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Edit Note: Do you guys like these 3000-6000 word chapters more or do you want me to hold onto them and drop larger chapters every week or two?
Lilly paced back and forth staring at the dead bodies at her feet, as much as she tried to will herself to do so she just couldn't give a damn that she'd killed two men. It was a very odd feeling, to think you did something wrong while in same breath not caring in the slightest that you did it. Realizing after a time that she was still holding the burnt out smoldering wand she'd taken from Mr. Gorilla's corpse she tossed it aside and transfigured it into a soda can.
"Ok...well, Hermione will still be doing what she does and I'm still hungry, I don't care in the slightest that I just murdered two crooks and I'm vaguely aware that I'm uncomfortably close to walking the path Tom had taken, albeit for better reasons...what do I do?" The answer to that was her walking into Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour. Grinning at the bearded man she asked,
"Ello Mr. Fortescue, I'd like two chocolate sundaes, with the works please," the friendly man winked at her as he prepared the ice cream.
"No problem little lady, trying to entice someone?" Snorting she rolled her eyes,
"If she would stop being so oblivious yes, otherwise I'm just being a good friend," pausing at that Florean then smirked,
"Do yourself a favor young lady, keep those thoughts away from the purebloods, same sex relationships have a tendancy of ending in violence, backwards bastards..." Giving the man a once over Lilly nodded in return then thought 'Sound advice for sound advice, hopefully he accepts it'.
"I'll do that, and listen you won't believe me, no one does, but that bastard Voldemort managed to bring himself back from the brink, if I were a betting woman I'd guess he'd be springing his buddies from Azkaban soon, you might want to skedaddle to avoid the fallout."
His blue eyes darkened a bit as he appraised her, eventually he sighed, "You honestly believe that don't you Harry?" Abruptly standing strait in shock she could only eye him as he shook his head,
"Of course I know its you, the rumors are flying on what happened to you and you're the only one who's been openly claiming You-Know-Who is back...blast it all... ok if you think the dark bastards returned I'll head home to France, thanks for the heads up young lady, the sundae's are on me, take care." A very bewildered Lilly Potter made her way to her best friend as she shook her head,
"Amazing, I'm utterly befuddled by someone actually listening to me...huh," she mused as she flitted through the crowds, before she could enter the book store a very contemplative Hermione met her out front.
"Oh, hello Lilly, what have you been up to?" Shrugging the raven haired woman handed off one of the sundae's,
"Acquiring sweets for you, not that you really needed help in the deviancy department but I figured since we're disobeying every rule in the book at the moment you'd jump at the chance to defy the dentists in your family." It looked like she was really, really trying to force it away but eventually a smile blossomed on her best friends face as she accepted the treat,
"You are incorrigible, you know that right? Thank you Lilly, I appreciate the effort." Nodding she sat down on an empty bench and Hermione soon followed, neither of them said a word as they tore into their sundaes, eventually Lilly coughed.
"Ok well, confession time, I kinda just killed two people and I don't rightly care that I did so, not sure what to think on that." It said something on the nature of their relationship that Hermione only paused a moment before taking another bite of her ice cream,
"Why?" No accusation, no lecture, just curiosity, damn did she love that witch,
"Tried to rob me, eventually they threatened you and I snapped, killed the first by accident, you'd have been proud, double silent wandless spellcasts, still reeling from that one. Second guy I kinda rammed my way into his brain and saw he planned on raping and murdering me like his other victims and he'd gotten away with a slap on the wrist before, so I just removed him from the equation." Hermione sat there a moment, placed her sundae aside and grabbed the back of Lilly's head forcing her to look into the smaller witch's eyes,
"You're ok though right?" the slightly startled teen smirked sadly as she replied,
"Of course, I'm just wondering if I'm becoming like the monsters I've been fighting with how easy it was, like Lovecraft said, sometimes when you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back." Now looking startled her bookworm friend asked,
"You've read Lovecraft?" Rolling her eyes she retorted,
"Yes brown eyes I've read Lovecraft, and Wells, Herbert, Shakespeare, Adams, Stoker, Shelly, and Sun Zu, when your childhood is spent being stalked by someone who has an allergic reaction to literature you tend to find yourself at the library often." Hermione looked like she was about to explode, never a good sign, she whipped out her wand and cast several privacy charms around them including a disillusion, and in one smooth motion her wand was was back on her belt.
This complete the witch suddenly straddled Lilly and wrapped her arms around her neck kissing her deeply, that...that was not expected, a little note of irritation entered the back of her mind, 'This is what it took? Talking about my favorite novels? This woman...' . As the kiss deepened Hermione's hands drifted down past Lilly's shoulders and locked tightly around her waist, eventually eyes fluttering open she broke the kiss to stare into her friends brightly glowing gaze; for once she was the one smirking.
"Are you just going to sit there or take us some place more private?"
Sirius Black was among many many things (most of them true he'd sadly admit) a free spirit, so being confined in the hated home of his even more hated family sapped much of the life from him. His being stuck in hiding was now even more grating with Lilly's revelations, if what she said was true he'd been cast aside and sent to the closest thing to Hell on Earth by a man he'd looked to as a father. So it was not really shocking that he'd immediately accepted his goddaughters rather amusing scheme and his part in it.
Right now though he had to prepare, and one of those preparations was to not look like a vagrant, it had only taken a floo call for Fleur Delacour to show up and give him a make over, seeing as he couldn't exactly go to a salon it was his only real option outside of Molly. Plus, while he'd never interfere with Bill's love life there was nothing quite like being under the ministrations of a French Veela, as he mulled over asking her if she had any older single relatives the front door was slammed open.
Both startled they glanced down the hall to see two girls snogging the hell out of each other, as his mothers portrait began to go off the raven haired teen whipped her wand up and blasted the painting with a curse he'd only ever seen Lily Potter pull off. As the beam of light faded the smoking hole in the wall was ignored by the busy couple as they absently closed the door, realizing that the caster had been his goddaughter and the other girl Hermione Sirius just raised an eyebrow as the smaller witch was scooped up into Lilly's arms.
Walking past Sirius the bespectacled teen winked at him and marched upstairs, as a door slammed shut Fleur met Sirius eyes and after a moment they both broke down laughing. Leaving the kids to do what kids do Sirius sat patiently for another ten minutes until Fleur finished his makeover, now admiring his new stylish goatee and primped shoulder length hair he couldn't help but think, 'Black is back baby!'.
As Fleur began cleaning up the rather large amount of hair on the floor there was an ear piercing wail from the main hall, signing Sirius stuck his head through the doorway to see Kreacher holding the fire blackened and still smoking portrait frame,
"MISTRESS! FILTHY BLOOD TRAITORS KILL YOU! It was the blood traitors mudblood whore did this, yes, Kreacher will show her!" Before he could stop the insane house elf he had apparated away,
"Ah hell..."
Snog session currently in progress Lilly lay on the love seat arms wrapped around Hermione, after having to come up for air Lilly finally found herself capable of speaking,
"Not..ahem...not that I'm complaining or anything but when did you suddenly get into girls?" blushing furiously Hermione kissed her again before answering,
"I'm not, well not strictly, I'm into you, Lilly who was Harry, doesn't matter what you look like you're the best friend that I fell in love with," Lilly grinned at how incredibly sappy that sounded and pulled the bookworm back down. As their hands began...exploring...other options there was a crack of an apparation, looking over quickly both young ladies eyes widened in shock as they were charged by a screaming hatchet wielding Kreacher.
The screams...were not unexpected, the ceiling in the sitting parlor exploding in a cascade of rotting wood, broken plaster, and cobwebs was. In the center of the mess was a very stunned (hopefully dead) Kreacher, glancing up he met a rather disheveled Lilly's gaze, lifting his brows in question he made a mental note to ask her how she did that brilliant eye glowing thing.
"So...everything handled pup?" He heard her mumble a few rather creative curse words when she finally replied,
"Yeah we're good, Hermione wants to know if I killed the fucking psychopath, can you check?" Grimacing he walked up to the filthy elf and looked down at it, a moment later he sighed back up to her,
"Nope, unfortunately you did not manage to kill him this time...damnit..." Sighing Lilly sounded slightly relieved,
"Ok good, would never hear the end of that, anyway I'm using your bedroom, pardon we're using your bedroom, see you in a half hour," laughing to himself he left Kreacher in the rubble, he'd let the elf clean it up later.
Roughly an hour late two blushing witches made their way downstairs, Fleur and Sirius were both waiting in the kitchen sipping tea, the blonde Veela looked up first and grinned at the pair,
"So 'Arry, are we going to 'ave to 'ave ze talk now?" Face falling the woman in question whined,
"Are you serious?" Grinning the French woman took a sip of her tea and replied,
"No, zat is your godfather, I am Fleur," Sirius stared at her blankly before he asked,
"Did...did you just steal me joke?" Now giggling the Veela nodded,
"Oui, I 'ave been waiting all day to do it too!" Shaking his head Sirius glanced to the still standing couple,
"Ok Pup, I get why you're friends with her, come take a seat we've got things to talk about!" Taking there seats the two girls kept trading furtive glances which only had Sirius laughing inwardly, 'Ah young love, nothing like it'.
Once settled he continued, "Well we've gotten a report from Hogwarts that Harry, rather Lilly, is AWOL and Dumbledore is trying to find a way to bust into the chamber of secrets, from what Bill told Fleur here breaking the rune wards on that door will take roughly six months so no worries about that. No one seems to have noticed Hermione's gone missing yet but I'm sure that's just because no one checked the library." That got a snort from both teens who were still making googly eyes at each other, Fleur cleared her throat and continued for him,
"Now, zere is somezing you two need to realize, while mainland Europe and some of Asia don't quite...care about ze whole same sex zing wizarding Britain is quite conservative, 'Arry I know how little you care what ozers zink but please try to refrain from anyzing too crazy? You are untouchable as a High Lady, Hermione...not so much." Nodding thoughtfully Lilly stroked her chin and looked to the ceiling,
"Right, bigotry, they won't look at the fact that I was a guy less then a week ago they're going to look at two very hot women being into each other...lovely...thanks for the tip Fleur. Hmm...I could just kill them all...messy but acceptable..." Before anything else could be said Kreacher stumbled into the room,
"Mudblood whore! Half blood traitors! You all pay for hurting the mist'-" He was cut off by Fleur as she hit him with a stunner rolling her eyes, looking to Sirius she sheepishly said,
"Sorry, I can only take 'im for so long," he waved it off as Lilly stood up shaking her head in annoyance,
"I'll check him this time," as she approached the passed out elf a hissing sound could be heard from the locket dangling from his chest, kneeling down she snapped off the necklace and cocked her head to the side, after a moment she began hissing in return. With a click the gold locket split open and white light enveloped the startled witch.
Lilly had not been anticipating dealing with a Horcrux today, in fact she was barely beginning to process the fact that she'd gotten to second base with her best friend when the alien presence began invading her brain. The imagery was of course deeply unpleasant, this shard of Tom's soul was trying to play off her base fears but couldn't really find a crevice to land a hook into.
Its not like she had no fears, she had plenty, but what it tried to worm into was just a bunch of none issues, Hermione loved her, this afternoons...activities proved that beyond a doubt. Sirius really wanted to be her guardian, emancipation or not the man was determined to be there for her, and Ron despite being a barely intelligible foodsack had always come back in the end to help.
Hell, the rest of the Weasely's always had her back as well, Bill and Charlie were the consummate gentlemen (and the new girly parts of her brain threw in 'Hot' as well, ick) Percy was a prat but meh, can't have them all, and the twins and Ginny were amazing partners in crime. No, this deft little bastard wasn't going to play on any fears of inadequacy, eventually it got frustrated and addressed her directly...finally.
"Your mind is well shielded, I can offer you power untold if you simply let me in, together we can forge a destiny of greatness!" Holy. Shit. This thing just went full Palpatine...sighing Lilly began pulling at the edges of Horcrux magic, eventually she found the complex runic matrix that kept the abomination intact and began unraveling it.
"Sorry Tom, I am you and you are me, I know you better then you know yourself, and while I must say you are significantly less insane then the bit of you that was jammed in my brain you're just quite simply not my type." As the magics surrounding them began to come apart a distinct keening whine could be heard from the Horcrux, 'Gonna go deaf...seriously stop already',
"NO! I am Lord Voldemort, I am undying, I am immortal!" Sighing she lamented 'Wow, this is seriously getting tedious, is he going to go through every villain cliche before this is over?' Not willing to give the soul fragment another chance at a one liner Lilly focused on the new magics flooding her system, after a time she came to back to in the kitchen as her hand was being soaked in ichor pouring from the locket. As a screaming face appeared from the smoke roiling forth she couldn't help but drop her glowing eyes to meet the suffering shades ashen blacks,
"Was it good for you Tommy? Cause I could go all night...oh well, two minute wonder aside, I'll give you a call later," And with that she blew on the fading specter as it fell into dust, scourgifying then examining the rather gaudy bauble the snake in its center hissed,
"Thank you mistresss, it burned...it hurt ssso much when the falssse heir put hisss foul touch on me, I am now yoursss to command," as black talons of electricity spread from the locket down her body she shuddered as the ancient Slytherin magic became hers. Shaking her head a couple times she then conjured a chain and threaded it through the locket, wrapping it around her neck she walked back to the stunned table and plopped down in the chair next to Hermione's.
"Well that was a thing, mind pouring me a few fingers of firewhiskey Padfoot? This is going to take some explaining."
AN-Lilly is just having one hell of a day isn't she? And now she's charged with more Voldemort soul goodness, how will this dark energy effect her? Find out next time!
Also I found Mr Fortescue's fate to be a rather sad one so Lilly lent him a hand, on that note she's dealing with the fact that her view of the world is a turning a very deep gray and is trying to do as much good as possible to counter it.
Personally I find the idea of Lilly's revelations about her reading habits turning Hermione on rather funny, so ran with it, as far as Fleur goes I rather liked her character so having her around for this bit was just personal preference.