A/N: Hey Guys. So here is chapter three. I know it's a little late, but I have exams coming up soon, and school is my priority. (Don't expect updates next or next-next week…review and exam weeks.)So I really need some input. Are these chapters too short and boring? I'm trying not to rush any of the scenes, but if it's too slow please don't hesitate to tell me. I really need help on that. Also, is this too depressing? Tell me, I will be eternally grateful.
Disclaimer: I solemnly swear I do not own Harry Potter.
Lily was quiet all week. To everyone around her she seemed to be going through the motions without realizing what she was doing. Her parents worried, but Lily worried more.
She worried about her friends, Alice and Marlene. She worried about her parents and Petunia. She even worried a little teen tiny bit about people she couldn't stand, like Vernon and the four Marauders. But most of all, she worried about this whole entire screwed up mess.
How was she supposed to warn her parents that her stupid pride and big mouth had landed all of their lives in danger? 'Hi mum, Hi dad, there is a serial killer out to most likely murder us since I refused to join his "followers" and told him exactly what I thought quite rudely.' Yeah. That would go over well.
She had already enhanced the basic muggle security around the house, full with sneakoscopes, security enchantments, anti-dark magic spells, intruder alarms and all. They had been silent for now, much to Lily's relief, but she wasn't about to let her guard down. She had even enlisted Marlene, Dorcas, Emmaline, Mary and Alice's help in setting up security enchantments around the entire neighborhood. Now the only thing left to do would be to tell her parents the information she had been shielding from them for such a long time. Sweet Merlin, this was going to be hard.
By the end of that week, she couldn't think of reasons to put it off any longer. So, with her stress levels rocketing and her stomach tying itself into knots, she approached her parents after dinner that Saturday.
"Hey, umm can I have a word?" She managed to get out at long last.
"Sure thing, what's on your mind?" Her mother responded gently.
Lily smiled gratefully at her mother for her gentle nudge. There was no way she would he allowed to back out of this now. "Well, you see, there's this uh, well, a war, in uh the wizarding world." She paused to see how her parents would take this news and silently berated herself on how awkward that statement sounded.
Her dad's face lost its relaxed, I'm-full-with-a-really-good-dinner-and-I-don't-hav e-a-care-in-the-world quality and his green eyes narrowed with concern. Her mother went ghostly pale and looked absolutely terrified at the prospect of her youngest daughter even mentioning war, much less being so dangerously close to it.
"But you don't have anything to do with it right? You're just warning us to be on our guard?"
"I wish," Lily said sighing sadly. "But everyone with any magic will have to choose a side soon." She sighed heavily.
"You've already chosen, haven't you?" Her father asked gently.
"Yes. I have. And I also told the leader of the other side that he was an evil, delusional egomaniac who had his head screwed on backwards." She said turning red under the scrutiny of her parents.
Her dad let out a dry laugh. "What is this war over, may I ask?"
"Blood purity," Lily responded, keeping her emotions and fear firmly in check as she swept on explaining about "Pure-bloods," and "Half-bloods," And "Mudbloods," and the legendary rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin until it all finally came down into an all-out war.
By the time she was done, her parents were looking at her with an expression that she had never seen before. It was mixture of pride, respect, terror, and a measure of protectiveness.
"What can we do to help?" Rose asked. She would be damned before she let her daughter face this threat alone.
Lily visibly did a double take at those words but then she regained her relatively composed expression.
"Nothing," Lily said imploring her mother to understand.
"What do you mean nothing?" Her mother demanded raising her eyebrows in an indignant and stubborn expression that Lily recognized immediately. She had one just like it.
"If you start doing anything out of the ordinary for now, it would just raise suspicion. Severus is most likely the Death Eater who is meant to tail you for abnormal activity, so just remember to lock the front door and never, ever, leave the house without telling me. Ever. And as far as you know, Voldemort is a magical fungus, ok?" Lily commanded.
"Yes ma'am," Her dad teased pretending to salute her. "Now can I have the remote?"
Lily was baffled for a moment, but then realized that her dad, a retired police officer, was catching onto her plan faster than she was herself. She laughed and tossed him the remote.
"One last question Lily," Rose started, "Who is this Potter boy that keeps popping up?"
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