"Alright, i'm off. Goodnight Lily I love you." James Potter said to his wife of two months.
"Be careful, give Remus my love for me will you?" Lily Potter said while kissing her husband on the cheek.
"I'm no poof love. I cant just go around giving other men love." He said chuckling and going to return a soft kiss on his wifes lips.
"Oh pssh, get going dear. I love you be safe." Lily said with a smile, handing James his jacket.
"Are you sure you will be alright here by yourself?" James asked seriously, taking all of the silliness out of the air now.
"Yes, love I promise, just like I do every full moon, that I will be safe here." She reassured him, "I will just finish the article for the prophet and turn on the portable. I can take care of myself you know."
"Yes, I know, I just care thats all,"
"Your going to be late and I will be blamed. Leave James." Lily spoke as she pushed him out of the door.
"I love you Lils," James promptly said before the door was slammed in his face.
In the year 1979, Lily Evans had become Lily Potter in early september. Not much had changed for the 19 year old couple, they began living with each other a month after leaving hogwarts. They were already as good as married, fighting as an old couple since the age of 11, and in love with each other since the age of 17. The only thing they had found differnt of being married was the fact that Lily now shared his last name.
Every month James would still go out in his animagus form to help Remus Lupin with his transformations. The four maraurders all had did this since 4th year. Each in their respective animagus forms, and that is what they were doing on this night. The full moon on november of 1979.
Lily never did mind this, the maraurders were her friends and she loved Remus, Sirius, and Peter as brothers. And she found it very caring and thoughtful of the fact that Remus's friends were willing to risk there necks every month in order to help him and support him. Besides she really did love the alone time she had recivied around this time of the month. As her cycle was always perfectly inline with the full moon and not having the boys around to bug her during pms was her favorite part of the month. She was able to just sit and listen to the portable without constanly worrying about what shanigans her husband and his friends would get into. Lily was currently working an intern position at the daily prophet, and the editor made her write up weekly articles so he could show her how to improve then for when she worked there on her own for full time.
Both James and Lily's lives were hectic since the day they left hogwarts. They both were working full time for the order, with some sort mission every other week. They rarely got alone time to themselves between dealing with the grief of losing another person due to war, and always dealing with some sort of drama between their friends.
Lily sat at the kitchen table with a plate of pumpkin pasties and the her latest article, thinking of the latest drama that she and James were dealing with. Lily's closet friend, Marlene Mckinnon, had slept with Sirius Black a few weeks ago. They had been having a friends with beneifits realtionship ever since 6th year at hogwarts. It was very on and off again and caused many fights among the group of friends. Lily chuckled at the memory of James waking up to find a crying Marlene on the sofa one morning a few weeks ago.
"Lily, what the hell is Marlene doing on our sofa?" James said after making a mad dash back to his bedroom before the crying women was able to see him.
"She had another fallout with Sirius and came here last night. I felt too bed to send her off." came Lily's nonchalant reply. She left the room to go tend to her upset best friend.
"How are you feeling love?" Lily asked, sitting down next to Marlene, and wrapping a comforting arm around her.
"Why wont he just bloody commit already?" came her responce, "This is'nt fucking school anymore I just want a commited fucking realtionship. Not some 'hey lets fuck tonight, and then tomorrow im going to fuck some other bird and still expect you to want to fuck me after that' " She then proceeded to angrily throw a pillow at James's head as he passed through the living room and into the kitchen. "Why can't you bloody men not fucking commit?" she screamed at him.
"Lily, control the bird, its to early for that." James said, running a hand through his hair.
"Okay, honey, attacking my husband will not help the situtation. Just take a deep breath and try to calm. You've been crying all night love, this cant be healthy," Lily said soothingly.
"Oh lucky you, you have a bloody husband that was commited to you the day he met you." She snapped, pulling away from Lily, "We dont even have to put a bloody label on the bloody realtionship, is it just to much to ask for him to stop shagging other birds while hes shagging me?"
"Well Marlene, we all know that will never happen. So why dont you just go off and shag some other blokes. Thats what I would do." James said through the window.
"Wanker, you would shag a bloke?" Lily laughed at him raising her eyebrow.
"You know what I mean" he said walking into the room carrying a tray of firewhisky and shot glasses. "C'mon Marls this will help you." he sat down beside them and poured the shots. "Cheers".
Of course nothing was ever done or worked out about the Sirius/Marlene situtation, 3 weeks later and they are still refusing to talk to each other. Lily sat at her table, after devouring an entire plate of pumpkin pasties and competely ignoring the article she was supposed to be finishing, thinking of a new way to help her friends. Sirius was the best man at their wedding and Marlene was the maid of honour. They need to at least learn to get along, as of late they are only communticating with each other through James and Lily.
At 6:30 the next morning James walked into the flat to find his wife asleep at the kitchen table. Thats usually the postion he found her in after the full moon nights. She was always waiting for him to return home, most nights she was able to wait up all night, but as of late she has become increasingly tired and unable to stay up past 10 even.
"Lils, Lily wake up. I'm home now." James said giving her a little nudge on the shoulder.
"Hey," she said with her eyes still closed, and her voice thick and scratchy from the sleep.
"I loved to let you sleep, but it was a rough night and I need your help bandaging me up." James said sitting across from her at the table, that prompted Lily to wake up immediatly. She let out a low gasp when she saw his battered look. There was a purpleing bruise underneith his left eye and long gashes all over his neck (and Lily was suspecting underneith his shirt and pants as well). She stood up and pulled out her wand.
"Do you need help with your shirt?" she asked quietly. He only nodded as she helped pull the blood stained gray shirt off of him. "Oh James," This was really the worse it has been in a while. There was a long deep gash on his rib cage, in a long line going from his front to back.
"James this is going to scar love," Lily said, tracing her fingers over the new skin that was now growing there.
"I will have Marlene help me at some point. She going to have to help Sirius with his, they're worse than mine." He said gravely, "So did you hear the news yet? Peter told us tonight."
"No what news?"
"Alice and Frank are expecting a baby." James said with a wince as Lily began dabbing at the wounds on his face and neck with a warm cloth.
"Really? But they are so young! Only two years older than us!" Lily said in shock.
"Yeah I know, its very bloody stupid of them to bring in a baby in the middle of a war."
"Its too late for that now I guess, but you still want childern though right?" Lily asked apperhensvly. She finished with the last bandage around his leg and climbed into his lap.
"Yes of course, but you know. When this war ends, I dont want any child of ours growing up in the middle of this. We'll have a million of them. All with your red hair."
"Maybe not a million, and deffaintly not with this hair colour."
"And mines better?" He laughed referring to the black mess that sat ontop of his head.
"Yes, loads, its fun to play with," she said laughing along with him, running a hand through his hair.
"Will you come to bed with me? Theres and order meeting at 5 this evening so we can just spend all day in bed."
"Yes that sounds wonderful," She said standing up "C'mon love, me and Marlene went shopping earlier and I have some wonderful new things to show you." She took his hand and led him to the bedroom, where the door was slammed shut. And it stayed like that for a very long time that day.