A/n: Okay, don't kill me! I was on a much-needed break from writing, and
now I am back to give you more! Thanks to all those who reviewed, I really
love you!!!!! Enjoy! ~Lilz
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Lily fell asleep, the instant she took the potion that the matron handed her. Bea refused to move from her seat beside Lily all night, and the matron finally gave up on trying to get her out of the hospital wing. She tried not to cry but she couldn't help it. How many time had her friend worried her sick? But this time was different. This time, Lily had actually been in danger, and had in fact gotten hurt. She stayed by Lily's seat, just thinking, until the red-orange glow of the sun came over the distance.
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"So Potter, tell me what went on." Said Professor McGonagall sharply, when the two had reached her office.
"Well," James began slowly, "I got up out of bed to go see Lily." He looked up at McGonagall who was looking at James disapprovingly, and he squirmed feeling very guilty indeed. That had already been one rule broken.
"Then we heard a huge bang, and we went down to the common room to check it out, but Lily breathed in the smoke, and went unconscious. I carried her back up towards the dorms, and by then everyone had come out. Then we waited until the smoke had cleared a bit and that's when we ran into you and that girl. When I was taking Lily to the hospital wing." He said all of this very quickly, and quietly. McGonagall simply nodded.
"Did you see anything? Of who might have set off all that smoke?" she asked, and James could tell that she knew just as much as he did about the mysterious smoke in the common room. James shook his head, trying to think of someone who would do such a stupid thing as fill the common room with smoke.
"You may go back to bed now, Potter." Said McGonagall, who was getting up from her chair.
"Professor? May I stay by Lily?" he asked timidly, doubting she would allow it.
"I'm sorry, you may see her in the morning." She said sharply, and in a very final sort of tone. James decided not to pursue it, as he was tired and he needed to tell the common room things were alright, and everyone could go back to sleep. He doubted that Bea had left Lily's side, so there had obviously been no one to let them know Lily was alright.
James slowly walked up towards the common room, when he saw something moving in the shadow behind a suit of armor. He frowned, slowed down, and turned towards the thing creeping in the shadows. "Hello?" called James cautiously, and he drew closer.
"STUPEFY!" called a voice, and before he knew it, James was lying on the ground stunned. "Don't meddle in things that don't concern you, Potter. You don't need to be aware of everything lurking in the Hogwarts shadows. " Said Severus Snape's satisfied voice. He chuckled to himself at the boy's idiocy, and walked off towards his own common room.
But then a plan struck him. A brilliant plan, indeed. He turned back towards the unconscious figure and took a single hair from James Potter's head. He then put it in his pocket, and laughed, very pleased with his own brilliance.
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The next day when Bea awoke, for she had fallen asleep no matter how hard she had tried not to, she was disappointed to see that Lily still had not woken up. She heaved a sigh and then straightened herself up, looking around the hospital wing. Bea didn't know what to think, never mind what to do. She didn't know what happened. She couldn't ask Lily what had happened. She could ask James. Ask him what he thought he was playing at, visiting Lily in the middle of the night. This made Bea even more confused than before. Just stop thinking! She thought, angrily, but this proved itself very difficult indeed. She felt like crying, but just couldn't seem to. Then a horrifying thought came to her. Lily was her only friend. That's why she was so confused, and had never felt this way before. Because she always, ALWAYS had Lily to talk to. What she needed was someone she could talk to as openly as she could with Lily. And she racked her brain for the closest thing to a friend she think of. But she still didn't know. So she decided to go back to sleep. Lily would wake her if she awoke, which was very unlikely, as she was sleeping ever so peacefully.
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Remus sat in the big, puffy chair in the common room, his face pale, and sweat rolling down his cheek. He had been sitting there, exactly the same since last night. James hadn't come back yet, which probably meant he was by Lily's side right now. This thought made him tremble. Then he realized that he had every right to visit Lily… but so tired. He was ever so tired, and could barely move. Yet, he got up all his strength, and got out of the warm, cozy chair. He stood beside the chair, not exactly knowing what he was doing, as he stood leaning on the arm of the chair. His face still expressionless and pale, and his hair messy and mixed with sweat and tears.
Little did he know that his two friends were standing, watching him, and not knowing what to do for their friend.
"What do you reckon he's doing?" asked Sirius, frowning.
"D-d-d-dunno." Said Peter shrugging, and not taking his eyes off Remus, who was now stumbling across the room, and walking irregularly through the portrait hole.
"And where could James be?" asked Sirius, but then he knew the answer. "Ahh… must be with Lily. Well you can't blame the poor lad, can you? I mean, he must really like that girl to save her life." He said, shaking his head in disbelief. "And maybe we should pop in and see Lily. What if she's awake? And there is also Bea, her friend, you know? She must be feeling horrible…"
"A-a-and we c-c-c-could s-see if J-J-James is there." Suggested Peter, who really wanted to talk to James without Remus' company.
So then it was settled. The two headed towards the hospital wing, but someone they least expected to see stopped them just outside of the common room. James was lying on the floor, apparently out cold.
"Oh my god…" said Sirius, who was trying to revive James by lightly slapping him on the face. When he realized this wasn't doing any good, and it must have been some sort of curse, he turned to Peter.
"Go get the headmaster." He said firmly, still trying to breathe life into James. Peter nodded, and ran off to get some sort of help for his friend. He finally ran into Professor Dumbledore, who had, by the looks of things, just come out of his office.
"P-p-p-p-professor! I-I-I-I-it's J-J-James P-P-P-P-Potter. Un-un-un-!" he tried to get it out but he was having much difficulty. But the professor, however, seemed to get the message all the same and nodded.
"Lead the way," he said, his eyes narrowing in suspicion, and curiosity.
When they finally got over to where James and Sirius were, Dumbledore went down on his knees and studied James carefully. Then, quietly, he said, "Stunned. That is all he is merely stunned. I shall wake him now." He said to the anxious boys, who nodded. He muttered something under his breath, with his wand pointed at James, who immediately began to stir.
"James!" yelled Sirius cheerfully, but then he realized that this was no laughing matter.
"Who stunned you, Mr. Potter?" asked Dumbledore calmly. James seemed confused, as he didn't know where he was or what had happened. But after a minute he vaguely began to remember things. He remembered that he had been talking to Snape, and he was on his way to the common room to tell everyone-
"Lily! Lily, is she alright? What happened? Is she awake? Will she be awake? What-!"
"James, Lily is going to be fine. No, she has not woken up yet, but I am certain that she will be perfectly fine in no time." He said smiling. James, still slightly hysterical, nodded, now trying to remember what he had last been doing.
"I-I didn't see who stunned me. They didn't when my back was turned." At this a great look of dislike came over Albus Dumbledore's face.
"That is a horrible and cowardly thing to do." He said shaking his head. "Very cowardly indeed. Well anyhow, it's a good thing that you two found him. Who knows what might have happened it you didn't." he said turning to Peter and Sirius.
"Ya, thanks guys." Said James nodding in agreement. "But can I go and see Lily now?" he asked Dumbledore, who smiled and nodded.
"You must really care for that girl…" he said, looking slightly bemused.
"I do, sir." He said, grinning.
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Bea was sleeping soundly in the common room, when she heard a bang that woke her up. She was a little upset, but more curious than anything. She slowly got up and saw a very disturbed-looking Remus Lupin stumble in.
"Oh Remus, are you okay?" she asked, as she guided him into a chair by Lily's bed.
"Ya… I'm doing good. How's Lily?" he said staring at Lily in her bed, not looking even alive. Oooh this is what it's all about. And I'm doing fine thanks. She thought bitterly. However, she smiled.
"Well, she will be fine once she wakes up." She said, although it felt like so much more than that.
"What happened?" he asked, still looking as distressed as before, but feeling a whole lot better, now that he was with Lily. Even if she didn't have any idea.
"No one really knows. I'd really like to find out myself… but James might know a little more than we do now." She said, disappointed that James didn't say anything to Remus. She would just have to ask James herself if Lily didn't wake soon.
Remus, however, wasn't exactly hearing much of this. His ears filled with a kind of buzzing sound, and all he was thinking about was Lily. When she would be better… who she would choose when she was better… he had never been more confused.
The room was silent after that… no one spoke, but only thought. After about 10 minutes in the stillness, the door to the hospital wing opened once again. James Potter entered looking almost as bad as Remus.
His hair was messy (although that wasn't unusual), and he was also sweating, but looking very flushed. His glasses were looking kind of bent, and weren't sitting right on his nose.
"Is she okay?" he asked the two others in chairs, who stared blankly up at him.
"What do you think?" asked Remus sarcastically. James shot him a dark look, but decided not to retort. He sat down in a chair, and looked longingly at Lily.
"Why didn't you come back to Gryffindor room last night? I just assumed that you were here." Said Remus suddenly realizing the fact that James wasn't in either of the places he was supposed to be.
"I was stunned. I spent the night out cold outside of the common room. Remus and Peter found me, how come you didn't see me?" he asked, realizing that Remus had to of left the common room to be here. And he had to have seen him outside the common room.
"I was kind of delusional… not feeling well at all." As James looked at Remus he saw that he didn't look well at all either. So James simply nodded, and went back to staring at Lily.
They all stared for a very long time, like if they stared long enough, hard enough she would actually start to move. After a very long time of just staring in silence, the matron came in and tried to shoo them out. Because Bea had special permission, she was allowed to stay, but Remus still insisted that she leave.
"You haven't eaten in ages, you need some food." He said, and finally she got up out of her seat, and all three students left the hospital wing.
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A/n: Okay then! That's all for now! I might write some more later, but this is a very good place to end the chapter! Well R&R as always and hope you enjoyed. ~Lilz
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Lily fell asleep, the instant she took the potion that the matron handed her. Bea refused to move from her seat beside Lily all night, and the matron finally gave up on trying to get her out of the hospital wing. She tried not to cry but she couldn't help it. How many time had her friend worried her sick? But this time was different. This time, Lily had actually been in danger, and had in fact gotten hurt. She stayed by Lily's seat, just thinking, until the red-orange glow of the sun came over the distance.
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"So Potter, tell me what went on." Said Professor McGonagall sharply, when the two had reached her office.
"Well," James began slowly, "I got up out of bed to go see Lily." He looked up at McGonagall who was looking at James disapprovingly, and he squirmed feeling very guilty indeed. That had already been one rule broken.
"Then we heard a huge bang, and we went down to the common room to check it out, but Lily breathed in the smoke, and went unconscious. I carried her back up towards the dorms, and by then everyone had come out. Then we waited until the smoke had cleared a bit and that's when we ran into you and that girl. When I was taking Lily to the hospital wing." He said all of this very quickly, and quietly. McGonagall simply nodded.
"Did you see anything? Of who might have set off all that smoke?" she asked, and James could tell that she knew just as much as he did about the mysterious smoke in the common room. James shook his head, trying to think of someone who would do such a stupid thing as fill the common room with smoke.
"You may go back to bed now, Potter." Said McGonagall, who was getting up from her chair.
"Professor? May I stay by Lily?" he asked timidly, doubting she would allow it.
"I'm sorry, you may see her in the morning." She said sharply, and in a very final sort of tone. James decided not to pursue it, as he was tired and he needed to tell the common room things were alright, and everyone could go back to sleep. He doubted that Bea had left Lily's side, so there had obviously been no one to let them know Lily was alright.
James slowly walked up towards the common room, when he saw something moving in the shadow behind a suit of armor. He frowned, slowed down, and turned towards the thing creeping in the shadows. "Hello?" called James cautiously, and he drew closer.
"STUPEFY!" called a voice, and before he knew it, James was lying on the ground stunned. "Don't meddle in things that don't concern you, Potter. You don't need to be aware of everything lurking in the Hogwarts shadows. " Said Severus Snape's satisfied voice. He chuckled to himself at the boy's idiocy, and walked off towards his own common room.
But then a plan struck him. A brilliant plan, indeed. He turned back towards the unconscious figure and took a single hair from James Potter's head. He then put it in his pocket, and laughed, very pleased with his own brilliance.
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The next day when Bea awoke, for she had fallen asleep no matter how hard she had tried not to, she was disappointed to see that Lily still had not woken up. She heaved a sigh and then straightened herself up, looking around the hospital wing. Bea didn't know what to think, never mind what to do. She didn't know what happened. She couldn't ask Lily what had happened. She could ask James. Ask him what he thought he was playing at, visiting Lily in the middle of the night. This made Bea even more confused than before. Just stop thinking! She thought, angrily, but this proved itself very difficult indeed. She felt like crying, but just couldn't seem to. Then a horrifying thought came to her. Lily was her only friend. That's why she was so confused, and had never felt this way before. Because she always, ALWAYS had Lily to talk to. What she needed was someone she could talk to as openly as she could with Lily. And she racked her brain for the closest thing to a friend she think of. But she still didn't know. So she decided to go back to sleep. Lily would wake her if she awoke, which was very unlikely, as she was sleeping ever so peacefully.
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Remus sat in the big, puffy chair in the common room, his face pale, and sweat rolling down his cheek. He had been sitting there, exactly the same since last night. James hadn't come back yet, which probably meant he was by Lily's side right now. This thought made him tremble. Then he realized that he had every right to visit Lily… but so tired. He was ever so tired, and could barely move. Yet, he got up all his strength, and got out of the warm, cozy chair. He stood beside the chair, not exactly knowing what he was doing, as he stood leaning on the arm of the chair. His face still expressionless and pale, and his hair messy and mixed with sweat and tears.
Little did he know that his two friends were standing, watching him, and not knowing what to do for their friend.
"What do you reckon he's doing?" asked Sirius, frowning.
"D-d-d-dunno." Said Peter shrugging, and not taking his eyes off Remus, who was now stumbling across the room, and walking irregularly through the portrait hole.
"And where could James be?" asked Sirius, but then he knew the answer. "Ahh… must be with Lily. Well you can't blame the poor lad, can you? I mean, he must really like that girl to save her life." He said, shaking his head in disbelief. "And maybe we should pop in and see Lily. What if she's awake? And there is also Bea, her friend, you know? She must be feeling horrible…"
"A-a-and we c-c-c-could s-see if J-J-James is there." Suggested Peter, who really wanted to talk to James without Remus' company.
So then it was settled. The two headed towards the hospital wing, but someone they least expected to see stopped them just outside of the common room. James was lying on the floor, apparently out cold.
"Oh my god…" said Sirius, who was trying to revive James by lightly slapping him on the face. When he realized this wasn't doing any good, and it must have been some sort of curse, he turned to Peter.
"Go get the headmaster." He said firmly, still trying to breathe life into James. Peter nodded, and ran off to get some sort of help for his friend. He finally ran into Professor Dumbledore, who had, by the looks of things, just come out of his office.
"P-p-p-p-professor! I-I-I-I-it's J-J-James P-P-P-P-Potter. Un-un-un-!" he tried to get it out but he was having much difficulty. But the professor, however, seemed to get the message all the same and nodded.
"Lead the way," he said, his eyes narrowing in suspicion, and curiosity.
When they finally got over to where James and Sirius were, Dumbledore went down on his knees and studied James carefully. Then, quietly, he said, "Stunned. That is all he is merely stunned. I shall wake him now." He said to the anxious boys, who nodded. He muttered something under his breath, with his wand pointed at James, who immediately began to stir.
"James!" yelled Sirius cheerfully, but then he realized that this was no laughing matter.
"Who stunned you, Mr. Potter?" asked Dumbledore calmly. James seemed confused, as he didn't know where he was or what had happened. But after a minute he vaguely began to remember things. He remembered that he had been talking to Snape, and he was on his way to the common room to tell everyone-
"Lily! Lily, is she alright? What happened? Is she awake? Will she be awake? What-!"
"James, Lily is going to be fine. No, she has not woken up yet, but I am certain that she will be perfectly fine in no time." He said smiling. James, still slightly hysterical, nodded, now trying to remember what he had last been doing.
"I-I didn't see who stunned me. They didn't when my back was turned." At this a great look of dislike came over Albus Dumbledore's face.
"That is a horrible and cowardly thing to do." He said shaking his head. "Very cowardly indeed. Well anyhow, it's a good thing that you two found him. Who knows what might have happened it you didn't." he said turning to Peter and Sirius.
"Ya, thanks guys." Said James nodding in agreement. "But can I go and see Lily now?" he asked Dumbledore, who smiled and nodded.
"You must really care for that girl…" he said, looking slightly bemused.
"I do, sir." He said, grinning.
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Bea was sleeping soundly in the common room, when she heard a bang that woke her up. She was a little upset, but more curious than anything. She slowly got up and saw a very disturbed-looking Remus Lupin stumble in.
"Oh Remus, are you okay?" she asked, as she guided him into a chair by Lily's bed.
"Ya… I'm doing good. How's Lily?" he said staring at Lily in her bed, not looking even alive. Oooh this is what it's all about. And I'm doing fine thanks. She thought bitterly. However, she smiled.
"Well, she will be fine once she wakes up." She said, although it felt like so much more than that.
"What happened?" he asked, still looking as distressed as before, but feeling a whole lot better, now that he was with Lily. Even if she didn't have any idea.
"No one really knows. I'd really like to find out myself… but James might know a little more than we do now." She said, disappointed that James didn't say anything to Remus. She would just have to ask James herself if Lily didn't wake soon.
Remus, however, wasn't exactly hearing much of this. His ears filled with a kind of buzzing sound, and all he was thinking about was Lily. When she would be better… who she would choose when she was better… he had never been more confused.
The room was silent after that… no one spoke, but only thought. After about 10 minutes in the stillness, the door to the hospital wing opened once again. James Potter entered looking almost as bad as Remus.
His hair was messy (although that wasn't unusual), and he was also sweating, but looking very flushed. His glasses were looking kind of bent, and weren't sitting right on his nose.
"Is she okay?" he asked the two others in chairs, who stared blankly up at him.
"What do you think?" asked Remus sarcastically. James shot him a dark look, but decided not to retort. He sat down in a chair, and looked longingly at Lily.
"Why didn't you come back to Gryffindor room last night? I just assumed that you were here." Said Remus suddenly realizing the fact that James wasn't in either of the places he was supposed to be.
"I was stunned. I spent the night out cold outside of the common room. Remus and Peter found me, how come you didn't see me?" he asked, realizing that Remus had to of left the common room to be here. And he had to have seen him outside the common room.
"I was kind of delusional… not feeling well at all." As James looked at Remus he saw that he didn't look well at all either. So James simply nodded, and went back to staring at Lily.
They all stared for a very long time, like if they stared long enough, hard enough she would actually start to move. After a very long time of just staring in silence, the matron came in and tried to shoo them out. Because Bea had special permission, she was allowed to stay, but Remus still insisted that she leave.
"You haven't eaten in ages, you need some food." He said, and finally she got up out of her seat, and all three students left the hospital wing.
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A/n: Okay then! That's all for now! I might write some more later, but this is a very good place to end the chapter! Well R&R as always and hope you enjoyed. ~Lilz