I'm sorry for the long wait! I really struggled to write this one.

Chapter 50 II: Last Hogwarts Train Ride

The train rapidly lost speed, coming to a stop. Outside death eaters were storming down in thick clouds of black cloaks. Lily watched, her eyes glued to what was on the other side of the window. Without tearing her eyes away from scene outside she reached back getting James' attention by tapping him. He looked at her then past her.

"Oh shit." He said. Sirius looked away from the door window where students were becoming crazy, to James. He caught sight of what was unfolding outside.

"Merlin's great uncle's shit! Death eaters? Are they mental?" Sirius demanded, "This train is full of witches and wizards!"

"Underage witches and wizards." Remus reminded him. "They could easily take out most of the people on the train with one spell."

Remus," Lily began, suddenly getting a bad feeling.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Try to apparate."
"Where?"
"Just to that tree out there." She pointed outside. Lily had seen a man outside point his wand to the sky and had a feeling he'd cast a anti-apparation charm.
Remus stood up spinning in his place, but remained in the room. He tried a few more times, but to no avail. Sirius joined him, convinced this couldn't be happening. If it weren't for the situation, the sight of two men spinning around in a small compartment would have been funny. As it was, it was the complete opposite of funny.
"We've got to do something." James decided.
"Hello! We can't apparate to get people to safety. The number of talented duelist make us really out numbered." Sirius argued.
"Well I'm not just going to sit here." James said, his wand already drawn.
"I only said that we were outnumbered, trapped, surrounded by untalented, underage, duelist, and limited." He pulled out his own wand. "Let's go."
James stood by the door waiting as Remus, Sirius and Peter left the compartment. Lily was about to follow when James stopped her.
"I'm not staying here while you go risk your neck." She told him.
"Lily,"
"I won't sit by and let innocent people get hurt."

"Lily," he tried again.
"Please don't ask me to sit by to watch. We're surrounded, you need me."
"I need you to stay alive." He finally managed. "I'm not asking you to stay here. Get your friends and the younger students. Keep yourself and them safe. We'll recruit people." Lily nodded.
"This is what working for the Order is going to be like." He continued "And Lily?"
"Yeah?" She asked.
"I love you is cheesy at a times like this, but you know it's true right?"
"We'll get through this." She replied confidently. "And for the record, I love you too."
By the time they got into the corridor, it was packed with people. Lily was thrown against the wall as the train shook ominously. Once gaining her footing she pushed her way through the crowd, James already lost among them.
She slid open a compartment door to find Ambre, Jamie, Ivy and Mary standing there with their wands.
"Lily." Jamie said.
"What's going on?" Mary asked.
"Death eaters." Lily answered pointing out the window.
"I know that! I mean what are they doing here?"
"I don't know. Listen we've got to try to get the younger students to safety. They've blocked us in, we can't apparate." Lily told them. "I figure the front of the train will be the safest. That is if they don't just blow the train up.
"Maybe we should try to get off the train." Ivy suggested.
"And go where?" Lily demanded. "The front is where the teachers are."
"We don't have time to argue about this." Jamie cut in. "But everyone will be going to the front and I'm guessing the train isn't a safe place to be. We get off and move toward the front."
"Fine. Whatever. Let's go." Lily said impatiently. She went out into the throng of people. It was mass chaos.
"CALM DOWN!" Jamie shouted just behind Lily. "LISTEN UP!" there was a little bit of order.
"Okay. Lily take it away." Jamie instructed.
"Okay. They blocked off apparation, so the best we can do is try to get off the train and make due with trying to get to safety."
"If you want to fight! Come with us!" James added from down the hall. The crowd separated into the two groups and Lily, along with her friends, got them off the train. But other carriages had emptied of students as well. The panic was a loud, and roaring all around. With students, death eaters, and a few professors.
Lily looked around the mess of students. There was a loud blasting noise from the train, Lily spun around to see the windows being blown into dust.
"We've got to get back in there." She said.

"I'll come with you." Mary offered.
"We'll stay out here and try to put up a shelter." Jamie said indicating herself, Ivy and Ambre.
"Come on." Lily said heading back into the train. It was nearly empty of students, except a few, but death eaters seemed to be throwing them out.
"Lily!" a voice shouted from down the hall. She went to turn but was paralyzed by a searing pain running up her spine. She fell to the ground in agony.
Then a different, cold voice filled her ears. "Ah, so you're Lily Evans." It said. The agony ending just as abruptly as it had started.
"Speak to me when I talk to you!" It commanded, the pain coursing through her as well as a shot of adrenaline. It laughed a shrill laugh.
"I'm sorry. Terribly rude of me." Lily rolled onto her back to see a pale man standing over her. "I shouldn't be torturing you first, but I thrive on acting."
"Who are you?" Lily asked huffing.
"Who-am... I am Lord Voldemort, you sniveling, mudblooded child! How could you not know who I am?." Someone in the distance began to shout but Voldemort waved his wand making who ever it was fly back. The incantation never fully said.
"And who is this?"
"Mary Reeves." Mary answered, her voice shaky.
"Back to you, mudblood." Voldemort said not bothering with Mary. "You have been suggested as a new recruit, despite your lineage. How would you like to come to the winning side? Or has that old fool Dumbledore already got you eating out of his hand?"
"I would never join you." Lily spat.
"That's too bad, but I never wanted a mudblood anyway."
"Don't you dare call her that!" Lily recognized the voice now as James. The one that had yelled her name earlier.
"Ah. A Potter. I could use you as well. What do you say, join me and I spare the mudblood?"
"I'd rather die, and I'll never let you get Lily."
"Fool." Voldemort laughed aiming his wand at James.
"No!" Lily shouted bolting to her feet.
"Lily!" Mary called.
"Avada Kadavra." the green light filled the hall. Lily spun around to see Mary laying on the floor, all signs of life gone. "She really should have stayed out of my way," Voldemort roared.
"Mary." Lily said weakly. "No. Mary."
"What have you done Tom?" An angry voice demanded. Dumbledore was there now. Standing in the doorway behind Voldemort.
"Ah. Dumbledore. I just wanted you to come so I could relay a message."
"What message?"
"Just, a warning really. Give up. You're going to lose, after all, no one can defeat me."
"I might loose a few battles. But I will not loose against you."
"You're a foolish man Dumbledore."
"That may be. But I'm not foolish enough to think you could win." Dumbledore waved his wand, but just as fast Voldemort was gone, all his death eaters vanishing one by one as well. The anti-apparation charm has been lifted right before Dumbledore's arrival.
They left nothing behind except much destruction, one dead girl, and the dark mark. Lily sat on the floor next to the body, crying.
"I'm so sorry Lily. It's hard to loose a best friend." Dumbledore said placing a hand on her shoulder. James sprinted down to where they were. He hit his knees next to Lily, wrapping an arm around her.
"Professor." James began.
"Yes James?"
"We're joining the Order. All of us." Dumbledore nodded slowly.
"This isn't something to be taken lightly." He warned.
"We know. But we can't let this go on. We want to do what we can."
"I'll see you at the Hog's Head then. Welcome you in. Right now, I'm afraid I have some things to be sorted out."
James nodded understanding and the professor left. Jamie entered shortly after to find Mary's lifeless body, Ivy and Ambre following after.
None of them wanted to believe it, but there she lay. The ministry came organizing ways home for people. Most of them by portkey. The ministry was informed of Mary's death and took care of the body. Lily went with James to Sirius' flat. The one James would be sharing until either of them got married.
In the last few seconds of being together, Jamie forgave Sirius, and found comfort from him. They had some thing in common: a girl they had betrayed and hurt was now dead. Remus and Ambre agreed to continue to see each other over the summer and talk about long distance next year. But both of them knew it wouldn't last with him fighting and her in school.

Please Review. I haven't decided if I want to do a sequel or not, but I've started some parts to it, but I may just make them into short stories of L/J's life. I'll update with more information, or REVIEW and I might send you something back with more info.