One Reason to Die, Three Reasons to Live

As Lily is about to perform a charm to make it so she was never born, James makes a deal: if he can find three good reasons for her to have been alive, she won't do it.

Third chapter and no one has reviewed… ::sniffles:: If you're reading, could you pretty please review? Please?

This one kinda came from nowhere…

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Second Reason to Live: Kevin

"How about Kevin?"

"Kevin?" Lily repeated, going back to that day in third year…

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It was the winter holiday, and the first snow of the season had occurred overnight. The lake had also frozen over.

"Let's go ice skating!" Arabella Figg suggested energetically. Everyone had agreed whole-heartedly, and hurried outside to enjoy the sport.

The ones born to wizarding families had very little practice on ice skates. They wobbled around as they walked on the ice, attempting to keep their balance. They suffered many falls into the snow banks, to the great amusement of all the muggle borne.

Lily had taken skating lessons when she was younger, her pre-Hogwarts years, so she was pretty good. She saw most of her friends becoming involved in a snow ball war, all the muggle borne and most of the wizard borne.

Kevin and a girl- Susan, wasn't it?- were still struggling around on the ice. Susan was dangerously close to the snowball fight, and was drawn in when one of the pieces of flying snow hit her full in the face.

No one else noticed Kevin slide down, and not stop. He kept sliding, closer and closer to the middle of the lake. The ice was too weak there! It would never hold…

Lily began skating as fast as she could towards the boy. She fell down, once, and as she got up cursing, skated off once more. The ice was beginning to crack under him… she skidded to a halt just as the ice gave out and Kevin was plunged into the icy cold water.

She stretched out her arm, damning her shortness, and managed to grab his hand. She pulled, hard, but almost nothing happened. She kept on pulling, though, slowly inching the soaking Kevin out of the water. She got him far enough that some of the other muggle borne students were able to help move him back. They hadn't come closer for fear of the ice breaking under all of them.

Kevin would have died if Lily hadn't helped. He wasn't a strong swimmer, and certainly not in the heavy, winter clothes he had been wearing.

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Lily shivered in remembrance of that day. "So I saved Kevin. Big deal! Maybe he only went skating in the first place because I went. I almost didn't go, and he didn't want to. He only went because he didn't want to sit by himself."

"You know that isn't true, Lily. He was one of the ones that were most excited about ice skating, and you know it."

"Fine. You still have the last one, James. And I'd hurry before the storm breaks. I'm not going to hang about in the rain," Lily said threateningly.

James knew that he had to come up with something, but what? He sat quiet for a minute… then two… after about five minutes, he said, "Are you ready for the third?"

"I was the one telling you to hurry up, half-wit!" Lily snapped.

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Another short chapter, I know, but feedback with suggestions to make it longer would be nice! R&R! Please?