Sorry it has been awhile I have been busy with uni. This one is short i'll try and make the next one longer. Hope you enjoy. :)


9 years later- Monday 23rd June 1975

Lily woke with a start, after a minute she remembered where she was. Hogwarts her true home, the only place she felt safe. She sank back into the pillows of her four poster bed trying desperately to go back to sleep as she had a long journey tomorrow. This summer was going to be the worst. She was going to be truly alone this year. Marline was going on holiday, Alice was going to Frank's house and well she no longer had Sev to depend on. She was going to have one very isolated summer, no escaping her sister this year.

After a while of tossing and turning she knew it was hopeless. She checked the clock on her bedside table, 2:00AM. Lily groaned annoyed with herself. She needed to sleep but she just couldn't settle. Oh well as she had some time to kill she thought he would be productive and get some of her holiday homework done. She decided on her History of Magic essay as she could use the library for some research that always helped her relax when she was tense. She had already done most of it. She drew back the curtains quietly, not wanting to wake Marlene, Alice, Sarah and Harriet (the girls she shared a dorm with). Marline would never forgive her for waking her this early in the morning. She slipped her feet into her slippers, put her oversized hoodie on so she didn't get cold and grabbed the bag on top of her suitcase, glad she hadn't packed it.

As she got to the bottom of the stairs she noticed that someone else was there. She turned to go back up so as not to disturb them when the person turned around.

"Who's there?" They asked. Lily stopped dead. She knew that voice. It was James Potter. She sighed not the best person to be but oh well.

"Lily Evan's" she replied turning around slightly "I'm sorry I'll leave you alone." She moved to carry on up to her dorm, when he said something that shocked her.

"No stay" Lily turned to look at him "I don't want to be alone" Lily had never seen vulnerability in anyone's eyes the way she saw them in James' at that moment. She couldn't leave him however much she disliked him.

"OK" Lily made her way to sit on the floor in front of the fire next to James who had turned to face it again.

As Lily sat next to James she thought how strange this was. Not long ago she had been shouting at him. Lily looked at him and for the first time saw the young boy behind the mask of arrogant dick. He had always looked older than his years, most of that came from his confidence, but he sat beside her looking like a fourteen year old boy.

"Are you alright?" she asked tentatively, genuinely concerned.

"Yes fine" James replied not looking at her. Lily realised that this was the opportunity to say what she had been wanting to say to him for a while. She had been racked with guilt ever since what Marlene had taken to calling "Snapegate". She had been angry, hurt and humiliated; she had taken it out on James when he hadn't deserved it. It had been partly his fault but he hadn't called her what Snape had. She took a deep breathe and began.

"James" she began "I … I want to apologise for what I said to you. I was out of order. Not that this is an excuse but … I was hurt and angry and humiliated. You where the first person I saw and I took it out on you who was wrong and unfair. What I said about you was also wrong. You are not a pig-headed bastard, or an unfeeling arse. I hope that you can forgive the things I said, if I could go back I would change it. I really would." Lily looked at her hands when she had finished. She expected James to shout at her or leave. What he actually did surprised her, James hugged her. Properly hugged her, it was a nice hug. He was so warm and comfortable.

"Thank you Lily. You don't know how much this means to me" he pulled away and smiled at her, it made her feel warm inside. Lily smiled back feeling much happier then she had when she had come down.

"Why don't you and the others come and sit with Marlene, Alice and myself on the train home. I would like to try to be friends." Lily looked at James who just nodded to stunned to say anything. "I'd best be getting back to bed have to be up early. Night James, are you sure you are alright?" It felt weird to use his first name.

"I'm fine, I feel much better after what you said. Night Lily" with that he turned back to his thoughts and Lily went back to bed forgetting completely about her homework.

After Lily had left James sat staring at where she had been sitting. He had been sad for the last few weeks due to the argument he had had with Lily. It had been the worst ever, and they had had some terrible arguments. He knew this time he did deserve it but that didn't make it any easier. James had been try to work up the courage to apologies to her for weeks but kept getting too nervous. And James Potter did not get nervous, but there was something about her that made him feel things he didn't normally, this was disconcerting. What Lily had said was the best thing he could ever have heard. She wanted to be friends and sit in the same compartment with him. He felt all his Christmas' and birthdays had come at once. Wait till he told the boys, they would be shocked to silence, which is difficult to do. When he had asked her to stay he had thought that he would talk not her. He was not used to being so close to her and not fighting, it was a good feeling.

He got up and walked up to his dorm smiling the entire way. He might actually get a few hours sleep tonight. If there had been any doubt in his mind that he was in love with Lily Evans then it was gone. Now more than ever he was sure that Lily was the only girl for him.

James and Lily both slept well that night. Excited about the train journey home.