Chapter 6

"cobby wobbles." James said to the fat lady. The portrait swung open and James made his way into the common room, he walked in and started looking around or his hat. where was it? His mind wasn't on the hat properly though. It was on Lily. He smiled at the memory of her laughing at their prank at breakfast. She made a beautiful smile. He wished that her smile belonged to him, but he thought that it never could. It belonged to Sirius more than him. "Katie is nice," thought potter "But she's so quiet. I need a loud person for me, well not loud, ok just someone that talks would be nice.... someone like Lily."

He spotted his hat in the corner of the room and went to pick it up. He put it on and sighed. "stupid Mcgonagall." he thought "fancy making me come all this way back to the common room just to get a hat." James looked around the common room. "where is everyone?" he thought. " I wonder where Lily is?" he began to walk up the stairs to Lily's dormitory as he heard a noise up there, but then half way up the staircase he stopped. "Oh this is stupid. so I go up there but then what do I do? just stand there and say hey Lily? Oh how pathetic, I'll talk to her later."

And with that he turned around and went back down the stairs. He crawled back through the hole in the wall and pushed the portrait of the at lady open. He was just about to step out into the corridor when he heard a scream.

"was that a scream?" he thought. "no I must be imagining it. but it did sound like a scream. Maybe it was Lily." With that he turned around and walked back into the common room and up the stairs to Lily's dormitory.

Lily was crying her eyes out now. She felt so helpless. "Why was no one coming to help?" she thought desperately. She was now tired she had given up on trying to push Peter off. Her brain was racked with tears. "NO!" she thought "I can't give up just give it one more try." and with all of her energy she pushed Peter and surprisingly she was able to push him off.

James had come to the doorway and stood there shocked as he watched Lily kick Peter off and then Peter stand up and smack Lily hard around the face. The force of Peters hit cause Lily to go flying to the floor. James was blinded with anger. " PETER YOU SLIMY SHIT!" he shouted out. Peter looked around surprised. James walked over to him. He was shaking with anger. He couldn't understand why Peter had done this. "J....J...James." Pettigrew stuttered while backing away. "I didn't think that you would be getting back so early."

Lily lay on the floor and brought her knees up to her chest. Tears were pouring down her face. She looked up to see James hitting Pettigrew. He hit him several times. Peter was crying saying he was sorry. Lily looked at James. His face was furious Lily thought that she had never seen anyone so angry.

Peter was now on the floor his nose was bleeding. James took out his wand and pointed it at him. "I have the right mind to put one of the unforgivable curses on you." he snarled. Lily looked at him petrified. If James did an unforgivable curse he would be sent to azkaban.

James raised his wand and shouted "Petrificus Totalus!" Peter's body seemed to freeze. James lowered his wand and walked over to Lily who was slumped on the floor. He sat down next to her and scooped her up in his arms. This made Lily cry even more. He muttered soothing words that didn't make much sense to her and stroked her hair.

James was so angry. When he had walked in and saw Peter doing that to her he had wanted to kill him. Make him pay for hurting Lily. Now she was in his arms crying. James heart ached. He hated seeing her cry. He just wanted to take her tears away and make everything in her world better. He took her chin and tilted it so she was looking at him. Tears were rolling down her cheeks. "there's no way on this earth that you deserved that." he whispered. She buried her head into his shoulder. she felt safe in his arms. There was no way that Peter could hurt her here.

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