A/N Ok I just saw Charlie's Angels so there going to be a of buttkicking in this one HEHE. Ok well anyways read on...
I killed someone. I killed someone. I killed someone. Those were the words that kept going through Lily's mind that night.
She knew that James was sleeping on the couch and she was grateful.
She had killed someone for him.
And She had been the one who had disapproved of using the Unforgiveables.
There are so many temporary spells I could have used but I just HAD to use that one didn't I? Lily said to herself in anguish.
Killing someone...I am stooping down to a Death Eaters level. What next? Lily asked herself as she turned over for the umpteenth time.
So I killed a Death Eater. Big Deal. He deserved it. If I hadn't done it, James would be dead. Wait a minute, that sounded really heartless...but he DID kinda deserve it. Lily's concience told her.
Finally, she dozed off into a fitful sleep, a sleep where the only thing she could see was the green light and the man she had killed.
When she woke up the next morning, she went about her business as usual, trying to convince herself to move on.
Jeeze, what I did is just as bad as killing someone and getting their blood on my hands. Lily thought to herself as she made James his breakfast.
"Hey Lily." James said as he gave her his usual good morning kiss.
"Hello." Lily said sullenly.
"Are you going to quit being an Auror now?...I know it was hard for you to do that." James said.
"No I'm not going to quit. I owe it to Dumbledore to continue. Everything he's done for me...being an Auror is the only way I can think of for returning his help." Lily said with a certain steel in her voice that James picked up on right away.
"Dumbledore wouldn't want you to do something you don't like to do." James said softly.
Lily slammed the pan down, "And who said I don't like it?"
"Jeeze sorry Lil, maybe I'd better go..." james trailed off, looking at her uneasily.
"No, no sorry I am just kind of uptight and feeling a bit guilty, thats all." Lily told him apologetically.
He nodded and continued to sip his coffee.
"Are you ready for our assignment today then?" James asked his wife cautiously.
"Yep, never been more ready." Lily lied as her mind rolled the film of her killing that man again.
"Great, then we better get going or we will be late." James said brightly, standing up from the table and putting his dishes in the sink.
Lily nodded and she apparated to where their assignment was.
She walked cautiously through the overgrown weeds, her wand poised and ready for anything.
Suddenly, out of no where, a man appeared...and he was holding something that Lily knew was a muggle gun.
She ran at him and kicked him in the stomach.
She knocked the gun out of his hand and got in position to fight.
The man looked at her, shocked at her abilities, then he too got in position.
Lily acted first. She karate kicked him in the face, and gave him a bloody nose.
Then she did something that Sirius had taught her a long time ago...she kicked the man right where it counts, and ran.
That was close she told herself breathlessly.
Suddenly James was beside her.
She gave him a weak grin and told him what happened.
James grinned and said, "You go girl."
Lily laughed.
See Lily, you don't need your wand to succeed...why did you use it to kill someone? her conscience asked her as she walked towards a decrepit building that was beginning to come into view.
She ran the rest of the way down the path, and she tried to open the door. It wouldn't open, so she kicked it open.
"Wow Lil. Impressive." James said as he walked in behind her.
"You check the drawers over there...I'm going to make sure there is no one here." Lily said quietly as she crept up the staircase and began looking throught the upstairs for any signs of life.
As she went, she looked through drawers as she passed them....just in case she found anything.
As she entered the 3rd room, she heard something shift underneath the covers.
BLAST!!! We've got to get out of here. Lily's mind screamed.
Lily jumped over the stairwell and ran through the house until she reached James.
"Theres a Death Eater...RUN!!!" Lily shouted just as the Death Eater walked in, wand poised and ready to fire.
"OUT NOW!!!" Lily yelled as she too tried to escape.
They couldn't apparate...the walls of the house must have had some sort of charm on them.
Damn. What do we do now? Lily asked herself.
She gave James a look that said run for it. He nodded and ran through the front door.
Lily was just about to follow, when the man threw a spell at her.
She easily dodged it, the kicked out and hit the man squarely in the jaw, causing it to break.
The man passed out in pain, and Lily doublechecked his pockets before leaving the building.
She met up with James back in the weeds.
"Did you find anything?" she asked him.
"No, nothing but a bunch of old meeting info...been there done that...you?" James asked urgently.
"Yeah...an address book...they are all people that we suspected were Death Eaters and now we can confirm it. But no new meeting places or schedules." Lily whispered.
"Ok, well at least we got SOMETHING." James said.
Lily nodded and they apparated back to Dumbledores office together.
Dumbledore looked over the list of names and nodded.
"This is good. I will go add these names to my list immediatly. But there is one more place that I would like to check for information today. I have caught wind that the Malfoy's will be out of town today and they may have valuable Dark Arts things and information hidden in their house. Lily would you go break in and and look around for me?" Dumbledore asked her.
Oh great now I get to be a burgler too. Lily thought to herself.
But she nodded and said she would.
So she apparated home to get ready for her next assignment.
Never a dull moment. I bet Lucius is into all that dark arts stuff. Lily thought as she pulled on her black bodysuit.
I wonder why the girls uniforms have to be so tight.
She slipped on her black platform combat boots and she looked down at them with a grin. They were the only part of the uniform that she liked.
She then grabbed a camera, grabbed her backpack, and apparated to a corner about a block from the Malfoy's house.
She walked the rest of the way, so as not to look suspicious.
When she reached the mansion, she pulled out her wand an hesitated.
Maybe I shouldn't use my wand this time...because every time I do, something bad happens. Lily thought as she shoved her wand back into her bag.
So she mentally checked over her things, and then she kicked open the locked front door with one kick.
Lily looked at the fallen door, amazed by her own strength.
She walked in, making almost no sound.
The first place she walked into was the living room...and she was amazed to see a sleeping Peter Pettigrew on the couch.
What is he doing here? Lily asked herself in shock.
She shrugged, puzzled. Then she shook her head as if to clear it. No time to wonder...I have work to do and not very much time. Lily thought as she tore her eyes off of the sleeping Peter.
She quickly and quietly slipped into the cellar and she began rummaging around through some boxes that she had spotted hidden under some cobwebs.
In the first box, there were thousands of moving pictures of Lucius as a child. Lucius pulling his mother's hair. Lucius biting someone. Lucius playing tricks on his siblings.
Typical Lucius. Lily thought as she shoved the first box aside.
In the next box, thre were a bunch of papers.
Lily quickly leafed through them, stopping only when she saw a list of old appointments.
A lot of these meetings were at PETER's house. Lily thought confusedly.
Why would he have Death Eater meetings at his house?
Then suddenly, everything seemed to click.
"Someone close to you has been passing us information." someone in her memories told her.
Peter's a DEATH EATER. Lily's mind shouted to her.
Oh My Goodness. I can't believe I didn't see it before. He never could come to visit...always disappeared for days on end...and he would never go swimming...I bet that was because he has the Death Eater tattoo on his arm. Lily thought as she rocked back and forth on her heels, thinking.
"I've got to talk to James." Lily mumbled.
Then she shook her head, she HAD to get back to work because she didn't have much time.
She pulled out another box. More pictures of Lucius. Disgusted, she shoved that box out of the way.
Finally, in the last box, she found a bunch of Dark Arts stuff: Potions, Deadly Spells books, and to Lily's horror...Death Certificates. Tons of them.
Why on earth would they have THESE? Lily wondered. Wait a minute. This makes sense. All of these people were Aurors that went missing...now we know where they went.
Lily took pictures of all of the certificates so that she could show them to Dumbledore.
"Who could do this to someone?" she said out loud.
When she was done taking pictures, she put everything back where it had been before she came...except for the Dark Arts stuff...she put THAT in her backpack and she told herself she would confiscate it later.
Lily then walked up the stairs, took one last disgusted look at Petter, and she apparated home.
As soon as she was dressed in her regular clothes, she magically developed the pictures she had taken.
She counted the death certificates and came up with 59.
Her mind then wandered back to Peter...
I've got to tell James immediatly...we can't go anywhere near Peter anymore. Its just too dangerous. She told herself.
She stood up, and something fell out of her lap.
She reached down to pick it up, and she looked at it.
It was a picture. A black picture. The camera must have been on in my bag. she said to herself with a shrug.
But I could have SWORN I shut it off. she whispered, puzzled.
But wait...she leaned closer. There WAS something in the picture....
A/N To find out whats in the picture, read Part 21, coming soon. Thanks for reading...please review!
I killed someone. I killed someone. I killed someone. Those were the words that kept going through Lily's mind that night.
She knew that James was sleeping on the couch and she was grateful.
She had killed someone for him.
And She had been the one who had disapproved of using the Unforgiveables.
There are so many temporary spells I could have used but I just HAD to use that one didn't I? Lily said to herself in anguish.
Killing someone...I am stooping down to a Death Eaters level. What next? Lily asked herself as she turned over for the umpteenth time.
So I killed a Death Eater. Big Deal. He deserved it. If I hadn't done it, James would be dead. Wait a minute, that sounded really heartless...but he DID kinda deserve it. Lily's concience told her.
Finally, she dozed off into a fitful sleep, a sleep where the only thing she could see was the green light and the man she had killed.
When she woke up the next morning, she went about her business as usual, trying to convince herself to move on.
Jeeze, what I did is just as bad as killing someone and getting their blood on my hands. Lily thought to herself as she made James his breakfast.
"Hey Lily." James said as he gave her his usual good morning kiss.
"Hello." Lily said sullenly.
"Are you going to quit being an Auror now?...I know it was hard for you to do that." James said.
"No I'm not going to quit. I owe it to Dumbledore to continue. Everything he's done for me...being an Auror is the only way I can think of for returning his help." Lily said with a certain steel in her voice that James picked up on right away.
"Dumbledore wouldn't want you to do something you don't like to do." James said softly.
Lily slammed the pan down, "And who said I don't like it?"
"Jeeze sorry Lil, maybe I'd better go..." james trailed off, looking at her uneasily.
"No, no sorry I am just kind of uptight and feeling a bit guilty, thats all." Lily told him apologetically.
He nodded and continued to sip his coffee.
"Are you ready for our assignment today then?" James asked his wife cautiously.
"Yep, never been more ready." Lily lied as her mind rolled the film of her killing that man again.
"Great, then we better get going or we will be late." James said brightly, standing up from the table and putting his dishes in the sink.
Lily nodded and she apparated to where their assignment was.
She walked cautiously through the overgrown weeds, her wand poised and ready for anything.
Suddenly, out of no where, a man appeared...and he was holding something that Lily knew was a muggle gun.
She ran at him and kicked him in the stomach.
She knocked the gun out of his hand and got in position to fight.
The man looked at her, shocked at her abilities, then he too got in position.
Lily acted first. She karate kicked him in the face, and gave him a bloody nose.
Then she did something that Sirius had taught her a long time ago...she kicked the man right where it counts, and ran.
That was close she told herself breathlessly.
Suddenly James was beside her.
She gave him a weak grin and told him what happened.
James grinned and said, "You go girl."
Lily laughed.
See Lily, you don't need your wand to succeed...why did you use it to kill someone? her conscience asked her as she walked towards a decrepit building that was beginning to come into view.
She ran the rest of the way down the path, and she tried to open the door. It wouldn't open, so she kicked it open.
"Wow Lil. Impressive." James said as he walked in behind her.
"You check the drawers over there...I'm going to make sure there is no one here." Lily said quietly as she crept up the staircase and began looking throught the upstairs for any signs of life.
As she went, she looked through drawers as she passed them....just in case she found anything.
As she entered the 3rd room, she heard something shift underneath the covers.
BLAST!!! We've got to get out of here. Lily's mind screamed.
Lily jumped over the stairwell and ran through the house until she reached James.
"Theres a Death Eater...RUN!!!" Lily shouted just as the Death Eater walked in, wand poised and ready to fire.
"OUT NOW!!!" Lily yelled as she too tried to escape.
They couldn't apparate...the walls of the house must have had some sort of charm on them.
Damn. What do we do now? Lily asked herself.
She gave James a look that said run for it. He nodded and ran through the front door.
Lily was just about to follow, when the man threw a spell at her.
She easily dodged it, the kicked out and hit the man squarely in the jaw, causing it to break.
The man passed out in pain, and Lily doublechecked his pockets before leaving the building.
She met up with James back in the weeds.
"Did you find anything?" she asked him.
"No, nothing but a bunch of old meeting info...been there done that...you?" James asked urgently.
"Yeah...an address book...they are all people that we suspected were Death Eaters and now we can confirm it. But no new meeting places or schedules." Lily whispered.
"Ok, well at least we got SOMETHING." James said.
Lily nodded and they apparated back to Dumbledores office together.
Dumbledore looked over the list of names and nodded.
"This is good. I will go add these names to my list immediatly. But there is one more place that I would like to check for information today. I have caught wind that the Malfoy's will be out of town today and they may have valuable Dark Arts things and information hidden in their house. Lily would you go break in and and look around for me?" Dumbledore asked her.
Oh great now I get to be a burgler too. Lily thought to herself.
But she nodded and said she would.
So she apparated home to get ready for her next assignment.
Never a dull moment. I bet Lucius is into all that dark arts stuff. Lily thought as she pulled on her black bodysuit.
I wonder why the girls uniforms have to be so tight.
She slipped on her black platform combat boots and she looked down at them with a grin. They were the only part of the uniform that she liked.
She then grabbed a camera, grabbed her backpack, and apparated to a corner about a block from the Malfoy's house.
She walked the rest of the way, so as not to look suspicious.
When she reached the mansion, she pulled out her wand an hesitated.
Maybe I shouldn't use my wand this time...because every time I do, something bad happens. Lily thought as she shoved her wand back into her bag.
So she mentally checked over her things, and then she kicked open the locked front door with one kick.
Lily looked at the fallen door, amazed by her own strength.
She walked in, making almost no sound.
The first place she walked into was the living room...and she was amazed to see a sleeping Peter Pettigrew on the couch.
What is he doing here? Lily asked herself in shock.
She shrugged, puzzled. Then she shook her head as if to clear it. No time to wonder...I have work to do and not very much time. Lily thought as she tore her eyes off of the sleeping Peter.
She quickly and quietly slipped into the cellar and she began rummaging around through some boxes that she had spotted hidden under some cobwebs.
In the first box, there were thousands of moving pictures of Lucius as a child. Lucius pulling his mother's hair. Lucius biting someone. Lucius playing tricks on his siblings.
Typical Lucius. Lily thought as she shoved the first box aside.
In the next box, thre were a bunch of papers.
Lily quickly leafed through them, stopping only when she saw a list of old appointments.
A lot of these meetings were at PETER's house. Lily thought confusedly.
Why would he have Death Eater meetings at his house?
Then suddenly, everything seemed to click.
"Someone close to you has been passing us information." someone in her memories told her.
Peter's a DEATH EATER. Lily's mind shouted to her.
Oh My Goodness. I can't believe I didn't see it before. He never could come to visit...always disappeared for days on end...and he would never go swimming...I bet that was because he has the Death Eater tattoo on his arm. Lily thought as she rocked back and forth on her heels, thinking.
"I've got to talk to James." Lily mumbled.
Then she shook her head, she HAD to get back to work because she didn't have much time.
She pulled out another box. More pictures of Lucius. Disgusted, she shoved that box out of the way.
Finally, in the last box, she found a bunch of Dark Arts stuff: Potions, Deadly Spells books, and to Lily's horror...Death Certificates. Tons of them.
Why on earth would they have THESE? Lily wondered. Wait a minute. This makes sense. All of these people were Aurors that went missing...now we know where they went.
Lily took pictures of all of the certificates so that she could show them to Dumbledore.
"Who could do this to someone?" she said out loud.
When she was done taking pictures, she put everything back where it had been before she came...except for the Dark Arts stuff...she put THAT in her backpack and she told herself she would confiscate it later.
Lily then walked up the stairs, took one last disgusted look at Petter, and she apparated home.
As soon as she was dressed in her regular clothes, she magically developed the pictures she had taken.
She counted the death certificates and came up with 59.
Her mind then wandered back to Peter...
I've got to tell James immediatly...we can't go anywhere near Peter anymore. Its just too dangerous. She told herself.
She stood up, and something fell out of her lap.
She reached down to pick it up, and she looked at it.
It was a picture. A black picture. The camera must have been on in my bag. she said to herself with a shrug.
But I could have SWORN I shut it off. she whispered, puzzled.
But wait...she leaned closer. There WAS something in the picture....
A/N To find out whats in the picture, read Part 21, coming soon. Thanks for reading...please review!