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And now... on with the story!!!

Chapter 29 (Almost 30! Go me!!!!) – Revenge

For the next two days, Bec avoided Marina as much as possible, knowing that a confrontation would not be pretty.

"You're gonna have to face her sometime Bec..." Lily fell gracefully onto her bed.

Bec groaned.

"I know..." she slipped into a nearby chair, " But the longer I wait, the better... right? Besides! It's not like Sirius and I are actually together... I've just forgiven him! That's all!"

"Hmm..." Frances dumped her stuff on the floor, and leaned against the cream wall, "What have you got last today?"

"Runes... with James..." Lily shivered.

"Herbology with... oh shit! Marina!" Bec jumped up, and started pacing around the room.

"Calm down!" Frances shook her head in fake shame, the perked up again.

"I've got Care of Magical Creatures last... I'll meet up with you later?"

"K..." Bec sank to her knees, and fished her white and pink bag from under her four-poster bed.

She stuffed a pair of earmuffs, goggles, some parchment, quills, ink and her textbook in the bag, and zipped it up.

Lily hauled her Runes textbook out from its spot as a doorstop, and shoved it in her strongest bag, her light sea green bag with white piping.

Frances grabbed her gloves and books, and stuffed them in her tan bag with brown piping, ran a brush through her long black hair, and tied it simply, leaving the bottom out.

Bec quickly clipped her hair up in a silvery clip, brushed some vanilla gloss on her lips, and leaned against the wall.

"Ready to go?"

"Just a second!" Lily grinned, and slipped a brush through her thick auburn hair. She ran some strawberry gloss over her lips, and ran past Bec.

"Come on! We'll be late!"

Bec and Frances grinned, and ran after their eager best friend.

As they walked down to the hall, Lily stopped in her tracks.

"What's up?" Bec turned and looked.

"I just remembered! I can't meet you guys later cause I've gotta have a "chat" to Vector about my assignment! I totally forgot!"

"Oh... that's ok..."

"Ooh! Lily! Thanks for reminding me! I've gotta talk to Entity about an extension on my crup assignment... I swear… someone gave me the runt! She just won't grow!" Frances started mumbling incoherently, whilst Lily and Bec just giggled. Finally, she stopped, and Bec became serious again.

"Ok then..." Bec sighed, " I'll meet you in the dorm then..."

"Yeah..." The three girls approached the entry stairway, and Lily branched off from them, and ran down a corridor.

"Bye!" She waved, and ran out of sight.

Bec and Frances started over the grounds, and approached the greenhouses.

"See ya!" Bec turned, and walked down the stairs, and took a seat inside the humid greenhouse.

"Right..." Professor Sprout smiled, "I know you've all done this before, but we'll be re-planting the Mandrakes today, so earmuffs on, and away we go!"

Bec snapped her light pink Earmuffs over her ears, and hauled the leaves of the plant out of the pot. She shoved it into another pot, and tossed in some fertilizer.

She pushed it back into the middle of the table, and took a seat.

"Very good Miss. Stockaz!" Professor Sprout smiled, and pencilled something in on her sheet.

"You've received Outstanding for this prac!"

Marina glared at her from the other side of the room. The bitch wouldn't be getting another Outstanding if she had anything to do with it…

Marina slipped something into Bec's open water bottle, unnoticed, and crept back to her place.

She watched Bec take a sip, and smirked.

After class, Bec started off, up to the castle, when she felt a slight cramp in her leg. Thinking nothing of it, she continued on her way. That was when her legs stopped working altogether. Bec tried to cry out for help, but her throat felt constricted. Her wand dropped to the ground, and she was left defenceless. Bec's knees weakened, and she fell to the ground.

"Amazing isn't it? How quickly the binding venom works? That one thing remedial potions with Impious has taught me..."

Two perfectly manicured hands dragged Bec away into the early shrubbery of the forest, where no one could find her.

Bec gasped in pain as a gash appeared on her cheek, spurting crimson blood.

Marina twirled her wand between her fingers.

"It's no fun slowly killing you when you can't talk... maybe I'll let you whisper... but nothing too loud... or you'll scream..." A smiled played around Marina's full red lips.

She muttered a spell, and Bec's throat relaxed slightly.

"Why are you doing this? What did I ever do to you?" she croaked, tears welling in her eyes as Marina kicked dirt into the fresh wound.

"What did you ever do to me... let me see..." Marina twirled her hair around a finger, "You stole my boyfriend! MY fucking boyfriend! You SLEPT with him! And then... you fed him lies about me doing with Ryan!"

"But you did! I saw you! And Sirius made the choice to take me back! I didn't sleep with him! You jumped to conclusions! I…" Marina cast a silencing charm before Bec could finish.

"Fuck you…" Marina growled, "It's all bullshit! Ryan slept with me! And you know what? I don't care if it's the truth! I'm going to fucking kill you before the night is out, but first... I'm going to make you WISH you were dead! Crucio!"

Nobody heard the screams that were echoing in her heart. Marina smirked, and watched the girl slowly die from the pain.

"Bec must be upset for us not meeting her... She's not back yet..." Frances paced around the dormitory, and looked at her charmed clock.

"Shit! It's 9:30 and she's not here!"

"She might be in Sirius' dorm... or with him in the astronomy tower..." Lily and Frances grinned.

"Maybe... I'll go check..."

"Hey! It was my idea! I'm coming to!" Lily jumped up, and carefully approached the boys' dorm, with Frances in tow.

Lily carefully knocked on the door, and James answered it.

"Well hello Miss Lily! To what do we owe the pleasure?"

"Oh shut up James... We just want to know if Bec's in here..."

"What's wrong with her?" Sirius called, hearing Lily's enquiry.

"Well... she hasn't come back to the dorm... we figured she might be with you..."

"Nope... last I saw her was when I walked past the greenhouses in my period off… Do you think she's ok?" Sirius jumped up, suddenly concerned.

"We don't know... she's probably just mad at us because we didn't meet her after class…"

"I'll just put a jumper on, and I'll come help you look..." Sirius pulled on his black jumper, and trench coat, and stood nearby the door.

"We'll come too... we just want to make sure she's ok..." James pulled on his jumper and trench, and Remus followed suit.

"Ok... we'll just get something warmer on, and check out the rest of the castle... and then the grounds if we have to..." Lily and Frances turned, and walked up the stairs.

A few minutes later, then came down in jeans, jumpers, trench coats, and stiletto boots.

(A/N he-he-he... trench coats are warm…)

"Ready now?" James, Sirius and Remus pushed the portrait door open, and stood aside for Lily and Frances to go through.

"Thank-you…" Lily walked through, and down the Gryffindor stairs. She only hoped that Bec wasn't hurt.

Marina lifted the curse, and Bec lay on the ground, gasping for a little air.

"Hmm... It's getting late… Maybe I'd better let you die now... I'm getting cold!" Marina started pacing, and continued to twirl her wand around in her fingers.

"But how to do it? You don't deserve a fast death... so... I'll just continue what I was doing before... but two curses are much more fun to use to kill someone! Crucio!" Bec writhed around on the forest floor in pain.

"Incendio Prolongus!" flames danced around her figure, and Bec felt as though she'd split from the pain.

"Goodbye you bitch... with you out of the picture... Sirius is mine..."

Marina turned, and walked off to the castle, leaving Bec to die in a pool of her own blood.

Sirius and James snuck a peek at the Marauders map when Lily and Frances weren't looking.

"She's out on the grounds... in the forest? That sounds awfully fishy to me..." Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"Lily? We just had a hunch... we're heading off to the grounds now... you can come if you want…"

"Of course I'm coming! If it means finding Bec!" Lily snapped, and stormed out of the room.

"We'll have a better chance of finding her if we split up... Lily... you go with James... Remus... you go with Frances... I'll go on alone..." Sirius had a sinking feeling in his stomach he couldn't shake.

"Alright..." the pairs split off, and Sirius sprinted into the cover of the forest. He pulled out his wand, and ran to the location on the map that she was meant to be.

He found Bec, but what he saw made him want to be sick.

Her body was covered in burns, gashes, blood and dirt. A sticky red substance surrounded her body.

"Oh shit... who did this?" He waved his wand, and ended the curses plaguing her.

Bec's body fell limp, and Sirius quickly took off his coat, and wrapped it around her. He pulled her close, and ran out of the forest with her in his arms.

"James! Remus! Lily! Frances! Come... Come quickly!" Sirius' throat was dry, and he tried to compose himself.

Lily and Frances came running, but stopped in their tracks.

"I...is she…" Lily tried to hold back the tears.

"No... Not yet anyway... I'm going to rush her up to the hospital wing... you an come too..."

"Go ahead... we'll be up soon..." James waved Sirius off, and he watched his best friend until he was out of sight.

"Are you OK?" James turned to Lily, who was shaking, though whether it was because she was cold, or upset was uncertain.

"I can't believe this... If only Frances and I had met her after class! S...she could die because of this!" Lily burst into tears, and James pulled her towards him, wrapping his strong arms around her.

"If you'd been there, you might have been attacked too... Lily, Madame Pomfrey will fix her up… don't worry..."

"Don't worry?! One of my best friends has nearly been killed, and you tell me not to worry?! James! I could have stopped it! She might still be OK if I'd been there! Vector said I didn't have to talk to him today, that I could do it tomorrow, because no one else had discussed the assignment! If I hadn't been so stubborn and wanted to get it over and done with, she might still be OK!" Lily sobbed harder into James' chest, and he hugged her, cradling her head in one of his hands.

"Sshh Lily… sshh... everything will be alright... she'll pull through... she always has..."

"You're right..." Lily looked up into James' big brown eyes, and blinked a tear away.

James brushed it from her emerald eye, and as he leaned down, Lily found herself drawn to him, until their lips met, and she felt a spark, something special that she'd been hoping for, for year now.

And, up in the respective dormitories of the Marauders, and Godric's Angels, the figurines of Godric Gryffindor and Lily Evan shared their own moment, one that hadn't been done before, but definitely wouldn't be the last.

Sirius burst into the Hospital wing, carrying the limp body of his adored.

"Mr Black! What is the meaning..." Madame Pomfrey stopped in her tracks as she laid eyes on the figure in his arms.

"What on earth happened?!"

"I found her out on the grounds! She was like this when I got there... you can fix her up... right?"

" I can try Mr. Black... but I can't make any promises…" Madame Pomfrey pointed Sirius towards a bed, and commanded him to lay Bec down there.

Madame Pomfrey bustled around, and summoned the potions and mixtures she'd need.

"Mr. Black... I thoroughly recommend you retire to bed now..."

"No! I'm not going anywhere! I'm staying here, by her side!" Sirius rooted himself in a seat by her bed.

'Very well..." Madame Pomfrey sprinkled some powders over Bec, and almost immediately, the burns subsided, and sizzled back to normal flesh.

"Mr. Black... would you be so kind as to mix this powder with this to form a paste?" Madame Pomfrey handed him the mortar and pestle, and Sirius mixed the paste quickly, whilst she dripped a sweet, while liquid down Bec's throat.

Madame Pomfrey took the paste, and spread it over the cuts and punctures, healing them instantly.

"I'll let the paste cake up before removing it, that way it'll make her skin stronger, and there will be no scarring or bruising..." Madame Pomfrey explained.

"Right..."

Sirius settled back into the chair, and waited for the night to end.

"Ah... Miss Evans! Mr. Potter... What brings you here?"

"There's been an attack Professor... A Gryffindor has been severely injured, though we are not sure who harmed her…"

Dumbledore's blue eyes opened wide, and immediately, he bustled out the door, and along the stone corridor, in the general direction of the Hospital wing.

Lily and James ran after him, providing him with the little information he didn't yet know.

The doors flew open, and Sirius awoke with a start. Quietly, he scaled himself for falling asleep, even if he was still slightly conscious.

"Sirius! Is she OK?" Lily ran over to her friend's side, and peered into her dull face.

"Madame Pomfrey fixed her up… but she says there's nothing else she can do..."

James laid a hand on Sirius' shoulder, and Sirius looked up, and sighed.

"She'll be alright mate..."

Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey had a quick discussion, before Dumbledore returned to the students.

"I'm afraid that if she doesn't wake up in a few hours, we'll have to send her to the trained healers at St. Mungos…"

"O...Oh…" Lily gulped, and took a seat across from Sirius.

Then and there, they knew it would be a long night.

Around 4 o'clock in the morning, Madame Pomfrey wrapped Bec up in a few blankets, and she and Dumbledore took her to the pick up point, where she'd be taken to St. Mungos. Lily stifled a sob, and James hugged her tighter, as they watched her until she was out of sight.

"God… I hope she'll be alright..." Remus threw his arms around Frances' shoulders, and the five Gryffindors made their way back up to the common room.

A month after that fateful night, an ebony owl soared through the window of Lily's dorm, and dropped a piece of parchment on her bed.

Lily was in class at the time, but she was soon to find out the news.

"Ah... Professor McGonagall!" Professor Vector laid eyes on the middle-aged witch.

"Professor Vector... may I borrow Miss. Evans?" Lily looked at James, and stood up when Vector nodded.

"Bring your bag, Miss. Evans... this might take some time..." Professor McGonagall swept from the door, and Lily hurried out after her, her auburn hair bouncing around her shoulders.

"What's wrong Professor?"

"I'll answer everything once we get Miss. Liu…" Lily followed McGonagall out onto the grounds, and waited whilst she pulled Frances from class.

"Professor... where are we going?"

"To the nearest fireplace... Miss. Evans... you two have somewhere you need to be..."

They entered a classroom, and McGonagall handed them each a handful of floo powder.

"What do we say?"

"St. Mungo's Hospital, Room A3 special care..."

Lily and Frances looked at each other, before Lily was pushed into the fireplace.

"St Mungo's Hospital, Room A3, Special care!" Lily dropped the powder around her, and she lost view of Frances, and she span around, eventually landing at the other end.

"About time! I never thought you'd come!" Bec held her arms out, and Lily's eyes opened wide as she saw the girl in front of her.

"You look like you've seen a ghost... and I think you should get out of the Fireplace... Someone else might be coming through..." Lily immediately jumped forward, and as she landed again on solid ground, flames roared behind her, and Frances scrambled out of the fireplace.

"Hello you two strangers!"

"You're alive! Alive!" Frances ran forward, and engulfed Bec in a hug.

"Hey!" No sooner had she finished, than Lily did the same.

"It's great to see you two!" the girls sat down, and rambled on about how worried they were.

Bec held up a hand.

"It's Ok... I'm OK... you don't need to say anymore... how are you two? How's the castle?"

"Not bad... everyone in Gryffindor's been really worried... a rumour went around that you'd died last week, and Marina had never looked so cocky... she asked Sirius out two days ago, and we didn't see him all yesterday..."

Bec shivered at the name.

"People have been saying that the attack was written down as an ambush by he-who-must-not-be-named…"

Bec snorted.

"Him? No... He wasn't the one that nearly killed me..."

"Really?!" Frances and Lily looked at each other, shocked.

"Nope... it wasn't him... It was... Marina..."

Malice welled inside Lily, and she gripped the sides of her chair so hard, her knuckles turned white.

"The bitch…"

"Can you remember everything that happened?"

"Right up to where the pain knocked me out... I knew I was throbbing with pain, but I was kinda out of it. Everything went black after the pain stopped.

Thanks for stopping the curses..."

"Oh... but we didn't…' Lily grinned, "It was Sirius!"

"Hmm... Then I'll have to thank him..."

"And we just know how you'll do it…" Frances smirked. Bec just sat in bed, glaring at her.

"Not funny... I'm not his girlfriend, so don't you dare..."

"Oh lighten up! Just cause you've been in a coma for a month doesn't mean you can be all serious on me! Laugh a little!"

"Ha-ha,"

Frances frowned.

"So what else's been happening at Hogwarts?"

"Hmm... Ryan was walking around the corridors once when I was, and this Hufflepuff asked him out..."

"Umm..." Bec raised an eyebrow questioningly at Lily.

"He said no cause he was, "Spoken for", and when she asked who, his reply was, "Bec Stockaz, my wonderful girlfriend who…"

"I cheated on with Marina Sebastian, drove her into the arms of her ex, angered his ex, and got put in hospital because of her jealousy!" Bec interrupted, and folded her arms across her chest.

"No... More along the lines of, "Whom I love, and hope is alright"…" Lily grinned, and Bec laughed.

"Tell Sirius he has my permission to prank him with one of the famous marauder gifts…"

Frances gasped.

"So our pranks aren't good enough?! Fine! See if I care!" Frances feigned offence.

Bec giggled.

"We'll prank him… no worries... but I've gotta be out of here first!"

"Too true!" Lily laughed, and shook Bec's hand.

"What was that for?"

"Made a promise we wouldn't prank him until you were out of St Mungo's and back at school!"

"Good!" And with that, the three girls giggled, laughed, and talked until the hospital staff shooed them out.

Bec lay back on her bed, and smiled.

She hadn't realized how much she'd missed her friends, until they came to visit…

But they weren't the only ones that came that day...

Later that night, a dark figure scrambled out of the fireplace, and dusted the soot from his robes.

"Who's there?" Bec sat bolt upright, and scrambled for her wand on the bedside table.

"Relax! It's me!"

"Sirius!" Bec let out a sigh of relief, and looked at the sooty, handsome boy in front of her.

"Lily let me know you were OK... Apparently McGonagall forgot that I wanted to be told when you regained consciousness..."

"I heard about your brave deed... Thank-you so much! You saved my life and I'm grateful... and did Lily give you my other message?"

"The one about pranking R. James?"

"R. James?"

"Well we can't call him James, cause well... James will get peeved at us..."

"Right..."

"It's already been dealt with... last I checked, he was joining in a rowdy chorus of all the Cher songs known to mankind with Snivellus and Malfoy..."

Bec giggled quietly, and Sirius smiled, his teeth gleaming in the dimmed room.

"You'll probably get detention for a week..."

"Yeah... Probably... but it was worth it..."

"Lily told me Marina asked you out again... seeing you warned me, I think it's only fitting I tell you something... Don't trust her... she's a bitch... you break up with her, you won't pay for it, the people around you will... she could never hurt you..."

"I take it Lily didn't finish what she was saying…" Sirius raised an eyebrow, and sat on the foot of the bed.

"I said no... I told her that she was a cheating cow and that I'd never take her back, because of what you told me…" Bec became restless, and her eyes opened wide.

"Did you mention it was me that told you it, or did you just call her a cheating cow?"

"I told her that she was a cheating whore, and that after what I'd heard from you, I'd never take her back..."

"How could you?!" tears leaked down Bec's face, and she curled into a ball, burying her face in her knees.

"Wait... Am I missing something here?"

"I'm as good as dead now Sirius! She'll kill me! She's already tried…" Suddenly, all the pieces fell into place.

"She did this to you?! Ugh!" Sirius leapt to his feet, his hands curled into fists.

"Does she know I'm still alive?"

"Not as far as I know..."

"Good... as long as she doesn't know... I'll be alright... oh... what am I going to do?"

"She'll be expelled... once Dumbledore finds out it was her..."

"Sure..." Bec sank lower into the bed, and pulled the covers over her head.

"Don't be like that..." Sirius sat back down on the bed, and tugged the quilt away from her face.

Bec's hair fell in front of her face, and she blew it up, with no avail. It just kept on falling lightly in front of her deep, grey eyes.

Sirius grinned as he brushed the blonde hair from her face, and the two looked into each others eyes, each inching closer, until their lips met, and Bec threw her arms around his shoulders. Sirius snaked his arms around her waist, and the two sat there, in pure bliss.

And there, my loyal reviewers, is chapter 29! One more chapter, and it's an even 30!!! Yahoo!

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