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Shadows of Love 6

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The blatant truth

Lily was petrified as she caught a glimpse of the highly dangerous creature. The werewolf was slobbering about a foot from her. Its black eyes were shining with hunger.

Lily forced her heavily shaking leg to move a step backwards. The werewolf pushed out its tongue, then pulled it back in the split of a second. Only two steps, Lily thought, two steps were missing to reach the door.

Branches were crackling in the background, somewhere around the Forest. The werewolf turned its head to see what was interrupting it while hunting down the dinner. It was a now or never situation and Lily had no intention of staying. With her heart beating in her throat, she pressed the door handle. The werewolf turned back to her and stroke towards her with its clawed forefoot. Lily screamed and crouched to avoid of being slapped in the face.

She held her hand to the door handle again exactly at the moment when the stag and the dog jumped on the werewolf's back. She heard the dog barking, the werewolf growling and the stag's hooves on the marble staircase, and then pushed the door and fell to the floor of the Entrance Hall. The door slammed.

After a few moments of panting and trying to calm down, footsteps sounded to approach her. Lily heard a strong wheezing from the direction of the Grand Staircase. She stood up, shaking with cold and stumbled to the huge armour in the corner. She leant against the stonewall. Soon enough, Filch appeared in the Entrance Hall with a lantern in his right hand, followed by Mrs. Norris.

"Who's there?", asked Filch, panting. "Who is there?"
Filch approached the door and put his left hand on the handle. Lily closed her eyes and silently suggested Filch not to open the oak door. But the thought didn't reach the old caretaker and he pressed the handle down. The door opened and Lily glanced at Filch. He took a step out and looked round the ground. Apparently, he didn't find anything strange, because he soon closed the door again.
"Bloody owls", Filch mumbled to his cat while taking the stairs upwards. "They can't hold them in check. Why don't they store those wretched birds in the Owlery?"

After Filch had disappeared, Lily released a trembling sigh and slipped down against the wall. She buried her face in the palms of her hands. She decided to wait for James and Sirius there…

James!

And Sirius!

Lily jumped on her feet again behind the armour. She was horrified of the thought that the two -- idiot, stupid, moron! -- boys were still out there. There was a half-theory in her mind which didn't have a full body yet, but it included James, Sirius and a very difficult form of transfiguration which was almost impossible to learn even for high-skilled wizards.

She had to do something. She couldn't stand there without at least trying to save the two jerks' lives. Lily slowly slipped out of the shadow of the armour and stopped in front of the door. She took a deep breath and held out to the handle.

At the moment she touched the cold copper, the door opened wide and the two Marauders stepped in. Lily stepped back, examining the two boys, who put their hands on their knees and gasped quickly. Lily had a moment to take a look at their torn shirts (well, in Sirius's case, his pyjama top) and their faces, arms and legs covered in fresh blood.

The door slammed the fourth time that night, and James raised his head frightened.
"We have to go back before Filch could find us!", he whispered imperiously.
He grabbed Lily's hand and ran towards the Hospital Wing. Sirius loped next to them.

The Hospital was filled with the sound of Peter's snoring. Sirius closed the door gently.
"Would you, please, explain me what the bloody hell was all that?", asked Lily hysterically while shaking her hand off James's grip.
"As soon as you lay back to your bed", he replied.
Lily looked him in the eye for a moment but she couldn't read anything from his look but rigor.

She turned on her heel and sat on her bed. Sirius followed her and sat on the other end of the bed without asking for permission from Lily. She frowned at him, but Sirius didn't care. James pulled out the small chair next to them.
"First off, I hope you know I don't owe you any explanation", James put his elbows on his knees and tied his fingers.
"How the hell would you not?" Lily narrowed her eyes.
"I told you I would explain everything in the morning if you came back. You didn't."
"I think Evans should know why she almost got killed fifteen minutes ago."
Lily turned to Sirius with disbelief on her face. James stared deeply into Sirius's eyes.
"All of it?", he asked.
"All of what?", Lily inquired.
"Well, there would be no point in keeping the rest as a secret."
"The rest of what?"
"Will the others be okay with it?" James kept his eyes on Sirius's face.
"The others?"
"Merlin's pants, Evans, shut up!" Sirius turned to her. Lily glimpsed at him offended. "Prongs, listen, she's not an idiot, she won't tell anybody. Or else I'll hex her until she goes mute."
Lily wanted to reply something rather unkind, but James preceded her:
"All right then.", he took a deep breath. "Lily, the two animals you saw out there…"
"…the dog and the stag", Sirius added.
"Yes, the dog and the stag", James nodded, "well…"
Don't say you're Animagi. Don't say you're Animagi. Don't say you're Animagi.
"We're Animagi", Sirius said instead of James.
Lily smiled with confusion. She felt as if it was April Fools' Day. She didn't want to believe this absurdity.
"Evans?" Sirius asked. "Evans, I'm a dog. And James is a stag."
"And as a matter of fact, Peter is a rat", added James.
Lily burst into laughter and she had to press her palms over her mouth to repress the loud giggling.
"Lily, listen to me", James turned to her seriously. "Lily, the werewolf you saw out there… it was Remus."
The grin slowly turned into an expression of shock on Lily's face as she understood what James just said.
I guess you expected something more exciting after the previous chapter, but it turned out like this. Sorry if it's not what you wanted to read and sorry if I screwed up the canon infos or what we can assume about this. :/ I hope you'll like it this way, too, anyway! (:

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Mowshumi-Minara's avatar
Love it..aren't you going to continue it?? :(