Lily Angel
Chapter 4
Old friend of mine,
We will never lose the time
That we've shared all these years
These years
Will you make it till the end?
Through all the twists and bends?
Will you fulfil your dreams?
Not as easy as it seems
Floating in the weir
And you think you'll never sink
So you forget all your fears
Your fears
~ Killing Heidi- 'Weir'
Lily was so excited about seeing Remus again, she didn't think as they stepped into the dungeons for Potions. The Ravenclaws had a double with the Hufflepuffs -Lily recognised several students as the children of some of her friends- and she was so caught up she didn't notice the Potions master approaching her.
'Miss Chang?' A cold, slimy, and horribly familiar voice sneered.
Uh oh.
'Who might this be?'
'Er- this is the exchange student, Lillian Skye, Professor Snape.'
Lily shuddered at his name.
'Turn around and face me, girl. I've heard lots of stories about you. Quite a genius in Charms, eh? Hopefully this won't be quite so easy for you.'
Lily bit her lip and turned around.
In later days, the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws never could figure what made Professor Snape faint.
Cho looked at Lily after some of the other teachers had carried Snape out, with a very surprised expression on her face. 'What was that all about? He took one look at you and conked out.'
'Er- he wasn't feeling well?'
Cho frowned, but didn't say anything else. Most of the other students were very grateful for this, and had taken the opportunity to jump up on the desks and sing. Lily was seriously concerned about this generation, then remembered something similar had happened in her own.
Later that evening, she was sitting in Remus's office, waiting for Sirius to come. Remus had said he out in dog form looking for Wormtail and Lord Voldemort, but that they could probably contact him.
Remus met him in the Entrance hall, grinning.
'What's up, Moony?' Years had changed Sirius, though he still had the same stupid sense of humour. 'Is Harry okay?'
'He's fine. For goodness sake, Sirius, you sound like a worried parent.'
Sirius glared at his friend. 'James and Lily told me that if anything happened to them, I was to look after Harry. I wasn't able to for thirteen years, can you blame me?'
'Nope. But still.'
'Anyway, what's this big surprise.'
'Trust me, you'll love it.'
'You caught Wormtail and he's now dead?' Sirius grinned wickedly, rubbing his hands together.
'Er- no. But I think you'll like this as much.'
Sirius frowned; trying to think what he'd like a lot. They walked into Remus's office, where a red-haired girl was sitting in a chair. From behind she looked a lot like Lily did at that age, he thought sadly. The girl turned around and his jaw dropped.
'Lily?'
Lily had never seen Sirius so white, except for when they found out Holly had died. Before Lily could say anything at all, she had been scooped up in a hug and was being swung around the room.
'Lily! But- aren't you-'
'Dead?' She finished.
'Er- yeah.'
'Yup. I' She said importantly, grinning. 'Am an angel.'
'You are? What about your wings?'
Lily pulled a face. 'I don't get those until I've finished my first task.'
'So…this is your first task?'
'Yup. Have you seen Harry?'
Sirius grinned, though he was still rather shocked. He hadn't been expecting to see Lily Cooper- no, now she Potter. 'Yeah. He's doing well, I hear…Causing as much trouble as James did.'
'Is that possible?'
'I'm not sure…have you seen James?' Something in Sirius's eyes looked desperate and Lily remembered how good friends they had been.
'Yeah. If he knew you were here, he would have wanted to come.'
'Is he…okay?'
'Last time I checked. Not much can happen to you in Heaven, if you know what I mean. When I left he was beating Holly in chess. Before that he was gluing the angel's wings together with honey.'
Sirius snorted, probably imagining lots of angels with sticky wings. 'So, how come you're an angel?'
'I wanted to see Harry. But, like I've already told Remus, Ron has a crush on me.'
Sirius started laughing, while Lily waited impatiently for him to calm down. 'It isn't funny! I mean, I'm married!'
This just made Sirius laugh harder, and as he did, Lily looked at him with concern. 'Hey, you're all thin! What've you been eating, just air?'
Sirius shrugged. 'Well, no, not exactly.'
Lily put her hands on her hips. 'You sound just like one of those girls on a diet 'oh, I've been eating, just not a lot.' She put on a high, very un lily-like voice. 'Trust me, Sirius, being that skinny does not suit you.'
'Hey, it's not my choice.' He and Remus exchanged a glance, while Lily watched them.
'What is going on? Tell me. Moony? Come on, someone. I'll just stand here till you do.'
Sirius decided to change the subject, much to Lily's exasperation. 'Are you sixteen in Heaven? Or are thirty-whatever-you-are-now?'
'I'm the same as age as I was when I died in Heaven.'
'Oh, damn.'
'What?'
'I've been wondering if Prongs has grey hair, like Remus here.' Remus rolled his eyes.
'Nope. It's still black, still messy. And it's kind of weird, because we look older than Holly. It's like playing chess with a teenager.'
'You see Holly?' Sirius whispered.
'Well, yeah. Like I said to Remus, there's only one Heaven.'
'Oh.'
'Sirius, why are you so thin? You both seem so old.'
'We are.'
'Thirty-nine is not old,' she scolded them, though it looked like she would dearly love to say they were both ancient. 'And that does not make you thin. Remus, tell me what's going on.' She looked at him, and for a sixteen-year-old girl she looked quite ferocious. Remus had to remind himself that she wasn't sixteen and that she had passed almost top of their year.
'Er- he was in Azkaban.'
'WHAT? Sirius? This had better not be a joke, cause it isn't funny.'
'It's not a joke,' Sirius said, sighing.
'But- but- Peter betrayed us! Not you!' Lily looked furious.
'They thought I did. And then Peter blew up a street to make it look like I did it. So I was in Azkaban for thirteen years.'
Lily gaped at him. 'Oh my God. Oh, poor Padfoot!' She hugged him, because there wasn't anything she could think to say. 'But- you're sane.'
'Yeah, the animagus transformation helped. Dementors couldn't get to me then.'
'Oooh. So it did come in useful. For once,' she added under her breath. 'So where's rat-boy?'
Both Remus and Sirius looked even grimmer, which Lily hadn't thought possible.
'He didn't- he hasn't- escaped, has he?'
'Everyone still thinks I told Voldemort where you and James and Harry were.'
Lily swore under her breath, then looked up with another question. 'Hang on a minute. If you were in Azkaban for thirteen years- who'd Harry stay with? Not Peter, I'm hoping. He couldn't look after my baby if you paid him.' Sirius grinned.
'He's not a baby any more, Kermit.'
She shrugged. 'Did you look after him?' She looked at Remus. He shook his head.
'Then who did?'
'Er- Petunia?' Sirius waited for her to explode. It took a moment for this news to sink in, and then
'WHAT???'
'Yeah, he lived with the Dursley's for eleven years…he still stays there over the holidays.'
Lily groaned and put her hands in her head. 'I can't believe this is happening. Does Harry- does he think you betrayed us?'
'Yeah, he thought I did. But he doesn't now. He's been feeding me, actually.'
'Obviously not much.'
'Hey, I'm a runaway.'
'So…who knows that you're innocent? Moony, obviously. Harry- anyone else?'
'Yeah. Dumbledore, Harry's friends- Hermione and Ron-' Sirius snickered at Ron's name- 'Er- some of Ron's family, Arabella, and- well, Peter.'
'So where is Peter?'
'Helping Voldemort.'
'WHAT?' Lily screeched. 'I thought he just- he was just a wimp. You mean he was already betraying our side? Before we died?'
They nodded.
'Oooh. I'd like to wrap my fingers around that pudgy throat of his.' She made a choking motion in the air.
'Um- I'm not sure if this is right time to bring this up,' Remus said tentatively. 'But Cedric- he was killed by Wormtail…Harry told me.'
Lily sank back into her chair. 'All the more reason for me to help Cho.'
'Oh, you're helping Cho?' Sirius looked interested.
'Mm? Yeah, I am.'
'Nice kid. You do know that Harry- er- kind of likes her?'
Lily goggled at him. 'This was never how I imagined life with my son. I look more than ten years younger than my best friends, I almost killed the Potions Master-'
'Ooh, did you?'
'It isn't funny, Sirius. In fact-' she listened to the footsteps coming down the hall- 'I'd say that's him right now.'
True to her word, Severus Snape strode in a few moments later, seething with rage.
'What kind of joke is this, I demand to know!'
'It's not a joke, Snape.' Lily said coolly.
'Who are you?' He hissed.
'Lily Potter.' She said simply, wondering what his reaction would be.
His beady eyes narrowed. 'She died. Along with her good-for-nothing husband.'
Lily leapt up and slapped him right across the face. 'I can prove I really am Lily. Do you remember in our sixth year, I turned you into a toad and left you sitting outside the infirmary?'
Snape's face turned an ugly shade of red. 'You- really-' he fainted for the second time that day.
'Did you?' Remus asked, interested.
'Hmm? Oh, yeah, I did. I- don't remember why…it was pretty funny, I thought he'd kill me though.'
'Oh, I remember!' Sirius said, looking up from where he'd been drawing on Snape's face. 'And so you went to the library to research hexes and- hey, why was James on top of you?'
Remus looked from Lily to Sirius, with no clue to what was going on. 'What are you talking about?'
Lily didn't answer, instead she added her won graffiti to Snape's face, and then saw the clock. 'Oops. I have to go, Cho doesn't know where I am.'
Sirius got up and hugged her. 'Hey, Lil?'
'Yeah?'
'I- I didn't know Peter was going to betray you. Honest.'
Lily smiled and kissed him on the cheek. 'I know you didn't. I really have to go. Bye, Remus.' On her way out she stepped carefully on Snape's stomach.
Severus Snape woke up in the Hospital Wing the next morning, wondering why. Then the evening events came back to him. Madame Pomfrey walked over to the bed, holding a breakfast tray, humming cheerfully.
'Lily!' He gasped. 'She- Poppy, she's alive!'
'Now, now Severus. You've had a nasty bang on the head, just calm down.'
'It's true! Lily- Potter! She's here! In this castle!'
The nurse took no notice of him, she just took his blood pressure, wondering if the school's potions master had finally lost it.
'It's true!' He wailed.
That afternoon, he had the Slytherins and Gryffindors for a double, but he couldn't figure out what the joke was. Even Draco Malfoy sniggered when he walked into the room, though he wasn't nearly as rude as Potter…Lily's son. He shook his head. It couldn't have been Lily- he was at their funeral, though only because Dumbledore said it would be a nice gesture.
Harry Potter tried not to explode from laughter. 'You think he knows?' He whispered to Ron, who had tears in his eyes. Ron smirked. 'If I had the word LOSER printed across my forehead, I wouldn't be parading it.'
'I guess this just proves it,' Harry said, scribbling down the notes off the board. 'He really doesn't own a mirror.'
A/N I have no idea where this is going. Does anybody else? I mean, I know how to end it, but I'm running a complete blank in between. So this will probably just continue plotless until I come up with something, kay? Coz I have a French project that's supposed to be finished by next Tuesday…haven't started it yet. Hope this wasn't too boring, but Lily didn't know about Sirius and stuff.
Disclaimer- everything is J.K. Rowling's, and the song at the beginning belongs to Killing Heidi. Great song.
