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"Stop being stupid," Lily moaned, putting her hands on his chest and pushing back.
Severus closed his eyes, finally stepping away from her. "You know what, Lily," he sighed. "I'm done groveling." He threw his hands up and shook his head. He turned and stormed into the kitchen. He snatched his wand off of the counter and stormed through the back door.
Once outside, he closed his eyes and disapparated.
Crickets were chirping and he could smell the fresh water of the lake. Severus knelt down and put his head in his hands. Hadn't he just been telling himself that he needed to be patient with Lily? And what did he wind up doing?
Severus stood up and looked at the cabin. He was surprised to see it was empty. Apparently its position as a hang-out abruptly ended after he left. He made his way up the hill to the cabin, trying to steady his breathing.
He loved her; he really did. But day after day, battery after battery, he didn't feel loved back, he felt like a damn punching bag.
Severus swung the door open and flicked his wand, lighting the lamps around the room. He sat down on the couch and raked his hands through his hair.
Maybe he could make a potion. There were surely potions that would not hurt the babies but would mellow her the hell out.
The door to the cabin blasted open and Severus jumped off the couch, yanking his wand to eye level.
Lily stood against the backdrop of the night sky and folded her arms. "Do you really think you can just leave?"
Severus narrowed his eyes as he looked her over. "How did you get here?"
Lily raised her eyebrows, her lips pulled into a tight grimace. "You make it seem like it would be hard to follow you."
Severus lowered his wand, still looking at her quizzically. "I disapperated…how did you follow me?"
Lily rolled her eyes as she stepped into the room and kicked the door shut behind her. "Why did you leave?"
"What?"
She stared at him as though he were speaking a different language. "Why did you leave?" she said slowly, enunciating each word.
"I needed a break, Lily."
"Oh, because this pregnancy is so hard for you," she snapped. "I'm so sorry that growing two people is stressing your body out!"
"I've been doing everything I can to help you and you just push me away!"
"Is that all you ever have to say? Poor little, Severus, Lily's being mean. Lily's the bad guy."
Severus threw his hands up. "I can't win." He shook his head and started to step around her to get to the doorway.
Lily flicked her own wand, the edges around the door glowed a fiery red and Severus knew she'd sealed the door; he just didn't have any idea what kind of spell she'd used.
"What are you doing?" he barked.
"You can't just walk away from me," she snarled.
Severus let out something that seemed like a laugh but it was much more ghastly. Something was horribly and terribly wrong.
He looked at her apprehensively as he stepped back away from her. Her eyes were dark and the expression of anger didn't fit right on her usually gentle face.
"Lily, please," he said softly. Please what? What exactly did he want her to do?
A flash of yellow light filled the room and the end table next to the couch exploded into pieces. Severus turned and covered his face with his hand.
"Please what!" she yelled. "Let you leave me? Let you just knock me up and leave?"
"Lily, I'm not trying to leave," he reasoned. Well, he tried to reason; she didn't seem to be taking in a word he was saying.
"Just sit down, Severus."
Warning bells were ringing in his head. Sitting seemed like an awful idea, he felt he needed to be on his feet and ready for anything.
"I said sit!" Lilly barked, flicking her wand.
The force of her spell hit him squarely in the chest, lifting him several inches off the ground and swinging him through the air before slamming his body onto the couch. Severus felt the wind forced out of his lungs as his back collided with the couch. His body immediately went into a coughing fit as he tried to suck air back into his body.
The house was silent except for his ragged coughs and he thought for a moment that she had left. But when he was finally able to breathe again he looked up to see her standing only inches away from him.
"Bad things happen if you try to leave, Severus," she said, her voice coming out in a soft hiss.
He glared up at her, trying to find the girl he loved and not the girl he wanted nothing more than to curse back. "Are you going to kill me, Lily? Kill me so I can't leave?" Taunting her may not have been one of his better ideas, but his patience was wearing very thin and he found refuge in sarcasm.
His saw her wand arm twitch and before he could even think about what he was doing, he'd grabbed his own and immobilized her. She didn't fall to the ground, but her muscles were locked in the position she'd been in when he'd cast the spell, only her eyes were able to move.
Severus let out a long breath and tried to gather his thoughts as he stood slowly and studied her. "What the hell is going on, Lily?"
He considered the stock pile of potions he had in the cabin. None of them would have the effect he wanted right now which was pretty much a tranquilizer, but he didn't want to hurt the babies. He could use the imperious curse on her but that wouldn't solve anything; she'd just be even more pissed when she managed to throw it off.
At that last thought, he drew his attention back to her and realized she was slowly moving her fingers and he barely had time to cast the shield charm before she threw his spell off entire.
"I don't know why you're acting like this, Severus," she snapped. "I'm not going to hurt you!"
"Throwing me into the couch didn't feel so awesome, Lily," he retorted, focusing on the shield and trying to wrack his brain for something to do to fend her off again.
Lily's shoulders stooped and for a moment she looked ashamed. "I just wanted to you to listen to me," she said softly. "Something's not right, Sev, and we need to talk about it so we can work it out."
"Drop your wand and we can talk, Lily," he said. He couldn't believe this; he was practically cowering behind a damn shield charm because she was scaring the hell out of him.
Lily snapped her head in his direction, her dark eyes locking on his. "I will not put my wand down."
The sudden blast of magic hit his shield with such force it would have seemed like he was nothing more than an inexperienced first year against an angry Death Eater. The blow knocked him off his feet and he landed on his back with a loud crack.
"I am so sick and tired of you treating me like I'm a child, Severus!" she screamed. She sent a spell into the wall behind him and he heard the crack of the old wood.
Severus covered his head and rolled to the side to avoid the falling pieces. Without pausing, he got to his feet and tried to disarm her, but Lily easily flicked the spell away.
She sent another spell—he was pretty sure it was a curse—and he only just side stepped it in time. The stones of the fireplace blasted apart and a spray of dust filled the room.
"Damn it, Lily, stop!" he begged, coughing again.
But there was no reasoning with her now. It was as though she was a stick of dynamite and someone had lit the fuse. She was sending spell after spell in his direction and it was all he could do to dodge them.
Then it happened; his foot caught on one of the pieces of broken stone and he hurdled forward. His sudden movement caught her by surprise and she yanked her wand just as she cast the spell. The wayward spell shot to the ceiling, blasting against one of the support beam.
Severus could hear the breaking of the supports; he could feel the fine rain of the ceiling giving away. Using the last bit of his energy, he flung himself forward, not stopping to cast a shield charm even as he saw her almost black eyes lock on him and she raised her wand.
The ceiling was going to fall in and he had to protect her the only way he knew how. Her spell fired from her wand just as his body crashed into hers and the chunks of debris began to rain down.
Bellatrix stepped onto the porch and flicked her wand to open the door as the dust tried to settle. The entire ceiling hadn't caved in but there was a very sizeable hole now. Her dark eyes scanned the wreckage on the floor. It wasn't too extensive, but she was disappointed she hadn't had a better view.
She stepped over pieces of the ceiling until she found them. The Mudblood was on her back, blood was slowly trickling down her face, Severus was sprawled across her chest as though he'd dived to cover her.
Bellatrix reach down, grabbed him by his shoulder and yanked him away. His head was also bleeding, probably more severely than the Mudblood but that wasn't a concern at the moment. Bellatrix checked the woman's neck for a pulse and let out a quick sigh of relief then she tried the spell she'd seen the healer do. She waved her wand and two distinct glows seemed to emanate from the Lily's abdomen.
Satisfied, Bellatrix pulled a small vial from her pocket, then she tilted the Mudblood's head back and slowly trickled the liquid into her throat. She half expected the little witch to choke on it, but he'd said she wouldn't and he had been right, as long as she poured the liquid slowly, the Mudblood didn't choke. Bellatrix watched her for a few more moments then put her head back on the ground and stood up.
She surveyed the wreckage of the room then let her eyes land on the Mudblood again. Her chest was rising and falling with rapid breaths. She didn't bother to check on Severus. As a smirk curled her lips, she disapparated into the night.
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