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Lily ran into the hallway and ran towards the stairs. She ran down the first flight of stairs and found James pinned against the wall by a familiar deatheater...

Chapter 6

"No!" Lily screamed.

"Lily get out!" James shouted as the deatheater released their hold on James' throat. "Get out of here!"

"Don't you dare hurt him Sev!" Lily shouted as she ran towards James, she shoved Snape out of the way, sending him stumbling into the opposite wall.

"Lily you shouldn't be here," said James as he stood in front of Lily shielding her from Snape's view.

"So this is why you started to run?" said Snape his voice full of revulsion.

"Imagine that he came to save a mudblood!" Lily shouted as she fought to get James out of her way.

"Stop it!" James hissed at her. Then he turned to Snape. "Just let Lily go, you can do whatever you want to me, just don't hurt her."

"I wouldn't hurt her!"

"Yeah haven't you heard James, apparently the evil deatheater loves the Mudblood," Lily shouted her voice full of loathing.

"Stop saying that word," said James as he continued to block her way. "Just let her go Snivellus this is between me and you."

"The hell it is!" Lily shouted.

"No," said Snape his voice as smooth as slime. "Why don't you back out there Potter, be the hero and save all the worthless Muggles..."

"Worthless muggles!" Lily screamed. "My parents were 'worthless Muggles' and evil scum like you killed them!"

"I won't hurt you," said Snape. "If you just try and see it from my..."

"Don't you even say it!" Lily screamed. "Just get out! Go away! I hate you!"

"I still have Potter to deal with," said Snape pulling a second wand out his pocket. "And it seems that in his hurry to 'rescue' the girl that has hated his guts for years that he dropped this."

"Don't hurt him," said Lily as she stopped struggling against James. "I love him."

Suddenly the hallway was silent.

"How could you possibly..."

"Because even on his very worst day he is a million times the man you are!"

"You can't love Potter," sneered Snape. "It's..."

"I do love him though," said Lily feeling strangely calm.

"But..."

"How can you be out there killing people, innocent people?" Lily asked. She spotted Remus creeping up behind Snape, she didn't want anyone to get hurt. She knew Remus would give her the chance the disarm Snape herself without hurting him, but if it came down to it she would use her wand on him to save James and Remus.

"They are not..."

"They have never done anything to you," she said. "They are just like me, I am not a pureblood I am muggle born and that who you are killing. Your buddies could kill me tomorrow."

"I wouldn't let them."

"You couldn't stop them!" she shouted. "You have to walk away from this, if Deatheaters have their way we will all be killed."

"You won't...I wouldn't let them kill you!" Snape stammered as Remus pulled out his wand. Lily looked up and saw James slowly nodding his head at Remus.

"Sev come on, you have to know that this is wrong," she said desperately. "Just walk away from it all, just stop!" By now she was starting to sound hysterical.

Snape turned his head just in time to see Remus raise his wand to stun him. Snape roared an incantation Lily didn't recognize and something shot from his wand, before he was unconscious.

"No!" Lily shouted as she threw her hands over her eyes.

"Lily," said Remus. "Lily, the Aurors are coming."

"W-Why?" she said uncovering her eyes. She noticed that James wasn't standing in front of her, he was in a heap unconscious on the floor. "No! James! James!"

"Lily listen to me," said Remus calmly. "The Aurors are going to take him away now, they do that for security. You can't visit or even know where they are taking him. Say goodbye or something because they are coming here fast!"

"James," said Lily dropping to her knees. She propped his head on her lap, she felt his pulse. He was alive. "James, James I love you. If you can hear me I love you and I need you to be okay. If you leave me I will never forgive you, okay?"

"Ma'am we have to take Potter now," said a voice.

Lily couldn't see past James to see where the voice was coming from. The next thing she knew James was being levitated into the air and Remus was holding her back. She was completely numb, she couldn't even cry. She didn't even register that Snape wasn't there anymore. Remus told her later that Snape regained consciousness and ran just before the Auror's got there. But all Lily could think about was the fact that the man she loved was unconscious and hurt and she had no way of knowing if he was alright.

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