I'm so sorry I'm late with updating again but my teachers are giving me way too much homework and with that and soccer I don't have time to do anything else. And then my computer got a virus and deleted what I had already written, which was most of the chapter, and I had to redo it all. Thanks for the reviews!
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"Dear Ms. Newman, it is our deepest regret to inform you of the death of your parents…."
Sirius wrapped his arms around her, and Rebecca dropped the letter and buried her head in his chest.
James picked up the letter and read the rest of it, tears blurring his vision. "It-it says that they were killed in a workplace accident. But they were Aurors…it wasn't an accident." He whispered to Lily, who was crying on his shoulder. He was worried about how much more of this she could take. Her parents, then her boyfriend's parents, and now her best friend's parents; he didn't want her doing anything stupid to get revenge against Voldemort.
"Come on, let's go back to Gryffindor Tower." Remus said, fighting the urge to throw something. Voldemort was ruining all his friends' lives, and he swore to himself that he would get revenge if it was the last thing he did.
They headed back to the tower, and went straight to the boys' dormitory. The eight of them sat there in silence until they finally started falling asleep one by one in the early hours in the morning.
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Lily's eyes popped open. At first she didn't remember why she felt so miserable, but as she looked around the room and saw all of her friends looking just as horrible as she felt, even in their sleep, the memories of last night came flooding back to her. She laid her head back on James' chest, biting her lip to stop the tears from pouring down her face. After a few minutes, she finally got her emotions under control, she tried to shake James awake. His arms were wrapped around her, and she couldn't get up unless he got up too.
"James!" she whispered, shaking him harder, trying not to wake up anybody else in the dorm.
"Jesus fucking Christ he can sleep through anything!" she said to herself, shaking him still harder. Then she got an idea.
She craned her neck upward and whispered into his ear, "James I'm going to take a shower, do you want to come?"
Immediately his eyes popped open.
"Sure," he whispered back, grinning. He was just about to kiss her, when he too suddenly remembered the events of last night.
Lily almost broke down again at the sight of James' face when he remembered what had happened, but she managed to keep her composure.
"We have to go to Potions," she said quietly.
"Come on Lily, no we don't! We need to be here when Rebecca wakes up, we have to comfort her. The teachers will understand if we don't come to class today when they hear what happens."
"Normal teachers will understand but Professor Bletchley won't. She's evil, you know that."
"I'll go talk to McGonagall. You stay here and get some sleep. I'll be back in a little while."
Lily smiled and kissed him. "I love you so much. I don't know how I'd make it through all this shit with out you."
"I love you too," James whispered, giving her another quick kiss and walked out of the room.
Lily laid her head down on the pillow and tried to fall back asleep. It was hard to now that she wasn't in James' arms, she felt so unsafe when she was away from him. Finally, after what seemed like forever, she heard the dormitory door open. She turned over and watched him walk over to the bed and lie down next to her.
"What's wrong?" she whispered when she saw the strange look on his face. "Did something go wrong with McGonagall?"
"No, everything went fine with McGonagall, but I just saw something odd when I was walking back."
"What'd you see?"
"Come on, let's go talk in Godric Gryffindor's bedroom. This is important, and I don't want us to be overheard."
Rebecca heard the dormitory door open and close. She opened her eyes and chanced a glance around the dormitory. James and Lily were finally gone. Remus was lying on his bed with his head hanging over the side and his mouth slightly open. Peter was completely hidden by his blanket, so whether he was asleep or not he wouldn't notice anything.
"Sirius, wake up!" she whispered, shaking him.
"Whassamatter baby?" he muttered groggily, still half asleep.
"I want to be alone with you, let's go to my dorm nobody's in there."
"Alright," he said, now fully awake, having just remembered the events of last night.
They headed towards the girls' dorms, and the second they got inside Rebecca slammed the door shut and pushed Sirius down on her bed. She climbed on top of him and started kissing his neck. Sirius pushed Rebecca off of him.
"Becca what are you-?"
"Sirius I want you. Now. So shut up and kiss me."
"No! Rebecca your parents were killed yesterday. I know everybody grieves in different ways but you can't just pretend like this never happened. Talk to me."
"I don't want to talk. I just want to fuck."
"Rebecca! You're acting like a child!"
"Yeah, Sirius, like you're so fucking mature. Since when did you start acting so "grown up" anyway?"
"Since I realized I need to be if we're going to make it through all of this!" he said in a voice of forced calm. He didn't want to say anything he would regret, and he really didn't want to get angry with her, she didn't need that right now.
Rebecca dropped to her knees and broke down completely.
"I'm so sorry! I just don't know what to do…" She sobbed.
Sirius picked her up off the floor and gently placed her down on her bed. He laid down next to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"It's all going to be okay baby, I'm here for you. We'll get through this."