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"Lily you can come out now." James Potter called back to the back of the cave. He grabbed the shoulder of his friend who was still beating at the barrier. "Come on Sirius that's obviously not working."

Sitting back against the wall of the cave still a little daze and coughing Remus watch as a young girl emerged from the dark cave end. "Lily?" She wasn't suppose to come with James and Sirius.

"Hello Remus, are you alright that was quite a fall?" Remus stood up and brushed himself off he looked up at the hole he had fallen threw and it had been quite a drop. He was a tall young man and he didn't think he could reach the hole even if he could stand on his own shoulders. "I'm fine."

Sirius stormed back into the cave to where Remus and Lily stood. "Remus come on and get your wand you've got to get us out of here!" Remus again instinctively reached for his wand which yet again he found gone. "I haven't got it."

James stopped examining the Barrier and looked back at Remus "You What?!"

"I must have dropped it in the forest on my way here." Remus apologized.

"Well why'd you do a dumb thing like that?" spat Sirius. "Why didn't you go and find it?"

"Well I didn't know it was missing till I found you and them it didn't seem there was any time to turn around and go find it." Remus Defended himself.

"Well what were you planning to do to the Death Eaters, bore them to death with one of your lectures on the history of Hogwarts or something."

"Shut up Sirius." Remus rubbed the back of his head and noticed a knot forming on the back of his skull.

"It's alright boys I still have my wand." Lily triumphantly held out her wand.

"Wait Wait." Remus was not fully clear on what the problem was. "Why do we need a wand aren't the Death Eaters gone?" Remus looked around and saw nothing of any threat; he didn't grasp the cause of James and Sirius's anxiety.

"Were you in the same cave we were the last 10 minutes?" Sirius exploded.

James gave Remus a sad look "We're Trapped."

"What?" Remus cocked his head daring James to say the words again.

"Remus, Malfoy put up some kid of invisible Barrier or force field or shield of some kind…" James started to explain.

Sirius impatient with James inability to just "spit it out" jumped in "There is an invisible wall blocking our only exit."

"No." Remus shook his head.

"Yes." James assured him.

"No" Remus still shaking his head pushed his way past his friends to the cave opening. And found just as his friends had said. There was no way out. Remus pounded the wall with his fists. James came and put a hand on his friend's shoulder. Remus kept trying to "see" the barrier "What do you think? Is it just a magical barrier designed to keep us in here or something more sinister?" James looked at his friend who was trying his best to stay analytical about the new development but failing miserably.

"We will get out." James squeezed Remus's shoulder in reassurance.

Remus's eyes glazed with frustrated tears that he refused to let fall as he watched the sun in its descending arch creep ever closer to oblivion.

Oblivion: The condition or quality of being completely forgotten

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"What about the hole I fell through?" Remus composed himself and turned back into the cave.

"It's no good." Sirius demonstrated by throwing a large stone at the hole. It would have gone through the hole had Malfoy's spell not blocked it, sending the stone back down.

Remus began to pace.

"Lily why don't you try some reversal spells? Anything you can think of." James compelled. She was a capable witch and was looking to be there only hope of escape.

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10 minutes later Lily exasperated with the pressure the boys were putting on her exploded "James I've tried everything I know."

Everyone in the cave was getting frustrated. They had indeed gone through every spell and incantation they could think of and nothing was breaking the barrier.

"I don't think she's strong enough." Sirius ran his finger nails along the smooth unwavering wall.

"Is there no way one of us could…"

"Remus you know as well as any of us that a wizard's wand is only half as powerful in anyone else's hands. It would do no good. And would you stop pacing you're making Lily nervous and that's not helping." Remus stopped his pacing only to take up biting at his nails. "Would you try again Lily?"

"I don't understand what the big deal is. James you told Dumbledore that we were coming through the forest and in the morning when they find us not at the castle they'll come looking for us. One night in a cave isn't going to kill you three is it?" Lily looking in the eyes of the three young men who she had grown up with and loved and in their eyes she found a fear she did not expect to see. It then dawned on her that what ever the problem, it was greater then simply the inconvenience of a night in a cave.

"What are you not telling me James Potter?" The demand in her voice made James flinch and he looked to Sirius. Lily followed his line of sight "Sirius Black what is going on?" Sirius in turn coward from her order and looked to the last man standing. "Remus? Would you please explain what has got you all so bothered?" Lily then watched as the boy she had always thought of as always being so logical and lucid turn into something she didn't recognize.

To be continued…