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Flirting With the Enemy
By; Sierra Sitruc
Email: ChristmasAngel87@hotmail.com
Chapter 12 Confusion
James looked nervously at Dumbledore, "W-what about her? Didn't her parents get murdered last night?"
"Yes, sad the poor muggles, but it gets worse, seeing that Lily seems to have a strange sort of…fondness for you I think that she might have some how helped you last night, to save you. Something you don't know about Lily, which I think could really help her case in the future, is that she- well she doesn't like people to know, because she thinks she's so weak for giving in." Dumbledore explained.
James nodded for him to go on.
"Do you have any knowledge as to why Lily became a Death Eater in the first place?" Dumbledore asked him.
"NO- maybe because she's evil?" James suggested, still in a bad mood about the night before.
"No, because Voldemort trapped her into it." Dumbledore said gravely and James perked up to listen, with sudden deep interest. He proceeded to tell James what Lily had told him under the Verataseum. Dumbledore stopped to let James take in the information, "She obviously did something last night and broke her end of the deal and so he killed her parents and sadly…her best friend, Isabella Patil. I don't have any idea if Lily knows about her friend, but Lily obviously did something to get Voldemort very angry- because normally Voldemort doesn't hurt his follower's families or friends, even if they ARE on the good side, he had to have reason first- no reason for killing Isabella or Lily's parents except to hurt Lily."
James stared, "So Lily didn't WANT to be a Death Eater, why didn't she just go to you?"
"I found out about it soon, but…she was so afraid, she was ashamed of giving in to him, letting him trick her into the Dark Side so easily- we can only guess what she did, but I am almost CERTAIN, that it had to do with you being safe, away from Voldemort." Dumbledore said reverently.
James looked at Dumbledore, and recalled a voice while he was still howling in pain, 'Please just don't hurt him- no more! I'll make a deal with you!' It was Lily's voice- but what had she done? James couldn't remember, but the deal obviously hurt Lily a lot- but he had a strange feeling the deal didn't have anything to do with killing her parents and best friends, all the people she loved-- he wasn't worth THAT many people's lives. He wanted to forgive her…but she'd put him under an illegal curse! That's a hard thing to forgive a person for! Especially a Death Eater, But she didn't WANT to be a Death Eater James reminded himself. Just Great. Now I don't know what to think.
"So what if she did?" James asked.
"I'm not really sure, but I have a meeting with Grogan, Minister of Magic you know." Dumbledore's eyes twinkled for a moment, and he left the hospital room.
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Lily whirled around to face the person who had spoken, in reality there were three people- three men, three Death Eaters. Michael Mulciber, another Imperius Curse specialist she and him often teamed up together when it came to big Imperius Curse matters, once she and him charmed six Ministry Workers and used them to kill several others. Another reason why Lily thought she deserved to go to Azkaban, no she hadn't killed, but she'd forced others to…
Beside Mulciber, stood Antonin Dolohov who had a sour look on his face, and next to him; was Vincent Crabbe. Who was the one who had spoken.
(A/N All three are true Death Eaters, Crabbe is the present Crabbe's father, and if you look on HPL you might figure out my plot… Mulciber really was an Imperius Curse Specialist, who gave me the idea for Lily's job.)
"You killed them!" Lily shrieked and through herself at the one closest to her, which was a sad choice, because it was Crabbe. He was strong and easily held her back, she bit his arm and kicked him but he didn't bat an eye.
"Calm down Evans, be calm." Mulciber told her in a soothing voice, and Lily watched as he pulled out his wand, "It'll be much easier for you- less pain, if I do this. I apologize now, for my actions." He smirked and shouted, "Imperio!"
The world became easy and relaxed and Lily was told to be content, happy and cooperative for the rest of the night, then the curse was over, but the orders were still there, Lily wouldn't be able to grieve for her parents.
"Right, that's taken care of." Mulciber said happily, "Besides, we didn't kill your parents- the master did."
"Oh." Was all Lily could manage- she felt too happy to care about her dead parents.
"Now, we have a few orders to carry out, straight from Malfoy." Dolohov said, "We have to first take care of your friend- Isabella Patil, and then we take you to Malfoy's Manor. You will be staying there for a while and then you will be moved to another Death Eater's house. We will keep moving you so you won't be caught. The safe house was strangely found by a group of Auror's so we had to do it this way."
Lily nodded in semi agreement. "What did you mean by take care of Isabella?"
"Kill her of course." Crabbe said who had already let her go. Lily didn't even flinch, she was too happy to and she was forced to be cooperative.
"All right, when?"
"Now, Crabbe is taking you to the Malfoy Manor and Dolohov and I are going to your flat." Mulciber told her, Lily felt nothing about the fact that her best friend would soon be dead, and there was nothing she could do about it. Somewhere deep inside her she felt a voice screaming to hurt these men and stop them, but a nice soothing voice told her it was fine- what else had Mulciber put in her mind?
Mulciber and Dolohov soon disapparated and Crabbe grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her out of the room, "We can't stay much longer, Ministry workers are bound to be here to take care of things." He told her and Lily simply smiled and followed him out the door into the back of the woods.
They came to a house, Crabbe simply grabbed a pouch of floo powder cried out, "Malfoy Manor!" And shoved Lily through, she even forgot how much she hated the floo network she was so 'happy'.
Lily tumbled to the floor, and was met by Lucius' wife Narcissa who dusted Lily off, muttering about how much she hated the floo network, and led Lily into a large room with a bed.
"This is where you will be sleeping for the next few days." Narcissa said with a weak smile.
"Uh, thanks." Lily said perkily.
"Did somebody give you a cheering charm?" Narcissa asked, with a smirk.
"No, just the Imperius Curse to make me be happy and cooperative, because my parents just died and now they're off to kill my best friend, and they thought I'd be easier to handle this way." Lily said, through a few giggles, she was disgusted with herself, but she couldn't act any other way. Narcissa only wrinkled her nose and left the room.
The room was gorgeous, and Lily didn't mind staying there in the least bit- maybe that was because of the curse, she wasn't sure.
Lily isn't stupid; now that she was alone she could just take the curse off. Mulciber must have over looked that minor detail, if she concentrated enough she could become normal, but she wasn't sure if she wanted to. She felt happy being like this. iGet the curse off, get the curse off, help Isabella.i A voice in Lily's head chanted, and soon Lily had managed to use her wand and some quick charms work to remove all previous thoughts, but when she did she was hit by so much grief she could hardly think straight.
Her parents were gone from the Earth- and Isabella was next!
No, I'm going to do something about it! Voldemort is not going to rule my life! Lily thought heatedly and stormed out of the room and picked up a pinch of floo powder threw it into the fire and called out, "Lily and Isabella's!" And walked through it, and in a flash was gone.
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James didn't know what to think, he wanted to believe that Lily hadn't helped him- that maybe something else happened, but if Dumbledore thought it to be true…But it can't be! James' mind was split in half one saying that Lily was good and liked James- after all she had kissed him back, but the other side of him said maybe she was only physically attracted to him and he should want to curse her into oblivion.
Maybe she should just die, and put him out of his misery, but that thought brought on a lot of pain deep with in him some where, that he would do anything to prevent her death. He did NOT like this situation at all. Why'd he become an Auror again? Oh yes, I wanted adventure- well I sure as Hell got it!
James' thoughts continued to confuse him, and soon he was ready to get out of St. Mungo's he was getting sick of the place- twenty four hours ago, he'd been in this same place!
Luckily, a nurse came in and gave him good news, "You can leave after we give you a brief check up, all right Mister Potter?" She asked.
"Great, I can't wait to get back to work!" James said with a bit less enthusiasm than normal for him when he talked about work.
The check up was quick and James was able to go home, and so he apparated to his home.
He grinned as he looked around his humble (and messy) little flat and sighed as he fell on the sofa and kicked off his shoes, trying to relax and get all images of Voldemort out of his head for good and for that matter, that creepy Giant…
Try as he might he couldn't keep them away, he tried thinking of work- but that involved Voldemort, he tried thinking about his friends, he ended up thinking about Lily who was a Death Eater for Voldemort, he tried thinking of Dumbledore, he thought about the conversation they had which was almost completely about Voldemort. Nothing was working, so James got up and fixed himself some lunch.
When James wasn't thinking about Voldemort his thoughts went to Lily, and back to Voldemort, he didn't know what he was going to do about the situation, but he was definitely going to do something; something about Lily, he needed to talk to her.
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Chapter 13--