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Flirting With the Enemy

By; Sierra Sitruc

Email: ChristmasAngel87@hotmail.com

Chapter 9 Interrupted

Lily had given up fighting as they arrived to the portkey that had been placed right near St. Mungo's. The portkey was a silver necklace with a snake on it. Lily hated snakes and she didn't understand why someone would want a necklace with a snake on it.

They put a finger on the portkey and felt it activate and pulled them in.

Lily found herself in a dark room; she wasn't sure what country she was in, but she prayed Voldemort was no where near the area. The room reminded her of the dungeons back at Hogwarts; how she missed that school.

She sighed as a different Death Eater helped her walk to a side of the room where several potions were brewing. They sat her beside them and Lily could feel the heat of the fires on her face. She wanted to ask what they would do with James, but she wasn't sure if she should and then they went out and told her.

"We're going to take the Auror into the back room." Lucius informed them all.

"The one with the password?" Someone asked.

"Yes, that one- and the one with the rats!" Lucius laughed, and everyone else joined in but Lily stayed quiet- as usual the damn silencing charm was still on her. Lily decided to get to Severus to get him to help her out with the silencing charm.

Lily walked up to him- prepared to make a fool out of herself. Severus was the one taking care of the potions next to her. She tapped him on the shoulder and out of the corner of her eye she saw Lucius levitating James out of the room, and she hoped someone decided to help him with that gash on his head- wait a minute, why do I even care?

Severus locked eyes with her, "What Lils?" He asked and looked back at his potion. Lily was annoyed that he didn't keep looking at her and tapped him again this time mouthing words trying to show him that she was under the charm. "Lily- did the Wizard Flu make you lose your voice?" He asked raising an eyebrow Lily rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Then what is it? Speak up." Severus how naïve are you? Lily wondered to herself. Lily tried mouthing that she couldn't speak, but he didn't get it and Lily stomped her foot in frustration. Then she started looking for a quill and parchment. "Can't speak? Here I'll take the silencing charm off you." Severus was grinning, but Lily was scowling.

"Thank you." Lily said happy to speak, "What's going to happen to me? Where am I going to live? Why they'd bail me out because now I have no place to live! What's going to happen to James? Are they going to kill him? Am I the most wanted criminal now? What is going through our master's brain?" Lily started rattling off questions and would have kept going if all the other Death Eaters hadn't started staring at her.

"I…let's go some place private and talk about this okay? You really need to get an apparating license…" Severus muttered and led her out of the room telling Crabbe to watch the potion. (A/N Bad idea)

"I would get an apparating license IF I wasn't the most wanted convict in the wizarding world!" Lily hissed, Severus chuckled, "Now, tell me WHAT is so funny?" Lily asked and pouted like a two year old.

"Well…it's not funny but I still can't believe you really ARE the most wanted criminal at the moment- besides Voldemort of course."

"Don't say his name!" Lily snapped, and shivered involuntarily. Who would have thought someone as nice and sweet as Lily Evans could become the most wanted criminal in the Wizarding World?

"Well, to answer one of your questions you are staying here- for now. They'll probably move you in a while though…" Severus started mumbling to himself and Lily stopped listening.

Just then Lily was struck by an idea. "SEVERUS!"

"Quiet!" Severus ordered quickly, and pushed her into a room. "This is where you are staying."

Lily didn't even look at the room, "Sev, guess what you can do for me?"

"What?" Severus said irritably.

"You can report me to the Ministry and get me out of here!" Lily said with a grin on her face.

"Lily, you went insane there didn't you? You were around the Dementors a bit too much. I'm not reporting you! I'll just say I don't know…"

"I can't have you getting in trouble, please just tell them where I am – besides they need to get here and help James." Lily said, pleased that something might actually be going her way.

Severus sighed, "Yep, you've gone insane; you were around James Potter too much, now you're ready to commit suicide-." How'd he know that? Lily wondered to herself. "Lily don't you want to live?" Severus asked urgently.

"You call THIS living? I sure don't, this is hell! I hate it and I want to leave and I'll do anything to get out of here!" Lily said angrily.

"If you wanted to get yourself killed LILY, you could have just told a few selective Death Eaters your parentage. Or annoyed a few people- or become a traitor, there are a lot of things, why do it so- publicly?" Severus said. Lily hated it when he acted smart.

"Shut up, and just do it- apparate away okay?" Lily snapped and looking around her the room she found there was a bed and she sat on it in a huff.

"There's a bathroom over there and I'll be in the room where we came from working on the potion you need to get better from the Wizard Flu, I'm even making one for Potter." Severus said, and with a whirl of robes he turned and left, leaving a very angry Lily.

She was feeling really energized suddenly and Lily decided that while she was here she could at least get cleaned up. It seemed like forever since she'd gotten really clean…

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When Lily came out fully dressed in clean clothes from the bathroom (Voldemort knows how to treat his followers) she found her wand. Lily could only wonder how they'd gotten it, but was pleased to have it.

While she was in the bath she'd been doing some serious thinking about what she was going to do. She wanted to make sure nothing bad happened to James and was going to visit him; she owed him that since he had been so generous to her while on their little 'adventure' through the forest. For God's sake he'd carried her the whole way.

Lily pocketed her wand and left her room and went to find Severus. When she did he was working over the potions pouring some into drinking vials.

"Still mad Lily?" He asked, Lily was glad the others had left because she wouldn't be able to talk much about the subject otherwise.

"No, is that the Wizard Flu antidotes?" She asked, taking a seat beside him.

"Yeah, here drink it." Severus said, while he stirred the other one. "This one is for Potter; you want to give it to him? He'll trust you more then anyone else and probably wouldn't drink it if I gave it to him." Severus said with a funny look on his face.

Lily drank hers down quickly, and picked up James'. "Which way is it and what's the password?" Lily asked getting ready to go see James.

"Uh- that way, the password's 'Death to Dumbledore'", Severus' eyes flickered with anger as he said it; he didn't like the password anymore then Lily. They both hated it.

"Thanks Sev, be back soon." Lily said, and headed out of the room with the vial in hand. She got to a door that was a bright opaque green that was sickening, she said the heinous password and walked in and found James lying flat on his back on a stiff bed- so much different then her own room that was comfortable and warm. At least there were no rats.

The room was tall- like a tower and it had a sky light in it and late afternoon sunlight shined in side, lighting up James' bed. He was still unconscious as far as she could see and Lily walked up to him and cast a comforting spell on his bed. Lily could see him visibly relax. She smiled happily to herself and was glad to have the power of her wand. James' wand was probably taken from him already. She sat the vial beside his bed on a table to save for later.

Lily sat beside him and tended to his gash- she knew a lot of healing charms. Soon it was healed and she wanted to check him for more wounds, but she was too afraid to touch him like that. She touched his face gently and pushed back hairs from his face enjoying the feeling of his skin on her hand. Then a thought occurred to her that made her jump back and run out of the room; trying to rid the idea and feeling from her head.

She went back and found Severus who had the duty of making the Verataseum.

"Lily, I think- if we're going to get James out of here I need to leave before…it's too late."

Lily smirked, surprised that he was so determined to help James. "All right…do you want me to take over the potion?"

"No, I'm just going to let it simmer for a while, while I'm gone. You can…find something to do. Everyone left; it'll be just you here." Severus sighed dejectedly. "Lily I'm going to have to tell them you're here, even though you LIKE that idea, I don't. I don't know what they will plan to do, but I could very well come back with a bunch of Aurors and- just be careful okay? Sirius Black might be among them and he'll be furious…More then likely I won't come back though, and I'll never see you again; so good bye Lily, take care." Severus said, and gave her an awkward hug before apparating, leaving Lily alone with her thoughts.

She just sat there for a moment staring into the fire when she decided she might as well go check and see if James was awake, and if not she would just wait for him to wake up; she didn't have anything else to do- or better yet she could just use the enervate spell.

Lily walked quietly through the same hall way she had been in only moments before and found the same room, and said the password and entered. James was still lying there, and Lily went once again and sat beside him; just taking in his face.

She would never see him again after this night. They'd be separated forever; it was likely that the Aurors might up and kill her on sight. Lily knew she shouldn't like James- not even as a friend. It was forbidden and wrong. More then likely he only thought of her as just another Death Eater and would forget about her forever. She didn't deserve him anyways. Lily fought with her tears and ended up losing the battle. She ended up sobbing violently beside him; she stayed that way for hours and when she finally calmed down, it was dark outside and the moonlight was shining in instead of the sunlight.

Lily sniffled, wondering why Severus or Aurors hadn't shown up yet. She was about to leave and go see when James stirred and started to wake. Lily hoped he couldn't tell she'd been crying and gently started shaking him awake. "James, James." Lily whispered.

"Death Eaters again?" James muttered in his sleep and Lily smiled not sure if he was awake or sleeping, but it reminded her of the last time she's woke him up.

"James, wake up." Lily said, and shook him a little harder, and this time he opened his eyes and focused in on her.

"LILY?!" He yelped and sat up, but Lily forced him back down and he started hitting her with questions about what was going on. She explained all she knew- which wasn't much- and he relaxed. "Okay, so Snape is going to get people to help me before I get taken in?"

"That's the plan, but you never know what could happen…" Lily said; who had had so many unexpected things happen recently she had no idea what was going on.

"Yeah, I know. Everything's going crazy! One minute I was talking to Dumbledore the next I'm in St. Mungo's! Then captured by Death Eaters…Things are going crazy now." James said, he wouldn't admit it, but he really liked talking to Lily.

"Oh well, at least it will be all over for me soon." Lily said.

"So you think you'll be proven guilty?" James asked.

"You still think I'm going to get a trial? I'll probably be sent straight to Azkaban!" Lily said, and felt even more depressed. Lily decided to change the subject, "I'm worried about Severus, he should be here by now or at least some Aurors."

"It does seem a bit weird." James said. "I'd be in trouble if something happened to that slime-." James stopped his insult when he got a glare from Lily. "Sorry, forgot your friends with…him." James could not believe himself, but he was jealous of Snape; he was so much closer to Lily then he was and it infuriated him.

"Do you have a problem with that?" Lily asked slightly annoyed.

"No, of course not." James said quickly. "You know," He said changing the subject. "Considering how this bed looks it's really comfy."

Lily grinned slightly, "I put a comforting charm on it." James' eyes widened.

"You have your wand?" James asked his eyes had a look about them that Lily didn't like.

"Yeah, I don't know how they got it, but they did and I have it in my pocket." Lily said.

"Right, I wonder where mine is." James said thinking aloud.

"I don't know." Lily said, I'd better leave, I don't want to annoy him She thought sadly. "I better be going- I've got things to do, people to be captured by- the usual."

James gave her a lop-sided grin which she found adorable. No Lily don't think that way! She scolded herself and started to leave when James called her back.

"Wait- what were you in here for in the first place?" James asked suspiciously.

"Oh right- you need to take your wizard flu antidote, I already took mine. Do you want something to eat by the way? Once you take it you can eat I can conjure something." Lily offered politely as hostess.

"Uh- sure." Lily conjured him a sandwich and a glass of water and set it on the table. Then she picked up the vial.

"Want me to feed it to you?" Lily said jokingly, but James answered very seriously.

"Yes please." Lily raised an eyebrow, but walked over to him. "Now lean back and open your mouth." She ordered, James obeyed and she leaned over close to him and became very aware at how close they were. She bit her lip as she poured the potion in his mouth and he swallowed, and shivered at the familiar taste, but it made him feel much better.

"That tasted, kind of nice- tangy flavored." James said with a gentle grin. Lily hadn't moved an inch and still had the vial in her hand as she found herself leaning closer to him, and he moved closer too. Oh my God- what are we doing?! Lily's mind screamed at her to stop, but her body had different ideas. They were getting dangerously close to each other their lips inches apart, when someone entered the room and James pushed Lily off the bed, and she let out a yelp while her butt it the floor.

Why are these moments always interrupted with me on the floor and someone walking in? Lily thought to herself as a rat scurried across the floor.

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