Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter because I am not the lovely JKR.
Hey, I'm really getting on this story. I've had so many ideas, it's actually flowing really great. Anyway, I hope you enjoy! ~May
Chapter 9
Lily arrived back at home, much to the dismay of her older sister. Petunia had glared at her sister.
"It's lovely to see you Tuney." Lily told her cordially despite the kid's nickname.
"Whatever." Petunia growled out before storming to her room and slamming the door.
"Pay her no mind; she just had a fight with Vernon this morning." Sarah Evans told her daughter who just shrugged and dragger her own stuff towards the room next to her sister's.
"Halden and I broke up." Lily told her mother when she followed Lily into the room.
"What?" Sarah looked surprised.
"I caught him kissing another girl and he tried to deny it, but I saw it and he freaked out. It doesn't matter." Lily shrugged and her mother looked at her curiously.
"There's another boy isn't there?" Sarah questioned gently and Lily slowly nodded. Neither of them saw Severus Snape wandering around in the garden below Lily's open window.
"Yeah there's another boy, I can't believe I ever fell for him though. I always swore that I never would." Lily sighed and leaned against the night stand that stood just below the window.
"Is it Severus?" Sarah looked hopeful; she'd always liked him for some reason.
"No mum, Sev and I haven't spoken in over a year. He really hurt me mum." Lily sounded dejected and Severus froze beneath the window. He knew he'd hurt her, but still to have her say it so plainly was, shocking.
"Who is it then?" Sarah was now just as curious as the seventeen year old boy standing below her window.
"You remember how I used to come home from school and I always complained about the next thing James Potter had gotten up to? How much he annoyed me with his constant asking me out?" Lily ducked her head slightly.
"Yeah, I think everyone remembers it." Sarah laughed lightly and lily gave her a slightly crooked smile.
"He- uh, he kissed me during the Battle of the Bands and that was the moment I realized that I like him. I don't know when it happened, but I've slowly fallen in love with him." Lily barely whispered, but both Sarah Evans and Severus Snape heard it.
He had thought of apologizing, but now, he just disappeared, he ran back the two blocks and to his own house. No one in the Evans family but Petunia knowing he'd been there, Petunia never breathed a word though.
Several days into vacation Lily had gone out for a quiet walk alone, thinking about James and wondering if it was possible to ever tell him that she'd like to go out with him. He was James though, and after chasing her for six years, what if the moment she finally decided to let her love him and vice versa he just threw her to the side? The battle simply won. Lily had never unpacked from returning home, she simply wore clothes that were in her closet, but she wondered if she should unpack a bit. Deciding that she'd better, Lily turned around to go back home and that was when she realized something was incredibly wrong.
There was a giant plume of green smoke hovering over her house. It took the shape of the Dark Mark ever so slowly. Lily's breath caught and she began to run towards her home, not even thinking of the danger that would await her there. Lily dove through the front door and looked around; everything was dark suggesting that the lights had been hit by raging spells. Slowly Lily crept up the stairs, dodging the squeaky spots and crept towards her bedroom wand at the ready. She slid inside and found no one, nothing had been touched; she gently picked up her trunk and moved it towards the door, if she had to make a quick getaway she was going to take her school things. Then she pressed onward down the hall. Her sister's room was just as it had been before, so she headed towards the door at the very end. It was slightly ajar and as she reached it there were distinct sounds of shallow breathing.
Lily held her breath as she peered through the open doorway, there was a burst of light and Lily quickly blocked it with one of her own spells.
"I told you that if we sent the mark up early she'd come running." A gruff voice said from a corner and she sent a spell at it, it ricocheted off their 'protego' and caused a moment of light to see her family being held hostage by two beafy Death Eaters.
"Stupid mudblood." The other spat and Lily stiffened slightly at the name.
"Shut up Antonin." The first one snapped and in their momentary distraction Lily sent another spell at the pair.
"Fiesty fighter. The Dark Lord would even take pleasure in this filth." Antonin was smiling with mirth and then they both shot spells at Lily who deflected them easily sending her own curses at them.
Two distinct cracks sounded outside her house and Lily turned only slightly, almost letting her guard down.
"I think it best if we teach this scum a lesson. Don't you think so Rodolphus?" Antonin asked with a smirk.
"Let's." Rodolphus replied and he turned his wand on her father.
"Expelliarmus!" Lily shouted in desperation but Antonin blocked it from reaching them.
"Do it now." Antonin growled and a flash of green light issued from Rodolphus' wand and her father was dead before her eyes.
Lily's eyes started to tear up blurring her vision, her throat clogged with tears.
"Evans, get out of the way." A gruff voice said from behind her and she recognized it as Alastor Moody, the renowned Auror.
"We'll take it from here." Another voice came, one she didn't recognize.
"They've already killed my dad; I can't take my eyes off them." Lily choked out.
"When we come in we want you to leave." Alastor told her and they stepped into the room.
She saw their reflection in the corner of the bedroom mirror; they were standing directly behind her. Lily realized she'd left the address to the house she was going to in her bedroom. Lily slowly backed up and started to head back to her room. Alastor was watching her with his eye.
"What are you doing Evans?" He asked.
"The address to where I'm going, it's in my room." Lily whispered trying not to alert the Death Eaters.
"Kingsley go with her." Alastor tipped his head slightly and Kingsley headed out into the hall.
"I'm just going to get the address from my room." She told him, trying not to sound like she was protesting.
Kingsley nodded and followed her, still aiming his wand toward the master bedroom. Lily grabbed the little slip of paper from off her dresser, stared hard at the address, nodded at Kingsley and then apparated. What Lily found was not at all what she was expecting. The Potter's had what looked like a small, quaint home, but on further investigation stretched back quite a far ways accommodating at least 100 people. It was, if anything, a modest mansion. The door opened on the sound of her apparition and someone with messy hair in his silhouette was seen.
"Who's there?" It was James; Lily breathed a sigh of relief.
"James it's me." Lily stepped forward slightly and James looked at her.
"What are you doing here?" He asked her gently.
That question caught Lily off guard, it wasn't that she hadn't been expecting it, but it was the first time she had to admit it. Suddenly Lily was in tears and clinging to the front of James' shirt; trunk lying forgotten on the path to the house.
"Shh, Lily, you're okay now." James whispered gently wrapping his arms around her and rubbing soothing circles into her back.
"James, who is it?" A woman's voice came from the door; she spotted Lily and took sympathy immediately. "Come with me, James get her things."
Lily was passed into another person's arms and led through the house; she didn't even have half the mind to notice the beauty of it. James gathered her trunk and found her wand lying by it, Lily wasn't even aware she'd dropped it.
I've been reading a lot of depressing stories lately and I'm like, ugh this is making me feel all depressed so I need to write something happy, then what do I do? I write something depressing. Brilliant if you ask me. :P The next chapters are working on the pick me up, this all had to happen though, don't worry I have plans in my head.
Happy FaceD: Your welcome, writing is my thang! lol Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, I hope you liked this one just as much even though it's depressing...
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