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A/N: Christ I'm a lazy bugger! I literally finished part of this chapter this morning. Its annoying when you've got the whole chapter written except for one little scene which just does not want to get put on paper!

Also poor Fred (bless him) has come down with a cold because Chris (my brother) accidentally shut him in the fridge. I've done that before so he's not too miffed. Just sneezing.

: In background, Fred the muse sneezes and scowls at the computer screen :

Chapter 10

There is something that I see,

In the way you look at me.

There's a smile there's a truth,

In your eyes.

What an unexpected way,

On this unexpected day.

Could it be,

This is where I belong.

It is you I have loved all along.

OOO

Beep! Beep!

"Get off the road you lunatic!" Jenny yelled as another car pulled out in front of her.

"My first husband was a taxi driver," Helen remarked from next to Lily. "Stupid man."

Lily nodded, feeling distinctly uncomfortable wedged in the back of the car between James and Alice.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU TWIT!" Jenny yelled out of the open window. A car horn blared.

"Hey! What are you? Retarded!"

"Dumbass!" Jenny threw after the cars retreating boot.

"Who are you and what have you done with Jen?" Tash asked, edging away from their driver. Jenny looked at her friend.

"You want to get to the reception on time!" she asked, pulling out of their lane, driving up to the pedestrian crossing and slamming on the breaks. Behind them the hire cars did the same. Jenny groaned.

"There's always one little old lady crossing the road isn't there? God!" She slammed her head on the steering wheel and everyone in the back groaned at the thought of further delay.

"There's that traffic backlog up ahead," Tash warned. Jenny swore and James covered Jess's ears.

"Right sod this," Jenny muttered, "soon as this lady is over, we're taking a short cut. I'm not sitting in that."

Another louder groan appeared from the back.

"Jenny no! You're going to get us lost!" Rachel said. The driver turned her head.

"I never get lost!" she proclaimed. Lily and Tash snorted in disbelief. Jenny ignored them and stuck her head out of the window.

"We want to get to the reception today please!" she shouted at the old lady, who was halfway across the pedestrian crossing.

"Don't care about today but we would like to get there in one piece Jenny," Helen said. Jenny impatiently beeped her horn. The queue of traffic behind them immediately did the same.

"You realise Jenny that she's probably going to have a heart attack now?" Rachel pointed out. Jenny continued to bang her head against the steering wheel.

"I'm not playing chauffeur at my wedding I can tell you that now!" she proclaimed.

"Thank God!" Tash said throwing her hands up into the air. There was a knock on the window and everyone turned to see Sirius standing outside the door looking slightly out of breath.

"McGonagall and Moody have apperated ahead to tell them we'll be late," he said.

"Okay," Tash said. "Jenny says she has a short cut so we can avoid that traffic up ahead."

"No way! She'll get lost," Sirius proclaimed. Jenny glared at him.

"Trust me on this Sirius. I won't get lost!"

From the look on Sirius's face it was clear he didn't believe her.

"So does Dumbledore get road rage then Sirius?" Tash asked pleasantly, sparing Jenny a patronising look. Lily's head snapped around.

"What are you talking about?"

"Not really," Sirius shook his head.

"Of course he doesn't!" Jenny huffed.

"Dumbledore can drive?" Lily asked. Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Who do you think is driving our car? Peter!" he snorted.

"Now that would be suicide," Tash remarked. "Since Peter failed his apparition exam twice. I dread to think what he'd be like behind the wheel of a car!"

Meanwhile in the front seat, Jenny was not listening to a word of Sirius and Tash's conversation.

"Of course Dumbledore can drive Lily!" she said in exasperation. "Who do you think taught me!"

"Dumbledore taught you to drive?" James asked incredulously.

"Yes," Jenny nodded. Lily and James exchanged startled looks.

"That guy has endless talents," Tash shook her head at the same time Jenny turned her head and shouted with joy.

"YES FINALLY!" she said as the old lady reached the other side. Sirius looked up in alarm and raced back to his car as Jenny put the car in first gear and moved ahead.

"Right so where is this amazing short cut?" Tash asked, pulling out a map and letting it fall open on her knees.

"On the right," Jenny said pointing up ahead. The main road turned off just before the traffic into a housing estate. Tash frowned at the map on her knees.

"Hmm… it's not on here… that's strange."

"Not really Tash," Lily said shaking her head. "Since that's a street map of Paris you're holding."

"Oh yeah," Tash said picking it up and reading the front. "I wondered what the Bibliotheque national was doing there." She shoved it back into the glove compartment and picked up a book.

"Okay, where are we…?"

"Lily?" Jenny asked, turning her head to look at the bride. "This may be a stupid request but can I wear these shoes during the reception? They're much more comfortable, and they're green!"

"Whatever just look at the road!" Lily shrieked in alarm pointing at the approaching roundabout. Jenny swore again and Lily, James and Helen all covered Jess's ears. Jenny swerved into the roundabout causing another car to honk at them. Jenny continued to turn right around the roundabout.

"Left!" Lily ordered.

"Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" Jenny said turning left out off the roundabout. Everyone in the back breathed a collective sigh of relief.

"Almost there," Lily muttered, half to herself, half to the petrified Jess.

"Sorry Lily!" Jenny apologised again. "I forgot you don't like driving."

"I don't mind driving," Lily corrected. "I just don't like it when you aren't concentrating!"

"Gee thanks," Jenny said obviously hurt.

"Umm, this map is really weird," Tash said aloud.

"That's because it's upside down Tash," James muttered. Tash turned it over and checked the cover.

"Oh right, I wondered why everything was the wrong way," she said.

"And to think you used to play Quidditch," James said. "I'm surprised your head didn't get lost in the changing rooms."

"I can play Quidditch Potter, I just have a hopeless sense of direction," Tash said.

"Yeah you once got lost in a French car park didn't you?" Lily put in. Everyone in the back snorted.

"Yep that was me," Tash said, hardly noticing that everyone was laughing at her. "Sixth year Easter holidays, I was in France with my family. Chris and I got bored looking around DIY superstores and we said we'd go back to the car. I got lost. Mum and Dad found us later down the opposite end of the car park, thinking that was where we'd left the car."

"And you didn't get lost around Hogwarts how?" Jenny asked.

"I have no idea," Tash said absently turning the page of the atlas.

"Umm, Tash unless we live in North Wales, then that's the wrong page," Helen said leaning over Tash's shoulder. Tash groaned.

"Oh bugger it!" she said throwing the book into the back. "Someone else do it!" Jenny beeped her horn again making everyone jump.

"What was that for?" Lily asked.

"That git," everyone around her leaped to cover Jess's ears, "in that car just cut me off!"

"Jenny drive slowly please! Before I beat your car to death with the Michelin guide to London!" Tash said, clutching the dashboard and staring in horror at Jenny's speed.

"We're here now so don't worry," Jenny said, pulling up outside the hotel door. With relief everyone began to pile out of the car.

"Whew!" Lily said, as James helped her out. "For a second there I didn't think we'd make it in one piece."

"Take more than Jenny's driving to stop us," James pointed out, holding her hand and looking at their friends pulling up behind them.

"Take it everyone else had a better drive than we did," James asked as the other passengers got out of their cars.

"Mhmm, lovely," Sirius said weakly as he got out of the next car and approached them. "But from now on I'll stick to apperating."

"I'll just go and park," Jenny said. "Meet you inside."

"Uh Jen," Tash said. "I just had a thought. Did you bring money?"

"Just the five pound note in my shoe for emergencies, why?" Jenny asked.

"Do you know how you're going to pay the parking meter?" Tash asked. Everyone looked at her and Jenny's eyes went wide.

"Oh cr…"

As one everyone dived for Jess's ears.

OOO

There's no more mystery,

It is finally clear to me.

You're the home my heart's searched for,

So long.

It is you I have loved all along.

There were times, I ran to hide.

Afraid to show the other side.

Alone in the night without you.

But now I know just who you are,

And I know you hold my heart.

Finally, this is where I belong.

And it is you I have loved all along.

OOO

Lily smiled at the sight of her friends. Everyone had gathered in the bar of the hotel until they could go through to the restaurant. The atmosphere was so happy Lily knew she was going to have to pinch herself to make sure this wasn't a dream.

"You okay?" James asked, watching her study the hall.

"Yeah I just can't believe all this is real," Lily admitted.

"Yeah me too," James agreed. "I keep expecting to wake up and find I'm still at Hogwarts and the last three years have just been a dream."

Lily grinned. It was exactly how she felt too.

"Okay guys we have a problem," Sirius said quietly coming up to them. Lily sighed.

"Already?" James asked. "We haven't even sat down for dinner and there's a problem?"

"Yep," Sirius nodded. "Someone screwed the seating plan up."

Lily and James groaned in unison. Sirius snorted at them.

"God married couples do think the same," he muttered. James elbowed him in the arm.

"Ow! Just saying," Sirius said.

"So what's up with the seating?" Lily asked.

"Well we've managed to sort everything out except for one person," Sirius said. His expression puzzled Lily. He looked torn between irritation and amusement.

"What's so funny about it?" Lily asked. Sirius couldn't hold back the grin any longer.

"Well…" he began. At the same point however one of the hotel staff announced that dinner was ready to be served and everyone made their way through to the restaurant.

The room was, in Lily's eyes, gorgeous. The walls were white panelled and the floor was covered in a dark blue carpet with the hotel's crest on it. The full length windows were all thrown open allowing the last of the days warmth to flood in. The back end of the room was set aside for dancing later on.

"Knew we made a good choice with this place," James muttered to his wife as everyone began to find their seats.

"Mmm," Lily agreed. The warmth of the room was making her feel light headed.

"Um…why is Dumbledore sitting with the children?" James asked her. Lily looked over and saw that he was right.

"That's the seating problem," Sirius said sagely. James was fighting down a laugh. Someone had placed Dumbledore on one of the children's tables. He however didn't seem the slightest bit fazed. On the contrary he was beaming at them.

"Oh God," Lily muttered covering her face with her hands. Sirius could no longer contain it and he burst out laughing. Lily made her way over to the children's tables and James went to find the person responsible for the seating plan.

"Professor?" Lily asked. Dumbledore smiled at her.

"Am I in the wrong place Lily?"

"Err, sort of," Lily said. "We're sorry. James and Sirius are trying to sort it out."

"I don't mind," her old headmaster said. "I'm quite happy here, and I'm sure the children don't mind having me as company."

He turned to look at the children on the table. Emma, Beth and Kate were playing I spy and hadn't noticed anything else that was happening. Oliver was waving to his mother on the next table, and Mark was staring in awe at Dumbledore's long silver beard.

"Uh Lily, the Events Manager says we can't move him," James said appearing by her side. "Sorry Professor, but they've already started serving the starters." He pointed to the kitchen staff who were already appearing with the first course.

"I'm fine," Dumbledore said. "Don't worry about me. This is your wedding day and you shouldn't have to spend it worrying just because I happen to be in the wrong place."

"Only if you're sure," Lily said smiling at him.

"Um Lily…" said Jenny as the couple took their seats at the top table. "Is that Dumbledore sitting with the children?"

"Yes, yes it is," Lily grinned.

OOO

There's no more mystery,

It is finally clear to me.

You're the home my heart's searched for,

So long.

And it is you I have loved all along.

Over and over, I'm filled with emotion

Your love rushes through my veins.

And I am filled with the sweetest devotion.

As I, I look into your perfect face.

OOO

"… So I'll wrap up this speech, by saying, here's to the newlyweds, Lily and James." Sirius finished raising his glass as the rest of the room did the same. James felt like hugging him. The speeches had been the part he was worried about but they had all gone smoothly including his own.

"One last thing," Sirius added whilst the hall was still quite. "We've got a gift to present to the bride and groom." He turned to both of them. Lily felt shocked. She hadn't expected anything from her friends. She'd told them just being at the wedding would be enough to make her happy. Sirius was rummaging in his breast pocket as Remus, Peter, Jenny and Tash all stood up too.

"We all clubbed together for this," Tash explained. "Hope you enjoy it."

Sirius produced a thick envelope from his pocket. James took it from him and examined it curiously.

"It helps if you open it James, examining the front isn't going to give you any clues," Jenny said rolling her eyes.

James gave her a look as Lily took the envelope from him and gently tore open the seal.

"Plane tickets?" Lily asked in disbelief. James took them from her and examined them.

"We know you said you didn't want a honeymoon," Sirius explained. "But we thought this would work. It's just the weekend and you're close enough to get back if something happens."

"Paris," Lily breathed looking at their destination. "Whose idea was this?"

"Well…" Tash drew out. "The holiday was Sirius's idea. I thought of Paris. Remus and Peter booked the tickets and the hotel and Jenny found all the places you can visit."

"I don't know what to say…" James trailed off looking remarkably touched. "Wait a sec." He studied the flight information printed on the ticket. "The flight is first thing tomorrow morning, we haven't got anything prepared."

"Don't worry," Jenny chimed in. "Tash and I went back to your place quickly just after we got here. You're stuff is packed and ready. We're covering your days off from work and your passports are in the envelope."

Lily didn't hear any more. She had grabbed her friends in suffocating hug.

"You're very welcome Lily," Jenny said. "Sometimes I think your hugs could rival mine!"

There was a light round of applause in the room and Lily let go of her friends.

"I love you guys!"

"We know," Remus nodded wisely.

"Of course you love us Lily! Who doesn't!" Jenny rolled her eyes. Lily laughed.

"Well with that done," Sirius said, straightening his tie and looking remarkably pleased that the gift had gone down well. "Shall we start the dancing."

Lily glanced at James and he grinned back at her.

"Why not?" James shrugged.

As they made their way to the dancefloor there was a crack and all the lights in the room cut out.

Lily turned, examining the whole room. All the lights were dead. Outside the restaurant, the corridor leading to the hotel bar was dark too. The last faint strands of sunlight was shimmering through the window.

"Power cut?" Jenny suggested. Lily shook her head. Something told her that wasn't right. The room was eerily tense.

"Something's not right," James muttered. Lily was alarmed to see his breath was frosting. It was the mid May and it had been a warm evening. Glancing around, Lily saw with horror that everyone else was breathing puffs of steam. Jenny ran to the window of the restaurant and peeked through it.

She screamed and recoiled at the same time the noise was cut by the sound of a hoarse rattling breath sucking all the happy thoughts from the room.

The room erupted into screams. Lily felt her panic immediately washed over by the cold clammy feeling that accompanied a dementor attack. All the wizards in the room were on their feet, wands drawn, trying to anticipate where the first one would appear.

They didn't have long to wait. As if on cue, a dementor appeared at the window, the noise of its breath echoing through the room. Dumbledore was the first to reach it. There was a flash of silver and a huge phoenix appeared from the end. The dementor fled, only to be replaced by three more. The windows were suddenly blocked by the tall cloaked creatures.

There were bursts of light, as everyone who was capable started trying to conjure patronuses. James was one of the first to succeed. Lily tried, but all she was producing was a thick silver mist. Tash's cat patronus was attacking nearby. Jenny was gathering the children up and trying to keep them out of harms way.

More and more appeared and soon the room was full of dementors, flying above the guests, singling them out and attacking them, only to be driven off by another patronus.

Lily cringed as a dementor swooped close to her. She found it difficult to breathe and all she could hear was some of her worst memories. The day Petunia found out she was a witch, the Death Eater attack in Hogsmeade, the Death Eater attack a few weeks ago, the pain of being under the cruciatus curse…

Someone grabbed her hand and she felt the sounds of her memories fade. She looked up to see James standing beside her, squeezing her hand and bringing her back. As another dementor closed in, Lily faced it with renewed strength.

"Expecto Patronum!" A huge silvery owl burst from her wand and swooped at the dementor. It backed away immediately. Lily's burst of pride was replaced by fear as she hear a scream cut through all the rest. She turned to find the source of the noise.

Her mother was crouching over her father's body. Lily's wand arm went limp and she raced over. Her father was alive, staring at the wall opposite as though he could not see the attack. Lily struggled not to cry as she flung herself down next to him. He didn't acknowledge her.

"No, no, NO!" Lily screamed, clutching her fathers hand and gazing at his face. His normally alert eyes, were dark and empty. Lily fell against her mother, sobbing her heart out as the last of her hope went out. Her father was dead, his soul gone forever.

"Lily!" Tash's warning appeared too late. Lily looked up to see another dementor approach. Slowly it lowered it hood. Lily felt no surge of panic. She was too numb to care. It leaned closer, and Lily allowed herself to cry in despair as voices appeared freshly in her head.

"You little freak Lily! Don't you ever come near me again!"

"She's alive… but… they don't know if she's going to wake up."

"How does it feel to be caught up in my net mudblood?"

"Stay away Lily! You ruined the happiest day of my life!"

The last memory was the one that made Lily cry harder. Those were Petunia's words after the Death Eaters had attacked her wedding. This was her wedding and it was going the same way.

"Expecto Patronum!"

A rush of fresh air brought Lily back to the present. The dementor had been tackled by a silver wolf. From nearby, Jenny stood looking at her patronus in compete amazement. Only when it faded did her friend rush to help. Tash and Sirius appeared nearby, fending off more dementors.

"Good God, are you alright?" Jenny asked, pulling Lily and her mother upright. Lily sat up only to see her mother lying lifeless against her shoulder. Lily went cold again. Not her mother too. She couldn't lose both of them. Jenny leaned over and performed a diagnostic charm. A shimmering mist covered Lily's mother and slowly turned gold, indicating that she was alive, just unconscious. Lily found herself sigh in relief.

Jenny performed the charm on Lily's father. The spell went white, which indicated that the body was in perfect health. Jenny stared into his eyes, which were still black and lifeless. She shook her head.

"Lily I'm so sorry," she said. "He's been kissed."

Lily wasn't listening. She had known that he was gone from the moment she had first spotted them.

The air around them was suddenly cut off as three dementors surrounded them. Lily's eyes watered and the memories returned full force.

"You'll never get out of this school alive mudblood!"

"We can't out run him! We're going to have to fight!"

"Silver! It's got silver in it!"

"Good guess mudblood!"

"NO!" Jenny screamed in agony next to Lily. Lily knew whatever she was hearing must be just as bad as what she could. She couldn't breathe. She felt like a drowned swimmer. She was vaguely aware of Jenny's body going limp next to hers, before she passed into blackness.

OOO

There's no more mystery,

It is finally clear to me.

You're the home my heart's searched for,

So long.

It is you I have loved

It is you I have loved

It is you I have loved all along.

OOO

A/N: Oooh! I'm so evil: Insert evil laugh which would be more appropriate used by a real evil genius :

The lyrics in this chapter were Lily and James's theme (well for my story at least!) 'It is you I have loved' by Dana Glover. And I don't care that it was written way after the year this story takes place. I like it!

Next Chapter: Whoo! Wouldn't you like to know: Cackles evilly : Much angst will follow! Be warned!

May Stardust fall in your dreams!