BOOM! Another curse whizzed past his ear, barely missing. James Potter; 17 year old wizard crouched behind someone muggle car. One week before term starts in September. "Lily," he muttered. His muggleborn girlfriend of 3 months, 6 weeks, and 5 days. He barely got her to give in to a date. And after a few weeks of him trying to show her he had changed, she said yes. If Dumbledore hadn't given him the Head Boy badge he wouldn't have a chance in hel-BOOM!
Another curse. When he turned 17 last week he had just accepted becoming a member of the Order of the Phoenix. A secret society of wizards fighting against dark forces a.k.a Voldemort. He was put on a mission two days into the job. He was in a Scotland protecting several magical-muggle families. The dark forces are playing around all over Europe killing, torturing, and imperizing any drop of muggle blood.
3 more minutes and he should be here. BOOM!
2 more. BOOM!
1 more. Come on! BOOM!
Crack! Finally, he saw a hooded figure walking this way. He could barely see his face. Tan, strong, cocky. Yep that's him.
"Padfoot! Get your lazy as-BOOM!"
"Hey Prongs! How's the weather in Scotland?" said Sirius Black.
He was about 6'3 and had muscles in all the right places. He had long, raven black hair perfectly styled with paralyzing grey eyes. In other words, he was gorgeous, but a total player. They don't him the man-whore of Gryffindor for no reason. He's also a loyal member of the Order. He turned 17 last April.
"You're just in time for the party," James gasps, out of breath.
"Man! Did I forget the firewhiskey! I'll just call Moony and he can bring some." Sirius replies.
BOOM!
"Okay! Party's over! Let's jump before the fuzz gets us…again." James says nervously.
"Deal."
"Get out here and fight brave Gryffies!" taunts a Death Eater.
"Maybe next time Avery. I'm not prepared for a coward stand off tonight." Replies Sirius sarcastically.
CRACK!
"JAMES CHRISTOPHER HAROLD POTTER! SIRIUS PHINEOUS BLACK! Where have you been!? James, you're shift ended 2 hours ago! What could you have been doing that was so BLOODY important than coming home to your mother!?" screamed Stella Potter, James' mother. She was a short, not fat, but chubby women. Standing at about 5'1, and she scared the living daylights out of James, a 17 year old, 6'2 boy.
"Mum, please. You will wake up dad."
"He left to go looking for YOU two!" she shouted.
"Oh. Well, we should go get him. Right Padfoot?" James replied quickly.
"Right now we go!" He said shakily.
"Hahaha! How funny. Get your rumps over here! Now tell me where you have been!" she screamed angrily.
"Oh. Right. Well we had just left the muggles yard and we decided to go see if Remus was doing alright, because of the full moon tonight. We went over and his mum said he just went off to the woods. We transformed and followed. We were just helping him get through it and stuff. I had no idea you would go berserk and flip. I'm really sorry and hope you aren't too mad."
"Same Mama P. I'm so thankful for everything you and Papa P. have done for me." said Sirius sincerely.
"Well alright. Get upstairs and rest. Term starts soon and summer bedtime is not the same from school." Said Stella.
On the way up the stairs to their bedrooms in the Potter Manor, they were so tired they just grunted at each other. The next couple days will be torture.
"BOYS! Winnie made breakfast! You have 3 minutes then I'm bringing up the water bucket!" yelled Stella from the kitchen.
The day was pretty simple. Winnie, the Potter's house elf, made eggs, chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, and hot chocolate for breakfast. The next 4 hours were in Diagon Alley shopping for supplies. Well, more like Mrs. Potter buying and picking everything out for them and the boys joking around. They went to Madam Malkins where here hands lingered far too long while measuring them for their sizes. She had just opened up shop here and was in her late twenties.
As they were getting new cauldrons, James saw a wisp of red hair flash by the window. Lily.
He darted out of the shop and sprinted after her. She was talking with her friend Alice Smith talking about the new books for the year. She saw him sprinting towards her. She screamed, "JAMES!" and dropped all her bags. She ran up to him for long enough for him to pick her up and spin her around. They made a huge scene in the middle of the street. Everyone was staring and "Awwwwing" He let her down and kissed her romantically. She hit his arm and scolded him jokingly.
"Lily. Lily. Lily. My sweet flower and flame. How was your holiday this year my love?" James asked sweetly joking.
"Oh, you know the usual. Petunia let her so called 'boyfriend' whale in the house every day. She just would not keep it outside like mum said. I did read a bit…"
"Sure. A bit." He said mockingly.
"Okay. A lot. I wrote to Alice in Jamaica. And hung out a lot with these muggle neighbors of mine a lot. Their were names are Sam and Veronica. They're so fun and they took me to this muggle night club and we-." She replied.
"Wait what? Sam? Who is this Sam guy? I'll kill him if he touches you."
"Oh please James. Sam is a girl! She's our age and just moved in from America. She looks a lot like Patrick Finnigan. She's Irish so that may be it. How was your summer my drop dead gorgeous Order soldier? Hmmmm?" she laughed jokingly.
"Oh. Real boring. Killing Death Eaters, protecting muggles, going on secret missions. The norm." James replies easily.
"You are sooo funny wise guy. Where's the rest of my boys?" she said.
"Sirius!" James yelled across the street.
"Whadda yew wan?" he asked as his mouth was full of some of Florescues ice cream.
"Come and say hello to your favorite redhead!" Lily said jokingly.
"WILY!" Sirius shouted as he ran to her and plucked her off the ground and into a massive bear hug. He kissed her cheek affectionately, like a big brother and asked, "How is my one and only nerd?"
"She is peachy keen. And my rugged lover-boy?" she replied.
"Fantastic! Bloody fantastic!" he yelled.
"I am only seeing 2 out of 4 Marauders? Where's Remus and Peter?" Lily asked.
"Pete is at home doing stuff with his mom and Remus should be here soon." said James.
Just as he finished his sentence, Remus was walking around the corner with his girlfriend Mary McDonald.
"MARY!" Lily screeched as she ran to tackle her friend to the ground. "LILY!" she screamed back. They hugged and girl talked for a couple minutes while Remus caught up with the boys.
"So, you and Mary still going strong?" asked Sirius.
"You betcha. She gets me better than anyone, except you guys, of course. So Prongs, how's your girl?" Remus said.
James stood there in a daze for a second. He remembered when he and Lily first met. He was looking for a compartment on the train back in first year with Sirius, whom he just met, they checked a couple that were full and then they opened one. Sitting reading a book was a girl. She was thin and petite with fire red hair and emeralds for eyes. James couldn't breathe. She looked up and said, "Hello. My names Lily Evans." She smiled sweetly with perfectly straight, pearly teeth.
"James Potter and this is Sirius Black." James finally got out.
"It's a pleasure Mademoiselle Evans." Sirius bowed and kissed her hand. She laughed and asked if they would like to sit down with her.
"Oh, maybe another time, we're looking for our friends. See you at Hogwarts." James said quickly. They walked out of the compartment and Sirius asked puzzled, "What friends? We don't know anyone here! She was gorgeous!"
"She's off-limits to anyone who wishes not to die. I call her. Forever. She's mine." He said sternly.
From that moment on if anyone "talked" to her (flirted), "helped" her (seduced her), "hugged" her (attempted assassination), or even "looked" at her (checking her out) they would later on that day get a jinx, curse, or punch from none other than James Potter and his friends. Even the other Marauders are protective of her. When a Slytherin called her a Mudblood and Sirius yanked him up on the wall and threatened to kill him slowly using just scissors. Remus studies with her and when someone hit on her, he enchanted all the books to hit him in his face. Peter even jinxed a boys pants off when they helped Lily in Potions class.
"JAMES!" screamed Sirius in his ear.
"What?" James said surprised.
"You were staring at a rock on the ground for about 7 minutes." Said Remus barely looking up from the new book he got at Flourish and Blotts.
"Oh. Lily. She's still perfect. Still smart. Still beautiful."
"Ok, dude. Get a life. I just puked in my mouth and had to swallow it. You can be all lovey dovey, kissy smoochie… in a friggin' broom closet. Not in the eye of the public. Where people have children, and eyes." Said Sirius.
"Padfoot, you don't understand. Remember 4th year when I saw Lily kiss Paul Worthington at the Halloween party?"
"Uhhh….. ya. You ran up to him in the corridors the next day and flat out punched him. He was all like, 'whaaaaa?' and you were all like 'Grrrr…'. True story." Replied Sirius.
"After that!" screamed James.
"You said 'If you ever touch my Lily ever again I will kill you and make it look like an accicent.' Then walked off with us and said some crap about love." Said Remus, not tearing his eyes of Mary now.
"I said I was going to marry her someday and I'm really serious now." Said James sincerely.
"Noooo! I'm Sirius, you're James! Silly goose!" said Sirius happily.
James and Remus both hit him upside the head.
"Look the girls are waiting for us. We should get going." Said Remus.