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All recognisable characters belong to J.K Rowling!A/N - I'm Back!! Sorry it has taken me forever to update but had tonnes of thrilling essays to write for college! Thank You to everyone who read, reviewed and added this story to their favourites. Took me ages to write this chapter … mainly because my other half (a.k.a my bestest pally) and I weren't on speaking terms for a while and she was my muse. I always got more written with her around. So I turned to my second muse - wine!!
I shall leave you know… Go forth and read !
The League
Chapter Seven - And so it begins
"I mean what does he think he's playing at? He's engaged for crying out loud and he was going to kiss me. ME, you know the woman he left to go off and frolic in France!" Lily slammed her bottle of beer on the table.
It was Friday night. Lily, Amelie and Jess were sat in a cosy corner booth in The Three Broomsticks and had been since mid-afternoon. All three women were drunk, in fact they were drunker than drunk! For the first half of the day Lily managed to only bring up the 'almost kiss' once and that was when she had told Jess about it. But since the alcohol had hit her she kept on bringing it every now and again.
Jess nodded in a knowing fashion, her eyes dropping, showing her drunk state, "What an arse! He can't honestly think you are still hung up on him? There is obviously going to be feelings, I mean you guys were like ... made for each other, but he fucked off! He can't come marching back in and try to kiss you! I propose we kill him!" she smiled and raised her bottle.
Amelie shook her head with a disappointed frown,
"Can't" she said simply.
Lily and Jess lowered their glasses, both looking slightly crestfallen,
"How can we not? Just on simple AK and he is as dead as Merlin himself!" Jess said cheerfully.
Amelie sighed "I know that, but the auror's are good and he isn't exactly someone who won't be missed. What I'm saying is I'd rather him alive and trying to cop a feel at Lils than spending the rest of my days in Azkaban for the git!"
Lily and Jess nodded in agreement ,
"Ah Well said!" Jess said.
Lily Screwed up her face "He is still a dick though!" She Slumped forward onto the table and looked into her empty bottle.
"I want another drink... fast" She said unhappily.
"Yeah get us another one when you're at the bar dear." Amelie told Lily as she stood up.
"Your wish is my command" Lily said as she stood up and started to make her way towards the bar.
The Tree Broomsticks was crowded as it normally was on a Friday night. Lily passed by many little tables filled with people she knew and didn't , she nodded to those she knew. Finally she was at the bar.
"Three brewskies' please Rosie" she shouted when the busty blonde got to her. Rosie nodded and set off to get the drinks.
Lily was bopping her head to the music and silently singing along.
"Sing it to me Lils!" someone from beside her shouted. she looked left to see who it was, but she already knew.
Two people were in between Lily and Sirius. She rolled her eye's,
"Oh not you, can't I go anywhere without you stalking me?" she shouted along the bar.
"Fraid' not my dear Lily, that's why it's called stalking! Who you here with?"
"Amelie and Jess, I'm not even going to ask who you're here with since you don't have very many friends!" she laughed.
"Amelie you say. Well I may have to drop by you're table" he flashed her a charming smile, "just to remind your dear friend Amelie what she is missing out on." A bar tender had now brought Sirius four fire whiskeys , he handed him the money and turned to face Lily again.
"For the sake of your man parts, I wouldn't come over!" she laughed.
He gave her a mischievous grin, "My man parts you say? She really that pissed off?"
"Yep." she shouted. Rosemerta had just placed three beers in front of Lily.
She gave her the money and turned to leave, "Later Black" she yelled and disappeared into the crowed
"Later Red!" he shouted over the many heads.
Lily placed the bottles on the table and sat down,
"just a heads up, Black is coming over to 'show you what your missing out on" Lily laughed.
"Well I'll rip his dick off if he does" Amelie said in a disgusted tone.
"That's what I said, so he can't say I didn't warn him. Just seen Amos Diggory on my way back over, not looking too hot." she said as she took a swig.
"Really?" Jess said in surprise, "He was always so good looking, didn't he get married not too long ago?"
"Yeah, It was in the Prophet, got married to Lucy Smith, she work's for Witch Weekly. Rather good column if I say so myself." Amelie stated.
"Rubbish! She was a cow at school and she is no doubt a cow now!" Jess downed her bottle.
Lily laughed, "it's true she totally was. Remember she threatened to hex me if I didn't dump James."
"Did you?" Amelie enquired.
"Of course I bloody well didn't! I hexed the cow right there and then. Don't know what possessed her to think she could get one over on me!" Lily looked around the room, her eye lingered for a second on the very person she didn't want to see.
Jess and Amelie were laughing "You nearly got your badge taken from you for that"
Lily wasn't listening to them anymore. Her gaze was fixed on the very same dark messy haired man who tried to kiss her two days before.
"I hope he choke's on that beer!" lily snarled.
They stopped laughing and looked over to where Lily was staring,
"Oh not him! we're here to have a good night not to be stared at." Amelie said stiffly.
"We'll be stared at wherever we go hunny, coz' we are just to damn beautiful!" Jess laughed.
"Too true. God I hate him. But I hate that bloody Claudia more. Stupid blonde witch!" Lily frowned. James was looking at her from his table, where he sat with the rest of the marunders.
"Ewe he has been staring at me for since I got back!" Lily said. She stared back for a few moments then smiled sweetly at him, slowly raised her hand and made a rude hand gesture.
The smile that had crept onto his face when Lily had smiled finished quickly and was replaced with a quizzical look.
All three women laughed,
"Can we get out of here, please" Lily said as James gave her a sad look.
"Ohh yeah, lets go to Mombi's" Jess nearly squealed.
"I've not been there in ages! What say you Lils?" Amelie's grin was almost too big for her face.
They both looked at Lily. She downed her drink " Lily say's Aye! To Mombi's!
"She is really pissed off at you mate" Sirius said as he watched the red head give his best friend the finger. "What did you do this time?" he enquired.
James shook his head and took a long drink. "Nothing" he mumbled.
Remus laughed, "you must have done something James, she look's as though she may pounce any moment now."
"And he means pouncing in the bad way, not the good one! Peter laughed.
"You two seemed to be getting along fine the other night when I left you. Well apart from you acting like a jerk when she was talking to Harris. What the hell could you have done within the space of like ten minutes?"
James was swirling the remaining fire whisky around in the glass, avoiding looking at his friends.
"A lot" he mumbled again.
"Like what?" Remus asked.
James glanced over at Lily's table. The three women were standing by the table, putting jackets on and getting ready to leave. He watched as they made their way towards the door.
"Come on prongs, whatever you said I'm sure she will forget about it soon." Sirius said, trying to cheer his friend up.
Lily gave a quick glance towards James before she left. He looked back down into his drink and took a deep breath.
"I tried to kiss her" he mumbled.
Sirius spat his drink all over peter. "You done what?" You are joking right? this is some kind of joke?" Sirius said as he was trying to mop up Peter with one hand whilst staring at James in disbelief.
James shook his head like a school boy being told off.
"You idiot!" Remus said sternly.
"You can't do that mate, that's unfair on Lily! We told you.."
"AWw" Peter shrieked. Sirius hadn't been watching what he was doing and had poked peter in the eye.
"Sorry Pete." he put the hanky back in his pocket and continued,
"We told you when you returned that you had to be careful around her. You broke her heart. You didn't see the state you left her in and you sure as hell aren't going to do it to her again! You have a fiancé James, you can't just go and play with her heart! What about Claudia? how would she feel if she found out? Stop confusing her! You either want to be with her or you don't! And I would have thought it was pretty obvious which one you chose when you left!" Sirius almost shouted at him.
"I know I hurt her. I didn't mean to, but i did. I don't want to confuse or hurt her again mate. I swear. It's just... every time I see her I remember how much I loved her. All the good times we had. I've got no self control around her. I know it's not fair on her and I will apologize as soon as I can . You guy's are right, I do have Claudia, but I'll never forget Lily!" James looking at his three friends.
"Well you better start trying to James. If you don't start forgetting about her, you can never truly love Claudia and You'll continue to hurt Lily. It took her so long to get over you. She is still fragile and you will end up hurting her. Now enough of this, We can talk about this at more suitable time. We're out for a good time not to argue. Sirius Wipe that frown off your face, James cheer up and Peter go get another round!" Remus said sternly.
The loud thump of the music coursed through her as she danced to the beat. Forgetting where she was. Forgetting the threat that her world was
under and most of all forgetting about James Potter.
"You want another beer Lils" Amelie shouted over the music. Lily opened her eyes and shook her head.
"Make it a fire whiskey this time! I'm going to the loo I'll get you back her in five" she shouted into Amelie's ear. She nodded and stumbled off to the bar.
Lily weaved her way through the crowed, dancing as she went. She couldn't remember the last time she went out and had a good night.
Just as she reached the steps that lead to the toilets she spotted Jess and some guy she didn't know, eating the face off of each other. She stopped and started laughing. She didn't know why but she found this funny.
Next thing she knew she was lying on the dance floor on her back. Someone had fallen on her.
"Get the hell off me you fucking idiot and help me the fuck up" she screamed. A few people around her had stopped dancing and was laughing. The man who had fallen onto of her was shouting something as he got up, but Lily couldn't hear what he was saying.
He turned around and bent down and picked her up "I'm so sorry, didn't mean to ... Lily"
"Oh jeezo, I should have known it would be you! You know, for a stalker you aren't doing very well! Generally they don't throw themselves at their victims!" she shouted. Over the throb of the music.
"I'm not stalking you! Don't be so big headed love, we came here to have a good time. Not follow you about! And don't pretend you didn't enjoy having me on top of you" he swayed a little on the spot. "Again" he smirked.
"Go screw yourself Potter! And why the hell else did you jump on me then!? I could have broken something!" She screamed.
"I fell over! It's a simple mistake. I didn't think to myself 'oh there she is, time to pounce!' It was a coincidence that I fell into you. I'm sorry I knocked you over, I really didn't mean to and I'm sorry about the other night!" he shouted at her and turned to leave.
"Oh no you don't you piece of hippogriff dropping!" she grabbed his arm and spun him back around.
" Sorry isn't going to cover what you done the other night! That was a horrible thing you done to me. What was I suppose to do? I still loved you when you left and you clearly didn't love me James! I've spent the last few years trying to get over you and it just hasn't happened! I've never loved anyone so much and even after you fucked off and left me I still loved you!" Every time she mentioned him she prodded him as in the chest as hard as she could. He showed no sign of pain, so she prodded harder.
" I was… no AM a fool for believing that you ever loved me! When You waltz back into my life I thought I was going to die. Then to top things off you try to Kiss me! Well I'm not interested! You are still the big headed, arrogant, toe-rag that I once knew! You've always cared for yourself more than others! Well apart from the marunders that is…but anyways I'm warning you now, never try that shit on me again as I wont be so nice next time! Don't speak to me unless it's business based! Goodbye!" she spun around whipping him with her hair and walked off into the crowed.
James stood still, unable to speak., he watched her until she came to the bar. He had been told off by Lily Evans … and he liked it! He missed her scolding him and all their little arguments but he would not be trying anything like the other night on her again.
"Well that seemed like a delightful conversation" Remus said, " and if you couldn't tell Prongs I am being sarcastic!" he smiled widely at James.
James scoffed and looked around the dance floor. " where is Padfoot?" he frowned.
Remus laughed and pointed over to a corner of the dance floor " when you and Miss Evans were having your little confrontation it seems that Sirius and Amelie got a little bored and found a way to entertain themselves."
Amelie was sitting astride of Sirius, kissing him passionately, totally oblivious to their surroundings.
James laughed, "trust him. I'm gonna get a drink, you want one?" he enquired.
Remus raised a bottle of beer, "no thanks, I'm good! I don't know where Pete went though. He disappeared a while after we got here. I saw him talking to some bird he has been after for months so maybe…" he wiggled his eyebrows.
James smiled, "right, I get you. I'll be back soon".
As James drew nearer the bar he spotted Lily. She was flirting with some brown haired bloke. James felt his blood boil.
No. She Isn't your girlfriend anymore, jamsey! Stop being a jealous prat and respect her wishes!
he told himself.But he just couldn't stop himself. Despite the fact that she had just told him to basically get fucked and stay away from her, he didn't want her going home with this loser.
"Liiiily!! What's up!? You want a drink love?" he had wrapped his arm around her and smiled down at her.
She smiled back up at him, which surprised him a lot, but he didn't let it show.
"no thanks Jamsey, Kyle here has already ordered me one!" she smiled sweetly at James.
"Oh… " he scanned the car pretending to look for service.
Lily jabbed him in the side and said loudly, "Don't you play with Kyle, James?"
James whipped his head around to look at the brunette, he was faced with his fellow team mate Kyle Murray.
"James fricken Potter! How's it going?" Kyle shouted.
James gulped "Not bad mate, how are you? Hope your gonna be okay for practise tomorrow!" he laughed.
Kyle laughed also, "Ay Ay captain! of course I will be! Do you know this wonderful creature? He asked indicating to Lily.
James looked down a Lily, who gave him an encouraging smile. "Lily? Yep sure do" He wrestled her into a head lock and rubbed her hair. "where would I be without her? Eh Lils?"
"Let me go James!!" she squealed.
He let her go but did not remove his arm from around her,
"Okay love, whatever you say. Anyway... yeah we went to school together, she's one of me bestest mates. Ain't that right Lilykins?" he raised and eyebrow, which caused her to let out a sigh.
"Unfortunately that's true" She said to Kyle, whilst shaking her head. "I figured it would make me look better if I was friends with a retard like James here. Figured it would get me brownie points and show I was a caring person!"
Kyle laughed, but James ruffled her hair, "Oi, I am no retard missy! I'm just mentally challenged!" he puffed out his chest and grinned.
"You being served?" a tall barman shouted to James.
"No! Double fire whisky on the rocks, please." He turned to find that Lily and Kyle had been served and were talking and laughing. He was going to interrupt but thought better of it when he remembered it was their mission. He frowned and leaned against the bar.
"James!"
He didn't react. He was in his own word. "OI, JAMES!"
He turned around to see Sirius standing with Amelie. "What?" he shouted.
"Going home, see you tomorrow!" he pointed to Amelie and gave a thumbs up… behind her back, of course.
James nodded, turned back and paid for his drink. He turned and smiled at Lily who had caught his eye. "I'll speak to you soon Lils" he half heartedly hugged her. Then turned to Kyle, "Tomorrow Murray! I expect you to fly like never before or I'll make sure your off the team!" he said sternly.
Kyle looked as though he may have just wet himself, "Okay James. I sure will"
James laughed, "I'm just kidding you man. Take care of Lily or there will be hell to pay! She means a lot to me. See you on Sunday mate" he stuck his hand out, which Kyle took and shook for a good minute. He looked at Lily once more, nodded and disappeared into the crowed.
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Thanks for reading! I know it wasn't too interesting but it was relevant. Please review and let me know what you think, will be appreciated muchly! :PTD xx
