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Summary: James and Lily are friends who love each other but as in a lot of cases they both think the other doesn't feel the same way so neither knows how the other feels. Will they ever realise they both feel the same way?

Authors note: I love Lily and James stories and I'm a total romantic at heart so I thought I'd write this one and see what you think. I'm so sorry this chapter has taken me so long to write but I've had a lot of work to do and I haven't had the time so to make up for it I've written a really long chapter. Anyway thank you to everyone who reviewed chapter 6 they are Nana, Jitterbelle, sirius' lover, Rozebunny, ttttttttt, Winged Goddess and Lady Fuschia this chapter is dedicated to all of you. Anyway on with the chapter and I hope you enjoy it. Oh this chapter as well as a couple of others have been updated because of the misspelling of "Dumbledore" as "Dumbledoor" I am sorry about this and thank you for pointing it out to me so I could change it. Oh and please leave a review after you've read it.

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"James…Please James…Don't…Come back…Please James…Don't leave me…Please," Lily cried.

Remus stared down at the sleeping form of his friend watching the tears trickle down her cheeks as she slept, her body thrashing around on the bed as her hands grabbed desperately at the air in front of her, as if reaching for something none of them could see. She'd been like this for over a week now ever since James had left. Nothing or no one could comfort her, the only person that could have nobody could find he'd disappeared without a trace.

"Where are you James?" Remus whispered into the silent air around them his eyes never leaving Lily's distraught face.

"I don't know Remus, I can't find him," a weak voice replied.

Remus looked down at the face below him in shock as the eyes started to open.

"Lily?" He said grasping her hands.

"I can't find him Remus. I must find him," she replied as her eyes started to close again.

"Lily, Lily," he said panic in his voice as he started to shake her hands gently to try and bring her back to the real world and out of the all consuming sleep she'd been in for a week, which she was now drifting back into.

"Leave her Mr Lupin," a voice from behind him said "it's the only way she'll find him".

Remus turned around then to the speaker of the voice his dull, sleep filled eyes begging for answers to questions he couldn't ask.

"You must let her sleep Mr Lupin," Dumbledore said placing a hand on his shoulder.

"But…" Remus said staring up into eyes filled with concern.

"Leave her," Dumbledore said again walking slowly towards the doors at the end of the Hospital Ward.

Remus looked at Lily and then back at the headmaster following the departing figure as his cloak swirled around the door as it closed.

"How can you find him Lily? How?" Remus asked staring at the sleeping face below him again.

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Lily sat huddled on a rock at the side of a great, blue, shimmering lake staring intently into the clear water in front of her. She had the sense that she'd been here before but she couldn't remember when or why it was just a feeling. Occasionally she could hear strange, distorted voices around her calling her name but she knew she couldn't leave this place yet or she'd never find him again. She'd sat here waiting ever since he'd left her, waiting for him to return.

"Where are you James? Why haven't you come to me yet?" She asked the sky above her as it started to change from a bright blue to black.

Another night here waiting, she thought, but I'll wait forever for him he must know that, mustn't he? Why did he leave me? How could he tell me he loved me and then leave me? Lily felt tears fill her eyes as pain filled her heart as these thoughts filled her mind.

"Why James? Why?" She sobbed as she buried her face in her hands and wept for all she'd lost.

The touch of a hand on her hair went unnoticed as she wept, as did the gentle caress that followed it. All she felt was a soft breath of air tickle her ear as a voice whispered:

"I'm always with you Lily never forget that. All I want is for you to be happy".

"How can I be happy," she cried, "when I'm not with you?"

She looked up then sadness written plainly across her face.

"All I've ever wanted was to be with you," she said grasping his hands between hers.

"That's all I've ever wanted but it can't happen Lily," he said trying to pull his hands gently away from hers.

"Why not?" She begged holding onto his hands tighter as he tried to pull away.

"You know why Lily!" James said dejectedly.

"But you're not hurting me now are you!" Lily cried desperately.

"That's because this is our place Lily, mine and yours, nothing can harm us here," James said looking around him at the glistening lake.

"I don't want to be without you James, please don't leave me alone".

"You're never truly alone Lily I'm always with you".

"But you're not your leaving me!" Lily shouted desperately hating him for doing this to her but loving him for wanting to protect her.

"Lily my heart will always belong to you," James said taking her hand and placing it over his heart.

"And mine belongs to you," Lily said raising his other hand, which was entwined with hers, and placing it over her own heart.

Lily looked deep into James eyes as they stood like this swaying gently from side to side, seeing his love for her in their depths and knowing her own eyes would be showing the same thing.

"Lily?" James whispered inclining his head to the side.

Lily looked around her just as James had motioned her to do. What she saw made her gasp. They were inside a shimmering circle of blue water, which was twinkling and sparkling around them.

"Lily, James don't be afraid," a quiet voice said seeming to come straight from the water around them.

"Who are you and what do you want?" James said trying to move from the position he was in but finding he couldn't.

"My name is Harmony," the voice replied "I look after soul mates and please James stop struggling or you will break the link and destroy your last chance to be with the one you love".

At these words James stopped struggling and just stared around cautiously.

"What do you mean you look after soul mates?" Lily asked her voice shaking a little as she spoke.

"Soul mates dear I look after them and make sure they find each other. You see you two are soul mates and have been since the beginning of time but this time there was a little problem with you two becoming one. James' powers became linked to his emotions which could have put you in great danger dear so he left you behind".

"I had to," James said "I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd hurt her".

"I know dear and you did the right thing, at the time, it was the only way for me to bring you two here and solve this little problem".

"You mean," Lily said not daring to hope "you can make it so we can be together".

"Yes dear I can. I can't make it so these powers disappear because they are a part of James but I can make it so they can't harm you. Do you want that?"

"Yes," Lily said looking at James as he tried to interrupt "I'll do anything to be with him".

"Ok dear don't worry this won't hurt, all I'm going to do is transfer some of James' power to you so that you can both feel each others emotions, which will cause the powers you share not to be able to hurt either of you".

Lily nodded her head as she smiled at James praying this would work.

"This definitely won't hurt Lily will it?" James asked again caution written across his face.

"No dear I promise," the voice said.

James thought for a few seconds longer and then nodded his head. A wondrous sense of love flowed through them as soon as James gave his permission, travelling down James' arm and into Lily's heart flooding her whole being. As the love flowed through Lily she felt her eyes start to grow heavier and she felt herself start to float gently towards the floor.

"Goodnight my children," the voice said as Lily fell asleep cradled in James' arms.