I am so so so so sorry that it has taken me this long to update. I have had major writers block and so much schoolwork. Soccer and Finals have killed me. Hopefully I still have readers! Please please review for me.
James, Remus and Sirius got off their brooms and removed their disillusionment charms. They stood in front of a light blue house that had a huge garden. James smiled; he could imagine Lily growing up here.
"Well," James said nerves finally kicking in.
"Yep," Remus said just staring at the normal looking house.
"Let's go," Sirius said skipping up to the door. James and Remus hurried after him. They knocked and waited holding their breaths.
The door opened and they came face to face with a frazzled looking woman.
"Um, hello," James started.
"Oh um, hi come in," They got pulled in and the woman quickly shut the door. The boys looked around and as their gaze fell on Lily their mouths dropped open.
There stood Lily talking to a chair. She had purple hair and was dressed in the craziest outfit they had ever seen. She was wearing a tutu and a rainbow shirt under it. Behind her were three huge people staring at her like she was mad and two relatively normal people. One looked amused and the other murderous. James assumed the amused looking fellow was her father and the one with the murderous glare was her sister Petunia.
"Why didn't you tell me that the carpenter ants were in season?" Lily asked the chair sternly.
At that moment Sirius burst into laughter.
Lily's eyes widened as she spun around. There standing in front of her were no other than James, Sirius and Remus. She felt her face go pink as the other boys joined in on Sirius's laughter. Lily opened and closed her mouth not able to get anything out.
"Hey there Lily flower," Sirius said finally calming down some. Lily just squeaked and then ran upstairs. Causing Sirius to start laughing again.
Lily quickly changed into normal clothes and changed her hair back to its normal color before running back downstairs.
"What are you doing here?" She asked out of breath with her eyes still comically wide.
"We came to ask you if you could come have dinner with us," James said with a huge grin on his face. He chuckled a little, "But if you are otherwise busy with your um… chair, then we can come back another time." He doubled over laughing at that and it set the rest of the boys off again. Lily turned bright red and tried to hide in her hands. She felt arms pull her into a hug and she snuggled into James's chest. She could feel his laughter and finally it set her off. She started laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation.
"Um… excuse me, but who are you?" A deep voice asked somewhere in the room.
James looked up and met eyes with what would be a normal looking man if not for the glare.
"Oh, Daddy," Lily spun around in James's arms and stared at her father. "This is James." After a couple seconds Sirius coughed. "Oh and Sirius and Remus, they're um…well they are my friends from school, well James isn't…he's um."
James grinned down at a flustered Lily. He had never really seen this side of her and he liked it.
"My name is James Potter, and I am your daughter's boyfriend," James said. Lily smiled gratefully up at him. "I also go to school with her." He stepped forward and extended his hand. When Mr. Evans made no move to shake hi hand James retracted it and Lily sent her father a look.
"Well if you all go to school with her," a very plump man asked pointing a finger at Lily, "Then are you crazy as well?"
James turned and grinned at him. "Absolutely."
Remus smiled, "Completely."
"Nutters," Sirius finished with a smirk plastered on his face. Lily grinned at them and relaxed into James's arms.
"Yes," Lily said.
James looked at her confused. "Yes to what?"
"To dinner," Lily said smiling up at him.
"Lily," She heard her mother's sharp voice. "We have company I'm sorry but you can't and it is your last night here.
"Actually mom I can and I will. If I stay here any longer I am actually going to go insane. I'd love to spend my last night with you when you stop treating me like an invalid," Lily said shooting her mother a glare. She grabbed James's hand and pulled him to the door and ran outside. Once outside she turned to look at her boys. "So how did you guys get here?" She asked fearing the answer.
They all smirked at her, "Brooms," they said at the same time.
Lily groaned as the boys cast disillusionment charms on them and mounted their brooms. Lily eyed it skeptically but walked over and sat in front of James.
"Let's go," she said. They took off and went speeding over London.
Soon they landed and Lily finally looked around. She slid off James's broom and gawked. In front of her was a huge manor. Lily spun and looked at James.
"What is that?" She asked pointing at the house.
"My house?" James answered quizzically.
"Tha-a-a-at is not a house," Lily stammered.
"Yeah it is," Sirius said and then gasped as a thought occurred to him. "You don't know about prongsie's family do you?"
Lily looked wide-eyed at Sirius and she shook her head. James beamed at her.
"Well, Lils my family is an extremely old pureblood line, so we're kind of rich," James said waving it off.
"Kind of?" Lily squeaked, looking back up at the house. "You didn't think to mention this earlier?"
"Nope," James said smirking and walking towards the house. He had made it halfway to the door when he realized that Lily wasn't behind him. "Lily?" He asked walking back to her.
"You know I wasn't that nervous about meeting your parents," Lily said taking deep breaths, "But now. Now I'm terrified."
James laughed and went around behind her and grabbed her hips. "They will love you," He whispered in her ear and started pushing her forwards to the door. Sirius ran ahead and burst through the door.
"WE"RE HOME!" He yelled in. Lily stepped through the door and her jaw dropped open. She gazed around her in wonder. The house was beautiful. It looked like it was a castle on the inside with stonewalls and wooden beams. There were suits of armor and sword along the walls. Lily heard footsteps and turned around, managing to finally close her mouth. She was immediately engulfed in a pair of arms. When the arms finally pulled back Lily found herself looking in the face of a beautiful bark haired woman.
"Hello dear, you must be Lily. I am Elizabeth Potter, James's mother," The woman said.
"Um, nice to meet you," Lily said feeling a blush creep up her cheeks. Lily heard another set of footsteps and looked up to see an older man approaching. Lily stared at him. This man looked exactly like James only much older and he had a faint scar along his cheek.
"Hello," the man said in a deep voice. "I'm Eros Potter. James's father. Lily is it?"
"Yes," Lily said in a quiet voice and took Eros's extended hand. Eros bent down and kissed her hand smiling kindly at her.
"Oi," James said grabbing Lily around the waist and pulling her towards him. "I didn't bring her here to be attacked by you lot." He narrowed his eyes at his father and mother.
"Oh, James its not like we attacked her we were simply saying hello," his mother chided, rolling her eyes.
"Oh yes because having someone practically tackle you is definitely not being attacked," Eros said smiling at his wife.
"At least I wasn't creepy," Elizabeth said glaring playfully at her husband, "kissing ones hand may have been charming in your day, but now its just weird."
"My day?" Eros asked with a laugh.
" Yes dear, the year when Hogwarts was founded," Elizabeth replied standing tall.
"Bloody hell woman I'm not that old," he said exasperated.
"Could've fooled me, I mean look at how you dress and your face my god you look like Godric's grandfather." She said with a laugh.
Lily, James Sirius and Remus watched this amusing exchange. James decided to escape while his parents were otherwise occupied. He grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her away while Remus and Sirius followed. James led them upstairs to a big study and Lily gazed around. There were floor to ceiling bookshelves and big comfy leather chairs. It was the grandest library she had ever been in.
She immediately ran over to the nearest bookshelf and skimmed the row of books. They were all magical, that she could tell. She ran her hands along the old leather spines and admired the loopy gold writing. "James, this place is amazing," She said whirling around to face him.
"I thought you'd like this," he said wrapping his arms around her and pulling her into a deep kiss.
"We are still here you know," Sirius called from his spot on the coach.
Lily pulled back and saw James's glower, and she giggled. "Then hurry up and leave," James said kissing Lily again. Lily laughed and slipped out of James's arms.
She walked over to the couch and plopped down. "I've really missed you guys," Lily said leaning against Sirius.
"Well we're no chair, but I like to think we make excellent company," Sirius said slinging his arm around her.
"Yep," Lily said standing up, "I think I've already had too much of your presence." She walked over to James and buried her face in his neck. He smiled and wrapped his arms around her.
Dinner was so much fun. Everyone talked and Lily found her nerves had completely disappeared. Too soon it was time to go.
"You must come visit during the summer," Elizabeth said hugging Lily.
"I promise," Lily said smiling.
"We'll get you interested in quidditch," Eros said kissing her cheek.
"Good luck with that," Sirius snorted from next to her. "Lily doesn't like to fly."
Lily turned bright pink and shot Sirius a glare. Sirius yelped as two hand came and smacked his on the back of his head.
"Please forgive our second son," Eros said.
"Apparently he forgot his manners," Elizabeth said raising her eyebrows at him.
Lily smiled and walked outside. James had volunteered to fly her back and he was waiting with his broom.
They quickly flew back to Lily's house.
"Thank you," James said when they were at Lily's door.
"For what?" Lily asked staring at him confused.
"For saying yes to me all those months ago," James said as he leaned in and kissed her. The kiss immediately became more heated. James pushed Lily up against the side of her porch and gripped her hips, pulling her closer to him. Lily's hand went straight to his hair and she moaned into his mouth. She could feel the smirk on his lips. Too soon he pulled back panting.
"I should let you go before I change my mind and kidnap you," He said leaning his forehead against hers.
"It's only one night until we can sleep in the same bed again," Lily whispered gazing at him.
"One bloody long night," James grumbled. "How mad are your parents going to be?"
'I'd say they are going to be pretty mad," Lily sighed. She kissed James one last time before walking over to her door. "Goodnight," she said, "Oh, and James, thank you so much for tonight." Lily turned and entered her house.
It wasn't that late and by the voices coming from the kitchen, Lily could tell that they were just having tea. She took a deep breath and walked over to the doorway.
"I'm back," she said calmly before turning and walking up the stairs.
Lily went in her room and laid down on her bed. She missed the fun energy that always surrounded James and Sirius. She was tired of being the outcast at home.
A few moments later she heard a knock on her door. "Come in," She called.
Her mom poked her head around the door and walked in. "Lily," Her mother started.
"Before you say anything Mum,' Lily said sitting up, " I'm not sorry I left. I would've loved to spend my last night with you, but you treated me as if I had a mental problem. You acted just like Tuney and you have no idea how that felt. I'm not mental, I'm one of the brightest witches in my class. I am extremely good at spells and I'm definitely not invalid. I'm different from you and Dad and Tuney, but I'm still your daughter."
Her mother stared at her. "Lily, try to understand, it's difficult trying to come up with an excuse for you. People ask questions as to why your not here and why you stopped going to school here. We had to come up with something people would accept. I know you don't necessarily like the way we did it, but this way if you did slip up it would be explained easier.'
Lily shook her head. "I am normal. I can act like you or dad or Petunia if you had asked me to. You want an excuse then say that I got accepted to school in Switzerland and I really wanted to go or something along those lines. I don't even really care that other people believe that I'm mental, but you treat me as if I am. I was so excited to come home and tell you everything, but I didn't even get a chance to tell you about James because you were so caught up in that whale of a fiancée of Tuny's." Lily felt tears slide down her cheeks.
"You mean that boy who came here tonight?" her mum asked.
"He seems like a trouble maker Lily. Your father and I are worried," She said.
Lily laughed. "He is! But he's also one of the best people I know. He had helped me out more times than I know. He is kind and loving. He is everything that I ever wanted. He sticks up for what he believes in and he is exactly like me. We're both so stubborn and fool headed. I get so angry with him and he calms me down with a word. He makes me think, to actually think about what's important in life. He makes me feel special like I'm worth something." Lily smiled thinking about him.
" You really like him don't you?" Her mum asked.
"Mum, I love him," Lily said. Margaret walked over and hugged her youngest daughter.
"I'm so happy for you," She said, "Though your father will be sad. You're sure that you really love him?"
"One hundred percent. I don't think I could ever leave him or the rest of the marauders for that fact." Lily said laying back on her bed.
"Who?" Her mother asked.
"The marauders," Lily explained, "They are the school pranksters. It consists of Padfoot, Mooney, Wormtail and Prongs, or Sirius, Remus, Peter and James. You met all but Peter tonight. Mum, I don't know how to describe it, but I would give my life for any of those boys."
Lily's mother just nodded her head and stared at her daughter. He couldn't understand how drastically she could change in half a year. "Will you come say goodbye to the Dursley's dear, they will be family soon.'
Lily looked over at her mum and nodded.