DISCLAIMER: I don't own the HP characters okay?
A/N um, getting to writing. Holy shit! Twenty chapters!!! OH MY GOD!! 64 REVIEWS!! AHH!! WOW this is A MIRACLE!!! That's 11 in one DAY!!! AHH!!! **Runs around flapping arms like a chicken** Now On with the story! But first..
Answering a few questions. Kate: just because Lily is supposed to have James' kid doesn't mean they want it to happen! WELL I can't speak for James or anything, but honestly if you found out at fifteen that THAT was supposed to happen what would you think, I personally would try and fight my destiny, let James pick who he wants. At least that's how I see it (Did that make any sense?) Hope that helps!
BTW this is a bit of a weird chapter. I was just having a bit of fun, messing around with it. Lots of screaming in fright!
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CHAPTER 20
Lily awoke the next morning looking around the room, she couldn't remember where she was, she THOUGHT she had been at Robert's house, but now she was alone, and in a room by herself. 'What the Hell happened?'
'Was I moved, did the room change, oh my god was I kidnapped!?' Lily thought worriedly, she jumped out of bed, and found herself still in the clothes she'd worn the day before.
Lily figured she must have been taken in her sleep somewhere else, but she wasn't sure. She was about to open a door when a man entered the room, and Lily immediately recognized him as Mindy's Father.
"Oh! Mr. Ewing! What's going on? Why am I here?"
"Oh Lily, I'm glad to see you're awake I was just coming into wake you. I'll just tell you what happened right now. Last night I got home and found a dead person in my kitchen and couldn't find any of you, I thought you were dead, but noticed Mindy's note to her Mum and immediately apparated over there. I found you and Mindy safe, and that relieved me greatly, but I didn't know where my wife was, so I contacted the Ministry and found they were already on the case-."
"Mr. Ewing were you on 'business' last night?"
"Oh yes got into a nasty blunder, but the ministry informed me that Mindy's Mum was missing." Mr. Ewing stopped and took a breath, and it was then that Lily noticed the deep sorrow in his eyes, aurors are normally good at hiding their emotions, but he must be really hurt, maybe some thing happened to Mrs. Ewing!
"Is she okay?! What happened have you found her?!" Lily asked worriedly.
"They haven't seen her yet, Mindy and I fear the worst, and you may go see her when I'm finished if you like. Continuing I'm sure you're wondering who was dead in the kitchen." Lily nodded vigorously. "It was a client of mine, I was on my way to his house just last night, I had been informed earlier this week that he had gotten himself on You-Know-Who's List and needed protection, he came to my house after he was attacked, and died before he ran into you, right there in the kitchen. He had come to me to make sure I warned his family in time." Mr. Ewing took a deep breath and continued again. " Luckily he didn't go after them, you know this family as the Jenkins, I assume?" Lily gasped, poor Jimena, she needed to go see her as soon as possible to make sure she was okay.
"Is Jimena all right? Oh and poor Mrs. Jenkins!" Lily said trying to keep the tears from flowing.
"Lily do you want me to stop?"
"No, what else IS there?" Lily asked, but she still didn't want to know what else he was going to tell her.
"Mr. Jenkins was killed, because he was a Great Divinator, he himself was the one who predicted your future as…well you know with the curse and all." Lily's mouth dropped, Jimena had never said a word of this…Maybe Jimena hadn't even known. "Last week he made an important prediction that You-know- who's down fall would be soon, and this of course made You-know-who murderous, and so he sent his death eaters after him. We are worried about Jimena, and he mother's safety, and they will go into hiding, but Jimena will be going to school in the fall, so don't worry. I am truly sorry you had to find Mr. Jenkins when you were alone in the house. Not too many people know about his prediction, but all the same it brings hope to the good side that he will be defeated." Mr. Ewing finished his big speech, and Lily sat down trying to take it all in. It was a lot to handle so early in the morning.
"So where am I right now?"
"You are at the Potter's, during the night Harold Potter came to collect his son, and I was already there, and we made plans and decided to move you all to this house. It's quite safe here at the moment. Mr. Potter is out looking into what happened to my wife right now, so I must be going to help, keep Mindy company. I'm afraid you might be here until we know my house is safe." Mr. Ewing left hurriedly, and told Lily where to find Mindy.
"God, he was blunt." Lily muttered, and for the first time noticed her trunk had some how been moved there. 'How long am I going to be here?' All of a sudden Lily's stomach dropped, she was at James' house, not exactly the place she wanted to be at the moment.
Lily put on some robes, and went to see Mindy; she was praying the Mrs. Ewing was all right, Mr. Ewing didn't even seem to know where his wife was, and why she was missing. It was probably because of his job, poor Mindy.
Lily went to Mindy's door knocked and found James and Mindy talking.
"Oh hey Lils." Mindy said sorrow filling her voice. "Did my dad tell you?"
"Yeah, I'm so sorry Mindy!" Lily said and gave her friend a hug.
"I can't believe it, it just happened so fast…" Mindy was quiet a moment. "I just figured she'd gone shopping or somewhere and didn't think anything of it. She could be…dead" Mindy said barely above a whisper.
"Mindy, she could still be okay. You never know, maybe she just got stuck somewhere. Your dad and James' dad I working on it right now and soon you'll find your Mum."
"I hope so Lils. How long do you think it will take?" Mindy asked turning to James.
"Hey, how am I supposed to know?" James said shrugging. The rest of the day was spent with everyone keeping to themselves, deep in thought. Lily was trying to cheer up Mindy, while still worrying about HER own problems.
They were sitting in the living room by the fire place, when they finally got some news.
Lily was talking to Mindy about inviting Robert over when Mr. Ewing stormed into the room, a pained look on his face. "Th-They found her, she…she."
"OH my God she's dead!" Mindy cried out.
"No. Worse." Everyone stopped and stared at him, Lily was thinking 'What the Hell could be worse?!'
"Dad?" Mindy whispered and got up to comfort her father who was in total shock. They sat on a couch opposite Lily, and James had moved over to let Mr. Ewing sit, and was now by Lily. Lily knew she didn't want to hear the words he was about to say, but she knew that she was going to hear them whether she liked it or not. Her heart was pounding, in fear, worry, sadness, and pure terror, at the news she was going to hear.
"Your mother, she-she sold us out!" Mr. Ewing said angrily. "I had told her of Mr. Jenkins prophecy and she went off, got caught by death eaters, got scared and told them everything! That's why he's dead, that's why his family has to go into hiding, and it's terrible. I can't believe she did that, she'll probably become a death eater soon." Mr. Ewing's voice filled with rage, as he talked of his wife.
"Mum wouldn't do that! Are you sure?!" Mindy said, starting to cry.
"She did Mindy, I'm sorry, she was a coward, and I'm ashamed to say I thought I knew her." Guilt filled his eyes. "I should have been home more." Mr. Ewing got up and left and Mindy began to sob, and Lily comforted her as best she could. James left, probably to get away from the tension. They stayed like that for a half hour, and Lily had started crying herself, finally though Lily was rescued.
Robert came in the room, and took Mindy from Lily and cradled her in his arms, and whispered to her trying to calm her down. James walked into the room, and motioned for Lily to follow him out of the room.
They walked into the dining room and sat at the empty table. It was a beautiful place, furnished perfectly; Lily's room had been the same, now that she thought about it. She prayed she didn't break anything while she was there.
"Are you okay?" James asked Lily, who still had silent tears falling down her cheeks.
"Uh, yeah I'll be fine, I'm more worried about Mindy at the moment, that's terrible. I never thought her Mother would do THAT. Going to the dark side, with out a care about her daughter or husband or anyone else. It makes me sick!"
"Want to something to drink?" James asked a while later.
"Sure, my throat is sore from all that crying." Lily said standing up, and James went and got her a glass of pumpkin juice. "Thanks." They sat there sipping their drinks, not knowing what to say. They were getting back to where they had been before they went out. They could talk freely with each other, and wouldn't have any awkward silences, but they were still fighting to keep down feelings that kept resurfacing when they were around each other.
Lily went to bed early, but had to have James escort her because she was totally lost inside the huge house.
"Thank you, good night!" Lily said, went in her room and closed the door.
James shuffled down the hallway; missing Lily. (A/N switching to James' thoughts.)
He was beginning to wonder what would happen with his life, all he could ever picture his future with was Lily, and he had a feeling he was never going to find some one as perfect for him as Lily, but he couldn't put her through the pain of him dying, or for that matter HER dying because of him. The two of them were in a terrible situation.
James' thoughts moved on to Mindy's dilemma. He knew his mother would never do anything like that, but then again his mother had never been in that position before; his dad had though, not long before his own Dad had gotten into a fight with a few death eaters, but his Dad escaped and kept to the good side. James decided that his Mum loved him enough that she would never do that.
James thoughts were soon back on Lily, and James went to bed too, and tried not to dream of her, and blocked her out.
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Lily found herself in another dream, this one frightened her more then normal, because she just had a feeling that she wouldn't be saved by James this time.
Some one was chasing her through a dark, deserted, island, and water surrounded the area. They held a gleaming knife in their hands. Screaming at her to stop, and join him. Lily started screaming for help, but she knew that nobody was going to save her.
The ground started changing and got steeper and steeper and sharp rocks stuck out of the ground, and Lily discovered she was heading into a cliff, a dead end. Lily didn't have any shoes on and her feet were bleeding from the rocks that cut into her feet.
Lily got to the edge of the cliff, and stared down into the deep murky water a hundred feet below. Lily turned around and her pursuer caught up to her. "Voldemort." Lily whispered and stared into the beady red eyes.
"At last Lily, I managed to catch you. You stupid Gryffindor boy won't help you now. He's blocked you out; you've hurt him too much." Voldemort hissed, Lily had never met him and talked to him before in her dream so she decided now was the best time to find out why he wanted her.
"Why do you insist on terrorizing me?! Can you please leave me alone? I'm no harm to you, please just leave me alone!"
"I can't, your future is too fatal to myself to let you live much longer. I've sent my death eaters after you and they were pitifully useless t me, and failed. I will do it myself if my next plan doesn't work, which I hope it does work, for it will save me some trouble."
Lily stared at him in horror, the dream felt so real at that moment; she could feel the wind blowing her hair and the coldness got to her.
'James where are you when I need you!' Lily thought desperately.
"Now, since that's said." Voldemort said he stepped closer and shoved Lily right over the edge of the cliff Lily tumbled over the side, falling faster and faster. Lily shrieked the whole way, screaming her lungs out not knowing what else to do.
Normally this is the part where you wake up in your dream, but for Lily that didn't happen.
Lily hit the water hard on her back,, and the wind was knocked out of her. (A/N that happened to me once, I dove from a dive and the wind was knocked out of me, and I was like six-seven feet underwater, scared me shitless, but I managed to get up, but I choked on water…closest I ever got to drowning! Lucky the life guard didn't notice! Oops sorry rambling again! But imagine this happened to Lily but going a billion times harder into the water.)
Lily couldn't breathe, she couldn't think; the world was getting dark. She finally found some sense and pushed herself upward and gasped for air, but only got water. She pushed, and choked and managed to get to the surface.
She coughed and her lungs were burning for air. She floated in the water on her back trying to regain some sense of things. She looked up finally and saw at the top of the cliff, Voldemort stood there watching her.
"Not awake are you Lily dear?" He called down to her, Lily groaned, and started to swim away hoping to wake up or at least get back to the island. She kicked her feet and tried hard to swim, but then she noticed Voldemort was floating down to where she was. Lily cried out and swam harder.
'Wake up Lily, wake up!' Lily thought to herself in panic. Voldemort reached her, and grabbed hold of her wrist and dragged her up onto the land. His grip on her was so tight Lily's arm was bleeding and Lily was begging him to let her go.
He threw her onto the ground, and Lily tried to stand up, but he put the Crutacious (Sp?) curse on her, and Lily screamed out in pain. Tears filled her eyes, and all she felt was pain. She couldn't breathe anymore, it was pure torture and she wanted to die. Voldemort let the curse off her, and she lay limp on the ground. "That will teach you for sure, don't mess with Lord Voldemort. Now heed my warning don't try anything with Potter." Voldemort spat out, and disappeared.
Lily looked around dazedly, and was wondering when she would wake up from the nightmare. She closed her eyes and prayed that when she opened them she'd be back at the Potter's in her own bed.
Lily opened her eyes after a minute and found her self still in the dream. She didn't know what else to do, so she unsteadily stood up and began walking around. She took one fatal step, and plunged into the ground, her brain only had one thought 'quicksand', but it wasn't much later when Lily fell through on the other side, gasping for air.
"That was too weird." Lily muttered and stood up looking around and she saw something in the distance, a house the lights were on. So Lily ran over to it, opened the door and immediately recognized it. It was the house in her dream. She went up to the familiar room where she always died and found a sleeping baby in a crib.
Lily patted its little head, and for the first time noticed its hair color. Jett black, it was oddly familiar, but she shoved those thoughts from her mind. Lily smiled at the baby, and all of a sudden there was a terrifying cry. Lily blinked and found herself in another place, a grave yard. She was getting tired of the dream changing on her so often.
There was a young boy maybe fourteen or fifteen years old. Tied up to a tombstone. Lily recognized him as James, 'Had he come to save me?' Lily ran over to him, and knelt beside him trying to free him, but was unable to.
"James, James?" Lily called trying to touch him, but her hands didn't seem to come into contact with him. He finally looked her way, and she noticed something…it definitely wasn't James, he had striking green eyes behind his glasses, and he was slightly different looking then James.
The grave yard rippled and Lily found herself staring at a different scene in it, the same boy was there, but this time he was up and fighting Voldemort. A gold light bonded their wands together. Lily then saw something horrifying happen. An old man appeared from the Voldemort's hand, then a woman, (A/N is this the right order?) And then she saw herself. Lily let out a very loud and terrified scream.
Lily felt herself being shaken hard and roughly and she opened her eyes, and stopped screaming, there around her was Mindy, Mr. Ewing and Mr. Potter. James came running in later, in his boxers, asking what had happened. His eyes looked fearful as he look at Lily. Who was pale and looked like a mixture of confusion and fear.
"It was just a nightmare don't worry about it!" Lily told them. "I just…I don't want to talk about it." Lily could only remember parts of her dream, Voldemort was definitely there, and James too or was it someone else?
Everyone went back to bed, except James who stayed behind to talk to her. He sat on the end of her bed.
"Lils what happened? I…Erm…blocked you out tonight, I'm so sorry I know I shouldn't have but I was just having problems…with my…Erm feelings so I did it, and then you wake up screaming. It's all my fault!"
"James quiet, it's not your fault I just have awful dreams, I don't know why for sure, but I suspect it's because of this curse or something. Now I'm fine you can go to bed, all right?"
"Lily I don't know maybe I should stay here with you for the night."
"NO. NO, no that would NOT work. Trust me, which would only make it worse. Remember the last time we slept in the same room!? We ended up in some other world! I don't want that happening again, thank you very much." Lily said getting out of bed and pulling James up and out the door.
"Lily that might have been just a one time-." Lily shut the door on him. "Thing." James let out a sigh and went back to his room, but he didn't get too much sleep, but he wasn't the only one. In a other part of the house, Lily was wide awake, trying to remember what had happened in her dream that had scared her so much. Lily gave up on sleeping and got ready for breakfast after an hour of restlessness.
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(A/N how was that scene? I don't know how good it was, the grammar is probably messed up a lot because it was coming out of my fingers quickly. It was an inspiration moment!! Yeah for me! Kind of weird though.)
Mindy, Mr. Ewing, and of course Lily stayed at the Potters for a week, and Lily owled Sierra telling her what happened to Jimena and that they wouldn't be able to talk to her until Hogwarts. Lily prayed to God that nothing happened to her best friend. Sierra came over to visit and she talked to Lily and Mindy for a while.
Lily kept away from James as much as possible. Harold Potter noticed the friction between the two of them, and seemed to be laughing at them with his eyes; whenever he saw them choose seats farthest from each other at dinner; or avoiding eye contact with each other when they talked; the emotions ran high, and Lily was getting irritable and was relieved when they said they could go back to the Ewing Home, they didn't believe that the Dark Lord was after them anymore, it was just the same as always, except no Mrs. Ewing around any more.
Mr. Ewing was home a lot more. He got home at reasonable hours and would bring home work from his clients, and sometimes the clients would visit and they were always nervous wrecks. Who wouldn't be if they knew the Darkest evil Wizard was after them?
Lily tried not to speak with the clients; whenever she tried to talk to them she always began thinking that they might be dead the next week. Luckily Mr. Ewing was good at his job, and seemed to take care of their problems, getting them the proper protection and such.
Robert came over and visited Mindy everyday and Sierra started visiting too, it was difficult for her to get away normally, but her mum was being extra nice. Steven came along some times, and more then enough times, Sirius came too.
Peter came over once or twice, to have a small chat and then he left. He seemed really nervous; worried that he might say the wrong thing around Mindy.
One person Lily hadn't seen yet, that she had already sent an owl to, was Remus. He was upset about Jimena, Lily was sure of it. So needless to say she just about jumped out of her skin when he came unexpected into the living room. Poor Remus had been staying with another wizarding family, since his parents had died. Someone called the Prewetts, they didn't have any children, and were young, and he said it was more like they were room mates then anything.
"Remus! What are you doing here?!" Lily said giving him a hug, and then she noticed just how tense he was. "Remus did something happen?"
Remus nodded solemnly "The Prewetts got attacked, they're dead. It's partly my fault, and they were wanted by You-Know-who, we barely found out yesterday, they knew he was coming and they sent me out…I can't believe they did that…" Lily gave Remus another hug and they sat down and talked about it for a few minutes. "The ministry sent me here, said it was safe."
"Yeah, they've been putting charms to deflect dark magic and such since…you know." Lily said. "So what do we do now? Where are you going to go? I guess we can wait until Mindy's Dad gets home, but I'm not sure if he knows about this."
"I'm sure he does, it's probably already in the Daily Prophet!" Remus growled, he didn't particularly like the news paper since they did a bad article on werewolves.
Lily and Remus waited around until a head appeared in the fire place, and told Remus he could stay at James' house for the rest of the summer. Remus said good bye to Lily and went throw the fire place by Floo, 'Damn we're going through that stuff quickly' Lily thought about the floo powder. Then picked some up herself and headed for a quick visit to Sierra's all the while through the floo she was thinking 'Now I remember why they don't like visiting me so much! The Floo makes me sick!'
Sierra and Lily only talked for a short while before Lily had to go. They were thinking about whether or not to ask the ministry to contact Jimena and tell her what happened to Remus, but decided they wouldn't since school was starting in a about a week and a half.
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Lily spent the next few days being bored, sleeping, eating, playing quidditch, reading up on news about Voldemort, and making sure she had all her homework done. Lily and Mindy were both getting impatient about the upcoming year, and Mindy was surprisingly happy the day before they were to leave; they were all packed, sitting in the spotless kitchen that had been remodeled, and were talking about the new school year.
"Lils, did you here that Winnie made head girl!? I just got a letter from her, she was so excited, and Marvin made head boy! It's so great all my friends are doing great! This year is going to be awesome!" Mindy said while trying to make pudding the muggle way.
"I hope this year is great, Hogwarts owes me at least one year where I don't almost get killed, or get mixed up in a curse situation!" Lily said mixing some water into the 'pudding' that looked more like a clump of dirt.
"Sixth year was a blast for me! I hope it's as good for you as it was for me."
"You snogged away for half the time with Robert!"
"Did not! Only one fourth of the time!" Mindy said giggling.
"Same thing, I don't even have a boy friend!"
"That's your own fault; you have been pushing all the guys away from you! Dumping James like that-."
"I didn't dump him. We agreed together that it was far time that we break up! There were certain circumstances which I cannot discuss that would be backing me up well if I could tell you-."
"Oh my God, he cheated on you!"
"No, no James was perfectly loyal to me the entire time."
"YOU cheated on HIM?!"
"No! Mindy stop jumping to conclusions!" Lily said and smacked Mind with a spoon, splattering pudding all over her robes.
"HEY! LILY! That was cruel!"
"Sorry-." Lily was quieted by a handful of pudding be smacked into her mouth. "Yubck thwats desgwustineen." Lily said spitting the stuff out in the sink.
"You deserved it." Mindy was all of a sudden hit by pudding, and a small scuffle of pudding brawl started. Lily was the loser, with pudding in her hair and down her shirt.
Mindy was the winner with it only on her robes. Mr. Ewing came in just in time to get their robes cleaned, and to get the kitchen cleaned.
"Excited about Hogwarts girls? Or are you having enough fun here?" He asked as they went into the living room to talk.
"Dad are you still taking us to the train station tomorrow?" Mindy asked.
"As long as nothing comes up I think I am." He said smiling at them.
Lily felt a pang of jealously, she wished she could be having this conversation with her own Dad or Mum. But that was impossible they'd been dead for a few years, Lily was becoming good at handling grief, she was able to hide it easily. Her parents had been so proud of her becoming a witch, showering her with compliments, Lily was happy that she had made them proud.
Lily, Mindy and Mr. Ewing went to bed early since they would be daring the impossible the next morning. Getting to King's Cross station by muggle car. Mr. Ewing had never done it before. They were having a professional drive them, so they got there with out any problems.
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A/N I'm ending it there because I don't want to end a chapter with the beginning of the year! So that concludes the twentieth chapter! YEAH! That's great isn't it?? I think so. REVIEW PLEASE!! I will love you forever!! I'm thinking of starting another fic, but I want to finish this one first…I always go crazy when my fave author has three fics going and they update the one I like the least, the most. DID That make any sense?? Well I hope you enjoyed..
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A/N um, getting to writing. Holy shit! Twenty chapters!!! OH MY GOD!! 64 REVIEWS!! AHH!! WOW this is A MIRACLE!!! That's 11 in one DAY!!! AHH!!! **Runs around flapping arms like a chicken** Now On with the story! But first..
Answering a few questions. Kate: just because Lily is supposed to have James' kid doesn't mean they want it to happen! WELL I can't speak for James or anything, but honestly if you found out at fifteen that THAT was supposed to happen what would you think, I personally would try and fight my destiny, let James pick who he wants. At least that's how I see it (Did that make any sense?) Hope that helps!
BTW this is a bit of a weird chapter. I was just having a bit of fun, messing around with it. Lots of screaming in fright!
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CHAPTER 20
Lily awoke the next morning looking around the room, she couldn't remember where she was, she THOUGHT she had been at Robert's house, but now she was alone, and in a room by herself. 'What the Hell happened?'
'Was I moved, did the room change, oh my god was I kidnapped!?' Lily thought worriedly, she jumped out of bed, and found herself still in the clothes she'd worn the day before.
Lily figured she must have been taken in her sleep somewhere else, but she wasn't sure. She was about to open a door when a man entered the room, and Lily immediately recognized him as Mindy's Father.
"Oh! Mr. Ewing! What's going on? Why am I here?"
"Oh Lily, I'm glad to see you're awake I was just coming into wake you. I'll just tell you what happened right now. Last night I got home and found a dead person in my kitchen and couldn't find any of you, I thought you were dead, but noticed Mindy's note to her Mum and immediately apparated over there. I found you and Mindy safe, and that relieved me greatly, but I didn't know where my wife was, so I contacted the Ministry and found they were already on the case-."
"Mr. Ewing were you on 'business' last night?"
"Oh yes got into a nasty blunder, but the ministry informed me that Mindy's Mum was missing." Mr. Ewing stopped and took a breath, and it was then that Lily noticed the deep sorrow in his eyes, aurors are normally good at hiding their emotions, but he must be really hurt, maybe some thing happened to Mrs. Ewing!
"Is she okay?! What happened have you found her?!" Lily asked worriedly.
"They haven't seen her yet, Mindy and I fear the worst, and you may go see her when I'm finished if you like. Continuing I'm sure you're wondering who was dead in the kitchen." Lily nodded vigorously. "It was a client of mine, I was on my way to his house just last night, I had been informed earlier this week that he had gotten himself on You-Know-Who's List and needed protection, he came to my house after he was attacked, and died before he ran into you, right there in the kitchen. He had come to me to make sure I warned his family in time." Mr. Ewing took a deep breath and continued again. " Luckily he didn't go after them, you know this family as the Jenkins, I assume?" Lily gasped, poor Jimena, she needed to go see her as soon as possible to make sure she was okay.
"Is Jimena all right? Oh and poor Mrs. Jenkins!" Lily said trying to keep the tears from flowing.
"Lily do you want me to stop?"
"No, what else IS there?" Lily asked, but she still didn't want to know what else he was going to tell her.
"Mr. Jenkins was killed, because he was a Great Divinator, he himself was the one who predicted your future as…well you know with the curse and all." Lily's mouth dropped, Jimena had never said a word of this…Maybe Jimena hadn't even known. "Last week he made an important prediction that You-know- who's down fall would be soon, and this of course made You-know-who murderous, and so he sent his death eaters after him. We are worried about Jimena, and he mother's safety, and they will go into hiding, but Jimena will be going to school in the fall, so don't worry. I am truly sorry you had to find Mr. Jenkins when you were alone in the house. Not too many people know about his prediction, but all the same it brings hope to the good side that he will be defeated." Mr. Ewing finished his big speech, and Lily sat down trying to take it all in. It was a lot to handle so early in the morning.
"So where am I right now?"
"You are at the Potter's, during the night Harold Potter came to collect his son, and I was already there, and we made plans and decided to move you all to this house. It's quite safe here at the moment. Mr. Potter is out looking into what happened to my wife right now, so I must be going to help, keep Mindy company. I'm afraid you might be here until we know my house is safe." Mr. Ewing left hurriedly, and told Lily where to find Mindy.
"God, he was blunt." Lily muttered, and for the first time noticed her trunk had some how been moved there. 'How long am I going to be here?' All of a sudden Lily's stomach dropped, she was at James' house, not exactly the place she wanted to be at the moment.
Lily put on some robes, and went to see Mindy; she was praying the Mrs. Ewing was all right, Mr. Ewing didn't even seem to know where his wife was, and why she was missing. It was probably because of his job, poor Mindy.
Lily went to Mindy's door knocked and found James and Mindy talking.
"Oh hey Lils." Mindy said sorrow filling her voice. "Did my dad tell you?"
"Yeah, I'm so sorry Mindy!" Lily said and gave her friend a hug.
"I can't believe it, it just happened so fast…" Mindy was quiet a moment. "I just figured she'd gone shopping or somewhere and didn't think anything of it. She could be…dead" Mindy said barely above a whisper.
"Mindy, she could still be okay. You never know, maybe she just got stuck somewhere. Your dad and James' dad I working on it right now and soon you'll find your Mum."
"I hope so Lils. How long do you think it will take?" Mindy asked turning to James.
"Hey, how am I supposed to know?" James said shrugging. The rest of the day was spent with everyone keeping to themselves, deep in thought. Lily was trying to cheer up Mindy, while still worrying about HER own problems.
They were sitting in the living room by the fire place, when they finally got some news.
Lily was talking to Mindy about inviting Robert over when Mr. Ewing stormed into the room, a pained look on his face. "Th-They found her, she…she."
"OH my God she's dead!" Mindy cried out.
"No. Worse." Everyone stopped and stared at him, Lily was thinking 'What the Hell could be worse?!'
"Dad?" Mindy whispered and got up to comfort her father who was in total shock. They sat on a couch opposite Lily, and James had moved over to let Mr. Ewing sit, and was now by Lily. Lily knew she didn't want to hear the words he was about to say, but she knew that she was going to hear them whether she liked it or not. Her heart was pounding, in fear, worry, sadness, and pure terror, at the news she was going to hear.
"Your mother, she-she sold us out!" Mr. Ewing said angrily. "I had told her of Mr. Jenkins prophecy and she went off, got caught by death eaters, got scared and told them everything! That's why he's dead, that's why his family has to go into hiding, and it's terrible. I can't believe she did that, she'll probably become a death eater soon." Mr. Ewing's voice filled with rage, as he talked of his wife.
"Mum wouldn't do that! Are you sure?!" Mindy said, starting to cry.
"She did Mindy, I'm sorry, she was a coward, and I'm ashamed to say I thought I knew her." Guilt filled his eyes. "I should have been home more." Mr. Ewing got up and left and Mindy began to sob, and Lily comforted her as best she could. James left, probably to get away from the tension. They stayed like that for a half hour, and Lily had started crying herself, finally though Lily was rescued.
Robert came in the room, and took Mindy from Lily and cradled her in his arms, and whispered to her trying to calm her down. James walked into the room, and motioned for Lily to follow him out of the room.
They walked into the dining room and sat at the empty table. It was a beautiful place, furnished perfectly; Lily's room had been the same, now that she thought about it. She prayed she didn't break anything while she was there.
"Are you okay?" James asked Lily, who still had silent tears falling down her cheeks.
"Uh, yeah I'll be fine, I'm more worried about Mindy at the moment, that's terrible. I never thought her Mother would do THAT. Going to the dark side, with out a care about her daughter or husband or anyone else. It makes me sick!"
"Want to something to drink?" James asked a while later.
"Sure, my throat is sore from all that crying." Lily said standing up, and James went and got her a glass of pumpkin juice. "Thanks." They sat there sipping their drinks, not knowing what to say. They were getting back to where they had been before they went out. They could talk freely with each other, and wouldn't have any awkward silences, but they were still fighting to keep down feelings that kept resurfacing when they were around each other.
Lily went to bed early, but had to have James escort her because she was totally lost inside the huge house.
"Thank you, good night!" Lily said, went in her room and closed the door.
James shuffled down the hallway; missing Lily. (A/N switching to James' thoughts.)
He was beginning to wonder what would happen with his life, all he could ever picture his future with was Lily, and he had a feeling he was never going to find some one as perfect for him as Lily, but he couldn't put her through the pain of him dying, or for that matter HER dying because of him. The two of them were in a terrible situation.
James' thoughts moved on to Mindy's dilemma. He knew his mother would never do anything like that, but then again his mother had never been in that position before; his dad had though, not long before his own Dad had gotten into a fight with a few death eaters, but his Dad escaped and kept to the good side. James decided that his Mum loved him enough that she would never do that.
James thoughts were soon back on Lily, and James went to bed too, and tried not to dream of her, and blocked her out.
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Lily found herself in another dream, this one frightened her more then normal, because she just had a feeling that she wouldn't be saved by James this time.
Some one was chasing her through a dark, deserted, island, and water surrounded the area. They held a gleaming knife in their hands. Screaming at her to stop, and join him. Lily started screaming for help, but she knew that nobody was going to save her.
The ground started changing and got steeper and steeper and sharp rocks stuck out of the ground, and Lily discovered she was heading into a cliff, a dead end. Lily didn't have any shoes on and her feet were bleeding from the rocks that cut into her feet.
Lily got to the edge of the cliff, and stared down into the deep murky water a hundred feet below. Lily turned around and her pursuer caught up to her. "Voldemort." Lily whispered and stared into the beady red eyes.
"At last Lily, I managed to catch you. You stupid Gryffindor boy won't help you now. He's blocked you out; you've hurt him too much." Voldemort hissed, Lily had never met him and talked to him before in her dream so she decided now was the best time to find out why he wanted her.
"Why do you insist on terrorizing me?! Can you please leave me alone? I'm no harm to you, please just leave me alone!"
"I can't, your future is too fatal to myself to let you live much longer. I've sent my death eaters after you and they were pitifully useless t me, and failed. I will do it myself if my next plan doesn't work, which I hope it does work, for it will save me some trouble."
Lily stared at him in horror, the dream felt so real at that moment; she could feel the wind blowing her hair and the coldness got to her.
'James where are you when I need you!' Lily thought desperately.
"Now, since that's said." Voldemort said he stepped closer and shoved Lily right over the edge of the cliff Lily tumbled over the side, falling faster and faster. Lily shrieked the whole way, screaming her lungs out not knowing what else to do.
Normally this is the part where you wake up in your dream, but for Lily that didn't happen.
Lily hit the water hard on her back,, and the wind was knocked out of her. (A/N that happened to me once, I dove from a dive and the wind was knocked out of me, and I was like six-seven feet underwater, scared me shitless, but I managed to get up, but I choked on water…closest I ever got to drowning! Lucky the life guard didn't notice! Oops sorry rambling again! But imagine this happened to Lily but going a billion times harder into the water.)
Lily couldn't breathe, she couldn't think; the world was getting dark. She finally found some sense and pushed herself upward and gasped for air, but only got water. She pushed, and choked and managed to get to the surface.
She coughed and her lungs were burning for air. She floated in the water on her back trying to regain some sense of things. She looked up finally and saw at the top of the cliff, Voldemort stood there watching her.
"Not awake are you Lily dear?" He called down to her, Lily groaned, and started to swim away hoping to wake up or at least get back to the island. She kicked her feet and tried hard to swim, but then she noticed Voldemort was floating down to where she was. Lily cried out and swam harder.
'Wake up Lily, wake up!' Lily thought to herself in panic. Voldemort reached her, and grabbed hold of her wrist and dragged her up onto the land. His grip on her was so tight Lily's arm was bleeding and Lily was begging him to let her go.
He threw her onto the ground, and Lily tried to stand up, but he put the Crutacious (Sp?) curse on her, and Lily screamed out in pain. Tears filled her eyes, and all she felt was pain. She couldn't breathe anymore, it was pure torture and she wanted to die. Voldemort let the curse off her, and she lay limp on the ground. "That will teach you for sure, don't mess with Lord Voldemort. Now heed my warning don't try anything with Potter." Voldemort spat out, and disappeared.
Lily looked around dazedly, and was wondering when she would wake up from the nightmare. She closed her eyes and prayed that when she opened them she'd be back at the Potter's in her own bed.
Lily opened her eyes after a minute and found her self still in the dream. She didn't know what else to do, so she unsteadily stood up and began walking around. She took one fatal step, and plunged into the ground, her brain only had one thought 'quicksand', but it wasn't much later when Lily fell through on the other side, gasping for air.
"That was too weird." Lily muttered and stood up looking around and she saw something in the distance, a house the lights were on. So Lily ran over to it, opened the door and immediately recognized it. It was the house in her dream. She went up to the familiar room where she always died and found a sleeping baby in a crib.
Lily patted its little head, and for the first time noticed its hair color. Jett black, it was oddly familiar, but she shoved those thoughts from her mind. Lily smiled at the baby, and all of a sudden there was a terrifying cry. Lily blinked and found herself in another place, a grave yard. She was getting tired of the dream changing on her so often.
There was a young boy maybe fourteen or fifteen years old. Tied up to a tombstone. Lily recognized him as James, 'Had he come to save me?' Lily ran over to him, and knelt beside him trying to free him, but was unable to.
"James, James?" Lily called trying to touch him, but her hands didn't seem to come into contact with him. He finally looked her way, and she noticed something…it definitely wasn't James, he had striking green eyes behind his glasses, and he was slightly different looking then James.
The grave yard rippled and Lily found herself staring at a different scene in it, the same boy was there, but this time he was up and fighting Voldemort. A gold light bonded their wands together. Lily then saw something horrifying happen. An old man appeared from the Voldemort's hand, then a woman, (A/N is this the right order?) And then she saw herself. Lily let out a very loud and terrified scream.
Lily felt herself being shaken hard and roughly and she opened her eyes, and stopped screaming, there around her was Mindy, Mr. Ewing and Mr. Potter. James came running in later, in his boxers, asking what had happened. His eyes looked fearful as he look at Lily. Who was pale and looked like a mixture of confusion and fear.
"It was just a nightmare don't worry about it!" Lily told them. "I just…I don't want to talk about it." Lily could only remember parts of her dream, Voldemort was definitely there, and James too or was it someone else?
Everyone went back to bed, except James who stayed behind to talk to her. He sat on the end of her bed.
"Lils what happened? I…Erm…blocked you out tonight, I'm so sorry I know I shouldn't have but I was just having problems…with my…Erm feelings so I did it, and then you wake up screaming. It's all my fault!"
"James quiet, it's not your fault I just have awful dreams, I don't know why for sure, but I suspect it's because of this curse or something. Now I'm fine you can go to bed, all right?"
"Lily I don't know maybe I should stay here with you for the night."
"NO. NO, no that would NOT work. Trust me, which would only make it worse. Remember the last time we slept in the same room!? We ended up in some other world! I don't want that happening again, thank you very much." Lily said getting out of bed and pulling James up and out the door.
"Lily that might have been just a one time-." Lily shut the door on him. "Thing." James let out a sigh and went back to his room, but he didn't get too much sleep, but he wasn't the only one. In a other part of the house, Lily was wide awake, trying to remember what had happened in her dream that had scared her so much. Lily gave up on sleeping and got ready for breakfast after an hour of restlessness.
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(A/N how was that scene? I don't know how good it was, the grammar is probably messed up a lot because it was coming out of my fingers quickly. It was an inspiration moment!! Yeah for me! Kind of weird though.)
Mindy, Mr. Ewing, and of course Lily stayed at the Potters for a week, and Lily owled Sierra telling her what happened to Jimena and that they wouldn't be able to talk to her until Hogwarts. Lily prayed to God that nothing happened to her best friend. Sierra came over to visit and she talked to Lily and Mindy for a while.
Lily kept away from James as much as possible. Harold Potter noticed the friction between the two of them, and seemed to be laughing at them with his eyes; whenever he saw them choose seats farthest from each other at dinner; or avoiding eye contact with each other when they talked; the emotions ran high, and Lily was getting irritable and was relieved when they said they could go back to the Ewing Home, they didn't believe that the Dark Lord was after them anymore, it was just the same as always, except no Mrs. Ewing around any more.
Mr. Ewing was home a lot more. He got home at reasonable hours and would bring home work from his clients, and sometimes the clients would visit and they were always nervous wrecks. Who wouldn't be if they knew the Darkest evil Wizard was after them?
Lily tried not to speak with the clients; whenever she tried to talk to them she always began thinking that they might be dead the next week. Luckily Mr. Ewing was good at his job, and seemed to take care of their problems, getting them the proper protection and such.
Robert came over and visited Mindy everyday and Sierra started visiting too, it was difficult for her to get away normally, but her mum was being extra nice. Steven came along some times, and more then enough times, Sirius came too.
Peter came over once or twice, to have a small chat and then he left. He seemed really nervous; worried that he might say the wrong thing around Mindy.
One person Lily hadn't seen yet, that she had already sent an owl to, was Remus. He was upset about Jimena, Lily was sure of it. So needless to say she just about jumped out of her skin when he came unexpected into the living room. Poor Remus had been staying with another wizarding family, since his parents had died. Someone called the Prewetts, they didn't have any children, and were young, and he said it was more like they were room mates then anything.
"Remus! What are you doing here?!" Lily said giving him a hug, and then she noticed just how tense he was. "Remus did something happen?"
Remus nodded solemnly "The Prewetts got attacked, they're dead. It's partly my fault, and they were wanted by You-Know-who, we barely found out yesterday, they knew he was coming and they sent me out…I can't believe they did that…" Lily gave Remus another hug and they sat down and talked about it for a few minutes. "The ministry sent me here, said it was safe."
"Yeah, they've been putting charms to deflect dark magic and such since…you know." Lily said. "So what do we do now? Where are you going to go? I guess we can wait until Mindy's Dad gets home, but I'm not sure if he knows about this."
"I'm sure he does, it's probably already in the Daily Prophet!" Remus growled, he didn't particularly like the news paper since they did a bad article on werewolves.
Lily and Remus waited around until a head appeared in the fire place, and told Remus he could stay at James' house for the rest of the summer. Remus said good bye to Lily and went throw the fire place by Floo, 'Damn we're going through that stuff quickly' Lily thought about the floo powder. Then picked some up herself and headed for a quick visit to Sierra's all the while through the floo she was thinking 'Now I remember why they don't like visiting me so much! The Floo makes me sick!'
Sierra and Lily only talked for a short while before Lily had to go. They were thinking about whether or not to ask the ministry to contact Jimena and tell her what happened to Remus, but decided they wouldn't since school was starting in a about a week and a half.
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Lily spent the next few days being bored, sleeping, eating, playing quidditch, reading up on news about Voldemort, and making sure she had all her homework done. Lily and Mindy were both getting impatient about the upcoming year, and Mindy was surprisingly happy the day before they were to leave; they were all packed, sitting in the spotless kitchen that had been remodeled, and were talking about the new school year.
"Lils, did you here that Winnie made head girl!? I just got a letter from her, she was so excited, and Marvin made head boy! It's so great all my friends are doing great! This year is going to be awesome!" Mindy said while trying to make pudding the muggle way.
"I hope this year is great, Hogwarts owes me at least one year where I don't almost get killed, or get mixed up in a curse situation!" Lily said mixing some water into the 'pudding' that looked more like a clump of dirt.
"Sixth year was a blast for me! I hope it's as good for you as it was for me."
"You snogged away for half the time with Robert!"
"Did not! Only one fourth of the time!" Mindy said giggling.
"Same thing, I don't even have a boy friend!"
"That's your own fault; you have been pushing all the guys away from you! Dumping James like that-."
"I didn't dump him. We agreed together that it was far time that we break up! There were certain circumstances which I cannot discuss that would be backing me up well if I could tell you-."
"Oh my God, he cheated on you!"
"No, no James was perfectly loyal to me the entire time."
"YOU cheated on HIM?!"
"No! Mindy stop jumping to conclusions!" Lily said and smacked Mind with a spoon, splattering pudding all over her robes.
"HEY! LILY! That was cruel!"
"Sorry-." Lily was quieted by a handful of pudding be smacked into her mouth. "Yubck thwats desgwustineen." Lily said spitting the stuff out in the sink.
"You deserved it." Mindy was all of a sudden hit by pudding, and a small scuffle of pudding brawl started. Lily was the loser, with pudding in her hair and down her shirt.
Mindy was the winner with it only on her robes. Mr. Ewing came in just in time to get their robes cleaned, and to get the kitchen cleaned.
"Excited about Hogwarts girls? Or are you having enough fun here?" He asked as they went into the living room to talk.
"Dad are you still taking us to the train station tomorrow?" Mindy asked.
"As long as nothing comes up I think I am." He said smiling at them.
Lily felt a pang of jealously, she wished she could be having this conversation with her own Dad or Mum. But that was impossible they'd been dead for a few years, Lily was becoming good at handling grief, she was able to hide it easily. Her parents had been so proud of her becoming a witch, showering her with compliments, Lily was happy that she had made them proud.
Lily, Mindy and Mr. Ewing went to bed early since they would be daring the impossible the next morning. Getting to King's Cross station by muggle car. Mr. Ewing had never done it before. They were having a professional drive them, so they got there with out any problems.
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A/N I'm ending it there because I don't want to end a chapter with the beginning of the year! So that concludes the twentieth chapter! YEAH! That's great isn't it?? I think so. REVIEW PLEASE!! I will love you forever!! I'm thinking of starting another fic, but I want to finish this one first…I always go crazy when my fave author has three fics going and they update the one I like the least, the most. DID That make any sense?? Well I hope you enjoyed..
*~!Sierra!~*