Hey everyone. Here's the update that you've all been waiting for, I hope. It's shorter than I would have liked it to be, but hopefully you'll all enjoy it. I'm going to try and get you all another chapter soon-and hopefully I'll be able to get it out to you all soon rather than making you wait for it.

"Talking"

::Parseltongue::

"Spells"

'Thinking'

Chapter 2: The Second Waiting Game

Lily sighed and stretched; her arms swinging awkwardly as she did. Night was slowly falling onto the camp and fires were beginning to light within the sea of tents but it was still cool and dark enough to wander away from the tents unnoticed. Ah... You'd think that they were in Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade, what with all the spell casting going on around her. No one really cared to notice that the man in charge of the campsite was a muggle, except for the Muggleborns themselves. Lily didn't doubt that those Muggleborns were doing a bit of magic of their own.

A sigh escaped her lips. So much magic. It was hard to believe that she was walking around with a cast on when they could easily fix up her bones with a few spells. But Petunia had insisted in keeping it on. No magicking her way out of it. That's all anyone had told her. Why, though? It was so strange...

While walking, Lily had been looking up at the stars and not really paying attention to where she was wandering. She had been dimly aware of the people milling about around her but they were thinning out now as she reached the edge of the campsite and she didn't expect to collide head on with someone. Nor for that someone to push her away hard enough for her to fall down.

"Oh!" Lily blinked and shook her head. "Ow..." That had hurt... The Gryffindor squinted up into the dark-there wasn't that much light here at the edge of camp. Behind her a fire lit up the person she'd run into.

"Cho!" Lily pushed herself off the ground. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention to—"

"What happened to your arm?"

Lily paused and blinked down at the cast. "Ah, it's just a little accident. Nothing major really. I've no idea how I ended up breaking it th—"

Cho snorted, folding her arms over her chest. "Maybe it's karma."

"...Karma?"

Draco yawned, waking slowly as someone called his name. A groan escaped his lips as he tried to move—he was sore from falling asleep in the stiff dining table chair. It was painful to move too much at once. After trying a few times, Draco managed to stumble out of the tent—gracefully, of course, and sit by the fire. Blaise glanced at him, smirking a little.

"So sleeping beauty's finally awake? Didn't think you'd be getting up so soon."

"Shut up." Draco mumbled, cross. "What time is it?"

"Mm... It's only been an hour since the beginning of your impromptu nap." Blaise replied, not particularly interested in anything beyond the marshmallow at the end of the stick he was holding. "I think you've got some drool on your face."

"Wha—?" Draco quickly reached up and wiped his mouth with the back of his robe, stopping only when he heard Blaise's ill-covered laughter. "Not funny."

"You're right." Blaise agreed, the corner of his lips twitching upwards. "Not funny. Hilarious."

Draco growled. "Blaise, shut up."

"Fine, fine." The brunette smirked in spite of Draco and his scowling, bringing the end of the branch close to eat off the marshmallow. "Huh... Not bad. Those Muggles come up with some great ideas when it comes to food."

Draco rolled his eyes. "Glut."

"Of course I am." Blaise remarked. "But at least I'm not a... Draco, Cedric Diggory is headed over here."

"What?" Draco frowned and turned to see the Hufflepuff seeker was indeed headed towards them, causing him to scowl. What did Diggory want now? Merlin, why was he coming over here in the first place? It made no sense. Draco sighed and turned to face the approaching seeker. "Diggory."

The blond Hufflepuff nodded to Draco, but his eyes didn't stop casting about, looking for someone. Draco almost—almost—hit a hand to his forehead and groaned at the words that came out of the other boy's mouth. "Do you know where Lily is?"

Since when had those two been on a first name basis...? Draco wondered as he growled under his breath. "I'm not exactly sure where she is. That a problem? Cause you could just wait a while and I'm sure that Lily will come wandering out of somewhere eventually."

Cedric frowned, not the type to sit around and do nothing. "When did she wander off? Where?"

Blaise sighed. "I don't know."

Cedric muttered something softly and sat down across from Blaise and Draco. "Fine."

Draco closed his eyes. "You're really staying here."

"Obviously."

Draco nodded a little before leaning against Blaise. "I'm going back to sleep."

Blaise rolled his eyes and put another marshmallow on his stick and started roasting it.

Lily looked around, confused by everything that was happening. "Why are we going into the woods, Cho?" Cho didn't say a word, just kept leading her into the forest. Lily reached up and rubbed her forehead, frowning. Something was off here. "Cho?"

Without any reply, Lily stopped. She wasn't going to follow the other girl any further. And, for once, she felt as hungry as Blaise must feel like all the time. There was no way that she was just going to wander around out here with Cho when she was that hungry. Lily glanced back at the camp, gripping onto the wand in her cloak. Would anyone notice if she lit her way back to camp? Wizards were all around; surely it would be okay here. Her aunt would be terribly angry if she got into any Ministry-level trouble again...but...

"What's wrong Black?" The frown on Lily's face became more pronounced as Cho finally spoke but didn't turn to face her. "Are you scared?"

"Hungry, actually." She replied, taking a step away from the Ravenclaw. "And a little cold. I'd much rather get something to eat right now more than anything else. Something warm and somewhere that will get me warm quickly. And possibly a bed too." Lily glanced around one last time before backing away as quickly as possible. She felt like Cho would attack her if she turned away from the other.

Cho's figure began to fade and Lily sighed. She felt a little silly, thinking that Cho would attack her, but that girl seemed a little unstable at the moment. Really, really...

"Lily!"

"I can't wait any longer."

Draco sighed to himself, opening his eyes to glare at Cedric. "Really? It hasn't been that long."

Blaise was now roasting five marshmallows at a time. He shook his head as he checked on each of them. "I haven't seen her for a few hours. Maybe we should look for her."

The blond blinked, surprised that Blaise was agreeing with the Hufflepuff about looking for Lily. Lily could look after herself. She didn't need anyone following her around and nosing in on her. He didn't have a chance to tell the other two boys that though. Both were gone when he opened his mouth; Blaise with the entire bag of marshmallows.

"Pig." He muttered, jabbing his wand at the fire.

Lily groaned, gripping onto her wand as she side-stepped another curse. "Cho, what is wrong with you?"

Cho glared at Lily, firing off another curse, which the Gryffindor dodged. That just made Cho angrier. "You... If it wasn't for you, then...then—!"

Lily's eyes widened when she saw the wand pointed at her again. She immediately pointed her own wand and shouted the disarming hex just as Cho shot of her own curse. The two spells it each other and, with a bright flash, faded to nothing. All that was left was a bag of...charred marshmallows?

Cho and Lily both blinked and stared at the bag of marshmallows, confused by their sudden appearance at the epicentre of the clash of the two spells. Suddenly Blaise appeared, staring down at the marshmallow bag, looking completely downcast. He toed the bag of marshmallows, checking to see if they were still okay.

Then Cedric walked into the picture, wand out, with Blaise trailing after him. The black-haired Slytherin stared at the marshmallow bag and looked up at Cedric. "Why did you kill the marshmallows?"

Lily sighed and shook her head. Same old Blaise.