Chapter XX + After the fight





"I can't believe you got into a fight with Lily and Allie." Sirius said, shaking his head as he walked to the infirmary with the bloody nosed Maria.

Maria just walked quietly.

"And you left Lily with a black and blue eye, and Alison with scars." Sirius said.

"Hey, Alison gave Lily the blue eye."

"Still." Sirius said, shaking his head again. "I can't believe you girls got into a catfight."

"Is it a crime?" Maria asked in annoyance.

"No, it's just… I don't know. You don't see girls in catfights often." Sirius said. "Unless you count James's fan club trying to attack Lily."

"Yeah yeah, whatever." Maria sulked. "It's their fault. THEY started it with the whole 'let's tell remus our secrets'."

"What IS it that they are talking about, anyway?" Sirius said. "It's been weeks since you three started to fight, and we still don't know what's happening behind it."

Unfortunately, they had reached the infirmary, and was greeted by the horrified Madame Pomfrey. She began fussing about Maria's bloody nose and polka blue dots, talking mostly to her self as she took random potions and gave them to Maria.

"Drink this." Madame Pomfrey instructed. "Hopefully it will clean up your bloody nose."

Maria grimaced as she eyed the foul smelling green, slimy potion.

"Drink it, Maria." Sirius urged. "You don't want to go back with all this blood around your face, do you?"

Maria sighed, held her breath and gulped down the potion.

"Now that's better." Madame Pomfrey said. "Now, about these dots…" Madame Pomfrey conjured a small tube.

"Rub it on all of your body that has dots." Madame Pomfrey said. "It should take about an hour to wear the dots off."

"Okay." Maria said. "Um, can I put it on here?"

"Of course you can dear."

"Um…" Maria blushed. "Sirius, can you wait outside or something?"

"Why?" Sirius asked.

"Because- I'm going to put this on."

"Well, don't mind me." Sirius said with an innocent grin.

"But-" Maria began. "Just get out and wait for me outside okay?"

"Alright." Sirius grumbled, dragging himself out of the infirmary.



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"You really shouldn't have." Remus began, dotting medicine on Alison's scars.

Alison grunted.

"Well, it was good that no one was THAT hurt." Remus said. "Well, so Maria has a bloody nose, and Lily got a black and blue eye, but at least no one died or anything."

Alison kept on grunting.

"Seriously, I don't see what this fight is about." Remus said, shaking his head. "It's really stupid. You guys shouldn't have started it in the first place!"

Grunt.

"You and Lily have been best friends for 5 years already, you have been through a lot together." Remus said. "The fights you two used to had never lasted this long. And you guys always come back apologizing to each other at the same time."

Grunt.

"And Maria… well, she's quite new to us, but I can see she can be very close to both you and Lily. She's been through a lot, and she knows a lot of stuff that… can come in handy."

"What are you talking about?" Alison asked, suddenly becoming quite interested.

"Well…" Remus paused. He couldn't just tell Alison that Maria was a seer. "Maria has dreams about Lily and James getting married." Remus blurted.

"Huh?" Alison said. "We all want James and Lily to marry each other some day. Excluding James and Lily's fans."

"No, but… when she dreams about something, it WILL come TRUE…" Remus said carefully.

"What do you mean??" Alison asked.

"She's just one of those people who has visions of the future." Remus said. "It's a gift, I suppose."

"Oh, that's cool!" Alison cried. "My cousin Ariel can do that, man, I envy her!"

"Isn't Ariel the one who can stand upside down on a broomstick?"

"Yes, her. Ariel Johnson. She goes to Salem Academy." Alison paused. "So, what's this again about Maria having visions of Lily and James?"

"Uh, yeah… um, I think she once said something about them marrying each other." Remus said. "And having a child- a boy." He continued, carefully leaving out the other deadly details.

"Really?" Alison asked, her eyes sparkling with this sort of mischief twinkle.

"Well, who knows, they might be snogging right now."



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"You okay?" James asked, gazing at the black and blue eyed, slightly injured Lily. "You really shouldn't have fought them."

"Never felt better." Lily said sarcastically, folding her arms across her chest. "Just leave me alone, Potter."

"Alright, but if you need any help, just holler." James said cautiously, scooting farther away from her. He sighed and began flipping through a magazine that was left on the coffee table.

But from the corner of his eye, James was watching Lily.

'She's unbelievably quiet.' James thought. 'She would usually throw insults at me at any time.'

Thinking hard, James scratched the side of his nose. 'She's looking a bit pre-occupied.'

"Stop thinking about them." James said.

"What?" Lily said, tearing herself away from her trance.

"I said, stop thinking about them."

"Them?"

"Alison and Maria."

"Oh." Lily answered. "I wasn't thinking of them."

"So you where thinking of somebody else?"

"Yes! N-n-NO!!"

"Yes-no?" James mused, looking at the blushing Lily.

"I WASN'T thinking of anybody." Lily hissed.

"Yeah, and I'm Madame Theresa." James said, rolling his eyes. "Come on, even Peter would know you're lying. So who were you thinking of?"

"Nobody." Lily said, straightening her body. "I wasn't thinking of anybody."

"Come on, what's so hard about saying a person's- probably a boy's name to me?" James teased.

"I wasn't-"

"Ah, I see. You were thinking of Bowler, weren't you?"

"No." Lily answered. "I wasn't thinking of HIM."

"SEVERUS SNAPE!"

"Oh please!!" Lily huffed, trying to keep a straight face. But she just burst into laughter.

James smiled at the sight of watching Lily laugh. Oh god, she looks so beautiful laughing so … freely…

"Ow." Lily whined suddenly.

"What? What's wrong??"

"My lips were swollen from the fight." Lily pouted. "It hurts when I laugh. But I want to laugh."

"Well, I'll bring you medicine." James said, sitting next to her. Lily looked at him expectedly, while touching her lip.

"Here, suppose to be strawberry flavored or something." James shrugged, handing Lily a tube of medicine he took from the first aid kit he conjured earlier.

"Strawberry?" Lily asked, looking at the tube of cream. She squirted out a small blob of toothpaste-like cream, and rubbed it on her lips. "Yum, me like strawberry."

"Me too." James said, inching his face closer to hers. Lily looked a bit startled seeing the distance between James and she was only a pinky away.

Then James tilted his head and kissed her softly on the lips.

"Funny." Lily remarked, as she pulled away slowly. "My lips don't hurt anymore."



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A/N: oOoOh OoOh… ;) oOoH oOoH oOoH… ;)

See, Sirius is just as curious as every one of you. Um, yeah… James and Lily kissed. AGAIN.

Hm, I don't know what else to say. Well, please review, DUH. Or I wont write. Um, YEAH. Bubye…