Authors note: Thanks for the traffic with the last chapter! I want to try and get chapters out really fast but I can't always promise. The idea for the chapter is basically the title. Plus I've decided to do things with the chapter titles see if you can guess what.


The sexual tension is unbearable!

Lily woke up early the next day. She felt… nervous. Why? She knew why James. She got out of bed and realised she didn't know where the bathroom is. She stepped outside the door and noticed it by the stairs. She was just about for reach for the handle when. JAMES! SHIRTLESS! SHIT!

"Morning Evans!" James said with a wide smile but lily wasn't listening she was… admiring "Evans!" James said waving a hand in front of her face.

"Yeah, morning, I was just thinking about something…" she again lost her train of thought in front of his bare chest.

"Okay, em, do you wanna head down for breakfast in half an hour?" James said pretending not to notice or be pleased that lily was staring at his chest.

"Breakfast, yeah right sure, I'll just go in the shower"

"Okay, see ya Evans" lily nodded slightly speechless. James moved from the doorway and toward his room.

Lily stood there for a second just taking it in before she went in the shower.

"Evans! Come on!" James had been downstairs in the heads common room for nearly 15 minutes longer than when they said they would meet.

"Coming, I was just getting ready"

"whatever im hungry"

"Your always hungry"

They left the heads wing side by side.

"Hey lil I was wondering later, do you wanna go to the library and work out the prefect rounds?"

"Yeah sure I'll meet you there around 3:30?"

"Great!"

After entering the great hall they sat down by the marauders as they were already eating

"Lily dear, how's life with our Prongsie, bit of a pain I imagine?" Sirius questioned.

"Nothing I can't handle" lily said with a playful glint in her eye that made James' stomach flip. They sat at the Gryffindor table.

"Got your work cut out you there Prongs" Remus exclaimed

"Let me guess? You are talking about the lovebirds" came Mary from behind them.

"Ding, ding, ding, ding" Remus replied

"We are not together!" lily exclaimed as she exclaimed as she put toast on her plate whereas James was already finished his first bowl of porridge and onto toast. "How much food do you actually eat?"

"As much as possible, I'm a growing boy"

"But she already knew that!" Marlene teased into her copy of the daily profit. Of which of course headlined the terrorist group killing loads of muggles and muggleborns. That always made lily nervous, when she saw headlines like that, but she knew she was safe in Hogwarts.

"Very funny. We haven't heard anything like that before have we?" retorted lily.

"You're the only one who's objecting. I don't see James putting up a fight too us calling you a couple"

"Don't drag me into this! Anyway I don't need oppose that we are a couple because I know we aren't"

"Right, that's why you don't say you two aren't meant to be"

"And on that note I'm off" said James.

"How come?" questioned Peter.

"Need to go and put up qidditch sign-up sheet in the common room"

"I'll come with you, I need to get some stuff from my room" Remus said.

"Yeah I wanna see all the new munchkins who think they can make the team" joked Sirius.

"Okay, lil we still on for later"

"Yeah sure. Looking forward to it!" James grinned.

"Great"

The boys left leaving the girls and Peter. The girls all stared at peter expecting him to leave any second, Peter continued oblivious for a few seconds the realising the awkwardness left after the other marauders. All three girls turned to stare at lily.

"What?"

"'Yeah sure. Looking forward to it!'" Alice mimicked.

Lily rolled her eyes "You guys are unbelievable. I think you even made James uneasy yesterday he was talking about hypotheticals of us being a couple".

The girls exchanged knowing looks at lily's comment. Lily then made a face to reveal their communal thought.

"Just let us guess this one?" Mary asked.

"Fine. Enlighten me" lily answered.

"Well did it start with James saying that what we were saying was funny and he just dropped it into the conversation" Alice said. Lily nodded.

"Then he got nervous and asked what you would think of a relationship in hypothetical terms" Marlene continued.

"Eh, yeah" lily said wondering if they were kinda psychic.

"And then finally when you questioned it he just brushed it off saying something along the lines of 'just wanted to see if you are on the same page' or 'see where you stand'?"

Lily's eyes were wide, this we beyond creepy "how did…"

The girls erupted in laughter

"We knew it" Mary revealed


"soooo, Prongsie don't you wanna know the real reason I came along".

"What is it Padfoot?" James said exasperated.

"What's happening with you and lilykins?"

"Nothing she made that clear last night".

"Why? What happened?" Remus interjected.

"I kinda hinted that I thought all the teasing you lot and the girls were giving us were for good reason"

"But it didn't seem awkward between you two, at breakfast" Remus said.

"Yeah, I said the only reason I mentioned it was to see where she was with it. I think I got away with it but its till hard, she doesn't want anything between us".

"It sure doesn't look that way the amount of flirting you guys do" Peter responded quickly realising what the conversation was about after he arrived late.

"Well that's what I thought" said James coming up to the portrait hole "Capricorn" he told the fat lady and the portrait swung open.

The boys stepped through to meet a few scattered Gryffindors. James went up to the notice board and pinned it up. Just as he turned around he was met by Josie bell, sixth year. Josie joined the team last year as beater alongside James. After that though she was like a magnet to James never giving him any peace.

"Hi James!"

"Hey Josie. Are you gonna try-out for this season?" he asked slightly nervous and edging toward the door.

"Yeah, I really hope I make the cut again it was fun spending a lot of time with you last year". What? Who says that?

"Cool" it was starting to get awkward for James now but he couldn't think of an excuse to leave.

"So, I was thinking next hogsm…"

"Look, I really gotta go and get stuff from the heads wing. Talk to you later?" James interrupted before she could get the question out whilst backing toward the door.

"Right, yeah. Catch you later!"

And with that James was out of the portrait hole as fast as humanly possible.


Lily had, had a long day. The only thing getting her through the day was meeting James even though what they were going to do would be tedious. She pretended that she didn't know the reason she was looking forward to it, she pretended that she didn't know James could make her happy just by looking at her, and that he couldn't make the most boring obligations something fun and exciting.

Lily walked into the library. She headed straight for her table. Then she noticed him. Severus. Sneaking round the corner with Avery and Mulciber. They seemed very suspicious. She had been worried about Sev since before they had drifted apart, she still held out hope that he would see he was mixing with the wrong crowd.

Curiosity overtook her. She slipped into the row of books next to where they were talking leaving her bag and books behind. She could hear them perfectly from where she stood and still go unnoticed.

"Did you get it?" Sev asked.

"Yes, just make sure it's ready on time" Muliciber said with annoyance and disgust. Lily heard a zip which was assuming the object they were talking about.

"The dark lord is trusting you with this, do not fail him, Snape" Avery said. Dark lord? Who's that?

"He trusts me, just let me handle it!" Sev retorted.

"He says if we get it right we will be the ones by his side when he comes to power, we will be the ones who have riches beyond compare when he has control of the country or even world" Mulciber was giddy with the thought. Comes to power? The realisation hit her. The war, the terrorist group killing the muggles and muggleborns, they were part of it.

Lily gasped.

"What was that?" Avery asked.

SHIT!

"I didn't hear anything" Mulciber answered.

But Avery wasn't convinced he began to walk around the stall. Lily began to get cautious. She however, was relaxed by the breath on the back of her neck. She then felt silk shower over her head. She was forced to turn around, big arms engulfing her. She raised her arms to grab anything that would support her.

"James?" She whispered shocked. He just looked down at her, and put his finger over her lips. Lily shivered at the light pressure he placed. He smiled victorious that his touch made her do that. They stared at each other for a while, James' hands rested on her lower back and lily's arms still behind his neck. Lily's heart was pumping out of her chest and she didn't know whether it was from the conversation or the naturalness of James' arms wrapped around her or possibly the urge to kiss him.

"Avery? What's the problem?" lily heard from Severus. Why couldn't he see us? Though she was finding it hard focusing on that now, with herself and James in this position.

"Nothing just being a bit paranoid I guess" he answered in an unconvincing voice.

And with that James pulled Lily by the hand out of the library. Lily's heart was still beating rapidly. James took her behind a tapestry and took the silk off them.

"Are you okay, Lil?" James asked worried as hell, gripping her arms.

Lily was speechless so she just nodded

"What did you hear?"

"How could they not see us?" James took a deep breath. Pulling the silk out from his back pocket.

"This is an invisibility cloak a family heirloom, I got it from my dad" James looked nervous "are you going to report it?"

"No, no, of course not" James smiled at lily's allowance of one of his most loved things.

"What did you hear, Lil?" James repeated.

Now it was Lily's time to take a deep breath "They were planning something Sev, Mulciber and Avery" lily swallowed, trying to get the words out. "They needed to get something ready. It was to please someone, James I think it was You-Know-Who"

"Jesus" James replied. "Should we tell someone?"

"Tell them what? I have no evidence and I don't think I can relive the conversation again"

James puled Lily into a hug. James was comforting her and attempting to stop her shaking, and it worked. Lily pulled her head back, they once again stared at each other. The desire to kiss him was overwhelming. She grabbed onto his sleeves and pulled herself up, James' face tilted forward.

"Well this is cosy" Sev interrupted with bitterness from behind them.

Lily stepped back startled and upset that they were interrupted

"Thought you had better taste, lily" Sev supplied

James stepped forward, reaching for his wand and pointing it at Sev swiftly. But, Sev was quick too and they were locked in a death stare. It was all about who attacked first.

The anger in James' face was unbearable. Pure hatred.

"Maybe you should learn to mind your own business, Snape, or even just stay out of ours!" James retorted bitterly.

"She clearly doesn't want your Potter our deluding yourself!"

"I'm sure that's for her to say not you!"

"Go on then lil, tell him, put him out of his misery, show him there's nothing between you two, not even friendship, you're just leading him on" Sev said bitterness present.

"If I said that I would be lying Sev!" Lily replied Sev looked hurt but his wand still remained pointed at James' heart. She had to stop this, someone was going to get hurt.

Lily stepped in line with James. She put her hand on his far cheek and turned it toward her. "Let's go James. You're better than this". James lowered his wand and put it away, whilst giving her a slight smile. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulling her away.

Snape lowered his wand and stood there knowing he had been replaced.


The next morning lily burst into the Gryffindor common room and ran up the stairs to the seventh year girl's dorm. She swung the door open.

"I nearly kissed James!"

She had their attention.

"W-what? How? When?" Marlene mumbled.

"Last night, after the library and… because I wanted to. But we got…. Interrupted" Lily supplied, there was no way in hell about the conversation she heard between the three Slytherins.

"You, you wanted to?" Alice asked clearly as confused as Lily and the rest of the group.

"So, what does this mean for you two?" Mary asked

"I dunno, we didn't really talk about it after, we just sort of went to bed" they all looked at her uncertain. "Alone!"

"You said you got interrupted by what?" Alice asked

Lily didn't quite know if she should say it or not. "Severus"

"WHAT!" they all said at the same time

"Okay, that was creepy"

"LILY FOCUS!" Mary screamed.

"Where the hell were you if Severus interrupted you?"

Lily really didn't want to answer this question she knew it would get a big reaction. "Em, b-behind a tapestry on the fourth floor corridor" she choked out.

Alice started to laugh.

Marlene stared in amazement.

And Mary screamed "JESUS!"

"Okay, maybe we should start this again? How did it happen?"

Lily had to be careful what she said here. "Well, we were walking back to the heads wing, and we were talking, and then he hugged me and I sort of got the urge to kiss him so, so I leaned in and so did he, then…" she flung her arm forward "…Sev".

"Sorry lily but why are you upset? Isn't you and James a good thing?" Marlene questioned.

"Yes. No. I dunno" lily slumped on Alice's' bed.

"I gotta idea. Since you're so undecided even though you clearly are in love with him let's weigh up the pros and cons" Mary suggested.

"Cons first!"

There was a pause.

"Well there's gotta be something!" Lily shouted.

"He used to be a twat" Mary said.

"I don't think we can count what he used to be" Lily said.

"I don't think there is anything" Alice said.

Lily sighed exasperated.

"How about we start with the pros and maybe cons will come up?" Marlene suggested

"You guys are great friends" Alice said.

"The sexual tension is unbearable!" Mary exclaimed. Lily gave her a sarcastic smile.

"Look Lil, no offence, but I think you should be doing this" Alice said ignoring Mary.

"Like what?" Lily asked.

"Well start with, how do you feel when you are around him? What do you like about him?" Marlene asked.

"I feel happy. Like, when he looks at me his face lights up and I can't help but smile back, he always knows when I'm upset and how to make me feel better no matter what. He's the funniest guy I know, I look forward to the time I spend with him and sometimes when we just look at each other I-I can't think about anything but kissing him".

They all stared at her.

"What?"

"Lil, you got it bad!" Mary exclaimed.

The girls nodded in agreement.

"I need to go find James!"

The girls nodded in agreement.