Title: Lies
Rating: R for sexual situations, language, and future violence.
Chapter 4: James
Chapter Summary: What was James thinking about all this?
Previously...
"Lily?"
They stopped immediately.
"Shit."
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Amazingly, strangely, by the oddest power ever...James chose to completely forget about the incident....or at least for as long as Lily was concerned. He thought about it day and night, yes, but he never questioned his wife. He never did anything of the sort. He figured that she would never, ever do anything like that.
[Yes, my readers, this is really weird...but I'm under serious writer's block dammit! :)]
And why would she? She was Lily Evans...the oh-so-humble Lily Evans. Beautiful, intelligent, and modest, with the makings of a prom queen and a school geek rolled into one. Why else had he married her? James knew that she was honest and loyal...or so he thought. Had she simply deceived him? Was Lily far different than James thought she was? Nothing seemed right anymore. It was like the once-happily married couple were completely detached and separated from each other. Not physically...but in spirit.
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It was a week after the Hogwarts reunion. After letting this unfortunate turn of events rumble through and past his heart, he found himself still married to that red-haired woman with a zest for life and the ability to turn the heads of every young man alive. Unsurprisingly, of course. James figured if he really wanted to do that, he would have made some kind of political move. But to no avail.
He was searching through old photo albums one day...but not for any particular reason. It seemed that his soul wanted proof that they were in love, but James didn't know this. The albums started with snapshots from their days at Hogwarts. He saw numerous photographs of Quidditch victories, late-night common room parties, and everything that made Hogwarts...well, Hogwarts. As the pages turned, more pictures were seen of James and Lily being...er...*snuggly*, in a manner of speaking. They didn't know it then, but they had been very much in love during their sixth and seventh years...or so he thought. Finally, he came across some professional photographs of their wedding.
James couldn't help but smile; he remembered those ridiculous, black dress robes with the bow tie, and how beautiful his bride looked in satiny white. Snapshots included them kissing, dancing, and smashing cake into each other's faces (which Lily had resisted yet, actually, enjoyed). At this one picture, the photographic selves of James and Lily were currently picking up pieces of cake and doing this over and over and over, as was custom in moving pictures. The Lily in the picture looked up at the real James and waved. This was amusing, yet it got him thinking...
Had Lily and Sirius been in love all this time? Even before now?
James closed the photo album with a snap. Little did he know that, there on the next page, was a picture of James and his parents waving and smiling, with Lily and Sirius in the background, behind the shadows....kissing.
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A/N: Cliffie Alert! Cliffie Alert! Lol...next chapter will be Lily's space where we go through her thoughts. She has a couple flashbacks of Hogwarts, and we learn of an old trial in which she had to decide which one she loved...Sirius, or James.
Disclaimer: The characters you recognize in the above chapter are the property of J.K. Rowling...although, after reading this, she'll wish she ever even *made* the characters :) hehe j/k...
