Sunsine If Eternal; Lily; Part7

Sunsine If Eternal; Lily; Part7

yes, I know I've already done a part from Lily's POV, but this part kind of has to be from one of the girl's, and why not her's? :) And, no, I'm not going to do any romance in this until next series, in case you are wondering. L/J romance would make the story more boring, plot- wize, I'm afraid... but it's time will come... eventually.

Well, just read and review and have a nice day!!!!!

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It took everyone a little time to get settled into the routine of secondary school life, but once I had, life seemed almost normal. That is, as normal as it could get in a Wizarding school. I soon learnt which classes I could get away with talking in, and which teachers it was safe to annoy. Likewize, vice- versa.

Once school routine had settled down to normal, nothing out of the ordinary seemed to happen. Ana blew up a couldren. Potter managed to curse himself so that he couldn't speak for a while, but unfortunately they were able to fix that. I only saw Banbury in a few of my lessons, since she was a Hufflepuff. I'd become better friends with both Ana and Gem, although Gem constantly persists that the other Gryffindor boys weren't so bad. I can't say I believe her.

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The bell rang through the school, alerting everyone to the fact that the last lesson of the day- Friday- was over. There was a sigh of relief from just about everyone. Luckily, the teacher was in a good mood that day, and he didn't keep us all behind. Unfortunately for Banbury, she'd got annoyed with Black and tried to curse him, and was to be kept in detention, to clean out cauldren bottoms. A disgusting job-- you wouldn't catch me doing that!

Luckily- or maybe unlickily- for me, Ana and Gem, we wandered aimlessly out into the cold castle grounds, after putting our bags into the dorm.

It was raining lightly, in typical October style. Trust English weather to do that! It always rains, or is windy, or gets frosty just when you don't want it to. When I grow up, I decided, I'm going to move to somewhere hot. Italy or Cyprus or something. That would be great.

We chattered amoungst ourselves, about the lesson, people we knew, what we thought of Hogwarts so far, all that sort of thing.

Suddenly, Gem stopped short, and made a motion for us to be quiet.

"What?" I asked. I didn't know what was wrong. I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary at all.

"There's something in them bushes.." she murmered, hardly moving her lips. She seemed to be trying not to move.

"Where?" I wondered.

"Over there... at the edge of the forbidden forest..."

"I can't see anything," Ana admitted after a moment's pause.

"Shhh! Look!"

I stared at the place that Gem was indicating.

Then I saw it too. The bushes definitely stirred. I froze. I had heard all sorts of things about wild creatures that lived in the forest; the wolves. The Hinkeypunks. The Will O' The Wisps. Not to mention other untold terrors. I didn't want to come face to face with any of them.

"I can't see anything," said Ana again.

"I don't like this," I muttered, truthfully. I was scaired at the thought of what might be lurking there, feet away from us. I tried to to breathe too loudly.

"I don't know what it is," Gem was talking under her breath now, so that it was only just audible "but I have a really bad feeling about this."

"I can't see anything."

"There's something there..." I said, trying to keep my voice level "In the Forest... and we don't know what it is."

"And we don't want to find out."

"Oh, God, please keep whatver it is away..." I muttered. I was really frightened now. I could feel the hair on my neck rising. A chill ran down my spine that the thought of what it might be. I was beginning to shiver from the cold, too.

"Maybe it was just the wind in the branches?" Gem suggested, hopefully. She didn't look like she believed it. She looked just as scaired as I was.

"No... it was something solid... an animal or something?"

"Maybe it's just a cat?" suggested Gem.

"Bigger then a cat... must be at least the same size as a person..." there was a tense pause, then;

"I can't see anything," Ana said again.

"Person, eh?" said Gem, suddenly, "I think we've been had on."

"You think so?"

"Yes," Gem comfirmed "I do."

"I can't see anything."

"Shut up, Ana. Look, Lily," Gem continued "I'm sure you can think of someone whose idea of a joke would be to hide in bushes to scare us stupid, right?"

"You mean...? Potter and Black?"

"Of course. Gem turned towards the scrubs, and shouted "OK, joke's over, James. We can see you."

No response.

"Black, if you think this is funny," I shouted, "you've had your laugh. Now come out." No response.

"I can't see anything," said Ana.

"Will you stop saying that? And Potter, I advise you to get a life!" I added to the bushes.

Gem tutted angrily, "Oh for Heaven's sake!" she stalked over to the bush, "This isn't funny any m-"

I heard her scream... but it was joined by another voice.

Ana and I stared at each other for what must have been half a second, but it was long enough to see the expression of terror on her face, and tell what thoughts might be going through her mind; they were much the same as mine.

"Gem!" I shreiked, and over to where she was standing, pale, looking as though she'd just had the shock of her life. Ana was right behind me, I could hear her footsteps squelching through the sodden mud.

Gem was eyeing whatever it was in the bushes with obvious caution. I ran up behind her, and stared over her shoulder. I was surprised, to say the last, at what I saw.

It was a girl. Oddly, it was no one I knew. She might have been about 16 years old, but didn't look as though she belonged in the school. I could see how finding her crouching there in the bushes would make anyone scream, if they were expecting a couple of idiots like Black and Potter.

She was crouched, as if ready to spring, and she had a long, thin wand in her hand, which was glowing red. She looked frightened and determined. Her hair looked as though it was made of flames; reds, oranges, yellows, and blues. Her eyes glaired into me, and they also seemed to be made of fire. She was backed against a tree, and obviously ready to use the wand on us if we had to. She was dressed in a ragged robe, of a dark reddish- brown colour, splattered by mud and torn at the hem.

"I- I'd get back if I was you," said Ana's voice timidly behind me, making me jump "That's a firewitch... you don't want to mess with her..."

Then the firewitch spoke "Keep away from me," she seemed to by trying to stop her voice from trembling with fear. It occurred to me that she was as frightened of us as we were of her, "You, you keep away! I will use my wand if I have to, and I, I'll think nothing of, of killing you!" her voice shook a little. I tried to avoid looking into her eyes, which were wide with fear. And what was a firewitch, anyway?

"I, I'm sorry," I stuttered "I-"

"Lily! Gem!" Ana said urgently "We've got to go! Don't let's hang around! Really!"

"That's right," the firewitch continued, still crouched in the same position, "and if you dare tell anyone you've seen me..!" she left the threat unfinnished.

"I don't think you'd do anything." Said Gem, bluntly.

Ana stared at her with an expression of horror, and began to back away. The firewitch's eyes flicked off of me, and onto Gem "You don't, do you?"

"No," Gem comfairmed "I don't. You wouldn't hurt us."

"How can you be so sure?" she raised her wand so that it was pointed right at Gem, who flinched "I'm a firewitch, you know. I could blow your brains right out if I had to."

"You, you wouldn't!" Gem was obviously coming to terms with the fact that she had done something very, very stupid "You're on the run, aren't you? You wouldn't hurt us. It'd show you'd been here. People'd notice... wouldn't they?"

The firewitch blinked at her. She had obviously not expected this, but wasn't about to give up her act "I would. I could kill you if I had to. Dead men tell no tales, you know," she raised the wand again, and stood up a little out of her crouched position, so that it was perfectly obvious that Gem had done something increadibly idiotic, "You'll all be dead, and who'd know I was the one who did it? I could do curses on you more terrible then you could imagine..."

Ana decided on a definite plan of action at that moment "I'll go and get a teacher!" She shouted, and turned to run. She was hit by a jet of light from the firewitch's wand, shrieked, and fell over, clutching her ankle, obviously in pain.

"Don't tell anyone!" the firewitch's eyes grew round with fear "Please! Don't tell anyone!" her voice rose and fell. Her whole aspect seemed to change from a girl who would kill someone to save herself, to another that was terrified of everything, and had lived her life in hiding from some fate or other. She was desperate enough to kill one of us if she had to, but she didn't want to.

"My ankle! You'd attack us if you had to!" Ana was mildly in shock, lying in the mud where she had fallen.

"You don't understand," she was now half sobbing "If they find me, they'll kill me!"

"If who find you?" I asked. I don't mind admitting that I was scaired and confused. I ran over to Ana.

"Lily," Ana groaned from the floor "She's a firewitch. She deserves everything she gets. They're evil! Don't believe her!"

Gem stepped forewards towards the firewitch, who had lowered her wand, and was crying, hopelessly.

"Look," Gem said, "We won't tell on you. Promise."

"What, are you nuts?!" Ana shouted "She'll kill you and think nothing of it! You'll just vapourise and no one'll know what's happened to you! You can't trust her!"

The firewitch looked even sadder "That's why I'm on the run," she said, pushing her hair off of her face, "Lies like that. Because I'm a firewitch, I'm evil, and must be locked away or killed. It's all just predjudice and lies." She spat out the word "You know they're trying to kill all of my kind? Tell me now, if I could have vaporised you, if I could have killed you, why haven't I done it?"

"You- you want to see what you can get out of us first!" Ana said, glaring at the firewitch, "You want something!"

"Yes," said the firewitch "I do want help. I want all sorts of things that I can't have, but it would be so much easier for me just to point my wand at each of you and make you turn into a little pile of dust. Understand this; I don't want to kill you. I just need help. It dosen't have to be your help. But, if you tell on me, I will have to kill you, understand?"

We all nodded. There wasn't much choice.

"What help?" I asked, breathlessly. I was frightened that if we refused, each of us would very soon be very dead indeed.

"I need you to hide me," she said, simply.

"I don't know if I understand," I said "If you haven't done anything, why do 'they' want to kill you? And who are 'they'?"

"Don't you know that that Voldemort person has managed to infulence the Minestry for Magic?" I had heard something of Voldemort, and a little of the Minestry, so I nodded, "He's convinced them that all my kind should be killed, you know," she continued sadly, "I'm the only person in my family still alive, and they want to hunt me down. If I'm caught...." she drew a finger across her neck. I felt increadibly sorry for her. Gem looked aghast. Ana still looked determined. I didn't know why she was being like this... surely she didn't believe the rumours that had evidently been spread? This was no different to Hitler and the Jews!

"I believe you," said Gem, "I think Ana's just being daft. We'll help."

Ana muttered something, of which I only caught the words 'kill us all'.

"Do you believe me?" the girl turned to me.

"Yes... I think so," I said, slowly. She nodded.

"Thankyou," she said quietly "I'm Perdita. You're friend over there's Ana, isn't she?"

"Yes," Gem comfirmed, "and I'm Gem."

"I'm Lily. She'll come round eventually. I think. Won't you, Ana?"

Ana scowled at me, and muttered something else inaudable.

"How can we hide you, though?" Gem asked. She had a good point. There was no way we could possibly get this unusual stranger anywhere without being seen. She seemed to light up the air around her, with a kind of glow she emmitted.

"Isn't there somewhere in the school?" Perdita suggested.

"I suppose so... we can't leave you here," Gem frowned as if in thought.

"Yes. We can. And no, I'm not a part of this," Ana tried to stand up, shakily, "I'm not a part of this. I don't think this is right."

"Ana," I resoned with her "Does Perdita look like she wants to hurt us?"

"I don't know! This is confusing me!"

"Fine then, don't help us. But if you're the one to get vapourised, don't blame me." That shook her.

"That's mean!"

"But true. I mean, what has she done to you?" I looked at Ana accusingly.

"Oh... allright. I'll help. But if you all get killed, it's not my fault."

"Good."

"Hey, I just thought," said Gem, "I know what we can do!"

"What?" asked Perdita, eagerly, smiling for the first time, even though it was a sad ghost of a smile. It looked to me as though she had never quite got into the habit of being happy.

"James Potter!"

"What about him?" I scowled. The further away from me he was, the happier my life would be, I thought "I know you think that he's practically God's gift, but personally, I think that he is just the sort of person we could do without."

"Shut up, Lily," Gem rolled her eyes.

"Don't tell me to shut up!" I retaliated. No one tells me what to do like that!

"Whatever. It's just that-"

"Don't 'whatever' me!"

"Is it just me, or are you stubborn?" Gem gave me a Look. I scowled back at her "Anyway, I think that James Potter can help us."

"How?" I asked, sceptically.

"But," she frowned "I'm not sure..."

"How?" I repeated myself, annoyed.

"You lot wait here, and I'll go and find him."

"Does he have to be a part of this?"
"Yes," Gem said, "He does. Just wait here, and I'll be back. He might have an answer to a problem!"

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THE END! PLEASE R/R cuz I like reviews lots :) Tell me what you think of this, plz!!!!!!!

The next part will probably be from James's POV again, but that's not a promise [it's a threat...j/k] so whatever.

Oh yeah... HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY FOR MONDAY 8TH JANUARY!!!!!!!!! And what makes you think I bought you a present, eh? Exactly.

Ginny :)