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my parents, they might have a different opinion...LOL, they think I'm possessed! They own ME not the other way around!
A/N I have strange inspiration for this chapter, I'm listening to Eminem--Lose Yourself. It's good, I mean--it's just...neat, I don't like to admit to a lot of people--but I love Eminem, all his songs are fairly good---no real singing, but the beat is what gets me...
WARNING: Language is about to get--un-pretty. It had to be realistic, and this is what I think would happen if they were truly in this situation.
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Flirting With the Enemy
By Sierra Sitruc
Chapter 19 Full Moon
Lily and Remus had yet to pass a window of any sort to show them what time it was. They were relying on Remus' instincts as to when he would change, but that wasn't a certain thing--he could change any moment--and that meant...
"Why aren't there any windows?!" Lily cried out in frustration.
"I know it's close--real close I can feel it." Remus said weakly, his pace had slowed considerably, the pull of the moon putting a damper on their escape.
"Oh Remus, don't change on me now!" Lily squeaked, grabbing his arm and heaving him along behind her.
"I'm not...You'll know when I'm changing." Remus glanced at his watch, "It can't be too far, it's around 6:00." The lack of food and water and...practically everything else was having an effect on both of them--and they were relying on their adrenaline to keep them moving, the only thing they'd eaten the entire day was...nothing.
"Oh shit, oh shit--oh SHIT!" Lily screeched quietly--there, a hundred yards away was a window. Small and tiny--a perfect circle. Just enough to show the dark blue color of dusk.
"Fuck," Remus said, stunned. "You know, as luck would have it--I'm transforming RIGHT NOW!" He bellowed, and Lily turned from her staring at the window on the other hall and set her eyes on Remus, who's skin was growing hair faster then you could say "Azkaban".
"Oh--what do I do, what do I do!?" Lily yelped.
"Here, find me a room--." There were no doors in the hallway they were in. "I have about 1 minute until I can't control myself anymore."
"Come on--this way!" Lily ran quickly and Remus staggered along after and they turned right and the first door on their left they flung open.
"James!" Remus exclaimed, slightly relieved.
"MALFOY!" Lily jumped back, shocked. Their eyes had apparently landed on different figures.
James was slumped on the floor, gazing up weakly at Lucius, who was now, glaring at Lily.
"Evans, fancy seeing you here." Lucius laughed coldly, "Just my luck, I came up here to see if you'd come here--and low and behold--I was correct."
No one knew what to do...None of them were armed but Lucius and he was the only potential killer. Lucius studied the cowering Remus. "Evans, get out of here--Lupin's about to become a werewolf." He said casually walking out of the room, and gripping Lily's arm tightly.
"What about James--."
"Potter stays here--this is all part of the plan."
"Plan?!" Lily snapped as she tried to fight off Lucius who was tugging her out of the room, and Remus was bent over in pain crying out as his bones reshaped themselves.
"It's okay Lily, calm down--I'll be fine." James croaked, looking up at Lily--their green and brown eyes met for a brief moment, and Lily tried to convey to him her fright, and James just shot back at her...His courage.
Lucius slammed the heavy wooden door, leaving James Potter alone with a man hunting beast.
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~Into the Future!~
"Where's Lily!?" Isabella demanded the same time Sirius yelled, "Where's James and Remus!?"
"Calm down, calm down! No need to get your knickers in a twist. To be frank, Remus has already transformed into a werewolf, and your dear friend James--is dead." The Death Eater laughed as he said it.
Sirius fumed, "Liar! You fucking liar!"
"How dare you accuse me of such a thing?" The Death Eater drawled lazily. (A/N Am I giving you enough clues?)
"We have no reason to believe you! Your bluffing!" Sirius seethed, his breathing coming heavily in and out of his nose.
"What about Lily? Where's Lily?!" Isabella asked earnestly, trying not to break down into tears. Her strong hold fading fast--if they killed James...And if Lily was WITH James...
"Evans is...well, fine for the moment. She's not cooperating with us at all. So, it was a lucky thing you two got nosey with Wilkes--it worked out for the best between us." The Death Eater sighed happily, "My master will be pleased, that's for sure."
Isabella growled, and Sirius' shoulders shook with suppressed rage. "What about James? He's not dead!"
"He's very much so...At the hands of a werewolf, I doubt anyone would survive." Strangely, that statement relieved Sirius greatly.
"Oh God...Remus is going to be so pissed..."
"If he lives through the night that is." The Death Eater said, and you could just feel his eyes glinting with wickedness.
That was the last straw for Sirius he tackled the Death Eater and just started punching at him--unfortunately, the Death Eater had obviously been prepared for that, because two bulky Death Eaters appeared at the door and contained Sirius and all his fury.
"Sirius, don't fight them." Isabella urged, then she addressed the head Death Eater. "Take me to Lily...please."
"Exactly what I had planned. Keep Black here--Patil and I have some business to attend to."
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~In A Dungeon With Moony the Werewolf~
James watched weakly as Remus changed, he was a complete werewolf--and James couldn't summon the energy to take on stag form.
Change, change, change, James chanted in his mind. I can do this, I've done it a hundred times, and now when it counts the most I can't do IT! James thought, gritting his teeth and willing his body to transform. The werewolf was looking at him with hungry eyes.
The werewolf's amber eyes glowed and it pounced just at the same moment that James managed to take on stag form.
The wolf was disgruntled for a moment, and when it recognized it's pack mate, it grinned--wolfishly, since it knew no other way. Thank you God, James silently thanked.
The two began to play around, Prongs using his antlers, Moony--his teeth. Without Padfoot, it was much harder to control the werewolf, but James managed--though James suspected he'd find in the morning that he was scratched up pretty badly.
All was going well for a few hours...Until someone came and opened the door.
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Lucius was walking briskly--Lily didn't know what to do--if she ran, she'd probably just be caught, but if she didn't she could be used to worsen the situation. To run, or not to run; that was the question.
Lily was lost in her thoughts on consequences when she made a decision--and acted on it.
Lily had fallen a few paces behind Lucius and he seemed to think she would follow him; no questions asked--boy was he wrong.
Lily took a deep breath, summoning all the strength and courage she could muster. Closed her eyes for a 2 second mediation, opened them up again--and ran like a dog out of the pen.
It took Lucius, approximately one minute to notice she wasn't there, and when he did--a large amount of cursing was involved and he pulled out his wand--but it was too late to cast a well aimed spell. He'd have to chase her, and Malfoys did not chase prisoners.
Lucius grumbled to himself and continued in the same direction he'd been heading--where had Crabbe and Goyle gotten to?
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"Patil, I should tell you--we don't rightly know where your friend is at." The Death Eater explained to Isabella.
"Really--then why the Hell am I even here?!"
"Well, you were being nosey--we have no idea how you found out our headquarters for the Ceremony, that and we know Lily will come once she hears your screams."
Isabella bristled, "How will she even know I'm here? How can she hear me in this huge place?" Isabella demanded, tapping her foot impatiently.
"Easily, we'll magnify it."
"You are one sick bastard."
"I know, but at least I don't go mixing with the mudbloods. You're giving pure bloods a bad name, Patil."
The Death Eater led Isabella into an empty room, and ordered her to sit. "I'll be back, I have to call back the search party and attend to the preparations of this little bit." The Death Eater nodded at her and left, locking the door behind him.
Lucius walked quickly with his usual elegance, smirking all the while. Isabella would bring Evans straight to him, but first he needed someone else to do the dirty work--meaning, someone else to use the Crutacius Curse on Isabella.
Wilkes was always pretty good at that kind of thing, so Lucius headed in the direction of the North end of the building. Learning the directions in this place hadn't been one of the more pleasant things in life, all Death Eaters who knew of the upcoming Ceremony had been drilled in knowing there way around the place--weeks before hand.
The secret operation was so restricted that out of the hundreds and hundreds of Death Eaters--only a select fifty knew of it. It had only that week finally leaked out to a few other Death Eaters, but that was nothing to be worried about.
Lucius grumbled to himself about having to do all the work himself--really, Voldemort had him EVERYWHERE, it was becoming very obvious that his shifty habits weren't typical of him. Always leaving work early, never home in the middle of the night, cutting of relations to certain people and strengthening relations with people he normally wouldn't have even acknowledged.
Especially in the past two weeks, Lucius had found himself apparating everywhere--chasing Evans, picking up deliveries--but in the end it would all work out for Lucius. It meant he was trusted above all other Death Eaters; he had a high rank that few others shared. Lucius influenced choices Voldemort made--not many, but a few.
Lucius had been traveling along the halls for a while, when he found the north end of the 'prison' and went into the room where Wilkes and another Death Eater were speaking rapidly--from what Lucius caught, they were trying to cover up the fact that Wilkes, Isabella Patil and Sirius Black had all disappeared rather abruptly...and Isabella and Sirius wouldn't be coming back.
"Ah, Lucius!" Wilkes exclaimed, looking relieved. "Could you give me an alibi?"
"Sure, if..." Lucius paused, Wilkes was getting as good as Evans at figuring out who Lucius was. After hanging around one another for so long...Death Eaters begin to recognize shapes and certain points of the lumpy robes that define one person from another. Lucius walked elegantly, while Crabbe walked clumsily. And Lucius could identify Evans by the way she hung her head--and her body was a woman's and then her most defining feature was probably her robes and how they were marked just slightly different from everybody else's, they were tinged with red, and the red sparkled in the dark...
All Death Eaters robes were charmed to fit the person. Very few knew of this. No matter what robe Evans wore, it would sparkle red in the dark and no matter what Lucius' robes would have a dark green tinge to them. Everyone had some little feature different from everyone else--but only the important--or in Evans' case, uniqueness, were in dark colors. Crabbe and Wilkes' robes, if Lucius looked careful--were each line lightly with blue on the cuffs of the sleeves, but the blue on Wilkes' was slashed with yellow marks... Not noticeable at all, but add all the robed and figuring differences and you could identify the people in your group--or the people you dealt with the most.
Lucius had had Evans in his group of Death Eaters who went and attacked together--she'd been assigned to him, because she'd needed to have an experienced leader, and she'd needed to be watched--carefully. It seemed Lucius hadn't done his job too well.
Lucius snapped himself from his reverie, "...Go put the Cruciatus Curse on Patil."
"Right, sure," Wilkes agreed immediately.
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(A/N I'm not going to go through the Isabella/Crucio scene, because if everyone's read as many stories as I have--you get kind of tired of reading it again and again--oh the pain was unlike any other...yada, yada--so you'll know of it and...well just read!)
Lily was feeling lucky, for one--she hadn't been followed, for another she thought she might just be finding her way out of this place. There had to be a front door or something, right? She just had to look for it.
Once she got out of there, she could help James--and Remus of course. Then they'd all live happily ever after--with Lily in Azkaban. Quite a bad after thought really.
Lily stopped in her tracks suddenly--what was she fighting so hard for? James? Remus? Azkaban? That's what it seemed to be. Lily didn't like the idea of having to be a hero for about 3 seconds and then have to go to Azkaban. Did hero points get you out of Azkaban? Lily could only speculate.
Was James even alive? That had been pestering Lily's brain for a while--it seemed he was dead; and the thought made Lily's heart thump vigorously in her chest--in pain. James had said he'd be fine so convincingly--that Lily wanted to believe him... But being alone with a werewolf didn't exactly perk up the love life, now did it? She couldn't exactly date him if he was dead.
Love.
Now that word just about scared the pants of Lily. The word love made Lily's mind jump immediately to James--and that, she wasn't exactly happy about. You couldn't be in love with someone you hardly even knew! Sure... they'd talked quite a bit back... the week before when they'd been traipsing through the woods--but that wasn't enough time to fall in love with someone!
Sure, she'd been thoroughly attracted to James--and sleeping in the same bed with him that one night had felt unbelievably natural--but that didn't mean a thing! Did it? Lily was all confused in the whole entire 'love' deal. She'd only lived 18 years... and she still felt like an immature idiot. How could she possibly an expert on love? Nope, she hadn't even been capable of a steady boyfriend! In fact, her last ex was now a devil creature... Where was that guy anyway?
Lily wondered what to do--should she continue looking for an escape? Her heart screamed 'yes', but her brain was saying a loud 'no'. The escape would only lead her to more trouble--no one would believe her if she said that James and Remus were here, and even if she told the Ministry, they might think she was just setting them up for an attack.
It'd be better if she just hid out here for a while...Or, actually the best idea at the moment seemed to be to find the exit, get out and go into hiding--it worked out for the best for her. She would be able to live long enough to see 19.
Lily wouldn't do that though, besides she didn't even know WHERE this prison was! It could be in the middle of a jungle for all she knew, and if it was--how would she get out? How would she get money and survive out there? It seemed best now, to wait out the night--wait for the sunrise and go and see if James was... in fact dead or not.
If he was alive, then James, Remus and herself could find a way out of this place together!
With her plan all set, Lily went to go find a nice place to sleep for the night--but her plans were interrupted by a loud, tormented scream.
Isabella.
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A/N Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, DUN! That was TOO much fun to write...I was basically just rambling on...in my personal opinion that is. I think the plot's coming together quite nicely, you'll see it--I hope.
The times are ALL together now, no more confusing--oh has this happened already or is this before?
Oh, and a reviewer said they didn't like this story because they thought they were going to see Lily and James fighting one another...Hm...I doubt it will be happening any time soon--beside verbally, but you never know what can happen in my stories...
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*~Sierra~*