Chapter 11

The next day, they all were sitting around the Potter living room. Ashley and Michael were sitting together at the bar, looking at a work schedule and a map that made no since to Lily, the adults were sitting on the various couches, next to James, Gemma, Tyler, and Lily, who was holding the baby. Morllie, Tommy Joanna, and Anna were lounged on the floor playing some type of board games. Anna was one of the most adorable 6 year old girls that Lily had ever seen; she had fallen in love with her immediately. Anna had soft brown hair that fell past her frail little shoulders and sported her hot chocolate colored eyes. Her two front teeth were missing giving her a slight lisp along with her broad cheek bones and freckled nose and bridge.

Her parents death certainly had affected her though, she still flinched at screams, of joy or not, and she couldn't stand to be around any green lights. That was enough to break Lily's heart; no child should have to go through that.

"But it was like, different, and I was like, um sure, whatever, but I really didn't have a clue what she was talking about. And then she looked at me totally pissed off. And I was like, what the crap?" Tyler said, his leg hung over the armrest as he spotted off about his girl problems. James was looking sympathetically at him while Gemma was rolling her eyes and glaring.

"You are such a man-whore"

Tyler looked offened " I am not a man whore, hell, where did you get that from?"

"Girls are people, Ty."

"Shocker" James said, his eyes sparking.

Gemma settled in to her seat, hair tossed backwards and eyes fixing on his face. "We're better than a certain idiotic YOU"

"You guys are so mean to each other," Lily said rocking the baby slightly to settle him "it's actually really funny."

"Isn't?" Julie said sliding over on the couch to pull the baby's blanket down and look at his face,

"He's a good looking little guy"

"He is, thank you. We have got to name him" She added turning to Marcus

"OK," He rubbed his hands together." How about…. Cory?"

"Oh please no," Lily said, "One of my sisters boyfriends was named Cory, he cheated on her and then dumped her without a second glance."

"He sounds like a jerk." James said

"Sounds like a Man"

"Ouch Gemma-bear, didn't know you hated us all so much"

"I don't dad, just James."

"How about…" Izzie stood up and went to look at the baby who was still Lily's arms. "Jared or even Carl."

Various people around the rooms shook their heads at this one.

James sighed "I think I might love you enough to let you name him Harry."

"You might love us enough?" Marcus said

"Yeah" he winced, "Maybe, Harry's my name, and I'm going to name my kid that."

"Harry," Lily mused, "Harry Potter, had a nice ring to it.

"Heck yeah."

"Back to this baby, "said Nate. "Although I hate to diverted your attention from a kid who doesn't even exist yet."

"How about Riley?" Mary said as she walked down the stairs.

"Sure, "James said with a stupid look on his face. "Lets give him a name starting with an I for his middle name and his initials will spell R.I.P."

Mary sat down by Lily, smacking James on her way down.

"We don't want his initials to spell something ridiculous, although you do have an ancestor with an 'I' name, what was his name Marcus?"

Marcus opened his mouth but before he said anything, Tyler butt in "I know! We'll call him Tyler!"

"We don't want to curse the kid, Ty" James said with a smile

"We won't, well promise him greatness."

"What about Shawn?" Izzie asked.

"Connor?"

"Kyle?"

"Parley?"

They tossed names around like footballs for a few moments. Eliminating and arguing over some considering others before blowing them out.

"How about Andrew." Lily basically whispered, so low that only Julie heard her.

"What?" Julie asked, everyone stopped to look at her. Lily shifted herself and the baby until she was holding him forward so that she and the others could see him better.

"Andrew…. Andrew Potter."She turned her head to look at him better "Andrew Marcus Potter." Finally, she took her eyes away from the baby….

… Only to meet the stares of everyone else in the room.

"What?" She asked slightly alarmed.

"That's perfect" James said, Tyler nodded in agreement.

"It is," Marcus said nodding "But that Marcus part…."

"Fits. It all does, him the name, all of it. It's perfect. Thank you Lily."

She hugged her and when they broke apart Julie took the baby.

"Hmmmm, AMP, no immediate abbreviations come to mind. All though it sounds like an amp, like a guitar amp, nothing wrong with that." Tyler said grinning

"Nothing at all," Izzie said suddenly looking very tired.

"So did we find Baby a name?" Michael asked walking up with Ashley close behind him.

"Gemma looked up at them "Andrew Marcus Potter."

"Bloody hell that's perfect for this kid, who picked it?"

"Lily did"

He looked at her, "Good job then."
She shrugged, feeling tired. A thought suddenly struck her.

"When are we going back to Hogwarts?"

James opened his mouth and then closed it, suddenly realizing that he had no idea. "I don't know. How wrong is that?"

Lily ignored this last statement. "Can I use your owl? Mine stayed at Hogwarts."

"Yes of course. "Said Julie "he should be around here somewhere."

Lily stood up to walk over to the open window above the kitchen sink. She stood next to it and looked out, scanning the ground and horizon for the owl. The wind blew her auburn tendrils in a sea behind her back and the sun featured gently on her creamy skin, causing her being to glow softly. She didn't notice, but James certainly did.

Finally, she spotted him, flying in from the northwest, low snowy wings out stretched and free. He dipped lower, losing altitude until he landed lightly on the windowsill. Resting in his beck was an envelope from Hogwarts, cream parchment with the school sign.

Gemma, Mary, Lily and James,

The Living room,

Potter Residents

Godrics Hollow

This didn't surprise Lily what so ever. It seemed to a habit that whenever she was going to write to Hogwarts, they also wrote seconds before.

"Lily is that a letter from School?"

"Um, yeah, "She turned around, picking up the envelope "It is." She walked swiftly back over to the couch, sitting back down besides Mary and handing Gemma the letter. Gemma opened it with a swift motion of her nail. She produced a parchment which she unfolded and quickly scanned her eyes over. While she was doing this, Lily turned to Ashley.

"What's that map on the bar of?"

"Oh, it's of the Norwegian forest."

"Norwegian?"

"Yes, Michael and I are going through it next month."

Lily lifted her eyebrows.

"In the heart of it is one of the most famous and best schools for care of magical creatures ever. IN located in one of the biggest reservations without any wizarding or muggle changes. There's still every kind of animal imaginable there. It's the Magical creature Caretaker dream location. Getting there is a huge test on its own."

"You're going to be a Magical Creature Caretaker?" Lily didn't know why this was so shocking to her, Ashley seemed perfect for it.

"Yep, me and Michael are gonna be the best."

"Or something like that" Michael said smiling.

"Ok," Gemma said finishing the letter "they're going to open the floo network to the Gryffindor common room; we need to be there at 4 p.m. tonight." She looked over at the clock on the wall. "Its 2:30 now, we should get packed soon. " The others nodded, frowning a little at the thought of leaving.

It happened in the cellar.

Lily had swung down there at around 3:40 to get a can of corn for Julie and Izzie. The Potter cellar was below the house, through a door under the staircase. Lily had gone through it, hit the light switch and swept down the stairs. Not paying attention, she continued to skip down the stairs. She stood next to the shelf of cans, turned a few around before finding the right one. She picked it up and started to head back up the stairs.

A clutching pain in her chest started, her eyes rolled back and she fell forward. A searing, burning heat surged from the flesh above her heart and dominated her body, causing major explosions through her veins and cells. Leaving a black trail of burning wreckage behind it.

The images were back, new and old, dead, buried, young and inexperienced. Car crashes, mass murders, darkness, tears, the glint of a blade in the dark, blood running off bruised skin, tired cutting through pavement, a lone figure appearing from dust, a single tower glowing with an eerie light, things Lily couldn't recognize, things she could think about, things she'd already seen….

Pain, heartache, agony, depression, betrayal, finality, guilt, so much that now death did seem a blessing.

High pitched laughs, axes chopping down, sirens piercing the night, profanity, engines, coding heart rates, racking sobs, and a lone scream from a girl facing the headlights of a car…..

Lily snapped together with an audible pop. Shock ran through her, images and sounds and emotions replaying like a broken record through her damaged soul.

The searing pain over her heart hadn't gone away. Dulled, but not vanished, she moved a hand, a slight weight falling off of it, she slid her fingers down her shirt and felt a strange thread like shape an inch above her heart. With her other trembling hand, she undid the top to buttons of her blouse, took a deep breath and looked above her at the shape her fingers had felt.

It was like a tattoo almost, the shaped of a black spindly spider. It was a good 6 centimeters long, protruding legs stretching in a gothic yoga. She took another deep breath, the spider moving slightly with the rise of her chest. A drop of water fell on him, running down his spider anatomy. Lily was confused where it came from until more fell from her cheeks.

She moved, pain shooting through her body again, she glanced over and saw a paper on the ground. Remembering the weight on the fingers she picked it up, stood turned it over and looked at the writing through the pale light of the cellar.

The worst is yet to come

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