Lily evans's first month at hogwarts was uneventful and disappointing. She had been looking forward to roaming the halls and seeing the castle again after her summer at home but so far all she had seen was the hospital wing. A few days into the year kids had started coming and going with missing bones, bald spots, their eyes glued shut and numerous other things that lily could hardly fathom the situations that you had to be in to obtain injuries like that. Injuries like having every single one of your ribs broken at once. On the bright side, however, madam pomfrey's need to nurture someone was redirected and redistributed. Lily was eternally grateful for this because she herself had always been a busy body and hated being waited on. So this situation was really great for her.
All her homework and lessons had to be brought to her and she missed her friends. They came to visit of course, and james was there almost every night, but it wasn't the same. She missed rushing to classes and the way she learned to navigate the staircases perfectly that would never not be satisfying. The thing that was really a bummer was that charles also came to visit her and now lily had nowhere to run. Or the physical capability to actually run anywhere.
She had been wondering how james was getting along with his responsibilities as head boy. There were quite a lot of them and to be honest lily had been expecting to do all of them herself. Not because she didn't think he would help but because she was that person. You know the one. The one who demands to do all the work in a group project because she's a control freak.
Lily sighed and closed her eyes. She had gotten no sleep last night because of a nightmare that just wouldn't go away or seem to end. When she had finally managed to wake herself up it was only about three AM and she had been afraid to go back to sleep so she had just sat up and gotten ahead on her schoolwork using lumos on her wand and trying not to wake the others in the hospital wing who were actually managing to get sleep.
The tiredness set in almost immediately and lily felt herself drift off into what she was glad was a dreamless sleep…
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Lily woke up who knows how much later in the same bed she had been stuck in for a month. She supposed she had been asleep for awhile because the sky was dark in the windows outside and james was in the chair next to her bed. He hadn't noticed she was awake yet and lily was taking this time to just look at him. Not in a creepy way. Or maybe in a creepy way, but honestly james was just really hot and lily was wondering how she was ever in denial about liking him. He was doing his school work and he was holding his quill in his mouth while reading something intently.
Lily didn't know exactly how long she had been staring at him like a serial killer when he sighed and looked up from his book.
"Hello, lily. Have a nice rest?" he smiled that smirk of his that made so many girls fall for him. But they could bugger off because james was lily's.
"Well, when you're stuck in a stuffy hospital wing for a fucking month you sort of run out of things to do."
"Aw, poor lily." he reached out and stroked a strand of her hair "stuck in bed not having to go to classes or do your head girl duties."
"Ah yes, how are you getting along with all that?"
"Well, as you know, responsibility is certainly new for me," lily smiled "but i think i'm doing alright. Remus is my honorary head girl until you get better."
"Somehow that makes far too much sense." lily agreed "how's quidditch going?" she asked.
"We held tryouts last week and i'd say we're alright. I mean, we're no chudley cannons but we've got a chance at the house cup, i'd say." although lily did greatly enjoy watching quidditch she certainly didn't follow it, so she didn't get the reference to the team. She never really had the patience for it.
"Well good on you lot, i suppose. Do me a favor?"
"And what would that be?"
"Beat charles's arse for me."
"Oh, lil i don't think i'll be able to." lily stared at him for a moment "because i don't think he's good enough to even get on the ravenclaw team."
"I'll drink to that!" lily agreed and james chuckled "no really," she continued and leaned in close "sneak me in some firewhiskey because this place is the worst."
"Why, lily," james gasped and brought a hand to his heart "is the head girl assuming that me, the extremely responsible head boy has snuck alcohol into this place of learning." lily simply stared at him until his expression broke and he started laughing.
"Alright you caught me. I happen to have… connections."
"Are those connections sirius?"
"Yes those connections are sirius."
"Alright then."
