AN: Hello everyone out there in fanfiction land. This is me with way to much homework and a nasty cold. Anyways I don't have anything better to do till I have to go to class but work on the next chapter of this story. Please as a favour to me remember that I have to live outside of working on this story. I am at university and I try to have a life, (though sometimes this doesn't happen) so sometimes I won't work on it for extended periods of time. This is not because I'm purposely trying to cause everyone grief it is because I; A- I'm having large bouts of lack of inspiration and writers block or B I don't have anytime. I will try to keep this from happening but hey I'm not perfect. On another note I have found that I want to work some of the new information that was learnt in Order of the Phoenix into this story and so although this story will not follow the cannon presented in the fifth book it will included some of the information about the magical world. Thank you for continuing to read this story. Blessed Be.
Chapter 15: Thestrals
James and Lily exited the school through the massive immediately the vicious wind that surrounded the castle billowed through the teens thick winter coats as the hurried towards the waiting horseless carriage. James looked at the carriage and realised that it wasn't really horseless, there was a strange winged creature pulling it.
Lily's P.O.V----
Lily looked up into James' face. I wonder if he is a nervous about the thestrals as I am. Thought Lily shivering remembering beginning school again after the summer that her parents had dies. Lily had been in the car the night of the accident however she had been lucky.
Memories
She and her parents had been coming home from a party at a family friend's house. The road had been perfectly clear with not another vehicle in site and then suddenly they were rolling into the ditch. No one ever figured out how the accident happened anyways, Lily's parents who were in the front seat were both killed almost instantly yet somehow Lily how had been in the back never even lost consciousness. After they came to rest it was Lily who found her parents with out vital signs, and it was Lily who got the emergency flares from the car and worked for an hour with out help trying to free her parents from the wreckage. Finally help had come in a transport truck that stopped and called for help.
The Lily who had kept calm for so long had gone into shock. She didn't remember much after the truck driver's arrival. She remembered the blanket he had wrapped her in and the lights when the ambulance arrived, the craziness of the hospital with people running everywhere. What she remembered very clearly was her sister arriving and screaming at Lily that this was all her fault, these were the first words Petunia had spoken to Lily in 2 years. Petunia being six years Lily's elder had got married the summer after Lily's second year at Hogwarts. Lily hadn't been invited to her wedding but her parents had insisted that Lily come anyways. Need less to say Petunia was not impressed by her "freaky little sister's" appearance at her wedding.
End of Memories
"James it is a thestral. They are always there you just couldn't see it before. You can only see it now because you were with your mother when she died. I've been able to see them since forth year." Lily said.
James' P.O.V
James could do nothing but stare at the thing that was pulling the carriage. He wondered where they had got it and why they were using such beast to pull these carriages that were often full of young children. He felt Lily shiver beside him and he was sure that it wasn't just the cold wind. He tore his eyes away from the beast to look at her. Her eyes had the glazed look of one who was deep in thought.
"James it is a thestral. They are always there you just couldn't see it before. You can only see it now because you were with your mother when she died. I've been able to see them since forth year" Lily's voice sounded sad to James as if some one had dropped a large weight of troubles onto her in an instant.
"Come Lily we must be going," James said walking over to the carriage and opening the door. Once they were seated in the miraculously warm carriage the carriage started moving away from the castle towards Hogsmeade village. For some time they sat in companionable silence neither knowing what to say. Neither spoke until the carriage stopped before Dumbledore's house.
AN: I'm sorry that this is so short but I got stumped on what to write. So I figured I would post this so that you had something at least until my brain gets out of its Calculus mode and back on to this story. Thanks to all those who have been reviewing this story all along. I realised that I started writing it almost two years ago. I read it and see the plot change with my own life changes. Well thanks for your patience. Blessed Be.
