A/N Hi every1, I just want to warn you now that there is material in this chapter that some readers may find disturbing and I dont want to upset anyone so I just thought I would warn you now
She didn't, however, get very far before her next (and much worse) surprise.
She rounded a corner and came face-to-face with Lucious Malfoy.
'Well, well, well,' started Malfoy, 'Just the girl I was looking for.' Lily glanced over his shoulder, quickly, and saw Severus Snape looking very nervous.
She didn't have time to take in much more details, however, because within seconds Lucious grabbed hold of her arms and pushed her hard against the wall. She screamed in surprise and pain from where she had banged her head in the process. What she didn't realise was that it was this involuntary noise that would save her. An evil smile appeared on his face as he pulled her arms up above her head and held her wrists together with one of his large hands. With his other hand he removed his wand from his pocket and pointed it at her, muttering a spell quietly.
He then released her wrists from his grasp but to her horror she discovered she still couldn't move. Her entire body was frozen in the position she was currently in. She was stood up straight with her back against the wall, her arms up above her head and her feet shoulder-width apart.
She attempted to scream, once more, but found she couldn't. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make a sound, not even a whisper. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, she was suddenly very scared. She had no idea what these two boys were capable of but she knew that whatever it was she was powerless to stop them.
'Snape, say the spell,' said Malfoy's deep voice. Severus, however, didn't move. He merely stood there looking worried.
'Erm... Lucious, don't you think this has gone far enough now. You've scared her enough, just...just let her go.'
The other boy spun around to face him, his eyes flashing with anger. 'You are NOT chickening out of this Snape, this is what we planned. Now say the GODAMN SPELL!' Snape looked like he was about to argue once more but decided against it.
He hung his head and said some words under his breath, pointing his own wand towards Lily.
Her eyes widened in horror as she realised that both her top and her bra had vanished, leaving her top half completely exposed. She attemped once more to move her arms down to cover herself only to fail once again. Tears came now even more fiercely as Malfoy grinned, evily and moved towards her.
He walked slowly, or at least seemed to, his eyes flashing.
He ran his cold hands up her sides towards her chest. She cringed inside as he tweaked her nipple rather painfully, before he leant down and kissed her on the lips hard.
He's going to rape me, Lily found herself thinking, please just let me pass out so that I am at least unconcious while it happens.
He pushed himself against her and she felt something hard press into her stomach.
Over his shoulder she saw Snape shake his head and turn and walk away. She cried out to him silently. He was her only hope, even if it was a small one.
Malfoy was now moving his hips in rhythmn against hers, and she could feel the button of his trousers press painfully onto her stomach, his cold hands on her breasts. She longed to be able to move, to protect herself, even to cry out.
She closed her eyes in an attempt to make what was happening go away. It was then that she felt Malfoy pulled backwards off her and her eyes snapped open in time to see him hit the floor. There stood above him, with anger glowing on his face and his wand pointed directly at Malfoy was James Potter.
Lily had never been more relieved to see him in her entire life.
'You scum,' he spat, 'how could you do this, this is low even for you. You undo that binding spell this second.' Lily had never seen such power in a single sentence. James well and truely was a boy to be scared of in that moment but Malfoy merely smiled. Potter pulled back his foot and kicked him hard in the ribs. Lucious cried out in pain and muttered something, causing the spell to be undone.
Lily fell to the ground sobbing. 'James,' she whispered and half a second later he was on his knees by her side. He removed his cloak and wrapped it around her before pulling her close into a tight hug. She allowed herself to be held by him and she sat, shaking, on the ground.
'Ssssshhhh,' James soothed, 'It's going to be ok now.' She nodded against his shoulder as he rocked her backwards and forwards, relief flooding through her as she realised that it was over.
Malfoy choose that moment to try and get out of there unnoticed. He didn't succeed, however, as James, using reflexes developed from years of Qudditch, shot around and hit him with a full-body bind.
James then turned back to Lily, checking her to see if she was physically ok. He knew that emotionally she would never be ok but for now he did all he could for her.
He sat on the floor with his back against the wall and pulled her close onto his knee and held her while she cried, whispering 'ssshhhh' or 'it's gonna be ok,' every so often or kissing her hair.
He muttered something to himself that she barely heard but sounded vaguely like, 'I should have listened.' She didnt understand the statement but right at that moment she didnt care, she had been saved from the most unlikely person. The person she had hated passionately for 6 years.
They sat there for about another ten minutes with neither of them saying much at all. James was desperately worried about Lily and wanted to get her to the hospital wing as soon as possible in case she was hurt but he also realised that right that moment she just needed to be held a little longer.
So they stayed in that position. James sat on the floor leaning his back against the wall with Lily curled up on his knee with her face buried in his chest. He was stroking her hair softly and whispering gently into her ear.
That was how Sirius Black found them when he walked around the corner on his way to the headteacher's office for dying McGonagal's hair purple.
'Bloody hell.' A thousand thoughts were running threw Sirius' head, some of which brought a cheeky smile to his face, which vanished, however, when Lily turned her head towards him and he saw the tears glistening on her cheek.
'Oh my God Prongs, what did you do to her?' he exclaimed.
James glared at him, 'Not me Padfoot, Malfoy. Go get Dumbledore will you?' Without needing any further explanation from his best friend Sirius nodded and ran off towards the headteacher's room.
He returned less than five minutes later jogging beside the long strides of a determined Professer Dumbledore, and looking rather out of breath.
'Mr Potter?' he questioned, 'what happened?'
James opened his mouth to answer but before he could Lily looked up at the teacher and he immediately made a decision.
'In fact, we'll leave explanations for later, right now I do believe Miss Evans needs to go to the hospital wing.'
The others nodded and James helped Lily to her feet. As the group walked in silence towards their destination Lily stayed as close as she possibly could to James' side. He simply put his arm around her and helped her along.
'Here Miss Evans you may put this on.' Madame Pomfrey handed the frightened girl a hospital gown. When Lily looked down at herself she realised that she still had James' cloak wrapped around her body and so she nodded, slipping the gown over her head before letting the cloak drop to the ground so as to not allow anyone to actually see her without a top.
'Mr Black would you please go back to the corridor where you found Miss Evans and Mr Potter and there Lucious Malfoy is currently in a full body bind. Please levitate him here.'
Sirius nodded and left.
The matron then herded Lily over to a bed, drew the curtains and began to examine the bruises that had formed on her forearms from where Malfoy had gripped her too tightly. She was tutting disapprovingly.
Turning to Professer Dumbledore she asked what had happened.
'Well Poppy, I'm afraid I can't answer you that question because I myself do not yet know,' he then turned to Lily, 'Miss Evans I can't imagine how you must be feeling right now but we need you to tell us what happened. Mr Black said something about Lucious Malfoy.'
Lily looked down at her hands fidgiting so she wouldn't have to look at them. She didn't want to have to do this, she didn't want to relive it.
Then however she felt warm hands place themselves over her own and she looked up to see James sitting beside her with a concerned looked on his face. He gave her the encouragement and the strength she needed.
'Well Professer, I was walking to class when I bumped into Lucious Malfoy and Severus Snape. They stopped me and Malfoy froze my body with my hands above my head. I felt so helpless.' A tear rolled down her cheek as she spoke and James squeezed her fingers slightly. 'He was going to...to...rape me.' There was a silence around the room. Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey all wore identical looks of horror on their faces. 'But then James came,' she smiled, 'and he saved me.'
'I see,' said Dumbledore,' and what part did Master Snape play in this?'
'Well he cast the spell to remove my shirt but I could easily tell he was against what was happening. He left after that.'
The headteacher nodded, looking concerned. 'And what did you witness Mr Potter?'
James cleared his throat before he spoke but he still sounded slightly croaky, 'Well, I heard Lil scream so I came to look for her and when I came around the corner Malfoy had her pinned against the wall. She wasn't wearing a top,' he blushed slightly, 'so I pulled him off her, cursed him and comforted her until Sirius found us.'
Once again Dumbledore nodded.
Just then the door opened and Sirius walked in with his wand pointed as Lucious Malfoy who was floating, unconcious in front of him. He had a few bruises on him and it didn't look as though Sirius had been too concerned about banging him into walls during the return journey.
He was revived and Dumbledore took him into another room for questioning while Madame Pomfrey attended to Lily.
Lily herself would not let James leave her side. She saw him as a kind of protector and found herself now feeling safe unless he was around.
Review Response
SuZeSiMoNwriter - sorry bout the cliffy but i hope this chapter satifies your curiousity.
hpjsr - i totally agree that Lucious is bad news, really bad news from this chapter
Niux- congrats about the competition, your english is good and I hated German too. I only did it for 2 years but I dropped it as soon as I could, not a very nice language. Anyway, thanx for the review, glad you like the story, just hope u dont hate me after wot I just did to Lily.
seXcraVeDjaYy - thnx for the review
b2okworm1 - I will try to make the chapters longer from now on, I have actually got the story finished, I just dont want to give to much away at once but I promise I'll try and post more
A/N just wanted to let every1 know that Im going away for a week to visit my dad so I wont be posting for a little bit, i will post asap tho so plz keep reviewing