Chapter 5

"Blind?" choked Lily. "He can't- he can't be blind!"

"Now, now don't be so-"

"No! You don't understand! He can't be blind! He just... No, it's not right. I don't want this to.."

"Please, Ms. Evans!" exclaimed the Nurse sternly. "Get a grip of yourself! This is what has happened, now deal with it!"

The Nurse left the room. Lily went over to James' bed and sat next to him, taking his hand and holding it. "James," she whispered. "Are you okay?"

"Not really," he whispered. "We need to get out of here: I need to talk to you."

She stood up, and helped him sit on his bed. "Okay, now lean on me," she directed. "Good. There you go..."

Then they began to walk towards the door, James leaning heavily on Lily. They walked outside the castle. It was a bright, sunny day with the birds chirping and when everything seems possible...

"Okay, let's sit here," said James. "There's a bench here, right?"

"No, it's a bit further," answered Lily. They went to the stone bench and sat down.

"Is there anyone around?" asked James.

"No, they're all in class right now."

"Well, Lily... The Nurse is wrong."

"About what?"

"Well, she thinks that this whole blindness thing is just a side effect from curses that were cast on me. But if you remember as well as I do, there were no curses cast on me..."

"I-I... Crap, you're right..."

"This isn't any normal curse, it's the inviositus curse."

"But... Isn't there a cure to it?"

"Oh yes, there is!" he said bitterly. "But Voldemort has it- he's had it for years! You know how slow the curse destroys you- it's like a disease."

"I remember... Reading about it..." she said slowly. "The blindness comes a month after. You've come in close contact with Voldemort a month ago?"

"I don't know. I guess so. But I don't know."

"But, James, this thing's going to kill you."

"I know."

"We're going to save you..."

"You can't..." James said sadly.

"Yes, I can! I'm going to James... I can't just let you die without atleast trying..."

"No, Lily! Please don't do anything crazy. I'd rather die knowing you're safe than have a chance to live, without you."

"What?"

"Well, Lily... I think I actually like you. As a friend of course but-"

"Ok, time to go back now. This thing must be having side effects on your brain. We're supposedly ennemies..."

"That was before!" James put his hand on her arm.

"We'll talk about this later," said Lily.

"Come on! I may be dying, you could atleast-"

"Listen! I'm too tired to deal with whatever is going on in your brain!"

"Well you can atleast tell me that you care!"

"Who says I care?"

"Well let's see... How about the fact that you actually considered confronting Voldemort to save me?"

Lily grabbed his arm roughly and started guiding him briskly towards the Hospital Wing again. She sat him on a bed.

"You stay here," she ordered.

"No! Lily don't do-"

But Lily was gone.

"Wait, Lily- is this some sort of sick prank or something?" asked Sirius. "How come nobody told us about this whole attack, or about Prongs!"

"Because no one knows!" Lily said urgently. "And if we have any chance of saving him, we have to leave now! Where's his broom?"

"Okay, okay, but we have to find Wormtail!" said Sirius.

"There's no time!" exclaimed Remus.

"Let's go..." said Lily. "Hurry!"

"Okay, grab your broom Padfoot, I've already got mine," said Remus.

"Where do we go to get it?" asked Sirius.

"I don't know!" said Lily, irritated.

"I know," said Remus. "I read a whole book on this. Come on, let's go."

"Where?"

"Diagon Alley. I always thought it was there."

"What do you mean, thought?" asked Lily, running out to the lake.

"It's kind of one of those mystery things. You know, a riddle. You have to guess where it is."

"Wait- so we're not sure it's there?" asked Sirius.

"No, but do you have any other ideas?"

They took off and began to follow the train tracks at top speed.

"Lily!" called Sirius. "I'm surprised you know how to fly so well!"

"Yeah!" she answered. "That's not what we need to talk about. What do we do when we get there?"

"Well, I think I have a bit of a plan," began Remus. "Here's what I think we should do..."

Diagon Alley was completely empty. There was no movement, no lights. Nothing. They neared a large, marble building. They entered through a side door.

"Padfoot, now." whispered Remus.

Sirius concentrated and turned into his animagus form.

"Shocked?" asked Remus to Lily.

"Why should I be?"

"Well, he's an animagus..."

"And you're a werewolf."

"You know?"

"Of course."

"You surprise me."

"Hey, I'm Head Girl!"

Sirius barked.

"He's right, we should shut up."

They followed Remus through the dark halls, only lit up by the light of their wands. They neared a large, stone door.

"It's here," he whispered.

He put his hand on the large handle.

"Wait," whispered Lily. "It could be a trap!"

"Well, you've got it all firgured out, mudblood!" snapped a voice from behind them.

Lily slowly turned around.

"Gina Jonasthin. I should have known," she said coldly.

"Oh yes, you should have!"

"I'm surprised Voldemort sent someone like you to greet us," said Remus.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we were expecting a stronger witch than you," he answered.

"You just don't know how strong I really am," Gina whispered dangerously.

Lily looked beside her, and noticed Sirius was no longer with them. She frowned and looked towards Remus. He nodded slightly.

"So what do you plan on doing to us?" Lily asked cheerfully.

"Cheerful are you? You wouldn't be if you knew what Lord Voldemort has in store for you!" she threatened.

"Oh, plans... Really?" Lily asked disbelievingly, though she was starthing to get worried.

"SHUT UP, JONASTHIN!" screeched a cloaked woman.

Lily raised an eyebrow.

"If you reveal what's going to happen to her..." the woman continued.

Remus tried to control his laughter. "Certainly very efficient Death Eaters!" he whispered to Lily. The two didn't even overhear them, too busy bickering.

"Let's go," whispered Lily.

They headed down the hall. Taking slow steps and waiting until the two would try to follow them.

They started relaxing, sure that they were going to get out of this easily.

But that's when a large stone door opened directly in front of them, and six Dementors glided out, encircling them.

"You thought you'd get away!" laughed Gina. "Oh, no, you won't!"

Lily felt her eyes tear up. "Atleast I tried, James, atleast I tried," she thought to herself.

A/N: well, there ya go! thanks so much for the reviews, lol! don't worry, i don't plan on leaving poor james alone... and who says i can't keep him blind? well, anyways, this was a quick update! so review and i promise i'll update asap!