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Lily was going stir crazy. Dumbledore had ordered the three of them to stay indoors for the rest of the Easter holidays, but Lily liked to be able to move after years of being at Hogwarts and going from class to class or out on patrol she craved the movement. She was in an irritable kind of mood and both James and Sirius were doing their level best to behave and not irritate her further.

"It's no good, I've got to get out of her," stormed Lily.

"But Lily..." James' words died in his throat at the glare that came from his Fiancee.

"I. Am. Going. Out," Lily annunciated each word slowly and threw gritted teeth.

Mark gave the boys a warning look.

"Let her go," Mark muttered quietly.

Lily was gone. She left the house at top speed. She ran as if the hounds of hell were chasing her. It was a gloriously sunny day, the air was soft and warm and Lily finally started to feel a little better. She ran top speed towards the park. Once inside she ran laps around the field before plonking herself down on a swing to get her breath back.

Lily sat with her face tilted towards the sun and just let it warm her. She slowly breathed in the soft air. The scent from the newly mown grass was a delight to her, a few of the trees had sprigs of blossom starting to bloom, most of the trees were already a leafy green.

She knew she couldn't sit for too long in the sun otherwise with her delicate skin she would start to burn. After a while Lily moved from the swing to sit under her favourite childhood tree, which offered her a decent amount of shade. Once she was comfortably ensconced, her legs tucked under her, Lily picked as many daisies she could reach and started making a daisy chain. Finally she felt all the tension drain away and she started to relax. In some respects she would be glad to get back to the castle now. Just for the routine it offered, also meant she could at times have a break away from James and Sirius. She loved them both, but they could also drive her crazy.

After a while Lily just sat back her back against the trunk of the tree and finally felt totally at peace.

She must have dozed off, it was now late afternoon and the wind was getting up a bit. Lily sat forward her back cracking slightly as she did so.

"Ouch," said Lily to herself, or so she thought.

"Lily?"

Lily recognised that voice. It belonged to Severus Snape.

"What do you want?" asked Lily coldly.

"I just wanted to see if you was alright Lils, seeing as you're alone," said Severus quietly.

"Do not call me that, you have no rights anymore Snape," Lily spat.

For a moment Severus looked as if Lily had just slapped him in the face.

"As you wish," said Snape coldly and quietly.

"You can leave now!" commanded Lily.

"No, I can't, I need to talk to you Lily," said Severus quietly.

"About what exactly?" asked Lily in surprise.

"Potter..." but Lily cut him off.

"I've heard it all before Snape, so say your foul stinking breath," Lily almost shouted.

This time Snape looked like he'd been force fed Bubotuber Pus.

"You will regret ever marrying that arrogant no good bastard Lily," hissed Snape.

"Oh and who would I be better off marrying? You?" Lily broke into a cold laugh. "I don't think so, how could I ever love a greasy weirdo so submerged in the Dark Arts that he doesn't any longer know right from wrong! I'd take James Potter any day!" Lily spat coldly.

Lily made to leave, but Severus grabbed her by the arm.

"Remember what happened last time you laid your greasy hands on me," snarled Lily.

"Seems you're unarmed," smirked Severus.

It was then that Lily realised that she'd left her wand at home. Suddenly she felt rather naked and exposed without it.

"Let. Me. Go," Lily snarled again.

"I can't Lily, I can't let you go back to him," said Severus, he sounded as if he was in pain now.

"You let me go now!" growled Lily.

"I'm sorry, I can't."

Lily did the only thing she knew she could do as she didn't have her wand. She balled her fist and swung. She made stunning contact with his nose and broke it. Blood spurted everywhere. Lily didn't stop there, she hit him repeatedly till he was lying in the grass whimpering.

"That's what you get Snivellus, you can take that as pay back for trying to get James and Sirius killed or sent to Azkaban and also for all those attacks on me at school. I hate what you've become, you were such a good friend once, why did you have to sink so low and join the Death Eaters? You were better than that! yelled Lily at the grounded figure.

Lily turned on her heel and in a storm of emotion, ran from the park leaving her former best friend a bloodied bleeding mess in the grass.

Lily didn't arrive home till after dark. James was near out of his mind with worry.

"Where in the name of Morgana have you been Lily? Fumed James.

He was very much on his mettle.

"I'm sorry James I needed to just... walk. I needed to think some things through," said Lily quietly.

James examined Lily face in the bright light of the hall. Her hair was a mess, she had puffy red eyes and grass stains on her knees.

"What happened Lils?" asked James urgently.

"Nothing James I'm fine, I just want to have a hot bath and go to bed."

"Lils, you know you can't lie to me," said James hotly.

"James, enough. I don't need you giving me the third degree okay? I said I'm fine, now move."

James was blocking the bottom of the stairs.

"No your not Lils," said James crossly.

"James!" snarled Lily.

He refused to move, so Lily decided to try and take a swing. Only James being the Chaser he was managed to dodge Lily's fist and grabbed her wrist. He looked at her hand and saw her knuckles looked messed up and bruised.

"Lily, who did you hit?" questioned James.

Lily silently just tried to pull her hand away.

"Just let me go James, I don't want to talk about it. I just want to be left alone."

"But Lily," pleaded James.

"No!" stormed Lily.

She barged her way past him and into the bathroom and slammed the door, making in rattle in the jamb.

"Was that Lily?" asked Susan as she emerged from the kitchen.

James just ran his right hand through his thick black hair and nodded. The stricken look on his face said it all.

"She'll be okay James, she's just a hormonal teenage girl, she doesn't know if she's coming or going, been or gone at the moment. It'll get better."

Susan drew James into a hug and kissed the top of his head.

James hugged Susan back hard, it was the first time since New Years since he'd been mothered. James enjoyed the feeling of having Lily's mother just baby him. Merlin how he missed his own mother. James swallowed the lump in his throat and let go.

"Thanks Susan, I needed that," James honestly and softly.

"Run along now and find out if that husband of mine and Sirius want a cuppa."

James left to do this little errand for her. Susan sighed for James, he was going to have his hands full with Lily. That girl was a total firework, if she went off you had better run. Susan had seen first hand what Lily's temper could be like when she was a child, and she'd thumped Petunia hard in the face, she'd left a mark and then a bruise. Lily had never been in so much trouble. Susan sighed again and bustled about making tea.

Sirius took one look at his best friends face and grimaced. Lily was in a mood again he could tell.

"Lils home then?" asked Sirius.

"Yeah, she's home Pads," said James quietly.

"In a bad mood still?" questioned Sirius.

"Yeah, how did you guess?" asked James.

"The look on your face mate," said Sirius knowingly.

James just grimaced.

"Do you want tea? Susan's making," asked James.

"Yeah, go on then. She'll be fine Prongs, once we get back to Hogwarts, she'll cheer up," said Sirius.

"I hope, though I would love to know who she punched," said James quietly.

"Lily-pad has hit someone?" asked Sirius looking at James in surprise.

"Yeah, her fist is all messed up," said James.

"Who has my daughter been hitting this time?" asked Mark from behind James.

Mark had just come in from the garage, and had missed Lily's arrival.

"I have no idea," said James truthfully. "When she came in she was in a towering temper again, and tried to take a swing at me, I caught her wrist and saw the state of her right fist, I questioned her but she wouldn't give me an answer."

"Leave it to me, I'll deal with her, is she in her room?" asked Mark.

"No, the bath," said James.

"Ah, well we'll leave her for now and let her calm down, then I'll talk to her again," said Mark wryly.

All he could think was poor James, what was he even going to do with that Lily-Rose of his. She'd inherited his Grandmothers temper, and he knew how volatile that girl could be, but on the other side of that, she had her mother's loving nature.

"Tea's ready," Susan called.

Once Lily had bathed and dried and dressed, she felt a bit more relaxed. She also felt guilty for being so mean to James, and she planned on making it up to him. She heard a soft knocking on her bedroom door.

"Come in," called Lily.

"Lily-Rose."

"Come in daddy," said Lily.

"Lily, are you alright?" asked Mark as he sat down next to his youngest daughter.

He pulled her into a hug, and rubbed a soothing hand up and down her back.

"What is going on with you my love?" asked Mark lovingly.

"I don't know daddy, I really don't, I know I've been a bit of a nightmare this holiday and I am sorry," said Lily in repentance.

"It's not me you have to apologize too sweetheart, it's that fine bloke downstairs in the living room that's waiting for you," said Mark softly.

"He really is a great guy isn't he?" Lily softly questioned.

"You are a very lucky young lady, that boy... man, is everything you're going to ever need, he doesn't have a bit of side to him, he mixes so well with everyone, it's funny you could forget he was a wizard," said Mark with a good natured grin.

"I know, I can't believe he loves me you know daddy, the amount of times I turned him down over the years and the amount of times I hexed him and Sirius too, yet here we all are," said Lily with a small smile.

"Lily, my dear, don't ever make it sound like your not good enough for James, you're just as good as he is sweetheart," said Mark with an amount of sternness.

"Not in the Wizarding world I'm not daddy, to them I am considered scum because I'm Muggleborn, they consider James to be a blood traitor because he's engaged to me. It's all about blood purity with some Wizarding families," said Lily with a sigh.

"Well that's the biggest load of hooey I've ever heard in my life, you and James are made for each other, and never let anyone tell you otherwise. Now are you coming downstairs?"

"Yes daddy, I would love a cup of tea right now," said Lily placing her right hand on top of dad's.

"Incidentally who did you pummel?" asked mark lightly.

"My ex best friend," said Lily darkly.

"Snape?" asked Mark shocked.

"Yeah I had a run in with him at the park, he grabbed me and wouldn't let go, so I punched him, think I might have broken his nose. I didn't stop either, left him laying on the field in a bloodied state," said Lily truthfully.

Mark grinned at his daughter. He couldn't fault her, she did have a mean right hook on her.

"Good on yer girlie," said Mark the Cockney in him surfacing.

Lily smiled at her dad and followed him down the stairs to the kitchen and Susan's teapot.

Finally the end of the Easter holidays arrived and finally they were due to go back to Hogwarts. Lily was running around the house looking for her possessions, mainly books and homework as well as her clean robes. By the end her rag was out and James and Sirius left her to it.

They were late arriving at Kings Cross, due to the traffic being so bad due to an accident just outside of London. They had five minutes to get to platform 9 & 3/4. It was a tight dash, and a dash it was. They had to literally run with their trolley's and nearly sent several people flying on the concourse. Finally they made it to the platform with thirty seconds to spare. The three of them were badly winded and wanted nothing more than to sit down and cool off.

"Next time I'm Apparating to Kings Cross, nothing against your parents Lils but I'm never doing that again," panted James.

"James, that was the last time. This is the last time we'll be going back to Hogwarts," panted Lily harshly.

"Holy Circe you're right," said Sirius, his breathing almost normal now.

"Oh, oh yeah," said James sadly.

"Come on lets go and find everyone else," said Lily.

They made their way down the corridor looking in each carriage for their friends. They eventually found them in the second to last compartment.

"Oh hey, there you guys are!" said Mary almost sound relieved.

"About bloody time you three," said Marlene from behind her DADA textbook.

"What happened?" asked Remus calmly.

"Bloody traffic," said James plonking down next to Peter.

"Ah, why didn't you Apparate?" asked Alice.

"Because my parents insisted on bringing us as this was the last time they would be bringing me to Kings Cross," replied Lily as she ruffled through the Daily Prophet she hadn't manage to read yet.

Everyone looked at everyone else, it was then they all realised that this would be their last trip together to Hogwarts, the next time they set foot aboard the Hogwarts express it would now be after they'd graduated. Everyone felt a pang of sadness, the year was nearly over, they'd nearly done it. Soon their magical education would be over, soon they would leave Hogwarts for good.

"Okay I need to get off this train of thought, it's way too depressing," said Frank.

"Me too," agreed Alice.

"So how did your Easter go?" asked Marlene sarcastically.

"Yeah bloody marvelous, yours?" replied James.

"Not as sensational as yours I would say," said Marlene.

"Don't even go there Marls," said Sirius darkly.

"Okay maybe a change of subject," said Alice excitedly.

They all knew what had happened. They all had a family member that worked at the Ministry. So of course what had happened at leaked to certain magical families.

Lily picking up on Alice's excitement, started to question her.

"Okay Al, what is going on? What's got you so excited?".

"This."

She stuck out her left hand and flashed a ring under their noses.

"You guys got engaged? Oh my dear Merlin, congratulations!" said Lily taking Alice's hand to examine her ring. "Why didn't you write and tell me?".

"I wanted to keep it a surprise," replied Alice happily.

"Well congrats to you both," said Lily and hugged Alice and hugged Frank.

"Yeah congratulations you two, about bloody time too," said Marlene leaning forward.

Her eyes flickered towards Remus, he caught her staring and looked away.

"Congrats both of you," said Remus quietly.

"So when's the big day?" asked Peter vaguely.

"Probably during the summer," said Alice happily.

"Maybe you guys can have a double wedding," piped up Hestia.

"Yeah sure would save us all some time and money," said Sirius cheekily.

"Oh glad you two have decided to stop sucking face and join us," said Lily cheekily.

"Hey I haven't seen Hest in two and a half weeks," pouted Sirius.

"I'm only pulling your leg love," said Lily and patted him on the knee.

"No we won't be having a double wedding, my mother for one wouldn't like it," said Frank with a grimace.

"No I couldn't see my mum being overly fond of the idea either," said Lily truthfully.

The conversation changed and they spoke about their plans for the future, and what they all intended to do when they left school. About halfway through the trip the train suddenly came to a halt and sent students tumbling out of their seats and some down the corridor of the carriage.

"Why have we stopped?" asked Alice nervously.

"I don't know, but wands out and we'll go and investigate," said James taking control.

The Head Boy took action as did the Head Girl. They helped students to their feet and sent them back to their carriages. It was up ahead they heard glass breaking, and James and Lily ran down the corridor to where the sound of the commotion was coming from and found a pair of Death Eaters stood over some second year students.

"Get away from them," commanded James.

"What are you going to about it blood traitor?" snarled a man from behind his mask.

"This."

Lily sent a silent Full Body Bind Curse at the Death Eater and he toppled over.

"Nice one Lils," said James.

"No time for tha.." Lily didn't get to finish as she had to duck quickly as the other Death Eater sent a spell at her.

The wall of the carriage behind Lily exploded as a Death Eater sent a spell at them and missed.

It turned into an all out war. The fifth, sixth and seventh years did what they could to protect the younger years but there was still casualties. Lily was disgusted that they would dare attack the train, as was James and co. They fought valiantly and with quick thinking and soon the Death Eaters found themselves out numbered and being pummeled.

Soon the fight was over, and James and Lily rushed around to help those who'd been hurt, while the others helped do any repairs and check on the other students. Most were okay, there were one or two Death Eaters that had been left behind as they'd be knocked unconscious, so James bound and gagged them and took their wands away. After Lily and James rounded everyone they could up and assessed the situation so when they arrived at Hogwarts they'd be able to concisely report to Dumbledore what had happened on the journey there.

Finally they were able to relax for a little while. They all sat there silently for a moment collecting themselves, and processing what had just happened. When Sirius piped up.

"Hang on I seem to recollect a dare Prongs," said Sirius grinning.

"Huh? What are you on about?" asked James warily.

"Just before Easter on your birthday we were playing truth or dare and Lily dared you to dress up in a dress for a day" said Sirius now grinning hugely.

James groaned. He'd totally forgot about that.

"Trust you to remember that, and at a time like this," said James huffily.

"I was trying to think of a way to cheer everyone up and this happened to come to mind," said Sirius with a wink.

"Oh shit!" replied James with a groan.