Wildest Dreams | A James and Lily Love Story ✅

Chapter Twenty-Three - Revenge and Recovery

Lily:

Shock.

"What happened?" Mar asks in a quiet voice, and Sirius sighs deeply. "We were going back to get the book, when we bumped into Snape. We didn't say anything, but as soon as our backs were turned he started a fight. He stunned me, and stunned Prongs too. But then he started to use a stinging hex on Prongs, before removing the stunning curse. That's when he hit Prongs with something else. I...I've never seen it before, or even heard of it. It was totally new. Sectum- I don't. Sectum something. It's what caused all of the blood. I...I don't know exactly what it did, but it looked like an invisible knife was just cutting him all over. And I was forced to watch. Then there ws some sort of sound coming from a few hallways down, and Snape ran. The stunning curse was removed by somebody - I don't know who. That's when I got up, and quickly examined Prongs as best I could. I then ran off, trying to find someone. Unfortunately, I didn't meet any teachers on my way to the Head's common room, so the first people I could tell were you's!" he says, and we all look down in silence.

"Who do you think helped you, Pads?" Remus asks, and Sirius sighs again. "That's what I can't figure out! Who? Who would help me like that, and not say who they were?". At his words, I see a thought flash in Remus' eyes, but he doesn't say anything to Sirius. Hmmm...I'll ask him about that later. But right now we have bigger things on our hands.

"Snape. Snape did this." I say, my voice trembling with anger. "Yes. I'm going to kill him. Who wants to help?" Sirius replies, his voice dangerously low. Without replying, and not even looking at any of my friends, I set off down the hall way. I hear some of them try to follow me, but Sirius stops them saying that I have a reason for doing this. I speed walk all the way down to the Slytherin common room, and when I reach it I knock on the door.

The door is opened by Regulus Black, no less. His eyes narrow as he sees the blood covering my uniform, and says, "What do you want?". "I need to talk to Snape. Now, please." I say, and he scans the room quickly. "Sorry, he's not here. But, what happened?" Regulus replied, and I decide to give him a short answer instead of just leaving as he actually seems like one of the nicer Slytherins, and is actually interested.

"Well, Snape attacked James and Sirius in the hallway. Sirius was just stunned but James is bleeding to death in the hospital wing so I need to find Snape and find out what curse he used." I say, not even taking a breath in between words. "Is Sirius ok? Is he going to be ok? James, I mean." he says, and I shrug. "Sirius is fine, but James isn't. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go.". I quickly excuse myself due to the fact that I see Bellatrix Black walk into the common room from the Slytherin girls' dormitory, and I really don't want to deal with her right now.

"Ok." he says, and he he closes the door after I leave. I rush around the school, desperately trying to find Snape. I need to know what spell he used, because only he will know the counter curse, and that is needed to save James' life. It's one of his little spells that he makes up himself - I just know it is. When we were younger, he made harmless spells - just colour changing flowers and things like that. But it seems as though since our friendship ended he has started o work on more dangerous spells. Maybe even fatal spells. I shudder to think of the consequences if I don't find Snape.

As I round the corner of one of the hallways near the hospital wing, I bump into someone. Snape. "You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!" I say, pulling out my wand and holding it against his throat. "What is it Liy?" he asks, having the audacity to use my name. "What spell did you use of James? What did you curse him with?" I ask, my voice slowly getting louder and louder. "Well, let me think..." he says, pretending to deliberate.

So this is how things are going to go. "Tell me the counter curse! Please." I say, whispering the last word. "How about...no!" he says, walking off. I know that there is no point in following him so with tears in my eyes I run back to the hospital wing.