hand and we ran down the street together.

"I don't know… Voldemort thinks you've got spunk, plus you've got a rocking bod who wouldn't kidnap that? James said that he was trying to test the ministry. See how their forces worked" Sirius replied

"So… he's going to keep taking girls to see how quickly they're rescued?" I asked

"Yeah… he's grading them too sick fuck, Alice's rescue was an E" Sirius said we both ran into something and stumbled back.

"Oh for fucks sake Dean! Where the fuck were you?" Sirius shouted. I stared at the big burly guy in front of us.

"Quick this way" Dean said giving us a push toward the right. Sirius still hand my hand in a tight grip and we quickly ran with Dean following behind us.

"Who?"

"The ministers own personal body guard" Sirius said

"I've been assigned to you for a while Miss Evans, for your own protection" Dean said

"Huh? Wait, wait" I said looking at Sirius "James knew there was a possibility Voldemort would come after me again?"

"Well… yeah Alice told them that Voldemort had told her 'I like the red haired girl better'"

"And he didn't think to tell me that! If I'd know I wouldn't have run from you guys like that, wouldn't have wound up getting hit by a car, and I would not be running right now" I said

"Yeah, he's a tosser can we talk about that later I can't breath and I have an awful stitch in my side" Sirius said

"Sorry, but the less magic we use the better" Dean said

"Where are we going?" I asked

"I can't say" Dean said

"Well will James be there?" I asked

"Bloody hope so…" Sirius snapped

"Yes he will be" Dean said

"Good, because when we get there, I'm going to kill him" I said Sirius laughed.

We ran for ages, ages and ages until finally Dean told us we could stop. We were standing in front of a set of wrought iron gates which Dean tapped with his wand. We all slipped inside and Dean shut the gate tapping it once more with his wand before he led the way up the long and windy garden path. I recognised the house as the Potters place and sighed. So not only had James lied to me, he now dumped me with his parents just great.

We got to the front door but before we could even knock James had yanked it open.

"Lily!" he said I punched him right in the nose breaking it and his glasses.

"Ass!"

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Hmm wow as sucky endings go that was pretty sucky. I enjoyed writing it though, crappy ending and all. It's becoming rare that I kind find things I enjoy doing right now so this was a pleasant surprise. And I managed to knock this one out in two days; my last few chapters seemed to take way longer. Sorry about the novel length hey at the start. Just feeling a little bit peppy… well tell me what you think and all that… don't know why I ask, you always do, I love it, Penny

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