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Flirting With the Enemy

By; Sierra Sitruc

Email: ChristmasAngel87@hotmail.com

Chapter 11 Betrayal



"Quick *Lily* put the Imperial curse on him so he'll cooperate." Voldemort ordered, his long black robes touched the ground and when he moved his hands ordering her she could see his feet- he had smaller feet then she would have thought, not that Lily thought about his feet, but she was trying not to think about what she was about to do.

"I'm sorry James." Lily whimpered, "Imperio!" Lily shouted as she pointed her wand at James. Lily refused to look at his face as she did- and it's a good (or bad) thing she didn't because his face had the look of a betrayed person, Lily wouldn't have been able to keep the spell on him.

"Good Lily, good. I'm glad to see you've learned where your loyalties lie, now make him walk over there."

They were in a dark forest clearing. All around they were thickly surrounded by trees, Lily briefly wondered if they were in the Black Forest. The grass was dead beneath her feet. Not a very lively place. James stood before them, and she could feel him fighting the curse, but Lily held it over him. "Now, have him bow down to me."

Lily didn't know why, but Voldemort always liked doing that to people- having them bow, she never understood it. She was normally too busy hating him to think about his reasons behind what he did. Lily concentrated on Voldemort, because for the first time in her life; it was better to think about him then someone else- like James Potter. "Bow Down" Lily told James, but she didn't look at him when she did it.

Voldemort pointed to black metal chair, that when James sat down he couldn't get out of it and Voldemort told Lily to make him sit in it.

The Death Eaters behind her were One: trying not to make them selves noticed or Two: Envious of Lily's powerful position, however they didn't know how much she hated it.

"How are we getting the information out of him, if he's under the Imperial curse?" Lily asked, desperate not to look James in the eye- but she could still feel him inside her- when ever she had someone under the spell she could feel their presence, until the spell was taken off.

"Oh- we're having one of our giant friends coming to visit- have you not noticed- Corbeneth behind you?" Voldemort asked, in his hissing voice sounding like a snake. Lily shivered and turned around- there was a twenty foot tall giant man. Literally a Giant.

Lily tried not to scream, Oh James- oh that's horrible- oh God, oh that's terrible. I hope I don't have to watch! Lily hated it when Giants were around for things like these; it normally meant torture for the Wizard in question. James was about to be in some serious physical pain soon. Don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it Lily told herself, if she thought about James she'd probably do something stupid…

"Come on Corbeneth, it's your turn to have some fun." Voldemort hissed, as Corbeneth stepped forward, shaking the ground as he walked. "Take of the Imperial curse Evans." Voldemort ordered. Bossy Bastard Lily thought to herself, as she removed the curse.

Now Voldemort stepped up to James- who was glaring daggers at Lily. "Are you willing to tell us what we want, Potter?" Voldemort asked, James shook his head- knowing the consequences. "All right then Corbeneth, please- do the honors."

James stood his ground as the Giant approached him; the only thing James could tell about that Giant was he had a very BIG hand. The hand gripped James around his whole arm and started to squeeze, Lily shut her eyes and covered her ears not wanting any part of the bone crushing ceremony.

Though Lily covered her ears she could still hear his screaming, James was in pure agony and Lily knew she wouldn't be able to stand it. Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Lily yelled inside her mind, she couldn't take it- it was too horrible.

She made herself open her eyes, and threw herself on the ground and Voldemort's feet. "Stop! Stop! Stop! Please?! STOP!" Lily shrieked, tears pouring down her face.

"Evans- what's the deal with this? Don't you want our side to win?" Voldemort asked above the screaming, Lily decided it was best to ignore this question.

"Please just don't hurt him- no more! I'll make a deal with you!" Lily shouted over James' screams.

"Really? What?" Voldemort asked, obviously amused.

"I promise- I'll be loyal to you." Lily tried.

"Aren't you already?"

"No, after this I've been planning on turning myself in to Azkaban so I don't have to be here anymore." Lily told him, she stood up from the ground and faced Voldemort. "I hate being here, but if you let him go- I promise I won't run, I'll stay here and be your most loyal Death Eater." Lily said bravely, and to her pleasure- Voldemort looked interested.

"Corbeneth, stop." Voldemort said lazily and the Giant moved away, James' screaming ceased but he was still moaning loudly in pain. Lily chanced a glance at him, and his arm was bruised purple all over and bleeding at the fingers. She wondered for a moment, if he could even hear what she was trying to do for him. "You won't run from me?" He asked interestedly.

"No, I'll stay here." Lily said firmly.

"Would you kill for me?" Voldemort asked, Lily bit her lip- she couldn't kill- never- but maybe she could get out of it if he asked her.

"Y-yes." Lily stuttered, trying to sound convincing.

"Promise to be loyal forever?"

"If you let James go." Lily told him.

Voldemort sighed, obviously using pros and cons- more then likely he'd just kill Lily and James both, before letting James get away. He had to see something useful for himself to go with Lily's idea.

"Let him go?" Voldemort thought out loud.

"Yes, please- he knows hardly anything." Lily tried.

"Would you get the Dark Mark for me?" Voldemort asked Lily, Lily did NOT want the Dark Mark- oh no, she didn't. She'd never gotten it before, but if it was to save James…she'd do it.

"Yes." Lily said, trying to hide her shaking legs and arms. She was a bundle of nerves and talking to him like this was taking its toll on her. Voldemort grinned suddenly- showing all his hideous teeth.

"All right then- one of you-." He pointed to the other Death Eaters, "Take Potter back to St. Mungo's- I have some business to attend to- Malfoy- take care of Evans." With that Voldemort apparated and Lucius gave the port key for James. Lucius all the while- seemed to be made of port keys, because he brought one for Lily.

"Use this; it'll take you home- to your parents." He said with an evil grin. Lily had the feeling something bad was going to happen, "But first- the Dark Mark- I'm in charge of that you know."

Lily rolled up her sleeve and bit her tongue- readying herself for the pain, but it never came; Lucius just stood there grinning like an idiot. "Honestly Evans- like I'd give a mudblood like you a Dark Mark." Lily tried to act disappointed as he said this, and unrolled her sleeve- he'd probably regret that, but until then she just wanted to go home.

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~An hour later~

"KIDNAPPING AT ST. MUNGO'S!" The headlines read, on a late issue of the Daily Prophet, Isabella stared at the paper, happy but worried all at the same time, afraid to read what the rest of it said.

She'd read far enough to know that Lily and James Potter had both been patients there, when *both* of them had been kidnapped by Death Eaters...well Lily's had been called a jail break, but Isabella knew better. Her best friend would never join them without a good reason.

Isabella was a loyal friend, as best she could be and was worried sick about her best-friend hanging out with Death Eaters and Voldemort all the time. When Isabella had heard her friend coming in late at night, she'd assumed it was because Lily was seeing someone, like her boyfriend—what's his name…Davy Gudgeon…That had been an off on relationship between Lily and him, he'd come by the day before to tell Isabella he had no idea about the Death Eater thing, he'd been questioned as much as Isabella had about being a Death Eater—if your friends with a Death Eater, it automatically makes you one in the public's eye.

Isabella continued to read the paper, Aurors had gotten an anonymous tip, of where Lily and James were supposedly held, but nothing came up.

Isabella took a sip of tea, and stood up and walked into her bedroom when she heard a bang from her living room—it sounded like her door and just blown off…don't ask how she knows how that sounds like…

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~An hour before~

Home. Home to Mum and Dad- her wonderful parents. When Lily had found out she was a witch- they'd accepted it, and loved her. Those two and Isabella were the only people to love her. With out her parents- Lily would be a nothing- a mere body in the world, especially since now she couldn't go and see Isabella. Lily just wanted her Mum to wrap her arms around her and comfort her with a hug, or her dad to call her his 'Tiger Lily'.

Lily grabbed the port key and appeared in front of her parent's home- that's what she considered home. She looked around, it was dark inside and she walked up the steps and knocked on the door, and when no answer came she just walked in. "Mum? Dad? You home?" Lily called- it was late at night- so they were most likely in bed.

"Morsmordre!" She heard someone yell- and she let out a loud scream, and bounded up the steps to the upstairs where she'd heard it from. NO, no, no! Please not my parents! (Morsmordre is the dark mark spell you know the one in the air.)

Lily came to their bed room- empty of a live person, inside the bed were their bodies- still, but as she stepped closer; she saw their faces were frozen in horror. Lily couldn't control her self- she'd been through too much that week. She started sobbing for the second time that day, her body racked with sobs. She just sat on the ground sobbing. Then she heard people enter the room- but as she looked at them, they were all blurry she focused her eyes and saw who they were.

"I see you found your parents."

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James didn't stay conscious for long once he'd gotten to St. Mungo's where they'd rushed him off and had started healing his arm.

Oh, it hurt him- not just the physical pain, but Lily- she's put him under an unforgivable curse! Oh that had been the worst part of the whole evening- he didn't know where Lily had gone or why they stopped crushing his arm, all he knew was the pain. Then he was asleep.

When he did wake up- it was morning, and there beside his bed was Sirius and Remus- Peter was no where to be seen.

James studied his arm, which was no longer hurting and was back to normal- he actually felt pretty good- considering he had just been tortured by Voldemort's minions…

"Hey Padfoot-Moony?" James asked, hoping they knew what had happened to him, Had Aurors come to his rescue?

The both awoke suddenly and were pestering him like a wounded bird. "Guys! Stop, I'm fine!" James said irritably and shoving them away to get himself some space.

"Thank God! You're still sane!" Remus said relieved.

"Of course I'm sane! I wasn't put on the Cruciatus Curse!" James told them, "Just a little bone crushing by yours truly the Giants."

"Giants!? Argh- those bloody-." Sirius started using a nice stream of well chosen profanity.

"Sirius! Calm down one bloody moment so I can ask you a question!" James snapped and Sirius shut up, "What happened, I mean one minute I was being tortured and was a prisoner of Voldemort's- the next, I'm free and in St. Mungo's."

"We were hoping you'd know the answer to that." Remus told him, and all looked disappointed at not knowing.

"All I remember was a lot of screaming- and somebody begging- for all I know it was me, I didn't know what I was doing while that giant started trying to pop me like a balloon." James muttered darkly.

"James- while you were out, some very interesting things have been going on- Dumbledore's probably going to want to talk to you about it. Over night- that Death Eater Evans ("Little Demon" Sirius put in) her parents were murdered- by Voldemort- muggles you know. Why would he kill one of his own Death Eater's parents? Something happened last night- more then just you getting tortured, for all we know the death of her parents is connected to why you are alive- I mean maybe she did something…" Remus told him, James felt the anger in him at Lily ebb away, just a little. Could Lily have done that? Was she the one begging?... For my life? James wondered.

"She's still missing, though- maybe she killed her own parents." Sirius said thoughtfully.

"Yeah right- not many people can do that." James said.

"I doubt Lily could do it- I remember meeting her back in 7th year at a prefect meeting." Remus said, and his eyes filled with amusement, "She told Snape to go jack off with his boyfriend- or something along those lines, it was really funny though- I remember being shocked that a Ravenclaw- one as *nice* as Lily could say that out loud. I still don't believe she went to the dark side." Remus finished.

"Well- I do" James said angrily.

"I thought- never mind." Sirius said, covering his mouth before he said what was on his mind. I thought James liked Lily…

"She's a bitch- she put me under the Imperial Curse." James said hotly, Though she did say she was sorry…No she's evil.

"Right James, right." Remus and Sirius quickly agreed.

There was a knock on the door, and Dumbledore walked in, "Oh good James, you're awake- we have to talk- could you excuse us?" Dumbledore asked, gesturing to Sirius and Remus who quickly got up and left.

"What did you need Professor?" James asked, interested at what his old headmaster had to say.

"Call me Albus- and I need to talk to you about Lily Evans."

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