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A/N: I am so sorry I haven't updated in forever. I hope you like this though. At least, I have plenty of ideas now that my writer's block is gone and now I can get chapters to you more quickly. I 3 my reviewers.

Savannah: Thanks! Yes I have thought of being a professional writer and it's what I really want to do.

Sarcastic spastic: I love getting reviews like that with a lot of feedback. Thanks so much. I feel so bad that its been forever to get this back to you with being outta the country and then school starting…I hope u enjoy it nonetheless and I promise the next one will be up quickly. I'm pretty sure I know how the next couple of chapters are going to go. And don't worry, Chris will get what he deserves. And yes writer's block sucks so much…it's the worst . You're review made me smile though thanks.

Ks: Thanks. I hope you enjoy this chapter too.

Chapter 8: Defiance

Lily woke up the next morning wondering what she had been so upset about the night before, and then her argument with James came crashing back to her, and she put her head in her hands. She couldn't understand why her argument with James was bothering her so much. It was just Potter and well all they did was fight anyway, so why was it weighing on her so much this time?

Lily sighed and got dressed. She was about to grab her books when she remembered that even though today was Monday, the seventh years didn't have class because some would be going to Hogsmeade, and it was just too much to keep track off the ones that had gone and were just skipping class, so classes for them had been cancelled anyway. Lily opened the door to her room at the same time that James did his. He looked at her and she could see his eyes full of anger. He shut his door, and walked off without saying a word to her. Her heart tightened at this, and she decided to try and talk to him.

"Potter, what are you going to do today with your day off," Lily asked, trying to strike up a conversation.

"Nothing that concerns you Evans," James said, turning to face her.

He caught the look of hurt in her eyes, and immediately regretted his words. Lily just nodded and took off without saying another word to him. James shook his head, and went off to see what his friends were up to.

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Lily found Chris in the Great Hall waiting for her. He kissed her and just as they were about to leave, Alexis came up to them.

"Hey Lils, what are you doing today?" Alexis asked.

"Spending some time with Chris," Lily answered, "How is Melissa?"

Alexis rolled her eyes, "She's being so dramatic about this. All she does it talk about it and how she doesn't get it. She'll get over herself though, don't worry about it."

Lily nodded and was about to turn away and leave when Alexis grabbed her away from Chris and pulled her into a tight hug. Lily was surprised, but grateful for the simple hug because it was what she had needed most right then.

Alexis pulled away and looked at Lily straight in the eye, "Lils, we miss you. Come and eat dinner with us tonight ok?"

Lily didn't know what to say, but Alexis squeezed her shoulder and Lily nodded, "I'm sorry Alexis, I'll see you tonight at dinner."

Alexis smiled and said bye to Lily, and then walked back over to Remus and Sirius.

Lily turned around to face Chris. She couldn't read the expression on his face, and that scared her a bit. He took her hand and they walked out of the Great Hall without saying a word.

Alexis watched them leave from the Gryffindor table with unease. She had a really bad feeling about today. She felt like it was going to be something to do with Chris and Lily. In a split second she made the decision to follow them. Alexis ran out of the Great Hall, but wound up colliding with the marauders in the doorway. She looked down to see who she had knocked to the floor and saw it was Remus, and then she noticed she was on top of him, which caused a blush to creep up her cheeks, yet she still didn't move.

"Um, good morning Remus, and sorry about that," she said, her face inches from his.

"No problem," he said to her," his eyes never leaving his face.

Alexis had knocked Sirius and James into each other, and when they both recovered and saw Alexis and Remus they laughed. Sirius of course though felt the need to go interrupt their "moment."

"Good morning, Garcia, I hate to break up your intimate moment with your lover, but James and I here are hungry, and we're guessing that Remus probably is too."

That knocked Alexis out of her stupor and she jumped off of Remus when she remembered what she had been doing before she collided with them. In the process of getting up though, she lost her balance and almost toppled to the floor, but Sirius helped her regain her balance.

"Woah, you look like you just saw a ghost. Where were you going in such a hurry anyway?"

Alexis looked at him and just said, "Lily."

Sirius nodded and asked, "What happened?"

Alexis looked hesitant to say anything, but Remus spoke up, "Alexis, its ok. I know about Lily and Chris. I saw them on the grounds last night and he was hitting her and they were yelling."

Alexis sighed, obviously relieved, "I have a really bad feeling about them two today, and Lily told me she's supposed to spend the day with him, but he looked kind of mad at her in the morning, and I just know that I need to follow them, without getting caught of course, but I have no idea where they were actually heading."

Sirius and Remus looked at each other, as if having a mental conversation. Alexis just stood there watching them, and then concentrated on her mental power and magic on focusing on Remus's mind. Within seconds, she felt herself inside his mind and felt his thoughts around her. Just as she found out what he was thinking though, she felt herself stumble backwards and out of his mind.

Remus was looking at her with an expression of bewilderment on his face, "What in the world was that Alex?"

Alexis blushed deeply. She hadn't thought that he would be able to feel her inside his mind. She figured she had gone too deep in. Now the secret that she had kept for all her life was out. She decided to play pretend.

"What was what," she asked, returning his look of bewilderment.

Remus narrowed his eyes at her. It scared her a bit, because she felt like he was getting mad, and Alexis had never actually seen Remus get mad or anything like that.

"You were just standing there, your eyes really wide just looking towards me, but not really at me, and then I felt you inside…"

Alexis blushed even more than before. Sirius just stood there, completely unaware of what had just happened.

"Later, please," Alexis pleaded.

"No wait," Sirius cut in, "What are you two talking about. I hate being left out. Tell me guys."

Alexis ignored him and said, "Look, I really need to take care of Lily and make sure she's ok, so are you guys going to help me, or should I just be off?"
She looked at Remus, and saw that he was angry with her. She sighed, hating that she had made him mad, but would have to deal with that later. She looked at Sirius, hoping that he would help her.

"Come on," he said to both of them, "I have an idea."

Sirius started walking to the Gryffindor tower, with Alexis, but Remus didn't follow.

"I think I'm just going to get my breakfast. You two can handle that on your own," Remus said to them both.

Alexis looked as if she were on the verge of tears, but just told Sirius to go on. He was utterly confused, but continued on anyway.

"Why is Remus mad at you?" he asked Alexis as they headed up to the tower.

Alexis just shook her head and continued walking in silence, so Sirius didn't press the matter.

Sirius went all the way up to his room and told Alexis to follow him. Surprisingly James was up in there as well.

"Aye Prongs, what are you doing here," Sirius asked walking into the room.

"Looking for either you, Moony, or Wormtail," James replied.

Sirius didn't say anything, but opened the lid to his trunk, and pulled out the invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map. James looked at his best friend as if he was crazy, pulling out those things while Alexis was in the room.

"Uh, Padfoot, what are you doing with all those things, and why is Garcia here in your room?"

"Lily," Sirius said simply, "We need to go keep and eye on her, and everything. Care to join us in rescuing your wife?"

James rolled his eyes, "Evans is most certainly not my wife, and I doubt she needs help, and I wouldn't want to help her anyway even if she did."

That stopped Alexis and Sirius right in their tracks. They couldn't believe what they had just heard. James Potter didn't want to help Lily.

"Woah, Prongs. What happened between you two last night that would make you say that?"

"Nothing," James told Sirius, "We just had a big row, and I realized that there is no point in being around Evans or trying to help her, or even knowing her. She can go to bloody hell and do whatever the bloody hell she would like, as long as she stays out of my life," but even as he said that, James knew he was uttering falsehoods out of his anger from the previous night.

"Watch it," Alexis told him, "That's my best friend that you're talking about there. You can be mad at her for whatever reason you like, but don't you go wishing bad on her. You see how much this is hurting her, so you above all people should know that she needs people to be there for her, and she doesn't need anything else going wrong for her. So keep those comments to yourself."

Alexis pulled Sirius's arm, and they both left the dormitory, leaving James standing there, feeling guilt wash over him.

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Meanwhile, in an empty classroom Lily was clenching her fists at her side while listening to her boyfriend rant and rave about Lily's friends.

"I don't want you spending any time with any of them anymore," Chris told her abruptly.

Lily was not going to change her friends for him. No way in hell would she do that, no matter what he did to her.

"No. I am not going to change my friends for you. I'll see them when I want to, and spend time with them when I want to. And guess what Chris, it just so happens that I want to spend time with them at dinner tonight."

"You're going to spend dinner with me."

"No I'm not Chris. Why don't you spend it with your little side dish Cassandra," Lily spit out.

Chris didn't say anything for a moment, and instead just glared at her, his eyes full of anger that she was fighting and talking back to him.

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Alexis and Sirius stood in the hallway looking at the map. They found the dots labeled Chris and Lily in what they figured to be an empty classroom.

Alexis turned to face him, "What's the plan?"

Sirius looked at her, "I uh- don't exactly have one yet. I said I had an idea, which was to use these things," he said, indicating the cloak and map, "but I never said that I had a plan.

Alexis sighed and thought for a minute. They had to be sure that they didn't get caught or give themselves away no matter what happened. They just had to keep an eye on the two of them.

"How about we wait in the library…and then every ten minutes we put the cloak on and check on them," she suggested.

Sirius nodded and they headed off to the library. As they passed the empty classroom that Lily and Chris occupied, Alexis had to use all her self control from going in there and stopping Chris from yelling at Lily.

Alexis shook her head, and then headed off to the library with Sirius.

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Lily was seething, and felt the anger wash over her. She was so tired of everything that Chris stood for, and she refused to continue with it.

Chris advanced upon Lily, but Lily was boiling with so much anger, that she didn't back down. As Chris came toward her, she pushed him back into a row of desks with all her might. He looked at her, with a look of pure astonishment, but she didn't stop there.

"Christopher Cantore, I am so sick and tired of you. I am sick of playing along in this sick game of yours. I am done with being your "trophy." I refuse to let you date me and another person at the same time. I refuse to continue letting you hit me and do nothing about it. You have no right to tell me what to do, and you know what, I am not going to listen to you. We are through. And if you dare touch one of my friends, I will go straight to Dumbledore, don't even test me, Christopher.

Chris ran straight to Lily and pinned her against the wall. She wasn't expecting this.

"Lily Evans," he said, "I really don't care."

He took her face in his hands and held onto it hard, until he heard her whimper.

"You'll be sorry that you said all of that."

Lily lifted up her knee and kneed him right where she knew it would hurt. Well she tried to anyway, but his reflexes were fast, and he slammed her leg against the wall, and then pushed her to floor. He beat her and wouldn't let her back up. By the time he calmed down from his rage, Lily was sprawled out on the floor, not moving at all.

Damn, Chris thought to himself. I have to get her out of here, and leave her somewhere else.

With those thoughts, he picked up Lily's limp form and carried her upstairs to a broom cupboard that he knew he could hide her in, until someone found her.

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A few minutes later, Alexis looked at the map and noticed that Lily and Chris were in the 3rd floor corridor. She also noticed that James and Melissa were there too.

"Sirius, James is on the 3rd floor corridor with them, ask him what's up and if he's seen them."

Sirius nodded and pulled a mirror out of his pocket. Then James's face appeared.

"Prongs, I know you don't care about the girl, but just do me a favor and see what Cantore is up to and let me know, you don't have to do anything. Just keep an eye on him until we get there. Thanks mate," Sirius said and closed the mirror before James could say anything.

Alexis grabbed their stuff, "Come on."

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Melissa rolled her eyes when James told her what he had to do, but she didn't protest. Up ahead he could see Chris carrying Lily, and then he opened up a broom cupboard and they went inside of it. James was confused, Lily's figure had looked like it was limp and unconscious. Melissa gave him a skeptical look two, and then a moment later, Chris stepped out of the closet, but he didn't have Lily with him.

A/N: That's it for that chapter. Tell me what you thought of it. I don't think it was great, but I'd like any feedback, even just to let me know that people are still reading this even though I haven't updated in months. Sorry about that.