Lily and James
By: Lily Black
Lily was practically bouncing off the walls while waiting for her first Order meeting. She paced the halls of Hogwarts and kept glancing eagerly at her watch. The first person she spotted coming up the steps was,
"James!" Lily rushed toward him as his face lit with joy. She hadn't seen him in awhile; almost a whole year. Lily was a new graduate from Hogwarts and James was a year older than her. She had spent the whole year writing and when she was lucky speaking with him in the fire. This was the first time in a year that she saw him in real life and he hadn't changed a bit, except for maybe he had gained a few inches.
"Lily! How are you?" He placed a kiss on the crown of her head and hugged her tight. "Is this your first Order meeting love? Or have you been to one and ignored me?" He casted her a cheeky smile.
She buried her face in his shirt and smiled as she smelled the familiar sent of him. "This is my first Order meeting and I am glad your here. Do you think I would have not told you if I had already been here." She could barely contain her cheerful mood and kissed him on the lips. He returned the kiss back just as passionately, if not more. Lily wound her hands in his hair and he stroked her back all the while not letting go of the kiss.
"Break it up, love birds. No more snogging outside Dumbledore's office." Sirius smirked teasingly at the two of them as Lily leapt away from James, blushing radiantly and James glared, running his hand through his hair.
"Sirius. Do you mind?" James sighed through clenched teeth and annoyance was clearly written across his face.
"It so happens mate that I do mind. My best mate is snogging our gorgeous Lily. Or should I say your gorgeous Lily." Sirius was obviously having fun with this for his smirk grew with each word.
"Sirius," Lily sighed impatiently, "Why don't you head in we'll head in right after you. Promise." Lily smiled softly up at Sirius, giving him a look that was cheerful but was also riddled with warning.
"Of course dear. Just don't take to long or you'll be interrupted by someone worse than me." He winked a falsely sweet wink.
"Lily, love, sorry about Sirius." James sighed apologetically and shook his head. "We should head in to the meeting. You don't want to be late for your first Order meeting." She nodded and kissed his cheek quickly before heading in.
The first thing Lily noticed was Dumbledore standing at the front of the room waiting to speak.
"Thank you all for showing up and I'd like to introduce our newest member to the Order of the Phoenix, Miss Lily Evans who is straight out of Hogwarts. Lily, we are pleased to be with you and hope you are pleased to be with us." Dumbledore nodded in my direction and James planted a light kiss on my cheek as smiles greeted me.
"Lily." Sirius raised his glass with a smile and an acknowledging nod. He was soon followed by James and then the rest of the Order.
"Anyhow," Dumbledore went on, "there has been a raid in a near muggle town and Alastor and I have created a list of people going to figure out about this raid. The groups are as follows, the first group Alastor, James, and Lily. Next Frank, Alice, and Marlene." Dumbledore called the next two groups which consisted of Aberforth, Kingsley, and Mundungus and Arabella Figg and himself, "The final group will be Tonks, Remus, Fleur, and Sirius. First group will take Northern part of the town second group will take Eastern. The third and fourth groups get Southern so then the fifth group will go West. The rest of you will look out for anything suspicious. Remember Lord Voldemort is merciless. Be careful and I'll see my raid groups tomorrow at 5:30 on the dot. You are dismissed." Dumbledore waved his hand in dismissal and everyone got up and left.
Lily grabbed James's hand and walked out of the room with him, dropping her head on his shoulder as they walked. "Lily, love what are you doing later?" James asked out of curiosity.
"Well I am going for a walk and I was probably just gonna head home to my apartment to do nothing." Lily smiled at him, "Why?" James nodded taking in every word.
"Well I was wondering if you would like to come to my flat and hangout for a little if that s'okay?" Lily smiled and nodded.
"Sure I would love to." She smiled sweetly and James apparated them to his flat swiftly.
In the morning James was asleep in his bed while Lily was lying on he couch in the other room. When Lily awoke she stretched, sighed and stood up, forgetting where she was momentarily before remembering she fell asleep after they had watched a few movies and James must have just tucked her in and went to his room to sleep. She brushed out her hair and walked into James's room silently. Lily got to his side and ever so gently, leaned down and kissed his cheek. He opened his eyes,
"Lily?" James muttered half asleep.
"Yes James?"
"I love you."
With that Lily kissed him properly and the kiss lasted for a good few minutes before they reluctantly broke apart, "I love you too James. Don't ever forget it." Lily stroked his hair and he quickly caught her hand and kissed it then allowed Lily to go back to stroking his hair. Lily finally sighed, "James we have a raid today don't we?" He nodded and rose to get up. They got prepared and Lily left his flat promptly at 1 o'clock with a kiss and a promise to protect each other when they see each other again in three and a half hours.
The hours whisked by and before Lily knew it she was with her Order group standing outside a strange house that gave off a weird feeling and sent a chill up your spine. It had to be at least 70 years old and it was rickety and in worse of a condition than the shrieking shack. Every breath she dared to take was a battle against the cold air grabbing at her throat like someone choking her and yet Lily found herself ecstatic but scared silly as she stood with Moody and James waiting to work on the raid issue.
"Stick together and don't break apart even if one of us is killed. I am hoping that the deatheaters aren't here to attack but we won't know until we go in and see." Moody said swiftly with a nod. The trio paced about for awhile waiting for Dumbledore's signal; a single phoenix feather that would gently float down from the tree about 5ft to the left. When finally after waiting and watching for what felt like hours Moody seemed to have spotted a single feather then nodded before saying, "Move out."
"Lily love, please be careful. The last thing I need is you to be dead on your first mission." James's expression soften and Lily nodded.
"I'll try not to die." A smile crept onto Lily's face as James swatted her shoulder playfully and Moody casted them a look.
"We are on a mission so please be sensible and I chose the two of you to be on my team because I knew that if you were on different teams neither of you would go a second without worrying about the other. I told Dumbledore that you two could handle it, please prove me right." Moody eyed them as they walked in.
The house creaked with they're every restrained step and they seem to scare off bats and rats as they walked. At first glance the house looked abandoned but Lily knew better than to call it abandoned just yet. James placed his hand tightly around Lily's telepathically vowing not to let her get hurt or even out of his sight. Just then a little bit of dust from the floor upstairs fell down onto Lily's shoulder. Lily glanced up nervously and waited for any other signs of inhabitants but nothing else came. Lily resorted to thinking that a rat or whatnot had stepped on a loose floorboard or the house was just really old and falling apart. Though as much as she attempted to deny the fact of the dust by making excuses the more she felt as though she and her group were being watched and that the deatheaters were already here. Lily felt as though their own shadows were stalking them, working for Lord Voldemort and even they could not be trusted. Just then Lily spotted a shadow move while nothing was moving but them and pulled her wand out shooting a jelly-leg jinx at left wall corner
"Levicorpus!" Sounded a voice and a spell shot from the corner Lily fired at. Lily shot upside down and was hanging from her feet. "Expelliarmus!" Lily's wand shot away from her.
"AGHH!" Lily felt the blood rushing to her head as she kicked and screamed. "LET GO OF ME!" Lily tried to keep herself stable as she trashed wildly like an injured deer pinned to the ground by its predator. Though the feeling of being upside down was NOT like that of being pinned to the ground and she fought again the restating bounds of magic tying her feet together.
"Immobulus!" James's voice echoed through the room but her attacker countered the attack and more deatheaters burst from the shadows attacking James.
"James!" Lily cried out, fear inching in her voice as she spoke and soon Lily's vision was getting blurry. She called James's name but the blood was rapidly running into her head making it hard to call for him.
"Lucius Malfoy." Lily sighed through her headache "Put me down. Now." Lily spoke so calmly, it was scary. Lucius stepped out of the shadows with his mask still on tightly.
"My dear Lily, I believe I am not the one who has done this" A smile crept onto Lucius's face. "Lily, darling, you know who's done this." Lucius's sneer was large and vivid enough for even Lily to see, who by this point, was almost unconscious.
"Severus!" Lily cried, tears coming to her eyes. "Let me down!" Lily went still to slow the process of pain as James and Moody dueled several other deatheaters and were both unable to help her. "You. I. Severus, please." Lily said softly, so softly was was almost certain Snape didn't hear her but still he stepped out, looking her into the eyes.
"Lily." Snape hadn't changed a bit, but his eyes seemed to be swimming with pain and regret and Lily burst into tears upon seeing him. Snape's wand lowered with a flick and Lily spun rapidly before dropping. She lay on the ground moaning in pain and choking back tears. "I'm sorry but you ruined my life. Now it's my turn. Obscuro!"
"What the?! I can't see!" Lily shrieked. "Reducto!" She knew she hit him because of his angry scream and the smash.
"Flipendo!"
"Ahhhhhhh! Expelliarmus!"
"Sectumsempra!" Snape's voice echoed and the time seemed to freeze. Lily felt as though a sword had just cut right down her and blood was streaming rapidly out of her chest in slow motion. Her eyes grew huge and untamed as Obscuro wore off. She noticed the dropping of Snape's wand and he yelled two words, Vulnera Sanentur.
"JAMES HELP!" Lily's voice was straining and James was over to her in seconds.
"I... I... I don't know what to do." He choked back tears and Snape yelled the words again, she saw James's eyes light with understanding. "Vulnera Sanentur" James muttered as he stroked her hair with her head placed gently in his lap. Tracing the wound on her stomach with his wand he murmured. He kissed her forehead muttering in between kisses, "Vulnera Sanentur, it's gonna be ok Lily shhh. Vulnera Sanentur." And then repeated it all over again until after around 3 more times of him saying it did Lily rise up shaking whispering that she was ok and then returning his kisses.
"James thank you so much." Lily lay her head on his shoulder before spotting his flinch at her touch, "You're hurt. Let me help you." Lily leaned over to help him but he shook her off absentmindedly saying,
"I'm fine, Protego Totalum!" A shield surrounded them with a flick of James's wand and deflected a curse. For a moment it seemed as though the world froze and nothing and no one moved but them, then, jolted back into reality, the battle started again.
