A/N: Hello my dearies! Well the trip was amazingly fun and I had written a good outline in July and then my laptop crashed on me. It was very aggravating. I'm sorry guys but I finally got my laptop back. Also this chapter gave me some grief when I began writing it…more at the end.
Disclaimer: Blahh it's JK Rowling's!
Chapter 13 of After the Quidditch Game
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Lily walked to her room quickly and shut the door behind her thinking fervently. Could it be perhaps that she was just jumping to conclusions? Was this some sort of ploy from Lucius Malfoy to tear her away from James and make her feel isolated from him? It probably wouldn't be the first time in Lucius's life that he screwed with other people's lives.
She rubbed her eyes hard with the back of her hand and then thought of the next pondering question of this 'special' power that would be of an advantage to Voldemort? What kind of power did she have was the million dollar question.
Lily sighed and sat down at her desk looking into the mirror. Her emerald eyes were standing out considerably in her pale white face and they had a betrayed almost broken look to them. She grabbed a brush and pulled it through her hair roughly not feeling the way the bristles began to tear at her scalp.
Finally the brush hit a sensitive spot and she threw it to the floor with a scowl. Suddenly she stood up and looked off through the window thinking. It could be true that Lucius was bull shitting her and it could also be very well that there was some truth to the snaky letter her sent her. Maybe she just got a little too dramatic when she read the letter.
Lily breathed in deeply and promised to herself that she would mention it toJames tonight…sometime. There would be plenty of time for that to happen.
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"Ohh sexy Lily! James is gonna be following you around like a lost puppy." Julia said with a playful grin as she stood behind her friend while they looked into the long mirror.
Lily was wearing snug faded jeans along with a dark green shimmery tube top. On her feet she was wearing a sleek pair of black high heels. Her hair was falling down straight and a few bangs were falling into her face. Julia had got her to wear a bit more makeup than usual so her eyes had the smoky brown look bringing out the beauty from her emerald orbs and she had sheer lipgloss.
Lily smiled back at Julia and then moved off to inspect Elissa. Her long blonde hair was done up in dramatic bouncy curls and she had bright red lipstick on. Her brown eyes just had a light shade of tan eye shadow to make them softer looking. She had on a short tight black mini dress. She had red sparkly stilettos on her feet accentuating the outfit. She would definitely draw the eye of her boyfriend.
Surprisingly Julia was wearing a quite simple outfit. She had a dark demin mini skirt and a dark purple halter-top that had a round clip at the chest emphasizing that area. She had big silver hoops in her ears and her favorite purple high heels. She had done her makeup elaborately with wild bright shades of purple and soft pinks. Julia just put on a simple gloss and then smiled at her two friends.
"Let's go party nay?" Julia asked with a flirty smile.
"Alright." Elissa said with a grin of her own.
Lily just smiled and pulled on her poofy dark maroon jacket.
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"Wonder where they are?" Lily asked as she glanced around the large room of the club.
"Yeah…man it's big in here." Elissa said with awe as she looked around herself.
The girls had headed off to the club after they apparated near the place. Julia had managed to get passes from the manager who knew her from the musical she was in. Luckily they had all gotten passes and so she gave the other three passes to James to pass them along.
Now that they had gotten in pass through the super huge long lineups they peered through the dancers who had just begun to go on the floor. Lily nodded for the two girls to follow her so they could explore the club and look for James, Sirius and Remus at the same time. Elissa's boyfriend was coming later on since they had only gotten to the club at 8pm.
The club consulted of one huge dance floor but there was an upstairs with a railing. You could go up on the neon colored stairs to look or sit down in the comfortable plush chairs around separate tables to put your drinks on. The bar was upstairs but there was a mini one downstairs as well.
There was a huge disco ball on the ceiliong in the middle that reflected light into millions of diamonds brazing the floor. Big neon colored bouncers were rolling over the surface of the milling dancers on the floor. Loud techno dance music was blasting from the huge speakers on all of the walls.
It was dark but light enough to make out faces. Lily smiled saucily to a dark haired male who was standing over with a group of his friends. She felt laughter bubble up inside herself as he winked at her. Tonight was going to be an adventure all right with lots of drama as well.
Lily felt a tug on her arm and she turned to see Julia nodding where James and Sirius were walking towards them. Oddly enough Remus wasn't there and she knew he had been planning on coming. Wonder where he is she thought to herself.
Lily gulped as she eyed James up. His black hair was messily arranged as usual and he was wearing a pair of slightly loose dark demin jeans that complimented his long lean legs. He had a simple brown polo shirt that accented his deep set stormy hazel eyes. He sent her a soft smile watching her closely.
Sirius sent her a quirky grin and she noted that he was wearing gray slacks with a navy blue vintage shirt that had swirly white writing on it that she couldn't make out. His silky black hair was falling elegantly in his face and playing up his seductive grey eyes. Indeed they both looked very… nice.
Lily returned Sirius's smile but only let her eyes catch James. He was watching her with a thoughtful expression in his eyes and she knew that he knew something was up.
They finally walked over and soon all five of them were standing together and talked for a bit. The guys had never met Elissa so they chatted with her for a bit. Finally Julia spoke up when a really groovy tune started blasting from the speakers.
"Where's Remus?" Lily asked with curiousity.
"Umm...poor old Remus wasn't exactly feeling good tonight so he told us to go on without him. Of course we had to listen to him." Sirius said with a grin but Lily could tell there was something else more important but she didn't question it.
"C'mon girls let go dance!" Julia pulled Elissa and Lily's hand to follow her as she made her way out to the middle of the dance floor where hundreds of other people were dancing. Lily felt herself soar inside and she began dancing to the beat of the song with her two girls.
"Something happen between you and James?" Elissa shouted over the loud music.
Lily looked at Julia and Elissa who were both watching her carefully. Obviously they knew that something just wasn't right with her and James.
Lily shrugged nonchalantly not really feeling like divulging the whole thing at that point. "No not really. Just regular stuff."
"Well if it goes from regular stuff to serious stuff tell us k?" Julia said with a soft caring smile. Lily nodded feeling a lump go up inside of her slowly but she swallowed fiercely.
"Sure." Lily said with a grin of her own.
The three of them danced together for a while just having fun and letting themselves go like they had when they were teens at the dances stuffy old Beauxbatons would hold.
Strong hands came up behind her and they found her waist and slowly got the rythum to her dancing along with her body. Elissa quirked her eyebrows and Julia let out a tinkling laugh and turned to dance with Elissa. Lily felt the person take her hand in his big one and she felt him lean down and whisper in a husky voice.
"Wanna go get a drink?"
Lily let out a sardonic laugh and said, "I don't usually accept drinks from men I don't know."
The guy let out a deep voice chuckle that made the hairs on her back stand up and he said, "Don't worry, I'm a good boy."
Lily finally turned around tired with the one sided conversation it felt like she was having. She liked to see the person's face with whom she was talking to. She had to look up to see his face since he was so tall. The young man had coal black hair and green eyes that she almost found herself lost in. He had a very strong looking physique and she smiled as he sized her up close as well. This was ironically the guy whoshe had seenwhen she entered the club.
"I'm Ryland." He said with his deep voice.
Lily quirked her eyebrows and said, "Just Ryland?"
"Yep." Ryland said with a chuckle.
"Alright. I'm just Lily." Lily said with her lips pursed in a flirtatious way.
"So you wanna go get a drink with me?" Ryland asked nodding up the balcony way.
"Sure. I'll meet you up there." Lily said and then she disappeared in between the dancing people looking for her friends.
Lily pushed her way through people and then stopped. Was it out of revenge that she was going up to drink with this guy that she had just met? She had already reasoned with herself not to jump to conclusions and that it was bloody Lucius Malfoy writing to her.But another part of Lily reasoned with her saying that it was very plausible being the truth. Julia had mentioned it a few months back the very idea that James could have been asked to come find her.
Lily pushed her way out and felt her stomach drop as she saw James all over a girl over to the side. She was dancing up very closely to him. She squinted up over to where he was and then with a toss of her hair she stomped over to where she found Julia dancing with Sirius.
"Lily! Where's your friend?" Julia asked with a grin as she danced with Sirius. Lily felt as if she was in slow motion and then she snapped back. She didn't want to trouble her friend so she nodded her head with a smile then went off to find Elissa but noticed her dancing intimately with a dark haired boy who Lily assumed was her boyfriend.
Lily wrinked her nose in aggravation and then walked briskly up to the balcony where Ryland was sitting down at the bar looking out towards the dance floor. When his gaze fell on her he grinned at her handsomely. She smiled back and sat next to him.
"What d'you want to drink?" Ryland asked with vigor.
"Whatever you're having." Lily said without much enthusiasm as her thoughts strayed to where James had been dancing with that girl.
Ryland grinned to himself viciously but Lily didn't notice. "You heard the lady, Joe. Two of my usual."
Lily turned around and took the drink that Ryland handed her eagerly. The substance burned down her throat as her eyes watered as she drank it. Trying to smile at Ryland without making it look like a grimace she grabbed his hand and nodded at him to follow her to the floor.
Making sure she was in a clear distance of James so he would see her dancing with this guy Lily began to dance close to Ryland grinning and feeling slightly odd. Lily looked at Ryland oddly as he danced closely behind her but abruptly sound slide away from her senses and all she could see were bright neon colored lights rolling over her vision. Suddenly black swallowed all of the multi colored lights, Lily's knees buckled and she slid to the floor.
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James scowled as he watched Lily follow some dark haired up the to the balcony areawhere the bar was. He was currently dancing with some really pretty dark haired girl but he nodded to her and then disappeared out off to the lounging area. When he squeezed past all the dancers he pulled a hand frustratingly through his hair growling under his breath.
What was Lily onto? He knew when he had arrived that evening that she wasn't in the best of spirits. Her emerald eyes were usually guarded and unknowing but tonight he had seen that they were raw with hurt and betrayal? He wasn't sure but he knew she had been upset by something before she had come. More importantly though why was she shunning him? Obviously that something that happened before had something to do with him.
James sighed and shook his head in defeat. A familiar voice shook him out of his contemplation and he looked over to see Sirius. "Mate what're you doing? You haven't been doing much dancing tonight. What's up?" Sirius asked James with a hint of worry in his eyes.
"Nothing mate. It's just…have you seen Lily tonight?" James asked Sirius in a depressed voice.
"Yeah a bit. I danced with a few girls that I met tonight and I wanted a dance with her but she had disappeared with Julia or someone." Sirius said in an offhand voice wondering if James REALLY knew where she was.
"I saw her disappear alright, with a bloody nother guy!" James said in a discouraged grumble of his voice.
Sirius sighed and stood back with his hands knotted together on the back of his head looking out into the crowd. James looked out in the crowd as well and he stared up to the balcony area to see if Lily was there. Must've gotten her drink with that guy already he thought darkly to himself.
"Mate that's Lily over there eh?" Sirius asked suddenly in a strange voice and James looked to where Sirius was focusing on. There Lily was dancing in a wobbly sort of way and the dark haired guy had his bloody hands all over her! James made an angry grunt and glared at the couple then he suddenly felt his insides go cold as Lily somewhat pulled herself away from the guy with a dazed look on her face.
"He's got her drugged." James said flatly with anger in his voice. He glided quickly to where she was and began to worry as he watched her walk a bit disoriented. Right when he got to her she collapsed to the floor her emerald eyes not showing that she could see him and he looked at the guy next to him.
The guy made a move to grab Lily but James picked her up bridal style and glared at him coldly. "If I ever find out what the hell you slipped into her drink you'll be sorry you ever did." He said angrily and then swept away from the crowd slowly gathering.
Surprisingly enough Sirius wasn't there when he returned to the spot they were. Turning around he saw that Sirius was off back with the guy telling him off. Suddenly Sirius punched the guy in his jaw and then stalked off angrily with Elissa and Julia following him with shocked looks on their faces.
Once all of them were out of the club James turned to Elissa and Julia with Lily still in his arms passed out. Sirius had managed to fill them in on what the sleezbag back in the club had done to Lily and the two girls did not look happy.
"Look I'm gonna bring Lily back to my apartment with me. I'm good at healing charms and Lily is going to need them when she awakes." James said seriously daring the other three to argue with him. Julia nodded for she trusted James and Sirius shrugged as if knowing his mate would take care of Lily.
Elissa however was a different story. Her jaw was set stubbornly and she was ready for an argument. "Oh you think its best that she went with you huh? How d'you know that Lily might just want to wake up at home in a familiar place and not some unfamiliar place with you there. Correct me if I'm wrong but it didn't look like you two were buddy buddy tonight anyhow."
James let out a frustrated sigh and he said in a hard voice, "Look there's nothing bad going between Lily and I. That idiot back there slipped something in her bloody drink and she's gonna need the healing charms I know."
Elissa opened her mouth to argue some more but Julia broke in quietly. "James is right Liss. Let's go home. She'll be ok but James will make her better. I trust him so that should be good enough for you. C'mon lets go."
"Happy New Years, that's what you muggles say right?" Sirius asked smiling weakly and Julia shook her head with a smile of her own. They gave a wave then it was only James, Lily and Sirius left.
"Mate you coming over tonight?" James asked as he readjusted Lily's form.
"Nah I gotta go help Moody. Woot." Sirius said in a non excited voice and James gave him a sympathetic grin.
"Ah well it could be worse. Anyways I'm going home. See ya Padfoot." James said with a nod.
"Later Prongs."
James placed Lily's form on the huge king bed smiling softly at her hoping she would be okay when she would awaken the next morning. He kissed her on the forehead then slipped of his clothes until he was only clad in his boxers. Sliding underneath the blankets he turned off the light and then let his head hit the pillow peacefully.
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A/N: Man it took me awhile to get the right footing on this chapter. It gave me bloody hell but I finally found my nitch. A couple of revelations next chappie. Hope you're all having a good vacation! REVIEW please! I've got the 14th chapter begun. Tootles.