Title: Change is Sometimes Good
Summary: Lily can't stand James; James has a thing for Lily another version of the Marauders and of coarse Lily and her friends in their last years at Hogwarts and beyond. Starts in 6th year.
Disclaimer: Everything that you recognize belongs to J.K. Rowling, everything you don't is all mine, so please don't sue me!
Chapter six: Playing the hero
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All of their cloaks, wands, and who knows what else was on the side of the lake. Lily yelled "someone get my wand, and quick!" Kat who had already been on her way out of the water, sprinted towards the edge and grabbed it for Lily, then tossed it at her. Lily in turn did the bubblehead charm on herself then dove down towards Remus and James. They were so deep that she could barely see them, but send two bubblehead charms at them so they could breathe.
In the meantime Kat had thrown everyone else their wands too, and everyone used the bubblehead on themselves and dove down to help Lily.
Lily was frantically swimming after the creatures with all her might. She finally got close enough to see what they were. Kelpies. Horse like creatures that would pull you down with their teeth then put you on their backs. Then as soon as the kelpie reaches the bottom of the lake it eats you.
These two specific kelpies seemed older and slower then normal. Because of this Lily assumed that she had some time. She swam back towards the surface looking for her friends. When she found them she motioned them to go towards the surface.
"Remus and James were taken away by kelpies." Some gasped others just looked shocked "We are lucky in two ways, one these are older kelpies so they go a lot slower, two the lake is over three hundred feet deep so we have some time before our mates become dinner." So all of them agreed to stick together, in case of attack, and they also transfigured some kelp into flippers so they could swim faster then they dove down.
After about twenty minutes of searching and going deeper they started to see the bottom. The swam faster out of worry for their friends. They reached the bottom then started scouring the lake floor, for their friends, and even though no one would admit it everyone was thinking that it was a possibility that they could even be dead by now.
Suddenly Sienna felt something pull at her ankle then start to attack her, she shrieked in terror. Everyone turned around, as best as they could turn around underwater, and looked to see where the scream had come from. Sienna was being attacked by a grindylow, which was a small horned devil resembling creature.
They each sent different curses toward the creature and in the end it looked like a tap dancing, batty, petrified thing.
They laughed, but then realized that they really should be getting on, for worry of their friends. They pushed on when they came across a type of clearing, all the seaweed around it had been cut into an almost perfect sphere. That was where they saw them.
The kelpies had James and Remus tied up against a boulder. Luckily thanks to Lily's bubblehead charm they were still conscious and breathing, thanks to Lily's bubblehead charm. They dared not to talk for fear of the kelpies noticing while they prepared for the meal.
You have to put it in perspective though, that kelpies only have fins and teeth for means of getting things done, so everything takes a fare amount of time.
The eight teens dove into the seaweed surrounding the clearing so as not to be seen. Then very slowly and quietly made their way towards it. It took some time, because they had to be very careful not to be heard, for kelpies have exquisite hearing, and besides they were on a rescue mission, they couldn't risk it.
Finally they got to the place of the boulder. Alice, Peter, and Kat slowly started to cut the ropes, with a rock that they had found. While Lily, Natasha, Frank, Sirius, and Sienna started to make a distraction.
They picked up rocks and started throwing them at the kelpies, and basically anything else they could pick up. Unfortunately for Natasha, Sirius picked her up and pushed her towards the horse-like creatures, without even noticing. Natasha screamed bloody murder as she hit the body of the kelpie.
She kicked it with all her might, while it went for her neck. It let her go out of shock from the kick, when Natasha was younger she took self defense classes for fun, but boy did she know how to kick.
They started hexing and cursing the kelpies as if there was no tomorrow, which if they weren't careful, there wouldn't be.
Meanwhile the ropes holding James and Remus were really tight, and Alice, Peter, and Kat were having a hard time cutting them. Sawing at thick rope wasn't easy but whenever they cut through, it was one step closer. Finally all the ropes were cut and James and Remus started swimming towards the surface.
Alice set a jet of bubbles down towards the others as a signal that they were ready to go up. Sure enough it worked, the others looked up and followed suit. Lily sent one last bat-bogey hex at each of the kelpies then started swimming.
Suddenly the glass on the bubbleheads started thinning and they still had a ways to go until they reached the surface. Then it disappeared all together. Considering that they hadn't learned silent spells yet they couldn't say an incantation with out swallowing water they had to just keep swimming.
Lily felt as though her lungs might burst, she needed air and she needed it then. She started to feel faint and dizzy and the others had similar feelings. Finally she felt her head break through the surface and she started gulping the fresh air. Heads popped up around her and started doing the same thing.
They all swam towards the shore, and practically collapsed when they reached it. Lily grabbed James by the hand and pulled him away from the others.
"James I was so worried about you, I don't know what I would do if something serious had happened!" She practically cried into his chest "I would have blamed myself for not having gotten there soon enough. I would never forgive myself!" She was leaning into him and he embraced her in a tight hug. "Lily if it weren't for you right now, I wouldn't be alive. You were the one fast enough to put the bubblehead charm on us, because we didn't have our wands, but we couldn't have said it underwater." (A/N: If you already had the bubblehead charm on, you can talk, which is why Lily was able to put James and Remus on it.) "Thank you for saving my life." And with that he gave her a passionate kiss on the lips. She shivered, not because she was cold but because she was feeling things she had never felt before, and for James Potter of all people.
They walked back, hand in hand grinning sheepishly. When Lily noticed a deep gash across James's cheek. "Oh my gosh James what happened?" she touched it with care, and he winced "It's just a scrape, that's all." He replied with a shrug. "No, I really think you should go to the hospital wing, and we will explain what happened to Madame Pomefry." He agreed and they started walking up.
Meanwhile the others were drying off when Natasha caught Remus staring at her with a longing look in his eyes. When she looked over at him he quickly looked away.
Before she even knew what she was doing, she grabbed his arm and pulled him under a nearby tree. Smiling as she did so, she gently pushed him down so he was sitting and plopped down beside him.
"Look Remus, I've liked you since the beginning of 5th year. But this year it has intensified a ton. Remus will you go out with me?" Natasha was pretty modern when it came to things like that, even though she hadn't had much experience with dating.
As an answer Remus leaned in and kissed he softly on the lips, she broke apart "does this mean yes" she asked. He smiled then nodded, and leaned back in. Their kiss became more intimate until they were fully snogging. He smiled into her lips, and she smiled back.
Sirius nudged the others to pay attention then he subtly pointed towards Remus and Natasha. The others started to smile, just like with Lily and James they had been waiting for it to happen for a while.
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James and Lily were at the hospital wing. Madame Pomefry had given each a pepper up potion, to make sure that they were warm because neither had had time to dry off before they headed up. Then she carefully applied some sort of lotion to James's wound, then wrapped a bandage around it.
"Now I don't want you swimming for about a week, or at least until it starts to heal." She told James. "But be careful overall and for heavens sake don't do anything stupid." She finished with a smile. They thanked her then headed off towards Gryffindor tower.
Along the way they ran into Alice, Frank, Sirius, Kat, Sienna, and Peter who excitedly told them the good news about Remus and Natasha. James and Lily were happy for them, but like the others they knew it was coming.
They walked through the portrait hole to find it filled with people. Being a Saturday that made sense.
Lily gasped "I haven't done any of my homework yet! I have to get to work, if I want any free time at all tomorrow." And with that she dashed up to her dormitory to her supplies and book bag. She jumped all the five of the stairs on the way down with a laugh and sat down in a plush velvet chair.
The others sat down around her and all started their homework as well. Remus tried to concentrate but he was having a hard time. The full moon was coming up, so that was definitely on his mind but so was one other thing, Natasha. She wouldn't want to go out with him if she knew the truth about his furry little problem, he thought with dismay. So he decided not to tell her, at least not yet, not until their relationship got a little bit more serious.
Authors Note: I realize that I have made some horrible mistakes in my writing, but I don't think that they are the kinds of things that are easy to fix. First one is that Lily and James didn't start going out until 7th year, another is that Arthur and Molly graduated about ten years before the marauders and everyone else did, and finally I found out that James was chaser not seeker. I hope every one will forgive me, but I kind of want to keep them, because it might give the story a little more character. Anyways I hope you liked it. Please, please with a cherry on top review. Thanks!
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