Chapter 42

Over the next few days Lily kept in constant communication with Michelle through Owl. Lily wrote reels upon reels of parchment detailing the goings on between Hogwarts walls but Michelle only responded with a paragraph or two. Being Head Girl Lily had been able to swap the groups Hogsmeade visit so that they could visit Michelle in St Mungo's instead. A few days after Michelle had left, Eve received a letter from Caspian confirming their worst fears. Michelle had cancer. It had devastated their group. Sirius had rarely been sighted only during classes and entering the boys dorm very late at night. Claudia and Sophie spent most of their time in the library trying to find information about their best friend's illness. James had spent many of his time owling his aunt, who was a very high up medi-witch, hoping that she could do something to help. Surely a flick of her wand would cure his childhood friend.

Saturday morning found Lily, James, Remus, Claudia and Eve sitting in the common room.

"Do you think Sirius is coming?" Eve asked her brother. James looked at the boys dorm and shrugged.

"He wouldn't do that to her would he?" Claudia asked angrily as she looked around the small group.

"He's hurting." Remus said as he looked at Claudia then up to the boys dorm.

"The only thing that is hurting is his pride." Claudia said angrily. "He'll regret not going to see her."

"She doesn't want to see me Claudia." A voice said behind them all. They all jumped as they realised Sirius had walked in through the portrait.

"We thought you were in the dorm." James said as he stood up.

"Went to get breakfast." Sirius said with a shrug.

"You should come with us today." Lily said as she stood up and walked over to Sirius.

"Michelle doesn't want me there, Lily. I'm going to respect her wishes." Sirius said as he put his hands his pockets and shrugged.

"She was upset when she said that. Be the guy that loves her and come with us." Lily pleaded.

"I'm not that guy. I'm not the knight in shining armour. That's your boy there." Sirius said nodding his head towards James. "Michelle doesn't want me there so I won't be." Sirius said before looking around the group then heading to the dorm. Lily watched as Sirius closed the dorm door behind him before looking at James.

"Doesn't he know that he is that guy?" Lily asked sadly.

"Let him figure that out." James said as he stood up. "Come on guys we should go." James said as he led Lily out of the common room.

A while later found the group in Michelle's hospital room. Michelle wasn't happy that they had come but Caspian forced her to let them stay. At the moment Eve and Caspian were currently reuniting in the hallway as James kept a close eye on them through a window in the door. Claudia was explaining something to Michelle but it didn't look like she was paying any attention.

"Sophie and Kent are going to come by later. Then Lily is hopefully going to swing it so that we can come visit you next weekend as well." Claudia rambled on.

"There's no point I won't be here." Michelle said as she stared at her light blue bed covers.

"What do you mean?" Lily asked.

"They are transferring me to a muggle hospital on Monday." Michelle said keeping her eyes trained on the covers.

"Why would they do that?" James asked curiously.

"It's not a magical disease. St Mungo's only deal with magical ailments." Lily explained as she looked at her boyfriend. "We'll come back tomorrow so that we can spend more time with you." Lily reassured.

"We'll make sure Sirius comes too." James said making Michelle look up. "He wouldn't come today because you told him not too." Michelle nodded in understanding.

"If you don't keep an eye on Eve, Caspian will marry her." Michelle said changing the subject as she saw her cousin with Eve outside in the hallway. James looked out also and saw Caspian holding Eve.

"I don't know if I like that idea." James said.

"I don't think you have a say." Lily said with a smile.

A while later as they continued to talk about random, simple things Lily finally found the nerve to ask about Michelle's condition.

"Do they know how bad the cancer is?" Lily asked startling the room into silence. Michelle looked out the window as Caspian spoke up.

"Thy think it has spread into her intestines." Caspian said. "But we can't be sure not until the muggles do their tests."

"How long are you staying for?" James asked Caspian curiously.

"As long as I need to be here." Caspian said looking at Michelle.

"Not that long then." Michelle said with a scowl towards her cousin. The medi-wizard took that moment to walk into the room.

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you all to leave now. Michelle needs to get her rest." He said with a sad smile towards the group.

"Yeah cause I'm so worn out playing Quidditch in this place." Michelle said with a scoff. James and Remus shared a grin at Michelle's one liner.

"We'll come back tomorrow. Dumbledore will understand." Lily said before hugging her best friend. Claudia and Eve each took a turn in hugging Michelle as Remus and James waited.

"I'm going to get something to eat so I'll be back soon." Caspian said as Michelle rolled her eyes at him.

"We'll see you soon." Lily said with a bright smile before they left. Caspian walked them down into the main hall.

"I'm glad you guys came." Caspian said. "Next time make sure you bring Sirius with you. She won't admit it but she needs him here." James and Remus looked at each other and nodded. They would make sure Sirius came next time even of they had to gag and bound him to get him there.

"I'm going to stay here for a while." Eve said as she looked at her brother then to Caspian. "I'll come back with Sophie and Kent later." James looked at Eve then to Caspian.

"Make sure you look after her." James said warningly. Caspian nodded his head.

"We should get going." Lily said as she looked towards the fireplaces. "See you guys later." Lily said as the foursome said goodbye to Eve and Caspian. A while later they found the common room relatively empty except for Sirius who was in the corner of the room in one of the armchairs. Claudia glared at Sirius as she made her way up to the dorm. James, Remus and Lily made their way over to Sirius and sat on the chairs surrounding him. Sirius looked at his friends and sighed.

"So how is she?" Sirius asked.

"She wanted you there." Lily said hoping that she made Sirius feel guilty.

"Did she say that?" Sirius asked as he sat up in the chair.

"She didn't have to." Lily said with a sigh before getting angry. "You know what grow a pair of balls and man up. Michelle could be dying and you are acting like a stubborn idiot." The three boys looked at Lily in astonishment. "You don't deserve to have someone like Michelle love you. You deserve someone horrible to love you like … like Belatrix LaStrange. That's what you deserve." Lily said angrily before stomping of to the girl's dorm. The boys watched after her before looking at each other.

"You should really tell her I'm not into incest." Sirius said as he looked at James with a small smile.

"She's right though." Remus said with a shrug. "Except for the Belatrix thing." He added quickly.

"I know." Sirius said with a shrug. "I'm waiting for Sophie and Kent to stop having sex and I'm going to go with them."

"Why didn't you just say that?" James asked.

"Wanted to let Lily get that of her chest." Sirius said with a shrug as he saw Kent and Sophie walk down the stairs. "Explain the bloodline to Lily if you don't mind. Don't really want her accusing me of incest again. I ran away from home for a reason." Sirius said with a grin as he stood up.

"You ready to go?" Kent asked as he greeted James and Remus.

"See you guys later." Sirius said to his best friends as he left the common room.

"That guy can be so complex." Remus said with a shake of his head.

"And that's coming from the werewolf."James with a grin as Remus punched him in the arm.

A while later Lily, James, Peter and Remus were sitting in the common room. James and Peter were playing chess as Lily read a book and Remus did his potions homework.

"Do you think they're making up?" Lily asked as she looked up from her book.

"I'm sure Sirius put on the charm." Peter said with a smile.

"He better not be this is a serious-" Lily was cut off as a scream came from the fireplace. They looked over to see Eve screaming. Since when did she come back? And why were her cloths so dirty. Eve fell to the floor as she tried to claw her way back to the fireplace but she seemed to be hurt. James jumped up quickly and towards his sister.

"Eve!" James said as he slid to the ground beside his sister. He tried to pick her but she screamed more. "Eve what happened? Please tell me what happened?" James pleaded.

"Caspian! I need to get back! Caspian!" Eve scream as she clutched her arm whilst trying to get back to the fireplace. Lily looked up just as Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore walked through the portrait.

"What is the meaning of this? How did she get through that fireplace?" Professor McGonagall demanded before stopping in shock at seeing Eve's screeching form.

"Eve tell me what happened?" James pleaded ignoring those around him as he pulled Eve to him.

"D-deatheaters they attacked." Eve sobbed as she clung to her brothers shirt. The room instantly went silent as everyone looked at each other. "They attacked St. Mungo's." Dumbledore swept out of the room as the realisation dawned on them. Their friends were at St Mungo's.

I know it's short but I've had to do this from scratch. I've lost all of my Lily and James stuff including several more chapters of this story and I've had no inspiration for this at all. But this chappie is basically what I remember was on the chapters I lost. Please be aware I haven't wrote anything for this story in nearly three years because I had everything archived. So the writing style is going to be a bit different - especially considering I've quite literally finished writing this. And you all have Zoe Belafonte to thank for this. Anyway enjoy.