Disclaimer: If I were JK Rowling I'd have a British accent, which I unfortunately don't… need I say more?

Chapter thirteen: Have a nice trip, see ya next fall!

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Before they knew it, Christmas break was over, and they were in classes again. It was getting colder then ever, and the snow was coming down harder then ever.

"It is so cold" Lily said as she, James and Sirius trudged through the snow towards the forest for their Care of Magical Creatures lesson.

"Hey Lily" Sirius said playfully "hey what" she rang back in the same sort of playful tone "I bet if you took a cup of water you could throw it up into the air and it would freeze before it even hit the ground."

Lily laughed, Sirius could always make her laugh, and so could James. She conjured a glass that was filled to the brim with water and threw it up into the air. James and Sirius had to move quickly out of the way otherwise they would have become very wet- or so they thought.

And sure enough about half way to the ground they water sort of froze up and turned into ice. James and Sirius clapped jovially. Lily took a bow then extended her hand towards the water as if to say that she did nothing, it was all the water's doing.

They all laughed and headed towards the class, Lily shivered slightly, because it was so cold outside. She had a hat, a scarf, boots, mittens, and a warm winter jacket and she was still cold. James put an arm around her to make her a tad bit warmer, it helped but it didn't help that much.

The class went on. Lily really liked animals, she always had. When she was younger you could ask her anything about any animal and she would be able to tell you. She watched the animal planet channel all the time when she was at home and had access to television.

When she was younger she felt bad for animals and didn't want to eat them, so her parents told her that hamburgers grew on trees, just like apples did. When she found out the truth she was really upset so her parents let her become a vegetarian.

She stayed a vegetarian until she got her Hogwarts letter. Lily knew that at a boarding school it would be hard to find food without meat in it. She wrote a letter back on the owl that had been sent to her, even though at the time she didn't understand it, the whole owl matter that is. So on her first day, after she had been sorted she was to be escorted up to the hospital wing by professor McGonagall, so she could take a withdrawal potion so that she could eat meat without getting sick.

She had to go up and take that potion every night for a week. The first day she just kinda sat and stared at the chicken on her plate like it was an enemy. She took little bites, and eventually she could eat meat again, but she always felt slightly guilty when she did.

The reason she ended up taking Care of Magical Creatures was because of her love of animals. That was her little secret, the one about her being vegetarian when she was younger, she didn't tell anyone because she knew what they would think. She also didn't know if any other wizards were vegetarian, so she knew she would feel lonely. But she still ate vegetarian at home.

It remained had remained one of her favorite classes ever since she had started taking it in her third year.

After class was over, Lily looked at her magical planner to see that she didn't have any homework. This had to have been the first time since practically first year! She checked it over again, and sure enough everything had been finished that was due.

She asked James if the same was true for him, he thought about it for a moment and then realized that like Lily he didn't have any either.

"I don't" he exclaimed happily "I thought you would, because you are pretty good about doing your schoolwork" she said happily.

Lily grabbed his hand and pulled him up to Gryffindor Tower, than she ran up to her dormitory. James who had no idea what was going on confusedly plopped himself down in one of the elaborate gold and red chairs and waited. About five minutes later she returned with two pairs of figure skates.

"I borrowed Sirius's figure skates, I don't think he will mind, I'm going to teach you how to ice skate!" James was slightly doubtful of Lily, but figured it was a great way to spend time with her so he agreed. They walked down to the lake, which was now completely frozen over, arm in arm.

Lily pulled on her skates and motioned for him to do the same so he slowly did. By then Lily was standing by his side waiting, she pulled him up by his hand and stepped onto the lake and started gliding easily.

She skated backwards while James skated forwards, Lily holding both of his hands, to make sure he didn't fall.

"I'm getting a little tired, can I try skating by myself?" James asked "Yeah no problem, here I'm going to let go now" and she did, at that exact second James lost his balance and toppled over. He slowly got up, rubbed his bum, and opted for slowly skating to the side of the lake to watch Lily.

Lily went out into the middle of the lake and did a double axle then a triple axle, then she skated around with her leg up in the air for a while. Then she did a few twirls then skated back to James partly because she was tired, and partly because she hadn't done those sorts of tricks for quite sometime and her legs were slightly sore.

"Where did you learn to do that?" James asked with awe "I learned when I was younger, I used to do figure skating, but I had to quit because I broke my ankle, truthfully I've been itching to go ice skating on the lake ever since my first winter here at Hogwarts." She revealed, when she was younger she was a really talented person, she still was but she really did have a talent for muggle things.

James laughed and stared into the beautiful emerald green eyes of the girl he loved 'she's the one I want to spend the rest of my life with' he thought to himself. Lily saw James grinning at her and she sent him a grin back that made shivers go up and down his spine.

They headed back up to the castle, content as ever and really happy. "Hey lovebirds snap out of it! We're going to have a snow ball fight, boys against girls" Sirius called happily. And their dazed fun was interrupted by Lily being hit straight in the ear with a snowball. "Hey that's cold" she yelled and started plowing them right back at Sirius.

"Oh it's on" James yelled an hurled one at an unexpecting Natasha who was tying the laces on her boot. She got up and started chucking snowballs at James. Before the nine friends knew it, it was war.

"Lets burry James in snow" Lily yelled to her best friends she ran up to James and started snogging passionately and they fell to the ground. Slowly while they were still snogging Lily started burying him in snow, it wasn't until she pulled away he realize there was snow all over him. As she held him to the ground her fellow companions covered every inch of him except his head with snow so he could breathe. Then they headed back up to the castle laughing at their win, and at the boys defeat; leaving Sirius, Remus, and Peter to tend to the unexpecting James.

When the boys finally made it up to the castle, James was soaked and shaking, he glared at Lily, Natasha, Sienna, Kat and Alice when they walked by giggling. Lily came up to him and gave him a sweet little kiss, and all his anger temporarily melted away. But he soon realized what he was doing and pushed her off of him.

"Lily I can't be mad at you when you kiss me" he whined, and she just laughed at his childishness, "I love you James" she said happily and walked off, and before he could stop himself he called "I love you Lily" then he mentally smacked himself.

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One calm Saturday night, after most people had gone to bed Lily decided that it might be a good time to go 'think' in the diary that James gave her. She didn't feel comfortable doing it in the common room so she decided that she would sneak into the library even though it was closed.

She tiptoed out of the portrait hole and walked down the dark dimly candlelit hallways until she reached the stairs that moved. She waited for one to come to where she was standing, and started walking down it.

She forgot that there was a trick step where the step was gone, and the back of her foot slipped on it. She started sliding down the stairs, down and down she went, and she wasn't physically able to stop, her back was aching and she'd hit her head quite a few times. 'How long do these stairs go on for' she thought miserably. As soon as she hit the bottom she felt an intense pain in her bum, and she couldn't feel her legs. That was the last thing she remembered before passing out.

James and Sirius had gone to the kitchens to get a midnight snack and they left, pockets filled to the brim with everything from chocolate to crumpets to cake. As they headed up the stairway James noticed something that seemed slightly familiar.

A small leather book that had the gold letters engraved on the front "Lily Evans" he whispered "Lumos" and frantically started looking for its owner. Something caught his eye, a bit of glistening red hair that shined under the light of his wand. He ran over to a large heap on the ground that he presumed to be his dear beloved Lily.

She looked horrible there was sweat all over her face and there was a deep gash on the back of her head. She was badly bruised, and she had completely blacked out. By the way she was laying he could tell that she injured her low back area. Her legs seemed to have no sort of function what so ever, she was not in good shape to say the least.

"Oh my gosh, Lily, please be breathing, please be alive, don't die on me now, I love you too much!" James cried, and he listened against Lily's chest for a heart beat and breathing, it was slow but he could hear them, and for a second he just laid on her listening to her heartbeat, but then he realized that if she were conscious she would probably slap him right then because of where his head was lying. He also realized this when Sirius said "Uh mate, as tempting as it is I'm going to ask you to move your head and get her to the hospital wing, I'll go with you."

Then he went into paranoid mode, he picked Lily up and she groaned, so he moved his hand and started running to the hospital wing, Sirius was by his side holding Lily's diary. They brought her in, and laid her in one of the beds and Sirius ran to get Madame Pomefry.

"Move aside, move aside" Madame Pomefry ordered James, and he had no choice but to obey so he stepped aside "well she's out cold" Madame Pomefry said decisively, "obviously" James muttered.

Madame Pomefry examined every inch of Lily, and asked James and Sirius to leave when she was examining the 'lower areas.' When they came back in she told them what she had figured out.

"Lily has broken her tailbone really badly and it is twisted to the side, fractured her skull, and hurt her back; she did a pretty good job with this fall, I don't expect her to wake up for quite a few days, and I'm going to heal her right now."

She preformed a few spells and the gash disappeared, her broken tailbone was fixed, and her skull was healed, but there wasn't much they could do for her back. Madame Pomefry said it would heal with time. And then she shooed them and told them that they really should be getting to bed as it was past 1:00 pm.

They did go back to their dormitories, but sleeping was a completely different matter. James was so worried about Lily and what this would do to her. He lay there for who knows how long until he drifted off late at night, and woke up early.

"Ugg I feel sick" he muttered because he had gotten so little sleep and he was still so worried about the one he loved "I'm going back to bed" and that's exactly what he did. He slept late into the afternoon until he felt himself being shaken awake. "Prongs wake up, Lily's getting worse!"

James jolted out of bed and ran down the stairs and was halfway through the portrait hole when he heard Sirius's voice behind him. "Umm prongs forgetting something" Sirius asked, holding up James's clothes. All the girls in the common room were suddenly drooling, James looked down to see himself shirtless and in boxers. "Oh crap" he muttered and dashed up back to his dormitory, threw on his clothes and walked back down. "I preferred you when you were shirtless" one girl yelled flirtatiously, and they all agreed as he hurried out of the common room.

He hurried up to the hospital wing, and rushed to Lily's side. She looked the same as he had seen her last night, but minus the gash on her head. He just gazed at his perfect Lily flower, and wondered why things like this always seemed to happen to him and his friends, and worst of all his loved ones.

She laid there motionless, except for really slow breathing that was hardly visible. "She's worse?" James asked Madame Pomefry, she just nodded "Lily's breathing is becoming scarce, I figured out when she broke her tailbone she lost all feeling in her legs because the nerves in her low back were messed up. Hopefully when she awakes I will be able to give her a potion to make them better, but until then there is absolutely nothing I can do." She said in a monotone sort of voice, she the mood in the hospital wing was definitely melancholy.

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Lily landed on this snow filled area. 'What happened to me?' she thought furiously, but the worst part was that she just couldn't remember, she couldn't remember anything. She started walking and took in her surroundings. She was in a valley, surrounded by snow capped mountains that were covered with trees. It would have been a great place to go skiing, if she had any idea where she was.

Suddenly she saw smoke in the mountains. She trudged though the rough weather, the snow was almost waist deep. In the distance she could hear voices that sounded slightly familiar but she just couldn't put a finger on what they came from but she would here things like 'I can't believe your not going to do anything', and the voices sounded really familiar but she just couldn't remember to whom they belonged.

There was a huge snowstorm going on, but instead of being normal sized snowflakes they were giant, almost a foot in size. 'Well no wonder the snow is so deep, with snowflakes like these it makes sense' Lily muttered to herself as she slowly traveled towards the smoke that she could see.

Finally after a ton of walking Lily could make out a small wooden cabin surrounded by trees that had mini lights on them, which really reminded Lily of muggle Christmas. She slowly approached the house.

Once she got there she knocked with a big door knocker, and a small old woman opened up. "Hello deary, and what would your name be? I'm January, how nice to meet you it is, come in come in out of the cold, sit down, have a cup of tea and some cookies. Lily walked into the small but quite cozy little home.

"So what is your name?" January asked Lily with interest "I'm Lily, Lily Evans" replied Lily with a smile; she wasn't sure weather to trust this lady. But she still walked in, sat down and helped herself to some cookies. "Now how did you come to be here?" January asked with curiosity.

"I- I don't remember, I don't remember anything…" Lily said, her voice sounded troubled "Here try to remember the name of one of your friends, maybe a loved one perhaps" suggested January helpfully. "January, I've been hearing these voices, but I don't know who they belong to, what is happening to me?"

"Those are people who are trying to talk to you in your other state of mind" replied January calmly "other state of mind?" Lily asked with confusion "yes dear, the reason you are here is because something happened, something that I can't explain, but something isn't right where you are supposed to be, so when you can't be there you come here. "So am I dead?" she asked slightly scared "no you're not dead, you just aren't conscious" January tried to explain.

"Look January I can't remember anything, and I want to go home, I want to know the names of my friends, I want to know where I live for God's sake!" Lily exclaimed and January just nodded, "I'm not really supposed to give you this, but I think that you are special, so I am going to give you a cookie that will help you to remember everything, and then you can tell me." Lily just nodded, and January went over to a shelf and went on tiptoe and got out a dusty old box and pulled out a cookie about the size of Lily's palm.

"Eat the whole cookie in two to three bites then you can tell me everything" Lily nodded and took her first bite, it was delicious, probably one of the best cookies that she had ever had. As soon as she finished it she felt like she was going to pass out because of the amount of memories that came floating into her head.

"James, Sirius, Natasha, Sienna, Alice, Frank, Dumbledore, Mum, Dad, Peter, Remus, and Kat" She said out loud, her mind was just beginning to comprehend how much she missed her friends. "Oh so you know Sirius, I wasn't sure if you were the same Lily… I had to feed him a similar cookie, just a few weeks ago" recognition coming onto January's face, and she smiled at Lily. Lily burst into tears, she never knew she could miss people so much, but she did, it was like homesickness, but it was dimension sickness, because she was in a completely opposite universe.

"Well thank you so much for your time! And thank you for helping me find myself, I really have had a good time, but I need go back home." Lily told January and January nodded understandingly. Lily stepped out the door and disappeared, just where she had been standing there was a giant snowflake, and January picked it up and threw it up and into the air so Lily became just another ad in, to the large area of snow. January would miss the spunky little redhead, but she always knew that someone new would come soon.

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After another five days Lily started to show signs of waking up, there would be times when she would open and close her hand, or her breathing would become faster, or she would roll over in her deep sleep. The biggest sign of all though was when her eyes slowly fluttered open.

Lily felt horrible, like she was going to be sick, and that she did, as soon as she was done vomiting she felt much better. Her back hurt horribly and she tried to stand up, but couldn't and that was when she realized that she couldn't even feel her legs.

She laid back down and called for Madame Pomefry, the busy woman came hurrying into the room and exclaimed "goodness your awake, now let me get your potion so you will be able to feel you own legs" and with that she left the room. About five minutes later Madame Pomefry came back and Lily asked what had happened, and she got a fairly extensive answer that told her mostly that she fell down many stairs.

She looked at the end of her bed to see a large assortment of sweets and treats that wonderfully nice people had left her, and she could see that her friends had helped her eat some of the because of the half eaten bags of bertie botts every flavored beans and other delicious lollies.

And she also saw a sweet note that was by her bedside from James. It read:

To my dearest Lily flower,

I'm so sorry about what happened, and I want you to know that I will always be there for you, because I love you with all my heart. I am so worried about everything that has happened to all of us, and it really teaches you to be appreciative of what you care about, and I really care about you and I would die if you died. I absolutely appreciate you and I love you with all my heart and soul, and I will be there for you forever and always.

Love always,

James Potter

Her eyes filled with tears, as she came to realize the truth, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with James.

Ok pumpkin pie to all of my beautiful reviewers! Thank you so much, and tell me what you think! Did you like the idea about the alternate universe? I actually did fall down 5 stairs this week, but luckily I only bruised my tailbone. Did you love it, absolutely hate it? Tell me, and I'm open for ideas! So send them to me, with what you think should happen! Tell me what you are interested in seeing, k? Talk to yall l8r!