I can't wait for more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
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Hearts for Caitlin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

come on sweety!!! i gotta have dinner!!!

-fine, I'll be back I promise!!!!

~Niky

Aww you guys! I am getting SWARMED with work & my b/f... I'm trying my hardest to post, promise!

well try harder... hee hee... just kidding! Take your time... but hurry all the while... if that makes sense...

aww sweety dont overwork!!!!! as much as it kills me to say this; ... *we can wait ...*

AHH! FINALLY! I'm done with all of my work... now, I'm almost done with this post. Is anyone here?

EDIT- Well, no one is here... but I'M POSTING!!

“So what’s been done with the girl?” I asked Sirius a couple of days later as he sat in the kitchen.

“I'm not really sure. They were going to modify her memory, but I think they felt it would be a dishonor to her parents to say that they died in some regular accident while she was asleep. She’s fine from what I know, though… the Healers nursed her back to health quickly. Now, it’s all psychological issues that she has to deal with…”

“Think she remembers any of the fight?”

“I hope not.”

****

“He’s a year old in just two weeks,” I said, smiling proudly down at Harry.

“I know, Lily. He’s my son too.” James laughed.

Harry had pulled himself up into a standing position on the coffee table and his face was screwed up in concentration.

“Aww, James, he’s so cute! Go get the camera, will you?”

James scurried out of the room and I looked down at Harry, who’d suddenly let go of the table. Harry turned towards me, and put his leg out. He stumbled, fell and tried again, and before I knew what was happening, Harry was walking to me.

“JAMES! JAMES!” I cried. “Harry’s taken his first steps! Get in here!”

I heard a thump in the other room. “What? I can’t find the camera!”

“Forget that! Come see him!”

James rushed into the room just as Harry fell. Collapsing onto his knees, James said, “Come on, Harry, do it again!”

“James, it’ll help him if you stand up,” I pointed out. “If he looks up, it helps his balance. If he looks down, he’s headed towards the floor and it causes him to fall.”

James shook his head. “You leave school and you still read more than anyone else.”

I grinned as Harry’s tiny fingers slid off of the table’s edge once more. He wobbled a little but then stood firmly. And after looking up at the two of us, he smiled and proceeded forward.

****

“Come in, have a seat,” I smiled at Marie. She looked tired, and very worn out. “I figured you’d be getting more sleep, since Dumbledore pulled all of us off the job. Don’t take this in a bad way… but you look horrible.”

“Thanks,” she smiled. “I don’t know what’s come over me. I feel sick all of the time. I find myself exhausted by the simplest of things. I just want to lay down and sleep, even after a full night’s rest.”

“You want some medicine?” I asked, worried.

“No,” she signed. “I’ll be fine. Just need a quiet place to rest… Peter is always stopping by my house on Ministry calls. They’re driving both of us crazy. Mind if I take the guest bedroom to nap in?”

“Not at all,” I answered honestly.

She stood up. “Thanks.”

As she left, Harry crawled to my side, and then hoisted himself up on my leg.
“Muh… muh. Muh!”

“What is it?” I asked.

“Muh… muh… muhm! Muhm muhm mum!” he yelled triumphantly.

I nearly fainted.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Caitlin that is the sweetest thing i have ever read in my life!!!!!!!!!! Harry's First steps!!! Harry's FIRST WORDS!!!!!!! OMGGGGGGGG *Caitlin do you want to kill me?*ITS SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!! OMGGG 2 weeks??? theyre dieing in two weeks?? WHY?!?!?!?!

ur devoted *half dead by now* reader
~Niky

Haha! *tacklehug* I'm gonna miss you on those days that I'm not posting here! I'm working on Harry's first words right now... LESS THAN two weeks, yeah. :[ it has to come to an end Niky... but I don't want it to! *cries*

Would you like another post tonight? 'Cause I'm bored.

would i? would i?!?!? WHY OF COURSE I WOULD!!!

sweety omgosh im gona die when you levae me!!!! u better get right on Fate when you come back!!! i cant be without your amazing FFs!!!! I'd die!! like that! *snaps fingers* -dies-

ur devoted *now dead* reader
~Niky

Ahh noo come back to life!!! *slaps*

...Did it help? lol!

I won't be gone for long, just till my friend from Tennesse leaves... jeez, I haven't seen her in TWO years! imisshersomuch! But she'll be here for about a week... or more. This will actually be a really good time for me to rejuvinate. When I write too much I get tired of it and I just stop... and we don't want that, now, do we? lol!

But yeah. I'm writing. Right now. :]

HA!!! look at all the people here Caitlin!!! VV look!!!! YAY!!!! I think i did taht LOL

yeah i noe wat u mean, i got a cuzin who is like my lil sis and i havent seen her for over 3 years but thats k, ill survive

*shnaps bak to life* [im amused wid teh word shnap]
yesem sweety it helped

IM THE WALKING ADVERTISMENT;
READ THE FLAVOUR OF THE WEEK
BY CAITLIN
AKA MA LUV
AKA the.time.is.now

ur devoted impatiently refreshing the page much loving reader
~Niky

Harry's first step! =)

Hey Agos! *waves*

Niky- how many people where here?! I missed it 'cause I was so immersed in my research!

there was like 5, and Jessica and Victoria where here!! wats that mean?? they read my messages!!!

~Im ThE wAlKiNg AdVeRtIsEmNt~
*not up for rent. only for Caitlin's use*

~Niky

Haha wow! Having a walking advertisement works! But the page count scared people off, lol.

I meant that I was researching for this post... I wanna get the details as accurate as possible...

I'm almost doneeee!

try www.hp-lexicon.org and click on the potters, it'll give you more than you need

SHNAP! what are the chances??? I refresh the page to see of anything has happened and all I see is the screencap from the 1st movie on the image thingy on the side <--. you know what image it was?? Godric's Hollow when the Potters were killed!!! SHNAP!

~Niky

Oh, I already use that for my FF, lol! I'm having to research for something else. You'll see.

*scratches chin* hmmmm .. what could you be writting?

is this your second last post or something Cat?

*I think Argentina will win btw, but see Victoria is from Mexico, and I don't want to be mean and say I want my team to win over hers*

~Niky

Haha, well, let's not be mean! You're very kind! :]

Mmm, no, this is probably about the fourth or fifth to last post.

Hehe you called me Cat! Only my friend Lina does that, be we don't really talk much anymore... I like it... CAT. RAWR. lol!

yeah tahts why, I dont wanna be mean!

4th or 5th to last. okay; so then, in 4 or 5 posts ull get a letter from my funeral home. ur in my will dont worry!

CAT! i like Cat

~Niky a.k.a. Dog LMAO

Haha Niky! All right, so I'm Cat and you're Dog! I'm going to have to put that in my siggy next time I change it, lol!

Yesss. I'm in your will. What do I get?

ALMOST done writing. This post is being rather difficult.

yesm see wat happened when i changed my siggy is that TFotW was almost over, but my next siggy will most obiously include the link to Fate

hehehehe im Dog *woof woof*

i understand, take your time

~Dog

Haha it's all right...Well... I'M POSTING!

Don't kill me after you read it. It had to be done.

After Harry had mastered his first word, other ones started to come to him easily. ‘Dad,’ ‘woof woof,’ and ‘choo-choo.’ However, not everything was going do well in the Potter household. Marie was stopping by more and more for her ‘little naps,’ but each time she woke up she’d come down looking more tired than when she left.

Marie was fixing to leave when I hugged her.

“Ow,” she cried, and her eyes swelled up with tears.

“What?”

“Nothing, nothing,” she said, shaking it off.

“No. Marie, why… why did it hurt when I hugged you?”

“It wasn’t that. I… er… I bit my tongue.”

“Open your mouth,” I said, and when she didn’t, I grabbed her arm.

“Ow,” she cried, and her tears turned to sobs.

“Marie, what’s going on?” I asked, my own eyes swelling with liquid. I couldn’t stand to see her in so much pain.

“I don’t know!” she finally wailed, breaking down. “At first… at first it was just a sore throat, a fever, a headache, and my heartbeat sped up. I figured that maybe it was just a cold or something… that would explain why I was so tired… but then I began sleeping heavier and heavier, and there was times that Peter would band on my door so hard that it left indentions, and I didn’t even hear it… so he’d come in and wake me up, and I’d just be sleepy… and now… Now it hurts when anything touches me, and I don’t know what to do. Just wearing clothes feels like knives are being pushed into my skin!”

“Oh, God, Marie. Oh God. JAMES! JAMES!”

He rushed into the foyer, eyes alert. “What is it?”

“Get… call Dumbledore, now! Tell him that we need him here; it’s an emergency. Stay with Marie, I’ll be right back.”

I ran up the stairs, grabbed a few books off my shelves, and returned to find Dumbledore at the base of the stairs.

“You called?”

I hurriedly explained Marie’s symptoms and Dumbledore listened with fierce interest.

“…And now she’s in extreme pain at the slightest touch.” I cried exasperatedly, flipping through the last book I’d brought. “I know it’s none of my business, but this is vitally important. Has she gone to Africa at all in the past six months?”

“Yes, a couple of times,” he replied. “Why?”

“We need to get her to the hospital, sir. If we’re not careful then-”

But it was too late. Sudden cries swept through the house and I heard James panicking. “Lily, she’s going into shock! She’s having a seizure!”

I raced in the room just in time to find Marie on the floor, thrashing about wildly.

****

“It’s called the sleeping sickness,” I told Remus softly. “It’s one of the most underreported diseases in Africa. The parasites cross over the blood and brain barrier, and since Marie had a seizure, it’s pretty accurate to say that she’s pretty far into it… I just wish that she wasn’t.”

“Why didn’t she say something?” groaned Remus, running his fingers through his hair. He’s returned as soon as we sent an owl to him, telling him that she was hurt. Luckily, his cover wasn’t blown, but he didn’t seem to care about any of that.

I shook my head. “I don’t know. I think she believed that we already had enough going on without us fretting over her. She seemed guilty that she had to come over just to sleep.”

“Always thinking about other people… I love her so much, Lily. I love her. What am I supposed to do?”

****

“I have some bad news,” a man said, walking out of Marie’s room. “While we were treating Miss Newcomb, she slipped into a coma. I am truly sorry.”

Remus’ jaw dropped open and his hand sought mine. I let him hold it to find that his were cold and clammy.

“We have treatments, though, to hopefully at least regain her to her natural health,” the Healer said, looking down at us remorsefully. “However, both are very dangerous and more than likely to fail.”

“What are they?” I whispered, looking at James, who was staring intently at the floor.

“Melarsoprol, which is the only arsenic drug in the world… it’s dissolved in antifreeze. It lasts for twenty-one days, but painful for the patient. There’s also eflornithine, which is much safer, but harder to come across because it’s been deemed ‘unprofitable’ by the people that patents it. It’s now very rare to come across, and it could take months to receive some.” He looked at us expectantly, waiting for an answer.

Finally, I spoke up. “Can you give us some time? We need to discuss this.”

The Healer nodded and left, leaving us to make the biggest decisions in our lives- and Marie’s.