Chapter 31 - The Training Room
They were three weeks into the school year by now, and everybody was settling into a comfortable routine for their days.
The six trouble makers had already served their detentions, which was agonizing enough, but Lily was also making them run every morning before the sun was even up! They still didn't know when they could actually do more, so for know they were stuck with the torture of Lily Evans every morning at 4: 30.
As Kayla sat at the Ravenclaw table for breakfast, leaning against her boyfriends shoulder for support and yawning hugely, she saw Lily tense up and look at Professor Dumbledore. Kayla straightened and looked on interestedly. 'What is all this about?' she wondered as Lily signaled her response to something.
Lily nudged James' side with her elbow to get his attention. When he looked at her with a sleepy stare, her breath hitched with desire. She loved it when his eyes held that lost, tired look in them. She took one deep breath and willed herself not to melt just because of a look. "I have to go and talk to Dumbledore about something, I might be late for Charms." She informed him.
James sleepily bobbed his head - Lily took that as agreement -, gave her a chaste peck on her cheek, and put his head back on the table top in hopes that he'd be able to get some sleep.
Lily got up and looked into Professor Dumbledore's eyes as he stood up and led the way out of the Great Hall, and took the all familiar path to his Office.
Professor Dumbledore halted outside of the hideous gargoyle and once the statue moved again, he walked up the twirling stairs and led Lily into his office.
"Lemon Drop?" he asked Lily as he settled down behind the big desk. Lily shook her head politely as she slumped into the chair facing Professor Dumbledore. "Professor, how are we going to do this without no-one else knowing?" Lily asked bluntly.
Professor Dumbledore's eyes shone with amusement as he announced, "I have always admired the way that you always get straight to the point, Miss. Evans." Lily flushed in embarrassment and lowered her eyes to stare at the carpet. Professor Dumbledore chuckled good-naturedly.
"Right Miss Evans, back to your question. I believe that there is a new Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts Class starting tomorrow. It is only for seventh years, and they had to have been at the top of their classes all six years of their time here. Do you know how many students there are who fit the requirements?" he finished, reflecting the last part out loud, wonderingly. "I don't know, Professor." Lily replied, thinking that he asked her the question. Professor Dumbledore shook his head and returned his attention back to Lily.
"There are six. And it just so happens that those six are yourself, Mr.'s Potter, Black, Lupin, and Misses Cameron and Williams. And I think that it'd be a prefect cover-up story if it were needed. From now on, you will teach them all you know about Defense Magic during Defense Against the Dark Arts class." He explained. "You shall not however, be going to your regular Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. It will be said that you are doing an extra program to make up for this class, is that alright with you?" he added.
Lily nodded her head in agreement. It was a brilliant plan, and she knew that her friends would be delighted to get out of that class, especially the boys who had DADA with the Slytherins. "But sir," she started as she realized something. "We have DADA different periods! How is that going to work?"
"Well," Professor Dumbledore mused as he tapped his fingers on his desk. "I believe that you girls have Care of Magical Creatures at the time that the boys have DADA, am I correct?"
Lily inclined her head as an answer.
"Well, I believe that you three know your animals well enough, don't you?" he smiled at Lily. Lily flushed and wondered for the millionth time since coming to Hogwarts if Professor Dumbledore somehow could be everywhere at once. "Yes, sir, we do." Lily informed him in a meek voice. Professor Dumbledore nodded his head and said, "Well, there is your solution." Lily was looking a little confused, but she went along with what he was saying anyways, scared that he might confuse her more than she already was.
"So, where is this place that we are supposed to be training in?" she questioned of the elder wizard.
Professor Dumbledore smiled and looked at Lily with an excited glint in his eye. "I have constructed a room fit for these purposes recently. They are out in the forest though," he explained. "And you'll have to be careful, but this room is secluded from everyone else, and there is a room incase any of you have to do any extra training and fall asleep. But this room holds everything that you'll need to teach your friends. Now, if you'll follow me, I'll show you where this room is?" he asked her.
Lily got up out of her chair and followed Professor Dumbledore out of his office, down the corridors, outside of the castle grounds, past Hadrig's hut, and into the forbidden forest.
Most students would shrink back in fear at the sight of some of the hideous monsters that were watching their every move, but all Lily did was glare at the glowing eyes that penetrated into her skin from the depths of the forest, as if saying 'try to kill me and I'll hex you.'
Professor Dumbledore led Lily to a gigantic rock that was situated in the middle of a clearing, climbed up the sides until he was standing on the top of it. Lily followed and looked at what Professor Dumbledore was standing on.
He was standing on a round disk that couldn't have been bigger than three feet in diameter, and was split into three different sections, one section you could see a picture of a rising sea, the next you could see what appeared to be a flaming fire, and the last was a picture of flowers and trees swaying, giving it the appearance of wind blowing across it.
While Lily was looking at the platform, Professor Dumbledore had muttered an incantation that made the stone able to recognize Lily. And Lily, being so into her study of the slab of rock, didn't realize that they had gone into the rock until she felt herself being jolted into Professor Dumbledore, who caught her and righted her back onto her feet.
Lily looked around the room and gasped. As she started to move around, she realized that it was a large room, bigger than the Great Hall itself! You could probably fit two of them in there perfectly! It was done in all white to give the room more natural light, which came in from the enchanted ceiling, there were floor to floor mirrors through half of the room, and the same half of the rooms floor was padded. Most likely for the martial arts she had to teach them - she only hoped that they were able to learn this particular art fast. There was what looked like magical absorbent wall on the other side of the room, which would absorb any spell that was shot at it, and throw it back at you, making it essential for when you were training by yourself, and there were many more devices that Lily would use with her friends before the end of the school year came. Lily became excited at the thought. She loved doing this sort of stuff!
With programs running through her mind already, Lily turned to Professor Dumbledore and told him, "This room will do perfectly Professor. It has everything that we'll need." Professor Dumbledore smiled at her and stirred her back towards the platform.
"Before we go back up, I'm going to explain this to you. I have already recited the incantation that will allow you to be recognized by the stone platform, but you have to say it for the others. The words are, 'siamo gla elementi tre.'" He informed her.
Lily raised her eyebrows at the Italian but didn't say anything. Although she was wondering why they weren't in Latin like everything else. "Right." She said as they began the ride up. "But will anybody else be able to enter?" she asked him as they began the track back to the castle.
Lily looked at Professor Dumbledore just in time to see him shake his head and open his mouth. "No. Only the heirs of the elements (A/N: Cliché, I know.) are able to get into that room. After this, I will no longer be able to either." He informed her as they arrived at the edge of the forest.
"So you mean that if we needed to hide out from Voldemort that we could use this place? That he couldn't get into it?" she questioned. Professor Dumbledore stopped and looked Lily straight in her eyes. "Yes." He replied with a flat tone. "But I fear that if you six we're in trouble, it'd be best all around for all of you to fight him."
Lily nodded her head in agreement. She already knew that she and her friends would not sit out on the sidelines if something was to happen, but just in case things got out of hand, she wanted to make sure.
"Now I do believe that you have a Charms class that you must be getting to, am I correct?" Professor Dumbledore asked as they entered the Great Hall.
Lily gasped. She was missing her favorite class! "Right!" she yelped. "Bye Professor!" she yelled over her shoulder as she ran to class, showing up with only 29 minutes of class left.
"Miss Evans?" the little elfish creature squeaked in astonishment. Lily was never late for Charms! "Sorry Professor, but I was talking with Professor Dumbledore about something. I'm sorry for interrupting." She explained hurriedly. "Just take your seat, Miss Evans." The teacher instructed.
Lily took her seat in between James and Kayla and gave them looks that said 'I'll tell you later.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Later that night, Sirius, James, and Remus could all be found lounging on their girlfriend's beds, with their girlfriends snuggled up in their arms.
Lily was sitting in James' lap, telling everybody about what Professor Dumbledore had shown her and told her earlier that morning.
"The weird thing is," Lily commented without thinking as she ended her story. "I've never seen that rock before, and we've seen every part of that forest while in our animal for-" Lily cut herself off as she realized who was in the room. Lily grimaced. "Oops."
James grinned. "That's alright Lily. We already know thanks to that spell that we did in charms last year."
Lily's mouth was formed in an 'o', and she shrugged. "Well then," she started. "I can go ahead and say what I was going to. I have never seen that rock there, or anywhere in that forest, and we've been everywhere inside of it."
Kayla looked at her friend in shock. 'Something that we haven't found before! Finally!' her mind screamed. "Are you sure that you've never seen it before?" she asked eagerly. Lily in turn narrowed her eyes at Kayla in a way that said, 'What are you trying to say, I don't remember anything?' Kayla shrugged nonchalancily and rested against Sirius' arm again.
"What kind of things are you going to have us doing tomorrow?" Aria asked, her interest evident in her voice.
Lily smiled and looked over towards her. "I'm going to start teaching you the basics of martial arts."
Aria's jaw dropped. 'Uh-oh.' was all that went through her mind. "Uh, Lily, don't you think that that is a little . . . uh, I don't know, dangerous!" she asked.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Aradriana, it's for your own good that you learn how to do this, got it." Lily told her in a firm voice. Aria sulkily nodded. "Good." Lily said triumphantly.
"You really like wining arguments, don't you, love?" James whispered across her ear.
Lily fought the urge to shiver as she watched her friends disappear behind their bed hangings. Lily reached down into her robes and pulled out her wand. With a flick of her wrist, she had shut the hangings around her bed, and put up a silencing spell. "There." She gasped out as James's fingers danced up her thighs.
A husky chuckle sounded from above her ear, and Lily turned her head to look at James. "Why is that so funny?" she demanded with a soft voice.
James shrugged. "Because it is."
Lily turned to straddle his out stretched legs and kissed his lips, pulling back when he opened his mouth. Lily grinned as she bent her head again and nibbled on his lower lip until her heard a groan come from him. She then complied his silent pleading and slipped her tongue into his mouth. A shot of fire ran through her body as his tongue automatically sought hers out.
James began sucking and entangling his own with Lily's tongue. One of them let out a moan as Lily drew back for air.
"Lily?" James questioned as his hands stroked her lower back, then continued down to cup her butt.
"Hmm?"
"Can I ask you something, and have you promise that you won't say anything until I finish what I want to say?" he asked her as he trailed his hands up her back again.
"Um-hm."
James took a deep breath then slowly, not wanting to repeat himself, started, "I planned on doing this differently, I don't know, I guess less spontaneously, but I find that I don't want to do it any other time. Lily, I love you. I think that I always have loved you, and I want to always love you. Last year you made me promise you something, do you remember it?"
Lily lifted her head from his shoulder and looked him in the eyes. "Yes, I asked you to be here for me when I returned." She whispered, scared as to where this might be going. 'Please don't let him break up with me, please. I don't think that I could handle that.' Her head pleaded.
"Exactly. Well, you don't know this, but that night I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would be waiting here for you, and that I'd be waiting with a ring with the hope that you'd say that you'll be mine." He whispered the last. James heard Lily gasp and looked deep into her eyes, and took down every barrier that might have been up, and bared his soul to Lily.
"Lily, I don't think that I'll ever be able to go on without you, I get scared when I don't know where you are, and I get twitchy when you're not around me, and when you don't talk to me I feel as if my world has come to an end. Lily, I can't live without you, and I've come to find out, that I don't want to. I want you by my side, now and always. So I guess what I'm asking you Lillian Maria-Teresa Evans is, will you be mine? Will you promise to be mine forever more, will you allow me to call you mine forever more? Will you marry me?" he whispered softly enough so that only Lily could hear, even though no one could hear them in the first place due to the spell.
Lily gasped out "James!" through her tears as she rested her head on his shoulder.
A/N: Okay, this chapter has a lot of errors on it because I have not gotten the corrected version back from my beta, and I wanted to get this out to you guys. The next chapter is waiting to be corrected also, and if I don't get my corrected chapter back within three days I'm going to post it incorrect also.
These chapters will be replaced with the corrected chapters as soon as I get them.
Happy Reading.
Mistress dell Mare
They were three weeks into the school year by now, and everybody was settling into a comfortable routine for their days.
The six trouble makers had already served their detentions, which was agonizing enough, but Lily was also making them run every morning before the sun was even up! They still didn't know when they could actually do more, so for know they were stuck with the torture of Lily Evans every morning at 4: 30.
As Kayla sat at the Ravenclaw table for breakfast, leaning against her boyfriends shoulder for support and yawning hugely, she saw Lily tense up and look at Professor Dumbledore. Kayla straightened and looked on interestedly. 'What is all this about?' she wondered as Lily signaled her response to something.
Lily nudged James' side with her elbow to get his attention. When he looked at her with a sleepy stare, her breath hitched with desire. She loved it when his eyes held that lost, tired look in them. She took one deep breath and willed herself not to melt just because of a look. "I have to go and talk to Dumbledore about something, I might be late for Charms." She informed him.
James sleepily bobbed his head - Lily took that as agreement -, gave her a chaste peck on her cheek, and put his head back on the table top in hopes that he'd be able to get some sleep.
Lily got up and looked into Professor Dumbledore's eyes as he stood up and led the way out of the Great Hall, and took the all familiar path to his Office.
Professor Dumbledore halted outside of the hideous gargoyle and once the statue moved again, he walked up the twirling stairs and led Lily into his office.
"Lemon Drop?" he asked Lily as he settled down behind the big desk. Lily shook her head politely as she slumped into the chair facing Professor Dumbledore. "Professor, how are we going to do this without no-one else knowing?" Lily asked bluntly.
Professor Dumbledore's eyes shone with amusement as he announced, "I have always admired the way that you always get straight to the point, Miss. Evans." Lily flushed in embarrassment and lowered her eyes to stare at the carpet. Professor Dumbledore chuckled good-naturedly.
"Right Miss Evans, back to your question. I believe that there is a new Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts Class starting tomorrow. It is only for seventh years, and they had to have been at the top of their classes all six years of their time here. Do you know how many students there are who fit the requirements?" he finished, reflecting the last part out loud, wonderingly. "I don't know, Professor." Lily replied, thinking that he asked her the question. Professor Dumbledore shook his head and returned his attention back to Lily.
"There are six. And it just so happens that those six are yourself, Mr.'s Potter, Black, Lupin, and Misses Cameron and Williams. And I think that it'd be a prefect cover-up story if it were needed. From now on, you will teach them all you know about Defense Magic during Defense Against the Dark Arts class." He explained. "You shall not however, be going to your regular Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. It will be said that you are doing an extra program to make up for this class, is that alright with you?" he added.
Lily nodded her head in agreement. It was a brilliant plan, and she knew that her friends would be delighted to get out of that class, especially the boys who had DADA with the Slytherins. "But sir," she started as she realized something. "We have DADA different periods! How is that going to work?"
"Well," Professor Dumbledore mused as he tapped his fingers on his desk. "I believe that you girls have Care of Magical Creatures at the time that the boys have DADA, am I correct?"
Lily inclined her head as an answer.
"Well, I believe that you three know your animals well enough, don't you?" he smiled at Lily. Lily flushed and wondered for the millionth time since coming to Hogwarts if Professor Dumbledore somehow could be everywhere at once. "Yes, sir, we do." Lily informed him in a meek voice. Professor Dumbledore nodded his head and said, "Well, there is your solution." Lily was looking a little confused, but she went along with what he was saying anyways, scared that he might confuse her more than she already was.
"So, where is this place that we are supposed to be training in?" she questioned of the elder wizard.
Professor Dumbledore smiled and looked at Lily with an excited glint in his eye. "I have constructed a room fit for these purposes recently. They are out in the forest though," he explained. "And you'll have to be careful, but this room is secluded from everyone else, and there is a room incase any of you have to do any extra training and fall asleep. But this room holds everything that you'll need to teach your friends. Now, if you'll follow me, I'll show you where this room is?" he asked her.
Lily got up out of her chair and followed Professor Dumbledore out of his office, down the corridors, outside of the castle grounds, past Hadrig's hut, and into the forbidden forest.
Most students would shrink back in fear at the sight of some of the hideous monsters that were watching their every move, but all Lily did was glare at the glowing eyes that penetrated into her skin from the depths of the forest, as if saying 'try to kill me and I'll hex you.'
Professor Dumbledore led Lily to a gigantic rock that was situated in the middle of a clearing, climbed up the sides until he was standing on the top of it. Lily followed and looked at what Professor Dumbledore was standing on.
He was standing on a round disk that couldn't have been bigger than three feet in diameter, and was split into three different sections, one section you could see a picture of a rising sea, the next you could see what appeared to be a flaming fire, and the last was a picture of flowers and trees swaying, giving it the appearance of wind blowing across it.
While Lily was looking at the platform, Professor Dumbledore had muttered an incantation that made the stone able to recognize Lily. And Lily, being so into her study of the slab of rock, didn't realize that they had gone into the rock until she felt herself being jolted into Professor Dumbledore, who caught her and righted her back onto her feet.
Lily looked around the room and gasped. As she started to move around, she realized that it was a large room, bigger than the Great Hall itself! You could probably fit two of them in there perfectly! It was done in all white to give the room more natural light, which came in from the enchanted ceiling, there were floor to floor mirrors through half of the room, and the same half of the rooms floor was padded. Most likely for the martial arts she had to teach them - she only hoped that they were able to learn this particular art fast. There was what looked like magical absorbent wall on the other side of the room, which would absorb any spell that was shot at it, and throw it back at you, making it essential for when you were training by yourself, and there were many more devices that Lily would use with her friends before the end of the school year came. Lily became excited at the thought. She loved doing this sort of stuff!
With programs running through her mind already, Lily turned to Professor Dumbledore and told him, "This room will do perfectly Professor. It has everything that we'll need." Professor Dumbledore smiled at her and stirred her back towards the platform.
"Before we go back up, I'm going to explain this to you. I have already recited the incantation that will allow you to be recognized by the stone platform, but you have to say it for the others. The words are, 'siamo gla elementi tre.'" He informed her.
Lily raised her eyebrows at the Italian but didn't say anything. Although she was wondering why they weren't in Latin like everything else. "Right." She said as they began the ride up. "But will anybody else be able to enter?" she asked him as they began the track back to the castle.
Lily looked at Professor Dumbledore just in time to see him shake his head and open his mouth. "No. Only the heirs of the elements (A/N: Cliché, I know.) are able to get into that room. After this, I will no longer be able to either." He informed her as they arrived at the edge of the forest.
"So you mean that if we needed to hide out from Voldemort that we could use this place? That he couldn't get into it?" she questioned. Professor Dumbledore stopped and looked Lily straight in her eyes. "Yes." He replied with a flat tone. "But I fear that if you six we're in trouble, it'd be best all around for all of you to fight him."
Lily nodded her head in agreement. She already knew that she and her friends would not sit out on the sidelines if something was to happen, but just in case things got out of hand, she wanted to make sure.
"Now I do believe that you have a Charms class that you must be getting to, am I correct?" Professor Dumbledore asked as they entered the Great Hall.
Lily gasped. She was missing her favorite class! "Right!" she yelped. "Bye Professor!" she yelled over her shoulder as she ran to class, showing up with only 29 minutes of class left.
"Miss Evans?" the little elfish creature squeaked in astonishment. Lily was never late for Charms! "Sorry Professor, but I was talking with Professor Dumbledore about something. I'm sorry for interrupting." She explained hurriedly. "Just take your seat, Miss Evans." The teacher instructed.
Lily took her seat in between James and Kayla and gave them looks that said 'I'll tell you later.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Later that night, Sirius, James, and Remus could all be found lounging on their girlfriend's beds, with their girlfriends snuggled up in their arms.
Lily was sitting in James' lap, telling everybody about what Professor Dumbledore had shown her and told her earlier that morning.
"The weird thing is," Lily commented without thinking as she ended her story. "I've never seen that rock before, and we've seen every part of that forest while in our animal for-" Lily cut herself off as she realized who was in the room. Lily grimaced. "Oops."
James grinned. "That's alright Lily. We already know thanks to that spell that we did in charms last year."
Lily's mouth was formed in an 'o', and she shrugged. "Well then," she started. "I can go ahead and say what I was going to. I have never seen that rock there, or anywhere in that forest, and we've been everywhere inside of it."
Kayla looked at her friend in shock. 'Something that we haven't found before! Finally!' her mind screamed. "Are you sure that you've never seen it before?" she asked eagerly. Lily in turn narrowed her eyes at Kayla in a way that said, 'What are you trying to say, I don't remember anything?' Kayla shrugged nonchalancily and rested against Sirius' arm again.
"What kind of things are you going to have us doing tomorrow?" Aria asked, her interest evident in her voice.
Lily smiled and looked over towards her. "I'm going to start teaching you the basics of martial arts."
Aria's jaw dropped. 'Uh-oh.' was all that went through her mind. "Uh, Lily, don't you think that that is a little . . . uh, I don't know, dangerous!" she asked.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Aradriana, it's for your own good that you learn how to do this, got it." Lily told her in a firm voice. Aria sulkily nodded. "Good." Lily said triumphantly.
"You really like wining arguments, don't you, love?" James whispered across her ear.
Lily fought the urge to shiver as she watched her friends disappear behind their bed hangings. Lily reached down into her robes and pulled out her wand. With a flick of her wrist, she had shut the hangings around her bed, and put up a silencing spell. "There." She gasped out as James's fingers danced up her thighs.
A husky chuckle sounded from above her ear, and Lily turned her head to look at James. "Why is that so funny?" she demanded with a soft voice.
James shrugged. "Because it is."
Lily turned to straddle his out stretched legs and kissed his lips, pulling back when he opened his mouth. Lily grinned as she bent her head again and nibbled on his lower lip until her heard a groan come from him. She then complied his silent pleading and slipped her tongue into his mouth. A shot of fire ran through her body as his tongue automatically sought hers out.
James began sucking and entangling his own with Lily's tongue. One of them let out a moan as Lily drew back for air.
"Lily?" James questioned as his hands stroked her lower back, then continued down to cup her butt.
"Hmm?"
"Can I ask you something, and have you promise that you won't say anything until I finish what I want to say?" he asked her as he trailed his hands up her back again.
"Um-hm."
James took a deep breath then slowly, not wanting to repeat himself, started, "I planned on doing this differently, I don't know, I guess less spontaneously, but I find that I don't want to do it any other time. Lily, I love you. I think that I always have loved you, and I want to always love you. Last year you made me promise you something, do you remember it?"
Lily lifted her head from his shoulder and looked him in the eyes. "Yes, I asked you to be here for me when I returned." She whispered, scared as to where this might be going. 'Please don't let him break up with me, please. I don't think that I could handle that.' Her head pleaded.
"Exactly. Well, you don't know this, but that night I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would be waiting here for you, and that I'd be waiting with a ring with the hope that you'd say that you'll be mine." He whispered the last. James heard Lily gasp and looked deep into her eyes, and took down every barrier that might have been up, and bared his soul to Lily.
"Lily, I don't think that I'll ever be able to go on without you, I get scared when I don't know where you are, and I get twitchy when you're not around me, and when you don't talk to me I feel as if my world has come to an end. Lily, I can't live without you, and I've come to find out, that I don't want to. I want you by my side, now and always. So I guess what I'm asking you Lillian Maria-Teresa Evans is, will you be mine? Will you promise to be mine forever more, will you allow me to call you mine forever more? Will you marry me?" he whispered softly enough so that only Lily could hear, even though no one could hear them in the first place due to the spell.
Lily gasped out "James!" through her tears as she rested her head on his shoulder.
A/N: Okay, this chapter has a lot of errors on it because I have not gotten the corrected version back from my beta, and I wanted to get this out to you guys. The next chapter is waiting to be corrected also, and if I don't get my corrected chapter back within three days I'm going to post it incorrect also.
These chapters will be replaced with the corrected chapters as soon as I get them.
Happy Reading.
Mistress dell Mare