A/N: So...how was Chapter 5? Shocking wasn't it? ^_^ Onward!
*****=change of scene
' '=thought
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Chapter 6: Lindsey's Story.
"LINDSEY!!!" Christy screamed, jumping on her best friend and almost knocking her to the ground. Everyone started crying, hugging, and sobbing.
"Oh my God we missed you! We thought you were dead! What HAPPENED!??!" Kaitlin shrieked. Lindsey looked very disheveled; her clothes were the same ones she had been wearing back in June. They were very torn, and her hair hadn't been washed. It was very dirty, and her face was streaked with dirt, as was all the exposed skin on her body. She grinned.
"Well, I'd rather take a shower first," Lily, Kaitlin, and Christy stared at her. Suddenly, she noticed Remus. "Remus..." she said softly, before running to him and throwing her arms around his neck. She started sobbing in his shoulder. "REMUS!!" she cried. He hugged her back and tears fell from his eyes.
"Lindsey..I missed you so much. I love you," he said, hugging her tightly, never wanting to let go for fear he'd loose her again.
"I love you too...it's not your fault, it's really not!" she said, seeing the guilt behind his eyes at her dirty appearance and the supposition that she was dead. But then Remus noticed something cold in her eyes as she looked at him. He wondered if it was just being away so long.
"Yes it is, I should've let James and Sirius contain me..." he said. Lindsey popped him playfully on the head.
"Now I have to take a shower. You are going to STOP blaming yourself and be GLAD I am here, and you're ALSO going to plan out how you're going to tell me what's been happening these past few months without wonderful me here!" she said,pretending to be like a bossy mom. Remus grinned.
"Yes ma'am!"
* * * * * * * * * *
Lindsey furiously scrubbed at her hair and her body once she was in the shower. It felt so good....so good to be back in civilization, especially with her friends. She smiled happily as the warm water cascaded over her body, like rivers.
"Oh Remus, why do you blame yourself?" she asked nobody. She tilted her face to the water and scrubbed her face with a rag. 'Darn dirt,' she thought bitterly, recalling her months spent in the forest.
* * * * * * * * * *
"I can't believe she's really back!" James said, staring upstairs where they could hear the water running. Remus sighed happily.
"I still feel guilty for putting her through all that," he said. Christy glared sharply at him.
"I've told you, it is NOT your fault! Stop blaming yourself. Besides she's ok, just...I don't know, STOP BLAMING YOURSELF!" she said. She grinned at him when he cocked an eyebrow at her. Sirius put an arm around Christy's waist.
"Well I'm glad she's back," he said, kissing Christy on top of her head. She sighed.
"Me too." Lily suddenly gasped.
"What about the raid?" she said. They all groaned.
"Man, our first raid, and now I don't want to go on it!" Kaitlin said. They all laughed, but in the end decided that they all wanted to defeat Voldemort and that Lindsey would be perfectly fine here by herself. Lindsey came down the stairs at 7:45 in a pink tank top and jeans. Remus grinned at her and she sat down across from them, her hair dripping wet.
"I guess you guys wanna hear how I got out alive huh?" she asked. They all nodded.
"Well....ok, here it goes...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lindsey felt herself being carried, and people crying....but she didn't open her eyes. She fell into darkness. When she woke up, she couldn't breathe, and she realized she was buried in the ground, in a casket!
'They must've thought I was dead,' Lindsey thought,rummaging in her torn pockets for her wand which was miraculously there. She managed to get out of that hole with her wand and, coughing, surfaced for air. She gasped, then conjured up a calendar set to today's date....June 8!
'Holy crap, how long have I been buried under there?' she thought. She decided she needed to tell Dumbledore she was alive..but then she realized that school was out and Dumbledore was, most likely, nowhere around here. Sighing, Lindsey decided to try and Apparate to where he was by concentrating hard on him. Just as she started to think, she felt arms grab her from behind. She tried to scream but the person slapped a hand over her mouth.
"Shut up you stupid girl!" a harsh voice commanded. Lindsey quieted, thinking about how badly she needed a shower. They dragged her into the forest. They took off the mask they had been wearing-it was Severus Snape.
"What in the name of God?!??" she shrieked.
"Did I not just tell you to SHUT UP?!?" he said sharply. She obeyed.
"Now listen. I am a spy for Dumbledore against Voldemort. You have been buried for about a week. How you survived only God knows, but it's obviously some sort of miracle. Anyway, you are to report to Dumbledore immed-" He stopped suddenly, wincing in pain. "Oh damn...I have to run!"
"Wait, but Snape I-"
But he was gone.
* * * * * * *
Lindsey travelled for a month, never knowing what the weird thing with Snape was, never finding Dumbledore. She attempted to get to the apartment, and was actually almost there. Lindsey hesitated here, not sure if she should expose what she knew she had to to her friends. Christy put her hand on her arm.
"What is it?" she asked, concern in her eyes. Lindsey smiled weakly.
"Ok well..."
She continued her story,explaining that she, much like Kaitlin, was a Seer.
"But not exactly," she said, wondering how she could possibly explain this. They all looked at her funny.
"Well..how then? I'm not sure I understand," Kaitlin said. Lindsey sighed, fatigue obvious in her worn out face.
"Well, as I approached the apartment...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lindsey was about a mile from the city where her apartment was. She took a shortcut through some woods she thought she knew, but quickly discovered she had no idea where she was. For days she frantically tried to escape her woodland prison, but couldn't. On the tenth day, she collapsed from exhaustion. Five days later she woke up. She was in a room, in a shack, apparently. She blinked and tried to get her eyes to adjust to the unfamiliar surroundings. She did notice a calendar on the wall, which she she summoned to her with the Summoning Spell. She looked at it in shock; it was July 23!
"Holy crap," Lindsey muttered, not believing how much time had passed. She sat there on the lumpy bed, wondering who had found her, how they found her, were they good or evil? She lay there for hours until finally there was a soft knock. A harsh voice spoke.
"Are you awake?" Lindsey rubbed her eyes furiously and massaged her temples; the voice sounded so familiar...despite its harshness, it sounded...masked, almost. As if they were disgusing their true identity.
"Yes, who are you? Where am-" She started in with the questions, but as soon as the mysterious stranger discovered she was awake, he stepped into the room and told her to shut her mouth. He was wearing a mask, so Lindsey couldn't see his face.
"Where is the apartment?" Lindsey blinked at this straightfoward and yet rude sounding question.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"I said, Where is the apartment!?!" The man sounded angry yet desperate for information.
"Why?" she asked.
"Don't you worry about it. It will be in your best interests to nod and agree and tell me what you know."
"Can I have a shower first?" Lindsey asked hopefully.
"No, now tell me where it is! Crucio!" he yelled, a wand suddenly pointed at her. Lindsey screamed at the pain and fell off the bed, chest heaving.
"Ok, geez sorry for asking!" she yelled, struggling to right herself. She gave him directions to her apartment.
"Now you will tell me all you know of a person named 'Kaitlin Hyatt'," he said menacingly. Confused further, Lindsey told him a few details about her; what she looked like, her last boyfriend, and the fact she was a Seer.
"Ahh...good, good. Master will be pleased." He Apparated away without further explanation. Lindsey realized with horror that by 'Master' the mysterious person must have meant 'Voldemort', who was steadily gaining power. Lindsey groaned at her stupidity.
"Ugh, I'm SO stupid!" she muttered. She fell asleep, and that's when it happened.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Lindsey was flying-well, it felt like it, anyways. She was hovering above a strange house, but something in her mind said 'Potter Mansion'. She blinked, and in a flash she was at the front door, watching people walk into the house. But not just any people- her FRIENDS!!
"Christy! Lily! Kaitlin!" she yelled, but they didn't see her. They all had sad and angry looks on their faces as they walked in. She "floated" or whatever right behind them and saw them packing their items away. She wondered why on Earth they were here. She woke up suddenly.
"Whoa...what the...?" she wondered out loud. She fell back asleep, undisturbed by visions.
* * * * * *
"So are you saying you're a Seer?" Christy asked, awestruck. Lindsey grinned.
"I suppose so. I mean that really happened didn't it?" she asked. They nodded, and Lindsey grinned. They had confirmed what she already knew to be true.
"Yes, well after that..."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
During the next month, her captor kept her and continually asked her questions about her friends. He even used the Cruciatus Curse when she felt too weak to talk or didn't want to give him information. Finally, on August 23 she escaped by using her wand to bind him. She didn't know why she hadn't thought of that before. It was quite simple and she marveled at her own genious, even though a smarter person would have used it sooner. She ran through the woods and after a few minutes found her apartment. She ran up the stairs, flung open the door, and gasped. The apartment was completely trashed!
"Oh, my God," she muttered, stepping in. Food was thrown around and bugs were everywhere. Furniture was flipped over, the T.V. was broken, and the sliding glass doors that led to the balcony were off the doorframe. She walked toward the door and a roach crawled across her foot. She screamed and jumped backwards and it flew off off her foot. She walked more carefully towards the doors and onto the balcony. There was no damage to the balcony itself, so she went back inside and inspected their rooms. She went in the bathroom first, and, just like the front room, it was completely trashed. She checked out the guys room, which was torn to pieces, and their room, which was the worst of all of them. She noticed her stuff was not in the closet when she inspected it.
"O...k...that's odd," she muttered. Then she noticed everyone else's stuff was gone, too! "That must be what I saw in my vision! Them moving into Potter Mansion because someone-probably that guy that held me captive-came here and was trashing then place or attacking it or something!" She looked out the open window and turned into a fox. She ran to the ledge, aimed carefully, and leaped into a bush. When she landed, she shook herself free of debris and wondered where to go from there. She decided to try and find the Potter Mansion. "Just how will I do that, though?" she wondered.
* * * * * *
"Wow, we didn't know the apartment was trashed!" Lily said. Her eyes had grown wide with shock at this part of Lindsey's story.
"Yeah, we escaped when Trent came. He must've trashed the apartment looking for something, though I can't imagine what we have that he'd want," Christy said. Lindsey raised her eyebrows.
"Trent came?" she asked.
"Yeah," Kaitlin said, "and he was looking for me." Lindsey nodded slowly.
"Okay, I think I get it..well, anyways...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After another month of asking door-to-door, getting weird looks, and fruitless efforts to find the Potter Mansion, Lindsey was completely exhausted. It was now mid-September, and it was getting colder. She was still wearing her clothes from June, which were ragged, torn, and blood stained, another reason why many people slammed their doors in her face when she asked for assistance. She felt totally desperate and hopeless; what could she do to find her friends again?
"What am I going to do?" she asked no body. She concentrated as best she could and managed to Apparate safely into the Leaky Cauldron. Realizing she had no money, she went through the back to Diagon Alley. She was surprised she still had her wand. She went to Gringotts and discoverd she didn't have her vault key.
"Well, damn," she muttered. she went back into The Leaky Cauldron. She asked around and finally came upon a stranger who offered to share their room with her. That night she went up to the room and slept soundly on the bed. The strange man bought her food and drink and housed her for the next three weeks, each day telling her stories about the evil she had missed while traveling. It shocked her how much damage Voldemort was causing in such a short time period. On the last day of her visit, October 14, the stranger told her how to get to the Potter Mansion. She hugged him and thanked him. He revealed himself as a spy for Dumbledore, but wouldn't say his name. She thanked him and hugged him again and left. The man hadn't been able to provide her with money, clothes, or a shower because he was poor and could only afford the room, not the additional cost of shower, clothes, and certainly not giving her money.
"Thank you so much sir, how can I ever repay you?" she asked.
"Just find your friends," he said, smiling.
_-_-_-_-_
A few days later Lindsey was walking through London towards were the man had told her to go. It was about a week after her and Kaitlin's birthday, October 26. She walked past a pizza place, wishing she could go in and buy something. She looked longingly through the window, continued walking, then did a double take. She ran back to the window and crouched in a bush. Her eyes welled up with tears at what she saw.
"Remus....no, how could you?" she said to herself. Remus was sitting with Kaitlin, her supposed best friend, holding her hand, smiling, talking to her. Lindsey sat there through out the entire date, crying softly.
"He doesn't really love me...so how can I still love him?" she whispered to herself. She got up and ran as hard as she could away from there.
* * * * * *
Remus and Kaitlin stared at Lindsey in shock. He saw the same coldness in her eyes as he had seen earlier.
"Oh, Lindsey...." he said, tears forming in his eyes. She wiped her eyes.
"I just want to know how you can love me but be dating my 'best friend'," she said, putting a harsh emphasis on "best friend" that made Kaitiln wince in shame.
"Lindsey..we broke up because one, I knew I could never love anyone like I love you, two, it didn't feel right," Lindsey stared at him a moment before practically throwing herself on him.
"Remus I love you I'm sorry don't blame yourself it's Ok I understand!!!" she sobbed at one time into his shoulder. He hugged her.
"Slow down there!" he said, laughing. "Finish the story, we have to be out of here in 10 minutes."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After a few days of getting slightly off course and back on course, Lindsey caught her first glimpse of the mansion off in the distance.
"Wow," she whispered. She ran as hard as she could, finally coming to a stop in front of the door. "I'm home," she whispered.
* * * * * *
"And that's it," she said. They all grinned at her.
"We're so glad you're back, Lindsey," Kaitlin said.
"Yeah, totally and completely," Christy added.
"I just have one question, guys," Lindsey said.
"What?" Christy said.
"Why did you take all my stuff out of the apartment?" The girls laughed.
"Because we didn't want Trent's men messing with our dearly departed sister's things," Christy said.
"Ah, well that's good to know."
"Ok, well we have to get going. It's time for our first raid," Sirius said. Everyone stood up.
"I'm so glad your back," Remus said, kissing Lindsey tenderly on the lips.
"Me too!" she said, returning the kiss. "Now get out there and kick Voldemort's ass."
A/N: I'm SO sorry it took me so long to update!! I gave up Internet for Lent and I had some MAJOR writer's block! Anyhow, the next chapter will be up a lot sooner.Aren't you SO happy Lindsey's back? :D You know you love me. Yes you do just admit it.
Lindsey: No Christy they don't. u.u
Christy: Well they better because the next chapter is going to be their first raid. YOU BETTER REVIEW! And read Lindsey's story, Jaded Alice!
*****=change of scene
' '=thought
~~~~~~~=flashback
~*~*~*~*~*~=dream
_-_-_-_-_-=change of time period
Chapter 6: Lindsey's Story.
"LINDSEY!!!" Christy screamed, jumping on her best friend and almost knocking her to the ground. Everyone started crying, hugging, and sobbing.
"Oh my God we missed you! We thought you were dead! What HAPPENED!??!" Kaitlin shrieked. Lindsey looked very disheveled; her clothes were the same ones she had been wearing back in June. They were very torn, and her hair hadn't been washed. It was very dirty, and her face was streaked with dirt, as was all the exposed skin on her body. She grinned.
"Well, I'd rather take a shower first," Lily, Kaitlin, and Christy stared at her. Suddenly, she noticed Remus. "Remus..." she said softly, before running to him and throwing her arms around his neck. She started sobbing in his shoulder. "REMUS!!" she cried. He hugged her back and tears fell from his eyes.
"Lindsey..I missed you so much. I love you," he said, hugging her tightly, never wanting to let go for fear he'd loose her again.
"I love you too...it's not your fault, it's really not!" she said, seeing the guilt behind his eyes at her dirty appearance and the supposition that she was dead. But then Remus noticed something cold in her eyes as she looked at him. He wondered if it was just being away so long.
"Yes it is, I should've let James and Sirius contain me..." he said. Lindsey popped him playfully on the head.
"Now I have to take a shower. You are going to STOP blaming yourself and be GLAD I am here, and you're ALSO going to plan out how you're going to tell me what's been happening these past few months without wonderful me here!" she said,pretending to be like a bossy mom. Remus grinned.
"Yes ma'am!"
* * * * * * * * * *
Lindsey furiously scrubbed at her hair and her body once she was in the shower. It felt so good....so good to be back in civilization, especially with her friends. She smiled happily as the warm water cascaded over her body, like rivers.
"Oh Remus, why do you blame yourself?" she asked nobody. She tilted her face to the water and scrubbed her face with a rag. 'Darn dirt,' she thought bitterly, recalling her months spent in the forest.
* * * * * * * * * *
"I can't believe she's really back!" James said, staring upstairs where they could hear the water running. Remus sighed happily.
"I still feel guilty for putting her through all that," he said. Christy glared sharply at him.
"I've told you, it is NOT your fault! Stop blaming yourself. Besides she's ok, just...I don't know, STOP BLAMING YOURSELF!" she said. She grinned at him when he cocked an eyebrow at her. Sirius put an arm around Christy's waist.
"Well I'm glad she's back," he said, kissing Christy on top of her head. She sighed.
"Me too." Lily suddenly gasped.
"What about the raid?" she said. They all groaned.
"Man, our first raid, and now I don't want to go on it!" Kaitlin said. They all laughed, but in the end decided that they all wanted to defeat Voldemort and that Lindsey would be perfectly fine here by herself. Lindsey came down the stairs at 7:45 in a pink tank top and jeans. Remus grinned at her and she sat down across from them, her hair dripping wet.
"I guess you guys wanna hear how I got out alive huh?" she asked. They all nodded.
"Well....ok, here it goes...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lindsey felt herself being carried, and people crying....but she didn't open her eyes. She fell into darkness. When she woke up, she couldn't breathe, and she realized she was buried in the ground, in a casket!
'They must've thought I was dead,' Lindsey thought,rummaging in her torn pockets for her wand which was miraculously there. She managed to get out of that hole with her wand and, coughing, surfaced for air. She gasped, then conjured up a calendar set to today's date....June 8!
'Holy crap, how long have I been buried under there?' she thought. She decided she needed to tell Dumbledore she was alive..but then she realized that school was out and Dumbledore was, most likely, nowhere around here. Sighing, Lindsey decided to try and Apparate to where he was by concentrating hard on him. Just as she started to think, she felt arms grab her from behind. She tried to scream but the person slapped a hand over her mouth.
"Shut up you stupid girl!" a harsh voice commanded. Lindsey quieted, thinking about how badly she needed a shower. They dragged her into the forest. They took off the mask they had been wearing-it was Severus Snape.
"What in the name of God?!??" she shrieked.
"Did I not just tell you to SHUT UP?!?" he said sharply. She obeyed.
"Now listen. I am a spy for Dumbledore against Voldemort. You have been buried for about a week. How you survived only God knows, but it's obviously some sort of miracle. Anyway, you are to report to Dumbledore immed-" He stopped suddenly, wincing in pain. "Oh damn...I have to run!"
"Wait, but Snape I-"
But he was gone.
* * * * * * *
Lindsey travelled for a month, never knowing what the weird thing with Snape was, never finding Dumbledore. She attempted to get to the apartment, and was actually almost there. Lindsey hesitated here, not sure if she should expose what she knew she had to to her friends. Christy put her hand on her arm.
"What is it?" she asked, concern in her eyes. Lindsey smiled weakly.
"Ok well..."
She continued her story,explaining that she, much like Kaitlin, was a Seer.
"But not exactly," she said, wondering how she could possibly explain this. They all looked at her funny.
"Well..how then? I'm not sure I understand," Kaitlin said. Lindsey sighed, fatigue obvious in her worn out face.
"Well, as I approached the apartment...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lindsey was about a mile from the city where her apartment was. She took a shortcut through some woods she thought she knew, but quickly discovered she had no idea where she was. For days she frantically tried to escape her woodland prison, but couldn't. On the tenth day, she collapsed from exhaustion. Five days later she woke up. She was in a room, in a shack, apparently. She blinked and tried to get her eyes to adjust to the unfamiliar surroundings. She did notice a calendar on the wall, which she she summoned to her with the Summoning Spell. She looked at it in shock; it was July 23!
"Holy crap," Lindsey muttered, not believing how much time had passed. She sat there on the lumpy bed, wondering who had found her, how they found her, were they good or evil? She lay there for hours until finally there was a soft knock. A harsh voice spoke.
"Are you awake?" Lindsey rubbed her eyes furiously and massaged her temples; the voice sounded so familiar...despite its harshness, it sounded...masked, almost. As if they were disgusing their true identity.
"Yes, who are you? Where am-" She started in with the questions, but as soon as the mysterious stranger discovered she was awake, he stepped into the room and told her to shut her mouth. He was wearing a mask, so Lindsey couldn't see his face.
"Where is the apartment?" Lindsey blinked at this straightfoward and yet rude sounding question.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"I said, Where is the apartment!?!" The man sounded angry yet desperate for information.
"Why?" she asked.
"Don't you worry about it. It will be in your best interests to nod and agree and tell me what you know."
"Can I have a shower first?" Lindsey asked hopefully.
"No, now tell me where it is! Crucio!" he yelled, a wand suddenly pointed at her. Lindsey screamed at the pain and fell off the bed, chest heaving.
"Ok, geez sorry for asking!" she yelled, struggling to right herself. She gave him directions to her apartment.
"Now you will tell me all you know of a person named 'Kaitlin Hyatt'," he said menacingly. Confused further, Lindsey told him a few details about her; what she looked like, her last boyfriend, and the fact she was a Seer.
"Ahh...good, good. Master will be pleased." He Apparated away without further explanation. Lindsey realized with horror that by 'Master' the mysterious person must have meant 'Voldemort', who was steadily gaining power. Lindsey groaned at her stupidity.
"Ugh, I'm SO stupid!" she muttered. She fell asleep, and that's when it happened.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Lindsey was flying-well, it felt like it, anyways. She was hovering above a strange house, but something in her mind said 'Potter Mansion'. She blinked, and in a flash she was at the front door, watching people walk into the house. But not just any people- her FRIENDS!!
"Christy! Lily! Kaitlin!" she yelled, but they didn't see her. They all had sad and angry looks on their faces as they walked in. She "floated" or whatever right behind them and saw them packing their items away. She wondered why on Earth they were here. She woke up suddenly.
"Whoa...what the...?" she wondered out loud. She fell back asleep, undisturbed by visions.
* * * * * *
"So are you saying you're a Seer?" Christy asked, awestruck. Lindsey grinned.
"I suppose so. I mean that really happened didn't it?" she asked. They nodded, and Lindsey grinned. They had confirmed what she already knew to be true.
"Yes, well after that..."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
During the next month, her captor kept her and continually asked her questions about her friends. He even used the Cruciatus Curse when she felt too weak to talk or didn't want to give him information. Finally, on August 23 she escaped by using her wand to bind him. She didn't know why she hadn't thought of that before. It was quite simple and she marveled at her own genious, even though a smarter person would have used it sooner. She ran through the woods and after a few minutes found her apartment. She ran up the stairs, flung open the door, and gasped. The apartment was completely trashed!
"Oh, my God," she muttered, stepping in. Food was thrown around and bugs were everywhere. Furniture was flipped over, the T.V. was broken, and the sliding glass doors that led to the balcony were off the doorframe. She walked toward the door and a roach crawled across her foot. She screamed and jumped backwards and it flew off off her foot. She walked more carefully towards the doors and onto the balcony. There was no damage to the balcony itself, so she went back inside and inspected their rooms. She went in the bathroom first, and, just like the front room, it was completely trashed. She checked out the guys room, which was torn to pieces, and their room, which was the worst of all of them. She noticed her stuff was not in the closet when she inspected it.
"O...k...that's odd," she muttered. Then she noticed everyone else's stuff was gone, too! "That must be what I saw in my vision! Them moving into Potter Mansion because someone-probably that guy that held me captive-came here and was trashing then place or attacking it or something!" She looked out the open window and turned into a fox. She ran to the ledge, aimed carefully, and leaped into a bush. When she landed, she shook herself free of debris and wondered where to go from there. She decided to try and find the Potter Mansion. "Just how will I do that, though?" she wondered.
* * * * * *
"Wow, we didn't know the apartment was trashed!" Lily said. Her eyes had grown wide with shock at this part of Lindsey's story.
"Yeah, we escaped when Trent came. He must've trashed the apartment looking for something, though I can't imagine what we have that he'd want," Christy said. Lindsey raised her eyebrows.
"Trent came?" she asked.
"Yeah," Kaitlin said, "and he was looking for me." Lindsey nodded slowly.
"Okay, I think I get it..well, anyways...."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After another month of asking door-to-door, getting weird looks, and fruitless efforts to find the Potter Mansion, Lindsey was completely exhausted. It was now mid-September, and it was getting colder. She was still wearing her clothes from June, which were ragged, torn, and blood stained, another reason why many people slammed their doors in her face when she asked for assistance. She felt totally desperate and hopeless; what could she do to find her friends again?
"What am I going to do?" she asked no body. She concentrated as best she could and managed to Apparate safely into the Leaky Cauldron. Realizing she had no money, she went through the back to Diagon Alley. She was surprised she still had her wand. She went to Gringotts and discoverd she didn't have her vault key.
"Well, damn," she muttered. she went back into The Leaky Cauldron. She asked around and finally came upon a stranger who offered to share their room with her. That night she went up to the room and slept soundly on the bed. The strange man bought her food and drink and housed her for the next three weeks, each day telling her stories about the evil she had missed while traveling. It shocked her how much damage Voldemort was causing in such a short time period. On the last day of her visit, October 14, the stranger told her how to get to the Potter Mansion. She hugged him and thanked him. He revealed himself as a spy for Dumbledore, but wouldn't say his name. She thanked him and hugged him again and left. The man hadn't been able to provide her with money, clothes, or a shower because he was poor and could only afford the room, not the additional cost of shower, clothes, and certainly not giving her money.
"Thank you so much sir, how can I ever repay you?" she asked.
"Just find your friends," he said, smiling.
_-_-_-_-_
A few days later Lindsey was walking through London towards were the man had told her to go. It was about a week after her and Kaitlin's birthday, October 26. She walked past a pizza place, wishing she could go in and buy something. She looked longingly through the window, continued walking, then did a double take. She ran back to the window and crouched in a bush. Her eyes welled up with tears at what she saw.
"Remus....no, how could you?" she said to herself. Remus was sitting with Kaitlin, her supposed best friend, holding her hand, smiling, talking to her. Lindsey sat there through out the entire date, crying softly.
"He doesn't really love me...so how can I still love him?" she whispered to herself. She got up and ran as hard as she could away from there.
* * * * * *
Remus and Kaitlin stared at Lindsey in shock. He saw the same coldness in her eyes as he had seen earlier.
"Oh, Lindsey...." he said, tears forming in his eyes. She wiped her eyes.
"I just want to know how you can love me but be dating my 'best friend'," she said, putting a harsh emphasis on "best friend" that made Kaitiln wince in shame.
"Lindsey..we broke up because one, I knew I could never love anyone like I love you, two, it didn't feel right," Lindsey stared at him a moment before practically throwing herself on him.
"Remus I love you I'm sorry don't blame yourself it's Ok I understand!!!" she sobbed at one time into his shoulder. He hugged her.
"Slow down there!" he said, laughing. "Finish the story, we have to be out of here in 10 minutes."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After a few days of getting slightly off course and back on course, Lindsey caught her first glimpse of the mansion off in the distance.
"Wow," she whispered. She ran as hard as she could, finally coming to a stop in front of the door. "I'm home," she whispered.
* * * * * *
"And that's it," she said. They all grinned at her.
"We're so glad you're back, Lindsey," Kaitlin said.
"Yeah, totally and completely," Christy added.
"I just have one question, guys," Lindsey said.
"What?" Christy said.
"Why did you take all my stuff out of the apartment?" The girls laughed.
"Because we didn't want Trent's men messing with our dearly departed sister's things," Christy said.
"Ah, well that's good to know."
"Ok, well we have to get going. It's time for our first raid," Sirius said. Everyone stood up.
"I'm so glad your back," Remus said, kissing Lindsey tenderly on the lips.
"Me too!" she said, returning the kiss. "Now get out there and kick Voldemort's ass."
A/N: I'm SO sorry it took me so long to update!! I gave up Internet for Lent and I had some MAJOR writer's block! Anyhow, the next chapter will be up a lot sooner.Aren't you SO happy Lindsey's back? :D You know you love me. Yes you do just admit it.
Lindsey: No Christy they don't. u.u
Christy: Well they better because the next chapter is going to be their first raid. YOU BETTER REVIEW! And read Lindsey's story, Jaded Alice!