A/N: Hey guys. Sorry for the delays. School's been a bit hectic but I'm grooving in so the updates will hopefully come more smoothly. Ahhh this is one of the last chapters!

Disclaimer: JK Rowling's.

Chapter 18 of After the Quidditch Game

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The spinning began to slow down and then Lily landed on her stomach onto hard wood. She winced as she pushed her glass embedded hand up beneath from her body. Lily shivered slightly as the situation was secured in her mind. She had rashly took the portkey Voldemort had offered to her because she wanted to get some information for the Order to prove her innocence but how on earth was she going to do that? She would be lucky if she got out of this little escapade alive.

"Mmrph." A mumbled noise came out from behind Lily and cold seized her insides. She turned around swiftly her hand grasping her wand tightly.

"Lisa?" Lily asked incredulously as she recognized the bound woman in slumped up in the corner. Lisa's hands were bound behind her and there were tight ropes wound across her legs. Someone had shoved some cloth in her mouth.

Without even thinking of what she was doing Lily bolted to the corner and began to untie the cord around her wrists. Lily shook her head disgustedly at the sore red welts on Lisa's wrists and ankles. Once she had freed Lisa's legs she pulled out the cloth from her mouth.

Lily conjured a glass of water for the parched woman and waited for her to drink it and speak when she got her voice back.

"I'm so sorry." Lisa said with a crackly voice and a sob broke her voice.

Lily's face broke out in a watery smile and she nodded. She hoped that this wasn't a trick or a not so meaningful apology that Petunia had always used to tell Lily when she had took something of hers or called her a particularly nasty name. But Petunia would always continue to say the same things and take Lily's things.

Lily waited for Lisa to explain her state.

Lisa shifted to her other side and pulled a shaky hand through her dank blonde hair. She took a deep breath then said, "He scammed me. He told me taking these pictures would make me feel so much better about everything but it didn't. Then he knocked my out and brought me here."

"Make you feel better about what?" Lily asked quietly.

Lisa let a sardonic laugh. "About all the shit that I wrote about you in the Prophet before any of this. He said I had buried myself too far for redemption and you would never forgive me."

Lily raised her eyebrows at the sudden change of attitude Lisa had towards her. "You wanted me to forgive you? Since when did you ever wanted to be on okay terms? You never liked me in Beauxbatons and I knew you would be jumping up and done in glee from the position you were at the Prophet to spread stories about me. You definitely did not want me with the prized Quidditch plater James Potter."

Lisa looked away from Lily and into space. "You find things out… and you just realize some people are meant for each other."

"What'd you find out about me and James? I'm pretty sure he hates my guts now." Lily said bitterly.

"You'll soon find out. I'm not allowed to say anything." Lisa said with a sigh.

"That's a first that Lisa doesn't spill." Lily said jokingly. Lisa rolled her eyes and cracked a smile.

"So do you forgive me?" Lisa asked quietly.

"It's gonna take awhile but for now yeah." Lily said with a smile.

A door swung open loudly and it rebounded off the wall with a loud smack. There stood Lord Voldemort his eyes flaming with fury and Lucius was on his tail looking wary.

"I see you've come Ms Evans." Voldemort said coldly and Lily felt the hairs on her necks rise up.

"Yes I did." Lily said quietly and she proudly met the eyes of Lord Voldemort. His crimson red ones narrowed at her emerald ones and they seemed to fight for control until Voldemort broke the stare off and smiled tightly.

Lucius however sneered at the two of them and said, "Long time no see Evans."

Lily stood up her abruptly her wand in the air but Voldemort merely said with a yawn, "Expelliarmus."

Her wand flew from her hand to Voldemort's and she swallowed a lump in her throat beginning to feel panicky.

"I daresay, do we need Ms Spangeil any longer?" Voldemort asked Lucius with a cold smile and Lucius caught on to Voldemort's train of thought.

Lily did too for she suddenly grasped Lisa's hand. "Don't you dare." Lily said in a straight even voice though she hardly felt it in the inside.

"Ah but this is what happens Ms Evans. You see we use them as our bidders and then we dispose of them when they are no longer needed." He said with a cold laugh.

He raised up his wand arm but Lily stood in front of Lisa.

"No you will not!" Lily said and she could hear Lisa begin to sob in the background.

Lucius was suddenly there with his wand and Lily felt her body lift in the air and slam into the wall with a giant crash. The wind was knocked out of her body but that did not stop her ears from hearing what came next to the sobs of Lisa.

"Avada Kedavra." Voldemort's cold voice hissed out, snakelike and a bright green light erupted from his wand and hit the girl.

Lily felt the air woosh even farther back from her lungs as she looked at the now lifeless eyes of Lisa. Her eyes had a somewhat scared yet surprised look to them.

Voldemort smirked and then walked out of the room before slamming it shut with Lucius following in tow.

Lily hauled herself over to where Lisa was, her left leg smarting from all of her body weight crushing against it.

She tentively slid a hand underneath Lisa's limp body and consciously felt her eyes dampen. She pulled the woman's body next to her and whispered, " I forgive you."

Lily didn't know how long she just sat there in that room but she knew several hours had gone by until Lucius and Voldemort came back. She had been dozing off and was in a sleepy state when she heard them come in the room.

"But my lord do you think it wise to give it back to her?" Lucius asked in a confused voice.

Voldemort merely sighed breezily and said, "Of course Lucius. This way it will lure the others here and then we'll finish them all off!"

Sleep left Lily and she felt terror squeeze her heart. They were talking about luring the 'others' here. She had basically sent James and whoever else came along to be murdered!

As if reading her thoughts Voldemort turned to her and said, "Yes you thought it was clever of you to send James an owl about the portkey to here. Did you not think that I would want that to happen?"

Lily glared at his smirking façade with her defiant one.

"Lucius, if you will." Voldemort said with an evil grin. Lily just noticed the large object placed on a rickety old table. Lucius was heading for it his wand outstretched when a sudden blast of noise was heard from outside the door.

The door was smashed open and standing there was James and Sirius with triumphant looks on both of their faces. James looked over at Lily and for a split second she thought she saw relief in his hazel eyes but she then felt a lump in her throat when he looked away with a disgusted look.

"Come to rescue your girlfriend Potter? Oh wait I forgot about that article this morning. Hmm." Lucius said smirking widely and Lily felt a rush of angry fire go up inside of her.

James didn't say anything he just stood there with a passive expression on his face.

"Quiet Lucius. We must continue onto more pressing matters. Come with me." Voldemort said beckoning Lucius to follow him. Yet when he reached the door James and Sirius had their wands outstretched.

Voldemort let out a mirthless cold laugh that made Lily gulp. He whipped out his wand before they could utter their spell and suddenly both of them went flying into the back of the hard wall.

"Now be good children and we'll be back quite soon." Voldemort said and then he left the room. Lucius sneered at Sirius and James who were crouched onto the ground trying to catch their breath.

Then the door was slammed and Lily heard a locking sound. She waited for a second then rushed to the two men who were now sitting up. James was slumped against the wall with his eyes closed and Sirius was breathing in slowly.

Lily reached out a hand nervously to Sirius and he pulled her over with the strength that he had left. Lily watched him with confused emotions wondering why on earth he wasn't cursing her to who knows where.

"I'm glad you're okay." Sirius said with a slight smile.

"Why?" Lily asked without hesitation.

"What'd you mean? You're my Lily. Why wouldn't I have been worried?" Sirius asked confusedly then his expression changed and his face lightened.

"Well you know the world pretty much hates me including James because they all think I'm a slut even though it was a bunch of lies in the Daily Prophet." Lily said viciously.

"James you've got some explaining to do." Sirius said wearily and he slid down with his hands behind his head.

James opened his eyes and Lily wondered what was going on with what Sirius was saying. "I'm sorry."

Lily raised her eyebrows suspiciously and she folded her hands in front of her despite the situation. "An explanation would be nice James. You accuse me of going behind your back with… with Lucius Malfoy! Bad on me if you find it ridiculous that I don't forgive you immediately with just an 'I'm sorry.'"

A grin unfurled its way on James face and he pulled her towards her and their lips met. Anger still resided inside Lily but she hungered for James so she just pulled her hands around his neck and he pulled her closer.

"ALRIGHT! It's time for explaining not snogging. You guys can do whatever you want after we get ourselves out of this situation." Sirius said somewhat stressfully.

Lily broke off and looked at James expectantly who looked disappointed at the interruption. However the deadly look on both Lily and Sirius's faces pushed him to talk.

"I know you weren't going around with Lucius. Dumbledore wanted me to pretend to so that you would come here so we could follow you afterwards. Dumbledore somehow found out that Voldemort was going to pull something off like this." James said in a pleading voice for Lily to understand.

"Why didn't you just tell me? God, I thought you hated me James!" Lily said with an aggravated voice.

"Dumbledore said that Voldemort would know if we did tell you. You believe me don't you?" James asked in a hopeful voice and his hand went automatically up to his messy hair.

Lily regarded him for a moment and then nodded her head slowly.

"It's your turn though to try the serious acting since you're so good at it James." Lily said with a smirk hurling his words from earlier right at him.

"Yeah, yeah. I rehearsed me lines loads." James said with a roll of his eyes.

Sirius pulled his hands in a beckoning action for them to both listen. "Lily our plan didn't exactly work but we have to try and escape from here or put up a fight when they get back. We need to get back to London."

The door of their prison unexpectedly opened and in strode Lord Voldemort along with Lucius.

"It's time to get down to matter that are more pressing. I have something very important of you three and it's time you had it back. See I'm not such a bad guy after all." Voldemort said with a sneering smile and Sirius snorted at the end part.

Lucius walked over to the table and he pulled the blanket off of what looked like a circular crystal ball with swirling cloud inside it. Lily squinted her eyes to get a closer look but Lucius turned his back towards her, covering her view.

"What might this be my friends? What would Lord Voldemort possess of you three young people do you think?" Voldemort asked as he flipped his wand through his long white fingers like a baton.

Lily turned to James and Sirius her face masked into coolness but her eyes showed her confusion. James gave a small nod to Voldemort and Lily turned to him.

"I'm not sure. Why don't you just give it to us?" Lily asked him smartly.

"Eager Ms Evans. Well why not Lucius?" Voldemort asked his minion who turned around with the crystal ball in his hand an evil smile on his face.

He handed the ball to Voldemort and then situated himself next to him.

"This ball is full of lost memory. Lost memory of many people but mainly all of yours." Lord Voldemort said haughtily.

Lily felt her hands grow cold and her pulse quicken. What could possibly be missing from her past that Voldemort had stolen from her? She looked sideways at Sirius and James and they both looked somewhat confused only in a way she could recognize. They kept their faces blank but Sirius was twisting his t-shirt hem in his hand repeatedly and James was gripping the floor tightly.

"The time has come that you deserve it back." Lord Voldemort said seriously.

Lily felt herself growing more and more nervous. A hand found her hand that was supporting her from behind and suddenly a different flow of magic erupted inside her.

We're going to try and duel. I'm going to attack Voldemort, Sirius is gonna get Lucius. James voice said inside her head and given the situation that she was in she didn't yell out in surprise but she would have if she were someplace else.

I've got the portkey with me in my pocket so watch carefully. Sirius's voice echoed in her mind.

What'd you want me to do? Lily asked them.

Get the crystal ball. Who knows what it is. James said seriously and then the power was gone from her and she was back to the present.

I'm gonna have to ask them how they did that, Lily thought to herself as she felt James move behind her slightly.

"Stupefy!" James yelled out in a thundering voice and Lily watched Sirius yell a spell at the surprised Lucius.

Lily jumped up onto her feet wincing as she put weight on her bad foot but she determinedly straightened her body.

"Accio ball." Lily said quickly and watched as the ball flew up from Voldemort's arms and it hit her in the chest but she grasped it tightly.

James and Voldemort were now dueling sparks coming from each of their wands illuminating the dark room. Sirius motioned for Lily to get ready as he dueled with Lucius.

"Crucio!" Lily froze when she heard the next curse that came from Voldemort's mouth and she ran to push James out of the way. She landed in front of Lucius who looked like he was about to yell out an Unforgivable Curse so she pulled out her foot and kneed him hard in the groin area.

"That's for all the shit you did asshole!" Lily swore at him angrily and she felt savage pride coursing through her. He bowled over and James finally got his curse in. Voldemort went slamming into the wall behind him.

Sirius was right there with the portkey at their hands reach and in the background they heard Voldemort shrieking "Stop THEM!"

Lucius yelled out a strangled "Stupefy! Crucio."

But the portkey whirled them out of the room and then everything went white.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The whirling of white cleared and then the three adults fell into Lily's flat onto her floor.

"My dear God we're alive!" Lily said thankfully and she hugged James tightly then Sirius.

James pulled himself onto one of Lily's chairs but Sirius was looking at the crystal ball with wonder. "Don't you think we should try to figure out what this is all about?"

"If what he said is true that's our stolen memory swirling around in there." Lily said pointedly.

"James?" Sirius asked him questioningly but James just shrugged.

Lily felt herself be pulled in by the swirling of white cloud that she didn't notice Sirius bring the crystal up above his head.

"There's only one thing to do then." Sirius said with a grin and at the split second Lily realized what he was going to do he threw it on the floor and the ball smashed into thousands of pieces.

Lily closed her eyes tightly and crouched into a tiny ball so that the glass wouldn't embed in her but when she didn't feel any of the glass hit her she got confused and opened her eyes to bright white light.

A white dove was soaring to her and it looked quite transparent. Lily reached out a hand to stroke the bird and once her hand touched it thoughts and memories came flooding through her.

"He's so infuriating Julia!" Fifteen year old Lily yelled out angrily to her friend who was sitting on the bottom bunk bed.

"Come Lily, he's not that bad and he really likes you. You can tell." Julia said in a soothing voice but Lily just snorted.

"Oh yeah I can definitely tell that he likes me Jul. He slipped a bloody frog down my shirt this afternoon! It was a declaration of love on his part." Lily said sarcastically.

"Oh Lily you're always looking at the negatives of him. Wait a minute….do you like him?" Julia asked as if a sudden dawning comprehension hit her.

Lily blushed red and looked away. "No I don't. I can't believe you'd think that."

Scenes began to over take Lily that she couldn't concentrate on each one. The boy in her dream with the whipping cream was now defined as Sirius chasing after Julia. Campfires and marshmallow fights cut through her mind then a canoe ride out on a full moon with a boy she could not see who she was with.

Lily was back in Beauxbatons and sitting there with her was Elissa and Julia when they were fifteen.

"Well let's open our letters!" Lily said excitedly and they all began to rip through their similar letters.

"It's some international summer camp for witches and wizards." Elissa said pensively as she scanned the rest of the letter.

"That means all kinds of people from different countries will be going!" Lily said excitedly and then her gaze hooked with Julia and they began to giggle.

"What're you two up on?" Elissa asked them with a raised eyebrow.

"Different countries mean that there will be different people which means new guys!" Julia said happily and Elissa sighed with a grin on her face as she shook her head.

Lily saw more visions of memory crashing into her. The bright whiteness turned to blackness and she soon formulated what all this exactly meant.

She knew James before they met on that fateful day after the quidditch game.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A/N: Oh look at me I reviewed so soon! This past week has been crazy busy but I just typed up a whole tonight and I'll have it up for tomorrow. Tonight was the only day I didn't have homework/tests/assignments due for the next day. I've got a lab report I should probably finish though but whatev!

So? What d'you all think about this chapter? Guess what? Next chapter might be the last but I have a surprise for all of you who think it's gonna end super quick because in a way it isn't. And that's all I'll say on this subject 

Review, review, reviiiiiiiiew! Take advantage of the fact that this story is almost fini! Sil vous plait!

Anyways guys tell me your comments and thoughts in the reviews about this chapter.