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Chapter 3: The Faint Beat of Your Heart
James woke the next morning with a haunting melody drifting through his head. Humming to himself, he put on his pants, reached for his shirt, and paused.
Wait a minute…when did I go back to my room last night? The last thing I remember is being in the bathroom and seeing Lily…
At the thought of Lily James felt a burning pain shoot through his body and enflame his chest and abdomen. In surprise, James fell to his knees and gasped with the pain. Clenching his hands, James felt the fabric of his shirt dig into his palms. A distant heartbeat sounded in his ears and another gasp followed by a groan left his lips.
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At 4 o'clock Lily could be found wide awake and sitting on her bed.
It's so much easier to get up before the sun. That way I don't have to worry about "natural habits" kicking in.
Dumbledore made a promise that metal shutters were being installed and by tomorrow Lily would be able to maneuver about the castle without the worry of being slightly burned.
I guess I'll just have to take the secret passage from…
Lily paused mid-thought as her finely tuned hearing picked up a gasp and a light tickling feeling (kind of like butterflies) filled her stomach.
"James…" His name escaped her lips like a secret.
Throwing on her regulation, gray skirt, Lily ran out her door and across the hall with her nightshirt, which consisted of a fairly see through cami, still on. A sparkling, gold plaque graced the top of her dorm mate's door that read: POTTER.
"James, open up!" Lily pounded on the door and a note of panic entered her voice.
From the other side of the door she heard a groan and the words, "Help me, Lily".
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James was now on his side, lying on the floor in pain. He could feel a pulse in his abdomen and the presence of pressure on his chest. Weakly, James let out a groan. All the energy had left James's body and he was left weak beyond compare.
The sound of frantic footsteps in the hall and the pounding on his door sent pulses of pain through James's body. The pain sharpened and in his mind's eye James could see a worried Lily pounding on his door and saying something. However, all James could hear was a dull buzzing.
"Help me, Lily." James struggled to say the words that came out in a whisper and black spots appeared in his vision.
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Damn, that boy is going to be my undoing!
"Hang in there, Jamie."
Stepping back, lily closed her eyes and imagined the door in her mind. The image of a strong wind blowing the door off its hinges, over James, and onto the bed flashed in her mind. Opening her normally emerald-colored eyes, the color had now intensified and her eyes glowed in the weak light of the early morning as a strong wind picked up in the hallway. The clanging of James's door plaque against the wall and pictures shacking were the only sounds in the door besides the howl of the wind. Lily's blood-red hair whipped wildly around her face and the curls in her hair tangled together. The wind blew at the blockade between Lily and James and ripped the wooden door off its hinges revealing James crumpled on the floor in pain.
"James!" Immediately, Lily rushed forward and knelt by his side.
Is he breathing? Is he hurt? Is he even ALIVE?
Lily started to hyper-ventilate (she may be a vampire but breathing is a hard habit of getting out of) before she realized that she should check his pulse. Placing her index finger and middle finger above his neck Lily could feel James's weak pulse beat radiate from his body.
Oh God, weak pulse in a human equals soooo not good!
"Winguardium leviosa, James, I don't know if you can hear me but I am taking you to the hospital wing."
"No!" James's eyes immediately flew open and Lily was overcome by his strong pulse that had, only a few minutes before, been so weak that he could have been considered on the verge of death.
Struggling to maintain control of her hungar Lily spoke with both worry and impatience, "James you MUST go to the hospital wing! I thought…I Thought you were going to die…" …and that I might have to change you to save your life.
"I'm alright Lily," James's breathing and pulse and returned to normal, "set me down."
"Oh right." Gently, Lily laid James down on his bed.
God, look at his body! Is it even legal for a human wizard to look that hot? Between his smell, his pulse, and his chest James is like a vamp girl's dream meal!
"In my family most guys go through this time between their seventeenth and eighteenth birthday where they randomly collapse into fits of pain where they can't breathe and their pulse becomes really weak. It's almost like we're on the verge of death for a few excruciating minutes." James paused, "Hey, excrutiating is such a Mooney word!"
"Mooney word? And when did this start in your family?"
"I don't know it goes back generations. Mooney is Remus."
Got it! So James knows too! Full moon werewolf, Mooney Remus.
"James I think we should look into your family history."
"Awwww, I hate research."
Lily just rolled her eyes and turned to exit from the room.
"By the way Lils, can you put my door back?" Lily continued walking, "You look really hot in that top too! Wear it more often!"