(A/N) Hey! Thanks for the reviews…can you see it happening? James is starting to like Lily…hehe.
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Disclaimer- I don't own J.K. Rowlings or Harry Potter…O.o
Chapter 6- ImmortalIn her dream, Lily was a 5 year old girl just learning how to play chess. Her dad was teaching her. It was a Sunday afternoon, his only day off.
Lily had learned what the basic moves were, but was still having trouble with the knight movements. Her dad told her to not worry about it. He would teach her later on.
Lily was taken away from that Sunday afternoon and she saw through her dad's eyes. He was driving. He had a green light, so he went ahead. He didn't even see the drunk driver heading directly towards the drivers side.
He only knew what was happening when the car was hitting him.
Lily woke with a start. She was drenched in cold sweat. The Hospital Wing was quiet, except for the quiet shuffling of papers in the back room. Lily sighed and closed her eyes again. When she opened them up, a woman handed her a potion.
Lily didn't know her name, but she looked nice. She propped Lily's pillow up and put the potion on the bedside table.
"Drink it," she ordered. "My name is Madame Josè. You're in pretty bad condition, you need to take your potion."
Lily picked up the flask and downed the liquid in two gulps. Madame Josè went over to the door and let some one in. The person started walking over to Lily's bed, but Madame Josè stopped him.
"I'm sorry, young man, but she is in no condition to be visited right now," Madame Josè was saying.
"Come on, woman! I just want to see her for 10 minutes!" The person sounded really angry.
"Fine! 10 minutes!"
"Fine!"
Lily heard some one coming over to her bed, and the curtains were thrown open to reveal…James Potter.
"What do you want now, Potter?" Lily snarled.
"I wanted to see how you were, geez. I even skipped class to come and see you!" James glared at her.
"WHAT? You skipped class? God Potter, you're even more stupid than I thought you were!"
"Fine Evans! If you don't appreciate me coming here, I'll just leave!" James turned to walk away.
Even though Lily hated him, she did like the company. "James, wait!" James turned around.
"Now you want my company? God, I'll never understand girls" He came and sat down on the end of her bed anyways. They were silent for 5 minutes.
"Uh…" James ran his hands through his hair. Lily eyed him.
"Why do you do that?" she asked.
"Do what?"
"Run your hands through your hair?"
"I don't know, it's a habit, ok?" James snapped.
"Fine" More silence.
"What's your mom and dads name?" James asked suddenly.
"Well, my moms name is Abbie, I have a sister named Petunia, and my dads name was Mark." James looked like he was thinking hard.
"Was? What do you mean?" he asked.
"It means he's dead," Lily said.
"Oh…sorry"
"Its okay"
"When did he die?" he asked. Lily glared at him.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Just wondering"
"He died when I was 9. He died in a car crash."
"Sorry again."
"Why don't you just stop asking me questions about my father?" Lily said.
"Okay." Again, more silence.
"You sure can take a beating" Lily looked at James. He was grinning.
"Yeah, I guess I can" she answered.
"So…you've been taking beatings like this all your life?" he asked.
"Yeah"
"You must be immortal then"
"No one is immortal, Potter"
"Yeah but you…" James was cut off because Madame Josè was dragging him off by his collar.
"It's been 20 minutes! I said 10! Now get OUT!" Madame Josè shrieked.
"I'll come by later, Lily!" James called.
"Okay" Lily answered.
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Madame Josè gave Lily a sleeping potion, and Lily blacked out right away. Lily had no dreams, but when she woke up, Rebecca, Elle, and Katie were standing by her bed.
"Yay! Your awake!" Elle hugged her and Katie handed Lily's homework over to her.
"Thanks, Katie," said Lily.
"No problem" Katie was grinning.
"Everyone is wondering where you are, Lily" said Rebecca.
"Yeah, no one knows where you are," said Elle, who had just released Lily from a death grip hug. "Its amazing that nobody comes up here to see who is in here"
"One person came and visited me today" said Lily.
"Really? Who?" asked Katie.
"Potter," said Lily simply.
"Oh…really?" asked Rebecca.
"Yeah. He was arguing with Madame Josè so he could come and see me," said Lily.
"I…uh…have to go. Bye, Lily! Get well soon!" said Rebecca, and then she was gone. Lily had a puzzled look on her face.
"Is she going to talk to James?" she wondered aloud.
"Probably," answered Elle.
"Okay, Elle. We'd better get going too. We'll see you tomorrow, Lily! I heard from Madame Josè that she's going to let you out tomorrow!" Katie gave her a hug and left.
"Bye, Lils!" Elle hugged her too and followed Katie out. Soon after, Lily fell into an uneasy sleep.
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A crisp October wind blew through the Hogwarts grounds the next morning. Madame Josè ordered Lily to take one more potion. It was the most disgusting potion ever, but soon after she took it, all of her unhealed cuts and bruises disappeared.
Lily got up, feeling refreshed. She slowly walked into the bathroom and got dressed and showered. When she clicked the lock open, a gust of wind hit her. It turned out Madame Josè had just opened the window, so Lily skipped over to it.
She stuck her head out and almost fell out. Lily didn't realize that the Hospital Wing was built right over a small canyon. Even so, Lily was extremely terrified of heights. She got her balance back then looked out at the gleaming lake. A tentacle stuck out, but disappeared almost as fast as it had appeared.
Lily sighed and shivered. She was only wearing a pair of her favorite jeans and a hunter green tank top. She went to her bed and put on a black zip up hoodie.
"Are you going now?" asked Madame Josè impatiently. Lily had been there for almost 3 days now.
"Yes, and thank you for healing my wounds. Good bye," Lily answered. She grabbed her finished homework and hurried out.
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When Lily entered the warm and inviting common room, she noticed quite a few things. The Marauders were in the corner, hovering over Remus. Remus looked quite pale and sick. A few moments after Lily walked in, the Marauders stood up and escorted Remus out.
As James passed her, he said quite quietly to her, "I'm glad your better." After they left, she realized that everyone that was in the common room at the time was staring at her. Lily didn't know that her mouth was hanging open and she was standing there dumbly. She quickly sat down.
Another thing she realized was that a couple of people were playing chess. She stood up and hovered over the game. She noticed that black was winning. White only had a few pawns, a bishop, and their king left. They were doing really badly.
"Err…you might want…" Lily was cut off.
"Can't you see that I'm concentrating? I don't need your advice." The boy looked angrily up at her.
"Sorry," said Lily, and she walked away. Geez, he didn't even noticed he was in check…oh well, if he wants to be an idiot, let him be, Lily thought.
She walked up the girl's staircase, and when she opened the door to her dorm room, she was momentarily deaf and blind. Lily hadn't even taken one step into the room when there cam a shriek and 3 people jumped on her.
"Oh brother," Lily heard Hilary say.
"Oof…okay, you guys, get off…can't…breath…" Lily pushed her friends off of her and gasped for air.
"Sorry, Lily! We're just so glad you're out of the Hospital Wing!" Katie said a bit too loudly, because some people peered up the staircase to see what was the matter.
"Well, I'm glad to be back!" said Lily, grinning widely. She got up from the floor and sat on her bed. She noticed the camera sitting on her bedside table and called her friends over.
They all sat on Lily's bed hugging each other, while Lily held up the camera and took a picture.
The moment was ruined though, because all of them suddenly heard a window smash. They all ran down to see what happened. How could a window get smashed from this high up?
There was a rock laying on the ground with a note attached to it.
Lily Evans…you're dead!
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(A/N) Sorry! This was a really short chapter! Please review, anyways! I had major writers block this chapter…and I've been busy with school and everything…so yeah…um-review please!
Rittzi
PS- The reason the updating is so slow is because Aimee is sooo slow at checking over!