A/N: OK, here is Part 4. I'm awfully sorry it took so long. I had exams in school my Mum was a bit... um... angry that I didn't learn very much, so she didn't let me turn on the computer *grumbles* . Hey, I did well - especially in English :).
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Should We Start Again? - Part 4
"Lily, Polly! Do you still know Peter?"
Sirius and James waved at the two girls, obviously in a good mood, and then pointed at a small, a bit plain-looking boy who stood next to them, and obviously did feel a bit uncomfortable.
The two witches smiled and went over to them.
"Of course we still know Peter! Not one of the famous Marauders will ever be forgotten," laughed Polly, and shook the hand of the even more uncomfortable-looking Peter excessively.
Lily did the same but not as rapturous as her friend, and smiled reassuringly.
"Don't worry, Polly is only a bit hyper at the moment. The training isn't enough for her to become exhausted."
Peter only looked at her doubtfully and then finally squeaked, "Hello!"
Sirius and James laughed.
"Poor Peter, he always feels a bit uncomfortable when pretty women are around," grinned Sirius and slung one arm around Polly's shoulders.
"But don't hope you can get one, Wormtail, Polly is mine and Lily and James are also theoretically a pair."
Ignoring the furious looks of the last two people he had mentioned he went on: "Peter can only stay for an hour, so I think we should show him everything before he leaves, okay?"
Lily, already smiling again, linked arms with Peter and James and, like this, they went to explore the camp.
Lily again lay awake in her bed and let her mind wander, while listening to the deep breathing and the occasional snoring of her roommates.
She realized that she did this very often lately. But this time it at least wasn't because of James. Well, indirectly it was, but not mainly.
She was furious about how Polly and Sirius didn't give up, even after James and she had told them clearly that they didn't fancy each other and that every attempt of trying to bring them together would fail.
Still they talked to them about this, sometimes alone, when they caught one after a lesson, or were alone with him or her, or sometimes when James and she agreed on one thing and because of this would of course make a very good and sweet couple.
They had beaten everything when they had locked James and Lily together in a room and had "accidentally" forgotten to let them out again for the lessons.
Now everyone believed something wrong about them, and Lily had gotten a warning that said if she again did something like this, she would have to leave. And with such "friends", there would of course happen something like this again.
She sighed. This she did too often also.
She should make some other friends, some who didn't behave like kids all the time. James was nice, he was a very good friend, but every time they talked, everyone thought they were a couple. And the worst thing was, that she, despite that, liked them. It was their way to show that they cared for her. Well, at least a bit.
James leapt out of his thoughts when an earsplitting sound could be heard.
Realizing that it came from the house where the girls stayed, his first thoughts were if Lily and Polly were okay.
So he jumped out of his bed, not noticing the irritated look of Sirius, stumbled, grasped his glasses while falling, threw on his robes and ran out of the door.
He did this all without a word, only with a haunted look on his face.
Sirius watched him doing this a bit irritated. What was the matter with his best friend? Did he have a date with Lily and had been late?
But then he heard someone scream and was immediately wide-awake. Within a few seconds he also was dressed and jumped out of the window - directly on the street because this way was the faster one.
A few metres later, the only thing Sirius could do for a few seconds was stand still and stare at the scene.
A group of wizards with wands in their hands and masks over their faces went through the camp. Death Eaters.
Sirius swallowed. He only once did see them in action; it had been in the Knockturn Alley, where they had killed a family brutally. That was why he had become an Auror.
A house - Sirius recognized it as the building where the lessons were held - had caught fire because of a spell off one Death Eater and slowly the flames where destroying the roof.
Two people, perhaps a couple who had met there secretly, ran out of it screaming, only to hold on paralyzed when they saw the Death Eaters.
Finally Sirius could move again, ran over to them and dragged them out of the way.
Luckily the Death Eaters didn't seem to notice them; they were moving towards the house of the teachers, probably to eliminate the strong enemies first.
He told the frightened pupils - while making a mental note to not let them come through the end exams - to hide somewhere and then ran again to the street while producing a magically alarm noise with his wand to warn the ones who hadn't realized that there was an attack. Then he tried to calm down the pupils who were flustered and ran around everywhere telling them what to do.
James looked around.
Through a window he could see that the house for the lessons and the ones for the teachers had caught fire and had started to collapse.
He frowned. This action he could at least understand a bit, but why had a group of Death Eaters rushed to the girls' house?
He heard screams, which let him run even faster towards the dormitories.
When he arrived, he nearly let out a relieved sigh, but his jerkily-going breathing didn't let him.
Lily's dormitory still was untouched, but the one next to it was just being attacked by some of the hooded men.
One grasped a girl, who had just wanted to seize her wand, looked at her, but shook her only after one of the others had shaken his head and screamed:
"Where's the flower?"
The girl only looked at him confused.
"The flower?"
"Lily! The flower! The mother!"
But before he could get an answer, he was hit at his back from a curse and fell to the floor, unable to move, while letting the girl go, who immediately grabbed her wand and so could keep the other Death Eaters on arm's length.
One of the other girls seemed to have been able to send the curse.
Now the scene changed, the hopefully soon-becoming Aurors had gained the upper hand and began to arrest the confused looking men.
James, who noticed satisfyingly that he wasn't needed here, turned to the dormitory of Lily and Polly, from where luckily still couldn't be heard any fighting noises.
After he had gone half of the way the door burst open and a red-haired witch came out of the room. It was Lily. When she saw James something like relief could be seen on her face and she ran towards him.
"James! What's the matter? Why is there all this noise? And is it true that there's a fire somewhere?"
He smiled calmingly, but immediately became serious again, grabbed her at her wrist and began to drag her towards a small fire door, because he could again see some hooded Death Eaters at the end of the corridor.
She looked at him stunned and then began to resist.
"James, what do you think you're doing? We have to help the others! And how did the Death Eaters find us?"
He turned around, looked in her face and said: "No, we don't have to help them! If you didn't notice, most of the girls here will be Aurors in future and know how to help themselves. And someone has to look after you, doesn't he?"
Lily finally had managed to escape his grasp and remained where she was, her arms crossed in front of her chest.
"What do you mean, someone has to look after me? Hello, if you didn't notice, I'm one of the best here and why shouldn't I be able to fight with the others?"
He looked down and clenched his fists.
"They want you, Lily. One of the Death Eaters just tried to make a girl tell him where you were. I don't know why they want you, but one thing is sure: You can't stay here."
While he had been talking he had made a step towards her and put his hands on her shoulders. Suddenly he lifted her, put her over his shoulder and headed with big steps towards the fire door he had wanted to got to just a moment ago.
Lily screamed and hit him with her fists on the back, but it was no use, he didn't seem to want to let her go.
Sirius let himself fall, exhausted, into one of the chairs that hadn't been destroyed, and thankfully took the cup of coffee one of the witches (who had been sent from the Ministry of Magic to take care of the camp) gave him.
But his rest didn't take long, after a minute or so a big man, whose robes had a bit of a weird style and whose beard was braided into a plait, met himself in front of Sirius. His eyes, which you could see behind his half-moon spectacles looked down on him, worried.
Sirius looked at him, sad.
"How could this of happened, Albus? How did they know where they could find us?"
The headmaster raised his shoulders and sat down in a damaged armchair opposite from Sirius. Never before he had seen the old man so downhearted.
"I don't know, Sirius. Someone must have betrayed you, someone who knew where exactly the Death Eaters could find everything; otherwise the attack would have failed. But because they knew exactly what to do, it was so effective.
"But to something differ: Are there any dead?"
"Yes, two pupils who panicked ran directly into a group of Death Eaters. They were dead immediately. Injured are 50 people; most have fought excellently for this being their first camp. And two people are missing, a temporary teacher and a pupil."
He looked down at his hands while saying this.
"Who are they?"
"James Potter and Lily Evans."
Disclaimer: Like everytime: Everyone belongs to the wonderful JK Rowling except for Polly and the witch who brings Sirius his coffee. Well, and everyone you don't recognize.
