Authors Note: I am sorry the last chapter was little bit og a cliff hanger guys. And apologies for it being so short as last night my ex Imed me insisting we needed to talk so I got caught up with him. This chapter will be much longer as to compensate for not updating last night as I promised I would. I do not own anyone and as for Erin she is a bisexual witch so BE WARNED PARTICULAR CHARACTERS ARE SLASH. But no intimate slash will be described, it will merely feature and if you don't like slash then you can still read this story however.
Previously on Dreaming
There was silence around the grounds, the crescent moon shone high in the sky and the stars twinkled against the velvet sky over Hogwarts lake and the cool night air whipped through the branches of the trees standing along the waters edge. The castle looked more magnificent tonigh than it ever had before, the lights shone from the Astronomy tower where students would be sat outlining star charts. A golden beam of light shone from the tallest tower where Dumbledores office was situated.
But at the top of the Divination tower stood a most terrifying figure.
'The time has come, Nagini,' Lord Voldermort hissed to his pet who was slithering around his feet 'it is time to awaken the snake within these walls, our friends need to come out in the open would you not agree?'
'Yessss masssster,' Nagini replied 'ssssshhhall I awake the basilisk then?'
'There will be no need Nagini, we have come into Hogwarts this far without its help, Dumbledore is oblivious to us being here,'
Lord Voldermort hissed
'I wouldn't be so sure my lord,' a voice said out of the darkness on the top of the divination tower, Regulus Black stumbled into the moonlight and fell before his master's feet.
'Black, what do you mean,' Voldermort said sharply without turning to face Regulus.
'Dumbledore has stationed members of the Order within the walls of Hogwarts in secret, we found extra members of staff parading the corridors,'
'You're lying Regulus; do not lie to your master,'
'I assure you my words are truth, Dumbledore knows you're here and he knows why,'
'And how would you know all this Black, unless you have been infiltrating information from the order and as of present I only have one spy close enough to Dumbledore your information has clouded my judgement,'
'My lord if I lie it is in your best interest, to attack the school tonight would be suicide. I am sure Dumbledore has removed Gryffindors sword to another location,' Regulus explained, his hood hanging low over his face.
'Its here, I know it is Black. Fetch Wormtail would you. This castle was easier to break into than I thought,' Voldermort explained and Regulus nodded. As he swept away from the tower he heard his lord whisper something to Nagini who slowly slithered down after Regulus
'Watch him, Nagini,'
James smiled as Lily admired the necklace, her eyes couldn't leave the locket resting on her breasts and James couldn't take his eyes of her. There was something more magical about the way he was feeling and couldn't place it, Lily returned her attention to him and was beaming.
'You're fantastic, I'm just so sorry it took us so long, we've got barely 4 months left at Hogwarts and-'
'And,' James finished for her 'what difference does that make?'
'We won't be here together anymore, we'll be living separate lives won't we,' she added sadly 'and just when I was starting to really care about you,'
'Well, the time we have now should be spent together,' James said sweetly, his attention turned to the night sky and then back to Lily 'the time-' but he froze and drew his attention back to the night sky where an eerie green glow ebbed over the divination tower.
James let go of Lily's hands and stared up into the night sky, wandering towards the castle slowly his mouth dropped and his attention never wavered from the mark in the sky. Lily ran after him, her mind concentrating on James she tugged at his arm and said
'James, what is it, what's wrong-'but Lily followed James' line of sight and her hand covered her gaping mouth 'oh no, James-'
'Something has happened, but oh my god Lily up there,' and James pointed to the top of the divination tower where a man cloaked in emerald green robes stood, an eerie green aura lighting him up against the night sky.
'It's him,' James breathed
(AN: Cliff-hanger! No I'm not that cruel!)
Sirius had been asleep for almost an hour before he was shaken awake by Remus Lupin who looked anxious and more worried than usual. It took Sirius barely a second to realise hat it had something to do with Regulus.
'What's he done now Moony?' Sirius said anxiously 'he hasn't-'
'I think you should see for yourself, he's been impaled down in the trophy room,' Remus explained 'and that's not all, Dumbledore has called all prefects into his office except we can't find Lily and James'
'Don't be so vague Moony, what has happened,' Sirius said firmly 'if Regulus is in trouble then-'
'He's not in trouble, he's dying,' Remus said shortly 'and Voldermort has broken the school security,' this made Sirius jump out of his bed as if he had been struck by lightning. He grabbed his wand and cloak in an instant and without another look at Moony had fled the dorm room.
'Padfoot, don't do anything rash,' Remus advised his friend, catching up with him as they raced out of the common room 'McGonagall told us to go straight to Dumbledores office. We should do so. The teachers will take care of the other students and Lily and James are-'
'Leave this to me Moony, we'll see how powerful the mudblood bastard is after I've dealt with him,'
'Sirius,' Remus said firmly and loudly, he pinned Sirius up against the wall forcefully and held him by his robes 'don't do anything stupid, we're going to Dumbledore, your brother is dying and I think the last thing you need to do is go charging around after the most infamous dark wizard of our time,'
'He took Louise away from me,' Sirius said angrily, trying to loose Moonys grip but found it difficult as the werewolf's strength towered over his own wizard like reflexes. 'I don't want him to murder anyone else,'
'He's murdered hundreds of qualified wizards and witches, Dumbledore will handle this,' Releasing his grip on Padfoot Remus knew he had knocked some sense into his friend 'Dumbledore, now,' and Sirius obeyed reluctantly stuffing his wand in his pocket as he went.
Jackie White and Nicola were sat next to Regulus who was slumped against the trophy room wall impaled on a large heavy set sword. Jackie held his hand sheepishly and Nicola stood watch at the door awaiting Madam Pomfrey who had not been found yet.
'Its going to be alright,' Jackie said 'Pomfrey will be here,'
'It hurts,' Regulus said 'im going to try and get off it,' and he moved awkwardly forward and tried to un impale himself with little success.
'How did you do this and what were you doing down here anyway?' Nicola asked from the doorway
'I was researching a project,'
'At this time of night,' Nicola said suspiciously
'Well you know, ow,' and he flinched.
Pomfrey arrived followed by Minerva McGonagall and Rubeus Hagrid, though to Regulus' dismay Dumbledore had not come and that was the whole point of this exercise to get Dumbledore away from the office so his lord could attack and capture what he believed to be the last remaining item needed for the spell.
As they tended to rEgulus Black the teachers were blissfully unaware that their deserted posts were now being inriltrated by Lord Voldermort and his followers, all trying to gain access to Dumbledores office.
AN: CLIFFY! MUAHAHAHA I will write more later on but if not I am afraid I am off to London for a week or so and will not be near my laptop so. But I will be speding the week near Kings Cross Station and I will upload some photos on my new in the making website. Apologies for all the typos in this I awoke thismorning and just had lots of creative ideas in my mind but I was still not really awake. Please read and review. It will become more L/J again in the next chapter which may be a short taster of whats to come before I fly of to London to see my Grandmother.
Love you all!
Halle