Got this chapter out sooner than I thought, but I just started writing and couldn't stop. I had a lot of fun writing this one. So here you are. Thanks for your reviews!

Chapter thirteen

"Bridget, you've been silent for fifteen minutes," Lily said impatiently. "What is it you have to tell me?"

The two of them were standing in a girls bathroom near the sinks, Bridget looking into a cracked mirror and Lily leaning against the wall, waiting for a response.

There was a pause then -

"Arghhhh!" Bridget let out an angry cry and slammed her hand into the mirror causing it to shake a little.

"Bridget!" Lily hollered, grabbing her friends hand and leading her away from the mirror before she did any damage to it.

Bridget was breathing heavily, cheeks flushing and she looked Lily straight in the eyes; determination written all over her face. Her breathing was coming in steady gasps, but at the same time, she looked as though she had done nothing wrong and was tying to prove a point.

"Lily," Bridget said very calmly, standing motionless. "I murdered my parents."

"You...you what?"

Lily just stood there, dazed and unsure whether she had heard right. The words sank into her and she felt extremely dizzy; the floor tilting beneath her feet and the sinks before her were stretching up infront of her eyes. The faint dripping sounds in the room melted away into nothing as Lily's ears fogged over.

No... she was lying, she couldn't have...no...

"How could you...I don't..." Lily asked in a very soft voice. Her throat had become very dry and the room steadied itself before her eyes.

"I murdered my parents," Bridget said, again in that eerily calm voice. Lily could have sworn she had seen a flame in Bridget's eyes.

In one swift motion Lily dropped to the floor and sat there, still and silent.

"Why?" she asked in a hoarse whisper.

"They got in my way," said Bridget simply.

"So..." Lily swallowed. "So that's why you can see the threstrals now? Because of..." she trailed off.

Bridget nodded and Lily stared off into the distance in a strange trance.

Then a thought struck her. "Polyjuice potion! You're not Bridget at all!"

Bridget shook her head. "No, it's me Lily. If you still so strongly believe I have taken a potion we can wait here for an hour until it's supposed to wear off. Then maybe you'll believe me."

Lily didn't know what to say. Her mind was racing, she had thought she had known this person for seven years; known everything about her, known exactly what she was capable of. When they had first met she had thought there would be nothing that could stand in the way of their friendship, but now this...?

"Lily," Bridget started to speak again. "You've always known I've had an explosive temper..."

"Explosive temper!" Lily shrieked, jumping to her feet and rounding on Bridget. "EXPLOSIVE TEMPER! Bridget there is absolutely no excuse for this! Explosive temper! How on earth can you blame something so many decent people have on something so huge! It's horrible, I can't believe you. Got in your way..."

"Yeah, well listen. Things in my life aren't as neat and perfect as yours. There's just some things you have to do - "

"Perfect? How on earth can you say something like that!" Lily shouted, anger serging through her. "How on earth is my life perfect. I've just found out one of my friends is a murderer!"

"LILY!" Bridget yelled so loud the whole bathroom almost shook from the sound. "I KILLED THEM. I KILLED THEM AND I DON'T REGRET ANYTHING! NOT ANYTHING!"

Lily jumped back as the mirror behind Bridget shattered into a million shards and flew every which way. She shielded her head with her arms and held in her cries of pain when the glass cut through her robes and into her skin.

"What is wrong with you!" Lily bellowed. "I met your parents. I knew them! What on earth was going through your head!"

"You didn't know them like I did," Bridget snarled, the doors of the stalls banging wildly behind Lily. "They were demanding, they expected so much from me, they didn't believe in what I was meant to do!"

"All parents are like that!" Lily shrieked. "There is no - "

"They had it coming, they only had themselves to blame. If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I bet you you would have done the same! And that's not all I wanted to tell you," Bridget growled.

"There's more?" Lily asked incredulously.

"There's more to why I killed my parents."

"It better not be another bogus - "

"Lucius Malfoy," Bridget interrupted.

"I - " Lily stopped; distracted from what Bridget had just said. "What? Who?"

"Lucius Malfoy," Bridget repeated.

"Bridget if you don't tell me everything right now," Lily warned, whipping out her wand and pointing it at Bridget's forehead.

Bridget let out an unamused laugh. "Threaten all you want Lily, but you don't have the guts to do anything to me."

"Oh yeah?"

Bridget shrugged. "Fine, curse me. I know you can't."

"Don't tell me what I can't do," Lily said menacingly.

"Only one of us is a murderer, Lily," Bridget said sedately.

"I would never kill you!" Lily said angrily. "But that doesn't mean I won't curse you."

"Lily, put away the wand and I'll explain."

But Lily had had enough. "Petrificus Totalus!" she cried and Bridget's limbs sprang together tightly, causing her to topple over backwards. "Sorry I did that Bridget," Lily said strongly, wand still pointing at Bridget's face. "But I'm really fed up with you at the moment."

She edged over to Bridget until their faces were only a few inches apart. "Now. I'm going to let you go, and you're going to tell the whole story. Everything. And if you leave something out, I'll know."

"How could you possibly know?" Bridget asked the second Lily had removed the spell. "If I don't tell you anything then - "

"I'll know," Lily growled before shouting, 'Accio wand!"

Bridget let out a cry of frustration as her wand soared out of her pocket and into Lily's outstretched hand.

"Fine!" she yelled. "I was going to tell you anyways you know!" She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Now sit down like a good little girl and listen to the story."

Lily was not about to listen to her old friend and instead of following her instructions, she thought, levicorpus!' and Bridget was dragged up into the air by invisible strings.

"Ah! Lily let me down. I'll tell you!"

Lily sent Bridget crashing to the ground with another flick of her wand and stood her ground on the floor, arms crossed, waiting.

Perhaps Bridget realized Lily wasn't about to listen to her and was starting to think of going back on her promise, perhaps she was just afraid of her safety without her wand, but in any case, Bridget stopped shouting and arguing and sat down on the cold, tile floor herself.

"I met Lucius Malfoy this summer," Bridget started, looking not at Lily, but at her feet instead. "After the quidditch world cup. I didn't like him very much at first. He was always shoving himself in my face, trying to impress me, and of course I had absolutely no interest in him seeing is how he was about eight or so years older than me...

'Of course in the end I gave in and he took me to a nice little pub outside of London where we got to know each other. I still didn't really care much for him and he saw that. We parted there and I thought we would never see each other again..." Bridget trailed off, now playing with a loose thread on her cloak.

Lily didn't say anything, but tapped her foot on the ground signaling her impatience and tightened her grip on her wand.

"Well we did end up meeting again," Bridget continued. "He came to my house. I didn't know how he knew I lived there, I don't remember telling him... But he came and barged into my house like he'd receive an invitation.

'I didn't stop him, how could I? I didn't know very much about him, but he seemed a very powerful wizard and he always had this angry glint in his grey eyes. And then he told me about something truly wonderful: death eaters."

Lily frowned, sure she had heard this phrase before, but from where? "Death eaters?"

Bridget nodded eagerly. "He was telling me how death eaters are trying to stamp out all the evil in the world as well as finding life without death. They're leader was Tom Ribble, or something like that, and they had been a society for many years. I thought it sounded great and really worthwhile and of course I wanted to join. I mean life without death? Who could refuse that?"

"Death exists for a reason," Lily said quietly, her ears ringing. "Immortality is the dream of a madman."

Bridget continued talking as if she hadn't been interrupted. "And as it turned out my first instinct on Lucius were entirely wrong. We fell in love."

"You're in the same league with Voldemort!" Lily said furiously, suddenly remembering. "That's who the death eaters are working with, you moron!"

"Don't call me a moron!" Bridget had leapt to her feet, her fists clenched. "You have no idea what you're talking about!"

"You have no idea!" Lily shouted, hardly daring to believe what she was hearing. "Death eaters aren't trying to rid the world of evil. They're trying to rid the world of muggles and muggleborns! I'm a muggleborn!"

"And there are times I've wanted to kill you too!" Bridget blurted out.

Lily, who was just about to retort, stopped suddenly.

"What?" she asked in a small voice.

"I said - "

"I know what you said!"

Bridget glared at Lily. "You were really annoying me this year Lily. Constantly trying to figure out where I was heading off too and what had happened to me last summer. The truth was, I kept disappearing so I could avoid you and Alice and Amy. Every time I lay my eyes on you I felt this raw surge of hatred course through me like a bolt of lighting, but I had enough self restraint not to let the same thing happen twice.

'I tried to act normal, but you saw right through me. I thought you had grown out of your nosy stage, but it turns out I was wrong. A mistake on my part."

"You wanted to kill me?" Lily asked incredulously; half angry, half heartbroken.

"I kept a knife under my pillow at all times," Bridget shrugged. "Couldn't help myself. There was no way I was good enough to preform the Avada Kedavera curse."

"So," Lily swallowed again. "Have you joined the death eaters?"

"No, not yet," Bridget said quietly, a sick smile forming on her face. "You didn't let me finish the story."

"Fine then finish it already!" Lily said, starting to feel slightly sick.

"I become Lucius's lover," Bridget told Lily. "We were never exactly in love, but, well you know... Anyways it turns out he was only using me to get to my parents. They were part of some phoenix order or something and had a lot of useful information. Lucius told me this eventually and surprisingly I wasn't mad at him, I was mad at my parents.

'They of course had seen Lucius before and had told me their feelings on him. Naturally I went behind their back. By the time I had been told everything I felt that the side I was on was the one that would led me down the right path. Lucius told me that he had found out all the information that he needed and that he had to go back to his death eaters. I wanted to go with him, but he made it clear I was not to follow.

'This angered me as well and it all happened the night I killed my parents. Fools they were. Completely oblivious of their youngest daughter. They deserved what they got and I know this is true. Lucius told me Ribble was pleased with my actions, that was the last time I saw him; the night after it happened. After he said that, he told me there was a place for me with the death eaters, but I was still angry and him and in shock at what I realized I could do. I decided to go back to school instead and try to ignore things as best I could." Bridget stopped, tracing one of the sinks taps with her finger slowly, before turning to Lily.

"But you wouldn't let that happen," Bridget said, her twisted smile fading. "You kept reminding me of what I did. I knew that if I were to get this off my chest, you would be the only person I could tell."

Lily steadied herself on a sink before replying. "Why me? You wanted to kill me for crying out loud!"

"Correction, want to kill you. But anyways, I knew you would be the only person who would keep this to herself because there's no one you could really tell. My secret would still be safe."

Lily peered up at Bridget from her crouched position, "I would tell someone. I plan on telling someone."

"And you're planning to go back on the promise we made before this conversation between us started, am I right?" Bridget asked, raising an eyebrow. "Fine, so be it. I can see it was a mistake to tell you. Still, at least now you've had a warning as to what I could - will do."

And - with almost no warning - Bridget flung herself at Lily sending them both tumbling to the floor and before Lily had gotten a chance to react, Bridget had gotten a hold of both their wands and was back on her feet.

"Are you crazy!" Lily shrieked.

And as though she was proving a point, Bridget cried, "Crucio!" and Lily screamed as the curse hit her. However, this being the first time Bridget had used an unforgivable curse, Lily was back on her feet in no time and had already hit Bridget hard on the nose with a well-aimed punch.

Lily let out a little gasp as she watched Bridget fall over backwards, hit her head on the sink, and drop unconsciously into a heap on the floor.

Overwhelmed by tangled emotions, Lily then quickly preformed a revising spell on Bridget's unconscious body and ran out of the bathroom; gone a split second before Bridget had a chance to open her eyes.

Lily's feet pounded on the hard stone floor as she raced down a corridor, not sure where she was going, just trying to get away.

She ran for what seemed like forever, her chest burning with pain from the stitches in her ribs and her mouth was extremely dry. She ran on, ignoring all this uncomfort feeling very light headed, wondering if there was anything in the world that could make her stop sprinting.

It turned out there was. Another surprise awaited her around another corner of the castle. Lily skidded to a halt, trying to keep her gasping under control as she watched to people completely tangled up in each other disbelievingly.

Amy and Dom.

It took a few seconds for this sight to fully register in Lily and when it had, she didn't sense any particular feeling and she felt she should have. Lily lingered in that hallway for a second more before resuming her run, a destination now marked in her head - the common room.

She got there in less than a minute and ran up the stairs to her dormitory two steps at a time, finally managing to burst through the doorway before collapsing on the ground.

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She was on the space path again, heading towards the golden goblet of Hufflepuff's once more. Her mind was completely blank and the beauty of a thousand stars lingered quietly in the distance.

Lily saw the cup's smooth surface transform into a human face and, like it had in the other dreams, it advanced on Lily when she got too close, snapping its jaws at her.

But this was too much.

"I've had enough!" Lily bellowed at it, picking up rocks from the sides of the path and hurling them at the cup. "Leave me alone!"

But the cup took no head of her cry and the rocks did nothing. It started laughing at Lily, first softly, then louder and louder until the sound was ringing in Lily's ears.

"No! Stop it!" She pulled her hands over her head as its teeth came upon her and yelled out in pain as it's fangs scraped against her sides.

Lily's eyes snapped open and she realized she was still screaming. She shut her mouth and sat up painfully. Something wasn't right.

Trembling, Lily placed her hand on her stomach, horrified when she felt warm blood trickle over her fingers.

Lily closed her eyes and fell back to the floor, breathing into the carpet, trying to ignore the searing pains on her sides. She had to go to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey would know what to do. There was nothing she couldn't do. But Lily couldn't find the will to force herself towards the infirmary and instead simply lay on the ground, panting hard even though every breath was pain.

But she had to do something. The cup was driving her insane, her friends were driving her insane... She didn't know what she could do with her friends - or rather - former friends, but she knew what had to be done with the cup.

Lily hoisted herself up from the ground, suddenly finding a new burst of energy within herself, and dragged herself over to her trunk. She wrenched open the lid, screamed out in frustration and hurled the contents of her trunk around the room, not caring about anything anymore.

One of her shoes flew across the room and smashed into the window, breaking the glass and sending shards falling onto the ground.

Lily, still breathing heavily, reached into her now almost empty trunk and extracted the cup, one thought on her mind - she had to return it to where she found it. Somehow, it would solve the problem.

After one final yell and a furious kick at her trunk, Lily wrenched open the door and fled down the stairs.

Hehe, Lily sort of spaz's a lot in this chapter, but that's probably how I'd react in the same situation.

Hope you're happy you finally know much more on Bridget and sorry if it disappointed you. Truth be told I never really planned for so much suspense in that department, though I guess since it took so long for the secret to finally get out that that was only natural.

James and Lily are going to havea lot more interaction in the next chapter and some sexual tension between them (finally!). And that means the end is near. I'm planning to end this story after their first kiss, but that may change. The thing is I only have a plot for that far.

So hope you enjoyed that chapter and as always, review!