Update! A made it a little longer for you, since I missed yesterdays update. Once again, a huge thanks to Jannice Sace for the review. Yes, they do co-exist together, though I am not sure if it will still be happily since Voldemort's started his little 'I hate everyone' thing! I kind of imagine it as being before the wizards went into hiding, though in this case most of the lords and things have magic in their families. Non-magic folk aren't exploited or anything (not yet anyway!), I hope that answers your question! I kind of like your idea about Voldemort, I might have to do that... Hahah, no, I agree, that might be a little strange... Enjoy!

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When everyone had left, James turned to his father. Before he could do more than open his mouth, King Harold stopped him. "Just wait James, let me explain before you shout about how unfair I am."

James glared and gave a curt nod.

The King sighed, "I know that you wanted to go James, but this is for the best. We needed people that would be inconspicuous and unfortunately, you and your friends are not that."

James spluttered but King Harold held up a hand, "Of course, you will get the chance to see some action, probably more than you would like in the end. Do you really think that we would waste all that time training you lot just to keep you locked up here?"

"Really? You are not just keeping us here because I am your son or anything?" James said.

"No, I believe that it will be good for the people to see you out and fighting, but at this stage we are still keeping this all a secret. We do not want word getting out of exactly what our strengths, and weaknesses, are."

"Oh. I guess that is alright then."

King Harold looked at James suspiciously, "I thought that I would have more of an argument with you about this."

"Father, I am a grown man, I am not going to sulk because I did not get to go fight, that is, if you do intend to let us help at some point."

King Harold smiled, "I am proud of you James, you will make a good king one day."

James smiled and left the room. He stalked through the corridors until he found his friends. They jumped when the door slammed against the wall and James strode in. He flung himself down in a chair and fumed silently.

Sirius exchanged a look with the others before carefully asking, "How did it go James?"

"You know very well how it went!" snarled James, "He says that they will let us help, but that will never happen. Not while it is all a precious 'secret'."

"They will let us, you know that James. They know that if they do not, we will just go out anyway."

"Hah! Yeah, sure, they have probably spelled the whole castle so that we cannot get out!" James thumped the pillows in frustration.

Sirius sighed and gave up, there was no use arguing with James when he was like this. He looked over at Lily with a shake of his head and noticed that she was very pale. She looked back at him, eyes huge in fear, before she got up and left the room quickly. James did not notice her leave, he just kept glaring furiously out the window.

Remus went to get up but Sirius shook his head. He stood up instead and followed Lily out of the room. After checking the map, he saw that she was up on top of one of the tall towers. As he climbed up, he heard Lily's sobs echoing down the staircase. She was curled up against the balcony, Sirius could saw her shoulders shake as the cold breeze twined around them.

"Lily?" he called softly.

She jumped, startled. Sirius approached her slowly and sat down across from her. She flinched a little before hiding her face in her arms.

"Do you want to talk Lils?" asked Sirius. He heard a muffled sound come from the hunched girl and gave a soft laugh. "I cannot hear you like that love."

Lily raised her head and gave a small smile, "Sorry, I.. I do not know, I just..."

"It is alright, you do not need to explain, I understand. He has not been angry in front of you has he?"

Lily shook her head, "Not since... I mean, I have seen him angry before, but that was before everything happened."

Sirius reached out slowly and patted her arm. "Good thing it was my turn to deal with him then."

Lily gave a watery chuckle, "I am sorry about that too, I forgot how stubborn he could be."

"Do not worry yourself love, I am used to it after all this time. I did not think about how it might affect you though."

"Neither did I. I mean, I feel so much better when he is around, you know? When he is happy, I can pretend like nothing happened, that Snape never..." Lily hid her face again as sobs choked through her. Sirius shuffled over and put his cloak around her shoulders. He didn't know how long they sat there until he noticed that Lily had fallen asleep. He gently levitated her up and took her back to her room.

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When Sirius returned to their meeting room, James was pacing around the room like a caged lion.

"Where have you been?" he demanded.

Sirius was not in the mood to be pushed around by his best friend. "I have been looking after Lily, since it appears that you are too insensitive to do even that."

"Watch it Black, I am not in the mood for your nonsense."

Sirius barked out a harsh laugh, "My nonsense? What about yours? Or is it that because you are a Prince, you are the only one that is allowed to be in a bad mood?"

James snarled at Sirius, "What the hell is your problem?"

"No James, what is your problem? Here you are, sulking like a toddler who did not get a sweet. You cannot even be bothered to pay attention to how your temper tantrums affect the people around you."

James gaped at Sirius. He was about to shout at him again until he noticed the dark look on Sirius' face. He took a step back and asked, "What is it? What happened?"

Sirius glared at James. "You."

"Me? What did I do?"

Sirius snorted, "Oh, nothing important obviously. That you cannot even look around and see for yourself is really amazing."

"Would you stop being so cryptic and just tell me what is going on?" James asked, exasperated.

"I already did! You were just too caught up in your own little drama to pay any attention."

"Sirius, please, stop trying to pick a fight and just tell me what it was that I did."

"Look around mate, look who is missing."

James looked and then went white, "Lily," he whispered.

"Exactly. You did not stop to think what kind of affect your little outburst would have on her did you?"

James hung his head, "Sirius, I am so sorry, I did not think..."

"It is not me that you have to apologise to mate."

"Where is she?"

"I do not think now would be the best time James," said Sirius gently. "She is asleep and I think it would be best if you let her come to you first."

"Alright, I suppose that is for the best." James sighed and went back to sit on his chair. "What have I done?"

His friends looked at him sympathetically and shook their heads.