~*GREEN EYES*~
Chapter 25-The Stupidity of Roy
A/N- I would like to appoligize in advance for not getting this up in so long. I had the absolute worst case of writer's block, but I figured it out! So this chapter is going to be really long, and the next few, because I feel really bad. Well, that's it for me, enjoy!
Everyone gasped in shock as Lauren and Roy fell through the fire and into the campsite. They were even more amazed when Lauren dusted herslef off and they got a good look at her. It was obvious at once what her brother had done to her. She had makeup all over her face, glittering in the pale moonlight. He had written 'GILDEROY is the best' oh her cheek with eyeliner, and had then done a horrible job at putting on the rest of the makeup. Bright blue eyeshadow was caked on up to her eybrows, and those were colored in with a bright sliver. Her dark red lipstick extended way past her lips, and Roy had obviously used lipstick as blush, she had big streaks up and down her cheeks. Also, her hair was done so that it stuck straight up, and it looked horrible. No one there understood why a girl of about 15 had just gone through the fire in this strange makeup and why a smaller boy had followed her.
"What's going on here?" asked Phillip Lane, pulling a wand out of his back pocket. Then Lily remembered, Sirius had said that Phillip worked for the ministry.
"Oh, hullo. I was just bringing my sister to come meet her friend, hope we weren't interrupting anything," said Roy, grabbing Lauren's hand and pulling her over to where Sirius was standing. Lily noticed that she was walking rather stifly.
"Well, actually you have interrupted something, this is a MUGGLE campsite. I don't know who you are, or how you got here throught the floo network. You have some expaining to do," said Phillip, holding up his wand in a threatening way.
"Well, I think it would be a better question for me to ask who you are. So who are you?" questioned Roy.
"My name is Phillip Lane, and I am the Head of the Department of Muggle Security. Now, explain," Phillip ordered. Lily was shocked, she didn't know there even was a Department of Muggle Securtiy.
"Well, um, Mr. Lane, sir, my name is Gilderoy Lockhart and my dad works at the Magical Transformation Department, so I kinda, how should I put this, messed with the network," explained Roy, wearing a nervous expression.
"Oh, I see, you wanted to embarass your sister so you broke the law and put a campsite full of muggles in jeopardy," said Phillip. Everyone was now staring and wondering what the others were talking about.
"In jeopardy? How so?" asked Roy. But Phillip never answered, for at that moment they found out.
About twenty dark clothed witches and wizards burst through the fire and started getting out their wands. Lily froze, she wasn't quite sure what she should do, and then she heard a voice scream.
"Follow me!"
Lily didn't know who had yelled, but it didn't seem that there was anything else that could be done. She ran behind Jamie, and she soon realized that they were heading toward James' tent. Sirius was leading them, he muttered the password and they soon went in, then he quickly closed it up again.
"What, THE HELL, just happened out there?" Sirius yelled, as the others sat down on the couch. It was Mr. Lane that provided an answer.
"I'm guessing that you haven't heard about the muggle attacks that have been happening recently," said Mr. Lane.
"Muggle attacks? What do you mean, who would do that?" asked Lily.
"Well, they began about the begining of the summer. Dark cloaked wizards, they call themselves death eaters, have been attacking muggles across the nation in the name of Lord Voldemort. He's a dark wizard that we suspect will gain a lot of power, and many steps have been taken by the ministry to stop him.
"First of all, no muggle households are allowed to be set up to the floo network, however briefly, becase the death eaters have some kind of tracking system, and they have done so much damage for muggle-born's families. We have been thinking about shutting the whole floo network down, but if we did that we would have to change the age for apparation, and the ministry doesn't want to do that." finished Phillip. The tent was quiet for awhile, and then Liz O'Conner, one of Mr. Evans' friends from work, spoke up.
"Excuse me, but I would really like to know why we are in this huge tent with a SPA, and why people came through the fire, and what you are talking about. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I'm really lost now." she said, and relutantly Phillip started to explain. But before long there was a shout as Jamie noticed something that should have been noticed a long time ago.
"Oh...My...God...James and Carrie are still out there!"
***
James woke up with a start. He felt his forehead and noticed that it was drenched with blood. He must have blacked out for a minute. He stood up and surveyed his surroundings. At first he thought that it was completly deserted, he couldn't see any of the muggles or the dark-cloaked people. Then he heard a cough come from a corner, and he saw Carrie, badly bruised, try to stand up. It was quite evident that she had a broken ankle, and James rushed over to help her.
"Come on, there's this place that will keep us safe. I promise, all you have to do is stand up and I'll take you there." he said, grabbing for his wand. He then make another realization, his wand was gone.
"If you're going to say to go to your tent, we can't. Sirius took everyone there, before the cloaked people showed up. I know it seems deserted, but there are cloaked people everywhere, watching us. If we go there, we'll lead them straight to everyone. We have to try somewhere else," Carrie whispered. James was suprised at how rational she was being, but he knew that wasn't too important right now.
"Ok, well we have to get out of here, and I think I know a way to do it, maybe. You just have to trust me, ok?" he asked. Carrie nodded her head in agreement. Then James circled his arm around her waist and helped her to her feet.
"What are we going to do? And what's going on? How did those people come through the fire?" asked Carrie.
"Um, that's a long story. I don't actually think that I can tell you that. Do you think you can tell me what happened?" asked James, walking closer to the clearing were Lauren and Roy came through the fire.
"Well, somebody yelled 'follow me!' but I tripped, and before I knew it someone was grabbing me and trying to pull me away so I tried to get them off of me, but whoever it was threw me at the ground and my ankle got hurt. Then I looked over and there you were, they were hitting you and you got knocked out, and then I got hit and that's all I remember." explained Carrie. James sighed. He didn't know who these people were, but he had to get some explanations. And he knew just the place to go.
***
"What do you mean they're not here?" yelled Lily, furious that no one had noticed before.
"I mean, they aren't here. They must be out there still." said Jamie.
"I can't believe this! I'm going to go and get them. Right now, anyone who wants to come with me can come with me," announced Lily, pulling on her jacket and taking her wand out of her pocket. She was about to light her wand so that she could see the way when she noticed that this wasn't her wand. It was James'. Startled, she reached into her pocket and grabbed her wand. Then she realized what must be happening out there.
"James. I have to find James. He's out there, all alone, without a wand. This is bad, it's real bad. I have to go and find him," Lily rambled on like that until Sirius grabbed her by the shoulders and sat her down on the couch.
"Lily, as much as I want to go and find James, we can't. There are death eaters out there, if they see us come out of this tent then they will know that we're all here. You will be putting yourself and everyone else at risk the second you walk out that door. DON'T LEAVE THIS TENT! James is a big boy, he can take care of himself," said Sirius. Lily was suprised at how well he took charge in a situation like this.
"I guess you're right, I can't give us away just because I have to look for him. He's smart, he'll be able to keep himself safe while we hide out in here." decided Lily, talking more to herself than to anyone else. Sirius smiled and gave her a hug.
"That's right, he's going to be okay. I promise. Now, I'm going to go into the kitchen and make everyone some of my special recipe french vanilla hot chocolate. Everyone else, make sure not to leave the tent. And don't make too much noise, there's not really great sound proofing on this tent, the death eaters might hear you!" warned Sirius, retreating off to the kitchen. He had just started to make his famous cocoa when someone else came into the kitchen.
"Sirius, I'm scared." said Lauren, and she looked it. She was shivering and she looked close to tears. Sirius finished putting the water in the kettle and he quickly put it on the stove to boil. Then he turned around and gave Lauren a big hug.
"Don't worry, it will all be alright, I promise. I'll protect you, I swear that I will. I won't let anyone hurt you." said Sirius soothingly. Lauren whimpered, and then the tears streamed out of her eyes.
"No, this is all my fault. We came her tonight because Roy read my diary. He wanted me to say hi to you, actually for me to embarass myself completly in front of you, so he broke the law and now look what's happened. We're stuck in here, James and Carrie are out there. I mean, what if they're dead." Lauren explained. She started to say more, but Sirius cut her off.
"Don't say that. James and Carrie are not dead. I'm worried about them, true, but I know that they can't be dead. James is my best friend, I know him well enough to know that he can get out of any situation. And Carrie, well I'm not too fond of Carrie but if she has James to protect her then she will be alright." said Sirius. Lauren was still crying.
"Sirius, I know that what you say is true but I can't help feeling that this is all my fault..." she said, and then she buried her face into his chest. Sirius sat down and looked at her. Even though her face was red and blotchy with tears, he couldn't help thinking of how beautiful she was.
"Shh, I'll make everything alright." said Sirius, then he made a bold move and kissed the tears off her face. Before she knew it, they were making out.
***
James and Carrie stumbled over to the clearing, and then Carrie looked behind her. Someone was following them, one of the dark-cloaked figures.
"James, run!" she yelled, and he looked behind. It seemed like this was the only dark cloaked person who was following him, and he didn't seem to tall. James put down Carrie and then ran over to him.
"James, what the hell are you doing? You can't go to him, we have to get away!" yelled Carrie, sounding furious once again.
"We can't out run him. I have to get him out of our way if we plan on getting away from here!" explained James. The figure caught up to him, and James, rather violently, punched the dark-cloaked person very hard. Carrie gasped, and then a thought occured to James. He bent down and took off the dark-cloaked person's masked.
"Oh...My...God, this is Severus Snape!" he yelled over to Carrie.
"James, I think I broke my ankle. Can you please rescue me from here and stop talking nonsense?" screamed Carrie.
"Sorry, I know that we really should go. So sorry. We're going to a place were you can get fixed up, ok, so you just have to hold on to me and not get scared." explained James. Carrie nodded in understanding, and then James took some blue powder out of his coat pocket. He threw it into the small but still burning fire and then said in a loud voice, "Ministry of Magic." Soon they were whrilling out of control, and then they landed with a thud on the floor of a fancy looking room,
"Ok, well it's important that you try not to understand what is going on, ok? This will all be very confusing for you. Now, you're safe here, I'm going to go and talk to that man then we can get you all cleaned up." said James. Carrie once again nodded. James went up to the person who was attending the desk at the ministry, a small, frumpy looking wizard.
"How did you get here by the floo network?" he asked skeptically. James sighed, he didn't want to have to explain things right now.
"I'm looking for my father, he gave me special charmed floo powder to get me here." explained James.
"Oh, your father? And who is this mystery man who broke the rules and gave his son this powder?" asked the man.
"The head auror. He should be in a conference with Alastor Moody right now, but I have some information that they need to know, it's very important. And my friend here, she needs to come too. I suggest that you let us through right now, or I'm sure that you will be fired." the man backed off right away and let James and Carrie pass. James lead her through a long corridor and then into another hallway. He kept giving passwords to pictures and then he would walk through the hole that they left when they swung open. Finally, he got to a portion of the wall that looked the same as every other piece of wall, but this seemed to be different for him. He kicked the bottom of it, said 'exhilaration, mom, excuses, love, tired, running, time' and then tickled the side of it. The wall slowly vanished and James walked through with Carrie.
Sitting at a small table were James' dad and Alastor Moody. Carrie couldn't help but staring at his eye, it kept swiveling in all directions and then would roll into the back of his head. James didn't seem to be disturbed by this though, he sat down and started to talk to his dad.
***
The whistle on the kettle went off. Sirius parted from Lauren and sighed, he couldn't believe that he had just done that, it was so wonderful. The most wonderful feeling in the world. Lauren seemed to feel the same way, she looked sad as they parted, and right as he was about to get up, she pulled him into her and gave him another kiss.
"I think we should do that more often," said Sirius as he started mixing his hot cocoa for everyone. Lauren smiled.
"Maybe we should do that again...right now!" she exclaimed, and then they kissed again for what seemed like forever and not even close to long enough at the same time.
"Have I ever sang to you?" asked Sirius. Lauren shook her head no, and Sirius smiled. "Ain't no moutain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wild enough baby," he started, knowing that Lauren knew the song. She loved to listen to muggle and wizard radio stations.
"If you need me call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far..." started Lauren, putting her arms around Sirius and slow dancing. Sirius buried his head into her hair and she pulled herself even closer to him.
"You know, I'm really glad that I came out here today, well no about what happened, but because I got to see you." said Lauren.
"Yeah, I know. I wish I could see you this whole summer." said Sirius, realzing that they hadn't broken apart yet. He planted another kiss on Lauren's lips and she smiled.
"How about one kiss for every day that I haven't seen you?" asked Lauren with a smirk.
"That sounds good to me," said Sirius, and he started kissing her again. Then they heard a knock at the door. Sadly, they broke apart as Jamie walked in.
"What's going on in here?" she asked with an evil grin.
"Nothing," said Sirius, desperatly trying to wipe off Lauren's lipstick from his face. Jamie didn't seem to be buying it.
"How about that hot chocolate?" asked Lauren, rushing to get the mugs. The kiss was over all too soon.
***
"James? What are you doing here?" asked Mr. Potter.
"Something has happened at the campsite. Dark-cloaked people came through the floo network and attacked us. The others are safe-" James added, noting the concerned look on his dad's face, "but Carrie, who's Lily's muggle friend, well, I think she broke her ankle. We should get her to a hospital as soon as possible, it looks pretty bad."
"Yeah, that will be easy enough there is one right here at the ministry. But you said that she's a muggle, she must be very confused right now." said Mr. Potter.
"Actually, I am pretty confused, what's going on? Who were those black cloaked guys and how is it possible that I traveled here by fire? I'd really like to know that." said Carrie.
"Ok, well I have an answer for the second part. We're wizards, Lily's a witch and so is Jamie, and that's how we travel, by fire. The people that came through the fire first were some friends of ours, but for some reason those cloaked people came through after we did. I have no idea who they were, dad?" he finished. Carrie seemed even more confused than she already was, she just kind of stared at James and then looked at Mr. Potter and Moody, and then she stared at James some more.
"James, she's a muggle, you can't expect her to understand it when you describe it so vaguely. Oh well, her memory will be modified as well as all the other muggles at the campsite, so I'm not too worried about it. Now, in response to your question, do you remember the incident at the international dueling expo a few years back?" asked Mr. Potter. James thought for a moment and then nodded his head.
"Yeah, there was that guy who thought that he could take over, and he caused a lot of trouble for the ministry. I thought he was put behind bars." said James.
"He was, but only for a year. After that he was let out, and he has been killing muggles left and right. Who you saw at his campsite were his followers, he calls them death eaters. They do a lot of his nasty work for him. We've been trying to find and imprision these men and women but we really haven't been able to. They usually leave the site as soon as we show up. Did you get a good look at any of them?" asked Mr. Potter. A smile crept across James' face.
"Severus Snape," he said with an evil grin. Moody shook his head.
"It couldn't have been Severus. He's been cleared, doing work at his dad's house all summer." said Moody. James frowned.
"I'll bet you his dad was there, doing the dirty work with him," said James. A voice came from the doorway.
"Oh, I was, was I? I sure wish I had been informed of this." said a tall, greasy haired man that had to be Snape's father. James scowled.
"James, meet Adamus Snape. He works here for the ministry," said Mr. Potter.
"A pleasure I'm sure, but I need to be leaving. Only dropping off the report on Pigswallow Potions from the Dark Arts Department. I can't stay and chat," said Adamus, giving the report to Moody.
"I think that's enough. Why don't we get your friend to the hospital?" asked Mr. Potter, and James, frowning, got up and followed his dad.
***
Sirius searched the last corner of the campsite. There was still no sign of James, he and Jamie seemed to have disappeared. Sirius sighed, he didn't understand how this could have happened to his friend and, well, a girl that he didn't want to get hurt, even though she wasn't his favorite person in the world.
"Where could they be? Are you sure that they didn't use floo powder? Could they be hiding in the woods? Please, check one more time!" screamed Lily, pulling Phillip around and trying to force him to listen to her, but he just shook his head.
"I told you, we looked for traces of floo powder, and we didn't find any," explained Phillip for the thousandth time. This didn't seem to satisfy Lily.
"You said that you found something. Please, couldn't he have used that?" asked Lily. Phillip shook his head.
"That wasn't floo powder, I don't know what it was, but it wasn't floo powder. It must be something that the death eaters are using to track muggle fires." replied Phillip. Lily sighed.
"I guess you're right. But where could they be? What's happened to them?" wondered Lily. Phillip sat down next to her and said something that she had been wondering about all night.
"Lily, I know this will be hard for you to hear, but James and Carrie are probably dead. There's no way they could have escaped the death eaters besides floo powder, and we know that they didn't use that. We've searched everywhere, the death eaters must have taken them and once you've been taking, there is only a small chance that you will survive." said Phillip.
"What do you mean they're dead? They can't be dead. James couldn't have died out there!" yelled Sirius, who had been listening to them from behind where they were sitting.
"I mean they must be dead. I'm sorry," said Phillip, getting up. Sirius came and sat down next to Lily. She hugged him and tears streamed down both of their faces. Her boyfriend and friend, his best friend, were gone because of Voldemort and his death eaters. Life couldn't get any worse.
A/N- So how long will everyone believe that James and Carrie really are dead, and what kind of a scene will it cause when they show up? Well, you won't have to wait too long to find out, another long chapter is on the way! I'm still very sorry about not putting this up for so long, please forgive me. And also, please review! Click the little button, you know it will make me happy!
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Chapter 25-The Stupidity of Roy
A/N- I would like to appoligize in advance for not getting this up in so long. I had the absolute worst case of writer's block, but I figured it out! So this chapter is going to be really long, and the next few, because I feel really bad. Well, that's it for me, enjoy!
Everyone gasped in shock as Lauren and Roy fell through the fire and into the campsite. They were even more amazed when Lauren dusted herslef off and they got a good look at her. It was obvious at once what her brother had done to her. She had makeup all over her face, glittering in the pale moonlight. He had written 'GILDEROY is the best' oh her cheek with eyeliner, and had then done a horrible job at putting on the rest of the makeup. Bright blue eyeshadow was caked on up to her eybrows, and those were colored in with a bright sliver. Her dark red lipstick extended way past her lips, and Roy had obviously used lipstick as blush, she had big streaks up and down her cheeks. Also, her hair was done so that it stuck straight up, and it looked horrible. No one there understood why a girl of about 15 had just gone through the fire in this strange makeup and why a smaller boy had followed her.
"What's going on here?" asked Phillip Lane, pulling a wand out of his back pocket. Then Lily remembered, Sirius had said that Phillip worked for the ministry.
"Oh, hullo. I was just bringing my sister to come meet her friend, hope we weren't interrupting anything," said Roy, grabbing Lauren's hand and pulling her over to where Sirius was standing. Lily noticed that she was walking rather stifly.
"Well, actually you have interrupted something, this is a MUGGLE campsite. I don't know who you are, or how you got here throught the floo network. You have some expaining to do," said Phillip, holding up his wand in a threatening way.
"Well, I think it would be a better question for me to ask who you are. So who are you?" questioned Roy.
"My name is Phillip Lane, and I am the Head of the Department of Muggle Security. Now, explain," Phillip ordered. Lily was shocked, she didn't know there even was a Department of Muggle Securtiy.
"Well, um, Mr. Lane, sir, my name is Gilderoy Lockhart and my dad works at the Magical Transformation Department, so I kinda, how should I put this, messed with the network," explained Roy, wearing a nervous expression.
"Oh, I see, you wanted to embarass your sister so you broke the law and put a campsite full of muggles in jeopardy," said Phillip. Everyone was now staring and wondering what the others were talking about.
"In jeopardy? How so?" asked Roy. But Phillip never answered, for at that moment they found out.
About twenty dark clothed witches and wizards burst through the fire and started getting out their wands. Lily froze, she wasn't quite sure what she should do, and then she heard a voice scream.
"Follow me!"
Lily didn't know who had yelled, but it didn't seem that there was anything else that could be done. She ran behind Jamie, and she soon realized that they were heading toward James' tent. Sirius was leading them, he muttered the password and they soon went in, then he quickly closed it up again.
"What, THE HELL, just happened out there?" Sirius yelled, as the others sat down on the couch. It was Mr. Lane that provided an answer.
"I'm guessing that you haven't heard about the muggle attacks that have been happening recently," said Mr. Lane.
"Muggle attacks? What do you mean, who would do that?" asked Lily.
"Well, they began about the begining of the summer. Dark cloaked wizards, they call themselves death eaters, have been attacking muggles across the nation in the name of Lord Voldemort. He's a dark wizard that we suspect will gain a lot of power, and many steps have been taken by the ministry to stop him.
"First of all, no muggle households are allowed to be set up to the floo network, however briefly, becase the death eaters have some kind of tracking system, and they have done so much damage for muggle-born's families. We have been thinking about shutting the whole floo network down, but if we did that we would have to change the age for apparation, and the ministry doesn't want to do that." finished Phillip. The tent was quiet for awhile, and then Liz O'Conner, one of Mr. Evans' friends from work, spoke up.
"Excuse me, but I would really like to know why we are in this huge tent with a SPA, and why people came through the fire, and what you are talking about. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I'm really lost now." she said, and relutantly Phillip started to explain. But before long there was a shout as Jamie noticed something that should have been noticed a long time ago.
"Oh...My...God...James and Carrie are still out there!"
***
James woke up with a start. He felt his forehead and noticed that it was drenched with blood. He must have blacked out for a minute. He stood up and surveyed his surroundings. At first he thought that it was completly deserted, he couldn't see any of the muggles or the dark-cloaked people. Then he heard a cough come from a corner, and he saw Carrie, badly bruised, try to stand up. It was quite evident that she had a broken ankle, and James rushed over to help her.
"Come on, there's this place that will keep us safe. I promise, all you have to do is stand up and I'll take you there." he said, grabbing for his wand. He then make another realization, his wand was gone.
"If you're going to say to go to your tent, we can't. Sirius took everyone there, before the cloaked people showed up. I know it seems deserted, but there are cloaked people everywhere, watching us. If we go there, we'll lead them straight to everyone. We have to try somewhere else," Carrie whispered. James was suprised at how rational she was being, but he knew that wasn't too important right now.
"Ok, well we have to get out of here, and I think I know a way to do it, maybe. You just have to trust me, ok?" he asked. Carrie nodded her head in agreement. Then James circled his arm around her waist and helped her to her feet.
"What are we going to do? And what's going on? How did those people come through the fire?" asked Carrie.
"Um, that's a long story. I don't actually think that I can tell you that. Do you think you can tell me what happened?" asked James, walking closer to the clearing were Lauren and Roy came through the fire.
"Well, somebody yelled 'follow me!' but I tripped, and before I knew it someone was grabbing me and trying to pull me away so I tried to get them off of me, but whoever it was threw me at the ground and my ankle got hurt. Then I looked over and there you were, they were hitting you and you got knocked out, and then I got hit and that's all I remember." explained Carrie. James sighed. He didn't know who these people were, but he had to get some explanations. And he knew just the place to go.
***
"What do you mean they're not here?" yelled Lily, furious that no one had noticed before.
"I mean, they aren't here. They must be out there still." said Jamie.
"I can't believe this! I'm going to go and get them. Right now, anyone who wants to come with me can come with me," announced Lily, pulling on her jacket and taking her wand out of her pocket. She was about to light her wand so that she could see the way when she noticed that this wasn't her wand. It was James'. Startled, she reached into her pocket and grabbed her wand. Then she realized what must be happening out there.
"James. I have to find James. He's out there, all alone, without a wand. This is bad, it's real bad. I have to go and find him," Lily rambled on like that until Sirius grabbed her by the shoulders and sat her down on the couch.
"Lily, as much as I want to go and find James, we can't. There are death eaters out there, if they see us come out of this tent then they will know that we're all here. You will be putting yourself and everyone else at risk the second you walk out that door. DON'T LEAVE THIS TENT! James is a big boy, he can take care of himself," said Sirius. Lily was suprised at how well he took charge in a situation like this.
"I guess you're right, I can't give us away just because I have to look for him. He's smart, he'll be able to keep himself safe while we hide out in here." decided Lily, talking more to herself than to anyone else. Sirius smiled and gave her a hug.
"That's right, he's going to be okay. I promise. Now, I'm going to go into the kitchen and make everyone some of my special recipe french vanilla hot chocolate. Everyone else, make sure not to leave the tent. And don't make too much noise, there's not really great sound proofing on this tent, the death eaters might hear you!" warned Sirius, retreating off to the kitchen. He had just started to make his famous cocoa when someone else came into the kitchen.
"Sirius, I'm scared." said Lauren, and she looked it. She was shivering and she looked close to tears. Sirius finished putting the water in the kettle and he quickly put it on the stove to boil. Then he turned around and gave Lauren a big hug.
"Don't worry, it will all be alright, I promise. I'll protect you, I swear that I will. I won't let anyone hurt you." said Sirius soothingly. Lauren whimpered, and then the tears streamed out of her eyes.
"No, this is all my fault. We came her tonight because Roy read my diary. He wanted me to say hi to you, actually for me to embarass myself completly in front of you, so he broke the law and now look what's happened. We're stuck in here, James and Carrie are out there. I mean, what if they're dead." Lauren explained. She started to say more, but Sirius cut her off.
"Don't say that. James and Carrie are not dead. I'm worried about them, true, but I know that they can't be dead. James is my best friend, I know him well enough to know that he can get out of any situation. And Carrie, well I'm not too fond of Carrie but if she has James to protect her then she will be alright." said Sirius. Lauren was still crying.
"Sirius, I know that what you say is true but I can't help feeling that this is all my fault..." she said, and then she buried her face into his chest. Sirius sat down and looked at her. Even though her face was red and blotchy with tears, he couldn't help thinking of how beautiful she was.
"Shh, I'll make everything alright." said Sirius, then he made a bold move and kissed the tears off her face. Before she knew it, they were making out.
***
James and Carrie stumbled over to the clearing, and then Carrie looked behind her. Someone was following them, one of the dark-cloaked figures.
"James, run!" she yelled, and he looked behind. It seemed like this was the only dark cloaked person who was following him, and he didn't seem to tall. James put down Carrie and then ran over to him.
"James, what the hell are you doing? You can't go to him, we have to get away!" yelled Carrie, sounding furious once again.
"We can't out run him. I have to get him out of our way if we plan on getting away from here!" explained James. The figure caught up to him, and James, rather violently, punched the dark-cloaked person very hard. Carrie gasped, and then a thought occured to James. He bent down and took off the dark-cloaked person's masked.
"Oh...My...God, this is Severus Snape!" he yelled over to Carrie.
"James, I think I broke my ankle. Can you please rescue me from here and stop talking nonsense?" screamed Carrie.
"Sorry, I know that we really should go. So sorry. We're going to a place were you can get fixed up, ok, so you just have to hold on to me and not get scared." explained James. Carrie nodded in understanding, and then James took some blue powder out of his coat pocket. He threw it into the small but still burning fire and then said in a loud voice, "Ministry of Magic." Soon they were whrilling out of control, and then they landed with a thud on the floor of a fancy looking room,
"Ok, well it's important that you try not to understand what is going on, ok? This will all be very confusing for you. Now, you're safe here, I'm going to go and talk to that man then we can get you all cleaned up." said James. Carrie once again nodded. James went up to the person who was attending the desk at the ministry, a small, frumpy looking wizard.
"How did you get here by the floo network?" he asked skeptically. James sighed, he didn't want to have to explain things right now.
"I'm looking for my father, he gave me special charmed floo powder to get me here." explained James.
"Oh, your father? And who is this mystery man who broke the rules and gave his son this powder?" asked the man.
"The head auror. He should be in a conference with Alastor Moody right now, but I have some information that they need to know, it's very important. And my friend here, she needs to come too. I suggest that you let us through right now, or I'm sure that you will be fired." the man backed off right away and let James and Carrie pass. James lead her through a long corridor and then into another hallway. He kept giving passwords to pictures and then he would walk through the hole that they left when they swung open. Finally, he got to a portion of the wall that looked the same as every other piece of wall, but this seemed to be different for him. He kicked the bottom of it, said 'exhilaration, mom, excuses, love, tired, running, time' and then tickled the side of it. The wall slowly vanished and James walked through with Carrie.
Sitting at a small table were James' dad and Alastor Moody. Carrie couldn't help but staring at his eye, it kept swiveling in all directions and then would roll into the back of his head. James didn't seem to be disturbed by this though, he sat down and started to talk to his dad.
***
The whistle on the kettle went off. Sirius parted from Lauren and sighed, he couldn't believe that he had just done that, it was so wonderful. The most wonderful feeling in the world. Lauren seemed to feel the same way, she looked sad as they parted, and right as he was about to get up, she pulled him into her and gave him another kiss.
"I think we should do that more often," said Sirius as he started mixing his hot cocoa for everyone. Lauren smiled.
"Maybe we should do that again...right now!" she exclaimed, and then they kissed again for what seemed like forever and not even close to long enough at the same time.
"Have I ever sang to you?" asked Sirius. Lauren shook her head no, and Sirius smiled. "Ain't no moutain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wild enough baby," he started, knowing that Lauren knew the song. She loved to listen to muggle and wizard radio stations.
"If you need me call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far..." started Lauren, putting her arms around Sirius and slow dancing. Sirius buried his head into her hair and she pulled herself even closer to him.
"You know, I'm really glad that I came out here today, well no about what happened, but because I got to see you." said Lauren.
"Yeah, I know. I wish I could see you this whole summer." said Sirius, realzing that they hadn't broken apart yet. He planted another kiss on Lauren's lips and she smiled.
"How about one kiss for every day that I haven't seen you?" asked Lauren with a smirk.
"That sounds good to me," said Sirius, and he started kissing her again. Then they heard a knock at the door. Sadly, they broke apart as Jamie walked in.
"What's going on in here?" she asked with an evil grin.
"Nothing," said Sirius, desperatly trying to wipe off Lauren's lipstick from his face. Jamie didn't seem to be buying it.
"How about that hot chocolate?" asked Lauren, rushing to get the mugs. The kiss was over all too soon.
***
"James? What are you doing here?" asked Mr. Potter.
"Something has happened at the campsite. Dark-cloaked people came through the floo network and attacked us. The others are safe-" James added, noting the concerned look on his dad's face, "but Carrie, who's Lily's muggle friend, well, I think she broke her ankle. We should get her to a hospital as soon as possible, it looks pretty bad."
"Yeah, that will be easy enough there is one right here at the ministry. But you said that she's a muggle, she must be very confused right now." said Mr. Potter.
"Actually, I am pretty confused, what's going on? Who were those black cloaked guys and how is it possible that I traveled here by fire? I'd really like to know that." said Carrie.
"Ok, well I have an answer for the second part. We're wizards, Lily's a witch and so is Jamie, and that's how we travel, by fire. The people that came through the fire first were some friends of ours, but for some reason those cloaked people came through after we did. I have no idea who they were, dad?" he finished. Carrie seemed even more confused than she already was, she just kind of stared at James and then looked at Mr. Potter and Moody, and then she stared at James some more.
"James, she's a muggle, you can't expect her to understand it when you describe it so vaguely. Oh well, her memory will be modified as well as all the other muggles at the campsite, so I'm not too worried about it. Now, in response to your question, do you remember the incident at the international dueling expo a few years back?" asked Mr. Potter. James thought for a moment and then nodded his head.
"Yeah, there was that guy who thought that he could take over, and he caused a lot of trouble for the ministry. I thought he was put behind bars." said James.
"He was, but only for a year. After that he was let out, and he has been killing muggles left and right. Who you saw at his campsite were his followers, he calls them death eaters. They do a lot of his nasty work for him. We've been trying to find and imprision these men and women but we really haven't been able to. They usually leave the site as soon as we show up. Did you get a good look at any of them?" asked Mr. Potter. A smile crept across James' face.
"Severus Snape," he said with an evil grin. Moody shook his head.
"It couldn't have been Severus. He's been cleared, doing work at his dad's house all summer." said Moody. James frowned.
"I'll bet you his dad was there, doing the dirty work with him," said James. A voice came from the doorway.
"Oh, I was, was I? I sure wish I had been informed of this." said a tall, greasy haired man that had to be Snape's father. James scowled.
"James, meet Adamus Snape. He works here for the ministry," said Mr. Potter.
"A pleasure I'm sure, but I need to be leaving. Only dropping off the report on Pigswallow Potions from the Dark Arts Department. I can't stay and chat," said Adamus, giving the report to Moody.
"I think that's enough. Why don't we get your friend to the hospital?" asked Mr. Potter, and James, frowning, got up and followed his dad.
***
Sirius searched the last corner of the campsite. There was still no sign of James, he and Jamie seemed to have disappeared. Sirius sighed, he didn't understand how this could have happened to his friend and, well, a girl that he didn't want to get hurt, even though she wasn't his favorite person in the world.
"Where could they be? Are you sure that they didn't use floo powder? Could they be hiding in the woods? Please, check one more time!" screamed Lily, pulling Phillip around and trying to force him to listen to her, but he just shook his head.
"I told you, we looked for traces of floo powder, and we didn't find any," explained Phillip for the thousandth time. This didn't seem to satisfy Lily.
"You said that you found something. Please, couldn't he have used that?" asked Lily. Phillip shook his head.
"That wasn't floo powder, I don't know what it was, but it wasn't floo powder. It must be something that the death eaters are using to track muggle fires." replied Phillip. Lily sighed.
"I guess you're right. But where could they be? What's happened to them?" wondered Lily. Phillip sat down next to her and said something that she had been wondering about all night.
"Lily, I know this will be hard for you to hear, but James and Carrie are probably dead. There's no way they could have escaped the death eaters besides floo powder, and we know that they didn't use that. We've searched everywhere, the death eaters must have taken them and once you've been taking, there is only a small chance that you will survive." said Phillip.
"What do you mean they're dead? They can't be dead. James couldn't have died out there!" yelled Sirius, who had been listening to them from behind where they were sitting.
"I mean they must be dead. I'm sorry," said Phillip, getting up. Sirius came and sat down next to Lily. She hugged him and tears streamed down both of their faces. Her boyfriend and friend, his best friend, were gone because of Voldemort and his death eaters. Life couldn't get any worse.
A/N- So how long will everyone believe that James and Carrie really are dead, and what kind of a scene will it cause when they show up? Well, you won't have to wait too long to find out, another long chapter is on the way! I'm still very sorry about not putting this up for so long, please forgive me. And also, please review! Click the little button, you know it will make me happy!
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