Moonlight Surrender

Prologue

It's 7th year for the Marauders and the Callipsos. Marauders consisting of the usual crew – James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew the hottest guys in their grade (minus Peter). The Callipsos consisting of the hottest girls in their grad – Lily Evans, Yazmin Newman, Elissa Bailey and Bekka Trumanz.

It's halfway through the year and Lily and James made Head Boy and Girl. At the beginning of the year Lily and James had each their own way of planning things, but as the passed on they got used to the fact that they had to work together. They've planned Hogsmede trips, the Halloween Ball and have almost finished planning the Christmas Ball.

It's one and half weeks until Christmas break and everybody has plans except Lily. She has decided not to go home for Christmas because of her abusive father and taunting sister. She would stay with her friends just like the past years but they are all going on holiday and Lily can't come, so she's decided to stay at Hogwarts unless an offer comes her way.

Chapter 1 Fight by Light

"JAMES POTTER!" A stressed 17-year-old Lily yelled.

"Yes, ma'am." James calls back calmly. He was on the couch in the heads dorm reading a quidditch magazine.

"Why must you continually put dungbombs in my bed?" Questioned Lily who had her hands on her hips wearing her Hogwarts dressing gown.

"Well, about 10 minutes ago you said you'd rather sleep with a dungbomb then me, so, you got your dungbomb." He said smirking at Lily.

"I didn't mean it literally!" Lily shot back rather angrily.

"Oh, my bad. Well your more than welcome to my bed. I'll sleep on the couch again." He said

"Thank-you. You know, it's your entire fault…" but before she could finish James interrupted her.

"My fault! You're the one who said they'd rather sleep with a dungbomb!" He said getting up from the couch to face Lily.

"I'm never going to win, am I?" She groaned and starts to turn around.

"No, so get used to it." James said smiling with satisfaction, "Oh, and Evans, why do you hate me so much? Three good reasons."

Lily turned around to face James when she said – "One – your arrogant. Two – Your self-centered and three – you're a show-off. Good night Potter." She finished and started to walk up the stairs to her room.

"You should look in the mirror…" He said looking at her back.

"What?" She asked and turned around to face James again.

"I said, you should look in the mirror." He repeated. Lily looked to the ground when she sighed and said " Ratbag"

"Snob" James shot back at her.

"Pompas Windbag"

"Miss, look at me, look at me" James said with his elbows bent upwards with his hands pointed out.

Lily opened her mouth to stay something but James got in first and started laughing hysterically. Lily closed her mouth and looked at James for a moment with a puzzled look before she asked

"What's so funny?"

"The look you gave me when I said that last thing." He said in between laughs, "It was classic. A look between shock and disappointment with the mouth hanging open, waiting for a fly to fly into your mouth."

"It's getting late, we should get to bed; tomorrow we have to finish the plans for the ball and show them to Dumbledore, good night Lily." James finished and turned to start walking back to the couch.

"Do you want your bed tonight? I can sleep on the couch."

"Nah, I'll be right"

"You sure? I'll share. I can magic a line down the middle of the bed so we can both sleep on the bed"

"Oh, alright. If you insist" he said trying not to show the smile creeping onto his face.

"Ahh, my bed. I haven't seen you in so long," James said sarcastically as he snuggled up to his side of his bed.

"Night James" Lily said and put her head on the pillow and closed her eyes.

"Hey Lily"

"Hmm"

"Has anyone ever told you how beautiful your smile is?" James mumbled.

"No, but you're the first" She replied quietly then fell asleep almost immediately. James smiled to himself and then also fell asleep.

In the middle of the night James woke up to quiet sobs and shivering coming from the other side of the bed.

"Hey, what's up Lily?" He said groggily putting his glasses onto his face.

"M-my mum died," She said in between sobs.

"Hey, hey it's going to be ok. Do you want a hug?"

"That line is so cheesy, but yeah, I'll take a hug"

James wrapped his arms around Lily as she cried on his shoulder. He kissed her forehead and said, "It's going to be ok."

"It-it was Voldemort" Lily said still sobbing. "He murdered her. I'm going to kill him if it's the last thing I do." She growled.

"Well, not right know and if you don't I'm quite sure your children will do it for you."

"Do yo really think so James?" She said looking up at him with hope glowing in her eyes.

"Yes, I do." He said quite simply, looking down at her.

She placed her head back down on his chest and closed her eyes.

"I thought you hated me?"

"Hate is such a strong word. I don't hate you, you just really piss me off sometimes and that mostly during the day." She said silently and went to sleep again on his chest. James lay there thinking and eventually fell asleep as well.

CHAPTER 2 Final Plans

It was Saturday and after breakfast Lily and James were going to go to the library to finish the plans for the Christmas Ball.

They worked non-stop until lunchtime when the sat with their friends and talked like they hadn't spoken to each other for weeks.

"So Lily, how are the plans for the ball going?" Ask an excited Yasmin, "And I hope your coming with us to Hogsmede for last minute shopping before the ball."

"Yeah, 'cause we haven't had a girls day in ages." Bekka said putting a sulky puppy face on and batting her eyelashes.

"Ok, Ok, I will go to Hogsmede with you guys; I have been so busy, I haven't been able to buy dressrobes or anything yet so I will definitely need some help with picking stuff out."

"Oh my God Lils, I never thought you to be the type to leave stuff like that to the last minute." Elissa said with a shocked look on her face, "Even something as big as the ball coming up."

When lunch was over Lily and James went back to the library to do the finishing touches on the ball. When they had finished they had definitely missed dinner, so they slowly packed up their stuff and decided that it was too late to give Dumbledore their plans and would give them to him first thing in the morning.

They exited the library in silence; they had not spoken about what happened the night before. They were half way to the heads dorm; James had something on his mind that had been bothering him since this morning.

"Hey Lily, can I ask you a question?" James said choosing his words carefully.

Lily stopped and turned to look at him and saw concern in his eyes.

"Yeah, sure, what's up?"

"Well it's kinda personal," He said.

"A huh?" She answered, wondering what could be worrying him so.

"Since your mum died. What is it like at home? You know, with your dad and sister?" He said still choosing his words carefully.

"It's ok, I guess. My sister, Petunia, never liked me much before, but since mum's not there to stand up for me she seems to have gotten worse with the bullying" She said looking at the ground so she didn't make eye contact with James.

"Oh that must be tough. What is your dad like?" James said trying to get Lily to look at him.

"Well my dad was good when mum was around, you know, treated me like nothing had changed. But when she was murdered and he found out that Voldemort killed her, he blamed me for her death. So now he treats me like dirt, like a common house elf, beats me, makes me do all the choirs, sometimes I even don't get dinner. So these days I only go home when I have to, like at the end of the year. Then I go to my girlfriends for the holidays but this year they are all busy for Christmas and I was going to stay at Hogwarts." Lily finished with tears welling up in her eyes still not wanting to look at James.

James saw this and suddenly felt responsible. "Oh I'm sorry Lily, I didn't mean to up set you." He said

"No it's ok I mean its not our fault or your problem." She said looking up to him.

Seeing that Lily wasn't going to continue he wasn't going to ask her the other question but would wait for the right moment. Instead he asked her "Are you hungry?"

"Yeah, I am actually" She answered realising that her stomach was grumbling.

Would you like to eat something in the kitchens or the heads dorm?" he said also realising that his stomach was grumbling too.

"Umm…in the dorm I think, so then we can sit in our pj's by the fire to keep warm." Lily said

"Alrighty then, the room it is, but first we have to stop off at the kitchens to place our orders." He said, thinking about what her would like to eat.

They turned around and made their way to the kitchens. When they got there the house elfs were busy cleaning up to notice James and Lily enter. After a couple of minutes they were noticed and they both placed their orders. The house elf assured them that when they get their room it would be there.

And sure enough it was.

They changed into their pj's and sat on the floor in silence while eating their dinner, not one of them wanting to break the silence.

When they had finished Lily got up first and said goodnight to James and told him that as it was Saturday she was going to sleep in and then take the plans to Dumbledore.

James agreed and they both went to their rooms and lay in their beds. Before James fell asleep he was thinking about how to ask Lily that last question he had on his mind.

Both Lily and James woke up late. James just lay in bed thinking of how to ask Lily that question. Lily got up and had a shower and sat on he couch reading and waiting for James to come down so they could see Dumbledore.

It was another hour before James got out of bed, had a shower and went down stairs to see Lily eating breakfast.

"What? Couldn't you wait for me to wake up" James said hurtfully.

"Actually, I did wait. An hour to be exact. I thought you had pricked your finger on a spinning wheel and you were waiting for your true love to kiss you awake again. Besides it only just got here so it's still warm." Lily said holding out a plate for James.

"Oh, and if you are my true love would you come an kiss me to break the spell?" James said puckering up his lips.

"Maybe if you really needed me to and there wasn't anybody else to be your true love." Lily said, " Hey, eat some breakfast you must hungry. After breakfast we'll see Dumbledore." She said quickly changing the subject.

James sat down and they ate in silence. When they finished they cleaned up and walked out of the room and headed to the headmasters statue. James mumbled the password and they quickly leaped on the revolving stairs. In no time at all they reached the door and James knocked on it three times, then they heard the words "Please come in". When they opened the door Dumbledore was sitting in his chair almost like he had been waiting for them for quite some time.

"Ah, I've been expecting you two. Please sit down" Dumbledore said motioning the chairs in front of his desk.

"We brought you the plans for the ball." Lily said handing the folder to the headmaster.

"Ah, very good, I expect everything will go to plan." He said with the twinkle in his eye sparkling at both James and Lily.

"We hope so, professor." James said looking at Lily. Lily just smiled back to him.

" You both know that you have to make the speeches and open the night with a dance." Dumbledore said the twinkle getting bigger.

"Yes sir, we know all that, we even wrote down what we are saying." James said with a satisfied grin on his face.

"Yes well, everything looks in order then. Well done you two, well done. You may now leave but Miss Evans, can you stay behind for a moment?" The headmaster said looking at her, she just nodded her head. James got up and told Lily that e would wait outside for her, she nodded again and James left and then all Lily heard was the closing of the door behind James.

"Lily, my dear. I've heard that you have planned to stay here for the Christmas Break." Dumbledore started off with the twinkle in his eye growing smaller. Lily just nodded.

"Why don't you want to go home?"

"Because, because I don't want to. Because when I go home, the moment that I step foot into that house I will become my fathers personal slave again, and I don't think that 's how I want to spend my Christmas holidays. Christmas is a time of peace and giving and love and I know that of I go home I will not get that. But I know that if I'm here I will be at peace and will be happy." Lily said her voice starting to get louder.

"It's ok, I wasn't going to make you go home but I just don't want your last year here being cooped up in a castle all Christmas. Oh and if anyone asks you to stay at their place please don't refuse them straight away unless your sure." He said calmly, "You may leave now."

"Ok, thank-you sir." Lily said and got up off her chair and walked out of the office. She walked strait past James at the bottom of the stairs and kept walking fast.

"Hey, what did he say?" James asked trying to catch up to Lilly.

"Oh, nothing." Lily said not stopping and kept walking fast.

"Lily, Lily, stop please!" James said. But she just kept walking. So in the end he just ran ahead of her and just kept running until he got to the heads dorm and stood in the lounge just waiting for Lily to come through the portrait at top speed.

After about 5 minutes of waiting by the portrait, just as James had predicted Lily came walking through the portrait at a quite a fast pace. He quickly grabbed her wrist before she could run up the stairs to her room.

She felt a tug on her arm and tried to pull away but didn't succeed and then she realised what was holding her back-James.

"What are you doing?" Lily asked in a pissed off distracted voice.

"Trying to figure out what's wrong with you." He said pulling her over to the couch so she could sit and talk to him.

"Nothings wrong" Lily said quite aggressively.

"Oh no, your not getting out of it that easily. Something is definitely up; you're almost on the verge of tears. Lily you can tell me, I'm your friend aren't I?" James asked looking straight at Lily. He could definitely see that she was trying to avoid his eyes.

"Yes, of course you are." She said starting to look James in the eye.

"Well then, please tell me." James asked almost pleading.

"Fine." She said feeling defeated, "Well you know that at home it is really bad." She started to say and James nodded in agreement, "And that I only go home when I have to and other times I go to one of my friends place." He nodded again, " Well all of them are busy for the holidays and can't take me home with them. So I was going to stay here at Hogwarts instead of going home." She said rather sadly.

"So what did Dumbledore say to make you so…angry?"

"He said, that because it's my last year here, he didn't want me to stay cooped up in the castle all holidays. And that if an offer comes my way to go, I shouldn't reject it too quickly." Lily finished feeling a little better that she got it off her chest.

"Well, actually I had a feeling that you staying here for the holidays. But I didn't have all the facts but now that I do I was going to ask you if you would like to come to my house for the holidays?" James said sort of embarrassed, "Nothing like we're a couple or anything just to get you out of the castle." He added quickly.

Lily was surprised at that. She thought that he was going to ask her out again. She wasn't sure what to say. She was debating with herself for a couple of minutes before she realised that it would be good to get out of the castle. She finally spoke up and said "James, thank-you for your very generous offer. I would like very much to go to your house for the holidays. But on a 'friends' term basis only." Lily said smiling and then added, "only if its ok with your folks."

"Yes, its fine with my parents." James said relived, "Oh and Lily, just to be formal, would you like to go to the Ball with me as your date?"

Lily had a little giggle and then said " Yes James, I would love to go to the Ball with you."

"Alrighty then. I'll see you down here at 7:30pm sharp." He said happily.

"Oh, I'm getting ready with the girls in their dorms."

"That's ok, then I'll get ready with the guys and see you in the common room with Sirius and Remus at 7:30 sharp."

"It's a date then." She said smiling, "Goodnight James."

She got up and walked to her room.

"Goodnight Lily." James replied happy and watched her walk up the stairs.

Chapter 3 Hogsmede

It was Wednesday, the day for last minute shopping and supplies for Christmas and the Ball at Hogsmede.

Lily met her friends and found an empty carriage. They were talking about there up coming holidays and their outfits for the ball.

"So Lily, do you know what colour dress you want?" Yazmin asked, the groups goo-roo shopper and out-fit co-ordinater.

"Well, I was thinking something slim-line. In colour-wise I was thinking white or a lilac." Lily finished smiling with satisfaction.

"Good choice, good choice. I think if we o to that dress shop with the make-up and stuff like that in it we should be able to find all we need. What's the name of it? You know, the one across the road from 'The 3 Broomsticks'." The girls just shrugged their shoulders and had a blank look on their faces. "Well it doesn't matter."

The girls just talked about the ball and what they're wearing and of course their dates.

"So Yazmin, Bekka, Elissa, who may I ask are you going with to the ball?" Lily asked.

"Well, I'm going with Remus. He is so cute, when he asked me he was blushing the whole time and.." Bekka said but was interrupted by Elissa.

"I'm going with Sirius. He asked me ages ago when it was first announced." Elissa said quite pleased with the fact that she was going with him and that all the other girls will be so jealous.

"Who are you going with Yazmin?" Lily asked, wondering why she hadn't spoken up earlier.

"Actually, I'm going with Brad Trumanz from Ravenclaw. We've been dating for the past couple of weeks." Yazmin said without looking at the girls.

"What! When did this happen? You've been dating my cousin and you didn't tell any of us?" Bekka shouted.

"I'm sorry. I knew I should've said something but we thought that we should wait a while, and then we sort of forgot." Yazmin said feeling a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry you guys I didn't mean for it to get out of hand."

"It's ok. I'm sorry too; I shouldn't have shouted like that, it was a huge shock. I mean he's my cousin and we're pretty close. Ew you're dating my cus." Bekka said smiling.

"Now it's your turn lily Evans. Thought you were getting out if it that easily did you? Who are going with?" Elissa asked quickly changing the subject. The girls all looked up and were looking at her.

"Well actually I'm going with James." Lily said softly.

"What! As in James Potter? I thought you hated each other?" Yazmin asked shocked.

"I never said I hated him. He just pissed me off…a lot." Lily said defensively, "Oh, is it ok if I get dressed with you guys in your dorm?"

"Yeah, of course." Bekka said still shocked, as the rest of the girls were.

And with that the girls just talked about stuff that girls talk about. While in another cartridge not to far away the Marauders were talking about the ball as well.

"So who is everyone taking to the ball?" James asked excitedly.

"I'm asked Bekka to go with me and she accepted. It must be my wolfish magnitude." Remus said smiling.

"Magnitude, what magnitude? Haven't you herd that dogs have to highest rate of magnitisium. That's why I asked Elissa just after the announcement was made." Sirius said rather proud of himself.

"Well I asked Lily to go with me and she accepted, so who here has the best or should I say the highest rate of magnitude? That's not all, Lily is coming to my place or he holidays." James said with a huge grin on his face.

"Well I must say Prongs, you sure have out done yourself this time." Sirius said patting James back.

"Tank-you, thank-you. I'm hoping this time that I'll show Lily the real James Potter and not the prick she thinks I am. I'll be in my own surroundings, so that has gotta help too." James said with the grin growing larger.

"Congratulations Prongs. I really hope you don't stuff this up, 'cause this is really your last chance." Remus said wisely.

"Yeah I know. Hey guys can I get dressed in your dorm?" The boys nodded on agreement, "Where's Peter? How come he didn't come?"

"He's got a really bad cold and is in the hospital wing so he doesn't spread it." Remus said.

"Oh ok. I'll go see him when we get back." James said.

And the guys talked about guy stuff until they got to Hogsmede to do their shopping. When all the carriages got to Hogsmede Lily and her friends went straight to that shop they had talked about earlier. They guys however went straight to 'The 3 Broomsticks' for butterbeers.

"Ok Lily, you are now in the world of Yazmin. Whatever I say goes." Yazmin said walking around the shop and picking dresses of the racks for Lily, "Now go into that change room and try these on." Lily did as she was told. She found a white coloured one in the pile and tried it on first. Se came out of the room and all 3 girls mouths were hanging open.

"Oh my God Lily. That looks stunning! You are so buying that one." Yazmin said and the other girls nodded. So Lily went back into the room and got changed into her normal clothes. They got some make-up and hair pieces and went to the cashier and bought those things.

After they had had a look around Hogsmede and got last minutes Christmas presents they went to 'The 3 Broomsticks' and Elissa shouted the girls a butterbeer and they sat down in a booth and drank the drinks.

Lily was watching the time because it was the getting close to leaving time and she had to leave earlier to make sure everyone got on a carridge. Before she left she had to tell her friends what she was doing for the holidays.

"Hey guys, I have to go soon and I have to tell you something." Lily said, voice starting to tremble.

"Yeah sure, go ahead" Bekka said with intrigue.

"Well, you know that all of you are doing something for Christmas and that's why I couldn't come over." The girls nodded in agreement, "And that I can't go home. Well, James asked me to go to his place for the holidays." Lily stopped briefly before anyone could say something she finished with, "Besides Dumbledore said that if an offer came my way to take it because he said he didn't want me to stay in the castle, especially around Christmas and it's my last year." She finished her speech to find 3 shocked faces staring blankly at her. After a couple of moments Yazmin said-

"Do you think that is a good idea, honey?"

"Yes I do. James and I get on quite well and I think it will be fun."

"Well you know that we support all your decisions but I just know about this one." Bekka said.

"Well think about it, 'cause I am going. I have to go now to start packing the students into the cartridges. I'll meet you guys soon." Lily said and got up and walked out.

Hey ppl! I put up the first 3 chaps coz the first r kinda boring. Lol hope u like, r n r, Twitty Chick