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Disclaimer:
All recognizable characters, plotlines belong to JK Rowling. Drew, Myall, the Elia group, and the plotline belongs to me. Although, I have adapted many of the concepts from the WB show, Charmed, into this fanfic.
Summary:
Lily is no ordinary girl. Blessed with special and unique powers, she is left alone after her uncle, who has been teaching her at home, was killed by death eaters. Now exposed to normality and a target of the emerging powers of Voldermort, she seeks solace in Hogwarts where she learns that her greatest power is not her inheritance, but the love that she gains from those around her.
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ALMOST EXPOSED
"Everybody move back." Professor Kettleburn instructed. "We don't want to scare them away."
While the rest of the class back away, Lily starred at the mother and the calf. She could feel her hurt, her pain. Lily wanted to help her. Help her take away all her pain.
"Lily! Come back!" Drew cried. But Lily stayed by the lake, watching the dolphis. James ran to her.
Lily could hear James running towards her. What could she do? She knew she had to save the calf. She had to, her mother's pain was too unbearable.
So Lily raised both her hands and froze time. Did it work? She had done it before with her uncle but she wasn't sure. Gradually she turned around and saw James, in a half running motion towards her, frozen, and the rest of the class looking like ice statues.
It work! Lily said to herself. Then she looked down. The mother dolphis was still whimpering, and her calf looked half dead. Lily wadded into the water and bent down.
"Its ok, I'll help you fix this." She said, stroking the mother dolphis. Then she gently lifted the calf and turned it to the side where blood was gushing out. Lily then placed her hand over the calf's wound and closed her eyes.
Slowly, the wound began to glow, and the stains of blood continued to disappear, disappear until the calf's glowing skin shone. Then the wound itself began to close up, and soon, it too was gone. The baby calf let out a happy howl. Lily smiled.
"You will be alright now," she said, patting the calf's head. The mother began moving her head vigorously, as if thanking Lily. Lily nodded in acknowledgement as she saw the two dolphis swim off.
Suddenly, she remembered was has happening behind her. Or rather, what was not happening. She walked back to where she stood last and waved her hands. She heard James running again.
"Evans, cant you take instru…" But he stopped, as he took in what was happening in front of him.
The calf and the mother was swimming away, towards the main pod.
The rest of the class ran to her. Professor Kettleburn looked at her sternly.
"Miss Evans, 10 points for not taking my instructions seriously, you could have seriously damaged that dolphis." Lily cringed. What an ironic thing to say, she thought to herself.
"They both seem to be swimming fine to me." Remus said, starring at the dolphis.
"I thought the little one was hurt." Myall said, peering over the top of Sirius' head to take a look.
"Alright, class dismissed." the professor exclaimed, clapping his hands at the same time. The class watched the dolphis pod swim until it was too small to see.
As they headed back to the school, Professor Kettleburn stopped them.
"By the way, Sirius, 50 points for having the guts to stay out there. Didn't expect you to, but today you demonstrated the fine and courageous man in you." he said, with a smile on his face. His friends laughed.
Sirius just nodded and said: "Thank you."
"What's wrong, Padfoot?" Remus asked him, with a smirk on his face. "Not used to gaining points?"
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The rest of the classmates dismissed the dolphis incident. As Drew had said, they weren't sure if the calf was really hurt. After all, no one could really see the blood. Some said the mother performed some sort of charm to heal her baby calf. All in all, it was just written off as a rogue incident. It was a topic of conversation in the proceeding weeks, but was soon forgotten.
But James had his suspicions. He knew he had ran to shore close enough to see the blood, and was adamant Lily had something to do with the bizarre turn of events. He made a point of mentioning it to the rest of the boys, who dismissed him completely.
"Honestly James. You have something against Lily." Remus said sternly.
"I saw the blood." James insisted.
"Leave it Prongs! "Sirius said in a fed up voice. Feeling betrayed, he got off his chair and was about to head to the portrait hole when someone came in.
He was a small boy, much shorter than any of the Marauders. He also looked thin and frail.
"Peter?" James said, starring at him.
"Yeah…" James grabbed the boy and gave him a hug. Soon Sirius and Remus joined him to welcome their friend back.
"How have you been?" James asked Peter.
"Good, good… my mother was really sick so I had to take care of her." Peter replied.
"Yeah so we heard," Remus said. "She ok now?"
Peter nodded her head. "Yup…yup," pausing for a while, "much improved."
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Lily was rushing to the hall for dinner when she found herself in the 4th corridor. She stopped in front of her uncle's portrait. He was so handsome, like a valiant knight about to rescue a damsel in distress. The epiphany of heroism and courage.
However, the portrait tells little of who her uncle really was. For in reality, the tables were turned, and Aunt Bessie saved him more than he saved her. It was enough to bruise a man's ego, and make him walk away.
Yet he loved her, Lily thought to herself. He loved her enough to give up his life, his job, and take care of me.
When she remembered what was behind the portrait, Lily felt a tinge of guilt. She hadn't seen Bessie for almost a month now. After the outburst, she never went back to the room. She had refused to take up training, and was keeping to her word.
As she walked towards the Great Hall, she kept thinking of the dolphis. How the calf was whimpering. The sad look in the mothers eyes. She was about the enter the great hall when she was shoved from the back hard and slammed against the wall.
Her attacker was Malfoy.
"So, Evans, is it true who you really are?" He had one hand on her neck, and the other on her chest to restrain her.
"ANSWER ME!"
"Why should I?"
"Because I am so much better than you." His grip was getting tighter, and the hand that was on her neck moved to restrain her hands.
"Scream, and I will hurt you."
With a swift motion, Lily launched her knees against Malfoy's groin and raised them, causing him to yell in pain. Then she grabbed him and threw him towards the doors of the great hall, where, a bunch of students were coming out, including the Marauders, Drew, Myall and Natalie. Unfortunately, Lily didn't see them. She was burning with anger.
"Touch me again, and you will wish you didn't have hands to begin with." Lily said calmly, starring at Malfoy in the ground. The emotion on Malfoys face was embarrassment bordering anger.
"Malfoy got creamed by a girrrlll!!!" Sirius cried, laughing his head off, breaking the tense silence. By the time word spread to the back of the crowd, the rest of the students were laughing too.
But Lily wasn't. Suddenly, she felt scared. Suddenly, she realized that maybe, just maybe, Malfoy knew who she was. Who she really is. She started crying.
James, who was closest to her, saw her cry and was about to approach her.
"Go away, I don't need you badgering me again!" Then Lily turned around and ran out of the corridor.
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Later that night, somewhere deep in the Forbidden Forest, a fire was cackling in the fireplace of an old abandoned cottage. A man sat by the fire, thinking when he was interrupted by a squeak.
"My lord…"
there was no response. Lord Voldermort got up from his chair and face the shaking teenager.
"YES!" he bellowed. The boy stepped back a bit.
"Its true."
"What's true?"
"I saw it myself. Her extraordinary strength. Lily Evans is an Elian."
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That wasn't that bad of a cliffy eh? And those of you who watch Charmed, will see that (so far), Lily has Piper's time freezing power, and Leo's healing power. Its kinda hard to describe the hand motions, so ask a Charms fan. They can demonstrate =)
Anyways, will definitely write more. On my break now, and I have already watched Harry Potter and the CoS… so what else is there to do? ;)
Keep those reviews coming!!! Love yas…