Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters you recognise in this fictional story belonging to Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Warner Bros., and whoever else…Bloomsbury and Scholastic. Some characters are based on childhood friends, I made them into this fiction therefore I own them. I also own the plot. And the dates… coz they're terribly wrong. I also don't own the pretty song… *looks down* ('One Way Mule'- Silverchair)
Let my spirit ride on a one way mule
Blistered skin in a cold hearted pool
Distant emotion hides a concrete wall
Naked and anchored
I'll climb right back to you
"Must have fallen asleep…" James said to himself blearily.
He got up and stretched his arms out wide. He Apparated back to his apartment in a bright ice blue flash and took a shower. Sick guilt was overpowering his stressed out head. He should have noticed that there was something wrong in her voice when they spoke. She was really sick, and it was his fault, he should've known. The sight of Sarah looking so awful would scar him forever. He hadn't gotten a wink of sleep for the past 24 hours not including the half an hour of light sleep he had gotten at Sarah's apartment. He couldn't just let something happened to someone close to him again.
Remus saw the state his friend was in, "James, go sleep," he said, "You most definitely need it…"
James looked at Remus with red eyes, "Nah, I've got too many things on my mind right now,"
"You need sleep Prongs, even if it is a couple hours, you look like crap." Sirius said walking in from the kitchen.
"I can't Padfoot, too many things-"
"Go on, we still have some of Bruno's Sleep Well potion in the bathroom cabinet, works as well as any dreamless sleep potion Madame Panda could brew back at Hogwarts. Remus and I have had our share of forty winks. I'm off to the hospital to check up on… her." Sirius said.
James looked down, "All right… I just can't help feel responsible that Sarah is in this state now, if only I had listened to her or told her off for that silly lie about the job interview-"
"What's done is what it is James, don't dwell on the past you can't change, while Padfoot's at the hospital, I think I might go to her apartment, it was pretty messy the night before…" Remus offered.
"Good idea," Sirius said.
Remus went off to get the potion and gave it to James in a small shot glass, making James shoot him a quizzing look. "Strong stuff Prongs, really strong, scull it and you're in a dreamless sleep," he explained.
James took the shot and was about to scull it but stopped, "Wait, what if something happens? Something important, I- I just keep on seeing Sarah collapse into a heap over and over. She looked so pale, what if she…doesn't make it?"
Remus and Sirius exchanged glances and Sirius turned to James, "She's strong…"
James shook his head heavily, drowsiness overpowering him; he sculled the shot and fell into a deep slumber.
Sirius then turned to Remus and sighed greatly, "Moony, what would we do if she doesn't make it or if something comes up?"
"The enervate spell will do," Remus said.
Sirius nodded, "All right…well, I'm off, I'll see you"
*~~~*
Remus Apparated to Sarah's apartment in a bronze flash.
He looked around and wrinkled his nose up with disgust. He saw pills strewn all over the place, books and vases in tatters and pieces. It also reeked like someone died.
"Scourgify!"
He was satisfied as he saw that almost all of the mess had disappeared.
He cleaned up the bathroom with much horror. Then went inside her room and put away clothes, while cleaning, he noticed a small safe under her bed; it could only be opened with a key because he saw that there was a small bronze keyhole.
He picked it up and put it on the bed, definitely muggle he concluded. He reached for his wand and pointed it at the safe.
This is bad… I should not be doing this at all. What is she doing with a safe anyway? I'd better hide it in case James finds it and I know he won't hesitate to open it. I'll just put in here for now…
He went over and picked up the glass-framed photo of the gang on graduation day from her desk and walked to her bed. But he tripped on the duster on the floor and the frame went flying across the room. Remus watched in horror as the photo frame went colliding toward the sill of the window.
It slammed into the architrave right on it's edge and the back of the frame flew away. Remus rushed to see the damages, luckily the photo was fine and the glass frame was in one piece. But the backing was missing, Remus crawled around the room and finally found it. He sighed with relief as he had it clutched in his left hand.
He laughed to himself, "Remus, you lucky bastard!"
He started assemble the pieces back together and saw that the backing had a piece of parchment taped to the inside of the backing. Curiosity getting to him, he tore the piece of parchment taped on off the backing and out fell a small bronze key.
What's this? He wondered with growing suspicion.
He borught the small key into the light, gazing at it. His gaze lowered to the safe beside him. Hmm…
He knew it was wrong, but something compelled him to do it, he inserted the key into the slot of the safe that lay there beside him and turned it, the safe made a small 'click' and the handle twisted and the door opened. Inside were papers, Remus took one on the very top and opened it up;
"Dear Miss Potter,
"Due to your request of the acknowledgement of your biological parents, we can do nothing but oblige, you were born in ____ 19__ and the names of your biological parents were; _________ and __________. we are sorry to inform you that they are deceased, that is all we can provide you with.
"Regards, minister of magic, Alfred Stein."
I'd bet my life that she hasn't told James about this…Remus thought to himself sourly. Remus took out the whole pile and held them in his hands and pausing while contemplating with himself whether or not he should look through the rest.
*~~*~~*
Peter's eyes widened, "A-Ad-Adele?"
He could not believe this sight before him, Adele was…alive but she looked very different. Her fair skin was now an off and sickly white with shades of the slightest colour of grey. Around her once warm brown eyes were heavy dark circles and her eyes were now were lifeless and cold. His now clear eyes wandered down from her face to where, he has so sorrowfully cut off her life, there was thin line of scab running around her neck. All in all; she looked like a living corpse and that scared the dickens out of him.
"In a way…yes." Adele said in such a cold tone Peter shivered.
He attempted to get off the stone slab and stand up but his body was aching terribly so one his feet touched the floor his legs gave way. He fell into a heap on the cold, damp and dark floor.
A cold laugh lingered around the dark room and stung Peter's ears. A strong smell of metallic blood tickled his senses, the stench made him want to puke.
"You idiot…"
Still in shock, Peter swayed as he stuttered, "Y-y-you're alive!" He started to sob. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to! I'm so sorry!"
Adele kicked him in the stomach and commanded, "Get up Pettigrew!!"
Peter looked up at her; this wasn't the Adele he knew. "What's gotten into you?"
"Pathetic fool!"
"I don't understand…"
"Typical you…" Adele said ice dripping from her voice as she turned up her hood. She lifted her hand up and clicked her fingers in one swift motion; at once two hooded figures came from the darkness and to her side. Peter could no longer see her tormenting looking face for it was hidden behind the darkness of her hood.
Peter was shaking madly; he had killed her right? Cutting off someone head would kill the damn person! Then something rare happened, something in his grey matter upstairs clicked, someone must have brought her back from the dead… He stumbled up, body aching all over and whimpered as the two new hooded figure grabbed him on both sides and dragged him away but before that they stopped him in front of Adele--
"Pettigrew, you're ready for ritual"
A new wave of fear almost drove him over the edge, her cold breath made him shake even more madly than ever, if he had ate anything for the last past days he would have surely soiled himself.
Peter was dragged into another room and thrown onto the cold floor, thinking to him self madly. He was cold, shivering, in pain and starving to death. This torture he had heard of while talking with fellow Death Eater, Elsuner.
Lucky bastard… Peter thought as he remembered that an Extreme Auror had caught Elsuner recently. They were the most fierce opponents that the dark side had ever encountered. They were the ones who were undercover, they never went on missions with their true face appearance. They showed no mercy, when fighting, it was personal…
Only the bravest Death Eater would fight an Extreme Auror. Peter knew the killing curse would have been better any day.
"Wormtail" a cold voice hardly spoke.
Peter looked up and quickly rushed to his master and kissed the hem of his robes, muttering, "Master...master."
All he got in return was a kick in the face.
Peter winced in pain and Voldemort ordered him on the floating stone slab behind him, Peter turned his head, the sight was all too familiar, his master and himself were surrounded by the Death Eaters laughing at him. He saw Lucius Malfoy smirk at him while his two lugs Goyle and Crabbe advanced toward him, Peter wanted to move back but he just stared wide-eyed in shock, fear and defeat. He felt the ice cold shiver on his back from the stone slab where he was magically bound down onto.
"Wormtail…welcome to your…how do I like to put it?" Voldemort maliciously asked.
"Doom" a voice said from behind the Voldemort. Peter dared to see who it was; Adele making her way to him, the Death Eaters gave way and kissed the hem of her robes.
Voldemort bowed slightly and said, "Excellent choice."
Peter turned his head to the side with wide eyes…
"Zabulus," Voldemort said with an honouring tone while presenting his arms to Adele.
Peter managed to stutter out, "w-what?"
Zabulus smirked and spoke in no longer Adele's voice but a low and demonic one, "I am Zabulus…also known as Satanas, Antitheus, Lucifer or simply the Devil. Didn't your mother teach you there were other things to fear other than power hungry Slytherin Prefects gone bad?
"Of course, necromancy was never you Master's speciality. You would some how explain the underlying question at this point of why I am presently in a rotting females corpse. The thing is, is that I have made a deal with your master, Voldemort. I will give him immortality for a soul and full obedience to me"
*~~*~~*
Arabella picked up the local newspaper and sighed; Last night Amanda Seaford had died, the ministry wizards had come up with nothing, they couldn't find anything.
Should have tried to dig up some of those graves… Arabella thought. The head of the investigation believed in a lot of bad omens, he didn't allow the wizards to disturb the peace of the beings who have gone to another life. Load of crock if you ask me! She laughed to herself, attracting some attention from her fellow work mates and an odd glare from her supervisor.She quickly pretended to shuffle some papers around and muttered under her breath, "Not that anyone did anyway…"
*~~*~~*
It was a strange twist of fate that surely would mean something in later years…
Severus Snape had always been one to hate Potter and his little buddies. They called him names and was basically the reason he retaliated. They had hated each other since day one. But during his years at Hogwarts, life then gave him quite a surprise; even though he had hated James. He didn't hate his cousin, or her best friend Lily Evans. He never did meet their other two friends so he had no comment on them.
Severus was quietly doing his swelling potion… he was careful, cautious and adding all ingredients with direct precision. Until Potter decided to throw a firework in it, the results were not pretty…
He felt his drenched body swell bigger and bigger, he saw that everyone was laughing at him, he had never really felt such humiliation, even the Slytherins were sniggering, his vision blurred with welled up tears, before he knew it, he heard a girl shout out, "YOU IDIOT! HE'S ALLERGIC!"
He looked at the voice and saw an angry Gryffindor girl with bright red hair making wild gestures at Potter. The girls near her just looked shocked.
By that time the professor had came back, "Potter! Detention, someone take him to the Hospital Ward!"
Severus felt his body continually swelling and he felt a hand on each of his shoulders escorting him to the ward. By the time they had got there, his eyes had been swollen shut.
Once he had minimised in size, he looked at the two Gryffindor girls who had basically saved him from further humiliation and tried to sneer, "Why?"
They just smiled. "We don't really have anything against you, you haven't done much to us. It's polite to help…"
When they left him, he heard one of them say, "Severus isn't too nasty like James had told me. I'll pound him!"
They had become acquaintances after that day.
Severus closed his eyes for a second, leaning further back on his chair in his office at the ministry department of potions. Lily Evans and her merry gang of happy Gryffindors; they were civil. In Hogwarts, they would send him a combined card on his birthday, Severus would often feel guilty that Sarah often argued with her cousin because of their friendship, Lily would then always help Sarah out, but then Black would help his best friend out…
Severus was walking down the halls to go to breakfast, he was late and terribly hungry, he fastened his pace a bit but abruptly halted when his ears came upon shouting, " WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS SARAH, HE IS A SLYTHERIN! OUR ENEMY!"
"He may be yours but he isn't our enemy,"
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU TWO ARE FRIENDS WITH HIM! HE IS SCUM! HE DOESN'T WASH!"
"Stop it, James… sometimes you can be a real prat," he could hear Lily try and reason.
"SCUM! THAT'S WHAT HE IS! SCUM! GREASY SCUM!"
"STOP IT JAMES!"
"NO! NOT UNTIL YOU BECOME ENEMIES WITH HIM LIKE THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY!"
He heard a sob and running steps.
Most of their arguments
ended up like that, then Potter would go apologise. But it would happen again.
He knew it was selfish but because of those arguments, he felt happier that at
least someone cared…he wished he had never left Hogwarts, then he wouldn't be
in this … quandary.
His old Slytherin friends had let something out to him, they told him they a group of them who were now followers of the Dark Lord, Death Eaters they were. They slipped out to him that they had found out a true identity of an extreme Auror, they were going to kill them the following week.
"What's the name of the unfortunate bastard?"
"See, that's the thing, I mean- Extreme Aurors are pretty much feared by all of us Death Eaters, but get this! This extreme Auror is a she! Pretty shameful that is! She's caught a lot of us! Earned quite a rep! Ruthless bitch!"
"Okay…so what's the woman's name then?"
"If you could even call her a woman! Apparently, every time she's out there with her other extreme Aurors buddies, she always manages to get one of us killed or to Azkaban! That's why next week; the whole lot of us are going to her apartment- yeah! Ain't that grand? We know where she lives! And we are going to give her the most painful death! Yeah! That'll be great!"
"So…the name of the 'bitch' is?"
"Yeah…good one Snape! I'd call her a bitch as well! Don't ask me that! I'm not allowed to even tell you what we found out! I'd say that bitch is on to us coz Master killed her parents a few days after graduation day at Hogwarts!"
"Do you remember her from Hogwarts?"
He made a face, as if trying to remember, "Yes, I think so… bloody Gryffindor Head Girl…"
He wasn't dumb, he fit the pieces together… He just didn't really want to believe it. He hadn't known she was even alive, but now he knew. After all these years, here was the truth. That Extreme Auror could only be Lily Evans…
Since he knew about the plan of attack, he wrote out a whole long letter to Sarah Potter, filling her in and a plan to save her now… but he thought it over, if Sarah found her out, her life would be in danger…right? And his life was already in danger already! He burned the letter and thought of another plan; he would just scare Lily out so she would be relocated and most importantly; she'd be safe.
That happened last week, and this week… he was to go to the Annual Ministry Ball, he thought he might go…
He grimaced when he let go of the owl which had his acceptance reply on it, the Potter's would be there.
He was pretty sure Lily was safe now, but if she was an extreme Auror, if she was the one of the best, which it did sound like from his fellow Slytherin, then she…she would certainly be there too.
Not in her true appearance, but there was a certain possibility of her being there. He knew what an Extreme Auror was, but he didn't know how the system worked. He decided he would just take the risk.
With Lily and Sarah being there, it would be an awkward night for Lily. If they were both there, he could easily end their misery and blow Lily's cover… but endanger the system of the Ministry and possibly say good bye to his own pitiful life.
Severus shook his head, scowling. What a dreamer he could become at times…
He didn't even have solid facts.
*~~**~~*
"Excuse me, my name is Sylvia Newberry, I'm the new nurse here."
"Hello! Just go down that hall and to your left, the first door, that's the head nurses office."
"Thankyou!"
"No problem dear…"
Lily walked up to the door and knocked lightly…
"Come in!" a voice said from behind.
She opened the door, there was a slightly middle aged, greying and sort of plump lady sitting at her next, and she had a warm smile when she saw Lily, "Sit dear! Sit! You must be the new nurse! Goodness knows how we need more nurses nowadays! all young ladies today mostly want to become lawyers!"
Lily smiled, "Hi, I'm Sylvia Newberry." She said putting out her hand.
"Nice to meet you Sylvia, I'm Mrs Yupple… but please just call me Trixy."
"Ok, Trixy…" Lily said sitting down.
"Right… I normally would show you around myself, but there is a young woman's parents upstairs who needs a good cuppa, rough last hour they have had, poor people… but don't fret! I have been working here my whole son's life! And he knows this place just as he would his home! He's about your age, he'll take you around"
Just as she said the last words the office door swung open and in came… a rather handsome bloke; blonde hair, hazel eyes, pretty muscly, tall… "Mum! You're needed upstairs with the girl's parent's… poor folks…" he said.
Trixy stood up, "Right! Ben, this is Sylvia, our new nurse, take her around the place, get her settled in."
"Yeah, all right mum." He smiled at Lily, she smiled back.
Trixy left and Ben looked at Lily, "So… Sylvia, looks like you're all uniformed. Let's go checks out the ward you'll be working at, which is upstairs… where my mum is going now, but before that I'll show you the kind of stuff you'll be doing here, so you won't be clueless or wandering around."
"Ok, thanks…"
"No problem! Let's head off then shall we?" Ben asked while grinning.
*~~*~~*
"ENERVATE!"
James groggily rubbed his eyes…although failing, he was shaking like anything,…no someone was shaking him.
"James! Come on man! Wake up!" Sirius said.
James sat up, "What? What happened?"
"It's Sarah man, she-"
James was fully awake now, "Oh no! Come on! Sirius! Explain to me on the way!"
The two apparated in front of the hospital and ran in…
*~~*~~*
Remus furrowed his brows. They all bloody well knew I was a Werewolf and they didn't say a thing.
He was looking through the pile from the top, it was a torn out diary entry from when Sarah was in first year, he read through it about ten times before it actually sunk in.
A lot of the papers in the small piles were in envelopes, but they were sealed with some sort of locking charm, Remus couldn't get them open, so he decided he'd be best off to leave them, he put the documents away in the safe and placed the safe back to where it was under her bed and he went into her kitchen.
He opened up the cupboard door and when he closed it he almost screamed in shock, instead he gasped, "Sirius! You idiot!"
But after seeing the look on his face, Remus sensed something was not right, "what happened?"
Sirius' face looked solemn, "Remus…It's Sarah, I just took James over there, she's not getting any better…"
"Do they know what happened?" Remus asked concerned.
"Well, I told them that we had seen her vomit and stuff, they told us according to her test results, it's malnutrition. But also her emotions are somehow playing up with her health…the doctor said that she is very distressed at the moment, the reason? They aren't too sure of…"
"James is taking it hard?"
"I've never seen James like this. She was the only family he has left that he is close to…" Sirius said putting his head in his hands.
Remus looked at his stressed, "'Is' Sirius 'is'…don't use past tense…"
Sirius slowly nodded his head, "First it was Lily…now Sarah"
"Hey, don't talk like that… neither of them are gone.."
"Neither of them?! Moony, face it… face reality. We haven't seen Lily for years now… years. What are the chances of us seeing her again? We don't even know if she's alive! I mean- geez… Moony… we've already lost one, and we're losing another right now, I haven't seen Adele for days, neither have I seen Calista and now Peter hasn't even been around!"
"Sirius, these are hard days… You-Know-Who is raising more power and the Aurors are working like crazy. Knowing Peter; he is probably in hiding, Adele and Calista were never really that close to us! We knew them through Lily! You shouldn't give up hope for anything. Hope is what will see us through, and so we shouldn't be giving up without hard goddamn proof!"
"A five year missing persons case not hard enough proof for you, Moony?" Sirius snapped viciously, "or are you that daft?"
"Why the hell do you have to be so logical Moony?"
"It's my job when everyone else isn't…"
"Yeah, OK…we should go to the hospital now; James might need us, He never got over Lily, I reckon he'll go positively mad if Sarah doesn't make it."
"We all might go mad…" Remus said as he took his jacket but before apparating Remus grabbed Sirius' shoulder, " What are the chances of her living?"
Sirius again looked solemn and grave, "Not sure…we won't be sure until they find out why she's so stressed," he looked up to the ceiling, "Y'know Moony… I can't help thinking that if Lily-"
But Remus interrupted, "Yeah… that if Lily had never went all this would've been different…"
*~~~*~~~*
"-And so that is where you sterilise the instruments for emergency operation" Ben explained pointing to the silver machine. "It's really important that you sterilise the instruments-"
"- because the instruments will be going inside the body and might spread a disease or bacteria that might harm the patient otherwise" Lily interrupted him.
Ben smiled, "Right, Sylvia, you're a fast learner"
Then, out of nowhere, a group of surgeons rushed past them with patient on the rolling bed, Quickly Ben grabbed her shoulders and pushed her against the wall to avoid a collision.
Breathing hard Lily looked up at him, She imagined his Ben's blonde hair turn to a messy black, his eyes turn to chocolate brown, wire rimmed glasses…
"Sylvia?" Ben asked, looking down on her.
Lily had her hands at Ben's shoulders and was still looking into the chocolate eyes she missed.
"Sylvia?" Ben repeated shaking her a bit.
Lily popped out of her daze…her image of James was gone, "Huh? What?"
Ben smiled and asked, "Are you okay?" still not moving from his position.
"Oh yeah… thanks for that" With that Lily blushed a bit.
I'm blushing! But I'm not supposed to make any relationships right now! If he asks me out, I'll let him down gently.
"No worries… it's happens all the time"
"What? You pushing nurses against the wall and flirting with them, still against the wall?" Lily blush even more when she realised she had said that.
"Oh! Oops! Sorry" Ben hastily said moving positions, "got caught in the moment I guess"
Lily straightened her uniform, "that's ok…"
The stood there for two second of awkwardness then Ben turned to her, "So Sylvia, this" He showed his arms to an entrance to a ward, " that's where you'll be working from now on, I'm really sorry about that…err… accident"
"Thanks Ben, for your help, it's ok…"
"Yeah, my shift has ended so- umm… I'll be off"
"Ok then, bye! And thanks again for your help Ben" Lily said as she smiled.
Ben gave her a small wave and a friendly nod, Lily started to walk away " I'll see you around Sylvia—no wait!" he called out.
Lily turned around, "Yes Ben?"
Ben smiled and said, "Sylvia…umm… this is a bit early but er… D'you want to go out for coffee or something?"
"Uhh…All right?" Lily almost hit herself. Why did she say that?
"Cool! Umm… say tomorrow? After your shift? I'll meet you at the hospital cafeteria. We can go some other place from there?"
"Sure! I'll be there!" Lily smiled and walked off into the ward mentally hitting herself and cursing.
She met up with head of her ward and her first job was to put down the test results on Dr. Plum's office so he can explain to some family about their daughter's condition. The head of her ward, called her back before she even stepped out of the head's office Madame Rorty, the head of the ward told her, "Now, Sylvia, the family of the young woman are in the office, I just got a message saying that he'll be running late, I know it's you first day Sylvia dear but could you do a favour for me?"
"What is it Madame Rorty?"
"You've been to nurse school am I correct? To get here you would've had to take a course about nursing?"
"Yes" Lily said a bit nervously..
"Oh good! Normally I wouldn't give this job to you, but we are running short of staff, please…when you get to the office, I need you to explain their daughters condition to them, the nurses course should've told you how to read the charts and you can just read out the last section, it's just a report from the examiner."
"So… I'll just explain the charts to them and read the report?" Lily asked, in a better mood; she knew how to do that.
"Yes dear… please note, to be gentle with them, their daughter is in a complicated condition, poor girl, I'm sure you've met Trixy by now?"
"I will, yes, I have met Trixy…"
"Yes, well, she has already brought up a cup of tea for them, don't forget to be gentle, the office is just across from mine dear… good luck"
"Thank you." Lily said.
She walked down to Mr Plum's office and held the test results, she pushed the door open and opened her mouth to greet them 'gently' but gasped at the family that were in there.
She raced straight back out of the office but surely; the Potters saw her…
OH MERLIN! What are they doing in a muggle hospital? Oh no! What if the daughter is Sarah?! I can't do this! Oh Merlin…
She saw the door of the office open, probably one of the Potter's checking where the nurse went. Lily hurriedly took out her fake puffer and puffed.
Her eyes widened; it was James! Out of all the potter's in there he had to come out! He looked the same except his eyes were red. He walked towards her and asked her, "Nurse? Are you okay?"
Lily took out the puffer and said, "Sorry about that, I just had to- my asthma…"
James nodded, "Yes… ok, are you the nurse who is supposed to explain the test results? We were told the doctor was running late…"
Lily opened the folder; the one thing she should've done before, if it is Sarah who's sick, I won't know what to do… the first page said:
Test Results For Patient: Sarah-Faye E. Potter.
Lily's heart sank, so it was Sarah…she looked into his brown eyes, they were so sad, so hurt? And now Lily had to tell James and his family how bad she was going "Yes, I am. I've just been called in so I haven't read through this so if you'd just give me a minute. I'll be with you shortly." She said weakly.
James nodded and walked slowly back to the office, once he was inside. Lily half ran to the staff toilets, she ran in a cubicle and locked the door, "Oh god!" She started to sob "Why are you doing this?" she wailed up to the ceiling.
She cried… all the memories were slowly coming back with terrible pain, she struggled to block them out. She wiped her cheeks and cast a cover up spell on her face.
You can do this Lily…you can, do it for your parents…do it for Sarah… Lily thought with new determination, she put on a straight face. She couldn't afford to blow her cover…again.
She strode out and walked in the office again, there was Mr and Mrs Potter with James, Sirius and Remus were there too, and more Potters, they all looked up when she entered, it took all Lily's strength not to start crying again, "Hello, My name is Sylvia Newberry, I'll be explaining your daughters condition here at our hospital…"
Sarah's parents stood up and shook her hand, "We're Sarah's parents."
Lily gave them a small smile, "I see…now, to the explaining, what I have here…" She held up the folder, "Here; are Sarah's tests results, I'll try my best to answer all questions, the doctor is running late, he had an emergency I'm afraid, but I'll do my best to fill in for him…"
Sarah's mother spoke in a shaky voice, "Thank you, Nurse …"
Lily could only smile back at her. They have no idea… the thought of that made her want to cry even more.
-Fin-
