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Ch 7: Remus' Assistance/Assualt
"Look, at her. Thinking she's all that."
"I know. Can you believe her?"
"I used to thik she was really innocent, but I guess looks can be deceiving."
"What looks? She's uglier than an imp."
"No, a troll."
"No, a giant."
"I bet you, she planned it all out."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, she planned it to happen. I mean, it's too much of a coincidence, that James just happened to walk in on them, while they were doing it?"
"You mean, she actually did it? Just like that?"
"I hear, that they were doing it on the couch in the head's common room."
"Nuh-uh. They did it in that huge bath tub that's supposed to be in the prefect's room."
"No they didn't they did it in Dumbledore's office, when he was out."
"Whoa..."
"Wait, she didn't do it with James?"
"Nope, she did it with that guy from Ravenclaw."
"His name's Eric O'Bryan."
"He's the Quidditch team captain."
"I know him, he's not that hot."
"I guess for Evans, he's hot enough."
"She's hot enough for me. If she'd take me."
"You don't have to worry. If she'd take O'Bryan, over Potter, she'd probably take anyone."
"Is she that desperate, for attention?"
"As if she didn't have enough of it already. Trying to make a fool out of James, like that."
"I know, she says she hates him, but lately she's been really nice to him."
"She probably tried to lead him on, so then she could hurt him later."
"I guess that goes to show,how low some would stoop to get revenge."
"It's digusting."
"Well, what else would you expect from a mudblood?"
And so the rumors continued, throughout the whole day. Lily knew things would become complicated, but she had never imagined, it would go out of hand. In every class, the girls wouldmurmur nasty insults, while some of the guys would howlnasty comments. Lily felt embarassed andhumiliated, but refused to show it. Although, she did feel better when April and May would tell people off, for saying such things, and she admit it wassatisfyingto watch people become horrorfied, when June would send them a death glare, when she heard the faintest whisper about the incident. Although, it didn't stop them, when she wasn't around. Occassionally, she deducked house points from several students, but that just made them angier, and more horrible stories began to fly around the castle. Most teachers didn't understand what was going on, so they didn't do anything about it.
Lily felt dizzyfrom all the tension. It was only the next morning, and people had already made it headline news. As she tried, walking down the stairs on her crutches, she felt herself being pushed and fell a few steps forward. She again, felt the stinging pain in her leg, and felt helpless and she layed on the stairs.
"That's what you get for hurting James." a shrilly voice came and she heard a group of girls laugh with her. Lily tried to gather herself and her stuff together, but the position she was in made it difficult, until someone bent down and began collecting her books. Lily looked up to see Remus smiling at her politley. He seemed just as sickly as yesterday, which made Lily wonder if she should send him to the Hospital Wing.
"Thanks Remus," Lily sighed. As he helped her stand up and bunch of boys were walking by and one of them hollared,
"Yo Lupin. Get'n in on some of the action huh?" And the gang walked away, howling in laughter. Lily could see Remus looking disgusted, but a shade of pink crept along his face.
"I'm so sorry about that Remus. You shouldn't have done that."
"Don't say that Lily. Of course I'm happy to help."
"How could you say that, Lupin?" on of the girls screamed from the top of the stairs.
"She hurt your best friend and yet, you're willing to help her out?"
"Yes, I am. And as for you, I suggest you start acting more respectable towards your peer."
"I'll never respect that...that...that-"
"That what, Tudger?" a calm, yet demanding voice came. Lily and Lupin looked behind them and there stood James, glarring fiercely at the lead girl.
"James...I...but she..." Tudger stuttered (it rhyms. hehehe) But James just ordered,
"Leave her alone. All of you." He turned to the rest of the group, who just looked at him and walked away. At that moment, Lily felt ashamed.
"He shouldn't have to stand up for me. Not after what happened," Lily thought to herself. It seemed her distress shone in her eyes, fo Remus bent over and said,
"Don't worry about James. I'm sure he'll get over it. I mean, what happened, between you and O'Bryan."
"But... he doesn't... understand," Lily sniffled/hiccupped. Then, all the emotions she felt all day explode and she began to cry instantly on Remus' shoulder. Remus felt helpless, for he didn't know what to doso he justlet her cry on him. Not knowing another person felt exactly the way.
"What's wrong, Prongs. You seem more down than usual." Sirius tried chuckling to his depressed friend.
"Everything's wrong, Padfoot. I thought that I had her, but then...," James sighed, laying on his bed.
"Don't worry, Prongs. There'll be others," Sirius assured, but it didn't help James one bit.
"Maybe it just wasn't meant to be," Peter piped up.
"Prongs, you really need to lighten up. How about we leave early tonight, so we can get away from all of this." Sirius suggested.
"That's an idea. Let me just get the cloak. I left it in the head'scommon room." James said, gettingoff his bed, and leaving the boy's dormitory.
As James walkedthrough the corridors, he suddenly heard faint whispering in a nearby classroom.
"This stinks. What are we going to do now?" a familiar voice cried, sulkingly.
"April?" James thought, suspiciouly as he walked over and pushed the door slightly opened to find the three March sisters discussing over something.
"I know. Lily doesn't seem at all herself lately." May added.
"It's all that jerk Eric's fault. I'll never let him get away with this." June hissed. (2 make it ezr, I'm just going to put a letter infront of the setence 2 say whose speak'n)
A: "I don't want to hear that idiot's name. Let's talk about Lily."
M: "I agree, what should we do. This clearly is between her and James."
J: "That's our problem. We know the two are equally stubborn so it's not going to be easy to get them to talk."
M: "But it's not Lily's fault. Eric came onto her."
J: "Yeah, but we have a twisted witness, and how she announced it seemed basis."
A: "She's part of the 'James Potter Fan Club.' Of couse her explanation is basis!"
M: "So now what do we do?"
A: "It's obvious, that this is between the two of them, but with all the rumors from this morning,"
J: "James will get the wrong idea."
A: "But what can we do to make them talk face to face?" It took a few minutes before the three girls glanced at each other and lookednervous.
A: "Do you think we should use it?"
M: "It's too dangerous. We can't fully control it."
A: "Yeah, but what else can we do?"
M: "Isn't there another way, though?"
A: "I'm not sure May. What do you think June?"
J: "Let's let them try to settle this out for themselves, although if things get worse. We'll use it."
The other two agreed and settled down. James stood up and began thinking what he had just heard. One, he knew that he didn't exactly know the details about last night, from what May said,"But it's not Lily's fault. Eric came onto her." Two, he needed to talk to Lily before the sisters use'it' is to fix the whole thing. And three, what was 'it'? As he walked to the sphinx and gave her the password, he walked in to surprisingly find the whole place a mess. The couch was turned over, along with the tables and chairs. James rushed to his room, to find it completely searched. His side cabnet was opened and papers were all over the place. After examining his clearly destroyed room, out of curiosity, he rushed to Lily's bedroom and found the door ajar. He pulled out his wand and stepped inside. He heard endless shuffling as he looked around. Until, he saw half of a small body from inside Lily's cabnet.
"How hard is it to find. Sheesh. This girl is really a neat freak, unlike James," a sweet, but poisoning voice murmured. James knocked on the door and the body jumped up instantly to reveal...
"Feeling better?" Remus asked as he and Lily walked along the grounds. It was only six o'clock, so he had a few good hours before dinner and meeting up with the others.
"Yeah, alot thanks," Lily sighed letting the sweet wind blow agianst her face. It felt good, having the cool air dry her drenched eyes. As she let the breeze blow through her hair, she couldn't help but relax. Out of everything that happened, she finally felt peaceful.
"Um, Remus. I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I didn't mean to freak you out, back there," Lily apoligized.
"No problem Lily. Although, Ijust want to know something. You don't have to answer if you don't want to though."
"I think an answer is more than you've deserved. Shoot."
"Do you really love Eric?" Remus asked bluntly. The question took Lily by surpise, but she didn't want to break her word.
"I'm not sure anymore. I used to like him. But now, he's just so different. Sort of like..." but Lily didn't want to finish the sentence, for she knew she'd start crying agian.
"It's okay Lily. It amazes me too. Both Eric and James have really changed. Differently though, but probably from the same reason," Remus chuckled. Lily just started at the sky, feeling the wind hit her face.
"Lily, why don't you just tell James you don't want him to chase you anymore?"
"One, I've tried. Two, I bet he wouldn't listen. Three,..." but she stopped counting, feeling the diziness from earlier grow. She swayed a little, until she fell forward. Remus met her half way and caught her midwaist.
"Thanks," Lily sighed, as she laid on him. Remus suddenly felt a burning in his chest. Wait! Was it really from his chest? He looked down to see Lily's head, resting on his chest, and when he put a hand on her forhead, feeling the burning grow.
"Lily! You have a fever. Come on. let's get back-" but he stopped, and Lily felt him shaking restlessly. She looked up to see his eyes twitching back and forth.
"Remus?" He didn't answer, instead he let go of Lily and held his head in frustration.
"Remus?" Lily repeated, in a louder voice. Remus, stood still a few seconds, and spoke harshly,
"Lily, get back up to the castle. Now!"
"But I can't leave you like this."
"Go! NOW! AHH!" he shouted, feeling his body about to explode.
"I'm not leaving you," Lily said, firmlyas she walked over to help, but he used his arm to fling her away, pushing her to the ground. She agian felt the same pain in her leg as she landed onto the ground. She looked at Remus concerned, but instead, caught a glimpse of a shady figure running across the courtyard, and into the Dark Forest.
"REMUS!" Lily shouted, forcing herself to get up. She felt her leg sting too much to rush after him, but what could she do?
"Maybe I could go and tell someone, when I get back up to the castle." Lily thought as she entered the great halls.There, she met the whole school, eating happily. Lily felt her stomach rumble and decided to take a bite to eat.
"What are you doing here?" James asked coldly, as the girl stood up. It was the same girl that had walked in on Lilyand him and the onehe had talked to the same night.
"Oh, just the usual," she answered meakly.
"And do you usually raid people's privacy?"
"Yes," she answered calmly. James couldn't tell if she was telling the truth or being sarcastic.
"Well, I think it's about time for dinner. So I'll just-" she said, making her way to the dorr, but James stood in her way.
"What did you take?" he asked, suspisioucly.
"What?"
"What did you take? There had to be something in here you were looking for."
"There is, but I can't find it."
"And what exactly is it?"
"I'm not telling. And don't even try flattering me with those handsome eyes of yours, because it won't work," she smirked and made anattempt to leave, but James stopped her.
"Who exactly are you?"
"Who me?"
"Yes, you. Whoelse?"
"I'll tell you. If you let me go."James looked at her expectedly, butagreed.
"And you didn't take anything?"
"NO! I told you I couldn't find it, so there." she reminded stubbornly as they walked to the portrait doorway.
"Okay, so come on out with it."
"Out with what?"
"Stop playing games. You said you'd tell me your name."
"I don't feel like it." she said bluntly and turned her back to him.
"What? So you're going back on our deal?"
"No, I've just thought of a better bargain."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Yeah. Instead of giving youmy identity for my freedom, I'll give you my love." and with that, she quickly pecked James on the lips and rushed off. James knew he could catch her, but didn't feel up to it. So he let her go, for now.
As James passed the great hall, he caught a glimpse of Lily and suddenly remembered his meeting with her.
"I better ask her ifwe could change it to another night," James thought sulkily, remembering what he'd promised to himself after hearing the March sisters. Although, when he first walked in, Lily noticed immediately and hoped over to him.
"What? Why is she in such a rush to get to me. Does she want to talk to me that bad? Nah. That's not like her. But why does she look so worried?"
"Oh course! Why didn't I think of it before? Why not tell James. You were going to see him later anyway," Lily scolded herself.
"You didn't think of it before, because you think he's still upset, and I bet he still is," a voice answered, sarcastically.
"James, look, I know you're mad at me and all, but can we talk? Privatly?"
"Actually, Evans. I'm sort of in a rush." James answered as nutural as he could.
"He's still mad! He probably hates me," Lily feared, but shook it off.
"But James, it's important, and I think you ought to know."
"Really, what is it then?" James asked, curiousity getting the best of him.
"It's about Remus. I think he's ill or something." With this horror filled James' face and he grabbed Lily by the wrist.
"James...what-"
"Just come with me. Please!" Feeling she owed him something she obliged. They kept walking until they stopped in an empty corridor.
"Alright, Lily. Tell me everything," James ordered.
"Well, here it goes," Lily thought, and began to explain what had happened.
"And then he disappeared," Lily finished. James looked speechless, until it finally hit him.
"Alright, thanks Lily. I really did need to know that. Do you think we can cancel our meeting today?"
"You mean, our meeting for our hogsmeade weekends?"
"Yeah, do you mind?"
"No, but you aren't going after him, are you?"
"Um...," he couldn't tell her. If she knew, she'd probably try to come along.
"No, but I just want to tell Sirius and the others.I think they ought to know too."
"Of course they should know, but why cancel the meeting, if it's going to take ten minutes or less to tell them?"
"Well, I think they'd probably go crazy, and I'm afriad they'd do something drastic."
"Oh, okay." Lily sighed in relief.
"Well, I better find them. I'll see you later, okay?"
"Alright, and James," Lily added quickly before he left.
"Yeah?"
"Just promise me one thing." James felt his heart beat.
"Um, sure thing Lily. What?"
"Promise, you won't do anything drastic." James' head felt light.
"Why is she so worried about me?"
"Um, well, I...don't think I can..." James said weakly.
"James," Lily said making an effort to walk over to him, but ended up stumbling. Of course, James reflexes reacted and he caught her by the arms. He felt her warm breath on him, and a small blush crept along his cheecks.
"Promise me," she repeated, in a whisper. James thought she felt pretty warm and moved his hand to her forhead.
"LILY! Your temerature!" he said.
"Promise me," she said, weakly.
"I've got to get her to the Hospital Wing, but what about Remus?" James thought frantically. He decided to take Lily up to the Hospital Wing first, then see to Remus.
"Alright Lily. I think it's time for bed," James chuckled and pulled out his wand. He murmured a charm and Lily's crutches began to float. Then, he picked her up bride style and began walking downt he corridor, her crutches following. Lily felt her face burn hotter as she felt his arms supporting her. Suddenly the diziness swept over her, and she began to drift off. James didn't try to look at her, until he could feel her head resting on his chest. James smiled and decided to cherish the moment as he continued his way.
Once at the Hospital Wing, Madame Pomfrey had James place Lily in a bed, and gave her some medicine.
"She's be as good as new, tomorow. Thank you for bringing her up Potter."
"Not a problem, Madame Pomfrey."James assured her.He noticed a few hair strands were in Lily face, sohe tucked them behind her ear.He heard Madame Pomfrey giggle and went off. James was about to go, when he felt his robe being tugged behind him. He turned to see Lily half awake and clutching his end.
"Promise me," she said agian, looking hopefully.
"Lily I have to go." James said, but she just tightened her grip.
"James. Promise me. Promise me, you won't go and get yourself hurt," Lily pleaded. James felt his hear soften as he saw Lily looking at him, her eys full of concern. Concern for him. Although, the feeling was replaced with a weight of guilt as he answered,
"Alright, I won't go." Lily smiled, happily.
"You promise?" The guilt grew instantly, as he assured her,
"Yeah, I promise. Now promise you'll stay here until you get better, okay?"
"Like I'd really go anywhere."
"Seriously Lily. You need to get better. I think we're becoming a little irresponsible as head students."
"I guess you're right."
"Okay, so promise me, you'll stay here, okay?"
"Okay, I promise." She let go of his robe and linked his pinky with hers.
"What are you doing?"
"It's called a 'pinky promise.' It's the muggle's way to make a promise. When you make a 'pinky promise,' you have to keep your promise, no matter what." James felt his guilt hit rock bottom.
"What happens if you don't keep your promise?" he chuckled.
"Well, there's two things that can happen. One, you can make another promise, to repay for the other one, and you have to keep that promise. Two, the person you made the promise to, can make a promise to you, to forever despise you." (I just thought of the 2nd part. the 1st part is tru) James smiled. Muggles had such weird rituals.
"Well, I wouldn't want you to despise me forever."
"Then, don't break your promise." James laughed weakly and tucked her in. When he made sure she was nearly asleep, he bent down and whispered,
"Nothing lasts forever Lily, but..." And that's all the Lily heard, for the next second she was in a soft, blissful dream. As James walked out of the Hospital Wing, the guilt came immediately and he dashed off to find Sirius and Peter.
"I'm sorry Lily."
Meanwhile, Sirius and Peter were sitting on the steps outside the Great Hall, waiting for James to arrive.
"Where is Prongs? Do you think he went off, without us?" Peter asked, curiously.
"If he did, I wouldn't blames him. Poor Prongs. SO much as happened." Sirius sighed, hoping his best friend would be alright. Then, a shuffling in the woods caught his eye. Even in the darkests of nights, Sirius had a knack for seeing objects at a distance. For he was Gryffindor's Beater, who had to watch for those dealy bludgers. The figure moved swiftly, but not swiftly enough.
"Come on Peter," he ordered as he chased after the figure.
"But what about Prongs?"
"There's no time. If Prongs did go on without us, we'll probably find him later." And with that, the two boys dashed off, following the figure.
"Good night, April," May said, as they turned off their bedroom light.
"Nighty, night, May,"April answered.
"Good night, June."
"Night, May." And May pulled the covers over her. She turned to face the window and suddenly saw two figures dashing across the courtyard, and disappearing into the Dark Forest. She blinked unbelievably, recognizing the two. Then, a third figure came out of the castle and rushed into Dark Forest with the others. May felt her jaw drop, when she saw who the third figure was.
James?
As the full moon shone above the Dark Forest, the werewolf rushed between the trees, withthe bear-like dog following in pursuit. A rat sitting nervously on his head. As the dog chased after the werewolf, his thoughts were somewhere else. Causing him to lose sight of the beast. As he stopped on a trees roots, to smell the beast's scent, a new scent filled his nose. When, he turned around he happily foundthe handsome stag standing on a tree's roots a few miles away. The dog bounded up to the stag and the two smiled at eachother, before following the werewolf's scent.
A few minutes after James left,Madame Pomfreycame out of her office to check up on her patient with a potions bottle in her hands.
"I can't believe how absent minded I was. I forgot to give her her potion for her leg. That Potter, I have him to thank for that. Aw, such a kind, yet troublesome young man," she chuckled to herself. When she set the potion on the bedside, she pulled back the curtains, to see an empty bed and the bed blankets pulled back.
"Ms. Evan?" Madame Pomfrey asked, quickly, looking around. She then panicked when she saw Lily's crutches...leaning agianst the bedside.
"I'm sorry James," Lily thought to herself as she walked along the corridors. She hadn't brought her crutches, for they weren't fast enough to move in, so she brought a cane. Although some help it did. As she walked to the grand oak doors, she didn't notice the second figure following her.
The stag and dog stopped to rest at the edge of the Dark Forest, for they had ran themselves exhausted. The rat on the other hand, scurried around and around. As the stag stood up, he could see a figure with three legs walking out of the castle. The stag suddenly froze in terror as the person limped down the stairs, unaware that they were walking into a terrible chase. In the distance, he could make out the shadow, they had been following, coming out of the forest, and his full attention was person.
Lily suddenly heard footsteps behind her and found...
"May! What are you doing here?"
"I should ask you the same thing. And without your crutches?" May answered, sternly which was unlike her.
"I..." Lily stammered for an answer, but couldn't find one that didn't envolve lying to her best friend. Then, the two heard a rustling and they saw a creature coming out of the Dark Forest. The two pulled out their wands, for defense and stood still. The creature crept closer until it was under the moon light. It was a werewolf. Lily panicked. She knew werewolves were unbelievably fast, and deadly. She began to slowly step back, but with each step the creature crept forward. It was until she backed into May, that it finally stopped. The next thing she knew, the creature dashed towards them at full speed. Lily said the first spell that came into her mind,
"Wingardium Leviosa!" The creaturewas pulledinto the air and it began to howl menacingly. For a moment, Lily sighed in relief, but it only lasted a second.
"What now, Lily? We can't keepit like this. And if you let itgo, it'll attack us," Lilyasked herself, looking at the werewolf. She didn't notice as May walked over to the werewolf, gazing at it dreamily.
"May, get away from it. It's hurt you!" Lily ordered.
"No it won't," May answered, reaching out towards it. As if to pet it.
"MAY!" Lily yelled out of terror, which threw her out of her concentration. The creature dropped on all fours, then starredat the two as if comparing them. Sure May was closer, but she get away easily. Lily on theother hand was farther buut would stay where she was. May edged closer to it, her hands nearly on its back. When she touched its fur, the creature flinched then twirled to snap at her.
"Expelliarmus!" Lilyyelled, aiming at the creature's mouth.The spell hit its target and the creature drew back in pain. Then,the creature aimed at its target andhit it dead center. Itleapt across the courtyardand pinned Lily on the stairs. While falling back, Lily hit her head on the step and fell unconscious.
"LILY!" May screamed in horror, and felt the wind of a terrified stag rush past her. As the creature drew down on Lily, the stag reared its antlers and shoved the creature back a few feet up the stairs. The stag nuzzled Lily softly andtiny tears fell from its eyes. Then, it heard a snarling from aboveit and saw the creature attack it. As it stood up,it knewit had the werewolf's attention. As the stag took one more look at Lily, it continued to cry. Then, it dashed off, leading the werewolf away from the girls.
As May watched the stag dash off, she rushed over to Lily and began to drag her to the castle and once inside, she shut the doors.
"Don't worry Lily. I got you," May assured as she carried her down the corridors, and back to the Hospital Wing, where Madame Pomfrey had a fit.
"Merlin's beard! What happened?"
"I...I don't know," May lied. It was rare that May would lie so she felt extremely nervous.
"Well, it's late and you should go to bed," Madame Pomfrey instructed and 'shoo'ed May out, who rushed back to Gryffindor Tower and straight to bed, making sure not to wake up her sisters.
James huffed heavily as he leaned back on the trunk of a tree. Sirius, Peter and Remus laid still with him, sleeping restfully. As he continued to breath deeply, he looked at the Hospital Wing's Tower, his eyes red and puffy. He knew it was late, so he decided to lie down, until the face of a certain red head filled his thoughts.
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