(JILY) MARAUDERS AND VALKYRIES : THE FALL OF SERPENT

54. The Sad News!

James apparated a few feets away from the Potter's Manor, he ran towards the door and knocked heavily, after a minute the house elf opened the door.

"Where are they?" asked James at once.

"In their room, Miss McKinnon is here too," replied the elf, James realized that the elf himself was looking very sad, but he will talk to him later, now something more important was waiting for him. 

James' heartbeat increased, and  the thought to meet his parents again after so long time, he has visited them in the hospital but wasn't able to meet them, just seeing them from afar, fuck contagious diseases.

Ever since receiving the invitation from the death eaters, he was worried about his parents and the four Evans, and then when he found out that his parents are injured his worries have been increased, each day in summer was hard for him, not being able to see his parents.

James ran up to his parent's room, he swung open the door and saw four people in the room, his eyes landed on his parents, and his heart sank, they were sitting on the bed next to each other, and their skins were pockmarked, there were purplish rashes on their greenish hue body, both of them looked very weak, their sunken eyes made him shiver.

They both turned to look at their son and a smile appeared on their faces, James smiled back too, he has thought a lot to talk to his parents, about staying with The Evans, about Lily, and to complain about Sirius getting his own flat and what not, but at this moment he couldn't speak, he just looked at them.

He felt a hand around his shoulder, he turned to look at Eugemia, who gave a sad smile to him. The look on her face told James the gravity of the situation.

James moved towards his parents and hugged both of them tightly, it took all of his strength to hold back the tears in his eyes, he can't let his parents see his weakness and make them worry about him. No, he can't do that.

"I missed you both," he told them pulling back and looking at them with a brave smile.

"We missed you too, my dear boy," said Euphemia running her hands through his son's face. "You can't imagine how much I wanted to see you."

"Hey! I wanted to see him as much as you wanted," complained Fleamont.

James grinned at his father, "Did mum bored you out?"

"You can't even imagine, she is not a fun company to have," grinned Fleamont as Euphemia rolled her eyes.

"What about you lecturing about potions all day?" asked Euphemia.

"That was some good stuff, new potions are being invented and the work on wolfsbane is rather impressive," defended Fleamont.

"For you, yes, but not for me," Euphemia shook her head, she looked at James, "Congratulations, dear on becoming the Head Boy, we both are so so proud of you, I hope you are doing your duty properly?"

James smiled, "Of course, mum, do you think Lily will let me breathe if I was not doing my duty properly?"

"Good for you, how is she, how was your stay at the Evans?" 

"Lily is good, she helped me a lot with the head duties, and I really enjoyed staying with The Evans, they were very welcoming, it felt like home," James answered truthfully.

"We owe Rose and Richard," said Fleamont, "for taking care of our son."

"We sure do," said Euphemia.

James talked to his parents about their health and everything, he wanted to talk more but the fourth person who James recognized by her uniform that she was a nurse interrupted them saying it was time for them to take their meds and then rest.