Chapter 13

It was Saturday morning. Lily woke up, and then groaned.

Raye came over to Lily's bed.

"I'm so sorry Lily dear; you don't have to do it if you don't want to, you know that."

"Yea." Lily grumbled, "But the problem is I am going to do it."

She dragged herself out from the covers of her nice warm bed, and forced herself to get dressed, making sure to wear her bright green shirt, but also her red socks.

"Don't worry Lily," reassured Kay, "It'll be over this afternoon or evening."

"Well, here goes. I guess I'm going to have to sit at the Slytherin table for breakfast." Lily shivered. "Sit with all those Slytherin creeps..."

She ran out of the room and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.

When there, Lily saw Severus Snape call her over. Reluctantly, Lily smiled and headed over to sit by her new "boyfriend".

They made small talk, Lily making flirting comments like, "I sure hope you guys win this match." And "Please make sure you don't get hit by a bludger Severus."

Lily was disgusted with herself. But she told herself that it was all an act.

After breakfast, Lily stayed with the Severus until the game. Then, she headed up to the Slytherin section to cheer for them.

The game went on for a long time. About 3 hours actually. By the time the Gryffindors called their third time out, all the players were exhausted.

When the players went up again, the score was 130 to 100 Slytherin in the lead.

Gryffindor just scored again, when James caught sight of the snitch. Severus, the Slytherin seeker was staring at Lily, but at chance looked where James eyes were locked, and saw it too. They went for a dive. James was pulling ahead a little, but Severus was fast. They were neck to neck, and not quite in reach of the snitch, when James jumped off his broom and his hand closed over the little ball. Gryffindor won, but with a price. James kept falling. He was about 5 feet from the ground, when Sirius came up under him and caught the desperate seeker.

All the stands burst into cheers except for the Slytherin section.

It took all Lily's will power to not cheer and run down to James and see how he was after that fall. Instead, she put her hands in her pockets and headed back into the castle with the Slytherins, giving James a little smile on her way past him.

Lily went up to her room and stayed there until the guys came back. Then, she ran out to James.

"James! Are you ok?"

"Of course Lily dear." Said James; "After all, I had my bud Padfoot here to catch me. It was all planned you know,"

"Yea right it was all planned. We all know that you would practically kill yourself to win a Quidditch match." Lily shot back. "And your girlfriend too..." She mumbled. Only she and James heard it.

"Snape was looking for you outside." Said James, "Please… stay in here until tonight."

"You think I want to be out there? By the way, I'm going to write him a note saying that I'm not going to dinner, and that I'll meet him on the third floor tonight."

"You do that Lily." Said Sirius.

Lily rolled her eyes and went back up to her room.

In the note, she said that she would meet Severus on the third floor in the room by the picture of a country scene at 10:00.

She sent her owl off with it.

That night, Lily walked quietly down from her dormitory and up to the third floor. She kept thinking that she heard light footsteps behind her, but she shrugged it off. Who would be following her anyway?

When she got into the room, she waited for about 5 minutes until Severus sauntered in.

As he walked over to her, Lily felt her knees go a little wobbly with fright.

"Severus, we... we're... we can't go out anymore."

"But why my dear?" asked Severus.

"I… we aren't the same; there's nothing between us."

Then, much to Lily's surprise, Severus came towards her and pushed her against the wall, forcing her lips to meet his.

"I would have much rather you told the truth Lily flower," he said, "I knew that this was all a game for you and Potter. The only thing that stopped me from calling you a bitch and slapping you yesterday, was the thought of tonight."

His hand found its way under her shirt as he kissed her again, shoving his tongue in her mouth.

Lily was powerless and she knew it. She started hyperventilating when Severus took out a knife. With the knife, he slit her shirt so he wouldn't have to lift it over her head and break contact.

As he threw the shirt on the floor, Severus pulled away and stared greedily at Lily's half naked figure. All that was between him and Lily's full breasts was a thin lace bra, and he reached behind her to take it off.

Suddenly, someone burst in the door and shoved Severus off of Lily. Lily grabbed her shirt and tried to cover herself as best she could as that someone started beating on Severus.

Her eyes were blurred with tears when she looked up and saw... Peter.

Snape was on the ground unconscious and Peter was hovering over him.

Lily sank to the ground in tears. She was sobbing out of control as Peter came over to her.

"I can't carry you, but I can help you to the common room." He said.

Lily leaned against him and simmered down to just a whimper, and they both walked to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Yo Padfoot," Said James, "I can't find my invisibility cloak."

"You don't think someone took it do you?" asked Remus.

"Probably not; James probably just lost it." Said Sirius.

"Where's Pete?" asked Remus.

The other two shrugged.

"Let's go downstairs and do homework." Suggested Remus, "We need to do something."

Sirius sighed. "Fine. Just because there's nothing else to do."

The three headed downstairs and found that they were the only ones there.

After a while, they heard a whimpering noise coming from outside.

"Do you hear something?" asked James.

"Yea; and it's getting closer." Said Remus.

Then the portrait door opened, and in came Peter half-carrying half-supporting a crying Lily.

James jumped up.

"What happened?" he asked.

"I found Snape trying to rape her." Growled Peter.

"Oh my God." Gasped James, he went over to Lily and picked her up and set her on a couch. He noticed her ripped shirt, and covered her with his cloak.

"Lily are you okay?" he asked softly.

Lily cried all the harder, so James just sat next to her and hugged her. "Shhhh. It's okay now; I've got you." He rocked her a little.

Remus motioned for the other boys to go upstairs.

Sirius' face was dark red with anger as he went up to his room. It was his fault in the first place that she was even near Snape. He would find someway to get back at him... Someway…

"James it was horrible!" sobbed Lily.

After a while of sobbing and rocking, Lily cried herself to sleep, and James fell asleep too. But when they woke up, Lily remembered what had happened that night before, and started crying again.

"He wouldn't stop."

James just wrapped his arm around her and rocked her.

When she quieted down a little, James started to get up to get some breakfast for them.

"Don't leave me!" Lily screamed and grabbed at his arm. "Don't ever leave me."

Just then, Remus cam in with two plates and set them down in front of Lily and James.

"Thought you might be hungry," Then he went upstairs.

James noticed that Remus was looking a little sickly, and then he remembered that the full moon was the next day.

After they ate, James brought up something new.

"Lily, you need to tell Dumbledore what happened."

Lilly shook her head.

"You've got to! I'll go with you."

"No James! No one can ever know what happened last night. They'll think I'm some kind of a whore or something... No one can ever know except for you guys."

The whole day Lily stayed in the Gryffindor tower never leaving, with James beside her everywhere she went.

Lily started to calm down, but knew she would never get over the fear of being forced to do something sexual against her will... Tomorrow she would have to go out and take classes, and see... him.