Chapter 29

The blackness wasn't simply in sight. It was also in feel, smell, and sound.

Lily couldn't believe that anything could be this barren, reaching her hand forward, she touched nothing but empty space. She took a deep breath, expecting to taste something, anything in the air. It was hollow. Her ears strained but found no noise. It was as if nothing else excised. Reaching her hand down again, she grouped for the floor. As she finally found it, Lily noticed the texture first off. Like Stone. Or brick. With strange chips and lines that had long lost the grouting. And it was cold; so cold.

Suddenly there was the sound of shuffling next to her. In the silence it was like a gunshot. Heart pumping, breath quickening, she listened for the sound again. Maybe she was just imagining it. But no, there it was again. Followed by a sound, a word, a name. Her name.

"Lily? Evans? LILY?" His voice was rising as he to grope at the darkness. Lily could hear the sound of his senses assessing the darkness like she had. His breathing was heavy; she could practically see his panic setting in.

"Potter?" Her voice was soft and low. Her throat scratchy and lined as if she hadn't spoken in days. She licked her lips before speaking again. "Potter? As in James?" Is that really you?"

James started crawling in the directions of her voice. "Yes it is. It's me. Are you ok? What happened? Where are we?"

"I-I don't know. But why are you here with me?"

James stopped in his tracks. He was close enough to hear her breathing, to smell her scents. This was it he knew, the brilliant opportunity to win her trust back. Taking a deep breath, he contemplated phrases.

"I followed you. Wondering where you were going. What was wrong, why you were twitching? Then you went to that spider rock thing. I could see it pulling you in and I panicked. So I tried to pull you back, but before I knew it we were falling and then it was black. And now….well, what now?

"I have no idea. About any of that. Something's wrong though… well obviously." She told him everything. Arameo. The attacks. From the note she found in their basement to what had happened with Declan. He didn't say anything until the end, after a pregnated silence filled with nothing.

"You could've told me you know, you could've trusted me."

Long pause, where Lily contemplated answers.

"I thought I could've too. But as I went to tell you then I heard that you told about Constance. There was no trust after that."

James hung his head low, regretting the past.

After the silence had worn out James spoke again.

"Well, what now?"

"I have no idea."

I'm so sorry this is so late! I'll try uber hard to do better, but with school starting soon then I won't have much time This story is almost over though, about ten more chapters. I can't believe the next chapter is chapter 30! That's a lot of chapters you know.

~LIZIES~