Chapter Ten ….( I think…)
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Chapter Ten ~ Never Expected
Lily held tightly to Sirius and glanced up only to see a
dark figure she recognized far too well diving at James. Lily pushed Sirius
away from her and some how found the strength to race after the person. She
dove on top of the ….girl?! Lily stared down, into violet eyes, and sparking
black hair.
"Mystie?..What are you doing?" she said.
Mystica Sani looked up at Lily, who sat on her, and held
her hands down.
Lily's shining red hair matted to her face, her green eyes
full of fear, and she momentarily felt sorry for all she had done. For working
with Peter and Voldemort all those months…but then she remembered. Lily stole James
from her in the first place. She flipped Lily off of her and started hitting
her already battered body. Lily felt anger burning within her. She hadn't done
anything to anyone! Voldemort stole her parents…her life…her everything….but he
wouldn't take James, or Sirius, and Lily wasn't about to let melodramatic
Mystica kill her. She threw her off of her and held her down.
"Mystie, you were my bestfriend for years, and I don't
know where the old you is, but you have to understand every word I'm about to
say. Don't you touch James, or
Sirius…or me. You can't hurt me anymore than what has…so if you are going to
take out your aggressions on someone..YOU take it out on Voldemort…cause he's
the only one in this room who deserves it!"
Mystica stared up at her. Her violet eyes full of a deadly
rage she couldn't contain. Mystica
fondly remembered those nights, sitting up till early hours with Voldemort and
Peter, discussing the end of Lily and James. She liked the feeling of power she
got whenever she watched people suffer. Whenever she watched James parents
crying out for mercy and tears burning into their eyes. She loved winning for
once. Her father beat her as a child, her mother ran away and left her there…after all the pain, all the
suffering….she was on top. Now..here was Lily. The world was practically handed
to her, but she wouldn't ruin it for her now! No! Mystica Sani…would win.
She threw Lily on the ground…kicking screaming.
"Master! I'm here! Master! I've got her…kill her now! Kill
her now!" she shrieked. Lily's green eyes lit up as if a match had been tossed
into them. No. She promised herself she would survive…and she would. Harry needed
her. She wasn't sure who he was or why he needed her, but she knew that it was
important.
Mystica's eyes stared right into Lily's
violet……green…….violet…….green. They
scratched, punched, kicked, and strangled. Lily was exhausted, all of her
energy was draining from her body. The darkness that had engulfed Mystie was
taking Lily over too. Voldemort and Peter had overtaken Sirius and James, they
laid chained to a slimy wall. Both of them now earnestly watching Lily and
Mystie attack one another. Peter stood anxiously in the background. Voldemort
was now silently approaching Lily with excitement in his red eyes. Lily rolled
over and slammed Mystica's head into the ground.
"Mystica! Get off me! Snap out of this! What is wrong with
you?!" She screamed. Mystica answered by punching Lily in one of her many
bleeding wounds. Lily gritted her teeth and stared at her. She felt torn. This used
to be her bestfriend…..but now..she was nothing more than Voldemorts slave.
Screw friendship, if Lily didn't get rid of Mystica then her REAL friends would
be in more danger than they already were. Lily lunged forward and punched
Mystica square in the jaw. Voldemort
laughed.
"Bring her to me my servant" he said nodding at Peter. Peters watery ..now black
eyes,…..anxiously glanced over at Sirius and James. Then proceeded to take a
few careful steps towards Lily.
"WORMTAIL! Don't you touch her! Don't! Its us! Its your
friends!"
Sirius
shouted.
"Peter! NO! OH! Voldemort you let me outta these chains so
I can kill your servant! YOU COWARD! Let me free! Peter, make the right decision…don't
touch her!" James cried fighting viciously with his chains.
Sirius leaned his head against the slimy wall and closed
his eyes tightly. Not her…take me God, I'm not half as valuable as Lily. People
down here really need her. He prayed.
Peter scooped Lilys frail body off of the ground, she was
bleeding rather heavily now, and her face was a deadly pale. Yet, she still
struggled against him. Peter carried her towards a sacrificing stone of some sort,
an odd, slime covered cement slab. He laid her down very gently though, and
when Voldemort had turned to reprimand Mystica on not fulfilling her task, he
mouthed the words "im sorry" to her.
Mystica walked slowly over to Lily, swishing her 18 yr old
curves and pushing her long silky black hair off her shoulders. She gave Lily a
smirk and a deadly glance before reaching over to her. Mystica ran her long
slender smooth fingers over Lily's forehead almost lovingly. Then she reached
her fiery red hair and grasped it roughly. She jerked her head up and slammed
it back down on the cement. Lily glared sharply pretending she couldn't feel
all the blood around her. Mystica smirked at her.
"For once Lily Evans…you don't win. I do." The words were
cold and stung.
Then Voldemort walked over to her and pointed his wand
inches from her face, apparently he wanted her to suffer a great deal before
her death, and he wanted her to be emotional broken first. he announced ; "Give
up, you won't make it. You think James loves you? Since when has James Potter loved anyone? You have nothing
left in this world. No Father, No Mother , your only family left disowns you,
and who wouldn't? Since you killed your parents! What did they ever do to
deserve that Lily?! Your selfishness killed them…not me." he grinned.
"Whats he doing?" Sirius whispered.
"Deceiving her. He knows all her weaknesses and one of her
biggest is that she still feels responsible for her parents death. Therefore,
he's going to tell her exactly what she hates to hear until she believes it."
James replied….struggling against his chains.
"LILY! I love you. I know I never really…truly said it to
you…but I do.
love you with all
my heart! I NEED YOU LIKE I NEED AIR! Don't you listen to him. Keep fighting!
THINK OF HARRY!" James screamed….his
voice sore and dry.
"SILENCE!" Voldemort screamed.
Sirius thought long and hard. He knew what he had to do. "Screw
you Voldie! What? You can't take it?" Sirius yelled.
Lily quickly caught on. "No..he can't. He hates the fact
that love is stronger than his pathetic hate! He's a coward too, thats why he's
chained you two up and made it three against one. Bring it on! Kill me…comeon!
YOU COWARD! KILL ME! Cause even after I die…you can't kill love!" She said, her
body now trembling from loss of blood.
"Comeon Voldie…kill me first, cause we all know you have to kill the guy who
could kill you with his bare hands first." Sirius yelled.
Voldemort turned on Sirius…giving Lily just enough time to
leap up, reach her wand and point it at Sirius and James to free them, but it
was no use. Mystica pounced her and threw her on the ground…the two girls were wrestling
again.
"Master!" Mystica screamed in a futile attempt to redeem
herself, "NOW!"
Voldemort spun around and pointed his wand at Lily. He
yelled to Sirius and James first. "You'll both die too, but its only
fair…ladies first. Besides, you'll both
suffer more if you have to watch it."
They both screamed with choked back tears "NO!" But it was
too late.
"Avada Kedavra!" He bellowed. The deep hollowness of his
voice ringing in their ears. Then there was a bright white light exploding in
the room.
body dropped onto the floor with a sickening thud. James
stomach lurched forward. Sirius beat the wall to free him. But all hope was
lost….the smoke cleared, Voldemorts shrill laughter ringing out in the dark
room.
There she was…lifeless…..dead.
The words ran over and over in James mind. He forced his
seemingly too heavy eyelids to look at her body. There it was…thin …slender…her
shining black hair. BLACK!
Through the smoke there was Lily. Her red hair shining,
her green eyes lit up. She had her wand pointed directly in front of her and in
a powerful voice she screamed the countercurses to free James and Sirius. They fell onto the hard ground then ran to
her.
"No! The smoke will clear in seconds…Throw every hex you
possibly can at him and I'll take care
of Peter." She whispered urgently.
There was a large explosion of light and smell, Lily
somehow found her way to Peter and hexed him so that his legs and arms were
buckled to his sides. She reached through the darkness to James and Sirius.
Peter floating beside her.
"Run!" she screamed. They raced back up through the
endless mazes of dark, slippery, rotting tunnels and sighed relief despite
their aching legs. Then there he was Voldemort.
His face sprouted t enacles and he could barely stand up. Yet he grasped Lily roughly and mumbled a
curse. James dove on him, strangling him with his bare hands. He was just a
second too late. Voldemort had given up
on wands and magic, there were far too many wizards near him. It all happened
in one slow motion…there was Lily, next the Sirius about to help James, when
Voldemort reached over with a short blunt knife and stabbed her. She still
refused to scream. The blood was gushing and her strength disappeared.
Suddenly, all of her fighting and efforts to survive seemed useless. She knew
it. She knew she would die in the end. Sirius and James dove on him…but it was
too late. Voldemort was gone.
Lily sat…propped up against the wall, bleeding, crying ,
all the color drained from her. Her head pounded, her heart beat in an unsteady
rhythm, and she closed her eyes as if to mumble a final good-bye.
James picked her up and ran. His heart dropped. He
couldn't live without her. Without her laughter, with her smiles and terrible
jokes, James Potter loved this girl, and he would rather be dead than live
without her. He and Sirius ran until they felt their hearts would break through
their lungs. They raced until the darkness was behind them. Until they were
safe in the infirmary, until Dumbledore was finally there, standing over Lily,
who was still bleeding…and allowing tears to fall from his eyes.
Sirius felt a disgusting taste of reliving another moment
as he sat in the pitch black infirmary. Hadn't it been James laying there in
that bed?
Hadn't he been squinting his eyes trying to look asleep?
Oh..thats right.
That was in our 4th year..this is our last. He
reached over and squeezed James shoulder. James stared right at Lily.
"Poor Guy." Felicia whispered, through her tears, as she
leaned her head on Jenny's shoulder. Jenny wrapped an arm around her and felt
herself crying too. This can't be happening. Not to Lily at least. They had waited…hours
on end ……until McGonagall had released them from their rooms to go see Lily.
They walked in…expecting to see the same smiling Lily, but they were only
greeted by a solemn James, who was desperately stroking her hand.
Jenny had stared at Lily for a long time. Her long black
lashes resting together. Her long flowing red hair, covered in slime and blood,
still looked graceful. Her curvy body tucked away under a white blanket, leaving
her blood stained arms out in solitude.
"She took it hard." Jenny whispered, looking to
Sirius.
He nodded. "Fought till she had nothing left…nothing." He
hung his head and stared at the tile of the floor, "Saved all our lives."
Jenny's tears poured off of her face onto Felicia, who had
fallen fast asleep.
Mrs. Salem shuffled in, and looked over at Lily. She
placed a pudgy hand lovingly on James and Sirius's shoulders. "She was such a
beauty…inside and out. We were all lucky to know her." By now Felicia had curled
up in the chair and drifted off to sleep. Jenny was staring at the back of James head. Sirius had scooted his
chair next to James, and they both were talking to Lily. Jenny heard what Mrs.
Salem said and stood up boldly.
"Don…d..d…don't say that!" she cried, "Don't make it sound
like she's dead!" Her hands shook in anguish. Sirius scooted his chair back and
walked over to her and pulled her into his strong arms. Jenny leaned on his
shoulder and sobbed. "She's …Lil…sh..she isn't dead, Sirius!" she cried softly.
Sirius smoothed her hair, but could not think of any words that would comfort him or Jenny.
James Potter knew Lily better than anyone, and he had
studied her face long enough to know when she was scared. He stared and
stared…hours must have passed. He thought once. Then he leaned forward, kissed
her cheeks gently, and squeezed her
hand. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him. Lily shot up from her
laying down position and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"James…James…James… I'm alive! So are you! Where's Siri!?
Is he okay? Wheres Peter?! Oh James…. I
love you. I'll never let you go….ever again."
Then she winced. "Okay, maybe I'll let you go for one
second…cause I feel the sudden need to lay back down.
Tears streamed down her face, James laughed and screamed, waking everyone up.
He leaned down to Lily and hugged her carefully. He stared right into
her alive green eyes and whispered " I love you"
Jenny leapt from her chair. Sirius screamed Felicia cried.
Sirius was the first to get to her. He was just about to dive on her for a huge
hug of relief whenever Mrs. Salem walked in the room. Her entire face lit up in
sheer joy. Then she spotted Sirius.
"STOP!" she laughed. "Don't you touch her, or move her or
anything. Let her rest there, you can
talk quietly but please…the bleeding." She said.
Lily glanced up at Mrs. Salem's warm face. "Will I be
okay? I know I was bleeding a lot…but…I will be okay right?"
Mrs. Salem smiled. "In a few hours we'll see if the potion
I made for you is done. It should stop the bleeding and help you heal much faster."
Then she left and Dumbledore walked in.
"Ms. Evans!" he said, sincerely delighted. "Welcome back,
and a job well done."
Sirius listened to their small chitchat and then asked the
question that had been bothering him all night.
"That was my doing Sirius." James said, still holding
Lily's hand. "We talked about this several times, we both knew that he would
eventually attack Lily, but who would have guessed he'd try here. I told Dumbledore
that if this ever happened to stay here. I know Lily, and I knew that she'd
rather die, then leave the entire school at risk without Dumbledore."
"But what no one knows, is that I didn't leave you all
alone at all." Dumbledore smiled. He reached in his pocket and held out a small
square stone in his hand. His blue eyes lit up as he said;
The stone projected exactly what had happened onto the
white wall behind Lily. Everyone watched with terror. Jenny screamed at some
points, Sirius and James winced the entire time, Felicia cried, but whenever
they got to the part where Mystica died…there was silence.
"Mystie…is dead?" Felicia whispered.
"Yes." James nodded, "Voldemort killed her."
There was a deafening silence.
"I helped him…" Lily whispered with tears streaming
from her eyes.
"When we were fighting I heard the curse and flipped
Mystica on top of me. She took the full impact, and I just lost all my
strength." She sobbed.
Dumbledore placed his hand on her trembling shoulders. "You
had to, you knew about your future." He whispered.
"Future?" Jenny questioned.
"Harry." James mumbled looking down.
"What?!" Felicia asked.
"I had this vision…that baby…in Divinations…..you all
should remember….i have to save this baby from something." Lily whispered.
"Headmaster Dumbledore? What is she talking about?"
Felicia asked.
"Time is not only a healer, but a teacher." He answered.
They all sat puzzled. He left them with wondering minds.
Lily sat up…staring at the blinding ray of sunshine
falling in through the open tower windows of the infirmary. She yawned, but she
felt herself growing restless. Graduation was so close! She would leave these laughter
filled halls forever. She wanted nothing more than to get up out of this bed
and walk to her next class, instead
of meeting with her teachers to restudy
her lessons. And everyone was tight with anxiety about foreboding tests the
seventh years had to prepare for.
Her wonderful friends spent endless hours with her,
especially James. James sat in that
chair to the right of her bed with books in his lap, levitating in the air, and
all over her bed. They studied together, sometimes having long meaningful conversations,
and sometimes, when Lily fell asleep early and Mrs. Salem had checked in on her
for the final time of the evening, James would gently crawl ontop her covers,
and lay next to her, his head propped up with his hand. He'd stare at her
sleeping, and run his fingers through her wild red hair until he'd slip on his invisibility
cloak and sneak out.
"Lily is SO lucky." A jealous sixth year cried to her
friend in the corner of the Gryfinndor common room. Her hair was straight,
long, and blonde. Tears filled her violet eyes.
"I mean, James Potter is the cutest guy in this school!
He's so…beautiful." She sighed and glanced up the stairs at the humble seventh year.
James Potter had matured nicely over the years. His wild hair
was nowhere near tame, but it had become his trademark. The mass of shiny black
hair still flew in every direction, but now, the girls envied Lily for getting
to run her fingers through it. His brown eyes glittered with mischief, the
marauders still playing pranks, yet, his eyes had softened somewhat. They
possessed a sound understanding of responsibility, and one could inquire that
the change was due to everything he had just gone through with Lily. His body
was still slightly muscular, but Quidditch had fallen to the second position in
his life.
"Look at him Sara, just look, he's so perfect. And! ME!
I'm the cutest girl in the sixth year! How can he choose her over me!" The
girls tears morphed into anger and frustration. Those violet eyes were on fire,
full of rage, full of hatred for Lily Evans.
"Melissa! You need to chill." Her friend said. " Lily
Evans is a sweetheart thats why James likes her, and if you couldn't tell this
is the longest he's been with one girl, so they are going to last. Get over it!"
she huffed and turned around to leave for lunch.
"Oh," she said, in second thought, "For your information,
you are NOT the cutest girl in the sixth year." Sara laughed and bumped right
into James. She failed to see Melissa's eyes burning with jealously.
"Sorry James." She said smiling.
"No prob, I'm on my way to see Lily, want to go?" he
grinned.
"Really? I'd love too, and I have to thank her for
helping me study
for that exam last term, I aced it thanks to her!" James and
Sara walked out of the common room, and Melissa glared.
"Lily won't win this time."
"Comeon you! I have the best surprise for ya!" Sirius
chuckled helping Lily into a wheelchair.
"I think I can manage to walk." She giggled, "if
you'll let me lean on
you"
"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your frrrrrrieeeeeeeennnnnnndddddd!"
Sirius sang, now holding Lily as she pulled herself from the infirmary bed.
"Comeon Lils!" He whispered mischievously, leading her to
the window. It was dark outside but the
Quidditch field was lit up and the stars shone out brightly. Lily smiled and
grasped Sirius's hand for balance.
He pulled out his wand and mumbled a charm under his
breath. Suddenly the window in the tower became like a large magnifying glass
and Lily felt as if she was right there in the stands watching the game. James was flying beautifully. He was quite
graceful on a broom, despite the fact that he was clumsy anywhere else. Lily
and Sirius cheered loudly, until an angry Mrs. Salem came in, frustrated.
"Ms. Evans! What are you doing from your bed!" She
yelled exasperated.
"Oh, Tabitha {lily
and the nurse were friends now}We are just watching James' Quidditch match,
I'll get back in bed soon." Lily smiled warmly.
The tired womans face full of creases turned into a smile.
"Who's winning?" she said timidly.
"We are!" Sirius shouted, "GO PATRICK FINNIGAN!" {~cough
cough Seamus's dad~ * Aly)
Mrs. Salem rushed over to the window and cheered with Lily
and Sirius until the match had ended, and her voice was raw.
"I suppose Mr. Potter, will be up here directly." She
grinned, winking at Lily.
"No." Lily said, looking melancholy, "That was the last
game of the year, he'll be in the common room celebrating, but oh well." She
sighed then looked up at Sirius grinning broadly. "SIRI! WE WON THE HOUSE CUP!"
She screamed, jumping into his arms. "ITS OUR SENIOR YEAR AND WE WON!" She squealed.
Mrs. Salem looked over at her. "You may go to the common
room, but Lily….be back in a few hours, don't let ANY professors see you, and please…please
take it easy."
Lily giggled merrily, and hugged Mrs. Salem tightly.
"Oh, Go on now child, I'm sure you'll want to change your
clothes.
Hurry." She smiled.
~~~~~~~'
The entire common room was alive with excitement and Lily
was glad to be standing in the middle of it all with James. When he saw her, he
almost doubled over with joy. She was wearing faded and well worn flared blue jeans
with a long sleeved green shirt that hugged her nicely, without looking trashy.
She hadn't exactly dressed up. Lily wasn't exactly the type of girl to go all
out, and she was naturally beautiful anyway. She had pulled her hair halfway up
and her eyes were sparkling with excitement of being in the common room again.
James ran to her and scooped her into his arms, carefully. She laughed and
hugged him tightly.
They had survived so much, and so much lay ahead for them
in the future.
"LILS!" Jenny shrieked running down the stairs, her curly
locks bouncing beside her, and her brown eyes alight with joy. She ran to Lily and hugged her as if she hadn't seen her in years.
"Hey hun! Nice jeans…you borrow 'em from me?" Lily said
glanced at Jennys jeans that matched hers perfectly.
"What don't I borrow from you?" she sighed staring her in
the eyes. " Lily, I'm so glad you are
okay, You don't know…….I love you girl." She said tears brimming.
Lily grabbed her arm. "you look at me Jen. I'm fine and
I'm not going anywhere." She smiled.
"Thats what you think." Melissa mumbled from across the
room.
Sarah glared at her. "Missy. You seriously gotta cut this
out! Its scary.
You …you're acting like Mystica."
Melissa stared at her with ice violet eyes. "Mystica Sani
is dead." She stood up, flattened down
her plaid short pink skirt, and adjusted her button up pink sweater. She strode
over to James, Lily, and Jenny as if the entire world was watching.
"James!" she cried. "You played so well. I'm so impressed."
She said enthused, completely ignoring Jenny and Lily's existence.
"Well, erm thanks. You know Lily, my girlfriend, and her
bestfriend Jenny?"
"Oh! Sure! Lily and Jenny! How great to see you, I guess I
just so impressed by James, I overlooked you, For shame! I'm so sorry.": she added, since Jenny was shooting knives
through her eyes at her.
Lily smiled warmly but reached down and held James hand
tightly. "I'm great. I feel much better. Thanks for asking."
Melissa saw that she was getting nowhere. She straightened
her shoulders to make sure James got a good look at how tight her sweater was.
Jenny laughed.
"Shopping in little girls again are we?" Jenny smirked.
Melissa grinned. "No, I can afford older clothes." She
took a direct hit at the income Lily and Jenny's parents were making.
Lily sighed. "Melissa, this is James big day, he won it
for them, so we have to go mingle and celebrate. We'll see you around." She smiled and took Jenny by the arm and the
three of them walked into the mass of people. Leaving Melissa behind them
glaring.
"Remus! Felicia! Its so great to see you guys!" Lily
yelled , hugging them both. Suddenly, it seemed as if nothing had changed…as if
these six had always been this way, and would stay that way for years and years
to come. Then her heart panged. Peter.
Patrick Finnigan and Logan Thomas (~sound familiar?~ *Aly)
had created huge banners that were hanging on the high walls of the room.
Blasting music and a never ending supply of sweets from the kitchens kept the party
going till early hours of the morning. Lily and James danced in the mass of
students. It was hard to believe that soon enough, she wouldn't be in this
place anymore. Her heart lurched. No more Hogwarts. It was a scary realization.
Sirius walked over to Lily around 2 am. She was leaning on James staring at the
fire, enjoying the moment.
"Lils, sis? I'm really sorry to have to tell you this, but
I've got to take you back now." Lily sighed and slowly got to her feet.
" You're right. Night Potter." She grinned as she took
Sirius's arm and they walked slowly to the infirmary.
James smirked. He watched the two walk away. The two that
meant more to him than anything in the world. Graduation was too close. He
prayed that this moment would last forever, enough though he knew it couldn't.
But something's…..never fade away.
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To accomplish great things,
one must not only act but,
DREAM....
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