Chapter 5
All the girls and Marauder's were excited that the Hogsmede weekend was today!
Lily had picked out her wedding gown, bridesmaid dresses, and the guys tuxes.
"James," Lily spoke to her him, pleading. "All I ask of you guys is to measured for your tuxes. Do it first and then you have the entire day with the rest of the guys. Please don't mess this up! This means the world to me!"
"I promise Lily," Sirius said coming from behind James. "We will get measured for your cruddy wedding."
"Sirius," Lily began to growl at him.
"We will go Lily," Remus said reassuring the soon-to-be-bride.
"Before you ever step one toe into Zonko's."
"Lily!" Sirius began to whimper.
"No Lily is right," James nodded agreeing with his fiancée. "Our wedding comes before the prank of the century."
Sirius gasped, "How could you ever say that!"
"Sirius," Cassidy said warning Sirius while her eyes flashed.
"Where Peter? We have go to get a move on so we can get on with this prank!"
"We are going to look like bloody penguins!" Sirius howled.
"Stuff it Padfoot," James growled. "This is what Lily wants and Lily gets whatever she wants."
"Sure," Sirius said winking at Peter and Remus. "Lily gets whatever she wants materialistically, but poor Prongs doesn't get what he wants with Lily in bed."
James turned around to Sirius looking the color of Lily's hair, you could tell James was angry. Peter, Sirius, and Remus's laughs stopped, "That's not funny." James growled, "Besides Lily wants to wait and I'll wait for her."
Sirius began to gag, "How sweet."
"Okay Mr. Potter," the young lady that had been measuring the four boys spoke. "I have got all of your measurements. You can go now. You can come and pick your tuxes up the day before your wedding."
James nodded and his friends followed James out of the store.
"Finally!" Sirius yelled as they began to walk to the main street of Hogsmede. "Now on our way to Zonko's!"
There was a scream followed by others and the guys stopped.
"What in bloody hell could that be?" Sirius asked as he looked at all of his friends. Remus looked lost, James looked scared, and Sirius overlooked Peter starting to perspire as worry.
Then there was the first scream again, but this time the guys could make it out to be very high pitched. All the guys went rigid and James screamed, "Lily!"
James began to run the fastest that he would ever run in his entire life with Remus and Sirius close behind. They wouldn't notice Peter missing until later on.
Then there was another two screams. Lily's and then a new one.
"Cass!" Sirius yelled and began to catch up with James.
The three boys ran as fast as they could and when they made it to the main street of Hogsmede the three of them were just in awe.
Death Eaters were everywhere and there were plenty of students and shop keepers trying to throw the Death Eaters off. James turned to look at Sirius and Remus, they nodded in a silent agreement. Throw whatever curse came to your mind to the Death Eater in front of you and find the girls as soon as possible. The three Marauder's knew all the passage ways from Hogsmede to Hogwarts and they'd make the girls follow them. As they began to walk all the guys had a hit to the gut, there was Alice laying on the ground unconscious.
"What do we do?" Sirius asked anxiously, you could tell he really needed to find Cassidy.
James picked Alice up from the ground and threw her over his shoulder, "Let's go!"
"Can you still run with Alice on your back?"
"I'm going to have to until we find Frank," James said beginning to jog with Alice over his shoulder.
Remus and Sirius ran with James. Remus ran in front of James to protect not only Alice but James too. Sirius took up the rear also watching out for James and Alice. James had one arm around Alice's legs and the other hand had his wand and James threw curses and hexes to anyone James saw would try and attack him.
There was another scream and turned his head a bit to see James's eyes tearing up, and Remus had to agree with what James was thinking. That scream that they'd heard three times sounded a lot like Lily.
"James!" The three boys stopped to see Frank with cuts everywhere, bleeding and obviously had a broken wrist. Frank's eyes bugged out when he saw his wife unconscious over James's shoulder, "Alice!"
Sirius was throwing curses with Remus as James handed Frank's wife over to him, "Go in Honeydukes with Alice and go to the back storage room. There will be a trapdoor in the storage room and then you will begin to go up a lot of stairs with Alice. Will you be able to carry her with that broken wrist?"
"I'll have to," Frank said and cast a spell to put a splint on his wrist. "This will do for now, give me Alice."
"Follow the instructions I gave you and inform the first teacher you come in contact with that Hogsmede has been attacked by Death Eaters."
"Have you seen Lily?"
James shook his head no to Frank's question, "What about Gabriella or Cassidy?"
"No we are going to go look for them, you get Alice taken care of."
"Good luck James."
James nodded at his good friend, "Good luck Frank."
"James," Sirius yelled not turning away from the Death Eaters as he threw tons of curses and hexes with Remus beside him. "We've got to move it. We have got to find the girls and this is like the main area where all the Death Eaters are."
"Alright let's go," James nodded and the three friends walked side by side throwing curses off, blocking, and hexing people. The three friends even had to battle with other Death Eaters on and off, which of course made the hunt for the girls even move hard.
"Where are they?" Sirius yelled out to his friends after a while of throwing curses left and right so they could get to the girls as soon as possible.
"I have no idea," James said worried.
"We've gone through a good amount of area, we've got to come upon them soon." Remus said looking back and forth for at least one of the girls. Redhead, blonde, or black would be perfect about now.
Lily's screams erupted through the cold chilling air now and they could tell they were defiantly closer.
"Sirius," the guys heard groaning beside them and Sirius looked over to see a Death Eater throwing curses at her.
"Crucio!" The Death Eater spat at Sirius wife.
Sirius yelled the disarming charm and, "Incantum Finite!" Sirius threw the body binding curse to the Death Eater and his hood fell off, the Death Eater had been none other than his younger brother.
"Bastard," Sirius growled but heard Cassidy beginning to cry and Sirius looked down to her. "Cass?"
"Get me out of here," Cassidy said holding on to her stomach gasping between each word.
Sirius nodded and carried his pregnant wife out of Hogsmede throwing curses whenever he needed. Even in the horrible pain Cassidy Black was experiencing she still repelled Death Eaters away as they too took the Honeydukes way to Hogwarts.
"We've got to find Lily and Gabriella," Remus spoke up.
James nodded with determination upon his face, "We have found both Cassidy and Alice hurt. I am afraid of what shape we'll find Lily and Gabriella in." James yelled back at one of his best friends as they dogged curses, threw their own, repelled hexes and curses, as he looked for the one person he had left in this cruel world.
Living without Lily would be like telling James he would never be able to breath again. If James lost Lily, he would start cutting again and bleed to death. Remus flinched at the thought of this. Everyone knew how much Lily meant to James and vise versa. Lily was the only one to take James away from that awful place he had fallen into after the death of his family. Then again James was the only one to be able to get through Lily. James and Lily were perfect for one another.
There had been two Death Eaters that had been fighting with Lily and Gabriella for seemed like hours. Gabriella has passed out it seemed like an hour ago, but in reality it had only been about five minutes. Lily was about to collapse with Gabriella though. Lily had blood trickling down her face. There were cuts and bruises all over from where Lily had the Cruico curse thrown on her over and over again. The Death Eaters had gotten pretty mad when they found out the Imperius Curse didn't work on this brilliant witch.
Lily was afraid of what had happened to Alice, Frank, Sirius, Peter, Remus, Cassidy and the baby, and most of all what had happened to James. How would her friends be? Would Lily have to attend all of their futures soon. Lily didn't know what she would do if she had to put James into the ground, as she had to put so many other loved ones.
Lily needed help, she needed an Auror or someone who had much more strength than her. All of Lily's strength was up. Lily didn't think she'd be able to keep these two Death Eaters off of herself and Gabriella much longer.
Lily heard a voice yell, "Stupefy! Stay away from her bastard!" Lily knew that herself and Gabriella were saved. Lily passed out from exhaustion and could have sworn she heard someone cry her name.
"Stupefy!" James heard Lily yell but you could hear her exhaustion. "Stay away from her you bastard!"
James saw Lily fall to the ground and James yelled, "Lily!"
Remus grabbed James's arm with his free hand as he began to battle with one of the Death Eaters, "Not now!" Remus screamed between curses, "They are safe if we can…Eat Slugs!…throw these losers off!"
James nodded, "Stupefy!" The curse was blocked and James ducked just in time too, because it hit another Death Eater that was behind James.
James heard Remus throw the body bind curse and the Death Eater went down, but Remus was too busy to go and look who the Death Eater had been. Death Eaters were surrounding both Remus and James.
Anyone else would have thought this was the end, except for a true Marauder. Remus and James just treated this as their practical N.E.W.T. Soon Death Eaters were starting to drop and suddenly Aurors apparated to Hogsmede. Death Eaters began to apparate away or fight the Aurors.
James picked Lily up while Remus picked Gabriella up. If only James or Remus had checked to see who the Death Eaters were, Lily and James's lives would finally be out of danger.
In fact the Death Eaters that had been attacking Gabriella and Lily forever had been none other than that resident bitch Bellatrix Black and her disgusting secret lover Peter Pettigrew. Yes the same Peter Pettigrew that was suppose to be a true Gryffindor and a Marauder. Instead this horrible traitor was trying to kill off what was suppose to be his best two best friends fiancée and girlfriend.
The Death Eater attack in Hogsmede ended up having a lot of students in the Hospital Wing and poor Madam Pomfrey was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Usually in a crazy manor like this Lily Evans was there to help Madam Pomfrey, but unfortunately Lily Evans had been a victim in this attack.
Frank's broken wrist had been mended up in about two seconds. Alice was suffering from a concussion and Alice had had a broken ankle. Alice had her ankle mended but Frank was told by Madam Pomfrey to watch his young wife like a hawk because of the concussion. Alice was ordered to stay with Frank at all time, and yes in fact they would be sleeping in one of the guest suites so Frank could keep his eye on Alice.
Gabriella had a lot of trauma to the brain, lots of bruises and cuts, she had lost a lot of blood. The outcome for Gabriella didn't look good at all, in fact Gabriella had been transferred over to St. Mungo's. Remus was able to stay with Gabby in the hospital but that was all. Because Remus had been learning the Spanish language, Remus owled Gabby's mum. Remus also comforted Gabby's mum when she showed up at the hospital.
Lily also had lost a lot of blood, in fact when James had showed up to the Hospital Wing everyone thought it was both of their blood. Lily's shirt was a deep red that matched her hair, and James's white shirt was also now the color of Lily's hair. Lily had many bruises and cuts, which had all been mended. Lily was hooked up to a bag of blood, and if she took to it she would be fine. It would be difficult for Lily to walk for a while and Madam Pomfrey was even going to tell Professor Dumbledore that it might be a good idea to enchant a Muggle wheelchair for Lily. Lily would need tons of rest as she was mentally and physically exhausted. Lily wasn't in a coma but she'd been sleeping an awful long time. Madam Pomfrey kept reassuring James that Lily would be okay, but she was just tired and to let Lily get all the sleep that she could get.
James had a few cuts, scrapes, and bruises. Nothing major and he had gotten his glasses mended back together. James and Remus didn't have to battle that much before the Aurors had showed up and then the guys ran off with the girls to get treatment for them as soon as possible.
Remus had a few bruises and a big gash across his forehead.
Sirius only had a few scratches as he got out of there quickly with Cassidy.
Cassidy was banged up pretty badly, but Cassidy was suffering from depression. Cassidy had the 'Crucio' curse thrown on her a few times which would have been fine if she hadn't been pregnant. Cassidy had to end up giving birth to a stillborn baby girl and then Cassidy began to bleed horribly after having Aurora Marie Black. They stopped the bleeding and now Cassidy just needed to heal physically and emotionally. Both Sirius and Cassidy grieved for their baby girl. The baby that would never grow in front of their eyes, the baby that they would never teach to do cute little things, and the baby that they'd never give a younger baby brother or sister.
The students that weren't hurt or injured were sent home immediately. There would be Quidditch Finals and the day that they left Professor Dumbledore announced that Gryffindor had won the House Cup. Professor Dumbledore was letting James, and Sirius stay with their loved ones. Lily would be able to go home in a few days and while Lily had been sleeping James had sold his mother's estate in Milan and bought the cute little house that he had told Lily about. They would be living in Godric's Hollow.
Cassidy and Sirius had already left and James had told Sirius that they could stay in the spare bedroom until they found a place. Cassidy and Sirius were able to stay in the Head Compartment on the train ride home from Hogwarts as James had given Sirius the password to get in. Dumbledore and the Governors of the school had decided planning a big graduation would attract Voldemort and Death Eaters again. So the graduating class would be sent their diplomas which was fine with James, he just wanted Lily to be able to go home.
Cassidy was ordered to stay in bed until she was healed and Cassidy listened to these rules because she really didn't get out of bed as she kept crying her eyes out about losing her baby. Of course Sirius was upset about losing their daughter, but Sirius couldn't do anything to cheer her up. Cassidy would only let Sirius hold her, but anytime he tried to kiss her Cassidy would turn away.
Sirius tried to sympathize with Cassidy but she wouldn't even speak to him. Cassidy was grieving over their dead daughter. Sirius was afraid he would not only lose his baby daughter but now also his wife. If Cassidy went on like this she would grieve herself to death.
Two days later Lily and James showed up in their cottage to see a scruffy looking, worn out Sirius asleep on the couch.
"Padfoot?" James asked and Sirius jumped up.
"Oh good, you guys are home."
"Why are you down here?"
Sirius sighed and ran his hands through his hair frustrated. "Cassidy won't let me anywhere near her. I think she's going to leave me. Bloody hell I've already lost my daughter, I feel as if I'll lose my wife next! We'll be putting Aurora into the ground tomorrow. You guys are coming right."
Lily nodded and James spoke for her, "Of course."
"Do you want me to speak to her?" Lily said very hoarse.
"No thanks," Sirius said shaking his head. "She's sleeping now. Just let Cassidy get her rest."
"You going to be okay mate?" James asked looking at his best friend with lots of worry.
"Yeah. You guys need some sleep too, go ahead. I'm going to crash on the couch again."
"Okay," James nodded and James and Lily headed up the stairs and to their bedroom.
"James, Lily?" Sirius asked as they reached the top stair and James turned around.
"Yeah?"
"I want to go visit Gabriella tonight and see how Remus is keeping up, you guys coming?"
James looked at Lily and she nodded, "Yeah. What time do you want to go?"
"Visiting hours end at seven, I say we go at six."
"Alright."
Peter Pettigrew had almost been found out by his 'best friends' that he was indeed the enemy, a Death Eater. Peter had tried to rid his friend James of that Mudblood whore, but of course James had to come to her bloody rescue. That Spaniard had just gotten in the way, besides Bellatrix loved torturing her. Peter had heard that Sirius's younger brother had made Cassidy lose the baby. Hopefully she would be over come with so much grieve that she would leave his friend alone. The Spaniard was on the thin line of living and from what Peter had heard the trauma to the brain was healing but they were worried about her heart. Hopefully the Mudblood would have been so scared of what evil held for her that she would run back to where she belonged, Muggle land. Maybe one day Peter would even be the death of her, oh that would be so sweet. Peter had heard that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy had attack Alice Longbottom because she was a blood traitor by befriending a Mudblood.
Unfortunately all of Peter's pathetic friends stood by their loved ones. Peter didn't give a damn about Alice or Frank. Honestly Peter really never liked Frank, so Frank could end up dead for all Peter cared.
James wouldn't leave the Mudblood, Sirius was standing by his grieve stricken wife, and Remus held on for Gabriella to survive. Honestly Peter hoped he would be the death of all of these friendship wreckers.