Chapter 22
"Oh my god!" Lily screamed as she saw her brother and his two best friends disappear in a blue light, "Albus? Al!? Did you see that?"
Her brother poked his head over the top of a squishy armchair nearby, "See what?"
"That!" said Lily, pointing at the empty spot where the three had been standing a second ago, "James, Fred and Lotte!"
"Why would I care about that dickhead?" Albus said boredly.
"Oh! Get over yourself Albus! Your brother, James, and his best friends just accidentally took a Portkey to Merlin-knows-where!" Lily shouted angrily, her red hair flaming behind her, and her eyes flashing furiously.
"You're the one who should get over their self, Pipsqueak, you are a firstie, I don't need to take orders from you!" Albus snapped.
"You are the most arrogant, self-centred, infuriating toerag I've ever met in my life Albus Severus Potter! I can't believe how little you care about your brother!"
The whole common room was now watching this family dispute, each one of them hanging on each of the Potters' every word, "Why should I care?" Albus shot back, "He wouldn't care if it was me! He'd probably be skipping for joy!"
"Take that back!" Lily screamed at him, "James cares about you more than you think! He'd be trying to help, rather than sitting there like an arsehole! I'm going to find someone who'll actually care!"
She stormed angrily from the common room, leaving Albus sitting in his chair, all eyes on him. He shrugged, and turned back to his book.
"Oi! Arsehole," Hugo Weasley said loudly, "Why aren't you going too, I'm only his cousin, and I'm thinking of going!"
"Oh no you don't," Rose stepped in, "You are only 11 Hugo Weasley, you are not going into some Death Eater death trap!"
"But Lily's only 11, she gets to go!" Hugo protested.
"Don't make me hex you," Rose said angrily, no one even noticed Albus sneaking out of the common room after his sister.
Lily was so angry she could have punched someone, why was Albus such an insufferable arse? Ugh!
"Dad!?" she was shouting in the hope that her father was wandering the castle, as he so often did when he visited, "Daddy!? HARRY JAMES POTTER WHERE ARE YOU!?"
"Yes!?" she heard a distant call of her father's voice coming from somewhere near the head's office.
"Daddy?" Lily ran towards the sound of his voice, she was crying now, and she leapt into his arms.
"Oh, Lily-Poo," Harry comforted her, stroking her long red hair, "Whats wrong sweetie?"
"James-Fred-Lotte-Portkey-GONE!" she said between stifled sobs.
"Whoa, whoa, slow down kiddo," Harry said slowly, "Say that again."
"We were in the common room and James opened a package and in it was a snitch and then it glowed blue, and it took Fred, Lotte and James away somewhere. I think it was a Portkey!" Lily said, her voice high and squeaky.
"WHAT!?" Harry roared loudly, "Ginny! Call everyone in the Order here, we have an emergency! Lils, where's Al?"
"Ugh! He didn't care, he's still in the common room," she scoffed, running into her mother's arms, as Ginny appeared at the bottom of the stairs to McGonagall's office.
"Ah," Harry said, somewhere between anger and sorrow could be heard in his voice, "I think I'll go and have a chat with him while the others arrive."
"No time for that, Harry" Ginny said, carrying Lily on her back, "They're already here."
James was swirling through blackness, the only thing that stopped him from going insane was the knowledge that Fred and Lotte were at his side, he could hear Freds cries of, "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON HERE!"
"I don't know!" James tried to scream back, but he couldn't hear himself through the swirling air around him. Suddenly, there was a jolt, and he was falling from a great height. He hit the ground with a huge smack, and was amazed that he didn't break any bones.
"Are you two okay?" he heard Lotte's slightly muffed voice next to him.
"Yup," Fred said, almost too casually, "James?"
"I'm fine," he lied, he was actually very worried, "Don't worry 'bout me. Wands out, d'you reckon?"
Lotte and Fred were silent, and James took this as a yes.
"Where are we?" asked Fred breathlessly.
"I know," James said, and amazed himself in saying it, "we're in the Little Hangleton graveyard. I've been here before."
"Really?" Fred said sceptically, "Who would visit this place?"
"Voldemort," James said simply, "That house up there was his father's, this is where he brought my dad in his fourth year."
"How do you know all this?" Lotte said bewilderedly.
"I saw it in my vision, you know, when we were in History," James replied easily.
His two friend nodded, heads turning to take in the surroundings. The moon was almost full, and could be seen behind vapoury clouds, it was shining an eerie white light along the many headstones, including the great white mausoleum, which had been empty for just over 3 years. There was a great hill in front of them, and on it was a grand house.
"Why does Voldemort keep bringing people here?" Fred asked confusedly.
"Must be a good Portkey spot," Lotte explained, "and maybe it's the last place the Aurors would expect."
"Yeah," said James dubiously, "Maybe."
"Why has no one realised we're here," said Fred.
"You're saying that like it's a bad thing," said Lotte.
"It is," said James, earning himself two incredulous looks, "The sooner Voldemort arrives, the sooner I can die, and kill him in the process."
"WHAT!?" Lotte and Fred shouted at the same time, "You can't do that James, you can't die!"
"I have to!" James shouted back at them, if it had been light they would have seen his eyes glow bright green with pure jealousy for his younger brother, "I have to be the hero, I have to die before they try and kill Albus!"
"James, you're not making sense!" Lotte screamed at the top of her voice, "You're scared, that's all, just sit here, and wait, I'm sure Lily will have told your dad we went missing, she was in the common room at the time!"
"But I have to die!" James shouted angrily, "it's the only way Voldemort will go forever."
"James," Lotte said, trying to calm him down, "Some of this just doesn't add up. Why would any Death Eater kill you? You're a Horcrux, killing you would kill their master!"
"They didn't mind torturing me in Hogsmeade the other day!" James said angrily.
"But remember what you said," Fred explained, "Yesterday you said that your mum said an Auror didn't stun the Death Eater who was torturing you, it must have been another Death Eater."
"Exactly," James said, as if it explained everything, "some of them would be willing to kill me! Or maybe they think that bringing me here will lure Albus here, and he'll try and save the day, then they can kill him and fulfil the prophesy."
"That doesn't add up either, James," Lotte said angrily, "the prophesy said His green-eyes will lead him to be marked as his father before him, and another will be lost in the means. That means he won't die, but he'll get a scar on his forehead and- Oh My Goodness!" she stopped mid sentence, a look of utter comprehension entering her face.
"What!?" James said quickly.
"Tell me again what you saw in the Mirror of Erutuf," said Lotte quickly.
"The what?" asked Fred, but James ignored him.
"I saw myself, but… with a scar on my forehead!" James' face lit up, and he understood too.
"Exactly! The prophesy was never about Albus!" said Lotte excitedly, "It's about you!"
"Wait, guys," said Fred, "hate to ruin your little moment, but the prophesy said 'his green eyes', hate to break it to you Jamie, but your eyes aren't green."
James' face fell, and Lotte's grin turned to a frown, "None of this adds up then."
James nodded in agreement, as did Fred, and the friends sat down on the ground. No one had yet noticed that James' eyes still had a green glow in them, a green glow of jealousy, of desire. He had to be the hero.
did anyone notice my little 'green eyes' thing? 10 points to anyone who can put two and two together, PLEASE REVIEW, the next chapter will be battle-ish, and the Order will arrive to save the day.
Until then, Mirandoo out xx
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P.S. I'm uploading the 1st chapter of the sequel A World of Fragile Things tonight, it will give a brief explanation of what happens in the fianl chapters of this story (which won't be uploaded for a while, since theres a couple of things I don't know how to phrase, there will be about 2 more chapters I think...)
A World of Fragile Things is written in 1st person from Lily's POV, please read and review...