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Tweak says, "Voldemort for president!"

Lily Evans (emerald_eyes) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-05-28 22:49:00

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.

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acevona
2010-05-29 08:50 am UTC (link)

Acevona took all the information in stride, her eyes focused on the older wizard as he spoke. She did appreciate the concise report, and she was pleased that the wizard had a brain in his head and knew enough to act on it. She nodded once he'd finished speaking, and she moved to join Ginny, kneeling down to begin tending to the younger red-headed witch. She did her best to work around Ginny and the tangle of arms the pair had become, and she tried not to listen to the sniffly murmurs from the girl.

But she was good at pretending not to be there when families were having family moments. She just ... did her job.

Lily smiled a little as she recognized Ace, and would have waved or otherwise acknowledged her, but she was clearly busy. Emerald eyes lingered a moment on Lily Luna and Ginny before she glanced to Severus.

"Numb, I think," she murmured. "I ... I don't know. Tired. Scared. Sore." She laughed faintly at that. Lifting a hand, she stroked her fingers along Sev's hair. "I'm not walking up those stairs, in case you had any delusions about that rattling around in your mind." She managed to hold a smile for a few seconds before she glanced again to Ginny and her granddaughter.

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bittersnark
2010-05-29 09:09 am UTC (link)

Severus drew her into his arms, shifting around so that he was supporting her but out of the way when the healer was finished with Lily Luna. He grimaced at the sight of his blood-stained sleeves. He'd probably ruined this shirt but he had others and a shirt was a small price to pay for saving a life.

He snorted with quiet amusement. "I could carry you upstairs but then you would be stuck there. Or I could transfigure the couch into a bed and you can stay here until your leg will handle the stairs again."

He pressed a kiss into her hair, uncaring as to whether Ginny saw it or not. He no longer had to pretend to be the heartless Death Eater and if it gave some comfort to Lily then that was all that mattered to him. "I am certain that the two of you have utterly ruined my carpet," he murmured with a completely straight face though there was a wealth of amused teasing in his eyes. "And you brought a Potter here. It is entirely possible that the house will crumble around our ears." Now his lips quirked in the smallest of smiles to go along with the teasing in his eyes. He didn't mean any of it of course but the teasing would be a good distraction.

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emerald_eyes
2010-05-29 09:19 am UTC (link)

"Well, if I am going to be stuck upstairs, you'd better be prepared to wait on me hand and foot," she teased him softly. "I'll need someone to fetch me food and entertainment, and while Jeremy's quite brilliant, I can't see him dragging books upstairs," she murmured.

"I'll get you a nicer carpet," she replied. "A fluffy one that doesn't have worn spots on it," she teased him back. "And if bringing my granddaughter into the house is going to make it fall down, we'll just have to build it back up before the holidays. I fully intend to bring the entire clan over here. Weasleys too."

If everyone survived. She felt her stomach clench a little at the thought of that. That Harry was out there. Albus Severus and James - both of the James. Sirius and Remus, though she trusted Remus would have the sense Merlin gave ants and get himself back to the castle.

She glanced up to Ace when the witch stepped over, and Lily made a show of sighing and surrendering her leg to the healer. "I trust Relic's going to know about this before I have a chance to tell him?"

"Oh, he'll know," Ace replied quietly as she ran the tip of her wand along Lily's leg, checking her thoroughly before looking to the wound on her head. "She'll be fine, by the way," the healer said before she nodded toward Severus. "The man of the house knows his way around a healing spell."

She patted Lily's shoulder. "And I think you'll survive," she declared. "Just take it easy on the leg for a few days, and don't even try going into work."

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