Lily sat in the common room, books and parchment scattered around her. She had hoped that magic would have been easier than normal work but unfortunately no!
She was glad to be back at Hogwarts though. Her holidays before school started back hadn't been very good, Petunia kept skirting around her and when she had to talk to her she addressed her as Freak.
'She's not supposed to call me a freak! I mean we are twins after all!' Lily muttered
'Talking to yourself again Miss Lillian?' asked a voice from behind her
'James go away! I'm trying to work!' Lily said, smiling to herself
'What are ya doin?' he asked obnoxiously
'Trying to finish this Potions Assignment!' Lily exclaimed tugging at a red curl
'Are you sure you weren't dreaming over…oh I dunno…One of your charming friends, with black hair and a wonderful smile?' James said winking at her
'Who Sirius?' Lily said grinning
'No I was talking about myself!' James said
'James I'm trying to work!' Lily said
'Ok I'll go' James said walking up to the boys dorm 'The answer's Furnucculus Potion by the way'
'I'm going to kill you James Potter!' Lily cried throwing a pillow at him. He knew that she liked to work things out for herself.
Just then an owl flew in the window. Lily looked up it circled around for a bit and then flew up to the boys dorm.
Lily shrugged and went to her dorm.
***
'Where's James?' Lily whispered to Sirius in Divination
'Dunno, he wasn't in the dorm this morning' Sirius whispered back
'Mister Black! Miss Evans! Would you kindly stop disrupting the other people in the class!' said Professor Chen mistily
'It's time for some good acting' Lily muttered and then put up her hand
'Yes Miss Evans?' the Professor asked
'Professor I'm not feeling too well, could I go and see Madam Pomfrey?' Lily asked after quietly whispering a charm to drain the color out of her face.
'Of course' said Professor Chen worriedly
Lily walked out of the classroom and then went to the one place she knew James would be. She muttered the charm to bring the color back to her face and then tickled the green pear in the portrait. It giggled and turned into a handle, Lily pulled open the portrait and walked over to a black headed figure sitting in front of the fire.
'James?' Lily asked quietly
The house elves all looked up from their work
'Sir wants to be alone' squeaked Soapy
Lily ignored the house elf and walked over to James. She placed a hand on his shoulder and looked at him
'James, what's wrong?' Lily asked
He looked up at her with a blank expression on his face and handed her a letter. Lily read it and looked down at James, who had tears streaming down his face.
'Oh Jay!' Lily said hugging him
'But why did they have to die? I mean my parents and siblings weren't about to harm this guy! I would have heard about it.' James said angrily
'James this Voldemort man probably doesn't even have a reason for this' Lily said softly
'I just can't believe that I'll never see Sebastian and Gemma grow up, or see Wanda and Winston start Primary School, or Luke and Preston get their first girlfriends, or tell Julia off again or even see my mum and dad's proud faces when they come home from the monthly Ministry meetings!' James cried
Tears trickled from Lily's eyes, she had know James' family very well. That place was like her home away from home.
She hugged James closer 'JayJay look I know that nothing I can say will make you feel any better, but I just want you to know that I am here for you.'
'Thanks Lil, that makes it a little bit easier' James said laying his head in her lap and falling asleep.
A few minutes later or it could have been a few hours, who knows! Sirius and Remus came bolting in.
'We came as soon as we…well, well what have we here?' Sirius said
'Sirius shut up!' Lily said, stroking James' hair as he slept
'Well you have to admit Lil, it does look a bit suspicious' said Remus
'Will you two just shut up! The poor guy has had enough of a test for one day!' Lily said softly
'What do you mean?' Peter asked. Peter Peddigrew was a first year who had just joined the little group. He was pudgy with thick blond hair and blue eyes.
'Here read this' Lily sighed handing a letter to Sirius
'Oh my God' he muttered and flopped down on to the floor, Remus followed suit and Peter just shrugged his shoulders and sat down (Peter couldn't read).
Lily looked down at James' sleeping form and smiled. She gently took off his glasses and stroked his hair.
'They were like a second family to all three of us' said Sirius
'I'll never get to talk to Preston about Dark Arts Creatures again' Remus muttered
'I'll never see Luke ride his first broomstick' Sirius muttered (he had been teaching Luke how to ride a broomstick)
'Where are my glasses?' came a sleepy voice from the floor
'Here you are James' Lily said pushing them into his hand
James put on his glasses and looked at them all, then looked at the letter on the floor.
He got up and walked to the window, Lily followed him.
'James what's wrong' she asked, putting and arm around his shoulders
'I don't want my friends to see me cry' he muttered tears streaming down his face.
'Jay? They won't laugh, we've all been friends for ages' Lily said
James looked into Lily's smiling face and shook his head 'What was I thinking? I can't sit around here and mope all day! We have a potions class to get to and I feel like a playing a few pranks on the Slytherins!' he said loudly
Then he walked out of the room, Sirius and Peter tagging along.
'What just happened?' Lily asked Remus
'What do you mean?' Remus asked
'He was so upset and then poof! He was psycho about wanting to torture the Slytherins!' Lily said
'It's a guy thing.' Remus said 'They don't like people to see them cry. Especially girls'
Lily just shook her head 'Remus guys are weird!'
He laughed as they walked down to the potions classroom and then stopped when they saw the group of Slytherins gathered around James. Malfoy and Snape at the front.
'I heard about the death in the family Potter!' said Snape
'Yeah there's a whole…what…one of you left now!' said Malfoy
Lily pushed through the Slytherins and stood next to James 'Leave him alone!' she snarled
'Gotta get your little girlfriend to stick up for you Potter?' Said Snape
'At least I have some guts to say stuff to your face without my little group of friends around, your greasy little git!' Lily said
'That's it Mudblood!' Said Snape raising his wand
'Don't' even think about it' James said, his voice a low even whisper
'Well Potter really can stick up for himself' said Malfoy
'You can say anything you want about my dead family, but when you start talking to Lily that way you had better watch out' James said
Just then Professor Gerrico walked up and unlocked the doors 'Now, now boys! We weren't fighting were we?'
'I'll get you one day Potter' Whispered Snape
