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Chapter 8: What am I going to do?

Lily tried all her might to avoid the marauders and her friends. She knew they had become suspicious of Ben due to his visit. She didn't want to talk about it, about his Dark Mark. Lily knew he was officially reigned in as a death eater, but not in the way she knew her friends would think.

FLASH BACK

"Do you vow your allegiance to the dark lord?" A tall slender boy growled in a low, deep voice. Ben looked around to see where he had been taken. He was in a common room, the Vlasco house. He looked up at the boy who was interrogating him.

"Do you?" the young man growled louder.

"Yes" Ben answered. He felt a burning sensation on his right forearm. He winced in pain.

"Now you are one of us. We welcome you" Ben looked down at his arm it was beginning to blister. There laid the Dark Mark, a Mark which he thought he would never receive.

Ben looked up at his friends. They all stood around him congratulating him and saying how happy they were at the fact that he became one.

"Thanks, how long will the blistering last, because you know about my levels?" Ben asked now concerned about his fire power.

"It won't last long trust me." Taylor, the tall boy said.

Ben actually was against his friend's beliefs, but became a death eater to gain loyalty to the Dark Lord for MI-5. Ben was 15 when he became one and since then has hidden it away from his parents just as he did with MI-5.

END OF FLASH BACK

Lily made her way back to the common room, unfortunately to find every one there. They were waiting for her.

"Hello, How is everyone?" Lily asked in a pleasant tone.

Everyone looked at her.

"So were you going to tell us about Ben or were you just going to hope that we don't care about the fact that he's a death eater." Sirius said after a few moments of silence. Lily looked at him with a content tone.

"I knew that was coming." Lily thought to herself.

"No I wasn't I didn't think it mattered."

"Doesn't matter? Of course it matters" James exclaimed.

"Are you bloody mad he is a death eater for god's sake Lily?"

"I Know . . . "

"Lily he could call you in." Alicia exclaimed.

"It's not like . . ."

"Then what is it like Lily?" Lily looked away and felt tears prickling in her eyes.

"You don't know anything about him!"

"I know he's a death eater! And that whole captivity thing is bull shit!" James yelled now getting angry.

"James stop it!" Remus yelled.

"Let her explain."

"Fine let her." James said.

"Lily, how is it not like we think it is?" Remus asked in a stern tone. Lily looked up at him.

"Ben is against Voldemort."

"Huh" James sat back down.

"Let her finish James." Remus said now looking back at lily and gesturing to proceed.

"I can't tell you why he is a death eater but it is not because he has sided with the dark lord."

"Great, so your friend's a death eater but you can't tell us why, but you say he is against everything that Voldemort stands for." James said

"Yes."

"Lily don't you understand that he could harm you."

"He would never harm me."

"How do you know that?" Sirius exclaimed.

"Because I trust him." There was a pause. Suddenly a bird flew up to the window by the bookcase. Emily walked towards the window and retrieved the letter.

"It's for you Lily. ' Emily handed her the note. Lily opened it, it was from Ben.

Emerald Dancer,

I apologize for yesterday's events. My levels are too high to do anything but I'll pick you up at the portal, by the time you read this I will already be there. Hurry up and don't forget I' will be on radio silent for most of the job."

Sincerely,

Prince Charming.

Lily folded up the paper and stuffed it into her pocket.

"Who's it from?" Alicia asked.

"No one." Lily then headed up stairs to her room.

"She changed out of her clothes and into a pair of jeans a t-shirt and an orange sweat shirt.

"I bet you anything it was Ben." Peter squeaked.

"Of course it was Ben who else would it be?" James retorted. Just then Lily came out of her room.

"Damn, hoped they would leave." Lily muttered to herself. She came down the stairs and stared at all of them.

"Was it Ben?" Sirius asked.

Lily gave him a disapproving look and walked over to the bookcase. She pretended to be looking at a book on advanced charms.

"Well was it?"

Lily looked around.

"Yes"

"What does he want?" Emily asked in concerned yet sweet tone

Lily couldn't take anymore of this; she walked a few feet to the Right and withdrew her wand.

"What are you doing?"

"Emerald dancer" Lily said in her head. The portal opened and she ran inside quickly.

"What the. . ." James muttered, He tried to run in after her but Lily was far too quick.The portal closed before he could get in. Lily looked behind to see James as well as every one else scramble trying to get the portal back open. Lily turned from the door and entered the storage room. Lily went to the mirror and changed her hair color. She got up and walked out. She could see that only Remus, Peter, Alicia and Emily were there, she figured James had gone to McGonogald of possibly Dumbledore. Lily then went outside to meet Ben.

"Hey are you alright, what's the matter?" Ben asked gently.

"They found out about my portal, I don't want to talk about it, lets just go to Denmark and be done."

James ran as fast as he could to McGonogald's office with Sirius at his side.

They burst into her office with great speed and nearly fell to the floor with exhaustion.

"Potter Black what on earth is going on?" McGonogald blurted.

"P Please Professor it's Lily she . . ." James bent down to regain his breathing.

"Professor Lily she went through a wall in the common room and she's gone." Sirius finished. Suddenly the door opened and Dumbledore stood in the door way looking quite calm.

"Professor Dumbledore thank god you here Lily's gone." James exclaimed now having his air back.

"Yes Mr. Potter I am aware of that."

"You are Albus?" McGonogald asked quite surprised.

"Yes "

"Where is she?"

"Do not worry Mr. Black she will be back shortly or at least by this evening." Dumbledore then turned to Professor McGonogald.

"Minerva if I may have a word with you for just a few moments. Boys you may go back to your dormitories I promise you that Ms. Evans will be back soon, don't worry."

"But sir?"

"Please leave I have some business to tend to with Professor McGonogald."

James and Sirius stormed out of the room very angrily.

"Where could she be and why isn't Dumbledore telling us anything?"

"I don't know mate but maybe Remus and the others got the entry way opened."

James and Sirius headed through the portrait door way. Remus along with every one else were sitting on the sofa reading, trying to look up ways to open invisible doorways.

"Have you got it yet?" James asked

"NO, we've found nothing. How about you two what did McGonogald say?"

"Nothing but Dumbledore knows she's gone he came into her office right after we did and said she would be back soon."

"But he never said where she was." Sirius added.

"Dumbledore had to talk to McGonogald about something though."

"I didn't know Robert and Amelia adopted James."

"They informed me of it in James's second year, but they haven't even told him yet."

"Oh dear, Albus do you think he knows?"

"I don't think he would ever think of it."

"Who are his parents then if Robert and Amelia aren't?"

"Amelia is James's father's sister, James Thomas Potter."

"But James Thomas Potter is . . . ahhh"

"Yes Thomas Riddle's son, the one every one thought died when he was born."

"What about his wife?"

"She was killed the same night James was, by Voldemort when James was only a year old."

"Oh dear, and to think Mr. Potter doesn't know any of this. Does any one else know?"

"Yes, Ms. Evans."

"But how?"

"You know who Alexander Langston is right?"

"Yes I went to school with his sister Kate and his other siblings; he is a squib I believe."

"Yes he is. He is . . ." Dumbledore silenced the room so no one could hear.

"He is the Chief Director of MI-5 a muggle version of the advanced guard. MI-5 trains people to be spies for the British Government and deals with muggle issues." Dumbledore leaned in close to Professor McGonogald's ear and asked/

"Can you swear to me you will not tell a soul about what I am about to say?"

"Yes of course."

"Ms. Evans works for MI-5 and is working to protect Mr. Potter because it has just been made clear that Mr. Potter is a prime target for You – Know –who."

"Oh dear, is that why she is gone?"

"No, But she will be out of the castle a lot. Minerva In case any of the barriers in the forest are detected I want you to view each video footage before Mr. Filch does, because it is very important that Ms. Evan's and Mr. Potter's secrets do not get leaked."

"Certainly"

"Alright Prince Charming I'm almost there I just have to rewire the security board and then I can get into the room."

"Alright, be care full though."

"I will."

"Hey I was wondering, um I didn't get you into trouble yesterday for coming did I?"

"No but my friends are not too happy with me right now because of your Dark Mark."

"I'm sorry about that I shouldn't have made a lie like that I sort of panicked when she asked me."

"It's alright. Okay the security system has been deactivated I'm heading in."

Lily made her way into the large mansion. Lily passed through the kitchen and walked down a corridor.

"Lily I got an image of the house from the inside from Space man. There are two dogs roaming around near the den which is where the office is."

"Alright" Lily withdrew her tranquilizer. Lily leaned her back against the wall and traveled across it. She looked over the edge of the wall and could see the dogs, she quickly looked back. She came out from behind the wall and fired twice, both dogs stumbled around a bit until they dropped down to the floor and began to sleep.

"Hew that was close." Lily muttered. She made her way down to the den and saw now door.

"Ben there's no door here, where is the office?"

"Look to the far left wall. Feel the wall is there any thing there?"

Lily re holstered the gun with one hand and began to feel the wall. She felt a cloth material and began to pull it. The cloth came down and dropped to the floor at her feet.

"Invisibility cloak" Lily said into her ring, which was actually a microphone.

"Smart." Ben replied back.

Lily tried to open the door but it was locked. She withdrew her wand and said.

"Alahamora" the door opened. Lily entered and rummaged around to find anything suspicious or maybe would be of good use. Lily walked over to the back side of the desk facing it. On the desk there laid a yellow folder. Lily opened it.

"Ben I have found something."

"What is it?"

"It is a file on James Potter."

"Should I take it or just take photos of it?"

"Photos Monroe may be back, but you could do a duplication charm."

"I don't know any."

"Point your wand and say Dupliferous and you will have a second copy."

Lily did as she was told. She then planted the bug on the desk disguised as a paper weight.

"Alright I'm done."

"Good now get out of there some ones coming."

"Who's coming?"

"I don't know but they look a bit sketchy to me, probably a wizard."

"Hold on." Lily heard the front door open. Whoever was in the house was heading to the den. Lily crabbed the file and scrunched herself into the lower cabinets in the corner. The man entered.

"Who's in hear?" the man growled loudly.

He rummaged around and came to see that apparently who ever was had left e locked everything up and re mounted the invisibility cloak on the door and he was gone. Lily scrambled out of the cabinet and aperated to where Ben was parked. She hoped inside the truck startling Ben.

"There you are for a second there I thought you were made, but he aperated out of there."

"Yeah everything's set."

"Good." Lily and Ben headed back to MI-5 headquarters.

"How was your trip?" Damian coming up to them asked.

"It was good. Is Langston here?" Lily asked urgently

"No he left on official business why did you find something?"

"Yes we did. When will he be back?"

"By tomorrow evening he is in the US visiting the CIA Headquarters."

"Alright." Ben turned to lily.

"Lily I have to go I have class that I cannot miss in an hour. Can you make it back to Hogwarts alright?"

"Yes I can, I'll take the file to Dumbledore see what he thinks."

"Are sure that's a good idea?"

"Why isn't it a good idea?"

"Is he an official agent?"

"Yes he told me so."

"His picture is up on the agent's board if you want to see." Damian pointed out now pointing to the board where a still picture hung of Dumbledore in a suit and tie.

"Oh well alright, I'll see you later. Bye" Ben kissed Lily good bye and left.

"I'll see you later Damian." Lily said now turning to face Damian.

"Bye Lily I'll see you later.

Lily made her way outside and caught a cab to her portal.

"That's eight pounds miss."

"Here keep the change." Lily got out of the car and headed to the portal door. She waited until the driver had sped off. She opened the portal and entered the storage room she disarmed her weapon and took out the folder to look at it.

The first page was birth information on James and such. Lily flipped through the pages and came across a page labeled: "Top Secret" Lily turned the page and began to read.

"James Thomas Potter son of Thomas Marvolo Riddle is a registered level 5 agent of MI-5 (Military Intelligence five) He has been convicted of killing two Muggles on a raid in Germany by Accidental means . . . "

Lily re read this and couldn't believe that he was an agent.

"How old was he?" Lily asked herself.

She looked down to see the date and age of the man

"November 23, 1956. Age: 16 "

"He was only 16, gosh."

Lily then closed the document and got up from her seat and put the file away into a small drawer. Lily then walked to the mirror and changed her hair color back with a swish of her wand. She left the room and looked in to see if anyone was in the common room. It wasn't a surprise to see the marauders and Emily and Alicia sitting around to the fire talking.

Lily walked to the door and opened it a little.

James's head snapped up.

"Lily?" he asked aloud. Everyone got to their feet. Lily entered. She turned to face the door and close it.

"Lily where have you been, we have been worried?"

Lily turned back around to face the others.

"Don't tell us it was France either, for that school of yours." Lily looked up.

"Do you not believe me when I said I was at Brighton University in France?" Lily asked.

"No we didn't"

"Well I do go to University and no that is not where I was."

(Just to clarify Lily is at University, but it also is a cover for her job at MI-5, it's both)

"Then where were you?"

"That is none of your business James. I have some homework to finish before rounds I'll meet you in two hours." Lily headed up stairs and to her room. She did her work diligently in silence.

"God damit."

"Maybe she isn't aloud to say where she has been. Maybe she is doing something for Dumbledore. That is secret" Peter said James looked at peter with anger.

"Maybe so but . . ."

Rounds came and went and James still had not gotten Lily to talk of where she was. They headed back to their rooms and went to sleep with out one word spoken to them.

"James is such a git right now, I wish I could tell him but I can't and I hate that he's mad at me." Lily thought to herself as she dosed off.

"I wish she could tell me where she's been going, I'm only getting angry because I care about her and I don't want to see her get hurt." James thought to himself.

"What am I going to do?" They both said at the same time to themselves.