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Action! Action! ACTION!!!! The chapter you've all been waiting for. The Battle between Lily and James! There's also some more of James's background. Don't you just love extra information!

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Who knew all this mayhem would be so exciting? Everywhere I turned, my fellow Death Eaters were torturing, injuring, and killing people all over the place.

Rookwood had placed the Anti-Apparation Spell over the entire alley, preventing anyone to escape and enter. I saw others enter shops, probably destroying fireplaces so no one could use the Floo Network. The only way into and out of the alley was the brick archway from the Leaky Cauldron, but we had blocked it off enough to give us time before the Ministry came.

There were some civilians that were fighting, but we could handle them. I turned my wand on a group of children hiding behind a cart near the bookstore. With a flick of my wand, I blew the cart away, leaving the children struggling to find new shelter. I cast the Cruciatus at one of them and they fell to the ground in agony. I was about to finish him off when I sensed a curse coming at me. I only had a moment to get out of the way, but when I dived, a Disarming spell caught my cloak and ripped my hood off. Ignoring the children, I turned, furious, to the one who cast it.

My opponent was someone I wasn't expecting. It was a woman, with long red hair, and pale skin. She was thin, curvaceous, and had an extremely beautiful face with sparkling emerald-green eyes. Her face held an expression of horror, as if she wasn't expecting something.

I sneered. This will be easy. She seemed to recover and sent an unknown spell at me, which I easily deflected. We began to duel with a ferocity I only dreamed of. She obviously had some training. Probably an Auror. I tried to bring her attention away from me by flinging objects at her as we were dueling, but she easily dodged them. I was suddenly on the defensive, dodging, blocking, and countering the continually on-slot of spells.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that many of the innocents were gather by the windows of the shops, watching our duel. It gave me an idea. I began to circle as we battled, and she unconsciously began to circle as well. Soon we both had our backs to shops. I began to fire curses towards her but not directly at her to get her to move out of the way. It worked. She dodged them, making the curses hit the windows and the people, shattering glass and hitting people. The screams were ear-deafening. She angrily blocked all of my off-target spells and began firing spells faster and faster. Instead of blocking them, I jumped out of the way from most of them, causing the same thing that happened to the windows behind her to happen to the windows behind me. The screams were amplified.

She yelled at frustration. She was determined, I'll give her that, but she was no match for me. We continued to circle, only watching each other, breathing heavily. The Dark Mark Bellatrix cast glowed a menacing green down upon us, making the scene of destruction even worse. People had started shouting and screaming in the Leaky Cauldron. The Ministry had arrived. She noticed it too. She turned to me with a cold smile.

"You are trapped. I would surrender if I were you." Her gentle voice still displayed to hatred she sent towards me.

I snorted. "Ha. I would never surrender. I'm winning anyway. Why give up when you're already ahead?"

"Don't be a smart-ass with me. You are not and will never be ahead when I'm still around."

"Well then, I guess I'm going to have to get rid of you then." And with that, our duel continued. Both our styles had changed after that. We both battled intelligently, working to each other's weaknesses. I had to admire her. She would have been a powerful Death Eater if she wasn't with the Ministry.

"You can always join the Dark Lord, you know." I said, trying to persuade her. "He would forgive you for whatever your past may hold. Join the winning side."

Her face twisted in disgust. "I would never join him. Because of him my parents are dead. I would never join my parent's murderer."

That hit home. The Dark Lord had killed her parents as well. I thought back to that Christmas Eve. It was just me and my parents, enjoying Christmas together as a family. I remember wishing Sirius was there, but he had to stay at his house for Christmas. My mother had just opened a gift from me when he apparated into our house right in front of us. My father stood up and tried to pull out his wand, but Voldemort was too quick. My mother had her wand out and tried to defend herself and me, but Voldemort killed her as easily as he killed my father. He turned to me and lowered his wand.

"James, you have strong promise. I have been watching you for sometime now. I want you to join me and become one of my Death Eaters. If you refuse, you will join you parents in death. I will also hunt down everyone that you have ever called about. I will give you till your birthday, March 27th isn't it, too decide. You can't tell anyone, or I will kill you and your loved ones."

"Why would I join you? You just killed my parents!" I yelled at him.

"Oh, you will find a reason but the time you birthday comes around." And with that, he left me with my parents bodies, drowned in grief.

As the months past and my birthday grew closer, I realized I had to join him. I had been isolating myself from everyone, just in case Voldemort thought I would have told them. I truly had no choice. I couldn't let my friends fall victim to Voldemort. He would kill them eventually, he always did. And on my 17th birthday, I truly lost myself and became one of the most loyal and dangerous Death Eaters alive.

I was lost in my memories when I realized where I was. The woman and I had stopped circling. She was looking at me intently, as if she was expecting something from me. I turned and saw all the other Death Eaters were trying to keep the Ministry out, but it was only a matter of time before they would make it through the archway.

"Don't follow him, James. Come back to the right side. There is good in you. Don't let him control you anymore." She pleaded.

I turned back to face her. "It's too late for me. Save your begging for someone else."

And just then, the archway exploded. Aurors and other Ministry officials came poring into Diagon Alley, dueling every one of the Death Eaters. Someone had gotten rid of the Anti-Apparation Spell and Death Eaters were retreating quickly. I looked and saw Alastar Moody moving towards me and the woman. He was shouting.

"Lily! What are you…Good Lord, is that James Potter?" Moody said in horror.

Lily? As in the Lily Evans that was supposedly hunting me down? I turned back to her. Her eyes were pleading me to stay, to stop. I almost did. Instead, I gave her a half-smile, winked, and Apparated away just as all the Aurors sent there spells at me.

I hoped you all liked that one. It was by far my favorite to write. I hope I answered your question, gwvixen21, about what made James turn bad. Can you see the attraction between the two? I know I can.

I'm going to be at my cabin this weekend, so I won't be able to Update anytime soon, so I might as well give you all something you can chew on until I come back and give you dinner. In future chapters, I will bring Sirius and Remus in soon, and the Order of the Phoenix will play a big role, let me tell you. Love is in the air! Or at least, the begin of love.

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