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Chapter Four
James was the first out of his dorm room. Sirius, Remus, and the others on his heel. He glanced over the banister to see three professors (he didn't know nor care who they were) struggling with Lily's limbs on the common room floor.
" Lily!" he would have never made it to the staircase and therefore jumped over the railing, crash landing on the stone floor.
" Potter are you mad!?" Sirius yelled after him.
But James ignored him, and everything else around him. He wasn't too sure what his plan was, there wasn't one, if he could only get to her, he'd think of something.
One of the professors raised his wand, prepared, and called out the commands of a stunning charm. James dove off the side of the armchair he was standing on and landed through the professor, next to Lily, and in the path of the charm.
Lily's screams became louder when she saw James's unconscious body laying next to her. At that sight, her struggled became week and helpless. She ceased her fight, after watching Alina, she knew it was not going to make things any better.
Professor McGonagall entered, again in her dressing gown, but this time holding a small vinyl. She knelt at Lily's side where she was captured, pressing it against her lips, allowing the thick liquid to seep through her teeth. One stop and she drifted off as though it were a nightly slumber.
Quietly, her limp body was carried from the common room. Professor McGonagall stayed behind for an extra moment, ordering all her students back to bed, then left. Everyone obeyed, quietly, and no one noticed James.
Sirius coldly shoved his way through the mob of gaping, whispering students- figuring he would defiantly hex them later.
" I'm hoping one of these days your mind will catch up with your body on time" he said, knowing damn well that James couldn't hear him- not like he'd listen if he were conscious. Sirius pulled his body into a sitting position, then allowing it to fall over his shoulder. " How are we suppose to save the girl with the hero unconscious?" he asked while carrying James back to their dorm room.
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Lily awoke, yet her eyes stayed closed, not wanting to see where she was. It was cold, freezing, and she easily felt the rough stones under her back. It was painful, like stabbing knives as she turned onto her back. Her hand immediately found the pendant around her neck and gripped it in her palm, " Please" she silently cried, and continued on and on.
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James awoke with such a startle that he flipped off the mattress. The bed sheets became tangled around his legs, which left him suspending over the side, preventing him from hitting the floor. A hand emerged from behind the curtain around the bed, grabbing his shirt collar and yanking him back onto the bed. Remus and Sirius were sting at the end of the mattress, glaring at him.
" Is she alright?" Sirius shook his head, and James felt the warm pendant on the other side of his shirt, seeing the glowing blue light reflecting off his skin, " we've got to get to her".
Remus snatched his ankle, " and just how are you planning on getting past Dippet's gaurds? Remember last years major growth spur, sneaking by isn't as easy as it use to be, cloak or no cloak".
" Then what do we do?".
Sirius held up the Marauder's Map, " the dungeon she's in is through Dippet's office" sure enough, a tiny dot that read ` Lily' was behind Dippet as well as several others in the same office, " she's alone, Alina must already be on her way to Azkaban".
" That's how fast they get shipped off" Remus said, " so I'll distract-whomever I have to, Dippet comes running, and Sirius will go in and get her".
" Hey!" James snapped in protest, " if I can't get in, what chance has he got?".
Sirius smirked, " are you an Amigaus?"
James's jaw dropped, " you dumb bloke! You're not registered yet, that's illegal!".
Remus rolled his eyes, " like I was saying, after Sirius the mouse gets her out, you'll be waiting on your broom, and it's bye-bye to Evans and Potter".
He blinked, " and where am I taking her?".
" For a moonlight ride" Sirius commented, then smacked James upside the head, " to Remus's cottage, where his mum is, its about a five or ten minute ride".
" And if you don't know remember where it is, then we shouldn't be friends, same goes for thinking my mum wouldn't let you in the front door".
There was no argument about it, Mrs. Lupin always treated Sirius and James like her own sons, without question. Perhaps being the mother of a werewolf had something to do with it.
" I'm not sure about this" James said, and never thought he'd hear those words leave his mouth.
" Well when we get hit by sleeping charms, you can make the plans" Sirius slid off the bed, " now come on, or we're doing it alone, which isn't a good idea because Moony cant fly to save his life".
James slid off as well, " alright, but when I come back, I'm going after whoever turned her in. There's no way her name showed up on the Ministry's list that fast. Did you happen to hear who it was?".
Sirius paused, turning back to face them as he had his hand on the doorknob, " Malfoy, who else?".