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 IV: Sealed with a Kiss
A few weeks had passed since Lily had joined Hogwarts, and she was thoroughly enjoying herself. Lily's favorite subject was Charms; she was the best at it. James's favorite subject was Transfiguration, which was his best subject and Lily's worst. They also enjoyed flying classes and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Lily awoke one morning, and got up to brush her hair. She looked into the mirror and screamed, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Her naturally silky, red hair was bright blue! The other girls rushed in.
"What's wrong, Lil?" Stella said, before she had seen Lily's hair, "Oh my God!"
"What happened to your hair, Lily?" asked Melissa, another of Lily's friends.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Lily shrieked. She was furious; who-ever did this would pay. Bad.
Lily turned on her heel and sped of into the Common Room, and them out of it.
But not before …
"Nice hair, Evans!" said James and Sirius, simultaneously.
She turned to James. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!" she said in a barely audible whisper, "Potter, you'll get yours … you'll get yours! I HATE YOU!"
She sped out.
"SIRIUS!" James moaned, "Now she hates me coz you made her hair blue!"
"Oh … Poor Jamsie … there, there …" Sirius mocked, patting James on the back.
James groaned, "Sirius, don't call me Jamsie, Please!"
"Okay …" Sirius said, then he was struck by an idea, "Oh, Jamie Boy, do you actually care that a girl hates you? And here I was thinking you weren't interested in Lily … Ha! Not interested in my ass!"
"DON'T CALL ME JAMSIE, JAMIE BOY, JAMSIE BOY or ANYTHING like that. And I DON'T care that Lily hates me." James lied.
Sirius shook his head in disbelief, "Jimmy, you can't fool me!"
James threw his Transfiguration book over Sirius's head, "DON'T GIVE ME THOSE NICKNAMES!"
Remus laughed from the side of the room.
"What are you laughing about?" James growled. He was mad at Remus and Sirius.
"What's gotten into you?" Remus muttered.
"I think adolescence is finally kicking in!" Sirius said, in a very audible whisper, "They tend to have sudden mood changes …"
This earned him another whack over the head from James.
"Ow!" Sirius moaned, and stuck his tongue out, running away. "Ner Ner! You can't catch me!"
James and Remus rolled their eyes.
Lily had a pretty much normal day, except for the fact that teachers kept asking, "Where's Evans?" Obviously, they were used to her red hair. But the Problems began in Transfiguration. It wasn't the fact that Lily couldn't make her porcupine into a beaver, it was that Professor McGonogall had asked James to help her! She was outraged. She wasn't going to listen to Mr. Stuck-up-big-headed-Potter! James kept smiling at her. She thought it was because he thought her hair was funny … but actually, he liked being paired with her!
Finally Lily couldn't take it any longer. "Wingardium Leviosa!" she muttered under her breath. Lily stifled a giggle as James rose 3 feet over the chair. She looked up to him. Then she noticed McGonogall staring at her.
"Evans!" she yelled. "Did you do this?"
"Yeah …" Lily said.
"WHY?"
"Well you see Professor … He made my hair blue!"
"Uh … HELP!" James yelled.
"Oh … sorry, Potter," McGonnogall said, and muttered the incantation to undo the levitating spell.
"Evans, you have detention tonight after dinner."
Lily opened and closed her mouth. Detention? She had barely been here a month. She had never had a detention before.
"Yes, Professor."
After an uneventful dinner, Lily went down to do her detention. It took her two hours to scrub the trophies and special awards.
After it, she felt very tired, and she went to sit on her bed. She soon decided to write a very rude letter to James. It took her an hour but it was worth it.
She felt much better when she had finished. Lily folded the letter into a paper plane and put a charm on it, so it would follow James around and hit his head.
The next day was very annoying for James. The plane certainly did follow him everywhere, but he couldn't catch it. After half the day was over, James finally managed to grab the letter. It was rude, and James felt hurt, but, being a guy, he tried not to show it.
The rest of his day was better; he earned 20 points for Gryffindor in Transfiguration, for turning his quill into a flower in one go. He went up to his dorm, and went straight into bed. But he didn't sleep. He wrote a letter to Lily. He wanted to tell her something. After he had finished, and checked that the other boys were asleep, James got up and crept towards the First Year Girl's Dorm.
Lily was dreaming, she was wearing a beautiful white dress, with a veil on her pretty head. There was a handsome boy, dressed in a black suit. He had … a lily in his front coat pocket … a white lily.
"Do you, James Potter, take Lily Evans, to be your lawfully wedded wife, in sickness and in health?" Lily (the one dreaming) was shocked. She was getting married to JAMES?
"I do," James's deeper voice said.
"Do you, Lily Evans, take James Potter, to be your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health?" said the minister. Obviously, this was a wedding.
"I DO!" Lily's more mature voice rang out. She smiled at James.
"I pronounce you man and wife! You may kiss the bride!"
James embraced her in a passionate kiss. Lily knew it was just a dream but … it had felt so real. She opened her eyes. She saw a retreating shadow … WITH MESSY HAIR!
"It couldn't be …" Lily thought, "James?"
She felt her tingling lips with her hand.
They were wet.
She went to get out her diary, but then she noticed …
"A letter?" Lily muttered.
She carefully pried it open.
"Dear Lily,
I am really sorry about the hair incident, Sirius actually did it, not me. He asked me to help, but I didn't want to.
I have something to tell you. Meet me at midnight in the Common Room, we can go for a walk.
Will you come?
Love,
James H. Potter."
Lily grabbed her diary, while smiling at herself.
"Dear Diary," she wrote, "I think I'm in LOVE! With James Potter! I dreamed him kissing me, and he did! My first kiss, I'm so happy, Diary.
I've had a crush on him since we met in Diagon Alley. He wrote me a letter, Diary. He said he wants to MEET ME AT MIDNIGHT! He wants to tell me something … possibly that he loves me? I hope so. Maybe this is all a dream, Diary. What are the chances of THE JAMES POTTER liking me? He's very good-looking, lots of girls have a crush on him, even the younger kids! He's popular, smart, attractive … PERFECT. I hope he does like me, I'm not as pretty as some of those other girls."
