A/N: This is from third-person POV, David's.
David walked back to the castle. He had just finished his defense against the dark arts lesson, and now he was headed up to dinner. He walked the long way outside; he needed fresh air. All he could think about was Lily; she was so depressed lately. Then there was that girl, Erica, who seemed to like him… she was so nice, so not like Lily.
He continued to walk, wondering if he should make up with Lily and be friends. He really liked Erica, but not even half of the amount he liked Lily… As David walked, he glanced at the snow. He was walking, almost inside, when he saw a patch of red in the snow.
He hurried forward. The red was hair. Long, red hair. He looked up; there was the astronomy tower. He looked back down at the figure on the ground. Suddenly, his heart was pounding. He only knew one girl with hair that red. Lily. He turned the girl over, and sure enough, it was his Lily. He felt her face; it was like ice.
He ripped off his cloak and wrapped it around her. He found her wrist and looked for her pulse. It was there, but only just. He scooped her into his arms. His brain didn't seem to be working properly. He had the love of his life almost dead in his arms. His brain worked furiously, trying to come up with a place to go. Finally, he thought of one: the room of requirement.
So that's were he went. As he sprinted through his short cuts, he thought about where Lily was. Then it hit him. Lily had jumped off the top of the astronomy tower. She had tried to kill herself. With a stab of guilt, David realized it was because of him.
Soon, he got to the room of requirement. He got inside as fast as possible, and laid Lily down on the bed. Amazed at how light Lily had gotten, David pulled up her shirt slightly. He gasped. Her ribs were sticking out; she was just skin and bones.
As he searched the cabinet for something to make her get better, he could hear her breathing getting shallower. Soon, he found a potion that made the drinker instantly warm. He hurried over to Lily, pried her mouth open, and tipped it carefully into her mouth.
Then, he climbed onto the bed, and waited, praying that it worked. It did. After a few minutes, Lily opened her eyes. She looked around, as if she was trying to comprehend everything. She saw David.
With all the strength it looked like she had, she pushed herself out of bed. David knew she was weak, and sure enough, she was too weak to stand. David jumped up and caught her.
"No, let me go. You don't care. No one does." Lily said, struggling weakly against David's hold.
"No." David said firmly, and he pulled her back onto the bed. Lily continued to struggle, until she wore out the remaining strength she had. Finally, she gave up. She began to cry, and it was breaking his heart to see the one he loved in so much pain. He tried to hug her, but she shook her head no.
"I'm stupid. I'm ugly. Why would you want me? You don't care about me at all! No one does!" She sobbed.
David was shocked. He had done this much damage? All he had done was tell her that they couldn't be together… he had never known that she had loved him this much.
"Come here." He said softly, pulling the love of his life into his lap.
Lily continued to struggle away from him, until finally she stopped and cried into his shoulder. She cried for quite a long time to, until finally she fell asleep. David laid her down and sat down in a chair. He put his head in his hands. He had never known someone like her. She had loved him like no one else. Then she lost her memory, and couldn't remember loving him. She got with Alex again. But then, the second she got her memory back, she wanted him back to.
David realized how stupid he had been all along. Glancing at Lily sleeping, he felt an enormous stab of guilt. All because of him, Lily wasn't eating well, she wasn't sleeping well, she wasn't doing anything well. Her hair was red again. She was so depressed and it was all his fault.
When Lily awoke a few hours later, David was still sitting next to her. David looked up when he heard her stir. She opened her brilliant green eyes, and David felt his heart break for the millionth time that day. They were so full of hurt. Lily stared at him for a minute, then swung her legs over the bed.
"I'm going back to finish what I started." She muttered, walking towards the door. She was still weak, but she had enough strength to walk. David jumped up and darted toward the door.
"No, you are going to Madam Pomfrey." He told her.
"No, I am not. There is nothing wrong with me." She snapped. David wasn't about to let her go back to the astronomy tower, so he did some quick thinking, or tried to, at least. Lily tried to push her way past him. Without thinking, David gave her a huge bear hug. Lily was surprised, he could tell. Then she pushed him away.
"Don't. You're just going to make things harder for me." She said, her voice breaking and tears in her eyes.
"Make what harder?" David asked, bewildered.
"Your going to make getting over you harder, since you don't love me anymore." She said, the tears spilling over.
"Who says I want you to get over me? And hell yes I still love you." David said. He realized how untrue that must have looked to her, since he had been ignoring her fir quite awhile. He looked into her hurt-filled eyes again.
"Just come to madam Pomfrey, please." He said, and she stared back into his eyes. Finally, she nodded.
David took her to madam Pomfrey. About half way there, the energy that she had regained was gone, so David had to carry her. Once they got to the hospital wing, David set Lily down on a bed, and told Madam Pomfrey everything.
"But why didn't she..er.. die?" I mean, the astronomy tower is really high." David said curiously.
Madam Pomfrey looked thoughtful. "I believe it was because she did not truly wish to die. Being magical, her heart over took her mind and slowed her before she hit the ground. It happens every once in a while. Ms. Potter was very lucky." She told him.
David sighed. He had almost taken Lily's life, in a way. "I suggest you go and get some sleep. I need to have a talk with Lily tonight. No visitors until Sunday, at least. I will trust you to tell her worried friends what happened." Madam Pomfrey told him kindly, and David left. Lily had fallen asleep again, so he couldn't even say good-bye.
When he got back up to the common room, he headed straight for his bed. He lay there thinking for a long time, then he finally fell asleep. He didn't sleep for very long though, afraid for what Lily might try to do. Maybe she would try to leave and jump again…
Finally, he gave up and went down to the common room. There, he found Tess, Kelsey, Tucker and Sirius, all looking worried. When David came down stairs, they rushed over to him.
"Do you know where Lily is David? Please tell me you do!" Tess said, crying.
David sighed heavily. "Sit down, let me tell you the whole story."
When he was done telling, they all looked horrified. Tess was crying weakly, pushing Tucker away. David knew how she felt. She had almost lost her best friend in the whole world. She wanted to be alone, but Tucker was trying to comfort her.
"Tucker, she wants to be alone. When she needs someone, she will come to you." David told him, trying to be nice. Tucker gave up and let Tess cry. She ran up to her dorm, and was soon followed by Kelsey. Kelsey was supposed to be on bed rest, but it was to hard for her to sit and watch everything happen.
All weekend, all David could do was worry. He couldn't do anything else. He made frequent visits to the hospital wing, hoping he could visit Lily, but each time madam Pomfrey shook her head at him. Finally, on Sunday night, Madam Pomfrey nodded.
David hurried in and to the bed where Lily was. She was sitting up and reading a book. She looked a million times better then she had lately. She had some color in her cheeks, and her hair was much shinier. She looked up when he came over, but then looked down at her book.
"Hi." She said softly.
"Hey." David said back.
"Why are you here? You don't love me, and coming over and pretending that you do is just making everything harder for me!" Lily said, but her voice was strong, rather then the weak one she had been using lately.
David looked down at his hands. Of course he still loved Lily, he loved her so much that he would do anything for her. But he knew that it was his fault that she thought otherwise.
"Just go." Lily told him softly. And he did. He knew that if he stayed he would just make things worse.
David waited that night until Tess came back to get all the details about Lily, since she wouldn't tell him herself.
"She was treated for depression. She has a potion that she has to take every morning for the next two weeks, then once every other day, then once every three days, and so on." Tess told him. David nodded. He knew there was more.
Tess hesitated. Finally, she said, "The reason she was so depressed is because you don't love her. Madam Pomfrey said that because we are so young, Lily doesn't know the difference between real love and puppy love, so she is likely to lapse back into depression again. She needs you David. You can't give up on her. You have to try." Tess told him. David could see it in her eyes that he would have to try.
David did try. Every single day, he did everything he could to try and get Lily to like him again. Nothing worked. She was now going to group therapy a few nights a week, and her O.W.L's were almost here, so she was almost always working. David could see that she was getting a lot better. Her hair was now back to dark red.
David finally was about to try leaving Lily alone for a while, and see if that would work any better. Then, as he turned to leave, he heard a scream from upstairs. Lily, who he had been talking with, sprang up and shot like a rocket down the stairs, and returned almost as quickly with a sobbing Kelsey.
"My water broke! Somebody get Matt!" She cried, and David sprang up. He darted up to his dorm, where Matt was reading a book. David yanked Matt off the bed, and down the stairs.
"Hey, What the hell-" Matt said, but then he saw Kelsey sobbing. David ran over to the fire and grabbed a box of floo powder from the mantle. The three of them hurried over. Lily looked terrified, Matt looked the same, but Kelsey appeared to be in a lot of pain. David thrust the box toward Kelsey and Matt first.
"St. Mungo's!" They cried together, and they were spinning off. David offered the box to Lily, who took some.
"Come on, we can get there faster if we do it together." Lily said, sounding like it was the last thing she wanted to do. But they went together any way, and rushed to the front desk at St. Mungo's.
"Were was Kelsey Weasley taken to? She arrived here a few minutes ago." David asked, since Lily seemed unable to open her mouth. The witch standing there pointed to the right down a hallway.
"Room number seven." She said, and David and Lily hurried down the hallway. Room number seven wasn't very far. They turned to go in, but a healer was in the way.
"I'm sorry, there is some critical complications with the pregnancy. I'm afraid that you cannot come in. We will notify you as soon as something happens." The healer said, sounding apologetic.
David and Lily had no choice but to turn around and go back to the waiting room, and well, wait. They did wait for a long time. Apparently Lily wasn't completely better, since she started to cry the second they sat down.
"Omigosh, what if she loses the baby or something? It would be all my fault. How come Matt is allowed in there with her? He isn't even the father!" Lily wailed, and David pulled her into his lap. He hated so much to see her cry. This time Lily did nothing to try and escape. She just buried her head in his neck and continued to cry.
As her fragile body shook against him, David could think of nothing to make Lily happy. She continued to cry until she fell asleep. David eventually fell asleep to. Lily, who had sat up, awaked him. There was a healer standing there.
"We have the news on Kelsey Weasley's child." He said.
A/N: How did you like this chapter? I liked this one a lot, for my own reasons… Please review! Thank you to my reviewers for the last chapter, I really appreciate it. Now, why don't you leave me some more reviews? I would love that so much, since reviews make my day sometimes.
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Dedication: To the readers of this story.
