Chapter 15, The Fight

James was just outside the door when he heard a mattress creak in the silent night, and a scraping of slippers on the floor.

"Who's there?" he whispered, turning on the flame of his wand to see by. "Show yourselves!"

"H-help," something croaked. "I c-can't con- cont-rol it."

"Lily? What's wrong? Control what?" James could tell there was something seriously wrong with her. She was ghostly pale, and her eyes. Her eyes, they no longer contained the bright and beautiful green they were before she went into the hospital wing. They were pure white, and she stood up limply. As if someone were holding her under her armpits, and something invisible were pushing her forward.

"H-him," she croaked again.

Her eyes glowed green, and she shook uncontrollably. Her feet were rising off the ground. "You can't save her now, bloodtratior!" Lily said in an eerie voice, very much unlike her own. It was raspy and dry. It was a voice that sounded like it had no forgiveness.

Her hand lifted, and an orange beam of light shot out from her palm, hitting James directly in the chest. "Fool, caring for the mudblood that will one day belong to me!" Lily's mouth said again, in the same raspy unforgiving voice it had spoken in before hitting James.

"Keep walking… you trust me don't you…? Why would I lead you wrong…?" The voice was speaking in her head again. Calming her, forcing her, to walk onward. "Climb now, it's only a wall, climb."

"Whoah…. What the hell?" James woke up a minute later, rubbing his head that had hit the wall, then jumping up in sudden remembrance, "LILY!" he started running toward the entrance hall, wand at the ready. Though he really could do nothing, every spell he thought off, in some way may hurt Lily, and that was something he did not want to do.

"Higher! Go higher!" the clam voice was now becoming excited. "Climb to the highest tower."

"Lily! Stop! No!" James was running, Lily was already halfway up the north tower.

"I thought I was rid of you!" The raspy voice yelled.

"Lily! Listen to me! Focus! Hear me! I know you can! It's me! James!"

"James…" her voice singed through with dim realization, "Help! He's- Shut Up you silly little girl!" The raspy voice was returned, "This'll take care of you!"

Lily's eye's glowed red, and out of them, where her pupils would normally be, came hot red lava - balls. It hit James square in the chest and his shirt burst into flames. He fell to the floor screaming in pain at the flames that erupted on his chest and was now spreading steadily across his body.

"James! What's all the…?" Sirius stuck his head out the window of their dorm, and saw James writing on the ground in pain, and on fire.

"Remus! Peter! Go get Dumbledore! Now! James is on fire!" Sirius shouted, running to his trunk and grabbing his broomstick. The second they hear the two words fire and James, they were out of the dorm faster than a millisecond.

Sirius flew down to the ground next to James and performed a charm to allow water to flow out of his wand tip.

"You okay? What happened?" Sirius asked leaning over James.

"Lily!" James croaked. "Something, someone's, controlling her. Sirius, she's not herself."

"Jump Lily! Now! You want the pain of the world to end, don't you? Jump." The words sounded like they were being whispered in her ear. Seductively. For a moment, her vision returned to her and she saw the entire grounds of Hogwarts. James and Sirius staring up at her.

"Help! Someone! James!"

Her vision faded. Everything was dark again. She could only hear that voice again. That seductive, suicidal voice. She knew what was coming, the end.

"Jumping isn't so hard. It's almost like flying. I'm sure it wouldn't even hurt, you might loose all feeling before you hit the ground. Fly Lily! Fly!"

"No! I can't! James, Rin, everyone. Temptation is strong, but not giving in is stronger!" Lily told herself.

"Jump! Now!"

"No! I won't! Go away!" James faintly heard Lily yell. He had been holding on to consciousness for as long as possible. He was not going to leave Lily!

"You're fighting is futile! Evil will prevail!"

"No! I refuse! Leave me alone!"

"I will if you jump!"

"NEVER!" Lily felt like her mind was splitting into two separate pieces. If she didn't stop this soon, her mind might be permanently damaged.

"GO AWAY!" Lily screamed and not only did her vision (which was very blurred from half being controlled and in control) her hearing went and all feeling left her mind, body, and soul.