Disclaimer: Ah, freak--I'm sick of these! Do you *honestly* think I'm even CLOSE to being as a good a writer as JK Rowling? That's like the most stupid thing I've ever heard in my life!!

A/N Okay, I decided I might be a good idea to write some L/J in this part, because the romance has been practically sucked dry from this story because of all the angst that is---probably going to come to play soon.

Oh, and Nikki dear? Do calm down with the reviews...

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Flirting With the Enemy

By Sierra Sitruc

Chapter 20 The Twin

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.

Lily upon hearing the scream froze in her tracks. What the hell was going on!? Lily whirled around--where was it coming from? Was Isabella dying? Why was she there? What had happened? These questioned filled her mind as she stood in the hallway.

The screaming stopped and a voice came on instead. "Evans, reveal yourself to us and your friend won't be hurt. By all means, join her if you wish. Birds of a feather flock together!" The jovial voice of Lucius Malfoy echoed along the halls. What had he meant by that? Lily wondered.

How do I reveal myself? Then Lucius answered her question, "Just walk toward the Eastern end, and someone will surely find you..." Lily could almost swear she heard laughing. "No fighting us either, you have to cooperate or...well you know what happens." Lily shivered at the thought of poor Isabella going through all that pain.

She used Sonorus on herself and called out, "Fine! Fine! I'll be there! Don't cast one more spell on her, and you have to promise she goes free!"

"Alright...I promise." What was a promise to a Death Eater? "Wizard's honor." There, now Lily would surely go.

"I'll be there in a moment." Lily said gloomily, her voice echoing along.

"Good, I'll be waiting." Lucius answered, his voice containing his glee barely. Lily looked around, checking the robes of the Death Eater to see if had a compass in it--and was surprised to see she was right. Then, just to check, she searched the robe for a wand, and found none.

She headed East, not noticing her robes were stained red---not knowing they might soon be stained, also with blood.

(A/N Remember, the robes are enchanted to fit the Death Eater... Hers will always be red, and Lucius' with a dark green tinge, Lily knows this too.)

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James stared at the door that had been opened, the person was covered in gear to protect it from a werewolf's bite, so he couldn't see their face--they looked like a medieval knight, but it was magical armor.

James wasn't sure what he should do. He couldn't transform back, and more then likely the person would wonder where James Potter had gone to. The Knight looked at James for a few moments, before shrugging and fighting off the werewolf that was now ferociously trying to bite him--the knight used a wand to subdue Moony and the levitated him out the door and trapped James inside, slamming the door behind him.

Sometimes getting a werewolf to cooperate was TOO easy...

James transformed back to his normal self, and slumped against the wall. He felt hopeless, and Lily was off as a prisoner to Lucius--and they'd taken away Remus to do who knows what kind of experiments on him. James hoped both of them would be okay...Was Lily still alive? She probably thought James himself was dead...

James grumbled about to himself, women really could be too much trouble to deal with sometimes. There had to be someway he could help her out...

That's when he heard it...The conversation between Lily and Lucius was quite loud--and the only thought going through James' mind was, What the hell is she thinking?! She's going to get herself killed!

James didn't know much of what had happened since Lily had been taken, but it seemed that she had escaped, and Isabella was a hostage for it. It was just one big mess.

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Lily was rushing towards the Eastern end of this maze-like prison. This time as she wandered she looked for the people to find them, not run from them. It was getting late...An hour from midnight probably, she wasn't positive because the compass had no watch.

She had no idea what she was running towards...Yes, she'd save her friend--and she'd probably get herself killed, but if Isabella made it out alive, everything was alright; but what about James? Was he even alive? Had Remus shredded him to pieces?

Lily, despite how much she wished she wouldn't...She felt tears burning her eyes. She wanted to break down and bawl, but luckily she didn't because right then there was Remus 'himself' being floated along a corridor by a hunky Death Eater.

It wasn't one of Lily's more brilliant ideas, but in a moment of stress a person will do most anything to save someone. Lily took off running and made a leap on the armored man. She found she was a light weight to him and he just let her hang there. She tried to grab at his wand or anything--but he easily knocked her off and she fell to the ground with a thump.

The Death Eater snorted and pulled Lily up by the arm roughly and dragged her along with him. Lily knew she'd made a stupid mistake--she was supposed to cooperate, but...it was too late now. She felt a sharp pain her face as her head collided with the armor and she touched her cheek and found she was bleeding profusely. It hurt like hell, and from what she could tell, it was going to leave a scar--it felt like it'd gone straight to the bone. The cut ran from her hair line to her eye in a horizontal line. Not very attractive at all.

Lily groaned in pain, that armor was sharp and this guy was hauling her a long like she was a sack of potatoes. His hands were covered in thick metal gloves that grinded against her skin on her arm and made her bleed more. By now blood was dripping all over her robes and her face. She was feeling dizzy and weak--that potion was helping her stay conscious, but she couldn't take the pain and eventually just let the man drag her, and tried her best to ignore the pain his hand caused to her left arm.

If that werewolf woke up...It would not be a pretty picture, that was for sure.

They arrived at a large door, the largest she had seen yet. How nice, Lily thought sarcastically, I might just get the honeymoon suite. Even through pain, some people can keep their 'sense of humor'.

The Death Eater, which Lily thought had a good chance of being Crabbe, how he managed to get in with the higher up crowd of Death Eaters, she'd never know; tugged her inside the room--which Lily decided had to be one of the most astonishing rooms of the building she'd ever laid eyes on.

It led through a long hall way lit with torches on both sides and on the ends was a bright orange light--a fire she presumed. Nothing like being burned to death, Lily laughed to herself humorlessly. Maybe she'd go out like the witches in Salem.

A red carpet, of all things led the way through the stone corridor and she had the distinct feeling of going down the aisle of a church for a wedding...

Crabbe pulled her further in and the door closed on it's own after Remus came through; still floating like a ghost--it occurred to Lily, that he might not even be alive. She tried to focus on his breathing, it looked like he was breathing.

As they got closer to the end of the corridor she realized it was indeed a fire--a large fire with potions brewing, and Voldemort himself was observing their making. The most skilled potions maker was at the cauldron, he only bothered with making potions for Voldemort when it was something really delicate otherwise Severus handled it.

From what Lily had gathered, the potions maker was foreign--from Portugal somewhere, and he didn't speak English, not much else was known.

He didn't wear a robe, but Lily wished he had--he was missing an eye and it was scratched and raw looking. The other eyes caught the glow of the fire. Beside him, was the reincarnated Davy Gudgeon; the devil creature observed the fire; ever so often growling softly--unable to speak words.

Lily shivered in fright--would they turn her into one of him?

"Crabbe? Who's that?" Another Death Eater Lily didn't recognize asked.

"I don't know--they jumped me so I just dragged them along." Crabbe answered stupidly, Lily rolled her eyes--damn this guy had gotten lucky that he caught her.

"Oy! It's Evans! You lucky bastard!" A deep voiced man came up and patted Crabbe on the back--and he dropped Lily unceremoniously on the ground. "Oh--she's injured." The same man picked Lily up gently and led her to a counter. "Malfoy is looking for you--I'll take you there in a moment." The man seemed kinder then the average Death Eater, it was odd. The man began casting spells on her healing her. "Oops, your going to have a scar there, but your arm is healed and the blood is gone." His voice sounded oddly familiar...

Lily nodded, and resisted the urge to thank him--it was one of the few kindnesses she'd gotten for a while.

Voldemort watched the two carefully. "Bring her back fast! Show her to Malfoy and bring the traitors back quickly!" He ordered from his arm chair he sat in. Traitors? Lily wondered briefly. The man nodded and helped Lily up and walked down the fire and Lily felt cold suddenly as they left the fire behind.

Once the door was shut, the man removed his large hood and his face came into view. Lily gasped loudly and would have fallen over had he not kept his grip on her.

"Patrick!" There before her, was none other then Patrick Patil--Isabella's twin brother.

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Sirius Black paced his cell, he'd been trying to think of an escape for quite a while now without any luck. James was alive, he had to be, because no one knew he could transform into a stag! That had relieved Sirius greatly. Sirius knew he wouldn't be living for long if he didn't get out of their quickly.

Then it hit him, suddenly--HE could transform too! Sirius transformed into Padfoot and waited patiently for someone to open the door.

He needn't wait long, because shortly after his transformation the door opened, a small Death Eater stood there with a knife in hand. Sirius growled and pounced biting the arm of the man viciously and the Death Eater cried out in pain and fell over. Sirius ran out the open door transformed into Sirius and slammed the door--locking the Death Eater in there.

Sirius took in his victory shortly, and then turned into Padfoot and raced down a hallway, sniffing for any familiar scents--Like James Potter or Remus Lupin.

That's when he got a strong scent of a woman's blood. Padfoot wondered if that might be Isabella, and changed his course of action and followed the scent. It got stronger and stronger.

That's when he found it. A long thin trail of blood trickled its way down the hallway. In the path, every once and awhile he saw a foot print smeared in it, like someone was being dragged... Padfoot's Auror senses were high as he observed the scene.

Apparently the woman was wounded and dragged away--still alive by the looks of it. He snuffled along and followed the trail, in search of the wounded.

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"Patrick?! What the hell is going on?!" Lily demanded, poking a finger in his chest. "Last time I checked you...Weren't a Death Eater!" Lily snapped.

"Lils, calm down! I had my reasons, just as you had! I've been very secretive about it--I've been in it since I was sixteen! Lily, don't mess this up for me! After I do You-Know-Who one last favor, I get out of this damned mess for good."

"What...What? What's he making you do?" Lily asked confused, putting her head in her hands, and Patrick Patil led her down.

"First, let me explain why I joined in the first place. There were a few of us who thought it would be a good idea you know--Just to be safe, my children will be out of harms way!" Patrick explained pleadingly. Lily continued to listen, while keeping her anger in check. "The way to get out--as you know."

"Patrick, you didn't!"

"I did, I got someone else to join in my place and then had to perform one final task for him...He's using me as his power source when he does the Ceremony tonight."

"Do you know what's going on with that?" Lily asked quickly.

"Not a clue, and I don't ask either. Devil creatures are enough to tell me it's something evil though." Patrick said shortly.

"I can't believe you joined Voluntarily!" Lily said, clenching her fists in anger.

"I was very careful about who I talked to--I didn't change any of my habits. I still kept in contact with you...I didn't know you'd joined until a few months ago."

"I never knew..." Lily just couldn't believe it.

"Lily, I tried to get out shortly after I joined up you know..." Patrick said, in a way to reconcile what he'd done. "They threatened your life, Isabella's and of course Pandora, I had just started seeing her then."

"Does she know what he future husband is up to?" Lily asked trying to keep her voice steady.

"Yes." That surprised Lily. "She told me she wouldn't marry me unless I got out of this...So, I talked them into this deal and--I'll be free to go back to my life normally, as long as I don't choose to go to the light."

"Oh, so be neutral then?"

"Yeah, exactly." Patrick nodded, they came to the door where Isabella was. "Watch out for Isabella, it was I who got her in this mess in the first place."

"What--?" Lily asked even more befuddled then before.

"Never mind, none of that information leaves this room?" Patrick said, and Lily agreed to keep her mouth shut; forever. Patrick leaned in and whispered in her ear as he pulled his hood up once more. "If it comes down to yours and Isabella's life, the exit downward, unlike what everyone thinks. Go down as far as you can. You'll come to a tunnel with a vertical ladder, you'll know it when you see it."

Lily thanked him silently and entered the room and Patrick followed.

"Evans, I almost thought you weren't coming." Lucius said good naturedly. Lily was slightly distracted, as she had just found out that one of her oldest friends had just admitted to have been a Death Eater since he was sixteen. Not on the everyday schedule.

What had he meant by he'd gotten Isabella in this mess? Had he been the one to capture her? Or did he in some way turn Isabella into a target?

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A/N Now, I know what you are all thinking! And you're wrong! Wrong I tell you!!

So, so, so, so SORRY for the long wait! I've been trying to get Just Like Dad done and well--this one is so much easier to write on...Well, I hope you like it. I didn't, but maybe you all will.

The more reviews...The sooner the update!

1700 reviews...at least people!! I'm review hungry!!

*~Sierra