Chapter XXI - Finally

James had just finished getting dressed when Sirius stepped into their room.

"I didn't even see you come in. Did you talk to Lily?" He asked, watching his friend closely. He hadn't expected to see the day in his life when James Potter was actually contemplating breaking up with Lily Evans.

James nodded as he brought a comb roughly through his hair knowing it wasn't actually going to do anything. "Aye, I did."

Sirius watched him for a moment before he took a seat on his bed. "And? You didn't break up with her, did you?"

He shook his head, turning to look at his friend. "No. She told me everything."

"Good." He said, letting out a sigh of relief. He really didn't want James and Lily to break up. They were so good together. And it was about time that Lily came clean with James. He was pleased to see that their little talk by the lake had finally caused her to admit that she was wrong. His eyes darkened as he remembered the reason why Lily had been attacked in the first place. "I'm sorry, James, I mean … fuck, if I had known that they would go after her like that just to get back at you I would have -"

"What do you mean by that?"

Sirius winced. "Ooh, she left that part out, eh?"

"Explain." James stated coldly, his hazel eyes on his friend's face.

He sighed. "Look, she didn't quite understand it herself. She questioned me on it, but I didn't know what to say because she didn't believe that you really felt that way about her. But they … when they … attacked her, they were saying that they had targeted her specifically because you liked her. They said something like raping her would really piss Potter off because you know, they got there first. I'm so sorry, Prongs, I thought that … hell I don't know."

James sat down on his bed, burying his face in his hands. "It's my fault?"

"No, fuck no, it's not. Don't you dare sit there and blame yourself for it! Lily sure as hell doesn't blame you! I don't even think she has comprehended the fact that they targeted her because of you. She's never said anything about it to me since the day it happened. It's not because of you that this happened. It's because those fucking douche-bags know that the only way that they could ever get it on with a girl like Lily Evans would be through force." Sirius said, moving to place a hand on his friend's shoulder. "The fact that it would hurt you when you found out about it, that was just a side benefit."

"That's just … I feel sick."

"James, this was a big thing yes, but it's almost been a year now and Lily shared it with you. I think now it's time for you to forget it and help her forget it."

"But keeping something like this from me, Sirius? It's one thing to be keeping a secret for a friend, but something like this? It's basically because of me that this happened and … God, what Malfoy and Snape did to her … it's fucking disgusting!"

Sirius nodded, dragging a finger through his own hair. Both of them were unaware of Lily's raised hand at the dormitory door as if she was about to knock. "How do you think I felt when I walked in on it? Fuck, James, she was terrified and crying and she was overpowered. I would have hurt them more, but I wanted to make sure that she was alright; that she got to the hospital wing."

"She was worried that because they touched her I wouldn't want to anymore," James said quietly as if just remembering.

"I know. It was her biggest fear. She's in love with you, mate."

"I know," James said quietly. "I love her too, but am I just supposed to get over this, get over what happened to her? It sickens me. I am so disgusted at the thought of Malfoy on top of her, forcing her like that. It disturbs me and I told her that it didn't matter; I was calm and I kissed her. We were outside in the rain and I told her how much I loved her and that I wouldn't kill Malfoy or Snape no matter how much I want to for what they did to her because it will make her unhappy. I lied."

"I'm sorry," Lily mumbled from the doorway causing both of them to turn and look at her. But she didn't give James a chance to respond, she turned and hurried away.

Sirius winced. "I'm betting she misinterpreted that. She's so freakin' vulnerable right now, James."

"I know," he said quietly. "I'll go find her." He hurried out of the room and down the winding staircase, grabbing her arm just as she hit the fifth year boys doorway. "Lily," he said softly, tugging her up the steps and towards him. When she struggled in his grasp, he pinned her back against the stone wall of the tower. "Will you just stop and listen to me for a minute?"

"No, why should I? You just told Sirius that you had lied to me. Why would you … what we did … outside on the Quidditch pitch … you made me forget I was outside and you didn't even –"

He placed his finger on her lips. "Will you let me talk? Merlin, you blow things out of proportion before a bloke can explain himself. I didn't lie to you. I love you even more now that you have shared this with me. There are no secrets between us anymore which will make a huge difference in our relationship. I know what you overheard and I am not sickened or disgusted by you; I never could be. I am sick in my heart over what happened to you and over the fact that I wasn't there to stop it. Sirius told me what they said; that it was to get back at me. That disgusts me, Lily, it makes my stomach want to revolt at the thought that they would use you to get back at me that way. You are amazing for overcoming that and … I just love you so much. I'm sorry if it hurts you that I feel sick because of what happened to you, but what I want to do is to beat both Malfoy and Snape to a bloody pulp until I can't feel my hands, mostly Malfoy. That has nothing to do with you."

Lily wrapped her arms around him and moved in to hug him. "It has everything to do with me and you wanting to protect me."

"Okay, you're right about that, but it doesn't make me think any differently about you. Do you get that?" He asked, turning her face up so that he could look into her eyes.

She smiled up at him. "Yes. I love you too, James."

He grinned at her, hugging her close. "Good. So, want to go sit in our chair?"

She nodded. "It's pretty deserted down there. We were outside for quite a while."

His grin widened now. "Well, I can't help it if I'm so good that I'm making you lose track of time."

"Now you sound like Sirius."

James winced. "Ouch, retracting my ego back … that was so not a compliment."

"No, it wasn't," Lily said, smiling as she took his hand in hers and led him down the stairs to the almost deserted common room. Once she was snuggled up against James she spoke again. "I feel drained from everything today. We argued and made up and argued and made up."

James smiled and kissed her fingers. "Well, now, if you weren't blowing things out of proportion we wouldn't have this problem."

"Blowing things out of proportion, I did no such thing!"

"Oh really? So tears and accusations came when you eavesdropped on a conversation that you didn't fully understand was just normal, not blown out of proportion?"

"It would make more sense."

"How?" He asked, watching as some stragglers headed up the stairs. For a Friday night he was very surprised that it was only midnight and yet he and Lily were alone in the common room.

She shrugged, hoping to keep her voice casual. "Because it would make more sense for you to be sickened by me."

He sighed and began to plant small kisses along her neck. "I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. Instead …" he trailed off as his lips met hers softly and too shortly. "Now, let's instead discuss how much better at everything I am than both Sampson and Bridgeway."

She laughed at those words. "James, I'm serious … don't you think that I'm … dirty or something?"

His eyebrow rose slowly and a wicked grin spread across his face. "I don't know, are you? Are you finally going to show me that sex toy stash of yours?"

"James."

He kept his arms wrapped loosely around her as he spoke. "No. I get that they hurt you and that they made you self-conscious about yourself, but you have no need to be. You're not dirty or broken. And when I make love to you, I am going to show every inch of your body how true those words are."

Lily blushed and snuggled into him. "I'm scared."

"Of what?"

"Of sex."

James brushed her hair gently out of her eyes. "I won't push you, baby."

"That's not it."

"Then what is it?" He asked as she turned around to look at him.

Lily bit her lip softly. "It was horrible and the thought of having sex scares me."

"It will be nothing like what happened to you."

"I know that."

"Lily, remember how flushed with pleasure you were earlier when my fingers were inside of you, touching you, stroking you, bringing you to the peak of pleasure that made your body tremble in my arms?" She nodded, her cheeks pink at the memory. He moved closer to her so that his face was right up close against hers. "When I'm inside of you, it's going to feel even better than that."

She brushed her lips gently against his for only a moment. "I'll hold you to that."

His grin widened. "Honey, it's not a promise, its a fact."

"James?"

"Yes?"

"I need more time."

He smiled and buried his face in the crook of her neck. "I know and you have it. Are we okay now?"

She nodded, turning her head to kiss his earlobe. "Never better."

He grinned at her and then covered his lips with hers.

James and Lily seemed to have balanced out the problems that her secret had caused. She felt good about being with him; about wanting to spend every waking moment with him. She was crazy in love with him and it made her smile just to look at him. She knew that he wanted her and they hadn't done anything other than kiss since that night in the rain. She was still shocked that she had let him do that, that she had done that to him outside on the Quidditch pitch. It had been dark, almost night time yes, and the rain had shielded them from view, but anyone could have walked in and interrupted them.

It both shocked and pleased her to think about it.

Never before in her life had she been so willing to just let everything go before; to let herself lose control the way that she had. But with James, she forgot all of that. She forgot where they were. Now it was June and with the summer fast approaching she didn't want to spend any time without him. Exams were finished and they had four days before the train would be taking them home. It had flown by.

Her eyes lit up as the person of her thoughts walked towards her, pushing her over so that he could make himself comfortable in the chair she was in in the study lounge. His arm draped over her shoulders.

"What's the difference between moonlighting as someone and being someone?"

Lily's eyebrows rose in amusement. "Excuse me?"

James grinned. "Sirius and I are in a debate. I say that moonlighting as someone is doing something that you wouldn't normally do, like an alternate you and being someone is just being you, but he says its the other way around."

"You're right. Sirius is backwards."

Sirius, who had approached just as James asked the question, frowned. "Lily, why do you have to pick his side?"

"Because his side is right and yours is wrong. Why are you debating over something like this? Do you mean to tell me that Sirius doesn't have a girl lined up for the evening?"

Sirius rolled his eyes, plopping down in the chair across from them. "I'll have you know that I have only had sex with six different girls this year. Even gods need a break, Lily."

Lily laughed as James turned her towards him to kiss him.

"No kissing, Prongs, Lily and I are having a conversation."

James ignored him and slowed the kiss down, deepening it and then pulling away so that she was aching for him. "Have your conversation then." He said with a grin.

But before Sirius could speak, Lily had tugged James' mouth back down to hers for another kiss. She pulled back with a soft pop and smiled at Sirius.

"What did you want to talk to me about?"

Sirius sighed and stood up. "Forget you guys. If all you're going to do is snog, than I'm going to go have sex."

Lily shook her head as he sauntered out of the room. "You know, the fact that he can say that statement and have it actually happen is what concerns me the most."

James grinned and let his fingers play gently with her hair. "Nah, he won't have sex tonight. He's only got about an hour and he likes to pride himself in getting a few rounds in."

She blushed at those words. "Has he really only been with six girls this year? I mean, the way he goes on and the rumour mill goes on, he sleeps with a different girl every day."

He shrugged, stretching his legs out and crossing them at the ankles. "That's the rumour mill though. According to the gossip of Hogwarts, I've been with twelve different women since fifth year. That's a tad excessive I must say."

Lily turned to look at him now. "How many girls have you been with?"

"Jealous, love?"

She shifted uncomfortably in the chair, tearing her gaze away from his. "No, it's just that I've never … I mean … you know what … never mind."

He took her face in his hands, kissing her lips softly. "I dated them to make you jealous. But you never noticed. And my magic number is four."

"Four? That's it?"

His grin widened. "I told you that the rumour mill was a tad excessive. Sirius will kill me for telling you this, but he's been with nine."

"Even that number is small in comparison." Lily said, thinking of how much their friend spoke about sex and how much he loved it.

James nodded. "My first was Donna Long at the end of fourth year."

"I don't need to know, James."

He smiled now. "I know yours, it only seems fair." When she didn't say anything he continued. "I was pretty terrified that I would screw up, but she had already been around the block and was pretty helpful. Then there was Marissa Belding at the beginning of fifth. She was extremely annoying and I dumped her because all she could ever talk about was how great it was going to be to be married to the Potter fortune. Long dumped me because I stared at you too much."

She blushed at those words.

"I couldn't help it. I wanted you and everyone knew it. After Marissa was Natalie Wood at the end of fifth year. She broke up with me because we were snogging in the common room and you walked in and I pushed her away and wandered off to talk to you."

"James …"

He shrugged. "You were more important, even then. And lastly there was Julia Cauldwell at the beginning of this year. She was kind of boring though. She broke up with me, but it was mutual."

"Dorcas?"

"What about her? I never slept with her, if that's what your getting at."

"Well, it's just … the way she talks about it, you did."

James shook his head. "If I slept with every girl I went out with, I would be Sirius. I never want that to happen. Besides, now I finally have the one girl I've wanted, life has gotten pretty damn good."

Lily smiled and kissed him softly. "Thank you for telling me that. I just … I know its stupid, but I keeping thinking that when we … finally … you would be disappointed in my lack of experience."

"Never," he insisted, moving his lips along her jaw. "In fact, that just makes me more inclined to see what I can teach you." His hand moved over to sit on her breast and his eyes twinkled at her. "You're a good student, aren't you, love?"

Her breath hitched a bit. "Yes, I am."

He kissed her deeply. "That's what I thought."

She laughed when he pulled back and sat his chin on the top of her head.

"So, are you going to come meet my parents officially this summer? You kind of already met my mum."

"She was so beautiful," she said, smiling when his hand rested on her stomach. "I would love to meet them officially."

"Good," James replied. "I can't wait to bring you home, show you my house and you can meet them. They're pretty great."

She nodded. "Sirius told me. Anyone who would willingly live with him must be pretty great." When James snorted, her smile widened. "And you'll meet mine?"

"Definitely. We'll have to work out the kinks as I'm sure you want a day or so home to see your family and what not. Though personally, I think one hour without you is long enough."

She smiled. "It does seem that way lately, doesn't it?"

James took both of her hands in his, his chin still resting on her head. "We'll work out the kinks on the train ride home. But I'm thinking maybe two or three days to hang out with our parents and then I can come stay with you for a while and then you can come stay with me for a while. We can show each other around. What do you think?"

"It sounds perfect. I'd love to bring you to the community center where I like to go. I can take my yoga classes back up."

"What is yoga?" James asked.

Lily grinned. "It's an exercise."

His eyebrow rose in confusion and her grin widened. She climbed off of his lap and since there were only some first years in the room, moved to the floor and carefully brought her legs up over her head and around her neck before smoothing out into a forward bend. He was staring at her with his tongue hanging out when she took a seat back in his arms.

"It's fun."

"And fucking sexy," he muttered, kissing her neck until she turned to give him access to her lips. "Who knew? And Sirius was going on about rock climbing last summer … I think that he left out some important things."

"Mmm, maybe that's because I only took him rock climbing. We can go out for a drive too."

"A drive?"

Lily nodded, turning so that she was looking at him. "Daddy took me to get my license over Christmas break so I can drive his cars."

James grinned at that. "Can you teach me?"

"Hmm, we'll see about that."

James imagined what it would be like to drive a muggle car and the image of it fascinated him. "Brilliant! It sounds like I have a lot to look forward to in the muggle world."

"Where are you going to take me in your world?" She asked, eyes on his.

"Wherever it is you want to go. Hey, aren't you spending the summer with your grandmother though?"

Lily shook her head. "I don't have the exact dates yet, but it won't be until towards the end of the summer. And James … my dad can be a little … overprotective."

He grinned. "You'll protect me."

"Maybe."

His fingers hit her ribs and she squealed. "What was that?"

She cried out as he tickled her, her hand moving until it was resting on the bulge in his pants and his eyes darkened, hands stopping. "I'll see."

He nodded, tugging her close for another kiss. "All worked up now, just figures." He pushed her to her feet and took her hand in his. "Want to walk me out, love?"

Lily wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. His fingers twitched at her hips as she deepened the kiss, her body pressing up against his. She wanted him, she realized. She was ready for him to make love to her.

He pulled back slowly, holding her at arms length. "I have to go."

She pouted, moving to him again, her body up against his and his breath hitched. "Why?"

James placed his hands on her bum, squeezing as he spoke. "Because it's the last night of the full moon."

She sighed and kissed him softly. She had known that. "Let's do something fun tomorrow night. It's our last Saturday. Exams are done and … I just want to be with you before we go home on Tuesday."

He kissed her forehead and then her lips. "Sounds like a great plan. Walk me out?"

Lily placed her hand in his and walked with him to the secret passageway they used to get out of the castle, stopping every minute or so to kiss. Sirius and Peter were waiting for him. "Sorry guys, I kept distracting him."

Peter grinned at her. "I don't think that he minded much."

"Shut it, Pete!" James said, kissing her softly again.

Lily smiled when he stepped back. "Have fun and be careful. All of you."

"Yes, Mum!" Sirius stated before giving her a quick one-armed hug. "Now scram!"

She laughed as she headed off.

Sirius waited until she had turned the corner before turning to his friends. "You might want to do something about that boner before we head out. Smell of sex will get Moony all riled up."

James swore at him. "Shut it."

Peter laughed as he followed the two of them through the tunnel that would lead to the courtyard. It was going to be an interesting night.

When Lily returned to the Gryffindor common room she found Alice and Tia by the fire. She took a seat with them and they ended up playing Exploding Snap for a while to pass the time. But Lily found that her thoughts were on James. She wanted to be with him fully before the summer began. She was so ready and she wanted him so badly that her whole body tingled just thinking about it. She pushed the thoughts away and instead wondered what the Marauders were doing out in the dark on their last full moon of the school year.

"Lily, are you listening to us?" Tia asked, grabbing her friend's attention.

Lily smiled at her friend. "Yes, and I think that France is going to be fantastic." She said, remembering that Tia was talking about her summer plans. Tia was going to be going to France for three weeks for her cousin Sheila's wedding. Lily thought that it sounded brilliant.

She let her friends continue to chatter and she just listened. It was just after eleven when Alice started yawning.

The three of them decided to head up to bed and Lily took a quick shower. She had just finished drying her hair and changing into her summer sleepwear that consisted of a black tank top and her underwear, which today included a blue bra with yellow stripes and yellow cotton panties.

Tia smiled at her as she stripped down to a tank and panties to sleep as well. "Are you alright, Lily? You seem ... I don't know, but not yourself tonight."

Lily shrugged as she took a seat on her bed. "I'm alright. I've just been thinking about James and the two of us together. We had a great conversation this afternoon about how to spend our summer, but he reminded me that this summer my grandmother wants me to go stay with her in Rome for a month."

"Worried that you're going to have Potter withdrawals?" Tia asked, her voice teasing as she sat on her own bed.

She laughed as she grabbed the brush off of her nightstand to pull through her dry curls. "Yes, actually. Do you ... would it be ... I mean, would it be weird if I asked him to come with me?"

Tia shook her head. "I don't think so. You two are pretty inseparable. Besides, if you go away together maybe you'll finally do the dirty."

"Tia! Do you have to be so scandalous?" Alice asked as she stepped out of the bathroom drying her hair with a towel. "Not everyone wants to have sex all the time."

"Mmm, just a reminder, that is only because you have yet to have sex."

Alice blushed a bit at that and used her wand to finish drying her hair. "Well ... I might be soon. It's Frank's birthday next week. I thought maybe ... as his present … I've got a great evening planned for him, even though we'll be home by then. I hope my dad doesn't mind that Frank will be picking me up at home." She went scarlett as she spoke but Tia grinned at her.

"Great present. And your dad won't mind, Alice, as long as he doesn't know what Frank's present is." When Alice blushed, her grin widened. "Speaking of presents ... Sirius and I are kind of on-again."

"When did this happen?" Lily asked, eyes widening in surprise as she placed her brush back down. "You two broke up because you had burned each other out."

Tia shrugged, grinning as she remembered what had happened. "Well, a few months off and that chemistry does come back. I don't know I was so ... horny and well, I snuck into the locker rooms and surprised him after practice in the shower. I gave him a blow job and then we shagged each other's brains out."

"Tia!"

She simply laughed. "It was ... amazing ... I missed him and his brilliance in bed, or in the shower. We're not together or anything, but since then it's been … well, a great time."

"I want to have sex with James."

Alice and Tia both turned to look at Lily in surprise.

"Say that again," Tia said carefully. "I don't think that I heard you properly."

Lily's face was slightly pink as she spoke. "I want to. I ... I've been dreaming about it and about him and when he kisses me I want there to be more. I think that it would have … if he hadn't had somewhere to be tonight, I think we would have."

"That's great." Tia said, smiling at her friend. "It's about time, really ... both of you. Alice, great birthday present for Frank and I definitely want details when it happens. Lily, you need to tell James as soon as possible."

"What do I even say?" She asked, her eyes wide. "I can't just wait until we're alone and tell him that I want him to make love to me."

"Actually, yes, you can and I suggest that you do. Especially if you catch him off guard, he will be so pleased."

Lily bit her bottom lip and crawled under her blankets. "I'll think about it." She said quietly before pulling her bed curtains around her and closing her eyes. It took only a few moments for her to drift off to sleep.

She'd only been down an hour or so when she woke up in a fit of sweat, a scream dying in her throat. It had been months since she had last dreamed of Malfoy; of him hovering over her and the fear that it had caused deep within her throat. She held a hand to her racing heart and tried to control her breathing. He wasn't here, she told herself. He's not here. He can't hurt you anymore. But the words didn't help her. She hurried into the washroom, splashing cold water on her face and then rinsing her mouth and brushing her teeth. She stared at herself in the mirror. She had gone pale and her eyes were dark with the images of her nightmare. She shivered at the image.

She wanted James, she realized. She wanted him to be there to hold her; to comfort her.

She snuck out of her room carefully and down the stairs to the common room. She caught sight of the clock and sighed. Why did nightmares always occur at two thirty in the morning? She headed up the stairs to the boys dormitories and slowly opened the door that led to the sixth year dorm.

All of the beds were empty.

Tears welled up in her eyes and she wiped at them furiously. It was the full moon tonight. She had forgotten. She headed to the far side of the room anyway and sat on James' bed. She crawled under the covers, smelling him there and she felt comforted by that. She had barely closed her eyes and was out like a light.

James, Sirius, Remus and Peter returned to their dorm around six in the morning. Remus was rolling his neck as he walked.

"My neck is killing me. Did you have to tackle me so goddamn hard, Padfoot?"

Sirius grinned broadly. "I was trying to prevent you from squashing Wormtail."

Remus ignored him as he flopped down on his bed. "I'm beat."

James nodded as he stripped down to his boxers. "At least we managed to have a calm one. I'm so happy its Saturday morning, I'm going to sleep the day away." He kicked his socks off and pushed open his bed curtains.

His eyes widened in surprise when he saw Lily sleeping soundly there, snuggled into his pillow. He smiled and crawled in next to her, using his wand to put a silencing charm and a do not disturb charm around his bed. He tugged her towards him, but she didn't wake, she just snuggled into his chest. He smiled against her hair and drifted off to sleep.

Lily woke up less than hour later. She felt his arms around her and felt comforted. She snuggled into him a bit, turning her head towards him and kissing his lips softly. He stirred in his sleep but didn't wake up. She let her lips wander along his jaw, down his neck and onto his collar bone. When she kissed his shoulder, he opened his eyes and smiled at her.

"Terribly rude of you to seduce a bloke who hasn't slept and has no will power to fight back." He tugged her face up to his and kissed her.

She sighed against him. "Thank you."

"For what?" He asked, brushing a curl away from her face.

"For being here when I woke up."

He smiled at her. "Thank you for being a lovely surprise in my bed this morning."

She smiled at him. "I had a nightmare and I just ... I just wanted you to hold me, but then when I got here I remembered. But ... your sheets ... they smell like you."

His grin widened now. "Well, whatever the reasoning, I'm glad you're here."

Lily blushed a bit as she rested her cheek against his chest. "James ... summer is coming and … I want to spend more time with you. I know we talked earlier but … it's going to be different. I feel like you're always just there now when I want you and when I'm at home …"

James nodded, keeping his arm loosely around her. "I know."

"I ... I'm going to be in Rome."

He smiled down at her now. "I know. I'm going to miss you."

She looked up at him now. "Will you come with me?"

His eyebrow rose in surprise. "You want me to go to Rome with you?"

She shrugged as she spoke. "I just ... I thought ... well, Nana wants me to go and well I don't really know her very well yet except for our letters back and forth, but I just ... I'm going to miss you."

James grinned at her, moving to nip at her earlobe and turning her so that she was pinned beneath him in his bed. "I'd love to go to Rome with you."

Her eyes lit up and she grinned. "Really? You would?"

He smiled now, moving his lips down her throat, lower and lower until the tip of his tongue brushed along the edge of the tank top she wore and her breath hitched. His grin widened and his hands slid up the sides of her top, bolding pulling it over her head before he answered. "Definitely."

"James …" she said softly as he tapped his fingers along the edge of the blue and yellow bra she wore.

He undid the clasp and tugged it off, tossing the bra next to them on the pillow. "Lily."

Then he lowered his mouth and boldly took one of this soft pink peaks into his mouth. Her body exploded. It was the only word that she could think of to describe the sensations wracking through her. She wore nothing but a small pair of yellow panties and it alarmed and fascinated her at the same time. When his teeth nipped her, she gasped.

"James … you … we're not alone!" She murmured.

"Hmm, I silenced the bed when I first found you here. They have no idea."

She pushed him away and sat up, bringing her arm across her breasts. "You … God, I …"

James brought his hands up to cup her, pleased that she spilled over his hands just enough. "You're so beautiful."

"I want you to make love to me."

His eyebrow rose slowly. "With."

"What?" She asked, her eyebrow raising up in surprise.

"You want to make love with me; there's a difference." He bent his head down again to nibble at her breast.

"James," she murmured, pushing him away again. "We can't … not here … it's too … weird."

He chuckled and sat his hands on her hips. "They have no idea we're here. I put a silencing charm and a do not disturb charm so even if they try to come see me, they will, you know, think of something else more vital to do. He cupped her through the yellow cotton and her head rolled back. "For now, how about we just see where this goes?"

Lily's eyes met his, already darkened with the first dregs of pleasure. "We both already know where this is going to go." She placed her hands on his chest, brushing slowly against the soft skin.

James nodded then, moving to kiss her softly. "It's up to you." His mouth moved to her earlobe as one hand tapped her hip and the other slid up, captured a breast and tweaked the nipple enough for her to cry out. He kissed down her throat, stopping to suck on her pulse points and her fingers latched into his hair. He smiled against her throat. When his mouth moved lower, back to her breast, she knew that she had already made her choice.

Lily ran her hands over his back as he pushed her gently back down onto the bed. His lips ran over her, moving to her lips for a deep kiss and then gliding away to do delicious things to her. He kissed each nipple, soft kisses down her stomach, tongue dipping into her bellybutton and she arched towards him, unsure of what to do as her hands touched that soft skin; over the firm muscles in his back. He slid her panties off, slowly, letting his lips trail down every inch of her right leg where the panties passed. When he finally slipped them off of her, he nibbled at her toes before moving to her left foot and slowly up her left leg. By the time that he reached her mouth again she was practically panting.

James nibbled at her lips, soft and slow and then deep and greedy. She was everything that he had imagined and more. This was Lily. His Lily, so beautiful, so perfect, so soft. She tasted like Lily. A flavour he couldn't quite describe, but was the only thing that he craved. As his lips brushed her ear he spoke, his voice deeper, huskier and it sent shivers down her spine.

"I want to hear my name."

"James," she said, her fingers in his hair, playing with the nape of his neck.

"Mmm, I want to hear my name as I pleasure you." Then his fingers were inside of her and she did cry out his name; cried out for the release she so desperately craved. But then they were gone, kneading her hips, her soft waist as he moved his lips down her body.

Lips touched her everywhere. It seemed to be too much. How was she supposed to feel this much and survive? The heat was intense and she continued to arch towards him, desperate for him to finish, to make her feel the pleasure he kept promising and stop the ache. Then her eyes widened when his lips brushed low on her thigh and then his tongue slid into her.

She went wild beneath him. It pleased him that he could bring that to her. "James," she sobbed, her hands in his hair as he made love to her with his mouth. The way her voice became husky caused him to throb violently in his boxers. When he managed to catch her with his teeth, she erupted and his name poured out of her in a sigh of pleasure.

He continued to kiss her, nibbling and sucking, building up the pleasure inside of her again before he kissed his way back up her body. He let his tongue trail over her breasts, kissing her in every place his mouth could find. She tugged him up by his hair, kissing him desperately and he rolled her over so that she was on top, shimmying out of his boxers as he did.

"Lily," he murmured, kissing her neck. "I need … I need to be inside of you."

Her green eyes moved down to his rather impressive cock and she nodded, swallowing slowly. He made to flip her over, but to his surprise she shook her head and very slowly, very carefully lowered herself onto him. She was so tight and he closed his eyes to stop himself from going off like Vesuvius before he had even gotten started. He opened his eyes and looked at her.

She was magnificent. She was flushed from pleasure. Auburn curls spiralling down her back and covering her breasts. Her eyes were a dark, intense green and they met his before she started to move. Achingly slow she moved over him, guiding him. Her hand moved down between them and she ran her nails gently across his sacs and he gasped, flipping her beneath him and slipping deeper inside of her.

"I love you," he said in her ear as their lips mets. He felt her go over and she cried out his name as she did, teeth biting softly on his shoulder.

"I love you, James." She whispered as he followed, lost in her.

He buried his face in between her breasts, still deep inside of her. He nibbled softly at the skin before him until he reached her lips. They kissed ever so slowly and when he pulled away he gave her a wide smile.

"You're pretty damn good at that."

She laughed and kept her arms wrapped around him. "For my lack of experience?"

James fondled her breast as he grinned. "For being such a fast learner."

Lily shifted slightly and he hardened inside of her. Her eyes widened in surprise and he simply grinned at her. Before she could comment his lips covered hers and he was making love with her all over again