Suffocation
By: SotMoon*
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Belgh.
Authors Note: Oooh. One of my reviews gave me an idea on what to do in future chapters, and it isn't a good thing, either. *Cackle* but anyways, I'll get explaining and stuff in this Chappie, I think…
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When Lily and James got back up to the common room, (making sure to dodge anyone that was near with the marauder map.) they sat on the couch by the now dying fire. Lily looked over at James who had an incandescent glow apon his face. She said a spell to make the fire leap back to life, and then looked into James' deep chocolate brown eyes.
"James…I have something I have to tell you." Lily said, and then looked down at the carpeted floor.
"What is it, Lils?" Asked James as he made Lily look back up into his face, and then he nodded.
"You know how you asked about the bruises on the train ride?" Lily asked again James nodded. "Well…My father did it—he had been abusing me for a few years, mostly after my second year in Hogwarts. He said that I was 'too much like my mother' she was so beautiful, James… The men did drool over her, and my father thought her a slut for it… So he turned his anger on me, and my mother… Leaving Petunia completely out of it, she was the 'perfect one' or the 'normal one'… Well about a week before the train ride, he—" Lily broke off into a sob, and James hugged her close.
"What is it, Lils? Tell me, you need to tell someone…" James looked down at the crying girl in his arms, and suddenly felt a surge of hot white anger at anyone who would purposely hurt such a beautiful thing.
Lily nodded, and wiped her eyes and continued: "He found…my prefect letter, and he saw that Amos Diggory wrote me congratulating me on becoming a prefect, my father got angry. He was very drunk, and drugged up and he hit me… So I just ran and hid in a closet… I remember being so scared, James… He had a knife… A big knife out of the kitchen... I remember waiting, and waiting for him to find me and end it all… When he found me he dragged me out into the living room…I remember him asking why I had been written to, and that I was a slut and that I was just like mum…
"He started hitting me, and hitting me, until mum came home and tried to stop it… She tried to protect me, enough for me to run…but he stabbed her!" Lily started sobbing even harder than before, until she was heaving for breath, ragged sobbing emitted into the room, and James held Lily again.
James just held Lily until she had quit crying to a minimum, and until she could breath, James heard a creak on the stairs, and looked up to see Raven and Sirius on the stairs—their eyes wide and they both had tears in their eyes. Lily finally sat back up, and wiped her eyes again. She began telling the story again.
*Flashback*
Dayna tried to shield Lily from her husbands view but David raised the long knife and stabbed her mother, and her mother fell to her knees in front of Lily.
Lily looked in shock at her mother, who had blood dribbling from her mouth; "Run, Lily…Go…" her mother whispered before she fell onto her stomach, not moving.
Lily stood up, looking at her mother in shock for a moment more before she started to run up the stairs, seeing her father wipe off the blood from the knife onto her mothers once perfect blouse.
She ran as fast as she could into her mother and fathers room, looking in their drawers trying to find the small handgun kept for protection.
Finally her fingers grasped the smooth metal piece as her dad burst into the room and she held the gun at her father, and clicked the hammer.
"Lily you put that goddamned gun down, before I hurt you!"
"No."
"I won't have you going back there, you slut." Her father stepped forward and Lily pulled the trigger four times.
*End Flashback*
"And I shot him!" Lily said sadly, as she looked at all of her friends, minus Remus. It was about the time that he was supposed to change, so he had gone to the shrieking shack early. "And now I'm an orphan because I killed my father, and he killed my mum."
The group gave Lily a hug, and they sat for a while, just talking calmly, trying to cheer Lily up. James would just hold her in his arms, and Sirius and Raven would tell jokes and try to make her laugh. It ended up working pretty well.
"You guys are the best friends a girl could ever have," Lily said as she looked at the three people.
"Aww, Lily's going to make me cry!" Said Sirius as he faked crying, then he grinned and said, "Hey! Lets go get some food, I want my nightly banana!" the group got up, shaking their heads as they followed Sirius, still making sure they wouldn't get caught.
When they got to the portrait of the bowl of fruit, Lily tickled the fruit it chuckled and then it turned into a green handle, James opened the door and let Lily in first. Lily looked about the kitchen and noticed that some of the house elves were asleep—they had small beds in the kitchen. 'I thought they'd at least have their own little rooms!' Lily said to herself as she saw fourteen elves come up to see what they needed.
"I want a butter beer, but I want it in something that I can take up to my room." Lily said, and an elf got the butter beer for her, and she thanked her, which surprised the elf greatly. It's big orange-ish eyes welled up with tears, and it scuttled away.
"I'm going to go to bed, night everyone." Lily said, and waved good-bye. Fifty "good-byes" coursed back, from wizard, to witch, and about forty-seven house elves.
Lily smiled as she walked back to the common room, fragments of a song stuck in her head, so she began to sing while she was going down a long quiet corridor.
You used run me away,
all while laughing,
then cry about that fact,
til my returns.
But long before,
having hurt,
I'll send the pain below;
I'll send the pain below.
Lily gave the password to the fat lady, and walked up to the girls' dorms, while sipping her butter beer. She went to the bathrooms, washed her face and changed into her Pajamas, and then she went to her bed to sleep of nice things—not the usual nightmares that haunted her dreams.
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AN2: Yay! Another Chappie done! ~Dances~ Anyways, that fragment of song is from the band "Chevelle" and the song is called "Send in the pain" I hope you liked this chapter, because I had a reaaally bad headache when I wrote it. LOL
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So
Shines a good deed in a naughty world. -Shak.