Obliviate [ON HIATUS]

Live a Little

'Mum! Dad! I'm leaving!' Lily shouted behind her as she sprinted down the white porch steps. 

'Where are you going?' Ginny yelled back, sticking her head out of the kitchen window, her red hair blowing in the light breeze. 

'To the park! Be back soon.' Lily shouted again, sprinting across her yard. 

'Is this because of that Malfoy kid?' Her mother asked but Lily was already too far out from hearing range. She had no idea where to go, she didn't actually plan to go to the park at all, she just needed to escape her house for a little while. After a while of running, Lily begun to slow down and walk. 

Did she really have schizophrenia? No, it couldn't be possible, the article specifically said that it can be caused from a 'combination of hereditary and other factors' even 'stress or use of drugs' can cause it to trigger... Maybe she was stressed from school? No, she hardly cared for it any more... Maybe it was the Tree getting her so worked up to find it... Maybe... Lily didn't like the new silence in her mind, there was something quite eerie about it. As though when the voices disappeared so did a little piece of her. 

Lily shook her head... First she hated the voices with a passion and now she wants them back? What was happening to her? Her phone buzzed making her thoughts take a standstill, Scorpius' name flashed on the caller ID. She couldn't deal with him too, she needed some time alone. She declined the call and looked at her surroundings, she was in the centre of the little village. An obelisk stood in the centre, carved in with the names of all the people who had died in a muggle war. Lily stepped closer and watched it transform into a statue of two adults and an infant. She knew this was a spell only the magical folk could see. The two adults were her long ago dead grandparents, Lily and James Potter and the small infant in their arms was her father Harry Potter. 

'Oh dad...' Lily whispered to herself. Her father had gone through so much in his life, She didn't understand how he could do it. The longer she stared at the memorial the more determined she felt. She was going to keep her family safe from all of it, even from herself. She was going to find that Tree of Magic and put an end to the Death Eater's plans. She wouldn't let them win. Her phone buzzed again. 

'What is it?' Lily impatiently asked as she walked away from the memorial and watched it transform back in the obelisk. 

'Well hello to you too, my love.' Scorpius answered from the other line, 'I had some very important information but now as I see you're having a little hissy fit I think I'll refrain from telling you...' 

Lily knew she was being baited into apologising, she sighed softly, 'alright, I'm sorry, I've just had a lot on my mind.' 

'Do you want to talk about it?' Scorpius' tone changed from mocking to serious. 

Lily shook her head, 'no, I'm okay now. What did you need to tell me?' 

'It's about the Tree,' he whispered into the phone. 

'Coincidence?' Lily laughed, 'I was just thinking about it.' 

'Great minds do think alike.' Lily could practically see the wink in that sentence. 

She groaned, 'what about the Tree?' 

'Not so loud!' Lily held the phone away from her ear as Scorpius yelled at her. 

'Okay, okay, sorry, what about it?' she whispered. Lily sat down next to an oak tree, a river flowed in front of her. She looked up to see a baby bird with its mother in their nest, the mother stared at Lily as if daring her to try anything to her baby, eventually the mother bird looked away, looking for any new threats to her baby. 

'Okay,' Scorpius' voice dropped into a hurried whisper, 'they still haven't found it, dad's going ballistic, he keeps getting phone calls from the other Death Eaters, how do I know it's them? I've wired my phone up to dad's so I can listen to the calls, the holidays have hardly started and there were already three calls from some very angry Death Eaters. One of them even slipped something out before dad could hush them-'