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Thank you to everyone who reviewed chapter six!
Sani- I'm glad it made you laugh! I hope you like this next chapter! r/r!
Game and Watch Forever- I hope you've recovered from the image of Sirius dancing/singing to Brittany Spears' song! I hope you like this next chapter! r/r!
Zayne- well, you know what? I never asked you to read this story! If you want action then wait a few chapters after chapter one! I put time and effort into this story and if you don't let the writer take his/her pace on getting to the action then you shouldn't comment on things like that!
Hayley- Thank you! You're so sweet! I'm glad that I captured you correctly. I hope you like this chapter! Thanks for the many compliments!
Jenny- Thank you! I hope you like this next chapter! rr!
Dragix- Yeah, I was going for humor. To answer your question: My sister was listening to the song in my room one night and the idea sort of popped into my head. Sorry I didn't make it clear earlier. r/r!
Chelles- Thank you! I hope you like this next chapter!
Thank you to all of the people I didn't get a chance to mention!
A/N: I once again enforce that you please DON'T review this story saying it's boring or lame, if that's all you have to say then I'd rather not have your review at all! It really ruins my day! I'm really sorry about saying this but it's true. I don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time with this story.
THIS CHAPTER HAS THE ACTION!!!!
Chapter 7 Voldemort Strikes!
"That! Was! So! Much! Fun!" James managed to say.
"Yeah. Who'd have thought that engagement parties could be so much fun?" Remus thought. The boys were back at their flat after they helped the girls rid their apartment of the unwanted trash lying around the floor. It was well past 2 in the morning by the time they fell asleep.
The Girls' Flat
"Thank you girls! Thank you so much!" Lily said. The other two girls in the room just smiled, well Ally smiled, Dasani smirked.
"See! I can throw a good party!" she scoffed.
"I never said you couldn't." Lily pointed out.
Dasani opened her mouth to say something, but she realized that her red headed friend was right. She closed her mouth, grumbled something incoherently, and marched up to her room.
Allison and Lily looked at each other and after a moment, the two of them broke into hysterical laughter.
"YOU LAUGHED FIRST!" they wheezed out between laughs. They stopped laughing and looked at each other. They soon started laughing all over again.
Once they managed to calm themselves. They bid each other a good night and headed for their rooms.
A Week Later
"Lily, I need you to see the patient in room 225. He was hexed and apparently cursed. Bleeding left hand and no bones in his right thumb." Lily's head of department said.
"Sure, Kay. I'll get right to it." Lily said, heading into the room in question. She greeted the wincing man who looked to be no older than 20. He managed to get out a 'hello' and from his accent, she resolved he was French.
"You're going to be in some pain tonight. Re-growing bones isn't pretty. And I can't put a pain relieving charm on it, otherwise your bones might not grow back properly. That bleeding hand of yours won't hurt once it's healed...There! All done." She said.
"Merci! Thank you very much!" (A/N: I don't know if that's how you spell it but I take Spanish not French so cut me some slack.) the man thanked.
Lily walked out of the room and into her office. The minute her door was shut, she was met with a great flash of blinding white light and when she opened her eyes, she saw a letter sitting on her desk, a green letter, sealed with the seal of the Order.
Lily's eyes widened in shock. She opened the letter quickly and felt fear invade her senses. She looked at the clock. 5:30. 'You're almost finished today.' The wizarding clock read. Lily ran out of her office with her wand in her robes.
"Kay, I have to leave early! Family emergency!" Lily exclaimed, almost lying. She apparated away, without waiting for her reply.
With James, Sirius, Allison and Dasani
"Oh, lord!" Allison said when she saw the destruction. Dark marks were hovering over a few of the houses and smoke filled the air. (A/N: just to clear a few things: Dasani and Allison both work at the Ministry, Remus works as the DADA teacher for Professor Dumbledore. Lily works at Mungos and James and Sirius are both Aurors.)
"We need you to go into these houses and capture as many death eaters as you can!" Moody appeared behind them. "Also, if there are any survivors in the houses, bring them to the medical tent and then they'll be questioned. All muggles will have their memories modified. Don't go in without a partner." He instructed.
"The Longbottoms are already here. They over there in that house." He said, pointing to the house he meant.
"Sir, can I please go to the house with the light blue paint and dark blue roof?" Lily asked with a cracking voice. The four wizards jumped, Moody wasn't surprised because he was facing her.
"When did you get here, Lily?" Remus asked.
"We could ask you the same question, Lupin, but now is not the time." Moody said. "Evans, I don't know why you want that specific house, but sure. Be sure to take a partner with you!" he yelled, but Lily was already well on her way over to the house, with her wand out and ready.
"EVANS!" he tried.
"Oh god, Lily!" James said to himself. "That's her parents' house!" he told the others once he was able to recognize the house. He raced after his fiancée.
"Come on, we have to get to the other houses!" Sirius stated. He and Dasani went to one house while Allison and Remus covered another. Scream of pain and despair filled the air as death eaters delivered torment on the innocent muggles.
"SIRIUS! Over here!" Dasani cried. Sirius ran over to where Dasani was standing in the house. There was a small little boy crying over his mother's dead body. "Come here." She comforted the little crying boy. She picked him up in her arms and straightened up.
"We searched the house for any remaining death eaters. The rest of them aren't here. At least we got two. Take the dead body to the tent where they all are being held. He needs treatment." Dasani said. Sirius nodded.
"We have to stay together though. We don't know if we'll run right into trouble." He reminded. She nodded and the two walked out of the house, Dasani holding the boy and her wand at the ready, and Sirius holding his wand and the dead body.
With James and Lily
"LILY!" James yelled, weaving his way through some rubble that fell from the ceiling of the first floor.
"MUMMY! DADDY!" Lily yelled, a little ways ahead of James.
Lily coughed because of the smoke. She finally came into the room that was her parents' room. The sight that met her was one she had hoped she'd never have to see.
"No!" she managed to whisper through the tight knot that had formed in her throat and the tears that had began to cascade down her cheeks at a rapid pace. Just then, the door she came in through collapsed, along with the rest of the wall. Lucky that her parent's bedroom didn't have anything above it, she was safe, but she didn't move from her parents' bodies. They were there, on the floor, covered in blood not moving, not breathing and above all, not living. Lily sat there, crying over her parents' dead bodies.
Meanwhile, James had come across a death eater. "Potter. It seems you've come too late. It was much to much fun to do business in this house. A life for power, or should I say TWO lives for power!" he cackled. James' face contorted in disgust.
"You sick bastard!" he yelled. He waved his wand. "Expelliarmus!" the death eater dodged it and the two were locked in battle.
With Remus and Ally
"Ally, do you know the charm for a make-shift cast? Two of the three people here have broken bones." Remus asked his girlfriend.
"Yeah. Lily taught me." Allison said, muttering the incantation at the two people harboring broken bones.
"The youngest one here had a bleeding forehead, most likely grazed with the Cruciatus Curse." Remus said. "But I already took care of that."
"Wha - Who are you people?" The man asked, he seemed to be in his mid twenties.
"Don't worry about that. We need to get you guys to the tent outside. You can be treated there. We need to evacuate you as quickly and quietly as possible. Is there a certain route you're sure is the safest to get from this house to the end of the street?" Allison asked.
"We can go from the rose bushes in the backyard, those are filled with thorns. We might get cut in the process." The woman said.
"We'll take care of the thorns, you just follow us." Remus said. He helped the two with broken bones up and supported them while Ally held the little girl's hand.
Back With James
"The filthy mudblood is probably crying right about now." He sneered.
For a brief moment, James saw red. "You'll pay! You sick, disgusting scum of the earth! I won't let you get away with all this destruction! You fucking son of a bitch!" (A/N: he's a little mad isn't he?)
"Won't you now?" the death eater asked maliciously.
"Yes...Would you like me to prove it?" James challenged.
"Not now, I'm tired." With that, the death eater disapparated just as James tried to stun him.
James wheezed out, trying to catch his breath as his adrenaline level decreased. 'I wonder if Lily got to the tent.' He walked out of the house.
With Lily In Her Parents' Room
"I have to get help. I can't take Mum and Dad to the tent myself." She said to herself, wiping away her tears. She walked out of the room, jumping through a window to actually get out of the house.
She was walking through her old backyard with her wand at the ready when a voice, an eerie voice said her name from behind her.
"So nice to see you, Evans." It said. Lily slowly turned around to find herself facing the most hated man on the face of her world, Voldemort. Lily's face contorted in anger. It was his fault that her parents were dead. He was to blame. It was because of him.
"You jacking psycho-bitch!" she said, and without thinking, lunged at him, wrapping her hands around his neck, hoping to strangle him.
He just laughed.
"Shut up, Mudblood." He kicked her away. "It's time you learn how to talk to your superiors." He stated, taking his wand out.
"I hope you don't mean yourself!" she shot back.
"Crucio!" he simply said. Lily fell to the floor, screaming in pain. Voldemort laughed a diabolical laugh and took the spell off her. She laid on the floor a minute before she got up, her chest heaving up and down.
"You maniacal thing!" she huffed.
"What? You didn't like the present I gave you? Your parents' eternal peace." He laughed.
"You BASTARD! Shut-" she started, waving her wand, but aurors were popping up everywhere.
"Lily! Don't!" she heard Sirius yell from behind her. She turned her head to see him running towards her. As she diverted her attention to Sirius, Voldemort apparated away.
"Dammit!" Lily cried. But the cruciatus curse Voldemort had cast on her was finally beginning to take its toll on her body. Her knees buckled beneath her and she found herself once again sitting on the grass.
"Lily! Are you all right? We've been looking everywhere for you! James was having a fit!" he said. Lily was crying all over again. It felt like deja vu to her.
"Modify my memory!" Lily told him. He had gotten her into a standing position.
"What?!?" he asked her incredulously. He looked her straight in the eyes.
"'OBLIVIATE' ME!" Lily cried with her eyes tightly shut. Sirius put his hands on her upper arms and shook her slightly.
"Are you mad?" he asked her. Lily refused to look at him.
"You're an auror. You could do it. You could modify my memory." She was still looking at the grass by her feet. Sirius' hands still grasped Lily's upper arms.
"Just because I could doesn't mean I would!" he yelled.
"But you can." She whispered. "You can 'obliviate' me." She finished.
"Why don't you ask James? He's an auror, too! Why? I'll tell you why! Because he won't do it! He'll refuse, just like I am!" Sirius bellowed.
"What is going on, Sirius?" Remus asked, coming over. Lily wriggled out of Sirius' grasp
"Sirius! My parents are in the collapsed part of my old home. Get them to the tent with all the dead bodies." Lily whispered. She started crying harder than before. Remus came up and gave her a hug, allowing her to cry into his robes. Sirius' eyes widened. He nodded and ran off to the house, signaling for another auror to come and help him.
"Obliviate me, Remus." Lily whispered quickly. Remus was surprised to say the least.
"No. I'm not an auror and even if I was I wouldn't do it." he said firmly, leaving no room for argument.
"But you'll do it for me." She said.
"No! I won't! This isn't about me modifying your memory illegally, it's about you! Do you want to forget about who you are? Do you want to forget about Allison, Dasani, Sirius, me, your parents, and above all...Do you want to forget about JAMES? YOUR fiancée!" he roared.
"No." she said quietly.
"Then there's no point in modifying your memory is there?"
"LILY!" James called from behind them. "You're all right!"
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Hey all you lovely people! I hope this was fast enough and long enough for you! I'm going away for two weeks, to a camp for church. I'll bring a notebook with me so I can still write in my spare time and then all I have to do is copy it onto the computer. But school starts three days after I come back so that'll definitely slow down my writing/updating. Toodles! Don't forget to review!
Thanks to the following for putting me on their author alert list: Bakura's Elvin Warrior, Chelles, NotYourAverageLoser, VampireGirl4690, Hpluver4ever, FlamezBlaze, Moshi the Potato Girl and, Surarrin If I forgot you, I'm sorry and you can tell me in a review. I'll be sure to put you in next time!
Also thanks to Hpluver4ever for putting me on their favorites list!
Thank you to everyone who reviewed chapter six!
Sani- I'm glad it made you laugh! I hope you like this next chapter! r/r!
Game and Watch Forever- I hope you've recovered from the image of Sirius dancing/singing to Brittany Spears' song! I hope you like this next chapter! r/r!
Zayne- well, you know what? I never asked you to read this story! If you want action then wait a few chapters after chapter one! I put time and effort into this story and if you don't let the writer take his/her pace on getting to the action then you shouldn't comment on things like that!
Hayley- Thank you! You're so sweet! I'm glad that I captured you correctly. I hope you like this chapter! Thanks for the many compliments!
Jenny- Thank you! I hope you like this next chapter! rr!
Dragix- Yeah, I was going for humor. To answer your question: My sister was listening to the song in my room one night and the idea sort of popped into my head. Sorry I didn't make it clear earlier. r/r!
Chelles- Thank you! I hope you like this next chapter!
Thank you to all of the people I didn't get a chance to mention!
A/N: I once again enforce that you please DON'T review this story saying it's boring or lame, if that's all you have to say then I'd rather not have your review at all! It really ruins my day! I'm really sorry about saying this but it's true. I don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time with this story.
THIS CHAPTER HAS THE ACTION!!!!
Chapter 7 Voldemort Strikes!
"That! Was! So! Much! Fun!" James managed to say.
"Yeah. Who'd have thought that engagement parties could be so much fun?" Remus thought. The boys were back at their flat after they helped the girls rid their apartment of the unwanted trash lying around the floor. It was well past 2 in the morning by the time they fell asleep.
The Girls' Flat
"Thank you girls! Thank you so much!" Lily said. The other two girls in the room just smiled, well Ally smiled, Dasani smirked.
"See! I can throw a good party!" she scoffed.
"I never said you couldn't." Lily pointed out.
Dasani opened her mouth to say something, but she realized that her red headed friend was right. She closed her mouth, grumbled something incoherently, and marched up to her room.
Allison and Lily looked at each other and after a moment, the two of them broke into hysterical laughter.
"YOU LAUGHED FIRST!" they wheezed out between laughs. They stopped laughing and looked at each other. They soon started laughing all over again.
Once they managed to calm themselves. They bid each other a good night and headed for their rooms.
A Week Later
"Lily, I need you to see the patient in room 225. He was hexed and apparently cursed. Bleeding left hand and no bones in his right thumb." Lily's head of department said.
"Sure, Kay. I'll get right to it." Lily said, heading into the room in question. She greeted the wincing man who looked to be no older than 20. He managed to get out a 'hello' and from his accent, she resolved he was French.
"You're going to be in some pain tonight. Re-growing bones isn't pretty. And I can't put a pain relieving charm on it, otherwise your bones might not grow back properly. That bleeding hand of yours won't hurt once it's healed...There! All done." She said.
"Merci! Thank you very much!" (A/N: I don't know if that's how you spell it but I take Spanish not French so cut me some slack.) the man thanked.
Lily walked out of the room and into her office. The minute her door was shut, she was met with a great flash of blinding white light and when she opened her eyes, she saw a letter sitting on her desk, a green letter, sealed with the seal of the Order.
Lily's eyes widened in shock. She opened the letter quickly and felt fear invade her senses. She looked at the clock. 5:30. 'You're almost finished today.' The wizarding clock read. Lily ran out of her office with her wand in her robes.
"Kay, I have to leave early! Family emergency!" Lily exclaimed, almost lying. She apparated away, without waiting for her reply.
With James, Sirius, Allison and Dasani
"Oh, lord!" Allison said when she saw the destruction. Dark marks were hovering over a few of the houses and smoke filled the air. (A/N: just to clear a few things: Dasani and Allison both work at the Ministry, Remus works as the DADA teacher for Professor Dumbledore. Lily works at Mungos and James and Sirius are both Aurors.)
"We need you to go into these houses and capture as many death eaters as you can!" Moody appeared behind them. "Also, if there are any survivors in the houses, bring them to the medical tent and then they'll be questioned. All muggles will have their memories modified. Don't go in without a partner." He instructed.
"The Longbottoms are already here. They over there in that house." He said, pointing to the house he meant.
"Sir, can I please go to the house with the light blue paint and dark blue roof?" Lily asked with a cracking voice. The four wizards jumped, Moody wasn't surprised because he was facing her.
"When did you get here, Lily?" Remus asked.
"We could ask you the same question, Lupin, but now is not the time." Moody said. "Evans, I don't know why you want that specific house, but sure. Be sure to take a partner with you!" he yelled, but Lily was already well on her way over to the house, with her wand out and ready.
"EVANS!" he tried.
"Oh god, Lily!" James said to himself. "That's her parents' house!" he told the others once he was able to recognize the house. He raced after his fiancée.
"Come on, we have to get to the other houses!" Sirius stated. He and Dasani went to one house while Allison and Remus covered another. Scream of pain and despair filled the air as death eaters delivered torment on the innocent muggles.
"SIRIUS! Over here!" Dasani cried. Sirius ran over to where Dasani was standing in the house. There was a small little boy crying over his mother's dead body. "Come here." She comforted the little crying boy. She picked him up in her arms and straightened up.
"We searched the house for any remaining death eaters. The rest of them aren't here. At least we got two. Take the dead body to the tent where they all are being held. He needs treatment." Dasani said. Sirius nodded.
"We have to stay together though. We don't know if we'll run right into trouble." He reminded. She nodded and the two walked out of the house, Dasani holding the boy and her wand at the ready, and Sirius holding his wand and the dead body.
With James and Lily
"LILY!" James yelled, weaving his way through some rubble that fell from the ceiling of the first floor.
"MUMMY! DADDY!" Lily yelled, a little ways ahead of James.
Lily coughed because of the smoke. She finally came into the room that was her parents' room. The sight that met her was one she had hoped she'd never have to see.
"No!" she managed to whisper through the tight knot that had formed in her throat and the tears that had began to cascade down her cheeks at a rapid pace. Just then, the door she came in through collapsed, along with the rest of the wall. Lucky that her parent's bedroom didn't have anything above it, she was safe, but she didn't move from her parents' bodies. They were there, on the floor, covered in blood not moving, not breathing and above all, not living. Lily sat there, crying over her parents' dead bodies.
Meanwhile, James had come across a death eater. "Potter. It seems you've come too late. It was much to much fun to do business in this house. A life for power, or should I say TWO lives for power!" he cackled. James' face contorted in disgust.
"You sick bastard!" he yelled. He waved his wand. "Expelliarmus!" the death eater dodged it and the two were locked in battle.
With Remus and Ally
"Ally, do you know the charm for a make-shift cast? Two of the three people here have broken bones." Remus asked his girlfriend.
"Yeah. Lily taught me." Allison said, muttering the incantation at the two people harboring broken bones.
"The youngest one here had a bleeding forehead, most likely grazed with the Cruciatus Curse." Remus said. "But I already took care of that."
"Wha - Who are you people?" The man asked, he seemed to be in his mid twenties.
"Don't worry about that. We need to get you guys to the tent outside. You can be treated there. We need to evacuate you as quickly and quietly as possible. Is there a certain route you're sure is the safest to get from this house to the end of the street?" Allison asked.
"We can go from the rose bushes in the backyard, those are filled with thorns. We might get cut in the process." The woman said.
"We'll take care of the thorns, you just follow us." Remus said. He helped the two with broken bones up and supported them while Ally held the little girl's hand.
Back With James
"The filthy mudblood is probably crying right about now." He sneered.
For a brief moment, James saw red. "You'll pay! You sick, disgusting scum of the earth! I won't let you get away with all this destruction! You fucking son of a bitch!" (A/N: he's a little mad isn't he?)
"Won't you now?" the death eater asked maliciously.
"Yes...Would you like me to prove it?" James challenged.
"Not now, I'm tired." With that, the death eater disapparated just as James tried to stun him.
James wheezed out, trying to catch his breath as his adrenaline level decreased. 'I wonder if Lily got to the tent.' He walked out of the house.
With Lily In Her Parents' Room
"I have to get help. I can't take Mum and Dad to the tent myself." She said to herself, wiping away her tears. She walked out of the room, jumping through a window to actually get out of the house.
She was walking through her old backyard with her wand at the ready when a voice, an eerie voice said her name from behind her.
"So nice to see you, Evans." It said. Lily slowly turned around to find herself facing the most hated man on the face of her world, Voldemort. Lily's face contorted in anger. It was his fault that her parents were dead. He was to blame. It was because of him.
"You jacking psycho-bitch!" she said, and without thinking, lunged at him, wrapping her hands around his neck, hoping to strangle him.
He just laughed.
"Shut up, Mudblood." He kicked her away. "It's time you learn how to talk to your superiors." He stated, taking his wand out.
"I hope you don't mean yourself!" she shot back.
"Crucio!" he simply said. Lily fell to the floor, screaming in pain. Voldemort laughed a diabolical laugh and took the spell off her. She laid on the floor a minute before she got up, her chest heaving up and down.
"You maniacal thing!" she huffed.
"What? You didn't like the present I gave you? Your parents' eternal peace." He laughed.
"You BASTARD! Shut-" she started, waving her wand, but aurors were popping up everywhere.
"Lily! Don't!" she heard Sirius yell from behind her. She turned her head to see him running towards her. As she diverted her attention to Sirius, Voldemort apparated away.
"Dammit!" Lily cried. But the cruciatus curse Voldemort had cast on her was finally beginning to take its toll on her body. Her knees buckled beneath her and she found herself once again sitting on the grass.
"Lily! Are you all right? We've been looking everywhere for you! James was having a fit!" he said. Lily was crying all over again. It felt like deja vu to her.
"Modify my memory!" Lily told him. He had gotten her into a standing position.
"What?!?" he asked her incredulously. He looked her straight in the eyes.
"'OBLIVIATE' ME!" Lily cried with her eyes tightly shut. Sirius put his hands on her upper arms and shook her slightly.
"Are you mad?" he asked her. Lily refused to look at him.
"You're an auror. You could do it. You could modify my memory." She was still looking at the grass by her feet. Sirius' hands still grasped Lily's upper arms.
"Just because I could doesn't mean I would!" he yelled.
"But you can." She whispered. "You can 'obliviate' me." She finished.
"Why don't you ask James? He's an auror, too! Why? I'll tell you why! Because he won't do it! He'll refuse, just like I am!" Sirius bellowed.
"What is going on, Sirius?" Remus asked, coming over. Lily wriggled out of Sirius' grasp
"Sirius! My parents are in the collapsed part of my old home. Get them to the tent with all the dead bodies." Lily whispered. She started crying harder than before. Remus came up and gave her a hug, allowing her to cry into his robes. Sirius' eyes widened. He nodded and ran off to the house, signaling for another auror to come and help him.
"Obliviate me, Remus." Lily whispered quickly. Remus was surprised to say the least.
"No. I'm not an auror and even if I was I wouldn't do it." he said firmly, leaving no room for argument.
"But you'll do it for me." She said.
"No! I won't! This isn't about me modifying your memory illegally, it's about you! Do you want to forget about who you are? Do you want to forget about Allison, Dasani, Sirius, me, your parents, and above all...Do you want to forget about JAMES? YOUR fiancée!" he roared.
"No." she said quietly.
"Then there's no point in modifying your memory is there?"
"LILY!" James called from behind them. "You're all right!"
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Hey all you lovely people! I hope this was fast enough and long enough for you! I'm going away for two weeks, to a camp for church. I'll bring a notebook with me so I can still write in my spare time and then all I have to do is copy it onto the computer. But school starts three days after I come back so that'll definitely slow down my writing/updating. Toodles! Don't forget to review!
