Alrighty, I have chosen a beta for this story, tywnfiel, thank you so much! Anyway I may or may not need a beta for Arranged...if tynwfiel wouldn't mind...so just tell me! : )
Lily woke up and tried to take in her surroundings, only she couldn't. The room she was in was pitch black. She couldn't tell how large or small it was, she couldn't see how wide or narrow it was, or where any of the exits were. It was so dark in that room she couldn't even see her hand in front of her face.
"Miss Evans is awake, Master," said a familiar voice, though Lily couldn't quite place it.
"Ah, Miss Evans, how are you feeling?" asked a high pitched voice Lily recognized as Voldemort's.
"What do you want, Voldemort?" she asked viciously. She then felt a hand connect with her cheek. She tried to hit back, but found that her hands were tied.
"Don't hurt her, fool," said Voldemort quickly, "we need her." He then performed a charm on Lily's cheek so it didn't sting as badly.
"Miss Evans, we have kidnapped you in order to get to Potter. He has some vital information and we think you might be able to help us get to him," Voldemort said, Lily could hear him walking closer.
"Why me though? He has a girlfriend, we're not even together anymore," Lily said, wondering why they had taken her and not that stupid Belle.
"But, Miss Evans, you have something of Potter's that Belle does not. You are carrying his child, and you have taken his heart. So you are the perfect tool to get to Potter. Lumos." He said effortlessly and light filled the room. Lily took in her surroundings.
They were in a medium sized room; it had walls made out of hewn stone. It was still dark, as there were no windows. There was nothing in the room but the chair that she was sitting in, and a small cot in the corner. There were two doors that were falling off of the hinges. The room smelled like urine, and her eyes began to tear up at the odor. She looked down at the floor, it was made out of concrete, and there were large brown stains on it. Lily shivered; the room was very cold.
"How did you get all of this information, how did you find out where I was?" she asked, she had performed several charms on herself months ago, so that she couldn't be found.
"Someone was just promoted to my upper ranks because of the information my spy gave me, concerning your whereabouts and pregnancy, I have someone in your little group helping me," Voldemort replied, placing a cold hand on Lily's large belly.
"Don't touch me," she said through gritted teeth.
James was running his hands through his hair frantically.
"What do we do now?" he asked Sirius, who had been completely silent the whole time. "Damn it Sirius! Can't you help at all?" James screamed.
Sirius shrugged. "What can do James? Did you see all of that blood? Do you really think that she's okay?" he asked, looking James in the eye.
"What do you mean did I see the blood? We need to find her before she bleeds out completely. It's not just Lily, that's my child with her, they're both in trouble. How can you just sit there and do nothing?" James bellowed, punching Sirius's jaw.
He heard it crack. Sirius was holding the side of his face, staggering backwards. James tried to hit him again, but Sirius stopped his fist with his hands.
"James calm down," he said, slowly. James tried to struggle against him, but Sirius was stronger than he was. He finally gave up.
"I'm so sorry, Sirius, I have no clue what came over me," he said, looking down.
"It's ok, James, I know you want to find Lily, but we need to alert the proper people first. We can't search the whole of London by ourselves," he said, letting James' hands go.
"Let's go to the Order then," James said, giving Sirius a faint smile.
A few minutes later they were sitting in an emergency meeting of the Order of the Phoenix. The Order was an underground group of the greatest witches and wizards of the age fighting for the light side, trying to take down Voldemort.
"So where do we start looking for her?" James asked quickly, as soon as everyone was there.
"Would you wait Potter? We haven't even started. First we need to get organized, then we need to find her, then we must strategize, then-" Moody started in.
"Lily doesn't have time for that!" James screamed.
"What do you mean she doesn't have time? She's a perfectly capable witch, the brightest in your year! I'm sure she can defend herself for a little while," he said, straightening some papers that were laid out in front of him.
"She can't defend herself," James said quietly, looking straight into Moody's mangled face. A face, which right now he wanted to beat into oblivion with his bare hands.
"What do you mean she can't defend herself?" Dumbledore asked, sensing James' trouble.
"She's pregnant," James said, looking down. He now felt bad for bringing a child into the world at this time, when he was out fighting all of the time.
"And we found blood all over her bed, it seems as if she's having complications," Sirius said, everyone looked at him.
In the room where they were meeting were the Weasleys and the Prewetts. There were also the Longbottoms, and many others, including Peter and Remus. There was also Severus Snape. James, Sirius, and Remus had openly protested Dumbledore's decision to let him into the Order, but Dumbledore hadn't listened to them.
"Well then, I suggest that we make this our top priority," Molly Weasley said, resting her hand on her own belly. She didn't show yet, but she had announced earlier that she was pregnant once again. She saw James looking at her, and smiled at him.
The others looked at James with pity. If one was defenseless and unable to fight at all, they had no chance against Voldemort. They all knew Lily and James' history, and when things had just started to go right for the two of them, there was yet another obstacle.
"Let's get looking then," Dumbledore said, while everyone else nodded. Moody pulled out several maps and blueprints, the Prewetts followed him. Sirius pulled out his own research on Voldemort's whereabouts, and Molly Weasley went into the kitchen to fix food for everyone. Other members were out on assignment, so there would only be a small fraction of the Order looking for Lily.
All of the sudden, James heard a bang upstairs, followed by a series of crashes. They were in the Shrieking Shack, using it for headquarters. James followed the noise. As he got closer, he heard giggles.
"James!" screamed one of the voices. It was Fred, with his two year old twin following him out to James.
"Well hello little Weasleys!" James exclaimed, picking one of the twins up in each arm. "How are all the Weasley children today?" he asked Bill, who had just walked in, followed by Percy.
"We're fine, but I was supposed to be watching those two and Charlie, and the baby-" Bill started.
"Whoa, what do you mean the baby? There's another one?" James asked, his eyes wide.
"Yeah, he's only a month old, anyway I was supposed to be watching them, and the twins got out of their playpen, and then they made a huge mess, running around everywhere…" Bill said trailing off in mid-sentence, "The baby, I left him all alone!" he said, smacking himself.
"Here Bill, you take the twins I'll take the baby," James said, taking pity on the boy. He was just barely done with his first year in Hogwarts; at least he would never make the mistake of having children before he was old enough.
Bill ran back into the little room the boys had been in, and grabbed the baby. He came out two seconds later holding a bundle of blankets.
"His name is Ron," he said handing off the baby to James, "and thanks you so much." James smiled at Bill's expression.
James looked down to the little bundle in his arms. He already had a lot of the trademark Weasley hair. He was a long baby, the longest one he had ever seen at that age. His face was small and pale, with a little nose. His eyes opened when James started to walk, and revealed crystal blue eyes.
James walked down the stairs to go meet Molly in the kitchen, to see what he should be doing with the little one. He walked in to find Molly all alone, humming to herself, while stirring the various large pots that were on the stove.
"You're good with children, James. Lily will be happy to have some help," Molly said, not turning to look at him. "It's amazing how she found you, I'll bet she was looking for you the whole time, love like yours doesn't take a break," she said, looking at James and smiling.
James looked down, "She didn't want to find me, in fact she left because she was pregnant," he said, staring into the baby's eyes, which were focused on his face. "I just got her back, and she was taken from me again."
Molly walked over and sat down next to James, and rubbed his back. James was crying now.
"I can't take it anymore. I have a family now, and I can't do anything to save them or even communicate with them. Voldemort took the love of my life, and my son," he said, it was getting harder for him to breathe because of his sobbing.
"Oh James, its ok. We'll find her, James, we will," she said, starting to cry herself, she didn't like it when other people were hurting, physically or emotionally.
All of the sudden, the door into the kitchen opened and all of the Weasley children walked in.
"We're hungry," whined Charlie.
"George cut Fred's hair with Daddy's wand," Percy said.
"I can't take it anymore, none of them will listen to me!" complained Bill.
"All of you shush, and go to your rooms. Fred, George, stay with me, the rest of you, go!" Molly said glaring at them.
"Why is James crying, Mummy?" asked Bill.
"He's worried about Lily and the baby," Mrs. Weasley said.
"But he's holding the baby," Charlie said, looking confused.
"She means Lily's baby, don't you pay attention?" Percy said, glaring at Charlie.
"But Lily doesn't have a baby," Charlie said getting more confused.
"She's going to have one, idiot," Bill said.
"I don't want to hear that kind of language, Bill," Molly said going back to the stove. Bill rolled his eyes. That was not inappropriate language.
"I saw that Bill," Molly said, pushing the little boys into chairs. "James would you go out and tell everyone else that it's time to eat?" she asked, serving up food.
James nodded and walked out to the meeting room to announce the meal. He went back in to find a seat for himself next to Molly, but instead he took his plate and went upstairs with the baby. At the smell of food, Ron started to cry. James put him down on the bed and conjured up a bottle of warm milk.
"Here you go," he said, easing the bottle into the baby's mouth.
"Some day you and my son will be the best of friends, just like me and Sirius are. You'll start a whole new generation of Marauders with Sirius' kids, and we'll all live happily ever after. With Voldemort gone, the wizarding world won't be at risk anymore and we'll all live long and happy lives," James said smiling. After all, babies make it seem as if the world is all rainbows and butterflies.
James didn't know it, but almost the whole sentence he had just said was going to be completely false.
"I'm cold," Lily said. She knew there was still someone in there watching her. She heard the sound of a spell flying past her, and then all of a sudden a fire roared to life in one of the walls. She was very cold because she was also very wet. She thought that maybe she had wet herself when she woke up to utter darkness.
All of the sudden the door flew open, and Lily was bathed in light. She looked down and saw that she was bleeding. She screamed.
"Shut up, you filthy mudblood!" hissed one of the Death Eaters.
"I'm bleeding, please help me." she pleaded, sobbing.
"Shut up, we'll have to go ask the master," growled the man watching her.
Minutes later Voldemort was with Lily, trying to find out whether she needed medical attention or not.
"Are you in any pain?" asked the Dark Lord. Lily shook her head.
"Crucio!" he said, flicking his wand at Lily, who felt as if every inch of her body was being stabbed by thousands of piercing hot knives.
The curse was lifted suddenly, and Lily felt all of the after effects of the unforgivable wracking her body. She saw Voldemort press his finger to his left forearm. Seconds later Snape appeared.
"Yes, Master?" he said, bowing.
"Help her, do whatever she needs, we can't have her, or the filthy child she is carrying die, or my plan goes down the drain," he said coldly.
Snape nodded. There were guards in the room, and Snape threw them out. He cast a few spells and charms on the door so they could talk freely. "I've only got a little time; I've got your wand. You're in serious danger, and even if that child is Potter's I feel as if I should be helping you, Evans," he said.
"You would help me?" Lily asked in awe.
"Yes, now you're bleeding because you're about to go into premature labor, but I'm going to give you a potion to delay your labor to its originally planned date. Drink this, I'm going to call the Order here," he said, handing her a small vial.
Lily gulped it down gratefully. He said an incantation and suddenly a silver phoenix flew out of his wand and disappeared.
"We need to make it look like you started to fight me. Punch me," he said, lowering his face closer to Lily. Lily shook her head.
"I can barely move," she whispered.
There were many cracks heard and the Order could be seen. James saw Lily immediately and ran to help her.
"You're covered in blood! Are you going to be alright? Is the baby going to be alright?" he asked quickly. Lily nodded.
"Thanks to Snape," she said, smiling faintly.
"We need to get you out of here," James said picking her up. "You're really light, Lily," he said, concerned.
Lily held on to his neck and he disapparated to the Shrieking Shack.
James walked quickly to one of the bedrooms and laid Lily down on the bed, still caked in blood.
"I'll have Molly help you," he said, calling for the older woman. She was up in a flash, and was hovering over Lily. James made to leave, to go help with the fight but Lily stopped him.
"James, I love you," she said feebly.
Author's Note: Well there, it's the longest chapter and I have chosen a Beta so thank you for those that asked for it! I will choose a different beta for Arranged I think though, so if you want to do that just ask! I do want to let you all know that updates may be slower now because my dad's in and out of the hospital and between that and my mother's hours I am constantly babysitting my siblings, so be patient please! And thank you for the reviews, it makes me feel really good lately. Thank you especially to tynwfiel (did I spell that right?) my new beta!