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She didn't have any problems being single and date less. She was still to distraught and worried sometimes to have anything to worry about apart from James. He still had nightmares about everything that happened to them during the holiday's which was why James and Lily still slept mainly in the same bed. No one but their small group knew about it, which suited them just fine.
Peter came and went as he pleased. He went to bed early and rose late and so never saw. Lily and James were closer than a brother and sister could ever be. They were even closer than twins and with Sirius, triplets even. Lots of people wondered why Lily didn't stand up for the people that asked her out, and girls and boys alike wondered why the most popular boys in the school, over protected her so much. But half of them didn't know anything about the connection that had kept joined them as best friends since the beginning of school.
One afternoon in mid December, Lily had just been and seen Madame Pomfrey about her dreams. It was James decision that she went and received a dreamless sleep draught once a week, to keep the bags from under her eyes and to keep the nightmares from invading her mind. Usually James, Sirius or Remus came to collect her or waited for her while she collected her draught, but this time when she walked out of the hospital wing, she found herself quite alone. There were no marauders there. Lily nearly shouted with relief. She loved her best friends to bits but liked to have some time to herself.
She saw Bella and Geraldine walk past and pocketed her flask before joining them. They automatically looked to find James or Sirius but when they were missing, Bella stopped dead. "Where are the boys Lily? What have you done to them? Because I know for a fact that James would never intentionally leave you alone. Something must be wrong." But unluckily, Remus came running up the stairs at that moment, looking extremely rushed. Then he opened the door to the hospital wing and when he found no Lily there, he automatically scanned the crowd.
Lily motioned for the two girls to go around the corner and away from Remus's wandering and very sharp eyes. Being a werewolf did help most of the senses. The three girls ran off in hopes of being alone without boys for a couple of hours but knew that it was going to be nearly impossible to happen. James and Sirius had connections in every part of the school. The teachers even supported the fact that Lily was never left alone. But when Remus came running around the corner and saw the disappearing figure of the girl that he was pursuing, he knew that he was in for a chase.
Sure enough he yelled the name that the boys had been calling her for the past three weeks to get on her nerves "Lily Potter, get your butt back here, James will skin me alive if I don't come back with you." But the girls just seemed to get further and further away. He started sprinting up the hallway to catch up with her. But when he nearly ran into Malfoy and Snape in the hallway, he slowed down and gasped. He knew that Bella, Geraldine and most importantly Lily just went down that corridor.
Sure enough, Malfoy and Snape looked suspiciously around at all the corridors seeing if the coast was clear before following down the corridor after them. Remus knew that he had to put his telekinetic abilities into practise. The three boys had implemented this spell for just this purpose. He yelled into their heads "Lily escaped. Malfoy's going after her down the third floor dead end corridor just down from the hospital wing. I think we're in a bit of trouble." Sure enough, five minutes later, Remus had already followed them, but an extremely angry James and Sirius met at the exact same spot and with their wands drawn, ran down the corridor to help their fellow marauder.
The girls had congregated at the end of the third floor corridor intending on hiding from Remus. They were in a dark hall and were giggling profusely. Then they heard two sets of footsteps moving down the corridors. Lily motioned for them to be quiet and listened for their voices. Sure enough, Malfoy's and Snape's voices were heard whispering about the whereabouts of Lily. They didn't seem concerned about the other two girls. Just about catching Lily. The three girls stayed deadly quiet, not even breathing when the boys walked past and then tried to crawl up the hallway intending on running out when Remus walked past.
They hid in another doorway in the hall before watching Remus walk slowly past. He sniffed the hallway before following Snape's and Malfoy's scent. They breathed a sigh of relief before escaping the hall and running back up the corridor and right into the two people who are worse than Remus. James and Sirius were bared for any footsteps, they were completely on alert and receiving information about the Slytherin's from Remus. Then when Lily, Bella and Geraldine came barrelling up the corridor, James told Remus that he could come back up the corridor and that they had found her.
James scolded all three girls for moving down that corridor and especially Lily who he knew had conspired the idea. Then when Remus joined them, the five students left the corridor, the three boys extremely angry with themselves for loosing Lily in the first place. Lily was placed under really tight security for the next three weeks until the morning when she woke up alone. Pettigrew was still in his bed and Lily gasped in horror.
First she curled up in James's bed, hoping that Pettigrew wouldn't see her when he woke up. Sure enough, the boy checked Lily's bed because they never used James's bed anymore and then left the dorm. Lily began whimpering as soon as the door shut. She unsteadily rose from the bed and dressed quickly avoiding anything that she didn't need. She put bare amounts of makeup on her face before wrapping the winter cloak around her tired body once more.
Then she checked the outside corridor before moving outside and down to the common room. There, Bella, Geraldine, Molly and Felicity sat talking amongst themselves. Lily went over still shivering slightly and sat next to Bella, who automatically asked her if she was alright. Bella was the only girl who knew about her fright of Pettigrew and when she told her, Bella growled slightly and grabbed Lily's hand. Lily almost automatically felt more comfortable and then shortly joined in the conversation about what electives they were going to do next year.
When she decided hers, she swore the rest of the girls to secrecy, because she didn't want James or Sirius in as many classes of hers as possible, not knowing that by the end of the school year, that James would demand that she was in everyone of his. They talked about girl stuff that Lily missed out on sleeping with the boys, and she felt almost free, when the three boys burst into the common room, all with terrified looks on their faces and their brooms all by their sides.
They had all realised too late that Lily detested being left alone in the dorm with Peter. So while James ran up to the second year dorms, Sirius suspiciously ventured over toward the second year girls and found the girl that they were looking for covered in her winter cloak and talking about electives for next year. He told James through the link that she was in the common room and then threw himself in the large foot cushion right behind Lily. He dangled his legs right beside hers and then ducked his head through the rest of the girls and asked "So what are we talking about ladies?"
Lily's head dropped in shame before turning to face her captor and nearly killing him right there with her stare. Sirius had the grace to apologise because he knew why she was looking at him like that. So did Bella but the rest of the girls just looked at her strangely. James came running down the stairs at that point and noticeably took a step back at the anger in her eyes. He knew damn well how much she was terrified of Pettigrew and he had still left her there. He walked over to Lily and wrapped his arms around her mid section and drew her up to her full height. He looked her full in the eyes and whispered "I'm so sorry Lil's. Can you ever forgive us?"
But before anything else could be said Lily burst into tears. "He checked my bed James, to check to see if I was there. He actually opened up the drapes and checked my bed James. What did I do to him? Why does he want to kill me James? Why?" And with that James picked her up and began to carry her upstairs. But Sirius, looking extremely murderous muttered, "James, stay down here with her. Let her sleep, but just with you. I don't want her going near that dorm with Pettigrew around.
We'll wait for him to come back from wherever he's gone and then we'll confront him. Then we'll take him straight to Dumbledore. I don't want him sleeping in the same room with us at night when he does that. And if there's no other rooms, he can be expelled." James nodded and moved back toward some of the more comfortable love seats. He placed Lily in his lap and watched as she snuggled into his chest and slowly went back to sleep with tears still on her cheeks.
He wrapped the cloak around her more tightly before gesturing to all the second years girls to come over to him. Then when they made it over, he began to talk "Look girls and guys, this is the deal. This is why we're so over protective of Lily. "She is an empath. She reads other emotions and can really tell the future better than our Divination teacher. But the past nine months she has been getting repetitive dreams about her son's death. About each and every time he faces Voldemort." The girls all gasped at that point.
"But that is not the only reason. She comforted me when my father died and she still hadn't slept for the past two months, so if you hear her called Lily Potter or Lily Black it's because she's our sister. There's no other word for it. But one of the main characters of her nightmares has been Peter Pettigrew. He is always the one that kills her. Him and Voldemort.
So when she had to sleep in the same room as him this year, it sort of gave her the wiggins. I admit it would give anyone the wiggins sleeping in the same room as the man that was responsible for you dying and not being able to look after your child. And it quite obviously isn't very nice when you leave her in the same room as him. So that's why she was so angry with us. Do you understand now?"
Each and every girl that was standing there then nodded and each took turns hugging her. She was still snuggled tightly in James's embrace and would be until later that night when Pettigrew returned. Sure enough, the girls all stayed still crowded around the fire and when Lily awoke, she sat with them for a while. James stayed in the love seat all day, watching Lily, making sure that she had no dizzy spells, no signs of weakness or anything. Then when Peter walked in that afternoon, everyone stayed talking like there was nothing wrong.
Then when Sirius stood up and challenged Pettigrew, the entire common room stopped talking. Lily was surrounded by her friends with her back facing the fire. James automatically knew that that was a hazard and picked her up and moved her to his love seat. Then he stood next to Sirius and Remus and said to Pettigrew "well aren't you just a piece of work. How come you've been checking Lily's bed every morning to make sure that we haven't left her behind? Why is she so important? What do you want with her Pettigrew?" James yelled at the top of his voice. He had never even yelled at Malfoy like this before.
Because this boy was supposed to be his companion. A boy he could slightly trust. But now that that trust was decimated someone had to be held accountable. Slightly shaking, Pettigrew began to respond "Because the dark lord knows that there is something in her. That there's something he wants. Sirius and James waited not a moment longer Both yelled "Stupefy" simultaneously and Pettigrew fell to the ground.
Bella picked up a yellow ball that was flashing something misty around in it. James ground his teeth together angrily and his usually dark brown eyes were almost a angry gold. Flicks of gold like lightning flashed through them. Then glasses began to implode. This was James Magid power's coming into play. Sirius ordered him to calm down before Sirius and Remus headed with Pettigrew towards Dumbledore's office. James still paced the common room floor when the fat lady moved. There a shocked Albus Dumbledore stood watching the angry second year pace a hole in the carpet. He walked in with Minerva McGonagall behind him and they automatically moved towards Lily and asked her if she was okay. She nodded before motioning to James. The two professors walked toward the twelve year old boy who had too much on his plate before demanding that he drink the dreamless sleep draught. He did under duress in which he demanded that Lily take half of it with him. She agreed and the two were taken to their dorm and the door locked with only a unlock mechanism that Remus and Sirius had been told.
And during the next two days in which Lily and James slept, Peter Pettigrew had been expelled when Bella had replayed the recording ball which they had used in the common room. Remus and Sirius breathed a sigh of relief before moving off to their classes to take notes for the two sleeping students. When James awoke over three days later, he awoke to hearing voices outside of the room. It sounded like Pettigrew and James grew alarmed. He left Lily in the bed and closed the drapes very tightly and performed a locking charm on them. Then he ventured over to the door and unable to open it, stood at the opposite door and waited to see if the doors opened. Then when he heard Pettigrew announce "I've got it, Dumbledore's spell was hard to bypass, but I did it."
Then a slithery voice was heard "Get out of the road, I'll open it." Then the door blew down and before James's eyes, Voldemort tried to walk through the door. But there was another barrier to prevent him from walking through. James jumped into sight and sneered at the two dark wizards standing in front of him. He pulled his wand but before he could send any spells their way, his magid magic was pulled first. His emotions were controlling him and the door picked itself up and bashed both Voldemort and Pettigrew around the head before returning to it's place locked extremely tight.
James returned to the bed, alerting Sirius to the fact that Voldemort was lying unconscious in front of their dorm door and that he was going back to bed. Meanwhile down in second year Transfiguration, Sirius Black yelped in surprise, then even more in shock. He raised his hand to an annoyed Professor McGonagall "Professor, permission to leave to find Professor Dumbledore?" McGonagall smirked before replying "Why would you want Dumbledore Black?" "Because Voldemort's up in the Gryffindor dormitory trying to get to Lily and James Ma'am." McGonagall nodded slightly before fainting dead away.
Meanwhile James alleviated staying awake until Sirius arrived but decided against it. He slightly unlocked the drapes to lock them again when he was safely inside and then curled up next to Lily again and went back to sleep. When Lily awoke later on the next day, she tried to open the drapes to go to the toilet but was surprised when they refused to open. She pulled out her wand and whispered "finite incantium' but even that didn't work. So she had to resort to waking James up. After shaking him several times to no avail, Lily took her wand again and whispered to the drapes "Alo homora."
Sure enough, the drapes slightly unlocked themselves, enough so that she could slip through. It was late at night and Sirius and Remus were asleep in their own beds. She could tell by the loud snoring that was coming from their beds. She smiled slightly before heading to her own toilet. After leaving the bathroom, she pulled James's quilt and pillow, not to mention the cloak off her dresser and tried to open the door. She once again whispered "Alo homora" but this time nothing happened. "Experallimus" nothing. Lily was getting frustrated.
She knocked on the door three times before whispering "Alo homora" and watched as the door swung open enough for her to sneak through. Lily took her quilts and pillow and trudged down the stairs and remained there until morning, just thinking. James awoke late the next morning to find the bed empty and the drapes slightly opened. He knew that it was the weekend and was in no hurry to get to class, but he was in a hurry to find Lily.
He rushed down the stairs still in his pyjamas and found her sound asleep in one of the couches in front of the fire with his quilt nearly falling off her. He tucked it in neatly around her and then headed back upstairs quickly to get dressed. Lily quickly woke up already dressed, knowing her friends routine so much that she could guess it. She ran out of the common room door and down toward the Great hall.
Authors Note: Shit this is a long chapter. It wasn't meant to me. Oh well. Thanks everyone for reviewing. Keep it up. Hope you enjoy this chappy