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Ch.20: The Plan
James woke up early with Lily on his mind. He missed Lily, he was worried, and most of all scared, afraid something bad might have happened. James got up and cleaned up. He grabbed his bag and headed class; he wasn't in the mood for eating.
"Prongs we missed you at breakfast." Sirius said as James walked into Transfiguration.
"I wasn't all that hungry." James replied.
"Is Lily back?" Emily asked in a low whisper.
"No, not yet." They all looked at each other with worried looks
"Good morning class, Today you all will be reviewing for you chapter4 test. Please take out your books and turn to page 403 and start the review you may work with others." Professor McGonagall addressed the class.
"I'll be calling out attendance."
"Abbot?"
"Here"
"Ashcroft?"
"Here."
"Celping?"
"Here."
"Dashwood"
"Here." Alice exclaimed as she walked over to frank to begin their work.
"Evans?"
No answer.
"Evans?" McGonagall looked up and saw that Lily was not present.
"Mr. Potter where is Ms. Evans?" She asked worriedly, for Lily never missed her class, she had only missed her class once and that was in her first year when Severus turned her hair blue and she went to the hospital wing.
"Uh she isn't here." James replied.
"I know she's not here Potter, where is she?" She asked more strongly.
James paused for a moment trying to think of an excuse. He couldn't think of one.
"She's at work." He said, finally. McGonagall's glare was beginning to scare him.
McGonagall released her glare.
"Oh, very well." She said and went back to the list of names and called out the rest.
Class ended and the group went up to the heads room to see if Lily was back. They entered.
"Lily?" James exclaimed. No answer.
"I guess she isn't back yet." Emily said.
"Huh." James sighed and sat on the sofa.
"Don't worry James I'm sure she's fine. She knows how to protect herself." Remus assured James. James looked up.
"Yeah you're right, but I'm still worried."
"We all are."
-MI-5-
Lily woke up in the hospital wing. She winced when she moved her hand. She looked down and saw that there was an IV in her hand. She looked down and saw that, she had an oxygen tube in her nose and an ID medical bracelet on.
Suddenly the door to her room opened and Ben entered, wheeling himself in, in a wheel chair. He rolled up to Lily's side.
"Ben you're not paralyzed are you?" Lily exclaimed.
"No, I'm not. I'm just a bid dizzy from the medication; I had a bit of trouble walking." He replied.
"You alright?" he asked putting his hand on Lily's hand.
"Yeah, but I don't understand why I have an IV or oxygen."
Lily said confused.
"Last night when you entered the ward, I don't know. You registered; you walked about four feet then collapsed to the floor.
It may have been from the hexes that were thrown at you." Ben said
"I collapsed?" Lily asked surprised.
"Yeah, the doctors lifted you and took you in to the ER. They brought you back after 15 minutes of giving you numerous medications and checking your vitals."
"Oh."
"Lily?" Ben asked coming closer to Lily.
"Yeah?"
"What the hell did you say to voldemort?" Ben asked now a bit sternly.
Lily looked up and remembered her agreement.
"Vlasco." Lily said softly.
"What is Vlasco, I've never heard of it?" Ben said
"It's a very old book, I have been doing some research on Voldemort and Prophetical objects. The book of Vlasco . . ."
"Alright Ms. Evans I see you're awake." A tall thin woman said as she entered the room. She was holding a tray with bandages and various vaccines.
"Mr. Croft there you are, I went to your room and you weren't there. Ms. Evans I need to take your IV out and give you a dose of Morphine." The nurse said walking to the other side of the bed.
She pulled out the IV. "Ah" Lily winced. She rolled up Lily's scrub sleeve and injected the medication.
"There, now I want you to rest for a little while, Mr. Croft you'll have to leave." She said now looking at Ben.
"I just need to talk to her; give us ten minutes please?" Ben requested.
"Huh, fine but only ten minutes." The nurse replied then walked out of the room.
"So what about Vlasco?" Ben began.
"It is very valuable; it contains codes to various vaults all over Europe, vaults that hold weapons. The mafias of Italy, Russia and America are in search of this book because they can use it to their advantage. There is at least one wizarding mobster in each mob, which I found out through extended research." Lily explained.
"Why would Voldemort want it, well I mean he said he doesn't use muggle machines what good will this book be for him if it only contains weapons and codes?" Ben asked.
"Well it also contains charms and advanced spells. Plus Professor Dumbledore has been telling me that Voldemort has been collecting various artifacts, rare artifacts to use as Hercroxes
(Don't know hot to spell it, maybe someone could tell me?) To store his soul in."
"Really, I heard about that from other death eaters, he's looking for a way to become immortal. Do you know where it is really?"
"Yes, I do. Last year I found out its location, it's in . . ." Lily then grabbed her watch and pushed a button.
"So no one can hear us." Lily said.
"Don't worry the room's safe." Ben assured her.
"Yes but his is for magical bugs, Ledford gave it to me. Anyway it's located in Mumbai India, well Bombay. It's about 2400 feet below ground in a temple." Lily said in a low voice.
"And you are going to get this book for him, are you crazy?" Ben exclaimed
"Of course not, I'm not stupid, I would never do such thing, I'm going to get it with Dumbledore's help and I' am going to make a copy of it and give Voldemort one of the copies, but that catch is, is that the copy I give him won't be the exact copy."
"How will that work he can use magic on it and fix it?"
"Not if I put a protective barrier on it, using a certain potion." Lily said looking at Ben with sneaky glint in her eyes.
Ben looked at her curiously.
"You don't mean . . .?" Ben began.
"Oh I do." Lily said.
Ben rolled back away from Lily.
"Lily I can't you know I can't." He said.
"Ben you are amazing at advanced potions, please, the Volacian potion only takes . . ."
"A Month, Lily! plus do you know how hard it is to find the ingredients?" Ben exclaimed almost yelling.
"Ben please, I would ask Dumbledore . . . Wait that's it I'll ask Dumbledore! But if he says he can't will you?"
Ben thought for a moment.
"Sure, I guess. We are partners after all."
"Thank you Ben" Lily exclaimed as jumped out of Ben to hug him.
Suddenly Langston came into the room.
"It's good to see that both of you are well. Now please explain to me what happened last night." Langston asked.
Lily and Ben explained their fight with the death eaters and Lily's plan.
"I don't know about this Evans this may go wrong, he does know you're a muggle born and he might go against you if you make a mistake." Langston warned lily.
"I know that sir and there is no doubt in my mind that he won't try to re arrange our agreement, but I assure you he won't be getting that book."
"Alright I'll let you handle this, you'll be in charge. I think you have proven yourself worthy of taking the head. Along with you Croft both of you. You are our best agents. I'll inform Ledford of the Plan, he can start up some technical devices for your use, although you will mostly be using magic won't you?" Langston asked getting up from the Bed.
"Yes, and Ben you and I will have to learn all of the Hexes we can incase Voldemort goes against the arrangements and so forth." Lily said turning to Ben.
"Right" He agreed.
"Right well you two are free to go . . ." Langston began to walk away when he turned around suddenly.
"Lily, have you told Dumbledore of your plan?" He asked
"I will once I return to school." Lily replied.
"Good." Langston left the room leaving Ben and Lily alone.
"Okay so I will look up all of the ingredients for the potion, we can both and how about I meet you . . ."
"What's today?"
"Uh Thursday." Lily replied.
"How about I stop by Hogwarts on Sunday we can figure out the Potion from there, if Dumbledore says he can't do it and also please write to me immediately if you are going to see Voldemort."
"I will." Lily said.
Lily helped Ben out of the wheelchair and they walked to the door. Ledford said goodbye and Lily took Ben back to Durmstrang.
"Wow, I've never been here before. Really oh well it's nothing special, I personally like Hogwarts better." Ben said as he walked with Lily to his Dorm.
"Here we are." Lily and Ben stood before a huge tapestry with Berklowsky written on it.
"Brokshen" Ben said and the tapestry swept to the side revealing a large wooden door. They entered.
"Ben Mate where have you been, we heard . . ." A tall boy said. Lily recognized him and remembered he was George from the Death eater Party.
"Oh hello, uh Amber right?" He said with a smile. Suddenly a loud beeping sound came from across the room. Edvard was sitting there with a book. The group looked over. Edvard came forward. As he did the beeping became faster and faster until it was beeping every second, next to Lily.
"Are you a muggle born witch?" He asked
Lily looked at Ben.
"Mate what are you doing with a mud blood?" George asked.
"Shut up, she a friend of mine." The students looked at each other.
"You've really changed Ben, first it's your crappy job, now your mud blood girlfriend, what next you going to disband from the alliance?" George snapped moving closer to Ben.
"Oh come off it." Ben replied.
"NO, I won't ever since you've been hanging around this trash, you've been skipping class, acting weird and most importantly you haven't even attended one DE meeting for the last two weeks!" He exclaimed no all of his friends backing him up along with a couple of girls.
"Look George, I need the job right now, my parents are no longer here and Lily is helping me out with some stuff." Ben said
"Stuff, what stuff?"
"That's none of your business!" Lily snapped.
George turned to Lily.
"I wasn't talking to you Mud Blood!"
"Don't call her that." Ben exclaimed shoving George. George hit the floor, but quickly got up.
"Oh I see you're covering her, aren't you. I knew you were a blood traitor."
"Shut up you wanker!" Lily shouted pulling out her wand.
"Lily, stop!" Ben said pushing her hand down.
"What did you call me?" George asked angrily
"Shut your mouth." Lily repeated. George lunged at her with drawing his wand, but Lily grabbed his wrist and twisted it, causing him to flip over and his wand falling out of his hand. Lily quickly grabbed his wand and pinned him to the ground with her foot while pointing both wands at him.
All of the other students had shocked expressions on their faces.
"Don't ever call me a Mud Blood." She said in a low tone
Lily unpinned him and raised the wands. She reached down and grabbed the boys arm and lifted him.
"Here." She tossed his wand at him and turned to leave.
"Ben I'll talk to you tomorrow. Remember Prince Charming, Sunday Hogwarts, I'll write." Lily said and walked out the door.
Once out side Lily aperated back to the Portal door entrance and entered.
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