Chapter Nine: Forgiveness

Today was the day. I had picked a random day this month to forgive and forget. I had invited both Lucy and Dominique over. I was dreading it. Dominique had been mean to me all year, and I didn't want to forgive her, but I didn't want it to start pulling apart the family.

"Hello Lucy, Dominique. Please sit down." They go and sit down on some chairs. "I invited you here to talk about some things. This school year we haven't been very good friends. We both have taken part in making it that way. I am sorry for anything done on my part, and I forgive you for anything done on your part. Please forgive me for anything I have done to offend you." I say this as calm as I could but I was afraid I would forget it all.

"I am really sorry Lily, and I forgive you also." Lucy said. We both looked at Dominique. She squirmed.

"Lily, I..I'm really sorry for being so nasty to you. I was just scared you were going to leave me and Lucy and I wanted to leave you before that. I'm really sorry I should have given Jade a chance. I hope you can please find it in your heart to forgive me." My jaw dropped. I was expecting an awkward "Sorry" not a whole apology.

"I forgive you Dominique." I say. "Jade is coming in a few minutes, she believes in second chances and would like to get to know you better, do you want to help me get the table ready for lunch?" They both nod.

We get out plates and forks and the food my mum and I had prepared earlier. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"She drove here?" Dominique asked. I looked outside the window to see a car.

"Yeah, she must've, she doesn't live very far away.

I open the door and hug Jade. We all greet her warmly. We go to sit down to eat when Dominique stops us.

"Wait! Jade, I owe you an apology. It was all my fault that this year was as awkward as it was. Lucy tried to convince me not to but I did those things anyways. I was jealous and scared. Please forgive me."

"I forgive you." She says right away. We look at her strangely. "I'm just hungry, that's why I said it so fast. I really do forgive you though." We all laugh and begin eating.

The conversation went here and there and one subject got my mind twisted. "I never told my father about the stone." Throughout the whole time I had seen him, I had never told him about the stone or what the people who had come out of it had said. I needed to tell him.

I tried to take my mind off of it by doing things with the other girls but I just couldn't. It kept coming back to it. I felt sick.

Once everyone went home I sat down and waited for my father to get home. I was scared of what his reaction was going to be. Would he be mad?

In the evening my father finally came home from work.

"Hi Tigerlily, how was the forgive and forget party?"

"Dad, may I talk to you? Privately?"

He nods, looking confused. He leads me into his office and shut the door, mumbling something that sounded like muffle-ito, while swishing his wand.

"What's going on?" He asks as he sits down in his chair and as I sit across from him.

"I need to tell you something." He nods, beckoning for me to continue. "At the beginning of the school year, I stepped on a weird rock, while I was walking to Herbology. Jade and I read about certain rocks in books but as it didn't have picture, we were never sure." I paused. "Just tell him"

"One night I was holding the stone in the common room with Jade, and somehow people began appearing." My dad looked shocked.

"The people who appeared were, if I remember correctly, Teddy's parents, Snape, Uncle Fred, The Marauders, Grandma Lily and Albus Dumbledore."

I paused again. My dad was trying to smooth over the shock on his face, but it wasn't working.

"Dumbledore told me that Voldemort was coming back."

"Lily, that's ridiculous, we destroyed all of his horcruxes, there's no way he could come back. "Actually, Dumbledore thinks there is. When you were a baby, your parents had a cat. The reason you were a horcrux was because a fragmented piece of his soul flew into when he 'died' right?" He nodded.

"Well, that could have been the same, with the cat. Dumbledore supposed that having a magical piece of soul inside of it must've made it live longer."

He looked sick. His hand flew to his forehead. My eyes widened. "Dad? Are you alright? I'm going to get mum." I rush out of his office.

"Mum! Come quick!"

"Lily what are you yelling about?" Teddy asks as he walks in the door with Albus and James in tow.

"Dad. I think he's sick." "What?" My mom asks right behind me.

"Follow Me." I lead them into the office where my dad is gripping the desk with one arm, his knuckles white, and with his other arm he's gripping his forehead.

"Harry!" My mom shrieks as she rushes over towards him. The rest of us stand there watching. All of the sudden it stops. My dad slowly releases his grip on the desk and sits up.

"Ginny, Teddy, stay in here. Children go wait in the living room." I hesitate but James pulls me out there.

As I sit on the couch I can feel tears start to well in my eyes. "It's all my fault." I whisper.

"What? It's not your fault Lily." James says walking towards me. "How could it be?" Albus says. They both sit down next to me and hug me, without letting go.

I was so emotionally drained from all of the drama today that it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.

Third Person POV

After some time had passed Teddy came out with a grim expression on his face.

"James, Albus, Lily, come with me." He walked over and saw that Lily was asleep. He turned and led the boys inside Harry's office.

"Dad, Lily's sleeping. What should I do with her?" Teddy asked.

Harry sighed. "Bring her to her room, there's nothing for her to know right now. Stay with her though, she's going to need someone there when she wakes up."

Teddy walks out of the office and picks up Lily in his arms. He walks gently up the stairs and lays her down on her bed. He pulls a chair out and sits in it at her desk. He summons a book from his room and starts reading it.

Lily Luna POV

I wake up. It was light outside. I looked at my bedside clock. It read six thirty a.m. I sit up and step off of my bed onto something squishy. It moaned. I jump back onto my bed. I peek over my bed cautiously. I see a bright teal mop of hair and a lily flower tattoo behind it's ear. It was Teddy.

"Lils." He moaned. "Did you have to step on me?" I stifle a giggle. "Sorry. I didn't know you were there." He sits up. "Why are you in here?" I ask. "Dad wanted me to stay with you." Everything from yesterday comes back. "Oh."

"Lily, you know what it means when Dad's scar hurts, right?"

A/N: I wrote this like a month ago and forgot to upload it lol.