A/N: I just wanted to let you all know that I'm alive..I've been having some writer's block lately, so a lot of my stories are currently on hold until I get ideas. Please review!

Disclaimer: Not mine.

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Love.

Lily often wonders what that word means. She's seen people say I love you: her parents, some of her friends, her family. But she herself has never experienced it.

She's heard descriptions of love before. But it all sounds so distant, so far away. None of it seems to make sense to her, and as she grows older, she wonders if she will ever fall in love.

When she voices her concerns to her mother, her mother simply laughs and says of course she'll fall in love someday. But Lily doesn't know whether or not to believe her. After all, she's sixteen now. In her mind, some spark, some tiny part of love should have happened by now. But it hasn't, so Lily wonders.

Until one day, she'll begin to associate love with Quidditch. This to her is strange- she's never had any real affection for the sport. And then the picture of love will expand to a Snitch; a broomstick; McGonagall's office.

If this is what love is, she told herself, then this is crazy. Love with a teacher's office? I must be insane.

Until a little while later, when she finally realizes. Those are all the things associated with him. He plays Quidditch, catches Snitches, probably spends more time with McGonagall in her office getting detention than he does sleeping.

Finally, she understands what love is. Love, in her life, takes the form of James Potter. Messy haired, loving, unpredictable James Potter. And when she finally marries him, and he whispers in her ear, I love you, she whispers it back with no hesitation.

Because she's finally found a definition for love, and that definition is James Potter. And she wouldn't have it any other way.

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