Lily stopped, crossed her arms in front of her chest and declared:

A/N: Well.... because my beta-reader seems to have decided not to correct my story anymore I have to upload it with all this nice little mistakes people usually make if they aren't writing in their own language... ^^;;. (if you want to correct it, just mail or review!). But – if you ask yourself why I don't post this story in German: I don't think it's right. This is international, that means I think you should write storys nearly everyone understands, not just a small part of the readers (there aren't that much Germans here...). And – I wrote this story just in English and are too lazy to translate it, so.... ;-).

Well... again sorry, that it took so long!! And that it's so short. I just seem to have kind of a writers-block for this story... and next chapter will be probably the last (before I forget to say this). So if you read all the chapters and still didn't review, then do it now, before you don't have a chance for it any more... J .

Cya!!

Sonnchen

Lily stopped, crossed her arms in front of her chest and declared:
"I won't go any step further."

James turned around and looked at her questioning.

"I don't think we will find a way out of this." She sighed. "If only I didn't have said yes to going here. Wait..."
She made a thoughtful face.

"When I remember right, I dind't go here because I wanted to. I was kidnapped!"
She glared at James and waited for his answer.

But he didn't take any notice of her but looked up, where you could see between the dark rising trees a small part of the sky.

"We should sleep a bit before it dawns. With daylight we surely will find the way easier."

Lily grumbled something he couldn't – or didn't want to – understand and watched him trying to light a fire with his wand and some little twigs.

Then he put himself on the ground as near as possible to it and tapped on a piece of ground next to him.

"Come to bed, honey!"
She just glared at him and laid down on the other side of the fire.

A few minutes you could only hear the sounds of the forest; the rustling of the leaves in the wind, the cracking of the branches and sometimes the sound of an owl searching for food.

Suddenly James heard something that didn't seem to fit into this:
a ‚TWACK' as if someone had hit himself with the flat hand in front of the forehad.

He grinned. One second later there could also be heard the sentence to this noise.

"We are so stupid!!"

He raised and looked at Lily who laid there with one hand over her eyes and mumbling something.

"Why?"
She jumped up and stared at him frightened. But when she realized that he wasn't a big hairy monster wanting to eat her she calmed down a bit and explained: "There is this spell with which you can see which way north is! If we had made use of this one, we would have been out of the forest hours ago!"

Now it was his turn to hit himself with the hand in front of the forehead. When his head finally stopped to hurt he heard her just mutter: "I'm cold."

He grinned.

"Shall I warm you?"
"Why not?"

James stared at her confused. ‚Why not'??? Something with this sentence wasn't right.... or with the person who said it. He scratched his head. Perhaps she had just hit herself too hard on the forehead. Yes, that had to be the right explanation for it.

But – he also was horribly cold, although it was a relative mild night, so he got up and walked around the fire.

A minute later they layed side by side on the floor and watched the slowly down-dying fire. It was very comfortable like this.

Suddenly James asked:
"Lily?"

"Mmh?"
"Nothing......"

She grumbled softly.

"Say it!"
"Do you know that you're grumbling is very very cute?"

A punch at a.... well, at an unknown part of his body.

"Don't try to change the subject!"

"Outch! Do you want to marry me?"
"You're kidding!"
Silence.

"You're not..."

He laughed faintly.

"And? What do you say?"
"If we get out of this forest without being killed by a big hairy monster or eaten by a giant spider, and you're happy with it, OK."
He grinned and pulled her a bit closer to himself.

"Lovely. Shall we go now? The sooner we get out of here, the sooner the wedding will be."

She groaned.

"I should perhaps think before I say yes to something."
"To late.... Shall we go now?"
She yawned. "No, let's stay here and sleep a bit... it's just so... comfor... tab...le...." With that, she was fast asleep. James looked at her and shook his head in disbelieve. How did she do that???

"We have built a searching group of about 50 aurors which is searching the whole forest and the surrounding. A spy is trying to get informations from the death eaters. More we can't do at the moment, I suppose."

Gloomily Sirius let himself fall on the sofa next to Dumbledore and sighed.

The old man placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, Sirius, I don't think something happened to them. They are both way too good aurors for that. And there's still the prophecy..."

Sirius looked up.

"Which prophecy?"

"The one from Sybill Trewlaney, why don't you know anything of it?
"Well, what I wanted to say, a few months ago the young woman made a prophecy, a real one, not one of this death-things. I was there. She said that the ‚heir of the flower and prongs' would let to Voldemorts downfall."
Sirius flinched when the name of the Dark Lord was spoken out loudly, but remained calm after that and sat there a while, staring into space and thinking.

"That would make sense. One of the death eaters asked another if ‚the flower' had already been found when I came in a room during the fight... what I don't understand is why they didn't also search for James."
Dumbledore shrugged.

"Perhaps they thought it would be enough to kill one of them. Or perhaps you just didn't hear any of them asking for him. The only thing sure is that they both vanished... but I don't have the feeling that they are in the hands of the death eaters."

The young man just looked at him without hope, then just sat there again staring at the wall in front of him without seeing it.

After a few minutes the headmaster got up, said goodbye and went out. Not long after him, Sirius also got up and walked out of the room. In the corridor Polly waited and looked at him with huge eyes. "Are we going now?"
He looked down at her confused.

"Who, we?? I will go on my own, it's too dangerous for you!"
She tried to smile, but failed.

"You know that I don't care. That are my friends out there! And I did very well yesterday during the fight, I didn't even get one scratch! And don't think I would let my boyfriend run headlong into self-destruction on his own!"

He couldn't resist and had to smile and embrace her.

"That's what I love you for!" He kissed her on the forehead. "You never do anything you're told unless you want it. Just like me."

Lily rolled her eyes when James put an arm around her shoulders, but didn't do anything against it. James had to smile, when he saw it. Well, he always had to smile when he looked at her.

Suddenly the young woman stoppend and signaled him to be quiet. Slowly she put his arm aside and creeped towards two trees. When she arrived there, she looked through the gap between them. Her face became pale and she waved to James that he should come to her.

Through the gap one could see a clearing. In the middle of this clearing, a group of about 20 men was gathered around one who spoke to them. They were all hooded. Death eater.

James just realized that Lily had taken his hand when they heard a voice from behind.
"Well well well, when this aren't the two people we're searching for..."
They whirled around to see a hooded figure standing in front of them, a wand pointed directly at Lily's heart.

"So we at least found you and won't be punished.... lucky, don't you think?"
He shouted something they didn't understand and suddenly all the death eater from the clearing were standing around them, pointing with their wands at them and grinning.