In the Tower
Chapter Five: Waking Up and Screaming
Summary: See Chapter One.
Disclaimer: Oh yeah mans, I'm JKR! I write hot and heavy Lily and James and Harry and Hermione scenes on my private beach just outside the Virgin Islands. I'm joking... you know that right?
Author's Note: I really didn't know how I was going to write this, after all, this story started out with me being bored, not really intending to be a full-blown out story. This is Remus' POV, then Lily's. I'm a horrible proofreader, so I need a beta. Who wants to do it for me?
Previously: James woke up slightly when he heard the door close. He opened his eyes, and he didn't believe what he saw. Lily Evans was right in front of him, sleeping! She looked comfortable, and he was just too sleepy to really notice she was rolling over to him, even closer than she was. She found him and wrapped an arm around his stomach and snuggled closer. "Very good dream," He mumbled incoherently. He then feel asleep again, feeling her heart beat in synch with his, her soft breath blowing his hair up and down, as he breathed her hair flew back only a little, then went back in place. The last thing he remember before going back to sleep was wrapping an arm around her as she whispered, "love you,"
What is a kiss? A kiss is simply two people, their mouths joined together, sharing air. Sharing life. Sharing love. Realize that if a kiss is simply sharing air, sharing life, sharing love, then one can kiss someone without touching at all. Fuyumi, breathe
"Finally, Christmas Break is here. I'm tried." Remus said stupidly before yawning widely and blinking his eyes. Sirius was standing awkwardly at the platform with him, and Peter was already on the train, guarding off their apartment and Milkshake. Sirius laughed and watched as all the girls went by, checking them out one by one.
He got out of the hospital this morning with Remus, but he still winces when someone goes past his arm or roughly hits his back. Remus, of course, wasn't there, but was told all about it.
"Remus, you ready?" He heard Peter call him, and he nodded. He pulled lightly on Sirius' arm, to get his attention, and together they ambled off into the train. They sat on the train, and felt it rumble and shake as it started down the tracks. Peter bought them all the candy on the cart, and Remus was the only one who ate all the chocolate. Nobody touches his chocolate.
"Sirius, why are you coming with us?" Peter asked suddenly, but Remus and Sirius couldn't hear it at first, his mouth full of Bertie Botts. Sirius raised a dark eyebrow, and Peter said it again.
"Oh, well, I told Mr. and Mrs. Potter that I didn't want to stay at Hogwarts again, it just keeps getting to me. So they invited me to stay at their house again. I couldn't refuse. They are my second, no, first family and all." Peter nodded his understanding and Remus just ripped off another frog head and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Remus... how's the family?" Peter asked him conversationally. He swallowed thickly and just stared into space.
"Good, I guess."
"Good, good." Peter and Sirius said together. There was a long, awkward pause before anyone said anything else. "Um, does anybody hear that?" Sirius asked.
Peter nodded, but Remus had to strain his hearing to hear it, and then he laughed. It was screaming, screams of horror, surprise, and disgust. Remus snorted. "Must be Lily," Sirius nodded his head, grinning. And then he grinned, very maliciously. He slapped Peter on the shoulder. "Apparently, she screamed so loud it went through `silenco!' One heck of a scream right there."
"That, was all Pet's doing. I fell, as you know, and I couldn't do it. But go Pete!" Remus nodded and raised his glass of pumpkin juice toward Peter. He was blushing, but raised his glass too.
"To James and Lily," Remus said. They echoed him, gaily. And they each took a big swig of pumpkin juice.
"To a start of one helluva relationship," Sirius said. They repeated him and drank deeply again.
"To knowing that we are so going to get a talking to when we come back!" Peter shouted. They shouted it to him back, and finished off their glasses. "What's everyone going to be doing this holiday?"
"I'm going to think of more pranks and write them down and try them on the Potter's really annoying neighbor, Sindy Park. And hang out with Katie, of course." Katie Ah Bleu was a sixth year Ravenclaw, and a very close friend with Sirius and James. Remus and Peter had never been properly introduced, but they were acquaintances. Katie lived on one side of James, and Sindy lived on the other. "It will be so fun!" They both looked at Remus.
"Nurse old wounds and lick new ones. Take care of my mum and sister." They just nodded. "You?"
"My dad is in America for a little while, trying to find a job. My mum and I are going there to visit him." Sirius and I both nodded. Then he asked the question. The entirely stupid question again, and Remus just had to answer truthfully this time. "How's the family?"
Sirius and Remus both just stared at him, almost looking past him, but they didn't see him in their minds, oh no. They saw some different; worse. Remus was pretty sure Sirius saw his mother at Black Manor, and all the cruel things he was made to do when he was supposed to be enjoying things. And Remus? Well, he saw something from the eyes of himself when he was just a wee little squirt, as Sirius loves to say.
Remus shook his head and sniffed, keeping back tears. As the memory left him, everything in his life that haunted him before hit him full force.
"Remus, are you all right?" He heard Sirius say questionably. He nodded his head. Remus had never shared that certain memory with anyone, and he didn't plan on doing it any time soon. He may of emptied most of his heart to these people that he loves as his second family, but he has never dropped that secret on them. They wouldn't treat him the same. Sirius still looked at Remus doubtfully.
"I'm fine!" He growled to Sirius and he felt his temper rise. "Just back off!" Both boys and nodded and Sirius jumped up and went over to sit next to Peter, who was shaking. The train stopped moving, and Remus heard all the doors being opened. Remus stood, took his things as Milkshake jumped lightly on top of his trunk, and he exited the section and didn't look back to two of his best friends.
He saw his mom and Tina, his sister, waving at him, trying to be happy. He waved to them with a fake smile, and went over to them. He grabs hold of his mum's hand, and she holds Tina's, and together they walk through the barrier into a different world.
LILY'S POV
Lily opened her eyes and yawned, but don't cover her mouth. She heard a snort, but didn't think any of it. `It's probably Godric anyway,' she said to herself, snuggling closer to her warm pillow. Today was the third day she was locked in this bloody tower, and she was supposed to be going home today. Everything she saw was still blurry with sleepiness, but she distinctly saw black.
"Funny," She said to herself, "There weren't any black blankets yesterday." She felt her pillow roll over and grunt, but she's too sleepy to notice, or care. She shook her head, and when all the sleep was gone, she saw a big mess of black hair. It was up in all directions, and right then the hair was leaning on her chest. "Very nice hair," She said stupidly.
She instinctively entwined her fingers through it and rubbed the soft locks between her fingers. It feels like silk, and smelled like sweat, grass, and morning dew. Brilliant smell, in her opinion. She heard a mumble beneath her chest, and it felt like a purring of a cat. The voice sounded velvety soft, and to tell you the truth, she didn't care who the person was, he could take her, as long as she could smell him, feel his hair, and hear his voice.
Well okay, never mind, but he could kiss her as long as she could smell him, feel his hair and hear his voice. But it sounded so familiar. She felt him breathe out her name. She felt the hot breathe run through her shirt and hit her skin, spreading goose bumps easily and sending shivers down her spine. Right then, she knew exactly who it was, and promptly screamed.
James awoke with a start and lazily, sleepily blinked his hazel eyes at her. He stared and her mouth was opening aghast but no scream came out. He pinched himself numerous times to make sure he wasn't sleeping. He wasn't. And she really wasn't happy. She turned and grasped a pillow and screamed again, but again it didn't happen.
"Get off the bed!" He just nodded and said, "Ungh." He slowly got off the bed and stood off to the side, and fell down do to his sleepiness. "James!" She said bossily and whiny at the same time, "do you know how to get us out of here?"
He shook his head, and took a look at his surroundings, to find exactly where `here' is. He snapped his fingers.
"I know where we are!"
"Oh do you Sherlock?"
"Who's Sherlock?"
She rolled her eyes at him. "Muggle term. Never you mind. So where are we?"
"We are in a tower." She had already figured that out. Was he really that thick?
"I knew that genius. I mean, look at the stairs! Go up them! We reach a top of a tower with a landing; I just don't know which tower."
He looked put out. "Oh. Well, if we know we're in a tower, than I don't know anything else."
"We are so going to die."
He looked around sheepishly, and spotted the food. "Oh boy, muffins!"
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