AN Hey chapter 7
AN - Please read this following Author's Note!!
I am so, so, so amazingly sorry for this wait! I can't believe it has seriously taken me so long!
But I do have a pretty good excuse. I've been in hospital for 4 weeks. I got a mild case of pneumonia that was a bit serious for a bit but I'm okay now (which by the way I took as very, very spooky considering I gave Lily a mild case of pneumonia in chapter 4). Anyway I had access to the computer for a bit and I read some other stories and reviewed etc. and I got some new ideas for this story because I wasn't entirely happy with it. But now I'm back and ready for action! ;)
I am reposting all my other chapters with this as well because I have several grammatical mistakes that need to be altered and so on.
I would like to say thank you to every one of you who has reviewed so far.
Thanks to James' Lily Flower, Beefcake the Mightly, LoonyLuna127, shetlandlace, MarauderROCKSTAR, Nymphie94 and finally Cool-mulle to whom I had promised this chapter a long while ago and for that I dedicate this chapter to you Cool-mulle.
So I just really hope that you all forgive me and hopefully are still reading?
I love you. :-)
Love Is The Drug
Chapter 7
Lily had been a slight emotional wreck that day. After hearing the news from the paper she had broken down in the most un-Lily-like of fashions. In all honesty it had really freaked James out. He was assuming that she was having one of those weird pregnancy emotion days or something.
After initially reading it she had stormed off to her bedroom and paced angrily looking for something to hit but as soon as she had seen James enter the room she had fallen into bits and cried desperately into his shoulder. The rest of the day had passed with James telling her meaningless sentiments like "It'll all be okay," and "I'll make it better, don't worry." He knew that really those things meant nothing but he felt as though those were the only things he could think of saying that would be even remotely comforting.
Lily had never lost it this bad before. Hell, she didn't even really get that upset normally. Lily gets angry – that's the way it's always been. They didn't call her an "ice-bitch" back in Hogwarts for no reason after all. Before they knew it the day was gone. The day was blur of crying, comforting visit from neighbours and press pretending to be neighbours. All in all it had been a really emotionally draining day. Currently James was lounging on the sofa with a glass of some muggle whiskey with his wife sitting between his legs resting her head on his chest.
"You know, you shouldn't have gone off on Sirius like that this morning," Lily was having a break from crying, which James was thankful for, but when she made this statement it almost had him wishing that she was crying again. He knew what he had said to Sirius was pretty uncalled for and he felt really bad about it. He just didn't really want people reminding him off the fact he had probably depressed his metaphorical brother and driven him to go find some skank at a bar to sleep with.
"Yeah, I know." He sighed tiredly and massaged his brow. "Do you think I should go see him? Try and clear the air." He felt her nod against his chest and then she pushed herself up, pushing her hands on his thighs. She walked over to the mirror and got her wand out.
"Yeah, you should. Go on you go over to Sirius' see if he's allright, have a drink with him or something." She paused to say an incantation, which caused her blood-shot eyes and blotchy skin to go back to normal and even giving her a slight glow which could possibly be natural, from the pregnancy and all. "Go on, we've both had a hard day. It will do us good to get out for a bit"
"You going to come with me too then?"
"Nope, you have to make up with him on your own. I think I'll go see Marlene though. Merlin knows she my only best friend who's actually there for me anyway." She was now checking that her hair didn't look a mess and was mussing it up purposely from behind. James never understood why women did this when going to go see girl mates. Surely it was just to make them sexy. Why would they want to look sexy if the only people there were going to be people who they didn't care if their mates looked sexy or not. Unless all of his teenage fantasies had been true…
He was caught up in his wonderful imagination for a while and didn't hear Lily repeat his name over and over trying to get his attention. In defeat Lily had got a pillow and thrown it forcibly at his head. This brought him tumbling back down to Earth.
"You dirty bugger! You were just thinking of me and Marly having a saucy sleepover weren't you?" She stood with her hands on her hips and her mouth open in mock outrage. He too stood up and went to grab his coat.
"Come on! How could you even tell that was what I was thinking?"
"What can I say I know you too well," she stuck her tongue out playfully and he walked up to her and offered his arm to her.
"I'm so very glad to see you have perked up Mrs Potter, will you accompany me to the end of our street so that we may both apparate to our respective friends?" Lily giggled and went to grab her own coat. They walked slowly with a little playful banter, which had been absent all day. Finally they parted ways and both apparated to their own friend's apartments.
Lily stood outside Marlene's door and cheerily knocked a tune knowing how much stuff like that annoyed Marlene. There was no answer.
"Marly?! You in sweets?" Lily paused while awaiting an answer. No answer came. Lily apprehensively reached out to the door handle and tried opening the door. She found it unlocked. Puzzled she let herself in and froze when she saw the scene of destruction that was Marlene's lounge. There were clothes scattered in random places throughout the room a table had been overturned leaving a smashed vase littering the wooden flooring. There was some sort of liquid on the floor that looked a bit like whiskey next to a load of smashed glass. Issues of Witch Weekly that had once been neatly arranged on the coffee table were now all over the floor, some ripped. There was only one conclusion that Lily could come to as to what could have caused this destruction.
Death eaters.
She felt a ball of anxiety and dread build up in her stomach. This was all her fault, they had probably found out about the baby and wanted to capture Lily so took Marlene to find out where she was. Lily looked around the room frantically to see if there was any blood or anything that might suggest Marlene had been hurt. She noticed a slight dent in the wall leading to Marlene's bedroom. Lily put her hand over her mouth shakily as felt her self begin to well with tears. What if they had left Marlene's body in there? She took tentative steps towards the door and took a deep breath of encouragement before trying to open the door. The scene that met her was horrifying and one that would be burned into her retinas for the rest of her life. Sirius' bare arse.
The once silent apartment was now abundant with the sounds of moans and groans as what must have been a silencio charm had been broken. A high-pitched moan that belonged to Marlene made Lily shriek her name with slight disgust but mainly relief.
"Lily!! Shit, Sirius, oh crap," Marlene had abruptly broken away from Sirius and was now gathering the bed covers around herself as Sirius, still not realising what was going on, whimpered at the loss of her body. Lily made a small cough in the background to alert Sirius to her presence. He turned his head slightly and saw his best mates wife standing right there. In shock he stood up quickly and at the look of Lily's widened eyes thought to cover his nether regions.
"Uh, you allright Lils?" he was trying to keep an air of nonchalance in his voice but was failing miserably as Marlene put her head into the palms of her hand. Lily in the mean time however had broken up into a huge grin, which really did disconcert Sirius greatly.
"Oh me? I'm absolutely great Sirius, but I'm guessing now isn't really the time for chit chat so I will just be off." Lily turned to the door and was about to leave before she turned her head around again, if possible her grin even bigger this time. "I'm so glad you two have worked this all out! I'm so happy for you both! If you weren't all sweaty and you know kind of sexed up I would so go and give you both the hugest hugs of you lives!!" She squealed and finally left the room. She practically sprinted out of the apartment so that she could apparate home and tells James about the pair their best friends. Sirius looked at Marlene confusedly and saw she still wore the same look of embarrassment across her face and was still clutching the white sheets firmly to her chest.
"I would have thought you would have been used to being caught seeing as you're with someone new all the time. Must happen all the time surely."
"Says you Sirius, but it's different this time. I mean it was you and me not just some random guy." Marlene looked slightly ashamed and this thought kind of angered Sirius a little. Why was it so horrible that they were found together, was the idea of somebody having sex with him that bad? But all of his anger flew out the window as she took her hand away from the bed covers so that she could massage her temples with both hands and her breasts came into view. Sirius grinned seductively at her and started crawling towards her on the bed.
"So, shall we carry on where we left off?" He gently placed feather-light kisses on her shoulder but Marlene brushed him off and stood up, walking to the door to grab her dressing gown.
"Not right now okay. Damn, that was a hell of a mood-killer." She left the room and with it an incredibly horny and frustrated Sirius Black.
"So then I just left them to it!" Lily had just finished retelling her tale of Sirius and Marlene to her husband who had been awaiting her, confused as to where his best mate was.
"Awwh well, I guess he won't be mad at me then! I reckon he really likes her mind." James started gazing off dreamily and Lily looked at him strangely.
"You really are oddly feminine sometimes James. Stop it, it's creeping me out!" She hit him with a cushion and then proceeded to their kitchen to make them both a cup of coffee. She noticed she still hadn't read Dan's letter when she saw it on the counter. While the coffee was still brewing she supposed that she would have a read of it now. She ripped open the envelope and saw Dan's neat scrawl.
Hey Lils,
How's everything? Is the baby doing okay? I hope so. Sean says hi I'm sure. Well to be honest I haven't really seen much of him lately-he's been out. A lot. I'm actually a little worried about him. He won't tell me where he's going most nights, probably to meet up with some girl. But he's making things worse and worse for the both of us. I mean it's been really hard to keep up with the rent on this place and now it's all basically on my head seeing as Sean still doesn't have a job. But the thing is that the board shop where I work is closing down. I'm going to be let off work Lily, then we'll have no income until I can find a new job. So, this kind of brings me on to my next thing that I have to tell you. We can't keep up with the rent, plain and simple, I've done the maths and we can't stay here. We have to be out of here by tomorrow well it will be today by the time you read this I guess and we were wondering if we could come stay with our little baby sis while we're looking for a new place? We don't really have anywhere else to go. Things with dad are well, lets not get into that. Petunia is spending all her time with Vermin and they've just moved in together last week last I heard, actually I have some news about her and Vernon that I shall tell you once I see you.
Because we have to be out by tomorrow if we don't have any confirmation from you we will be coming to you okay? I'm so sorry we are doing this to you Lily but we don't have anywhere else to go. So unless you categorically, most definitely don't want us there and James is 100 against it then we will be at yours by about nine tomorrow evening seeing as we have some other things to take care of as well.
All my love baby sis,
Dan xxx
Lily looked at the clock, it was twenty past nine now. If they were coming then where the hell were they?
"James, that letter from Dan, he was asking if him and Sean could move in with us for a while." She looked at her husbands' expression, which wasn't one of horror but lets just say it wasn't one of joy.
"Lily, where the hell are they going to sleep? I mean this place is hardly even big enough for the two of us." He gestured with his hands at their dinky little flat. Lily looked helplessly around her, she wanted to help her brothers out desperately the way that they would help her out without a second thought but James was right. They had absolutely no room.
"Well, I guess they could sleep on the sofa, you know go top/tail or something." She looked at the small sofa and knew that her two 6ft 4 brothers would be hanging off the ends of that sofa. But at the end of the day they were beggars, they couldn't afford to be choosers. James sighed and tiredly raked his hand through his black locks.
"Fine, whatever. They're your brothers I guess." She smiled at his understanding but then frowned when she thought how rude it was that not only had her brother only given her a 12 hour warning but he was twenty minutes late.
"They're late mind you. Maybe they aren't coming after all." A click told her that the coffee was done brewing so she turned around.
"Here's hoping," James muttered under his breath in the hope that Lily wouldn't hear him. Luckily for him she didn't. she gave him his cup of coffee and they waited for her two brothers. And they waited. And they waited some more. Soon it was half past eleven and Lily was starting to feel nauseous again. James was watching some muggle programme on the television that Lily had supplied for them. Their flat must have been the most mugglefied (AN- Ha! Made up a word) place that a wizard and witch had ever had.
"James, I've gotta go to the loo. If they come now tell them that I'm really pissed at them okay?" James nodded at her and kissed the back of her hand before she started making her way towards the toilet. Just then though the fire came to life and with a flash of light her two brothers came falling through. Both covered in black soot, carrying numerous bags and on the ground spluttering. The smell of ash was only making Lily's nausea worse and she started to sway slightly on the spot.
"Oh my –cough- lord! –Cough-. That was an experience and a –cough- half!" Sean said as he picked himself up and brushed off the excess soot. James came over and gave Dan a hand to help him up. Sean turned to Lily.
"Lils! I'm so sorry I haven't been writing but you know I love you right?" He walked forward to give her a hug but that was the exact moment that Lily's stomach had decided enough was enough and they should just empty their contents already. Unfortunately this meant all over Sean's "ACDC" band top. The orangey remnants of Lily's lunch slid slowly down Sean's chest and Lily just looked at him with woozy eyes.
"Nice to see you too Lily." Sean mumbled while holding his top away from his body.
AN Ok, let's hope people got to this point eh?
So I promise you all right that chapter 8 will be up within the next 24 hours and maybe even chapter 9 too. I feel very bad for leaving you all for so long. :(
Please review? Even if it is to tell me you're disappointed in me.
Caru
Cymru01
xxxoooxxx
