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  She jumped up off of James shoulder and she almost automatically burst into tears.  James steadied her by placing both his hands on either sides of her shoulders and asked her what was wrong.  Lily looked at her future husband and sobbed even harder.  She was going to die before her child grew up.  By now James had looked her in the eyes, wondering what could have woken her up and made her cry.  He was pushing her red hair away from her eyes and behind her ears when she began to talk, "Harry…. Faced Voldemort…..Parents dead……I'm his mum….you're" but then she burst out in tears again.  She buried her head in his chest while silent tears cascaded down her cheeks.  Lily looked up once again and said "he was only eleven in the dream James.  Only eleven.  How long had he been alone.  How long had we left him for.  What could have killed us, was it Voldemort."  When she had finally calmed down somewhat, she completely closed up.  She wouldn't talk about it at all.  James wanted to know the whole story.  Why had she cried so much.  What had made her so upset.  But she wouldn't tell him or Sirius or Remus anything.  Then when the train stopped.  Lily was the first to have her cloak and trunk and proceeded to run out of the compartment before any of the boys could stop her. 

Once Lily returned to her muggle home, she locked herself in her room.  She relived the dream every time she closed her eyes, which lead to her barely sleeping.  Finally James had had enough.  He had his dad bring him over to Lily's home and told him that he would floo home.  He had connected Lily's fireplace to the floo network which had posed no problem.  He knocked on the door to have it opened by an ugly, really tall, brown haired, blue eyed teenager.  She automatically asked "Who are you?"  In a really harsh, demanding voice.  James answered back in a polite voice not wanting to get on anyone's bad side "I'm a friend of Lily's from school.  Is she home at all?"  The girl sneered at him before letting him inside.  There he took in the furniture and look of a living room of muggles.  There were couches and rugs everywhere and the entire room looked very inviting.  What James guessed were Lily's parents were sitting there conversing in under tones when they realised that James was standing there.  They turned to him slowly and what James saw made him gasp.  Both parents had large circles under their eyes, and Mrs Evans looked like she had been recently crying.  Then Mr Evans spoke "Hello there young man, who might you be?"  James introduced himself "My name is James Potter, I'm a friend of Lily's from school.  Is she at home at all?" 

Then James heard two loud screams coming from upstairs "NO, JAMES, NOOOOOOOO.  HELP ME PETER, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS PETER? WHY?"  James looked at his best friends parents in shock before asking "how long has this been going on for?"  Mr Evans whispered in agony "since she returned home.  They haven't stopped, she hasn't slept, just screamed."  James didn't stop.  He pulled a satchel from his bag and brought some floo powder from it.  He wandered toward the fire place before telling Lily's parents that he would be back in no time.  That he was going to get his mother to help her.  He whispered "Windilow" into the fireplace and then was pulled through a tunnel of complicated twists and turns before he ejected out into his living room at home.  He automatically ran into the kitchen where his mother was.  Then after seeing her son home so soon after leaving, Kathleen Potter already knew that there was something wrong.  Her son just confirmed it "Mum, Mum, you have to come.  There's something really wrong with Lily.  Her dad said that she hadn't slept a wink since she came back from Hogwarts.  And I heard her screaming." 

Then James began to cry.  Solid tears plummeted down his cheeks and before he knew it he was in his mothers tight embrace.  She looked down at him with glistening eyes and they moved toward the fireplace to return to Lily's home when there was a knock on the door.  James opened it to see Sirius and his father standing there.  Sirius had a serious look about his face and it turned very concerned when he saw the still glistening tears on James's face.  "Are you right mate?"  Sirius asked.  James replied "Right now that is not the question to be asking.  Lily is really not well.  Apparently she hasn't been sleeping since she left Hogwarts, apparently all she does is have nightmares.  I went over to visit her today to see if she wished to come to Diagon Alley with us tomorrow when I heard her scream.  You should've heard it, it was heart wrenching.  She sounded like she was between shouting in agony and anger and just sobbing in guilt.  I nearly cried just there.  But apparently considering her parents condition, it's been happening for a while.  So mum and me are going over to have a look.  Sirius looked at his father who looked extremely grave as well.  Both Sirius's and James's dad's were Aurors and knew all about dark magic and curses and Mr Black just nodded before saying that he will attend as well. 

The three walked toward the fireplace where Kathleen had already begun preparing.  She had her instrument kit and wand and picked up a piece of floo powder and spoke aloud "Lily's place" then she disappeared and then went everyone else in the group until they all arrived in a heap in front of the very surprised Evans's who had been standing there since James had disappeared.  James asked for directions to Lily's bedroom and when Mrs Evans directed them up the stairs and to the right, the four wizards ran up the stairs toward the whimpering.  James whispered "Alohomora" under his breath to unlock the door and watched as it noiselessly swung open.  Sure enough, James and Sirius ran straight to the bed to find their best friend tossing and turning, while moaning out aloud on the bed, her legs and arms twisted in the sheets.

  James ran straight for a bathroom and returned a short time later laden with a bowl of cool water and a damp cloth.  He posted himself back at her side and while whispering smooth nothings in her ear, he continuously wiped her forehead with the damp cloth and wiped her matted hair away from her pale and sweaty face.  Mr Black looked very grave.  Almost automatically he apparated away promising to return very shortly.  Kathleen just turned to the girls beside and motioned for Sirius to move to James's side of the bed.  The two boys sat side by side wondering what was going on.  Sirius held one of Lily's clammy hands in his and watched as James tenderly pushed her hair out of her face and kissed her forehead while holding her other hand in his tight grip.  Both of her hands had fingernail marks where she had damaged her palms while having nightmares and squeezed her fists together.  All Kathleen could do was cast charms around the bedroom keeping anyone from keeping the grip on her mind. 

But it seemed that it was something else that was inside her mind that was doing it.  Mr Black apparated back to the same spot about two hours later aided with two St Mungo's officials and a white stretcher and a large box with a red cross on it.  They almost automatically moved to her bedside and moved Kathleen away.  The told her that she had been doing a great job and told the boys to keep her temperature down and that if James kept talking to her that he was keeping her grounded.  He asked if she had yelled or screamed since they had arrived two hours earlier, and when the company shook their heads the paramedic smiled in return.  He pulled out two syringes and handed one to the other paramedic.  Both injected the two needles simultaneously and the girl shuddered before falling into a deep, dreamless sleep. 

Everyone in the room smiled before James broke the silence by asking.  "Mum, can Lily come and stay at our place for a while.  It seems that her older sister must have been giving her a lot of trouble, which is why she locked the door.  I don't want anything to happen to her.  I want her parents to be able to see her, but she won't heal with that BITCH hanging around her calling her a freak all the time."  Kathleen looked once again at the girl that had captured her son's heart before telling James that she would talk to her parents.  James nodded before turning his head back towards his friend and smiling.  She was going to be okay.  He just caressed her hand that had been lying in his lap before falling asleep in the chair.

 While he slept, the St Mungo's Paramedics had been thanked and wished goodbye to by Mr Black who then volunteered to apparate to find Mr Potter who should've been home long ago.  Meanwhile Kathleen made her way downstairs to the distraught family to tell them the good news.  Then as she posed her sons thoughts to the tired parents Petunia came walking into the living room complaining about freaks overrunning her home.  Kathleen then turned to his sons friends parents and told them what James had told her.  Lily's parents looked particularly horrified but agreed and said that they would come and visit before they left for the beginning of the next school year.  Then Kathleen returned upstairs to find James asleep on the chair that he had occupied for the past three hours and Lily's hand tight in his grip.  Sirius had also fallen asleep in the dark room.  He was beside both of his best friends and snoring softly.  Kathleen woke her son and Sirius up and the three group apparated with Lily in between them.  Kathleen finally collapsed on the couch back at the Potter mansion.  Apparating was hard enough for her, when she group apparated though, it made things so much more difficult but her boys were concentrating so hard not to get splinched. 

They made it to the mansion and the two boys levitated their best friend up to the bedroom next to James's.  It had mood walls and as soon as the sombre boys walked in, the walls and bed turned a dark blue, almost black and the lights dimmed.  James smiled slightly before laying Lily lightly on the dark blue coverlets.  He covered her tightly before motioning to Sirius to leave the room.  When they left Lily's new room, they headed downstairs toward the fireplace where they were going to go back to Lily's place and retrieve her clothes.  Then when they arrived there, they found Petunia, Lily's 14 year old sister, ushering them upstairs telling them that she had friends over and that they couldn't travel through the fireplace while they were there.  Sirius turned to the teenager that made his surrogate sisters life so painful and said "We really couldn't care about you or your friends 'freak'.  We'll go through the bloody fireplace if we feel like it.  Luckily for you, we don't."  And with that Sirius and James walked up the stairs. 

But halfway to their best friends room, they were trampled by three screaming teenagers.

A/N:  Oh did you want to see what sort of horrendous sorts of teenagers that Petunia Evans hung around with during high school or whatever the British call it these days.  Well Review and you will find out.