Avoiding Voldemort or Not
Author: LilyHeartsJames
Disclaimer: Dude I'm only fifteen… when Harry Potter was first created I think I was like, in kindy or something. JK DEFINITELY created Harry Potter. I didn't even know how to WRITE my name let alone spell it.
Dedication: To… my animals. The ones that are dead and alive. I love you all.
Notes: Okay! I was so relieved to find so many reviews! Gosh, there were like a billion and they ALL made me smile! I made it OVER one hundred. This story will have MORE then APON. So thanks to all you reviewers, I appreciate you all. Thank you so much for making me smile.
Oh and just incase you're interested, I created a new story. But surprisingly, it's not a Lily/James one. Or Harry Potter for that fact. It's my firstest ever ONE TREE HILL story! It's a one shot, and it's about the fishing trip when Lucas and Keith became Blood Brothers. Do me a favour and take a look at it, and tell me if it sucked, if it was awesome, if it was okay, or if it was great. Actually any feed back would be awesome.
Thanks! Anyways onto the chapter!
Chapter eight of Avoiding Voldemort or Not
As Lily Evans stood staring at the hospital doors a thought ran through her mind.
What if her father had left work early? He was often doing that lately and there was a chance that he might have.
And there was only one way for her to find out before she went and got herself into trouble.
Thinking of her home, Lily turned left and Apparated away, not knowing that two people she cared about had just Apparated in front of the hospital and without stopping they hurried inside.
Lily walked up the path towards her front door, and her heart began to race. When she opened the door, she was expecting, hoping to find her father sitting in the lounge room, watching TV and wondering when his youngest daughter would be coming home.
As Lily walked into the house she soon realized that her dad wasn't watching TV, he wasn't anywhere in sight. Lily climbed the stairs and looked all over the house, even though her worst fears were telling her she was fighting a losing battle.
Sighing, Lily turned and Apparated once more to the hospital, this time determined to set foot inside.
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Sirius Black and Becky Taylor walked along the foot path, talking and laughing about nothing in particular.
They seemed happy, and clueless about what was happening a street away from them, until they spotted a humungous crowd of people running and screaming.
A man and a six year old girl, both with chestnut brown hair were hurrying towards them.
"Excuse me, what's going on?" Sirius asked politely.
"There are people everywhere. People killing people. And they… they have these light stick things and there's flashes of green and red and-"
"Shit!" Sirius exclaimed and Becky looked at him worriedly.
"Daddy" the little girl said tugging on her father's arm.
"What is it Charlotte?" the man asked his daughter who looked close to tears.
"What about James and Lily? Do you think they will be okay?"
"James… Lily" Becky whispered and Sirius' face went white.
"C'mon, let's go. We have to help. Sir, take you're little girl and get as far away from here as you can" Sirius instructed and the man picked his daughter up and hurried off.
Sirius and Becky turned and ran down towards the street that they could hear yelling and screaming from. They ran as fast as they could and pulled their wands out as they turned the corner.
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"James be careful" Danny warned his son as they hurried through the hospital halls. Luckily they hadn't run into anyone, yet.
As they crept along silently, they heard voices coming from around the corner. James stopped dead and Danny looked around. He caught sight of a door a motioned for James to follow him inside.
They managed to get inside undetected and Danny looked out the small window that was on the door. "I think we've lost them"
James looked around the room curiously, and saw something that looked quite out of place.
A lonesome cup of coffee was sitting on the table; steaming rising from it but no one was drinking it. He looked around suspiciously and got a cold feeling, a feeling they were being watched.
"Dad we gotta get out of here, now" James said and Danny stared at him.
"Did you bring you're cloak?"
James looked at the ground, feeling stupid. That was of course a smart option. "I didn't think I'd need it"
Danny groaned and looked around at the room.
"That's great James. Has everything I taught you been a waste?"
"No! I just… didn't think I'd need it that's all. I'm sorry"
Danny sighed. "From now on keep it with you no matter what. Its times like these that we need to step up and take bigger responsibilities and think about safety"
"Dad?"
Danny turned to look at James.
"What?"
James paused for a second.
"I… I'm worried about Lily. We haven't seen her and what if she's been caught?"
Danny closed his eyes.
"Don't think like that, come on let's get going"
"No ones going anywhere" a voice in the dark corner said so suddenly James jumped.
Whoever the voice belonged to stepped out, and James glared at him.
Lucius Malfoy hadn't changed much since James had last seen him. Sure his hair was longer but his cold grey eyes hadn't changed one bit. They were dark, and cold and even had a red glint in them as they watched James carefully, never leaving his own hazel ones.
"What do you want Malfoy?" James asked glaring daggers at him.
"I was just enjoying a cup of coffee; at least until you showed up with you're pathetic muggle loving father that is"
"Well we'll be on our way then" Danny said, his hand on the door handle.
"You're not going anywhere"
"Yeah maybe so but incase you can't count, there's two of us, and one of you" James said smirking.
"Really? Well I guess you're the one that can't count Potter" Malfoy pulled up his left sleeve and pressed a long white finger onto his Dark Mark that was tattooed onto his left arm. As soon as he pressed it, a dozen people in long black cloaks appeared in the room, all brandishing their wands at James and his father.
"Seize them" Malfoy said lazily and James and Danny were grabbed by two Death Eaters from behind.
"What's the matter? To scared to fight us on your own so you had to get you're pathetic Death Eater friends to fight for you?" James taunted. Malfoy flushed a deep red and said; "Take them to the Dark Lord, I'm pretty sure he will be delighted to see them"
James and Danny were hoisted out of the room, and taken down a corridor.
-
Lily looked left and right before entering the hospital. She did so once again when she got inside. She kept getting the feeling that someone was watching her, and she didn't like it. She kept her wand held at the ready, which was what Moody had told them to do. Whatever happened, never relax you're hold on the wand until all the danger is past.
Lily hurried along the corridor, looking over her shoulder as she went.
The feeling of being watched never left her, and as she turned a corridor, she knew why:
There were two Death Eaters there, making out. Lily raised her eye brows and heard the man moan; "Oh Bella!"
Not wanting to be caught, Lily took a step backwards and walked into the wall.
She turned around and shrieked, it had not been a wall, it was another Death Eater.
"Er, hi" she said nervously.
She couldn't see, but she knew the Death Eater was smirking underneath his mask.
"Bye" she said and turned and ran as fast as she could down the opposite corridor.
"Will you two stop playing tonsil hockey and help me catch this little Mudblood?" the Death Eater yelled as he hurried in the direction Lily was going.
The other two broke apart and joined the chase as Lily hurtled along the corridor.
She turned right, and continued running flat out. When she turned another corner she found herself in a deserted corridor. She was breathing heavily but she didn't stop. She ran some more until finally she couldn't run anymore. She stopped and leaned against the wall breathing sharply.
"I lost them" she whispered as she turned and looked out at the corridor which was still deserted.
She felt a tap on her shoulder and she dreadfully turned around.
"Hello Mudblood" Lily stepped back but was grabbed from behind.
"Argh! Let me go!" she yelled and struggled with her captor but they were too strong.
They dragged her down a few corridors, past a hall filled with people who were leaning against a wall and having a wand pointed at them by a couple of Death Eaters. When they saw Lily they began whispering until they were threatened to be quiet.
"The Dark Lord has been wandering when he would be seeing you again Mudblood" the one who had tapped her shoulder before said gleefully.
Lily sighed.
"The 'Dark Lord' is a pain in the-"
"We turn left here" The Death Eater holding her said to the other one. The Death Eater nodded and they walked along the hall until they were standing in front of a door.
They knocked and waited until told to enter.
-
"Sirius! Sirius wait!" Sirius stopped and turned to Becky.
"We have to help them Becky. There's no doubt about it"
"Moody will kill us"
"Well in times like these we need as much help as we get"
Becky sighed.
"I'm worried about Lily and James. What if they-"
"Becks stop worrying about the what ifs and worry about helping these people"
They hurried off again and as soon as they arrived they were bombarded with spells shot by Death Eaters.
"Impedimenta!" Sirius yelled, pointing at one nearby. The Death Eater fell back onto the side walk and didn't move again.
""Petrificus Totalus!" Becky shouted as Sirius began dueling with one.
The Death Eater blocked it and sent the Cruciatus curse at her but she ducked and it hit another Death Eater. She stunned the one who sent it her way, stunned the one who'd been hit with the unforgivable and stunned one who had been aiming at Sirius.
"This is some serious shit" she muttered as she ran off and dueled another Death Eater.
-
"So… Two Potters… Potter senior and Potter junior…" Voldemort cackled with evil laughter and looked at the two Potters who looked very much alike, besides the fact that Danny had a few grey hairs.
James glared at him and said; "where's Lily?"
"The Mudblood? I'm not exactly sure. I figured she'd be here by now but she hasn't been caught"
James smiled, despite the fact he was being held by a strong Death Eater who had foul breath and was breathing down his neck.
"Yet" Voldemort added but it didn't wipe James' smile off of his face, even though he began to feel even more worried.
There was a nock on the door and Voldemort sighed.
"Enter" he said lazily and the door swung open, and James felt like swearing.
Lily was standing there, in between two tall Death Eaters.
"Ah! The Mudblood! Nice of you to join us Miss. Evans" Voldemort said smirking. Lily was pushed roughly into the room by the taller one and the shorter one stepped in.
"My Lord, Bellatrix is bringing the Mudblood's father in"
"Thank you Lestrange. You may go"
The Death Eater dubbed 'Lestrange' bowed and left, shutting the door.
"My Lord, I must speak with you"
"Avery whatever you have to say can be said in front of these blood traitors… and the Mudblood"
The Death Eater sighed. "Bellatrix and Lestrange let this one" he shook Lily roughly.
"Leave her alone" James snarled glaring at Avery.
Voldemort raised an eyebrow in interest at James but turned to Avery.
"Go on"
"They let the Mudblood escape"
"Okay let's get this straight" Lily said angrily. "Stop saying 'the Mudblood' as if I'm not here. It's weird"
Voldemort seemed to think this over and decided to ignore her.
Avery continued. "Bellatrix and Lestrange seem to have their minds on other things when they should be doing their job. I found them just now, and then I had to chase Evans"
Lily smirked.
"I see. I shall talk to them about it, possibly even punish them. Thank you for informing me Avery"
Avery nodded and the door opened and Bellatrix sidled into the room holding Mark Evans.
Lily's face drained of its colour and Bellatrix walked over to Voldemort.
"I have the Mudblood's father My Lord"
"Thank you Bellatrix. And may I add you're lip sticks smudged"
Bellatrix blushed and wiped her mouth with her sleeve.
"No, no. Here" Voldemort said pointing to her right cheek.
"No my left you're right" He said rolling his eyes.
Danny gave the pair a weird look and Voldemort shook his head.
"Well isn't this lovely, all of us here together" Voldemort said looking around the room and smirking.
"Yay" Lily muttered sarcastically but if Voldemort heard her he didn't make any signs to indicate that he had.
But James and Danny had. Danny gave her a look that simply told her to shut up and James smirked at her.
"Now… Miss. Evans I have a little matter I'd like to discuss with you"
"And you went through all of this, just so you could discuss a 'little' matter?"
"Yes I did. Now I ask the questions, you answer truthfully"
"Or what?" Lily asked glaring at him.
Voldemort smiled cruelly.
"If not you're father dies"
Lily didn't say anything and stayed silent.
"Well? Do you agree to the terms of condition?"
Lily glanced at her father who watched her with a scared look upon his face.
When she looked back at Voldemort, her face had pure hatred all over it.
"I have no choice do I?"
"No I'm afraid not" Voldemort replied happily.
Lily sighed.
"Let us begin"
-
"Black! Taylor! What the hell are you two doing here?" Moody asked storming over to them.
"Helping. We were nearby and heard the commotion so we decided to help out" Sirius replied as he and Becky walked along the streets towards him.
"You two shouldn't be here! Neither of you are Aurors or Aurors in Training for that matter"
"Well we're helping and that's that?" Becky replied as a cruse flew over her left shoulder.
Moody glared at them.
"Where
are Potter and Evans?"
Sirius and Becky looked at each other and
back at him.
"Here aren't they?" Sirius asked frowning.
Moody stared at them, not wanting to appear worried.
"They were. Not only are those two missing but so is Dan. Any idea where they might have…" Moody trailed off as realization flitted across his heavily scared face.
"The hospital" he muttered to himself.
"Sorry?" Becky asked curiously.
"Nothing. Stay here and-"
"No, we're coming. James, Lily and Danny are family and we are not staying here and pretending nothing's wrong" Sirius said angrily.
Becky nodded and Moody sighed.
"Fine. Meet me in Hogsmeade. Now"
Moody turned left and after glancing at each other quickly Becky and Sirius Apparated too as well.
When they looked around they realized they were standing in front of the iron gates leading to Hogwarts.
"I never thought I'd be seeing this place in a hurry" Sirius said smiling.
Becky smiled as she saw him smile fondly at the castle that had become his home.
"We don't have time to be standing around staring at the castle, now get inside" Moody said bossily and tapped the gates. They opened and he pushed the two inside.
-
"Are you, or are you not dating James Potter?"
Lily cocked an eyebrow.
"What kind of question is that?"
"Answer me now. Don't answer a question with a question, answer it with an answer" Voldemort snarled.
Despite the fact that his girlfriend was being made to tell Voldemort information, James smiled as he remembered Lily saying those exact words the day they had the fight last year. Carly had wanted James to quit hanging out with Lily and he had done so.
"No I'm not" Lily lied.
Voldemort glared at her as he pointed his wand at her father.
"I answered you!" Lily said angrily.
"Yes… you did answer me. But you lied"
"I didn't lie! I'm telling the-"
"Lies!" Voldemort hissed angrily.
Lily sighed. "I'm not lying"
"Voldemort always knows when he is being lied to little girl"
"Yes and oddly Voldemort talks about himself in third person"
"Do not take that tone with him! He is the greatest wizard of all time! You treat him with respect!" Bellatrix hissed, her black eyes staring at Lily as if she wanted nothing more then to curse her right there and then.
"I will not show respect to someone who goes around threatening to kill people I care about!" Lily replied, just as angry.
"Yes you will!" Bellatrix snarled.
"No, I won't! And you're wrong, Dumbledore is the greatest wizard of all time!"
Bellatrix shrieked with anger.
"Honestly how do you put up with her my Lord? She is a stubborn smart arse who tries to be witty and smart!"
"Better then playing 'tonsil hockey' with Lestrange when you should be doing you're job properly!" Lily snapped and Bellatrix stared at her in shock.
"I did no such-"
"I saw you!" Lily and Avery shouted at the exact same time.
If James and Danny hadn't been held by wand point then they would have burst out laughing.
"ENOUGH! Bellatrix, don't lie! I know when I'm being lied to and you will be punished for it later"
Bellatrix stared at Voldemort as if he was crazy. Lily smirked at her.
"And you, lie to me once more and you're father will be as good as dead"
"That threats getting a bit old don't you think?" Lily asked, her blood boiling.
"Fine! Avada-"
"Yes I'm bloody going out with James sodding Potter!" Lily snapped before he could finish the spell.
He smirked. "Good. Is you're relationship a sexual one?"
Lily gaped at him. Honestly, could he be any ruder?
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me, now go on Mudblood. Answer me"
"No"
"Lies… you know what will happen Evans if you continue to lie to me"
"What does it matter?"
"Trust me, it matters"
"It's none of you're business" Lily snapped and Voldemort smirked.
"All of you out, except for the Mudblood and her muggle father. Bellatrix, Avery you two must stay with me and make sure these two disgraces to the Wizarding Community don't get away. And you two" Voldemort nodded at James and Danny's captors. "You take them and lock them in a separate room each. Their partners in crime will be with them soon… possibly"
Lily thought she would never hate anyone more then she used to hate James Potter. But the truth was she had always hated Voldemort more then James. But she no longer hated James anymore.
James and Danny were taken from the room and everything else was quiet.
"Are you going to answer me?" Voldemort's voice was cold and merciless, like his eyes which were a bright malicious red.
"Are you going to let us go or kill us all? Surely the latter"
"I've had enough of you're smart arse comments Mudblood! You did this to me the last time I had you and you won't do it to me again I assure you…"
"I already have" Lily replied rolling her eyes.
"Crucio!" Voldemort yelled his voice louder then before. He pointed his wand at Lily and her captor dropped her, and she began to feel immense pain like never before. She felt as if a thousand knives were digging into her body, her fingers were being bent and broken, her toes were being chopped off (A/N: right now my toes are curling into their safety position. I have a phobia of people touching my toes and ANYTHING happening to my toes. Don't laugh). Lily tried not to let the pain get the better of her and kept telling her self not to scream.
Don't scream, don't scream. Don't show him he's getting the better of you… be strong…
Voldemort flicked his wand and the pain increased and this time she couldn't help it. She screamed out loud and he smirked. He was enjoying this that much was obvious.
"Stop it! You're hurting her!" her father said over and over but Voldemort ignored him.
Finally when he next flicked his wand Lily felt the pain decrease, and then leave her body. She was left on the ground, shaking all over and sweating.
"So, are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"
Lily sat up shakily and glared at him.
"What do you want?" she asked, never had she been so angry in her life. Her captor came and stood behind her, and pushed her onto her knees.
"I want you to answer me"
"It's none of you're business what I do or don't do in relationships! And for that matter who I'm in a relationship with!"
They were glaring at each other, none of them wanting to look away when Lily suddenly realized her mistake:
Lily laughed and James rolled over on top of her and started tickling her.
"Argh! Shhh! My parents will hear us!"
He just laughed and tickled harder.
"LILY? What's going on?" she heard her fathers voice yell from his own room.
"Um, nothing! Freckles was just doing this weird scary dance move thing and it was funny!" Lily called back and James started kissing her neck.
"Well do you want me to come in and sort him out?"
"I…oh… I mean NO! I have it covered!" Lily tried to wiggle out of James' reach but it was impossible as he started nibbling her ear softly.
She pulled the front of his shirt and pressed her lips against his and he pulled his shirt off and threw it at Freckles' cage, blocking his view…
When Voldemort pulled out of her mind he was smirking happily.
"Did you have fun Miss. Evans?"
"You sick bastard" Lily said attempting to get up and pounce on him.
Her captor held her in place as she struggled against him.
"Now, now be a good girl. Now tell me-"
"You've got what you wanted now let me go!" Lily shouted and her father watched her worriedly.
"Oh this isn't what I want. I want a lot more"
"You're sick and twisted!" Lily said disgustedly.
"No, no, no. That's not what I want. I want you to feel immense suffering…"
Lily would have loved nothing more then to wipe the damned smirk off of his face as she glared at him with as much hate as she could muster.
-
"Ah! Alastor, to what do I owe this pleasure?" Albus Dumbledore asked when Moody, Sirius and Becky walked into his office.
"We have a problem, Albus. You heard of the Death Eaters raiding the Muggle Streets of London?"
"Yes I did" Dumbledore replied nodding. He looked at Becky and winked.
"I'm afraid to say that Daniel Potter and his son, James and Lily Evans have gone missing. They were helping out at the raid and then they strangely disappeared. I have a feeling they went to the hospital, St Radcliffes where there are people being held hostage. Evans says that-"
"That's where Lily's dad works!" Becky said cutting across Moody. "Sorry" she muttered when Moody glared at her.
He looked back at Dumbledore who was frowning.
"We need to get into contact with the rest of the Order and see if we can get some people in there"
"What's the 'Order' about?" Sirius asked nosily.
Moody ignored him.
"Albus-"
"The Order of the Phoenix. A group of people wanting to help rid the world of Lord Voldemort and his followers" Dumbledore replied.
"Albus!" Moody growled.
"I want to join" Both Becky and Sirius said at the same time.
"No! They're too young" came a voice over near the door. They turned and saw Professor McGonagall enter.
"Hello Professor! Being missing me?" Sirius asked with a grin.
Becky elbowed him. "Professor why can't we join?"
"Because you are too young. We only let people who are willing to work for the Order and are older then the two of you are" McGonagall snapped.
"But we're of age!" Sirius said outraged.
"You can't argue with that Minerva" Dumbledore said seriously.
McGonagall frowned. "Why are you both here? What's going on"
"Dan Potter and his son plus Lily Evans are missing. I think they've gone to the hospital" Moody answered for her.
"We must assemble the Order and get help! Minerva I am asking you to take care of the school while I myself will go to the hospital"
"What if Voldemort's there?" McGonagall asked, looking worried.
"Whatever I have to do will be done"
McGonagall looked unsure but Sirius said; "whatever we have to do can we hurry? We kind of have to save a few lives here"
"You're not coming" Moody said as if Sirius was an idiot to even think that.
"We're here to help and that's what we're going to do. All the Aurors are back there fighting, we're here" Becky argued.
"You're not coming! You're to stay here and keep out of trouble and-"
"We're of age! You can't stop us" Sirius said as he and Moody stared at each other.
"Dumbledore? You handle this!" Moody said turning away.
"You may come, if you promise to follow these simple rules. One, if I tell you to get away as far as you can you will do so, understood?"
They nodded. "If we find them you must keep clean heads and do as you're told, no exceptions"
They nodded once again.
"And thirdly, if we need to leave on any circumstance the two of you will leave with us no matter what"
They glanced at each other before nodding.
"Good. Now we must get the Order and devise a plan and-"
"A plan? People we care about are missing!" Becky said angrily.
"Yeah! It's not like we need a map to find the Easter Eggs!" Sirius added and Moody glared at him.
"We need a plan so we can go about the rescue mission rationally. We can't just waltz into the hospital and expect to save the day. We must have a plan so we know what everyone is doing and where they will be, if you can't handle that then you can stay behind. Agree Albus?" Moody asked turning to the elderly Headmaster who nodded.
The other two sighed.
"Do what you have to do" Becky said sitting in a chair. Sirius stood behind her rested a comforting hand on her shoulder.
-
"Remus! There's a letter from Sirius, want to do the honors?" Emm asked as she walked in from the lounge room where the delivery owl had flown in and she handed it to him.
Remus who had been sitting at the table and sipping his coffee nodded and opened the letter.
His eyes skimmed it and a painful expression crossed his face.
"What's the matter?" Emm asked walking over and crossing her arms.
"It's Lily and James… and Danny. They're missing" he looked up to see the expression on his wife's face. It was shock and fear.
-
"I've alerted Remus and Emm… All I need to do now is send one to Peter and they'll arrive here shortly. Remus and Emm should be Apparating now, there's no way in hell they wouldn't drop everything and come back" Sirius said as he attached the letter for Peter to another owl's leg and it flew out of the window.
Becky was standing in the doorway to the Owlery as Sirius looked out the window and watched the owl fly off into the distance.
She walked over and stood beside him and they stood in silence until she broke it.
"Everything's going to be okay isn't it?"
Sirius turned to her.
"Of course, nothing's going to go wrong. Moody and Dumbledore are devising a plan right now as we speak. We'll get them back safely in no time"
She nodded as a tear slipped down her cheeks.
Sirius' face softened, he hadn't seen Becky cry before.
"Come here Becks" he said quietly as he pulled her into a tight hug. His chin rested on the top of her head as she sobbed into his chest.
-
The door opened and Lily was thrown into a room down the hall.
She fell onto the floor and whoever else was in there stood up and helped her to her feet as the door closed.
She looked up and noticed that it was Danny.
"You okay? You look a bit shaky" he said as she sat down on the floor and leaned her back against the wall.
"Yeah I'm fine… you?" she asked, but he knew she was lying.
"I'm obviously better then you. What happened?" he asked as he too sat on the floor and leaned against the wall beside her.
"He put the Cruciatus curse on me… he told me he wasn't putting up with my crap. Then the sick arse read my mind"
Danny sighed. "It's gonna be okay Lils, we'll get out of here in no time. Besides, Moody's bound to know that we're missing. Especially you and James, he's probably going mad for letting the two of you out of his sight"
Lily smiled. "Poor Moody. He'll probably never let us out of his sight from now on… and by the time he let's us go and help out in a raid we'll still be Aurors in Training… and we'll be fifty"
"You'll be very lucky if he lets you out even then" Danny replied and they both laughed softly.
"Everything's gonna be alright isn't it?" Lily asked as she looked at him.
He smiled and nodded. "Course it will" he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and hugged her closer to him, wanting her to know he wouldn't let anything happen to her.
-
"Okay so… how do you think we could possibly get out of here?" Mark asked as James stood leaning against the wall.
He shrugged. "I'm all out of ideas"
Mark sighed and sat down on the floor.
"Do you really care about Lily?"
James stared at him for a moment, wondering whether he should answer him or not.
"Yes… I do. I love her"
Mr. Evans nodded. "That's good to know"
"Um, Mark I know this isn't really the greatest time but… I wanted to er show you something"
James pulled a small box out of his pocket and passed it to him.
Mark took it and opened it, and whistled.
"You planning on giving this to my daughter?"
"I was going to… after I asked you first if it was okay. Weeks ago"
"What stopped you?" Mark asked as he examined the ring inside the box.
"We broke up. And I guess I thought it was stupid to ask her when we weren't together so… I waited until we got back together. And then I decided to wait until after Remus and Emm's wedding. I guess I'm waiting for the right time… whenever that comes around"
"Well… you have my permission. That is if we ever get out of this tip hole"
James grinned as Mark passed it back to him.
"Yeah… thanks. And you know I'll do anything and everything to protect her right?"
"Of course you will. I trust you with her"
James nodded.
Mark sat there and laughed.
"What?" James asked, looking up at him.
"It's just funny… the boy my daughter used to whine about giving her a hard time is standing here a changed man"
"Yeah well we all change sometimes. You should be proud of you're daughter Mr. Evans. She's a fine young lady… total fire crotch of course which I used to call her but only on the outside until you really get to know her on the inside, and on the inside is a beautiful young caring woman who would do anything for the people she cares most about… and of course she's absolutely gorgeous on the outside too and-"
"Okay… well it's nice to know that you used to refer to my daughter as 'fire crotch' James"
James laughed. "Well we used to get on each other's nerves once upon a time in a far away castle known as Hogwarts. We still do sometimes actually"
As James spoke he had a smile on his face.
"I always knew this would happen" Mark said as he watched James with an amused look on his face.
"What? Being held hostage by Voldemort?"
"No. Lily and you ending up getting married. She used to talk about you all the time. 'Potter did this' and 'Potter did that'. It drove us all crazy. We'd be like 'shut up Lily!' so she go to her room and talk to herself about how much of an arse you were"
They both laughed.
"Reminds me of someone else" James said grinning.
Flashback-
"Can you believe Evans made my hair turn pink?" sixteen year old James Potter fumed angrily as he stormed into his house. It was the Christmas holidays and while on the train James had paid Lily a visit and she had turned his hair pink, as he had just mentioned.
"Well maybe if you hadn't gone near Evans and told her that her eyes looked like slimy sludge then she might not have done it. Although it was funny" Sirius added and James frowned at him.
"I'm telling you that girl… more like a thing has it in for me! She's always yelling at me, and hexing me. She drives me bloody mad! I can't see why you can stand her" James said as he went into the kitchen and Sirius followed him.
"I'm not saying I can stand her… blimey she is annoying! Plus she can only just tolerate me more then you"
James groaned as he opened the fridge.
His mother and father were sitting at the table drinking coffee.
"Jesus that girl I mean thing pisses me off so much it aint funny"
"James!" his mother scolded. "Don't use that language in my house. Now who are you talking about?"
"Evans… again" Sirius said rolling his eyes.
"She turned my hair pink!" James said as he grabbed a can of Sunkist out of the fridge and passed one to Sirius.
"He told her that her eyes looked like sludge!" Sirius explained as he sat at the table and James followed suit.
"Yeah well this morning she told me my hair looked like tar!"
"And you told her just before that that her hair was the same colour as a carrot" Sirius told him and rolled his eyes.
"Yeah well it does! And she told me I was an idiot!"
"You told her she was frigid"
"She said I was pompous"
"You are" Heather said and James glared at his mother.
"Why is that you always side with her?"
Heather just smiled.
"Why is it that women side with women?" James asked grumpily.
"Because their women" his father replied smirking.
"Exactly! Evans always sides with Becky or Emm and-"
"Prongs can you please quit complaining about her? Maybe she turned you're hair pink but Danny changed it back for you so can you please stop talking about her 24/7? It's getting on my nerves!" Sirius howled and James stayed silent.
"I do not talk about Evans 24/7"
"Yes you do"
"Do not"
"Do too! It's always Evans this and Evans that!"
"Yeah well she annoys me!"
"You annoy her!"
"Only because she annoys me!"
"That's it I give up! I can't win with you!"
"Tell that to Evans! You know that girl just won't quit! She's always…" James continued ranting and not realizing that Sirius stuck his fingers in his ears.
When he saw that James had stopped talking he pulled them out.
"James you're going insane"
"Evans is making me insane! Padfoot can't you see that-"
"I swear if you don't shut up about her I'll tell her you like her"
James gasped. "You wouldn't!"
"Yes, I would"
"You can't do that! I'm you're best friend!"
"Yes I know. But if you keep talking about her then I think I'll end up insane"
"You probably already are! Whenever she's around-"
"That's it! I've had it! I'm telling her!" Sirius said getting up and walking out.
James snorted. "Yeah right!"
"Hello Mr. Evans may I please speak with Lily? I'm a friend from school"
James' eyes widened.
"Padfoot you hang up that phone right now or you'll regret it!" James said getting up and running into the hallway.
"I wasn't even on the felly tone! Ha! You believed me!"
"You are so dead!" James said as he tackled him to the floor.
"He likes her right?" Danny asked Heather as they watched both boys roll around on the floor.
"Well I think he does. He just has trouble admitting it"
Danny nodded. "Reminds me of us"
"Hmmm yes it brings back memories"
Danny chuckled.
"Well, I know one thing for sure. Our son's in love with the one girl he can't stand, and he doesn't even know it and that's what's killing him. We can sit around and listen to him harp on about her all day and know something he doesn't"
"Oh hush Danny" Heather said although she smiled.
They watched the two boys continue to roll around on the floor.
"Evans lover!"
"Snivellous snogger!"
Sirius gasped. "Evans snogger!"
"Snivellous lover!"
Danny and Heather sighed.
-End of flashback
James stood there grinning as he remembered that particular moment.
"James Potter!" a voice said coming from his pocket.
James looked down and pulled out his two way mirror and saw Sirius' face staring back at him.
"Padfoot?"
"No it's you're fairy godmother! Listen, we're making plans and we're coming to get you. Is everything okay?"
"Well me and Lily's dad are in separate rooms compared to Lily and my dad. And we don't know what's going on so you'd better hurry up and… I have to go, someone's coming!"
Sirius sighed. "Bye!" James stuffed the mirror back into his pocket as footsteps came down the hall. Mark was staring at James' pocket where the two way mirror had just vanished.
The door opened and a Death Eater stood there with his wand pointing into the room.
"The Dark Lord wants to see you Potter. Muggle, you stay where you are"
"You're not going to hurt him are you?" Mark asked anxiously.
The Death Eater leered at him. "Oh no, of course not"
James left the room as his captor took hold of him after shutting the door. They walked down the corridor, the Death Eater pointing his wand at him.
He sighed. He would have to face any foe that was thrown at him.
A/N: Well guys, super long chapter! It took me last night and some of today to finish this! Mainly because I got such awesome feedback!
Many thanks to: lilysevship09, Kira2667, Violet44, Rider Arya Svit-kona, griffindor-girl12, jalapeno1011, hollisterlove x3, bookworm1232, ihearthpfanfic, hrypotrox72, snaplappl21, girlbrighteyes, brianna24, 000kayko000, curliemmy, RemusheartsTonks, nightcrawlerfw, and Danfan789.
Thank you heaps guys! I really appreciate this!
Hey, you wanna know a secret? Okay! I like AVON heaps better then APON. And I think that's because I've written this better. I think I kind of improved in my writing and I just think that this one's better and more interesting. Because now they're on a journey to find who they are and they're trying to protect each other and stay safe.
Well anyways, that's my rambling over. Oh btw, I'm thinking of writing a prequel to APON. Maybe, just MAYBE! But not right now.
♥ always and forever, LilyHeartsJames