A/N: I'm back! Thanks for all the replies! This chapter is a little short but I'll try and post the next tomorrow to make up for it!

3: Panicking

Lily lay protectively across her mother, crying so hard that her chest was beginning to hurt when she heard a voice close to her right ear saying her name very quietly. She lifted her head slowly and, blinking back the tears in her eyes, brought James Potter's head into focus. She sniffed at him.

"Lily, what's happened?" James asked her, a note of urgency in his voice.

She spoke, her voice sounding strangely distant to herself, "I just, just got in and f-found them here…"

She gulped, fighting back a fresh wave of tears that threatened to engulf her. James meanwhile, had bent over her mother, searching it seemed, for a pulse. He moved quickly over to her father and did the same before turning back to her.

"They're both still alive." He said, "But barely, we need to get them to St Mungo's"

Lily, whose face had lit up momentarily at his words, turned ashen again as he finished.

"You do know they're muggles don't you…" She said so quietly that James hardly heard it.

"Yes, but this looks like a wizard attack and St Mungo's will be able to help them."

"But I don't know how to get there! I have no way to get there!" She said, panic evident in her eyes.

James didn't reply, he lifted his wand, muttered some words and Lily watched as something silver shot out of his wand and out of the door.

"What was that!" She shrieked, not meaning to be so loud but beyond caring.

"Someone will come to get them to St Mungo's." James replied, looking at her with worried eyes, "Just calm down, it'll be okay."

Lily felt her temper, so close to the surface around James, flare up, "Don't tell me to calm down! My parents have been attacked!"

James bit his lip, "Sorry…" He said quietly.

Lily frowned at him and turned away as a fresh wave of tears overcame her barriers and spilled over her cheeks.

"Lily…" Whispered James, a worried tone in his voice. He reached over and tried to put an arm around her but she wriggled away and put her head in her hands.

They sat in silence for several minutes until a popping noise heralded the arrival of two official looking wizards with the St Mungo's emblem emblazoned on their robes. Lily lifted her head from her arms and watched as James leapt to his feet and had a hurried conversation with the wizards. Before she had registered what was happening they had conjured stretchers and disappeared with her parents, leaving her alone with James. She scrambled to her feet and turned to look at James who interpreted her gaze.

"They've taken them to St Mungo's."

"I want to go. I need to go." Lily said, panicking slightly.

"Can you apparate?" Asked James.

"No, not yet – tell me how to get there!"

"I'll take you."

"I don't need you to take me! I can manage by myself, thanks." She retorted, "Just tell me how to get there and I'll take the knight bus or something."

"Don't be stupid, Lily, I can apparate with you, it'll be quicker."

"Don't call me stupid!"

She angrily tried wiped away the tears that kept falling down her face but for some reason it didn't seem to work and the next thing she knew James' arms were around her and she was clinging onto him as if her life depended on it, sobbing her heart out into his chest. She felt his arms tighten around her and then the strange sensation that apparition brought.

"Lily?" James whispered into her hair, "We're at St Mungo's."