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CHAPTER 7

"Lilly please, wait, I am sorry, Please talk to me."

After about 10 minutes of Andrew yelling through the door. He used an unlocking charm and entered the bathroom. To find Lilly curled into a ball in to corner balling.

"Lilly," Andrew said as he put a hand on her shoulder. Lilly shuttered just at the pressure.

"How could you Andrew, we was going to rape me. If my Aunt had not come he would have. I feel so violated.

"Baby, I am sorry, I thought he was hurting you at fist. I ran to help you and when I got with in ear shot he said that he was happy you two had got back together. When I was you just lay there, and not fight back, I thought you had gotten back with him. I was heart broken. I am so sorry Lilly; I will never doubt you again."

"Andrew, he put an immobilization charm on me and a silencing charm, I would not fight back. I wanted to die; all I could think of was never seeing you again!"

"Why didn't you tell some one?" Andrew asked.

"He said if I told any one he forced me, he would kill me, I believe him, and his eyes were different. He was crazy honey. He was really going to rape me." Lilly said as she stared to cry again.

Andrew bent down and scooped Lilly in his arms and carried her to his bed. "Lilly you stay here and rest. I am going to go kill that jerk!"

"No!" Andrew please do not leave me, I have been alone all week. I can not be alone any more. I am scared."

"Never Lil, You are here with me, I will escort you to every class if I have to, Chris will never hurt you again, and I will kill him if he ever looks at you wrong again."

Lilly did not know what to do. Her heart was conflicted. She felt her self being pulled in so many directions she felt like she was going to split into pieces. She was angry at Chris for what he did; she was angry at her self for being so naive. She also felt sorry for Chris, something was wrong with him. He did not seem like him self any more. Something was different about him ever since last week, he seemed purely evil.

"A knut for your thoughts?" Andrews words broke through Lilly's jumbled mind.

"I don't know what to do. I feel so many things right now; I feel hate, anger, pity, sadness, embarrassment. I feel like I am going crazy and there is nothing I can do to stop it,' Lilly said as she started crying again.

"Lil, you do not have to be anything right now, we have all day to figure something out, How have you been sleeping my love?"

"I haven't, I do not think I have gotten more then 1 hour of sleep each night since it happened. I am afraid he will come back to finish the…" Lilly could not finish the sentence.

"He will not ever hurt you again. I will make sure of that. Now I want you to sleep. You know you are safe here, you can trust me, I would protect you with my life, there is nothing that could hurt you here. Just sleep…" Andrew said as she pulled the covers over Lilly.

Surprisingly, Lilly fell right to sleep, she slept for hours, and finally Andrew figured he should wake her up so they can figure out what they were going to do about her safety.

"Lil, my love, wake up." Andrew said softly in her ear. She did not move he attempted the same thing again. Still Lilly was sound asleep.

Andrew gently place he hands on Lilly's shoulders and shook her slightly while saying, "Lilly it is time to get up honey." Andrew felt Lilly's body tense up underneath his hands

Lilly bolted up into a sitting position. She started screaming. "Chris please stop, your hurting me, please!"

Andrew there his arms around Lilly and held her there, not letting her go no matter how much she thrashed. "Lilly, it is me Andrew, Lilly please calm down, Chris is not here, he will not hurt you ever again."

Lilly suddenly stops thrashing and looked at Andrew for the first time, "Andrew, I am so sorry, I must have been having a night mare. I am so sorry!"

"Don't apologize my love, it is ok, you are safe, I am here. We just need to figure out what we are going to do." Andrew said just above a whisper as he held Lilly tightly.

"Andrew, I…" Lilly said

"What is it Lilly, you know you can tell me," He said as he held her even closer.

"I… Can't breathe, you're holding me to tight." Lilly said.

Andrew let go and let out a laugh, Lilly joined him. It feels good to laugh again, I missed laughing! Lilly thought to her self as she looked up at Andrew.

"Well, I do not want to tell on Chris. He is not him self Andrew, I have been replaying the incident in my mind, and he changed, he has not been him self since it happened, he is arrogant, rude, and tries to remind constantly me of what happened."

"Well, I do not want you any where near Chris!" Andrew said in a very protective voice.

"How is that possible, I have 2 classes with him and he is a Gryffindor!" Lilly said haistly.

"Then we have no other choice then to tell the Headmistress." Andrew said a matter-of-factly.

"No! He will be expelled or sent to Azkaban!"

"Well he deserves it!" Andrew said in a huff.

"Andrew, I know you are mad, I am too. But, something must have happened to him."

"Well we could tell the Headmistress…" Andrew began as Lilly glared at him, "Wait here me out. We could tell the Headmistress that you were attacked, but you never got a look at the person who did it, that way Chris stays out of trouble, and you get the protection you need."

"Well that might work, but that does not solve the problem of me being vulnerable between classes and in the common room." Lilly said shackily

"Come live with me!" Andrew said with a grin.

"What!" Lilly exclaimed.

"I said come live with me, I live close enough to the school, I could keep an eye on you, and make sure nothing happens, I could also make sure you have an escort to all you classes." He said as if it was the best idea he ever heard.

"McGonagall will never go for it." Lilly said

"She will if we sell your parents on the idea." Andrew said simply.

"And just how do you suppose we are supposed to do that?" Lilly said with a smirk.

"Your father wants nothing more then his little girl to be happy, and he knows we are working closely to defeat Macafoy. The way I see it we have two options. One, we tell everyone of our relationship and announce that we are moving in together, since you are of age and can make such a decision. Or two, we can convince your father that we need to be close together and tell him what happened, that week, and let him convince McGongall that you need to stay here."

Well we can't tell me parents about us, because I am afraid my father will do the killing curse on you. So it looks like we have to tell him about what happened and let him convince McGonagall, I don't know if she will go for it. Besides, what if they ask why I waited a week to report it?"

"Let me take care of that my love, all you have to do is tell them what happened, just leave out the part where it was Chris and tell them you could not see the person." Andrew said.

"Well, I hope this works." Lilly said hopefully. "When do you want to go tell them?"

"As soon as possible, We could owl your parents right away and have them meet us here for dinner." Andrew suggested.

"Ok that sounds good, I will owl McGonagall and tell her I will be back at Hogwarts later because we are having my family here."

With that each got up and began to write there respective letters.