A/N I am going to use something VERY similar to what Ariana used in her story, with Peter, I hope you don't mind Ariana! I give you full credit for the idea, but I just had to use something like it! Okee, I'll let you read now! ^__^
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, nor do I own Ariana's idea! ^__^ That is TOTALLY Ariana's! okee?
Soul mates… or playmates? Part 4
… And found that she couldn't go on. It was like, someone had taken the information out of her head, and now she couldn't say. Lily tried hard to say the words, but she only heard herself mumbling.
"mmmm mmm mmhmmhm mmmmm!" Lily tried to say.
"Lily, why don't you just tell him what happened? We would, but we're not completely sure." Said Suzanne.
"I'm trying!" said a frustrated Lily.
Dumbledore smiled slightly.
"Lily, I am afraid that whoever did what to you has out a curse on you so you cannot say what happened. (A/N ARIANA'S IDEA!!!) However, I can tell that you have been beaten up pretty badly by someone. Now, I am going to try and guess. Was is a Slytherin?"
Lily nodded her head.
"All right," said Dumbledore.
"It was mmmm". Sirius said. He then found that he couldn't say it either, and neither could anyone else.
Dumbledore was evidently thinking very hard, his eyes were furrowed in thought, and he was going through many names in his head.
"Was it a male?" Lily nodded. "Hmm… was it -- by any chance -- Malfoy?"
Lily shook her head, but made a gesture that he was getting closer. Then Lily drew a bottle on a piece of parchment.
Dumbledore looked very confused, then it was as if someone turned a light switch on in his head.
"Is that a Potions Bottle?" Dumbledore asked very quietly.
Lily nodded. "So, it was Professor Hawkins?" Dumbledore asked. Suzanne nodded.
Dumbledore stood up, and threw something into the fire, and called,
"HAWKINS! A word if you please!"
Hawkins came in, brushing soot off him. He looked around and saw Lily, James, and everyone else and his smile faded slightly. Then he looked around at Dumbledore.
"Yes, Headmaster?" Hawkins said in an adopted pleasant voice.
Dumbledore did not return the smile. "Lily here just tried to tell me that you have been beating her up in Potions class today Hawkins. Is this true?"
Hawkins looked at Lily, and then laughed.
"Come now Dumbledore, why would I want to do such a thing to one of my prized students?" he walked over and put an arm around Lily.
Lily threw his arm off of her. "DON'T LIE!" she screamed.
Hawkins laughed, "Obviously this girl is out of her mind, maybe perhaps she should spend the night in the Hospital Wing."
Dumbledore stood up. "You are free to go, Junip." He said, gesturing to the fire.
Hawkins looked at Lily one more time, and set off into the fire.
"Lily, you may go. Any more of this, and I want you to report it to me immediately. Do you understand?"
Lily nodded, and walked outside with her friends.
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"Hey Lily," Peter said as though he was remembering something. "Do you know how to do that very hard charm, where you can make people join the darkside?"
Lily stared at Peter, "I am able to, yes, but I would never perform it. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason." Peter said hurriedly. Just then, Pulchra and her gang came up to Lily.
"Hi Lily!! Who are you going to the ball with? I don't have a date yet, oo! How about we wear our hair the exact same way, and we can be like twins!" Pulchra squealed.
"Hello, Pulchra. I am not going to tell you how I'm going to wear my hair, because I don't want to go as anyone's twin."
Pulchra's smile faded a little. "Oh, well, whom're you going with?"
Lily smiled broadly. "James." She said.
Pulchra looked deeply jealous. "Aww, Jamsie - poo, wouldn't you rather go with somebody extremely gorgeous, and smart?"
James stared at her, and then put his arms around Lily's waist. He looked into Lily's eyes and said, "I already am."
Lily stood on her tiptoes, and kissed him. Sirius watched this while smirking, and since then, Lily and James were officially a couple.
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Lily, Nadia, Suzanne, and Lucy were jumping up and down around their dormitory. It was the morning of the ball.
"I CAN'T BELIVE I'M GOING TO THE BALL WITH SIRIUS!!!" Nadia screamed.
Suzanne hit her with a pillow. "BUT I'M GOING WITH REMUS!!!!!" She said very excitedly.
Lucy threw two pillows at Suzanne and Nadia. "I'M GOING WITH PETER!!!!" she shrieked.
Lily stepped in. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! I'M GOING WITH JAMES POTTER!!!!" She fell onto her bed pretending to faint.
Meanwhile, in the Common Room, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all sat on the couch grinning broadly. They were sure that the girls didn't care if everyone heard them. Then they saw a shirt get thrown down the stairs.
'GO GET IT!" screamed Lily.
"NO!" Suzanne replied while giggling. Then she threw all of Lily's shirts down. Lily then took all of Suzanne's shirts, and threw them down the stairs.
"HA! NOW WE BOTH HAVE TO GO DOWN AND GET OUR SHIRTS!" Lily said giggling. Nadia and Lucy wisely decided to stay out of this.
The boys sat staring at the staircase leading to the girl's dormitory. All of Lily's shirts, and robes were thrown down. So were Suzanne's. They heard the door slam, and the sound of Lily and Suzanne's giggles. They came down wearing only their bras, and covering themselves up with their arms.
"Excuse us." They said together giggling. They quickly gathered up their things, and were about to go back upstairs when Lily stopped Suzanne.
"That's mine!"
"No it isn't! It's mine!"
"Nut uh!"
"Uh huh!"
Suzanne threw Lily's clothes back down the stairs. Lily did the same to Suzanne, and they ran back downstairs not even bothering to cover themselves up. The boys were smirking at them, and watched as they gathered up their clothes. Lily flashed the boys a smile, and curtsied. Suzanne did the same, and the boys seemed hypnotized by them.
"I can't believe we just did that!" Lily giggled.
Suzanne laughed, "I can't either, but lets get dressed and go downstairs! The boys still have to give us our Christmas presents."
The boys had left a note taped on the door to the dorm saying that they would give them their presents in the Common Room, because they wanted to see their faces when they opened them.
Since there weren't any classes, they were allowed to wear Muggle clothes if they wish. Lily put on her favorite Bellbottoms, and a white V-neck T-shirt, that showed off much cleavage. She arranged her hair in a messy bun.
Nadia was wearing a skirt, and a regular black long sleeved shirt. Her hair was half up, and the half that was up was French braided.
Lucy was wearing a skirt as well, only hers was much shorter. And her T- shirt was pale pink, with a scoop neck. She had her hair down.
Suzanne was wearing jeans, and a yellow long sleeved V-neck. His shirt also showed off much cleavage. Suzanne and Lily were both Muggle- born, and they were fanatical about V-necks. Suzanne had her hair in a ponytail.
All in all, not very fancy. But, they did not care; they just wanted to be comfortable. When they came downstairs, the boys thought they looked simply gorgeous.
Lily sat down in James' lap, and started tousling his hair lovingly.
"Where are our presents Jamsie?" She asked.
"Oh -- er -- right!" He reached into his pocket, and took out a small box. He handed it to Lily, and when Lily opened she gasped….
(A/N I was going to stop there, but I decided to be nice!)
Inside the box was the most beautiful necklace Lily had ever seen. It was on a fine gold chain, and it was a simple white lily. James smiled, and put it on her.
"Do you like it?" he whispered. Lily was speechless, but she kissed him. Then she pulled back,
"No, of course I don't like it." James' face fell.
"You -- you don't?" he asked looking crestfallen.
Lily smiled, "Of course not, I love it." They kissed again, and stopped because Sirius had cleared his throat loudly.
They grinned at him sheepishly, and turned to watch everyone else get their presents. Nadia had gotten a pair of diamond earrings from Sirius, Suzanne had gotten a gold bracelet from Remus, and Lucy had gotten a beautiful silver ring from Peter.
"Hey guys!! Let's go to lunch!" said Sirius. Lily giggled and threw a pillow at him.
"You git! All you think about it FOOD!"
Sirius threw the pillow back at Lily. Everyone knew that they weren't really flirting, because they were as close as brother and sister. All of a sudden Lily froze. She went over to Lucy, Suzanne, and Nadia.
"You guys," she whispered, "I just thought of something. We should really try and look stunning tonight, but we only gave our boyfriends joke books, and quills. I say we have a make - out party right now!"
Suzanne looked over at the boys. "Yeah, you're right!"
They walked over to the boys and sat on their laps.
"1, 2, 3." Mouthed Nadia. Then the girls started kissing them, like they were the only men on the face of the earth. After about ten minutes or so, they stopped, and Lily, her eyes twinkling said to James,
"Merry Christmas, Jamsie." Then they went down to lunch. After a magnificent lunch, and a snowball fight, Lily, Nadia, Lucy, and Suzanne all went up to their dorms at 5:00.
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Suzanne put on her shocking pink dress robes. Her hair was in a French braid, and she had lip gloss on. On her eyes, she had gold eye shadow.
Lucy was looking very pretty indeed, in a teal dress robe. Her hair was twisted up in a bun, and she had teal eye shadow on. On her lips, she had reddish lipstick, and lip-gloss.
Nadia was wearing silver robes, and her hair was up in a half ponytail. She was wearing blue eye shadow, which was not too much. On her lips she had pinkish lipstick.
Lily was wearing a white robe, which her necklace went perfectly with. She had the front of her hair in little ponytails, like a headband. The ponytails were twisted onto her head, and she was wearing pink lip-gloss. She had gold eye shadow on as well.
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James was wearing a navy-blue robe, and tried to tame his hair, but decided against it.
Sirius was wearing dark green robes, and was looking at himself nervously in the mirror.
Remus was wearing red robes, and was combing his hair.
Peter was wearing plain black robes, but they were velvet.
They all went down to the common room, and sat on the couch waiting for the girls. About ten minutes later, Suzanne came down, and met Remus. Remus looked at Suzanne like she was the only girl alive. Suzanne was very thankful that there wasn't a full moon tonight. Remus and Suzanne said they would wait, so they sat down on a separate couch, whispering to each other.
Nadia came down next, and Sirius stared at her. He never knew how beautiful Nadia really was. They sat down on the same couch as Remus and Suzanne, because they wanted to all go down together.
Lucy came down next, and she almost tripped because of her high heels. Peter stood up, and took her hand. It was a god thing that Lucy was so short, even with her heels because Peter was rather short himself. They went and sat on the couch.
Finally Lily came down. James stared at her. She looked beautiful, in robes that showed off her figure, but flared out at the bottom to look even more like a dress. Her hair was flowing down her back in soft curls, (A/N her hair is like Julia Stiles in Save The last Dance…) and even though she was wearing 2-inch high heels, she was still very petite. James walked up to her and kissed her.
They all went down to the dance together. They were fairly early, and there was a queue outside the doors. Quite suddenly, the doors opened, and everyone went inside. Nobody went in, because every boy was staring at Lily, and throwing the deepest looks of loathing at James. Lily didn't notice this, but James sure did. He looked at the boys, and glared at them. Malfoy smirked at her, like he was planning to do something.
Dumbledore wasn't lying, the Hufflepuff band were quite good. They played one song while everyone sat down at various tables, and picked up their menus. They ordered different things, and then the plates disappeared, and the dance floor lit up.
"Would you care to dance?" James asked Lily.
Lily smiled, and took his hand. "I would love too." So, Lily and all of her friends started out the dance. James and Lily were staring at each other as if they were the only people on the earth. When the song ended, they kissed each other passionately. Then a faster song started, and they danced very exuberantly. Even though it wasn't a Tango song, Sirius and Nadia started doing the Tango! Giggling, Lily led James into the Tango too, and before they knew it, everyone around them was doing the Tango too.
The music suddenly stopped, and Dumbledore stood up, his eyes twinkling.
"Will all the girls please make a circle inside of the boys, who will please make a circle."
The boys and girls formed two circles, with the girl's circle on the inside.
"Now, when the music stops, you shall dance with whoever is in front of you. While the music is going, the girls walk around to their left, and the boys move to their right."
The music started again, and the girls moved left. Suddenly the music stopped, and Lily turned to see who was next to her. She gasped; standing in front of her was Malfoy.
"Come one Lily, you heard Dumbledore, we're supposed to dance." Malfoy said, his eyes flashing manically.
Lily stood far apart from him, but he pulled her closer. Slowly, he guided her toward the door. He brought he outside. He dragged her toward the Forbidden Forest, and pushed her onto the ground.
"You're a pretty Mudblood aren't you? Now, lets get back to what we were doing in the alleyway in the summer, now that Potter or Black won't be able to save you."
Lily stared up at him with a mixture of fear and hate in her eyes.
"What do you want from me, Malfoy?" she asked in an amazingly calm voice.
Malfoy laughed. "Well, you see, the Dark Lord wants your powers, and it's my duty to keep you here until he arrives. However, that won't be for a while."
Just then an owl came. Malfoy read the letter with narrowed eyes, and then laughed coldly.
"Ah, yes, Mudblood. I have orders from the Dark Lord, and I'm sorry to say, we won't me making love today." Suddenly he struck Lily hard on the head with a rock. She went unconscious immediately. Laughing madly, Malfoy slashed Lily's beautiful robes. He tied the necklace the James gave her very tightly around her neck. She had very little breathing room left. Then he tied a rope round Lily's wrist, and took a broom from behind the tree. Then he flew her up to the highest tree, and tied one end of the rope to the highest branch. Then he changed his mind, and hung her on the Whomping Willow. The tree struck her, and gave her bruises, and many bloody cuts. Malfoy then tied her to the highest branch, and went back into the hall after making sure that there wasn't any blood on his robes.
Meanwhile, James was looking everywhere for Lily. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder, and asked him to go for a walk.
"Sure," James replied. They went off walking around the grounds.
"So, how are you and Lily holding up?" Sirius asked with a playful punch on James' arm.
"We're doing fine, but I haven't seen her since we did that circle thing, and that ended about 20 minutes ago." James turned to Sirius.
"You don't think Malfoy did anything to her?" Sirius asked sounding a bit worried.
"Dunno…" They turned around, assuming that she might be in the bathroom, but Sirius looked up, wanting to see the stars.
Of course, Lily's robes stood out slightly against the dark sky. Sirius grabbed James' arm.
"James, look, up there," he said pointing at Lily "is that Lily?"
They ran toward the tree, to get a better look. Sure enough, there was Lily, hung by her wrist.
"Oh my God…." James said softly, "We need to get Dumbledore!"
James and Sirius ran as fast as they could toward the castle. They burst into the hall, and looked wildly around. Finally they spotted Dumbledore in deep conversation with Professor Flitwick.
"Professor!" James said urgently, "You must come, NOW! Lily! Bleeding…"
Dumbledore quickly excused himself from Professor Flitwick, and hurried out of the following Sirius and James. They took him to the tree where Lily was. When they pointed her out, Dumbledore gasped.
"Oh my Goodness…" Then he shot something silvery toward the hall, and a few minutes later Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Hagrid came running out of the castle.
"Albus! What is it?" panted McGonagall. Dumbledore pointed up at Lily, and McGonagall stared at her. Dumbledore then turned to James.
"James, I want you to take a broom, and go up to fetch Lily. Sirius, you help him."
At these words, James ran off to the broom shed and got two brooms, and gave one to Sirius. Then they took off, and Lily looked even worse up close. She had a big cut on the side of her head, and a swelling bruise on her cheek. Her lips were blue from the lack of oxygen she had. Her robes were torn, and she had many cuts and bruises on her beautiful body. James noticed a piece of folded parchment shoved between the rope and her wrist. They quickly undid the rope, and brought Lily down.
The Professors gasped at the state Lily was in. James lay his cloak on the ground, and gently lay Lily on top of it. Then he sat down a good distance away, and put his head into his arms. He started to cry silently. Soon, he heard someone sit down next to him. He looked up, and saw Sirius looking at him. They looked at each other for a moment, and Sirius pulled him into a big hug.
"She'll be fine, James..." Sirius said not really believing himself.
Slowly they got up, because James wanted to see what that note said. He asked Dumbledore for it, and rather reluctantly Dumbledore gave it to him.
This is what it said:
The Mudblood fails to join the Dark Side. We want her powers, and will not give up until we get them. This is just a warning; hopefully you will get the idea that we want James, and the Mudblood. We know for a fact that they will make the one to defeat Lord Voldemort somehow. We aren't sure yet, but we want to kill James or the Mudblood before this happens. We will not fail to kill the one greater then Lord Voldemort.
James looked up, the fury visible in his eyes. Then he turned to Dumbledore,
"Is she going to be alright, Professor?" James' voice shaking slightly.
Dumbledore looked at James, and shook his head.
"I can't be sure James, we will have to wait and see."
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Soul mates… or playmates? Part 4
… And found that she couldn't go on. It was like, someone had taken the information out of her head, and now she couldn't say. Lily tried hard to say the words, but she only heard herself mumbling.
"mmmm mmm mmhmmhm mmmmm!" Lily tried to say.
"Lily, why don't you just tell him what happened? We would, but we're not completely sure." Said Suzanne.
"I'm trying!" said a frustrated Lily.
Dumbledore smiled slightly.
"Lily, I am afraid that whoever did what to you has out a curse on you so you cannot say what happened. (A/N ARIANA'S IDEA!!!) However, I can tell that you have been beaten up pretty badly by someone. Now, I am going to try and guess. Was is a Slytherin?"
Lily nodded her head.
"All right," said Dumbledore.
"It was mmmm". Sirius said. He then found that he couldn't say it either, and neither could anyone else.
Dumbledore was evidently thinking very hard, his eyes were furrowed in thought, and he was going through many names in his head.
"Was it a male?" Lily nodded. "Hmm… was it -- by any chance -- Malfoy?"
Lily shook her head, but made a gesture that he was getting closer. Then Lily drew a bottle on a piece of parchment.
Dumbledore looked very confused, then it was as if someone turned a light switch on in his head.
"Is that a Potions Bottle?" Dumbledore asked very quietly.
Lily nodded. "So, it was Professor Hawkins?" Dumbledore asked. Suzanne nodded.
Dumbledore stood up, and threw something into the fire, and called,
"HAWKINS! A word if you please!"
Hawkins came in, brushing soot off him. He looked around and saw Lily, James, and everyone else and his smile faded slightly. Then he looked around at Dumbledore.
"Yes, Headmaster?" Hawkins said in an adopted pleasant voice.
Dumbledore did not return the smile. "Lily here just tried to tell me that you have been beating her up in Potions class today Hawkins. Is this true?"
Hawkins looked at Lily, and then laughed.
"Come now Dumbledore, why would I want to do such a thing to one of my prized students?" he walked over and put an arm around Lily.
Lily threw his arm off of her. "DON'T LIE!" she screamed.
Hawkins laughed, "Obviously this girl is out of her mind, maybe perhaps she should spend the night in the Hospital Wing."
Dumbledore stood up. "You are free to go, Junip." He said, gesturing to the fire.
Hawkins looked at Lily one more time, and set off into the fire.
"Lily, you may go. Any more of this, and I want you to report it to me immediately. Do you understand?"
Lily nodded, and walked outside with her friends.
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"Hey Lily," Peter said as though he was remembering something. "Do you know how to do that very hard charm, where you can make people join the darkside?"
Lily stared at Peter, "I am able to, yes, but I would never perform it. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason." Peter said hurriedly. Just then, Pulchra and her gang came up to Lily.
"Hi Lily!! Who are you going to the ball with? I don't have a date yet, oo! How about we wear our hair the exact same way, and we can be like twins!" Pulchra squealed.
"Hello, Pulchra. I am not going to tell you how I'm going to wear my hair, because I don't want to go as anyone's twin."
Pulchra's smile faded a little. "Oh, well, whom're you going with?"
Lily smiled broadly. "James." She said.
Pulchra looked deeply jealous. "Aww, Jamsie - poo, wouldn't you rather go with somebody extremely gorgeous, and smart?"
James stared at her, and then put his arms around Lily's waist. He looked into Lily's eyes and said, "I already am."
Lily stood on her tiptoes, and kissed him. Sirius watched this while smirking, and since then, Lily and James were officially a couple.
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Lily, Nadia, Suzanne, and Lucy were jumping up and down around their dormitory. It was the morning of the ball.
"I CAN'T BELIVE I'M GOING TO THE BALL WITH SIRIUS!!!" Nadia screamed.
Suzanne hit her with a pillow. "BUT I'M GOING WITH REMUS!!!!!" She said very excitedly.
Lucy threw two pillows at Suzanne and Nadia. "I'M GOING WITH PETER!!!!" she shrieked.
Lily stepped in. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! I'M GOING WITH JAMES POTTER!!!!" She fell onto her bed pretending to faint.
Meanwhile, in the Common Room, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all sat on the couch grinning broadly. They were sure that the girls didn't care if everyone heard them. Then they saw a shirt get thrown down the stairs.
'GO GET IT!" screamed Lily.
"NO!" Suzanne replied while giggling. Then she threw all of Lily's shirts down. Lily then took all of Suzanne's shirts, and threw them down the stairs.
"HA! NOW WE BOTH HAVE TO GO DOWN AND GET OUR SHIRTS!" Lily said giggling. Nadia and Lucy wisely decided to stay out of this.
The boys sat staring at the staircase leading to the girl's dormitory. All of Lily's shirts, and robes were thrown down. So were Suzanne's. They heard the door slam, and the sound of Lily and Suzanne's giggles. They came down wearing only their bras, and covering themselves up with their arms.
"Excuse us." They said together giggling. They quickly gathered up their things, and were about to go back upstairs when Lily stopped Suzanne.
"That's mine!"
"No it isn't! It's mine!"
"Nut uh!"
"Uh huh!"
Suzanne threw Lily's clothes back down the stairs. Lily did the same to Suzanne, and they ran back downstairs not even bothering to cover themselves up. The boys were smirking at them, and watched as they gathered up their clothes. Lily flashed the boys a smile, and curtsied. Suzanne did the same, and the boys seemed hypnotized by them.
"I can't believe we just did that!" Lily giggled.
Suzanne laughed, "I can't either, but lets get dressed and go downstairs! The boys still have to give us our Christmas presents."
The boys had left a note taped on the door to the dorm saying that they would give them their presents in the Common Room, because they wanted to see their faces when they opened them.
Since there weren't any classes, they were allowed to wear Muggle clothes if they wish. Lily put on her favorite Bellbottoms, and a white V-neck T-shirt, that showed off much cleavage. She arranged her hair in a messy bun.
Nadia was wearing a skirt, and a regular black long sleeved shirt. Her hair was half up, and the half that was up was French braided.
Lucy was wearing a skirt as well, only hers was much shorter. And her T- shirt was pale pink, with a scoop neck. She had her hair down.
Suzanne was wearing jeans, and a yellow long sleeved V-neck. His shirt also showed off much cleavage. Suzanne and Lily were both Muggle- born, and they were fanatical about V-necks. Suzanne had her hair in a ponytail.
All in all, not very fancy. But, they did not care; they just wanted to be comfortable. When they came downstairs, the boys thought they looked simply gorgeous.
Lily sat down in James' lap, and started tousling his hair lovingly.
"Where are our presents Jamsie?" She asked.
"Oh -- er -- right!" He reached into his pocket, and took out a small box. He handed it to Lily, and when Lily opened she gasped….
(A/N I was going to stop there, but I decided to be nice!)
Inside the box was the most beautiful necklace Lily had ever seen. It was on a fine gold chain, and it was a simple white lily. James smiled, and put it on her.
"Do you like it?" he whispered. Lily was speechless, but she kissed him. Then she pulled back,
"No, of course I don't like it." James' face fell.
"You -- you don't?" he asked looking crestfallen.
Lily smiled, "Of course not, I love it." They kissed again, and stopped because Sirius had cleared his throat loudly.
They grinned at him sheepishly, and turned to watch everyone else get their presents. Nadia had gotten a pair of diamond earrings from Sirius, Suzanne had gotten a gold bracelet from Remus, and Lucy had gotten a beautiful silver ring from Peter.
"Hey guys!! Let's go to lunch!" said Sirius. Lily giggled and threw a pillow at him.
"You git! All you think about it FOOD!"
Sirius threw the pillow back at Lily. Everyone knew that they weren't really flirting, because they were as close as brother and sister. All of a sudden Lily froze. She went over to Lucy, Suzanne, and Nadia.
"You guys," she whispered, "I just thought of something. We should really try and look stunning tonight, but we only gave our boyfriends joke books, and quills. I say we have a make - out party right now!"
Suzanne looked over at the boys. "Yeah, you're right!"
They walked over to the boys and sat on their laps.
"1, 2, 3." Mouthed Nadia. Then the girls started kissing them, like they were the only men on the face of the earth. After about ten minutes or so, they stopped, and Lily, her eyes twinkling said to James,
"Merry Christmas, Jamsie." Then they went down to lunch. After a magnificent lunch, and a snowball fight, Lily, Nadia, Lucy, and Suzanne all went up to their dorms at 5:00.
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Suzanne put on her shocking pink dress robes. Her hair was in a French braid, and she had lip gloss on. On her eyes, she had gold eye shadow.
Lucy was looking very pretty indeed, in a teal dress robe. Her hair was twisted up in a bun, and she had teal eye shadow on. On her lips, she had reddish lipstick, and lip-gloss.
Nadia was wearing silver robes, and her hair was up in a half ponytail. She was wearing blue eye shadow, which was not too much. On her lips she had pinkish lipstick.
Lily was wearing a white robe, which her necklace went perfectly with. She had the front of her hair in little ponytails, like a headband. The ponytails were twisted onto her head, and she was wearing pink lip-gloss. She had gold eye shadow on as well.
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James was wearing a navy-blue robe, and tried to tame his hair, but decided against it.
Sirius was wearing dark green robes, and was looking at himself nervously in the mirror.
Remus was wearing red robes, and was combing his hair.
Peter was wearing plain black robes, but they were velvet.
They all went down to the common room, and sat on the couch waiting for the girls. About ten minutes later, Suzanne came down, and met Remus. Remus looked at Suzanne like she was the only girl alive. Suzanne was very thankful that there wasn't a full moon tonight. Remus and Suzanne said they would wait, so they sat down on a separate couch, whispering to each other.
Nadia came down next, and Sirius stared at her. He never knew how beautiful Nadia really was. They sat down on the same couch as Remus and Suzanne, because they wanted to all go down together.
Lucy came down next, and she almost tripped because of her high heels. Peter stood up, and took her hand. It was a god thing that Lucy was so short, even with her heels because Peter was rather short himself. They went and sat on the couch.
Finally Lily came down. James stared at her. She looked beautiful, in robes that showed off her figure, but flared out at the bottom to look even more like a dress. Her hair was flowing down her back in soft curls, (A/N her hair is like Julia Stiles in Save The last Dance…) and even though she was wearing 2-inch high heels, she was still very petite. James walked up to her and kissed her.
They all went down to the dance together. They were fairly early, and there was a queue outside the doors. Quite suddenly, the doors opened, and everyone went inside. Nobody went in, because every boy was staring at Lily, and throwing the deepest looks of loathing at James. Lily didn't notice this, but James sure did. He looked at the boys, and glared at them. Malfoy smirked at her, like he was planning to do something.
Dumbledore wasn't lying, the Hufflepuff band were quite good. They played one song while everyone sat down at various tables, and picked up their menus. They ordered different things, and then the plates disappeared, and the dance floor lit up.
"Would you care to dance?" James asked Lily.
Lily smiled, and took his hand. "I would love too." So, Lily and all of her friends started out the dance. James and Lily were staring at each other as if they were the only people on the earth. When the song ended, they kissed each other passionately. Then a faster song started, and they danced very exuberantly. Even though it wasn't a Tango song, Sirius and Nadia started doing the Tango! Giggling, Lily led James into the Tango too, and before they knew it, everyone around them was doing the Tango too.
The music suddenly stopped, and Dumbledore stood up, his eyes twinkling.
"Will all the girls please make a circle inside of the boys, who will please make a circle."
The boys and girls formed two circles, with the girl's circle on the inside.
"Now, when the music stops, you shall dance with whoever is in front of you. While the music is going, the girls walk around to their left, and the boys move to their right."
The music started again, and the girls moved left. Suddenly the music stopped, and Lily turned to see who was next to her. She gasped; standing in front of her was Malfoy.
"Come one Lily, you heard Dumbledore, we're supposed to dance." Malfoy said, his eyes flashing manically.
Lily stood far apart from him, but he pulled her closer. Slowly, he guided her toward the door. He brought he outside. He dragged her toward the Forbidden Forest, and pushed her onto the ground.
"You're a pretty Mudblood aren't you? Now, lets get back to what we were doing in the alleyway in the summer, now that Potter or Black won't be able to save you."
Lily stared up at him with a mixture of fear and hate in her eyes.
"What do you want from me, Malfoy?" she asked in an amazingly calm voice.
Malfoy laughed. "Well, you see, the Dark Lord wants your powers, and it's my duty to keep you here until he arrives. However, that won't be for a while."
Just then an owl came. Malfoy read the letter with narrowed eyes, and then laughed coldly.
"Ah, yes, Mudblood. I have orders from the Dark Lord, and I'm sorry to say, we won't me making love today." Suddenly he struck Lily hard on the head with a rock. She went unconscious immediately. Laughing madly, Malfoy slashed Lily's beautiful robes. He tied the necklace the James gave her very tightly around her neck. She had very little breathing room left. Then he tied a rope round Lily's wrist, and took a broom from behind the tree. Then he flew her up to the highest tree, and tied one end of the rope to the highest branch. Then he changed his mind, and hung her on the Whomping Willow. The tree struck her, and gave her bruises, and many bloody cuts. Malfoy then tied her to the highest branch, and went back into the hall after making sure that there wasn't any blood on his robes.
Meanwhile, James was looking everywhere for Lily. Sirius tapped him on the shoulder, and asked him to go for a walk.
"Sure," James replied. They went off walking around the grounds.
"So, how are you and Lily holding up?" Sirius asked with a playful punch on James' arm.
"We're doing fine, but I haven't seen her since we did that circle thing, and that ended about 20 minutes ago." James turned to Sirius.
"You don't think Malfoy did anything to her?" Sirius asked sounding a bit worried.
"Dunno…" They turned around, assuming that she might be in the bathroom, but Sirius looked up, wanting to see the stars.
Of course, Lily's robes stood out slightly against the dark sky. Sirius grabbed James' arm.
"James, look, up there," he said pointing at Lily "is that Lily?"
They ran toward the tree, to get a better look. Sure enough, there was Lily, hung by her wrist.
"Oh my God…." James said softly, "We need to get Dumbledore!"
James and Sirius ran as fast as they could toward the castle. They burst into the hall, and looked wildly around. Finally they spotted Dumbledore in deep conversation with Professor Flitwick.
"Professor!" James said urgently, "You must come, NOW! Lily! Bleeding…"
Dumbledore quickly excused himself from Professor Flitwick, and hurried out of the following Sirius and James. They took him to the tree where Lily was. When they pointed her out, Dumbledore gasped.
"Oh my Goodness…" Then he shot something silvery toward the hall, and a few minutes later Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Hagrid came running out of the castle.
"Albus! What is it?" panted McGonagall. Dumbledore pointed up at Lily, and McGonagall stared at her. Dumbledore then turned to James.
"James, I want you to take a broom, and go up to fetch Lily. Sirius, you help him."
At these words, James ran off to the broom shed and got two brooms, and gave one to Sirius. Then they took off, and Lily looked even worse up close. She had a big cut on the side of her head, and a swelling bruise on her cheek. Her lips were blue from the lack of oxygen she had. Her robes were torn, and she had many cuts and bruises on her beautiful body. James noticed a piece of folded parchment shoved between the rope and her wrist. They quickly undid the rope, and brought Lily down.
The Professors gasped at the state Lily was in. James lay his cloak on the ground, and gently lay Lily on top of it. Then he sat down a good distance away, and put his head into his arms. He started to cry silently. Soon, he heard someone sit down next to him. He looked up, and saw Sirius looking at him. They looked at each other for a moment, and Sirius pulled him into a big hug.
"She'll be fine, James..." Sirius said not really believing himself.
Slowly they got up, because James wanted to see what that note said. He asked Dumbledore for it, and rather reluctantly Dumbledore gave it to him.
This is what it said:
The Mudblood fails to join the Dark Side. We want her powers, and will not give up until we get them. This is just a warning; hopefully you will get the idea that we want James, and the Mudblood. We know for a fact that they will make the one to defeat Lord Voldemort somehow. We aren't sure yet, but we want to kill James or the Mudblood before this happens. We will not fail to kill the one greater then Lord Voldemort.
James looked up, the fury visible in his eyes. Then he turned to Dumbledore,
"Is she going to be alright, Professor?" James' voice shaking slightly.
Dumbledore looked at James, and shook his head.
"I can't be sure James, we will have to wait and see."
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A/N: sigh: that was a sad chapter for me to write! If you want me to write more, than please REVIEW!!! Okee? Because, if you don't, then I recommend you read WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BAD PEOPLE DON'T REVIEW!!!! By, *~*Lily*~* hmm…. My cat keeps trying to climb in my ceiling, don't ask me how… long story… anyhoo, Thanx to Thunder, and Ginny .H. Wealey. Special thanx today to Ariana because I am using HER idea about the part where Lily couldn't say what happened in the beginning! ^__^ thanx!!
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