Summary: Lily Evans has never understood the reason behind James Potters tactics, and James has never understood why Lily always hated him. Everyone has changed because of Voldemort. Are these tragedies bringing everyone closer? or not? Plz review... i'm open to constructive critisism.
Disclaimer: In my dream world, I own Harry Potter. There is no world hunger, and George Bush isn't President. I'm rich and have no problems, and I get to meet Blink 182... but guess what. This isn't my dream world. So unfortunately J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter, people are starving, sadly.... George Bush is Presdient tears, I'm not rich, I have tons of problems, and I haven't been able to meet Blink 182. So please don't sue, I have nothing of great importance, well except my lovely dream world and my friends. But you don't want those... you want money. The only money I can give you is my lunch money and the 20 dollars worth of change in my piggy bank and underneath the couch. Oh, and if I was rich, I'd have a decent computer at the least. So without further ado.... my fanfiction.
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A/N: Hey, sorry.... I'm upset right now. The frickin people at my local Alternative Rock station are changing the morning people... THEY'RE GETTING RID OF MARK, GENNY, AND DAHMER!!!!! HOW COULD THEY!? --SOBS INTO SIRIUS' SHOULDER-- HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME!!!! AND THEY'RE FRICKIN REPLACING THEM WITH HOWARD STERN!!! I'm seriously distraught right now...So, this chapter probably really sucks,oh, and this song is where i got the idea for the name of the story, oh, and tonight was the first time I'd ever actually heard this song, even though I have the cd... I never actually bothered to listen to it, but they're okay, I'm more in to Blink 182 and whatever else they play on the buzz(usually, but these people are being evil right now.). I just basically picked this title out of the other ones on the cd, b/c I liked it better.
Running Out of Days
Chapter 8
There's too much work and I'm spent
There's too much pressure and I admit
I got no time to move ahead
Have you heard one thing that I've said
Will all these little things in life they all create this haze
And now I'm running out of time I can't see through this haze
My friend tell me why it has to be this way
There's too many things to get done, and I'm running out of days
--Running Out of Days--- 3 Doors Down
Lily lay on the couch massaging her temples. The past couple of hours events played over and over again in her mind, even though Potter left not even 10 minutes ago. I should go check on Heather. Lily thought, seeing as she left Heather less than an hour ago in her room. Grr, it's too far of a walk... but if I have to. Lily reluctantly swung her feet of the edge of the couch and stood up.
She walked up the stairs, and into her bedroom, to find it... empty??? Oh my god... Lily's heatbeat sped up ... Oh my god, where is she?? She's gotta be around here somewhere... Lily ran dow nthe stairs and into the kitchen, then to the living room, back to the kitchen, and then into the bedroom. Just as she turned around to go check the toher rooms, Heather appeared in the doorway. Lily's heartbeat returned to normal as she saw her.
"Heather, you had me worried, are you okay." Heather put on a small smile and nodded numbly. She felt as if she opened her mouth to say anyhting, she'd start crying again. "It's okay, you don't have to say anything. Let's go get you cleaned up and into some fresh clothes." Heather nodded numbly yet again, but this time she fell into Lily's arms and started crying again. "Its okay, shh, it's all right." Lily mumbled, trying very hard to soothe Heather and not start crying herself. "Lily, I have to tell you.." Heather stopped and realized, saying it would make it final... make it true, make it real, it would make them dead. She quickly stopped crying and only sniffled a bit. Lily led her over to the bed. "I'll be right back." Lily ran out to go to the bathroom to get a few tissues for Heather, and herself. Liy tried calming herself down so she wouldn't break down in front of Heather and make her feel worse. But to no avail did it work.
Lily stood up straigfht and walked back to the room. She handed a few tissues to Heather and sat down at the end of the bed. Heather's voice was wavering a little, but quietly and calmly, she told Lily what happened.
"I'm sure , you heard about the muggle family that was killed next door to me a week ago?" Lily nodded, "Well, they got the wrong house I guess you could say. My mother came storming out as she saw the spell lights coming from the house, knowing completely well that the Plonnards are muggles. Well, she told me to appaparate to Hogwarts to get Dumbledore, so I did. By the time I got back with Dumbledore, the Death Eaters had her surrounded. Luckily, Dumbledore was able to stop them before they did anything, but it was a shame they had got away. But not before one fo them said... said 'Blood traitors and muggle lovers will be next.'" Heather stopped and blew her nose, her eyes full of tears. Lily also wiped her eyes quickly upon realizing that she was crying. "They didn't!?" Lily exclaimed, knowing fully well that they probably did. "Yeah, of course it was only because my father was a muggle." Heather smiled at the memory of her father."He was always out in the garage tinkering with muggle mechanical things. Well, anyways, today my mother, father, younger brother mark, and I were going to a small cafe in London to meet my older brother Jack." Heather let out a small laugh, then her face quickly became solemn again. "He, he was working at, or rather on, a small side project in Diagon Alley. So, since my father had businees in muggle London, we decided we'd meet at the Cafe.Well, it seemed somehow tha-t-t, umm, i can't do this." She burst into tears. Lily wrapped her arms around her,"Its okay, if you can't, don't continue." Heather shook her head. "It's um, okay --sniffle--. I need to do this. We were waiting for my brother to come, well finally he did. We were there for maybe not even 15 minutes, when they came. There were about 15 of them. Wearing those long white robes and masks. The muggles had no clue what was gone, some of hem even pointed and laughed... they were the first to go. My older brother pushed me under the table and told me to get mark to safety. I of course had my wand, so I pulled it of the waistband of my pocket. My father, was the first to go." Lily noticed how Heather's voice stiffened. Lily patted her back encouragily, knowing that this was the tough part."Thanks, um, he wasn't able to protect himself well enough, but he of course knew who they were. My father, why he got up early just so he could read both the muggle and wizard newspaper. The next thing I knew,my mother was lying on the ground, her eyes... were open, I knew she was dead. Currently, my brother was the only one left, along with another wizarding couple that happened to be there. Three Death Eaters advanced on him, if they weren't such cowards, he would've been able to take them, he was head boy you know, I loved my brother, but that was when Mark lost it. Just as I was able to get him to turn he saw Jack and ran out. I grabbed his arm but it was too late. A death eater had killed him, getting ready to approach me too.I was able to stun him, I was into too much shock to realize what was happening. I remember standing over Marks body, knowing it was my fault he was dead. Knowing, that he was gone. That's when Dumbledore came. He told me to leave, appaparate, to go somewhere safe. tHe only reason why I hadn't earlier, was because of the fact that I couldn't leave Mark. The first person I thought of, was you. I knew you'd understand why... I just couldn't." Heather was shaking and crying furiously, as was Lily, neither of the knowing of the figure standing behind the door, neither of the knowing how much he wished he could help.
A/N: So, do you like???lol. Well, today, is really going to suck ass. It's July 4th (frickin independance day for us americans). So that means, i'll be stuck with my parents and my moms friends, who I wish I could stick down the toilet and flush. Plus, it's raining right now.... so la de frickin da I'm stuck outside, in the rain tonight for a frickin friework show (hopefully it gets cancelled). And blah blah blah, it continues in that cycle.