DISCLAIMER: Do I seriously have to do this?! I don't own the characters, JK
Rowling does, and I do own most of them though, okay, so yeah, I own the
plot!
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CHAPTER 13
Lily was a bit worried about going to the train station, as soon as she got there, she purposely lost the Marauders, so Jimena, and Sierra wouldn't say anything about it.
"Jim! Sierra!" Lily squealed happily and hugged her friends.
"Lils, how was your summer!?! Mine was great!" Sierra said stepping onto the train.
"Mine too, except for the Quidditch freaks, it was good." Lily said grinning. "How was yours Jimena?"
"Well, Sierra and I went up to Italy together with her Mum that was a ton of fun!"
"I wish you guys would have invited me!" Lily said pretending to pout. Sierra made a face.
"We did, but you were off somewhere or something according to Mindy."
"Oh, sorry, it was nothing." Lily said and changed the subject quickly. "Excited about fifth year? I made prefect, so did James." Her two friends congratulated, and they found a compartment for themselves.
"So Lily I hope you nothing happens to us on THIS train ride." Jimena sighed looking out the window.
"Thanks for reminding me, stupid!" Lily said sarcastically.
"Sorry." Jimena cringed, "I didn't mean to bring up anything too bad."
"Hey, guys, do you find it weird that the nightmares started on that same day?" Sierra asked as if she were catching on to something.
"Hey, I never noticed that, do you think it has something to do with Lily's curse?" Jimena asked, Lily desperately wanted to tell her friends about what she and James had talked about. 'But if I told them, I'd have to tell them why, and I promised.'
"It could guys, I'm going to finally do some research on it this year, Dumbledore hasn't brought up any new information so, I decided to do it myself." Lily left out the part about researching with James.
"Whatever information you find out you should probably tell James." Sierra said absent mindedly.
"Yeah, I guess I will." Lily tried to hide her smile. She and James had already planned a time to study, with out the other Marauders. Suddenly some one came into their compartment.
"Hey Lily, you want to come to the Prefect compartment?" It was a sixth year prefect.
"No, I'm going to stay here with my friends thanks anyways." The prefect left.
Nothing much eventful happened, except the much expected prank on Snape or Severus as Lily had started to call him, since he was being so friendly. And unless you count a visit from Snape eventful, that was it.
Lily and her friends had been talking excitedly about school, when into the room came Severus Snape. Jimena wrinkled her nose, but didn't say anything. Sierra on the other hand smiled knowingly at Lily, and tried not to laugh.
"Hello, Lily." Snape said, trying to smile.
"Hello, Severus." Lily said, also trying to smile, she still didn't like him, but was decent enough to be friendly.
"I see you made prefect, so did I." 'Bragger.' Lily thought.
"Yes, I came out at the top of the year; James Potter was right behind me in grades." Lily smirked. 'Two can play at this game.' Snape seemed to sense this too.
"This summer I spent with my parents at our summer home, what did you do?" Lily wasn't the least perturbed at the fact that her parents were dead.
"I spent most of it, at the Ewing mansion, working on my Quidditch skills." Lily said this knowing that Snape was very jealous of the Gryffindor team, for beating them once again, for the Quidditch Cup.
"I heard from a source that you spent the last few weeks at the Black Manor." Snape smirked, 'what is he getting at!?' Lily thought angrily.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I was at Mindy's home the entire time." Lily was seriously hoping Mindy had kept her mouth shut about her visit to Sirius' house. "Sirius and I are barely what you would call friends."
Snape glared, he knew she was lying. "Well, then maybe I was mistaken and you were at Potter's house, not Black's but I was sure I saw you with one of them, but seeming how they look some much I might have been wrong." Lily saw something in his eyes when he said this, 'Jealousy? No way, Snape didn't really like he; did he?'
"I guess you were mistaken then." Lily said getting angry at his badgering her.
"I apologize then. I didn't mean to upset you. Excuse me, I'm off to the prefect compartment." Snape said leaving. "Goodbye Lily."
"Bye Severus." Lily said and he shut the door. "Thank God."
Sierra couldn't hold it in anymore, she burst out with giggles. Jimena tried to keep her composure, but failed and started laughing uncontrollably.
"I don't see what's so funny." Lily stated, still a bit mad.
"You didn't see it from *gasp* our point of view." Sierra said falling to the floor laughing.
"Yeah, Lils you should have seen yourself, talking DECENTLY with Snape!" Jimena said tears forming in her eyes. "Then how you argued so properly…"
"It's not funny; I don't know what you're talking about!" Lily huffed.
The rest of the train ride was spent, with a very angry Lily, and two laughing girls, who just couldn't believe Snape STILL liked Lily.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily collapsed on her bed, very happy to be back at Hogwarts. She took in the smell of her pillow. "The smell of Hogwarts." She said her voice muffled.
"It's GREAT to be back!" Jimena said jumping on her bed.
Sierra mumbled something, but nobody heard it, then Sierra was asleep, and the rest of the dorm followed suit.
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The first week flew by, and she and James that Friday had their first meeting to look up information on the curse, right after studying with the Marauders, for becoming Animagi.
"So James, which books do we look in?" Lily asked as they got to the Library.
"How about the curses and counter curses section?" James suggested.
"Good idea that seems like the obvious choice." Lily said and they headed over to that section of the library, picking up any sort of book that might have information in it.
They quickly took a table that would hide them from view, just in case some of their friends came in. They didn't want their friends, in their business.
"Hey, look at this it's a curse that makes you sound like a donkey whenever someone says the word, 'ass'!" James exclaimed laughing. Lily couldn't help but laugh too, 'what is that book doing in the library!' she thought.
"What are you going to do with that?" She asked when she saw him taking notes on it.
"I'm going to use it on Snape." Lily rolled her eyes, but more or less she knew she was going to enjoy watching Snape or hearing him talk like an ass. Literally.
"Well, don't spend too much time on it; we have enough on our hands as it is." That was quite true, the two of them had a lot of work they worked on the curse, Animagi, and their school work, it was a bit of a headache.
"Yes Mother." James said and grinned at Lily when she glared at him. 'Cute smile.' Lily thought. 'What the hell was that?!' Lily couldn't believe she'd thought that about James, she hadn't thought about him being cute for a long time, she couldn't let herself like him.
"I'm not your Mother!" Lily said half heartedly, she wasn't in the mood for an argument, although they hadn't fought for a long time.
"Yes, thank God!" Lily glared. "Let's keep working." He said changing the subject, so they took notes for the next few hours, on anything that could help them. But they didn't manage to find anything about the curse they wanted to read about.
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Lily and James continued to learn more and more about curses, but weren't getting much out of it except becoming better friends, and being prepared by knowing the counter curse to the 'ass' curse.
A few weeks later Lily got to see the curse put into action at the Great Hall at lunch.
Sirius purposely bumped into Snape, and James came up behind him and said the curse then made a run for it. Sirius checked to see if the curse worked by saying.
"I have to get to class or McGonagall will have me 'ass' in detention."
Snape tried to respond, but it came out "hee haw!" (A/N is that how a donkey sounds?)
Everyone burst out laughing, but surprisingly enough the only thing Snape did was turn red. Lily noticed that he was looking right at her, but she couldn't help but laugh.
The Marauders, laughing the hardest, since it was their prank. All day long poor Snape found out just how often the word 'ass' was used in school. Which is quite a lot, considering the Marauders were constantly using it, just to hear him talk like a donkey some more.
At dinner, she and James took the time to walk by the Slytherin table and stage a conversation.
"So James, how was that essay going for Charms?" Lily asked, trying not to laugh.
"Not very well, it's been giving me a real pain in the ASS." James said, and they immediately heard some donkey noises from the Slytherin who was right behind them.
Snape stood up and started yelling at them in 'donkey' which only made the two of them burst into laughter, Lily collapsed onto James holding on to him so she didn't fall. Lily was to busy laughing to notice the look Snape was giving them and as James dragged Lily back to the Gryffindor table so they didn't get into trouble.
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Later that evening Lily was on her way to meet the Marauders in the 'hideaway' to work on becoming Animagi. When she over heard two boys talking, one of them sounded very familiar.
"Stupid Potter, he gets everything, just because he's in ******* Gryffindor." Someone grumbled. (A/N substitute the letters anyway you want, I can't type it with out getting into trouble.)
"Get over her man, she just stupid mudblood anyways." Another voice said, his voice filled with resentment towards muggle borns. Lily stopped herself from cursing them.
"I know, but I can't help it, please all I need is for you to supervise the transformation okay?"
"All right, but only because you're my friend. Have you got the last ingredient?"
"Yeah, yesterday-." Lily hated to stop listening, but they were about to come around the corner where she was. She took off down the corridor and ran into the hideaway, behind the portrait of the guy getting his head cut off.
Lily entered the room and collapsed on the bed out breath, the Marauders just stared at her. Lily decided to tell James about what she over heard.
"James, I have to tell you something." She said regaining her breath. Lily continued to explain what had happened. When she finished James looked like he was deep in thought. "So who do you think it was, and what are they planning to do, did anything big happen yesterday?"
"Not that I can think of… Wonder what they mean by transforming, do you think someone else is trying to become an Animagus? And what girl are they talking about?" James said.
"Obviously a muggle born…" Sirius said, and soon all eyes were on Lily.
"Do you think who ever it is likes Lily, but thinks James has her or something?" Remus asked thoughtfully.
"WHY on earth would they think that!?" Lily shrieked, and glared at James.
"Hey, I haven't said anything! Don't blame this on me!" James said holding his hands up and backing away from Lily.
"Well, somebody must have seen us studying or something, or sneaking around and thought we were an item." Lily shrugged, off the thought that James might be telling people that they were together, or maybe that he likes her. Lily couldn't let that happen, she's going to have to start being mean to him.
"Maybe so, but why were you two sneaking around?" Sirius asked getting a mysterious glint in his eyes.
"Don't even THINK that Sirius Black!" Lily snapped at him. "If you James and me sneak around so we don't get caught on our way to study here!" It was more or less a lie, but what did it matter.
"Sure Lils, sure." Remus said laughing, before Lily could get to him James gave him a friendly punch, but all the same it got Remus unbalanced.
"So are we going to work or not? Let's just forget about what those guys said." Peter piped up.
"Pete's right, we should get working on this, so we can try it out over Christmas break!" Sirius said and picked up a book and started taking notes right there, the others followed suit.
Soon everyone's minds were filled with complicated charms, and potions equations, and the discussion over heard, was forgotten, which was not a good thing at all.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily awoke up late one Friday morning, and rushed into potions just in time, the Professor was new this year and just so happened to be another Slytherin lover. So Lily took the only free seat in the room, next to Severus Snape.
No one in the room couldn't help but notice the way Snape acted when he was around Lily, all nice and friendly, and staring at her. Lily didn't like it, to say the least. The only good thing that came from it was Snape was an expert at potions, and understood everything quite well, so Lily managed to get done early, with his help. With fifteen minutes left in class, Lily turned around in her seat to talk to the Marauders, since Jimena and Sierra were across the room from her.
"James!" Lily whispered.
"Hm?" He said as he dumped in the Quadleisa drops.
"Are we meeting tonight?"
"Oh, yeah same time same place." He said with a famous Potter grin.
"Okay then, see you there."
Lily turned back around after getting a glare from the Professor. She immediately noticed how angry Snape looked. She decided not to say anything to him, afraid of setting him off, and when you have a shrinking potion around, you don't want to do that.
After class apparently Snape cooled down and ran off to talk to Malfoy about something. Lily heard only a bit of their conversation.
"Lucius, meet me tonight before dinner."
"Tonight?! Well, I guess so, I hope you know what you're doing."
Lily skipped off wondering if Snape and Lucius turned gay.
*~*~*~*~*
Charms that after noon wasn't very exciting, although Lily had a lot of fun with the new summoning charm, and she wasn't the only one.
Peter accidentally summoned the book on the bottom of the stack Professor Flitwick stands on.
The rest of the Marauders used this time to summon the quills of everyone in the class room, for no apparent reason at all.
This automatically put the class in panic, since the quills were flying everywhere, and a lot of ink was spilt, and several detentions were handed out.
Lily, Jimena, and Sierra managed to get out of the mess with out too much trouble, professor Flitwick let class out early, since everyone was covered in ink and needed to change.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily was up in her dorm before dinner with Sierra, Jimena putting their books away, when decided to tell them something.
"Jimena, Sierra I need to tell you something important."
"Good, so do I." Jimena said.
"Me too." Sierra added, and they all sat on Lily's bed.
"Okay, when I tell you this, promise not to get mad, okay?" Lily asked, 'oh my gosh I'm really going to tell them!' Lily thought.
"As long as you don't get mad at me when I tell you mine." Jimena said nervously.
"Guys this is weird, but don't get mad at me either." Sierra said apprehensively.
"All right, I secretly since last year, have been friends with the Marauders, but I don't like any of them so it's okay, but don't be mad at me for lying okay?" Lily said very quickly. Her two friends were shocked, but not in the way Lily had expected.
"Me too!" Sierra and Jimena said at the same time, and then the three of them looked at each other and laughed.
"Wow, you two are better at keeping secrets then I thought!" Lily exclaimed.
"I started hanging around with them doing pranks at stuff whenever you two were off somewhere!" Jimena said.
"Same here, I got bored one day, and they invited me to go play pranks, but I told them not to tell you guys."
"Me too that's exactly what happened to me, and I just couldn't resist their puppy dog faces." Jimena said laughing.
Lily looked at her friends they were so much a like it was scary.
"We are so much a like it scares me!" Sierra giggled.
"Oh my God I was just thinking that!" Lily screeched.
"Wow that's weird!" Jimena said, "So was I!"
Although Lily didn't tell them the whole story; at least now she could hang out with the Marauders and not feel guilty anymore, but that didn't mean she could stop lying too.
"Come on guys let's go down to dinner, I'm starving!" Jimena said getting up and walking to the door.
"Me too." Sierra and Lily said at them same time, making them all laugh.
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After dinner, Lily was on her way to meet the Marauders; they were getting much closer to finishing the work. Lily was quite pleased at the amount of work they'd gotten done.
Lily started thinking about how cool it would be when they got done with it, that she took a wrong turn through the hallway, and ended up running into James.
"Oh hey James, what's up?" She asked, wondering what he was doing here, so close to the Slytherin common room. (A/N yes Lily knows where it is.)
"Oh I was looking for you." He said, James had a weird look of on his face that scared Lily.
"Really? How'd you know I took a wrong turn?"
James just shrugged, he looked nervous, was Lily about to be in a life or death situation? Lily was about to ask him, when he did something she didn't expect, at all.
He grabbed her by the arms, and pushed her into a class room, shut the door behind them and started kissing her. Lily's eyes got really wide and she tried to push him away, but he wouldn't let go, he only stepped closer. Lily tried harder to push him away, and when he still didn't stop Lily reached for her wand, but found it was missing. 'Where'd it go? When ever I need it, I don't have it!' Lily thought urgently, Lily was getting really scared by then and didn't know what to do.
James held Lily by her arms, and pushed her against the wall, and finally Lily did the only thing she could think of, she screamed.
It was a bit muffled, but it scared James enough to take his tongue from her mouth. (A/N EWW! Lol!)
"James what is wrong with you let me go!" Lily shrieked.
"What, you don't like it?" He smirked.
"Of course not! I don't even like you! I didn't even know you liked me! Now let go of me, right now or I'm going to scream again." When James didn't do anything Lily took a deep breath, but then James finally let go of her, and Lily took off running, and finally let the tears fall.
'That is one of the most confusing things that's ever happened to me!' She thought, Lily stopped for a moment to catch her breath and figure out where to go.
She decided to go back to her dorm, where she could cry all she wanted, and not feel stupid, but then she would have to answer her friends' questions, and Lily really didn't want to talk about it.
But at that moment, the dorm seemed the safest place, so Lily trudged up to the Gryffindor tower.
When she walked into the common room, she ran as fast as she could to her dorm before anyone noticed she was crying. When she got up to her dorm and safely closed the door, she went and rinsed out her mouth, it wasn't a bad taste or anything, she just didn't like the feeling of being exploited.
Lily laid on her bed, and couldn't sleep because it was so early, so instead she laid awake thinking about James, and what the hell had just happened. James hadn't shown any signs of liking her, well none that she had noticed. Lily couldn't come up with a good explanation for her problem.
Lily stayed like that for a half hour until she heard a knock on the door.
"Come in." She said groggily.
"Hey Lils, we were wondering where you were, normally you don't ditch-." The voice was Sirius and he was accompanied by the rest of the Marauders, including James, to Lily's dislike, and he had just noticed Lily had been crying.
Lily glared daggers at James, who looked totally clueless, about the situation.
"Lils what's wrong?" Remus asked sitting on her bed, Lily took a moment to think should she get angry or cry? Lily thought it would be better to get angry.
"WHY don't you ask your stupid, pompous, nasty, sick, and perverted, friend?! Lily screamed and pointed at James, who was so shocked he fell over backwards.
All eyes went on James. "I didn't do anything!" He said standing up.
"I can't believe you! You have no right to touch me in anyway ever again, not that I ever gave you permission in the first place!!" Lily screamed.
James was still shocked and was thinking of something to say, while Sirius, Remus and Peter all stared at him. Remus was noticeably getting angry at him.
"James, what the HELL did you do!?" He said, raising his voice.
"NOTHING!! I don't know what she's talking about! Lily would you please tell me what I did wrong, because I surely don't know!" James shouted, every one turned to Lily.
"Fine. You're so stubborn, since someone needs to tell your friends what kind of scum bag you are!" Lily proceeded to tell them all what happened, and James was getting more and more glares as the story went on, but James himself was looking more and more disgusted. She finished off saying "James you can protect me from so many things, but you can't protect me from yourself!"
James spoke first. "Lily I swear it wasn't me! I wasn't even over there; I was on my way to the hideaway! I can't prove it, all I can do is tell you that it wasn't me, no matter how hard it is for you to believe me, but you have to! It wasn't ME, I don't know what the hell is going on, but it wasn't me!" James pleaded, Lily looked into his eyes, they were sincere, and she wanted to believe him.
"James, no matter how much I want to believe you, I can't, unless you guys can give me a reasonable explanation for however else James 'wasn't' there, I'm NEVER speaking to you again!" Lily said this last part and started to sob, and Remus held onto her.
(A/N James narration.)
James looked at Lily in Remus' arms, and felt terrible, he knew Lily wasn't going to believe him, if he'd been her, he'd wouldn't have believed himself either. How was he going to prove to Lily that he didn't do it? He had no proof, though, and it left him in deep despair. But he knew he was going to have to prove himself innocent. Lily was too good a friend to let go so easily.
With that James stormed out of the room, and headed straight to the library, and went straight to the librarian Madam Zinckier, something he hadn't done in a long time.
"Madam Zinckier, I was wondering if you could tell me where I might find books on people changing into different people, or if you knew how they did it?" James asked, trying to hide the panic in his voice.
"Try the potions section dear." She said smiling at him.
James ran over to the potions section and found the perfect book he needed. "Transforming Potions and What they Do." James grabbed the book, and sat down at a table searching through it, and that's where the Marauders found him.
James immediately didn't like the looks on their faces; they were easy to read 'pissed off'. James knew he was probably going to get hurt, if he didn't find out what had happened, right then. The Marauders, especially Remus, had become quite over protective of Lily, but the strange thing was, no one was more protective over her then James, and now look where he'd ended up.
As James hurried through the lists of names, James kept thinking about something Lily had said. "James you can protect me from so many things, but you can't protect me from yourself!" The words had stung. They had a lot of truth in them, James could always end up hurting Lily, he didn't want to, but he could always end up hurting her, or maybe even accidentally killing her. The thought made James sick.
James' thoughts were interrupted, by Remus, Sirius and Peter sitting down at his table. Just then his eye caught something that looked familiar. "Polyjuice potion." He said aloud with a smile.
"James, we need to talk-." Sirius started to say, but James stopped him.
"I figured it out! Some one must have made a polyjuice potion to turn into me, so they could make out with Lily, obviously thinking that she likes me!"
Sirius and Remus looked at him and knew what he was talking about, Peter looked confused.
"Someone, I don't know who, probably that person Lily heard talking, obviously really likes Lily, and wanted her SO bad they had to impersonate me to get to her, but it didn't work!" James said proud that he'd figured it out so quickly.
"James I'm so sorry for thinking you did that!" Remus apologized.
"Me too James, I should have believed-." Sirius started to say, once again James stopped him.
"Its okay guys, now all we have to do is get LILY to believe me, and then it will all be okay."
"James, I don't know if it's going to be that easy, first you're going to have to figure out who did it, and MAYBE even have them confess that they did it, before she will fully believe you, otherwise there will always be doubt." Remus said.
"Still, at least tell her what I just found out, maybe she'll believe me." James said hopefully.
"We'll try James, but don't get your hopes up, okay?" Sirius told him.
"All right, but first let's think about this, who likes Lily?" James asked in frustration, so many guys liked Lily; it was going to be tough.
"And they have to be good at potions." Remus said and as soon as the words came out of his mouth they knew who it was.
"I'll kill him!" James shouted.
"Erm, James, calm down a bit, I know your mad, but be reasonable!" Remus tried.
"It's HIM I know it is, he pulled out my hair in that fight we had a while back!" James grunted, getting even angrier, he did NOT like to be impersonated.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily didn't tell Jimena and Sierra about what happened, since there was a lot of doubt in whether he did it or not, Remus had told her their theory, but didn't say who they thought it was, but Lily had a feeling they knew who it was.
Lily was sitting at breakfast on Saturday morning, feeling very tired, since she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. When someone who was very unwanted at the moment came up behind her.
Lily looked up at Snape and was about to say something to him, when from out of no where came a very angry James Potter came up behind him and dragged him away, that's when Lily knew that it had been Snape who made the Polyjuice potion and impersonated James. Lily wanted to go apologize to James right then and there.
Lily got out of her seat and ran towards where James had taken Snape, which was outside the castle, onto the grounds.
She found James yelling his head off at Snape.
"IF YOU WANT HER TO LIKE YOU, YOU ARE DEFINITELY GOING ABOUT IT THE WRONG WAY!!" HE screamed at Snape.
"How would you know the right way of going about it, if you yourself don't even have her?" Snape replied coolly.
"I could have her if I wanted to!" James said, and then his face turned even redder when he saw the Lily was watching. "Hi Lily." He said then his face calmed considerably, and in a few strides he was right in front of Lily.
James got a wicked smile on his face, and looked tensely into Lily's eyes, Lily all of sudden felt her legs getting weaker. 'Is James going to kiss me?!' She thought, she half wanted to, half didn't want him to. Before she could ponder it anymore, James closed the hole between them and kissed her square on the mouth.
"See Snape, I could have her." He said, and then kissed Lily again, she all the while in quite a state of shock, he didn't let go of her until Snape had left. He pulled away from her, and they both gasped for air.
"James-." Lily started to say.
"So sorry about that Lily, but I just got really pissed at him, he was the one who did he Polyjuice potion Lily, it was him."
"I know James, but honestly you need to think before you do these crazy things." She said laughing a bit.
"Yeah, I know." He said blushing insanely. James Potter didn't blush often and it was quite a cute thing, Lily thought. Then Lily remembered something that had been pushed from her mind while kissing James. Lily couldn't love anyone or even get involved with anyone, because she couldn't risk them getting hurt, and especially with James, since he was suppose to protect her. Not to mention the fact that he had dated one of her best friends.
It just couldn't happen, there were too many things keeping them apart.
"Well, let's get back to breakfast, or people will start wondering." Lily said, and the two of them seemed to have a silent agreement to forget about the kiss.
"Yeah, let's go." James said a little sadly. "Are we meeting tonight to work on the curse thingy?"
"Yeah, sure I hope we find something, this is getting pointless!"
"I was thinking, since we haven't checked everywhere in the library-."
"James I think we are quite close to having the whole entire library's books on curses searched."
"As I was saying, I was thinking since we haven't checked everywhere in the library, like the restricted section, I think we should do that." James said grinning.
"James, how are we going to do that?"
"My invisibility cloak." He said and laughed at her shocked expression. "If you want I'll go by myself!?
"You think I'm going to let you go alone!? Well you're wrong, I'm going! We'll get it tonight!" Lily said, and it was settled.
"What happened to Miss Perfect Prefect?" James asked smiling.
"She met Mister Potter the Prefect." She said making James blush.
(A/N aw!! I should tell you guys, that kiss was totally unexpected! Even by me! I was shocked that it came into my plot, but oh well it shows that they are starting to have feelings toward each other.)
The two went back to breakfast where Sirius, Remus, Peter, Jimena and Sierra joined them.
"James-y boy what happened out there?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing much, just got Snape back good." James said smiling at Lily, who turned slightly pink.
"You'll have to tell me sometime!" Remus said patting his friend on the back.
"Maybe sometime Remus, I will."
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James found themselves in the invisibility cloak, quietly heading toward the library, late that night. They entered the library as quietly as they could, and headed straight for the restricted section. The entire time they were under the cloak Lily tried not to pay attention to how close they were.
The two stepped out from under the cloak and whispered "lumos!" And searched for books that could help them. They picked up five books, with the following titles.
'Ancient Curses'
'Curses Casted at Birth'
'Curses of the Protected'
'Deadly Curses' (Just in case)
'Latin Translations for Curses'
Lily and James couldn't believe Dumbledore hadn't told them about these books, something just had to be in these books that would give them information. They headed up to the Common room, this time much slower since they were carrying some very heavy books.
Even though it was late enough already, Lily and James decided to look though the books right then, that's how excited they were about it.
Lily picked up 'Curses of the Protected' and James started reading 'Ancient Curses'.
Lily was reading through her book and found out something that made her want to scream with joy, it had an entire chapter about a curse that sounded exactly like her's.
"James look at this, I think this is it!" Lily sat next to James and the both leaned over and read the chapter together.
'The Protectus Humanicus curse also known as the feneaium gliseum persontis curse. (A/N just made up all that stuff.) Is a powerful curse placed upon two people which causes one of them to risk their life to save the other, this curse is normally used when a divinator predicts a terrible or important future of the person being protected. There have been only certain types of cases in the past, one of them was between Godric Gryffindor (one of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) and his wife and some believe soul mate, the Lady Catalina. Lady Catalina was put under the curse because of her fate to produce the heir of Gryffindor, and this started the cycle of Gryffindors' soul mates being cursed to protect their 'soul mate' with their own life, thus keeping the Gryffindor blood alive. This must be because Gryffindor's are often murdered by the heir of Salazar Slytherin, Godric's mortal enemy. So the bearer of the hair must be protected at all costs. Even though quite frequently the two of them are both killed anyway. Sadly, whenever the two cursed people fall in love they are always killed.
Another famous curse was put upon a peasant and a king who ended up being lovers, and the peasant ended up saving the king's country from being destroyed, by using her love for the king…'
Lily looked up from reading and noticed that James' eyes were popping out of his head.
"James? Do you have something to say? Because you either are in complete shock or know something that I don't and this is a lot worse then I thought." Lily asked him, he looked up at her, and pushed his glasses up, because they'd been slipping off his nose. Lily couldn't help but think how cute it was.
"Lily, there's something I haven't told you about myself that nobody knows about, but it's your right to know." Lily looked into James' eyes and saw the seriousness in them that gave her a bit of fright.
"What is it James?" Lily asked encouragingly.
"Lily, you know how in the book it talks about how the bearer of Gryffindor's heir is always cursed? Well, that's your curse that's OUR curse." James said looking at her for a reaction.
"How is that possible? You'd have to be-."
"The true heir of Godric Gryffindor." James said with a bit of sullenness. "I suppose my parents are under the curse too, I remember hearing stories of my dad saving my mum and stuff, but I thought they were just…Stories, I didn't think much of them, but I guess they were true after all, I'm surprised my parents didn't tell me about this! This also means that-."
"James don't even go there." Lily said with finality. "I don't want my life already planned for me; I will decide whose heir I produce on my own, thank you very much!" Plus Lily had other thoughts in her head about the problem. If she married James, that meant he would die, and since Lily had just read in the book that Gryffindor's heirs are always murdered, it seemed very likely to come true. "James how do you know for sure that your Gryffindor's heir?"
"There are so many things that have been done to prove this, the list is endless, my family tree was traced back…Really far, and that's how we found it out. My Grandparents were the first to find out in a few hundred years, since the Gryffindors had been hiding from Slytherins heirs, who are basically out to get us. Do you know who the last living Slytherin heir is at this moment Lily? I found out this summer, and it shocked me to death. Voldemort, Lily, Voldemort, He-Who-Should-not-be-named he's the heir who's out to kill me and my family!"
"James don't talk like that!" Lily said frustrated. "I don't want you to die-."
"Lily don't look at me like that!" James ordered.
"Like what?!" Lily said perplexed.
"Like you care for me, I can't stand it! We can't have feelings for each other Lily, do you understand that?"
"Of course James, I've known the whole time, I've know for a year that I couldn't have feelings for anyone."
James looked at Lily contemplating what she had just said. "What are you talking about?"
"My nightmares James, have you ever wondered why, Jimena, Sierra and me stopped talking to you guys in fourth year?" So then Lily told James everything, about the nightmares she'd had and Jimena and Sierra had had, and she told him about the break into her room, and the glowing green gem.
When she finished James' eyes bulged out of his head in shock. "Lily, that information was quite useful; too bad you didn't tell me sooner."
"Sorry, but I didn't know about all this…stuff, I didn't know I was destined to…be with…you." Lily said quietly.
"Lily, I think you and me are going to have to stop."
"Stop what?" Lily asked puzzled.
"Being friends, stop talking, stop whatever we need to so you don't die!" James was quite flustered looking as he said this.
"Or so you don't die." Lily told him.
"Yeah, but your more important."
"James, are you sure that's not the curse talking?" She asked with a smirk.
"I don't know what it is exactly, but there's something inside me that makes me put you first in line." James was getting really tense, and had started pacing the room. The book lay forgotten on the floor.
"James, maybe we should read up on this before we blow it all out of proportion." Lily suggested.
"Yeah, your probably right, let's read some more." James and Lily sat back down on the couch and continued to read until they both fell asleep.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up to find herself in a dark place, and she couldn't see anything, she started to wander around looking for a way out, but it was too dark to see anything. The place seemed like a dungeon, by the smell and the dampness.
"Lily." Some one called her, someone she knew.
"James?!" She yelped, looking wildly around for him.
"Lily? Where are you, this place is weird." Lily felt James bump into her and she grabbed hold of his hand.
"Is this a dream? It feels so real." Lily could only feel James tense up.
"I hope to God this is a dream, other wise I think we're done for."
"If this is a dream I want to wake up."
"Pinch me Lily."
"What?"
"Pinch me, that way I'll know if I'm dreaming or not…Ow! Lily that hurt!"
"Damn this means it's not a dream." Lily grumbled.
"How're we going to get out of this place then?" James asked, and pulled Lily into some direction.
"How am I supposed to know?"
"Good point."
All of a sudden Lily felt herself falling. "James I'm falling! Do you feel it?" Lily felt James pulling on her to keep her from falling so obviously, she was the only one falling.
James managed to pull Lily up and he held her close so she didn't fall again.
*~*~*~*~*
Sierra and Jimena came down to the common room, hoping to find Lily and were quite surprised to find her 'cuddling' with James Potter on the couch, surrounded by a few books.
Sierra was a bit worried that Jimena would get jealous but was surprised to hear her laugh.
"Let's wake them up from their sweet dreams!" Jimena said with a wicked grin on her face.
So the two fifth years went up to their friends. "Lily Evans I'm surprised at you!" Jimena said shaking her friend trying to wake her up. Lily didn't stir, they shook the both of them as hard as they could both neither of them awoke.
"This is bad." Sierra said. "They aren't dead but something bad definitely happened."
"Sierra look at the books they were reading!" Jimena held up the book 'Deadly Curses'.
"Do you think their curse is deadly?" Sierra asked trembling.
"I don't know, but look at this book." This time Jimena held up the book 'Curses of the Protected.'
"I bet they found something out that they could do with the curse, decided to try it and put the selves into unconsciousness!" Sierra said jumping to conclusions. (A/N did you know before I wrote this story I never would have been able to spell unconsciousness but now I can!)
"That could be true, but I think we should get Professor Dumbledore to help with this, but first let's separate these two."
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James had just been standing there for a long time will Lily felt something pulling at her. "James, what's happening?!" She shrieked and she felt herself getting pulled away from him.
*~*~*~*~*
Jimena and Sierra tried very hard to separate the two, but James and Lily seemed to become conscious enough that they wouldn't let each other go. "Oh well, Dumbledore won't think anything of it if they are like that, will he?" Sierra asked giving up.
"Probably not, but if he does who cares, we got to help these two, let's go quickly." The two girls ran off to get Professor Dumbledore.
*~*~*~*~*
James and Lily after that 'close call' held onto each other tightly. When you are trapped in a place so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face, you get a little scared.
"James." Lily's voice came out muffled since her face was buried in his chest. "I want to go back to Hogwarts."
"Me too Lils, but we're just going to have to wait for someone to save us, or until something happens that gets us out of here." James said, as reassuringly as he could.
"James, did we fall asleep even? I can't remember."
"I think so, I remember reading and then deciding to rest my eyes for a moment…I must have fallen asleep."
"That happened to me too."
*~*~*~*~*
Sirius, Remus, and Peter crept down from the boys dormitories, when they woke up and found their friend missing. The spotted him with his arms practically crushing a red head, by the name of Lily Evans.
"Well, that's something I wouldn't have expected after what happened." Remus said with a whistle.
"Let's wake them up before some one sees them." Sirius instructed the other two.
The three of them tried to wake the two of them up, just as Sierra and Jimena had, and also failed. Then they too noticed the books scattered over the area, and got worried for their friends.
"What do we do? I'd bet a 100 galleons this has something to do with their curse." Sirius said figuring it out.
"So what do we do now?" Remus asked. "Go to Dumbledore?"
"Yeah quick, should we leave them like that?" Sirius asked noticing just how close the two of them were, and how bad it would look if someone saw them like that. "Lily would be pissed if someone saw her like that, the rumors would go crazy."
After a few minutes of hard tugging, they managed to pull them apart, something Jimena and Sierra had been unable to do. And they were all very shocked when Lily let out a scream. Then James' hand shot out and pulled her back onto the couch.
It was, needless to say, a very weird sight.
*~*~*~*~*
"Lily, that was too close!" James said gasping for air; he'd gotten a little bit too panicked.
"Yes, what the hell is going on? I can almost feel hands on my arms pulling me away from you!"
"Maybe someone IS pulling you away." James said in a frightening way.
"James that creeps me out a bit too much." Lily said with a shiver.
*~*~*~*~*
"Do you think they realize what's going on?" Sirius asked, after watching the incident.
"They have to, there's no way to explain it!" Remus muttered.
"Should we try it again?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, this time as soon as we get Lily away from him, run from him carrying her with you, it'll be quite a show to watch him run for her with his eyes closed." Remus said, it might've been a joke, but under the situation it wasn't.
"Come on Pete give us a hand!" Sirius said, as they tugged on Lily once more.
*~*~*~*~*
"James! JAMES!" Lily cried out, not knowing that James wasn't the only one to hear her screams. "HELP!"
James looked frantically around for her, but he couldn't see her, and couldn't hear her anymore, he was all alone.
*~*~*~*~*
Sirius and Remus were even more shocked when Lily was on the other side of the room from James, and she started sobbing.
"What do we do now?!" Peter asked not liking the way Lily looked; she wasn't responding to them, she seemed to be someplace else.
"Lily seems really scared; I think we should get her back to James." Sirius asked feeling bad for his friend.
"I agree."
*~*~*~*~*
James didn't know what to do, Lily disappeared and he didn't know how to get her back, just when James was about to go into despair, he heard Lily's sobbing and then he found her back in his arms.
"Lily?!"
"Oh, James, I thought I'd lost you!"
"I thought I'd lost you too."
The two scared teenagers sat their hanging onto each other for dear life, not knowing what was going to happen next.
*~*~*~*~*
When Sirius, Remus and Peter were just coming out of the portrait hole they were shocked to find themselves facing the head mast and Sierra and Jimena who apparently had gotten him.
Dumbledore headed straight for Lily and James, as Remus told him what had happened when they'd separated them.
"This is a very odd case indeed, unfortunately," Dumbledore said after examining them for a few moments. "We can't do a thing, it's up to them, they are in another world, I'm not for sure how they got there, but they are, and the world they are in is a dark and scary one. The only thing I know for sure is that they are together, I know this, from that fact that they are holding onto each other as if they might fall. Miss Evans seems to have some scratches on her arms, from the struggle even."
"So what do we do with them?" Sierra asked, she and Jimena looked like they might cry at any moment.
"I'll take them to the Hospital Wing; you five stay here and continue with your day." He gave them a weak smile and left with Lily and James, on the same stretcher.
"What if they never wake up?" Sierra cried, and she started sobbing, and surprisingly Sirius held her up. Jimena tried to be strong, but it was hard, and she too found her self crying, and Remus, being the good guy that he is, went and gave her a hug. (A/N hint hint!)
Peter, sat there lost in his own thoughts about the situation, since he had no one to hold onto. (A/N ha! Ha! Serves him right!)
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James were still off in the other world and hadn't been talking, but simply standing, holding onto each other. The silence was ever present until Lily finally spoke up.
"James, do you think we're dead?"
"I'm honestly not sure. I don't think so."
"Do you think this is a side effect to the curse?"
"Yes that I am sure of. I wasn't sure at first but now I think it is. We have to be here for a reason, but I don't know what yet."
"James, do you think we're going to die here?"
"You ask a lot of questions, did you know that?"
"Yes." Lily answered. "Now answer my question."
"If it keeps up like this, we probably will die."
"Well, then the curse fails, so would that still mean this is a side effect of the curse?" Lily pondered her own question.
"Lily, you just managed to confuse me a lot."
"Sorry." Lily and James continued to talk about their predicament and then the questions they had mulled over the night before came up.
"James, don't laugh when I say this or anything but… If I had to choose any one to bear their heir, I'd choose you."
Lily felt James tense up at what she said, and Lily was glad for the darkness, because she knew if James could see her face would be as red as her hair.
"Lily-." James finally choked out. "Do you mean that? Considering the fact that you take in what it means, you know what you have to do and everything…" James' voice trailed off, feeling embarrassed.
"I mean it James."
"Well, I'm glad that you did." With that James pulled her closer, and kissed her forehead.
Then the darkness turned to light and the two of them woke up in the Hospital Wing.
*~*~*~*~*
"James? Where are we? What happened? Last thing I remember was being in the common room looking at a book. Then I wake up here!"
"That's all I can remember too…" James said waking up. Just then Professor Dumbledore came in the room.
"Ah, good to see you two awake, we were getting awfully worried, we meaning me and your friends; I'll have to tell them you are awake." Noticing the puzzled looks on their faces "You two have been unconscious for quite a few hours. May I ask what happened while you were gone?"
*~*~*~*~*
(A/N finished with that chapter, I was quite disappointed when I didn't get any reviews from the last chapter, but I'm having too much fun writing to stop now!! PLEASE REVIEW!!)
*~Sierra~*
*~*~*~*~*
CHAPTER 13
Lily was a bit worried about going to the train station, as soon as she got there, she purposely lost the Marauders, so Jimena, and Sierra wouldn't say anything about it.
"Jim! Sierra!" Lily squealed happily and hugged her friends.
"Lils, how was your summer!?! Mine was great!" Sierra said stepping onto the train.
"Mine too, except for the Quidditch freaks, it was good." Lily said grinning. "How was yours Jimena?"
"Well, Sierra and I went up to Italy together with her Mum that was a ton of fun!"
"I wish you guys would have invited me!" Lily said pretending to pout. Sierra made a face.
"We did, but you were off somewhere or something according to Mindy."
"Oh, sorry, it was nothing." Lily said and changed the subject quickly. "Excited about fifth year? I made prefect, so did James." Her two friends congratulated, and they found a compartment for themselves.
"So Lily I hope you nothing happens to us on THIS train ride." Jimena sighed looking out the window.
"Thanks for reminding me, stupid!" Lily said sarcastically.
"Sorry." Jimena cringed, "I didn't mean to bring up anything too bad."
"Hey, guys, do you find it weird that the nightmares started on that same day?" Sierra asked as if she were catching on to something.
"Hey, I never noticed that, do you think it has something to do with Lily's curse?" Jimena asked, Lily desperately wanted to tell her friends about what she and James had talked about. 'But if I told them, I'd have to tell them why, and I promised.'
"It could guys, I'm going to finally do some research on it this year, Dumbledore hasn't brought up any new information so, I decided to do it myself." Lily left out the part about researching with James.
"Whatever information you find out you should probably tell James." Sierra said absent mindedly.
"Yeah, I guess I will." Lily tried to hide her smile. She and James had already planned a time to study, with out the other Marauders. Suddenly some one came into their compartment.
"Hey Lily, you want to come to the Prefect compartment?" It was a sixth year prefect.
"No, I'm going to stay here with my friends thanks anyways." The prefect left.
Nothing much eventful happened, except the much expected prank on Snape or Severus as Lily had started to call him, since he was being so friendly. And unless you count a visit from Snape eventful, that was it.
Lily and her friends had been talking excitedly about school, when into the room came Severus Snape. Jimena wrinkled her nose, but didn't say anything. Sierra on the other hand smiled knowingly at Lily, and tried not to laugh.
"Hello, Lily." Snape said, trying to smile.
"Hello, Severus." Lily said, also trying to smile, she still didn't like him, but was decent enough to be friendly.
"I see you made prefect, so did I." 'Bragger.' Lily thought.
"Yes, I came out at the top of the year; James Potter was right behind me in grades." Lily smirked. 'Two can play at this game.' Snape seemed to sense this too.
"This summer I spent with my parents at our summer home, what did you do?" Lily wasn't the least perturbed at the fact that her parents were dead.
"I spent most of it, at the Ewing mansion, working on my Quidditch skills." Lily said this knowing that Snape was very jealous of the Gryffindor team, for beating them once again, for the Quidditch Cup.
"I heard from a source that you spent the last few weeks at the Black Manor." Snape smirked, 'what is he getting at!?' Lily thought angrily.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I was at Mindy's home the entire time." Lily was seriously hoping Mindy had kept her mouth shut about her visit to Sirius' house. "Sirius and I are barely what you would call friends."
Snape glared, he knew she was lying. "Well, then maybe I was mistaken and you were at Potter's house, not Black's but I was sure I saw you with one of them, but seeming how they look some much I might have been wrong." Lily saw something in his eyes when he said this, 'Jealousy? No way, Snape didn't really like he; did he?'
"I guess you were mistaken then." Lily said getting angry at his badgering her.
"I apologize then. I didn't mean to upset you. Excuse me, I'm off to the prefect compartment." Snape said leaving. "Goodbye Lily."
"Bye Severus." Lily said and he shut the door. "Thank God."
Sierra couldn't hold it in anymore, she burst out with giggles. Jimena tried to keep her composure, but failed and started laughing uncontrollably.
"I don't see what's so funny." Lily stated, still a bit mad.
"You didn't see it from *gasp* our point of view." Sierra said falling to the floor laughing.
"Yeah, Lils you should have seen yourself, talking DECENTLY with Snape!" Jimena said tears forming in her eyes. "Then how you argued so properly…"
"It's not funny; I don't know what you're talking about!" Lily huffed.
The rest of the train ride was spent, with a very angry Lily, and two laughing girls, who just couldn't believe Snape STILL liked Lily.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily collapsed on her bed, very happy to be back at Hogwarts. She took in the smell of her pillow. "The smell of Hogwarts." She said her voice muffled.
"It's GREAT to be back!" Jimena said jumping on her bed.
Sierra mumbled something, but nobody heard it, then Sierra was asleep, and the rest of the dorm followed suit.
*~*~*~*~*
The first week flew by, and she and James that Friday had their first meeting to look up information on the curse, right after studying with the Marauders, for becoming Animagi.
"So James, which books do we look in?" Lily asked as they got to the Library.
"How about the curses and counter curses section?" James suggested.
"Good idea that seems like the obvious choice." Lily said and they headed over to that section of the library, picking up any sort of book that might have information in it.
They quickly took a table that would hide them from view, just in case some of their friends came in. They didn't want their friends, in their business.
"Hey, look at this it's a curse that makes you sound like a donkey whenever someone says the word, 'ass'!" James exclaimed laughing. Lily couldn't help but laugh too, 'what is that book doing in the library!' she thought.
"What are you going to do with that?" She asked when she saw him taking notes on it.
"I'm going to use it on Snape." Lily rolled her eyes, but more or less she knew she was going to enjoy watching Snape or hearing him talk like an ass. Literally.
"Well, don't spend too much time on it; we have enough on our hands as it is." That was quite true, the two of them had a lot of work they worked on the curse, Animagi, and their school work, it was a bit of a headache.
"Yes Mother." James said and grinned at Lily when she glared at him. 'Cute smile.' Lily thought. 'What the hell was that?!' Lily couldn't believe she'd thought that about James, she hadn't thought about him being cute for a long time, she couldn't let herself like him.
"I'm not your Mother!" Lily said half heartedly, she wasn't in the mood for an argument, although they hadn't fought for a long time.
"Yes, thank God!" Lily glared. "Let's keep working." He said changing the subject, so they took notes for the next few hours, on anything that could help them. But they didn't manage to find anything about the curse they wanted to read about.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James continued to learn more and more about curses, but weren't getting much out of it except becoming better friends, and being prepared by knowing the counter curse to the 'ass' curse.
A few weeks later Lily got to see the curse put into action at the Great Hall at lunch.
Sirius purposely bumped into Snape, and James came up behind him and said the curse then made a run for it. Sirius checked to see if the curse worked by saying.
"I have to get to class or McGonagall will have me 'ass' in detention."
Snape tried to respond, but it came out "hee haw!" (A/N is that how a donkey sounds?)
Everyone burst out laughing, but surprisingly enough the only thing Snape did was turn red. Lily noticed that he was looking right at her, but she couldn't help but laugh.
The Marauders, laughing the hardest, since it was their prank. All day long poor Snape found out just how often the word 'ass' was used in school. Which is quite a lot, considering the Marauders were constantly using it, just to hear him talk like a donkey some more.
At dinner, she and James took the time to walk by the Slytherin table and stage a conversation.
"So James, how was that essay going for Charms?" Lily asked, trying not to laugh.
"Not very well, it's been giving me a real pain in the ASS." James said, and they immediately heard some donkey noises from the Slytherin who was right behind them.
Snape stood up and started yelling at them in 'donkey' which only made the two of them burst into laughter, Lily collapsed onto James holding on to him so she didn't fall. Lily was to busy laughing to notice the look Snape was giving them and as James dragged Lily back to the Gryffindor table so they didn't get into trouble.
*~*~*~*~*
Later that evening Lily was on her way to meet the Marauders in the 'hideaway' to work on becoming Animagi. When she over heard two boys talking, one of them sounded very familiar.
"Stupid Potter, he gets everything, just because he's in ******* Gryffindor." Someone grumbled. (A/N substitute the letters anyway you want, I can't type it with out getting into trouble.)
"Get over her man, she just stupid mudblood anyways." Another voice said, his voice filled with resentment towards muggle borns. Lily stopped herself from cursing them.
"I know, but I can't help it, please all I need is for you to supervise the transformation okay?"
"All right, but only because you're my friend. Have you got the last ingredient?"
"Yeah, yesterday-." Lily hated to stop listening, but they were about to come around the corner where she was. She took off down the corridor and ran into the hideaway, behind the portrait of the guy getting his head cut off.
Lily entered the room and collapsed on the bed out breath, the Marauders just stared at her. Lily decided to tell James about what she over heard.
"James, I have to tell you something." She said regaining her breath. Lily continued to explain what had happened. When she finished James looked like he was deep in thought. "So who do you think it was, and what are they planning to do, did anything big happen yesterday?"
"Not that I can think of… Wonder what they mean by transforming, do you think someone else is trying to become an Animagus? And what girl are they talking about?" James said.
"Obviously a muggle born…" Sirius said, and soon all eyes were on Lily.
"Do you think who ever it is likes Lily, but thinks James has her or something?" Remus asked thoughtfully.
"WHY on earth would they think that!?" Lily shrieked, and glared at James.
"Hey, I haven't said anything! Don't blame this on me!" James said holding his hands up and backing away from Lily.
"Well, somebody must have seen us studying or something, or sneaking around and thought we were an item." Lily shrugged, off the thought that James might be telling people that they were together, or maybe that he likes her. Lily couldn't let that happen, she's going to have to start being mean to him.
"Maybe so, but why were you two sneaking around?" Sirius asked getting a mysterious glint in his eyes.
"Don't even THINK that Sirius Black!" Lily snapped at him. "If you James and me sneak around so we don't get caught on our way to study here!" It was more or less a lie, but what did it matter.
"Sure Lils, sure." Remus said laughing, before Lily could get to him James gave him a friendly punch, but all the same it got Remus unbalanced.
"So are we going to work or not? Let's just forget about what those guys said." Peter piped up.
"Pete's right, we should get working on this, so we can try it out over Christmas break!" Sirius said and picked up a book and started taking notes right there, the others followed suit.
Soon everyone's minds were filled with complicated charms, and potions equations, and the discussion over heard, was forgotten, which was not a good thing at all.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily awoke up late one Friday morning, and rushed into potions just in time, the Professor was new this year and just so happened to be another Slytherin lover. So Lily took the only free seat in the room, next to Severus Snape.
No one in the room couldn't help but notice the way Snape acted when he was around Lily, all nice and friendly, and staring at her. Lily didn't like it, to say the least. The only good thing that came from it was Snape was an expert at potions, and understood everything quite well, so Lily managed to get done early, with his help. With fifteen minutes left in class, Lily turned around in her seat to talk to the Marauders, since Jimena and Sierra were across the room from her.
"James!" Lily whispered.
"Hm?" He said as he dumped in the Quadleisa drops.
"Are we meeting tonight?"
"Oh, yeah same time same place." He said with a famous Potter grin.
"Okay then, see you there."
Lily turned back around after getting a glare from the Professor. She immediately noticed how angry Snape looked. She decided not to say anything to him, afraid of setting him off, and when you have a shrinking potion around, you don't want to do that.
After class apparently Snape cooled down and ran off to talk to Malfoy about something. Lily heard only a bit of their conversation.
"Lucius, meet me tonight before dinner."
"Tonight?! Well, I guess so, I hope you know what you're doing."
Lily skipped off wondering if Snape and Lucius turned gay.
*~*~*~*~*
Charms that after noon wasn't very exciting, although Lily had a lot of fun with the new summoning charm, and she wasn't the only one.
Peter accidentally summoned the book on the bottom of the stack Professor Flitwick stands on.
The rest of the Marauders used this time to summon the quills of everyone in the class room, for no apparent reason at all.
This automatically put the class in panic, since the quills were flying everywhere, and a lot of ink was spilt, and several detentions were handed out.
Lily, Jimena, and Sierra managed to get out of the mess with out too much trouble, professor Flitwick let class out early, since everyone was covered in ink and needed to change.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily was up in her dorm before dinner with Sierra, Jimena putting their books away, when decided to tell them something.
"Jimena, Sierra I need to tell you something important."
"Good, so do I." Jimena said.
"Me too." Sierra added, and they all sat on Lily's bed.
"Okay, when I tell you this, promise not to get mad, okay?" Lily asked, 'oh my gosh I'm really going to tell them!' Lily thought.
"As long as you don't get mad at me when I tell you mine." Jimena said nervously.
"Guys this is weird, but don't get mad at me either." Sierra said apprehensively.
"All right, I secretly since last year, have been friends with the Marauders, but I don't like any of them so it's okay, but don't be mad at me for lying okay?" Lily said very quickly. Her two friends were shocked, but not in the way Lily had expected.
"Me too!" Sierra and Jimena said at the same time, and then the three of them looked at each other and laughed.
"Wow, you two are better at keeping secrets then I thought!" Lily exclaimed.
"I started hanging around with them doing pranks at stuff whenever you two were off somewhere!" Jimena said.
"Same here, I got bored one day, and they invited me to go play pranks, but I told them not to tell you guys."
"Me too that's exactly what happened to me, and I just couldn't resist their puppy dog faces." Jimena said laughing.
Lily looked at her friends they were so much a like it was scary.
"We are so much a like it scares me!" Sierra giggled.
"Oh my God I was just thinking that!" Lily screeched.
"Wow that's weird!" Jimena said, "So was I!"
Although Lily didn't tell them the whole story; at least now she could hang out with the Marauders and not feel guilty anymore, but that didn't mean she could stop lying too.
"Come on guys let's go down to dinner, I'm starving!" Jimena said getting up and walking to the door.
"Me too." Sierra and Lily said at them same time, making them all laugh.
*~*~*~*~*
After dinner, Lily was on her way to meet the Marauders; they were getting much closer to finishing the work. Lily was quite pleased at the amount of work they'd gotten done.
Lily started thinking about how cool it would be when they got done with it, that she took a wrong turn through the hallway, and ended up running into James.
"Oh hey James, what's up?" She asked, wondering what he was doing here, so close to the Slytherin common room. (A/N yes Lily knows where it is.)
"Oh I was looking for you." He said, James had a weird look of on his face that scared Lily.
"Really? How'd you know I took a wrong turn?"
James just shrugged, he looked nervous, was Lily about to be in a life or death situation? Lily was about to ask him, when he did something she didn't expect, at all.
He grabbed her by the arms, and pushed her into a class room, shut the door behind them and started kissing her. Lily's eyes got really wide and she tried to push him away, but he wouldn't let go, he only stepped closer. Lily tried harder to push him away, and when he still didn't stop Lily reached for her wand, but found it was missing. 'Where'd it go? When ever I need it, I don't have it!' Lily thought urgently, Lily was getting really scared by then and didn't know what to do.
James held Lily by her arms, and pushed her against the wall, and finally Lily did the only thing she could think of, she screamed.
It was a bit muffled, but it scared James enough to take his tongue from her mouth. (A/N EWW! Lol!)
"James what is wrong with you let me go!" Lily shrieked.
"What, you don't like it?" He smirked.
"Of course not! I don't even like you! I didn't even know you liked me! Now let go of me, right now or I'm going to scream again." When James didn't do anything Lily took a deep breath, but then James finally let go of her, and Lily took off running, and finally let the tears fall.
'That is one of the most confusing things that's ever happened to me!' She thought, Lily stopped for a moment to catch her breath and figure out where to go.
She decided to go back to her dorm, where she could cry all she wanted, and not feel stupid, but then she would have to answer her friends' questions, and Lily really didn't want to talk about it.
But at that moment, the dorm seemed the safest place, so Lily trudged up to the Gryffindor tower.
When she walked into the common room, she ran as fast as she could to her dorm before anyone noticed she was crying. When she got up to her dorm and safely closed the door, she went and rinsed out her mouth, it wasn't a bad taste or anything, she just didn't like the feeling of being exploited.
Lily laid on her bed, and couldn't sleep because it was so early, so instead she laid awake thinking about James, and what the hell had just happened. James hadn't shown any signs of liking her, well none that she had noticed. Lily couldn't come up with a good explanation for her problem.
Lily stayed like that for a half hour until she heard a knock on the door.
"Come in." She said groggily.
"Hey Lils, we were wondering where you were, normally you don't ditch-." The voice was Sirius and he was accompanied by the rest of the Marauders, including James, to Lily's dislike, and he had just noticed Lily had been crying.
Lily glared daggers at James, who looked totally clueless, about the situation.
"Lils what's wrong?" Remus asked sitting on her bed, Lily took a moment to think should she get angry or cry? Lily thought it would be better to get angry.
"WHY don't you ask your stupid, pompous, nasty, sick, and perverted, friend?! Lily screamed and pointed at James, who was so shocked he fell over backwards.
All eyes went on James. "I didn't do anything!" He said standing up.
"I can't believe you! You have no right to touch me in anyway ever again, not that I ever gave you permission in the first place!!" Lily screamed.
James was still shocked and was thinking of something to say, while Sirius, Remus and Peter all stared at him. Remus was noticeably getting angry at him.
"James, what the HELL did you do!?" He said, raising his voice.
"NOTHING!! I don't know what she's talking about! Lily would you please tell me what I did wrong, because I surely don't know!" James shouted, every one turned to Lily.
"Fine. You're so stubborn, since someone needs to tell your friends what kind of scum bag you are!" Lily proceeded to tell them all what happened, and James was getting more and more glares as the story went on, but James himself was looking more and more disgusted. She finished off saying "James you can protect me from so many things, but you can't protect me from yourself!"
James spoke first. "Lily I swear it wasn't me! I wasn't even over there; I was on my way to the hideaway! I can't prove it, all I can do is tell you that it wasn't me, no matter how hard it is for you to believe me, but you have to! It wasn't ME, I don't know what the hell is going on, but it wasn't me!" James pleaded, Lily looked into his eyes, they were sincere, and she wanted to believe him.
"James, no matter how much I want to believe you, I can't, unless you guys can give me a reasonable explanation for however else James 'wasn't' there, I'm NEVER speaking to you again!" Lily said this last part and started to sob, and Remus held onto her.
(A/N James narration.)
James looked at Lily in Remus' arms, and felt terrible, he knew Lily wasn't going to believe him, if he'd been her, he'd wouldn't have believed himself either. How was he going to prove to Lily that he didn't do it? He had no proof, though, and it left him in deep despair. But he knew he was going to have to prove himself innocent. Lily was too good a friend to let go so easily.
With that James stormed out of the room, and headed straight to the library, and went straight to the librarian Madam Zinckier, something he hadn't done in a long time.
"Madam Zinckier, I was wondering if you could tell me where I might find books on people changing into different people, or if you knew how they did it?" James asked, trying to hide the panic in his voice.
"Try the potions section dear." She said smiling at him.
James ran over to the potions section and found the perfect book he needed. "Transforming Potions and What they Do." James grabbed the book, and sat down at a table searching through it, and that's where the Marauders found him.
James immediately didn't like the looks on their faces; they were easy to read 'pissed off'. James knew he was probably going to get hurt, if he didn't find out what had happened, right then. The Marauders, especially Remus, had become quite over protective of Lily, but the strange thing was, no one was more protective over her then James, and now look where he'd ended up.
As James hurried through the lists of names, James kept thinking about something Lily had said. "James you can protect me from so many things, but you can't protect me from yourself!" The words had stung. They had a lot of truth in them, James could always end up hurting Lily, he didn't want to, but he could always end up hurting her, or maybe even accidentally killing her. The thought made James sick.
James' thoughts were interrupted, by Remus, Sirius and Peter sitting down at his table. Just then his eye caught something that looked familiar. "Polyjuice potion." He said aloud with a smile.
"James, we need to talk-." Sirius started to say, but James stopped him.
"I figured it out! Some one must have made a polyjuice potion to turn into me, so they could make out with Lily, obviously thinking that she likes me!"
Sirius and Remus looked at him and knew what he was talking about, Peter looked confused.
"Someone, I don't know who, probably that person Lily heard talking, obviously really likes Lily, and wanted her SO bad they had to impersonate me to get to her, but it didn't work!" James said proud that he'd figured it out so quickly.
"James I'm so sorry for thinking you did that!" Remus apologized.
"Me too James, I should have believed-." Sirius started to say, once again James stopped him.
"Its okay guys, now all we have to do is get LILY to believe me, and then it will all be okay."
"James, I don't know if it's going to be that easy, first you're going to have to figure out who did it, and MAYBE even have them confess that they did it, before she will fully believe you, otherwise there will always be doubt." Remus said.
"Still, at least tell her what I just found out, maybe she'll believe me." James said hopefully.
"We'll try James, but don't get your hopes up, okay?" Sirius told him.
"All right, but first let's think about this, who likes Lily?" James asked in frustration, so many guys liked Lily; it was going to be tough.
"And they have to be good at potions." Remus said and as soon as the words came out of his mouth they knew who it was.
"I'll kill him!" James shouted.
"Erm, James, calm down a bit, I know your mad, but be reasonable!" Remus tried.
"It's HIM I know it is, he pulled out my hair in that fight we had a while back!" James grunted, getting even angrier, he did NOT like to be impersonated.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily didn't tell Jimena and Sierra about what happened, since there was a lot of doubt in whether he did it or not, Remus had told her their theory, but didn't say who they thought it was, but Lily had a feeling they knew who it was.
Lily was sitting at breakfast on Saturday morning, feeling very tired, since she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. When someone who was very unwanted at the moment came up behind her.
Lily looked up at Snape and was about to say something to him, when from out of no where came a very angry James Potter came up behind him and dragged him away, that's when Lily knew that it had been Snape who made the Polyjuice potion and impersonated James. Lily wanted to go apologize to James right then and there.
Lily got out of her seat and ran towards where James had taken Snape, which was outside the castle, onto the grounds.
She found James yelling his head off at Snape.
"IF YOU WANT HER TO LIKE YOU, YOU ARE DEFINITELY GOING ABOUT IT THE WRONG WAY!!" HE screamed at Snape.
"How would you know the right way of going about it, if you yourself don't even have her?" Snape replied coolly.
"I could have her if I wanted to!" James said, and then his face turned even redder when he saw the Lily was watching. "Hi Lily." He said then his face calmed considerably, and in a few strides he was right in front of Lily.
James got a wicked smile on his face, and looked tensely into Lily's eyes, Lily all of sudden felt her legs getting weaker. 'Is James going to kiss me?!' She thought, she half wanted to, half didn't want him to. Before she could ponder it anymore, James closed the hole between them and kissed her square on the mouth.
"See Snape, I could have her." He said, and then kissed Lily again, she all the while in quite a state of shock, he didn't let go of her until Snape had left. He pulled away from her, and they both gasped for air.
"James-." Lily started to say.
"So sorry about that Lily, but I just got really pissed at him, he was the one who did he Polyjuice potion Lily, it was him."
"I know James, but honestly you need to think before you do these crazy things." She said laughing a bit.
"Yeah, I know." He said blushing insanely. James Potter didn't blush often and it was quite a cute thing, Lily thought. Then Lily remembered something that had been pushed from her mind while kissing James. Lily couldn't love anyone or even get involved with anyone, because she couldn't risk them getting hurt, and especially with James, since he was suppose to protect her. Not to mention the fact that he had dated one of her best friends.
It just couldn't happen, there were too many things keeping them apart.
"Well, let's get back to breakfast, or people will start wondering." Lily said, and the two of them seemed to have a silent agreement to forget about the kiss.
"Yeah, let's go." James said a little sadly. "Are we meeting tonight to work on the curse thingy?"
"Yeah, sure I hope we find something, this is getting pointless!"
"I was thinking, since we haven't checked everywhere in the library-."
"James I think we are quite close to having the whole entire library's books on curses searched."
"As I was saying, I was thinking since we haven't checked everywhere in the library, like the restricted section, I think we should do that." James said grinning.
"James, how are we going to do that?"
"My invisibility cloak." He said and laughed at her shocked expression. "If you want I'll go by myself!?
"You think I'm going to let you go alone!? Well you're wrong, I'm going! We'll get it tonight!" Lily said, and it was settled.
"What happened to Miss Perfect Prefect?" James asked smiling.
"She met Mister Potter the Prefect." She said making James blush.
(A/N aw!! I should tell you guys, that kiss was totally unexpected! Even by me! I was shocked that it came into my plot, but oh well it shows that they are starting to have feelings toward each other.)
The two went back to breakfast where Sirius, Remus, Peter, Jimena and Sierra joined them.
"James-y boy what happened out there?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing much, just got Snape back good." James said smiling at Lily, who turned slightly pink.
"You'll have to tell me sometime!" Remus said patting his friend on the back.
"Maybe sometime Remus, I will."
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James found themselves in the invisibility cloak, quietly heading toward the library, late that night. They entered the library as quietly as they could, and headed straight for the restricted section. The entire time they were under the cloak Lily tried not to pay attention to how close they were.
The two stepped out from under the cloak and whispered "lumos!" And searched for books that could help them. They picked up five books, with the following titles.
'Ancient Curses'
'Curses Casted at Birth'
'Curses of the Protected'
'Deadly Curses' (Just in case)
'Latin Translations for Curses'
Lily and James couldn't believe Dumbledore hadn't told them about these books, something just had to be in these books that would give them information. They headed up to the Common room, this time much slower since they were carrying some very heavy books.
Even though it was late enough already, Lily and James decided to look though the books right then, that's how excited they were about it.
Lily picked up 'Curses of the Protected' and James started reading 'Ancient Curses'.
Lily was reading through her book and found out something that made her want to scream with joy, it had an entire chapter about a curse that sounded exactly like her's.
"James look at this, I think this is it!" Lily sat next to James and the both leaned over and read the chapter together.
'The Protectus Humanicus curse also known as the feneaium gliseum persontis curse. (A/N just made up all that stuff.) Is a powerful curse placed upon two people which causes one of them to risk their life to save the other, this curse is normally used when a divinator predicts a terrible or important future of the person being protected. There have been only certain types of cases in the past, one of them was between Godric Gryffindor (one of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) and his wife and some believe soul mate, the Lady Catalina. Lady Catalina was put under the curse because of her fate to produce the heir of Gryffindor, and this started the cycle of Gryffindors' soul mates being cursed to protect their 'soul mate' with their own life, thus keeping the Gryffindor blood alive. This must be because Gryffindor's are often murdered by the heir of Salazar Slytherin, Godric's mortal enemy. So the bearer of the hair must be protected at all costs. Even though quite frequently the two of them are both killed anyway. Sadly, whenever the two cursed people fall in love they are always killed.
Another famous curse was put upon a peasant and a king who ended up being lovers, and the peasant ended up saving the king's country from being destroyed, by using her love for the king…'
Lily looked up from reading and noticed that James' eyes were popping out of his head.
"James? Do you have something to say? Because you either are in complete shock or know something that I don't and this is a lot worse then I thought." Lily asked him, he looked up at her, and pushed his glasses up, because they'd been slipping off his nose. Lily couldn't help but think how cute it was.
"Lily, there's something I haven't told you about myself that nobody knows about, but it's your right to know." Lily looked into James' eyes and saw the seriousness in them that gave her a bit of fright.
"What is it James?" Lily asked encouragingly.
"Lily, you know how in the book it talks about how the bearer of Gryffindor's heir is always cursed? Well, that's your curse that's OUR curse." James said looking at her for a reaction.
"How is that possible? You'd have to be-."
"The true heir of Godric Gryffindor." James said with a bit of sullenness. "I suppose my parents are under the curse too, I remember hearing stories of my dad saving my mum and stuff, but I thought they were just…Stories, I didn't think much of them, but I guess they were true after all, I'm surprised my parents didn't tell me about this! This also means that-."
"James don't even go there." Lily said with finality. "I don't want my life already planned for me; I will decide whose heir I produce on my own, thank you very much!" Plus Lily had other thoughts in her head about the problem. If she married James, that meant he would die, and since Lily had just read in the book that Gryffindor's heirs are always murdered, it seemed very likely to come true. "James how do you know for sure that your Gryffindor's heir?"
"There are so many things that have been done to prove this, the list is endless, my family tree was traced back…Really far, and that's how we found it out. My Grandparents were the first to find out in a few hundred years, since the Gryffindors had been hiding from Slytherins heirs, who are basically out to get us. Do you know who the last living Slytherin heir is at this moment Lily? I found out this summer, and it shocked me to death. Voldemort, Lily, Voldemort, He-Who-Should-not-be-named he's the heir who's out to kill me and my family!"
"James don't talk like that!" Lily said frustrated. "I don't want you to die-."
"Lily don't look at me like that!" James ordered.
"Like what?!" Lily said perplexed.
"Like you care for me, I can't stand it! We can't have feelings for each other Lily, do you understand that?"
"Of course James, I've known the whole time, I've know for a year that I couldn't have feelings for anyone."
James looked at Lily contemplating what she had just said. "What are you talking about?"
"My nightmares James, have you ever wondered why, Jimena, Sierra and me stopped talking to you guys in fourth year?" So then Lily told James everything, about the nightmares she'd had and Jimena and Sierra had had, and she told him about the break into her room, and the glowing green gem.
When she finished James' eyes bulged out of his head in shock. "Lily, that information was quite useful; too bad you didn't tell me sooner."
"Sorry, but I didn't know about all this…stuff, I didn't know I was destined to…be with…you." Lily said quietly.
"Lily, I think you and me are going to have to stop."
"Stop what?" Lily asked puzzled.
"Being friends, stop talking, stop whatever we need to so you don't die!" James was quite flustered looking as he said this.
"Or so you don't die." Lily told him.
"Yeah, but your more important."
"James, are you sure that's not the curse talking?" She asked with a smirk.
"I don't know what it is exactly, but there's something inside me that makes me put you first in line." James was getting really tense, and had started pacing the room. The book lay forgotten on the floor.
"James, maybe we should read up on this before we blow it all out of proportion." Lily suggested.
"Yeah, your probably right, let's read some more." James and Lily sat back down on the couch and continued to read until they both fell asleep.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up to find herself in a dark place, and she couldn't see anything, she started to wander around looking for a way out, but it was too dark to see anything. The place seemed like a dungeon, by the smell and the dampness.
"Lily." Some one called her, someone she knew.
"James?!" She yelped, looking wildly around for him.
"Lily? Where are you, this place is weird." Lily felt James bump into her and she grabbed hold of his hand.
"Is this a dream? It feels so real." Lily could only feel James tense up.
"I hope to God this is a dream, other wise I think we're done for."
"If this is a dream I want to wake up."
"Pinch me Lily."
"What?"
"Pinch me, that way I'll know if I'm dreaming or not…Ow! Lily that hurt!"
"Damn this means it's not a dream." Lily grumbled.
"How're we going to get out of this place then?" James asked, and pulled Lily into some direction.
"How am I supposed to know?"
"Good point."
All of a sudden Lily felt herself falling. "James I'm falling! Do you feel it?" Lily felt James pulling on her to keep her from falling so obviously, she was the only one falling.
James managed to pull Lily up and he held her close so she didn't fall again.
*~*~*~*~*
Sierra and Jimena came down to the common room, hoping to find Lily and were quite surprised to find her 'cuddling' with James Potter on the couch, surrounded by a few books.
Sierra was a bit worried that Jimena would get jealous but was surprised to hear her laugh.
"Let's wake them up from their sweet dreams!" Jimena said with a wicked grin on her face.
So the two fifth years went up to their friends. "Lily Evans I'm surprised at you!" Jimena said shaking her friend trying to wake her up. Lily didn't stir, they shook the both of them as hard as they could both neither of them awoke.
"This is bad." Sierra said. "They aren't dead but something bad definitely happened."
"Sierra look at the books they were reading!" Jimena held up the book 'Deadly Curses'.
"Do you think their curse is deadly?" Sierra asked trembling.
"I don't know, but look at this book." This time Jimena held up the book 'Curses of the Protected.'
"I bet they found something out that they could do with the curse, decided to try it and put the selves into unconsciousness!" Sierra said jumping to conclusions. (A/N did you know before I wrote this story I never would have been able to spell unconsciousness but now I can!)
"That could be true, but I think we should get Professor Dumbledore to help with this, but first let's separate these two."
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James had just been standing there for a long time will Lily felt something pulling at her. "James, what's happening?!" She shrieked and she felt herself getting pulled away from him.
*~*~*~*~*
Jimena and Sierra tried very hard to separate the two, but James and Lily seemed to become conscious enough that they wouldn't let each other go. "Oh well, Dumbledore won't think anything of it if they are like that, will he?" Sierra asked giving up.
"Probably not, but if he does who cares, we got to help these two, let's go quickly." The two girls ran off to get Professor Dumbledore.
*~*~*~*~*
James and Lily after that 'close call' held onto each other tightly. When you are trapped in a place so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face, you get a little scared.
"James." Lily's voice came out muffled since her face was buried in his chest. "I want to go back to Hogwarts."
"Me too Lils, but we're just going to have to wait for someone to save us, or until something happens that gets us out of here." James said, as reassuringly as he could.
"James, did we fall asleep even? I can't remember."
"I think so, I remember reading and then deciding to rest my eyes for a moment…I must have fallen asleep."
"That happened to me too."
*~*~*~*~*
Sirius, Remus, and Peter crept down from the boys dormitories, when they woke up and found their friend missing. The spotted him with his arms practically crushing a red head, by the name of Lily Evans.
"Well, that's something I wouldn't have expected after what happened." Remus said with a whistle.
"Let's wake them up before some one sees them." Sirius instructed the other two.
The three of them tried to wake the two of them up, just as Sierra and Jimena had, and also failed. Then they too noticed the books scattered over the area, and got worried for their friends.
"What do we do? I'd bet a 100 galleons this has something to do with their curse." Sirius said figuring it out.
"So what do we do now?" Remus asked. "Go to Dumbledore?"
"Yeah quick, should we leave them like that?" Sirius asked noticing just how close the two of them were, and how bad it would look if someone saw them like that. "Lily would be pissed if someone saw her like that, the rumors would go crazy."
After a few minutes of hard tugging, they managed to pull them apart, something Jimena and Sierra had been unable to do. And they were all very shocked when Lily let out a scream. Then James' hand shot out and pulled her back onto the couch.
It was, needless to say, a very weird sight.
*~*~*~*~*
"Lily, that was too close!" James said gasping for air; he'd gotten a little bit too panicked.
"Yes, what the hell is going on? I can almost feel hands on my arms pulling me away from you!"
"Maybe someone IS pulling you away." James said in a frightening way.
"James that creeps me out a bit too much." Lily said with a shiver.
*~*~*~*~*
"Do you think they realize what's going on?" Sirius asked, after watching the incident.
"They have to, there's no way to explain it!" Remus muttered.
"Should we try it again?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, this time as soon as we get Lily away from him, run from him carrying her with you, it'll be quite a show to watch him run for her with his eyes closed." Remus said, it might've been a joke, but under the situation it wasn't.
"Come on Pete give us a hand!" Sirius said, as they tugged on Lily once more.
*~*~*~*~*
"James! JAMES!" Lily cried out, not knowing that James wasn't the only one to hear her screams. "HELP!"
James looked frantically around for her, but he couldn't see her, and couldn't hear her anymore, he was all alone.
*~*~*~*~*
Sirius and Remus were even more shocked when Lily was on the other side of the room from James, and she started sobbing.
"What do we do now?!" Peter asked not liking the way Lily looked; she wasn't responding to them, she seemed to be someplace else.
"Lily seems really scared; I think we should get her back to James." Sirius asked feeling bad for his friend.
"I agree."
*~*~*~*~*
James didn't know what to do, Lily disappeared and he didn't know how to get her back, just when James was about to go into despair, he heard Lily's sobbing and then he found her back in his arms.
"Lily?!"
"Oh, James, I thought I'd lost you!"
"I thought I'd lost you too."
The two scared teenagers sat their hanging onto each other for dear life, not knowing what was going to happen next.
*~*~*~*~*
When Sirius, Remus and Peter were just coming out of the portrait hole they were shocked to find themselves facing the head mast and Sierra and Jimena who apparently had gotten him.
Dumbledore headed straight for Lily and James, as Remus told him what had happened when they'd separated them.
"This is a very odd case indeed, unfortunately," Dumbledore said after examining them for a few moments. "We can't do a thing, it's up to them, they are in another world, I'm not for sure how they got there, but they are, and the world they are in is a dark and scary one. The only thing I know for sure is that they are together, I know this, from that fact that they are holding onto each other as if they might fall. Miss Evans seems to have some scratches on her arms, from the struggle even."
"So what do we do with them?" Sierra asked, she and Jimena looked like they might cry at any moment.
"I'll take them to the Hospital Wing; you five stay here and continue with your day." He gave them a weak smile and left with Lily and James, on the same stretcher.
"What if they never wake up?" Sierra cried, and she started sobbing, and surprisingly Sirius held her up. Jimena tried to be strong, but it was hard, and she too found her self crying, and Remus, being the good guy that he is, went and gave her a hug. (A/N hint hint!)
Peter, sat there lost in his own thoughts about the situation, since he had no one to hold onto. (A/N ha! Ha! Serves him right!)
*~*~*~*~*
Lily and James were still off in the other world and hadn't been talking, but simply standing, holding onto each other. The silence was ever present until Lily finally spoke up.
"James, do you think we're dead?"
"I'm honestly not sure. I don't think so."
"Do you think this is a side effect to the curse?"
"Yes that I am sure of. I wasn't sure at first but now I think it is. We have to be here for a reason, but I don't know what yet."
"James, do you think we're going to die here?"
"You ask a lot of questions, did you know that?"
"Yes." Lily answered. "Now answer my question."
"If it keeps up like this, we probably will die."
"Well, then the curse fails, so would that still mean this is a side effect of the curse?" Lily pondered her own question.
"Lily, you just managed to confuse me a lot."
"Sorry." Lily and James continued to talk about their predicament and then the questions they had mulled over the night before came up.
"James, don't laugh when I say this or anything but… If I had to choose any one to bear their heir, I'd choose you."
Lily felt James tense up at what she said, and Lily was glad for the darkness, because she knew if James could see her face would be as red as her hair.
"Lily-." James finally choked out. "Do you mean that? Considering the fact that you take in what it means, you know what you have to do and everything…" James' voice trailed off, feeling embarrassed.
"I mean it James."
"Well, I'm glad that you did." With that James pulled her closer, and kissed her forehead.
Then the darkness turned to light and the two of them woke up in the Hospital Wing.
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"James? Where are we? What happened? Last thing I remember was being in the common room looking at a book. Then I wake up here!"
"That's all I can remember too…" James said waking up. Just then Professor Dumbledore came in the room.
"Ah, good to see you two awake, we were getting awfully worried, we meaning me and your friends; I'll have to tell them you are awake." Noticing the puzzled looks on their faces "You two have been unconscious for quite a few hours. May I ask what happened while you were gone?"
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(A/N finished with that chapter, I was quite disappointed when I didn't get any reviews from the last chapter, but I'm having too much fun writing to stop now!! PLEASE REVIEW!!)
*~Sierra~*