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Dreaming

As James headed up to the owlry, Dani, panting and out of breath, intercepted him.

"James Potter wait up!" she literally screamed. "Why in the world do you go so bloomin' fast? Took me ages to catch up with you!"

"Uh, hi Dani." James said, not pausing as he kept on walking.

"James, Can I ask you a question?"

"You just did, but you can ask me another. So shoot."

"Um… it is sort of about Sirius."

"Why in the world do you want to talk about him?"

"Well, um you see…" Dani stopped talking getting red in the face.

"Ah, I see why. The answer is yes."

"Uh, to what?"

"Your question. Sirius feels the same, eer, I think…" James stopped walking and stared off into space. Then he started quickly walking again. "I got to get to the owlry, c-ya!"

Dani nodded and walked silently off to find Sirius smiling brightly on the inside, leaving James to his own business.

Lily found Kevin coming out of the Great Hall having just eaten. She decided that she would just skip her dinner so that she could spend the night chatting with him, alone. However, the alone part did not happen as Isaac and Matt came bounding up behind them, so Lily spent the rest of the evening with Kevin and the rest of the gang in the library whispering in hushed voices about the prank that they were going to pull soon. Matt and Isaac had planned a little prank for that night involving purple hair and clothes. Then they all decided though about the one to be pulled after the Hogsmeade visit.

When Lily got back to her dorm that night, she noticed two objects lying on her bed. One was a letter and the other was a beautifully wrapped package. She grinned and plopped down opening the letter first. She assumed that it was from Kevin, he hadn't really given her anything except for that picture and frame, but that didn't really count. Lily's brow furrowed as she read the letter. It was from Potter.

Lily,

I know that today is your birthday and I couldn't decide what to give you. So I asked Sirius. Now, before you go criticizing me for the person I went to advice for I just want to let you know that he had a good idea and I am going to use it.

I solemnly swear that I, James Potter, will not bother you from this day forward for a month.

There, isn't that great? Well, I hope you like it I guess, and well… after the month is done… will you go out with me?

Returning Captain and Chaser of the Gryfinndor Quidditch team,

James Isaac (I know you love my middle name) Potter

Lily scowled and threw away the letter. The nerve of him! Sheesh, why can't he just leave her alone forever! He is just going to leave her alone as a 'birthday present'? That was SO pathetic, she didn't think he could stoop any lower! She didn't even WANT a present from him.

Lily turned back to the present on her bed. There was no note attached or name written on it except for her name. She carefully opened the package and gasped.

Inside the box was a silver necklace that had a charm pendant on it in the shape of an L. It was really beautiful; something that she had looked at and wanted for a long time but it was way too expensive for her to buy. It had small diamonds in the "L" and up the chain. The "L" itself was almost pure silver and it shone beautifully, shaped in cursive.

She carefully took off her locket that she had gotten from her parents when she was born and replaced it with her new necklace. There was no note attached to it so she figured that it was from Kevin. He was so thoughtful! Such a sweetheart! Lily smiled to herself as she drifted off to sleep that night. Her birthday had been a little strange but she had loved it just the same. She tried to stay awake reminiscing about her day but she slowly dozed off into a blissful sleep.

Lily was in the Forbidden Forest running. Running anywhere but back. She had to get away from Hogwarts; it was destroying her piece by peace, especially Him. He was getting into her skin, a mission she was sure that he was sent to complete.

Off in the distance she heard the faint howling of a wolf and the scamper of feet other than her own. Trees flew by, slowly at first, but than faster as she increased her pace. Soon she lost track of how far away she was from the edge of the forest, the minutes sped by but Lily didn't grow tired. She had to get away, far away.

Behind her Lily heard the steady beat of paws hitting the ground, as if a wild animal was on her tail, the full moon haunting her from above. The steady beating grew louder and louder and suddenly Lily heard a howling behind her right before she went tumbling to the ground after being tackled by the creature.

She couldn't even scream as the animal began attacking her, she couldn't even think, she couldn't do anything but feel. Her mind began to race as the scratches went deeper. The only thing that she saw was blood, her blood. She knew that she was going to die. As the claws cut deeper and deeper into her skin, Lily began to loose her sight. Everything got blurry, the animal attacking her, the other animals out in the forest, the trees also began to fade out, but one thing on the tree right next to her stood out like fire, three letters, JIP. At the sight of these letters Lily seemed to have found her voice and she screamed before blackness covered her completely.

All of Gryfinndor house woke up the next morning to a scream coming from the sixth year girl dorms.

The sixth year boys groaned as the heard a scream coming from the girl tower. Glancing at the clock, Isaac saw that it was almost 6:00, he still had an hour left to sleep. He groaned and rolled over hearing someone getting up.

"James," Sirius said threateningly, "Remember your promise! One month remember? One month! It hasn't even been a day."

James could be heard walking over to Sirius' bed so not to disturb the others as they tried to fall asleep again. "Sirius, you and I both know who it is that screamed. It happened last year to remember? No one could wake her up and then someone needed to take her to the hospital wing. They can't do it! I have to do it Sirius."

"Prongs, go back to bed." Sirius all but snarled, angry with his friend for keeping him awake and for being so stubborn, "We didn't know what caused it that time, for all we know it could be something completely different."

James groaned as he trudged back into his bed. Sirius was right for once on two accounts. He had promised to Lily to leave her alone for a month, a promise that he wanted to keep. Also, they never found out exactly why Lily had refused to wake up. Although he had asked Dani about it this summer and she had said that it was just a dream and Lily was perfectly fine. A dream couldn't keep someone unconscious and unable to wake up. Lily had remained unconscious all day last time! James finally drifted back to sleep thinking of nothing else except for his Lily and her welfare.

The girls and Lily's dorm were having a problem. When Lily had screamed they all had woken up. Jessica and Ashley had no idea what was going on and immediately went to Lily's bed to see what was the matter. Sarah on the other hand had gone to talk with Dani to try to get her to help them because they, unlike Jessica and Ashley, had dealt with this last year.

"Dani!" she hissed, "get up! You are the best here at calming her down! Get up!"

"Who cares about Evans now? Why do you care? She traded us for new friends out of her own will, she doesn't want anything to do with us anymore."

"No Dani. You forced her to. You asked her to ditch her new friends or that we would ditch her. You don't know what that did to her! You don't see it. Didn't you hear what James said happened when she got back from your place? She ran to her room crying and didn't leave it for almost a month. You saw her on the platform, you see her now! She has changed! And I don't know if it is for the better. She doesn't deserve this to happen to her. You and her were friends for years, and then all of a sudden you go break off the friendship with her just because of her boyfriend. Now you get up and you get your butt over there and help her out before she hurts herself." Sarah stormed off in the direction of Lily's bed to see if she could help at all.

Lily was thrashing about clawing out, scratching at an unknown object and whimpering as if she had, after that scream, lost her voice. She began scratching at her skin trying still to get something off, prying at it as if it was stuck on like glue. Jessica and Ashley stood by her unsure of what to do, fear in their eyes. Sarah tried to grab Lily's hands and pry them off of her but only managed to get herself scratched at instead. As soon as Sarah's hands left Lily's, Lily began clawing again at her arms trying to get the invisible attacker off of her.

Someone roughly pushed her aside and went up to Lily; it was Dani. Dani picked Lily up in her arms and tried talking to her to get her to calm down.The black the was around her had faded almost the minute that it had been there, and the animal on top of had kept clawing at her without a pause, ripping her skin, not even a hint of slowing down. The only noise around them was that of an owl 'woo wooing' in the distance. Then suddenly a voice came, out of nowhere.

"Ev- Lily. Lily, it's me, your --- friend, Dani. Stop moving about so much, you're hurting yourself and everyone else out here. Remember the last time you had this dream? I know that you can't get out of it without Madame Pomfry's help but still, I know that you can stop clawing about."

Lily recognized the voice but she couldn't see where it was coming from. She panicked, then throwing the animal off of her once and for all she ran. The pain running through her body was immense, she could barely stay on her feet. The major blood loss made her feel completely lightheaded as she ran right out of the woods and up to the castle. But the distance between the two didn't get smaller. In fact, the faster and longer that she ran, the farther away the castle seemed. The voice that had spoken to her was mumbling something to someone else softly, then the voice spoke again to her.

"Lily, we have you in the hospital wing. Madame Pomfry is going to help you wake up. Don't worry, and don't fight again either. We don't want you to hurt yourself again."

Lily looked anxiously around for the voice but she couldn't find it. She kept running to the school finally closing the distance. She scrambled into it and suddenly the scenery changed.

She was in the Great Hall laughing with Isaac and Matt. It was a Friday in January and they were planning on sneaking off to Hogsmeade after classes were finished. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Kevin conversing with Brooker and her lip furrowed. That, that traitor. A traitor was the only thing to call him. He had been so nice! But why… WHY had he done that? Just thinking about it hurt.

"HEY LILY!" someone called and she woke up.

Thanks to all of the reveiwers! DIFFEN-DOOFER, Elfobsession2931, firewalker32, Faith Halliwell.

Elfobsession2931 - I do have AIM but i haven't used it in so long i forgot my sn. i'll tell you next time I update what it is. :D Yes, the curse is the same (imperio) remember what Mrs. Potter said? The curse that you collapsed from late in this summer, at about the beginning of August? Well, he thinks that your parents are under the same curse. And that curse was an unforgivable (see chp 10).

Well... I have to go! I hope to update again soon!