Clare stretched her arms and yawned. Lily looked up at Clare from the book she was reading.

"Tired?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, a little bit. Let's go down and eat dinner before I fall asleep." Clare said and Lily nodded.

They walked to the doorway and Lily looked at Tereesa's bed.

"Are you coming?" Lily asked.

"I don't feel well, you guys go without me."

Lily looked concerned and Clare walked over to feel Tereesa's temperature. She put her soft hand on Tereesa's forehead and gasped.

"Terry, you're as cold as ice!" Clare whispered.

Lily rushed over to Tereesa and she too felt her temperature.

"Oh my! Take a nap, maybe when you wake up you'll feel better." Lily said reassuringly.

Tereesa smiled weakly, but her expression was pained.

"You guys must be starving, go to supper!" Tereesa said hoarsely.

Lily took one last concerned glance at Tereesa and left for the Great Hall.

Clare rushed into the bathroom and put a warm towel on Tereesa's forehead.

"Feel better, alright?" Clare said, but Tereesa was already fast asleep.

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"Where have you been?" Sirius asked Lily when she and Clare sat down across from him with salad spilling out of his mouth.

Remus looked at him with a disgusted expression on his face.

Sirius swallowed his salad, "Where Ter?" he asked.

"Lily looked nervously at Clare, "She's not feeling too well, so she decided not to come."

"Well, we will just have to cheer her up then." Sirius said and stood up.

"Sirius, I don't think Tereesa will want to be bothered, she needs her rest." Clare said gently.

Sirius ignored her and left the Great Hall.

Clare sighed.

"We should make sure Sirius doesn't do anything stupid." Remus said reasonably.

"Yeah, you're right." Lily said and stood up, but James gently pushed her back down, "Lils! You haven't eaten yet! We'll take care of Tereesa, but you two have to eat."

Lily smiled at James gratefully. She was starving.

Clare looked at James and hesitantly sat down next to Lily.

James smiled and left the Great Hall, leaving Lily and Clare to hope that Tereesa was feeling OK.

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Lily put down her fork and belched. "That was a good meal." She remarked.

Clare hadn't touched her food.

"Let's go see how Tereesa is doing." Clare said, and they both got up to leave.

At that second, the Great Hall doors flew open and revealed James and Remus, gasping for breath.

Lily and Clare rushed over to the two Marauders.

"Tereesa...hospital wing...NOW!" was all Remus could say, breathing heavily between words.

Lily understood and nodded at Remus before sprinting down the corridors towards the Hospital Wing with Clare at her heels.

Lily skidded to a halt when she saw Sirius pacing around the room, looking very serious.

Lily had never seen Sirius look like that before.

"Sirius, what happened?" Clare asked him.

He looked up at the two girls sadly.

He motioned for them to sit down.

Lily reluctantly sat down in a chair beside Clare.

Clare was wringing her hands, as she always did when she was nervous.

"We went to check up on Tereesa, and when we got there she was sleeping, so we just sat next to her bed, waiting for her to wake up. She finally woke up. She looked up at us and she looked...helpless..." Sirius trailed off.

"Sirius, what happened then?"

Sirius looked up at them, his eyes watering, but not exactly crying.

"She thanked us for coming, but then she ran into the bathroom and started puking. I went in there 'cause I was worried..." He breathed a shaky breath, "And she was collapsed on the floor. I felt her pulse, but she wasn't breathing. I thought she was dead, but I brought her here anyway. Madam Pomfry looked at her and said she wasn't dead. Them Pomfry took her into the back room, and here I am waiting to find out what happened." Sirius took another shaky breath.

Clare's eyes filled up with tears, but she blinked them back. Lily looked at the floor, when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked into the face of Madam Pomfry.

"I suppose you want to know about Miss Fewent. This may come as a shock, but Tereesa has a rare disease. It causes you to lose body heat and vomit constantly, not to mention passing out some of the time."

Clare gasped, and Madam Pomfry continued, "It is usually fatal, but Miss Fewent still has a thirty percent chance of surviving."

Clare started crying and ran out of the Hospital wing to find someone to comfort her; Mainly Remus.

Lily followed suit.

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Lily slowed down and didn't pay any attention to where she was heading and turned random corners.

She let her fingers drag along the wall while her sobs echoed in the corridor.

She leaned against the wall and slid down so she was sitting on the cold, stone ground.

'Why Tereesa? She can't...how? Why? Not Tereesa! She hasn't done anything wrong! She doesn't deserve this! Why does she have to suffer? How could this happen?'

Lily wasn't aware of how loud her sobs were.

"Lily! Don't cry. I hate seeing you like this!"

She saw a person in front of her and blinked away tears to clear her view.

"Oh, James!" she croaked and threw her arms around his neck.

"Lily, what happened?"

James asked while rubbing her back. She buried herself in his chest.

"She's going to die!" came Lily's muffled voice. "Oh..." James said quietly. "Lily, I'm so sorry."

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"Sirius, you're pacing again." Remus said from his bed.

He hated seeing Sirius ascting like this.

Sirius stopped walking around the room and sat on his bed, his face buried in his hands.

"She could live, you heard Pomfry." Remus said reassuringly, trying to get Sirius to calm down.

"Shut up!" Sirius snapped at Remus. Remus looked hurt, "I'm sorry, Rem, I just...this is really hard for me, you know-?" Sirius' voice was cracked.

The dormitory door creaked open and James walked in wearily.

"That girl has an ocean hidden behind her eyes." James said sleepily.

"Lily?"

"Yeah..."

Silence. S

irius finally shut his bed hanging and went into a restless sleep. James did the same, wondering what was going to happen to Tereesa. He hoped he would be able to sleep well.

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Lily and Clare didn't say anything to each other since Madam Pomfry told them the news. They had cried waterfalls and now they just sat on their beds, sniffing occasionally, staring at Tereesa's empty bed.

Eventually, they had drifted off into sleep, and their thoughts remained on Tereesa.

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Lily, Clare, and the Marauders didn't go to breakfast the next day. They just sat in the common room, staring into the fireplace.

"Want to go visit Tereesa?" Sirius asked hopefully,

"We tried; Pomfry said she's contagious and nobody can visit her."

"Oh..." Remus stood up, "I'm taking a nap." He stated and walked back into the dorm.

Eventually, everybody agreed that they would take a nap too, preparing for the next day; That was the day the other students returned to Hogwarts.

Sirius, James, and Remus weren't even remotely excited, even though that would mean getting to see Peter again. Lily and Clare didn't want to deal with Beth, Ally, Kate, or Courtney. They all just wanted to be alone.

They all were thinking the same thing; 'Might as well continue living my life.'

()()()()()()() Two weeks later ()()()()()()()

The Marauders and the gang were all laughing again, and were finally becoming themselves again.

Although, when they were bored, their thoughts drifted to Tereesa, who was transferred to St. Mungos.

They never brought the subject of her up, because they were all trying to do what Tereesa would have wanted them to do at a time like this: Continue living life like there's no tomorrow.

"When you're ready to stop inhaling your food, we can finish our History of Magic essay." Remus said, waiting impatiently for Sirius to stop filling his face with fruit tart.

"Shut up, Moony. We all know you just want to leave because you want time alone with Clare."

Everybody laughed except for Clare and Remus, who both blushed.

"Shut up." Remus muttered, pouring his pumpkin juice on Sirius' head.

Sirius shrugged and tasted the pumpkin juice on his face.

"You know, I always found this stuff rather bitter." He tipped the sugar bowl so that the contents fell in his glass of pumpkin juice.

"Ug! Sirius, that's nasty!" James remarked, watching Sirius chug his sugary juice in one gulp.

"Sirius, that's nasty!" Sirius repeated in a high-pitched voice. Peter laughed.

"I do not sound like that!" James said defensively.

"Oh my god! I, like, totally do not sound like that!" Sirius mimicked James all the way out of the Great Hall.

"I'm going for a walk, anyone want to come?" Lily asked.

"I'll come with you." James said.

"Alright, let's go then." Lily said and walked onto the school grounds. She breathed in the fresh air.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Oouh! Let's go walk by the lake! It's very pretty there."

James chuckled and they walked over by the lake.

They walked in silence before Lily looked up and hid behind James.

"Ak!" she squealed, "Hide me!"

James looked confused, "Huh? What are you talking about, Lil?" James asked.

"It's Kyle Bolcher!" Lily whispered, cowering behind James.

James looked around and his eyes fell upon a brown- haired sixth year boy.

His expression darkened and he nervously patted his black hair down, only making it messier.

"Is he your new crush?" James asked in what he hoped was a casual voice.

"Yep!" Lily said happily.

James mocked Lily to cover up his jealousy, "Oh! Kissy, kissy, Lily and Bolcher!"

Lily stroked her chin thoughtfully, "I never thought I would share my first kiss with Pretty-boy Kyle."

James' jaw dropped,

"That would be your first kiss?" He asked, shocked.

"Well, unless you count Nathanial, Gregory, Zachary...." Lily counted off her fingers.

"Ok, no need to name them all!" James said hurriedly.

"I never knew you had so many boyfriends." James thought out loud.

"Well, Nathanial was the only one I had a real relationship with."

"What happened to you guys?"

"Well, we decided we didn't have romantic feelings for each other, and now we are just sticking to having a brother/sister relationship." Lily answered.

"Why are we even talking about my love life?" she asked him.

He shrugged and a grin spread across her face.

"You're jealous!"

"I am not!"

"James Potter, jealous! Who ever thought it was possible?"

"Lily, I told you, I am not jealous!"

"You are jealous!"

"Look, just drop it." Lily's smile faded when she saw the look on James' face. 'He really was jealous!'

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A/N: Yep, yep, yep, I crammed a lot of things in this chapter, so it might be a little messily writting. Well, there's only one thing to do at a time like this? REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!