Disclaimer: you know the drill. The whole repeating thing half taken from Groundhog day, with a twist.

A/N: day two!!

My my, two chapters in two hours!

TIME LOOP.

The slamming of the dorm room door woke Lily. She yawned and looked over at her alarm clock. It said the time was half past midnight. What the hell were people doing up at that time? She opened the curtains around her bed and closed her eyes as bright sunlight hit her eyes. She grabbed her clock and turned it around. The batteries had been taken out. She dashed over to Helens clock. The time on it was 9.21.

A chill ran down Lily's spine. 'Haven't I done this already?' she thought as she grabbed the first set of robes she found and pulled them on, they were the ink splattered ones but she didn't realise, she paused, surprised her ankles weren't swollen from yesterday. She grabbed her bag, not noticing her quill flutter to the floor. About to ignore the mirror she stopped and glanced in it. She moaned and wiped the mascara from under her eyes and attempted to flatten her hair before running down the stairs. She hadn't zipped up her boots and she fell down the last few steps to the bottom, twisting her ankle.

She dashed into transfiguration, out of breath, limping and apologising profusely to Professor McGonagall. She ignored all the eyes on her and took her usual seat; she pulled out parchment and searched in vain for her quill. She couldn't even find the one she'd been lent the day before, though she would have been embarrassed to pull it out of her bag, the state it was in, that was the problem with having double transfiguration first thing two days in a row. Sighing she looked up to find a quill on her desk, identical to the one she'd been given the day before. She looked around the room but once again everyone was looking towards the front of the room. She picked it up noticing her robes were just as ink stained as the ones she'd had on the day before. She groaned to herself. Not again.

"…Miss Evans." McGonagall said and Lily looked up



"The answer?" she was prompted. Lily glanced at the board and to her confusion saw that it was identical to what had been there the day before. She frowned.

"Klapinademous, with emphasis on the 'inadem'?" she asked and McGonagall looked pleased.

"Yes! Yes! Now who can tell me…" Lily stopped listening, trying to work out what was going on.

"…Homework from yesterday." Lily smiled to herself. She knew she'd done it. She searched through her bag blindly before suddenly stopping. If she was right and this was some serious déjà vu she didn't want to be doing that. She pulled her bag onto her lap and pulled out her hairbrush. About to continue her search for her homework she remembered pulling it out, crumpled and covered in ink. She sighed before heading up to talk to McGonagall.

"Professor?"

"Yes, what is it Miss Evans?"

"I think I left my essay in the library last night, would you mind if I handed it in at lunch?"

Lily asked tentatively. McGonagall looked around quickly before leaning over to talk quietly

"I'm sure it'll be fine for you to hand it in to me tomorrow Miss Evans, what with your spectacular record." McGonagall winked at her and Lily nodded, mute, before leaving the class room. She noticed people staring at her and she decided that a trip to the girls bathroom was a good idea. Once there she saw her hair was everywhere. Sighing she pulled out her hair brush. About to brush her hair she remembered her brush snapping the day before.

"It was just a dream is all." She told herself.

"No matter how real it feels, this is just some serious Déjà vu!" she told herself, holding the brush at the top so as not to snap the handle off. This wasn't going to be the worst day of her life if she had anything to say about it!

By lunch time she'd exploded only one frog in charms before claiming something was in her eye and that she couldn't see where she was pointing, only partially scratched her wand which would disappear with a good clean, avoided a burn from her cauldron but still managed to blow it up in potions and had had an exploding cactus explode all over her. She decided to skip lunch and change. She had a quick shower and changed into clean robes before combing her wet hair and adding a little mascara before brushing her teeth and adding a little lip gloss. Feeling more human she headed back downstairs only to just avoid tearing her robes as the portrait closed over the hole. She looked to the heavens and smiled her thanks before heading for divination. She still somehow managed to break a crystal ball and was still told that that warranted several millennia of misfortune for her and her loved ones. She managed to avoid being told of the awful things to expect in her life when Frank broke a cup and the professor shifted focus. She was distracted while leaving, thinking over all that had gone wrong and how much better it was than her 'dream' of the day that she didn't see her footing and managed to fall down yet another set of stairs before landing in the arms of James Potter. 'This again' Lily thought.

"I knew you'd fall for me one day!" James grinned at her and Lily blinked. Hang on that was different. She closed her eyes and breathed in. Opening them she noticed James looked worried.

"Are you ok Lil? You haven't been having a good day." He asked softly. Lily laughed shortly

.

"Tell me about it!" she rolled her eyes and sighed.

"I don't know what's up, ok?" she said as James opened his mouth once more. He closed it and nodded. Lily righted herself and smiled at him.

"Thanks." She muttered bending to pick up her fallen possessions. She smiled to herself as James helped. She accepted the black and silver quill from him and sighed. It was just as crumpled as before.

"Was it special?" James asked softly and Lily looked at him, frowning

"I was anonymously lent it this morning. I don't even know who by, I never got to thank them and now it's ruined, how can I return it?" She sighed and tried to smooth the quill back to its original shape. A few strands detached and floated to the floor.

"Maybe, since it was lent anonymously, the person didn't want thanks, and they meant you to keep it, otherwise they would have let you know it was they who lent it." James suggested.

"I didn't think of that." Lily said thoughtfully.

"Well, I'll look at it tomorrow." Lily tucked it back in her bag and stood up

"I'm going to go to bed and sleep away the rest of this cursed day so it can be tomorrow already." She decided.

"No dinner?" James asked raising an eyebrow. Lily looked down at him

"The sooner I sleep the sooner today will be gone" She informed him. James got up and looked sideways at her.

"But you missed lunch, and breakfast." He said conversationally. Lily sighed

"Yes, but I'll probably choke, or lose my robes in the great hall or something." She shrugged and started to walk down the stairs. She caught her finger on a nail, and exclaimed in pain, her foot hovering over the trick step. James was by her side in a flash.

"NOT so fast Miss Accident-prone, I'm going to escort you back before you break something irreplaceable." He informed her, taking her bag from her and looking at her finger. He licked 

the blood away to get a better look at her cut. The touch of his warm tongue on her cool finger sent a shock through Lily. She wondered what had given him the guts to do that, and she wondered why she wasn't protesting.

"It's just a little thing." He smiled at her.

"Woah, unlike that," he pointed to her hovering foot, pulling her back slightly.

"Trick step." He grinned. He took her arm and led her down the stairs, avoiding the step.

They managed to return to their tower without a hitch; Lily even managed to get through the portrait hole without falling or injuring herself. Then she proceeded to trip over a chair. James sighed and took her arm once more, about to lead her up the stairs to her dorm.

"Oh, no. No way! You can't go up there, it'll go all slidey and I'll hit something." Lily protested. James grinned

"Or not." He grinned. To demonstrate he lifted his foot. Before placing it on the step he seemed to make a face and shift without moving. He put his foot down before repeating it all with the other. He shook his head in a strange slow sort of way before turning to smile at Lily.

"C'mon." Lily took his offered hand, mouth open

"how…"

"If you're good I'll tell you one day." He whispered.

"Is this something you've been teaching other boys?" Lily demanded, getting on her head girl horse. James drew himself up

"As head boy I would never be so irresponsible." He informed her before grinning

"Besides it's an unexpected side effect to something I doubt anyone else would be likely to do." James added thoughtfully, reaching Lily's dorm.

"Well thank you, again…." She started but cut her off

"Oh, no I'm tucking you in." he informed her.

"Need the loo? No? Good." He took her bag and dumped it at the end of the bed that she indicated was hers. He pulled back the covers and sat her on the edge before removing her shoes and socks. He rested his cool hands on her swollen ankles for a moment and Lily drew in her breath painfully. James gently lifted her feet into the bed before tucking her in.

"In the morning do me a favour and miss first lesson to go to the hospital wing?" he said smoothing her hair away from her face, smiling at the mascara under her eyes and her clumpy lashes. She was so beautiful no matter what.

"I, well, oh ok." Lily sighed defeated. She hadn't needed much persuasion, if any, her ankles hurt. She was rather surprised to find herself in this situation with James Potter, the one person in the whole of the school she could safely say she hated. Even if he hadn't been all that bad for a while now. He leant over and tore that days page off her page a day calendar.

"To save you getting a paper cut or decapitating yourself." He grinned before quickly kissing her forehead and leaving with a called 'good night' Lily drifted to sleep, thinking that the day had definitely been an improvement on the one she'd foreseen with her dream.

A/N: Minimal editing. It's late. I have a cold. No more chapters up tonight. Maybe 2 tomorrow…depends. Send me love via the review button!! And if you cant wait till 

tomorrow, TOUGH!! Lol, in the mean time you could read one of my other fics. They's all James and Lily ones. I have 10 up now. I know, shocked me too when I counted lol!!