A/N: So I hope you all like my new Jily fanfic, something I haven't tried before but the idea came to me during a conversation I had with my partner. Note, this will be a short story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and I don't make any money from writing these stories.


James POV.

She was so beautiful, I had always thought so. During our school years we had been complete opposites, I was a prankster who lived for the thrill of dying Filch's cat pink and throwing a firework in the Slytherin's cauldrons during Potions class simply because it would cover them from head to toe in swelling solution. It wasn't just me, I had three of the bestest friends known to the world: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. I met my three fellow pranksters on our first day on the Hogwart's Express all those years ago, we had been inseperable ever since. Those three had been the most loyal that I considered them as the brothers I had never had.

My wife had been the hard working, goody-two-shoes type. Her long red hair matched her fiery anger which she usually reserved for me alone. Her green eyes had captivated me from our first encounter and they held my interest ever since our our meeting on the school train. Her name, Lily Marie Evans. Her smile was wide and affectionate to all those around her, everyone who knew her would tell the younger students how kind and loving she was. They all spoke the truth, but I knew a side to her which made me fall more in love with her everytime I set my eyes on her. I knew Lily was kind and loving, but it was the anger and that when she shouted at me for numerous things, I knew that one day we'd have these arguments as man and wife and then it would be acceptable for me to kiss it away and turn it into a passion which she would only have for me.

When Lily finally agreed to go on a date with me in seventh year, my heart stopped beating. All the other times it had been a roll of the eyes and a strict no. But this time it was an annoyed smile and her eyes told me that she was fed up of me not getting the message. I went all out, took her for a drink in Hogsmeade and a stroll in the village before taking her to the room of requirement with a food basket from the kitchens and we 'star gazed' after curfew. I would have taken her up to the Astronomy tower but Lily was adament that she didn't want to go outside especially as we were Head boy and girl. So using the invisibility cloak I had inherited from my father, me and Lily snuck into the room of requirement. We've been together ever since.

It's June 1979 and we've been married for nearly six months. Together since October 1977 and she finally agreed to marry me on our one year anniversary, right after we graduated. Dumbledore recruited us to a secret society called the Order of the Phoenix at the end of last year, and already things are looking bad. Lots of muggle deaths and although Lily denies it, I know it troubles her deeply.

When we first got together, there were some who were jealous because I was a bit of a womaniser in my younger years. I wasn't as bad as Sirius though. Whilst Lily could handle the jealous ones, she couldn't handle those who had been of 'pure birth'. The purebloods saw me as a blood traitor for dating a muggleborn and said that if we were to marry, then I would be endangering myself to Lord Voldemort. I didn't care. I didn't care about my pureblood status or the fact that Lily was born to a muggle family, her parents were the loveliest people I had ever met in the muggle world. But Lily sometimes got scared that she would cause me into an early grave if our relationship continued after school and when I told her that I loved her and that I'd happily die for standing up to Voldemort, it wouldn't be her fault.

Even now, she still gets scared. There is little that we argue on and our arguments tend to be little. But recently I brought up a subject that caused Lily and I to have our biggest fight yet.

"Are you insane? James Potter, we're in the middle of a war and you decide that you're ready for a baby!" Lily shrieked at me.

I was sat at the kitchen table in the house I had inherited from my parents, drinking a cold cup of tea which Lily had made me ten minutes previously.

"I only said that I wanted one, I'd love to be a daddy." I defended.

"You said that you wanted us to try for one." Lily growled.

"I don't care about this stupid war Lily, I want to live for the good in life and not be scared to do something that I want to do because some maniac thinks he can take over the wizarding world." I shouted back.

"I don't want to put our child at risk. It's bad enough that I have to put you at risk whenever I go out on a mission." Lily cried.

"How about you go and calm down and realise that the amount of bad that is happening around us, a baby will be something good out of it."

Ever since then, we haven't really spoken. I want a baby with my wife, I didn't think it was so crazy. It's natural for a married couple to think about children, well Remus agreed with me anyway. Sirius could see both angles, he said he understood my wanting of a child but also understood Lily's reluctance about it. I already know what is going on in her mind and I know how scared she is, but we have to live in the present. Being targeted by Voldemort because we won't join his followers makes you aware that you might not have much time left.

I knew a long time ago that Lily was the only girl I could ever love and I knew that our love would be forever. But creating a life with her, a child with her eyes and my Quidditch ability, would give me the feeling of forever. Having a baby with Lily would show the world what our love created, what the feeling of forever was to us.