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Chapter 3- Stranded: Lost or Stuck
Lily felt her conscious to arise and also felt something similar to wetness as if someone was sponging her face. Realizing that she was indeed being sponged by someone she scrambled to stand up and run. She succeeded in the stand part but failed miserably on the running when someone pushed her back on the bed.
"Goodness, dear lady, just relax!" a woman closely resembling Madame Pomfrey exclaimed.
"M-Madame Pomfrey?" Lily sputtered. "Why am I in the hospital wing and why are you dressed like Florence Nightingale?" Lily added as she observed the old fashioned nurse gown the woman she thought as Madame Pomfrey was wearing.
"Who is this Madame Pomfrey woman you speak of? And whoever that Florence Nightingale is, she must be a nurse like me and I do not think it's proper for you to criticize my clothing when you're robes look like that," the Madame Pomfrey look-a-like snapped.
Goodness, she's delusional… Lily thought as she observed her normal looking Hogwarts robes.
"Don't worry I completely understand you," Lily said soothingly.
"What?"
"You must be terribly stressed, a good, long vacation would take care of it but I have to find Alexa, Gary and the marauders, have you by any chance have seen them?" Lily asked.
"Alexa?" the woman asked, confusion written all over her face.
"Yes, have you seen her?" Lily asked getting a bit impatient.
The Madame Pomfrey poser shook her head and continued to ask, "Gary?'
"Yes, have you seen him and the marauders?" Lily asked through gritted teeth. Honestly, how Dumbledore could let someone so light headed cure injured students was beyond her mental capacity.
"MARAUDERS? Are you friends with thieves, girl?" the woman screeched.
Okay, now this has to be the most confusing thing I have ever gotten into. Lily thought.
"Thieves, where?" A boy about the same age as Lily with dark hair and glasses burst into the door and began swiveling his head to look for the said thieves.
Holy Macaroni, if you exclude the neat hair the boy, I mean the adolescent or the teen or whatever they call a sixteen year old those days, almost looked like James?
"James is that you?" Lily stammered then her eyes fell on what he was wearing. "And what's with the costume?"
"Costume? I'm sorry but I thought I heard someone mentioning thieves," the boy/ adolescent/ teen said politely.
"You heard right!" the forgotten Pomfrey look-a-like chirped. "This girl was looking for marauders"
"Oh that, I was looking for you guys, by the way, where are the others?" Lily asked the boy/ adolescent/ teen whom she thought was James.
The boy/ adolescent/ teen (Honestly I can't wait to get his name) and the Pomfrey look-a-like gave her weird looks and then started laughing.
"Hey, don't blame me if you and your buddies call yourselves marauders" Lily said while reddening. She didn't like being laughed at.
"I'm sorry but you must've mistaken me for someone else," the boy/ adolescent/ teen said as he noticed Lily's beet red face. "My name's David (Ahhh… Finally) and you are in the wonderful kingdom of Wilhelm!" David announced proudly.
Okay, So this has to be the most confusing thing I've ever gotten into, Lily thought.
"James, it's not April Fools day so really, where are your buddies and why are we in the hospital wing?"
"Miss, I have not heard of April Fools Day and," David started to look sullen. "I have no friends"
Lily gaped at him. This boy/ adolescent/ teen who looks like James has not ever heard of April Fools Day and worst of all, does not have any friends? Okay, this is not pompous and pretentious Potter.
That's because he's David and you do realize that pompous and pretentious mean the same, don't you? A voice from her head snapped.
Don't you get snippy with me, missy and why am I conversing with my head and since when have you had the ability to converse with me? And since when did you become a walking dictionary? Lily thought angrily.
"Umm… Miss, are you alright?" David asked while waving a hand in front of Lily.
"I'm fine so quit waving your perfectly manicured hand in front of me because I am officially getting to the bottom of this!" Lily announced and walked briskly out of the room only to be stunned by the sight she will see.
The room was connected to a castle, a very large castle which seems every bit like Hogwarts except there were flags of what Lily assumed was a symbol of some sort and there was a large field which held a richly decorated pathway from a large gate to what seemed to be the entrance to the castle. There were tall walls protecting the castle and a long bridge that separated the castle from the village outside. What stunned Lily the most was the fact that instead of seeing students from Hogwarts walking around they were replaced by guards in full glory in their gleaming robes and a few women in elegant dresses and men in rich robes, Lily assumed them to be rich while there was one boy/ adolescent/ teen being chased by the guards.
"Come back here you filthy thief!" a fat guard with a long mustache roared.
"I don't think so Henry, old chap," the boy/ adolescent/ teen said nonchalantly and gracefully jumped on the roof of a carriage that was just leaving and, for the 140th time ever since the month started and to think it just started a week ago, escaped, messy, black hair swaying gracefully as he did.
Wait, Lily did a double take. Messy, Black hair? But the boy/ adolescent/ teen was gone leaving a very tired and fat guard panting on the ground.
"Horrible little thief isn't he?" David said interrupting Lily's thoughts.
"What? You know him?" Lily asked with a slight hope in her voice.
Maybe, that boy/ adolescent/ teen was James. But would James wear clothes that would make him resemble Aladdin? Who knows, I mean I seemed to have been transported back in time where tights are all the rage and have met someone who looks like James only with neat hair, who knows what else is possible?
"You can say that," David said. "I assume were about the same age, As far as I remember he's been stealing bread and pastries ever since I was five but never was he caught"
"Really? But there are so many guards, how could they escape all of them and from the looks of it all of the people around here seem to be just ignoring at what happened," Lily said confusion written all over her face.
"Well, After 11 years of it happening regularly it just starts to grow on you. Only Henry here is dedicated on catching him," James said almost happily.
"And I will! Mark my words!" the fat man with the long moustache referred to as Henry announced.
Lily can't help but laugh at the insanity of it all.
"I kind of almost want to live that thief's life," David said, his entire good mood sinking below zero degrees.
"You do?" Lily asked.
"Yes, at least he has friends," David said sullenly.
Then Lily remembered something. "Well David I'd love to be your friend but you have to tell me everything that happened ever since I arrived here," Lily said raising her hand for David to shake.
"Of course but assuming your not from here you have to tell me all about you and especially who you are," David agreed and shook Lily's hand.
"Of course and my name's Lily by the way,"
"I would say I'm David but you already know that," David said.
"I do, so care to go first on clearing things up? Like where am I," Lily said.
"You are in the Kingdom of Wilhelm which is being ruled by my uncle," David said proudly.
"So you mean he's the king?" Lily asked.
"No actually he's just taking that responsibility until I turn the legitimate age which is seventeen," David replied.
"Oh so I'm guessing I'm in the past," Lily muttered. And I'm talking to a bloody prince, Can things get any weirder? Lily added in her mind
Are you forgetting who the author of this fic is? A voice from her head snapped.
Oh yeah, and leave me alone you annoying prick! Lily retorted.
"What?" David asked interrupting Lily's thoughts.
"Well you see I come from the future, the year 1976 to be exact,"
"How bizarre but if you're from the future then how were you able to go here?"
"Well that's the mystery, I'm not really sure because we were in school-"
"We?"
"Me and my friends," Lily replied and then she began her story "Well we were in school and we were working on a project when all of a sudden my friend Alexa discovered an inscription in my necklace when we started to read it a bright, green light exploded sucking us in it and well here I am"
"May I see the necklace?" David asked.
"Here it is," Lily handed him the necklace only to discover that it was not there.
"Umm… where?"
"It's gone!" Lily yelled. "Now what am I going to do?"
"Can I ask you a question? You said that you and your friends went in the green light together but then why are you the only one here?" David asked.
"I don't know, oh David what am I going to do? How will I go home?"
"Well I guess you have to stay here until we find out a way to get you back," then David's eyes darted to Lily's robes "And maybe get you new clothes too"
Lily groaned, "This is going to be a long stay,"
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Whew… I just felt like stopping there and I just want to clear up a few things.
David looks like James-minus the cool, messy hair and that mysterious thief well looks like James even the hair who knows, maybe he even is James but I won't tell you, yet. Well thanks for all the reviews and I just want to give you this tiny sneak peek…
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"You let me go, you filthy thief!" Lily cried.
"In case you've forgotten, this filthy thief just saved your ass!" (Won't tell you the description of the dude that's talking )
"I don't care! You let me go!" Lily bit the boy/ adolescent/ teen's neck and with a huge yelp of pain dropped Lily face first on the ground.
"Argh! Why you little, arrogant (the boy/ adolescent/ teen was about to punch Lily when he realized she was a girl) you're lucky you're a girl now just pay me!"
"What? First you save me then you ask me to pay you?" Lily asked, obviously scandalized.
"You actually thought it was free?"
Then that was the time Lily really looked at his face. He looked so familiar even his arrogance is familiar, wait a minute….
"James?"
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Mwahahahaha… That's enough, kids, maybe next update and that was just a draft and that scene won't happen for a long time, maybe just maybe a few reviews will help me get there quickly. (Whistles innocently)
