DISCLAIMER: Why do I do these!! You know the routine…
A/N thank you reviewers!!! Man I'm excited!! Quite sad though…only 10, but that makes me happy! ANONY-MOUSE your guess is as good as mine. I'm kind of confused with the curse and how it will work towards L/J, but the details of the curse are still forming in my head! (But there is a plot...I think!) Oh also, since your probably already guessed, James is the other part of the curse! (Duh.) And he knows about it in this chapter, although he's not sure. And since his dad is in this one, his dad doesn't know who James is protecting.
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CHAPTER 9
(A/N that is so gonna get finished!! PLEASE review! I'm dieing here!!)
Lily woke up on August 17th to Petunia's yelling. It had been the worst summer of Lily's entire life. She hadn't gotten a single letter from Jimena or Sierra or…anyone! All she had talked to was…Petunia, and her parents! No magic at all, since school! 'Only thirteen more days' she thought. She hadn't even been able to get her supplies, because the one weekend she was able to go she'd gotten an odd case of the flu.
"I'm AWAKE PETUNIA!!" She screeched, she'd been in a bad mood all summer, that's what happens when you haven't seen as much as a spec of magic. The only thing she had was her homework and Socrates to keep her from going crazy.
Lily got out of bed, got dressed and got some breakfast. She decided to Owl her friends…again. Why weren't they answering her, maybe she should try Remus, maybe he would answer her…
She finally decided that's what she was going to do. She ran upstairs grabbed a muggle pen and started writing.
*Hey Remus-
I'm going CRAZY! I haven't been able to get a hold of Jimena or Sierra all summer! I've owled them non stop and nothing, I finally gave up last week. Please save me! I couldn't even go to Diagon Alley because the one weekend I was able to go I was sick so my Mum sent for the stuff. Owl me back as soon as possible. Tell me if you've heard from either of them or if James has or something. I'm starting to get worried!!
Later,
Lily, Lils, Lil,
Lily got up and tied the letter to Socrates and off it went.
It was getting dark, and no sign of Socrates, Lily was starting to think her friends definitely hated her; Lily just sat in her room all day long, lying on the bed, or doodling on notebook paper. She began wishing to play quidditch or at least see someone from school, even James or SNAPE! Lily kicked herself mentally, this was getting serious, ha, ha she thought, Sirius! She wanted to see her friends; well she THOUGHT they were her friends…
Lily, began to get bored and got out her broom, she didn't care if she got into trouble she was going to see Jimena, partly because she was desperate, and partly because she lived the closest.
She had just gotten it out when Petunia came outside her door with out opening it.
"Lily I'm going to Vernon's house, don't you DARE touch my stuff."
"Don't worry Petunia I would never touch you slime covered crap!" Lily shouted back. She heard Petunia stomp off, Lily put on her jacket around her waist just in case it got cold while she was flying, then and lily opened her window, and climbed on the broom.
(A/N get ready for the expected sadness!!!)
Lily was about to get on it when she heard an unfamiliar voice screaming her name. "LILY EVANS! LILY EVANS!" Lily was full of terror, the voice sounded pure evil. She started to freak out, her parents they were in there!
Lily flew around from her room to the front door, very thankful, but yet scared silly of the darkness. She looked up and noticed the sign: The Dark Mark.
Lily screamed and jumped off her broom and threw it down, she flew into the house, not even thinking. Lily shrieked when someone's hand pulled her back out the door.
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James was sitting at his house a few hours before Lily's house was attacked, when he felt an urge to get to Lily, he knew how they were connected, and had a bad feeling Lily was in trouble. He started getting suspicious when Jimena and Sierra had Owled him, Remus, Sirius, and Peter even, about the fact that they hadn't heard from Lily, and she wasn't replying to their letters.
James ran for his broom, and snuck out of the house, praying that the magic worked, and led him straight to Lily.
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"Lily, be quiet, and run!" James whispered, and ran across the street, to where his broom was at. "Get on behind me!" Lily was in shock still and had been very silent.
"What, what about my broom? Can't I use it it's just by my house-."
"Lily! Now! Do you want to get us killed?!"
"James! My parents!" Lily choked out.
"Lily, just get on! I don't want you to die!" She reluctantly got on behind him, and they took off, Lily regretting it more and more as they flew. Lily panicked when she saw her house disappearing.
"James, please stop! Go back!"
"Calm down Lily, you are definitely not thinking straight! So just listen to me and hold on!" He said as calmly as he could.
"Uh, no!" She said, and jumped off the broom.
"Lily!" James yelled, and dove after her, just barely catching her, but it turned out it unbalanced him and they fell the next few feet to the ground. Lily landed on James, but immediately got up and took off running towards her house. James wasted no time and took off running behind her and caught up quickly and tackled her. "Lily! Voldemort's after you! So I suggest not running straight towards him."
"James, let me up! He's gonna kill them! My parents I have to save them!" Lily tried to push him off, but he was too heavy.
"No, we're just going to wait until the ministry gets here, and YOU calm down!" James said with finality.
"J-James…" Lily started sobbing, it was uncontrollable, and James wanted to let her up, but thought it would be better, if he just stayed where he was. And they did stay that way. Lily crying her eyes out, James trying to comfort her with no avail, and sitting on top of her at the same time, when finally the ministry got there.
"Over here!" James called to someone he recognized, his father. "Dad!" What was he going to tell his father? He knew, thank God, all about the curse, but his dad was going to be pissed that he hadn't told him where he was going.
"James?! What are you doing here! You mother was worried sick-." His father stopped ranting abruptly when he saw that his son was sitting on a crying red head girl. "James get off her!" James obeyed, and pulled Lily up, holding her back so she wouldn't run again.
"I had to hold her dad! She was trying to run after them! She even jumped off my broom!" James explained quickly.
"Is she Lily Evans?" His father's voice was softer then before. James nodded.
"Dad, Voldemort was there! Lily was walking in the freaking house! I got her just in time! Man, she could've-." James hadn't thought of something, all he hadn't been thinking about himself dying only her. He could have gotten HIMSELF killed.
"James, you could have been killed, I'm surprised you weren't!" his father said sternly. "But that will have to wait, let's get Lily away from here." Lily had been standing there sobbing the entire time. She knew her parents were dead, and Petunia had just barely escaped, since she had only just left.
Lily stayed at James' house that night, Lily didn't really know where she was going, and she was too full of grief. She cried herself to sleep, and woke up and cried more.
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James, felt terrible, to put it lightly. He was miserable, he wondered if he hadn't gone to get Lily, what would have happened. He'd saved her three times already; she sure got into a lot of trouble. The weird thing was, he didn't even stop to think about his actions, he just did it. He was going to tell Lily about the curse that day, as soon as he saw her he decided. Well, he was going to tell her that he was the one protecting her. What would she think of that? Maybe they would fight less, or more…
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Lily pulled herself up out of bed around noon, and looked around, 'So this is James' house." She thought, it was a beautiful place. A mansion to be exact, with all sorts of wizard things Lily, normally under different circumstances would have loved.
There was a magical mirror above her dresser, which told her to cheer up and started crying again. She decided to get up and find James, but being the reasonable sort, she brushed her hair first, trying to look presentable to James' parents, since she had yet to meet his mother, and hadn't even talked to his father.
She turned the door knob on the door just in time to find some one else doing the same thing. Lily let them open it, and they were apparently doing the same thing. Finally she got it open, and found James in front of her.
"Hello, James." She said politely. "Thank you for letting me stay here."
"Err, yeah sure."
"Where's my sister at?"
"I think my dad she stayed at the boy's house, Doosley or something."
"Oh, he boyfriend, I swear she's going to marry him, with how much she talks about him." Lily said trying to be casual. "She's 17 you know."
"Yeah, whatever, want to eat lunch? I was just sent up to wake you, but since you're up anyways-."
"Okay, sure, but I'm not really hungry." She lied, she was starving.
"Well, that might be nerves or something you need to eat." James informed her, he was used to having kids live at his house for a while if their parents or guardians were murdered by the dark lord. His father always offered to, for some reason James didn't know. His mother had a routine with all of them to. One word said it all 'Pamper.'
Especially the girls got the treatment, she would take care of them and make sure they had everything; James if he'd been in their place would have gotten annoyed with her. They got better treatment then he ever did around the house, but they deserved it so he didn't mind.
James led Lily down the stairs, and she ate some food. James was happy about this because most of the time, kids would feel too upset to eat anything. Lily seemed to be taking it well. It was a bit weird, she wasn't noticeably upset, but the sparkle was gone in her eyes, he hoped it would be back soon… When it did he would tell her about the curse, he decided.
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Lily stayed at his house until they had arranged for her to stay with someone with a magical blood, since muggles wouldn't work. Lily got lucky and was to be sent to Mindy's house.
On her last day at James' house, they were talking and the subject came up of what had happened over the summer.
"Have you heard from Jimena or Sierra or Remus?" Lily asked. "I owled them all, and no reply, I was about to owl you even I got so desperate!" Lily joked a bit.
"Hey! You don't consider me your friend?" James said it with sarcasm but really it kind of hurt. "It's weird you should ask that since they thought you were ignoring them the entire time! Maybe it was the dark lord…" James voice trailed off, not wanting to upset her.
"Maybe so, but so THEY weren't ignoring me?" She questioned.
"Not that I know of."
"Good."
After that they started on their 5th argument that day, over which first year should be keeper that year. Wobblesby or Rockfield. Lily wanted Eleanor because they needed a girl on the team, and James wanted Wobblesby, because they were friends.
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Lily dragged her trunk with her stuff in it from her old house, she was lucky Voldemort hadn't destroyed it. She walked up the walk way with Mindy beside her talking away about Quidditch; she was very excited about having Lily coming to stay, even though it was only for a week. Mindy was an only child and always wanted someone to hang around with over the summer, when she was at home.
Mindy's house was a lot like James' and Lily had her own room, with everything she needed. And the room was huge! It was like an apartment, except no kitchen. So basically she had her own bathroom, living room with a couch, bedroom and study area. Lily had no idea why she would need it all, but was happy all the same.
She and Mindy spent the rest of the evening playing Quidditch; they ate dinner, talked about Quidditch, and went to bed, where only Mindy was dreaming of Quidditch.
Lily on the other hand stayed awake, thinking once again, something that had been going through her head for a week. Why had Voldemort killed her? He hadn't even brought death eaters along…And the only people he had killed were HER parents, Lily had decided it must be her curse, but what if it was something else, or maybe there was some more things about the curse she needed to learn before she could even figure it out, so that meant she would have to wait for Dumbledore to find something out.
Lily went to sleep, only to have a nightmare, her parents were being murdered, again, and again, and then there was a bright light and Lily was safe and so were her parents…The rest of the night was spent in a dreamless sleep.
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James was having weird dreams. There was Lily and her parents, were being murdered, James walked up to her grabbed her hand and the dream was over.
Neither of them remembered the dreams.
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The next week went by really fast, Lily had a blast with Mindy, and they improved their Quidditch skills, even though Mindy wasn't going to try out, and Lily was already on the team. They had fun trying deep swoops that only seekers did. Then Lily and Mindy found themselves at platform 9 ¾
"Welp, it's another year." Mindy stated the obvious.
"Yup, I hope you survive fourth year."
"I hope you survive third year with the Marauders." Mindy stated solemnly.
"Me too, Mindy, and I hope you survive fourth year with-."
"Robert Saratoga." Mindy said through gritted teeth, these two were not fun to be around when they were together, the air sizzled around them, with hatred, mostly coming from Mindy, after all he had made it so she couldn't get on the Quidditch team. But secretly Lily thought they were the perfect couple, some many similarities.
"Well, Mindy, I'll leave you to your hatred!" Lily said quickly and ran off just as she caught a familiar fraise from Mindy.
"Hey Seek-a-toga." And Robert replied.
'Hello, Minderella!" His nick name for her was wimpy, but Mindy hated it, just because of the fact that, he said it.
Lily went looking for Jimena and Sierra who she hadn't seen or heard from all summer. "Jim! Sierra!" She screamed and went over to where they were and hugged them.
"Lily! I haven't seen, heard or anything from you all summer!" Sierra shrieked.
"Uh, yeah, family problems." Lily said her mood dropping drastically.
"Oh we heard about the sorry Lils." Jimena said quietly.
"Yeah, sorry." Sierra added. Nothing else needed to be said about that, so they continued talking, but this time about Quidditch and boys.
They met up in the last compartment, and sat down. "Do you think the guys will show up?" Sierra asked. That reminded Lily of something.
"I think I'm going to go see Marvin! I haven't seen him all summer, he was away in France and couldn't owl me." With that Lily skipped off to find him, and of course Mindy was there too.
They were in a compartment not far from hers.
"Hey Marv!" She said and hugged him.
"Lily! It's so good to see you!" He said happily.
They talked happily for a while, then Lily went back to her compartment, it was hard being friends with one group and friends with another.
When she got to her compartment she found Sirius, James, Remus and Peter taking up all the room, and Jimena and Sierra taking up what was left. This was all because of the fact, that Socrates and James' owl Ophelia were talking 'owl' and flying all over the place.
"Who let him out?" Lily said accusingly.
"JAMES." The five of them said.
"James would you so kindly control your owl?" She asked her temper ready to blow.
"Sure, sure." He said knowing that her temper was going to explode on him at any minute. "She just wanted some exercise is all."
"Whatever, but don't ever touch my owl again!" Just at that moment, Socrates pecked at James while he put Ophelia in her cage. "Serves you right!"
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School started normal, sorting, feast, sleep, wake up, classes, the Marauders bugging everyone worse then last year, this year they had to do at least one prank a day. And unfortunately, Lily was the object of a Pranktion. (A/N get it a prank tion like affection! Ha, ha!)
Lily got up on the third day of school to find her shampoo had been changed to green dye, the green matched her eyes….But still WAS not her color.
James, Sirius, Remus and Peter sat in the common room and smiled when they heard a loud scream from the dorms. "Good job Pete! Keep up the good work." They had conned Peter into changing the dye for them.
"No problem." (A/N jerk!!)
Lily then came running down the stairs in some hastily pulled on clothes, he hair still wet, she started throwing curses at them all. They jumped up and took off running.
"Help! Help! Lily's got her wand and knows hexes!" Sirius screeched.
"Oh my God! My robes are green!" Peter moaned. "Slytherin colors!"
"Hey Lily that's not funny!" James said when HIS hair went green.
"Yeah Lil, you can't go around turning people's hair green!" Remus said who like the others was sporting robes that said, "Bow to Queen Lily, and Snape is a Git!" Lily had added this feature as extra.
"Yes Lily, its not nice! What would McGonagall say?!" Sirius chirped, he didn't seem to notice his back said "I love Sierra Sitruc on it."
"Sirius, Sirius, I'm not stupid! McGonagall will love the fact that someone finally got you guys back!" Lily smirked.
"Will you please take it off?" Remus begged.
"Hmm, maybe after lunch, but right now I'm hungry for breakfast, and green hair will only make me stand out!" She said smiling, and skipped of to breakfast.
"We shouldn't have used the dye; I don't know how to get that stuff out!" Peter whispered.
"Me neither." James muttered, and then he noticed Sirius' back and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Sirius, Peter and Remus asked.
"Nothing, just a mental image that I won't share with you. Let's go to breakfast, as soon as we change are robes back, that's the only thing I know how to change back." He did this, but conveniently left "I love Sierra Sitruc" on Sirius' back.
"Let's go, green bean!" Remus said to James who was the only one with green hair.
"All right, let's go."
Sirius didn't notice what was on his back until Sierra slapped him on the face in Herbology. The rest of the day went by smoothly, or as smoothly as it could get, with Lily and James arguing over everything. Lily was still mad about the green hair thing.
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The first quidditch practice was scheduled for Saturday, Samuel Wobblesby made the team.
"No Fair!" Lily wailed, when she saw the results. "The only girl AGAIN! And I'm stuck with Potter and Black!"
"I'm surprised you don't enjoy that Evans." Snape said behind her.
"Snape, I thought you of all people would understand my disliking them so." She hissed at him.
"Well, now that I'm on the Slytherin team, you guys won't be winning so easily." He smirked, and left Lily in a very bad mood. She couldn't believe Snape had made the team, he was the new beater on the team.
"Lily, don't let HIM ruin your day okay?" Sierra who had been there the entire time urged, she was getting annoyed of Lily's fighting with James, and every other guy at school who talked to her.
"Well, you aren't the one stuck with Potter all day today, now are you?" She said in a huff. "Well, I have to get to practice." She muttered and was out the door.
(A/N I was thinking for their age they sure can keep steady boyfriends! Just thinking.)
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James was already at practice, throwing the Quaffle around by himself.
"Hey Lily get up here!" He called, and Lily jumped on her broom and took off. What started as an innocent scrimmage turned into a heated fight between the two.
They had both scored about 50 points when they saw the rest of the team cheering them on, not choosing sides for safety precautions.
James had the Quaffle, and Lily was chasing him across the field, he was laughing the entire time. When he scored Lily screamed in defeat and went back to the field. James followed her from his broom, still laughing.
"Hey Lil, can't handle defeat?" She glared daggers at him, and he backed off. The rest of practice was spent looking out for James since Lily kept trying to clobber him, every chance she got. They definitely weren't going to be able to win that year if they couldn't get along.
"Come on Lily, just TRY and get along with him." Jack pleaded.
"I AM trying." She said hotly.
"Well, you better get better by the time of our first game, which I'll remind you is against Slytherin."
"How could I forget?"
Last year they had beaten the team easily, but with Lily not working well with James, it wasn't going to work. And since the team was having so much trouble, of course the game came upon them very quickly.
To make a long story short, they kicked butt and won! Snape was all talk and no action. The Gryffindors celebrated that night until the early morning hours. The night ended up being very exciting though.
"WHO IS THE BEST HOUSE AT HOGWARTS?" Sirius screamed at the top of his lungs.
"GRYFFINDOR!!" Everyone yelled back.
Somehow, Lily didn't want to know, The Marauders had snuck in some butter bear, and other treats from Hogsmeade. Lily got quite hyper on butter beer, and scared James when she tackled him, "Just for fun!" She said. Then went and tackled an unsuspecting 5th year.
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(A/N third year is going to be summed up okay?)
All through the year James never talked to Lily about the curse. She was happy, he didn't know how, but she was, and he didn't want to bother her with thoughts like 'why the curse was put on her' or for that matter why he was the one protecting her.
And James had other things on his mind. Animagis to be exact. (A/N did I spell that right?) They were trying very hard to become Animagis before 6th year, fifth year was the goal, and they'd already been working for a year and a half at the beginning of third year.
Lily had no life or death situations, much to her relief. She shoved her parents away from her mind. Third year was a sad year though, that year several kids at school were getting owls about relatives being murdered by Voldemort.
The spree had started.
And it seemed to Lily the more he killed the more the more the Marauders played pranks on everyone. It was all in all, a very sad year.
Lily went off that summer to Mindy's house, happy to get away from all the death that reeked at her school.
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(A/N Okay that's the end of third year, very rushed I might say! But I was low on ideas for that year, so sorry!! I have to study for a health test now! Wish me luck! Oh and Review please!! I'm hoping to get some good ideas for the story tonight…after I study though! Toodles!!)
A/N thank you reviewers!!! Man I'm excited!! Quite sad though…only 10, but that makes me happy! ANONY-MOUSE your guess is as good as mine. I'm kind of confused with the curse and how it will work towards L/J, but the details of the curse are still forming in my head! (But there is a plot...I think!) Oh also, since your probably already guessed, James is the other part of the curse! (Duh.) And he knows about it in this chapter, although he's not sure. And since his dad is in this one, his dad doesn't know who James is protecting.
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CHAPTER 9
(A/N that is so gonna get finished!! PLEASE review! I'm dieing here!!)
Lily woke up on August 17th to Petunia's yelling. It had been the worst summer of Lily's entire life. She hadn't gotten a single letter from Jimena or Sierra or…anyone! All she had talked to was…Petunia, and her parents! No magic at all, since school! 'Only thirteen more days' she thought. She hadn't even been able to get her supplies, because the one weekend she was able to go she'd gotten an odd case of the flu.
"I'm AWAKE PETUNIA!!" She screeched, she'd been in a bad mood all summer, that's what happens when you haven't seen as much as a spec of magic. The only thing she had was her homework and Socrates to keep her from going crazy.
Lily got out of bed, got dressed and got some breakfast. She decided to Owl her friends…again. Why weren't they answering her, maybe she should try Remus, maybe he would answer her…
She finally decided that's what she was going to do. She ran upstairs grabbed a muggle pen and started writing.
*Hey Remus-
I'm going CRAZY! I haven't been able to get a hold of Jimena or Sierra all summer! I've owled them non stop and nothing, I finally gave up last week. Please save me! I couldn't even go to Diagon Alley because the one weekend I was able to go I was sick so my Mum sent for the stuff. Owl me back as soon as possible. Tell me if you've heard from either of them or if James has or something. I'm starting to get worried!!
Later,
Lily, Lils, Lil,
Lily got up and tied the letter to Socrates and off it went.
It was getting dark, and no sign of Socrates, Lily was starting to think her friends definitely hated her; Lily just sat in her room all day long, lying on the bed, or doodling on notebook paper. She began wishing to play quidditch or at least see someone from school, even James or SNAPE! Lily kicked herself mentally, this was getting serious, ha, ha she thought, Sirius! She wanted to see her friends; well she THOUGHT they were her friends…
Lily, began to get bored and got out her broom, she didn't care if she got into trouble she was going to see Jimena, partly because she was desperate, and partly because she lived the closest.
She had just gotten it out when Petunia came outside her door with out opening it.
"Lily I'm going to Vernon's house, don't you DARE touch my stuff."
"Don't worry Petunia I would never touch you slime covered crap!" Lily shouted back. She heard Petunia stomp off, Lily put on her jacket around her waist just in case it got cold while she was flying, then and lily opened her window, and climbed on the broom.
(A/N get ready for the expected sadness!!!)
Lily was about to get on it when she heard an unfamiliar voice screaming her name. "LILY EVANS! LILY EVANS!" Lily was full of terror, the voice sounded pure evil. She started to freak out, her parents they were in there!
Lily flew around from her room to the front door, very thankful, but yet scared silly of the darkness. She looked up and noticed the sign: The Dark Mark.
Lily screamed and jumped off her broom and threw it down, she flew into the house, not even thinking. Lily shrieked when someone's hand pulled her back out the door.
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James was sitting at his house a few hours before Lily's house was attacked, when he felt an urge to get to Lily, he knew how they were connected, and had a bad feeling Lily was in trouble. He started getting suspicious when Jimena and Sierra had Owled him, Remus, Sirius, and Peter even, about the fact that they hadn't heard from Lily, and she wasn't replying to their letters.
James ran for his broom, and snuck out of the house, praying that the magic worked, and led him straight to Lily.
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"Lily, be quiet, and run!" James whispered, and ran across the street, to where his broom was at. "Get on behind me!" Lily was in shock still and had been very silent.
"What, what about my broom? Can't I use it it's just by my house-."
"Lily! Now! Do you want to get us killed?!"
"James! My parents!" Lily choked out.
"Lily, just get on! I don't want you to die!" She reluctantly got on behind him, and they took off, Lily regretting it more and more as they flew. Lily panicked when she saw her house disappearing.
"James, please stop! Go back!"
"Calm down Lily, you are definitely not thinking straight! So just listen to me and hold on!" He said as calmly as he could.
"Uh, no!" She said, and jumped off the broom.
"Lily!" James yelled, and dove after her, just barely catching her, but it turned out it unbalanced him and they fell the next few feet to the ground. Lily landed on James, but immediately got up and took off running towards her house. James wasted no time and took off running behind her and caught up quickly and tackled her. "Lily! Voldemort's after you! So I suggest not running straight towards him."
"James, let me up! He's gonna kill them! My parents I have to save them!" Lily tried to push him off, but he was too heavy.
"No, we're just going to wait until the ministry gets here, and YOU calm down!" James said with finality.
"J-James…" Lily started sobbing, it was uncontrollable, and James wanted to let her up, but thought it would be better, if he just stayed where he was. And they did stay that way. Lily crying her eyes out, James trying to comfort her with no avail, and sitting on top of her at the same time, when finally the ministry got there.
"Over here!" James called to someone he recognized, his father. "Dad!" What was he going to tell his father? He knew, thank God, all about the curse, but his dad was going to be pissed that he hadn't told him where he was going.
"James?! What are you doing here! You mother was worried sick-." His father stopped ranting abruptly when he saw that his son was sitting on a crying red head girl. "James get off her!" James obeyed, and pulled Lily up, holding her back so she wouldn't run again.
"I had to hold her dad! She was trying to run after them! She even jumped off my broom!" James explained quickly.
"Is she Lily Evans?" His father's voice was softer then before. James nodded.
"Dad, Voldemort was there! Lily was walking in the freaking house! I got her just in time! Man, she could've-." James hadn't thought of something, all he hadn't been thinking about himself dying only her. He could have gotten HIMSELF killed.
"James, you could have been killed, I'm surprised you weren't!" his father said sternly. "But that will have to wait, let's get Lily away from here." Lily had been standing there sobbing the entire time. She knew her parents were dead, and Petunia had just barely escaped, since she had only just left.
Lily stayed at James' house that night, Lily didn't really know where she was going, and she was too full of grief. She cried herself to sleep, and woke up and cried more.
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James, felt terrible, to put it lightly. He was miserable, he wondered if he hadn't gone to get Lily, what would have happened. He'd saved her three times already; she sure got into a lot of trouble. The weird thing was, he didn't even stop to think about his actions, he just did it. He was going to tell Lily about the curse that day, as soon as he saw her he decided. Well, he was going to tell her that he was the one protecting her. What would she think of that? Maybe they would fight less, or more…
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Lily pulled herself up out of bed around noon, and looked around, 'So this is James' house." She thought, it was a beautiful place. A mansion to be exact, with all sorts of wizard things Lily, normally under different circumstances would have loved.
There was a magical mirror above her dresser, which told her to cheer up and started crying again. She decided to get up and find James, but being the reasonable sort, she brushed her hair first, trying to look presentable to James' parents, since she had yet to meet his mother, and hadn't even talked to his father.
She turned the door knob on the door just in time to find some one else doing the same thing. Lily let them open it, and they were apparently doing the same thing. Finally she got it open, and found James in front of her.
"Hello, James." She said politely. "Thank you for letting me stay here."
"Err, yeah sure."
"Where's my sister at?"
"I think my dad she stayed at the boy's house, Doosley or something."
"Oh, he boyfriend, I swear she's going to marry him, with how much she talks about him." Lily said trying to be casual. "She's 17 you know."
"Yeah, whatever, want to eat lunch? I was just sent up to wake you, but since you're up anyways-."
"Okay, sure, but I'm not really hungry." She lied, she was starving.
"Well, that might be nerves or something you need to eat." James informed her, he was used to having kids live at his house for a while if their parents or guardians were murdered by the dark lord. His father always offered to, for some reason James didn't know. His mother had a routine with all of them to. One word said it all 'Pamper.'
Especially the girls got the treatment, she would take care of them and make sure they had everything; James if he'd been in their place would have gotten annoyed with her. They got better treatment then he ever did around the house, but they deserved it so he didn't mind.
James led Lily down the stairs, and she ate some food. James was happy about this because most of the time, kids would feel too upset to eat anything. Lily seemed to be taking it well. It was a bit weird, she wasn't noticeably upset, but the sparkle was gone in her eyes, he hoped it would be back soon… When it did he would tell her about the curse, he decided.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily stayed at his house until they had arranged for her to stay with someone with a magical blood, since muggles wouldn't work. Lily got lucky and was to be sent to Mindy's house.
On her last day at James' house, they were talking and the subject came up of what had happened over the summer.
"Have you heard from Jimena or Sierra or Remus?" Lily asked. "I owled them all, and no reply, I was about to owl you even I got so desperate!" Lily joked a bit.
"Hey! You don't consider me your friend?" James said it with sarcasm but really it kind of hurt. "It's weird you should ask that since they thought you were ignoring them the entire time! Maybe it was the dark lord…" James voice trailed off, not wanting to upset her.
"Maybe so, but so THEY weren't ignoring me?" She questioned.
"Not that I know of."
"Good."
After that they started on their 5th argument that day, over which first year should be keeper that year. Wobblesby or Rockfield. Lily wanted Eleanor because they needed a girl on the team, and James wanted Wobblesby, because they were friends.
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Lily dragged her trunk with her stuff in it from her old house, she was lucky Voldemort hadn't destroyed it. She walked up the walk way with Mindy beside her talking away about Quidditch; she was very excited about having Lily coming to stay, even though it was only for a week. Mindy was an only child and always wanted someone to hang around with over the summer, when she was at home.
Mindy's house was a lot like James' and Lily had her own room, with everything she needed. And the room was huge! It was like an apartment, except no kitchen. So basically she had her own bathroom, living room with a couch, bedroom and study area. Lily had no idea why she would need it all, but was happy all the same.
She and Mindy spent the rest of the evening playing Quidditch; they ate dinner, talked about Quidditch, and went to bed, where only Mindy was dreaming of Quidditch.
Lily on the other hand stayed awake, thinking once again, something that had been going through her head for a week. Why had Voldemort killed her? He hadn't even brought death eaters along…And the only people he had killed were HER parents, Lily had decided it must be her curse, but what if it was something else, or maybe there was some more things about the curse she needed to learn before she could even figure it out, so that meant she would have to wait for Dumbledore to find something out.
Lily went to sleep, only to have a nightmare, her parents were being murdered, again, and again, and then there was a bright light and Lily was safe and so were her parents…The rest of the night was spent in a dreamless sleep.
*~*~*~*~*
James was having weird dreams. There was Lily and her parents, were being murdered, James walked up to her grabbed her hand and the dream was over.
Neither of them remembered the dreams.
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The next week went by really fast, Lily had a blast with Mindy, and they improved their Quidditch skills, even though Mindy wasn't going to try out, and Lily was already on the team. They had fun trying deep swoops that only seekers did. Then Lily and Mindy found themselves at platform 9 ¾
"Welp, it's another year." Mindy stated the obvious.
"Yup, I hope you survive fourth year."
"I hope you survive third year with the Marauders." Mindy stated solemnly.
"Me too, Mindy, and I hope you survive fourth year with-."
"Robert Saratoga." Mindy said through gritted teeth, these two were not fun to be around when they were together, the air sizzled around them, with hatred, mostly coming from Mindy, after all he had made it so she couldn't get on the Quidditch team. But secretly Lily thought they were the perfect couple, some many similarities.
"Well, Mindy, I'll leave you to your hatred!" Lily said quickly and ran off just as she caught a familiar fraise from Mindy.
"Hey Seek-a-toga." And Robert replied.
'Hello, Minderella!" His nick name for her was wimpy, but Mindy hated it, just because of the fact that, he said it.
Lily went looking for Jimena and Sierra who she hadn't seen or heard from all summer. "Jim! Sierra!" She screamed and went over to where they were and hugged them.
"Lily! I haven't seen, heard or anything from you all summer!" Sierra shrieked.
"Uh, yeah, family problems." Lily said her mood dropping drastically.
"Oh we heard about the sorry Lils." Jimena said quietly.
"Yeah, sorry." Sierra added. Nothing else needed to be said about that, so they continued talking, but this time about Quidditch and boys.
They met up in the last compartment, and sat down. "Do you think the guys will show up?" Sierra asked. That reminded Lily of something.
"I think I'm going to go see Marvin! I haven't seen him all summer, he was away in France and couldn't owl me." With that Lily skipped off to find him, and of course Mindy was there too.
They were in a compartment not far from hers.
"Hey Marv!" She said and hugged him.
"Lily! It's so good to see you!" He said happily.
They talked happily for a while, then Lily went back to her compartment, it was hard being friends with one group and friends with another.
When she got to her compartment she found Sirius, James, Remus and Peter taking up all the room, and Jimena and Sierra taking up what was left. This was all because of the fact, that Socrates and James' owl Ophelia were talking 'owl' and flying all over the place.
"Who let him out?" Lily said accusingly.
"JAMES." The five of them said.
"James would you so kindly control your owl?" She asked her temper ready to blow.
"Sure, sure." He said knowing that her temper was going to explode on him at any minute. "She just wanted some exercise is all."
"Whatever, but don't ever touch my owl again!" Just at that moment, Socrates pecked at James while he put Ophelia in her cage. "Serves you right!"
*~*~*~*~*
School started normal, sorting, feast, sleep, wake up, classes, the Marauders bugging everyone worse then last year, this year they had to do at least one prank a day. And unfortunately, Lily was the object of a Pranktion. (A/N get it a prank tion like affection! Ha, ha!)
Lily got up on the third day of school to find her shampoo had been changed to green dye, the green matched her eyes….But still WAS not her color.
James, Sirius, Remus and Peter sat in the common room and smiled when they heard a loud scream from the dorms. "Good job Pete! Keep up the good work." They had conned Peter into changing the dye for them.
"No problem." (A/N jerk!!)
Lily then came running down the stairs in some hastily pulled on clothes, he hair still wet, she started throwing curses at them all. They jumped up and took off running.
"Help! Help! Lily's got her wand and knows hexes!" Sirius screeched.
"Oh my God! My robes are green!" Peter moaned. "Slytherin colors!"
"Hey Lily that's not funny!" James said when HIS hair went green.
"Yeah Lil, you can't go around turning people's hair green!" Remus said who like the others was sporting robes that said, "Bow to Queen Lily, and Snape is a Git!" Lily had added this feature as extra.
"Yes Lily, its not nice! What would McGonagall say?!" Sirius chirped, he didn't seem to notice his back said "I love Sierra Sitruc on it."
"Sirius, Sirius, I'm not stupid! McGonagall will love the fact that someone finally got you guys back!" Lily smirked.
"Will you please take it off?" Remus begged.
"Hmm, maybe after lunch, but right now I'm hungry for breakfast, and green hair will only make me stand out!" She said smiling, and skipped of to breakfast.
"We shouldn't have used the dye; I don't know how to get that stuff out!" Peter whispered.
"Me neither." James muttered, and then he noticed Sirius' back and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Sirius, Peter and Remus asked.
"Nothing, just a mental image that I won't share with you. Let's go to breakfast, as soon as we change are robes back, that's the only thing I know how to change back." He did this, but conveniently left "I love Sierra Sitruc" on Sirius' back.
"Let's go, green bean!" Remus said to James who was the only one with green hair.
"All right, let's go."
Sirius didn't notice what was on his back until Sierra slapped him on the face in Herbology. The rest of the day went by smoothly, or as smoothly as it could get, with Lily and James arguing over everything. Lily was still mad about the green hair thing.
*~*~*~*~*
The first quidditch practice was scheduled for Saturday, Samuel Wobblesby made the team.
"No Fair!" Lily wailed, when she saw the results. "The only girl AGAIN! And I'm stuck with Potter and Black!"
"I'm surprised you don't enjoy that Evans." Snape said behind her.
"Snape, I thought you of all people would understand my disliking them so." She hissed at him.
"Well, now that I'm on the Slytherin team, you guys won't be winning so easily." He smirked, and left Lily in a very bad mood. She couldn't believe Snape had made the team, he was the new beater on the team.
"Lily, don't let HIM ruin your day okay?" Sierra who had been there the entire time urged, she was getting annoyed of Lily's fighting with James, and every other guy at school who talked to her.
"Well, you aren't the one stuck with Potter all day today, now are you?" She said in a huff. "Well, I have to get to practice." She muttered and was out the door.
(A/N I was thinking for their age they sure can keep steady boyfriends! Just thinking.)
*~*~*~*~*
James was already at practice, throwing the Quaffle around by himself.
"Hey Lily get up here!" He called, and Lily jumped on her broom and took off. What started as an innocent scrimmage turned into a heated fight between the two.
They had both scored about 50 points when they saw the rest of the team cheering them on, not choosing sides for safety precautions.
James had the Quaffle, and Lily was chasing him across the field, he was laughing the entire time. When he scored Lily screamed in defeat and went back to the field. James followed her from his broom, still laughing.
"Hey Lil, can't handle defeat?" She glared daggers at him, and he backed off. The rest of practice was spent looking out for James since Lily kept trying to clobber him, every chance she got. They definitely weren't going to be able to win that year if they couldn't get along.
"Come on Lily, just TRY and get along with him." Jack pleaded.
"I AM trying." She said hotly.
"Well, you better get better by the time of our first game, which I'll remind you is against Slytherin."
"How could I forget?"
Last year they had beaten the team easily, but with Lily not working well with James, it wasn't going to work. And since the team was having so much trouble, of course the game came upon them very quickly.
To make a long story short, they kicked butt and won! Snape was all talk and no action. The Gryffindors celebrated that night until the early morning hours. The night ended up being very exciting though.
"WHO IS THE BEST HOUSE AT HOGWARTS?" Sirius screamed at the top of his lungs.
"GRYFFINDOR!!" Everyone yelled back.
Somehow, Lily didn't want to know, The Marauders had snuck in some butter bear, and other treats from Hogsmeade. Lily got quite hyper on butter beer, and scared James when she tackled him, "Just for fun!" She said. Then went and tackled an unsuspecting 5th year.
*~*~*~*~*
(A/N third year is going to be summed up okay?)
All through the year James never talked to Lily about the curse. She was happy, he didn't know how, but she was, and he didn't want to bother her with thoughts like 'why the curse was put on her' or for that matter why he was the one protecting her.
And James had other things on his mind. Animagis to be exact. (A/N did I spell that right?) They were trying very hard to become Animagis before 6th year, fifth year was the goal, and they'd already been working for a year and a half at the beginning of third year.
Lily had no life or death situations, much to her relief. She shoved her parents away from her mind. Third year was a sad year though, that year several kids at school were getting owls about relatives being murdered by Voldemort.
The spree had started.
And it seemed to Lily the more he killed the more the more the Marauders played pranks on everyone. It was all in all, a very sad year.
Lily went off that summer to Mindy's house, happy to get away from all the death that reeked at her school.
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(A/N Okay that's the end of third year, very rushed I might say! But I was low on ideas for that year, so sorry!! I have to study for a health test now! Wish me luck! Oh and Review please!! I'm hoping to get some good ideas for the story tonight…after I study though! Toodles!!)