Pictures

Lily sat strait up in a cold sweat. She looked around and realized she was still in the guest room at James' house. She closed her eyes and tried to get her breathing under control. She tried to remember what her dream was.

She remembered being in a small room, at first she thought she was alone then she hurried a baby crying. She tried to find the source of the noise but she couldn't. She ran out of the room and found herself in an unfamiliar house. She went from room to room before running into what appeared to be a baby's room. There was a hooded figure approaching the crib.

"NO!" She had cried out. She reached into her pocket and realized her wand wasn't there. The figure turned towards her. She couldn't see its face but she refused to run away. Lily stood her ground and watched the figure raise its wand at her.

She heard the figure let out a cackle before shouting "Avada Kadavra!"

Then she woke up. She pulled the blankets closer to herself trying to calm herself down. She wanted to go into James' room to see if he was up but she didn't want to wake him. She got out of bed and walked out of the room. The house was still. She walked slowly down the stairs and walked towards the kitchen to get herself some water.

She wondered around to the different rooms before coming into what appeared to be some kind of study, but there was no desk. All of the walls were covered with books. There was a small arm chair with a small table next to it; there was also a small couch with books cluttered onto it. This much be their library, or at least what they could fit. Lily remembered the library in their old house. The room was probably three times the size of the room she was standing in now and it was filled with books. She wasn't sure she would be able to get through all of them if she sat and read for the rest of her life.

Lily walked over to one of the couches and picked up what looked like a photo album. She opened to the first page and saw a photo of Mr. and Mrs. Potter holding a newborn baby that Lily knew was James. Above the moving picture in Mrs. Potter's perfect writing was: James, our little miracle. Lily knew that James' parents were older when they wanted to have children so having James wasn't as easy as it was for her parents.

She flipped through each page and saw multiple pictures of James as a child. There were pictures of him attempting to walk, him flying on a toy broomstick and James with his face covered in what looked to be chocolate ice cream. There was also a picture of each year James went to Hogwarts. There were also picture from the summers that Sirius, Remus and Peter came to visit. There were a lot of pictures of James flying on his broomstick.

Lily turned the page and saw a picture of James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter standing on the platform. She saw James pointing to his head boy badge, Sirius was trying to rouge up Remus' hair and Remus was trying to hit him back. The Lily saw herself in the back of the picture. She saw herself look over at James and smile then turn very red and look away, she remembered that moment like it was yesterday. She had just found out that James had been made head boy, she was almost happy about the idea but she was at the point she still didn't want to admit she liked him.

During the end of their sixth year they had become friends and exchanged several letter over the summer holiday. She remembered so many of her friends teasing her saying it was any day now that Lily would realize she was just as in love with him as he was with her.

She turned the page and was surpassed to see a picture of her and James putting decorations on his family's Christmas tree, this had been the first time she had met his family. Lily was standing on a latter trying to reach the top of the tree and James was looking up at her laughing. There was another picture of James hold her in his arms, she remembered she had lost her balance when she fell of the latter into James' arms.

She was surprised to see she was really only girl in these pictures, then she remembered Mrs. Potter telling Lily she was the first girl James had brought home. Lily all of a sudden felt her heart beat faster. Had he really waited for her for all those years? She knew he had hooked up with a few girls over the years or had a few flings but she never really noticed.

She looked at the next page and saw a stack of photos that hadn't been put in yet. A lot of the pictures had been taken at Hogwarts. Lily got to one and her hand flew to her mouth. It was her. She was leaning up against a tree by the lake reading a book. She thought it might be sixth year when this was taken. Towards the end of the loop of the picture Sirius jumped in front of the camera laughing.

Lily leaned her head back on the couch and closed her eyes. She had always though James was really only into Lily just for the chase but he had really cared about her before he really got to know her? Without really being aware of it she drifted off to sleep her head filled with thoughts of James.

Lily woke up with a start when she felt a hand grip her shoulder. Her eyes snapped open and saw James was sitting next to her. She looked around the room and realized she much have fallen asleep in the library, the sun was almost up and light was starting to coming through the window.

"I was a little confused when I walked into your room and saw you weren't there." James said as he picked up the photo album still on her lap. He started to then flip through it. Lily rubbed her neck, it felt very sore.

"Yah, I couldn't sleep so I went down to get some water and then I found this." She said. James looked at her with a concerned expression. He knew the only things that kept her up her sister and nightmares. She remembered their sixth year when she had had a very realistic dream about Voldemort coming to kill her parents.

She went into the common room and started crying, she didn't want to wake her sleeping roommates. She suddenly had heard footsteps coming from the boys' dorm. She quickly tried to wipe away her tears but she knew she hadn't been very successful. When she saw it was James she immediately felt very annoyed.

"What do you want Potter." She had said crossing her arms, looking away from him.

"I couldn't sleep so I came into the common room to have some time to myself." Lily huffed and crossed her arms, she fixed her gaze on the fire. Of course James wouldn't be able to sleep the night she couldn't sleep. It was weird; he always had seemed to find her when she was off by herself around the castle or when Avery had been giving her trouble. Probably just a coincidence she thought. "Are you okay Evans?" He asked sitting next to her.

"Yes Potter, and even if I wasn't I wouldn't come to you for help. Now if you excuse me I'll be going up to my room." As she started to walk away James grabbed her hand.

"Look Lily," he started. Lily felt a shiver go up her spine as he said her name. "I know you hate me but just know, I really do care about you and if you ever need to talk to someone in the future just...just know I'll always be here. And I would really like to be friends with you, I know I must annoy the hell out of you but maybe if you got to know me a little bit, you wouldn't find me so annoying."

She looked up him with surprised. She had never seen him be so sentimental or comforting before.

"Alright, I'll keep you in mind."

"Good night Lily." He said letting go of her hand.

"Good night Pot-James." She said. She felt her face go red before she quickly ran back into her bed.

So much had change since then, she remembered the next day James had once again asked her what had been keeping her up and she told him. She had opened her heart and told him her dream. Lily looked up from her lap. James was still looking at her waiting for her to say something. Before she could open her mouth Sirius ran into the room.

"Good morning Miss Lily, we were beginning to wonder where you'd gotten to." Sirius said hugging her good morning. "Come on, you gotta try Mrs. P's pancakes. They are one of a kind!" He said as a skipped out of the library towards the kitchen.

James took Lily's hand and they walked into the kitchen were three plates were already set on the table. Suddenly, two pancakes appeared on each plate and a cup of syrup appeared in the center. Without hesitation Sirius picked up his fork and started to shovel food into his mouth. He acted as thought it was the first he had eaten in days. Lily looked at James and saw he was also trying to hold in a laugh.

After they had all finished and Sirius and James had at that least three more severing they went upstairs to Sirius and James' room. Lily walked in and the first thing she noticed was the color of the room. It was a bright red with gold trim. James and Sirius each had their bed pushed up against opposite walls. In the middle of the room both boys' trunks were open and full of clothes and supplies. On Sirius' bed there was a small duffle bag that appeared to be recently packs.

"You going somewhere Sirius." Lily asked him as she sat at the end of James' bed.

"Yah, I'm going to stay with my Uncle in London for a few days." Even though Sirius had been cast away from his family he still had an Uncle the cared for him like a son. His Uncle was like Sirius, he did think that being from the house of Black put him above anyone else. "I'm actually leaving later today. He says he is going to be going away soon so he wanted to see me before he went off. And I might help him pack up his house."

Lily nodded and looked over at James who was taking trips between his trunk and his dresser. She was wondering why he didn't just use magic but she knew James was like Lily, some things were nice to do the Muggle way. Lily looked around trying to get a better look of the room. There was a large bookshelf on one wall be only two of the shelves were used for books. The rest were cluttered with papers, old magazines, along with several pictures frames with pictures from many different events.

Lily walked over towards it to get a better look. There was one picture of James and his father at the Quidditch world cup two years ago. Lily remembered James bragged about it almost the entire year. Next to it was a picture of James and Sirius in the back yard of James's old house on broomsticks. There were a few other pictures of James at a young age with his parents and there was a picture of James and Lily together before they went back to Hogwarts after the Winter Holidays. Lily picked up the picture to get a closer look at it. James had his arm around Lily's shoulder; they were both smiling looking at each other before looking back at the camera.

Suddenly Lily felt some familiar arm wrap around her waist. She could hear James breathing into her ear. She set the picture frame back on the shelf. She picked up another picture that appeared to be of the four Marauders. The each had their arms around each other. Lily guessed the photo had been taken their fifth year at Hogwarts since she could see part of the castle in the background of the photo.

She set the photo up against the back of the shelf next to the pictures of her and James. Lily turned towards James. She wanted to kiss him but she didn't want Sirius to feel uncomfortable. Lily couldn't help but feel that sometime Sirius disliked her for stealing James away so much. Whenever Lily wasn't along with James Sirius was with him. James was the closest thing Sirius had to a brother now and Lily worried Sirius thought she was stealing him.

James tried to reassure her that he didn't feel that way but she couldn't help but think in the back of her mind that Sirius may resent her. She smiled up at James before walking back over to his bed. James walked back over to his trunk dumping out the final contents of his trunk.

"I'll be right back," Lily said as she stood up. "Just got to use the loo." She quickly walked to the door down the hall. When she came walked out of the room, Sirius was standing in front of her.

"I couldn't leave without saying good bye." He said raising his arms up. She smiled and he picked her up and gave her a tight hug.

"Put me down! I can't breathe!" she laughed. He set her back and smiled down at her.

"Take care of him while I'm gone."

"I always do." He smiled then turned and walked out of the house. Lily walked back into James' room but she didn't see him. "James?" she called. Suddenly she a large amount of weight knocked her to the ground. She then heard James' deep laugh as she hit the floor. She flipped over and James was on top of her.

"Hi." He said with a giant grin on his face.

"Would you mind getting off me?" Lily said without trying to laugh.

"Mmmmmmm, I don't think I can do that."

"And why is that?" She said trying to sound as annoyed as possible.

"Else I wouldn't be able to do this." Lily was prepared for James to start snogging her senseless but instead he started tickling her. She was screaming at his to stop but it was hard to take her seriously since she was laughing so hard. She was thrashing around trying to get out from under James but she couldn't move. Suddenly he grabbed both of her wrists and looked down at her.

She couldn't lie to herself, she was insanely turned on by James right now. He grinned down at her and then snogged her senseless.

A/N: I was having trouble trying to end this chapter and it's not the best but I thought it was a nice way to end it. Snogging, why not? Reviews!