The New Girl
Chapter 5
Lily cried out as the werewolf's claws grabbed onto her leg, she tried to get away but it hurt so much that she nearly fainted from the pain.
Lily felt the claws come away from her leg, and turned to see the werewolf getting ready to pounce.
Lily was frozen in fear, she couldn't move for her life, the werewolf pounced and Lily closed her eyes tight waiting for the pain of the werewolf's teeth biting into her, but it never came.
When Lily opened her eyes, she saw the black dog chasing the werewolf back to the Whomping Willow and the beautiful stag was coming towards her.
When it reached her, she raised her hand and the stag nuzzled into it.
"Thank You, James."
As she said this, he changed back into James, Lily realized that her hand was still on his cheek and quickly lowered it and blushed slightly, but she flinched as she lowered it and suddenly felt all the pain that hadn't been felt because she had been so scared, came back to her.
She felt tears come to her eyes and tried to hold them in but to no avail.
James quickly took out some bandaged, and wrapped it around her wound.
It went from her ankle to just above her knee.
James gave Lily a hug and she sobbed into his coat, while he whispered comforting words to her, rocking her back and forth.
About five minutes later, after Lily had calmed down, he picked her up and began walking towards the school.
"James you don't have to carry me, really, I'm sure I can walk."
Lily said, she hated feeling vulnerable, she was always scared that someone would take advantage of her in her moment of weakness.
Lily was surprised that when they entered the common room James carried Lily up the boys staircase.
By now there was hardly anyone in the common room and no one noticed them walk upstairs.
James put her down on what Lily guessed was James' bed.
"James, why are we here?"
She asked really confused and slightly scared.
"Oh, I need to try and heal your wound, we have this potion that heals most cuts and bruises. But I think it will only slightly heal yours, it's pretty big and somewhat deep so it was take time to heal but I can try to heal some."
He took out a vile from his trunk that had some sort of purple liquid in it.
He quickly went to the bathroom and soon returned with a cloth and poured some of the purple liquid on it.
He unwrapped the bandages carefully and said.
"Now this is going to sting, but it's only because it's healing the wound, alright?"
Lily nodded slowly and thought that this stuff couldn't be worse than the disinfectant spray she had in her trunk.
Oh how wrong she was.
As James spread the liquid across her wound and immediately felt the "sting".
Lily squeezed her eyes and grabbed the blanket on the bed with all her might. After about a minute, though it seemed like a life time, the pain went away and when she looked at her knee, she smiled slightly.
About half of the wound was gone, now it was only from her shin to her knee. She smiled at James.
"Thank you."
She said quietly.
The was a silent pause for a moment and then Lily decided to ask the question that had been nagging at the back of her mind since she had seen the werewolf.
"So, was that Remus?"
Lily asked nervously, getting right to the point and hoping that James wouldn't explode, from her asking the question.
James hesitated for a moment then slowly nodded.
Lily gasped and felt her hand go to her mouth.
"Poor Remus. How did it happen?"
Lily asked.
"Well," said James but then stopped when he realized something.
"Wait, you still want to be friends with him? No I didn't mean it in that way Lil." He added,
"It's just because usually when someone finds out that someone else is a werewolf, they usually just shun them aside like they were not even there. It's pretty hard for Remus, he was bitten when he was four, he had gone out to the woods behind his house even though his parents had told him not to. Remus was so overjoyed when Dumbledore had accepted him to Hogwarts. We met on the train and have been friends since."
Lily frowned, Remus shouldn't be treated like that, and when people find out he's a werewolf, how unwanted he must feel.
"But what about you three becoming Animagi?" Lily asked.
"Well it took us the best part of three years to work out how to do the transformations, Peter needed a lot of help, and finally in the middle of summer we managed it."
Lily was still a little confused.
"But how did that help Remus?" Lily asked.
James smiled.
"Well, you see werewolf's only are a danger to humans; so we changed into Animagis so we could keep Remus company."
"Aww that's so sweet of you guys, it must be much better for Remus now that he has you guys to keep him company."
James turned a light shade of pink.
"It was nothing really, just helping out a friend."
Lily and James talk for hours and fell asleep on James' bed just before dawn.
James was the first one awake a few hours later.
He had woken up to the sun shining on his face.
He sat up and stretched.
"Well seems like you slept well."
James jumped at the voice and turned to see Sirius sitting on his bed smirking at James.
Peter was sleeping in his own bed.
James glared at Sirius, which made Sirius laugh.
James quickly got up and put his hand over Sirius' mouth.
"Shh," he hissed, "You'll wake her. You can bug me as much as you want LATER. Just let her sleep. She had a pretty rough night."
Sirius' face suddenly turned serious.
"He didn't bite her did he?"
He asked nervously.
James shook his head.
"No but he cut up her right leg pretty bad. I managed to get half of it healed with the potion, but the cut's still too deep to heal it completely."
Sirius shook his head sadly.
"Does she know?" Sirius asked.
James nodded.
"And she took it the same way we did." He said.
Sirius sighed in relief; he knew how hard it was for Remus, to find good friends in a world where ninety percent of the time, everyone hated him because of an accident when he was four.
It wasn't his fault.
Sirius sighed.
"Do you think she'll be able to walk on it right away?"
But James never got to answer because Remus entered the room at that moment.
Remus knew the minute he walked into the dormitory that something had gone wrong last night.
He sighed sadly and sat on his bed, not noticing the sleeping female on James' bed.
"Ok you guys," He said sadly, "Spill it, who did I hurt? Or did I-"
"No Remus you didn't bite anyone."
James cut in.
Remus sighed in relief.
But frowned, remembering he had still hurt someone.
"Come on Padfoot, Prongs. Tell me, who did I-"
He never finished his sentence.
Because just as he reached the word "who", he saw Lily sleeping on James' bed with a bandage on her leg.
"Oh no. Not Lily."
Remus closed his eyes, sat on his bed and put his face in his hands.
Sirius came over and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry Moony, Lily is fine."
Remus shook his head.
"I know that but now she'll hate me."
"I don't hate you Remus. I still like you just the same."
Remus looked up to see Lily sitting up and smiling warmly at him.
"Really Lily? You mean you still want to be friends?" he asked, shocked.
"Oh ye of little faith."
Said Lily with laughter in her eyes.
Remus smiled and walked over to Lily and gave her a hug.
"Thank you Lily."
"Now," said Remus, clapping his hands together. "What was this about Lily sleeping in James' bed?"
Lily and James both turned a deep shade of red and glared at Remus and Sirius.
Which only made them laugh harder.
A few moments later, Lily and James couldn't help but joined in the laughter.
They were still laughing a few minutes later when Emily came into the room.
"Hey have you guys seen- Oh Hi Lily, I don't remember you coming up to bed last night. Is there something I should know?"
Emily asked with a smirk.
Lily looked down to her feet, turning red again.
"Later Em."
Emily just nodded and smiled.
"Well I wanted to let you know breakfast has already started."
Everyone got up and was heading to the door when they all heard a sharp cry come from Lily.
James saw Lily was about to fall down, but steadied her, but putting his arm around her waist and her arm around his.
"You alright Lil?"
James whispered.
Lily nodded slowly while biting her lip.
Emily, who was closest to the door, suddenly noticed the bandage on her leg.
"OH MY GOSH! Lily! What happened to your leg?" She asked, very worried.
Lily glanced over at Remus and as if they were having a conversation with their eyes, a few moments later Remus nodded and sighed.
"Emily, there is something you should know."
He said.
"You might want to sit down, it's kind of a long story."
And Remus told her.
And her reaction was the same as Lily's, Remus was so relieved, that he grabbed Emily and swung her around.
Everyone laughed.
"Well now that that's settled." Said Sirius.
"Let's head down to breakfast."
And that's what they did.
(Lily had help from James and Sirius. They made it look as if they were walking arm in arm. So no one would question Lily's limping)
(A.N—All right there's Chapter 5!!! R&R! Flame! W/e!!)
