A.N. Sorry it took so long to get up, but this story is being passed back and forth through e-mail and we both have school work. thank you to the wonderful reviewers!!!! love you allll
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Picnic If You can
Lily awoke on Saturday to a rapping on her window, she rolled over to see James astride his broomstick holding a bunch of flowers. Lily opened the window grinning at her boyfriend. He passed in a bunch of flowers through the open window, with a note saying Get dressed and meet me in the astronomy tower, love you.
-James
Lily read the note and looked up to smile at James but he had already vanished.
Lily got dressed in a deep red tank and short Sapphire blue shorts. (A.N. sorry if you wanted a cuter outfit but in this story Lily is a tomboy and I am a tomboy so I would not be able to imagine a really girly outfit.) and ran up to the astronomy tower where James embraced her and she kissed him. After they finally broke apart, James ushered Lily on to the broom which had a blanket draped across it and a picnic basket hanging from the handle. James sat behind Lily, putting his arms around her waist and gripping the broom handle. Lily relaxed against James' chest, as they flew over the lake to a hill on Hogwarts grounds, where James landed gently and held his hand out to Lily to help her dismount. Lily giggled, "Not that this isn't wonderful James but I Thought we were going to Hogsmeade?"
James just smiled, and a with a flick of his wand the blanket laid itself out and the picnic basket settled on top. "We are, but we can't go for another hour."
James gestured to the blanket
and Lily sat on it, James sat next to her emptying the basket. On the blanket was the best breakfast Lily could imagine. Pancakes and waffles and blueberries, along with every breakfast food she could imagine. The last thing James pulled out was a single red rose, alongside a yellow lily. (i just realized how sailormoonish that is. tuxedo mask always threw a red rose...odd.kerri)
Lily gasped, "James i-i-t's beautiful!" Lily stuttered in amazement fingering the stems of the two flowers. James blushed and smiled, "Not as beautiful as you." he said blushing and putting his hand on her knee
"James...I...I don't know what to say. Everything is...it's wonderful, really wonderful.", an awestruck Lily said.
James chuckled. "I thought you said you didn't know what to say?" Lily pushed him playfully.
"Honestly though, James. Everything's more perfect than I could of hoped. Maybe it's just...it feels completely weird to be sitting here, in love with you, when maybe a few weeks ago I would of just been writing thirty reasons to hate you (LOL Katie don't u just love me?). I feel like some type of hypocrite or something."
"Lily Evans, I wouldn't care if you were the biggest hypocrite about that. For years now all I have hoped, all I've wanted, was for you to love me. Understand?"
Lily smiled and nodded her head.
The couple finished their breakfast and packed their things up.
"So...now to Hogsmeade.", James said.
"That sounds good. ", Lily smiled.
The couple joined a gathering crowd that was heading for Hogsmeade. They didn't talk much during the time, it would of been nearly pointless to because of the excited student's shouting and talking.
When they did reach Hogsmeade, and the crowd began to evaporate, James asked, "So where'd you like to go first?"
"Why don't we go to Honeydukes, it's always been one of my favorite places here".
"Honeydukes it is then."
They walked down the cobbled street, and when they reached Honeydukes, lights inside giving a warm glow the wonderful fall weather, there was a sign in bright red that said:
THIS WEEKEND ONLY
SELLING MUGGLE CANDIES AND TREATS
"That's interesting, I wonder what they'll have.", Lily thought aloud.
"Well, let's see.", James said, opening and holding the door for Lily.
"Thanks".
The two of them walked a bit and saw the candies. Unfortunately, Lily saw oreos. (we don't own oreos.)
"Oh my gosh. OREOS!!!".
And so the mess began.
"What are Oreo's? James asked bewildered.
"BEST FOOD EVER!" Lily Yelled as Catlyn ran across the store and snatched the bag out of Lily's hand. "NO OREOS!" she said climbing on the counter and holding the bag over Lily's head.
"My Oreo's!!!" Lily cried jumping up and trying to grab the bag out of Catlyn's hand. "Gimme back my Oreo's!!! CATIE they're MINE!"
"Sorry Lily" Catlyn said, hoisting the bag as high as her short frame would allow, "Unless I want the world to blow up I cannot allow you to eat these."
"CHOCOLATE!" some one yelled from across the store and Remus leaped up and grabbed the Oreos out of Catlyn's hand.
"REMUS JOHN LUPIN!" Lily yelled chasing Remus around the store until she finally tackled him and grabbed the Oreos from his hand, before grabbing Cream Soda (we do not own) And Vitamin water (again do not own) and rushing up to pay for it.
Catlyn put a hand on James shoulder, "Good luck tonight." she said before running to buy two 100 packs of Vitamin Water and running to the register before running back and picking up another seven packages. "What?" she asked as James looked at her bewildered, "I need it to last me the rest of the bloody year!"
"I'm ready!" Lily said coming back with her purchases. "What do you want to do now?"
James smiled, It had Been hard keeping this part of their date a secret. "Its a surprise, come with me."
James lead Lily out side, where his broom stick was already waiting. he mounted it pulling her on in front of him and taking off. They circled Hogsmede before coming to land in a field full of daisy's. "Wow..." Lily whispered, forgetting her Highness for a little while. James wrapped his arm around her waist and pointed to a cave on a distant hill. "We'll go there in a minute," James said smiling at Lily, "But I thought you might want to see the field first"
Lily nodded unable to speak, as they re mounted James' broom and flew low enough to skim the flowers with their feet.Eventually the reached the cave.
As they walked into the cave, Lily wandered what the big deal was. I looked just like an ordinary cave, except for this odd shape in the back side of the cave. James walked up to the shape and tapped it with his wand. The rock opened into a door, much like the passage to Diagon Alley. But when they walked through the door Lily was confronted with her greatest fear, winking smilies.
They were every where hundreds of them taunting her, staring at her with their little winking eyes. Lily His behind James , burying her face in his back. "What is is Lils?" James asked concerned.
"W-w-w-winking smiley faces" Lily stuttered clutching James' shirt.
"Oh" James chuckled softly, Those are Sirius' I can hide them if you want."
"please" Lily gasped, finally gaining the courage to look up after James had said a spell that she had never heard before. but what she saw mas almost as scary as the winking smilies but in a good way. They were pictures of her doing the mist random things, reading, raising her hand in class, sitting on the couch infrequent of the fire,there was even a duplicate of the picture of her Catlyn and Alex that hung in her room. James blushed and lead Lily into the most extravagant common room she had ever seen. lining the walls were book shelves whose heights could never be reached the muggle way, the whole floor was covered in the nicest warmest softest rug, against the far wall was a fire place surrounded by couches.
"Now," James said leading Lily Over to one of the couches, "let me try one of those oreos..."
Lily was in complete awe staring at the amazing room. She handed James the package of oreos and then walked over to the shelves. There was a mix of both magic and muggle books. Everything from Bathilda Bagshot to Edgar Allan Poe. It was simply amazing.
Meanwhile James had opened the package of Oreos. He pulled one of the black cookie, white cream filled cookies. He bit it, and as soon as the taste reached his mouth, a sensation of heaven and chocolate collided with each other onto his taste buds.
"Mmm...Lily these Orikitos are amazing!" James exclaimed.
Lily turned on the spot from where she was standing. She chuckled sweetly, and said "It's pronounced Oreos." She walked over to him, and pulled an oreo for herself out of the bag and munched on it. James feared she'd become insanely crazy again, but she did not.
Lily sat down beside James on the couch. She stared around at the odd pictures of her. 'Why on earth would he have a bunch of pictures of me up on the walls? I know he loves me, but it's a bit odd to have pictures hanging up everywhere.'
"James, why do you have all these pictures of me doing the most random things up on the wall?", asked Lily.
James paused for a moment. Then said "Lily, I love you. I never, ever want to hurt you. Almost all these pictures are my own thoughts turned into a photo. Everything you do is absolutely wonderful to me, and I want to be able to preserve every thought of you, I never want you to go away."
Lily looked at him, her sparkling green eyes had a look of seriousness and wonder in them, "How, how on earth did I ever say no, ever deny you? Believe you couldn't be the one? How?"
"It's not entirely your fault. Both of us were lost on finding our way to where we are today."
"I suppose.", Lily looked down. She was still guilty, and knew she'd always be guilty. James picked up her head and kissed her.
Lily knew, forever, she would never regret the game Catch Me if You Can.
"Do you want to go now,see if any shops are less packed?", James asked her.
Lily nodded. The two got up and began to make their way toward the entrance.
When they got there,Lily and James both realized that the weather had changed. It was pouring rain, thunder was clapping, lightning could Be seen streaking across the gray sky. The world around the couple looked bleak.
"We should go back inside, at least till the storm clears up a bit.", Lily suggested.
"Yes.", James agreed.
They walked back and sat on the couch. James lit the fire in the fireplace, so that it's flames cracked with their own delight. They sat beside each other, James's arms around Lily, her head on his shoulder, simply sitting, in love, as it was meant to be.
Lily awoke to the cave a bit warmer and the drumming of the rain had stopped she looked up at Jame's sleeping face from her spot halfway on top of him. Lily smiled up at her boyfriend. 'boyfriend...' it was such a weird word. Lily didn't think that completely summed up what James was to her. Yes she knew it had only been one date, but for Lily, the happiness felt like it would last a lifetime. She noticed that James was unconsciously playing with the ends of her hair Lily smiled softly,'Yes boyfriend dentally didn't sum it up.' Lily thought snuggling into James' chest, causing him to wake up and smile down at her. "Hey you" Lily said softly, fixing his glasses that had fallen askew as he slept. James lent down and kissed her forehead. Lily smirked at him before inching up James' to plant a kiss on his lips, smiling into the kiss.
"Lily, I have a secret..." James started, but Lily put a finger to his lips before kissing him again. "Not now," She said "I don't want to get up right now, too comfy."
James laughed and lifted Lily off him and lead her to an open room near the entrance of the cave. "James I already know about Remus..." Lily started but she gasped as James transformed into a stag. Lily walked up to him, petting his neck softly as James bumped his nose against her, making Lily giggle before he turned back into a stag
"Wanna ride?" James asked smirking.
"W-w-what"
"I know you've ridden horses before, deer can't be much different."
"Oh!" Lily said surprised, "But how did you know I rode?
'Lily" James said raising his eyebrows and she giggled before James turned into a stag. He looked expectantly at Lily, gesturing to his back and she carefully mounted up. The passage to the outside of the cave opened and Lily closed her calves as James galloped out of the cave.
Lily's hair was flying out behind her as she laughed. James galloped faster out of sheer joy of making Lily happy. Eventually they arrived back at the cave Lily's hair windswept and her cheeks pink from the cool air. "Lily hugged James as they reentered the cave. "Thank You!" She said the exhilaration still in her voice.
"You're so beautiful" James said pushing a lock of red hair behind her ear, before kissing her softly. "You want to be one?" He asked, "an Animagus I mean."
Lily was stunned. "Yes! she said happily as James walked over to a cabinet and taking a vial of light blue liquid out of it. and giving it to her. "Drink this," he instructed, "you'll fall asleep and see your form. Then I'll help you work on your transformation." Lily smiled and nodded eagerly. taking the vial from James and downing it in one gulp, before immediately passing out. James caught her before she fell to the ground and rested her on the couch.
--meanwhile--
Lily was absorbed in a sea of darkness. A shadow was inching toward her, taking shape. A horse, no too small of a head, was it It couldn't be... YES! it was! The form was a doe!
Lily woke up grinning. "I'm a Doe! she half shouted wit joy, launching herself into James' arms. "I'm a DOE! she laughed as James spun her around and kissed her.
A little bit fluffier than the previous chapters. Oh well I was in what we call a mishy mushy mood. so blllluuurrrrppp to you! PLEZ push the dipressed little button because it is kind of dipressing when you have over 400 hits and only 8 reviews. :'(
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