Flowers and Prongs

A/N: Hey! I'm SO sorry that I couldn't get this out sooner. I've been having some problems with ff.net. But, I think we are finally getting somewhere. I didn't make Halloween a big thing because you may find something out on Christmas..........

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters. I only own Allissa Villellen, Isabella Evans and the plot.

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Halloween passed by very quickly, or so Lily thought. There were the usual live bats and the feast. Now days it was very chilly. Lily's nose was constantly red because of the cold December air biting her nose. James took this opportunity to call Lily "Rudy" or "Rudolf's girlfriend."

Currently everyone was in potions. For once in Lily's life, she felt glad to be in potions. She got to stand around her hot cauldron and feel warm, without anybody bothering her. When the bell rang, Lily packed her bags and ran outside to catch up to Allissa. Allissa was no where to be found. Suddenly James walked up behind her and asked where Sirius was.

"I don't know!" Lily said, thinking he looked quite cute when he was confused.

"Oh, well maybe they are in the Great Hall pigging out on dinner." Said James.

They walked to the Great Hall and found themselves around a mass of people.

Boys were shooting angry glares and James and Girls were shooting angry glares at Lily. When Lily looked up, she saw nothing but..............

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"Mistletoe" she groaned. James looked up and he groaned too.

"Great, now we gotta kiss." Said a disgusted James, though, he didn't think it would be THAT bad to kiss Lily.

Right next to them walked in Allissa and Sirius.

"Oh look, 'lissa, we were caught under the mistletoe" Sirius said mischievously.

Sirius and Allissa both looked up, shrugged and then kissed in a very... um...uh... let's just say that it would damage little first years eyes if they saw.

Lily and James were both disgusted. They both groaned again as most of the Great Hall began to chant "kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss...

"Come on Jamie old boy! Just kiss the little lady and then confess your dying love to her!" Sirius ran at break neck speed to the Gryfindor table as James tried to punch him.

Lily pulled him back and said, "Listen, we'll be stuck if we don't kiss, and if we just walk out of the Great hall people will call us chickens."

"Fine!" James bent forward and kissed Lily on the cheek.

The Great Hall booed and now began chanting "lips, lips, lips, lips..."

"Oh my God!" Lily screamed.

She reached up pulled James down and kissed him forcefully on the lips with all of the strength she could muster. She felt electricity for the whole time she was kissing him. Even after she let go, the electricity was still there.

The Great Hall was in complete shock, but not as much as James who was thinking, "Did Lily Evans just KISS me?" "Damn! She kisses good!" "No wonder Remus always had that dazed face whenever she kissed him."

Lily looked around, and saw Sirius, Remus, Allissa, and Peter looking at her with their mouths wide open.

"Huh! their mouths are open SO wide, that flies can fly in!" Lily thought

She quickly remembered that the Great Hall was staring at her and James.

"THERE YOU GO!" Lily yelled at the Great Hall as she stormed off to her dormitory. She had suddenly lost her appetite.

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James silently walked to the Gryfindor table and sat down quietly. At once Sirius said:

"Way to go, I-da-ho!"

"Shutup!" James muttered.

Allissa was more worried about Lily, and Remus was still shocked. Peter on the other hand was stuffing his face full of food. (The Pig!). Sirius was very content because he got something that he would tease James for the rest of his life.

James was still shocked, but he kinda felt embarrassed for himself and for Lily. Wait a minute, him, James Potter feeling embarrassed for Lily Evans? Too Weird.

After dinner, he got up with whispers following him. He headed for the Gryfindor common room.

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James walked into the portrait hole to see Lily sitting by the fire looking at a book of photographs.

"Uh, Hey Lil--, I mean Evans" James said awkwardly.

Lily's head popped up. She looked at him with utter most embarrassment.

She took a deep breath.

"Look James, I am really sorry for blowing up like that. I didn't know what came over me. I just, well----."

"-----It's okay" James interrupted. "What other choice did you have?"

James walked over to Lily.

"So what are you looking at?" James asked.

"Oh just some memories." Lily replied.

Lily giggled.

"What?" James asked.

"We're acting like somebody died or something!" Lily replied between laughs.

"I guess we are!" James said starting to laugh as well.

Pretty soon they were on the floor rolling around in laughter.

At that moment, Sirius, Allissa, and Peter entered the common room. They had expected to see Lily and James yelling their heads off at each other. But they hadn't expected to see them on the floor rolling around in laughter!

Lily finally noticed them and calmed down. Each time she tried to say something, a hiccup came out instead of any words. Because of this, she and James dissolved into another fit of giggles.

Eventually, Sirius, and Allissa were laughing along with them. Peter just stood there looked at one giggling face to another wondering what was so funny.

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A week passed since the "mistletoe" incident. Both Lily and James were on Friendly terms. The rumors of them "secretly going out" eventually died out.

Lily was the only one from Gryfindor staying at Hogwarts over Christmas, on a count of her parents were dead. She didn't feel too sad when everyone said they'd send her letters and her presents. Before Leaving, James said "Hey Evans, I will have many more pranks to pull on you when I get back! Oh, and a Merry Christmas to you!"

"Don't worry! I have so many pranks to pull on you, that I made another whole suitcase just for them!" Lily responded cheerfully, "Merry Christmas to you too!"

Lily hugged Allissa, Remus, and Sirius before leaving. James was already on the train so she waved goodbye to him instead.
With one more whistle from the Hogwarts Express, they were off.

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Lily walked back to Hogwarts a little sad. She went up to her dormitory and took a long nap.

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The growl of her stomach woke Lily up. She got out of bed, and went to the kitchens to see if the house elves still had any food left. When she got to the kitchens, she ordered butterbeer, and a chicken sandwich, which was very good.

She made her way back to the common room. She was sipping butterbeer when she saw something that she had never noticed before. It was a knight, but he had a red handkerchief sticking out from his belt.

Lily went closer for a better look. She pulled on the handkerchief. The knight stepped aside and behind him was a tall, handsome wooden door.

The door creaked open. She walked inside a beautiful furnished room.

"Wow!" she exclaimed.

There were beautiful maroon couches with cherry wood tables, and a large cabinet. When she opened the cabinet she found a book of some sort. She opened it, and found pictures of someone who looked oddly familiar to her. The girl in the picture had long red hair and beautiful green eyes like Lily had.

When she looked at the picture more closely, she found a tiny scribble underneath it saying Isabella Evans. "My Grandmother!" "So that's where I got my magic from!" Lily breathed

"She must of come here all the time." Lily thought.

Lily felt a tear prickle down her cheek when she remembered that her grandmother died when she was only 6 years old.

"Why does everyone I love die!" Lily thought hopelessly.

She put the book back in the cabinet, and walked out of the elegant room, though a little happy to find a place where her grandmother also loved coming to too.

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"Ow!" Lily thought. "This dream hurts!"

When she opened her sleepy eyes, she saw her tawny owl nipping at her ear to wake her up.

"IT'S CHRISTMAS!" Lily yelled

She quickly got up and took the letters off of Pixie's leg. She got one from Allissa, Remus, Sirius, and (unfortunately) Peter. She couldn't find a letter from James anywhere.
"Hmm, maybe he forgot." Lily thought sadly. "Wait! Why am I so sad, if I didn't get a letter from Jame--, Potter!"

She read each letter, they all said Merry Christmas and things about what's going on in their homes.

She opened present after present; she got a beautiful bottle green dress form Allissa, A "Pranks from A to Z" book from Sirius, a new wizard chess set from Remus, and chocolate frog from Peter. She didn't find anything from James.

She went and tried on the dress it fit perfectly. She took the dress off, changed into some clean clothes, and raced down to the Great Hall to eat Christmas breakfast.

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After breakfast, Lily went upstairs to read the prank book Sirius got her. She was flipping through the pages copying down pranks to pull on James when he came back. She was coping down the "Make your head twice its size" charm, when a snowy white owl came through the window. It dropped a letter in her lap and soared out of the window. Lily opened the note, it said:

Miss Evans,

A very Merry Christmas to you! I have a Christmas present for you that I know you will like. Please meet me in my office.

Yours truly,

Professor Dumbledore

A Christmas present for Lily? From Dumbledore? Lily put the prank book down and left to see Professor Dumbledore.

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Lily stopped at the gargoyle, "Licorice Wand" Lily said. She knew the password because she was sent in because she pulled a prank on James that made his cauldron blow up in potions.

She walked cautiously into the well-furnished room. Professor Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk with a sort of sorry and happy twinkle in his eyes.

"Hello Lily" he said

"Hello Professor" Lily replied

"Well, Lily I don't know if you know this, but your grandmother was a witch who attended Hogwarts." Dumbledore said

"Yes, I knew that"

"Lily, please do not be frightened by this but do you know who your grandfather is?"

"Umm, no." Lily replied confused

"He is Lord Voldermort."

"WHAT?" Lily yelled

"I know, I know, you see, your grandmother thought your grandfather left for a Muggle war and well died. Actually, he roamed the world looking for supporters to help him in the Dark Arts."
Dumbledore replied stiffly

"Do you know the reason your parents died?"

"Yes, my so-called-grandfather tortured them to death." Lily said blankly

"Do you know why?"

"No."

"Because he was looking for you." Dumbledore said, "He wanted to find one of his own kin." "His blood is flowing through yours Lily." "If you do not join him, he will kill you." "That's why you are here protected."

"Ohhh My God!" Lily whispered, she wasn't expecting to here this.

"But you see Lily, your grandmother was very smart. A few months after Voldemort and her got married she noticed strange things about him." "So she came up with this necklace, that whoever has magical abilities in their family will were it and become protected from him."

He handed her the necklace.

It was very beautiful. It was a long thin gold chain with a pendant in hanging on it. The pendant was gold, in the middle of the pendant was a small stone that was a Royal Blue. As soon as Lily put the necklace on her neck, she could feel the necklace giving off vibrations.

"You must never take that off, Lily." Dumbledore said seriously.

"It is your grandmother's gift to you." He said

"Thank you Professor." Lily said

She turned to leave when Dumbledore said something,

"Merry Christmas Lily"

She turned around.

"Merry Christmas Professor."

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Lily walked silently down the halls. She came to the portrait of the fat lady. "Flibbertigibbet". She walked inside and went up to her room. She lay in bed thinking about what just happened.

She eventually fell asleep.

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Lily woke up to see that it was 7:00pm. She walked down to the dormitory and had dinner alone. She was eating when Lucius Malfoy came up behind her. "I would be careful if I were you Evans." "We wouldn't want you to get hurt now would we?" He sneered and walked away.

Lily sat there even more puzzling thoughts crossing her mind. What did Malfoy mean? She slowly rose and walked confusedly up to her dorm.

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Lily woke up the next morning very groggily because all night she was dreaming about What Dumbledore and Malfoy said.

She got up, took a shower, and went into her trunk, to find all of the books she needed to use for holiday work.

"Well if I've got nothing to do today, why not do work?" Lily said.

She silently walked down the halls, she stopped by the kitchens to get some toast, she really wasn't hungry. She came to the doors of the library. She quietly stepped inside and began to shuffle through the bookshelves looking for books to help with her homework.

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4 hours later

Lily was sitting by the window watching the snow fall down.

"Ugh! I can't work anymore! It's already 3:00pm! I'm going outside for a walk." She said

She put all of her things together and walked to her dorm. She changed into more comfortable clothes, a white turtleneck with a maroon sweater and a pair of blue jeans.

She put on a jacket and headed out of the door. She was walking past many of the beautiful pine trees, that surrounded the Hogwarts campus, when she spotted a figure slumped by a tree. She cautiously ran over to it. When she looked at the person's face it was



"James!" Lily said horrified.

James was pale and he was shivering. It looked as though he had been crying. His head was in his knees and he was shaking uncontrollably.

"James, get up." Lily said

"James lifted his head and looked into her eyes. He looked vulnerable and scared. For the first time in her life, Lily saw James look truly scared about something.

"What's wrong?" she said sitting next to him.

"They're dead," he said in a dull croaky voice.

"Who's dead James?" Lily said already knowing the answer

"My parents" he said in the same voice. "Voldemort killed them"

"Oh James!" she said giving him a hug, and feeling a tear leak out.

"Come one, lets go inside where it is nice and warm." Lily said wiping the tears off of her face.

"Okay" James said dully.

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Lily and James walked slowly into the common room and sat by the fire.

"Umm, James, look I know it is very hard for you---."

She stopped when she saw him sleeping on the couch.

"Good night James." She said taking a blanket and placing it on him.

She settled in the other couch right in front of him, placed a blanket on her and too fell in dreams of total bliss.

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James woke up to the sounds of movement beside him. He opened one eye to see Lily Evans awake reading some type of prank book.

James took the blankets off and looked around. All of the memories sank in about what had happened yesterday.

"Finally awake?" Lily said. "It's 12:00.

"Yeah." I'll be right back okay." James said.

He walked up the boys' staircase and opened the 6th year door. By his bed was his Hogwarts trunk. A note was taped on it:

James,

A ministry official came and brought back your trunk.
You should talk to Lily Evans about what happened; she knows exactly what you feel like.
All of the best to you.

Professor Dumbledore

James opened his trunk and changed into clean clothes. He walked back downstairs and looked at Lily who was engrossed in the book.

"Uh hey Lily" James said.

"Hi. Do you want to talk about well, what happened?" she asked timidly

"Uh, yeah, well I was at Sirius's house dropping his Christmas gift. He said sitting down. I was turning back home, when I saw the dark mark floating on top of my house. I ran back and opened the door and..." he let the tears run freely from his eyes.

"James, you don't have to continue if you don't want to." Lily said

"Thanks." He said

Lily had a weird urge to go over to where James was sitting and give him a big hug. She did just that. Unbelievably James hugged her back.

"Does Sirius or Remus know yet?" Lily said

"No not yet." James said.

Before Lily could reply a "Oh" she felt James's lips touch hers. She was a little confused. She thought James HATED her. But it seemed by the way he was kissing her that he loved her. She replied back to him by kissing him back. There on the couch were the most unthought couple. You'd never think that Lily Evans and James Potter would be on a couch kissing each other liking it.

When they broke apart, James looked deeply into her eyes and said:

"Lily, That was for the mistletoe"

She blushed a deep crimson.

"James, why don't we go and get lunch?" Lily said.

"Okay." He said getting up.

They walked out of the door. When they arrived at the Great Hall they sat down and ate lunch. Malfoy came behind them and said, "Well Potter, I thought you would at least choose a better girlfriend than, Lily the "mudblood" Evans." He said evilly. Before Malfoy knew what was happening, James shot up, and punched Malfoy square in the eye. "Get lost, Malfoy."
"Come on Lily, let's go outside for a while."

"Sure."

They walked outside, "James thank you for standing up for me." "No prob." he said.

"Hey you wanna have a snowball fight?" Lily asked with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.

"YEAH!" said James acting like the old him again.

"They both ran out on the lawns that were covered in snow and started to pelt each other with snowballs.

A half in hour later, they were both so damp, that they decided to go inside. They raced eachother to the Fat Lady. James ended up winning.

"Beat you!" he said in between breaths.

"You win, you win! I give up!" Lily replied panting

They walked inside the common room and sat by the fire until they were dry. Lily summoned up food from the kitchens and sat by the fire eating away at the delicious food.

Lily finally got up and said, "I'm gonna go sleep, K?" she said resisting a yawn.

"K, I think I'm gonna go to sleep too." He said.

"Good night Lily." He said giving her a peck on the cheek.

"Good night James" she walked up the stairs while James watched her.

"Interesting day" he said to himself.

He walked into his room, and collapsed in his bed falling asleep the instant his body touched his bed.



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A/N: Whew! That was the longest chapter I have ever written. I hope you liked it! Thank you for all of the people who reviewed!

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