Lily Evans (emerald_eyes) wrote in beyondthepages, @ 2010-05-28 22:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2023 10, acevona sumner, ginny potter, lily evans, lily luna potter, severus snape |
RP: In which Lily has Instincts
Characters: Lily, Lily Luna, Severus
Time/Date: 11:31 AM, Saturday, October 29, 2023
Location: Hogsmeade/Spinner's End
Warnings/Rating: Blood and violence and maybe a cranky Sev
Summary: Lily reacts to the attack with instinct, not thought
Status: Private, ongoing
Lily had every intention of meeting up with Remus at some point during the day, but thought she'd take her granddaughter to lunch first. They could find Remus afterward ... and hopefully she could avoid any awkward situations with James. He knew by now about Severus, and she wasn't looking forward to any hurt looks - or accusatory ones.
She encountered her granddaughter quickly enough; despite all the Weasleys present, LilyLu's hair did stand out. Lily endured being dragged along to the sweet shop, and was listening as LilyLu chattered on about the happenings at school, about the foreign students, bits of this and that about James and Sirius, and the wolves, the acquisition of the map. LilyLu did mention chatting with Tom, and Lily tried not to react to that. She knew, of course. She'd heard from Harry, and had been profoundly disturbed by the idea of it. Still, Lily hoped her granddaughter was bright enough not to fall for whatever tales Tom was sure to spin.
From elsewhere in the village, Lily heard a very loud noise that sounded like an explosion and she reflexively reached out for her granddaughter to start for the door. Before she'd had time to take a step, there was another explosion with twin echoes much to close to her. Much, much too close to her. Lily screamed and clutched at LilyLuna who was also screaming and crying, and only then was she aware that this building had been a victim of the explosion.
There was no thought to her reaction at all save home, so it was no surprise at all that she popped away from Hogsmeade right into the front room of the house she shared with Severus. She landed in an ungainly tangle of limbs with her granddaughter even as she pulled her wand from her sleeve.
Closing her eyes, she pulled up her patronus. "Explosions, in Hogsmeade. Lily's safe with me." She sent the doe bounding off to Harry, trusting he'd do what he had to, and only then did she notice the blood. Glancing down at herself, she saw her robes indented and clinging to her thigh, and for a moment her brain couldn't process what her eyes were seeing. Her robes were pinned to her, and Lily touched it curiously in a stunned, sort of shocked away. "Lily," she said softly as she turned her eyes to her granddaughter.
LilyLuna was clutching at her stomach, pale and panting, and Lily could see the blood spreading, soaking through her dark robes. "Oh Merlin," she breathed before she called out Sev's name, though surely he was ... on his way or there already. Surely he'd felt them bulling through the wards and surely he'd know something was wrong.
"Shh, love," she breathed. She crouched down and screamed out herself as the fabric tore at whatever was embedded in her thigh, jerking it a little higher. For a moment she thought her world went grey before she made herself focus. Focus on what was important, and that was her granddaughter, and ... she lifted a hand, swatting irritably at the trickle of red that was obscuring the vision in her left eye. Aware of blood smearing across her eye, her cheek, her forehead, she didn't care about herself, not just then.