A/N: Okay, this is a new chapter.  I'm sorry if you thought the last one was a chapter!!!  I'm also sorry that this is so late….. really sorry.  Please review this, because (you've heard this a million times) it motivates me!  I really love all your reviews, and appreciate it a lot.  Thanks!

                The next day, Lily wondered exactly why she had been in such a good mood last night.  She was dead tired, and McGonagall had sprung a pop quiz on them.  It was quite easy, and Lily thought that she passed, but she couldn't concentrate on the transfiguration.

                After the pop quiz in Transfiguration, they had a free period.  The Marauder's were scribbling frantically on a Potions essay. Lily had finished it the day they had gotten it, so she did the Transfiguration essay.

                At lunch, Dumbledore announced another attack on a family- the Fontaines.  This time, Cora ran out of the hall, crying.  I wonder…. Lily thought.  Sighing, she got up and followed Cora out, since Cora's friends were just sitting, still talking about the latest gossip, no doubt.

                Lily cautiously went into the bathroom.  "Cora?  It's Lily.  Can I come in?"

                There was no answer, so Lily went in anyways.  She walked slowly to the very last stall, where Cora was sitting and crying.  "Do you want to talk about it?"  she asked.

                Surprisingly, Cora threw her arms around Lily.  Lily didn't know quite what to do, so she awkwardly hugged Cora.  "It's okay, we're safe at Hogwarts," Lily murmured.

                "It's not that!" Cora sobbed.

                "Then wha- oh.  Oh, Cora, I'm so sorry!" Lily exclaimed, just realising that the Fontaines mentioned by Dumbledore must have been Cora's family.  She just stood there, comforting the crying girl.

~~~

                The rest of the day went by in a blur.  The whole school was buzzing with the news of Voldemort's latest attack, and Lily had taken Cora to the hospital.  Once there, the nurse, Madame Altrix, told Lily to stay with Cora for the rest of the day.  When it was time for dinner, Madame Altrix had the house-elves bring food up for her in the Hospital Wing.

                Just when Lily was about to leave, she heard Cora say something.

                "Excuse me?" she asked.

                "Thank you," said Cora, a little bit louder.

                "Your welcome," replied Lily.

                When she walked into the common room, it sounded as if there were a three-ring circus going on.  Lily soon found out the reason.

                "That was low, Cynthia!  If you ever needed a friend, Cora would have been there!  I'm bloody tired of you being such a prat all the time!"  With that, Arabella Figg stalked away up the stairs.

                Once again, it was up to Lily to follow.  This time, it was because Kalina and Michelle, Arabella's two friends, were at the Library doing the Transfiguration essay.

                Knocking on the door, she asked, "Can I come in?"

                "If you're not Cynthia, then yes.  If you are, and you don't sound like her, then bugger off," came the reply.

                "No, it's Lily."  She pushed the door open.  "What happened?"

                "Nothing, really.  Cynthia is just a backstabbing good-for-nothing.  I can't believe that she never went to see Cora!  You went!  And I don't even think you like Cora!"

                "Well, she's not exactly my best friend," Lily admitted.

                "Yes, exactly, but Cynthia is her best friend!"

                "I have to agree with you there."

                "Well, Lily, I've got to get down to the library.  You want to come?" Arabella asked.

                "Okay, that would be great.  I need to look up one thing for the Transfiguration essay, then I can do that Herbology paper," Lily replied.

                "I thought so.  Your friends aren't much the library type, are they?" Arabella asked.

                "Not really, Arabella."

                "Call me Ara, or Bella.  Arabella is such a mouth-full.  Just don't call me Bells!"

                "Sure, Ara!" Lily said.

                "Then let's be off!"

                When they reached the library, Ara introduced Lily to Kalina Mendelis and Michelle Kalbin.

                "Michelle, Lina, this is Lily.  You've probably met before."

                "Hello!  It's nice to finally talk to you!"  Lina exclaimed.

                "Yes, I agree.  Well, I for one have to get this essay done," Michelle replied.

                "Don't mind her.  She's just a little anti-social," said Ara, glaring at Michelle.  The blue-haired girl pretended not to notice.

                "That's fine.  I don't mind!"  Lily said.

                Lily pulled out the books on Transfiguration, and quickly found that she had been right.  She was going to do her Herbology paper when she realised it was already done!  Lily didn't mind; it gave her the opportunity to read more about Genevieve Tristan and her own powers.

                Concentrating, Lily held out her wand and summoned the book from its room.  But something went wrong.  Instead of floating to her, the book simply disappeared from the room and appeared in front of Lily!

                She gasped in surprise, then quickly realised that this must be one of her special powers.  She brought the book to the table where Ara, Lina, and Michelle sat and flipped to the chapter 'My Many Special Abilities.'

                It said that Lily could apparate with or without a wand, through any kind of wards.  She could do wandless magic, and see the future.  She could time-travel safe of the catches restrained on normal witches and wizards, and sense lies and evil. Genevieve also implied that there were other powers that she herself had yet to harness.

                "Hey, whatcha got there?" asked Ara, peering over at the book.

                "Oh, it's just a book.  Nothing special," Lily replied, quickly freezing time.  She ran over to the shelf, grabbed a copy of Cinderella, and ran back.  She quickly switched the books, putting Tutela Iubar in her bag.  She unfroze time.  "It's Cinderella, a Muggle fairytale."

                "Can I see?"  asked Lina, who, coming from a pureblood family, loved anything to do with Muggles.

                "Sure," Lily said, handing the book over.

~~~

                Lily's Archery lesson was that night, and she was so excited.  Lily knew that she would have a lot of fun.  Hurriedly, she used the Portkey to get to the training grounds.  She met Master Sagitto at the Archery field.

                "Hello, Zia.  How are you?  Well, I hope?" he asked.

                "Yes, sir, I'm feeling quite excited!  How are you?" she responded.

                "Well, I'm fine!  Shall we get started?"  He handed Lily her bow, and a quiver full of arrows.  "I want you to shoot ten of these, and aim for that target.  I'd like to see how accurate and consistent you are."

                "Okay, sir," Lily replied, bringing an arrow to the bowstring.  She carefully aimed for the target- whoops!  Better aim a little off, because the arrow arcs, she reminded herself.  Adjusting slightly, she let the arrow fly.  It hit the target, nearly dead centre.  Out of the next nine, all were in the bulls-eye, and 5 were completely on the centre.

                "Well, that was impressive, Ms. Rhannon.  You have quite a talent.  However, if you adjusted your stance slightly, it would allow for more consistency and faster shooting, not to mention being more accurate.  Here, bring your shoulders in line, like this."  He carefully adjusted Lily's stance, until he pronounced it perfect.

                "Now step out of that, and try to get into it once more."  Lily carefully aligned herself the way she thought Master Sagitto had her.  She spent the next twenty minutes adjusting and readjusting her stance.

                "That's it!  Perfect!"  Master Sagitto yelled.  "Now, shoot ten arrows."  All ten were in the bulls-eye, and 8 were dead centre.

                "That's good, but we need to work on how you get the arrows out of the quiver and on the bow…"

                And hour later, Lily was back in the Gryffindor common room, completely exhausted.

~~~

                In the weeks that followed, Lily became much closer to Ara, Lina, and even the elusive Michelle.  Lily also tried her best to spend time with the Marauder's, and other people.  It was starting to take a toll on her body, and one night, she found herself being dragged to the Hospital Wing by Remus, Sirius, and Michelle.

                "You're sick, Lilyangel," argued Sirius.

                Lily responded vehemently.  She hated being sick. "I am fine!  I do not need to go-" 

                "No, you aren't.  Don't try that with me!"  Michelle said.

                "I remember the time that you said, 'I'm fine,' just so we could go climb trees.  You weren't, and ended up in bed for three weeks with pneumonia.  Do you remember that, Lilycake?" Remus asked, with a smile.  He knew he was going to win this round.  "Actually, maybe you don't.  You collapsed an hour after we had started climbing."

                "Oh, do be quiet.  I'll go!" Lily snapped.  She would probably end up missing her practise tonight.  Luckily, it was one of hers and she wouldn't miss a night training as an Auror.

                "Oh my!  You were right to bring her here, Mr. Lupin, Black, Miss Kalbin.  She's running a fever of 101.3 degrees!  She should be back with you by tomorrow, never fear," Madame Altrix said.

                Sirius shot one of his famous "I told you so" looks at Lily, while Remus wore his long-suffering "I'm always right, but no one ever listens to me" look.  Michelle was looking at Lily with her "I'm always right and you're always wrong so get used to it" smirks.

"Okay, okay!" Lily exclaimed.  "I'm sick, alright?  You happy?  Huh?"

                "Oh, dear.  She's grumpy as well.  All of you- out!  Out!  I need to see to my charge!  And my charge needs rest!  Out!" Madame Altrix shooed Sirius, Remus and Michelle out of the hospital wing.  They all looked at each other and shrugged.

                "See you tomorrow, Lily!" Michelle called back.

                "Okay, dear.  Ah, here's the Headmaster now!"

                "Poppy, Ms. Evans.  Ms. Evans, we'd like you to try something for us.  Can you reach inside of yourself and heal yourself?  This is a long shot- we'll give it three tries before we call it quits," Professor Dumbledore explained.

                "I can try, sir," Lily said, but she was thinking, Is he mental?

                "Thank you Ms. Evans.  Oh, and in response to your unasked question, I am not mental. This is supposed to have been an ability that one or two of the Guardians have had."

                "Okay," Lily replied.  She looked inside herself, finding what it was the made her Lily Evans.  I've gotten quite good at this- what with the Auror training and wandless magic and all.  Gently she poked the ball of glittering gold, until it streamed outward.  She gently guided it towards her sore throat and headache.  "Merlin dang it!" she exclaimed as she lost concentration.

                "That's quite alright, Ms. Evans.  You were quite close, which means that you can probably do it.  Try again," Professor Dumbledore said, smiling.

                Lily sighed and repeated the process up to the point where she had been.  She carefully let the gold fire wash over her sore throat, clearing what was making her cough.  Then she tried to get rid of the headache.  Come on, just a little further, she urged herself.  Finally, she was able to sweep the headache and fever away.  She was sweating heavily, and very tired.

                "Very good, Ms. Evans!  You will be a very formidable witch, given enough time!" Professor Dumbledore exclaimed, blue eyes sparkling with her success.

~~~

                It was nearly time for the Halloween feast.  Everybody in the castle was buzzing with excitement- Dumbledore had something special planned.

                Lily, however, was excited for quite a different reason.  All of her instructors in Aurorship had agreed that she was a fast and good learner, and decided that she would be ready to test for Aurorship by Christmas.  Lily couldn't wait.  She knew that she'd be able to help the world as an Auror.