Title: ME: Trapt

Author: Seadragon

Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/Humor

Rating: Pg-13

Summary: Hogwarts 5th years and up are off to a Muggle Camp. A Death Eater attack finds Lily and James lost in the woods, with no way to get back, and an army searching for them. Some people will stop at nothing to get what they want. Voldemort is no exception.

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Chapter Seven: Incredible

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"Oh my god, oh my god." Lily whimpered, staring at the flaming bushes.

"Come on, we have to go!"

"But-" Lily protested, still not tearing her eyes of the bushes next to their burning cabin.

"Before they come to check if they got us! We have to go!" James demanded.

"Aren't you worried?! I was right about you! You're just a heartless ass!"

"Lily. We have to go now. I can leave you here if you like, but I have to go."

"What?! Are you afraid they'll kill you next?!" Lily screamed at him, finally venting all her frustrations about him from the past six years. "Want to run? Hide? You never were brave! You just attack people from the shadows where they can't see you!"

"No! Because if they find us, they will kill us! And if I die…"

Somehow, this didn't exactly comfort Lily like he had hoped. She kept raging at him, the Death Eaters, the teachers, just- everything.

"Lily! We have to get out of here, NOW!" He could hear the sounds of people approaching slowly, in the light of the flames, he could see the shadows of about ten Death Eaters, wands out stretched, coming closer and closer to the burning cabin. Despite what he had told Remus, he couldn't just leave her behind to be discovered and killed by the Death Eaters. He grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet.

Watching the shadows carefully, James backed slowly towards the path that would lead them to the teachers' cabins.

"Where are we going?" Lily whispered quietly, following him reluctantly.

"To help the teachers."

As soon as James felt his feet hit the hard packed dirt of the path, he spun around and ran, Lily's hand still in his. They made considerably good time, what with it being pitch black, and one of them not really trying to keep up.

After a couple of minutes, James got fed up. He stopped dead. "Evans, do you not get it? Everyone is going to die if you don't hurry up!" Lily turned her face away from him stubbornly.

"What can we do to help?!"

"Not we," James muttered. "Me."

Lily didn't hear him, so he just tugged on her arm and continued down the path, slower this time, due to the fact that they were almost at the end, and he didn't want to be caught unawares by Death Eaters.

"Lumos."

"Umm, Potter."

"What?!" James snapped, concentrating on the dark opening of the path.

"You know you don't have a wand right?"

James nodded sharply, and a clear blue flame erupted on his palm. Lily paused as if paralyzed. "How the hell did that happen?!"

"Quiet!" James hissed, and the ball of light floated ahead and illuminated the opening of the path.

Lily stared at him, dumbstruck. "Merlin…" She whispered.

Slowly, James followed the light with his eyes, and closed his eyes in defeat. "Damn."

"Yes, Mr. Potter. It seems we have found you."

A black robed figure stood between them and the teachers' cabin. The soft glow of James's magic fire discerned him from the shadows, where he had hidden just moments before.

Lily looked at the Death Eater, terrified. "And who is this?" The man asked slowly, watching Lily.

"Lily," James whispered. Or, at least she thought he did, it didn't seem that the Death Eater heard it, and his lips weren't moving. Just to check something, Lily put her hands over her ears. The voice was still there. She removed them and stared at James again. "Close your eyes Lily, turn around. Don't watch this."

Too shocked to do anything but listen, Lily complied.

She heard a hissed voice, so quiet she could barely make out the words. When she did, her eyes snapped open in shock. A flash of green light temporarily blinded her.

"Avada Kedavra."

She spun around and stared wide eyed at the Death Eater, crumpled on the dirt path. James had expanded the blue light, and it fanned out to show flames reaching to the sky, and black shadowy figures moving slowly towards them.

James saw them, and seeing Lily, grabbed her hand, and pulled her back down the path they had just come from. This time though, he pulled her off the path and into the shadowy woods around it.

Without a word, the trees between them and the Death Eaters burst into flame. But it wasn't a normal fire. It didn't spread any further than the original trees it had hit, and was, like the search light, a clear blue color.

At that, James yanked on Lily's arm and they plunged deeper into the forest.