Lily woke up the next morning with the sun in her eyes, James had fallen asleep, so had Remus. They were all asleep, so she decided to get dressed and go send a letter to home.

When she was dressed, she wrote a note to James and told him where she was going, and then she headed up to the owlry. She climbed the long spiraling staircase; she lost count of the steps after 200. When she finally got to the top she scribbled a note down and tied it to the leg of a huge barn owl. She watched it fly away until she couldn't see it anymore then decided to go back to the Common Room, 'Maybe the others were awake by now.' She thought.

Just as she turned around someone burst through the door, taking it right of its hinges. She jumped backward at the shock, hitting the wall behind her. Lucius Malfoy had his wand pointing at her. She grabbed her wand and disarmed him. He didn't hesitate there, he charged at her. He grabbed her shoulders and through her across the room, it was easy for him, being so muscular. She landed and rolled to a stop, when she raised her head, she saw him coming at her again. She screamed and covered her head as he picked her up and through her down the stairs. She fell about half way down, when she stopped falling, she lay there, silent, only to hear Lucius coming down the stairs after her.

"NO!" she screamed, she hoped that someone would hear her. She didn't know that it was only 7 o'clock in the morning and that nobody was awake. He came at her kicking her. She had no strength left when she hit the bottom stair; her back was bleeding from falling down the stairs, her knees, and arms. When he reached her he just looked down at her and laughed, he grabbed her by the neck of her robes and pulled her up close to his face, "You tell anyone, I mean anyone about this, and I'll kill you!" he whispered, he laughed again as he shoved her down, then walked away. She laid there in pain, on the blood splattered floor, waiting, waiting for somebody to come. She waited for over an hour before she hear footsteps.

She listened trying to figure out who it was, she heard them gasp. Then the footsteps ran to her. The person rolled her over; she looked up into the eyes of Remus. He hugged her, she started to cry. He slowly lifted her up, but sat her back down; it would hurt her more to move her.

He then heard footsteps. They turned the corner and he saw Snape standing there, shell shocked.

"What the hell happened to her?" he asked.

"I don't know she won't tell me, s-she can't move." Remus replied.

"I'll stay here with her and you, you go get James."

"OK." Remus replied as he ran off to the Common Room. He didn't have to go very far, when he turned the corner he ran into James.

"Ow! James!" He gasped. He grabbed his arm and ran to where Lily was.

"What? Remus? Where's Lil-" he stopped when he saw her on the ground. "Oh god!!" He ran over to her, took of his cloak and threw it around her. He scooped her up in his arms and sat there, rocking her. Snape went off to find a teacher.

Sirius came running over minutes later. "What happened to her?" he asked

"We don't know, she won't talk."

"Lily? Hey, come on now, it's going to be OK, I'm here." Said James trying to calm her down. She just turned her body in towards him and cried.

When Snape came back Professor McGonagall was jogging right behind him. She stopped at the site of Lily, then like the others, rushed over. Lily didn't let anyone but James touch her. He went to wipe a spot of blood from her eyebrow, but she slapped his hand away, it was split open. Her nose was bleeding, along with her lip.

James got her up and, with the help of the others, got her to the Common Room. James laid her down on the couch and let her rest there. He sat on the floor by her, watching the fire.

It had snowed during the night, with Christmas on its was, the school was almost empty with people home for the holidays.

James woke up the next morning to find an owl sitting on the armrest of the chair. He looked at the address on the envelope and it was addressed to Lily. He thought that she had been through enough for the day and took the letter from the owl. The owl snapped at him, but he took the letter anyway. He opened it and read.

When he was done he sat there in shock. "Dead?......H-how?" he mumbled. "This is going to kill her. She can't live with this." He moved closer to the fireplace when something moved behind him. His head snapped towards the sound and he saw Lily, waking up.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"You're talking!" He exclaimed. "Oh, this it's nothing." He said trying to hide the letter, too late.

"Let me see it." She demanded.

"Nope, sorry."

"James!" She stopped. "It's for me, isn't it?" she asked.

He hesitated. "Yes." He mumbled.

"You read it didn't you?"

"Yes."

"Well? What did it say?"

"I can't tell you."

"James come on! Just tell me what the letter says."

"Your, ugh, Parents..."

"What about my parents?"

"Well, there, ugh..." He coughed.

"What James? What's wrong?" her eyes grew wet.

"They're, dead." He finished.

"What? Dead? No! They can't be, not them. Are you sure?" tears started to fall down her cheeks. He handed her the letter. Her eyes scanned it. Tears were pouring down her cheeks at this point.

"Lily, can you tell me something?"

"What?"

"What happened yesterday in the owlry?" he asked.

"I...I...can't."

"Why? Why can't you tell me?"

"He said that he'd kill me if I told anyone."

"Who?"

She shook her head. James swore then got up.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"I know who this was!"

"James! No! Don't! Please, get back here! You don't know!" She got up off the couch, wincing from the pain, went after him. Yelling for him to stop, he never did. Remus and Sirius came and took her back to the Common Room, she kicked and yelled at them to let her go. She finally broke free and went after James to stop him. When she found him he was outside. He had Snape cornered, his wand pointed at Snape's heart.

"James! No! It wasn't him." She cried as she fell to her knees right behind him in the snow. The snow turned red, since she was still bleeding freely from her wounds. "James! Please don't! I swear it wasn't him!" she pleaded as Remus and Sirius, came up behind her. Tonks hurried over from the bench she was sitting on, to see what was going on.

She went over to Lily and helped her up. Lily walked over to James and got in front of him. "James, please, I love you, don't do this!" he lowered his wand, and put it in his robe, he then put his arm around her and led her away.

They were walked back inside when they ran into Professor McGonagall.

"Miss Evans, would you come with me please?" Lily nodded, hugged James good-bye, then followed the Professor down the corridor. They walked in silence until they came to a stone gargoyle.

"Fizzing Whizbees." Said McGonagall, and the gargoyle sprang to life, revealing a spiral staircase. Lily and McGonagall stepped onto it. When it reached the top there was a door, McGonagall knocked then walked in. Lily following closely behind, she sat in a chair looking at the ground. Dumbledore sat down opposite of her.

"Well, Lily, it seems that we have a problem." He looked at her. "Or two." He added looking at her. She was still wearing her white shirt that had blood on it when she had been forced down the stairs. "First off, what happened to you?" Lily shook her head. "Come on dear, you can tell me." She shook her head again. "Ok then we'll come back to that. Now there's a matter about what to do about your parents house." Silent tears rolled down her face at these words, she was so caught in James not hurting Snape that she had forced it to the back of her head. "I think that at the end of the school year you will go back there, and sort through the things that you want and don't want, and then spend the rest of the summer at, let's see, where could you spend the summer at? I know that you are very fond of James Potter." She looked up. "You could go there." She nodded. "Ok then-"

"Sir?"

"Yes?"

"Can you tell me how-" She swallowed, "How they died?"

"Well," he looked into her eyes. "You have a right to know...Voldemort killed your parents."

Lily gasped. "What? No! No, this cant be, why?"

They sat in silence for a bit until Dumbledore broke it.

"Now back to you bruises, what happened to you?" He stared at her. "Who hurt you my dear?"

She once again shook her head. "He threatened me." She said.

"You're safe here, come on, tell us."

"Well, I was in the owlry, sending an owl to," She swallowed. "Sending and owl, when the door burst open..." She told him everything that happened. Dumbledore looked neither shocked nor surprised. He just sat there listening to every bit of detail. "That's when James laid me down on the couch, and I fell asleep." She finished.

"Who was it that threw you down the stairs?" asked Dumbledore.

Lily hesitated. "Lucius Malfoy."

"Ah, I see. Well you may go now." Said Dumbledore.

"What are you going to do?"

"You may leave." He said. Lily walked out the door, down the stone stairs and right into James.

"Nice to see you too." He joked. "So what happened? You were in there for ever!"

"I just told him what happened and he told me what I am going to do this summer, now that my parents are, well, can I stay with you this summer?"

"What? Oh, Yeah! Sure! That'd be great!"

"Good, I need to go to my house and sort things out there, then I'd go to your house."

"Great!"

They walked towards the Great Hall together. On their way back they were going along a deserted corridor, when someone flew out behind a statue, taking James and Lily down with them. James rolled away, but Lily had hit the wall, the attacker got up and walked over to her. He grabbed her shoulders and pulled her up.

"You told!" he said.

"No, I didn't!" she pleaded.

"DON"T LIE!" he yelled as he threw her back down to the ground. She fell hard on her wrist; there was a sharp snapping sound. James got up and ran over to Lily.

"Leave her alone!" he yelled

"Oh? You in love with Mudbloods, Potter?" He cursed James and he lay limp on the floor.

"No! James!" she cried, holding her wrist.

"Shut up!" he yelled at her.

"Why are you doing this to me?" she asked.

"That's none of your business!" he snapped. He drew out his wand and pointed it at her. "Now shut up! Your next!"

Just then a black shaggy dog came out of nowhere and jumped on Lucius' back.

Lucius landed on top of Lily as the dog attacked him. She screamed. Surely someone would hear, but it was dinner time and everyone was in the Great Hall, eating, laughing.

"Why is this happening to me?" she screamed as she covered her head. The dog threw Lucius off of her. The dog chased him down the corridor. Lily looked up, scared that the dog might attack her next, but wait! She had seen that dog before, ad there was some sort of deer with it. The dog came back, and sat next to her. "S-Sirius?" the dog nodded. "Oh, My, God!" She threw her hands around his neck and hugged him. The dog led her over to James who still lay there, not moving. Lily turned him over. He moved. "He'll be OK." She told Sirius. She turned around expecting to come face to face with the dog but Sirius was there instead. "Ah! Oh, how? How do you do that?"

"I am an animagus." He said. "How did you know it was me?"

"I saw you, the night you and James left with Remus."

"Oh, well, you won't tell anyone will you?" he asked.

"Of course not!" Sirius got up.

"Thank you! Thank you so much. You saved my life."

"Your welcome. We're friends, right?"

"Right."

"And friends do that sort of thing for each other, right?"

"Right." She hugged him again.

James woke up. "James? Come on let's go outside and get some freah air." They all walked out of the castle and over to the oak tree. There they met up with Remus. Sirius started by tossing snow on James and Lily, then he went to throwing snowballs at them, Remus soon joined in, then James and Lily got in on it! They were soon having a fun time throwing snowballs at each other.

The fun lasted for over an hour. Finally when it was getting to dark to see anymore, they went in. Soaking wet and laughing, they put what had happened that day in the back of their minds. When Lilt climbed into bed that night she was happier than she ever been, the fact that her parents were dead haunted her dreams that night.

She dreamt that she was running along an endless path, trying to get to her parents to tell them that Voldemort was going to kill them, but things kept getting in her way. Finally when she got there, she found the house in ruins.

She suddenly sat up, sweating. 'It's just a dream' she thought. 'I can't change what happened.' She clambered out of bed and went into the boys' dormitory. She found where James was sleeping and climbed into his bed with him.

"Lily? What's wrong?" he asked.

"I had a bad dream." She told him. "I want this school year to end so I can go home with you." She snuggled closer to him, and soon fell asleep, dream free.