Chapter 17, Awakened
"Lily! We were so worried! Don't ever do that again!" Rin was yelling, clutching Lily as if she would vanish from the spot if she removed her arms from around Lily. They were just let back into the infirmary, but Madam Pomfrey was really against it. It took a lot of persuading to even get with ten feet of the infirmary.
"Crushing…. Can't breath…. Help…." Lily gasped.
"Sorry." Rin said, removing her arms from around her. "But seriously, don't ever do that again."
"Okay, okay, I won't. Where's James?"
"Here is James," James said poking his head out from under the bed. "How are you feeling?"
"Better, at least I'm awake," replied Lily. "Now, can you tell me why you're under my bed?"
"I'm going to find where Sirius and Remus and Peter went to, I could have sworn the were right behind me," Rin interjected, thinking that they might want to be alone.
"Well, I heard that if you go under something that a girl is on you can see her underpants." James started laughing.
"You pervert!" Lily yelled.
"What it was a joke, I was looking for a wiggly tile."
"Why?"
"Because a wiggly tile is a sign that something is buried under it."
"Or it could just wiggle."
"Nah, this is a special wiggly tile, there's supposed to be some sort of portal into the future here. Apparently someone spilled an interesting combination of potion to cause a portal and - what?" Lily was looking at him as if he were some deranged old man asking for cheese to feed his non existent cat.
"Fine don't believe me! Hey, what's this?" James asked, moving his hand towards her hair.
"Huh? Ohhh…." and then she started laughing. "That had to be the cheesy-iest joke you've ever played."
James had pulled a galleon from behind her ear.
"But I still got you to laugh, didn't I?"
Lily was too busy laughing to reply. It wasn't that funny, but after everything she had gone through the past few days, it made everything seem funnier.
"So, you want to talk about what happened? Why you collapsed and everything?" James asked once she stopped laughing.
"Ehh… I got another message from Voldemort, asking to join him or suffer, said no, and found myself dreaming the dream of Harry and you dead. Then, next thing I knew, I was battling Voldemort's will power against mine. It was a huge mess. I think I may have to clean out my brain, it feels like everything's all smashed."
When she finished they both gave a chuckle.
"Still haven't lost your sense of humor I see."
"Yep!"
She was awful perky, James thought she should have been more worried about what happened.
"Aren't you at all worried of what this means?" James inquired.
"Yes, but after that all I can think of is being awake instead of trapped in a very, very, dark abyss. Besides, I already knew what it means. Voldemort's after me, he has always been. It's just that conflabbed dream I don't understand!"
James smirked, he didn't think he knew anyone with a stranger vocabulary than a pine apple with purple dots.
"I believe that I can help you with that dream, Miss Evans," the headmaster said as he walked in. "You see, the last time you had this very disturbing dream, I believed it to be a coincidence, or that you may have very well been predicting the future. This time though, there is no doubt. Miss Evans, this dream means that you are about to make a huge sacrifice to save the entire magical world."
This made Lily's jaw drop. What? How? Why? When?
"I believe that you were born during the winter solstice, am I correct?"
"Yes," she nodded, not knowing where this was going.
"Well, I was born during the summer solstice," James tried to help.
"There was a prophecy made a while ago that a dark lord will rise, and when two people born during the two solstices meet, they will create something that has a power that the dark lord will not know of, and neither will he. Until it is time."
When Dumbledore finished, Lily looked as if she were going to faint.
"Can I heard it?" she asked.
"No, I am afraid not, but you may not be the only wizarding couple it is referring to, there are also the Longbottoms and Prewits, both graduated, and both married. But those are the only ones in England. There are also many in America and the Middle East, Asia and China. Every place on this magnificently large planet, so you don't have to worry about whether or not this is about you. I must be going now, I've got a lot to oversee, and this castle is larger than you think. Hope to see our brightest student back in class soon." Dumbledore finished, and walked out.
"Oh, okay, thanks…." Lily was still a little dazed, and there was a long moment of silence broken by Sirius, Reamus, Rin and Peter, bounding through the door, all looking happier than when a gorilla gets a banana.
"Lily Billy! You're alive!"
"Sirius have you been eating sugar?" Lily asked playfully getting her usual spunk back.
"No actually, I think he's just been breathing." Rin answered for him.
"Nice to see you up and about Lily!" Remus bounded over and gave her a hug.
"Yeah," Peter squeaked from the back of the crowd.
"I'm not really up, I'm stuck sitting in this bed. Madam Pomfrey won't let me out." Lily pointed out bitterly.
"You really gave us a scare, climbing up the north tower in the middle of the night," Sirius said, as a look of surprise arose on her face.
"Yeah, you even shot these fireballs out of your palms, turned me into a nice camping fire," James added.
"Oh my god! I didn't- did I!" Lily looked back and forth at everyone, mostly at James.
"No, no, no, Madam Pomfrey fixed me up in a jiffy, you can barely see the burn marks anymore," James tried to console her, rubbing her back.
"God I hate this," Lily picked up her pillow and stuffed her face with it. "I'm so sorry!"
"If Remus hadn't gone to get Dumbledore last night with Peter, we would have been a lot worse off. You lost consciousness on the North Towers tip, and took a dive. If Dumbledore hadn't have performed that anti-gravity charm, you may have been dead," Rin told her sitting on her other side and putting an arm around her.
"What are all you doing in here! Get out! Out I say! This girl needs rest!" Madam Pomfrey saw them all gathered around Lily's bed. James smirked as he thought how wrong she was. Lily didn't need rest, Lily always hated rest. Only when it was bed time did she ever rest. Boundless energy, James admired it in her.
