Unexpected consequences

Ch. 6 secrets

Abby ran and tried to get the other three to move so that they would not be eaten alive. "Neville help me!" she screamed so that Jessica and Ryan would start moving. Neville grabbed Jessica's arm and started dragging her towards the door while Abby did the same for Ryan.

A few seconds later Ryan and Jessica suddenly realized that they could walk on their own and went to the exit easily. When they all got there Abby ushered them all through the door and then stopped.

She looked at the door and saw that it swung inward, if they all went through it there would be no way to close it. NO way to close it means that they would just be chased further and further until they were trapped.

Abby stuck her hand in her pocked and pulled out her phone. She threw it to Neville and said "call my dad" before turning around and going back into the chamber where the basilisk was. She closed the door and heard it lock itself. The others were safe, that's all that mattered.

She turned around and saw that the basilisk was watching her. She had also read that they petrify people so she knew she had to avoid its eyes at all costs if she wanted to have any chance of getting out of there alive.

She ran in random directions trying to throw off the basilisk. It was pretty large and was not goon at turning quickly. She had him on the run for a few minutes but before long she was getting tired and could not keep up that pace any more. Unfortunately a pace that was any slower was to slow.

She tried to turn a corner when she was suddenly thrown to the ground by a strong attack from the tail of the basilisk. She hit the ground with a thud and was not fast enough to move before the basilisk grabbed the back of her shirt with its fangs.

Unfortunately, it grabbed more then her shirt. She screamed as she felt one large fang cut open the skin all the way down her back. Not only was her back throbbing with pain, she could feel a transformation coming on.

She managed to catch a glimpse of the necklace that she always wore falling before she was tossed in the other direction and hit the ground hard. She lay there and waited for the transformation to end before trying to move.

Suddenly the girl was completely different. She was a little bit taller and her skin was so pale that she could have been mistaken for a corpse. Her hair shrunk and was suddenly a platinum blonde instead of the red that she had grown accustomed to. Her eyes were also back to their normal color, a light silvery blue.

She lay there panting for a second to long. The large basilisk grabbed her again and flipped her into the air. When it let go Abby managed to grab hold of one of the teeth and flip herself up onto the top of its head. The beast flailed and she held on with all of her strength. She held on as long as she could; doing her best to ignore the pain in her back. Before long she had lost a lot of blood, and was not able to hold on any more. The beast threw her to the other side of the room and she landed in the water that surrounded the statue there.

She shut her eyes tightly and tried to ignore the fact that she could feel blood seeping out of her back and into the water surrounding her. She stayed completely still and waited to see which direction she was supposed to swim. When she was thrown into the water she flipped over a few times and was not sure which way was up but she knew that if she waited she would start drifting upwards and know where to go.

Before she got to fully figure out which way to go she felt a sharp pain in her foot. Without thinking she opened her eyes and saw, through all of the blood, another basilisk in the water. Though this one was only about a foot long. She started to swim towards the top and when she did the blood moved just enough for her to see the bottom of the chasm. There she saw about 100 more basilisks' wiggling around and starting to swim towards her.

She kicked real hard and dislodged the basilisk that was attacked to her foot and swam. She got to the top and managed to pull herself out of the water. She stayed there for a few seconds; trying to catch her breath while she watched the water drip off of her hair. She looked up and could see that the basilisk was close by. She tried to move but her body was not working like it should have.

She rolled over to avoid the large mouth of the basilisk and when she did she had a clear view of the entrance to the chamber. She saw her father, Harry Potter, running towards her.

She rolled over again and saw Harry shoot spells at the basilisk. It turned to face Harry instead of Abby so she did her best to stand up and get away from the water. She took a few steps and stumbled but before she hit the ground she was caught by two strong arms and pulled back up to her feet. She looked at who it was and saw Draco Malfoy standing next to her.

She mumbled something that sounded like "oh shit," and looked around the chamber for new necklace. She spotted it not to far away and tried to go get it but professor Malfoy stopped her before she got far.

"What do you think you are doing? The door is the other direction!"

"I have to get my necklace!"

"What? No you don't its just a stupid necklace!"

"I DO have to get it let me go!" Abby yelled at him. She pushed him back and she went to get her necklace. She stumbled right as she got to the necklace and had to stop and catch her breath again. She picked up the necklace and looked around to see how everyone was doing.

Her father was fairing well against the basilisk. His years of training against different beasts were coming in handy right now. He had the beast blinded and covered in small cute; it was only a matter of time before he finished it off. Draco was standing not to far away, watching her. She knew how strange it much look to him; a different person completely without a necklace.

Abby tied the cord of the necklace so that she could slip it back on again. She looked at Malfoy one last time before placing it over her head. She braced herself against he transformation. With all of her injuries this one hurt like hell. Her hair grew longer and returned too red and her skin darkened slightly while her eyes turned back into the piercing green.

She tried to stand up again to walk back towards Malfoy but she didn't get far. She took a step and everything went black.

A few hours later she woke and groaned. Her back was killing her and the early morning light coming through the window of the hospital wing was blinding her.

"Lilly you ok?" she heard coming from a figure to her right. She turned her head and saw that her father was sitting there; tear stains on his face. She smiled slightly and nodded.

"I'm sorry daddy, the necklace fell off when I was down there but I got it back on." She knew it was safe to talk about the necklace now. Her father had called her Lilly. They were completely alone.

Harry shook his head, "it's ok I don't care. It wasn't your fault."

"But professor Malfoy saw me without it on."

Harry just shook his head again and didn't say anything. That's when Lilly noticed that she felt a little strange. She looked at a mirror that was hanging on the wall and saw that she was as herself right now. She looked back at her father and saw that he was watching her.

"I took it off of you because it was irritating the wound on your back. It went all the way up to your neck."

Lilly nodded and didn't say anything. She knew it must have been serious if her father had taken off the necklace. "Has anyone been in here? Did anyone see me like this?"

Harry nodded slightly. "Malfoy came back to check on you. And your friend Neville came with when we first dropped you off so he saw but that's all."

"So he called you then? Neville I mean."

"Yes he did. He said that you were in the chamber with a basilisk. I came as fast as I could." Harry stopped and chuckled a little bit, "He was really surprised that it was me that showed up. I don't think he realized that you are my daughter. Honestly I think he thought that I was just called in to help. Though he knows the truth now…"

Lilly laughed and smiled. "How am I still alive? I should have been petrified and poisoned and so many other things while I was down there. Or was that not a basilisk?"

"I don't know… I'm pretty sure it was a basilisk but its strange I will admit. There are a few people down there figuring everything out."

"In the water too?"

Harry looked at with a strange expression; clearly saying that he had to idea what she was talking about.

"In the water; there were a lot of really small ones…"

Harry was shocked at this news and promised that he would pass it on to the people working in the chamber. "Now you need to get some sleep Lilly. Don't worry I won't leave until much later."

Lilly nodded and closed her eyes before letting the darkness overcome her for a little longer.

She woke up to two people arguing. She knew one of them was her father; she had heard him argue with people way too much to ever think that she would mistake his voice. It took a minute before she noticed that the other voice was on professor Malfoy.

"Then why does she look like the Weaslette so much with that necklace on?" Malfoy yelled.

"I don't know what you are talking about Malfoy. She doesn't look like Ginny at all."

"Bull shit, she looks exactly like her."

"You don't know the half on it Malfoy; just drop it."

"I will NOT drop it. I don't believe you actually did cheat on me with that whore!"

Lilly was shocked to head this. Weaslette…Ginny… Aunt Ginny? She knew that something was wrong here. Aunt Ginny had been dead for a long time. That and it was shocking to find out that her father had gone out with her professor.

"I didn't cheat on you! I told you that a million times! You don't know the half of what happened back then!"

"How can you say that to me? There is a girl here that you claim as your daughter that looks exactly like the whore. How can she not be her daughter?"

When Harry responded his voice was shaky and uncertain, "She's not Ginny's daughter; she's yours."

The silence that followed was sickening. After a minute she heard a set of footsteps retreating towards the door. The door slammed and the remaining person collapsed into the chair that was sitting near the bed.

Lilly decided that now would be a good time to make the alertness known. She sat up and whispered, "Daddy?"

Harry looked up and looked at her with tears streaming down his face. "How much did you hear?" he asked softly.

"Enough…"

Harry got up and walked over to the bed. He wrapped his arms around her and sobbed.

I'm so sorry it took so long to update. I have been real busy with school and all kinds of stuff. Not to mention I was having total writers block. I think this chapter is not all that great; I might go back and fix it later but you never know. SO again SORRY!! There will be more explanation about the past in the next chapter don't worry. REVIEW!!