The Broken Code. Forgiveness. Attacked. Rescued.

BACK TO THE PRESENT: James and Lily on the first official date, in a muggle restaurant...

"Okay, I can forgive him this once, for breaking the code." James grinned wider than ever.

The waiter came back, with water and plates. The waiter put the plates down on the table, and just in a flash of a second he slipped out a knife from his sleeve, and jabbed it James's shoulder. It was so sudden. Both of them were not ready, as the waiter pulled the knife out and jabbed it again a little lower. James got up, and pushed him back. James was much taller and stronger than the scrawny man who had attacked him with a butcher's knife.

Blood was pouring out from his shoulder and arm, like water from a tap. James had enough time to pull out his wand from his pocket. He saw the men, in the corner table approaching them, he groaned. He right away understood why the place was so deserted.

James held his arm, trying the blood to stop. The men were closer. They stood in front of them.

"Well, well, well." They were making masks, "We finally have the great James Potter here, the hero, the big brave man saving children, women, old people!"

One of them sniggered. Lily thought back, 'An arrogant toerag, self centered idiot, the boy who is nothing but a proud idiot who has nothing to be proud about.'

She remembered what said, the time she told never to ask her out again. James picked up his wand from the floor. That was the moment when the man took his wand out and pointed to James, who was bending to pick his wand.

"CRUCIO!" The man yelled at him.

The walls of the restaurant were echoing the unbearable screams of pain and agony, as James Potter fell on his knees, and felt as if his bones were breaking, and crushing. Again and again, over and over. To top all of it all, he saw his parents dying. Lily rejected him. He saw Remus turning into a wolf. Sirius was thrown out of his family. He saw every painful moment he could ever imagine.

Lily tried to help him, she didn't have her wand, James's was nowhere to be seen. She sat next to him, and held his arm,

"Stop it, please!" She said, "please, stop!"

"Look who we have here!" said the guy who was standing free. His wand pointed towards Lily.

"Leave her, we only have orders for Potter." The death eater, torturing James said gruffly.

"I am just having fun!"

"The Dark Lord didn't send us to have fun!"

James tried to think of something else, and stumbled to reach for his wand. But it felt as if he had gone blind. The death eater broke the connection with his wand, and James fell to the floor.

"James, James, look at me!" Lily was holding his hand.

"Go...go." James said weakly, "Get out of here, go!"

"I am not going, James!"

"Look at the two love birds!" The Death Eaters snickered.

"Lily! Get out of here, go!" His eyes looked weaker.

"Crucio!"

James screamed again, his screams gave chills down Lily's spine. James saw his mother's lifeless body lying on the floor. His eyes filled with tears, and tears fell on the floor from his chin.

"Look who is a baby!"

The Death Eaters started laughing.

"Lily, go...get out of here!" James screamed.

The wand connection broke, and James's fingers stumbled, and took out a broken piece of a mirror.

'Padfoot, help!"

"He has gone crazy!" The death eaters were laughing more than ever. "Look at him, talking to a mirror."

"James, listen to me!" Lily looked at him, her sharp green eyes poured into his soft hazel ones.

"Lily, go home..." he said softly. "just go." His eyes closed.

Lily looked for his wand, as she saw a figure approaching. Suddenly the figure appeared in front of all of them.

"My friend's crazy, eh!" The man was Sirius Black. He pointed his wand at them.

"Stupefy!" The Death Eaters were thrown back a few feet.

"Come on," Sirius helped him up, "Come on, up you go!"

James took his arm, and tried to stand up. Lily stood next to him. Other Death Eaters appeared in the corner.

"Go, go, go!" Sirius shouted, as Remus appeared next to him.

James disappeared with Lily with him. He apparated in to Godric Hallow. And he started to leave, as Lily held his arm.

"What are you doing?"

"I am going!"

"Where, James, Where?" She asked anxiously.

"Back, with Padfoot, and Moony."

"James, you are hurt, and they are only coming after you."

"So?" He asked impatiently.

"Don't go!" Lily said.

"What?"

"Don't go..."

"Lily, I have to, I must, I should and I will..." James was almost yelling, his hand was still bleeding. The sectumsempra wound was opened again.

"We are the Marauders, Lil, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs stick together." James said. "Always."

"James..." She said slowly.

"Evans, James Potter may be an arrogant toerag idiot, but James Potter is not one thing, he doesn't leave his friends, he is no coward. I have to go!"

He disappeared from the house, and stood in front of the restaurant again. Clutching the wound, then he took a deep breath. Shook his head. And went back inside.

More Death Eaters were standing around. One was holding Sirius under the wand control. And Remus was held by the throat by another death eater.

"I am here, you want me," James stood tall in the room. "Let go of my friends."

"Prongs, what the hell are you doing?"

Remus and Sirius yelled.

"Yeah, James, don't do it." Peter said weakly, and slowly.

"It's over," James shouted. "It's me, you wanted, and here, you got me.