A/N: Happy New Year to all! Blah blah blah!

CHAPTER 8: BACK TO ZERO

"Lily…" James started.

"Don't dare call me Lily, Potter," she said, advancing towards him.

Kristanna placed her hand on her mouth and went beside Lily. She opened her palm and brown powder filled Lily's nostrils.

"This is not good, James," Kristanna said, placing the sleeping girl on the couch again. "She called you Potter."

"Theories?" Sirius asked his witty fiancé.

Kristanna placed a blanket over Lily's sleeping form and nodded her head. "Many, Sirius, but I consider one fact important," she said. "She lost her memory in the natural way so we cannot do anything magical for her. However, she regained her memory but there's a glitch…"

"What glitch?" James asked her impatiently, shaking her by the shoulders.

"Hey, Prongs, stop doing that!" Sirius yelled. James let go of the Healer as she continued to tell her story.

"Lily Evans, as she remembered it, is a seventh year in Hogwarts…" Kristanna concluded bitterly.

"What?" the three marauders shouted in unison. (a/n: Peter is not there because… well, he's not there. Maybe work or you know…Besides, I hate him.)

Kristanna nodded silently. "James, since she is in seventh year…"

"What part in seventh year?" James asked hopefully.

"I conclude, judging the way she called you, that it was the earlier part, James. The earlier part."

She stopped and looked at Lily while she muttered in her sleep. She leveled her enclosed fist near Lily's face and opened it, releasing yellow powder this time. Lily coughed before opening her eyes. "Kris?" she asked her friend. Kristanna nodded uneasily. She looked around the room and jumped out of bed. "What are those marauders doing here?" she asked Kristanna once again, pointing at the three who backed off the wall.

"Lily, I assume you remember something," Kristanna said, caressing her hair.

"Of course," Lily replied.

"It's different, Lils. You're not in seventh year anymore, you're nineteen years old!" Kristanna burst out before slumping on the bed and sobbing.

"What else do I need to know?" Lily asked her with determination.

"You will be married," Sirius quietly said, edging nearer as though he will be hit by a new Whomping Willow if he went nearer. He tried to soothe her crying fiancé.

"Black? What do you think you're…?" she asked, glaring at the pervert holding her best friend. Kristanna showed hr hand with a silver ring illuminated with a star sapphire in the middle.

"You're engaged to him?" she asked, horribly swallowing the idea.

"You too, Evans," Sirius grumbled.

"Black, what do you…?" she realized that he wasn't lying as she felt a golden ring on her finger. "Why?" she muttered under her breath, looking at the ring with a shimmering diamond in the middle, lined with rubies. "To whom?" she asked once again.

Under her arms, she heard the muffled voice of Kristanna. "To James Potter," she said, trying to choke her tears to be able to say the name clearly.

"POTTER?" Lily repeated. "Are you crazy or what?"

NCSP (Next chapter sneak preview) (yep, I'm adding a new segment!):

James stood up and looked at the eyes of his best friend. "Padfoot, if one day, Kristanna wakes up and she cannot remember you, what would that feel?"

Sirius could tell that James was serious about this matter. He knew James; serious questions need serious answers. "I would think that my whole world will fall down. But James, I'll have hope because if she really is Kristanna, she would eventually remember me."