I'm sorry for the long delay. I've been working on my other story and I wasn't really sure if anyone was reading this story anymore. But I've decided to update anyways. Enjoy!

Chapter 12 Potter or Gryffindor?

The others had already used the Floo Powder to go over to St. Mungo's. James was about to go meet them, when something caught his eye. The presents his parents had given him before they left was still on the table.

James picked it up and stuffed it in his pocket. He stepped in to the fireplace and in instant was gone into green flames.

James tumbled out of the fireplace.

"What took you so long?" Sirius asked, lending James a hand.

"Nothing. Come one, let's go." James muttered. They walked toward the lady behind the desk. She looked quite bored.

"Hi. We were wondering what room-"Lily started, but was interrupted.

"Yes, yes, you're the Potters and the Evans, am I correct? The Evans are on the second floor first door to the right and Mrs. Potter is in the room next to them." The lady replied in a bored voice.

Lily looked a little upset at being interrupted, but smiled nonetheless. It was a strained smiled though. James and Lily started walked to the stairs leading to the second floor when they noticed they didn't hear their friends behind them. They turned around to see them standing in the same spot near the desk, looking awkward.

"Coming?" James asked, raising an eyebrow in confusion.

"James, maybe it should just be family. You two go, we'll meet you in the cafeteria. We don't want to be intruding in a family matter or anything." Remus said, looking up at him.

James looked at Lily and they both silently agreed. They both nodded and headed toward the rooms.

After walking up many steps, they finally made it. Lily stepped in front of her parents room, looking a little hesitant to go in. James once again raised an eyebrow at her in confusion.

Lily shook her head. "Nothing."

She stepped into the room and gently shut the door behind her. James shrugged and walked into his mother's room and after shutting the door behind him, turned around to look and him mum, only to gasp at the sight of her.

His once beautiful mum lay in the bed looking as pale as chalk, there was a deep cut going along her cheek and she had a bandage on her head, arms, and hands. She looked very weary and tired--old even. Something he had never seen in his mum. He quietly walked over and sat on her bed.

"Mum?" he whispered.

Mrs. Potter looked up and smiled. "James, dear, you don't have to speak so quietly. My hearing is just fine."

James managed a weak grin.

Mrs. Potter let out a sigh. She looked at James straight in the eyes. "James, I know about your father. But I want you to know that everything will be okay. We'll find him. But also, I have a reason to believe that they weren't after the Evans family just because they are Muggles. Please don't interrupt, I don't have much time to explain. My idea is that Voldemort most likely is going to try targeting people our family cares about."

"What?" James asked, totally dumbfounded.

"He had his Death Easters attack the Evans knowing that you would try to save her, therefore since your our son, he knew that we would go after you to try to save you. I think he wanted to kill us all tonight, at least, that was his plan."

"But-but-why is he targeting our family? There are loads of other Aurors he could attack-"

"It's not because your father and I are Aurors, son." Mrs. Potter said quietly. James looked at her.

"Then what is it?"

"Did you open the present your father and I gave you today? The one before we left?"

James took the package out of his pocket and stared at it. "What does this have to do with anything, Mum?"

"Open it." his mum urged.

James gave her a questioning look, but obeyed nonetheless. He slowly unwrapped it and gasped at what he saw. It was a pendant, a gold pendant with a lion in the front of it. On the bottom of the Pendant, there was a red flag, and on the flag were golden letters spelling out 'Gryffindor.'

"Mum....can this mean.....I mean-does it-what does it mean?" James asked, slightly breathless.

"James Potter, you are the last Heir of Gryffindor." Mrs. Potter said quietly, but proudly.

James just looked at her incredulously. "How?" was all he managed to say.

"My side of the finally was all born to Godric Gryffindor. Yes, James, I know that this is hard to believe, but it's true. Our whole entire family tree were in that house, have you not noticed?"

"I thought that was just a coincidence." James said meekly, wondering why he had never thought about it.

"I know this comes as a great shock, but it's true. Voldemort most likely tried to kill us because of the tension that went on between Slytherin and Gryffindor. That is why he attacked the Evans tonight, hoping that we would show up and then he could capture us."

"But they got dad! What are they going to do to him?" James asked, a little loudly.

Mrs. Potter turned away from his for the first time. "I don't' know." Came her quiet reply.

James looked at the pendant in his hands. 'So this is the reason Lily was attacked and my dad was captured?'

"James, you need to be careful. We don't know who we can trust and Voldemort would do anything to get his hands on the Heir of Gryffindor."

James nodded.

"Oy! James! What took so long?" Sirius called out and James entered the cafeteria. James walked in and noticed Lily was already there, and had been for a quiet time, since her cup of hot chocolate was almost empty.

"We just had a lot to talk about." James said. He sat down next to Lily while Remus got up to get him some hot chocolate, too.

"James, well, me and Lily were wondering-well-only if y-your okay with it that is-"Emma stuttered out. James raised and eyebrow at her.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Emma and Lily want to know if they can stay at your house for the rest of the holiday." Sirius said, while smirking for a weird reason.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, whatever you like." James muttered. He was lost in his thoughts and didn't want to have to say anything else. Sirius looked at his friend for a moment. What was that in his eyes? Sympathy?

James looked up and around to think of something to talk about.

"So, aren't we heading over to Lily's house to see if there's anything you can keep?" James asked.

Lily and Emma nodded.

"Here's your cup, Prongs-hey, what's on your neck?" Remus asked while putting the cup down. James was wondering what on earth he was talking about, but then remembered that he had out the pendent on a gold chain and placed it around his neck and hid it in his shirt so no one would see it.

James shrugged indifferently. "Nothing important." He answered shortly.

Remus looked at his, obviously not believe him. James just took two gulps of tea and wondered how long he was going to keep this from his friends, especially if there were in danger because of him.

James, Sirius, and Remus were standing by the fireplace in the Evans house. They used the Floo Network to get there and were currently waiting for Emma and Lily to be done looking gathering their things.

After about a half an hour, Emma showed up with her trunk.

"Everything in my trunk was saved, so I don't have to buy more school supplies. But most of my clothes in the closet were destroyed so I don't have a lot clothes to wear." Emma said sadly.

"It's okay. I can lend you some money and you can buy more things." James said. Emma looked surprised.

"James, no. It's okay, really. My parents are Healers, they can buy me some more clothes when I owl them and tell them what happened." Emma replied.

"I mean it. Come one, you can just buy a few things to last you until the end of the holiday." James said. Emma nodded, looking grateful.

"Where's Lily?" Remus asked.

Emma looked down. "She's up in her room. Most of her belongings were destroyed. Everything but her school things. She has a few outfits, but her room and everything in it is mostly destroyed because of the fire."

The four of them stayed quiet for a moment. Suddenly, James made his way upstairs.

"Where are you going?" Remus called, while James walked up the stairs. James slowly made his way down the hallway when he suddenly stopped dead. He could hear crying. 'Lily.' He thought instantly.

He quickly made his way into the room where the sobbing was coming from and felt his heart break at the sight. Lily was sitting down in the middle of the room, over the school trunk, sobbing her heart out.

"This is all my fault! If I didn't get my acceptance letter to Hogwarts my family would be in d-danger! Everything is ruined and it's all my fault! M- maybe Petunia's right, maybe I am a freak-"Lily sobbed.

However, she never got to finish her sentence because at the moment James spun Lily around and made her face him. She gave a little squeak of surprise.

"Don't ever think that, Lily! Your not a freak and this isn't your fault. If you should be blaming anyone it should be me. And if you didn't go to Hogwarts, I wouldn't have met you. You're the most sweetest girl I've ever met. If you didn't come to Hogwarts, I don't what know I'd do." James said soothingly, yet sternly.

Lily looked straight in his eyes, as if trying to see whether he was lying or not. Then, out of nowhere, she jumped up and put her arms around him, hugging him tightly. James just hugged her back.

"It's okay, Lily. I'll take care of everything." James whispered, holding her tight.

A/N. Wow, well this is the first chapter I've written for this story in awhile. Hope you liked it! Review please! I love getting reviews from you guys. It tells me I'm not writing this story for nothing and people are actually reading it!

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Amour Lily