Here is the long awaited for chapter 8... lol j/k. Anyways. PLEASE REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! -wg-
James Potter sat panting by Sirius, who was in the normal seventh year dorms, looking at his friend with concern.
'What's up James?' He asked, realizing this was serious.
'I - I saw... Peter... he was... with Malfoy... talking. Kidnap... Lily...' James said really fast and out of breath.
'Slow down. Slow down. Sit, what's up. Peter was with Malfoy... and Lily's kidnapped?' He asked confused.
'No... they were plotting... to kidnap... Lily!' He said urgently.
'Now! When?' He asked, looking at James with wide eyes.
'Next week, when everyone leaves for break. They said they wanted me to go after her, and they'd take our powers... or something...' James said feeling foolish, imagining how insane and crazy that sounded.
Sirius didn't have a problem believing it though. 'We have to tell Dumbledore... or your dad, do you want to write your dad?'
'Dumbledore.' James said, they were now running to his office and down the halls, ignoring Sirius' little fan club screaming.
'Milky way!' James said, hoping the password didn't change, which thankfully it didn't.
'Professor? It's James Potter and Sirius Black... we need to tell you something urgent!' James said loudly, shouting through the door way that was the entrance to his main office.
'One moment...' Came a muffled voice and skuttles.
'Come in.' Said the same voice.
They entered and looked around. Things seemed urgently stuffed away, and Dumbledore looked flustered.
'Professor, I just saw Peter and Malfoy...' James said quickly and told Dumbledore the same thing he told Sirius.
Dumbledore looked grave. 'I'm glad you told me this. It is important. There seems to be a attack scheduled for the day you leave then. I need to explain something to you James, sit down both of you. Now, let me start at the beginning at the part where you and Miss Evans have... extraordinary magical powers and amazing learning abilities. You are valuable. The dark side would love to have you... but the problem is, or amazing thing to Voldemort, is that together, your powers are... stronger than his... even mine. Together, is Voldemort's downfall. They want you both so they can drain you of all powers and kill you. I know, it's very blunt and straightforward, but I know how you are and you like the facts. I'm afraid, that Mr. Pettigrew is a big, big asset in this plan... I am proud to say you are turning into an amazing man, and a beginning of a great auror, much like your father... now, go. I will assure yours and Miss Evans protection and have special transportation, until then, you may leave.' Dumbledore explained to him, and including a compliment.
James didn't look very happy... he looked mad. 'I may be good at Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor... and I may be able to accidentally eavesdrop on conversations like the one I heard today, but that doesn't make me like my father. I would never want that to be put on myself and I hope to Merlin I won't be that ignorant to my own son.' He spat, and walked out of the room, leaving Dumbledore in shock.
Sirius looked nervously at the door and his headmaster. He didn't know whether to stay with Dumbledore, or to go with James. He chose the latter. 'Professor, James and his dad don't have the best relationship...' He said, before leaving the room too.
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'Is something wrong, James?' Lily asked as she saw James fume into the Head dorms angrily and go up to his room, slamming the door. He finally came out and looked exhausted.
'I would tell you Lily, I really would, but I was sworn by Dumbledore I can't yet... but I will talk to him soon so that I can tell you, alright?' James said to her... hoping she would understand, for he wish he could tell her.
'Ok.' Lily said, glad that he at least wants to tell her, but he's under strict orders from the headmaster to not. And, we all know that what a professor says is right... well according to Lily it is.
'Good.' James said smiling wearily and kissing Lily on the forhead.
'Anything in particular you want for Christmas?' Lily asked him, changing the subject.
'Not really.' James told her smiling.
'No, you have to tell me.' Lily insisted.
'I don't know... I've always sorta wanted a Sneak-o-Scope.' James said shrugging.
'Really?' Lily asked him, thinking that would be a good idea.
'Yeah...' James said, thinking it would be a good idea, now that he found out that Peter was betraying them all along.
'Cool.' Lily said happily. She thought she would get him a really good one, not a cheap, inexpensive one. She then thought of an even better idea! A snitch! She was almost positive she could buy him one from a Quidditch supply store.
'So.' James said thoughtfully, trying to think of ways to entertain Lily.
'So do you have anymore secrets you would like to tell me about?' Lily asked looking hopeful with a smile. A smile that made James die, it melted all his anger away immediately.
James thought about all the secret passage ways through the school and all the trip steps and rooms he knew of. Finally he made his decision, and he smiled widely and nodded his head.
'You do?' Lily asked excitedly.
'Yes, come on. I'll go get the Invisibilty Cloak and Map.' He said, running up to his room and grabbing it all. He checked to make sure that the kitty was alright, safe in his own bathroom. Lily would never look there.
'Ready?' Lily asked, tightening her cloak. She really couldn't believe that he was about to show her more of the fun things he knew... the cool thing was that it wasn't all about rule-breaking like most of the flitty girls said it was. She had to admit it, now that she was becoming best friends with them, the Marauders were beyond funny and nice... they were cool.
'Yeah, come on.' He said, putting the cloak over both of them so that no one would follow them... like a certain, particular rat. He took ahold of her hand, the map in the other, and they walked out of the dorm, and followed an unfamiliar path to Lily.
'What is this?' She asked as they kept walking.
'Shush.' James said to her, like he normally did when he showed her his secrets. She asked too many questions.
Finally he stopped and took the cloak off when he saw a bare wall. 'A wall?' Lily said, following his eye path to the wall.
'This is much more than a wall.' James said smiling greatly.
'It is?' Lily asked.
'Yup.' He said. And he began pacing back and forth across from it.
'What are you doing?' She asked again.
James didn't answer, instead he kept pacing.
He stopped after three times and looked at the wall, Lily looked at it too, and to her surprise, this time it was a doorway.
'Wow!' She said when he opened it.
'Welcome, Lily, to the Room of Requirement.' James whispered in her ear.
'This is so neat.' Lily said looking around.
She began looking at him strangely.
'What?' James asked her with a confused smile.
'How do you find all these things?' She asked him. 'I mean, you have to have some inside source. You wouldn't just know that you have to walk infront of that wall three times, I mean, how do you do it?' She said.
'Instinct. You must learn to get it.' James said, and then thinking of treacle fudge, he saw some sitting on a nearby table and grabbed it up.
'Do the house-elves tell you?' Lily asked him eyeing the fudge and thinking of Candy.
'Nope, I told you. It's all instinct. Mooney usually figures out the passwords and everything and Sirius tries to use his charm on the nearby women portraits to coax them into giving him the way to enter a room. That seldomnly works though.' James informed her.
'Oh, and what do you do?' She asked him curiously.
James thought about this. 'I usually wait for someone to come around the corner and I distract them. That's why I'm the one with the most detentions, I have to use force sometimes...' He told her.
'This is so neat. So you just think about whatever you want, and it comes...' Lily asked.
James laughed at what she said.
What?' She asked him.
'You don't get everything you want.' He told her smiling.
'What don't you get?' Lily asked him.
James thought he shouldn't answer this question for it would make him sound like a fool. He tried to think about Lily, but she never did come. 'You can't think about things that have free will, like for instance, people. You cannot take someone from someplace just because you want them to.' He told her, hoping she didn't think too deep into it. He was wrong, she did.
'Did you wish for me?' She asked him laughing, thinking that he probably did.
James shrugged slyly and said, 'What do you think...'
'I'm glad you wished for me.' She said smiling at him.
'Did it come true?' He asked her, deciding to play along with her little game.
'Well, you got me didn't you?' She said seriously.
'That's right... I did now, didn't I?' He said looking happy.
'Yep.' She answered, then she walked up to him and kissed him lightly on the lips. He responded to her kiss, and began kissing her back. After quite a few minutes, they stopped that little activity they decided to leave and go down to meet the rest of their friends.
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That was chapter 8. Hope u liked it... and I'm rushing typing thiscuz ive gotta go babysit... like now! But, I'll be expecting reviews when I come back!
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