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here is the last and final chapter to Bring Me Back Down to Earth.
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Chapter Thirteen
"Lily, I have some bad news for you," James' face looked grave. "I know you broke up with David, but I feel like you should know."
"What is it James?" I asked, but of course I already knew what he was about to say, I was just praying that he didn't suspect me.
"Well Lily I don't know how to tell you this, but on Wednesday night David was killed by one of us."
"Like Sirius?" My face was filled with horror.
James laughed, "not one of 'us', a wizard."
"Oh," I sighed.
"Do you remember when I told you about Voldemort and all of the bad things that he was doing to the Wizarding and Muggle worlds?"
"Y-yes," I stuttered, now shaking.
"Well these past few months He has been growing and we believe that it was one of His followers. We aren't quite sure which yet, but we will know soon enough. Don't worry."
I sighed, "why is it always me?" I sighed again happy that I wasn't caught. "First Mom and Dad and now David. Ugh!!"
James smiled, "not the real you, just the American you. I think that there is a difference between the British and American Lilys.
I laughed and rolled my eyes, "great now I have another personality to keep track of."
"I like the British Lily the best, my Lily." James smiled and then turned a light shade of red.
I blushed a deeper shade of red as I though about his answer. Which Lily did I like more: British Lily, American Lily, or His Lily? I always would be British, but could I go back to being British Lily with all that has happened with me in the past five months? I figured that if I could if I got this voice that was in my head out. The voice that had been the sole cause of the killing nightmares that I had been getting since Paris…
That one word sparked my thoughts of all that had been happening to me. "Thanks for telling me James. All of the sudden I am extremely tired so I am going to take a nap." I hugged him and walked towards the guest room that was now mine. Once I got into my room, closed the blinds, and lay on the bed I opened my mind and let the memories of Paris flood in.
I don't know how I missed the strangeness of Peter being in Paris for business and not being able to tell me what business he was doing, or the man with the blonde hair and the scary red eyes that were staring at me with an unblinking eye. How stupid could I be? Evidently the American Lily was very stupid and slow. Not the British Lily though who finally knew what was wrong with her.
A voice inside of my head was screaming with rage as I figured this out. As I swung my legs off the bed to get up that voice commanded that I sleep, so sleep I did.
It was Sunday morning and my mind was made up, I had to tell James about all that I figured out the previous night.
My hands were shaking like crazy; the voice in my head was commanding that I was not to tell, but I promised myself that I had to ignore the commands and the pain so I could defeat the voice. "J-James." I called out trying to figure out which room he was in.
"Yes Lily?" He asked me sprinting in.
"I need to talk to you about something that is very im-ow!" A sudden pain shot down my body and I started to fall.
James surprisingly caught me before my head hit the floor. "What is it Lils?" He truly looked worried. "What's wrong?"
"I can't say it, He won't let meeee!!" My whole body was excruciatingly shaking with pain.
"Who? Is it a secret that you and David had or something?"
I blinked several times and the pain was gone. "No, not a secret with David and I—"
"Then what is it?" James truly looked confused now.
I didn't know how or where to begin. I put my head in my hands and finally said, "Please tell me what you have to do to go to Azkban."
"What? Did you cheat off of Remus on a test at Hogwarts and are finally feeling guilty about it?"
I glared at him like I never had before, "James Potter this is serious!!"
"I'm sorry but Sirius isn't here right now." He replied smiling.
"I just glared at him.
"Okay!! I'm sorry, now will you please tell me this what this secret is? It's killing me!!" He smiled.
"I started to shake again, "first you have to tell me what you do to have to go to Azkban."
James sighed, "Well normally you have to do something that tells Muggles about us or you have to kill someone."
I stopped at the loss of words again. I sighed and chose my words very carefully, "I think that there might be something wrong with me." As soon as I said that my whole body was once again in pain.
James leapt up and pulled me very close to him and started to pat my hair. "Dear Lily, there is nothing wrong with you, you are my perfect little angel." He smiled.
I sobbed into his chest, "no there is. I know that there is. I have lived with this curse for the past five months—the weekend before you came to visit I am thinking."
"Lily will you please tell me what in the hell is going on!! Stop talking in circles!!"
"I can't!! I'm trying to tell you but He is not letting me!! That is why I am shaking so badly."
"Please try Lily you are scaring me. Take a few deep breaths and start when you are ready." He looked at me and smiled.
I took a few deep breaths and forced the voice and the pain from my mind. I squeezed James' hands and began my story, 'so there is something terribly wrong with me and I finally figured it out last night. I really don't know how to say this," I took another deep breath. "you know how you though it was just a coincidence that everyone that I seemed to care about was dying?"
"Yes, do you know who it was?" James asked with confusion written all over his face.
"I know who did not only the ones related to me, but about one hundred other American Muggle's deaths."
I could see that the light went off in James' head.
"I am so sorry James, I killed all of those innocent people because V-Voldemort told me to."
"B-but—"
"I've been under the Imperius Curse James!!"
An image flooded into my mind; Voldemort was flying towards London for something—for me.
"James you have to get out of her! Voldemort is coming for me!! RUN!!"
"Lily I am not leaving you! We will fight him together!!" He did not look the least bit scared.
Just then I finally realized that I loved him. He would always stick with me. I mean I just told him that I had killed over one hundred people and yet he was still standing next to me holding my hand.
I pulled him close to me and kissed him, "thank you James."
"I COMMANDED YOU NOT TO TELL A SINGLE PERSON ABOUT MY PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE AND YET YOU DISOBEYED ME. I ACUTALLY WENT EASY ON YOU, YOU KNOW. WHEN I WAS SEARCHING THROUGH SEVERUS SNAPE'S MIND I SAW YOU BEING UNFORGIVING AFTER HE CALLED YOU A MUDBLOOD. I WANTED TO KILL YOU FOR HIM BUT HE PLEADED FOR ME NOT TO DO IT. I SPARED YOUR LIFE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME LILY EVANS? WELL THIS TIME YOU AREN'T GOING TO BE SO LUCKY!!" Voldemort's voice boomed throughout the whole flat. I knew it was a matter of minutes that James and I had to life.
It was improv time, "m-my Lord please spare me! I will do whatever or kill whomever you tell me to. J-just please don't kill me." I yelled so he could hear me. I was very careful to do Occlumency so he couldn't know what I was thinking.
The door was blasted off its hinges and in walked a tall, very pale man with dark black hair and red eyes. "Prove that you will kill whomever. I will let you be with me if you kill James Potter." He pointed to the person right beside me, "right now."
I gasped as I took a few steps out and turned to face the man I had just realized my true feelings for. I raised my wand to where James' heart was.
James finally looked scared, "Lils please don't kill me. We can fight him!"
Voldemort cackled, "Do you actually think that she will risk herself to save you? Because she knows that either way you will die. Do it now Mudblood."
Voldemort hadn't noticed how close I had gotten to James. "I am sorry, I can't do that. This is goodbye for ever." I grabbed James' hand and Apparted to Hogsmeade.
I glanced at James' shocked face, "I am really sorry that I had to do that James. I couldn't think of any other way out of it."
"I really thought you were going to kill me." James nervously laughed.
"Honestly at first I thought that too, but then I figured out Plan B." I smiled and squeezed his hand. "We probably need to get into Hogwarts and talk to Dumbledore about this. I can bet that I haven't seen the end of Voldemort."
"Welcome back My Lily." James hugged me and we started to walk towards Hogwarts.
Right before we got to the boundaries of Hogwarts the pains started again only this time it was the worst. I screamed out in pain.
"Lily what is he doing to you?" James's hands were on my shoulders.
"James don't leave me!!" The pain was getting worse.
"I'm right here an I will never leave you, ever."
"James!!" I screamed, "it hurts so bad!!"
"He picked me up and started running to the castle.
"James promise me one more thing," I whispered.
"Anything my love."
"Always stay with me, be Rhett Butler and I will be Scarlett O'Hara."
"I will be your Rhett and so much more. I will stay with you forever."
And with that said I passed out knowing that everything was okay.