Lily was sitting quietly under a tree on the edge of the lake; she was out of her school uniform and was instead wearing a beautiful white summer dress with her long red curls falling around her shoulders. She was reading a book she'd picked up in the library, her beautiful emerald green eyes flitting across the page. She had gone out there to get some time to herself and keep away from the Marauders who she knew were probably plotting something, as usual. She failed to notice the lad watching her from behind a different tree. His black hair was stuck out all over the place and he was wearing a pair of jeans, white t-shirt and grey hoodie. James shifted his weight slightly, snapping a stick under his weight. "Bugger" he muttered under his breath.
The sound of the stick snapping caused Lily to look up with a start. "Hello?" She called out slightly nervously. "Is someone there?" James peered out from behind the tree rubbing the back of his head giving her a guilty smile. "Oh it's you Potter. Were you spying on me?"
"No!" He said much more quickly than he probably should have done, making her raise her eyebrows in suspicion. "I'm ashamed you would think such things of me."
"Why were you behind the tree then?" She asked still eying him suspiciously.
"I was... urrr..." he ran a hand through his hair nervously as he tried to come up with something "... collecting sticks..." He finally finished rather pathetically.
"Sure you were Potter. Sure you were. Well I'm going on patrol." With that she got up and walked back towards the castle. James watched her with his jaw half open unable to tear his eyes from her retreating figure.
It was past curfew when Lily started her patrol. She had changed into her uniform with her head girl badge attached to her robes. She was watching for trouble when she was suddenly grabbed from behind. She struggled against them to no avail. A hand was clamped over her mouth to stop her crying out as she was dragged to the Room of Requirement. When they reach the room she felt a hard blow to her head and everything went black.
In the common room James was watching the Marauder's Map when he saw Bellatrix sneak up on Lily. "Moony, I don't like the look of this." He showed his friend the map.
The young Lycanthrope looked at where his friend was pointing. "No, this really doesn't look good does it. Maybe we should go and check this out." James nodded and the boys got their wands out and ran to the Room of Requirement. When they got to the room they found Lily unconscious on the floor with a cut on her head surrounded by Death Eaters. "Lily!" James cried out, running straight to her side and kneeling beside her.
"James..." She muttered in her unconscious state. Remus called over to James, saying that he should take her back to the Heads' common room as he tried to hold back the Death Eaters. James attempted to wake her up but the moment she sat up she was on the floor screaming, having been just hit with the Crutiatus. James disarmed the Death Eater that cast it on her and took her straight back to the common room lying her on the couch.
"Are you ok Lily?" He asked her worriedly. Lily nodded and pulled him into a hug, still shaking from the Crutiatus.
"Thank you so much James, if you hadn't come when you did..." she didn't quite know how to finish that sentence so she just kissed him on the cheek instead. James blushed bright red and fiddled with his hair slightly making her laugh. She buried her head in his shoulder and he pulled her close, hugging her tightly.
