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The cliffys stay…sorry…it's the only way I can think of to end the chapter. By the time I get that far, I just want to get it over and done with and post it…=)
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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SUPRISES FOR ALL
"What do you have to show me?" Lily asked curiously as she got up and put her coat on. Clover dragged her towards the door.
"it is downstairs in the common room. It was too big for clover to carry here, miss lily…so clover had to leave it in the common room."
Lily's eyes widened as she followed her house elf down the stairs.
"What do you have to…oh my!!" Lily gasped as she entered the common room.
It was a large picture frame, held together by two statues of falcons. The picture on the frame was a whirlpool, a concoction of rainbow colours swirling into one another.
"What is it?" Lily said, approaching it cautiously.
"Touch it, miss lily. Then you will see." Clover said, following her timidly behind.
Lily did. Immediately, an image formed. Of a man putting on a pair of skates for a little girl that was sitting on a bench. A little girl with red hair and green eyes.
"Clover, this is a portrait of your master and me. Where did you get this?" Lily said in bewilderment.
"Keep watching miss lily. There's more."
And there was. The little girl got up and tried to skate but fell. The man picked her up and held her hand as they paced forward. And forward, until the man slowly let her hand go and she moved freely on her own.
"Miss Lily. This Master Barto's pensieve. It is a special one given to Master Barto's by Master Barto's grandfather. It contains all the thoughts and memories of Master Barto's lifetime." Clover explained.
"Where did you get it from?" Lily asked, further inspecting it. Immediately, Clover's eyes began to fill with tears.
"Master Barto was making it for miss lily's 18th birthday. Master Barto was constantly adding Master Barto thoughts to it, Master Barto memories of miss lily and Master Barto memories with Miss Bessie. Master Barto is tell Clover to give it to miss lily…should…should Master Barto not be able to." By now, Clover was sobbing loudly.
"Shhh…"Lily cried, rushing to the house elf. "You are going to wake someone up."
"Clover is sorry, miss lily." The house elf sobbed into her tea towel. "its just that Clover knows that Master Barto was a good master, and a good man. Clover misses her master dearly."
Lily pulled her house elf onto her lap and sat on one of the couches. Clover gasped. Lily clasped her hand onto her mouth.
"I miss my uncle too, Clover. I wish he was here."
Lily sighed. "I wish he was actually here." Then she gazed at the pensieve. "it is soo beautiful. The best birthday present ever."
Clover beamed happily.
"Did miss Bessie know about this?"
"Indeed, miss lily." Clover said, nodding at the same time. "Clover is know too, how to open the book. So clover told miss Bessie, and she agreed that miss lily should get this now, rather than next year."
Suddenly, a sound startled the two.
"Lily?"
Lily and Clover turned around. Drew, Myall and Bronwyn were standing at the entrance to the common room from the dorms, still in their pajamas. They were eyeing at Lily and Clover.
"We got up." Drew said. "And saw that you were not in your bed. So I thought we should come and find you…"
"Who's that, Lily?" Myall said, rubbing her eyes. Without delay, Clover hopped of Lily's lap and approached Myall.
"My name is Clover." She said, extending her hand to Myall. "Clover is miss Lily's house elf. Clover is honored to meet you miss Myall Wendonally. Miss lily has spoken very much about you."
"You have a house elf?" Myall said in a half amused, half stunned voice. Immediately, lily got off the couch.
"Well…er…yeah." She stammered.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Drew said.
"I didn't want to be looked at differently." Lily said, looking down. Clover caught sight of the solemn look on her mistress' face and realized that she had unknowingly exposed a secret. She began to break down and cry loudly, banging her head against one of the bookcases in the common room.
"Clover…its ok…im not mad at you." Lily said, rushing to her side, embracing her in her arms.
"Lily…what are you doing?" Bronwyn asked.
"huh?"
"you're hugging your house elf. "
"So?"
"Umm…nothing.." obviously Bronwyn had remembered the incident with Malfoy.
It was Myall that noticed the pensieve in the middle of the room. It was now showing young lily do a triple axel and a young uncle Barto clapping endlessly with pride.
"Wow, what is…" she began, but was interrupted by loud pattering from the dorm staircase.
Lily tried to shove Clover to a corner, but it was too late. Sirius, James and Remus appeared at the bottom of the stairwell.
"You guys ok?" Sirius said. "We heard loud sobbing down here." Lily looked painfully at Myall and Drew.
"Nothing. Sirius. It was nothing." Myall said.
"So who cried then?" James asked. Myall and Drew looked at Lily.
"nothing….er…Drew bumped her knee on the side table." Myall said as Drew shot her a glare. Drew noticed at the attention was diverted to her, and immediately pretended to limp.
Immediately, Remus walked over to Drew.
"You alright?" Remus said in a concerned voice.
"Yeah." Drew whispered. Drew's face turned red as Myall gazed at her friend suspiciously.
"Since when did Lupin care so much about you…" Myall whispered and nudged Drew. Both Remus and Drew looked embarrassed.
James noticed Clover hiding behind Lily.
"Is that your house elf?" James asked curiously.
Lily looked over at Clover, who was trembling with fear.
"Yes." She replied. "She doesn't like many people. She lives with the other house elves in the kitchens"
By now, the pensieve was showing lily do two simultaneous triple axels. This caught the attention of Myall again.
"Yeah, Lily, what's that?"
Suddenly Lily realised that in all her attempted to hide her house elf, she forgot all about the pensieve.
Remus walked towards the portrait.
"I know what this is." He said wisely. "It's a pensieve. A special one. Only a handful were made in the 17th century by a wizard for special wizarding families. It is very, very rare. This yours Lily?"
"Umm…yeah. It belonged to my uncle."
"Which wizarding family did he come from?"
"Somerset."
It was Sirius' turn to be impressed.
"Your uncle is Bartholomew Somerset?"
Lily looked at Sirius in surprise. "How did you know?"
"Well, we…" suddenly saw the piercing look in his friend's face . "…there is a portrait of him on the 4th corridor. We notice it because he always pulled faces at us as we walk past."
Drew was beginning to put everything together.
"Was…this uncle…the one that,… uh…died?" Drew asked.
James didn't have to hear the response to the question to know. The facial expression on Lily's face said it all. It immediately turned pale and solemn. Tears were slowly welling in her eyes. He glanced at the pensieve. There was something familiar about that little girl. He was about to say this when Lily interrupted him
"Look." Lily said defiantly, trying to hide her tears. "Sorry to wake everyone up. My sincere apologies. I'll just take this away…" She tried to pick up the pensieve, but it was too heavy.
"You want us to help you take it to your dorm?" James offered. Sirius and Remus looked at James.
"Yeah…we can help too. "Myall said, rolling her sleeves up.
Lily looked at her fellow schoolmates in shock as the Marauders and Myall helped her carted the pensieve up the stairs and into the girls dorm. They found space for it next to Lily's bed.
"Thanks you guys."
"No problem Lily." Remus said kindly. "You know we are not that bad of a people."
"Reckless and stupid. But not that bad." Myall added.
"Who's reckless and stupid?" Sirius said, eyeing her.
"Come on guys, lets go to breakfast."
They, along with Remus and Drew headed out the door. James was about to follow them when a slip of parchment hanging off the portrait caught his eye.
"Lily, there is something here."
He was about to pass it to her when he read the top.
Happy Birthday to my dearest nieceJames' eyes widened. "Its your birthday today?"
Lily looked embarrassed.
"Well, yeah. That's my uncle's birthday present to me. Clover kept it from me when we moved out, and gave it to me this morning."
"Happy Birthday, Lily. I should tell the others. They don't know."
"You don't have it. It has no meaning."
"What? Your birthday doesn't have any meaning?"
"It doesn't now that…now that…"Lily stammered, and sank onto her bed. She was watching her uncle take the skates of young lily's shoes.
"now that he's dead?" James finished for her, flowing her gaze. There was silence.
"That little girl…its you isn't it?"
Lily nodded.
"He must have meant so much to you." He said, sitting next to her.
"He did. More than anything in the world. He was my world. Him and Clover."
"Just because he isn't here, doesn't mean your world cant continue. Im sure he didn't give this to you for you to be upset. Its full of his memories, Lily. Happy and fond memories. Having this here is the next best thing to having him alive. I wish I had my sister's pensieve."
"Your sister's dead?" James nodded.
"Yeah. She killed herself. No one knows why. But one day she was found in her room. She had performed the unforgivable curse on herself. It was almost 5 years ago. I have no memory of her. It was like as if she never existed."
Lily starred at James. This was the James Potter she never thought she would see. A man reduced to a boy, who looked like her. The tears in his eyes. The solemn face.
"Im sorry to hear that." Lily said softly to James.
Then, in a gesture that surprised Lily, James reached out and grabbed her hand. She felt this weird feeling run up her spine. James felt it too. It wasn't like grabbing Natalie's hand. This was different.
"He didn't leave you behind all alone. You have friends here at Hogwarts. If you ever need anyone to talk to, you have us." Then he hesitated. "and me." He then flashed his famous Potter smile. Lily smiled back. She's so beautiful when she smiles, James thought to herself.
"Come on." He said, not letting go of her hand, and helping her up. "The others will be wondering where we are."
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A few days past since Lily's birthday. James, true to his word, didn't tell the others about Lily's birthday. But he was considerably warm towards her from then on. No one seem to notice his change of heart. Sirius and Myall's constant bickering overshadowed Sirius' attention to his friends behavoiur, and the romance between Remus and Drew has become more obvious than ever.
"You should tell him." Lily said to Drew, as they were trying to transfigure a line of moving ants into sunflowers. It was a Transfiguration class with Gryffindors and Ravenclaw. James was partnered with Natalie, Siruis with Myall, Remus worked with Peter, and Lily and Drew worked together.
"No way. Myall and Sirius will tease me. And us."
"You think he likes you too?"
"I think. I dunno. I mean, when I kissed him during that quidditch match he blushed…"
"And then when he found out you were hurt, he rushed to your side, and you BOTH blushed…"
Lily and Drew laughed.
Meanwhile…
"Its bloody obvious Moony."
Remus was humming to himself, and didn't notice James talking to him
"Huh?"
"James said it was obvious." Peter mumbled, trying to keep his ant still enough to point a wand at it.
"What's obvious?" Remus asked, still looking distracted.
"You and her."
Immediately, Remus snapped back to attention.
"What are you talking about?"
"You and Drew."
"What? What do you mean, Moony and Drew?" Peter asked blankly. His ant scuttled away.
"Wormtail, maybe if you spend more time at the common room and great hall with us, you will see what I mean."
Peter looked away dejectedly.
"Just tell her you like her." James said.
"No way." Remus said abruptly. "I mean, I don't know what you are talking about."
"Yes you do, Moony. I can see the way you look at her. Just tell her, its killing you. If you don't I will"
"Wait James!"
"Ahh…" Drew sighed dreamily. "He is such a sweetheart." Lily smiled. She knew that Drew was in love. That would explain that there were sunflowers running in a line off the table and her partner hadn't lurched in horror yet. Lily flicked her wand and a few of them stopped, transfigured completely, but some were still moving.
Suddenly, from behind, Lily saw a wand flick, and the sunflowers stood still and began to bloom. She turned around.
"Thought you might need some help there, Evans." James said, smiling. Lily smiled back sheepishly. James grabbed a nearby stool and sat next to Drew, smiling at her. James could feel Remus' death glare penetrating his back. Drew looked at James suspiciously.
"Can I help you, Potter?" Drew said.
"How are you, Drew?" James asked sweetly.
"Im fine…"Drew said, trying not to look sideways at James' smirk.
"So, Remus over there, wants to ask you to the Christmas Ball."
"I do not!" yelled Remus from the other end of the room. He was obviously listening to their conversation closely.
Drew's face fell. Remus saw her downcast face and hurried over.
"I mean…I wanted to ask…you…oh bloody hell, Prongs, get lost!" James was trying not to laugh as he got up and left. Then he turned around and saw Lily smiling.
"You don't get to listen to this too." He said in mock sternness, grabbing her hand and pulling her over to where he sat.
"Good luck Drew!" Lily mouthed to her friend. Drew sat there uncomfortably.
Drew looked at Remus.
"I…wanted to ask you myself."
"Ok…"
"right…"
"well…"
"well what?"
"go ahead. Ask."
"oh ok…Drew…er…will you come with me to the Christmas ball?"
By now, the class was watching the two of them with interest.
"Say yes, Drew!!" Myall yelled. The class laughed.
"Yes." The class clapped loudly, and Sirius whistled.
Remus smiled so hard he thought his jaw was going to fall off.
"Thanks, Drew. You…er…don't know how much that means to me."
"Same here." Drew said, with a grin that matched the boy that was hugging her tightly.
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"So you liked the present?" Bessie asked.
"Yeah I did. It was beautiful."
"Like I said before, your uncle worked really hard to make that pensieve the way it is. He wanted you to access all the wonderful memories he had with you."
"I've looked at it a lot. Some of the memories, I remember, others I don't. but I enjoyed all of them…." Lily thought of the ones she had seen. When she first learned to levitate objects when she was only nine. She was angry at her uncle because he had refused to allow her to play with her toys, because she had misplaced his favourite quill. In an act of anger, she looked past her uncle, and at Clover, who instantly found herself floating off the floor. Uncle Barto flicked his wand and brought the petrified house elf back on the ground.
Then there was also that time when she healed her uncle's hand when she was twelve years. Her levitating vase had smashed onto the ground, and some had hit uncle Barto.
Lily began to feel distressed Why do I feel sad everything I think of him, she thought to herself.
"Penny for your thoughts, my dear?"
Lily returned back to the room.
"Oh, nothing. We should really get started on this premonition thing. Hopefully, its easier, now that I am a year older."
Bessie chuckled.
"No way, my dear. But try anyway."
Lily positioned herself on the floor.
She approaches the lake, and looks at the reflection.
"Lily, its him, go!!!" the males voice screamed in terrorShe could hear pounding on the door. Hang on, Lily said, looking at the reflection. This is the past. Uncle Barto's death is the past.
Then she turned around and saw the woman from the previous premonition run up the stairs with the baby in her arms. She followed her. They entered the baby's bedroom. The woman was crying and clutching to child close to her chest. She cried even louder when she heard the killing curse and a loud thud from the floor below.
"This gift, Harry, is one I give to you, from a mother to her child." The woman whispered to the baby. She could hear footsteps coming up the stairs.
"You will find it one day, Harry, as I did when I was young." She then muttered something under her breath. Lily turned around and saw a cloaked figure. Even not being there physically, Lily felt a spine tingling fear in his presence.
"The boy has it now, doesn't he?"
The woman clutched the baby even tighter.
"Stand aside, you silly girl."
"No, not Harry, please. Take me instead."
"If you insist…Ava Kedevra"
Lily starred shocked. She reached out subconsciously to help the women but she slipped through her arms.
"No, not now…no" Lily whimpered. She began to feel sick, and tired. Her head was burning with pain, as if someone was stabbing her. Her insides were lurching around, and she suddenly had the urge to throw up, but nothing was coming out.
Then Lily fainted.
Aunt Bessie looked at her niece in shock.
"Lily!" she shouted. "Oh no!" She floated towards her.
"Lily wake up!!"
Suddenly, the portrait hole opened.
Bessie turned around. It was James Potter.
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Yes, bark at me. I know, its another cliffy. But that's what makes a good story right? **sees many people shaking their heads**
Anyways, I hope you guys like it. Keep reviewing…cheers.!
A/N: I know the last bit may not be exactly the way it goes in the book. But I couldn't be bothered to find it…=)