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"Death Eaters! T-there are Death Eaters coming!" Yelled a short brown haired boy before he fell to the ground with a flash of green.

"Oh god! Run!" Shouted a tall boy with red hair, grabbing the hand of a dark haired girl and ducking under a flash of light. The command was hardly necessary, the teenagers who had been occupying the street where running in every direction.

"We've got to get back!" Called a blonde boy. "Someone one get professor!"

"Quick get inside, everyone hurry get into a building!" Shouted girl running for a door with candy in the window, followed closely by several shorter children.

"Avada Kedavra." Said a stocky figure in a black robe and mask laughing slightly as a skinny brown haired girl dropped in a flash of green light. "Filthy mudblood. Come out, come out little kiddies. There's no Dumbledore here to protect you now." He said to the now deserted street of Hogsmead.

In the alleyway between two buildings two teenagers were crouched down behind several trash cans. "Merlin, we've got to do something. They're going to start going into the stores, everyone'll be trapped in there." Whispered a red haired girl.

The black haired boy nodded gravely. "I think they've already killed…"

He broke off as the teens heard a loud crash from the mouth of the alley, both tried to press themselves into the wall. "I know someone's in back here. If you come out it'll be quick I promise." Giggled a woman's voice. "If not, well, I suppose more fun for me then."

Get Dumbledore mouthed the boy. The girl shook her head furiously, "I won't go back without you." She hissed.

The boy took a deep breath and waved his wand; a ghostly white stag erupted from the end. "Tell Dumbledore there's Death Eaters. Hurry!" He whispered.

"There you are. Crucio!" The boy plummeted to the ground and screamed.

"The girl jumped up, wand raised, "Petrificus Totalus!" She yelled, the black clad figure suddenly froze and fell back. "James, James, are you alright?" She asked helping the boy off the ground.

"Been better, let's go before they find us Lily." He murmured. Both teens snuck behind the building and stopped for a moment. "You can still go back, go find a teacher."

Lily raised an eyebrow, "I am not leaving you here alone."

"Had to try."

"Yeah, any chance you'll go?" She asked. It was the boy's turn to raise an eyebrow, "Didn't think so. Okay, so what do we do?"

James closed his eyes and took a deep breath; there was more screaming coming from the street. "We're going to have to sneak around and try to take them by surprise."

Lily nodded, then taking a deep breath of her own pulled his head down to hers and pressed her lips roughly to his. "Just in case, er, you know." She said solemnly.

"Everything's going to be fine, I promise." His voice shook at the end, and they both knew he lied.

They both put their backs to the wall and crept along the side; James poked his head around the corner, "Alright, Lil, on the count of three. Just stop them however you can, all we have to do is hold them off until Dumbledore gets here. One, two, three."

Both jumped out and shouted, "Stupefy!" At the same time. Two black robed figures fell to the ground. The other six turned surprised, and began to send spells back.

It wasn't long before James and Lily had been separated, "Crucio!" Lily fell screaming to the ground.

"Stupefy!" Shouted a red haired boy, while the dark haired girl he had saved helped Lily to her feet.

"Okay?" She asked.

"Fine, Gideon go help James, he's surrounded by four of them." Lily said desperately.

"On it."

"Lookie, lookie, what do I have here?" Said the woman who had cornered Lily and James in the alley. "It's the mudblood and her filthy half-blood friend." Then without giving the girls a chance to respond she waved her wand. The girls went flying through the air. Lily hit the brick wall to The Three Broomsticks, as she fought to keep conscious she saw her friend raise her wand to the Death Eater, and then nothing as the blackness overtook her.

She woke to the sound of a cold, high pitched laughter. "They're all down Potter, all your little friends. Dead most likely." The voice said dismissively. Lily glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw that both Gideon and Dorcas where lying on the ground. Dorcas in what looked horribly like a pool of blood. "I'll give you a choice: join me or die like the reset of them."

"No, never." James said, defiantly raising his chin. "You'll have to kill me." Lily saw that he was bleeding profusely from a gash on his arm, and his nose looked to be broken.

"You had your chance, say hello to all of your little friends," the high voice said. Lily raised her wand and had a wooden trash can floating slightly in the air, she used her wand to move it in front of James at the same time the voice said, "Avada Kedavra." The trash can exploded and she saw James fall before passing out again.

"Lily, Merlin Lily, you've got to wake up. Please." James pleaded. Lily's eyes fluttered, "Oh thank Merlin. Wake up baby, come on."

"James!" Lily cried bolting upright and hugging him. "Uh, definitely should not have done that." She said closing her eyes, paling.

"Yeah, you've got a concussion. They didn't want to do anything until you were awake." James replied.

"Lovely. Oh god, Gideon, Dorcas? Are they alright? What about everyone else, is everyone okay?" Lily asked in a rush, her eyes darting around.

James looked into Lily's eyes, the tears he was fighting still managing to leak out. "Gideon and Dorcas are fine, but, Merlin Lily, Emily; they got her with Avada Kedavra."

"No." Lily moaned. "How bad? How many others?" Lily asked tears already streaming down her face.

"It's bad Lil, at least six dead; I don't know how many hurt, a lot." He replied.

"I need, I need to see James."

"Alright, here, I'll help you up."

The sight of the usually cheery Hogsmead stole her breath. The street was covered in glass and tinged horribly red, the buildings themselves had missing bricks, and large black craters in the walls. There were students crying in groups looking around helplessly. Teachers with bleak looks on their faces were leading students back up to the school.

In the middle of the street Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore spoke in hushed tones, both looking grave. "I think that's the last." Professor McGonagall said in a choked voice gesturing to the seven bodies that now lined the street.

Lily sobbed, there, in the middle was a once pretty girl with brown hair. "Emily."

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