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*Albus*
I stood in the way of the portrait to the Ravenclaw common room. I waited until Addie came out. I ignored the sweeping sensation that I had gotten in my knees and asked, "Hey, Addie, have you seen Lily?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing; she didn't come to bed at all last night." Addie told me, I raised an eyebrow and asked, "what do you mean, she didn't come to bed at all last night? Don't you two share a room?"
"Yes," she told me shortly, adjusting the several books in her hands, "But she didn't return to her bed, I'm guessing that she just did an all-nighter and went to breakfast, she does that sometimes, but that's why she crashed last time."
I looked at her skeptically and said quickly, "come on, let's go see if she's at breakfast."
Before I took a step, I told her, "I'll carry those," gesturing to her books, she raised her left eyebrow in her cute way that she always had. I took the books out of her hands and walked her down to the great hall, where I was greeted with many boos and hissing noises. "Retaking the fifth year Potter? You that dumb?" Shouted a familiar voice from down the hall, it was Alex Harper, who looked rather satisfied with himself, and he looked unkempt. His hair was all tangled and his uniform was wrinkled, but I didn't ask why he looked like a slob, I could not care less what girl was stupid enough to sleep with him last night.
Five glances down the Ravenclaw table and she was nowhere to be found, not even Matthew Perks was at breakfast. "Matt should be here," Addie told me nervously, "he's always down here by now."
"Matthew Perks?" asked a girl, that Addie knew but I didn't have the slightest idea who she was, and I did not care who she was, "he was sent to the hospital wing late last night, he had gotten in a fight, he's alive and talking, but he won't talk to many people."
"That doesn't sound like Matt," Addie muttered, "he hates violence…"
We left the great hall and went up to the hospital wing, much to Addie's displeasure, to see a little friend, when in fact, he was as pale as can be and he looked weak. "Dear god," Addie murmured, running to him, and kneeling by his bedside. "Matt? Matt? Are you okay?"
"A little sore, but just fine," he said in a raspy voice, "where is Lily?" His eyes had looked behind me, as if he was waiting for her to come into the door.
"That's what we need your help with Matt, we don't know where she is." Addie told him calmly, touching his hair, "She didn't come back to bed last night."
Matt's face seemed to harden, and fear flooded into his eyes. "What do you mean; she didn't come back to bed last night?"
"She never came back up to the room, not since after she left last night to go studying," Addie looked at the disheveled looking Matthew Perks and said quickly, "but I bet she's fine, where ever she is."
"Don't lie to him," I muttered, setting Addie's books on a nearby chair. I had not ever really gotten along well with Matthew Perks, in fact, I may have even hated him at a few points in my life, but lying to him would get us nowhere. "You have no idea where she is either, so you don't know if she's alright."
"Well I'm trying to look on the bright side and not being pessimistic, unlike you over here who doesn't know where or how she is either!" Addie fired back, her shortness had decreased since she had gotten up on her toes and was now face to face with me because she was just a little bit taller than Lily.
"Fairytales will get you nowhere in life and believing that she may be dancing on a rainbow with magical frolicking bunnies won't help us!" I shot.
"Picturing that she's dead won't help us either!" Addie yelled, the words had flown out of her mouth. Her horrified expression showed drastically on her face. "I-I didn't mean that," she said in a quiet voice, "I didn't mean it like that." For the first time, Addie looked at me with tears in her eyes, and whispered, "I don't want… She can't…"
Within an instant, she had been screaming at me with the top of her voice, and now, Adeline Abraham was standing in front of me with single tears coming down her rosy cheeks. She came towards me and buried her head in my chest, slowly tying her graceful arms around my back. "I'm sorry," she murmured into my shirt, "I am so sorry."
I wrapped my arms around her small waist, and I gently rest my head on hers, "It's okay, everything is alright."
She tried to argue that but then she only ended up crying harder for the fact that she had started yelling again and thinking the worst of situations. "I'm sorry," she repeated, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be, we all make mistakes." I told her, I may be a Gryffindor, but right now, I was anything but brave. Here, I had the girl of my dreams, in my arms, and I was just being there to comfort her… like any friend would do. I needed to show her somehow, but I was too chicken, I might have been placed into Gryffindor, but I was being a coward right now.
Addie held onto me extra tightly, and her body was near mine. It felt right. I could feel her grip loosening, and her tears had almost been nonexistent by this point. I had to do something quick, but what?!
My mind raced, she had pulled out of our embrace by just a little bit, her face was now looking up at me and she smiled a little, "Thank you." She whispered.
I placed my hand on the back of her head, and gently kissed her forehead, smiling to myself, "Your welcome."
Addie's eyes had grown huge and she was a dark shade of maroon, she opened her mouth to speak, but the only thing that came out was a girly giggle. She let go of me and I told them, "I have to go, see you later."
I felt something smoothly tug onto my hand, I looked, and saw that Addie's hand held onto mine. "I am coming with."
Matt annoyingly let out a huge sigh and said, "Well obviously I'm not going anywhere so could you go take your cuteness somewhere else where I don't have to see it."
Without any more words, we left the hospital wing, we went to go check the library, but on the way there, we found Professor McGonagall, who seemed worried.
"Hello Professor," I told her as we approached, she had been standing in front of the prefect's bathroom portrait.
"Potter, could you tell me the meaning of this?" She asked, obviously frustrated, pointing at the portrait.
I looked at it closer, and the occupant of the portrait had left its own painting. "Uhhmmm, no professor, I haven't the slightest idea."
"Students have reported hearing things coming from the bathroom but we can't get in unless we break into the painting which could cause some trauma to the other paintings…" her voice was drowned out by a terrible scream that was coming from the other side of the portrait. I let go of Addie's hand and I listened closer. The scream came again… that scream belonged to my sister.
"But I haven't heard a thing yet, some students just don't know how to be serious..." McGonagall couldn't hear the screams, and neither could Addie.
I knew how much trouble I would be facing if I did it, but if I didn't I might not have a sister. I punched a hand through the portrait and climbed through. Both Addie and McGonagall had looked at me as if I were crazy. The bathroom had flooded rapidly, and when I stepped on the ground, I was in knee high water. "Lily?!" I shouted, "LILY!?!"
No reply, I knew what I had heard; "You won't be able to find her, not if you aren't willing to get a little wet." Moaning Myrtle told me.
"Did you do this?!" I screamed, wanting to kill a dead person.
"I did no such thing, I can only turn faucets, but the faucets are jammed, they won't stop, they haven't for hours."
"Where is my sister?!" I tried yelling over the water that was almost to my thighs.
Myrtle just pointed towards the bathtub, "Over there, she's been there for hours."
I ran as hard as I could, over to the big tub. I tried finding her in all of the bubbles, but no such luck, so I jumped in. Blinded by the suds, I felt around for any sign of her, any sign at all. I had to take a big breath and dive back down, it seemed much deeper than ever before and it may have been enchanted that way, because my feet could not touch the ground, they hadn't yet.
Everything was going black; my body was now aching, if I did not find her soon, then I would never find her.
Then by chance or by miracle, I felt her skin. I couldn't tell if it was her arm or her leg, but I did not care, I had found her. I hiked her up on my shoulder and tried swimming up, but my lungs were about to cave and the extra weight was dragging me down slowly. I remembered, my wand had been in my pocket, I took it out and shouted with the last breath I had.
I had landed hard onto the floor, coughing and choking on the water; I rubbed my eyes and glasses and looked around. Lily had flown near the sinks, which were also flooding; I ran over to her and lifted her head above water, "Lily?" I asked, trying to get her to respond, "Lils?" Her skin was almost like frozen ice and her color had almost faded into nothingness. "Lily, it's your brother, you need to wake up." I told her, a little more force in my voice.
She didn't move.
"Lily, get up, you can't leave me, you can't leave me." I started to shake her, but she made no movement on her own.
"Lily, you have to get up, you can't leave me alone," but no muscle in her body would budge, the water seemed to have gone down an invisible drain, because the water was now shallow enough to set Lily down on the ground. I sat next to her.
"Lily!" I shouted in desperation, "Wake up!"
Lily's body lay almost lifeless on the floor of the prefect's bathroom, "Lily, you can't die, okay, you can't die, I need you here!" I shouted to the figure, "You can't leave me here!"
I hit the ground with such a force that it hurt my hand, my head collapsed onto Lily and I told her, "You can't go, you can't leave me here, no matter what I have told you before, everyone loves you Lily, and we all need you… but I especially need you. I need you to tell me when I'm being stupid, I need your help with homework, and no matter how much I hate to say this, I need your help with girls. I need you to stay alive. Lily, I need you."
Out of pure frustration I pounded onto her ribcage… then, something miraculous happened.
Tons of water came out of her mouth and she started coughing, her arms moved to where I had hit her. Her eyes opened widely, looking to both of her sides uneasily. Then her eyes finally found me, her coughing had stopped, but she looked absolutely terrified.
Her lip trebled terribly as she spoke, "W-What h-hap-ppened?"
"You tell me." I said, lifting myself off of her.
Her lips trembled, her whole body seemed to be going in some type of shock right now, "I need t-to t-tell y-you something… I-I lied t-to you b-before."
"About what?" I asked, hearing Moaning Myrtle let out a joyous squeal, "Oooh, this will be good fun. Little miss no wrong doer has a little secret to share when little does she know, she is not the only one who knows her little secret."
I saw Lily's eyes grow wide with fear, "She is not as innocent as her brother thinks she is, she is a slut and she is a bad girl who should have died in a bathroom just like I did!"
Lily's body was not still and her body had not warmed up since she got out of the bathtub. "You shut up about my sister!" I yelled, not believing what she was saying.
"Brother believes sister over Myrtle, but when Myrtle is told to tell the truth, she will spare no details." Then the ghost flew back into a nearby toilet. Lily's eyes were bloodshot and her whole body was uneasy and she would not calm down. I would have picked her up, but I knew I wouldn't be able to carry her far.
I heard someone climbing through the portrait hole, then, I turned around to look. Mum was standing in the portrait hole, trying to search for words as she looked around the room, then her eyes had finally met mine and she let out a scream. Running to her children, she came to hug me and kiss the top of my head, while now entering was dad, who looked over at the tub first and somehow stopped all of the faucets before coming over to see us.
"What happened?" Mum asked, looking from Lily to me, then back to Lily, and touching her face, but she quickly took her hand off of Lily's face and shuddered. "Harry, she's freezing, we have to take her to the hospital wing at once."
Mum had a Gryffindor scarf wrapped around her neck, and a hat with red and a golden lion stitched onto the front, probably made by grandma years back.
"Who did this?" Dad asked, finally coming over to us, he was the most dry out of anyone, because mum was now kneeling on the floor too.
"Questions later Harry, not now." Mum snapped angrily, dad picked Lily up with ease… maybe too much ease for his liking by the expression that he had made.
"I didn't mean to c-cause s-so much trouble," Lily told us in a weak voice.
"Honey, by the looks of it, you didn't do anything wrong." Mum said, getting to her feet now.
"But I didn't tell you about it before… I shouldn't have let the problem get so big… I shouldn't have let him do this for so long." My mother shhhed her and told her softly, "not now Lily, you can tell us later, but right now, our only priority is to get you safe and healthy."
And Lily did not speak another word until we reached the hospital wing.
Another side to the story always makes things more interesting. I tried to describe things differently with Al, but it's hard to write something that the character is oblivious to, but your main character knows and the readers know so I tried at least. The only reason I got this out was because I am sick and my dog jumped on my stomach at 6 this morning which caused... not so much pretty things.
If you did not read the "M" chapter, yes, you may be confused but everything will be explained in the next two chapters, I decided that the "Most dreaded chapter that I will ever have to write" should be in two parts since so much already happened in this chapter and I wanted to give you something to read and I want lots of feedback because the reviews that I got for the last chapter either confused me or I was like.... "Okay...." and a few were nice though, but mostly your reactions were disgusted and want to kill him more.
If you are confused and did not read the "m" chapter go to the spot where we see Alex, and reread that whole spot until I stop mentioning him, hopefully by now, even you understand the irony.
If I did not post this I would have probably gotten the comment: "How come Harry and Ginny 'magically' come in at the right time" Well, for one, you're wrong, it was one of the worst times for Lily, and 2. I tried to make it apparent that they had come to see Al's match but then they saw Addie and professor McGonagall in the hall and had to come in and investigate like all good parents.
When reviewing, remember these events:
Some of you may still be hung up on the "M" chapter
Al and Addie
Myrtle
Alex
and
of course, Lily
