"Remus!" Lily ran up to Remus and grabbed his arm. "Do you know where James is?"
Remus pulled his arm out of Lily's grasp. "I'm not supposed to tell you."
"Please, just tell me where James is! I need to talk to him!" Lily begged the sandy haired teen.
Remus peered closely at his friend. "Have you been crying?" Lily didn't answer his question, but instead just continued to look at him. Remus sighed. "Well, I suppose, in that case, I should take you to James." Remus turned and walked away from Lily, motioning for her to follow him. After a few minutes they arrived in front of a giant pair of ornamental doors. "Alright, then. You can go in."
"Thanks, Remus." Lily smiled a a watery smile at Remus before opening the door. "James?"
"Leave," James snapped at her. "I don't need you." Lily held back a sob.
"I disagree. I know that you don't need to be alone. Even if you yell and throw things at me and insult me, I won't leave."
James turned too face her. "Why?"
"Because I know what you're going through. Well, not exactly, but I've been through it before." Lily walked closer to the black haired boy. "When you get the news, you brush it off. You think that they're wrong, and nothing could touch him. Then, you get another letter. This one says he's getting a little worse. Weeks later, or, if you're lucky, months, you get the final letter. He's not going to make it. They want you to come home for a bit so you can be there. You'll agree, obviously, because you doing want to miss the last few days of his life. He dies, and you won't know what too do. When you come back to school, everything is dull. You don't want to function. Eventually you'll be able to deal with the fact that he's dead and live like you used too. But it'll be hard, and you'll bawl your fucking eyes out every night when you think about how much he loved you and how you'll never get to tell him again" Lily explained, slowly walked closer to where James was sitting. James stared at her, realizing that maybe, she was right, and he needed to be with someone.
"Will that all happen?" James asked her.
"Yeah. My mum got sick, and that was the process I went through." Lily sat next to him. "We thought she was going to be okay, but she just... died. I just got the news last night."
"I don't want him to die." James said quietly. "He can't die. What will I do without him?"
A tear ran down Lily's face. "You carry on. You remember what he taught you, and you can what he did. You remember what people thought of him and then try to strive to be like that. Respected, but loved. Be happy."
"I'm not ready for him to die." James sobbed. Lily took her friend and wrapped her arms around his wiry frame.
"No one is ever ready for their parents to die, but it has to happen eventually." Lily consoled him, rocking him silently and letting him grieve for his dying father.
~~••~~••
So here's some painful Jily for you! I don't generally write angst, but I couldn't get it out of my head!
Also, we know that James' parents died after James + Lily got married, this takes place is their 7th year, right before they start dating. James's dad just has a disease that will kill him slowly and because of this I'm headcanoning that Jily gets married in the summer right after Hogwarts, and Fleamont dies in September.
I'm also not sure if I like this. It was supposed to be a fluffy-angsty Jily, but it ran away with me and said that no, it was going to be an angsty-hurt/comfort Jily.
(On a side note, I almost started crying as I wrote this)