Title All Because of Lily / Rating T
Chapter 02 – That Halloween
Warnings Contains mentions of abuse and mentions of minor character death, swearing, violence. Weasley, James Potter and Dumbledore bashing. This chapter also contains mentions of past underage sexual intercourse.
A/N I was going to do a time-skip in this chapter, but I thought I would get Lily and Sirius's thoughts during that fateful Halloween…
-All Because of Lily-
Previously on All Because of Lily…
Lily was shocked. She knew from the feelings that she had whenever she saw Sirius alone was love, but she was shocked that James would work with the Headmaster of Hogwarts in Obliviating her love.
Pulling out her 10 inch wand from her wand holster that she had on her arm, she cast a spell at Sirius. Looking at the results of her spell, she was getting red.
"Siri, you…you have got both Repulsion Potions, Loyalty Potions and Love Potions in your system." Lily said, her anger fighting the rest of her emotions. "The repulsion potions are keyed to both your mother and your brother Regulus, the Loyalty Potions keyed to Dumbledore and James and Love Potions keyed to Amelia Bones. The love potions, had you had intercourse with Amelia, should she be virginal, would have become self-sufficient."
Sirius got up and drank a vial that Lily offered him. Lily took the vial that was in her pocket and they both dropped to the seats that they had stood in front, memories coming back to them.
"THAT BLACK HAIRED CHILDISH BASTARD!" Lily said, her ears steaming with anger. "WHEN I SEE HIM I AM GOING TO MAKE HIM AND HIS FATHER WISH THEY HAD NEVER BEEN BORN!"
"Lily, what's wrong?" Sirius asked, knowing that when James Potter returned, he would face something worse than Voldemort, he would face an angry Lily Evans instead.
"Because of Potters actions, I have had to endure two years of marriage to an arrogant, selfish, inconsiderate git." Lily said, getting angrier by the second. "Because he has thrown his lot in with that white whiskered wanker and bloody Pettigrew, he is going to get my son murdered, or even married off by way of Love Potions to Molly 'the harpy' Weasley's daughter.
"To top it off, because of that, Weasley is going to get the Potter fortune because her slapper of a daughter will make Harry give them it." Lily said. Sirius, knowing Lily was going to blow up again, decided to start rubbing her back. "Oooh…thank you Sirius. I needed that.
"Anyway Sirius, I had this dream last night, and in this dream, James and I will die on Halloween and Dumbledore will curse you into hunting for Pettigrew." Lily continued, enjoying the ministrations that Sirius was giving her. "And Harry will end up with Petunia and Vernon to endure several years of hell. And what worse is Dumbledore will…he'll make the daughter of my friend Sophie, Hermione…the wanker will make Hermione marry the harpy's youngest son instead of her soulmate, Harry."
James, having walked into the house, pointed his wand at his wife and his best friend. "It's sad to see that you have to forget everything again, but I can't risk it going wrong. It is all for the Greater Good." He said, casting the spell. "Obliviate."
Potter Cottage, Godrics Hollow, Cheshire, England
31st October 1981
It had been three days since Lily and Sirius had tried, and failed, to get their memories back, thanks to the Obliviations that had been committed by James Potter and Albus Dumbledore, resulting in another Obliviation being issued by James, or so Lily thought.
As she walked into the living room, carrying her son Harry, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that James was watching her like a hawk. In fact, if she was honest with herself, she had noticed him several times watching her do things and honestly, she was fed up with him.
Placing Harry in his crib, Lily knew that she had to have it out with her husband as to why he was so obsessed with his watching her. Problem was that he seemed to be on edge all of the time, as if he was suspicious of her.
She knew that he had declined spending the evening, despite her insisting that he should, at the stag party of his best friend, Sirius Black, who was getting married in a few days to Amelia Bones, who was two years older than him and his superior within the Auror Corps.
She was seriously considering divorcing James and going back to live with her sister, who had shacked up with her boyfriend of seven years, Vernon Dursley, but she knew that Petunia would not welcome her with open arms, especially as she had held a grudge with Lily over Lily being a witch. The only problem was that James knew that she was aware of the Muggle world, and would enlist Albus Dumbledore to find her.
The only way she knew that she could get him to leave her alone was by moving to her cousin's house. Joseph Brown, Lily's second cousin on her maternal side, was a Muggleborn who Lily remembered had moved to America when the war against Voldemort had begun, had managed to get a job as a Charms Professor at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school which stands at the highest peak of Mount Greylock, where it is concealed from non-magic gaze by a variety of powerful enchantments, which sometimes manifest in a wreath of misty cloud.
Heading to the bedroom that she and James occupied, she grabbed a handbag that she hadn't used. It was a small, purple, beaded handbag, which she purchased in the summer of 1975 from a shop in Spinners End, a little village not far from where her sister lived in Little Winging.
Casting an Undetectable Extension Charm on the bag in order to carry supplies for herself and her son, Harry, she was about to pack items such as clothes for herself, writing supplies, the books she had hidden from her husband that she had liberated on her last visit, such as the
Potter Family Grimoire and some potion books and clothes for Harry when she felt the urge to be sick.
Casting a charm on the stuff she was about to pack, she had only just been able to make it to the toilet before she had coated the place in vomit.
'Shit. I know James and I haven't had much sex, but two months ago was the last time we did it together.' Lily thought as she was vomiting. 'The last time I was like this was when I was pregnant with Harry.'
It was then that Lily had realised that the last time she and James had sex, she was off the Contraceptive Potion, due to the fact that constant use had been known to have caused side effects, such as disruption to a witches magic.
Lily remembered how, on her wedding day, she had not been as pure as her husband had expected her to be, having lost her virginity to the person who was her husbands worst enemy, Severus Snape, back in her fifth year, mere days before the incident which caused her to cut all ties with her childhood friend. It was that confession to her husband which caused him to start become a little bit controlling towards her, even going as far as to ban her from going to her own parents funeral.
Summoning her wand, Lily cast the pregnancy detection spells, hoping that she was wrong in her theory that she was pregnant. Unfortunately the spell came back positive, signifying that she was to be pregnant with a baby girl.
Heading back to the bedroom she heard her son and her husband playing a game together. Frowning, Lily knew she was making the right choice, but was scared that her husband would try to talk her out of her choice, or even yet, curse her into making the choice that he wanted her to make.
Eventually Lily had packed her things, along with Harry's and, having left them in Harry's bedroom, went down to her husband, offering to put her son down to bed.
Taking Harry upstairs, she knew that she would have to leave while her husband was not noticing, unaware that he, along with Albus Dumbledore, had cast Tracking Charms on each of her bras, meaning that so long as she was in Britain, he could track her to within twenty meters.
As Lily went to grab Harry with her one hand, having hooked her packed bag over her shoulder, and picking up the Portkey that she had made with her other hand, she felt a sudden Anti-Portkey apply. It was then, with the words her husband said next, that she knew that she and her son were not going to survive the night.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off..."
- All Because of Lily
Coming Up in… Chapter 03A time skip to 1991, Harry at the Dursley's and a shock visit to Number 4, Privet Drive…
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Story ID 069 - Publish Date 06/02/2017