| [On October 30, 1981, Lily sits on the floor of the bathroom in her house in Godric's Hollow, giving her one-year-old son, Harry, a bath. She's charmed bubbles to float around the room, and the baby is enamoured with them, splashing happily and chattering away in baby talk. The smell of James cooking eggs and sausages (his specialty) floats up the stairs as she rinses bubbles from Harry's unruly hair.
"I think Daddy's almost done making dinner," she coos to the baby, leaning over to pick him up.
But then something strange happens. For a moment she thinks she's falling into the tub, and she panics, reaching for Harry, to move him out of the way, but...then she lands. She's soaking wet, but on a forest floor and not in the tub. And Harry is nowhere to be found.
She stands quickly, pulling her wand out and surveying her surroundings frantically. How had someone taken her out of the Fidelius Charm? She's been on edge for most of the last few years, always half-prepared for something like this to happen, but...she had her guard completely down in that moment...giving her son a bath.
Finding herself quite alone, she quickly pats herself down. She doesn't have much on her, just her wand, one of Harry's pacifiers, and...her SFC. Lily gasps, sinking to her knees as it all comes back to her. Vatheon. She's back in Vatheon.
And she knows how she's going to die. And when. Oh god. One day. She has one day. She starts to hyperventilate, not really knowing what to do with herself now, and then she remembers the SFC. It's been over three years, but she remembers how to use it, and checks the list of people in the bubble. Oh, they're all still here. It's probably been only a few days here, now that she thinks about it.
With that relief, that there are people here that she can lean on, that she's not alone and that You-Know-Who isn't mere inches away (no, he's a whole day away. However long this 'day' will last), she lets go and sobs heavily.
After several minutes she pulls herself together enough to send a short message out on the network.]
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