A/N: Look I fixed it! And a thanks for telling me that it was in two different chapters! It's a long and boring story, so enough boring chatter and on to chapter 9!

Ch.9 A Chaotic Hour

"John!" Lily shouted as her and James kneeled beside him. "Oh my God, James, he's bleeding!"

"He's been stabbed!" 

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John looked like he was in deep pain. His skin was increasingly growing paler every second. Lily didn't know if that was from the loss of blood or the dampened floor.

"Lily, give me something to put on his cut."

Lily looked around, "Here use my shawl." Lily gave the shawl to James who used it to apply pressure to John's deep wound. "John, you're going to be fine."

"Get out of here," John said feebly.

"We're not leaving you," Lily said.

"No, leave, save your selves." His voice was getting hushed with every sentence. "Go. Go up the stairs and… and try to find a way to the… lifeboats." When Lily and James shook they're heads in protest, he continued. "Promise me… both of you. That you… won't stay behind…because of me. You'll leave… and get out of here… alive."

"John, you'll be fine."

"Promise."

James glanced at Lily then looked at John, "Fine. We promise."

John closed his eyes slowly, and soon Lily and James couldn't hear him breathing. Lily quickly put her fingers to his neck and said, "Oh my God, there's no pulse." Tears started to flow down her face.

They stood up. James took Lily in his arms to comfort her. "Come on, we need to get out of here."

Lily opened her mouth to protest but noticed the water reaching her ankles. They ran back to the stairs and walked up them carefully because of the seawater rushing down the stairs. James held Lily to keep her from falling. They retraced their steps to Scotland Road. James spotted a flight of stairs that they didn't notice before. "Lily, this way."

Lily took hold of James' hand as they ran up the stairs to find an empty room. They observed that no water had reached this floor, yet. There were stairs to their right. It was leading down. "What should we do? This place is a labyrinth."

"We don't have any other choices," James said looking at Lily; he wanted to tell her how he felt about her.

"Lets go," Lily said gripping James' hand firmly. They ran down the stairway hoping it would lead them to a different place but "we're in Scotland Road again! Are we in the Twilight Zone?"

"Worse." They searched the corridor frantically.

Lily shouted, "over there!" They ran down the passage, and down another flight of stairs. "This is a nightmare!" Lily said as she slipped on the flooding floor. "It's freezing!" They quickly searched through the nonstop hallway. Splashing throughout the twists and turns of the flooding antechamber they found another staircase leading up.

When they reached the top of the stairs there was a gate blocking the way out. "This has got to be the way out!" James said.

"It's a relief to get out of that water, it only came up a little past our ankles but it was really really icy! Is it locked?"

James tried to open the gate. "It's locked." They began to shake the gate violently.

Lily glanced back and saw the ice-cold seawater rushing up the steps. Lily shouted out, "Help, somebody! Help, please!"

"Lily this isn't the time to have a nervous breakdown."

"Well, then stop acting so calm." Lily said back. "I'm sorry, that was cruel."

"It's ok. We'll get through this."

Lily screamed when the freezing water reached their ankles. "James, what should we do?"

"I don't know." James said. "Lily, look at me." she faced him; he put his hand on her face. She felt so cold; her lips were turning purple, she was shivering. "Lily, I want you to know that I'm sorry earlier today, about Linda. And that it's not my fault…"    

            "I know; you don't have to apologize." The water was rapidly rising passed their knees. Lily's face was getting paler.

"Listen. I need to say this incase we don't make it out of here." The freezing water was up to their waist. "Lily, I… I love you."

Tears started to form in Lily's eyes; she wiped them away. The water level was halfway up to Lily's shoulders. "James, I love you too." She looked around at the rising water. "James! That's it! Use your wand to unlock the gate, I can't find mine."

            "Ok" James began to search his pockets for his wand but he could only use one hand while the other was holding on to the gate to keep his clothes from weighing him down. The water was up to Lily's shoulders now.

            "James, hurry."

            "I can't find my wand anywhere."

            "Keep looking." The water was now up to James' shoulders and Lily's neck. "Hurry!"

            "Found it!" James said a spell as fast as he could, "parva magna!" The gate shot off the hinges. The current pushed Lily and James through the opening and kept carrying them down the hallway. They reached the dry part of the hallway. "How do you get blow up the gate from 'I love you'. You alright?" James asked as he helped Lily up when they got out of the rushing water and down a hallway.

"I don't know and I'm fine, just cold." Lily searched her pockets for her wand. She then cast a drying spell on herself while James did the same. "That's better." They looked around the beautifully decorated hallway, "where are we?"

"My guess is second class." James took Lily by the hand. "We have to get to a lifeboat quickly, lets get going."

            "Ok, but first let me get this straight, you love me?" Lily said in an optimistic voice.

            "Yes I do. Surprised?" James said smiling.

            Lily blushed, that smile almost made her knees collapse. "Yes, I mean no. I don't know."

            James put his hands around her waist and said, "Well, what do you know?"

            "I know that I love you." Lily then kissed James passionately for only a second when they felt seawater coming down the hallway.

            "We'll continue this later. Lets go to the boat deck." They ran down the seemingly endless hallway until they reached a staircase leading upward. At the top of the stairs there was a sign that read 'Second class stairs D deck'.

                                                ~Back in Hogwarts~

            "Jacqueline, Remus, April!" Sirius said as he reached them in the common room.

            April stood up, "What is it? What's wrong?"

            "Dumbledore wants to see us. I think he might have found Lily and James." Sirius said quickly, "Come on, let's go." With that the four ran out of the room as fast as they could to Dumbledore's office.

            "As Mr. Black might have told you, we found Miss. Evans and Mr. Potter," Professor Dumbledore said to the group who were sitting in his office.

            "Finally," Sirius smiled, "Without James we haven't been able to play a decent prank on the Slytherins."

            Remus sighed, "he wasn't even gone a week."

            Dumbledore cleared his throat. "Please let me finish. As I said we found them, but I'm still trying to find a way to bring them back from the past."

            April sighed, "Are they ok?"

            Dumbledore looked away and said, "Well, they are now."

            "What's that supposed to mean?" The four asked in unison.

            "Well, to make a long story short, they're on a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean."

            "But wouldn't they come back by now with the time turner?" Remus asked.

            "They should have which means they must have lost it." Dumbledore crossed the room and added, " Don't worry they'll be fine."         

                                                            ~In 1912~

Lily said excitedly, "now all we have to do is keep going up the staircase until we reach A deck." James nodded and they took off running up the stairs. Soon they saw signs as they passed the different staircases, 'C deck'. 'B deck'. 'A deck' "Look! We're here!"

            "No look another stairwell, that should lead us to the boat deck." They ran up the stairs to find two doors that lead to the boat deck. "Finally."

A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter. See you next time!