TO: Taiyourshoes, I'm definitely not a fan of the double dating thing so rest assured it ain't gonna happen!
It was approaching midnight and the three were still busy in the main hall. It was unnaturally warm and both guys had loosened their ties and hung up their cloaks. With sleeves pushed up, each of them held a broom that unfortunately was as non-magical as Brent's Science books.
James dropped his broom with a clatter. "This is wrong in so many ways." He said referring to what he thought was slave work in an oven. Not that he hadn't had his fair share of cleaning during detentions but just that this time they were forbidden to use magic. To make it worse it was specifically forbidden and there were no loopholes out of that one. He wiped his brow and unbuttoned the second to last button on his shirt. If McGonagall walked in right now he would have been reprimanded for indecent exposure, not that it mattered since they had no more points to dock off.
"Damn right!" Sirius agreed also dropping his broom. He flapped the sides of his open shirt to create some sort of air circulation on his sticky skin. Lily laughed at them. "You two are such cry babies!" she waved a hand at the massive double doors at the back of the hall and they opened letting a welcomed cool breeze in. "You're just fine with flying brooms but totally hopeless with cleaning brooms!"It had taken them over three hours just to clean off the table surfaces and sweep the food into a big pile. She brushed her pile over and added it to the growing mountain. With a sigh she leaned her broom against a bench; they would have to leave cleaning the walls, armory and paintings tomorrow.
"Of course we're useless at it." Sirius eyed the broom at his feet and shook his head in dismay. "What a waste of a broom. They should be made for flying only." Lily shook her head but resigned to the fact that Sirius would never understand. "Let's call it a day shall we?" James nodded enthusiastically. "It's about time we went to see Moony anyway." Lily frowned. "But there's still few more days till that time of the month." She looked up but the forecast inside the hall's magical sky was cloudy. Sirius and James exchanged a smirk. "He's at the hospital wing." Sirius said. "With your little Yoannie."Lily's eyes widened and she gasped in surprise at his hint and then settled with a grin. "Wow, imagine that."
Later however, as the three of them made their way to the hospital wing much of Lily's happiness had dissipated. The pressing questions she had had earlier were back and so was that heavy nervous feeling at the pit of her stomach.
"Is something wrong?" James asked noticing her sudden quietness. Lily shook her head but steadily the feeling grew.
They reached the ward and she broke a little away choosing to enter first. She stepped in, too eager to see Yoanna than to watch her step until she tripped over and landed painfully on her knees. The palms of her hands were grazed and her knee hurt a bit but other than that she was fine. Lily sat up cursing about someone's carelessness for leaving something in the middle of the floor and wondered why Madam Pomfrey hadn't done something about it.
"Madame Pomfrey!" Lily scrabbled to the prone figure she had tripped over.
James was there in an instant inspecting the unconscious witch. "She's been...stunned." The look of disbelief disappeared and he wordlessly pulled his wand and reached out for Lily. Likewise Sirius also had his wand out.
"Whoever it was, he might still be here." Sirius whispered. Lily also pulled out her wand and together they inched towards the inner set of doors. James peeked his head in and quietly entered after seeing it was empty followed closely by Lily and Sirius.
They could hear banging and thumping in the storage room that was located in the top right of the ward. Lily unconsciously gripped onto the tail of James' shirt and tightened the hold on her wand.
"Yoanna!" Remus cried out and all three jumped when the doors crashed open-
Yoanna barreled out and charged straight at them with Remus hot on pursuit. Her eyes were wide and blind panic twisted her usually calm features into a mask of horror. In what Lily could only describe as a deranged state of mind she twisted, clawed, spat and bit into Remus who had caught her from behind. Sirius went running to Remus and pulled her off but she continued her frenzied attack and bit deeply into his arm. Hissing he dropped her to the floor and clamped his hand over the bleeding bite mark.
"Don't let her get away!" Remus screamed loud enough to snap James and Lily out of their stupor.
"Yoanna!" Lily shrieked as the girl rammed into James as he intercepted her. Yoanna howled and continually tried to claw out of his arms.
"Yoanna! Stop it!" But she continued to fight with inhuman strength in her ferocity. Left with no choice James used his physical advantage to manhandle her to the floor but still she fought fiercely in a way that made him think of a trapped animal. Primal fear had gripped her at such an intensity that taking flight overrode all reason. Lily now down on her knees too seized an arm Yoanna had managed to free and pinned it down to the floor.
"What is wrong with her?!" James gritted through his teeth.
Lily bit her lip and pointed her free wand hand at Yoanna. "I'm sorry Yoannie!" she sobbed. "Immobulus!" Yoanna went limp at once.
James' shoulders dropped and he sat up. "Wha-???" he pointed at Yoanna and looked to Remus lost for words.
"We need to get help." Remus panted.
"Right to it." Sirius went off to alert the teachers cradling his bitten arm and still on guard with his wand.
Lily gathered Yoanna in her arms and rocked her gently. If only she had gotten here earlier...
A/N: I'm pretty much writing a chunk now and I could just continue writing to make the chapter that much longer but I'm evil and it's too much of a good place to put a chapter end for me to ignore. To make up for it I might get another update up in a few hours or less depending on how hard/easy I find the next chapter is to write. Enjoy and thank you for your reviews! xXx
