Chapter 19
"Guys! Wait up!" Lily exclaimed as she ran after the Marauders. "Guys!"
Lily dropped onto the floor.
Hearing her voice stop, the boys turned around to see what happened to their lady friend. They had just pulled a prank, and were running away to get as far away as possible for when someone saw it.
When they turned around, James gasped.
"Not again!" he exclaimed.
They went back to get Lily who was lying unconscious on the floor.
"What happened to her?" asked Remus.
"I'm not sure." Replied James, "She did this a few days ago too. I have no idea what's wrong with her."
"Well let's take her to the hospital wing." Suggested Peter.
The boys carried the fainted girl up to the hospital wing.
"She fainted again?" exclaimed Madam Pomfrey.
"Yeah." Said Sirius, "We were just... running! Yea, running! And she just... just fell over."
Madam Pomfrey just shook her head and restored Lily.
Lily lifted her head and looked around, and then slumped back onto her pillows.
"Not again." She whined.
"Not again what?" asked madam Pomfrey.
"Me. Here again. Pain." Replied Lily.
"Pain?" asked the nurse.
Lily nodded her head.
Madam Pomfrey check Lily to see if she had any bones broken or hurt, but no. Everything was in its place and where it was supposed to be.
"What hurts exactly?" asked the nurse.
Lily shrugged and then winced because of the pain it caused. "Everywhere any anywhere."
Madam Pomfrey looked at her funny, and shook her head. She pushed the boys out.
"I'm sure you troublemakers have something to do."
With many complaints, the boys left.
Madam Pomfrey turned back to Lily.
"Maybe you should get some sleep."
She walked over to a medicine cabinet and got out a potion. She poured some of a potion into a goblet, and gave it to Lily.
"This will help you get to sleep."
Lily took the cup and drank it with no complaints.
Within a few minutes, Lily was lying peacefully on the bed.
Madam Pomfrey looked at her sympathetically one last time before she went into her office and waited for the next poor victim of pain to come in.
Lily awoke to the sound of someone opening a door and walking in. She opened her eyes and saw a cloaked figure crossing the room.
Lily was terrified of this person, when he entered, her pain intensified.
It crossed to the nurse's office, and stepped in. After a second Lily heard a little yelp and a thump.
She then saw the figure's shadow coming back to where Lily lay. (It's night by now.) She tried to cover herself with her blankets, but, as many know from experience, it didn't work.
It stopped by her bed, and Lily knew se was seen, so she decided to stand up and face whatever was there head on.
She pulled the covers off, and tried to stand up. It didn't work, so Lily just glared at the cloaked figure.
"Who are you? And why are you torturing me?" she whispered.
The figure removed his hood.
"You may address me as Lord Voldemort. And I have come for you."
Lily shuddered.
"Why? And what have you done to Madam Pomfrey?" she asked.
"Oh. Her." Replied Voldemort, "I just stunned her. I was going to kill her but... I surprise even myself sometimes. And as for you, I am picking out some students here at Hogwarts and giving them the chance to join me. They would finish their 7 years here, with a few meetings with a few others and myself of course, and once their time here is up they would come join me full time. You should consider yourself lucky. You are the only Muggle I have and will ask to join me. You have exceptional powers that I could… use."
Lily just stared at him.
"Oh. And choose your answer carefully. If you refuse you will be punished. Maybe not for a few years but oh yes, you shall be punished. I will see you again, and when I do, you will have an answer for me. And remember, I can see you whenever I wish, so do not tell anyone about this little chat we have had." He put his hood back on, and left.
The intense pain Lily had felt when he arrived, lessened and soon melted away.
"The pain must come from him." Lily thought, "Whenever he's near me I have a sharp pain so I faint. That must be it!"
Then, everything blacked.
When Lily awoke and found that the pain was gone, she quickly got up and went into Madam Pomfrey's office. She saw the stunned nurse on the ground, and revived her. When the nurse asked what happened, Lily was going to tell her, but then she remembered the last thing Voldemort had said to her. "I can see you whenever I wish, so do not tell anyone about this little chat we have had." She decided that it wasn't worth the risk, and said that the nurse must have fainted.
"I'm turning into you now aren't I?" asked Madam Pomfrey jokingly.
"I feel all better now Madam Pomfrey; can I go?" asked Lily.
"Well… are you sure you feel all better?"
"Positive."
"Well alright," Agreed Madam Pomfrey, "Just please be careful!"
"Yes mam."
Lily turned and left the room and went in the semi dark to the Gryffindor tower with a lot to think about. She had to make one of, if not THE, biggest decision of her life.