-1Missing Dreams
Chapter 6
"I can't believe that I have a detention," Lily grumbled as she walked down to the library hand in hand with James later that night.
"No worries, it's not going to hurt you any," James grinned as he pulled her closer and slung his arm around her shoulders.
"I've never done it before. My record," Lily sighed as she rested her head on his shoulder as they walked down the deserted hall.
"What's one detention in the long run of things?" James chuckled as they came to a halt in front of the library doors, waiting for Madame Prince to show up.
"A lot! I'm Head Girl, what kind of example is this for the Head Girl. And the Head Boy for that matter," she scolded as she lightly hit him in his stomach.
"Hey this is only my second one this year, that has to be some kind of record since I've been attending this school," James laughed as he tugged on one of the auburn curls that was escaping the bun that she had put her hair in before they left the common room.
"Mr. Potter why am I not surprised to see you?" Prince tisked as she walked through the library doors.
"Prince, my dearest Prince, I know that you're missing me, but I'm sorry, my new girl is kind of a little temperamental when it comes to me getting detentions," James grinned charmingly as he adjusted his glasses.
"Yes, well," Madame Prince laughed, blushing like a little school girl, which had Lily gaping at the older woman. "Rightly so. I daresay that you could instruct Miss Evans on what to do as I go over some paperwork."
"Yes, ma'am," James saluted as he dragged the still stunned red head through the wide doors.
"Was that really Madame Prince?" Lily asked as they walked towards the large windows in the back of the library.
"Yep. Now, all we have to do is reshelf these - which is really easy considering she didn't take our wands; I wonder why," James frowned, then shrugged with a grin. "Oh, well!"
"But James, this is a punishment, we're supposed to do this by hand, without magic," Lily protested as she pulled away from him and glared. "We are not cheating."
"Lily are you kidding?" James gaped at her with wide eyes. He could barely see her eyes in the dim candle light, most candles having been put out since the library was technically closed. And what he saw in her eyes did not thrill him.
"No, we're doing this by hand," she told him as she picked up a stack of books and looked down at the top book. "Now you take this side of the library and I'll take the other side," she told him as she walked off in the opposite direction, leaving James staring at her retreating back.
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An hour later, having finished, Lily went looking for James, not at all surprised to see him sitting in a chair by one of the tables, balancing on two of the four legs, his knees being held by the table, and his arms behind his head as he contemplated the high ceiling.
"You used a spell didn't you?" she sighed as she leaned against one of the bookshelves and simply looked at him.
"No," he said as he dropped his chair on all four feet and grinned. "I wouldn't do that."
"Liar," she laughed with a shake of her head as she walked towards him. "Come on, let's go to bed."
"I like the sounds of that Miss Evans," James grinned as he rested his hand on her waist, his hand slipping under her white filmy peasant top to caress her lower back.
"Not like that," Lily laughed as they walked out of the library.
"Aw, come on now Lily," James whined as they made their way down the hall.
"Nope." she said with a shake of her head, causing most of the pins that she had meticulously placed her in hair to loosen or fall out.
"Nice hair," James snorted as he took his hand out from under her shirt and raised it to her head to take care of the half up half down do.
"Don't pull out my hair!" Lily yelped as he tried to pull one pin out and ended up taking a chunk of hair with him.
"Sorry!"
"Aw, isn't this cute," Malfoy sneered as he came up from behind the couple. "Potter waiting on a mudblood."
"Oh, get a life!" Lily snapped at the same time James said, "Don't call her that!"
"I'm so scared," Malfoy snickered as he lovingly caressed his wand, his glazed sliver eyes taking in the sight in front of him. "I do have to say that you're looking like a tasty piece regardless of station though Evans. How much is he paying you?"
"You fucking prick!" Lily yelled as she whipped out her wand seconds before James could take out his.
She had him up against the wall with strength that she didn't even realize that she possessed, her wand against his throat. "I know enough spells to make even your hair curl Malfoy," she snarled, her green eyes flashing. "I have knowledge in the Dark Arts and spells that are only half invented that you could only dream of knowing. You don't scare me."
With that, Lily raised her knee up forcefully causing Malfoy to crumble to the stone floor as soon as she let go of him. "Simplus Perlexi," she pronounced with a wave of her wand before she turned around and stormed down the hallway, wanting to be nowhere besides her bed.
"What'd you do to him?" James asked as he caught up to her.
"Every time he thinks about sex he's going to have a sharp, unbearable pain where he wears his pride," she told him with a smirk.
"Really?" James laughed as he grabbed her hand as they hopped onto one of the moving staircases. "And just where did you learn this?"
"I invented it myself," she said with a shrug as they reached the statue of a huge overgrown tulip. "Pennywinkle," Lily said and waited for the portrait to move.
"You invented it? How in the world did you do that? It takes years and years of training to do that!" James exclaimed as they walked into the brightly lit common room.
"I don't exactly know, I just have this knack for making up spells and they stick," Lily shrugged as she walked over to the table that was in front of the couch and picked up one of the apples that was in the fruit bowl there.
"You don't just have that kind of knack Lily, it's something that you have to work for and be mentored with," James pressured as he continued to stare at her in amazement.
"I don't know, when I first came to Hogwarts I was trying to learn the levitation spell and I ended up saying it wrong and something really cool happened - so I did it again, and granted with most people, even if they did the same exact thing twice it would never turn out the same, but it did, and," she shrugged as she took another bite of the apple and paused to chew it. "Ever since then as long as I think of what I want the spell to do, it happens. The only thing that I ever need to perfect is my movements."
"Lily, no one in the history of magic has ever done that before," James told her slowly as he walked towards her, still confused. There was something missing from this story and he couldn't figure out what.
"I know, believe me, I've read up on it. The only time this has ever happened was with Merlin. I don't understand how it could happen to me, who as far as I know or my parents knew am the only magical person in my family line, be able to attempt this."
"Lily, this is - this is big!" James exclaimed as he threw his hands up in the air, trying to figure out how to tell her that this didn't just happen to people.
"I know. Why do you think that I've always been so great at Transfiguration and Charms? I don't know, but along with this weird power came the knowledge of every spell and every incantation. All I have to think is what I want it to accomplish and if it's already made, it's there," she shrugged. "And Dumbledore doesn't even know why I have this ability, but he does know that if it's known He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named will come for me."
James just stared at her. He had known years earlier that she had been special and unique, but he never knew that she was this special. She had all of these hidden talents that he could spend years searching for and never find them all. "You are the most amazing person I know," he said softly as he reached up and tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear.
"No, I'm not," she said, blushing as she stepped closer to him. She really wanted to kiss him.
"Yes, you are. Perfect and amazing and beautiful," he whispered as he lowered his head to hers.
Lily felt the same heat engulf her body as she had the first time as she raised onto her tip toes and locked her arms around his neck, giving as much as she was getting.
Groaning from the sheer force of the kiss, James stumbled backwards, looking for any surface that he could sit on. Knees hitting the back of the chair, James sat down, bringing her with him so that she was straddling his legs.
Breaking from the kiss with a gasp, Lily leaned her head back, shook out her hair and grinned. For once she felt alive, she thought as she smiled down at James. "I think that you're good for me," she told him in a desire roughened voice that she couldn't believe came from her.
"I know that you're good for me," he grinned as he cupped the back of her head with one of his Quidditch roughened hands and drew her down for another kiss as his other hand slipped beneath her shirt again.
Lily moaned into the kiss as she felt the rough pads of his fingers run up and down her back. If she knew that passion and lust did this to you she would have tried it out way before now!
James could feel himself harden from the little moans and mewling noises that she was making in the back of her throat.
"Merlin, Lily," he groaned as he broke from the kiss and trailed his lips across her cheekbone, behind her ear, then down her neck.
"James," she moaned as her small petite fingers grasped his silky, messy jet black locks. "What are you doing to me?"
"Pleasuring you," he said, his voice a slight rumble against her skin as the hand that was on her back unsnapped her bra.
"Prongs! Mrs. Prongs! Open up!"
Lily blinked her eyes open and looked down at a dazed James. "Can I kill them?" she asked in a hoarse voice.
"Only after I do," James panted as he leaned his head against her breast bone.
"Why are they here?" she groaned as they called out again.
"I forgot that we had plans for a few hours tonight that can't be cancelled," James told her as he tried to clam down.
"If you don't let us in we still have the password!" Sirius yelled through the wall, causing Lily to gasp.
"Redo my bra," she hissed as she ran her hands through her hair. "They can't see me like this."
James snickered as he did what she wanted him to - just in time for Sirius and Peter to come through the door. "Next time you do that, you might get a peep show," James sighed.
"Whoa," Sirius exclaimed in shock as he came to a halt when he noticed the two teenagers that were half in and half out of the huge chair, James with his hair messier than usual, and Lily with her unusual disheveled hair and clothes and kiss swollen lips. "Didn't mean to interrupt," he grimaced.
"My fault, I forgot," James sighed again as he reluctantly withdrew his hands from underneath Lily's shirt. He lightly tugged on the back of her shirt, reluctant to lose the close contact with her body.
Lily turned around and hit him upside the head, causing him to stare at her in confusion.
"What was that for?" he asked her as he rubbed his head. She hit harder than people thought that she did.
"For forgetting. I'm going to bed," she announced as she got up off of James' lap and walked around the table. "Goodnight boys, don't get in too much trouble!" she called down as she ran up the staircase and into her rooms.
"Prongs man, I'm sorry, but Remus-" Sirius said, starting to laugh at the frustrated look on his best friends face.
"I know, I totally forgot then- regardless, give me a couple of seconds and we can head down to the willow," James sighed as he momentarily closed his eyes then heaved himself out of the chair.
James walked past Lily's room and into his, frowning as he tried to remember where he put his cloak the last time that they used it. Looking around his room, he had to laugh. It had never been so clean before. Even on the first night he and the guys had always managed to throw stuff all over the place, making it look like, well, like seven teenage wizards live in the room. But seeing as he was always with Lily or in Lily's room he hadn't really had time to mess it up.
Seeing a metallic glint from underneath his bed, James walked over and bent down, surprised when he pulled out his cloak. That was a little too easy. Sirius had the map, he was already in loose clothes, he had the cloak and his wand. "Weird," he muttered with a shake of his head as he walked out of his room and threw the cloak over the railing to Sirius down at the bottom. "I'll be a couple of seconds," James yelled down as he knocked on Lily's door.
"Don't forget about Remus!" Sirius yelled back up as James slipped into his girlfriends room.
"Lily?" James called out as he entered the dark room.
"Yeah?" she called out from the bathroom.
"Are you decent still?" he asked as he walked towards the closed bathroom door.
"Kind of," she answered hesitantly.
James frowned. "Can I come in real quick?"
"Okay."
James was still frowning as he opened the door. The candles were turned down low in the room, and there was a scent of jasmine in the air. Shaking his head, James searched for her. She wasn't near the sinks or anywhere else. Then he heard the faint splash that caused his eyes to widen.
"Uh, hi," he smiled as he looked towards the huge bathtub that she had lowered herself to the chin in. She had bubbles all over, so thick that you could probably cut it and serve it on a platter and she had piled all of that glorious auburn hair on the top of her head in bun that had a few tendrils falling around her face.
"Hi," she smiled up at him as she dunk her chin a little lower in the bubbles, causing her to look more childish than she already did.
"I was just stopping by to tell you that I am going to be back in a few hours," he said, trying not to imagine what was under the bubbles. Something that he truly wished that he could figure out.
"Okay," she frowned. "Why are you telling me though? I'm not your keeper."
"Because I don't want you to freak out when I slide into bed next to you in the middle of the night," he grinned as he walked towards the tub and sat down on the lip of the sunken down huge tub.
"No one else would be brave enough to do so," Lily laughed with a shake of her head.
"They better not," he growled as he leaned down and gave her a kiss on the lips. "Sweet dreams," he whispered as he kissed her one more time before he got up from his spot on the floor.
"Be safe," she grinned up at him as he walked towards the door.
"Always," he grinned back at her before he walked out of the door and shut it.
Letting out a deep breath, James shook his head. She was definitely going to be the death of him. And she didn't even know it, he thought as he walked out of her room and down to his waiting friends.
"Thank God," Sirius laughed as he clapped James on the shoulder as they headed out of the room. "I thought that I was going to have to go get you."
"If you had, I would have had to kill you," James told him with a laugh.
"Like you haven't done the same thing to me," Sirius protested.
"So? Besides Lily was in the bathtub. That is something that you are not allowed to see," James told him with a glare. "Ever."
"The bathtub, huh?" Sirius grinned. "So have you and Mrs. Prongs-" he asked as he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at James.
"No," James sighed. "Not yet."
"Aw, poor Jamesie," Sirius laughed as they ducked behind a suit of armor so that they could pull out the map.
"Sirius, shut up," James laughed as he took the map from Peter's shaking hands and pointed his wand at it. "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good," he whispered and watched as the map came to life, dots scattering around all of the different floors with names above them.
"Why are so many people up?" Sirius asked as he leaned over to look at the map.
"I don't know, but I don't have time to make sure that they get to bed," James said with a shake of his head. "Norris and Flitch are two stories up, so we're clear," he said as he refolded the map.
"Then lets go find Mooney and have some fun!" Sirius grinned as he rubbed his hands together.
