The next morning Lily and James rushed around their room frantically, trying to make it to work on time. Due to James' . . . appetite, they hadn't moved from the bed until 7:10, and they both had to be at work at 7:40. Lets just say that thirty minutes is not enough time for two people to take showers, brush their teeth, and get dressed. By the time that they apparated to work, they were both ten minutes late.
"Mrs. Potter, you're late," Mr. Johnson called as Lily walked into his office.
"I know sir, and I'm sorry," she apologized.
"Just see that it doesn't happen again," he dismissed. "Now, we have received a letter from Professor Dumbledore, and he told us that you are able to help us with a prophecy that has not been able to be solved for some years." He said as his eyes bored into hers.
"Sir?" Lily asked confused as she clasped her hands together in her lap and looked back at him.
"I want you to read this prophecy, and try to break it," he explained.
"Alright. If I could see it sir?"
"Right," he flushed before digging in the top drawer of his desk and pulling out an old, crinkly paper that had turned yellow on the edges. "Here you go," he said as he handed it over to Lily.
"I'll see what I can do sir," Lily told him before she rose from her chair and walked into her office to start reading the prophecy.
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James raced down the halls and stopped quickly, causing his arms to wave madly so that he could balance, in front of a door labeled, 'Meeting Room'. He took a deep breath, tugged on the sleeves of his robes, and opened the wide door.
At the sound of the door opening, everyone drew their attention from the speaker in the front of the room, to the back, looking to see who had arrived.
"Ahh . . . Mr. Potter, wonderful for you to finally grace us with your presence," Moody drawled from the front chair.
"I'm sorry, sir," James apologized as he took his seat.
"I imagine you had other things running through your head this morning, rather than this meeting," he smiled, which made many in the room shudder as they saw his missing teeth, and causing his face to wrinkle up.
"Yes, sir," James smiled as he remembered how soft and warm Lily was when he woke her up this morning.
"Right then, now, back to what you were saying, Miller . . ." Moody commanded.
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Spirit's arise,
On this night of uncertainty.
The world,
Rest's on the shoulders,
Of six.
Love,
Conquers all,
While fear,
Loses all.
With a full moon upon them,
The selected six,
Must choose their destiny.
All six must choose to fight for love,
Or all will be lost.
On this night,
If fire can burn across water,
And air flame higher,
The darkness burns,
In the never ending light.
Lily read over the passage one more time. The selected six were her, James, Kayla, Sirius, Aria, and Remus, that she knew. The Spirits arise on this night of uncertainty – all Hallows Eve. Didn't muggles always assume that the spirits of the past only arose on Halloween?
'The world rests on their shoulders, what does that mean?' Lily wondered as she re-read the words once again.
She had been working on this prophecy for the past two hours, and she was beginning to get a headache from thinking so hard. She had a feeling that this was an easy riddle, but she was just looking too hard.
Lily flicked the paper onto her cluttered desk, leaned back in her chair, and folded her hands behind her head.
"So this is what you do all day?" Aria asked as she entered her office, wearing a white robe, and a tan dress.
Lily laughed and sat up straight. "No, I wish. I was trying to think this out," she explained as she showed the prophecy to Aria.
"It involves us?" Aria asked as she finished reading it.
Lily nodded her head mutely before her eyes zoomed in on the diamond on her engagement ring finger. "Is that what I think that it is?" Lily asked, her eyes still on the ring.
Aria looked down at her finger, held her hand in front of her face, and looked at the single diamond that lay on a band of gold. "Yes," she sighed. "Kayla will be here in a few minutes, I wanted to tell you two together."
"Tell us two what together," Kayla demanded as she came inside, dirty as a pig in a mud puddle.
"Bloody hell! What the hell did they do to you?" Lily demanded as she saw Kayla walk in, her black robes covered in mud, and her hair dripping wet. She looked like she got drowned in the sewer.
"They put me in a stupid tank with a fairy!" Kayla growled as she plopped down in the only other vacant chair in the room.
Lily laughed then turned to Aria, who's summer blue eyes were shinning with surpressed laughter. "You were saying?" Lily smiled.
"Oh! He asked me to marry him last night!" she gushed.
"Finally!" Kayla laughed as she got up and walked over to Aria to hug her.
"Oh-no! If you think that you're hugging me Kayla Cameron, you have another thing coming!" Aria screamed as she shot up out of her chair and raced behind it.
"Why is that? Don't you want to be muddy and wet? I assure you, it's the latest fashion," Kayla teased.
"Pouncy," Lily laughed as she got up. "Leave the lady in white alone."
"But I wanna hug someone!" Kayla fake pouted.
"Here, you can hug me." Lily smiled.
Kayla walked over to Lily with an evil grin and hugged her, then shimmied down her body, trying to transfer all of her dirt onto Lily. She stepped back and looked at her handy work. "Hey!" she pouted as she saw that nothing stuck to Lily's green robes. "You weren't supposed to use a spell!"
"Well, sorry if I wanted to keep clean," Lily smiled as she sat on the corner of her desk, and crossed her legs at the knees.
"Well, are you going to tell us how he proposed or not?" Lily asked of Aria as she sat back down in her chair.
Aria sighed and her eyes got all dreamy. "It was last night, and it was a half moon out side-"
Remus walked into his and Aria's apartment, and he started to shake. 'This is the night I do it, this is the night I ask her to marry me,' he thought as he called out Aria's name.
"Yes?" she called out as she walked from the kitchen, a red apron tied around her waist to protect her navy blue skirt.
"Hey, baby," Remus smiled more calmly than he felt. "I have a question for you."
"Okay," Aria smiled as she sat down on the couch and patted the seat next to her.
Remus ignored her and kneeled at her feet. "You know, but you have got to be the most mild-mannered, caring woman in this world," he smiled at her as he put one of his hands on her knee.
Aria raised an eyebrow at him but didn't say anything.
"And I can't imagine living my life without you. I mean, not a day goes by that I don't wonder, 'Is this my last day with her?' or 'Am I ever going to lose her?' and I start to freak. I need you, Aradriana. I need you more than I need to breathe. I mean, I honestly can not imagine another girl who would accept me for what I am. Who would have no problems with who I am. So, I guess that I'm asking you, no begging you, to be my wife," he said as he gazed into the blue depths that he loved so much.
"Aradriana Williams, will you marry me?"
"Yes!" Aria cried as she flung her arms around his shoulders and sobbed into his shirt, not even noticing when he slipped a ring on her engagement ring finger. "I love you, Remy," she whispered.
"I love you too, Aria."
"And that's it." Aria finished.
"That was so sweet!" Lily said as she discreetly wiped away a tear that fell from her eyes.
"I'm happy that you two are finally able to be happy together," Kayla smiled as she sniffed her tears back.
"Thank you guys!" Aria cried as she got up and hugged her two best friends, not even caring if she got dirty from Kayla's clothes any more.
They all pulled back, and Kayla noticed that a scrap of paper and fallen to the floor. "What's this?" she asked as she bent to pick it up.
"Oh, that's my new 'Project'," Lily explained.
"Hey! Isn't this a version of the prophecy that we found in Daddy's study?" Kayla asked as she read it.
"That's why it's so familiar!" Lily cried as she snatched the paper out of her hands. "But it's missing the rest of it. So that means that they never got the whole entire prophecy," she frowned. "But why didn't they?"
"Maybe because whoever encountered it didn't want the Ministry of Magic to have the whole prophecy," Aria suggested.
"But that doesn't make any sense. Why would My Father have the whole thing?" Lily wondered as she sat behind her desk again.
"I don't know," Kayla admitted before looking down at her watch. "Hey, I need to get back to the field, but how about we talk about this later?"
Lily nodded her head absently and said good-bye to Kayla and Aria, who had said that she needed to return to work too.
Lily's brow furrowed in thought. "Why would they only have some of it?" she asked out loud.
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"Were you successful in getting the girl?" a voice hissed out into the damp, cold room.
"N-no, M-master. W-we w-were not." A mans voice sniveled.
"You know what happens to missions that aren't successful, don't you Wormtail?" the voice hissed again, as his bony hand held a long, smooth stick up.
"Y-yes Master." The mans voice stuttered in fear.
"Crucio!" the voice hissed.
That night, screams could be heard through the dark forest for miles. That, and an evil cackle.
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Authors Note:
I hope that you all liked this chapter. I know that I must be confusing some of you with the whole prophecy thing, so I'll explain it a little better.
After Lily's Father died, she and Kayla went through his study and found a prophecy that had his handwriting on the sides, and it pretty much summed up that the group of friends needed to stick together to destroy the ultimate evil. But see, Voldemort hasn't made that big of an impact on the world yet. But within the next few chapters, that's going to change.
I hope that that clears it up a little bit.
I want to thank you all for supporting me with how I want this story to end. I wasn't really expecting reviews like that.
And Amelia . . . I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your review made my day. Thank you. And as soon as I'm done with this version, I'm going to put out the opposite version for those of you who want to read it.
Well, review, and I'll hurry with my next chapter.
Byes!
Mistress del Mare