Chapter Five
Amazing Grace
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, to save a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." Crystal Parks finished the last lines of the hymn in perfect key and perfect pitch. The song was beautiful.
"And that was Crystal Parks singing Amazing Grace." The announcer said. Everybody clapped loudly. Crystal had a sweet soprano voice, and sang perfectly though it was untrained. Crystal Parks, 11 years old, blonde hair and blue eyes, had just come here. She started that day and was dressed in jeans a shirt. She had the loudest applause of everyone. Crystal smiled, bowed a little while laughing, and walked off stage.
One boy went up to congratulate her, as she was about to walk off to a room that the owner of the store had said she could live in for a while. "Wait," he called and looked at her strangely, "You look familiar." He whispered.
She giggled. "I guess I have one of those faces `cause I don't think we met before," she hand and wiped her right hand on her jeans and stretched it to shake her hand. He accepted and shook it.
"You have a very good voice," he said.
"Thank you," she giggled.
She looked the boy over. Blonde hair and blue eyes. He did look familiar, but from where? "I'm Remus, Remus Lupin," he said.
"Hi Remus," she answered. It clicked. `O shit,' she thought to herself, `that's the person that made me smile at the crowning. God, please don't let him recognize me. PLEASE' she thought.
"Well good bye I guess," he said and turned to leave, he walked towards the woman that' Crystal' recognized as his mother. This was going to be harder then she thought.
---------- * * * A little visit to the Potters * * * ----------
Remus knew he recognized that face, and he knew from where to. He didn't to scare her away; he waned to know where she was. So he didn't pursue the matter further, but what he did do, was find James.
"Is James here," Remus asked when he arrived at the mansion.
"Yes he's is," answered the tiny house elf. She said and scampered off to find him.
"Hello?" James said.
"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin," he answered.
"Hi Remus," James said unenthusiastically.
"I, I think I found Lily," he said. James jumped.
"Did you really. Wait let me get my mum-" James said.
He was cut off, "NO," Remus said loudly.
"Why?" James asked.
"Because I'm not positive it's her."
"But you said-"
"I think I found Lily."
"Lets go!" he said.
"But it's getting late," Remus complained.
"O well, we'll go anyway." With that James shouted, "Mum I'm sleeping over Sirius's house!"
"Ok dear!" a voice called down the stairs. "Come home when you want, I know where to find you!"
"Wait a minute," Remus said.
"Remus is sleeping over too!" he said.
"Whose Remus?" his mother asked, again yelling down the stairs.
"A friend. Bye mum" James called and grabbed Remus's hand. "I'll get Sirius, he's coming to."
"Ok" Remus said, immediately scolding himself for telling this James, who didn't seem quite right in the head.
"This will be the fastest way. Lily's Pegasus!" James exclaimed. "I always wanted to rid it but my mum wouldn't let me!"
"Is that such a good idea?" Remus asked.
"Of course," was James' answer.
They started running towards the stable. That's were Cauchmar was kept. What James didn't remember was that Cauchmar only listened to Lily and no one else. To bad for him.
James carefully stepped into the stall that Cauchmar was in. She was standing and starring at James. James smiled and reached out slowly with one hand. The Pegasus looked skeptical. James took a step closer and Cauchmar went berserk!
The horse lunged at him and beat her heavy wings, knocking him down. Remus saw and stood stock-still. He had read about Pegasus in Hogwarts Care of Magical Creatures class. He started whistling and James thought that he was nuts. Slowly Cauchmar stopped and starred at Remus. While she was calming down James crawled out of there.
"So that won't work!" James said, "I'll ask Lily to take me on a ride next time,"
"When we get her back." Remus said. They pretty much became friends then, because you can't save someone life from an insane Pegasus and not be friends. "So are you two close or something?" Remus asked.
"Not really, we never talked except for once when we were in Diagon Alley and Sirius was talking a lot then."
"So your all concerned about a girl you don't even know." Remus asked.
"Yea, kind of." James blushed, "but she's really nice and not stuck up like Natalie of Jeria or Kierra of Tansel."
"Wow, you seem to know a lot of Princesses." Remus commented.
"Yea well, my mum makes me go to all these balls. It's annoying." Then James laughed.
"Come on let's get Sirius." He said and rummaged through the stable and found two broomsticks (convenient?). "They're kind of crappy but they'll do." He said.
---------- * * * Crystalline * * * ----------
Remus and James had picked up Sirius and had told Remus's mum that he was staying at a different friends house.
"So wait, I'm at your house, your at my house, Remus is at my house. Right?" Sirius asked.
"That about sums it up," Remus said. "We're here."
"Look, that's Crystal, I mean Lily." Sirius said as a blonde girl jumped off stage and walked to the back of the building.
"Let's follow her." Remus said. "But she'll see us!"
"O yea, James you left this last time at my house and I thought it would come in handy here," he said and pulled out a soft, silvery cloak.
"Ah, Sirius, you're my best friend," James whispered. Pulling the cloak around Remus, Sirius, and himself, they set off to the back of the building where Crystal had disappeared.
Finally, after running fast, bumping into three people who were thoroughly confused, they caught up to the girl they were chasing.
She had a small little room with a bed, chair, and a mirror. She was sitting on the bed reading a book. "That's her," whispered Sirius, "that's Lily."
"How can you tell?" James asked.
"The book, she bought that when I was in the book store. She grabbed it from me." Sirius answered.
At that point Lily/Crystal stood up and moved towards the mirror that was positioned above the desk. She poked her eye. "What the hell is wrong with her?" James asked.
"Contacts you moron," Remus answered.
The girl removed both contacts and revealed piercing green eyes. "Lily," James said loudly.
The girl turned her head around and stared at where the voices were coming from. "Whose there?" she asked.
"Just me" they answered.
"You idiot, she can't see us!" a voice said.
"oops. This is just a dream Lily!"
"I'm not Lily," Crystal pouted.
"Nice book" another voice said.
Lily looked down at the book, "Sirius," she whispered. He jumped out of the cloak but left the others hidden. "Sheesh, I don't even know you people and you come and try to take me home! Go away!" she screamed.
James and Remus took the cloak off too.
"GET OUT!" she screamed again.
"But Lily you got to come home-" Remus said.
"I don't even know who you are. Go away!" Lily screamed again.
"But you're the Queen" James tried. James, might I add here, is a complete and total idiot and actually said that trying to convince Lily to come home.
"I'm not the Queen. My mother is the queen." Lily said, suddenly whispering.
"She's dead, Lily, she's dead." Sirius also whispered.
"Go away." Lily said, a few tears trickling down her cheek.
"James come here," Remus said and pulled James over to him. Sirius came over too. "We have to make her."
James nodded, "What do we do?" Before Remus could answer, Sirius had grabbed Lily and had thrown her over his shoulder.
Lily screamed, wiggled, kicked, yelled, hit, and even bit Sirius. He didn't care. "Lets go," he said seriously. James and Remus followed. Wow, Sirius was never solemn. With that, the screaming and all, they left the building. Fortunately, during Remus's first year, he learned a silencing charm, so he did that on Lily. He didn't care that he could be kicked out of school, he knew he was right to do that.
And they all left, on the brooms, with Lily over his shoulder screaming silently (paradox) at all of them. Finally she became so determined, that she literally flung herself over Sirius's shoulder, and jumped.
---------- * * * Author's Note * * * ----------
TWENTY NINE reviews. Hurray. Add some more reviews. Lots more. I have 5 chapters. I think an average of 10 reviews a chap is ok. So I'll wait for 50 reviews total until I write the next chapter. It's gonna be a long one so you'll be happy.
Thanks for the reviews. BYE
Amazing Grace
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, to save a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." Crystal Parks finished the last lines of the hymn in perfect key and perfect pitch. The song was beautiful.
"And that was Crystal Parks singing Amazing Grace." The announcer said. Everybody clapped loudly. Crystal had a sweet soprano voice, and sang perfectly though it was untrained. Crystal Parks, 11 years old, blonde hair and blue eyes, had just come here. She started that day and was dressed in jeans a shirt. She had the loudest applause of everyone. Crystal smiled, bowed a little while laughing, and walked off stage.
One boy went up to congratulate her, as she was about to walk off to a room that the owner of the store had said she could live in for a while. "Wait," he called and looked at her strangely, "You look familiar." He whispered.
She giggled. "I guess I have one of those faces `cause I don't think we met before," she hand and wiped her right hand on her jeans and stretched it to shake her hand. He accepted and shook it.
"You have a very good voice," he said.
"Thank you," she giggled.
She looked the boy over. Blonde hair and blue eyes. He did look familiar, but from where? "I'm Remus, Remus Lupin," he said.
"Hi Remus," she answered. It clicked. `O shit,' she thought to herself, `that's the person that made me smile at the crowning. God, please don't let him recognize me. PLEASE' she thought.
"Well good bye I guess," he said and turned to leave, he walked towards the woman that' Crystal' recognized as his mother. This was going to be harder then she thought.
---------- * * * A little visit to the Potters * * * ----------
Remus knew he recognized that face, and he knew from where to. He didn't to scare her away; he waned to know where she was. So he didn't pursue the matter further, but what he did do, was find James.
"Is James here," Remus asked when he arrived at the mansion.
"Yes he's is," answered the tiny house elf. She said and scampered off to find him.
"Hello?" James said.
"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin," he answered.
"Hi Remus," James said unenthusiastically.
"I, I think I found Lily," he said. James jumped.
"Did you really. Wait let me get my mum-" James said.
He was cut off, "NO," Remus said loudly.
"Why?" James asked.
"Because I'm not positive it's her."
"But you said-"
"I think I found Lily."
"Lets go!" he said.
"But it's getting late," Remus complained.
"O well, we'll go anyway." With that James shouted, "Mum I'm sleeping over Sirius's house!"
"Ok dear!" a voice called down the stairs. "Come home when you want, I know where to find you!"
"Wait a minute," Remus said.
"Remus is sleeping over too!" he said.
"Whose Remus?" his mother asked, again yelling down the stairs.
"A friend. Bye mum" James called and grabbed Remus's hand. "I'll get Sirius, he's coming to."
"Ok" Remus said, immediately scolding himself for telling this James, who didn't seem quite right in the head.
"This will be the fastest way. Lily's Pegasus!" James exclaimed. "I always wanted to rid it but my mum wouldn't let me!"
"Is that such a good idea?" Remus asked.
"Of course," was James' answer.
They started running towards the stable. That's were Cauchmar was kept. What James didn't remember was that Cauchmar only listened to Lily and no one else. To bad for him.
James carefully stepped into the stall that Cauchmar was in. She was standing and starring at James. James smiled and reached out slowly with one hand. The Pegasus looked skeptical. James took a step closer and Cauchmar went berserk!
The horse lunged at him and beat her heavy wings, knocking him down. Remus saw and stood stock-still. He had read about Pegasus in Hogwarts Care of Magical Creatures class. He started whistling and James thought that he was nuts. Slowly Cauchmar stopped and starred at Remus. While she was calming down James crawled out of there.
"So that won't work!" James said, "I'll ask Lily to take me on a ride next time,"
"When we get her back." Remus said. They pretty much became friends then, because you can't save someone life from an insane Pegasus and not be friends. "So are you two close or something?" Remus asked.
"Not really, we never talked except for once when we were in Diagon Alley and Sirius was talking a lot then."
"So your all concerned about a girl you don't even know." Remus asked.
"Yea, kind of." James blushed, "but she's really nice and not stuck up like Natalie of Jeria or Kierra of Tansel."
"Wow, you seem to know a lot of Princesses." Remus commented.
"Yea well, my mum makes me go to all these balls. It's annoying." Then James laughed.
"Come on let's get Sirius." He said and rummaged through the stable and found two broomsticks (convenient?). "They're kind of crappy but they'll do." He said.
---------- * * * Crystalline * * * ----------
Remus and James had picked up Sirius and had told Remus's mum that he was staying at a different friends house.
"So wait, I'm at your house, your at my house, Remus is at my house. Right?" Sirius asked.
"That about sums it up," Remus said. "We're here."
"Look, that's Crystal, I mean Lily." Sirius said as a blonde girl jumped off stage and walked to the back of the building.
"Let's follow her." Remus said. "But she'll see us!"
"O yea, James you left this last time at my house and I thought it would come in handy here," he said and pulled out a soft, silvery cloak.
"Ah, Sirius, you're my best friend," James whispered. Pulling the cloak around Remus, Sirius, and himself, they set off to the back of the building where Crystal had disappeared.
Finally, after running fast, bumping into three people who were thoroughly confused, they caught up to the girl they were chasing.
She had a small little room with a bed, chair, and a mirror. She was sitting on the bed reading a book. "That's her," whispered Sirius, "that's Lily."
"How can you tell?" James asked.
"The book, she bought that when I was in the book store. She grabbed it from me." Sirius answered.
At that point Lily/Crystal stood up and moved towards the mirror that was positioned above the desk. She poked her eye. "What the hell is wrong with her?" James asked.
"Contacts you moron," Remus answered.
The girl removed both contacts and revealed piercing green eyes. "Lily," James said loudly.
The girl turned her head around and stared at where the voices were coming from. "Whose there?" she asked.
"Just me" they answered.
"You idiot, she can't see us!" a voice said.
"oops. This is just a dream Lily!"
"I'm not Lily," Crystal pouted.
"Nice book" another voice said.
Lily looked down at the book, "Sirius," she whispered. He jumped out of the cloak but left the others hidden. "Sheesh, I don't even know you people and you come and try to take me home! Go away!" she screamed.
James and Remus took the cloak off too.
"GET OUT!" she screamed again.
"But Lily you got to come home-" Remus said.
"I don't even know who you are. Go away!" Lily screamed again.
"But you're the Queen" James tried. James, might I add here, is a complete and total idiot and actually said that trying to convince Lily to come home.
"I'm not the Queen. My mother is the queen." Lily said, suddenly whispering.
"She's dead, Lily, she's dead." Sirius also whispered.
"Go away." Lily said, a few tears trickling down her cheek.
"James come here," Remus said and pulled James over to him. Sirius came over too. "We have to make her."
James nodded, "What do we do?" Before Remus could answer, Sirius had grabbed Lily and had thrown her over his shoulder.
Lily screamed, wiggled, kicked, yelled, hit, and even bit Sirius. He didn't care. "Lets go," he said seriously. James and Remus followed. Wow, Sirius was never solemn. With that, the screaming and all, they left the building. Fortunately, during Remus's first year, he learned a silencing charm, so he did that on Lily. He didn't care that he could be kicked out of school, he knew he was right to do that.
And they all left, on the brooms, with Lily over his shoulder screaming silently (paradox) at all of them. Finally she became so determined, that she literally flung herself over Sirius's shoulder, and jumped.
---------- * * * Author's Note * * * ----------
TWENTY NINE reviews. Hurray. Add some more reviews. Lots more. I have 5 chapters. I think an average of 10 reviews a chap is ok. So I'll wait for 50 reviews total until I write the next chapter. It's gonna be a long one so you'll be happy.
Thanks for the reviews. BYE