A/N- Hi everyone! Im sooo soooo sorry I haven't updated in forever! Ive been sooo busy with the end of school, I've had no time at all! Anyway, here's the next chapter, I hope you all like it!
Disclaimer- I own nothing, if I did I wouldn't have left the books at the seventh!
When Lily woke up, the tent was empty, In fact, Hestia's bed looked like it hadn't been slept in at all Lily thought smugly. She could hear talking coming from outside, a clatter and the sound of the gas in the cooker going on. Whoever was outside had obviously decided not to wait for her to start breakfast.
Lily swung her legs over the side of her bed and her feet touched the warm soft carpet. It was only then that she realised she had slept in her clothes, remembering that James had taken her to bed she realised that was a good thing. Quickly she put on a Jumper and some old Jeans, the smell of bacon and sausage was making her mouth water. After brushing her hair, she stepped out into the sun to see Marlene, Sirius and Hestia sitting at the table whilst Remus was at the portable cooker tending to the food. As she emerged from the tent they smiled at her and Marlene motioned for her to sit.
When she sat, Marlene leaned over to whisper in her ear,
"You just saved me from getting into a discussion on the best Quidditch team" Lily laughed and heard Sirius and Hestia's discussion for the first time.
"It's obvious that the wasps can't win against all the other pro teams. They're all getting better players and techniques; the last time the wasps picked up anything new was 1934 when they managed the wronski feint. But the last seeker they ever had who could do it retired a year later! All the others crashed!" Sirius was explaining
"yeah but you can't talk. All your seekers are too big to manoeuvre the broom properly! When was the last time the Falcons ever won a match by catching the snitch? The last time was four years ago, but even then it took the two days, even with the Kestrels seeker being unconscious!" She then stuck her tongue out at him.
"whoa, whoa, whoa! Hang on a second! You're arguing whose the better team? 'Cus it's obviously the magpies!" Said a voice coming from the entrance to the boys' tent. James stood there in a magpies T-Shirt and cargo shorts, he was grinning teasingly and walked towards the chair next to lily and sat down.
"no way! The Falcons could knock them all off their brooms in 60 seconds!" Sirius argued
"ahh, but the purpose of quidditch is not to knock people off their brooms, but who can get the highest score!" Lily interrupted "Weatherton, the magpies seeker could catch the snitch three days before the Falcons seeker even saw it!" All the occupants of the table stared at lily, with the exception of Hestia of course.
"Since when do you know about Quidditch?" James asked, amazed.
"I've always liked it, you were just so stereotypical about me that you thought I wouldn't" Lily explained
"stereowhat?" Sirius questioned with a confused look on his face
"Never mind, Sirius" Lily rolled her eyes, "anyway, where were you last night Hestia?" she asked slyly. Hestia face turned a shade of red that could match a Weasley. Lily heard sniggering coming from the boy next to her, she grinned
"we didn't do anything, if that's what you're thinking!" Hestia stuttered,
"Really?" James asked the couple, then said in Sirius direction "that's a first for you!" Sirius reached over and whacked him on the head.
"So, Hestia, ready to get beaten on the pitch again?" Lily smirked,
"Well... actually, me and Sirius were going to go to the beach, did you know that they magically heated the sea water, and the sun shines really bright there?" She replied, clearly excited about the prospect of going to the beach alone with Sirius.
"What about you Remus, you up for abit of flying?" lily asked
"Sorry Lils, me and Marlene were going to go for a walk down to the town nearby." He apologized as he put a large plate of Bacon, eggs, toast and sausages down for them all to choose from, he took a seat next to Marlene and they all dug in.
After half an hour of chatting and one attempted tomato Ketchup fight between Sirius and James, They were all stuffed. Lily was about to get ready for a shower when a thin girl with purple lipstick, blue eye shadow and patchy fake tan marched into their makeshift camp. She stared in surprise at them all sitting at the table, and only recovered when Sirius rudely stated
"Hey! It's the doll!" She gaped at him and then turned to Lily,
"what are you doing?" she huffed, "Wait till mum finds out that you've been sharing a camp with James Potter and Sirius Black, the marauders of all people!" She smirked as if already imagining her being grounded.
"FYI I don't think mum would care if we were sharing a camp with boys, we have separate tents, and anyway I'm only hanging out with them as friends, mum can't punish Hestia or Marlene" Lily stated, brushing aside her sisters threat. Petunia looked furious, Sirius wasn't helping
"I remember you now!" He grinned "you're that weirdo who cleaned Ravenclaw tower from top to bottom claiming that the house elves didn't do a good enough Job! And I'm pretty sure that we gave you the award for the dumbest Ravenclaw ever at the marauders award ceremony!" Petunias scowl got even bigger than before (If that was possible). Lily was pretty sure she heard a growl come from her.
"anyway, I just came to tell you that mum sent us a letter" Petunia stuck her nose up in the air whilst Lily's eyes searched for it,
"great, where is it then?" Lily asked, holding out her hand
"I thought your incompetent brain would be unable to understand big words like, Hello, and Darling. So I read it and then put it in the bin. I'll make sure to tell mum that you're too busy with boys than to talk to her when I reply" With one last sneer at the group, she turned and walked away. Lily stood scowling at her sisters back
"was that your sister?" Sirius asked
"Yes." Was lily's simple answer through gritted teeth.
"sorry about insulting her and all then, I suppose." He mumbled, obviously waiting for a tirade of insults that were surely to come
"don't be sorry, I hate the cow!" She exclaimed, Sirius grinned
"You know, if you tilt you head to the left a bit, she looks more like a horse" They all burst into laughter.
"Alright, I'm going to take a shower now, when are you going out?" Lily asked
"Erm, right about now" Marlene said, grasping Remus' hand in her, he smiled at her and she smiled back
"Ok, We'll see you later" Lily said as they exited the camp, Marlene gave a wave in answer.0
"Were gonna head off too, get a good space to settle down on before the beach gets packed" Said Hestia, Sirius nodded his head and walked into his tent, coming out a couple of seconds later with two towels. Hestia gave Lily a hug,
"See you later!" and she turned away, pulling on Sirius hand, they started to run in the opposite direction to Marlene and Remus.
"So... I guess it's just us two" James said when he and Lily were alone
"yup" was Lily's short reply
"Well, I'm gonna take a shower, and you said something about quidditch?" James grinned slightly at the mention of his favourite past time.
"Yeah, you can come down to the quidditch pitch with me if you like, but I need to take a shower too" Lily said. James nodded his head and walked over to his tent. Lily entered her tent and quickly got a change of clothes, a towel, hairbrush and toothbrush. Moving out into the sunshine, she trudged towards the showers.
They showers were exceptionally clean, as far as public showers go, and smelt slightly of lavender. The water was magically heated. When the water went off, she pulled on her new clothes, brushed her teeth and once again stepped out into the sunshine. She looked to her right and saw James walking out of the men's showers, he looked up, saw her and smiled, jogging over to her
"Hey, that was a coincidence" He said cheerfully
"yeah, it was" Lily replied. Her hair was drying quickly due to the heat of the sun beating down on them, warming their backs as they walked towards the tent.
"so, we going to the quidditch pitch?" James asked
"yup, we'll drop our stuff off and I'll steal one of Hestia's brooms" Lily grinned. They reached the tents in no time. Lily grabbed Hestia's star bolt and met James outside, he was holding his shooting star.
"Come on then; to the quidditch pitch!" James yelled, pushing out his chest and pointing in a random direction. Lily couldn't help but laugh.
"Ok, which way?" She asked
"I thought you knew..." James said, staring blankly at her
"we'll just have to find it then" Lily said
"how? We'll get lost in all those tents " To answer James question, lily mounted her broom and pushed off, flying into the sky. James quickly got the idea at flew up next to her, showing off along the way by doing a rollover on his broom. Lily rolled her eyes and muttered
"show-off", He heard and laughed. Lily realised that it would have annoyed her last year, but now it just seemed natural to mess around with James. Lily turned around using a manoeuvre she had seen some professional players do causing James to mutter 'show-off' instead. Lily simply grinned and circled in the air as if she were looking for the snitch.
James watched Lily intently; she looked as if she was searching for a snitch. He watched as she suddenly made a steep dive, speeding towards the ground. He knew this to be the Wronski feint. James followed her down, catching up with her just as they pulled up about a foot from the ground on the quidditch pitch, his broom was slightly faster than hers.
"Hestia wasn't kidding when she said you were good, that was amazing!" James said "where did you learn that?"
"I've seen the Gryffindor seeker do it a couple of times, so I tried it when I went down to the Hogwarts pitch one night. It's not that hard" Lily answered. She took a small golden object out of her pocket, as he watched; James saw that it grew wings. Lily opened her hand and the snitch flew out, up into the cloudless sky, soon getting lost to his sight. Lily flew up into the air. With a yell of
"Come on!" James flew up after her. Joining her about 200 feet above the ground. She grinned at him
"I'm a Chaser, so I won't be too much competition, I never go this high up in a game!" James stated. Lily just laughed, it sounded like bells on a church, ringing clearly for all to hear. He was pulled out of his daydreaming when Lily dove steeply. He knew she was after the snitch, even though he couldn't see it, so he dove after her. He started gaining and was right next to her, he started pulling ahead, all the while searching for that speck of gold. Lily suddenly pulled up and shot toward the goalposts. He was still pulling out of his dive when she held up her hand to show the snitch clamped safely in it, the snitches wings folded into its body.
She had been faking! Why hadn't he seen that! He mentally scolded himself. There was clapping underneath him, he looked down and saw Walton staring at Lily in awe. Lily flew towards James a whispered in his ear
"who's that?"
"Walton Finnegan, he was in Hufflepuff. Left in our third year, you know, he and his brother ended up looking like two baboons for a week?" James replied, Lily grimaced and gave a quick nod "well he's the captain of this team me and Sirius joined" With that he flew down to Walton and stopped in front of him. From the slight thud behind him he knew Lily had followed him down.
"Look sharp Potter! You just got outshined by a girl!" He laughed "and you're meant to be captain of the Gryffindor team!" James scowled and he heard a laugh behind him
"Walton this is Lily Evans, Lily this is Walton Finnegan" he pointed to each person in turn.
"Pleased to meet you" Walton said as he shook Lily's hand "that was some pretty damn good flying there. Pity we've got no space for you on the team!"
"What you doing up here Walton?" James asked
"we've got a surprise game against a new team from Cornwall, I've just sent Ernie and Seamus to get you and Black down 'ere" He said
"Sirius is out with his girlfriend, he won't be able to come to this match, sorry man." James stated.
"It's all right, we'll think of something" he said just as Ernie and Seamus entered the pitch
"Walton! We couldn't find Black, but it looks like you've already found Potter!" Seamus yelled to his brother, his voice thick with his Irish accent
"Yup! Black won't be playin' today! We need to draw up a new game plan!" Walton yelled back. Once Burke, the beater and Smith, the keeper turned up. The team got in a huddle whilst Lily took a seat in the stands
"What are we gonna do without Black?" Ernie asked,
"We'll have to forfeit the game if we can't find a replacement!" Burke moaned
"No! We can't, if we loose this game then we've lost the summer league!" Walton growled "That's not gonna happen!" Just then, it was as if a light bulb had been turned on above James head
"well, Walton, you said to me that you could play beater fairly well the other night" He said
"yeah, I can, but the we wouldn't have a seek-" He stopped mid sentence, a grin forming on his face "Potter! You're a genius! If you weren't a boy then I'd kiss you!"
"What? What's going on Walt?" Seamus asked
"you see that redhead in the stands over there?" James said, they all looked up and nodded their heads
"We'll she's just been playing with James when I walked in, she's a pretty damn good seeker if you ask me" Most of the team now seemed to be grinning with Walton "If we could get her to play for us, I could play beater and we'd have a full team!" Everyone seemed to be grinning now.
A/N- I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, ok so I know that it isn't a very good cliff hanger, but if I carried on the way I wanted to, this chapter would have taken a day to read! Remember;
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