Lily struggled to get up, but she was too weak at the moment. Snape stopped trying to mess with his arm and held both his wand and her wand at Lily.

he cried out again, and she was hit with two curses at the same time. Just then, James, Sirius, and Remus burst through the door. Snape lowered both wands and turned to them. Lily remained shaking on the floor.

Any color that was left in the three of their faces was soon gone as they saw the sight before them. James took a step towards Snape.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!!! he roared at Snape. Sirius stood next to James and Remus was about to move towards Lily, when Snape raised both of the wands back up, one at them, and one at Lily.

Don't come any closer to me or her! he snarled at them. If you do, Evans will die! Snape moved so that he was between them and Lily, and his back was faced towards her. He put Lily's wand back on her bed, but kept his own wand in hand. Lily, who had slightly recovered, saw this, and slowly pulled herself towards her bed. Snape saw none of this, but the boys all saw it. So James decided to stall Snape.

What did you do to her?! he repeated. Snape smiled maliciously and pulled his wand up.

Would you like a demonstration? he asked, and before they could answer, he had hit Sirius with the Cruciatus Curse. Sirius yelled out in agony and fell over.

yelled James. No demonstration is necessary! Snape smirked and pulled the curse off. Sirius slowly got up with Remus' help, and James continued to stall Snape.

How did you even get up here? said James in a deadly tone. Only Gryffindors and the professors know the password to get in here.

Snape started telling them of how he blackmailed a fellow Slytherin into getting the password for him. But all was going in one ear and out the other for James, because Lily was only inches away from her wand....