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AN: Well, I hope this chapter is going to be long enough to suit your needs…

Little Eagle

"I'll miss you," Lily said, throwing her arms around Sirius's neck, "and you'd better write!"

"We'll see each other again in a month, Lily," Sirius said, patting her back.

"I know," Lily's voice was small and muffled by Sirius's shirt. "But it's a whole month I have to spend with Petunia…" Sirius roared with laughter before peeling her arms off his neck and pushing her towards James.

"Go say goodbye to your boyfriend." He told her, and Lily smiled.

"Goodbye James." She said, and kissed him on the cheek.

"Is that all I get?" James asked in a hurt tone.

"Yes." Lily flashed him a smile. "Mum and Dad are here, and Dad gets a bit…."

"Over-protective? Insane? Paranoid?" James supplied.

"All of the above." Lily smiled and hugged Remus and Peter, before running to met her parents.

"I'm sorry, love, Petunia's at home…" James heard Mrs. Evans say, before someone grabbed him from behind.

"Aaaaaarghh!!!" He shouted, and the arms released him.

"James!" The owner of the arms darted in front of him.

"Hello, Mary." James picked up the four-year-old girl and hugged her.

"Mary!" Sirius grinned, and put a hand inside his trunk. "I have a treat for you!"

"What? What?" Mary begged, squirming out of James's grasp. "What?"
"This!" He handed her a giant chocolate frog. "They were selling them at Honeydukes."

"Thankyou, Siri! Thankyou!" Mary hugged him, and when he picked her up she kissed his cheek.

"You will spoil her." A flat voice said, and a tall girl, the same age as James and co. walked up to them. "Mother is waiting." She informed James, as she took Mary from Sirius.

"Hello, Claudia." James sighed.

"Hello James." Claudia looked at him coldly. "You had better hurry up. I was supposed to be going to the movies with Denia, but mother made me come."

"Yes, Claudia." James sighed. Claudia and Mary were the daughters of his old nurse, who was now the housekeeper, and she was practically his mother. James waved goodbye to his friends and picked up his trunk, and followed Claudia, still carrying Mary, away.

"You had a good time?" Claudia asked, her demeanor changing as soon as they were out of sight of his friends. "How many girlfriends do you have now?"

"One. A permanent one." James said coldly. Claudia always asked these questions, and he didn't like it one bit.

"Oh, she must be very pretty," Claudia shot him a flirtatious look, "Is she prettier than me?"

"In my eyes she is the most beautiful person on earth, so I'm sort of biased." James answered.

"Really?" Claudia scowled briefly. "Who is she?"

"You know her. She's called Lily, and she's one of my best friends."

"Lily? But she's hideous! All that red hair! And she's so to-"

"Shut up, Claudia." James said coldly.

"Lily?" Mary asked, munching her chocolate frog. "I like her. She's pretty." She smiled, and accidentally smeared some chocolate on Claudia's top.

"It'll rot your teeth and make you fat." Claudia snapped, and took the chocolate away from Mary, throwing it into a bin.

"Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaudia!" Mary whined. "What'd you do that for?"

"James!" A small, plump woman came running from where she had been standing near a car. "It's so wonderful to see you!" She wiped a tear from her eye with the corner of a floury apron.

"Hello, Jan." He hugged her.

"You've grown!" She accused. Indeed, James towered over her and Mary, with Claudia just coming up to his eyes.

"Sorry, Jan… I did try not to." She laughed and shooed him into the car.

"Oh dear," Jan sighed. "With your trunk, we won't all fit."

"Mary can sit on my lap." James said, sliding into the car and putting Mary on his lap. "And Claudia can have the front seat."

"Thankyou, James." Claudia said icily.

"Now Claudia dear," Jan said reprovingly. "James didn't have to offer you the front seat. He could have been a big snob and taken it himself, like his…" Her hand flew to her mouth.

"Like my parents would have done?" James asked, his voice barely cracking.

"I'm sorry James, I didn't mean-" Jan babbled.

"It's okay Jan. I know what they were and I know what you thought of them. You never hesitated to say things like that when they were alive. Don't start now." James said.

"I'm glad you know, dear." Jan looked back over her shoulder at him as she got into the drivers' seat. "I have always been a speaker of my mind, but I shouldn't speak ill of the dead."

"Let's just go!" Claudia snapped. Jan rolled her eyes but started the car anyway.

As they drove, James reflected on his relationship with Jan. Every since he'd been born, she had been taking care of him. The only things his parents had actually had input into was his birth and his name - everything else had been done by Jan, who with the baby Claudia to care for as well, had enough on her plate. She had home schooled James and Claudia, up until James went to Hogwarts, and Claudia, (whose father had been a muggle, as was the rest of Jan's family - Jan being muggleborn) had gone to a muggle school in the area. He knew Jan had always been disapproving of his parents, because of the lack of interest in their son - except as a heir (his father had made sure he received training for the burden of the Potter fortune)- and Jan had always told him what she was thinking. James yawned suddenly, and Mary poked him in the ribs.

"Play car counting game with me," She demanded.

"Okay." James smiled and they began to play.

Over the next few weeks, James wondered at Claudia, who seemed to try and get him alone all the time and was wearing extremely low cut tops (to the disgust of her mother) and short pants and skirts. He got through it all by thinking of waiting for Lily, and the others.

Claudia was deeply annoyed by James ignoring her attempts to seduce him. So she devised a plan. The evening that Lily was supposed to arrive, she slipped a sleeping pill into his dinner, so he'd sleep until midmorning - when Lily was supposed to arrive - and then she waited.

The next morning at ten-thirty, Lily knocked on the front door, and Jan went to answer it. She opened the door and greeted Lily, and Claudia, watching from the window at the end of the hallway that James's bedroom was next to, smiled.

"Hello dear." Jan greeted Lily warmly. "I think James is still asleep - you know where his bed room is, do you not?"

"Yes, Jan," Lily smiled, and hugged the housekeeper.

"Why, you're taller than me too!" Jan exclaimed, then laughed. "Go and wake Mr. Lazybones up, and tell him breakfast is waiting."

"Will do." Lily smiled and headed inside. Claudia rushed quietly to James's door and peaked though. James was just stirring, and was likely to be very slow functioning for the next fifteen or so minutes - just what she needed. Checking that she was scantily clad (in a extremely thin blouse with the buttons undone, and tiny black underwear) and that she had the jumper and skirt, she ruffled her hair a bit (it couldn't hurt to look as though she'd been doing something) she waited until she hear Lily coming up the stars to this hallway. Claudia darted into the room, threw her jumper and skirt on to the floor, near the bed, and lay down next to James and kissed him on the lips. James's responses were automatic, after six years of being the most sought after guy in Hogwarts, and they were instantly making out - James wearing only his boxers…

"James?" Lily opened the door and gasped at the scene that met her eyes. James, with his hands all over Claudia, and Claudia with her hands all over James. Them, in a rumpled and creased bed, with James's clothes in a heap on the floor, and Claudia's jumper and skirt on the floor as well. Claudia's blouse slipping off, and James moaning as Claudia used the techniques she'd picked up from dating many, many guys from the age of twelve.

Just then, Sirius and Remus arrived behind her (having used floo powder and the fireplace in the hall). Lily screamed, and buried her face in Sirius's chest, whose arms went around her as he stared in shock and disbelief at what he was seeing.

Lily's scream had woken James up, and he suddenly realised how neatly he'd been trapped.

"It's not what it looks like, Lily." He said, and trembled at the venom in her tone as she answered.

"Oh really? Then tell me? What is it?"

See - LONG!!! Well, it's not the whole holidays, but… anyway, hope you liked!

Fire Lizid