DISCLAIMER: UH I wonder…I don't own, Sirius, Lily, James, Remus, Peter,
Voldemort (not that'd I'd want to) Dumbledore, McGonagall, Flitwick, Snape,
Malfoy, Crabbe (last chapters) umm, I don't own…Harry who is in the story
for this spilt second once, and maybe in the future. Uh, maybe some other
characters, but a lot of them our mine! MUHAHA! Also, I don't own some
scenes in the story completely; I get ideas from other people stories, like
the very short and sweet scene of truth or dare, and the fun food fight!
A/N Did I ever say what Catty looked like? Well, I don't remember, this story is getting to big for me!! Yikes I should have taken notes on my characters; that's probably what the Queen herself does. (JK Rowling). Um there's a little bit of L/J in here. Also, I'm sorry if this is a bit confusing, I kept going back and changing things because I wasn't happy with it, all day I was at school thinking of how to change it around…but I didn't want to change it completely. Here it goes! I was thinking, do you think I should end this like Pulling the Moves ended? And have a sequel? That'd be funny, but they wouldn't break up, but hold on I'm just brain storming!
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CHAPTER 24
The whole time Lily was getting pulled she was thinking 'How could I have been so STUPID?!' Now, she was going to die, and Vanessa and Catty would too, and she'd never become a fully certified witch, or see her friends again-that was another thought, what if they went looking for her. Lily was struck with horror at the thoughts of them looking for her. Lily thought of James and how they could never be together, which depressed her even more.
Not much later, Lily found herself falling onto a cold stone floor, in what looked like an old room in a medieval castle. Lily knew it wasn't Hogwarts, and was wondering what she was thinking just picking up the broom like that; okay, so she had really wanted to save Vanessa and Catty, but that wasn't the way to do it.
Lily picked herself up, looking around for what to do next. She then remembered exactly what the broom might be: A portkey, but as she went to pick it up to take her back it turned into ashes. Lily was dead meat, done for, finished, meeting her maker, dead and buried, pull the plug, she was dead. And she could only wonder what had happened to Catty and Vanessa, and HOW had they been taken in the first place…or had it been a bluff. It was likely 'Why had I been so GULLIBLE!? Gullible: susceptible, naïve, easy to fool, innocent, trusting, credulous' Lily thought angrily to herself.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, and did I say STUPID?!" Lily yelled out angrily to know one, but was surprisingly answered.
"Yes, what the Hell are you doing here Lily?" Her favorite other red head, Catty bellowed, coming in from the door that Lily hadn't noticed. Vanessa came in quickly behind her both looked shocked, scared, and annoyed that Lily had come after them.
"Stupid: unintelligent, dim, thick, dumb, dense, slow, brainless, foolish, mindless, dim witted." Lily said, this is what happens when she gets nervous.
"Lily, I think we know what it means, but what we need to know is why you are here? We know You-Know-Who is after you, and partly why, but you shouldn't have come here!" Vanessa said with her hands on her hips, looking worried.
"Because, I came to SAVE you! Save: rescue, free, SET free, release, liberate, unshackle-." Lily started going into her defining the word phase again.
"LILY, shut up! We need a plan and we need it now if we're going to get out of here alive." Catty shouted.
"Alive? You guys think we can make it out of here ALIVE? Well, maybe you guys can, but I can't I know it, he wants me dead and he has since I was 12! I couldn't stay safe for long; with me out of the way…At least James will be safe." Lily said sadly.
"LILY EVANS, don't think like that! You'll make it out of here alive if any of us do, and James is probably already trying to get here-." Vanessa was cut off.
"I pray to God he's not coming here, the rest of us are already dead meat." Lily growled. "So tell me how long have you been here, and what you know about this…place."
"Catty and I were…walking by the forbidden forest, I know we shouldn't have, but we were curious, and then we heard some one crying, it sounded like you, so we went in and well-."
"We were caught, kidnapped, and knocked unconscious, which to me sounds like something that happened to you." Catty finished. Lily glared, in spite of the situation, she felt like laughing and she couldn't do that.
"What do you know about this place, does that place go off anywhere?" Lily asked pointing to the door they came through.
"No, just another room, these two are connected; it's weird, no other doors or windows, not even a FIRE PLACE!" Vanessa said frustrated, she and Catty had been trying to escape for hours, and had no such luck at anything.
"I guess we just…wait for HIM to come along and-." Lily started to say.
"Lily are you in Gryffindor or NOT? You are suppose to be brave, not wait around like a-a new born puppy, waiting to die!" Catty shouted, she had no plans of dying that day, and she wasn't going to let Lily give up that easily.
"New born puppy?" Lily and Catty asked at the same time.
"There's nothing we can do now, I just hope he let's you two go, it's not even your fault you're here, it's mine and I'm sorry for getting you into this mess." Lily said.
"It's okay Lils, plus it's not entirely your fault…You-Know-Who has been after me and Vanessa's families for a while now. He wants us dead too, just to kill off the muggle born witch and wizard families, so no more can be 'made' from our dirty blood or something like that." Catty explained.
"That's terrible, but I didn't know you two were muggle born, I thought I was the only one!" Six years in the same dorm and she never knew this!
"Well we are, we kept quiet, we didn't want any trouble with…the Slytherins, like you do." Vanessa said blushing.
"It's okay, I understand perfectly." Lily said with a small smile.
"Hmm, considering we are probably going to A.) Either die by morning B.) Starve to death C.) Go insane; I'm having an interesting conversation!" Catty said sitting on the floor cross legged, and Lily and Vanessa followed suit.
"Yeah, I never really thought too much about being in a life or death situation before; it's…disturbing, how do you put up with it Lils?" Vanessa asked.
"I have no clue, it just comes at you so quick sometimes, you don't have time to think, and half the time it seems I'm unconscious." Lily said with a shrug.
"What do you think it's like to die?" Catty asked out of almost no where.
"Hmm…I always pictured a bright light, like in muggle movies." Lily replied. "But it's probably a bit different then that, I just hope my death is quick, and I don't have to be tortured or something…terrible like that."
"I always thought everything went black, and then you are in heaven and everything's over." Vanessa said thoughtfully.
"I personally, always thought of an angel taking my hand and lifting my soul out of my body." Catty said grinning at the thought of an angel.
"Not that I believe we are all going to die or anything." Lily lied. "But what would you say to your family if you had the chance to say good bye before you died?"
"I love you, and don't grieve about me too much." Catty said after a moment of thought.
"I would probably say that, and to take care of my cat, Fluffy." Vanessa said. "Probably anything else that came to mind too."
"I'm with you guys, except…I have no family to say good bye to, I mean my sister Petunia has shunned me from her life, and my parents are dead. I think I'd tell Jimena and Sierra not to worry about me and to move on with their lives."
"You wouldn't say anything to James?" Catty said grinning.
"No, why would you ask that?" Lily said trying not to blush.
"Duh, because we both know you love him!" Vanessa said also grinning.
"I. Do. Not! He's just my friend…if even that!" Lily defended herself.
"Uh huh, suuuure." Catty said and the subject was closed…mostly anyways.
"What if James does get here? You guys know he's always out to save me…but I couldn't bare it if he died because of me." Lily said with a shudder.
"Lily, you have too much to worry about."
The three of them talked for a while sitting in the middle of the windowless room that was only lit by a few torches.
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Sierra and Jimena woke up at the same time when owls flew into their faces. Dropping identical letters:
Look around your dorm.
Was all it said, the two girls jumped up and were relieved to see each other, then they went straight to Lily's bed and found it empty, as were Catty and Vanessa's.
"What the HELL is going on?!" Sierra screeched in fear.
"How am I SUPPOSED to know??" Jimena yelled back.
"Do you think they went some where together? I mean that way Lily wouldn't be alone right?" Sierra asked nervously.
"It's possible, we shouldn't jump to conclusions right now, let's look around-." Jimena noticed a piece of paper lying on Lily's bed; it was the note Lily had gotten hours before.
"This is bad." Sierra said fear seeping into her voice.
"Yeah, I think Lily went to get them; and SHE DIDN'T EVEN WAKE US!" Jimena yelled, she was mad, scared, afraid, and she didn't know what to do.
"Let's go get Dumbledore-." Just then another owl flew into the room and dropped a letter that said:
Don't go to Dumbledore, or they are dead in a flick of my wand. Please inform Mister Black and Mister Lupin that I give my condolences for their deceased friend Mister James Potter.
Jimena and Sierra were out the door running to the boys' dorms as fast as they could. They ran to their boyfriends and woke them up from sleeping, while trying not to wake Peter.
"Sirius! Sirius!" Sierra whispered shaking him as Jimena did the same with Remus. The two girls explained the situation as best they could, for there was a lot they didn't know themselves. James wasn't in the room.
"Dear God, what are we going to do?" Sirius said shakily, thinking his best friend was dead.
"D-Do you really think he's- gone?" Remus asked the room Peter had awakened and was just as worried as the rest of them.
"I don't know, You-know-who might just be messing with us, but I'm not sure." Jimena whispered.
"We have to do something!" Sierra cried, and yet another owl flew into the room and dropped four letters labeled to each of them and inside each of them was an odd looking snake charm…
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~Two hours before~
James awoke with a start, he'd just seen Lily talking to Catty and Vanessa about death, and they seemed to be planning on dying. James knew something had to of happened to Lily, but he didn't know what, and he didn't know where to go, and this had never happened before.
An owl flew into his room and dropped off a small snake charm. James picked it up and was instantly pulled into another place, and landed right next to Lily, Vanessa and Catty.
"JAMES?!" The three girls shouted and stood up in shock, Lily's face looked panic.
"James Potter go back now! NOW! Before it's too late!"
"Too late for what? What the Hell is going on?!" James demanded Lily went looking for the way he came and saw some ashes fall out of his hand and knew it was too late, how ever he'd gotten there; it was too late now to go back the portkey was burned up.
Lily, Catty and Vanessa all explained all that they knew, and James was pissed at Lily for going.
"Lily! What the hell were you thinking?! You shouldn't have come here at all! Why didn't you wake me, or at least Jimena and Sierra? Are you insane?!" James bellowed at her.
"James, it's just I was worried, I didn't want them to die on my behalf, I admit I didn't think, it was stupid and I should have gotten help, but I didn't so deal with it." Lily said turning her back and ignoring him. James grumbled to himself for a few minutes.
Out of no where they heard a 'snap' 'crackle' 'pop' and Voldemort appeared before them. Catty and Vanessa shyed away from him, while James and Lily stood before him ready to die. Of course James wouldn't have Lily trying to get her self killed so he stepped in front of her.
"So, finally I have you to myself, Mister Potter, I have a proposition to make to you. Join my side; the 'good' side and you will have everything you ever wanted." Voldemort hissed in a snake like way.
"What I want is to get out of here." James said bravely. 'God he goes right to the point.' James thought to himself.
"You will, but only if you join with my ranks, and give me the mudblood you are so fond of." Voldemort demanded, James managed to keep himself from blushing about the fact that it seemed EVERYONE knew he liked Lily.
"I will never join with you; I stand beside Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic." James said firmly, and hid the fear he felt within himself.
"Dumbledore is a fool, who doesn't know power when it hits him in the face!" Voldemort spat.
"If he's such a fool then why are you so afraid of him?" Lily spoke up angrily, James and Voldemort both glared at her. Voldemort for her bringing THAT up; and James for her say something that could get her killed.
"I'm not afraid of the mudblood loving fool; he's just not worth my energy." Voldemort said carelessly. "Now Potter join me or die, decide now, or watch HER die, and then suffer your own fate."
James looked at Lily and gulped, he didn't know what to do it was a hopeless situation and was getting confusing. "I won't let you kill Lily; you can kill me but not her." James said.
"I'm sorry to say, but if I kill you there's no reason not to kill her. I just can't have you two getting in my way, your future as I've said to the mudblood, is highly fatal to me, and I would prefer you to not cause those problems." Voldemort said, getting more and more annoyed.
"What about our future? Do you even know what it is? Worried about something that hasn't even happened yet; or should I say you're AFRAID?" James asked coolly.
"I'm not afraid, I just don't want any one getting in my way as I climb to power, and rid the world of mudbloods like HER. Now join me Potter, I'm losing patience."
With one last look at Lily, James answered. "I won't ever join with the scum of YOUR kind."
"Then prepare to die Potter." Voldemort said anger flashing in his eyes; he would have liked to have Potter on his side, it would greatly benefit him. "The mudblood dies, now." Voldemort lifted his wand and yelled the unforgivable curse that slowly kills you with torture. "CRUCIO!" He shouted, pointing his wand at Lily.
Lily collapsed to the ground, and Catty and Vanessa went to her side as she screamed in pain, James stood there in shock and faced Voldemort without his wand, since it was back in his dorm by his bed side table.
James has done many stupid things, but this by far must have been the stupidest. He was punching out Voldemort, and soon found himself hovering in the air and then being thrown into the stone wall 20 ft away, by a powerful spell. James could feel his head bleeding, as he hit the wall once more with a powerful blow, and the spell was cut off and James fell to the floor slipping in and out of unconsciousness.
James could still her Lily's screams filling the room, then there was silence and James heard the most fatal words a wizard can say. "Aveda Kedavra" James struggled to get over to Lily, but he couldn't stand up.
He heard Voldemort laughing, and James was angry that he couldn't do anything about the situation. He couldn't go on if Lily was dead, but he needed to get revenge. James slowly stood up and noticed Voldemort holding a red head which he assumed was Lily. If she was dead what was he doing with her? Voldemort conjured a portkey of yet another snake charm, and put around her neck he seemed disgusted touching her in anyway; then she disappeared.
James felt hopeless; at least he could save Catty and Vanessa who were lying on the floor crumpled up. James struggled and used all his strength to walk over to where Voldemort was scowling at him, waiting for him to get there. He noticed Vanessa looked…dead.
"Potter, I'm surprised at your strength, especially after your girlfriend just died."
"She's not my girlfriend, I don't deserve her." James forced out.
"Very well, it's a shame to kill such a powerful wizard to be." Voldemort said with fake pity and an evil laugh. "CRUCIO!" James stumbled in pain and landed on the red head on the floor. "I'll leave you to die in peace, it's the least I can do." He said with a laugh after watching James moan in pain for a while. "I have to send for your friends to find your dead bodies now. Good bye." And Voldemort disappeared. James felt the curse leave him, but he could feel himself dying he looked down at Catty, and noticed it wasn't Catty, it was Lily.
James grabbed her hand and held it, and felt a little better, but soon he blacked out, on his way to heaven.
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Lily woke up and felt someone holding her hand and laying on top of her, she groaned in pain, and opened her eyes and saw James, he was covered in blood, and his breathing was shallow and faint. She prayed he wasn't dying; she'd been so sure she had died her self not too long ago.
If he was dead, she'd never forgive herself. She couldn't live with out him, as much as she denied it to everyone; she honestly loved him, at least that's what she thought, she wasn't for sure what it felt like.
Lily struggled to get up, but she didn't want to leave him either, and it hurt too much. So she stayed like that, and then she noticed how their hands were holding each other and a white glow seemed to appear from her hand and entering James'.
She felt a surge pf energy collecting at her hand. She finally managed to roll James over so she lay next to him, still holding his hand, and the light grew stronger. James' body seemed to glow along with it, and suddenly Lily had an idea. She leaned over James and kissed him and immediately felt a surge of great power leave her body and enter James'; she didn't know she was giving up her own life force. She continued to kiss him, and James suddenly awoke and looked at Lily and started kissing her back, then she stopped kissing him and passed out cold next to him.
James had no idea what had just happened, one minute he could see Heaven's gates, the next he felt some one tug him back to Earth, then found him self being kissed by Lily. He was surprised that she had passed out, and didn't know what to do.
Just then his four friends appeared in the room and ran over to him. "James- Lily!" Sirius shouted.
"What happened is she okay?" Jimena asked leaning over Lily and looked over at James who couldn't get himself off the floor.
"What happened to YOU James?" Remus asked, eyeing James' gashes on his head that had bled to the front of his face dripping everywhere.
"For that matter, what happened all together?" Sierra demanded. "Where's Catty at, OH God, Vanessa!" Sierra screeched and rushed over to the girl who lay dead in the corner of the room.
"I'll explain later first, we need to get Lily and Vanessa's body back soon, before HE comes back to make sure we're dead." James said fear filling his voice, and they were happy to see the snake charms were able to take them back to Hogwarts.
The four friends carried three immobile people back to Hogwarts by portkey, and landed in the Great Hall; where the entire school was eating breakfast.
There was a lot of screaming as people ran over to see them and Dumbledore's face looked grave as he came over to them and McGonagall lifted Vanessa's body with a spell, and took her to the hospital wing. James and Lily were conjured stretchers and sent over too by Flitwick and Dumbledore.
James could hear people sobbing, learning the Vanessa was dead, and Lily might be too, soon. Mindy had rushed over to Lily's side next to Jimena and Sierra, who were just walking with expressionless looks on their faces.
James looked at Lily, her face was pale, and she looked sick. He felt terrible, and kept praying for her to be alive. He kept down a few sobs that threatened to come out as he was propelled up to the Hospital Wing, and was soon laid in a bed, next to Lily's.
Dumbledore tried to ask James questions, as did his friends, but they were ALL shooed away by Madam Pomfrey who kept telling them that James and Lily needed their rest. James went to sleep, but only after he'd been given a sleeping draught.
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Lily was having her first good dream in a long time, she was with James and he was smiling at her and they were walking by the Hogwarts lake talking about all kinds of things, and then the dream changed, and Lily found herself facing the 'real' James Potter who had fallen asleep and entered her dream, the fake James of her imagination was gone.
"Lily!" James exclaimed and hugged her, and he could actually feel it, unlike most dreams.
"James! I thought you were…I- Erm…This is confusing; this is a DREAM right? Last I remember I was-." Lily blushed, and stared down at her feet. James just scratched his head thinking of what to say in the awkward moment, as they remembered exactly WHAT they were doing last time she was conscious. "I only did it to save you; it seemed I was healing you or something…"
"You were, I think, but now your in the hospital wing unconscious, and I'm sleeping next you. Everyone's really worried about you; they think…they think you might die." James said, trying to hid the pain in his eyes.
"I won't die James, and even if I did; it was going to happen anyways." Lily said simply.
"Lily, don't talk like that! Plus, you don't know what your condition is! You're so pale, and sick and oh- it's awful!" James said eyes filled with fear.
"I can't die James; I wasn't hurt that bad when I did what…I….Erm…did. I just passed out from using up too much energy is all." Lily said with a shrug.
"Just don't give up on life okay? I know you'll be okay, you'll pull through." James said giving her one last hug and the dream was over and James awoke in the Hospital Wing.
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James looked at Lily and he noticed that it was late that afternoon. Lily continued to sleep peacefully, and then she awoke that evening. Sierra, Jimena, Sirius, Remus and Peter were finally aloud to visit them the next day, and they explained what happened; and then Dumbledore came in.
James and Lily started explaining again, and Lily was feeling much better. Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling with happiness as they watched Lily blush crimson when James told Dumbledore that Lily had kissed him, and somehow pulled him back from dying. Sirius of course had to crack a joke, even if it wasn't very good.
"God, Lils, you're a better kisser then I would have thought! You bring back the dead!" Sirius said grinning at her and James who were identical colors of red. Dumbledore chuckled, and finally spoke up.
"It seems to me, that Lily was a lot less injured then we thought, for she was able to give you some of her own life force, it's incredibly fascinating that she could do that unless…well I suppose THAT is possible." Dumbledore said smiling as they looked confusedly at him.
"What THAT?" Lily asked getting curious.
"Ah, you'll figure it out; at least I should hope that my top two students could figure something out like that. The curse has a great many side effects and special things it can do; some that I wish you two could be able to experiment with, but then you have to- well you'd have to love each other as much as the past people under the curse." Dumbledore said, chuckling and the appalled looks he got from all the teenagers in the room. "Well, anyways have a good day, didn't Madam Pomfrey say you could leave tomorrow? That was a remarkable recovery if I've ever seen one." With that said, Dumbledore left, with business elsewhere like Vanessa and Catty's memorial banquet; he had had the wonderful experience of telling parents that their daughter was dead, by murder.
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A/NI was thinking, do you think I should end this like Pulling the Moves ended? And have a sequel? That'd be funny, but they wouldn't break up, but hold on I'm just brain storming! It took 4 days to get to 91 reviews from like…83 or something, I'm ashamed of myself! This Chapter is taking a long time because I keep changing it every time I open it to write more, I'm not happy with it, if you get confused just review and I will answer!!! **It's a promise** did you like this chapter?? I don't know what I'm going to do with it now, probably something interesting…I hope. It's a bit confusing now, and I can't shut up so bye!
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A/N Did I ever say what Catty looked like? Well, I don't remember, this story is getting to big for me!! Yikes I should have taken notes on my characters; that's probably what the Queen herself does. (JK Rowling). Um there's a little bit of L/J in here. Also, I'm sorry if this is a bit confusing, I kept going back and changing things because I wasn't happy with it, all day I was at school thinking of how to change it around…but I didn't want to change it completely. Here it goes! I was thinking, do you think I should end this like Pulling the Moves ended? And have a sequel? That'd be funny, but they wouldn't break up, but hold on I'm just brain storming!
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CHAPTER 24
The whole time Lily was getting pulled she was thinking 'How could I have been so STUPID?!' Now, she was going to die, and Vanessa and Catty would too, and she'd never become a fully certified witch, or see her friends again-that was another thought, what if they went looking for her. Lily was struck with horror at the thoughts of them looking for her. Lily thought of James and how they could never be together, which depressed her even more.
Not much later, Lily found herself falling onto a cold stone floor, in what looked like an old room in a medieval castle. Lily knew it wasn't Hogwarts, and was wondering what she was thinking just picking up the broom like that; okay, so she had really wanted to save Vanessa and Catty, but that wasn't the way to do it.
Lily picked herself up, looking around for what to do next. She then remembered exactly what the broom might be: A portkey, but as she went to pick it up to take her back it turned into ashes. Lily was dead meat, done for, finished, meeting her maker, dead and buried, pull the plug, she was dead. And she could only wonder what had happened to Catty and Vanessa, and HOW had they been taken in the first place…or had it been a bluff. It was likely 'Why had I been so GULLIBLE!? Gullible: susceptible, naïve, easy to fool, innocent, trusting, credulous' Lily thought angrily to herself.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, and did I say STUPID?!" Lily yelled out angrily to know one, but was surprisingly answered.
"Yes, what the Hell are you doing here Lily?" Her favorite other red head, Catty bellowed, coming in from the door that Lily hadn't noticed. Vanessa came in quickly behind her both looked shocked, scared, and annoyed that Lily had come after them.
"Stupid: unintelligent, dim, thick, dumb, dense, slow, brainless, foolish, mindless, dim witted." Lily said, this is what happens when she gets nervous.
"Lily, I think we know what it means, but what we need to know is why you are here? We know You-Know-Who is after you, and partly why, but you shouldn't have come here!" Vanessa said with her hands on her hips, looking worried.
"Because, I came to SAVE you! Save: rescue, free, SET free, release, liberate, unshackle-." Lily started going into her defining the word phase again.
"LILY, shut up! We need a plan and we need it now if we're going to get out of here alive." Catty shouted.
"Alive? You guys think we can make it out of here ALIVE? Well, maybe you guys can, but I can't I know it, he wants me dead and he has since I was 12! I couldn't stay safe for long; with me out of the way…At least James will be safe." Lily said sadly.
"LILY EVANS, don't think like that! You'll make it out of here alive if any of us do, and James is probably already trying to get here-." Vanessa was cut off.
"I pray to God he's not coming here, the rest of us are already dead meat." Lily growled. "So tell me how long have you been here, and what you know about this…place."
"Catty and I were…walking by the forbidden forest, I know we shouldn't have, but we were curious, and then we heard some one crying, it sounded like you, so we went in and well-."
"We were caught, kidnapped, and knocked unconscious, which to me sounds like something that happened to you." Catty finished. Lily glared, in spite of the situation, she felt like laughing and she couldn't do that.
"What do you know about this place, does that place go off anywhere?" Lily asked pointing to the door they came through.
"No, just another room, these two are connected; it's weird, no other doors or windows, not even a FIRE PLACE!" Vanessa said frustrated, she and Catty had been trying to escape for hours, and had no such luck at anything.
"I guess we just…wait for HIM to come along and-." Lily started to say.
"Lily are you in Gryffindor or NOT? You are suppose to be brave, not wait around like a-a new born puppy, waiting to die!" Catty shouted, she had no plans of dying that day, and she wasn't going to let Lily give up that easily.
"New born puppy?" Lily and Catty asked at the same time.
"There's nothing we can do now, I just hope he let's you two go, it's not even your fault you're here, it's mine and I'm sorry for getting you into this mess." Lily said.
"It's okay Lils, plus it's not entirely your fault…You-Know-Who has been after me and Vanessa's families for a while now. He wants us dead too, just to kill off the muggle born witch and wizard families, so no more can be 'made' from our dirty blood or something like that." Catty explained.
"That's terrible, but I didn't know you two were muggle born, I thought I was the only one!" Six years in the same dorm and she never knew this!
"Well we are, we kept quiet, we didn't want any trouble with…the Slytherins, like you do." Vanessa said blushing.
"It's okay, I understand perfectly." Lily said with a small smile.
"Hmm, considering we are probably going to A.) Either die by morning B.) Starve to death C.) Go insane; I'm having an interesting conversation!" Catty said sitting on the floor cross legged, and Lily and Vanessa followed suit.
"Yeah, I never really thought too much about being in a life or death situation before; it's…disturbing, how do you put up with it Lils?" Vanessa asked.
"I have no clue, it just comes at you so quick sometimes, you don't have time to think, and half the time it seems I'm unconscious." Lily said with a shrug.
"What do you think it's like to die?" Catty asked out of almost no where.
"Hmm…I always pictured a bright light, like in muggle movies." Lily replied. "But it's probably a bit different then that, I just hope my death is quick, and I don't have to be tortured or something…terrible like that."
"I always thought everything went black, and then you are in heaven and everything's over." Vanessa said thoughtfully.
"I personally, always thought of an angel taking my hand and lifting my soul out of my body." Catty said grinning at the thought of an angel.
"Not that I believe we are all going to die or anything." Lily lied. "But what would you say to your family if you had the chance to say good bye before you died?"
"I love you, and don't grieve about me too much." Catty said after a moment of thought.
"I would probably say that, and to take care of my cat, Fluffy." Vanessa said. "Probably anything else that came to mind too."
"I'm with you guys, except…I have no family to say good bye to, I mean my sister Petunia has shunned me from her life, and my parents are dead. I think I'd tell Jimena and Sierra not to worry about me and to move on with their lives."
"You wouldn't say anything to James?" Catty said grinning.
"No, why would you ask that?" Lily said trying not to blush.
"Duh, because we both know you love him!" Vanessa said also grinning.
"I. Do. Not! He's just my friend…if even that!" Lily defended herself.
"Uh huh, suuuure." Catty said and the subject was closed…mostly anyways.
"What if James does get here? You guys know he's always out to save me…but I couldn't bare it if he died because of me." Lily said with a shudder.
"Lily, you have too much to worry about."
The three of them talked for a while sitting in the middle of the windowless room that was only lit by a few torches.
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Sierra and Jimena woke up at the same time when owls flew into their faces. Dropping identical letters:
Look around your dorm.
Was all it said, the two girls jumped up and were relieved to see each other, then they went straight to Lily's bed and found it empty, as were Catty and Vanessa's.
"What the HELL is going on?!" Sierra screeched in fear.
"How am I SUPPOSED to know??" Jimena yelled back.
"Do you think they went some where together? I mean that way Lily wouldn't be alone right?" Sierra asked nervously.
"It's possible, we shouldn't jump to conclusions right now, let's look around-." Jimena noticed a piece of paper lying on Lily's bed; it was the note Lily had gotten hours before.
"This is bad." Sierra said fear seeping into her voice.
"Yeah, I think Lily went to get them; and SHE DIDN'T EVEN WAKE US!" Jimena yelled, she was mad, scared, afraid, and she didn't know what to do.
"Let's go get Dumbledore-." Just then another owl flew into the room and dropped a letter that said:
Don't go to Dumbledore, or they are dead in a flick of my wand. Please inform Mister Black and Mister Lupin that I give my condolences for their deceased friend Mister James Potter.
Jimena and Sierra were out the door running to the boys' dorms as fast as they could. They ran to their boyfriends and woke them up from sleeping, while trying not to wake Peter.
"Sirius! Sirius!" Sierra whispered shaking him as Jimena did the same with Remus. The two girls explained the situation as best they could, for there was a lot they didn't know themselves. James wasn't in the room.
"Dear God, what are we going to do?" Sirius said shakily, thinking his best friend was dead.
"D-Do you really think he's- gone?" Remus asked the room Peter had awakened and was just as worried as the rest of them.
"I don't know, You-know-who might just be messing with us, but I'm not sure." Jimena whispered.
"We have to do something!" Sierra cried, and yet another owl flew into the room and dropped four letters labeled to each of them and inside each of them was an odd looking snake charm…
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~Two hours before~
James awoke with a start, he'd just seen Lily talking to Catty and Vanessa about death, and they seemed to be planning on dying. James knew something had to of happened to Lily, but he didn't know what, and he didn't know where to go, and this had never happened before.
An owl flew into his room and dropped off a small snake charm. James picked it up and was instantly pulled into another place, and landed right next to Lily, Vanessa and Catty.
"JAMES?!" The three girls shouted and stood up in shock, Lily's face looked panic.
"James Potter go back now! NOW! Before it's too late!"
"Too late for what? What the Hell is going on?!" James demanded Lily went looking for the way he came and saw some ashes fall out of his hand and knew it was too late, how ever he'd gotten there; it was too late now to go back the portkey was burned up.
Lily, Catty and Vanessa all explained all that they knew, and James was pissed at Lily for going.
"Lily! What the hell were you thinking?! You shouldn't have come here at all! Why didn't you wake me, or at least Jimena and Sierra? Are you insane?!" James bellowed at her.
"James, it's just I was worried, I didn't want them to die on my behalf, I admit I didn't think, it was stupid and I should have gotten help, but I didn't so deal with it." Lily said turning her back and ignoring him. James grumbled to himself for a few minutes.
Out of no where they heard a 'snap' 'crackle' 'pop' and Voldemort appeared before them. Catty and Vanessa shyed away from him, while James and Lily stood before him ready to die. Of course James wouldn't have Lily trying to get her self killed so he stepped in front of her.
"So, finally I have you to myself, Mister Potter, I have a proposition to make to you. Join my side; the 'good' side and you will have everything you ever wanted." Voldemort hissed in a snake like way.
"What I want is to get out of here." James said bravely. 'God he goes right to the point.' James thought to himself.
"You will, but only if you join with my ranks, and give me the mudblood you are so fond of." Voldemort demanded, James managed to keep himself from blushing about the fact that it seemed EVERYONE knew he liked Lily.
"I will never join with you; I stand beside Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic." James said firmly, and hid the fear he felt within himself.
"Dumbledore is a fool, who doesn't know power when it hits him in the face!" Voldemort spat.
"If he's such a fool then why are you so afraid of him?" Lily spoke up angrily, James and Voldemort both glared at her. Voldemort for her bringing THAT up; and James for her say something that could get her killed.
"I'm not afraid of the mudblood loving fool; he's just not worth my energy." Voldemort said carelessly. "Now Potter join me or die, decide now, or watch HER die, and then suffer your own fate."
James looked at Lily and gulped, he didn't know what to do it was a hopeless situation and was getting confusing. "I won't let you kill Lily; you can kill me but not her." James said.
"I'm sorry to say, but if I kill you there's no reason not to kill her. I just can't have you two getting in my way, your future as I've said to the mudblood, is highly fatal to me, and I would prefer you to not cause those problems." Voldemort said, getting more and more annoyed.
"What about our future? Do you even know what it is? Worried about something that hasn't even happened yet; or should I say you're AFRAID?" James asked coolly.
"I'm not afraid, I just don't want any one getting in my way as I climb to power, and rid the world of mudbloods like HER. Now join me Potter, I'm losing patience."
With one last look at Lily, James answered. "I won't ever join with the scum of YOUR kind."
"Then prepare to die Potter." Voldemort said anger flashing in his eyes; he would have liked to have Potter on his side, it would greatly benefit him. "The mudblood dies, now." Voldemort lifted his wand and yelled the unforgivable curse that slowly kills you with torture. "CRUCIO!" He shouted, pointing his wand at Lily.
Lily collapsed to the ground, and Catty and Vanessa went to her side as she screamed in pain, James stood there in shock and faced Voldemort without his wand, since it was back in his dorm by his bed side table.
James has done many stupid things, but this by far must have been the stupidest. He was punching out Voldemort, and soon found himself hovering in the air and then being thrown into the stone wall 20 ft away, by a powerful spell. James could feel his head bleeding, as he hit the wall once more with a powerful blow, and the spell was cut off and James fell to the floor slipping in and out of unconsciousness.
James could still her Lily's screams filling the room, then there was silence and James heard the most fatal words a wizard can say. "Aveda Kedavra" James struggled to get over to Lily, but he couldn't stand up.
He heard Voldemort laughing, and James was angry that he couldn't do anything about the situation. He couldn't go on if Lily was dead, but he needed to get revenge. James slowly stood up and noticed Voldemort holding a red head which he assumed was Lily. If she was dead what was he doing with her? Voldemort conjured a portkey of yet another snake charm, and put around her neck he seemed disgusted touching her in anyway; then she disappeared.
James felt hopeless; at least he could save Catty and Vanessa who were lying on the floor crumpled up. James struggled and used all his strength to walk over to where Voldemort was scowling at him, waiting for him to get there. He noticed Vanessa looked…dead.
"Potter, I'm surprised at your strength, especially after your girlfriend just died."
"She's not my girlfriend, I don't deserve her." James forced out.
"Very well, it's a shame to kill such a powerful wizard to be." Voldemort said with fake pity and an evil laugh. "CRUCIO!" James stumbled in pain and landed on the red head on the floor. "I'll leave you to die in peace, it's the least I can do." He said with a laugh after watching James moan in pain for a while. "I have to send for your friends to find your dead bodies now. Good bye." And Voldemort disappeared. James felt the curse leave him, but he could feel himself dying he looked down at Catty, and noticed it wasn't Catty, it was Lily.
James grabbed her hand and held it, and felt a little better, but soon he blacked out, on his way to heaven.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up and felt someone holding her hand and laying on top of her, she groaned in pain, and opened her eyes and saw James, he was covered in blood, and his breathing was shallow and faint. She prayed he wasn't dying; she'd been so sure she had died her self not too long ago.
If he was dead, she'd never forgive herself. She couldn't live with out him, as much as she denied it to everyone; she honestly loved him, at least that's what she thought, she wasn't for sure what it felt like.
Lily struggled to get up, but she didn't want to leave him either, and it hurt too much. So she stayed like that, and then she noticed how their hands were holding each other and a white glow seemed to appear from her hand and entering James'.
She felt a surge pf energy collecting at her hand. She finally managed to roll James over so she lay next to him, still holding his hand, and the light grew stronger. James' body seemed to glow along with it, and suddenly Lily had an idea. She leaned over James and kissed him and immediately felt a surge of great power leave her body and enter James'; she didn't know she was giving up her own life force. She continued to kiss him, and James suddenly awoke and looked at Lily and started kissing her back, then she stopped kissing him and passed out cold next to him.
James had no idea what had just happened, one minute he could see Heaven's gates, the next he felt some one tug him back to Earth, then found him self being kissed by Lily. He was surprised that she had passed out, and didn't know what to do.
Just then his four friends appeared in the room and ran over to him. "James- Lily!" Sirius shouted.
"What happened is she okay?" Jimena asked leaning over Lily and looked over at James who couldn't get himself off the floor.
"What happened to YOU James?" Remus asked, eyeing James' gashes on his head that had bled to the front of his face dripping everywhere.
"For that matter, what happened all together?" Sierra demanded. "Where's Catty at, OH God, Vanessa!" Sierra screeched and rushed over to the girl who lay dead in the corner of the room.
"I'll explain later first, we need to get Lily and Vanessa's body back soon, before HE comes back to make sure we're dead." James said fear filling his voice, and they were happy to see the snake charms were able to take them back to Hogwarts.
The four friends carried three immobile people back to Hogwarts by portkey, and landed in the Great Hall; where the entire school was eating breakfast.
There was a lot of screaming as people ran over to see them and Dumbledore's face looked grave as he came over to them and McGonagall lifted Vanessa's body with a spell, and took her to the hospital wing. James and Lily were conjured stretchers and sent over too by Flitwick and Dumbledore.
James could hear people sobbing, learning the Vanessa was dead, and Lily might be too, soon. Mindy had rushed over to Lily's side next to Jimena and Sierra, who were just walking with expressionless looks on their faces.
James looked at Lily, her face was pale, and she looked sick. He felt terrible, and kept praying for her to be alive. He kept down a few sobs that threatened to come out as he was propelled up to the Hospital Wing, and was soon laid in a bed, next to Lily's.
Dumbledore tried to ask James questions, as did his friends, but they were ALL shooed away by Madam Pomfrey who kept telling them that James and Lily needed their rest. James went to sleep, but only after he'd been given a sleeping draught.
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Lily was having her first good dream in a long time, she was with James and he was smiling at her and they were walking by the Hogwarts lake talking about all kinds of things, and then the dream changed, and Lily found herself facing the 'real' James Potter who had fallen asleep and entered her dream, the fake James of her imagination was gone.
"Lily!" James exclaimed and hugged her, and he could actually feel it, unlike most dreams.
"James! I thought you were…I- Erm…This is confusing; this is a DREAM right? Last I remember I was-." Lily blushed, and stared down at her feet. James just scratched his head thinking of what to say in the awkward moment, as they remembered exactly WHAT they were doing last time she was conscious. "I only did it to save you; it seemed I was healing you or something…"
"You were, I think, but now your in the hospital wing unconscious, and I'm sleeping next you. Everyone's really worried about you; they think…they think you might die." James said, trying to hid the pain in his eyes.
"I won't die James, and even if I did; it was going to happen anyways." Lily said simply.
"Lily, don't talk like that! Plus, you don't know what your condition is! You're so pale, and sick and oh- it's awful!" James said eyes filled with fear.
"I can't die James; I wasn't hurt that bad when I did what…I….Erm…did. I just passed out from using up too much energy is all." Lily said with a shrug.
"Just don't give up on life okay? I know you'll be okay, you'll pull through." James said giving her one last hug and the dream was over and James awoke in the Hospital Wing.
*~*~*~*~*
James looked at Lily and he noticed that it was late that afternoon. Lily continued to sleep peacefully, and then she awoke that evening. Sierra, Jimena, Sirius, Remus and Peter were finally aloud to visit them the next day, and they explained what happened; and then Dumbledore came in.
James and Lily started explaining again, and Lily was feeling much better. Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling with happiness as they watched Lily blush crimson when James told Dumbledore that Lily had kissed him, and somehow pulled him back from dying. Sirius of course had to crack a joke, even if it wasn't very good.
"God, Lils, you're a better kisser then I would have thought! You bring back the dead!" Sirius said grinning at her and James who were identical colors of red. Dumbledore chuckled, and finally spoke up.
"It seems to me, that Lily was a lot less injured then we thought, for she was able to give you some of her own life force, it's incredibly fascinating that she could do that unless…well I suppose THAT is possible." Dumbledore said smiling as they looked confusedly at him.
"What THAT?" Lily asked getting curious.
"Ah, you'll figure it out; at least I should hope that my top two students could figure something out like that. The curse has a great many side effects and special things it can do; some that I wish you two could be able to experiment with, but then you have to- well you'd have to love each other as much as the past people under the curse." Dumbledore said, chuckling and the appalled looks he got from all the teenagers in the room. "Well, anyways have a good day, didn't Madam Pomfrey say you could leave tomorrow? That was a remarkable recovery if I've ever seen one." With that said, Dumbledore left, with business elsewhere like Vanessa and Catty's memorial banquet; he had had the wonderful experience of telling parents that their daughter was dead, by murder.
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A/NI was thinking, do you think I should end this like Pulling the Moves ended? And have a sequel? That'd be funny, but they wouldn't break up, but hold on I'm just brain storming! It took 4 days to get to 91 reviews from like…83 or something, I'm ashamed of myself! This Chapter is taking a long time because I keep changing it every time I open it to write more, I'm not happy with it, if you get confused just review and I will answer!!! **It's a promise** did you like this chapter?? I don't know what I'm going to do with it now, probably something interesting…I hope. It's a bit confusing now, and I can't shut up so bye!
*~Sierra~*