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Chapter 7- I had a right to know!
James cowered slightly under Lily's intimidating burning gaze and nodded.
"OK, we can use the boys dormitory." James said taking Lily by the hand and noticed her tense under his touch. None of the other boys argued, Lily was way too scary when mad and they certainly did not want to get caught in the crossfire. Entering the common room, the group split into two. Dropping down on an armchair Sirius began to hum the funeral march as Lily and James disappeared round the corner at the top of the stairs. He was soon silenced by a smack up side the head by Jennifer. The four friends were silent, each lost in thought, each trying to come to their own conclusions on what exactly was going on in the seventh year boys dormitory. Harry and Ginny entered the common room on their way back from the library to see four grim and thoughtful faces. A sudden panic came over Harry as he quickly made his way over to them, dropping his books and parchment down on a table. Ginny followed looking worried.
"What's going on? Is everything all right?" The desperation in Harry's voice seemed to shock the four seventh years, who all stared curiously back at him. Finally Remus spoke up.
"Yeah, it's nothing to worry about really." He gave a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, I mean all couples fight and they're no exception to the rule." Jennifer too tried to reassure Harry.
"That was really strange though; Lily was real mad and I don't even think James knew what he'd done." Peter squeaked up.
"No," Sirius cut in, in a thoughtful tone. "I think he did." However Sirius refused to elaborate.
"Lily and James are fighting? What happened?" Harry tried to ask casually as he sat next to Remus.
"Dunno, quite confusing really." Jennifer began.
James opened the door to the boys dormitory and held it open for Lily. She entered and sat down on James' bed. James followed, closing the door behind him and sitting next to Lily. She stared intently at him for a few minutes he just stared back.
"Harry's not your cousin, is he?" This seemed more of a statement than a question causing James to break eye contact. James shook his head not daring to look Lily in the eye; he was so ashamed that he had lied to her. Taking a deep breath Lily continued.
"He's your son, isn't he?" This was again more of a statement, this time he looked at her and nodded. Lily took a sharp intake of air as if trying to prepare and motivate herself for the next thing she about to say.
"He's our son, isn't he?" As she said this Lily's voice faltered and cracked slightly. Looking her straight in the eye this time James nodded again. A tear slipped down Lily's cheek and James went to wipe it away but she pulled back.
"You lied to me! You lied to me James Potter! One thing you swore you would never do!" Lily jumped up from the bed in anger and James felt as if the wind had just been knocked out of him.
"Lil, I'm sorry, I couldn't tell anyone." James said quietly as though he was finding it hard to speak.
"You couldn't tell anyone? I'm not anyone James! I had a right to know!" Lily was now yelling and had begun to shake.
"I know I was wrong, I'm.I'm sorry." James said defeatedly.
"I had a right to know!" Lily's was trembling and her voice cracked again. Completely breaking down into tears she fell into James' arms. Sinking down to the floor James held Lily in a tight embrace, rocking her back and forth and stroking her hair.
"I'm so sorry, Lil, I'm so sorry."
"I wonder what's going on up there?" Peter thought out loud.
"Probably in the make up stage, if you know what I mean?" Sirius joked, again receiving a smack up side the head from Jennifer. "Hey psycho! Violence is not the answer."
"Yeah, but it sure makes me feel a whole lot better!" Jennifer gave a grin, before it was replaced by a frown as she stared back at the staircase. The group sat in silence for a while.
"I haven't seen Lily this mad since Snape propositioned her, James must have done something bad. Lily has never been this mad at James, ever!" Jennifer spoke up, although it was more to herself.
"Do you think he cheated on her and now they're going to break up?" Peter asked interestedly from his chair. Although in a distracted mood, it took every ounce of self control for Harry not to jump the sofa and punch Peter's lights out. Sirius scoffed at the very idea of James cheating on Lily, and Jennifer smacked Peter (A/N: go Jennifer, hit that worm! Have you noticed her violent tendencies?)
"Don't be such an idiot, Wormtail! Prongs would never cheat on Lily. And when do you suppose he did it? We've been with him all the time he's not with Lily." Remus stated calmly, he shook his head at Peter.
"Well, he has been acting strange lately. You know ever since he had that late Quidditch practice." Peter tried to defend himself; really he hadn't noticed, but had heard Sirius' passing comment to Remus that James was strangely quiet. Harry tried to act innocent, as if this had nothing to do with him.
"What do you expect! A cousin he doesn't talk about turns up out of the blue! You know James isn't really one for change. No offence, Harry." Sirius added, with a small smile for the youngest Potter.
"Will you guys stop fighting!" Jennifer glared at the squabbling boys. "We should be wondering if everything is all right. I hope Lily is OK." She flopped back into the red armchair.
"Well, if you're so worried, why don't you go and see?" Remus suggested in a reassuring voice.
"I can't! It's the boys dormitory! What if McGonagall catches me, I can't afford another detention!" Although curious, she didn't know if she wanted to walk into the crossfire. "One of you boys will have to go!"
"Us?" Sirius straightened in his chair and nervously glanced at Remus and Peter. All had felt the wrath of Lily and were definitely not in a hurry to renew the hostility.
"We .er .um, we can't! We can't send Peter that's just like sending the lamb to the slaughter (A/N: what a shame). Remus is .um . vulnerable and well, me- come on, I'm too valuable to the female population." With a quick glance around, his eyes landed on the other male in the circle. "I vote we send Harry!"
"Me?" Harry suddenly snapped up. If everyone else was too scared to go up, he wasn't exactly going to volunteer.
"Yeah! You're young, you have your whole life ahead of you, and chances are they'll take pity on you and not kill you! Plus you're family, James will protect you and Lily can't kill future family, can she!" Sirius seemed to think that this plan was genius. Harry decided he would do it, but only because he desperately wanted to see if they were all right. Plus, Sirius was right about the family thing. He just hoped that James would help him if Lily started to throw things. With this thought, he swallowed hard and began to climb the stairs. Harry hesitated at the door. Why on earth had he agreed to this? What if they got mad at him? He had once heard from Dean Thomas that his parents would get even angrier if they were interrupted. Dean had gone on to talk about flying book and other objects, and Dean's parents were muggles! What if he got hexed? Sirius seemed very adamant not go up to the dorm, he seemed to think he would end up in the hospital wing. This made Harry worry slightly, since Sirius had earlier been proclaiming how much he loved the hospital wing; after all he didn't need to go to any lessons. Lily must be very, very scary! Harry tried to decide what was worse, dodging curses or being yelled at by your parents for the first time, the people who are suppose to love you more than anything else in the world. Taking a deep breath, his hand closed over the door handle, while the other lifted to knock. Hearing a muffled 'come in' after a few moments made Harry turn the handle and open the door. Stepping in slowly, he looked around. Everything was pretty much like his dorm, well except his wasn't covered in as much mess and was lacking the vast amount of prank material. Sitting on one of the four poster bed was a sombre looking James (who had been rocking Lily in his arms for about ten minutes, before her sobs had subsided), Harry could tell that Lily had been crying, due to her red, puffy eyes. She appeared to have calmed down, that was until she caught sight of Harry. Her whole body went rigid and her eyes went wide. This slightly scared Harry and he vaguely wondered if he should be backing up at this moment. Yes, with luck he could probably reach the door before Lily could pick up her wand or any random object to hurl at him. Unfortunately he couldn't move and desperately pleading silently to his feet was not working. Harry quickly glanced at James, whose eyes just kept flicking between his girlfriend and his son. So basically he had no clue what to do, especially when Lily untangled herself from James' arms.
"I.uh.just came to see.well I-I wanted to know.erm.is.is ev-everything all right? Are you.you know." Trailing off, Harry decided that his defence was decidedly lame, but he was trying. OK, maybe this was a bad idea. Now he thought about it was damn stupid! You don't just interrupt a fighting couple, especially if one of them is a red head (now he knew that his temper and the whole exploding Aunt Marge thing came from his mother)! As he tried to rack his brain for something to say, Lily rose off the bed and started to move towards Harry. Stopping just in front of him, she gazed at his face, eyes full of wonderment. Two pairs of identical emerald eyes fixed on each other, one clouding with confusion, the other with tears. Then with a sob, Lily threw her arms around her son and hugged him tightly, her tears spilling more violently. Harry was shocked, to say the least, but one look at James' face told him all he needed to know. She knew! Letting out a breath he hadn't even realised he was holding, Harry eagerly hugged his mother back for the first time he could remember. Feeling another pair of arms slide around them, the tears inevitably fell, but Harry didn't care, this was the best moment of his whole life. The three of them stood there together in silence. They stood there as a family.
"Will you, for Merlin's sake, stop that!" Jennifer hissed through gritted teeth. Remus glanced down at his shaking leg and then back to the dormitory staircase.
"You don't think sending him up there was a.well.bad idea?" The others stared at each other, not knowing what to say.
"Yeah! A galleon says that she's killed them both and is now trying to hide the bodies."
"You really are a sick man, Black!" Jennifer took great pleasure in her favourite pass-time of smacking Sirius. The she sat back in her comfy armchair and scowled at him.
"She would-dn't really-y d-do that, w-would she?" Peter piped up, pathetically. This time Jennifer's scowl was directed at him, he meekly shrunk in his chair and stared at his chubby hands. Ginny spoke up for the first time since entering the common room.
"No, I think you did the best thing sending him up there." She began to flush like the ends of Ron's ears when they all turned to look at her. "Well," she hurriedly continued. "He is, as you said, family. And.um.well I know Harry." She did however neglect to mention that this had been purely from her observation. "Look," she continued. "Harry has this amazing ability to make everything seem better. He is the one that stays calm under pressure and always seems to have the answers to sort it out. I respect him so much for the many hardships he has tackled and well, I have total trust in him." Ginny suddenly realised what she had said and trailed of in complete embarrassment; she was now burning like a scarlet Gryffindor flag. The other four just stared in amazement at her speech.
"Whoah, he sure is lucky!" Remus started, sensing Ginny's uncomfortable situation. "I mean to have someone like you in his life, who sees so much good in him." Ginny blushed harder.
"Alas! If only I went for younger men!" Jennifer exclaimed, which got a small chuckle out of everyone. Well all except Sirius, who pouted.
"Aw shucks! I'm two months younger than you!"
"What a shame!" Jennifer clicked her fingers in mock disappointment. "Well, Remus is still in with a chance." With that she winked in his direction. Surprisingly enough his cheeks turned an interesting shade of red. This could have meant endless teasing had Sirius actually noticed. Instead he had leant towards Ginny in a very occasional serious moment.
"You really think that Harry can sort it out? 'Cause really I've never seen Lily like that and well Lily and James, they sorta give a bit of hope to the rest of us, you know. I mean if they.well it would just be like unbalancing the world or something." Ginny nearly had tears in her eyes from his proclamation, but she managed a small smile.
"Don't worry, there is a bond between those two that even death couldn't break."
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OK, am so sorry this chapter has taken so long but we just don't seem to have the time at the moment. No actually we do have a good excuse! AS Level exams and they are kinda important, also been working overtime which does quite frankly suck! Then ff. net was down and then we went on holiday! Anyway on with the fic!
Chapter 7- I had a right to know!
James cowered slightly under Lily's intimidating burning gaze and nodded.
"OK, we can use the boys dormitory." James said taking Lily by the hand and noticed her tense under his touch. None of the other boys argued, Lily was way too scary when mad and they certainly did not want to get caught in the crossfire. Entering the common room, the group split into two. Dropping down on an armchair Sirius began to hum the funeral march as Lily and James disappeared round the corner at the top of the stairs. He was soon silenced by a smack up side the head by Jennifer. The four friends were silent, each lost in thought, each trying to come to their own conclusions on what exactly was going on in the seventh year boys dormitory. Harry and Ginny entered the common room on their way back from the library to see four grim and thoughtful faces. A sudden panic came over Harry as he quickly made his way over to them, dropping his books and parchment down on a table. Ginny followed looking worried.
"What's going on? Is everything all right?" The desperation in Harry's voice seemed to shock the four seventh years, who all stared curiously back at him. Finally Remus spoke up.
"Yeah, it's nothing to worry about really." He gave a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, I mean all couples fight and they're no exception to the rule." Jennifer too tried to reassure Harry.
"That was really strange though; Lily was real mad and I don't even think James knew what he'd done." Peter squeaked up.
"No," Sirius cut in, in a thoughtful tone. "I think he did." However Sirius refused to elaborate.
"Lily and James are fighting? What happened?" Harry tried to ask casually as he sat next to Remus.
"Dunno, quite confusing really." Jennifer began.
James opened the door to the boys dormitory and held it open for Lily. She entered and sat down on James' bed. James followed, closing the door behind him and sitting next to Lily. She stared intently at him for a few minutes he just stared back.
"Harry's not your cousin, is he?" This seemed more of a statement than a question causing James to break eye contact. James shook his head not daring to look Lily in the eye; he was so ashamed that he had lied to her. Taking a deep breath Lily continued.
"He's your son, isn't he?" This was again more of a statement, this time he looked at her and nodded. Lily took a sharp intake of air as if trying to prepare and motivate herself for the next thing she about to say.
"He's our son, isn't he?" As she said this Lily's voice faltered and cracked slightly. Looking her straight in the eye this time James nodded again. A tear slipped down Lily's cheek and James went to wipe it away but she pulled back.
"You lied to me! You lied to me James Potter! One thing you swore you would never do!" Lily jumped up from the bed in anger and James felt as if the wind had just been knocked out of him.
"Lil, I'm sorry, I couldn't tell anyone." James said quietly as though he was finding it hard to speak.
"You couldn't tell anyone? I'm not anyone James! I had a right to know!" Lily was now yelling and had begun to shake.
"I know I was wrong, I'm.I'm sorry." James said defeatedly.
"I had a right to know!" Lily's was trembling and her voice cracked again. Completely breaking down into tears she fell into James' arms. Sinking down to the floor James held Lily in a tight embrace, rocking her back and forth and stroking her hair.
"I'm so sorry, Lil, I'm so sorry."
"I wonder what's going on up there?" Peter thought out loud.
"Probably in the make up stage, if you know what I mean?" Sirius joked, again receiving a smack up side the head from Jennifer. "Hey psycho! Violence is not the answer."
"Yeah, but it sure makes me feel a whole lot better!" Jennifer gave a grin, before it was replaced by a frown as she stared back at the staircase. The group sat in silence for a while.
"I haven't seen Lily this mad since Snape propositioned her, James must have done something bad. Lily has never been this mad at James, ever!" Jennifer spoke up, although it was more to herself.
"Do you think he cheated on her and now they're going to break up?" Peter asked interestedly from his chair. Although in a distracted mood, it took every ounce of self control for Harry not to jump the sofa and punch Peter's lights out. Sirius scoffed at the very idea of James cheating on Lily, and Jennifer smacked Peter (A/N: go Jennifer, hit that worm! Have you noticed her violent tendencies?)
"Don't be such an idiot, Wormtail! Prongs would never cheat on Lily. And when do you suppose he did it? We've been with him all the time he's not with Lily." Remus stated calmly, he shook his head at Peter.
"Well, he has been acting strange lately. You know ever since he had that late Quidditch practice." Peter tried to defend himself; really he hadn't noticed, but had heard Sirius' passing comment to Remus that James was strangely quiet. Harry tried to act innocent, as if this had nothing to do with him.
"What do you expect! A cousin he doesn't talk about turns up out of the blue! You know James isn't really one for change. No offence, Harry." Sirius added, with a small smile for the youngest Potter.
"Will you guys stop fighting!" Jennifer glared at the squabbling boys. "We should be wondering if everything is all right. I hope Lily is OK." She flopped back into the red armchair.
"Well, if you're so worried, why don't you go and see?" Remus suggested in a reassuring voice.
"I can't! It's the boys dormitory! What if McGonagall catches me, I can't afford another detention!" Although curious, she didn't know if she wanted to walk into the crossfire. "One of you boys will have to go!"
"Us?" Sirius straightened in his chair and nervously glanced at Remus and Peter. All had felt the wrath of Lily and were definitely not in a hurry to renew the hostility.
"We .er .um, we can't! We can't send Peter that's just like sending the lamb to the slaughter (A/N: what a shame). Remus is .um . vulnerable and well, me- come on, I'm too valuable to the female population." With a quick glance around, his eyes landed on the other male in the circle. "I vote we send Harry!"
"Me?" Harry suddenly snapped up. If everyone else was too scared to go up, he wasn't exactly going to volunteer.
"Yeah! You're young, you have your whole life ahead of you, and chances are they'll take pity on you and not kill you! Plus you're family, James will protect you and Lily can't kill future family, can she!" Sirius seemed to think that this plan was genius. Harry decided he would do it, but only because he desperately wanted to see if they were all right. Plus, Sirius was right about the family thing. He just hoped that James would help him if Lily started to throw things. With this thought, he swallowed hard and began to climb the stairs. Harry hesitated at the door. Why on earth had he agreed to this? What if they got mad at him? He had once heard from Dean Thomas that his parents would get even angrier if they were interrupted. Dean had gone on to talk about flying book and other objects, and Dean's parents were muggles! What if he got hexed? Sirius seemed very adamant not go up to the dorm, he seemed to think he would end up in the hospital wing. This made Harry worry slightly, since Sirius had earlier been proclaiming how much he loved the hospital wing; after all he didn't need to go to any lessons. Lily must be very, very scary! Harry tried to decide what was worse, dodging curses or being yelled at by your parents for the first time, the people who are suppose to love you more than anything else in the world. Taking a deep breath, his hand closed over the door handle, while the other lifted to knock. Hearing a muffled 'come in' after a few moments made Harry turn the handle and open the door. Stepping in slowly, he looked around. Everything was pretty much like his dorm, well except his wasn't covered in as much mess and was lacking the vast amount of prank material. Sitting on one of the four poster bed was a sombre looking James (who had been rocking Lily in his arms for about ten minutes, before her sobs had subsided), Harry could tell that Lily had been crying, due to her red, puffy eyes. She appeared to have calmed down, that was until she caught sight of Harry. Her whole body went rigid and her eyes went wide. This slightly scared Harry and he vaguely wondered if he should be backing up at this moment. Yes, with luck he could probably reach the door before Lily could pick up her wand or any random object to hurl at him. Unfortunately he couldn't move and desperately pleading silently to his feet was not working. Harry quickly glanced at James, whose eyes just kept flicking between his girlfriend and his son. So basically he had no clue what to do, especially when Lily untangled herself from James' arms.
"I.uh.just came to see.well I-I wanted to know.erm.is.is ev-everything all right? Are you.you know." Trailing off, Harry decided that his defence was decidedly lame, but he was trying. OK, maybe this was a bad idea. Now he thought about it was damn stupid! You don't just interrupt a fighting couple, especially if one of them is a red head (now he knew that his temper and the whole exploding Aunt Marge thing came from his mother)! As he tried to rack his brain for something to say, Lily rose off the bed and started to move towards Harry. Stopping just in front of him, she gazed at his face, eyes full of wonderment. Two pairs of identical emerald eyes fixed on each other, one clouding with confusion, the other with tears. Then with a sob, Lily threw her arms around her son and hugged him tightly, her tears spilling more violently. Harry was shocked, to say the least, but one look at James' face told him all he needed to know. She knew! Letting out a breath he hadn't even realised he was holding, Harry eagerly hugged his mother back for the first time he could remember. Feeling another pair of arms slide around them, the tears inevitably fell, but Harry didn't care, this was the best moment of his whole life. The three of them stood there together in silence. They stood there as a family.
"Will you, for Merlin's sake, stop that!" Jennifer hissed through gritted teeth. Remus glanced down at his shaking leg and then back to the dormitory staircase.
"You don't think sending him up there was a.well.bad idea?" The others stared at each other, not knowing what to say.
"Yeah! A galleon says that she's killed them both and is now trying to hide the bodies."
"You really are a sick man, Black!" Jennifer took great pleasure in her favourite pass-time of smacking Sirius. The she sat back in her comfy armchair and scowled at him.
"She would-dn't really-y d-do that, w-would she?" Peter piped up, pathetically. This time Jennifer's scowl was directed at him, he meekly shrunk in his chair and stared at his chubby hands. Ginny spoke up for the first time since entering the common room.
"No, I think you did the best thing sending him up there." She began to flush like the ends of Ron's ears when they all turned to look at her. "Well," she hurriedly continued. "He is, as you said, family. And.um.well I know Harry." She did however neglect to mention that this had been purely from her observation. "Look," she continued. "Harry has this amazing ability to make everything seem better. He is the one that stays calm under pressure and always seems to have the answers to sort it out. I respect him so much for the many hardships he has tackled and well, I have total trust in him." Ginny suddenly realised what she had said and trailed of in complete embarrassment; she was now burning like a scarlet Gryffindor flag. The other four just stared in amazement at her speech.
"Whoah, he sure is lucky!" Remus started, sensing Ginny's uncomfortable situation. "I mean to have someone like you in his life, who sees so much good in him." Ginny blushed harder.
"Alas! If only I went for younger men!" Jennifer exclaimed, which got a small chuckle out of everyone. Well all except Sirius, who pouted.
"Aw shucks! I'm two months younger than you!"
"What a shame!" Jennifer clicked her fingers in mock disappointment. "Well, Remus is still in with a chance." With that she winked in his direction. Surprisingly enough his cheeks turned an interesting shade of red. This could have meant endless teasing had Sirius actually noticed. Instead he had leant towards Ginny in a very occasional serious moment.
"You really think that Harry can sort it out? 'Cause really I've never seen Lily like that and well Lily and James, they sorta give a bit of hope to the rest of us, you know. I mean if they.well it would just be like unbalancing the world or something." Ginny nearly had tears in her eyes from his proclamation, but she managed a small smile.
"Don't worry, there is a bond between those two that even death couldn't break."
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