2.28.06

Sorry, I'm really not good at updating on the weekdays, I will try to due better! I know that my last chapter really, really sucked, which is why I waited until I had finished this one to put it out there. I'm not going to give you any shit like 'I stayed up last night writing this because I couldn't sleep.', because while I did stay up all night writing that chapter because I couldn't sleep, that is not why it sucked. It sucked because I couldn't find a way to tie the friends into the story so that, by the time you got to understand what their part was in the story, they weren't so shallow. I also needed a way to start bringing them into this story so that when I finally kill them all off –don't call me mean, you know it has to happen- or when they all move away to some distant country you will all be at least a little bit sad for them.

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Lee

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Disclaimer: Same as all the previous chapters….grrrrrrr

Chapter Four: Death Eaters

I looked over to the left, the place where most of the screams were coming from; they were moving quickly, blasting everyone and everything out of there way as they headed towards the center of the platform.

Lily.

I looked over and saw her face riddled with confusion. Why doesn't she move? Why isn't she running? Then it hit him. She doesn't no who they are. "LILY!" She looked at me moving through the swarms of people towards her. "MOVE!" I yelled as a Death Eater pointed his wand at her across the platform. He shouted a curse I couldn't hear, resulting in a bright red streak flashing across the platform. She threw herself backwards onto the ground, the curse flying into a third year Hufflepuff's father, causing him to collapse to the ground twitching. I looked back at Lily and saw another Death Eater raising his wand at her, and then I recalled something she had said earlier.

'…do you really think he's just going to let me live being the most powerful witch in this decade?' Oh Merlin. They were here for Lily.

Sitting on her arse Lily had no way to avoid the next hex that was thrown at her, there where too many people on either side for her to roll, so the next hex thrown at her was bound to hit her. I yelled the only shield charm I could remember, "PROTEGO!" and even as it flew across the platform I knew the charm wasn't strong enough. Racing across the platform as fast as I could, avoiding all the bodies lying on the ground I was still about twelve feet away when the hex hit her. I heard the sound of many apparitions happening around us. By the time I got to Lily she was white as a ghost, clammy too. But she was breathing. Thank Merlin, she was still breathing.

"James! James, my boy, are you alright?" I looked to see my father's good friend Bartimus Crouch Senior standing over me. "Come now James, get up we have to- Great Gods, what happened to her?"

"I don't know, the Death Eater that did this vanished, he shot a kind of orangish hex at her. I caste a Shield Charm but it wasn't strong enough to keep the hex from hitting her." I explained quickly. "Can you wake her up Mr. Crouch, she-?"

"Wake her up?" Crouch looked startled. "From what you've described she's lucky to be unconscious. That was the Hurling Hex, every time she goes to open her mouth for the next…probably day at most she'll vomit. It's probably best if you take her-"

"Prongs! Mooney, he's over here. Marlene! They're over- What happened to Evans?" Sirius pushed past Bartimus Crouch, who stood up indignantly and glared at the back of Sirius's head. "Is she okay, she looks kinda pale?"

"Death Eater hit her with the Hurling Hex, and she smacked her head against the ground when the backlash hit her, she probably has a concussion." James responded weighing his options. He knew she wouldn't want to go to St Mungo's lest they decide she is no good for the internship, but she couldn't go without some form of medical treatment. He was reluctant to go to a muggle hospital, they really had no idea how much pain they inflicted on their patients. Luckily for James he was saved from making a decision by his mother coming over.

"James, darling are you alright? Oh hello Bartimus, good to see you again. James- Oh Merlin" (We seem to be getting a lot of that around here. James thought sarcastically. "James, is she alright?"

"She should be fine," Crouch was taking control of the situation, "but she will need someone to watch over her until she wakes up, and then until the hex's power over her diminishes. I hesitate to take her to St. Mungo's, they'll be getting a lot more important cases today, we shouldn't trouble them. My suggestion would be to give her to her parents and then send her-"

"You can't do that." Remus spoke for the first time since coming over. "Her family is muggle, and her sister wants nothing to do with anything magic."

"Well then, she'll have to stay with us." Olivia Potter said briskly, "Remus, you seem to know most about her family, I assume they know you?" Remus nodded slowly, "Then cross threw the barrier and tell her parents that-erm…"

"Lily." Marlene provided quietly

"Yes, thank you, honey. That Lily will be staying with us for a while, and that they will be given reports twice daily about her condition. We'll wait for you to return, dearie, now hurry."

Remus looked at James, then at Sirius, and then finally to the pale Lily, before crossing into Muggle London. Remus seemed to be gone for hours, though it was actually somewhere around 5 minutes. When he crossed back over he looked tired.

"Let's go, they want someone to stop over at their house everyday to give them personal reports, as well as owls." Remus looked worn. "I swear, her father didn't even care, and her mum seemed scared to breathe for fear of upsetting him. Lily's body shuddered in my arms, but she didn't wake up. "Come on, we need to get her home."

Sirius and mum went threw first to get the house elves to prepare the guest room, then went Remus with his and Lily's trunk, I waited a bit to give them time to crawl out of the fireplace, then Mr. Crouch took my trunk for me saying that he had some information he needed to share with my dad. Finally I carried Lily threw the fireplace, making sure that her face was away from the ashes, "Potter Manor." When I finally stopped spinning I saw my Father talking in the corner with Mr. Crouch, whispering quietly, everyone else in the room was waiting for me. Mum went right into action, we were to take her to the guest room on the 3rd floor, it was bigger than all the others –except Sirius's but he practically lives here so he doesn't count- and she would check Lily over for injuries.

You could tell it was going to be a long week.

I don't know if I like having Bartimus Crouch as Mr. Potter's friend and I also don't know what I should name him. Tell me what you think in your reviews, I really need them –yes I will try to watch my tenses thank you for pointing that out to me- I have 950 hits to this story, but it obviously isn't review worthy because I don't have many reviews. For those who are interested, I NEED A BETA! E-mail me if you are interested, preferably sometime tomorrow or on Sunday!
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LEE