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Ch.17: Duets

The sun seeped through the cracked, dirty window of the shrieking shack. It was 7:30 am. A very injured and weak Remus Lupin opened his eyes. He could feel a trickle of blood fall down his head; he lifted his hand slowly and wiped the drop away before it could reach his eye. Remus sat up slowly and hissed as his body ached in pain. He then heard a tapping at the door. Remus lowered his hand to the floor and then quickly lifted it,

"Ow" He exclaimed. Little shards of glass were strewn on the floor where he lay. He looked up and realized he was sitting under the window. He figured he must have broken the window when he was transformed and ended up sleeping in the same place. Suddenly the door opened.

"Mr. Lupin." A petite woman of about forty-five years said as she swiftly walked to his side.

"Morning Madam Pomrfey." Remus muttered.

"Let's get you to the hospital." She said intently. Madam Pomfrey lifted Remus with all her might and walked him up to the castle. They entered the wing and Remus sat on the far bed, near her office. Pomfrey draped the curtain around him and went to get her potions.

Remus lay there as still as he could trying not to move in hopes he wouldn't be in any more pain than he was in. he looked up at the ceiling.

"Emily." Remus thought aloud to himself.

"Wonder if she's alright?" he asked him self.

Pomfrey returned with six different potions in her hands.

"Do I really need all of those I just use three at the least normally." Remus said looking at the vast array of potions in her arms.

"There is someone else who will be coming in soon, Mr. Lupin and I don't want to go back and forth getting the potions." Pomfrey said.

"Emily?" Remus asked.

Pomfrey's eyes widened a bit.

"She told me yesterday." Remus explained.

"Yes she will be coming in soon." Suddenly they both heard a huge crash from outside the curtain. Madam Pomfrey swept the curtain open to the side to see what it was.

On the floor near the front beds Emily staggered into the hospital wing knocking over trays and tables. Emily's legs gave in and she crashed to the floor.

"Emily!" Remus exclaimed.

"Stay here Mr. Lupin." Pomfrey ran over to the girl and lifted her up. Pomfrey led her to the bed next to Remus so she could block them both off from the rest of the wing. Emily lay on the bed, she still had wolfish characteristics in her, her eyes were tinted light yellow and her ears were still pointed.

"Emily." Remus muttered.

Madam Pomfrey gave Emily her potions first and then to Remus. Ten minutes later the group entered the hospital wing with food. They had stopped in to the great hall earlier to get food for Remus and Emily.

"Where are they?" Alicia asked looking around. Pomfrey had shielded the two with curtains. Suddenly Pomfrey came back outside from her office.

"Emily?" Remus whispered as he turned to look at her.

Emily' eyes had changed back along with her ears. She turned her head to face Remus. She quickly turned away.

"What?" Remus asked.

"Don't look at me I look horrible." She whispered. Pomfrey hadn't yet fixed her scratches on her face.

"You don't look horrible, you look beautiful." Remus complimented.

Emily smiled.

"Thanks so do you." Remus also still had scratches on his face. Suddenly the curtains were pulled away and their friends stood before them. Alicia and Lily gave Emily a big hug.

"Hey guys." Emily greeted.

"How are you both?" James asked.

"The same as usual." Remus responded. And ten minutes later the group had to go to class. Remus and Emily soon got up and headed back to their dorms to change and get ready for class.

They both dressed and met in the common room. They headed to Magical History. Class soon ended to everyone's enjoyment.

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In the Heads common room-

"Alright so you both want to sing for the talent show?" Remus asked James and Lily. They all were settled around the sofas, chatting.

"Yeah do you think you have something we could perform?" Lily asked.

"Sure, um any Preferences of what kind of song you're thinking of?" He asked

"No not really, perhaps a duet that's a melody or something." James inquired.

"Well let me go get my CD case and Player, I'll be right back." Remus went up to his room and grabbed his CD case from under his bed and his CD player from his closet. He came back down and settled the player on the floor.

"Alright I've got a lot of duets because I do some shows in the summer, so"

"What do you have?" Lily asked.

"I've got Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, Beauty and the Beast, some musical show duets, the sound track to Moulin Rouge, Elephant Love Melody which is pretty good I think. Um and others, here take a look." Remus handed them the case and James and Lily searched through it.

(Note: I know I'm saying modern day duets but I don't really know any duets from the late seventies-sorry)

"How about The Moulin rouge song do you have it?" Lily asked

"Yeah here." Remus put the CD in and started it. James and Lily both liked it.

"Let's do this one" James said enthusiastically.

"Okay." Lily agreed.

"I can help you guys tomorrow if you want?" Remus offered.

"Cool, yeah thanks." They both replied.

The day soon ended and they all were busy with homework. James and Lily went to their common room to work while Alicia and Sirius stayed in their common room and Remus took Emily to the Shrieking Shack.

Remus led Emily to the tree and carefully pushed the tree root into the ground, the tree froze.

"Wow." Emily said as she looked up and saw the tree stop.

"C'mon." Remus took Emily's hand and led her in. they climbed the stairs and stopped at the door.

"Aren't we going in?" Emily asked. Remus turned around.

"I don't mean to be rude but could you wait out here for just a second?" He asked. He forgot until then that the room was a mess.

"Sure." Emily replied

Remus entered the room and shut the door behind him. He took out his wand and cleaned up the shattered glass from the ground and put it back into the window, he made the bed with a flick of his wand and dusted off the piano. Remus then walked over to the door and opened it. Emily turned around.

"Okay you can come in." Remus said. Emily walked through the entrance. She looked around in wonderment.

"It's not that great . . ." Remus began.

"No, it's great, perfect. You're lucky I only have a bed and walls and a very small, and I mean small window, which the sun never faces.

"Oh well."

"Oh this is your piano? It's a baby grand, I like it." Emily said as she walked towards the black shiny instrument.

"Yeah," Remus said as he followed her towards it."

"SO are you going to play for me?"

"I thought you were playing for me." Remus said with a smile.

"I will but I want to hear you play."

"Okay." Remus sat down at the piano and began to play. He played a jazzy piece, which Emily very much enjoyed.

"Alright, now it's your turn." Remus said as he got up from the bench.

"Alright but don't laugh." Emily sat at the piano.

"This is called let's fall in love" She began to play and sing.

"I have a feeling, it's a feeling I'm concealing, I don't know why. It's just a mental, sentimental alibi, but I adore you, so strong for you.

Why go on stalling I' am falling, love is calling why be shy? . . ."

Emily finished the song, gently lifting her finger off the last key. She turned to Remus and smiled.

"That was great; you're really good, seriously." He complimented.

"Thanks."

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-The Gryffindor common room-

Alicia and Sirius sat on the couch doing their homework.

"Where do you work?" Sirius asked Alicia.

"Oh I work at Madam Tess's dress shop in Diagon Ally." Alicia said as she closed her potions book.

"Oh cool."

"So are you staying with James this year for the holidays?" Alicia asked.

Sirius looked up from the last word he was writing.

"Yeah, like always."

"Do you always go to his house?"

"Yeah, Mr. Mrs. Potter let me stay for the holiday."

"That's nice."
"Yeah," Alicia said.

-In the Head's common room-

"So Lily, would you like to come to my house this holiday?" James asked now looking up at lily. She was sitting on the sofa and he on the floor doing their homework.

"Um I'd like to but I'm not sure, I'll have to see what my family's doing this holiday." Lily responded looking down to James from her Herbology book.

"Okay."

Suddenly there was a tapping at the window. James and Lily both looked up to see what it was.

"It's darin." Lily exclaimed. She ran to the window and opened it the bird flew in quickly.

"Who is it?" James asked.

"It's Ben's owl." Lily responded. She took the letter from darin and opened it.

Emerald Dancer,

I spoke with the chief, thanks for talking with him; they are not going forward with the termination process, thank god. Anyway new events have been brought to attention meet me outside your castle in ten. You won't be returning for several days, come prepared. He wants us now.

PS: All eyes are watching, BH, BE, BS.

Prince Charming.

Lily read the letter and her happy mood faded away.

"BH, BE, BS?" Lily asked herself. She thought for a moment. She realized what it meant.

The letter suddenly burned to bits and pieces in her hands and fluttered to the ground. James came over.

"What is it?" He asked concernedly.

Lily turned around to face James.

"I have to go, work." Lily then kissed James and headed for the Portal.

"Now?" He asked.

"Yes, I won't be back for several days, don't wait up for me." Lily said opening the door.

"Where are you going?" James quickly asked

"I don't know yet, but I'll be back, I promise." Lily entered the storage room.

She went to her Make-up trunk and dresser. She pulled out her make-up kit and a black suit. Lily headed into the bathroom. Ten second later she came out fully dressed in black pants and a black long sleeved shirt and black blazer.

Lily walked to the mirror and pulled out her wand she pointed it to the rim of her hair line and said "Negricio" Her hair suddenly turned a sleek black and became straight. James's eyes widened at her new hair color. Lily applied her make up quickly and neatly, turned around and grabbed her ID, Money, Car keys and gun. She walked out the door. James turned around and followed. As he reached the door entrance lily reappeared and kissed him once more.

"Bye, I'll see you in a couple of days." She began to walk away. James grabbed her arm and pulled her back towards him.

"Be careful." He said and kissed her. Lily walked James back to the common room and locked the portal door. She ran to the muggle world door and left.

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