"Sirius! What happened?"

"Can't say, Lily. I have to get back and help the Aurors round up the Death Eaters. Just help James!"

Sirius slipped out the front door and with a pop, he was gone, leaving a disgruntled Lily with the bloodied and unconscious James.

Lily set to work, thanking Merlin that the wounds hadn't been caused from dark magic, but rather what seemed like a simple cutting curse. She preformed the healing spell repeatedly over the cuts still bleeding. After several tense minutes, James' eyes fluttered open.

"L-Lily?" He tried to sit up, but Lily instantly pushed him back down.

"You lost a lot of blood, I don't think you should be moving around a lot right now."

"Where's Sirius?"

"He left right after he brought you here and wouldn't tell me a damn thing, the git."

Lily had been expecting a quiet Saturday, since James had gone off with Sirius to do Merlin knows what earlier that morning. The last thing she expected to happen was to have Sirius banging on the door, yelling that they needed help, that James was hurt bad.

"What were you two doing, anyway?"

"Er- well, I can't say."

Lily huffed.

"If it wasn't for me, you'd be half-dead right now. The least you can do is tell me what the hell you two were doing that would put you in this situation!"

James groaned and shifted around.

"Look, if I tell you, you'll be really angry."

"You're bloody right, I will!"

"No, no, I mean, well- you'll see.'

James sat up before Lily could protest and pushed himself off the couch. He kneeled in front of her, one leg came out from under him, in the same position a man would assume if he was about to propose….

He took her hand, and Lily couldn't quite remember how to breath.

"James-"

"Just let me do this…" He pleaded. She simply nodded, seeming lost for words.

"When I imagined doing this, I thought there would be rose petals and some candles, and maybe a unicorn- I hear girls like unicorns."

Lily snorted.

"And I also thought I would have a ring, but I guess this will do…" He took a deep breath. "When I first met you, well you hated me and I didn't really like you either- but, er- well, hell, we could only stand each other until three years ago. And when you finally agreed to go to Hogsmeade with me that one time, you became the best thing in my life. And you still are. You're the reason I keep fighting, the reason I can still find things funny, and you're the one that makes it seem like maybe, one day, things will be not so hectic. But until then, I just want you around, for the rest of my days, to always keep me fighting and happy. So Lily Evans… will you marry me?"

Lily couldn't quite grasp that this was really happening. When she saw herself being proposed to, she never thought she would be standing there in her pajamas, and James wouldn't have be oozing blood from a wound above his eyebrow. It was completely unromantic, and yet, somehow felt perfect.

"Yes! Of, course, yes!" She cried, throwing herself into his arms. She was kissing every inch of his face she could reach, when suddenly she was struck with a thought.

"That still doesn't explain what you and Sirius were doing."

James chuckled and ran a hand through his hair. "We were- er, looking for rings in Diagon Alley when we were attacked by some Death Eaters. I didn't want to tell you because it would ruin the surprise- and well, it's not the most manly place to be attacked, now is it?"

Oh, yeah. Lily had forgotten that agreeing to marry James, she would also be marrying his ego too.

A/N: You are allowed to whack me if you want, I know I said I would update within the day I wrote that Author's Note and then didn't really update for like a week. Haha. Well anyways, this is for shanegirl4444 who asked to see a proposal one. Hope you liked it! And thanks to everyone who has reviewed, it's much appreciated, and keep it coming! (: oh, and I hope James' little speech wasn't too cheesy, I've never been proposed to before (I don't think it's legal to get married at my age?) so I hope I did alright…