James awoke in the middle of the night, covered in a cold sweat. Something was going to happen.

That was when an explosion rocked his bunk and Sirius, who had ended up on the top bunk with him, jerked awake. "Shh." James whispered, putting his finger to his lips. "We have to wake up the others." He said. Despite the loud explosion and the red glow of flames that could be seen behind the curtain, no one else had woken up. "I'll get Remus, Peter, and Lily. You wake up May, Jane, and Elizabeth." His voice was still a whisper, as if afraid whatever had caused the explosion might hear him and go for their cabin next.

"James?" Sirius said hoarsely, obviously afraid.

"Yes Sirius?"

"I." He paused and changed his mind. "Never mind, doesn't matter." James gave him a curious look but proceeded in jumping lightly to the ground. He walked over to the bunk beds Remus and Peter were sharing and shook Peter's shoulder and clamped a hand over his mouth before he could cry out.

"Peter, you have to wake up. There's an attack, quiet." He moved onto Remus, as Sirius quietly woke May up. "Moony, there's an attack, you have to get up, but be quiet."

"Wha- where?!" May's voice was loud and clear, obviously Sirius had forgotten to cover her mouth before waking her up. James jumped at the noise and scolded himself for his jumpiness. But, who could blame him?

"Lily. Lily. Wake up." He clamped his hand over her mouth and shook her. "We're under attack, you have to be quiet." To emphasize his point, he held a finger to his lips. She blinked and sat up, staring at him.

"An attack? How?" She whispered, obviously understanding the quiet component. James shrugged and checked to see how Sirius was doing. Sirius had woken up Jane already, who was giving everyone dirty looks, and was proceeding to wake up Elizabeth. There were no more incidents with people forgetting that they had to be dead quiet, or they really would be dead. No joke. The thing he was really worried about was the no wands thing. Without their wands how could they protect themselves? He would be fine, but how could he protect the whole camp? He was about to do something rash when he remembered that some of the teachers were there, and would be able to repel the attack, hopefully. That at least kept him from running out the door and successfully committing suicide. Then there really would be no hope.

But he did have to go help the teachers. But first they all needed to get out of here. "Guys," He whispered. "We have to get out of here, it's a trap."

"Why are they here?" Lily asked frantically.

"They have to kill me." James said frankly.

"I'm sorry, WHAT?!"

"Shh! They can't hear us! If they do, this cabin will go next." James whispered urgently. That shut all of them up. "Now, if everyone can be quiet, we have to go. Can anyone here do wandless magic?" He glanced hopefully around, but everyone was shaking his or her heads.

"Oh why did they have to take our wands away?" May moaned. "Now we're doomed."

"Ok, looks like I'm going to have to go alone then. The teachers have their wands, I have to go help them."

"What can Iyou/I do to help?" Lily said sharply with a look of contempt on her face. James looked away. "Whatever, try not to kill anyone will you? We go in pairs."

Remus nodded. "Much safer, I agree. We go with our partners the director gave us."

"No way. I'm going alone." James snapped.

"Sorry James. You have to have a partner to, to watch each others backs."

"I can protect myself you know, a hell of a lot better than Ishe/I can."

"You're going with Lily. Whether you need it or not, we are going in partners." Sirius snapped. "We aren't going to let you go and get yourself killed.

James bit his lip. "Whatever, but if she can't keep up, I'm leaving her. What I have to do is kind of important."

"Fine." Remus said. At Lily's protests he looked sharply at her. "You'll just have to keep up Lily." Lily sighed in defeat and settled for glaring at whoever was closest, unfortunately, that person was James.

"If you're all ready, we have to go." James said. He grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her along with him. I'll go first, then Peter and Jane, followed by Remus and Elizabeth, Sirius, you and May are last." He pulled the door open and slipped out, Lily in his wake. It was a clear night, and would be quite dark if it wasn't for the flames licking the sky. Three of the cabins were on fire, the Slytherin sixth years, the Ravenclaw seventh years, and the Gryffindor fifth years. The others were soon right behind him. "We have to split up, lets go."

"Something's about to happen." James whispered. "RUN!" Peter, Sirius, May, Jane, Remus, and Elizabeth dove into the bushes beside their cabin, but James pulled Lily further away.

A flaming ball soared over their heads and crashed into the cabin they had been in only five minutes ago. There was silence for a second or two, then an explosion threw Lily and James back a few feet.

Flames had engulfed their cabin, and the bushes right next to it.