* Flashback *
"Hey, Athena!" Lily yelled after her best friend. They were spending the week camping. It was the summer before third year and they were celebrating Athena's birthday.
"What?" She looked back to find that Lily had fallen behind. She stopped and waited for her to catch up.
Lily was nearly there and was staring at the forest path so she didn't trip. She was pulled up, however, by a strangled scream from ahead. Looking up, she found Athena, suspended in midair and acting as though she was being strangled. Lily was about to rush forward when a black cloaked, and hooded, figure stepped in her way.
"This is a warning mudblood," it said. "Everyone you love and care for shall meet the same fate should you return to Hogwarts, as shall you should you not leave this place." Casting one last, sorrowful look at her lifeless friend Lily ran. After that, she pushed everyone away.
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***First Person***
I'd been invisible then, but Athena still came to me. She was one of the nicest people ever born and no one ever could find a fault in her. How anyone could do something like that to her, I never could figure out. At that moment, I wanted to run up there and beat the crap out of that guy. I wanted to strangle him as he had her. I wanted to go there and trade myself for her, to give my life away and see her come back to life with my last breath… but I couldn't.
I knew there was no way to bring her back, but that wasn't the reason I ran. I ran because I was afraid. Because I was a coward. Because I would rather save my own skin than possibly saving my friends. That was the one year I did not return to Hogwarts. I went to Beauxbatons that year, despite my parents' complaints.
I wasn't at Hogwarts, but I didn't change. I was still quiet and didn't make friends. Despite what I maintained while there, I became popular. I like thinking that somewhere I could actually do that, even though a lot of it had to do with the fact that I was on the Quidditch team. They were also more in touch with the muggle world and even had a drama club. I had been in many of the plays, almost always a main part.
At this point, I was so caught up in those fond memories, that I started singing one of my favorite songs that, strangely enough, seemed to fit.
I need you here to help me through
Though they tell me the answer I'm confused
From my eyes fall a tear and two
I feel I'm just a tool to be used
So come and help,
me through this
Come and help,
Me find my way
Come and help me through this
Please,
Don't turn away
My heart was lost a long time before
All my little fairy tales left me be
I can't pretend I know what I'm doin' anymore
I wish my life would stop following me.
So come and help,
Me through this
Come and help,
Me find my way
Come and help me through this
Please,
Don't turn away
Come and help me through this…
Come and help me find my way…
Come and help me through this…
Please, please, please…
Don't. Turn. Away…
As I reached the last note, someone stepped through the bushes. My first thought was to change someone to something, but I didn't. He had found me. Probably smelled me from the other end of the forest with his senses. Who cared what happened anyway though, I should have been more perceptive.
"Hello, Moony."
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***Third Person***
James and Sirius ran through the forest to catch up with Remus. Peter had already fallen asleep and it was impossible to wake him up when he did that. James was following Sirius as he got even more hyper in dog form when he suddenly stopped.
James could hear Remus in his wolf form up ahead, but couldn't figure out why Sirius had stopped. He had been wondering where that Lily girl had gone to and what they had been talking about when Andi said again.
Deciding to find out what was wrong, he stepped around Sirius to see for himself. There, in the middle of a small clearing, was Remus, but that wasn't why Sirius had stopped. Backed up against a large willow, but seemingly unafraid, was a tear-streaked Lily Evans, waiting patiently for the wolf to come and get her.
"Hello, Moony," she said calmly, yet somewhat sullen. Remus carefully made his way to attack her, creeping around and examining her from all angles. He growled and the hackles along his back stood up.
The curious wolf part of him dared to go a little closer to this strange human, but did not yet attack. As soon as he reached the first ring of vines from the willow, he jumped back. A shock of some sort made its way through his body and left him weaker. When he tried to move towards the tree again, the pain intensified. He quickly gave up and ran off with his tail between his legs, whimpering softly.
Sirius quickly followed after him, but James stayed behind. There was a reason Lily shut herself off. There was a reason that she was invisible, that she was so mysterious. There was a reason she had to wait till she came here to cry. And he was going to find out. He stood right outside the circlet of vines, watching her and listening to the quiet. Slowly, he could make out a soft sound, but it gradually grew louder.
She was singing.
So come and help,
Me through this
Come and help,
Me find my way
Come and help me through this
Please,
Don't turn away
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A/N: strange chapter I think, but hey, the whole story's strange. The song is copyrighted to ME. I made it up in, like, six minutes. I am so proud of myself. I got strait A's on my report card (how I'll never figure out) and I decoded and memorized J.R.R. Tolkien's rune alphabet! Newho. I'll try to work on this some more, but I've got a whole bunch of other stories I've got to work on as well. Oh wellz. Now that I've bored you senseless with my time wasting babble I think I should go. TOODLES!!!
TAT
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