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Ch.27, Once

Remus looked at her with a gleeful expression. "Really?"

"Of course! Did you really think I'd say no? I love you!" Len said, still in his arms. They broke apart so Remus could put the ring on her finger. Then they had a nice kiss.

They headed in, and saw that they had absolutely no attention.

"Wait a moment, I want to go drive the girls crazy." Len whispered in his ear.

She walked over to her friends, who were at the refreshment table. She had her hands folded to hide her ring. She walked over with a dreamy expression that she knew would make the girls ask.

She was right. "Oi, Len! Why are you so happy?" Melissa asked.

"Isn't someone allowed to be happy?" she answered back, still dreamy.

"Not when we don't know why! Spill!" Lily mock-scolded.

"Hmmm..." Len said, pretending to think.

"Come on! What happened?" Marlene asked.

Len continued to think, while Remus was watching with a smile on his face.

About five minutes passed, and Len was still driving them nuts.

"Come on Len, spill! Or else we're going to have to think that you did something!" Melissa said in a teasing voice.

"Do you guys like alliterations?" Len asked, still examining her nails.

The girls stared. "What on earth does that have to do with the topic at hand?" Lily asked.

Then, Len decided to hold up her hand that had the ring. "What do you guys think of Len Lupin?"

The girls stared, then shrieked. This made the boys look over at their girlfriends, after Remus had told them that he proposed the her. They were congratulating him, and then they heard their girlfriends/friends shrieking, and knew that they had been told too.

Then, Len got completely crushed by three very excited girls giving her a bone-crushing hug. Then, when Len convinced them that a normal human does need oxygen, Melissa started chanting, "I won the bet! I won the bet! 10 galleons to me! 10 galleons to me!"

But then Remus made the mistake of coming over. The girls all gave him bone-crushers too. Then, Len saved her fiance from the wrath of her friends when they were excited.

The night continued, with the girls marching Len and Remus up to the small stage to announce their engagement. Everyone congratulated them, but really Remus and Len wanted to be alone.

However, it was past midnight, and the couple found out that midnight had struck the very same moment that Remus proposed. (cliche, I know but I like them) So people were starting to drift off. Remus and Len finally got some alone time and walked out into the garden. Len's head rested on Remus' shoulder, and neither could be more content. (awww)

The next day Len left for Hogwarts early to escape her friends coming over in the early hours of the morning to start planning. She thought that it was ironic that her friends acted more excited than she did.

She entered the class in a very good mood. She sat at her desk while the classroom filled up, and when everyone was quiet she stood up.

"Now before we start the class, you should start calling me Professor Lupin. I got engaged last night, and I will not be keeping the name Candel. (cheers from the JM) Thank you. Now quill away please, and turn to page thirteen where you will find instructions to the Impediment Jynx. Read through it for about twenty minutes, then we will move the desks and practice it." Len instructed, and hid behind a book that had a bridal magazine behind it.

Throughout the day, other Professors walked into the class to give her their congrats and well-wishes. During lunch, she quickly Flooed home, to write a letter to her parents. She was very glad that they liked Remus.

A few days later, just as she started her class, Professor McGonnalge came in, and whispered something in Len' ear. The JM looked on as she got a horrified expression on her face, and whispered something back.

"Homework: practice the Impediment jynx. Class dismissed, don't get into trouble." she said before practically running out of the room, leaving a very confused class.

"What was that all about?" Rob asked.

"Something bad. Did you see the look on her face?" Cody said.

"We have a free period, why don't we follow her?" Zach asked.

"I don't know, she told us not to get into trouble..." Rob said.

"Yeah, but we all know she wasn't talking about us, remember how she helped up with the map and Filch?" Cody said.

"Come on!" Zach said as he scooted into a corner and took out the map. They saw her walking very fast with McGonnagle and Dumbledore down the steps on their way to what looked like Hogsmead. They took a quick passageway to cut her off at the Entrance Hall.

They hid behind one of the hourglasses and watched her leave. They overheard a snippet of conversation.

"...how many?" Len asked.

"...didn't have time to count. About 20..." McGonnagle answered.

"...are on their way I assume?" that was Dumbledore.

That was all they heard before the door closed. The boys quickly followed. They had to jog to keep up as Hagrid joined them. The boys got slightly worried at how they all (minus Hagrid) had their wands out, and were acting very serious. As they got closer they heard more.

"How were you able to get James, Sirius, Lily and Melissa out of Auror class? It will surely create suspicion if they leave, and... are seen...?" Len was asking Dumbledore.

"I have my ways. Now we must make haste, before any of the... are... ." he answered.

They couldn't hear any more since the January wind carried the words out of range. Soon they arrived at the gates, and the teachers walked through, followed by the JM.

The boys froze as they saw the scene at Hogsmead. There were dead bodies everywhere. They looked around and saw that their teachers had hid. They did so behind the nearest building. Loud pops were heard as many more people apparated in. The boys looked around the corner and saw The Marauders, Len's friends, and several wizards that they didn't know. They inched forward, but before they did, they saw all the wizards look in the direction that they had last seen Len in, and out came an owl.

The owl was obviously trained to spy on whoever was their enemy, because it flew to the largest building on the street. It landed on the windowsill, and the people inside didn't take any notice of it. It flew back, and they thought that it landed. They sneaked forward a bit, and heard what their teacher was saying.

"At least fifty... 25...I'd guess. All of them are... No way to take them in the building, to squished." They heard her report.

"Len, camcorder?" an old grouchy person asked.

They didn't hear anything else, so they guessed that she had nodded. They heard their Headmaster next.

"10 of us go over there... curse, and... them. You lot come with me to get... . But first we'll need a good 40 of them out. We need a big distraction. James, have you by any chance got any Filibuster's Fireworks with you?" he said.

While the boys were wondering what was going on, they heard rummaging and a "yep." Soon, Dumbledore was speaking again.

"You six come out as soon as Marlene gives the signal. Stay hiding until then. I'll help with the distraction. The moment enough... are out of the building, race in, take care of the rest, and help the... . Now set the Fireworks if you please James."

He did so, because the moment later there was a large bang. Actually, make that several large bangs. They heard running, and looked around the corner again. They froze.

10 Death Eaters had ran out of the building. They had their wands out, and saw the people sending Reductor curses at the street and them. They ran and started dueling. Then, more fireworks went off, and countless more ran out.

After some more distractions, the JM saw the Marauders and the girls run into the building. They decided, after much debate from Rob, that they would follow them and see if they could help.

NORMAL POV

As the group raced into the building, they immediately started dueling the DEs. Nobody noticed the dark figure watching from the stairs, with red eyes and a body that radiated evil.

Len turned as she heard the door open again. What she saw made her go pale. She ran forward, and pushed the scared boys into a corner.

"What do you think you're doing here? Can't you see it's dangerous? I'm taking you out of here right now. When you get back to Hogwarts, don't tell anybody where you were, and don't tell anybody what you saw! Got it? Good. Come on!" she said very urgently. She grabbed their arms and ran out of the store, and into Honeydukes. She pushed them into the cellar, and ran off. The boys were scared into instant obedience.

But what they didn't hear was the sound of Len getting stunned, and brought back to the building, where the rest of her stunned comrads were, with the rest of the hostages.

The group was all awake, and frowned as they dragged in an unconscious Len. They thought that at least she had been able to escape.

"Sorry guys. I'll explain later." Len said sadly.

But then she noticed something. "Where's Lily?" she asked, but so their guard didn't hear.

"Voldemort took her. James isn't going to be happy when he wakes up." Sirius said darkly. They didn't know what was going on, and that really bothered the group. Lily could be dead for all they know.

Finally, James started to come to. He sat up groggily and was tied up right away.

He looked around the small room that they had been stuffed in, and his eyes widened as he realized who was missing. "Where's Lily?" he asked his friends.

"Voldemort took her. We... don't know what has happened." Sirius told him.

James' face paled. "W-What? He took her? Why? Only Dumbledore can tell stuff about the Order." James said, downcast.

They heard a distant scream. This made James' ears perk up, and he said he recognized that scream as Lily's.

They all looked at Len as if she was crazy when she smiled.

"Well, that means that she's alive!" she said.

This made James perk up. After making sure they weren't being watched, Melissa and Len transformed and slipped out of their ropes. They untied the others, and Remus used a hairpin from Len to open the door. The DE hadn't bothered to lock it with magic, because they didn't have their wands with them anyway. So, with a distinct feeling of dejaveiw, they crept out of the room, down the hall, and opened the door a crack.

They came into a sort of lounge. A green carpet led up to a throne-like chair. And sitting on it was a person with red slit eyes, and gave off a feeling of evil and fear. He had his wand out and it was pointing at a red-headed girl who was crouched on the floor, screaming in agony.

They all had to control James from bursting in there. Then, Len risked a quick peek at another room. It was a meeting room, just like the one from before, and there were their wands. But the problem was, there were 5 DEs in the room too. They had convinced James that running in there unarmed was stupid. Len, the smallest, crept in, and was glad that the DEs were in the middle of a very loud game of Exploding Snap. She quickly grabbed their wands, and ran out. Luckily they were playing to much to notice.

So, they had their wands, now all they needed was Lily. They opened the doors again, and heard what he was saying to her.

"I'm getting tired of this game. Tell me what I want to know, or else I'll kill that boyfriend of yours." Voldemort said with a sneer.

"And I keep telling you that I don't know! Or is it not reaching that thick skull of yours?" Lily shouted back.

"Crucio." Lily tried hard not to scream as the white hot knives stabbed her all over. But she failed miserably. As she screamed, James felt himself losing control again. The others saw this, and quickly made a plan.

Just as Voldemort was about to call for someone to take her back to the room and bring Potter, a Reducto curse sped through the room and hit his chair. It turned to dust. But he had stood up just in time, but was slightly slowed down by tons of stunners sent his way.

James ran to Lily and picked her unconscious form up lightly. Her wand was in his pocket with his. He ran out, but not before feeling a desire to go back and bow before him. A snakelike voice in his mind told him to, but a voice that sounded like his own said 'No! You have to get Lily out of here!' He realized that he was under the Imperious Curse. His friends saw his struggles and dragged him out.

They heard Voldemort yell for DEs to come, but those who did were to surprised to think much before several stunners were shot at him/her. They ran out of the building, and because of the distance the curse wore off of James, but it had taken such a mental toll that he collapsed from exhaustion.

Sorry it's so short, but I wanted to update before the night was over. It's 11pm here, and I'm tired.