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A/N: Bye everyone! I'm off to the UK for the weekend. Anyone who happens to be in Sussex, Winchester, Portsmouth or Chichester may or may not see me checking out the universities!

On a side note, people have been threatening me with various gruesome deaths if I don't update quickly. I am doing double updates from now on. They will be every Wednesday and Saturday unless for some reason I'm away…

Which brings up topic number 2. I'm in France from the 22nd of October until the 30th of October (basically for half term). So updates will be a little strange. I'll update on Wedensday as normal then again on Friday probably. Then I'll give you the next chapter the day after we come back (Monday) then I'll go back to normal. Sorry to be a pain!

Chapter 29

Fortunately for Lily and James's sakes, the attack was not mentioned in the Daily Prophet meaning only they and the people they had told knew about the attack which had nearly got them killed. But life in school had by no means stayed the same.

Lily's grim mood over her sister's abandonment, cast a black cloud over her friends. Tash was becoming more alert and aware every time they were in close proximity to Slytherins. Jenny meanwhile continued to work furiously at her supply of potions, specialising in those which could help during battle. Lily and James themselves rarely left each others company and both were rather happy for the upcoming exams to take their mind off what might be happening to the world outside school.

During the last week of April, there was another black letter morning. The seven Gryffindors had watched the letters arrive to the occupants and a majority of the Slytherins looking as though Christmas had just arrived early.

"Those miserable…evil…good-for-nothing…little…buggers!" Sirius hissed, glaring at Bellatrix.

"Anyone want to hex her so she sticks to the ceiling?" Tash asked.

"Cool," James said. "When?"

"Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but when she least expects it…" Tash trailed off punching her goblet so that the pumpkin juice hit Peter in the face.

"Sorry Peter," Tash apologised and vanished the mess. Peter muttered a very stiff 'thank you' before diving back into his revision.

"Quidditch practise this evening," James reminded everyone.

"We know," Sirius, Jen and Tash all answered monotonously.

"Again?" Lily asked. "Shouldn't you be taking some days off to revise?"

"No!" Jen said aghast at the very thought. Sirius faked having a heart attack and fell off his seat to a round of laughter.

"Noooo!" Tash said dramatically. "Look what you did Lily! You killed him!"

"You'd be lucky!" Sirius said pulling himself up with a lopsided grin on his face. "I don't plan on dying until I've finally given Bellatrix what she deserves."

"And we will happily endeavour to help you," James assured his best friend.

The bell rang and the hall emptied out for class. As it was Monday the seventh years had History of Magic first.

"Y'know," Jenny said. "I bet we could go and attack the Slytherins and Binns probably wouldn't notice."

"Remind me why I signed up to do this for NEWT level," James said.

"Because Tiger Lily was doing it," Sirius said.

"Ah yes," James said remembrance finally dawning.

"By all rights I shouldn't be here," Tash complained. "I didn't even pass this at OWL!"

"That's why we let you put your head down on the desk and sit quietly," Lily muttered, looking up from her notes.

"Hey Mudblood!"

"Which one do you want Bellatrix?" Tash asked tartly.

"Don't be blonde Marquand!" Bellatrix snarled. "I want the red haired mudblood."

"Get lost Bellatrix some of us are trying to work," Lily hissed.

"Did your sister have a nice wedding?" Bellatrix asked in and innocent tone.

"Shut up!" Lily snapped going back to her work.

"Aww! Did I touch a nerve?" Bellatrix asked. "I'll bet she never wants to see you again. After all, you did ruin her day."

Lily clenched her quill and bit her lip to stop herself from crying.

"Or was it because she realised was a useless excuse for a human her sister was…?"

Next to Lily, James tensed for a fight but to everyone's surprise, it was Jenny who turned around to retort.

"Listen you mind numbingly stupid Voldemort worshipping bitch, you say anything to Lily again and I swear on my green pyjamas that I will kill you!"

Bellatrix burst into loud evil laughter which made everyone in the class, except for Professor Binns stare. Jenny turned back round in her seat.

"We've rubbed off on Jenny," James muttered gravely.

"Maybe it was the right thing to do," Lily muttered. If fighting back was the only way to stay alive, Lily decided that it was worth it.

OOO

"Ready for patrol Lily?" James asked.

"Sure," Lily threw her homework at Jen, who was knocked off her seat by Lily's over sized books.

"Ow! Lily!"

"Sorry Jen," Lily apologised. "Can you take that up to the dorm for me please?"

"Like I have a choice," Jenny muttered rubbing the sore spot on her arm where the bag had hit her.

"Thank you," Lily smiled at her friend as they left the common room.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," James said tapping the map.

"Who's first?" Lily asked.

"Looks like your ex and a sixth year Hufflepuff prefect are first tonight," James said. "Fourth floor, behind the statue of Wendelin the Weird." And taking Lily's arm the couple set off down the corridor.

Fifteen minutes later resulted in twenty house points from each house and Ethan swearing blue murder that he was going to get James at the Quidditch match next week.

"Not meaning to sound over confident but that's not going to happen," James muttered as Ethan swept away.

"That sounds over confident to be honest," Lily remarked.

"I have faith in my team," James smiled checking the map and grinning even more.

"Who's next?" Lily asked.

"Just over here," James said going over to the broom closet on the opposite wall and banging on the door.

"Padfoot! Tash! Time's up kiddies!"

Lily stifled a giggle as a loud volley of swearing issued from within. Sirius stuck his head out of the door.

"Sorry we're busy you'll have to come back later."

"Out!" Lily said in her firmest voice. Sirius pouted and walked out.

"Lily!" Tash whined. "I don't interrupt when you're snogging James!"

"What do you have to say for yourselves?" Lily asked crossing her arms and tapping her foot.

"We were celebrating," Sirius said.

"Celebrating what?" Lily asked suspiciously.

"You'll see if you go to the second floor and look at the ceiling," Tash grinned.

"What are you…?" James began.

"Let's just say our dear friend Bellatrix has a whole new…view…of life," Sirius winked. "Come on Tash. We'd better do what the Head boy and girl say."

And before Lily and James could ask they both disappeared up the stairs.

"Come on I want to see this!" James said taking Lily's hand and racing to the staircase.

To their disappointment however, when they arrived at the second floor corridor they couldn't find Bellatrix anywhere. According to the map she was nowhere on the floor.

"She must have got free," James sighed in disappointment.

"Never mind," Lily said. "Come on, we've still got half the school to check."

"Hey this is strange," James frowned at the map. "Looks like I've found Bellatrix's fan club."

"Where are they?" Lily asked.

"One of the empty classrooms on the first floor," James said. "And there are a couple of other people with them."

They hurried down to the next floor and to the classroom that the map indicated. Once there, James threw the invisibility cloak over themselves just in case someone decided to come out and find them eavesdropping.

"We'll ask once more," Snape's voice appeared. "Where are they?"

"We don't know!" a shrill voice answered.

"That's the Travis girls," James whispered. "Cassie and Olivia. Their parents are Aurors."

"Clarissa's cousins?" Lily asked. James nodded and both of them fell silent to listen to the interrogation.

"Don't be stupid girl, they're your parents of course you know where they are!" Avery snapped.

"Even if we did we wouldn't tell you!" another voice almost identical to the first appeared.

"That would be a very unwise choice," Snape said. "Who wants to show her why?"

"Maybe we should wait until Bella gets here," Rudolphus's hollow voice suggested. "She'll want a chance to practise."

There was a muffled squeak. Lily felt sympathy twist her heart. James pulled her out of the way suddenly. Bellatrix appeared looking very flustered. She hurried into the room giving Lily a brief glimpse of inside. The twins were tied against the wall surrounded by the Slytherins, all whom were wearing black cloaks and hoods. The two Ravenclaw girls were only second years so didn't recognise their captors voices.

"Bella where have you been?" Snape asked.

"Getting down from the ceiling no thanks to my dear cousin and his Mudblood girlfriend."

There was a long silence in which it was clear most of the Death Eaters were slightly surprised by Bellatrix's statement.

"On three we go in," James said. "I'll take the Slytherins on the left, you take the ones on the right." Lily nodded.

"Our little friends are reluctant to tell us what we want to know," Rudolphus said.

"One," James whispered.

"Now that's not very nice is it?" Bellatrix asked, adopting her infamous baby voice which made Lily grip her wand tighter.

"Two," James said.

"How about we use a more persuasive method?" Snape suggested.

"Excellent suggestion," Bellatrix sneered.

"Three!" James hissed before flinging the door open. Lily stunned the two nearest to her, which turned out to be Snape and Avery. Using a very powerful spell, James had knocked the other three off their feet.

"All of you back to your common room," James ordered as Bellatrix, Rudolphus and Wilks got up off the floor. "Before we call Dumbledore."

"Oh they're going to get Dumbledore!" Rudolphus said sarcastically. "We're terrified!"

"You should be," Lily said. "Because if he expels you, you can't watch us anymore. And I can just imagine how happy Voldemort would be when he found that out."

Comment hitting home Bellatrix snarled and swept out of the room followed by Wilks and Rudolphus, who were dragging their fallen companions.

"You two okay?" Lily asked the twins, slicing the ropes that bound them.

"Thank you Lily," Cassie said. "I thought we'd had it."

"What did they want?" James asked.

"They wanted to know where our parents were," Olivia said. "They said you-know-who wanted them…dead." She trailed off, bottom lip trembling.

"Don't worry he won't get them," James said. "You didn't tell them where they were. That took courage, your parents will be proud."

"You'd better go back to your common room," Lily said. "They've gone back to the dungeons so you should be fine."

"What about you?" Olivia asked.

"We are going to find Dumbledore," James said. "Its about time we stopped this."

A/N: Wehey! I'm done and I have to get up at five in the morning for the flight. I'll be running on about six hours of sleep, two cans of coke and a bar of chocolate. I'll probably end up crashing in the middle of the street. If you see someone sleeping in the road it's me. Please pull me out of the way of any approaching cars!

Next Chapter: Final Quidditch match of the season! Yay!

May Stardust fall in your dreams!