Lily knew that she could never be safe. When she found out that she was a wizard from a family of muggleborns, she knew that she will never be safe. The villagers always attacked her, and the kingdom was never kind to her. She thought that had changed when she met James, and soon her life became safer.
Then she becane pregnant and she knew that false sense of security was over. She was forced to run away with Remus, and she protected them as much as she could. Now, James stand before her, and that sense of security was gone, they were found.
Lily lost her sense momentarily; she grabbed Remus and Harry's hand and ran deeper into the forest. She ran left, right, and then left. She ran in zigzag directions in order to confuse them. During their escape Lily let go of Remus's and Harry's hand; Remus grabbed his wand. They ran even faster until Harry tripped, and fell.
Suddenly a stupefy spell came their way and missed barely. Lily ran back to help Harry but another stupefy spell came toward them. Harry closed his eyes and a shield protected Lily from the stupefy spell. Lily smiled proudly at her son for a second, but soon lifted him up and started running toward Remus.
Remus grabbed both of them, and hid behind a tree.
Remus whispered "I'll distract them, and you run toward one of the creatures of the forest. They will hide you, and I will come and get you after I'm done dealing with them."
Lily glared at Remus "No Remus, the odds are not in your favor. If they capture you then you will be forced to go back."
Harry glanced at his mother and his uncle, and then looked up from their hiding place. He saw nothing, but he knew that the two strange men would find them soon.
As soon as Harry turned his head away, a stag and a dog where looking not too far away. The stag suddenly transformed into a man. James glanced at the dog, it was sniffing the air, trying to catch the scent of their long ago friends. The dog suddenly stopped when it saw James, and also transformed back into a man.
Sirius looked around and said "I think they went this way."
James just nodded and started walking in that direction.
Sirius sighed "James, they ran away for a reason, they don't want to come back."
James ignored Sirius "Turn back into Padfoot, maybe we can find their scent again."
Sirius stopped walking "James, are you even listening to me? Lily and Remus do not want to come back, they probably heading to another kingdom along with their son! Lets just leave them alone."
James turned around and growled "The kid is not Remus's son. And I will not allow them to leave the Gryffindor Kingdom!"
James continued walking, not bothering to check if Sirius will follow. Sirius was stunned for a moment but then started running after James.
Sirius caught up with James, and panted "Prongs, what you mean that the kid isn't Remus's son?"
James stopped walking and muttered "Did you even get a look at the kid? I only got a glance of him, but I am sure he isn't Remus's son. He looks more like…me."
Sirius eyes widened "Are you sure James? I mean Lily wouldn't leave if it was yours…or maybe that was the reason that she did leave?"
James gave Sirius a questioning look "What are you talking about Padfoot?"
Sirius ignored James's question and continue with his theory "I thought that Lily left because she had Remus's kid. But now you say that that wasn't Remus's kid but yours. So Lily should not have left since that was your kid but left for a different reason. Lily never like being pushed around, but maybe she was scared because someone forced her to leave…"
James just stared at his best friend during his rambling. James was taking in the information but to him it did not add up.
"Okay Sirius, lets say your theory was right and someone forced Lily to leave. But who forced her to leave, and why would they do that?"
Sirius did not look at his best friend for in fear of telling James who he thought would be able to do that. They're a whole load of people who would force Lily to leave, especially Queen Victoria. James has always adored the idea of the perfect family. James thought that his mother was perfect; there was no fault in her.
Sirius of course had a completely different idea; Queen Victoria was not originally from the Gryffindor Kingdom. Everything in her attitude suggested that she probably moved here, but was not born here. Queen Victoria had all the attributes that pointed that she could have come from the Ravenclaw or even the Slytherin Kingdom.
James, of course, got tired of Sirius's quietness and yelled "Look Sirius we can stand here and wait for you to stop thinking, or we can find Lily, Remus, and the kid."
Sirius jumped at James's yelled but nodded his head anyway; it's time to find them.
Lily was frightened, if they were brought back to the Kingdom then certain consequences would be held. She looked at Remus, who was keeping watch. Lily knew that Remus would be the first to die since of his "curse." Lily just wanted to find James and Sirius, and cast an oblivate on them; just like all the other men who had stumble to her home. All those men just remembered emerald eyes, and spin tales of what had happen in the forest. When Remus came home from visiting the village, he would tell them stories of men who saw "the maiden."
Lily looked at her son. Harry was sitting behind, and glancing around to make sure where they would run if they were found.
Harry knew the moment he saw James, that he met his father. Emerald eyes met Emerald eyes, and Harry spoke quietly "So my father is the prince of the Gryffindor Kingdom?"
Remus looked sadly at Harry, and Lily could only nod sadly.
Harry looked away from their eyes "So why are we in hiding? He can protect us, we won't die."
Remus and Lily laughed softly, and Lily said "James can't protect us, especially if someone higher than him wants to kill us."
Harry's eyes widened "That means either the King or Queen wants to kill us."
Remus nodded "Yes Harry, and if we are brought back to the Kingdom, then we will be murder."
All three of them jumped slightly when they heard a familiar bark.
Remus grabbed tightly on his wand, and whispered "I will distract them, and you two will run for safety."
Remus gave them no time to argue, and jumped out of their hiding place to confront their intruders.
James saw Remus come out of nowhere, and looked around for Lily and her son.
Sirius stared straightly into Remus's eyes "Moony we just want to talk, we won't hurt you."
Remus laughed softly "It's not you that I'm scared of. Why can't you just leave us alone?"
James was about to talk but Sirius yelled "Accio Remus's wand!"
Remus was surprised when his wand flew out of his hand and into Sirius's hand.
Sirius smirked "It would be much safer if you didn't have your wand."
Sirius pointed his wand at Remus and said "It is also safer if we talked in the castle."
Lily was scared and whisper to Harry "Stay here."
Lily jumped out and yelled "Stupefy!"
The spell was fired but Sirius ducked out of the way. James was surprised that Lily came out, but then grabbed his wand and yelled "Accio Lily's wand." Lily's wand flew out of her hand, and she lunged toward it.
James caught her, and told her "Lily we just want to talk."
Lily snarled "Yeah, then why can't we talk here? Why try to take us to the castle?"
Remus ran toward Lily, blocking her from Sirius and James.
Remus talked in a soft voice "Why didn't you leave Lily?"
Lily glared at Remus "And leave you to die. I would never abandon you, especially to your death."
James was surprised at Lily's words "Lily we would never kill Remus or you."
Lily narrowed her eyes at James "You take us back to the castle, then you are practically leading us to our death."
Harry walked out of his hiding place. Everyone became quiet, until Lily said "Harry, go and don't look back."
Harry ignored his mother and said "Please my lord, don't take my mom and my uncle back to the castle. Uncle Moony is a werewolf, and the King will kill for that. My mother is never frightened but you threaten to take us away from the forest is scaring her to death."
James looked at the boy. Lily said his name was Harry, ironically named after his Grandfather. The boy was a Potter, he look almost exactly like James when he was little. The only things that Harry inherited from Lily were his sun-glowed skin and glowing emerald eyes.
James's eyes found Harry's eyes and said "I think someone needs to explain what happen all those years ago."
