Spoiler: Still aint mine!

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Ch. 10 Exceptance and a Sons Wrath

"I know it sounds crazy!" he said standing up and started to pace, an extremely popular sport in Hogwarts now a days, "but ergh…I dunno….I want to believe its her because I felt so redeemed."

Lily just looked at him not as though he was crazy, but because she was starting to believe that Piper was coming back in some way.

Lily spent the next two days with four major things on her mind:

Major thing number 1: How to tell the love of her life, James, and her son that she had a deadly patch of dead skin growing on her brain.

Major thing number 2: Piper coming back to life and/or the Dementors effects on Sirius were finally surfacing.

Major thing number 3: Mrs. Granger dying in the Hospital wing because of the work of a Death Eater, which the Spy for the Order had said to be the work of Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucious Malfoy who had broken out of Azkaban after the Dementors went to work for the Dark.

Major thing number 4: Teaching 7 classes of Defense Against the Dark Arts to students who were more interested in learning about her life as a Potter and her "defeat" of Voldermort rather then learning how to pass their finals.

That Friday, James found his wife sitting in her office in the castle, with her forehead on her desk, lightly banging it. "Uh…honey…." he said a little worried, "you ok?"

She didn't look up, "no," she said, she looked up with a sad smile, "I need a hug," she smiled and walked to James.

She threw herself in the safety of his arms, and began weeping uncontrollably. James of course freaked out, "hey, what's wrong?" he asked tightening his grip on her.

"Oh James," she said into his neck, "I've got so many things going on, I'm about to go crazy," she cried.

"Shh," he said, "whatever's going on I'm gonna help you sort it out ok?" he asked kissing her head, "I'm here Lils."

"That's so brave of you considering the fact that that bloody dream of yours has gotten worst," she said with a fake chuckle.

"Dreams are dreams," he assured her, her sadness rubbing off on him. He had never seen Lily break down like this. Sure there was a lot of pressure on Lily, but she always had handled it with grace, he was the one that freaked out when there was too much stress, "except the one Sirius had about Piper and Harry's," he said.

He received a half hearted chuckle which was what he'd been aiming for, "you forgot to mention your dream in the exceptions," she said lifting her head from his shoulder.

"What are you talking about?" he asked looking into her teary eyes.

"We need to talk," she said and with a wave of her hand closed the door of the office.

James starred, "since when have you been able to use Wand-less magic?"

She shrugged, "this is more important."

"I'm listening," he said.

"Um…well…remember how peaky I was that day the Dementors attacked and Pomfrey said she would check St. Mungos?"

"Yeah," James trailed off, he still had his arms around Lily, she was holding on to his upper arm.

"Well…she checked, and it turns out its something Muggle."

"What is it?"

"Um…cancer," she said, "I have a tumor on my brain," she said.

James was smarter then he let on, he knew a lot about Muggles and would've made millions going into Muggle relations. And having lived in a Muggle city for 15 years had taught him a few things, like what cancer was and what it meant. "You're fucking kidding me," he whispered.

"Um…I wish I was fucking you," she said trying turn the mood lighter, "but I'm not kidding you James."

He shook his head, no, his Lily couldn't have that disease! She was too strong and healthy for that bologna!

"James, don't make this harder then it already is," she said.

"What am I supposed to say Lil?" he asked tears rolling down his cheeks.

She shook her head, "that you'll be there for me, that you'll love me," she whispered wiping away his tears with her finger.

"You already know all that," he said.

"Yeah," she smiled, "I do."

"How could this happen?" he asked kissing the palm of her hand.

"I don't know," she said.

"When are you gonna start chemo?"

"Well, I decided that I wouldn't until it was critical," she answered, "I wanna be sure that it won't reduce itself before doing anything drastic."

"I wouldn't call trying to save your life drastic," he smiled.

She looked at him with a surprised expression, "your handling this better then I thought Potter."

He chuckled sadly, "trust me, when I go back to the comfort of my hotel room, I'll cry my ass off."

She frowned, "why not do it in front of me?" she asked sounding hurt.

"I think one of the first rules of having a wife with such an illness is not let yourself seem weak to her," he said ignoring her exceedingly green eyes, "I think my strength is supposed to rub off on you or something."

"Where did you learn that from?" she asked forgetting the fact that she had just told him she was dying, it felt like their normal conversations. She had half expected him to fall to his knees and began cursing the world for what it was doing to her. But the half knew better then that of course, she had thought he would make the mood lighter and except it with the James Potter grace.

'This bloke at the Muggle school I taught, his wife had breast cancer, they actually gave him a booklet on how to be there for her," he answered.

Lily nodded with a small smile, "so you'll help me tell Harry?" she asked still in his arms.

"You know with the temper he inherited from you he's liable to explode right?"

"Yeah," she said, "I love you so much James."

He nodded, "I love you too," he paused, "no matter what ok?"

She nodded and kissed him on the lips, his warmth quickly spreading through her body, she loved this man more then anybody else in her life, even Harry! And that's saying something.

"Does anybody else know by the way?" James asked as he hugged her again.

"I told Sirius," she said.

He nodded. You would've excepted, that with his ego, he would burst out and yell or something because his wife had entrusted his best friend with her secret rather then him. But James Potter was a different and special case, he knew his wife loved no one but him, and that she considered Sirius an older brother, there was no threat on either end.

"I'm gonna go check up on Mrs. Granger, k?" she smiled.

"When are you planning on telling Harry about this?" James asked before she got out of the room.

"As soon as you find him," she said with a smile.

"I already know where he is," James smiled.

"Where?" she asked impressed since she couldn't locate Harry at all that day, and had only seen him in class and during the meal times.

"Quiddich pitch, they have practice right now," he answered.

"You finally get to see him playing without having to be invisible," Lily smiled at her husband.

"And I can scream at the top of my lungs too," he said with smirk.

"Have fun, I'll meet you in the clock tower in twenty minutes?" she asked.

He winked, "see ya then babe."

"See ya," she said and went out of the room. She sighed with the greatest relieve on earth, she loved James for his patience, and the fact that he could turn seemingly impossible and frightening situations such as Lily having cancer, into sounding like she merely had a bad cold. She loved James more then anything, and smiled as she went to the Hospital wing to see what was going on with Mrs. Granger.

In the classroom, James stood plastered to the spot not being able to move. He looked out of the window, he drew a deep breath, when he exhaled it came back extremely shaky and tears began to threaten to start rolling down his beautiful eyes. But he couldn't show her that side of him, he couldn't. That was it, no one could see him weak, except Sirius and Lily. But know he was weak because of Lily, and he couldn't let her see him scared. He needed to talk to Sirius, after finding Harry of course.

"Mr. Granger?" Lily asked as she walked into the tower, Mr. Granger, Lloyd, was sitting on a chair holding his wife's hand in his.

"I've already told you, call me Lloyd," he said looking at Lily who was standing at the foot of the bed.

She smiled, "ok, any change Lloyd?" she asked pleasantly.

"She moved her pinky," he answered with a nod, "I think she might be getting better."

"I think so too, she looks less pale," Lily nodded.

"Have you…er…ever experience the Carciatus Curse? I think you called it…"

"Yeah," Lily nodded, "many times."

Lloyd nodded, "um, this might sound a bit out of the ordinary, but Hermione always told us that Harry's parents were dead."

Lily smiled weakly, "we were in hiding," she nodded, "long story."

He nodded, "I think the fact that your standing here ends the story," he smiled.

"Yep," she smiled.

"Professor!" she heard Hermione exclaim from behind her.

"Hey Hermione," Lily smiled turning around.

Since her parents had been attacked, Hermione had a lot of eight, what Lily called the grieving diet. But if she didn't have a secret relationship with Harry, and if she didn't have the comforting thought of him loving her in her mind, she would've long gone crazy. "What are you doing here?" she questioned.

"Just came to see how your mum was doing," shrugged Lily.

Hermione looked at Lily with a curious eye, "ok…" she trailed off.

Lily could sense that Hermione was a bit uncomfortable around her since the day her parents were attacked, so she decided to ease the tension for the young girl, "I have to go, I'll see you later ok?" she turned to Lloyd, "tell me if you need anything?"

Lloyd nodded appreciatively.

"Bye," she said and took her leave, going to the Clock Tower and took the same position as when she had when she told Sirius.

Ten minuets later she heard, "Hey," said Harry coming into the tower with James at his heels, smiling, "what's up?" he asked.

"Um, I need to tell you something Harry," she said standing up and walking towards him.

"Ok…" he said looking at his mother.

"Um," she said, she knew it would be better if she just told him without sugar coating it, "I have cancer Harry," she said.

"You what?!" he yelled.

"I have cancer," she repeated.

"How? When?? How long?" he asked breathless.

"I found out nearly a week ago," Lily said calmly.

"I knew this was all just some twisted dream," Harry said backing away from Lily, "after all, how could I, the fucking boy-who-loved, ever be happy?!"

"Harry.." Lily said taking a step towards him and stopped when he backed away.

"How could I have been so naïve?" he said, "HOW COULD I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT I COULD BE HAPPY? HOW COULD I BE SO NAÏVE AS TO TRUST THE PARENTS WHO TOLD BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THEY WERE DEAD?!?! HOW COULD I TRUST YOU?!" he yelled. ((AN: Harry's being a little dramatic but that's how I was when I found out about my cancer, so deal with it, hehe.))

"Calm down," Lily said with a forced calm.

Harry shook his head, "THIS IS JUST WHAT I ANTICAPATED!! I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN!" he yelled.

"HARRY! CALM DOWN FOR A SECOND!" James yelled.

"NO!" he answered.

"You think it's my fault I have a tumor Harry? You think I want to put this much pain on you? On your father?" Lily asked slowly loosing her cool.

He again shook his head as if disgusted and ran out of the tower.

"James.."

"I'll go," he said.

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

"Ok then, go!" Lily said tear struck. Not even two weeks since she got her son back, he already hated her.

James, sprinting like a deer, ran down the steps where he was sure Harry had gone. "HARRY!" he yelled trying to catch up to his son, who was running as well.

James chased Harry down into the edge of the lake, where he stood abruptly, right at the edge of the lake, "Harry," James said breathless, "we need to talk."

"About what?" he asked bitterly.

"Your mum," James answered, "you know that we both love you to death. And she would rather die then have you hate her."

"I don't hater her," Harry said quickly.

"It sure sounded like you did back there," said James accusingly.

"I hate the world, not her," Harry said, he turned around to reveal the fact that he'd been crying, his eyes were blood shot, this of course broke his father's heart.

"I know how you feel, believe me Harry, I do," James pressed earnestly, "first I had to endure the fact that you would ya know, face Voldermort in the final battle. And then the fact that you would be safer if you were as far away from your parents as possible. And then the whole shit with the Durleys. And then at the age of 11 facing Voldermort! And know, finally when Lil and I have you back, this terrible disease comes and rips us apart again. But…ergh….we have to be there for her, this is exactly why people need families, to get through things like this."

"What are we supposed to do? Paste a fake smile and pretend we're the perfect family until she dies?" he asked.

James frowned, "you could be a little less sarcastic you know that right? But I guess that's something you inherited from me…anywho…we don't have to paste a smile, we could be happy even through this. Lily's making plans for us, the Weasleys, and the Grangers and Remus and Sirius to spend Christmas in of the Potter manors. She doesn't want to start chemo just yet, not until she really needs to."

Harry nodded, "what if she dies?"

The thought destroyed James but he still answered with a flowing heart, "then me and you pull together and face the worst, k bud?"

His son nodded, and tears began to spill faster, James hugged his son. Harry tensed up but the eased into the hug. With his head on his shoulder, Harry silently mourned his mother's fate.

"You two made up?" Lily asked walking behind them.

Harry, who was facing the castle, smiled at her over his father's shoulder, "yeah," he let go of James and walked towards Lily.

He stood in front of her, he had over the summer grown a few inches and was currently standing at six feet, his mother was 5'10. "I'm sorry I freaked out," he said looking at her.

"It's fine, you had every right to Harry," she said, "and I'm never gonna leave you, nor James, ok? I'll always be with you, forever and always."

Harry nodded as his mother hugged him, "I love you sweetie," the 36-year-old told her 16-year-old.

"I love you too," Harry answered.

"Ok," Lily smiled, "lets get back to the castle eh? I know for a fact you have tons of homework Harry."

Lily hooked her arm around James's, who smiled charmingly, "has Snivellus been giving you anymore trouble Harry?" he asked.

Harry smiled, "not as bad as last time."

"As bad?" James asked.

"Yeah."

"We have to have another heart to heart with Snivelly," James said thoughtfully.

"This should be interesting," Lily smiled.

"You have no idea," James assured her.

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