Writer's Block MUST DIE!
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The next few months were a roller coaster of emotions, the five went back to school and coped with the loss of Jennifer in every day life. They struggled on, throwing themselves into their school work, earning high points and pulling pranks like mad. Things began to calm down towards Christmas, everyone was nice to everyone, even the Slytherins, almost. Christmas went by without a mishap, Lily went to go visit her father with Tania, who's parents were in South Africa to visit an old family friend. When they got back, life resumed, Jennifer farther back in their minds, the pain nearly gone.
Interesting things were going for Lily and James, they hung out together more, but there was something slightly more. Often their conversations would end with both of them blushing. One such conversation, overheard by Moony:
"So did you pay attention in History of Magic?"
"No, I think I fell asleep…"
"Lily, did you know that you drool when you sleep?"
"How do you know?" (blush)
"Ermm, aside from the fact that you were drooling in Binn's class, um, never mind." (blush)
"You watch me when I sleep?"
"Ermm, you know, when I played pranks on you, in third year…" (deep blush)
"Right, James, nice cover up."
A fortnight later, Lily was awakened by a thud, and she sat up, eyes beginging to adjust to the darkness. Lily gasped as a dark figure approached her bed, she knew what was going to happen. Ever since Jennifer's death, she knew the dark lord was after her. She stared as the figure passed her bed and made its way to the bed next to her. She paled as she realized that he was after Tania, another one on his hit list. She leaped out of bed and tackled the cloaked figure. It pushed her away and she hit the stone wall and blacked out.
When she awoke, she cleared her head and tried to remember what had happened. Her fingers were grasped tightly around a long and skinny object. She focused on it but then the incident that had just happened hit her and she forgot all about it. She jumped up and ran to Tania's bed. She was dead still, all except for her eyes, which were moving behind her closed eyelids. Lily tried to wake her up, but no matter what she did, nothing worked. She recognized the signs; Tania was under a powerful charm, called the Charm of Eternal Sleep or Forevnsnours. There was only one student in the school who was powerful enough in charms to do that spell, and that was Lily. The Charm of Eternal Sleep was one of the worst of its kind. The person's brain would be awake but they would not be able to move anything, only their eyes can move. It normally drove people insane, but there was nothing they could do about it. And there was no known cure. At this, Lily broke down and started sobbing. She fled to the boys dorm and rushed to James's bed and woke him up. "Voldemort, he charmed Tania." She said in between sobs. James flew out of bed and ran to the girls dorm. Lily woke up the rest of the guys and they followed her into her dorm. James had seen her and had run to get Dumbledore and McGonagall. They came at a run, to find Lily, holding a wand, sobbing on the shoulder of Sirius and Remus, dumbfounded, sitting in the corner and the other girls of the dorm crying hysterically. "What happened?" Dumbledore yelled over the noise. Everyone became quiet and all eyes turned to the silently sobbing Lily. She made a visible effort to collect her self and then she began the story. There were many pauses as she nearly broke into tears again and when she finished, there was more sobbing and a student rushing to get Madame Pomfrey. McGonagall asked Lily for her wand. She looked confused at this question and then she looked down and paled at the wand that she was holding. It was her own and she handed it over to the professor.
Looking grim, she did a spell on it and all of a sudden, a ghost of a spell came out of the tip of it. It had the shape of Tania, but she wasn't moving. The fifth years knew what this meant. It was Lily's wand that had cast the spell on Tania. Lily went from pale to deathly white. If it was her wand that had done the Charm of Eternal Sleep than it must have been her that had cast it. Shaking her head in disbelief, she whispered: "It wasn't me, I couldn't have done it. I swear, I did not hurt my best friend." She began shaking. McGonagall look sad. "I'm sorry Lily, but you are able to do the curse, and it was you wand that did do it…" James interrupted. "Let use some common sense. Would LILY curse her best friend, right after they both lost their other best friend to the most powerful wizard around? Why does that not make sense to me? This is Lily we are talking about. She would never do something like that." Remus and Sirius nodded and Dumbledore said, "Let's take the both of them to the hospital wing, ahhhh. Here is Madame Pomfrey." The nurse bustled into the room and magicked the two girls up to the hospital wing. Everyone tried to go back to sleep, but it was impossible. The three boys went up to the hospitable wing with the others, they wanted to make sure Lily would be okay. They also wanted to see if there was a cure for Tania's curse.
Later that, errrr, morning now, the guys were forced to go to class, but Lily was permitted to stay. Actually, forced to stay(You need sleep! And more rest!). Finally a week past, but the pain was still there. The group of friends were called together after dinner to hear the results of Tania's condition. She was sent to St. Mugo's and the doctors said there was no cure. Nothing could be done. At those words, Lily ran out of the room and down to the entrance. She quickly changed to her animagus form and galloped into the forbidden forest. As soon as Lily was out of sight, James ran after her, he was the fastest of them all. He chased her as a stag until she was exhausted and stopped in the middle of a clearing. When she saw James, she looked away and began to run again, but he stopped her. She hung her head and switched her tail. He nuzzled her head and she looked up. His eyes were full of compassion, but there was no trace of pity. She transformed back and threw her arms around the stag's neck. He transformed too and they held each other, fighting through the storm of grief together, instead of trying to fight it on their own.
The pair came back after dark and come back to worried faces.
"There you are! Do you realize how long you have been out? We thought Voldemort got you!" Professor McGonagall stated hysterically. They nodded and assured her that they were all right. They went back up to the Gryffindor common room. Lily collapsed into one end of the sofa by the fire and James into the other.
"You know, it's not your fault." He said. She tried to protest, but couldn't, for she remembered that they had all been in trying to fend off Voldemort together, no one person was to blame but the Dark Lord himself. She nodded, no more tears could come. He moved closer and wrapped his arms around Lily again. If Lily could cry, she would. Her mother used to hold her that way when she was gong through hard times. She leaned back onto his chest and closed her eyes. As time ticked on, the two fell asleep.
Sirius woke up early the next morning and to his surprise, discovered that James had not been in bed the whole night. He quickly dressed and scurried down to the common room only to find a pair of sleeping friends on the sofa. He grinned and for a moment they were back the way they were, but then he remembered the only reason that would result in this. Tania. Dammit, why can't life go back to the way it was? Sirius was now becoming depressed and needed to do something about it. He needed to go dung bomb the Slytherins, yeah, that would cure his mood. He rushed upstairs, grabbed the invisibility cloak, a bag full of supplies, and headed out the portrait hole. The commotion that Sirius had caused woke up the two sleeping figures. After much blushing and trying to hide emotions, Lily and James recovered and went up to their dorms. Lily was in a better mood, she had a full nights sleep and no need to be sad this morning. Yes, she still hurt, but as hard as it seems, she couldn't let it take over her life. She had seen it happen before, when she was still in muggle school, one of the girls in her class had a sister who had died. She let the pain eat away at her and it nearly destroyed her. It was not a pretty sight, to see her sitting alone at lunch, face contorted with pain. She mustn't let that happen to her. James would see to that. The boy in question was in his dorm with similar thoughts. Hey, where did Sirius go? He dug out the Maurder's map and asked it for Sirius. He was heading down to the Slytherin common room, and he relaxed. 'I hope he gets them good.' James thought.
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