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A/N: Sorrys I haven't update! School started, and three weeks before that, I had band practice every bloody day, then the next week I had a bloody week of band camp, which ALWAYS brings to mind the phrase 'One time, at band camp…', and THEN I had ANOTHER bloody week of band practice. Then school started.
So I've been kinda… crammed. And I felt special 'cause I had a Humanities English project that I should have spent all summer on… I finished the book two days before school started, then did the work on it the next day. I'm such a good procrastinator!
And I'll prolly not be able to update very much… and I won't be able to update AT ALL on Mondays 'till football season's over. You do NOT wanna know my Monday schedule. Let's just say I've got band before, during, and after school. Until like nine o'clock at night. Try juggling that with schoolwork, 4-H, my horses, writing, sleep, AND having a life. Multi-talented, aren't I?
DECEMBER 21 SIXTH YEAR
Lily stumbled out of her fireplace white as a sheet. She really, really, wished she had stayed at Hogwarts. Her mother and stepfather looked up from their seats at the kitchen table. Petunia was most likely off with her boyfriend.
"Oh look, the freak's home," sneered her mother.
"Really, where?" asked Lily, looking around, pretending to be surprised. She'd pay for that later.
"Don't sass me, you little brat! Where the fck have you been for the last year?"
"Over ze river and through ze woods." Scar winced inwardly. Why did she have to be so bleeding sarcastic around them? It only made things worse. They would be SO sorry once she could use magic outside of school.
As the beating ensued, Lily urged herself to think happy thoughts. Like them under the Crucaitus curse…
xXx
Lily awoke with the heavy taste of blood in her mouth. Her left eye was swollen shut, and she could feel dried blood on her face from a long cut above her eyebrow. Just another scar she'd have to cover up with magic. Her body was speckled magnificently with cuts, bruises, and gashes. Oh joy. Isn't it lovely to be home again?
Moving stiffly, Lily staggered to her feet, and weakly pulling her trunk behind her, flooed to her aunt and uncle's house in France.
xXx
When Lily didn't return after the holidays, Sirius and Remus began to worry. James pretended not to care, but they could tell he was worried sick. Finally, they got tired of his acting, and confronted him about the missing redhead after two weeks.
The Marauders were sitting in the Common Room, doing various activities.
"Give it up James," said Remus tiredly.
"W-what?"
"We know you're still madly in love with her, even though you thought she was someone else, who you were coincidentally in love with, while she pretended that she wasn't who she really was, even though no one knew it at the time," said Sirius.
"You realize that made no sense whatsoever…."
"It made perfect sense," said Remus. "You need to get over your bloody pride and tell her you love her before she does something that will make you feel more guilty than humanly possible."
"But she lied to me," whined James, knowing he was fighting a losing battle.
"SHE BLOODY HAD TO! NOW GO WRITE A LETTER TO HER BEFORE I BLOODY AK (avada kedavra) YOU!" yelled Sirius.
James looked at them with pained eyes. "I really do love her…"
"Now we're getting somewhere!"
.xXx
Lily was out walking on the Beauxbatons grounds in the late night. She was restless, no idea why. A sudden sound like smooth wood sliding against cloth caused her to whirl around.
A boy her own age stood behind her, wand at the ready. She couldn't remember his name, but she recognized him as an annoying and rather immature prat. Which leads us back to the current situation.
(A/N: I'm gonna bold what is supposed to be in French, as I don't know any French…)
"Hell-o, would you lower your bloody wand?"
"Ah, won't my master be pleased that I've caught the pretty little flower," he taunted.
"What are you talking abou--?"
"Stupefy!"
.xXx
James looked up dully as Sirius let an owl into the room. It dropped a letter in front of him. It had an emerald green seal. His eyes brightened. Lily always sealed her letters with emerald wax, even when she was Scar.
He eagerly ripped the letter open, none of the guys paying any attention to him. Until he fainted dead on the spot. Worried, Sirius and Remus picked up the letter, both nearly fainting at the tear-splattered contents.
'My dear niece was murdered on the night of December 24. I'm terribly sorry for any distress this may cause you. It has shaken us all rather roughly. I send my regrets at being the bearer of this news.
Yours truly,
Janine Maddy'
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A/N: Sorry for the cliffie. Also sorry if I'm drawing this fic out WAY longer than you would like it to. If you're getting frustrated 'cause IT JUST WON'T END, lemme know in a REVIEW, and I'll try to do something about it.
Next Chappie:
"Ever get that feeling that something's terribly wrong?"
"It was written on parchment! Muggles don't use parchment!"
"Hello, my flower."
"The question is, did she want to disappear, or did someone want her to disappear?"
"I have a dream… No, wait… I mean, I had this dream…"