Lily laughed. "I know, remember when Sirius like blew himself up last week?
He was really, really drunk." She turned over and sighed, staring up at the
blue sky, letting the sun tan what wasn't covered by bikini. Then she
noticed Lucy wasn't paying attention to her but instead slowly removing her
Gucci sunglasses and staring across the lake as she sat up. Lily sat up as
well.
"Oh, my God.POTTER!"
Both of them got up and dashed across the lawn, ignoring Hagrid's hello and pushing past Alexa as she was walking out to join the group of girls tanning on the shore. "You won't believe it; he LOOKED at me." But she too was ignored.
"James.Harold.Potter." Lily yelled, panting as they parted the crowd. "Put.him.down.this.INSTANT!"
James grinned and flicked his wand. Severus fell to the ground as the crowd laughed and Sirius and Remus came rushing over.
"I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again if you go out with me, Evans. Just say you will." He smirked.
"I'd rather date the giant squid." She hissed, turning to Snape. "Here.I'm really sorry.are you okay?" She offered him a hand.
"I don't need your help, you filthy little Mudblood." He snapped, pulling himself to his feet. "Severus!" Lucy slapped him on the back of his neck, disgusted.
"Come on." Lily said, glaring at the both of them. Lucy nodded, giving her boyfriend a hard look.
"Hey, Lucy." Sirius grinned as they passed. "Bite me." She replied. "Gladly!" He called after her, and Severus leapt at him.
But now everything was getting dark.it flashed upon a different scene.her and James's house.someone was breaking in, someone who looked like.
FLASH! Sirius, in a jail cell, surrounded by dementors.
FLASH! A boy who looked remarkably like James, sleeping in a stair cupboard.
FLASH! Severus kneeling at the feet of Lord Voldemort, pleading for someone's life as he received several Cruciatiuses.
FLASH! Remus, in werewolf form, chasing a rat into the Forbidden Forest.
FLASH! Lucy, throwing her wedding ring into the lake.
FLASH! Lily woke with a start, covered in sweat.
"Lils?" Lucy raced into the common room, as the splash from the dream echoed in Lily's brain. "Sweetie?" She shook her lightly to consciousness, as James dashed into the room, clutching work he'd been up late working on. Alexa soon followed, along with Blaze at her side.
"I'm OK.I think I am. I'm pretty sure." She said, looking at all the nervous faces surrounding the bed. "Ok then." Lucy said, backing away to give her some space. Severus appeared behind her, the last into the room, and slipped his hands down her naked arms in her green tube top, nuzzling her neck and taking in her sweet scent. He led her away back to his room as everyone disbanded, except for James.
"Sweetie.are you sure you're okay?" He stroked a piece of her sweat-soaked red hair away from her face, smiling down at her.
"Yeah." She said, smiling as well.
"Listen, you're the chick and all, but I'm starting to get the stress connection with you and this kid."
"He's not 'this kid'. He's your son. Harold."
"God, don't christen him with that old-fashioned proper thing. Harry. No one even calls me Harold."
"Fine.Harry it is."
"Sweetheart."
"No, I like Harry better." She flashed him a grin.
He slipped his arm down near her side, where the flash of her stomach was exposed due to the creeping of her baby blue tank top up toward her breasts. She let her hands find his neck and kissed his lips with her full pink ones. They embraced and kissed briefly in the darkness before he left his papers on the floor and crawled into the covers next to her.
Meanwhile, Severus and Lucy crept up to a desolate balcony adjoining his chambers in the Slytherin common room. As soon as she sat down against the railing he took his preferred place at her side and slipped an arm around her feminine shoulders in gentle protectiveness. She turned to him as he watched the stars drift across the sky and whispered in the darkness. "What did you think when you first saw me?"
He reclined a little. "I don't know.too beautiful for words (here she smiled), but I wondered if you were anything like Lucius.why, did you think I was a little dark?" He smirked.
She took in his thoughts before responding. "I wondered about you.though I must say, you looked very dignified, sitting by yourself at meals." She leaned against his chest.
"But I never told you my family had any money."
"If course not. You knew I didn't care. At least I hope you did."
"Yeah.maybe your brother would have taken a liking to me then."
"That only means I wouldn't have at all."
He leaned over slowly and kissed her. "You're better than that, Luc."
She chuckled and held his hand. "I know. So it's better I didn't know until we got engaged."
He lifted her long slender fingers and examined the large diamond on her right hand. It glittered as he studied its reflection in her starry tonight (but forever sad) greyish-blue eyes.
Alexa and Blaze sat up in her room, talking as he brushed her hair.
"Don't you know I've always loved you." He sand softly as he ran his fingers through it.
"Do you really?" She interrupted suddenly.
"'Course." He muttered, confused at her uncertainty. "Cause.well.why?" She asked.
The brush paused. "All my life I've hung around girls who are so conceited, and yet so insecure. I wanted something real."
"It's nice to hear it put like that."
"It is real." He said, starting again, a content smile on his lips.
She moved the dial on her CD stereo and the music drifted throughout the huge castle and out the window.
The Bring It On cheer echoed loudly in the dark, quiet bedroom. "We're sexy, we're hot, we're everything you're-" then a manicured hand silenced the squad implanted into Lucy's cell ringtone. She sighed and picked up the Union Jack-clad mobile, reading the text on it.
I HAVE A NEW MISSION FOR YOU.
She sighed again and flipped her hair, staring at the countless jewelry on the bedside table as she dialed Dumbledore's number. "Yeah?"
"How did I know you'd be the first to answer? Of course, I thought you two might be a bit busy."
"Turning business into personal in a very bad way, sir." She replied, as sweetly as was possible.
"Right then." She heard him chuckle. "I trust you've seen The Matrix?"
Lucy slipped past the limp forms of the outer security guards Crabbe and Boyle and entered the castle. All around her was black and green, and no sign of warmth for miles.
She handed a key to a uniformed redhead and turned a corner. She dialed a three-digit number and waited anxiously through the same number of rings.
"Lucy?"
"Yeah, Lex. Listen, you got the code?"
"Surprise, surprise.triple six."
Lucy smirked and hung up, checking around the corner. Lily hadn't stayed long, which meant she'd either been sent to get Voldemort's coffee or had gotten so bored she'd left to steal a cup for herself.
She found her way around an immense set of hallways, every once in a while checking the map Severus had drawn on her arm from memory (partly in return for a few long-missed sexual favors). She came at last up to a door marked ROOF, and found it was unlocked. "So she didn't need the coffee that bad." She smiled to herself and pushed it open. "Because I'd hate to have to mess up these new boots by having to kick it in."
Meanwhile, Lily glared around the circle of Death Eaters as she set down a blood-mixed red wine in a dish before Nagini. Her eyes drifted to the roof, looking for Lucy, and she texted Headquarters.
ALEXA? IS JAMES THERE?
And after a moment: YEAH.WHY?
TELL HIM THE KID JUST KICKED ME.
Lucy watched Lily's hand drift discreetly to her slowly-rounding stomach. With a sly smile she focused on the meeting below her.
"And any news from Severus, Malfoy?" The Dark Lord purred. Lucius stood up.
"My Lord, I do not know why he has not returned physically to your side."
Pettigrew scoffed. Voldemort nearly smiled, which was a sickly emotion played out on his green-stretched face. "And of the girl?" He folded his hands.
"She hasn't been heard of in a long while, my Lord. Personally, I do not think she is a threat."
The red eyes narrowed. "Perhaps not to you.but for this organization.for me, your Lord." His voice was full of angst. "Don't you know, Malfoy, that any kind of-attachment-causes you to lose your power? It-drains-you.as you hide well under all your stupid money, the very same affection for your wife, and dare I mention your upcoming son?"
Lucius paled, as did some other men.
"When he left, Severus was the most powerful man I had. He was smart, quick to learn what he didn't know.diligent.unafraid.he had dedicated everything to me, it seemed. Then he lost that stupid girl and went back to Hogwarts looking for work, probably in hopes of someday winning her back."
"But why would any girl want him now?" A voice called, causing Voldemort's lip to twitch even in his fury. A chuckle rose around the table.
"As pathetic as he may be, he is still a threat.as is she."
"But sir.my Lord.he is our insider at the school.lot of business there." Malfoy protested weakly, standing again.
"I want them dead. But perhaps." The entire room hung on these words. ".perhaps seeing her die will destroy his pathetic hope and bring him back to me on his knees." He folded his hands once more, calmly.
The silence fell for a few more moments before the roof above them crashed in and Lucy's boots hit the oak table. She quickly knocked her brother unconscious and then lunged at Voldemort's throat. She didn't care if she was alone. But his body disappeared the instant her fingers found it, and she tumbled to the floor. She scrambled to her feet and looked around in the midst of the chaos she'd created. Security was beginning to catch on and burst in through the door, and even in her own mind the risk of being seen was more important than her own revenge.
She rushed to the door and punched in 666 before her cell phone rang.
As they watched her round the corner two female guards picked up a small silver necklace off the floor. The delicate chain had been broken by the fall and it contained a small S and the Chinese symbol for love.
Handing it to her partner, the taller one paused for a moment.
"Wasn't that from Bring It On?"
"Oh, my God.POTTER!"
Both of them got up and dashed across the lawn, ignoring Hagrid's hello and pushing past Alexa as she was walking out to join the group of girls tanning on the shore. "You won't believe it; he LOOKED at me." But she too was ignored.
"James.Harold.Potter." Lily yelled, panting as they parted the crowd. "Put.him.down.this.INSTANT!"
James grinned and flicked his wand. Severus fell to the ground as the crowd laughed and Sirius and Remus came rushing over.
"I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again if you go out with me, Evans. Just say you will." He smirked.
"I'd rather date the giant squid." She hissed, turning to Snape. "Here.I'm really sorry.are you okay?" She offered him a hand.
"I don't need your help, you filthy little Mudblood." He snapped, pulling himself to his feet. "Severus!" Lucy slapped him on the back of his neck, disgusted.
"Come on." Lily said, glaring at the both of them. Lucy nodded, giving her boyfriend a hard look.
"Hey, Lucy." Sirius grinned as they passed. "Bite me." She replied. "Gladly!" He called after her, and Severus leapt at him.
But now everything was getting dark.it flashed upon a different scene.her and James's house.someone was breaking in, someone who looked like.
FLASH! Sirius, in a jail cell, surrounded by dementors.
FLASH! A boy who looked remarkably like James, sleeping in a stair cupboard.
FLASH! Severus kneeling at the feet of Lord Voldemort, pleading for someone's life as he received several Cruciatiuses.
FLASH! Remus, in werewolf form, chasing a rat into the Forbidden Forest.
FLASH! Lucy, throwing her wedding ring into the lake.
FLASH! Lily woke with a start, covered in sweat.
"Lils?" Lucy raced into the common room, as the splash from the dream echoed in Lily's brain. "Sweetie?" She shook her lightly to consciousness, as James dashed into the room, clutching work he'd been up late working on. Alexa soon followed, along with Blaze at her side.
"I'm OK.I think I am. I'm pretty sure." She said, looking at all the nervous faces surrounding the bed. "Ok then." Lucy said, backing away to give her some space. Severus appeared behind her, the last into the room, and slipped his hands down her naked arms in her green tube top, nuzzling her neck and taking in her sweet scent. He led her away back to his room as everyone disbanded, except for James.
"Sweetie.are you sure you're okay?" He stroked a piece of her sweat-soaked red hair away from her face, smiling down at her.
"Yeah." She said, smiling as well.
"Listen, you're the chick and all, but I'm starting to get the stress connection with you and this kid."
"He's not 'this kid'. He's your son. Harold."
"God, don't christen him with that old-fashioned proper thing. Harry. No one even calls me Harold."
"Fine.Harry it is."
"Sweetheart."
"No, I like Harry better." She flashed him a grin.
He slipped his arm down near her side, where the flash of her stomach was exposed due to the creeping of her baby blue tank top up toward her breasts. She let her hands find his neck and kissed his lips with her full pink ones. They embraced and kissed briefly in the darkness before he left his papers on the floor and crawled into the covers next to her.
Meanwhile, Severus and Lucy crept up to a desolate balcony adjoining his chambers in the Slytherin common room. As soon as she sat down against the railing he took his preferred place at her side and slipped an arm around her feminine shoulders in gentle protectiveness. She turned to him as he watched the stars drift across the sky and whispered in the darkness. "What did you think when you first saw me?"
He reclined a little. "I don't know.too beautiful for words (here she smiled), but I wondered if you were anything like Lucius.why, did you think I was a little dark?" He smirked.
She took in his thoughts before responding. "I wondered about you.though I must say, you looked very dignified, sitting by yourself at meals." She leaned against his chest.
"But I never told you my family had any money."
"If course not. You knew I didn't care. At least I hope you did."
"Yeah.maybe your brother would have taken a liking to me then."
"That only means I wouldn't have at all."
He leaned over slowly and kissed her. "You're better than that, Luc."
She chuckled and held his hand. "I know. So it's better I didn't know until we got engaged."
He lifted her long slender fingers and examined the large diamond on her right hand. It glittered as he studied its reflection in her starry tonight (but forever sad) greyish-blue eyes.
Alexa and Blaze sat up in her room, talking as he brushed her hair.
"Don't you know I've always loved you." He sand softly as he ran his fingers through it.
"Do you really?" She interrupted suddenly.
"'Course." He muttered, confused at her uncertainty. "Cause.well.why?" She asked.
The brush paused. "All my life I've hung around girls who are so conceited, and yet so insecure. I wanted something real."
"It's nice to hear it put like that."
"It is real." He said, starting again, a content smile on his lips.
She moved the dial on her CD stereo and the music drifted throughout the huge castle and out the window.
The Bring It On cheer echoed loudly in the dark, quiet bedroom. "We're sexy, we're hot, we're everything you're-" then a manicured hand silenced the squad implanted into Lucy's cell ringtone. She sighed and picked up the Union Jack-clad mobile, reading the text on it.
I HAVE A NEW MISSION FOR YOU.
She sighed again and flipped her hair, staring at the countless jewelry on the bedside table as she dialed Dumbledore's number. "Yeah?"
"How did I know you'd be the first to answer? Of course, I thought you two might be a bit busy."
"Turning business into personal in a very bad way, sir." She replied, as sweetly as was possible.
"Right then." She heard him chuckle. "I trust you've seen The Matrix?"
Lucy slipped past the limp forms of the outer security guards Crabbe and Boyle and entered the castle. All around her was black and green, and no sign of warmth for miles.
She handed a key to a uniformed redhead and turned a corner. She dialed a three-digit number and waited anxiously through the same number of rings.
"Lucy?"
"Yeah, Lex. Listen, you got the code?"
"Surprise, surprise.triple six."
Lucy smirked and hung up, checking around the corner. Lily hadn't stayed long, which meant she'd either been sent to get Voldemort's coffee or had gotten so bored she'd left to steal a cup for herself.
She found her way around an immense set of hallways, every once in a while checking the map Severus had drawn on her arm from memory (partly in return for a few long-missed sexual favors). She came at last up to a door marked ROOF, and found it was unlocked. "So she didn't need the coffee that bad." She smiled to herself and pushed it open. "Because I'd hate to have to mess up these new boots by having to kick it in."
Meanwhile, Lily glared around the circle of Death Eaters as she set down a blood-mixed red wine in a dish before Nagini. Her eyes drifted to the roof, looking for Lucy, and she texted Headquarters.
ALEXA? IS JAMES THERE?
And after a moment: YEAH.WHY?
TELL HIM THE KID JUST KICKED ME.
Lucy watched Lily's hand drift discreetly to her slowly-rounding stomach. With a sly smile she focused on the meeting below her.
"And any news from Severus, Malfoy?" The Dark Lord purred. Lucius stood up.
"My Lord, I do not know why he has not returned physically to your side."
Pettigrew scoffed. Voldemort nearly smiled, which was a sickly emotion played out on his green-stretched face. "And of the girl?" He folded his hands.
"She hasn't been heard of in a long while, my Lord. Personally, I do not think she is a threat."
The red eyes narrowed. "Perhaps not to you.but for this organization.for me, your Lord." His voice was full of angst. "Don't you know, Malfoy, that any kind of-attachment-causes you to lose your power? It-drains-you.as you hide well under all your stupid money, the very same affection for your wife, and dare I mention your upcoming son?"
Lucius paled, as did some other men.
"When he left, Severus was the most powerful man I had. He was smart, quick to learn what he didn't know.diligent.unafraid.he had dedicated everything to me, it seemed. Then he lost that stupid girl and went back to Hogwarts looking for work, probably in hopes of someday winning her back."
"But why would any girl want him now?" A voice called, causing Voldemort's lip to twitch even in his fury. A chuckle rose around the table.
"As pathetic as he may be, he is still a threat.as is she."
"But sir.my Lord.he is our insider at the school.lot of business there." Malfoy protested weakly, standing again.
"I want them dead. But perhaps." The entire room hung on these words. ".perhaps seeing her die will destroy his pathetic hope and bring him back to me on his knees." He folded his hands once more, calmly.
The silence fell for a few more moments before the roof above them crashed in and Lucy's boots hit the oak table. She quickly knocked her brother unconscious and then lunged at Voldemort's throat. She didn't care if she was alone. But his body disappeared the instant her fingers found it, and she tumbled to the floor. She scrambled to her feet and looked around in the midst of the chaos she'd created. Security was beginning to catch on and burst in through the door, and even in her own mind the risk of being seen was more important than her own revenge.
She rushed to the door and punched in 666 before her cell phone rang.
As they watched her round the corner two female guards picked up a small silver necklace off the floor. The delicate chain had been broken by the fall and it contained a small S and the Chinese symbol for love.
Handing it to her partner, the taller one paused for a moment.
"Wasn't that from Bring It On?"
