Author's note:

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.

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SOMEONE ELSE LOVES HER

Lily raced down the stairs, out the portrait hole and onto the quiet corridors. It was late in the night, and Lily's hurried footsteps echoed through the dark halls. In a swift of action, she rubbed the book and released Bessie.

"Bessie…I just had a premonition." Lily panted, while running down a set of stairs.

"Really? What was it?"

Lily began to describe the contents of the premonition to her aunt, who was floating alongside her, and nodding gravely at the same time.

"Bessie…I need to tell Professor Dumbledore."

"Leave that to me. You go and save your friends. Call Clover, and she will take me to Dumbledore."

Lily nodded, and called for Clover. The house elf appeared in an instance and was taken by surprise when Lily grabbed her.

"Clover," Lily said, "Take Bessie's book to Professor Dumbledore. Now."

Clover, understanding the urgency in her mistress' voice, reached out and took the book. But Bessie lingered around a little longer.

"Lily…use your powers wisely." Bessie said in a calm tone. "Just remember everything your uncle taught you. Then you will be fine." Bessie replied. "Just don't fear your incapabilities. And take care of yourself."

Lily nodded, and soon she reached a set of exit doors and waved Clover off frantically. Trying to remember where she had seen the quartet being dragged away was difficult but she attempted to retrace their steps.

It was when she was stomping on the mud when she came across something: a red and gold scarf with the initials J.P embroidered on it. She picked it up and walked into the forest.

"Lumos."

The tip of her wand lit up as she ambled through the bushes and the trees.  She wondered how deep into the forest these figures would take the four teenage boys, when a sudden gallop took her by surprise, and a figure stopped in front of her.

It was a centaur.

At first Lily shrunk back in fear, but a small part of her told her that this centaur means no harm.

"Evil lurks beyond this plane. Danger awaits you, young Elian."

"I have to save my friends." Lily pleaded. "Did you see where they went?"

"Centaurs don't interfere in the fates of life. We are mere observers." The centaur said. "Though, we are at pains to protect Elians, as you ancestors did for us… not so long ago."

"I have to protect my friends, as they too have protected me…not so long ago."

"My mother was your aunt's centaur. Destiny has it that I am yours. My name is Ophelia. As your centaur, I help you through your work as an Elian…but im afraid the dangers ahead may be too great for our youthfulness."

"I am determined to go…" Lily continued. "…regardless of what you say to me, but I shall waste valuable time."

"Then, let your obstinacy be your guide." Ophelia said angrily and lifted her hooves to make way for Lily.

Lily ran a couple of meters but stopped and turned to the centaur, who hadn't moved from its spot.

"I am asking you, not as an Elian to a centaur, but as someone seeking an alliance with a long time friend, please tell me where they are. They are friends to me, as my aunt was a friend to your mother."

The centaur paused, then nodded her head approvingly.

"Young Elian has shown determination and loyalty far beyond those I have had the pleasures of coming across in my lifetime.  To accompany you will be my greatest honour."

She galloped to Lily, who promptly heaved herself onto the centaur's back.

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"Should we do it again?" Avery shouted to his friends with a menacing glee.

Malfoy nodded. "I want to hit this one…" tapping his hand onto the now barely unconscious Sirius Black.

"What's wrong, Black?" Malfoy yelled, "Ran out of intelligent remarks to throw at me?"

"M…M…Malfoy?" Sirius moaned.

"In the flesh, you prick. This one is for every prank you pulled on us. every ounce of humiliation that you have subjected us to. Too bad the rest of the school wont be laughing at this one, huh?"

Malfoy let out a cruel laugh and raised his wand.

"Noo…" James cried weakly, and closed his eyes not wanting to go through another attack on his best friend.

Malfoy exclaimed:  "Cru…" but was stopped in mid sentence.

James waited for the rest of the curse, but it never came. Instead he heard a brush of wind and a large figure was thumped against a tree beside him. He opened his eyes. He couldn't believe what he saw.

Everyone around him had stopped moving. They remind James of mannequins that muggles used in shops to display clothing. But what surprised James the most was the other sight that was in the middle of the clearing: Lily was on top of a centaur, with a wand in one hand and her other hand raised up. She looked scary but determined. Next to him, the gust of wind turned out to be an unconscious death eater.

He watched Lily get off the centaur and patted the centaurs side.

"Please, Ophelia, find Professor Dumbledore and my aunt. They should be making their way here already. Tell them where we are."

James watched the centaur nod in acknowledgement as she galloped off into the distance. He was trying to find his voice.

"Lily!" he said, though he was too weak for his voice to project to Lily. But Lily stopped walking and looked around.

"Lily!" he repeated. Lily followed the voice and looked even more shock then James was with this scene when she saw him moving.

"James…what…you are moving…but…how…?" Lily cried, running towards James. She let out a moan of sadness when she saw all the bruises he had acquired from the Cruciatus curse and the deep gash on his arm.

"Lily, how did you…" James asked, then he decided it didn't matter. He didn't care. He just wanted to get out of here.

Lily removed his binds and James slumped onto the floor. She stared at his lifeless body, with more questions circulating her head than that of hers.  

Lily looked at James' wounds. She had no choice. James wasn't going to freeze like everyone else. To not attend to it was to leave him in pain. And she couldn't bear it. She placed her hand over the wound, and it began to glow. The blood began to dry up and the gash was starting to shorten. James looked at this in pure and utter amazement.

"You…are…an Elian?" James said. Lily shot him a look as the wound finished closing up.

"What makes you say that?" she asked.

"My father used to tell me about them. Mythical figures of women with the healing touch."

Just then a beautiful orange bird swooped in front of her, and landed on her hand.

"Fawkes!" Lily exclaimed happily. Suddenly she had a plan.

"I cant discuss who I am now. We need to get your three friends safely back to Hogwarts. I'm going to have to heal them there and …" but she didn't finish as she saw to her horror that time had unfroze and the remaining cloaked figures were moving again.

Lily took out her wand, just as James did his. She grabbed his hand.

"you are too weak to battle. Fawkes will take you four back to the castle."

"but I cant leave you here by yourself…"

"Potter and Evans! What an interesting combination. A mudbood and a dickhead." Cried one of the figures.

"That sounds strangely like…" James muttered silently just as he heard: "Ava Kedavra."

James screamed as the green light shot at Lily. But Lily got up and raised her hand, which ricocheted the green light away from her. He thought for a second she was going to aim it back at its source, but she deflected it to the nearest tree.

The cloaked figure starred in shock.

"How did you…" But he didn't finish as Lily raised her hand again and James saw the cloaked figure being levitated off the ground at a high speed and hurled against the tree. It slumped unconscious. She then turned her attention to the remaining figures, who were advancing towards her. Lily raised both her hands, and they froze.

James was too shocked and numb to move, and for a minute, Lily thought he had finally succumbed to the freezing of time. But he clasped his hand on his mouth.

"So, its true…all those strange things that had happened. At the start of term…"

"They were somehow connected to me, yes." Lily said huffledly as she screamed out "Expelliarmus" and dislodged all the wands from the cloaked figures.

James was beyond speechless.

James:

I thought she was a troublemaker. New to the school, wanted to make an impression. Of course I dismissed that theory as soon as I got to know her. But, I never expected this. I expected her to be…I don't know…something else. Something that's not who I see her right now.

"James." Lily called out to him. "Lets go." She grabbed his hand. "Fawkes is going to get us out of here. Ok?"

James nodded, still numb.

"You grab Sirius' hand, I'll hold Remus' and Peter's hand."

"What about them?" James said, pointing to the bodies on the ground.

"Dumbledore should be here soon. After all, he sent Fawkes ahead to help. I have their wands with me, so they won't be able to fight."

Lift off was strangely easy, thought James. Fawkes had no difficulty manoeuvring with 4 teenage boys and a teenage girl as excess baggage. But just as they lifted off, they heard a voice from the bottom: "Immobullus!"

Fawkes hung in mid air. Lily looked down, and saw one of the cloaked figures with a wand in his hand, pointing at them.

"How did he…" Lily said frightened. "James, hold Remus." She flung Remus' hand into James' already tired grasp.

"Crucio!"

Lily used her free hand to deflect it. She stared at the figure below.

Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, she recognised the voice. It kept ringing in her head.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" Rocks began flying towards Lily. She deflected all of them with difficulty. Peter was starting to get heavy, and James was going to drop one of his best friends any minute now.

"I've got you now!" the voice below cackled evilly. "Ava Kedav…"

But in the distance, a galloping of hooves ran to the clearing as a dozen centaurs came gallanting towards the figure, knocking him off his feet. Lily saw that Ophelia was at the lead. She smiled.

"Ok, James, change of plan. Mobbulus!" Lily said, and Fawkes 'woke' up.

"Fawkes, get us back down." Lily cried. The phoenix affirmed and descended to the ground. Lily saw Ophelia gallop towards her.

"Lily, Professor Dumbledore is coming. In the meantime, I gathered some of my brothers and sisters."

"Thanks Ophelia. Please take my friends back to the castle. They are extremely weak."

Ophelia nodded. Lily helped James and Sirius onto her back, and then Remus and Peter onto another centaur nearly.

"What about you?" Ophelia asked, turning around and looking at Lily.

"I need to find out who this wizard is."

"Lily…" James said from the top of Ophelia. "Come with us. Its no point engaging in a battle for no reason."

Lily went quiet as she watched the centaurs knock the wizard over again.

"There is a reason." She said quietly, but in an unwavering tone. She then patted Ophelia and the other centaur's back.

"Go!"

"Lily!" James yelled as he saw her figure slowly disappearing.

"I'll be fine…go!"

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"Albus, cant we apparate to wherever they are?" Bessie said in an irritated voice as she floated next to Dumbledore.

"We can't, Bessida." Dumbledore said, running into the forest. "We don't know where they are. Its pointless to keep apparating with the off chance we might land in the right place. Anyway, I sent Fawkes ahead. He should be able to be of some help while we try to find them."

"Look over there, there's something!" Bessie said. Dumbledore followed her gaze.

It was a centaur.

"Kamelia!" (A/N: Pronounced as Camellia) Bessie cried, rushing to the centaur.

"Besselia!" (A/N: Pronounced as Bess-ce-lia) The centaur grunted and smiled. "I thought I might never see you again, my great friend. The stars have blessed me with such good fortune."

"Kamelia, I need your help…"

"I know. My daughter, Ophelia found your niece. The rest of the centaurs have gone to help them. I am here to take you to them." Then the centaur paused and bowed her head. "It is my honour to work alongside my great friend again."

Bessie smiled.

"Go on, Albus, get on. I'll float next to you."

"Do you know what happened, Kamelia?" Bessie asked the centaur, as the took off.

"My knowledge of the details are a little fazed. But I do know that there are about a dozen cloaked figures involved."

"Death Eaters." Dumbledore and Bessie muttered in unison.

As the approached the clearing. The loud noise of centaurs and death eaters were echoing the sky.

"I don't like that, Albus. I don't at all."

They watched two centaurs with people on them gallop out of the clearing.

One of them stopped in front of Kamelia. Bessie noticed that there were two unconscious boys on one, and anther on the other centaur. The other centaur was also carrying James, who kept darting a look behind him. When he noticed that the centaur he was riding on had stopped, he turned around.

"Professor Dumbledore!" he cried when he saw who was in front of him. "Lily's there by herself. The death eater there, he's really powerful. I don't know…"

"James calm down." Dumbledore said. "The centaurs will take you back to the castle. Fetch Professor McGonagall and Madame Pomfrey to attend to the rest of the boys. We'll help Lily."

James saw Bessie floating next to Dumbledore. Before he could acknowledge her presence, the two parties of centaurs parted.

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"We meet at last, Elian." The cloaked figure cackled as he and Lily circled around. Lily was determined not to show him how scared she was.

"I think we have met before."

"Really…let me think…ah, yes…that night at your uncle's house. Yes, I remember that encounter."

"Its been my greatest achievement to date, killing your uncle. I wasn't intending to. Wanted to eliminate you first. But your uncle has always been a threat to my existence. I was glad when he prematurely retired from the department of mysteries as an Unspeakable. He was sticking his nose too much into other peoples business."

"Your business you mean. Your business of spreading harm and fear to the magic community. My uncle kept talking about you, Tom Riddle."

Even under the cloak, Lily could see that he was wincing.

"Whats wrong? Cant bear hearing your real name?"

"You filthy mudblood!" he boomed, and sent another boulder towards Lily. She deflected it.

"I'm going to finish off what I should have done 6 months ago. To kill you!" The two cried simultaneously.

"Lily!" roared from behind her. She turned around and saw Albus Dumbledore running towards her.

The cloaked figure laughed.

"Dumbledore. Albus Dumbledore. What memories I have of you. I am happy to finally meet you after all those years."

"Ah yes, Riddle." Dumbledore retorted without blinking his eyes. " Much promise you held. Head boy and a proud Slytherin. No doubt you have used your skills effectively. At least in your quest for your goal."

"And now, the two most hated people in my life stand before me. What pleasures I will hold to kill the two of you right now."

He raised his wand, but stopped when he saw Bessie's floating image.

"You…what are you doing here?"

"Remembering me, do you Tom?" Bessie sneered.

"You…dare come here and show your face, after everything you have done to me." He cried.

"What did I do to you?"

"You are the reason I spent my entire life in an orphanage…you…You betrayed my mother!"

Bessie shook her head in disbelief.

"I don't know who fed you such lies, but there is no ounce of truth in it. She and I were good friends. Its not my fault if she refused to accept me for who I was. Your mother hated me because of my Elian heritage. She was a good student and despised the fact that I had these extra skills."

"If there was anyone who betrayed anyone," Bessie continued, floating dangerously close the Tom, "it would have been your mother. She walked away from our friendship when I told her who I really was. When I told her to tell your father the truth about who she was. I told her never to be ashamed of her gift, like I wasn't ashamed of mine. But as if Crystalline would listen. She deserted two of her best friends and ran to your father… thought he could give her everything we never could. Love, power and control. After all, he was a muggle, what could he do to her? But she found out…though he couldn't take away her magic, he took away something that meant more to her than anything else: love."

"you think I am still ten years old to believe all that bullshit you are throwing at me? I have learnt not to trust Elians. My mother wrote me a letter telling me all about you. About your lies and your deceit. Love wasn't what killed my mother. Stupid muggles  and their selfishness did."

"you are blind to believe in such a myth. Love is all around you.  Look at what beauty you have missed out on. To deprive yourself of love is to deprive yourself of a life. Just like your mother did. She walked away from life when her sense of love left her. Mark my words, Tom, if you don't believe me now, love will be the death of you at the end."

The figure stood there, taking in everything Bessie had said. Then he burst out laughing.

"So be it, Elian. But, Love will never be strong enough to kill me. However, I rejoice and content myself with the fact that I will fulfil my mothers wish before my death."

He raised his wand at Dumbledore and Lily. Lily raised her hand, ready to deflect, when he flicked it away and pointed at something on the floor. Bessie's book.

It was too late. Before Lily could deflect it, or before Dumbledore could reach for it, the book burst into flames.

"NOO!" Lily cried, dousing it with her robes. Then she looked up and watched the cloaked figure leaning back, laughing as he apparate with the rest of the cloaked figures.

When she looked down, she saw the book half in ashes. Then she glanced up at where she last saw the image of Bessie. It was fading away. She got up and looked at it in the eye, tears coming down her eyes.

"Bessie…" she said softly, reaching her hand to touch the image. "Not you…please…"

"I'm sorry, my dear Lily. I'm sorry…"

Lily wanted to say so many things to her. She wanted to yell at her for aggravating Tom into burning her book. She wanted to yell at her for making her feel alone for the second time. She wanted to say so many things. But, deep inside, somewhere, there was only one thing that came to her mind. She wanted to accept her aunts fate and tell her all those things she had failed to tell her uncle.

"Aunt Bessie…thank you for all that you have done for me. I am very grateful."

"My dear child…the honour is mine." Bessie looked at her fading hands and glanced back at Lily.

"Time is of essense. Do you remember I said just now, Tom's mother left two of her best friends behind? Well, one of them in me. The other one was another Elian, named Amelia. She has since moved to Russia."

"Bessie… what am I going to do without you?" Lily moaned as the image began to fade. Bessie smiled and reached out to touch her neice.

"You have a gift, Lily. Your uncle and myself have taught you enough. But, we will always be here for you…you will never be alone."

"And your family, your real family…I have never gotten around to tell you this, but, your family never left you, Lily. They never did, and never will."

She was almost gone now. Lily could hardly see her. She could just make out the outlines.

"Also, Lily…he loves you…just as your uncle loves me…I see it in him. Elian ancestors has acknowledged his love for you today."

Lily didn't understand, but it didn't matter. She just wanted to see her aunt for another second.

"Tell uncle Barto I love him"

Lily blew her aunt a kiss. The last thing she saw as the image faded into thin air was her aunt blowing a kiss to her.

Lily kneeled herself onto the ground, with the book clasped in her hands and cried.

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Besselia (Bessida Somerset) and Bartholomew Somerset:

            Bartholomew: do you remember how she hated me in the beginning?

           Besselia: I know, you brought cauliflower stew for lunch and she absolutely hated cauliflower, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings, so I made her eat it. Boy, she was mad.

          Bartholomew: then she hated you because you left her with this old hag.

         Besselia: (laughs) you are not an old hag, Barto. For heaven's sake.

        Bartholomew: (looks at the interviewer) but she was a gem. She gave me so much joy to spend time with her. She was so aptly named too, Bessie. You sister did a good job. Lily was so compassionate and loving.  She was like my child.

        Besselia: (nods in agreement.)I wouldn't argue with you there, Barto. She loves life.

       Bartholomew: and now…now… someone else loves her (in a glowing and proud voice).

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Just to clear up some stuff. Stuff that, thanks to my incompetencies as a writer, I couldn't write into the story:

All Elians are named something-elia. So, Bessie's real name was Bessida. But when she discovered she was an Elian, Elian tradition requires that she be formally addressed by her fellow peers as Besselia. Same with Lily. Her Elian name is Lielia (though I was hesitant on spelling it that way in the beginning in fear of being spammed for having incompetent spelling…=)) That's why she refused to allow her aunt to address her as such in the begginning.

Sorry about that confusion.

Also, about the tittle…it would all be cleared up in the next chapter.

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