Author's Note: Grr … had to re-write some of this story otherwise it'd be stupid – they were in love in their first year! So I changed it that Lily has transferred from Beauxbatons. Review please!
Disclaimers: All Harry Potter characters and settings belong to J. K. Rowling, Warner Bros., Bloomsbury Publishing, Scholastic Inc., and various others. I own nothing but the title and plot of the story.
Summary: Lily transfers from Beauxbatons and goes to Hogwarts to begin her fifth year. Then she falls in love with James …
Genre: Romance
Rating: PG 13
Without You – BY AGENT BAMBI
Chapter II: The Hogwarts Express
It was finally the day before Lily would go to Hogwarts. She packed her trunk and made sure Athena, her owl, was safely in her cage. Then, there came another sleepless night. Lily woke up the next morning feely very sleepy.
She put on a short green dress, and some luminous, silver lip-gloss. Then Lily went downstairs and had breakfast.
"Mum!" Lily called, "When do we have to leave?"
"In 15 minutes, Lily."
They packed her trunk into the car and drove to the station. Lily looked for Platform 9 ¾. She couldn't find it, and she was about to ask her mum, but then she noticed her mum wasn't there! Lily cursed under her breath. What was she supposed to do? She had half and hour to find Platform 9 ¾.
She scanned the crowd for someone that might be able to help her. She spotted James Potter, talking to what looked like an older version of him. Not bad. If this was what James would look like when he was older, it was good. Then she mentally slapped herself, she was checking out James's dad! Yuck! James's dad waved and suddenly disappeared. James ran up to the barrier in between Platform 9 and 10. Then he, too, disappeared.
Lily ran up too. She was so startled when she saw a gleaming red train; that she forgot to stop! She crashed into someone, a boy, by the feel of it, A/N: hehe! By the feel of it, LOL! and didn't know any more ...
Fifteen minutes later, she regained consciousness and found brown eyes and an unnaturally pale face staring down at her. It was James Potter.
"Are you okay, Evans?" James asked.
"Yeah ... I think." Lily responded, "What happened?"
James explained and finished, "And I carried you here."
He blushed and muttered something she couldn't understand.
"Thanks, Potter," Lily smiled.
"Well, now that you're okay, I better go find my friends," he said, somewhat reluctantly, "Bye!"
"See ya!"
Lily sat down in the carriage James had carried her to. Barely two minutes later, the door open and a pretty girl with platinum blonde hair, came in.
"She introduced herself, "Hi, I'm Melissa."
"Oh, hi Melissa. I'm Lily Evans," Lily said.
"Are you new here, coz I haven't seen you be - " Melissa began, but she was interrupted when three boys stumbled in. It was James, Sirius Black and another good-looking boy, which Lily didn't recognize. He had light brown hair and brown eyes.
"Oh, hi, Evans!" Sirius said, "James has been talking about you all sum- "
But he didn't get to finish, because James, blushing furiously, punched him hard in the stomach and said, "Ignore him! Oh, by the way this is Remus Lupin."
"Hi, Remus, I'm Lily Evans, though by the sound of it you already know about me," Lily said and looked at James who blushed more (if possible!), "And this is Melissa!"
Melissa smiled at everyone, "So, who are you two?" She pointed to James and Sirius.
"I'm Potter, James Potter, and this idiot," James said, pointing to Sirius, "This idiot is Sirius Black!"
There was a knock at the door. James muttered something that sounded vaguely like, "Oh no! It's probably Pettigrew." At that all the boys rolled their eyes. They didn't like little Peter Pettigrew.
But it wasn't Peter; it was actually a pretty and tall girl, with black hair, a pale face, red lips and piercing blue eyes.
"Hi, Melissa, James, Sirius, Remus and someone I don't know, is there any room here?" Stella asked.
"Uh ... ahh ... yeah," Sirius stuttered, "Next to me!" He pointed to the place where James was sitting. James gave him an annoyed look but moved to the only vacant place, next to Lily, who thought, Oh, James, without you, I don't know what I'd do!
Suddenly, a short little dumpy guy walked into the carriage.
"Oh, hi, Peter!" Sirius said, sarcastically, "How have you been?"
"Oh, good!" Peter said excitedly. Evidently, he thought Sirius was pleased to see him. "Can I sit with you?"
"Oh, sorry, Peter, there's no room." Remus said mockingly.
"Oh, dear me, then I must find another compartment!" and with that, rat boy left.
"He's our friend, but he's really annoying," James explained to Lily, "He's always follows us around!"
At lunchtime, a plump witch came and they got some food to share. James shared with Lily, who didn't have enough money to buy anything.
"No ... it's ok, James," Lily said, "I'm not hungry."
"Nah, don't worry, my family's loaded, it's not like we'll go poor if you have some!" James said and put a chocolate frog into Lily's mouth, which was open, ready to argue.
"Fanks!" she said, with a mouthful of chocolate.
They talked, laughed and ate for a long time. Lily and James were so full that they fell asleep. James's head slipped onto Lily's head, which was on James's shoulder. But neither had woken up. The other four, Sirius, Remus, Stella and Melissa were meanwhile doing their best not to wake them up with loud laughs.
"How sweet," Sirius chuckled.
"Totally!" Remus agreed, in between laughs.
Suddenly, the train gave a big lurch. Lily's head fell into James's lap, and his head went onto her lower back! Sirius and the others were thrown out of their seats with laughter.
"Now this is more than sweet!" Stella laughed.
"Maybe a bit too sweet!" Melissa giggled.
Remus and Sirius were laughing much too hard to say anything. They knew that this was exactly what James wanted. He had been totally out of it for the whole holidays, no doubt thinking of Lily. He also talked about her constantly. Right now, he was probably dreaming of her!
They slept like that for another hour, until an announcement came: "We will be arriving at Hogwarts in ten minutes, please leave your luggage in the train, it will be carried to school separately. Thank You."
James woke up and noticed Lily in his lap. Oh, god, no! This is so embarrassing!
He asked the others, "Err ... How long have we been like this?"
"Over an hour!" Sirius said, promptly.
"Lily!" James whispered, "Get off my lap!"
"No, no, no! James, you wake up your sleeping beauty with a kiss!" Remus mocked.
"No way!" James looked outraged. But inside he was thinking that that wouldn't be too bad! He gently shook her awake.
"Ahhhh!" Lily screamed, "What was I doing there?" She pointed to James's lap.
"You don't want to know, honey!" Sirius chuckled.
Lily hit her head with her hand, "Why me?"
"Oh, yeah, we gotta get changed!" James said, and pulled off his t-shirt and pants, and being left in only his black and green boxers, he pulled on his robes. Lily noticed he had very nice, firm abs.
He looked at the girls, and with a grin on his face said, "Well? Aren't you gonna get changed?"
"H-hmm!" Lily cleared her throat, "Obviously you don't mind getting changed in front of us, but we mind getting changed in front of you!" She looked at Sirius, whose head was stuck in his shirt.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we won't look!" James said and the boys turned around, Sirius still struggling with his shirt and head.
Lily cleared her throat again, "How about going OUT?"
"Oh, but you were here while WE changed, and plus, you were looking!" James protested. And it was true; the girls had been looking!
"But you didn't give us a chance to look away!" Lily argued, sneakily.
"But..." the boys began, but Stella pushed them out.
The girls got changed and called the three boys back in, who were in sulky moods.
