James and the Baby-Sitter
Summary: When Lily has to baby-sit for the Potters she never expects to meet and fall for their eldest son. But can she show James that looks and money can't buy you love?
Disclaimer: Obviously I'm not JK Rowling because I'm LilyHeartsJames. Therefore I don't own Harry Potter… sadly! :(
Notes: Wow! Guys, I'm really, really impressed at the feedback I got! I really appreciate them! Dude, seriously they made me want to get another chapter out to you. You guys motivate me!
And a few of you have asked about whether Lily and James know each other. No they don't. Well, Lily knows James' name and everything (who wouldn't at Hogwarts) but she's one of the shy people who aren't often noticed so that's why she didn't freak when she used the name 'Potter' because she didn't think at the time. So James doesn't really know Lily, except… well you'll find out soon!
Dedication: This chapter goes to; Larissa, LadyKnightSusan, Cherrykisses21, Serenity12345, griffindor-girl12, hrypotrox72, bookworm2butterfly, RemusheartsTonks, ihearthpfanfic, hollisterlove x3, b3lla, shetlandlace, wishfuldreams11, Smiling Serenade aaand Blue-Eyed Chica!
And now onto chapter 2!
Previously:
Lily walked up the path towards the tall mansion and looked at it in awe.
Swallowing the anxious feeling in the pit of her stomach, she leaned forwards and knocked three times on the door…
It was utter chaos in the Potter household.
Katherine Potter, who was commonly known as Kate, or Mrs. Potter had been trying to get her children organized for the past hour.
Her oldest, James, was sitting upstairs in his room listening to loud rock music, or what she called it; 'noise'. Her other son, Aaron was busy going up and down the stairs on his skateboard without a helmet which she had instructed him to wear, and also to skate outside. Her daughter, who was the youngest, was upstairs playing 'Barbies' which she had tried to get her brothers to join in on, but as usual they decided not to.
It wasn't long before she went to work and her children weren't making it very easy for her.
"James Austin Potter can you please turn off that racket and come down here and help me?" she called up the stairs but received no reply.
She sighed and stalked up them but half-way there she was almost run over by her ten year old son.
"Aaron! Take that dangerous thing outside this instant and for Merlin's sake, put on a helmet!"
He ignored her and kept skating and she continued up the stairs but was stopped again by the ringing of the doorbell.
"Oh Merlin's beard!" She exclaimed and hurried back down to the door.
She opened it and saw a girl of about seventeen standing there, looking nervous.
"Oh, you must be Lily! Hi, I'm Katherine Potter. Please come in"
She stepped back and allowed her to come in and they stood in the hallway.
"I'll have to get James to show you around the house because I'm running late but- AARON! I told you outside, not inside! And wear a helmet or you'll damage your brain! Oh, sorry dear. There's food in the fridge if they get hungry. James will most likely keep to himself and- JESSIE! Stop hitting your brother with your Barbie doll!" Mrs. Potter shouted distractedly.
"I'm not a sook!" A girl of about five years old shouted angrily as she whacked her blonde haired Barbie doll over a ten year old's head. The boy's ocean blue eyes flashed angrily and he rubbed his chestnut brown messy hair.
"Stop hitting me!"
"Not until you apologize!"
"Well I won't apologize! Sookie la-la! OW!"
"Stop" SMACK! "Calling" WHACK! "Me a sook!" THUMP!
"OW! Mum! She's killing me!"
"JAMES! GET DOWN HERE NOW!!!" Mrs. Potter yelled as she tried to keep her two fighting children apart.
"Is there anything I can do?" Lily asked and then she heard a shout of; "Get the tranquilizer gun!"
Lily nodded but then turned around.
"A WHAT?"
The seventeen year old Wizard who was standing at the foot of the stairs grinned at her before hurrying down to help his mother.
His jet black 'I just got out of bed' hair stuck up in all directions and his hazel eyes flashed in annoyance as he tried to hold onto his brother while Mrs. Potter picked up the struggling girl who had the same coloured eyes as her eldest brother and long curly black hair.
"Let me at him! Put me down NOW!" She shouted and Lily stood there taking in everything in amazement.
"Stop it! I have to go to work!"
Mrs. Potter was still holding onto her daughter for dear life whereas her younger son had seemed to calm down.
The eldest let him go and he took off whereas the eldest turned to look at Lily who was standing there with her jaw hanging open.
"Don't worry, it's an everyday occurrence in our house" he said and flashed her grin.
"James Potter" he said holding out a hand and that's when it clicked.
James Potter…
JAMES Potter…
James POTTER…
JAMES POTTER!!!
Lily could not believe it as she stood there gawking at him and he gave her a weird look.
"Are you okay?"
Lily's emerald eyes widened in realization at how she must have looked and nodded.
"Fine" she said in a squeaky voice and he couldn't help but smile.
"You have a name?"
"Lily Evans" she replied nervously as Mrs. Potter continued to struggle with her daughter who was yelling but even over all that Lily and James could still hear each other.
James raised an eyebrow.
"You go to Hogwarts don't you?"
Lily nodded slowly.
"That's it!" he said clicking his fingers, startling her.
"You're the smartest in our year! The br-"
James cut himself short and coughed loudly.
He had almost called her The Brain, a nickname she was cruelly called behind her back. Needless to say it was him and his best friend Sirius Black who had made it up.
"JAMES! A little help! Take care of your sister or I'll be even more late!" his mother cried and he took hold of the young girl who had begun to cry and want her mother.
"Jessie sweetheart I have to go to work now, but I'll be home before you know it, I promise"
"I want you home NOW!" Jessie screamed and James covered a hand over her mouth to stifle her noises.
"James when she's quietened down will you show Lily around the house please? Thank you! I'll see you all later" Mrs. Potter said as she turned left on the spot and was gone with a loud crack!
Lily turned to James as he put Jessie down but she latched herself to his legs.
"I want mummy!" she cried and he blushed a bit as he tried to pull her off and then when he gave up he looked at Lily expectantly.
Lily stood there, thinking quickly.
"Um… Jessie? Are you hungry?'
Jessie turned to Lily and she stopped crying in an instant and nodded.
"Yes" she sniffled and held up her hand for Lily to take and together they walked into the kitchen, leaving James there ruffling his hair and watching them in confusement.
"This is the best PB and J samidge I ever eated!" Jessie said happily as she munched on her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Aaron ate his more slowly and didn't comment as Lily leaned against the bench and James stood next to her, eating his own.
"Hey Aaron? It's the bestest ever!"
Aaron merely shrugged.
"It's okay" he mumbled and Lily frowned.
"Are you alright?" he looked up at her and nodded before turning away and continuing to eat.
James finished his sandwich and put his plate in the sink and dusted his hands off on his clothes.
He then turned to Lily and asked her if she was ready to see the house.
"Okay" Lily agreed and Jessie stood up and hurried over to them, carrying her plate.
"I wanna come!" she said and James raised an eyebrow at her.
"Aaron are you coming?" Lily asked and he shook his head.
"I'm going to watch some T.V" he announced and carried his own plate into the lounge room while the other three walked out.
James and Jessie showed her the entertainment room, bathroom, laundry room, bedrooms, the study, the cupboard under the stairs, lounge room and every other room there was.
While they had been gone, Aaron had started to gobble down his sandwich as if he had never eaten before in his life.
He got up and took his plate into the kitchen and went outside where the broom shed was and opened it and took out a Quaffle and went back inside.
He started throwing it up into the air when Jessie came in and joined him.
Lily couldn't believe her luck.
She was baby-sitting James Potter's brother and sister and she had a good, decent job.
So far everything had gone great, except for when she had first came and Jessie and Aaron were fighting.
Lily and James were both walking along the hallway when he stopped at his bedroom.
"I'm going to hang out in here for awhile"
Lily nodded in return.
"Okay"
"And if you need me, you know where I'll be. And if you get lost, look around for a door very much like this and it will have a sign indicating that it's my room. Cheerio" he said and backed into his room and closed the door, leaving Lily staring at it with both her eyebrows raised.
She turned to go downstairs and check on the kids when there was a sudden loud crash followed by a loud yell of "OW!"
James' door flew open as he saw her standing there, her eyes widened.
"What the hell was that?" he asked walking over to the edge of the stairs where he looked over the railing.
"I have no idea" Lily said as she too looked worriedly over the railing.
"OW! OW! Stop touching it!" They heard Aaron yell and they both glanced at each other briefly before turning and running down the stairs.
"Ow! Sodding hell!" they heard him yell and they burst into the lounge room and saw Aaron sitting on the floor holding a bleeding arm while Jessie sat in front of him sobbing.
The glass table in front of the couch had a hole the size of a Quaffle which hadn't been there before and Lily searched the room for the red ball and found it in front of the T.V.
Lily and James took in the scene before hurrying over to the two kids.
Aaron was rocking back and forth, blood dripping onto the carpet and Jessie was hunched up and crying.
And then James said exactly what Lily was thinking:
"Oh shit"
They took them into the kitchen, Aaron's arm wrapped in a towel whilst Jessie followed, drying her eyes.
"I-is h-he g-gonna b-be o-okay?" she asked, her voice sounding shaky. James put Aaron on-top of the bench and Lily pulled the towel away slowly and carefully and inspected it.
Aaron made a hissing noise as Lily took hold of his arm and she muttered a quick sorry before pulling out her wand.
"Okay hang on" James said, his hand shooting out quickly and taking hold of the other end of the wand and pointing it away from his brother.
"Are you exactly sure you know what you're doing?" he asked a little nervously.
"I'm training to become a healer and I know a few spells"
James shook his head.
"I don't think this is such a good idea" he said unsurely.
"James, if I didn't know these spells correctly then I wouldn't trust myself to do them and I wouldn't have suggested the idea in the first place"
James crossed his arms and looked at her thoughtfully.
"You look innocent enough" he stated and she raised an eyebrow.
"So is that a yes?"
"It's an I'll think about it"
Lily sighed.
"James he's bleeding and he's losing a lot of blood and he might have some glass stuck in his arm"
At this Jessie began to bawl loudly and James sighed.
"You do whatever you can and I'll take care of Jessie and get her to be quiet"
Lily nodded.
"And Evans?"
She turned to look at him.
"I trust you, since you're like, the baby-sitter. And normally it takes a lot to gain my trust especially in these times and-"
"I'll take care of it"
He nodded and picked Jessie up and went into the lounge room to give Lily and Aaron some privacy.
"Thank god" he muttered and Lily smiled.
"Didn't help much?"
Aaron nodded. "It just made it worse"
"It's nice she cares about you though"
He nodded again.
"Before when you were fighting it seemed like-"
"Okay, baby-sitter? No offence or anything but can you hurry up and fix me? It might not look like it but I'm in a lot of pain"
Lily chuckled.
"Sorry" she muttered and began to heal his arm while he winced a bit from time to time.
"All better?"
Aaron flexed his arm and nodded.
"Yeah. Thanks… baby-sitter"
Lily smiled.
"No problem. And it's Lily by the way"
Aaron shrugged.
"Whatever"
He hopped off the bench and hurried into the lounge room and Lily followed him in and watched James get up off the couch where Jessie was sitting and examined his arm and then looked up and smiled gratefully at Lily.
"Thanks Evans, I owe you one"
She shrugged. "I'm happy to help out. I am the baby-sitter after all. And I don't know if I'll let you two out of my sight again" she added and Jessie and Aaron glanced at each other and smirked.
The day went by and Lily found herself running after Aaron and Jessie who had gone to the local park around the corner without asking and causing her to have a huge fit and was actually hyperventilating until they had walked into the lounge room where James was trying to calm her down and ended up shouting at them, causing Jessie to start crying all over again.
After that, Lily had got them ice cream and Jessie had got it all over her face, hands and clothes and had to clean her up and got James to wash her overalls and red t-shirt.
Lily then took Jessie upstairs and helped her into some more clothes (a pink dress which she had picked out herself) and then took her downstairs, carrying her Barbie house while Jessie carried her Barbie and Ken doll.
And then Jessie had asked a very awkward question which left her and James not knowing what to say.
"Where do babies come from?"
Lily and James glanced at each other, nervously.
They stared at each other for a minute as if they were expecting the other one to answer.
"Well?" Jessie asked and even Aaron looked up in interest.
"Um… well you see Jessie-" Lily began but was interrupted by James.
"The mummy and the daddy love each other very much and then they go into a room and-"
"Write a letter to the um… stork and then it carries in a little baby in a bundle" Lily finished quickly before James could say anything else.
He smirked at her and Jessie opened her mouth.
"Does that mean I'm adopted?"
Her eyes were shining with tears and Lily shook her head quickly.
"Nope, it just means that your mum and dad love you unconditionally"
"Oh… what does unconditionally mean?" Jessie asked and looked back down at the Barbie dolls.
"Um… no matter what" James replied.
"What does that mean?" Jessie repeated and James frowned at her.
"It means-"
"A friend of mine told me that the mummy and daddy have sex" Aaron piped up and James, who was drinking lemonade leaned forward and spat it out and it went all over the carpet.
"Ooops" he muttered giving Lily a shifty look as he pointed his wand at it and muttered: "Scourgify!" and the spillage was gone in a heartbeat.
"Lucky I got that out or mum would've killed me" he said and Lily nodded.
"Lucky we fixed the table" Lily said looking at the glass table in front of them.
"What's sex?" Jessie asked and James and Lily glanced at each other.
"That is um…" Lily glanced at James worriedly.
"The stork's… name" James told her and nodded intelligently.
"The stork's name is sex?" Jessie and Aaron asked at the same time.
"Yep. But don't go telling mum we told you this, she wouldn't be very happy"
"Okay" Jessie said nodding but Aaron smirked.
The rest of the day hadn't been too bad. Jessie asked Lily if she could play with her hair because she wanted to be a hairdresser when she grew up.
Lily had agreed and sat down on Jessie's bed and took her hair out and she started to brush it and James took Aaron outside and went flying on their brooms.
Jessie grabbed a tonne of scrunchies and put Lily's hair up in a lot of pigtails and admired her long wavy hair when she took them back out.
She then asked Lily whether she liked her hair.
Lily smiled as Jessie brushed it carefully and said; "When I was younger, a lot of kids would tease me about it and call me 'carrot' and I guess I hated it for that. But then I got used to all the teasing and then I actually started liking my hair"
Jessie passed her a bobby pin and she pinned her fringe back and Jessie smiled.
"You look very pretty Lily"
Lily grinned at her.
"Thank you Jessie. You look pretty too"
Jessie went pink and mumbled "thanks" and then the bedroom door opened and James poked his head in and opened his mouth but didn't get the words out as he stared at Lily.
Lily blushed and Jessie giggled and he came back to his senses.
"Uh Jessie you need to have a bath"
Jessie sighed.
"Now?" she whined and James nodded.
"Fine! But I want Lily to wash my hair! You hurt me" she said as she got up from the bed. He was glad for an excuse to look at Lily again as he opened the door wider.
"Do you mind?"
Lily shook her head.
"No, not at all"
He nodded and smiled.
"I've already filled up the tub so in you go"
Jessie got up and walked over to the door and said; "I'll call out to you Lily"
The redhead nodded in reply and Jessie left the room leaving James standing there awkwardly.
"Um… I'd better get back downstairs" he said hastily and slipped out of the room and Lily watched the door close and heard his footsteps fade away further down the hall.
- - -
Lily was brushing Jessie's long wet black hair as she sat there watching T.V.
It was almost eight-thirty and the kids would need to be in bed at that time.
Jessie was wearing pink silky pajamas and Aaron was wearing his ninja turtle pajamas.
He was watching the T.V as well and he looked bored.
James however was making Lily and himself chocolate milkshakes.
"Night Jessie" Lily said as she pulled the duvet over the small girl who gave her a tired smile.
"Nigh, nigh Lily" she replied and rolled over and faced her back to her.
Lily then went next door to Aaron's room and knocked before she opened the door and went in.
"Hey" she said walking over to him as he lay there with the duvet pulled up to his chin.
He didn't say anything in reply and Lily sighed.
"I just wanted to make sure you got to bed okay"
"I'm fine" he muttered and she nodded.
"Okay then. Goodnight Aaron"
Aaron grunted in reply and she turned the light off and closed the door and walked down the stairs where James was sitting in the lounge room already sipping his chocolate milkshake.
He smiled as she sat down on the other end of the couch and sipped on her own and leaned her head back and closed her eyes.
"Tired much?"
Lily smiled at him.
"Yeah just a little"
He grinned and pulled out his straw and took a sip from the cup and Lily burst out laughing and he stared at her.
"What?"
"You have a milkstache" she said and they both laughed.
James wiped it off on his sleeve and glared at her.
"Shut it Evans" he warned and she just coughed and continued drinking.
"So is it good or bad?" he asked and she shrugged.
"Depends. Is there poison in this?"
He smirked. "Oh darn, you weren't supposed to figure that out yet"
She rolled her eyes and the front door opened and Mrs. Potter walked in and saw the two seventeen year olds sitting on the couch and Lily was laughing at James because he had managed to get another 'milkstache' as she called them.
"Oh hey mum" James said wiping his mouth on his sleeve again and his mother smiled.
"Hello James, Lily"
"Hi Mrs. Potter" Lily replied giving her a cheerful smile.
"I trust everything went okay?"
Lily and James glanced at each other before Lily answered.
"Um actually-"
"Everything was fine. They were really good. Didn't try to kill each other or anything" James cut in and Lily tried not to look surprised.
Mrs. Potter raised her eyebrows.
"Okay. Lily I'll just give you the money now. Would you rather it in Muggle money or-"
"Muggle money would be easier thanks Mrs. Potter" Lily said and Mrs. Potter nodded and went into the kitchen.
Lily and James followed her and put their cups into the sink and James washed them out and Lily dried them and they both put them away.
"Here you go Lily. Thank you so much. I really needed this"
Lily smiled at her.
"It's okay. I needed the job"
"So do you think you'd come back tomorrow?"
Lily smiled happily.
"If you'll have me"
Mrs. Potter nodded.
"Of course"
"Besides, they aren't that much trouble"
She glanced at James who looked as if he was trying not to laugh.
"Really?" Mrs. Potter asked looking surprised.
Lily nodded.
"Well, I'd better be going. My dad's probably wondering where I am anyway"
"Would you like James to walk you home?"
"Thanks but I think I'll just Apparate"
Mrs. Potter nodded.
"Thanks again Lily"
Lily smiled and waved and turned left and was gone with a loud crack!
"Okay what happened?" Mrs. Potter asked turning to her son.
James shrugged. "Nothing Lily couldn't handle"
He turned and began to walk out of the kitchen.
"Goodnight James"
He turned around and smiled at her.
"Night mum"
A/N: Okay so this is the second chapter! It'll get better soon as Lily grows closer to the Potters. But for now she's just getting used to them.
Anyway, I hope you guys read, review and like it.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks again!
Love always and forever,
LilyHeartsJames
