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A/N: Here's the update so you don't have to come after me with…a cheese wheel or the other things you lot have been threatening me with. Anyone who doesn't already know, double updates have started so if you didn't read Saturday's chapter this ain't gonna make much sense! Enjoy my little daisies!

Chapter 28

"Avada Kedavra!"

Lily and James ducked behind the top table as the curse flew over their heads. Behind them, Vernons parents were caught in the jets of green light and fell to the floor. Petunia let out an ear splitting scream. Lily grabbed her parents and pulled them behind the table with her.

"Carpe Retractum!" James shouted. A thin golden ribbon shot out of his wand and pulled Helen out of harms way. Petunia and Vernon followed, obviously realising the danger they were in.

"What's going on!" Mr Evans asked, shouting to be heard over James's furious relay of hexes towards their attackers.

"Death Eaters!" Lily had time to reply before James in the battlefront.

"What can we do!" her mother freaked.

"Fight!" Lily shrieked before ducking another killing curse. "And stay away from green light!"

"JESS!" Helen cried. Lily looked in the same direction and noticed Jess cowering in the corner by the door. In the panic everyone had forgotten about her. Now she was a prime target for a Death Eater.

"Lily don't, you'll be…" James trailed off as Lily sprinted out from behind the table towards Jess. James saw the Death Eaters attention snap towards her.

"Invocatum!" James shouted. The nearest Death Eater stumbled backwards on to another of the tables. Over in the corner, Lily was trying to coax Jessica out of her hiding place.

"Jess come on! We have to go!"

"I'm scared!" Jess whispered, barely audible over the bangs from the Death Eaters wands.

"I am too, but we need to get behind that table," Lily said, holding out her hand for the girl to take. Inching forwards Jess saw her mother from behind the top table and this finally urged her out of the corner.

"Come on Lily," James muttered, gritting his teeth and hexing the next Death Eater into the wall. "Get out of there."

There was a yell from behind him. Another Death Eater had come within range of the table and had placed Lily's father under the Cruciatus curse. Rage building, James hexed him. Mr Evans fell limp.

"Dad!" Lily squeaked as she got back to the table. Jess immediately crawled into her mothers arms.

"He'll be fine Lily," James said. "But we're running out of luck here!"

Something about James's statement jarred Lily's memory. How could she have forgotten?

"Luck! James you're a genius!"

"Am I?" James asked, taking his eyes off the Death Eaters to look at her.

"Yes!" Lily said diving into a pocket as another two killing curses hit the wall behind them. "Keep hexing for Merlins sake!"

She pulled out the small bottle of golden potion that Jenny had pressed on her before they left.

"Felix Felicis!" she showed James who stopped again and grinned.

"Where did you get that?" he asked.

"Jenny," Lily said briefly before swallowing a mouthful and taking over with the attack.

"Remind me to kiss her when we get back," James said, beaming now. He took a swig and joined Lily. Another killing curse flew past Lily's head missing her by inches. She stunned the Death Eater, causing him to fall backwards into another.

With good luck on their side Lily and James continued to keep the Death Eaters away from the table. Lily was marvelling at the effects that the potion was having on them. The hexes that they fired rarely missed their targets and the Death Eaters were having trouble getting clean shots at them.

Finally there were cracks from outside the building and the sounds of people trying to get in. One of the remaining Death Eaters fired the Dark Mark out of the window and the rest all disappeared by portkey, just as the Aurors hurried in.

"You took your time," James complained as the Aurors began to check over their small group.

"James! Lily!"

Lily looked up to see James's parents hurrying over. James immediately disappeared under his mothers hug.

"Ow! Mum!"

"Don't scare me like that!" Mrs Potter squeaked before releasing James and giving Lily a hug.

"Are you both okay?" she asked.

"Think so," James said. "What took you so long?"

"We were only alerted two minutes ago," his mother said. "And we couldn't apperate in. They'd covered the whole building with that jinx. How the hell did you keep them away?"

"It was this," Lily pulled the bottle of half empty potion out of her pocket.

"That's Felix Felicis," James's mother said in awe. "Where on Earth did you get that?"

"Jenny," Lily said. "She gave it to me just before we left. She's about the only person in the year who can make one of those potions."

"Was anyone hurt?" Mr Potter asked.

"Oh god, Dad!" Lily exclaimed hurrying over to the table as she said it. Her father was propped up against the wall and was surrounded by healers.

"Dad are you okay?" Lily asked fighting her way to her father's side.

"Not really," Mr Evans said. "My head hurts like hell."

"He'll be okay," one of the healer said. "How long was he under the curse for?"

"Not long," Lily said. "About twenty seconds at the most."

"Lily where's your sister?" Mrs Evans asked suddenly. Lily looked around and found that Petunia and Vernon had disappeared.

"They're outside the door," Rachel said. "Nice fighting you two. Sorry I wasn't much help."

"You were great," James said. "You kept calm and that made it much easier for us to concentrate."

Lily didn't stick around to hear the conversation, she was already at the door. She didn't have to look long to find her sister and Vernon heading for the door.

"Petunia!" Lily called out to her. To her amazement Petunia ignored her. Lily ran after them.

"Petunia are you okay?" she asked.

"No thanks to you," Petunia said turning around to face her. "You ruined my wedding day!"

"I'm not the one who attacked!" Lily protested.

"No, but they were there because of you weren't they?" Petunia snarled. "They would never have been there if you had stayed at that freak school of yours." She took a step closer to Lily so that only she could hear what her sister was saying.

"Vernon's lost his parents tonight! I had to tell him what you are. He knows it was because of you they died!"

Crushed, Lily took a step closer to her sister.

"Stay away Lily!" Petunia screamed backing away now. "You ruined the happiest day of my life. I never want to see you again!"

"Petunia, I had nothing to do with that attack," Lily began.

"You had everything to do with it!" Petunia interrupted loudly, her voice drowning out Lily's. "From now on, as far as I'm concerned, I have no sister!" And with those final words, she and Vernon marched away through the hotel doors.

As much as she hated her sister, blood was still blood and Lily knew that she had just lost one of her relatives forever. And no matter the anger between them it still hurt like hell.

OOO

"Lily, don't worry," James said. "Petunia will come round."

It was one thirty in the morning and Lily, James and Rachel had returned to the house. Lily's father had been transferred to St Mungos where they could keep an eye on him. Her mother had gone with him.

"No she won't," Lily sighed. "I just know she's never going to forgive me after this. I ruined the best day of her life."

"No you didn't!" James said firmly. "They Death Eaters weren't after you…well sort of. They were after me really. If anyone is to blame it's me."

"Why don't we just say no one was to blame?" Rachel suggested. "Then we'll all be happy!"

"Good idea," Lily nodded wearily. She was exhausted and felt quite content to stay on the sofa in James's arms.

"So why were they there anyway?" Rachel asked.

"Because Lily and I both want to be Aurors," James said. "And the sooner Voldemort can put us out of the picture the better for him. Also my parents are Aurors so they also want us for that."

"Your parents are nice," Rachel said. "Your mother was trying to help me watch Jess whilst they took care of Helen."

Lily nodded even though she hadn't been paying attention. She was too worked up over the thought of being haunted by Death Eaters until she died.

Rachel suddenly gave a yelp as the fireplace burst into life. Lily and James both leaped up wands drawn.

"Easy Prongs it's me!" Sirius said grinning as he emerged from the fireplace. He was almost knocked over as Tash spun quickly into view and tripped over the grate.

"OW!" she complained rubbing her nose. "Bloody floo powder!"

"Are you two okay?" Sirius asked looking between Lily and James as though expecting one of them to suddenly drop dead.

"Been better," James remarked sitting back down. Lily was helping Tash off the floor.

"How did you get here?" Lily asked her friend.

"Floo of course," Tash gestured at the fireplace. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Oh you meant prior to that," Tash said. "Well we were just going up to bed when Jenny noticed our rings were glowing. And so she panicked and we raced up to find Sirius before racing over to Dumbledore's office. We told him what was going on and he sent for help."

"But that was about an hour and a half ago," Lily said frowning at her watch.

"Yeah well then he told us to go back to bed," Sirius wrinkled his nose in disgust at the idea of going to sleep. "And so we went back to the tower and started thinking of ways to get here. So we waited for a while for things to quieten down before we risked getting the powder and flooing here."

"So where are Jen and Moony?" James asked.

"Well Moony is in the hospital wing since tomorrow is the full moon," Sirius said. "And Jenny went to fill him in. She'll be here pretty soon."

"So what happened?" Tash asked, sitting down on the sofa.

Sighing, Lily retold the story for what felt like the hundredth time before Jenny appeared followed, to their surprise by a very pale and sick looking Remus. At this point James retold the story for their sake since Lily felt close to collapse.

"If we hadn't had that potion we'd probably have died," James finished.

"From now on I'm making a batch of that potion every time we go out," Jenny stated.

"Thank you Jenny," Lily gave Jenny a sleepy hug which Jenny returned full force.

"Miss Jennifer Louise Tailby," Tash stated. "Healer in charge of St Mungo's, order of Merlin first class for saving so many lives. The magical Florence Nightingale."

"Shut up Tash," everyone muttered dozily, sleep catching up to the group fast.

"You don't know!" Tash said. "It might happen!"

A/N: Aaaaaaannddd finished! Whew! Next update on Friday cause I'm going to England to look at Universities. See you then!

Next Chapter: Returning to school (and something else happens which is significant to the plot I just don't want to spoil it for you!)

May Stardust fall in your dreams!