All By Myself chapt 3
A/N I hoped you enjoyed the last chapter. Sorry if it was a little unrealistic, I was just getting sick of my other fic, Lily being "really popular and the "most sought out girl in school" Thanx all you nice nice people who reviewed last time. Please review this time too. If you review then I will try to review one of your stories too. Feel free to read and review my other fic too. But anyway on with the story.
Disclaimer: nothing is mine…. Ahem apart for the mistakes.
When Lily woke up she found herself in the hospital wing with the marauders surrounding her bed, and she remembered everything. She groaned and tried to sit up
but it hurt too much.
"she's woken up", Remus suddenly said. The other two stared down at Lily and grinned at her. She smiled back.
"where's Alex?" she asked them.
"in detention" James said grimly "but you don't need to worry about her now."
"what? Oh no, you told that she was beating me up didn't you? Didn't you?" she groaned. James put his hand on her shoulder soothingly,
"what's the matter? Aren't you glad"
"no, don't you get it now that you've told people she was beating me up, she's going to get me again and she's gonna be so mad it'll be worse than it usually is"
"Lil," sirius said "she and Helen were abusing you, don't you see that? We had to tell someone,"
"they weren't abusing me, I deserved it, They were right all along, you didn't want me to sit with you, I-''
"lily listen to me" James cut her off "of course we wanted you with us, and you didn't ever deserve the things that they did to you, tell me what have you ever done to them?"
Lily paused a bit before saying, "they told me once they only beat me up because I'm so small and ugly. They said no one would ever like me and if they killed me they'd be doing me a favour. They said I was a disgrace to Hogwarts, you can't imagine the things they said to me James!" Lily said quietly.
James clasped Lily's hands in his. He was so shocked he was having difficulty finding words. How can they say that he thought, she's not ugly at all she's beautiful
"Lily" he said slowly "that is no reason to beat you up, how can we make you realise that? They nearly killed you for Christs sake Lil. You've been unconscious for 3
days they broke your arm and your nose. Now what do we have to do to get the message through to you?"
Lily stared up at the faces of the marauders. They're expressions were warm, full of sincerity and care.
"trust us" Sirius said gently. This was a big ordeal for Sirius, he knew that Lily was being beaten up but he never knew it was so bad. He had been too mixed up in his pranks. James was the only one who had truly noticed the trouble Lily was in. James just wished he had noticed it sooner.
"I couldn't face all the people out there. Especially Alex and Helen, and everyone else will hate me for getting Alex into trouble."
"no they won't" said Sirius cheerfully, "and anyway we threatened them with the comforting thought that if they did then they would suffer a tortuous time of pranks, so you're completely safe!"
"yeah said Remus "just stick with us and you'll be fine."
Lily smiled gratefully,
"but won't Alex come after you now" she asked concerned.
"don't worry about that" James said "she's still in love with us, she wouldn't dream of
doing anything to us incase it ruined her chances!"
"thanks so much, I s'pose it'll be a while before I'm out of here anyway".
James smiled it looked like Lily was cheering up a bit. He couldn't describe why but he really cared for this girl, he cared more about her than he had anyone else in a long time. Ever since he had cursed her by accident he had felt sort of drawn to her like a drug, and he was struggling to find the answer to it. James was the type of person who likes to work everything out and gets annoyed very easily if he can't.
"you'll be out of here in 3 days at the latest" he said comfortingly.
"James what'll happen if Alex gets me again, she will you know, she really hates me. We used to live on the same street and once" here Lily shuddered at the memory, "she locked me in the garden shed, which is full of spiders and rats. I could feel them crawling round my feet, and it was awful. It was hours before somebody found me….." she trailed off.
Sirius was beginning to feel depressed. Sirius was the type of person who was always happy and he couldn't really understand why Lily wasn't.
"come on" he said to James and Peter "lets leave Lily in peace. She needs the rest."
James and Remus reluctantly agreed. Lily was left alone.
"At last we're out" said Sirius "man, she was depressing me to death!!!"
"Sirius!" James exclaimed "that's mean. We should do something to cheer her up."
"I know, lets pull a prank. Then we cheer ourselves up and when we tell Lily it'll cheer her up". This seemed like a logical idea, so they agreed.
"We havn't done anything to Mrs Norris yet this term" Sirius said.
"what can we do to her?" Remus asked
"we can turn he green with pink polka dots and we can charm her so that once she finds her owner i.e. Filch, he'll go pink and green too." James said.
Everyone decided that this would have to do because they couldn't be bothered to think of anything more complicated.
"Ok" Sirius said "we'll do it tonight and tell Lily in the morning. You can be responsible for changing her colour Jamsie, and me and Remus will keep watch."
Lily couldn't get to sleep. Partly because of the bone gro stuff and partly because, madame Pomfrey had said she was free to go the next morning seeing there wasn't really any other reason she should be kept in. Lily thought of what school would be like tomorrow. She thought of the 400 pairs of eyes that would be watching her "the girl who gets herself beaten up". She thought of Alexs black eyes boring menacingly into her and of Helen's cold blue eyes staring at her without feeling. She shuddered. She guessed that James and co. would stick by her. Were they her real friends now.
Imagine that. Little Lily Evans friends with the most popular boys in hogwarts. She laughed to herself. If only.
Alex and Helen had just come out of a very severe detention, had been given a long insufferable talk from Dumbledore about how thoughtless they were and if they did anything of the sort again then they would both be expelled.
Helen was feeling really bad about the whole episode. The fact that she had helped almost kill Lily hit her like an electric shock and she felt terrible. Her parents were being owled with the information, and she knew she had let them down big time. But most of all, she was highly disappointed in herself. She had almost taken someones life and the reality of it was kicking her. She was so sorry she didn't know how to put it down in words. Alex on the other hand was gloating over the victory. She was pleased. Helen badly wanted to end her friendship with Alex but she was too frightened of what Alex might do to her so she just tolerated Alex as much as possible. But now she couldn't take it any longer, she had to apologise to Lily it would be the one good thing she had done in the whole of her pitiful little life. She got up and set off in the direction of the hospital wing.
"where are you going?" Alex said
"to see Lily" Helen answered bravely.
"what? Why the hell would you want to do that? You hate Lily remember. Stay here and stop being such an idiot."
"No, Alex. Don't you think we owe it to her? Well I don't care what you think, I'm still going."
"You're a little traitor Helen, I don't see why I ever liked you, you're a coward!"
"no Alex, you're the coward. You're a disgusting two faced wimp, and our friendship is over, lost, gone down the drain. I hate you. What has that poor girl ever done to us?"
"you're making a big mistake here, Helen" Alex replied laughing, "you'll soon come running back to me."
"no Alex the only mistake I've made, is making friends with you." she finished dramatically and stormed out the room.
Alex spat after her "I think not" she whispered to herself.
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Helen entered the hospital wing and saw Lily lying asleep in one of the beds. Her face was pale and ashen from having lost so much blood and her hair had lost it's
normal shine and was hanging limp and greasy like red string around her shoulders.
Helen got a chair and sat next to her. Lily stirred and looked up, her eyes widened,
"what are you doing here?" she said, her voice hinting panic
Helen tok a deep breath, "I guess I came to tell you that I'm sorry. Really really sorry, for everything I've ever done to you."
Lily's tense face relaxed into a half smile,
"do you really mean that?" she asked "or this another sick joke of yours?"
"Lily I've come to my senses now, I'd quite like it if we were friends."
"I'm not a very trusting person you know Helen"
"I can imagine, with me and Alex at your throat all the time!"
"where is Alex" Lily asked
"oh you don't have to worry about her, our friendships over………….. I've realised
what I could have done to you Lily. I could have killed you"
This must be really hard for her to do Lily thought.
"please Lily, can we start over?"
"I don't know Helen, I value friends as people I can trust, do you seriously think that I could trust you after the things you've done to me"
"I'm sorry Lily" Helen said in a low voice, "I really am" and to Lily's surprise she burst into tears. Lily immediately felt sorry for her "I thought you would perhaps
like to be my friend. I thought we should stick together seeing Alex hates us both! I guess I was wrong," there was a silence for a moment "I suppose I'll be going then."
She turned and headed for the door, casting Lily one more sad glance.
"No Helen wait!!!" Lily called out to her. Helen turned around looking hopeful.
"you're right, we should stick together and I can pursuade James and everyone to like you too………I'd like to be friends!!!"
"really?"
"yes, ……you'll be my first proper friend that I've ever had though" she added doubtfully
"don't worry, you'll be my first too, unless you can call Alex a proper friend" they both laughed shyly. "come here" Helen said and she hugged Lily and Lily hugged her back.
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A/N I hoped you enjoyed the last chapter. Sorry if it was a little unrealistic, I was just getting sick of my other fic, Lily being "really popular and the "most sought out girl in school" Thanx all you nice nice people who reviewed last time. Please review this time too. If you review then I will try to review one of your stories too. Feel free to read and review my other fic too. But anyway on with the story.
Disclaimer: nothing is mine…. Ahem apart for the mistakes.
When Lily woke up she found herself in the hospital wing with the marauders surrounding her bed, and she remembered everything. She groaned and tried to sit up
but it hurt too much.
"she's woken up", Remus suddenly said. The other two stared down at Lily and grinned at her. She smiled back.
"where's Alex?" she asked them.
"in detention" James said grimly "but you don't need to worry about her now."
"what? Oh no, you told that she was beating me up didn't you? Didn't you?" she groaned. James put his hand on her shoulder soothingly,
"what's the matter? Aren't you glad"
"no, don't you get it now that you've told people she was beating me up, she's going to get me again and she's gonna be so mad it'll be worse than it usually is"
"Lil," sirius said "she and Helen were abusing you, don't you see that? We had to tell someone,"
"they weren't abusing me, I deserved it, They were right all along, you didn't want me to sit with you, I-''
"lily listen to me" James cut her off "of course we wanted you with us, and you didn't ever deserve the things that they did to you, tell me what have you ever done to them?"
Lily paused a bit before saying, "they told me once they only beat me up because I'm so small and ugly. They said no one would ever like me and if they killed me they'd be doing me a favour. They said I was a disgrace to Hogwarts, you can't imagine the things they said to me James!" Lily said quietly.
James clasped Lily's hands in his. He was so shocked he was having difficulty finding words. How can they say that he thought, she's not ugly at all she's beautiful
"Lily" he said slowly "that is no reason to beat you up, how can we make you realise that? They nearly killed you for Christs sake Lil. You've been unconscious for 3
days they broke your arm and your nose. Now what do we have to do to get the message through to you?"
Lily stared up at the faces of the marauders. They're expressions were warm, full of sincerity and care.
"trust us" Sirius said gently. This was a big ordeal for Sirius, he knew that Lily was being beaten up but he never knew it was so bad. He had been too mixed up in his pranks. James was the only one who had truly noticed the trouble Lily was in. James just wished he had noticed it sooner.
"I couldn't face all the people out there. Especially Alex and Helen, and everyone else will hate me for getting Alex into trouble."
"no they won't" said Sirius cheerfully, "and anyway we threatened them with the comforting thought that if they did then they would suffer a tortuous time of pranks, so you're completely safe!"
"yeah said Remus "just stick with us and you'll be fine."
Lily smiled gratefully,
"but won't Alex come after you now" she asked concerned.
"don't worry about that" James said "she's still in love with us, she wouldn't dream of
doing anything to us incase it ruined her chances!"
"thanks so much, I s'pose it'll be a while before I'm out of here anyway".
James smiled it looked like Lily was cheering up a bit. He couldn't describe why but he really cared for this girl, he cared more about her than he had anyone else in a long time. Ever since he had cursed her by accident he had felt sort of drawn to her like a drug, and he was struggling to find the answer to it. James was the type of person who likes to work everything out and gets annoyed very easily if he can't.
"you'll be out of here in 3 days at the latest" he said comfortingly.
"James what'll happen if Alex gets me again, she will you know, she really hates me. We used to live on the same street and once" here Lily shuddered at the memory, "she locked me in the garden shed, which is full of spiders and rats. I could feel them crawling round my feet, and it was awful. It was hours before somebody found me….." she trailed off.
Sirius was beginning to feel depressed. Sirius was the type of person who was always happy and he couldn't really understand why Lily wasn't.
"come on" he said to James and Peter "lets leave Lily in peace. She needs the rest."
James and Remus reluctantly agreed. Lily was left alone.
"At last we're out" said Sirius "man, she was depressing me to death!!!"
"Sirius!" James exclaimed "that's mean. We should do something to cheer her up."
"I know, lets pull a prank. Then we cheer ourselves up and when we tell Lily it'll cheer her up". This seemed like a logical idea, so they agreed.
"We havn't done anything to Mrs Norris yet this term" Sirius said.
"what can we do to her?" Remus asked
"we can turn he green with pink polka dots and we can charm her so that once she finds her owner i.e. Filch, he'll go pink and green too." James said.
Everyone decided that this would have to do because they couldn't be bothered to think of anything more complicated.
"Ok" Sirius said "we'll do it tonight and tell Lily in the morning. You can be responsible for changing her colour Jamsie, and me and Remus will keep watch."
Lily couldn't get to sleep. Partly because of the bone gro stuff and partly because, madame Pomfrey had said she was free to go the next morning seeing there wasn't really any other reason she should be kept in. Lily thought of what school would be like tomorrow. She thought of the 400 pairs of eyes that would be watching her "the girl who gets herself beaten up". She thought of Alexs black eyes boring menacingly into her and of Helen's cold blue eyes staring at her without feeling. She shuddered. She guessed that James and co. would stick by her. Were they her real friends now.
Imagine that. Little Lily Evans friends with the most popular boys in hogwarts. She laughed to herself. If only.
Alex and Helen had just come out of a very severe detention, had been given a long insufferable talk from Dumbledore about how thoughtless they were and if they did anything of the sort again then they would both be expelled.
Helen was feeling really bad about the whole episode. The fact that she had helped almost kill Lily hit her like an electric shock and she felt terrible. Her parents were being owled with the information, and she knew she had let them down big time. But most of all, she was highly disappointed in herself. She had almost taken someones life and the reality of it was kicking her. She was so sorry she didn't know how to put it down in words. Alex on the other hand was gloating over the victory. She was pleased. Helen badly wanted to end her friendship with Alex but she was too frightened of what Alex might do to her so she just tolerated Alex as much as possible. But now she couldn't take it any longer, she had to apologise to Lily it would be the one good thing she had done in the whole of her pitiful little life. She got up and set off in the direction of the hospital wing.
"where are you going?" Alex said
"to see Lily" Helen answered bravely.
"what? Why the hell would you want to do that? You hate Lily remember. Stay here and stop being such an idiot."
"No, Alex. Don't you think we owe it to her? Well I don't care what you think, I'm still going."
"You're a little traitor Helen, I don't see why I ever liked you, you're a coward!"
"no Alex, you're the coward. You're a disgusting two faced wimp, and our friendship is over, lost, gone down the drain. I hate you. What has that poor girl ever done to us?"
"you're making a big mistake here, Helen" Alex replied laughing, "you'll soon come running back to me."
"no Alex the only mistake I've made, is making friends with you." she finished dramatically and stormed out the room.
Alex spat after her "I think not" she whispered to herself.
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Helen entered the hospital wing and saw Lily lying asleep in one of the beds. Her face was pale and ashen from having lost so much blood and her hair had lost it's
normal shine and was hanging limp and greasy like red string around her shoulders.
Helen got a chair and sat next to her. Lily stirred and looked up, her eyes widened,
"what are you doing here?" she said, her voice hinting panic
Helen tok a deep breath, "I guess I came to tell you that I'm sorry. Really really sorry, for everything I've ever done to you."
Lily's tense face relaxed into a half smile,
"do you really mean that?" she asked "or this another sick joke of yours?"
"Lily I've come to my senses now, I'd quite like it if we were friends."
"I'm not a very trusting person you know Helen"
"I can imagine, with me and Alex at your throat all the time!"
"where is Alex" Lily asked
"oh you don't have to worry about her, our friendships over………….. I've realised
what I could have done to you Lily. I could have killed you"
This must be really hard for her to do Lily thought.
"please Lily, can we start over?"
"I don't know Helen, I value friends as people I can trust, do you seriously think that I could trust you after the things you've done to me"
"I'm sorry Lily" Helen said in a low voice, "I really am" and to Lily's surprise she burst into tears. Lily immediately felt sorry for her "I thought you would perhaps
like to be my friend. I thought we should stick together seeing Alex hates us both! I guess I was wrong," there was a silence for a moment "I suppose I'll be going then."
She turned and headed for the door, casting Lily one more sad glance.
"No Helen wait!!!" Lily called out to her. Helen turned around looking hopeful.
"you're right, we should stick together and I can pursuade James and everyone to like you too………I'd like to be friends!!!"
"really?"
"yes, ……you'll be my first proper friend that I've ever had though" she added doubtfully
"don't worry, you'll be my first too, unless you can call Alex a proper friend" they both laughed shyly. "come here" Helen said and she hugged Lily and Lily hugged her back.
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