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Ch. 35: Another visit

"I'm glad you could come on short notice, now I need to talk to you about the wear bouts of Rockwell, Monroe's right hand man." Voldemort said as Lily sat down in front of him. They sat in the back of the Cyprus as usual and the dealings Remus and Emily had informed her of were still buzzing through her mind.

"Yes, well we have not found him yet, we are doing our best. Have you been successful in finding him?"

"No, but I have a feeling he is still in England. I have sent several of my followers to find him. The book is in dire need right now, as you may understand."

"I see, and what do you plan to do with the book once you have it?"

"I plan to . . . that's none of your concern at the moment, your concern is to find Rockwell and retrieve the book."

"Yes well, I'll be in touch with you once I find out where Rockwell is. I believe Monroe is away in Austria right now so he may be there, I'll have my people go there." Lily said and started to get up.

"Yes this Monroe fellow, he gets around for business." Voldemort said and Lily left.

Lily traveled back to MI-5 where she needed to talk to Ben and Ledford.

MI-5

"Hey lily, how are you?" Ledford asked as Lily walked through the head quarters.

"Good, look I need to talk to you, about the book, do you have a sec?"

"Sure, what's up?"

"Well as you know Rockwell has taken it, did you happen to put a tracking device on it in case something like this would happen?"

"No I didn't, but we have the other copy, you see I made two other copies, that Velocian potion you gave me was enough to make two so I have a good version and a bad version for Voldemort, but we need to get the other one back, because if Voldemort has that copy or even Monroe or Rockwell that will be very bad."

"I thought you only made one copy, the bad copy?"

"I did but then I remembered I made a good copy but I stored it in the vault after I duplicated it, I forgot I had done that."

Lily swelled up with happiness.

"Thank you Damian!" she said pulling him into a big hug.

"Well it was nothing, really. But we need to find him, Rockwell that is."

"Yes and I know from Langston that Monroe is in Austria, perhaps he could be there."

"We already have a team out there actually."

"Oh okay good. Well I'll see you tomorrow or in a couple of days. Do you happen to know where Croft is?" is he here?"

"Yeah he should be in his office."

"Okay thanks, bye."

"Bye lily," Ledford said with a wave.

Croft's office

"Hey Ben, how are you, good?"

"Lily! Yes I'm doing fine and you?"

"Good, um I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Sure what is it?"

"It's about your parents." Lily said timidly

Ben looked down.

"Oh what would you like to know?" he asked in a low tone.

"Well, when you told me what you did, why didn't you just tell me the truth and why did you come to Hogwarts to tell me that. I went back to Langston to ask him why, and then he said it was all a mistake in the accusations against you. Did Langston know you had put them into hiding, or that you were the one who killed them?"

Ben looked up

"Well, I didn't tell you because I didn't want to worry you, because I know who you were when you thought your parents knew your status. Langston did know that my parents knew and he helped me put them into hiding, but when the upper officials found out about their knowledge of my status, our cover was blown and in order for me and Langston to keep our jobs we played it off as if I had told them, I then told them I would do the deed of termination to prove my loyalty and to save Langston's job."

"Oh I see well thank you for telling me, will you be coming to Hogwarts soon for the rest of the training?"

"Yeah, I'm coming after the first of the year."

"Good, I'll see you then." Lily said and began to walk out.

"Yeah, uh hey lily?" Ben asked

"Yes?"

"How's James and your friends, I heard your new partner is Black, Sirius Black how's he working out?"

"He's good, fast thinker which is good."

"Yeah that is good. Ben said.

Lily left MI-5 and headed back to school. An hour later she was in the common room where the others greeted her.

"How was it?" James asked.

"It was good, but we need to find Rockwell soon."

"Yeah we do, definitely." James said seriously for his life was on the line.

"Well tomorrow we start our Winter break." Emily said brightly.

"Yeah, what are you guys doing for the holiday?" Lily asked everyone.

"Well, I'm staying here for the holiday with Remus." Emily said smiling towards Remus, he smiled back.

"We're staying to," Sirius said pointing to him self and Alicia."

"Yeah, uh since my parents are in hiding, they ordered me to stay here for the winter break, are you going back home?" James asked.

"Only for a couple of days, I need to do some family things and then I'll be back by Monday." Lily said.

"Oh would you like me to go with you, I mean do you need any help with anything?"

"Uh, no I think I'll be fine. But I do need to go pack and over night bag; I'll see you in the morning." Lily said and headed upstairs.

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