Saturday, May 26th 9:15

Siobhan woke up to the sound of someone screaming. She jumped out of her bed and ran to where the sound came from, she couldn't help but laugh when she opened James' door and found him on the floor. He was looking up at her in disbelief, "What just happened to me?"

"The beds are enchanted to wake sleepers up at a set time, I need it for work, so I'm not late. I didn't know what kind of sleeper you were, or what time you preferred, so I set it for 9:15. Mine wakes me up later because I never know when I'll wake up on a Saturday. I normally wake up at 9:00 or 9:30, but just in case I set mine for 11:00 on the weekends. Would you like me to change the settings later?" she informed him after her laughing fit. She knew she had forgotten to mention something to him. She had gotten so used to my bed waking her up she had forgotten it wasn't a common thing, even for wizards and witches.

"Er- Yes, that would be much appreciated," James let out with a laugh as he struggled to get up from the floor. "I hope you have hot water."

Once again she tried to hold back a laugh as she watched James Potter stretch out his limbs in his pajamas just as if this was completely normal. She guessed it was normal now, he did live with her after all, but that had only been for a day. She walked out of his room with the words, "I'll be sure to leave you some."

After she showered she made them breakfast, Siobhan was in the process of frying eggs when James walked into the kitchen without a shirt. Now him not being associated with athletics, and being a nerd instead meant that people didn't really think of him as muscular, but Siobhan took one look at him and knew that that stereotype was not one that applied to James. James had muscle and lots of it, he must wear his suits where they don't give that because Siobhan thought he was lanky and lean like most everyone else did. Siobhan was pleased in a way that after less than a day James felt comfortable with Siobhan, comfortable enough to be the person he was away from the prying public and the persona he put on for work.

"Hey," James said to her as if he had just woken up when in reality, he'd been up for a good 45 minutes.

"Hey, why do you still sound sleepy?" Siobhan said as she put some eggs and buttered toast onto a plate and placed it in front of where James sat down.

"I sound sleepy until I have my coffee, it's been like that since 5th year," James said nonchalantly.

"Okay, well there's some in the pot, you can get yourself some," Siobhan said sipping her own cup of coffee.

"Thanks," James said sitting back down, "so what are we going to do today?"

"I figure I'll show you around Wizard Dublin, take you into some shops since you will be here for a while. I'll introduce you to some people too, that way if you go out by yourself you won't find yourself in a sticky situation with no one to go to," Siobhan explained.

"Okay that sounds fine, I'm going to get dressed, thanks for breakfast," James put his plate in the sink and walked out of the kitchen towards his room.

Siobhan sighed as she got up, part of her felt that her decision to let James stay with her was exhausting, but the other part of her felt as if he'd always been a part of her life. Siobhan was surprised at how comfortable it was to have James around, as if it had been like that all her life. Siobhan placed her things in the sink and with her wand she made them start cleaning themselves, she shook the odd feeling away and went to her room to get ready for the day as well.

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10:45

"So this is the main sweet shop in Dublin, my favorite shop," Siobhan lead James into Cresta's Confectionaries.

"I'll probably come visit every week, I love sweets, and all my nieces and nephews love them too," James informed her with a smile. His eyes instantly lit up when he saw the cauldron cakes, he grabbed three and went to look around at the local candies while Siobhan followed behind him softly laughing.

"You're acting like a five-year-old, James," Siobhan said as he picked up some Dublin Donuts, and some Unicorn Droppings, "You are going to get fat, James."

James held the treats to his chest, "No I'm not, who said these were all for me?" James scurried to the counter where Cresta Tobbins was laughing, having heard the whole ordeal.

"Siobhan, who is this young man?" Cresta said as put his treats into a box and tied it with a ribbon.

"Cresta, I'd like you to meet my new friend, colleague, and roommate, James Potter. James, this is Cresta, she owns the sweet shop and she is like another grandmother to me," Siobhan happily introduced them.

"Good morning, Cresta, it's a pleasure to meet you, you have great treats. I'll admit that not having a good sweets shop was one thing that worried me greatly about Dublin," James laughed as he picked up his box from the counter. "It was a pleasure to meet you, Cresta, you should expect me to become a regular, I love sweets."

"I'll look forward to your visits then, have a nice day, I hope you enjoy Dublin!" Cresta waved as they walked out the door.

"I'm thinking the book store next?" Siobhan said as she crossed the street ahead of James.

"Yeah, sure, you think we could stop by the Quidditch shop after that?" James questioned.

"I suppose, I didn't think you cared much for Quidditch," Siobhan had scrunched her eyebrows up in confusion.

"I love watching it, and playing, but only for fun, I don't like the obsession over it, and how it becomes important for pride, it takes all the fun out for me," James explained as he opened the door of Ink&Quill for Siobhan.

"That makes sense, so since you play a little, are you any good?" Siobhan became even more interested in this new James, that seemed to come easily to her. She couldn't help but feeling a little special because she knew he wasn't usually like this.

"Hello, Miss Buckley, it sure is great to see you here, oh who is this you have here?" a lady walked up to where they were, her name tag read: Edith Tutterow.

"Good to see you too, Mrs. Edith, this is James Potter, he just started working at the law firm, and I've decided to show him around today," Siobhan introduced James to Edith and looked around, she noticed that there had been some rearrangements sing the last time she was here. "Mrs. Edith, can you point me in the law section, the sections seem to have moved since I was last here."

"Oh sure, dear, it four rows past sports right over there," Edith pointed her in the direction. As Siobhan was walking to look for more books for the law firm, she could hear Edith ask James what he was looking for. She left them there and hoped James wouldn't suffer too much, she knew Edith could carry a conversation forever.

4:59

"Well, that was an eventful day, I did not expect it to take that long at the quidditch shop," James groaned as he fell down on the couch. Siobhan just laughed as she sat down in the other couch, and summoned some tea from the kitchen.

"You are a Potter, James, when you say your name in the quidditch shop, you're going to get attention. This may be Ireland, but you're still famous," Siobhan informed him.

"Yeah, yeah, it just gets annoying sometimes, at least it's not as bad as it is with Al. I think sometimes he wants to be the quiet one," James sat up and poured some tea into his cup and looked at Siobhan.

"Were you always quiet?" Siobhan asked curiously while she sipped on her tea.

"Well, no, I used to be rambunctious, and a prankster, but one day one of my pranks meant for Al was set off on Lily instead, and she started crying. She kept screaming and asking what she did to me for her to be the victim of one my pranks. She was only two at the time, and all I had wanted was to be funny, I had never wanted to hurt people. I didn't want that to happen again, so I stopped playing pranks on people, and found other things that interested me. I guess it was the Grandma Potter, and mum inside of me that showed me I loved to learn. I still assist in pranks every now and then, Al was never as good as me, so I helped with his bigger ones, and I always covered for him. Though I always made sure that there was an actual purpose to the pranks, like if it was for a boy who'd been mean to Rosie, or one of my other girl relatives," James had gained a faraway look in his eyes. Siobhan wondered if anyone other than his family had known what he just told her.

"Wow, James, I would've never guessed that," Siobhan said, which seemed to have brought James back to the present. "Can I ask you something else?"

"Sure," James shrugged.

"Why are you so comfortable with me? I mean, you've only been here for a day, so why do you act as if I'm your best friend?"

"I actually don't know, I just felt that you were somewhat similar to me from the start. I didn't feel like I had to put on my façade around you. Even in Hogwarts you seemed different, when I would see you in the library, you didn't seem like one of those fangirls. You would actually study, and I was thankful for that, but I do wish we had become friends before now," James explained to Siobhan.

"You knew about me in Hogwarts?" Siobhan was surprised, she thought James had only paid attention his family members and books when he was in Hogwarts.

"Why of course, you were in the library almost as much as I was, and you were a fifth year prefect when I was Head Boy, I had to pay attention to you, but I knew who you were before that," James smiled at a memory in his head. Siobhan wondered if he looked at her when she wasn't looking at him, and maybe he didn't know that she looked at him when he wasn't looking.

"Wow, well, I thought you really only paid attention to your family and your studies," Siobhan looked down in embarrassment.

"Really?" James sounded sad he wondered if he came off as selfish, only thinking about what helped him.

"Well, I mean you either had your face smashed in a book or you were with Rose, so I just thought that you didn't pay attention to people who didn't make an effort to talk to you. You didn't seem like someone to waste their time making new friends because if they really wanted to be your friend, they would pursue you," Siobhan said, and James sighed, he was glad she didn't think he was selfish, because he really tried not to be selfish.

"Okay, well that's better than what some people thought of me," James finally said with a laugh. They made some small talk after that, getting to know each other some more, so they didn't feel like strangers.

"Oh, it's almost 6:00, are you hungry yet?" Siobhan stood up and took the tea tray into the kitchen.

"I could eat; do you want me to help you cook supper?" James asked her when he walked into the kitchen.

"Yes, could you put some noodles in a pot to boil, while I brown this meat? I'm thinking of making spaghetti tonight," Siobhan said as she got a pan out and put it on top of the stove.

While they made supper James and Siobhan exchanged childhood stories, as well as Hogwarts stories. Siobhan found herself becoming more and more comfortable with James, she found herself thankful to have someone else around. It wasn't until James had arrived that she realized how lonely she was.

"I think I'm going to go to sleep, are you going to stay up longer?" Siobhan closed her book and stood up stretching her arms out.

"I think I'll go to bed after this chapter, do you think you could do me a favor?" James looked up at her with his glasses half way down his nose.

"It depends on what it is," Siobhan responded.

"Well, every Sunday my family has dinner at the Burrow, Grandma and Grandad Weasley's house, and they said I didn't have to come tomorrow because they wanted me to get acquainted in Ireland, but I feel comfortable here. However, Grandma Weasley said when I did visit, that I needed to bring someone with me, so would you mind coming with me?" James asked her.

"I wouldn't mind going with you, I don't usually do much on Sundays anyways. Wouldn't it seem odd to bring someone after two days here, though? Especially a woman?" Siobhan asked James with an eyebrow raised.

"Yes it would, and some will tease me, but you are my roommate and partner at the law firm, so it wouldn't be that surprising. Also, Aunt Hermione will be there, and I would think that she would want to meet you in person, don't you?" James reasoned.

"Yes, I suppose, what time do we have to be there?" Siobhan asked him.

James smiled and said, "12:30, thank you so much, Siobhan."

"You're welcome, James, goodnight," Siobhan said as she walked out of the living room.

"Goodnight," James responded.

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A/N: Well, this took longer than expected, but it is longer than last chapter! Next chapter will be Sunday and the Burrow, and hopefully it will come faster than this update. Hope you liked it! -Lissie