The week went by and James noticed Lily's routine was slightly odd. She was never in her room or in any of the common rooms after classes and she never showed up for any meals but breakfast.
He wondered where she went. Sirius meanwhile, was on a kill-Lily rampage that caused him and Remus to stay away. Far away. Peter had to go home since his mom had gotten into a car crash so it was just the three.
Sirius was acting really scary to even James' standards. He was huddling in the Gryffindor dorm room over the Marauders map and pouring over books. This was scary since Remus always did the research for their pranks.
But Remus had tried to talk to Sirius and Sirius had snarled at him and told him to go away if he didn't want cursed to hell. Remus had retreated for the good of his health and both him and James had stayed out of Sirius' way.
Unfortunately what Sirius was planning, and about to act on, was going to set off a chain of events that was going to rattle the Wizarding world. It was breakfast two weeks since Sirius' behavior had started and James and Remus were uneasy and wary.
Sirius had a glint in his eye that yelled trouble. The teachers had noticed his behavior also and were wary, even Dumbledore. At that moment Lily walked into the Great Hall with her bag over her shoulder and her hair in its usual braid.
Sirius muttered something and a large projection, about 50 feet in the air and very big so that everyone could see it. On it showed Lily's worst and most humiliating and shame filled moment.
That had been the spell to show a person worst memory. The hall went dead silent and Lily froze. On the screen it showed her being raped by that man that her mother had married. Every detail, every scream, every agonizing moment.
Sirius had gone dead white cause he hadn't looked to see what Lily's worst memory was. The bag dropped from Lily's shoulder and her emerald green eyes that were normally emotionless darkened to a deadly red.
The temperature in the room soured. Lily raised her hand and with a flick the screen disappeared with her agonizing screams. She slowly walked over to where Sirius was standing, like a deer caught in the headlights, frozen.
Dumbledore stood, "Miss Evans please do not-" he was cut off with a wave from Lily's hand and a silencing charm. She stalked over to where Sirius was standing and picked him up bodily by his collar and tossed him, hard into the wall.
He made an indentation in the stone slid to the floor. Things were starting to melt as the room temperature was averaging somewhere around 120 degrees and people were scared cause this wasn't the Lily they knew, this was a Lily that had finally lost her temper.
People ran from the Great Hall but James and Remus stayed. McGonagall was trying her best to take the silencing charm off Dumbledore with no anvil. The other teachers were trying to get Lily away from Sirius where she was literally beating him to a bloody pulp but there was a barrier that not even Flickwick could take down.
Then Lily stood back and pointed her finger at Sirius. A purple sphere of light ignited the tip and it was pointed right at Sirius' heart. "Don't do it Lily." A voice whispered in her rage filled mind, "Do you really want to become like me Lily? Remember what I taught you Lily. Don't give into your rage or you will end up on the wrong side of the line."
The voice again repeated softly in her red hazed mind. That voice, of comfort, of remembrance, cut through her rage and let her see color again. Her cousin was right, she didn't want to end up like him even though she loved him; she didn't want to end up like him.
The light died at the end of her fingertip and her eyes went back to their normal emerald green. The unbearable temperature went down and things stopped melting. The rage was still there.
Still potent. She had to leave unless wanted a lifetime in Azkaban for murder. She whirled and left the Great Hall stopping briefly to take the Silencing Charm off Dumbledore.
She stalked out and into the Forbidden Forest and meant up with Leo and Tear, "what's wrong" chorused in her mind through their telepathic path, "he went to far and I nearly killed the mutt. Tom pulled me out of it but it was near and I need to work it off." Understanding the cats leapt at her and she wrestled with them both to take the edge of her rage off.
Sirius had to be put in the Hospital Wing for various broken bones and bruises. James and Remus were unsympathetic since he had done something so stupid, even for Sirius, that he deserved what Lily had done to him. They had been about to look for her when Mad-Eye-Moody came in.
He looked scared and worried, "where is she? I felt her power through the mirror break out, where the hell is she Dumbledore!" Dumbledore turned to Moody; "at the moment I have no idea since she took off to keep from killing Mr. Black for a stupid and lethal prank." Moody paled, "he showed her past didn't he?
He used that damn remembering charm and brought up her worst memory. Damn!" Dumbledore raised an eyebrow, "you know Miss Evans personally Alastor?"
Moody whirled, "of course! She's been working with me for five years now! Of course I know her and I also know that something big like that had to piss her off enough for her to lose her cool. She can't lose her cool."
"Why not?" Moody turned to James, "because of her heritage her power is different than everyone else's but my own. Her power, instead of running off energy like everyone else's, runs off emotion.
This means that if she loses her temper, her temper connects with the element of fire since psychic's powers are connected to the element, that causes fires to erupt, or if she has a shred of control left in her, for the room to get super hot. The same goes for sadness, happiness, depression etc…
If she doesn't have full control on her emotions then the world goes to hell." Dumbledore stood and slowly made his way over to Moody, "that kind of power was in my school and you didn't tell me!"
Dumbledore was trying to keep his rage quiet, "think Dumbledore!" Moody shouted, "It's the same thing as to why Lupin hides that he is a werewolf. If word got out that Lily had this kind of power then she will be feared, used, and hurt. I am the only one other than her cousin I have never met that knows of what she is capable of!
That is why you weren't told. She had control when she went off to her first year or I wouldn't have let her. She refined it a year later and became Shadow." James remembered how Jerome had called Lily Shadow.
Now he understood. "She didn't want everyone to know that she lived on the streets and had power of that magnitude." Moody nodded towards James, "yes she saved your ass a while back from what she told me.
She is Shadow of the streets and she is Shadow of the legends. I tell you all this because you deserve to know. Lily is off doing something to work off her temper until it is safe to come back with out melting something." Moody turned to Dumbledore, "let me stay Albus so I can talk to Lily when she gets back. "
Dumbledore didn't say anything for a while then nodded, "you can stay in the spare room in the Head Chambers." They all then left but James hoped Lily would come back soon. He was worried.
Miles away in an old house on a hill, Voldermort sat, twirling his wand in his hand. He had felt Lily's rage, humiliation, and shame. He had killed that bastard. The bastard that raped the only one he cherished in his life. Lily, his cousin. When Lily and her whore of a mother had taken to the streets she had met him.
They had bonded easily, the man looking for followers and the girl who was trying to survive. They had recognized the blood bond in them and had become as close as brother and sister.
Then one night two years after he had meant Lily and she had refused to join the dark side, he had found her lying bloodied, beaten, and torn in a dark ally. He had never felt that kind of rage or that strong of one.
He had tended to Lily while she told him what had happened. When she was asleep he had went to where her mother and stepfather stayed. Turned out her stepfather was his traitorous father.
He had killed both of them with glee for hurting both him and Lily. Lily had stuck with him even after Moody took her in for training. Because of Lily they had a connection she normally kept closed since he was of the dark side and she wanted him to have no favors. They loved each other as a brother and sister did.
He seen what that Black had done to her and decided she had dealt with it easy enough. He also knew that he would battle her someday he knew. It was inevitable. He loved her and they both knew that one day he would kill her.
He too had seen the vision and knew what would come to pass. It seemed he would be paying a little visit to Hogwarts.
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