Chapter 28

James lay on his bed several hours later, recalling the events of the past few hours as he leafed through the Marauders Map. After what ever had happened between Lily and Declan, she ran out. Gemma had immediately run after her. Declan, after standing there for a moment, fist clenched, jaw tight, had left the room too, though, as the map showed, he hadn't followed after her. The dot labeled Declan O'Malley was currently standing in the office of a fellow Auror. The Lily Evans and Gemma Collins labeled dots were in there dorm room, no doubt sleeping due to the hour. James leaned forward; it was 11:59, sixty seconds away from midnight. He yawned slightly, and continued to look through the map.

Suddenly, the Lily dot started shaking back and forth. Sitting up, James watched the dot carefully, the shaking stopped. All was still. The shaking started again, but the dot moved towards the bathroom in the still moments. The dot seemed to be twisting in its own ink, like Lily was twisting in her own skin.

What was going on?

Lily woke up with tears already streaming down her face. Her entire body was twitching violently. It was like an Attack, but different. Instead of flashing images, it was the same picture, just played over and over like a broken slideshow set on replay.

The rock Lily had past with Sev, it seemed like an entire life ago. The black stone that had a running crevasse through the side with a spider, identical to Arameo watching guard. But that wasn't all. Instead of a singular spider, there were hundreds.

The tremors stopped and started and stopped and started, Lily got the point; she needed to get to that rock. She had no idea why, other than she did. A pressing urge to vomit brought her to the bathroom, crawling in the short silences were her mind stopped screaming. Eventually she stumbled out of the bathroom, out of the room, out of the common room. Even though she had no idea why she was going, Lily reminded herself that she had little to lose anyway. Whenever a tremor shake her, she would crawl into a ball on whatever step or landing she was on and wait for it to pass so she could continue onward. Once, a tremor caught her half way down the grand staircase, causing her to be pitched forward and to land on the floor off the entrance hall hard enough to knock her out.

The next tremor woke her up, and after a while, she started crawling outside. Shaking, she crawled to her feet. Still stumbling she made it near the creavase. As she drew near, the spiders hastily crawled away, making a space for her hand to fit in, she reached forward Arameo's webs stretching from her fingers to the rock. Arameo crawled off her arm and onto the rock, instantly Lily felt relief, she tried to take her hand off but it appeared to be stuck. Her hand was sinking in the rock she tugged and it only got deeper. Lily pulled with all her might as her entire elbow was sucked in.

"Lily!"

She whipped her head around to see James Potter appear out of thin air, a strange cloak sliding to the ground. He reached forward and grabbed her free hand in instinct. The rock continued to capture her body fast now, and soon they both were gone.

Everything was black.

Yeah…its weird. REALLY weird! Please review though! If you stop reading this, I completely understand the next few chapters will be morbid, not that the entire story is though….

~LIZIES~