Story Title: Love of Two Generations: The First

Chapter Title: A Choice

Disclaimer: All people and recognizable places belong to and were taken out of J.K. Rowling's amazing mind. Plot and some characters belong to me.

Author: Chewy

Summary: In a world of Witches, Wizards, Trolls, and magnificent Beasts, the tale of four different people unravels to engulf the world in luminosity. Can true love blossom from true hate? Can two opposites come together to form a bond so powerful it could save the world? Only TIME can tell...

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The moon had not risen yet into the already darkening sky as a hush fell over Hogwarts. Students filtered into the Great Hall after a fortnight of no classes and receiving many gifts from family members and friends. The Gryffindor table was strangely quiet compared to the other three whispering tables as they were informed of the disappearance of Lily Evans.

"This can't be happening... why weren't you looking after her? Why weren't you around taunting her at least?" Marie asked standing beside Remus and across from James at the Gryffindor table. She started breathing heavily and looked at James for an answer.

"...How was I supposed to know she was going to be kidnapped?" James questioned quietly looking at the food sitting on his plate untouched. Patting his back sympathetically Sirius cringed under Marie's next comment feeling James shudder.

"You're supposed to know everything! You're supposed to be in love with Lily and know her every move and everything that's going to happen to her! You're..." Marie paused and wiped a tear that was falling slowly down her flushed cheek and sat roughly, "You're supposed to be there when she needs you most... not when she doesn't."

James dropped the fork that he had been gripping under the table and stood swiftly walking out of the Great Hall and up the moving staircases to the fifth floor. He made sure not to run into Gomery on the staircases, he tended to blame James for many things it was physically impossible for him to achieve.

James walked quickly, not stopping until he reached the statue of Boris the Bewildered on the fifth floor. He stopped and took a breath before muttering the password, 'Midnight Swim'. All other Prefects would hopefully be at dinner so James had the whole Prefect bathroom to himself. He peered in to look for others that could've skipped dinner and sighed thankfully at the empty room.

He walked along the white marble, his footsteps echoing through the room towards a small alcove in the wall that held ten lockers. He slowly opened the farthest locker to the right and retrieved a pair of swimming trunks. He undressed and quickly pulled on the black trunks before moving towards the pool lifting one of the white fluffy towels from the corner and placing it at the side of the large rectangular swimming pool. He took a seat beside one of the many taps along the edge of the pool and began to turn it. The tap began to jet out a stream of clear, cold water and fill the large tub rather quickly. After waiting for the tub to fill and turning off the small tap James slowly slipped into the cool liquid letting it cool his insides.

He sighed into the water and slipped under letting it wash over him. He slowly swam to one side and began swimming back and forth letting his muscles loosen and relax. He continued to do laps letting his mind work as he swam. He questioned the fact that Dumbledore knew what he was doing and if there was actually a way to save Lily that Dumbledore knew of and refused to use. He wondered if Marie really blamed him for Lily's disappearance...

He paused half way through his eleventh lap and straightened up to look at a tap to his right. On top sat a sullen looking ghostly girl with large, thick glasses staring at him. He chuckled softly and swam to the left of her grabbing the marble ledge.

"Good evening Myrtle, something I can help you with?" He brushed the hair from his eyes leaned back letting his body float on the cold, refreshing water beneath him. The girl peered at him with large brown eyes and pouted largely tapping her left hand against her chin.

"Something's wrong," she spoke in a singsong voice. "C'mon James. You can tell Myrtle... unless you don't trust me like you used to," she began to moan indignantly at his laughing face.

"Myrtle? May I ask... how did you die?" James inquired quietly trying not to upset her. He dunked under water once again to reclaim the coolness of the water to his warm face. Bobbing up again and whipping the hair from his face he looked at her hopefully.

"Me?" James nodded. "No ones ever asked me that before, nobody has ever cared," Myrtle commented floating higher as she spoke. "I was crying because a girl was laughing at my glasses. So I ran to the washroom. I came out of the stall later and... died."

"Just like that? Just... died?" James questioned strangely.

Myrtle nodded and sighed before floating up and zooming around the large bathroom, "Of course there were the eyes. Those big, yellow eyes..."

James bit his lip and nodded to himself. "I'll see you later Myrtle. I'm going up to bed now, thanks." Myrtle nodded and paused as James lifted himself from the bathtub and wrapped the warm towel around his waist.

"I'm sure she didn't mean it," a voice echoed over the walls and James' head snapped up to look at the owner. Remus Lupin stood five feet away looking at James then giving Myrtle a short nod. His grey eyes scanned the room before resting on James and he sighed, "Lily's her best friend. Marie's just a bit scared right now, and you were the only thing there for her to blame. She was panicking."

"You don't have to make up excuses for her. I know she doesn't like me much, I'm not angry just... sorry that she thinks of me like that. But she's right, I should've walked with Lily when she went out instead of playing stupid Wizard's Chess with Sirius," James informed Remus solemnly.

Remus shook his head sadly, "It wasn't your fault and you were just having some fun. How would you know that someone was going to kidnap her?" James sighed and looked at Remus forlornly taking another towel from the corner and running it over his hair. James walked to his locker in the alcove and gathered his clothing. Dropping the towel he used for his hair on a nearby small bench he looked up at Remus once again. He walked past him and out the door leaving Remus in the prefect's bathroom with a wailing Moaning Myrtle.

"I'm going Sirius! You can't stop me!" James yelled as he threw his dark cloak over his large shoulders grabbing his wand off of his bedside table. He stopped to stare at Sirius, "I'm going to find her if it's the last thing I do." He sighed, "It's my fault she's missing." He knelt and lifted a folded paper and his invisibility cloak from his trunk and stuffed the paper into his trouser pocket before standing again and facing Sirius, "Don't tell Dumbledore... please."

"He won't have a chance. We're going with you," insisted a voice from the doorway. James turned to face the brown haired boy in the doorway with a disbelieving expression and shook his head aggressively.

"No, you're not. You have to stay here and take care of Marie, she needs your help more than I do," James argued.

"Marie's a big girl, she can take care of herself," replied Sirius standing and lifting his cloak from his bed.

"So can Lily..."

James stiffened glaring at Remus, "Fine! Just... don't get hurt." James sped by Remus quickly and walked down the boy's staircase with Sirius and Remus trailing behind him. Once out of the portrait hole James took his invisibility cloak and threw it around the three boys. Slowly avoiding teachers and speeding down moving staircases the three boys awkwardly made it out of Hogwarts and off of the grounds. They lifted the invisibility cloak off and stood staring at each other.

"Now what's your plan Einstein?" Sirius questioned lifting an eyebrow. The moon loomed down on the three and the shadows were cast across their faces. Remus looked around at their surroundings and shivered as a cold wind blew over them and looked at the snowy ground.

"You guys are going to be very angry with me but I have to perform a very dangerous charm," James explained. James looked down at his hands ringing the invisibility cloak as if it had been submersed into liquid.

Remus raised his head in recognition and shook his head at James, "No you won't, that could damn well kill you. Not to mention you'll be expelled."

James shook his head rolling his eyes, "We're off the grounds and no one will know but the three of us. I've been practicing how to pronounce it for the last day... it's our only chance at finding Lily in time." He sighed and withdrew his wand from his pocket, "Just trust me."

"Oh no you don't, I won't let you. If we lose you we've got nothing," exclaimed Remus grabbing his wrist.

James shook his head and pointed his wand at his chest, "You won't." Remus dropped his hand, "Lesavora Carnatio Prolocate Rosson." James gasped and closed his eyes a warm shock ran through his whole body. He felt a searing pain in his head and grabbed it losing his balance toppling backwards. He gasped as a castle past through his vision with a light shining in a tower he realized exactly what he was looking at, the Dark Castle.

He gasped once again and opened his eyes to see light. Sirius and Remus' figures were standing over him as sheets of light outlined with colours peering down at him. The pain in his head receded slightly and he closed his eyes willing it away. Opening his eyes again his vision returned to normal but appeared blurry at the lack of eyeglasses. They had fallen off his face when he had lost his balance and Sirius stood holding them out to him.

James took the glasses shakily and stood carefully before looking at the two, "I know where she is..."

Lily walked silently between the four dark figures surrounding her with her head down. She hadn't the foggiest idea where they were taking her but she knew it would be the last place she would be. A tear trickled down her cheek and she wiped it away quickly closing her eyes and stopping. She could feel the men around her stop also and shivered as the man to her right grabbed her forearm to make her start moving again.

"Keep going," grunted the taller man to her left. She opened her eyes and continued to stand still glaring at the man. The man to her right continued to grip her arm and she swung it away while kicking him roughly in the stomach causing him to lean forward in pain. He gripped his stomach and Lily kneed him hard in the face sending him into the stomach of the man behind him and to the floor unconscious.

The taller man turned towards her again and she punched him square in the nose. He grabbed his snout and Lily turned to run, before she took three steps the man holding his nose grabbed her legs and she toppled to the floor. She rolled over quickly and kicked him in the chest sending him backwards onto his behind tripping the fourth man in black.

Lily scrambled to her feet and began to run again as fast as she could, lifting the skirt of the black gown she was given to wear she quickly peered back to see if she was being followed. Losing her footing coming up to a circular set of stairs she fell forward losing control of her body and landed unconscious at the bottom.

Lily awoke an hour later restrained by shackles around her wrists and ankles. Struggling against the ropes that were wound around her waist she opened her mouth to speak but no sound escaped. She glared at the figure sitting in an armchair across from her.

"So hostile Ms. Evans, why?" Voldemort questioned. "It's your own fault you are like that. You ran away we had no choice. Incantatem."

"What are you going to do to me? Kill me? Use me as a potion ingredient?" Lily inquired urgently after being released of the silencing charm.

He ran his finger across the leather of the green armchair he was perched in and grinned, "The Lily, meaning maiden modesty, beauty, purity, and sweetness," He took a single white Lily out of his pocket and twirled it on his fingers. "You know it's also a funeral flower. Would you like lilies placed on your casket at your funeral Miss Evans? It suits your name, suits you." He smiled at her evilly.

"I'm not going to kill you yet. Just slowly drain your blood from your body. With every drop I will grow stronger. Overall the process will lead to your death but I'm sure you'll get to see Mr. Potter once before it's too late. What do you think of that?"

Lily spat at his feet. Voldemort quickly sat forward and grabbed her chin roughly, "I advise you not to do that. I can make your last remaining hours hell. I dare you, spit at me again." Lily pulled her head from his grasp and as he turned away spit again at his feet.

"I'm not afraid of death and I don't see how you can make these hours any more miserable than they will be with you in the room," she replied glaring at his back.

"You have no idea."

"You're sure this is the way?"

"No... but here's hoping," James replied to Sirius' question crossing his fingers. They had made it to the castle easily going by floo to the nearest town and walked the rest of the way. The three had entered using the invisibility cloak through a passage to the side and had slowly tried to make it to the highest tower.

Remus shook his head as they trudged up another set of spiralling stairs. He sighed deeply, "The three of us are no match for Voldemort. This is suicide and you know it." They spiralled again and were suddenly stopped by a wooden door.

"You think this is it?" Sirius questioned kicking a small rock down the steps behind them. "Not very glamorous..."

"Well it's probably a torture chamber," Remus commented.

"They're usually in the basement not in the tallest tower," Sirius argued back in a singsong voice. James rolled his eyes and looked at the two expectantly. "Right... I'm ready."

Remus nodded too and James reached for the doorknob. Slowly turning it he pushed the heavy door open.

"Albus! Three students are missing from their beds," Professor McGonagall breathed entering the Headmaster's Common Room. Dumbledore sat in front of the large fireplace sipping a cup of tea with his purple night robe drawn around himself tightly.

"I'm aware if that Minerva. Mr. Potter, Black and Lupin. I've also been informed that James Potter performed the "Saviour" correctly and is now aware of Ms. Evans' whereabouts." Dumbledore took a large sip of his tea continuing to peer at the flames. He took another sip before turning towards McGonagall. His eyes were shining unnaturally and the knowledge he withheld inside his head was vibrantly showing through.

"That boy will get his heart broken many more times before he is rewarded for that Minerva. But if he and his two comrades survive what they are about to do I believe he'll be able to survive the heart brake."

"But Albus there's no way the three could survive in a fight against You-Know-Who. They'll surely die!" McGonagall exclaimed holding her heart. She sat down in a chair across form the Headmaster taking deep breaths, "We can't let three of our students be murdered. And what of Ms. Evans? It wasn't her choice to be stuck in this situation, what of her?"

Dumbledore shook his head, "They're strong and they're not alone. Unlike Voldemort those three boys have more than sheer hate on their side. The have the whole Wizarding World and I have a feeling we will see them again. They will not give up."

The constant ticking of a clock in the corner was getting on Lily's nerves. She had been sitting uncomfortably for over an hour and was ready to snap. Five Death Eater's stood speaking to Voldemort in hushed voices ten feet away. Every once in a while Lily was able to catch snippet's of their conversation but all she heard was not enough to understand, "...the process will take a few," "...vix hinc lamina..." Lily was confused about what was going to happen and despite what she had told Voldemort earlier, she really was afraid to die.

Voldemort finally turned towards her and grinned devilishly, "Are you ready to die my flower?" Lily glared at him and bit her tongue until it bled. She could feel the warm taste of blood in her mouth from the slit in her tongue and swallowed quickly.

"Put her in position," Voldemort ordered to two of his followers. The two men released Lily of her shackles and undoing the rope around her waist they both held onto her arms tightly and pulled her to stand in a small square in the centre of the room. The square seemed to be chalk and was drawn onto the stone but had a significant meaning although Lily had no idea what that was.

Voldemort stood across from her in a similar circle and his Death Eater's situated themselves in a larger pentagon around Voldemort and Lily. A slightly tall and podgy man stood to Lily's right grasping her arm tightly keeping her in place.

Voldemort turned to Lily and withdrew a long and sharp dagger from a pocket in his robes. He held the unsharpened edge to Lily's arm and looked at the men around him, "Are you ready?" They nodded and Voldemort started to speak again but in a different language.

"Vix hinc lamina, mei vires itaque letalis vita oportet dilato itaque sis fieri immortalis," he spoke taking Lily's arm tighter and pressed the unsharpened edge of the dagger harder into her skin. He slowly turned the knife over running the flat side harshly on her skin before placing the sharp edge against it lightly. He began to speak again as he pressed down. As a small line of blood began to appear the wooden door to the room burst open revealing three dark figures.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" yelled the first figure to enter the dark room. The group surrounding Lily and Voldemort himself turned to peer at the three. Lily's eyes widened in recognition and she gasped loudly when the cold dagger that had sat against her now red skin fell to the floor.

"Ah, Mr Potter. What a delight to see you. I see you've brought two little friends along for the ride, how quaint." Voldemort spoke icily grabbing Lily's arm once again and running his hand up and down sending cold shivers down her back.

"Get away from her Voldemort, I'm warning you," James' voice was calm and deadly as he took a large step towards the two.

"What will you do boy? Curse me? I know curses you will never have the power to perform. Care to see one? I'm sure your friend Mr. Lupin would be happy to volunteer for the performance." Voldemort threw Lily's arm away from him and summoned Remus with his wand lifting him from the ground as he thrashed around. Voldemort took Remus by the throat, "I'll give you a choice shall I? You or Ms. Evans, one of you has to die. Which one?"