About twenty five minutes later and many enthusiastic of "Happy Christmas!" to her friends, Lily was finally wrapping it up with Abby.

"Okay Abby, well we've gotta jet. We've got to be at James' house in a half hour for Christmas dinner. I'll see you this summer though, I promise!" Lily said giving her friend a hug.

"Awww. You're leaving already? That sucks. Well I guess I'll see you this summer," she said with a small sigh, "Oh, and Lily, what's that thing by your house?" she asked with pure curiosity and wonder.

Each and every head turned and drained white when they did that 180. . . Just like their entire world.

It just couldn't be. . .

Morgan fainted and almost hit the ground, luckily Remus caught her, and everybody was in a state of shock and couldn't move.

"Ummm, I'm guessing this isn't good. . ." Abby said slowly.

"No Abby, it isn't. That's the Dark Mark." Lily replied, voice constricted.

"What's that?"

"I'll explain another time. I've gotta go." and with that Lily raced down the street to her house.

"LILY! LILY, WAIT! YOU DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE STILL IN THERE!" James yelled, chasing after his girlfriend.

"I DON'T CARE!" Lily screamed back.

James finally caught up with her and grabbed her around the waist, she turned around and pounded her fist against his well toned chest then gave up and started sobbing.

James just held her tight whispering soothing words and put his head down on top of hers letting tears of his own roll down his handsome face.

"We'll get through this," he whispered, "Together."

As everybody gathered around them, crying, sniffling, and hugging, they all had a big group hug with Lily and James in the center.

Lily wiped the tears off her face with a determined look on her face, "I'm going to make that Voldemort bastard pay." she snarled.

"Well, before we jump into things, let's face the music." Remus said solemnly as he opened the door, supporting a dizzy Morgan as well.

"Oh, Merlin." he muttered as he saw Mrs. E's lifeless form crumpled on the floor with that helpless expression on her face. He looked away as more tears welled up inside him.

When Lily saw she got choked up a bit but didn't let any more tears spill over. By now everybody was crying openly in shock. Everybody but Lily who's face was hard and angry looking. She wasn't going to cry again and show weakness. That's what they wanted. That's what the bloody bastard wanted and he wasn't going to get it while she was in plain sight.

She almost broke her unspoken word when she saw her father laying on the ground, innocently eating a pancake. They made a mockery of him and her family. More anger welled up inside of her.

She turned away from the scene and started running up the stairs blindly. Everything glass bursting and breaking in her path. She couldn't control her magic anymore. It was running wild. When she got to the third floor she saw a red footprint shining in the carpet. She slid down against the wall and asked herself quietly and miserably, "How did this happen?"

Seventeen Minutes Earlier: The Evans Household

The front door opened quietly as three men entered the threshold. They were garbed in black robes and had gruesome masks placed upon their faces. One had a greasy mop of black hair, another long platinum blond tied back in a pony tail, lastly a fifteen year old boy with stormy grey eyes and black hair.

"Watch and learn Regulas. Oh Miss Evans, come out come out wherever you are." Malfoy said in a slippery voice.

"I thought we weren't going for Li- I mean the Mudblood?" Snape said his speech faltering slightly.

"Why in bloody hell would you think that? She's a filthy Mudblood."

"She's a very powerful witch. She could be beneficial to our cause." Snape half lied.

Malfoy stopped in his tracks.

"Perhaps we can spare her. . ." he considered.

"Lily, dear, is that you?" Miss Evans called from around the corner.

"No, but it is me," Snape said pulling off his mask and his wand pointing at her.

"Oh, he-hello, dear, would you mind putting your wand away from my face? Who's your friends Severus?"

"Malfoy and Regulas. And I'm afraid I cannot do that, Elizabeth," Snape said without a bit of remorse for what he was about to do, "Avada Kedavra!" he said slowly and maliciously.

Shock and fear was all that was on Elizabeth's face when she hit the ground. Malfoy had already began his search in the kitchen for Michael, who he found eating a left over pancake from that morning. Without warning Malfoy came up behind him, aimed, and fired a killing curse straight, square, in the back of his neck. At the sound of the voice Michael started to turn around only to let the fear settle in his eyes as the life left them.

Just as Snape turned the corner he saw his ex-best friend's father topple off the kitchen table as limp as a noodle.

"Come on," he said gruffly, "There still might be more upstairs."

Unknown to them Kylie and Logan had heard them enter the house, they snuck out of Lily's room and peeked over the landing only to see Snape and Malfoy talking to Mrs. Evans. Regulas was hidden in the side lines. They didn't have their wands with them and didn't know where they were. They were defenseless.

They tip-toed back into Lily's room and Kylie started rummaging around for something to write on and with.

"What are you doing?" whispered Logan.

"Writing a goodbye note," Kylie said sadly, "I'm not afraid to die. We have no chance here. You know that. Even if we did have our wands these two are the gruesomest, darkest, most evil kids in our year. Let's write this goodbye note together. We owe our friends that much for all they've done to us." she said with tears sparkling in her eyes.

Logan agreed with a sad look on his own face the flickered with fear every once in a while. He knew every word Kylie said was true.

Kylie found a rumpled piece of parchment and a spare pen on Lily's desk.

She stared writing.

Just as she was about to finish the letter, the door burst open revealing the two Death Eaters.

Malfoy tisked, "Now what do we have here?" his cold voice asked.

"I think they're our next victims," Snape replied, "Let's switch it up for our Gryffindor friends. Shall we?"

"SECTUMSEMPRA!" they both cried in unison.

The screams of the two Gryffindor students died in their throats as they looked at the other bleeding to death. They inched closer together and sealed their love with a kiss. Their blood mixed and they were one. Forever and for always. They shared a last breath and became motionless at the Death Eater's feet who merely walked out of the room making footprints of blood throughout the hallway.

"Oh I forgot something." Malfoy said as he sauntered back into Lily's room. He opened the door that led to her balcony and shouted, "Morsmorde!" with his wand pointed up into the dark snowy sky.

He walked back to Snape and Regulas and smiled in a sick, twisted, evil manner.

"We're done here." he said smugly and turned on his heel apparating on the spot with a 'crack' followed swiftly by Snape. Regulas spared a last look at the couple and apparated himself.

Present Time

Lily stood up shakily and followed the footprints to her own bedroom. 'Kylie and Logan. . .' she thought. Slowly she open the door and when the scene unfolded in front of her, she let out a blood curdling scream of horror. Her heart was pounding in her throat and her breath hitched as she shakily walked over to the piece of paper by Kylie's hand. It read,

Guys. . .

I have no idea how to say it so I'm just going to be blunt here. Logan and I are about to die at the hands of Death Eaters. I'm not ashamed and I'm not afraid of it. I just wanted to say goodbye because you deserve that much. You are all wonderful people and I hope you kick some Death Eater ass in the near future, for me, for Logan, for all of those who have died already at the hands of Lord Voldemort, the ones who have lost loved ones, and for all that are bound to end up like them. We will always love you and I beg you not to forget us. Don't live your lives regretting anything you've done. Live it without regrets as that is the only way to live. Again we love you and

Then there just was a jagged line across the bloody spattered paper. By now she was aware of the five other beating hearts around her that were reading over her shoulder.

"I've got to get out of here." Lily whispered to herself. She was about to start running again but a hand was firmly rested on her shoulder. The owner of the hand wrapped her in a firm embrace and dissapparated with a 'crack'.

The person slowly guided Lily down a winding road. They opened the door for her and helped her inside.

"Oh! Hello Sirius, and this must be Lily," Alexa Potter said warmly, "Oh, dear. . ." she said once she saw the two's grief stricken faces. Her hazel eyes sparkling with fear.

"They didn't? Not on Christmas. . ." Alexa said with her voice full of sorrow shaking her head.

Lily nodded and said gravely, "They got my parents. . . Kylie and Logan too. They're gone forever," fighting back her tears she kept talking, "They used the killing curse on my parents and a curse that Snape made up, I'm guessing, on Kylie and Logan."

Alexa sighed with tears brimming in her own eyes, "I'll go tell Zach to alert the authorities, he's an Auror," She turned around to go find her husband when she whipped around so fast her auburn locks swirled around her face, "Are James and the others alright, Sirius?"

He only nodded silently. Lily spoke, yet again, for him, "They should be getting their things and such. We left sort of unannounced. . ."

Her face relaxed and she told Sirius and Lily, "Sirius can show you up to your room where you can wait for your friends. Or perhaps James' room would be best. . ." and with that she bustled away to go find Zach.

Once they got up to James' room and sat on his bed, Sirius finally spoke, "I'm so sorry, Lily," he hugged her tightly and burst into fresh sobs that landed on her head. Lily comforted him in the best way she could without letting those forbidden tears out herself. She would not cry yet. She would not cry. . . Then everything went black and she passed out.

A/N: I was SO impressed by all of those reviews I got within the first eighteen hours of my update I decided to write more and post again today. See, reviews make for faster updates. I'm thinking fifteen reviews until the next update? since the last chapter was so long and posted early. =) I know you guys can do it since I saw all of those reviews in my in-box within a few hours of the last update. I'm VERY impressed by, and thankful for, FaithfulHPReader, Eternally Inquisitive, PottersLittleSister, The Grim *;)*, The Next Lord Voldemort, xxBlacksxxDaughterxx, MrsCarlisleCullen94, and Your darling dearest fiancee;). This chapter's for you, my lovely reviewers!