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Chapter 6: Gringotts
Before Lily had had enough of Severus it was time to get ready, she disentangled herself from his warm limbs and began to dress. When she'd finished she bent over his sleeping form and kissed him, it was one of the few ways sure to make him. He murmured her name, his eyelids slowly opening and once again Lily was shot through with a pang of fear, she could not bear to loose him. Yet it was he who was in more danger than anyone. She sighed she could not change that, he was immovable on this subject
"I've seen to much of what the Dark Lord has done, over and over again, too stand by and do nothing when I know I can help"
She knew he was right of course, and she'd have done the same in his place, but it didn't mean she had to like it. Severus was up now and nearly dressed. Lily went into the store cupboard to get the polyjuice potion. By the time she returned he was ready.
"It's 1:40 we should be going." She told him, the look on his face told her plainly that he'd just been thinking the same thing she had.
"I don't know how you do it." He said his eyes holding hers. "I couldn't do it, watch you go out, alone every other night."
"I don't hold up well while you're gone Sev, but we do need to go." Lily took his hand and they left together.
In Dumbledore's office he was already ready to leave. He gave them the hairs for their polyjuice potion and they gave him his potions, they took it and left the castle. Together they left the grounds. They met up with the goblin in the Hog's Head. Then the four of them headed for the mountains. They apparated to a high cave north of Hogwarts.
"On foot from here," said Dumbledore they walked deep into the cave, they had no light from the outside to guide them only their wands showed the way. Deeper and deeper they went, for what seemed like hours. Then Dumbledore stopped hear a stretch of wall exactly like all the others. The goblin followed him and ran his hand down the wall, it was a door, and it opened. They stepped into the lowest level of Gringotts, it was perfect the Lestranges had one of there vaults, one of the oldest. It didn't take them long to get to the vault and once again it opened at the goblin's touch.
"We're looking for a cup, gold with two handles and a badger." Said Dumbledore, then a roar, a dragon's roar. "That's the alarm, we've got to go!" Said Severus Dumbledore looked at him,
"Fiendfyre."
"No. It's too dangerous." Severus said
"We must! I'll stop it." Dumbledore said firmly
"Lily get out of the vault, start running." She did and Severus set the vault alight, Dumbledore dropped the sword of Gryffindor while controlling the flames and it was consumed along with all the Lestranges other treasures. And as Lily ran upward out of the passage she heard the cup's piercing scream.
"We must leave him Severus." Dumbledore said of the goblin.
"But why?"
"To protect ourselves, we cannot be caught."
"But…"
"No time," said Dumbledore and they ran.
Finally they reach the cave's mouth they found Lily waiting for them. Tear-faced she seemed to glow in the pre-dawn light Severus could have kissed her but he wanted her as far away from there as possible, so he simply held her. "The goblin?" he asked
"He was a Death Eater; he's in the right hands now." Dumbledore replied coolly.
Severus and Lily both understood, Dumbledore would never imperious an innocent, never mind leave him in there. But a Death Eater was entirely different. They returned to the castle and collapsed in their beds.
With the morning came the news of the break-in, the Gringotts goblins maintained that nothing was stolen. "I wonder how long it will take them to tell Him." Severus said idly
"Hmm?" Lily asked
"The Lestranges."
"Oh, I would feel sorry for them,"
"Yes if we didn't know what they are."
"Yes."
Lily was right of course, Severus was there when the Lestranges told Him. He paused, his wand at the ready while in the next room, He discovered his loss, and He slaughtered everyone who didn't flee fast enough. And then he too paused mulling over what this meant.
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-Thank you all for reading this chapter of my story-
-Love Always-
-Lily-