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.
A/n: thanks for all the reviews! They're greatly appreciated!
100 points to Phoebs who noticed the clue I left for all of you!
Chapter XII – [Rebellion]
As he sat down on a couch, he read the article. The whole family-- dead… that little girl Amanda Seaford, who had died of the mysterious disease after visiting the grave yard he and the death eaters had cursed. Within days of her death, her mother got the fever and died throughout her first night in hospital. And now the rest of her family were dying…
That's why he was being rewarded, for successfully spreading the most deadly disease the muggle world will have ever witnessed. It kills within 24 hours. Many would surely perish… Peter's face went pale, what had he done??
…
"Oh…Mr. Pettigrew, is that you? You did a fine job making that happen" said a voice above him, obviously referring to what he had done.
He jumped and looked up to see a young face staring at him then staring at the article. The young man had thin blonde hair and blue eyes, innocent enough and almost angelic, but the smirk upon his face told Peter something else.
Peter could only nod -- such fine praise for such a horrible deed. Merlin, it made his stomach churn. He waved his hand a little and walked out of the room hastily.
He entered his resting chambers, trying to relax on the stone cold slab he slowly closed his eyes…
~
"W-what do you want from me?"
"Want? Do you think that if I wanted something from you that you would still be able to ask me that question? I don't think so! Piece of filth!"
"What did you do with Sarah?"
"You stupid girl! I was pretending to be her all along! But don't worry your little head…you won't have one soon…" As he said that the Death Eaters just laughed.
Peter heard Adele sob from outside the chamber door..
"Cry, cry, cry all you want! Bring in our new recruit! This will truly test him. Wormtail, come here!" Voldemort spat.
Peter shook with fear as one of the death eaters lead him by the elbow toward his master…
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Peter remembered how he cringed as he was called up to his master. How appropriate for a Dark Lord to order his new recruit to behead his friend whose side he was betraying. He supposed it was all just a cruel game; his heart had wretched violently as he approached the stone slab with the sword he had gripped so tightly.
The look of horror on Adele's face as he appeared in her view had scarred Peter for life. It made him want to run out of the room- no… her look made him want to swing the sword into himself. Taking a shallow breath, Peter cleared his mind and waited.
When Peter had raised his sword, the Death Eaters cruel laughter tuned out in his mind, becoming a mild buzzing hum. He glanced all around the dark chamber, anywhere else but his friend's face. He hands shook violently and a high pitched screeching voice pierced through his head.
Kill her Peter… she never noticed you at Hogwarts but now she is. It's your life or hers… Your master will reward you richly as well as giving you thanks, unlike the others. Unlike her.
He lowered his head dramatically and gave out a small sob, he was sure that only Adele had seen him.
It was his life or hers. No-- it was actually her life or both of their lives… and so out of survival instincts, Peter had made his choice and his master knew that. Letting the tear run down his cheek; Peter closed his eyes. Holding firm position above her neck, he gave her one last smile before letting the heavy sword drop along in his hands…
He felt the sharp metal meet flesh and immediately his head started to pound violently…
Oh God!
The sword fell sharply onto the stone cold floor and Peter ran out of the chamber, with his tears blurring his vision. He let his Master's roaring laughter echo in his mind with his fellow death eater's mirth in the background as he never stopped running along the damp halls.
~*~*~*~
James saw her.
She was so beautiful… wearing a white flowing dress. She turned to look at him, a small smile flitted across her fine features; his caught his breath. As she gracefully fell into his arms, he took in the sweet scent of her hair, always trying to remember the way she felt. They spoke no words, they never did.
Lily…
He was dreaming of her again.
Scenes changed and now Lily was gone again. He searched for her, but he couldn't see a thing that was clear, there were so many people around him. The crowd split and soon James was faced with a group of people he recognised… there was Sirius! But he looked distraught, beside him was Remus who was staring at something then looked away. Arabella was just shaking her head, Calista, Adele and Peter weren't there. Strange. Why weren't they ever there?
James knew what was up, somehow he knew. He turned his head to see men take her away. She was crying and James felt his head shake.
"You'll be better off" He heard himself say, "you have to learn she's gone"
She's gone…
Sarah just shook her head violently, "No! James, she isn't! she's alive!" she managed to smile through her tears. "she loves you! She does! She's alive! She's hiding! James" she sobbed, "James… please!"
"If she ever loved me she would never have gone! You…" James angrily pointed his finger at his cousin, "You're insane!" he spat.
Then someone from the crowd fell, James saw Remus sobbing on his knees, when he looked up at James he cried, "James…why won't you find her? Why won't you save her? She's alive!"
"Take her away!" James shouted scornfully, while Sarah was being restrained by the men, he just stood there and watched… but then James realised he was crying. He saw everyone was crying as well. His screams of agony were drowned out by incoherent wails and cries of pain…
Suddenly, his hands flew up to his ears; there was a gun shot in the air, and everyone fell. Everyone died except for James…
So many tears, so much death…
Through his tears he looked up and there she was! There… was Lily.
"Lily!" he shouted.
"Lily!" he cried.
"Lily!" he sobbed.
Lily…
"James, wake up! Wake up James!"
James gasped and sat up fast, only to fall back down onto the bed. He felt a dry cloth mop the sweat on his forehead. He sighed.
Sirius gripped his arm, "It was just a dream James…its okay, mate"
"Just a dream…" James panted as he looked down at his sheets, "that's all…"
~*~*~*~
Lily pushed the bucket off her chest and leant against her pillow gasping for breath. When the nurse bustled in; Lily's eyes went wide, she whimpered and tried to back away.
The nurse just gave her a disgusted look, "Oh," she sneered, "it seems like you aren't ready for your food just yet…"
When the nurse walked out Lily tried to breathe in, but it became so hard, sharp pains started to overtake her stomach. Then she doubled over with pain, crying all the tears she had kept over the years. She tried to get up. But the nurses got there first.
And she just saw black.
~*~*~
Remus' hands were shaking so much he thought he was going to rip the whole bloody page off. He shakily replaced the book mark into the book and closed the book tight. He then opened it again, checking if his eyes were just deceiving him. Managing a small smile to himself, he shut the book gently and tucked it under his arm and hastily walked to the kitchen.
He placed the book on the bench and pulled out a stool. Taking a small crystal shot glass he fumbled with the cupboards above his head while still keeping his eyes on the book. He felt for a bottle, any bottle of some sort- aha… he took a short glance at the bottle:
Schnapps?
Remus cringed as he read the label with a hand still held onto the book.
Peach Schnapps?
And so Remus sat on the stool, holding the book open with one hand and the other onto the bottle of Peach Schnapps (forgetting the crystal shot glass he had taken out) he gulped every sweet alcoholic drop that was left. Reading over the words of the incantation again and again, he knew that this was where he was going to start his 'research'. The sooner he performed the spell, the sooner he'd get answers. Did he really want to know the whole truth? Did he really have so much of a choice? I guessed he didn't.
His eyes returned to the page, scanning each word; just taking it all in…
This spell…this piece of parchment, would be the beginning of the end, followed by the start of a new beginning.
So assuming Sarah's parents would agree with the new treatment, they would be able to tap into her mind…her twisted mind filled with too many problems she could possibly deal with.
Arabella was wrong about her, she was so wrong about Sarah… Half the time they were looking for Lily; Sarah was straining herself non-stop, until James decided to put her on medication to help her deal with things. Weeks, months, years of trying to find a single clue, no matter how much they strived to find Lily when she first disappeared, they just found nothing, nothing at all. Except her parents went missing as well, just before they could reach them.
When the ministry were well prepared to close the case claiming Lily dead by the time she had been gone for one year, they objected saying they still had hope and asked what loss would come to the ministry if they just left the case open? Thankfully, the Ministry consented so they had kept it open all this time…
Remus would always remember that morning they saw she was gone, all of them would.
~*~*~*~
"Mrs. Potter, Remus and I have just been to see her doctor, he has proposed a change of treatment," Arabella said slowly, after receiving a nod from Mrs. Potter to continue she explained all she knew about the ancient spell.
Something that looked like hope glistened in Mrs. Potter's eyes, she thanked Arabella and made to talk with the doctor.
Arabella sighed and went to Sarah's room again. She sat on the chair next to the bed and wondered what was happening with her. She thought about what the doctor had said to her and Remus, tapping into her mind?
"God help us all" she muttered to herself as she looked at Sarah.
It wasn't as if Arabella didn't like her, but it wasn't as if she knew her that well. She only befriended the whole group after some of them had been appointed prefects. They stayed closer together after Hogwarts than Arabella had stayed closer to her Ravenclaw friends.
She guessed that everything in life had practically crumbled for most of the group when Lily vanished. It definitely hit them hard where it hurt.
The whole room was silent except for the running machines, Arabella looked at the table behind her and picked up the Daily Prophet, she eyes read the first paragraph and her eyebrows furrowed.
"That poor family…" she muttered to herself.
"Hello, Miss Figg" said a familiar voice behind her.
Arabella turned around and smiled, "Hi Albus,"
Dumbledore's eyes trailed down to the newspaper Arabella had in her hands. "You also have read the article, Arabella?"
It took a couple of seconds for her to realise what he was talking about, "Oh… yes, well I have only read half of it. It's quite suspicious that a muggle event has appeared in the Daily Prophet, you know…"
"Miss Figg, I think it is safe to say that the unfortunate circumstances of that little girl and her family are certainly not muggle produced."
"I heard rumours about You-Know-Who being behind it all but I just brushed it off; everything seems to be pointed to You-know-Who nowadays…"
"For a good reason, Arabella…"
"But what if common criminals are getting away with magical offences? I could just imagine it- 'Gringotts Burglar- "You-Know-Who threatened my family!"' You-Know-Who is the perfect scapegoat!"
Dumbledore just looked at her, "I assure you that no common dark wizard are getting away by using Voldemort as a scapegoat. May I remind you of our defences; for example, we have our aurors among others…"
Arabella nodded thoughtfully, "Who else is there?"
"Anyone else, Arabella… " She barely noticed the small smile that Dumbledore had produced through his beard.
~*~*~
Sleep would be good…but sleep didn't come.
"Welcome home darling we've missed you," Mrs Evans took the young girl in front of her into her arms in a warm embrace.
Behind her four young boys all the same height followed by two small girls came walking passed her, they waved politely at her parents and the girl called them over…Lily parents smiled at the kids and Sarah didn't dare to advance toward them. She felt like something was missing, being there felt wrong somehow.
"Nice to meet you" A voice echoed.
…
"Nice to meet you, Sir! " a 15yr old James practiced in front of his full length mirror. "Nice - Err… Nice to MEET you…Sir…argh, no."
Behind him; a young Sirius grinned, beside him Sarah saw herself trying not to laugh, and on the floor; Peter was leaning on Lily's shoulder trying to breathe. Remus looked the most serious,"That was okay I guess…why don't you try this; 'Nice to meet you Madame'? Seeing as the guest of honour is female…"
"Yeah, that would be a smart thing to do James…" Lily noted, "Shane is a unisex name…"
"What!?"
…
"What?!" Lily screamed with an insane grin, she bounced off her bed and took her friend by the shoulders. "They did what!?"
Adele just grinned, "You heard me…"
"That's it, our worst fears have been confirmed: James is gay…" Sarah fainted on the floor sickeningly dramatic.
"Sarah…" Lily said warningly.
"Okay, she's sorry! James is completely yours! And he is definitely heterosexual!" Adele said grinning, she shared a look with Sarah.
Lily went tight lipped, "He isn't mine…"
"James is such a heterosexual!-" Adele said seriously "that he likes cross dressing and seducing Averon!" she gleefully exclaimed.
"Oh yes! James is such a heterosexual!-" Sarah continued sharing another look with Adele, "he spent 2 hours with his make up to go out with that pompous Slytherin prefect… who is male!"
"Note that Sirius was also cross dressing along with him and taking the photos while on their date! Sirius is gay as well…" Lily cried.
Adele snorted and the other girls just dissolved into laughter along with her. Over all the laughter Adele added, "I-I heard… that gay guys are really terrific shopping girlfriends"
Sarah made a face, "Don't stereotypicalise Adele-"
"Is that even a word? Stereotypicalise…" Lily said half laughing.
"It should be one…" Sarah replied.
"Ehem!" Adele interrupted hotly, "as I was saying … IF it is true; then maybe Lily should go shopping with James? You know, to set him straight…" with that Adele winked at them.
Lily gaped at her and Sarah burst out laughing. Lily grabbed a pillow and started to pulverise her.
"Stop it! Lily, you idiot! Stop!"
After the girls recovered and their room died, the girls went down the spiralling staircase leading to the common room, when they were at the bottom of the stairs, Lily stopped, "Where's Calista?"
The others had confused looks on their faces.
"Where is she?"
…
"Where is she?" Adele stressed as she fixed her dress robe "how the hell can Lily be late today!"
Calista shrugged, so did Sarah.
Then, Lily burst into the room, "Damn it! I can't find my robe!"
"Lily! I told you I was picking our robes up from Hogsmeade cleaners, I came back an hour ago and you were gone!"
"Oh my gosh, I'm so daft…" Lily ran around her dorm undressing.
"Here!" Calista and Sarah ran over to help her. Adele just grinned at them.
"So…can you guys come over?"
"What? Where? When?" was the muffled reply from a tangled robe.
"My house, this holidays… remember? I asked you guys last week"
"Oh yeah…" the three girls chimed in together.
Calista looked sheepish, "I should have known about that, aye?"
"You guys HAVE to come!"
~*~
"You guys have to come over right now, it's an emergency!" Adele hung up hastily then started to pace, "Where could she be?"
Sarah looked up from her mug of coffee, her face as pale as the rest of the girls that morning, "They coming?"
"They're coming"
Just as Adele replied, the door burst open; James came in first, "Hey, what's happened?"
Sarah stood up, "It's Lily; she's gone.."
"What do you mean?" Sirius asked.
"We mean we just don't know where she is!" Calista said impatiently, "shecamehomelastnightwiththegroceries,thenwethoughtshewentuptobed.Thismorning,she'sgone" she said very hastily practically no one could understand her.
"What do you mean?" Sirius repeated.
James' face turned serious, "Yeah. What do you mean? Where's Lily? Wasn't she with you, in your shared apartment?"
"I- we…" Sarah started, she gripped her hair, "she had just come back from grocery shopping, then she went to her room, we had thought she had gone in for the night! And then this morning, she's gone."
Remus tried to analyse the situation, "Maybe she went out."
"Without even telling us or leaving a bloody note? I don' think so!"
"She went to work early?"
"No! It's her day off… look, I'm starting to get really worried now. She left all of her things, but her wand has gone."
"This makes me think she went without a note; deliberately… deliberately?" Sirius questioned, "That isn't the Lily we know."
"I don't know what to think now…"
"The cops, we've got to call them." Adele said.
"We can't just yet Adele, we'll give her 24 hours." Remus said. "The police won't accept any report until 24 hours have passed."
"Then contact the ministry-" James said. "Darn… same policy."
"We can't just wait for her here…"
"It's only been this morning, I'm sure she'll turn up" Calista resolved uncertainly.
"-Just in time for us to beat her to a pulp!" Adele snapped.
"It might not have been, I mean, she could have left last night, not this morning, last night! We just don't know…"
"Well, let's just go look for her then" Sarah suggested. "I'll- I think I might stay here…"
Remus nodded, "I'll call Arabella to come over, and she'll stay with you while we'll go out. So if Lily calls-"
"When Remus, when she calls or comes back"
Remus gave her a small smile, "Yeah."
…
Ugh, too many memories, too much past, Sarah didn't want to re-live anymore; she just wanted to hide…hide from the past.
~*~*~*~
Dr. Peters nodded and folded his hands on his polished desk, "Yes… yes, I do think it would be best if we took our chances with this new treatment, we'll be able to start- say? In a few days time… her condition has come to a crucial point where we don't want to do any too drastic, but until then, we must discover and heal whatever she was emotionally unstable with"
"Doctor, if this is the only cure-"
"I never said it was the only way, since the root of her condition was psychological, we are working on tapping into her mind, until then we should try and resolve any possible events from her past."
"I'm afraid it's impossible" her mother said, "Her best friend disappeared quite a few years ago…I think that was the main reason"
"I see..." he bit his lip then opened his drawer, he took out a little velvet pouch and threw it into the magical furnace on the side of the room. When it blazed ferociously he called out, "Excuse me, Professor Dumbledore?"
~*~*~
All she could hear was the monotonous beeps of the machines and her short breathes, slowly; Lily opened her eyes, her eyes felt so sore, her throat was dry too. She felt horrible.
"I told you this would happen!"
Lily froze; she shut her eyes and tried not to shake.
"I told you that something like this would happen" the voice repeated, Lily's muscles grew tense as she recognised this voice.
"Shut the hell up" snapped another voice, "Instead of letting you in on this, I could have killed you…" the voice said menacingly quiet.
"But… you didn't, and so look at her now; the bitch is on a drip. I told you; you put too much in the food… you idiot! Now it's going to even more harder for you to deliver."
"Shut your trap, and watch this."
Lily tried to relax as she could feel the nurses above her; it seemed that the nurse was screwing with the machines or something. Then she felt a mask go over her mouth, she wanted to back away, but knew she couldn't, she started to feel sleepy… she tried to fight the drowsiness but it just wasn't working. Lily dared to crack open an eye just a little, when she saw the nurses look away, her eyes darted to her wrist; she did have a drip, then she looked above her; there was a bright blue vial being attached to her drip machine by the fat nurse. She could now distinguish between the two nurses trying to poison her. As Lily gazed up to the blue vial, she knew that would be some poison, she just knew it. The fat nurse laughed and Lily had to close her eyes again as they looked back at her.
"Right…" the skinnier nurses nasal voice voiced out, "What was that?"
Lily faintly heard the clicking of heels moving out the door, she felt so sleepy.
"Oh that? Copper Sulfate with some colloid, that's what master Aiden provided." the fat nurse laughed.
Lily fought the drowsiness with all her might and stumbled with her hand around her bed and sheets, tears sprung in her eyes again, her body was so sore, all she wanted to do was sleep. Copper sulfate was… was… she closed her eyes and began to fall back onto her bed. No, but she couldn't, she got back up again, drowsily slipping the mask of her face, she saw the bright blue liquid had started to flow into her wrist, so she ripped the tape off and yanked the needle out while sobbing. Lily was so tired, she was panting, not looking where she was going she tripped over her feet onto the rubbery floors. She got up and went for the door when…
"What's that?" a nasal voice exclaimed, it was right outside the door.
Lily cried out in disbelief, the nurses were coming back! She stumbled across the room again, back to her bed and put the drip underneath her, along her arm and stumbled with the sheets so she was half covered. She wiped her tears hopelessly and lay still just as the fat nurse came through the door.
"She hasn't got many things has she?" the nasal voice said chortling a bit.
The fat nurse just glared and placed a pile of clothes next to the bed. Lily felt her muscle tense up, she prayed to god for them to leave; she could feel the drip wet her sheets slowly.
"A stick… a wooden twig? Right…" the nasal voiced nurse said.
Lily froze; her wand?!
"Shut up" the fat one snapped. "We can't let her get away, Master Aiden says she's quite strong-"
"Ladies, you're both wanted downstairs." a new male voice said.
Lily sighed with relief as the nurses rushed out of the room, their shoes squeaking along the rubber floors. Her breathing was better, and she wasn't as tired, she figured the sleeping gas has worn out from her lungs.
She pushed her self off the bed, and fell sprawled against the rubbery floors, biting her lip trying to forget the pains that were shooting through her limbs. She didn't want to risk anything now, Lily smiled at the sight of her wand, she felt her dry lips crack, she faced the ground sighing with relief with her wand gripped in her right hand, but her eyes went wide when a drop of blood fell onto the floor right in front of her face.
~*~*~
Arabella clasped her silver earring onto her ear and straightened her long black dress in front of the full length mirror, she looked back at Sarah's empty bed, and she noticed a huge crease on her doona. Arabella walked over to the bed and quickly straightened it out…
"Arabella?" Sirius asked while knocking softly on the door.
"I'm ready Sirius, let's go." She grabbed her bag and led the way out of Sarah's apartment.
Sirius nodded and closed the door behind him tightly and left Remus to lock it.
"Right… we're off then." James said giving everyone a wry smile. Arabella took him by the arm as he walked with his cane toward the port key.
No one really said much when they touched the Christmas mug. No one really said anything when they arrived at the cemetery either.
~*~*~
"Vanessa?"
"Oh my god… who the hell are you?" Vanessa back up from the blonde man in front of her who was shaking her vigorously.
Tom kept his grip, "Bloody hell woman! You didn't look inside your pocket, did you?"
Vanessa was quite freaked out by that moment, she saw the other men behind him, "P-please don't hurt me"
Some of the men laughed heartily and Tom grinned, "Vanessa… you stupid, stupid witch…"
When Vanessa gaped at him, he let out a laugh but then he felt himself being pushed aside as Drake took her by the shoulders and pushed her to the wall, "Take out what's in your pocket, hold this and say the spell…"
Before Tom could stop him, he stopped himself, he knew this was the only way Vanessa's suggestion of leaving a note for themselves in their own pockets had worked for everyone but her, it has almost been an hour since they had been banished from the Extreme Auror society by the bastard by the name of Archibald Norrick, the note was so they could get their memories back from their gimmick wands that had held their memories that Norrick had erased. "Do it…" he said laughing, "Or we'll…"
"Okay! Okay!" Vanessa squealed.
Poor girl, Tom thought. She probably thought they were going to gang rape her or something. "Hurry up then," he spoke up then his face became sombre, "We have a funeral to go to…"
~*~*~
Lily gasped; she crouched beside a hedge and clamped her hand over her mouth. Her eyes were sore and red, tears silently rolled down her cheeks as she tried to keep her body from shaking. Her fingers went up to her lip where it had bled.
"She couldn't have gone far…" Lily heard the nurse's voice snarl.
They're seriously going to kill me Lily panicked. Any logical person would conclude that she was hiding within the hedges.
"The bushes," she heard another voice. Her body froze with fear, she was wearing nothing but a dress of plastic, there was a great amount of poison entering her blood stream at that very moment and she felt like-
The nurse snapped her head to the right at the sound of someone regurgitating, she grabbed the arm of her accomplice as a signal, and they silently yet hastily advanced toward the bushes.
Lily gathered up all the energy she could, with her weakening grip on her wand she prayed to the gods that this time it would work, so she whispered, "Transportio"
In a blue flash, she was gone.
The nurse's eyes went wide, "Holy shit!!"
~*~*~
"Today, we have come to give our respects to a great man, whose work we will value more than ever,-"
James walked on, leaving his friends to toss their rose into the hole, they air was chilly, his cheeks were rosy, he was wearing a thick coat yet he was still shivering. He walked along the graves, he stopped by an above ground grave…
In loving memory of Jason Cropp
"I never got to say that I loved you, I'm so sorry"
1897-1920
He re-read the inscription almost 5 times, it reminded about of Lily. He only shivered more. He looked back to see Sirius with an arm around Sarah, she was crying-
Thud.
When James spun around, he saw her.
~*~*~
Vanessa and Tom stood away from the rest of the Extreme Aurors, they had to be clueless of who this Ernie was, only bored citizens coming to his funeral taking pity on his relations after reading the newspaper. Drake and Colin stood near by, solemn as they were. Vanessa half- stood behind the bulky man in front of her as she began to cry, she blew her nose.
"It's not… right." She heard Tom mutter.
Vanessa half hugged him, "I know, Tom."
He looked down at her, "No, that wasn't what I meant Vanessa."
Vanessa replied with a confused face.
"Look, I planned something my self before we were banished, I'm summoning Lily here…"
"What!?"
"Shh… just you wait, I've been saving energy so let's hope she's still in Britain."
Vanessa's breath quivered.
~*~*~
He saw her, and in his mind, nothing else mattered. He ran across the grass… he only accelerated when he saw her keel over.
Only one persons name raced through his James ran across the hundred metres that was in between them, his legs pumped numb.
Lily…
He reached her and looked her in the face, he held her by the shoulders. "Lily? Oh Merlin! I thought you were gone forever-"
Was this really her?
James saw age lines on her face and her face was so deathly white, her hair was dull and stringy, her lips were purple, this was Lily after so many years. "Oh great Merlin…" tears grew in his eyes; he took her into a huge embrace, "Lily!"
"James…" she said, barely a whisper.
Her body shook with weakened sobs as he brushed the hair from her face, she noticed he was crying too, "What happened to you, Lily? Who did this? Oh Merlin, I can't believe it…"
She was sick and it was evident, James put up an emergency wizard call with his wand. Lily coughed into her hand, as her hand pulled away James went pale, she was coughing up blood.
"Lily, your-"
"J-Ja-ames" she sobbed, "I- I'm sorry… I never meant to y-you don't know how hard it was…" Lily coughed more, more tears welled up in her eyes, "James… I-I'm sorry."
Lily had a feeling that this would be the end of the line, James had to be told now, why everything had come to be… "James, I-" Lily hesitated, "I don't want to die without you…"
James tried to keep her warm, "In all honestly, I haven't a clue how I've lived these years without you, I don't want to live without you… Lily , help will be here soon. Please, just stay with me…" he begged.
He bent down gently and kissed her lips, and Lily had a ghost of a smile, she looked up and was about to speak-
"Stupefy!"
Lily felt her body fall in James' limp arms, she sobbed in horror thinking that somehow those nurses had come back to get her. Then she was caught by a pair of strong arms…
"Lily, it's me; Tom! Lily… Oh great Salazar! Stay with me Lily!"
Lily finally closed her eyes.
Vanessa rushed over, "Oh lord, what did they do!?"
Tom gently touched her cheek, "She's not with us. Drake, please apparate her to the lair."
"I- I'll go too." Vanessa said tending to Lily's forehead.
"Right…I'll take the poor fellow out of here-"
"Tom, don't erase his-" Vanessa rushed.
"We have to…you know that." He snapped.
Vanessa shook her head, "They are the loves of each others lives…please Tom." she said softly.
Tom stood his ground, "Vanessa, I'm sorry… after I take care of Mr. Potter, I'll have to do his friends too." with that he levitated James away.
"Let's go now," Drake urged her.
She scolded herself mentally for thinking about being torn in between her friend life and her friend's love life. She looked at Lily's limp body and could only nod.
A/N- This chapter will probably be edited for the future… hope you liked it. Please review… I know this wasn't as long as usual, but this was a good break, chapter wise. Sorry if I haven't written your dream request/s, I know I haven't put in a couple BUT they have been written out! They'll be coming in future chapters. But I know! I know… this is no where near my usual length =(
At this stage I think it would be safe to say that I am more than half way through this story, my aim is to finish this before the next book arrives. Okay this is the part where I get tempted to talk about the plot… *grumble* er… well, okay. FINALLY! Lily and James see each other! *grins* I'm so proud of myself! Oh well, that reunion *cringe* turned out more soppier than I had planned *cringe* =| nyeh… also I didn't add every single detail this time… thing's will be confusing but will be cleared up in the next chapter when I'll skip some time and Lily will realise what happened. Master Aiden and Archibald are… I've written the ending!
*GAPES*
I have actually written the ending O.o
I feel like a total dork.
Dork.
Dork.
Dork.
Nerd.
Nerd.
Nerd.
FrEaK.
MeEk.
GEEK!
Umm…
REVIEW
Please!
