a/n: Ok here's chapter three. Wipee!
Disclaimer: Everything's J.K.'s blah blah blah.
Chapter 3: title
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James was awake and had just finished changing into his clothes and school robe. He still had about 45 minutes until breakfast so he leaned out the window and gazed out at the abundantly green grounds. It was a beautiful breezy day and every now and then owls would swoop past his window who were either delivering mail or just enjoying the weather. Then, James saw something - someone. Flying around. The small figure would zip strait up into the sky and dive back down behind the trees doing loops, figure eights, all sorts of things.
Why is someone flying around this early? Maybe it was just someone on the team practicing up for the big match against Slytherin on Sunday- Whoa! A Thesues Lindenwald! (A difficult Quidditch move, also a signature move of James' favorite Quidditch player) Wow I that was really good. Whoever that is sure knows their stuff. It took me almost a year to learn it. I wonder who it is..
"James. What are you looking at?" Asked a sleepy eyed Sirius.
"Huh? Oh nothing."
"Man," Sirius said "we've got another good half an hour of sleeping time till we need to go to breakfast."
"Oh. I couldn't sleep."
"Whatever." Sirius mumbled as he rolled back over and pulled the covers over his head.
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Lily had brought her book bag, and Lord of The Rings book with her when she went flying that morning, just to be on the safe side. She couldn't handle another day like the on before. Although she sort of regretted it since her stuff was now damp from the dew on the grass. But now she was eating her breakfast and thoroughly enjoying her book. Lily was pouring herself a glass of pumpkin juice without taking her eyes from the page but she nearly spilled when she was startled by a close friend of James'. It was Remus, probably one of James' more decent friends. Remus was standing at the chair directly in front of her when he asked her politly, "Uhh. is this seat taken?"
"No, go ahead." Lily replied.
"Thank you." Remus sat down and pulled out his own book titled Dealing With The Dark Arts.
"How's the book?" Lily asked curiously.
"It's terribly interesting, how about yours?"
"Oh I've read it before, but it's been a while. I love it." Lily replied, "How come you aren't with your friends?"
" When they began flinging their breakfasts at one another I decided to retreat before things got too messy."
"Smart." Lily glanced down the table towards James who had begun striking Slytherins with his breakfast.
Lily continued to watch James and his boyish grin.
He's almost charming at times. And funny. And smart. Gah! What's wrong with me? I hardly know him. it's not like I like him or anything. Nah, he seems like such a slacker. He probably won't show up to work on our project, Sunday. Oh, but look at his smile..
Remus followed her glance and raised his eyebrows; then he was about to say something but decided against it. A few moments later he said "Seems they're becoming bored."
"Wha- oh, yeah." She realized that she had probably been looking at James' long enough for Remus to notice, and she blushed and looked down at the table.
"Well, I'm going to head over to Potions class." Remus said as he packed away his book. "Would you care to join me?"
"Sure." She replied. She heaved her book bag onto her shoulder and they started off for potions.
"Your name's Lily, right?" Remus said.
"Yeah." They had barely reached the door of the Great Hall when the sound of tramping feet reached their ears, and they were suddenly joined by James and Sirius.
"Hey, Remus you didn't wait for us." James said sourly.
"Sorry. I didn't want to take you guys away when you had only begun throwing things at the Slytherins."
"Yeah, whatever. We all know you were just sneaking off with some girl to an empty classroom so you could make out." Sirius said with an evil grin. "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean, know what I mean?" (tee hee Monty Python.)
Lily looked at the ground uncomfortably, Remus rolled his eyes and James laughed.
"We were just going to Potions Sirius." Remus said irritably.
"Sure you were-" Sirius said playfully.
"Come on lets just get to Potions." James said as he began to lead the way.
"By the way; what's your name my dear?" Sirius asked Lily on their way to the dungeons.
"I'm Lily."
"Ah, yes the infamous book thrower,"
"Thanks," She said.
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It was 6:45 and Lily was on her way to her detention in the Library, and James was waiting with some of the Quidditch team for Sirius to show up for practice. He was always late.
James remembered the person he had seen flying that morning and decided to bring it up.
"Hey were any of you guys practicing this morning?" He asked nonchalantly.
"Umm. should we have been?" One of the guys asked hesitantly. He was the newest member of the team and he wasn't sure if this was some type of twisted way to get them in trouble.
"No, just wondering."
"Yeah, I was." Said a gangly red head boy, "Practicing up for the big game- "
"Oh, shut up you slept in till ten." Said one of his roommates giving him a shove.
"It wasn't me."
"Sorry."
"Not me."
James received from the rest of the team.
"Hey, Jamsie. Can we get started without Sirius? He's Probably forgotten about practice." Said his friend Sean.
"Fine, lets go." James said grabbing his broomstick and walking with the rest of the team onto the field where he released the balls, mounted his broom and zoomed straight into the air.
James began looking for the snitch as he circled the field. Sean was zooming toward Rachael, who had the quaffle, but she tossed it to Sam before Sean could get it.
The only beater has his hands full trying to keep a very persistent bludger from knocking Sam from his broom while the second bludger was left unguarded.
A few minutes later Sean caught the quaffle when Sam's throw was blocked by the keeper and Sean grabbed the ball before Sam could get it again.
A moment later Sean was zooming toward his own goal and slowed down to toss the quaffle to his team mate Chelsea, when he was struck hard in the back by a mean bludger. He lurched forward over the front of his broom but managed to grab hold of it and started to spiral slowly toward ground dangling from the broomstick. Several teammates dove after him but as they did his hand slipped and he plunged downwards. James dived after him but he was far away to begin with. The team watched helplessly as he slammed into the earth.
His teammates flew after him and crowded around his limp body. "Chelsea," James said hurriedly, "go fetch Madam Pomfrey. And quick. Tom, conjure up a stretcher." His orders were fulfilled and James knelt beside his friend and rolled him over onto his back.
"Oh, my god. Is he dead?" Rachel asked apprehensively.
James felt his wrist for a pulse and said, "No, he'll be fine." James pulled off his Quidditch robe, folded it up and set it under Sean's head.
A few minutes later Madame Pomfrey, Madam Hooch and Chelsea were running towards them. They gingerly lifted Sean onto the conjured stretcher and started off towards the castle at a quick pace.
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James and Sirius came trudging into the Great Hall for breakfast, late the next morning. Both looked like they had received little sleep. With their drooping eyelids, and sloppy hair James accidentally bumped into Lily, who was leaving the Great Hall. Lily's broom clattered to the floor at James' feet and James just stepped over it, without a word and continued on his way.
Lily could understand that James was upset, especially with the big game against Slytherin the next day. So she just picked up her broomstick without complaint and left.
James was pouring himself some pumpkin juice and Sirius had his head buried in his hands.
"It's alright Siri. It's not your fault; you forgot and I should have reminded you." James said, trying to comfort his guilty feeling friend.
"I'm so stupid. I should have been paying more attention. If I could have just got to practice on time, Sean would have been fine and able to play Sunday."
"Don't worry, McGonagall said we have all day to find a replacement."
"We're not gonna find anyone better than Sean." Sirius murmured.
"Hey, at least we still get to play." James said.
"Do you have anyone in mind?" Sirius asked halfheartedly.
James' mind flashed to the morning before when he saw the person flying before breakfast. "Sort of," he said, "I saw someone flying but I'm not sure who it was."
"That narrows it down a bunch. How do we even know if it was a Gryffindor?"
"Oh." James said pausing to think a minute.
"Come on James, lets start interviewing people. See if anyone's good enough to be on the team."
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By 3:45 the Gryffindor Quidditch team had practically given up on finding a replacement. The team was sitting in the Gryffindor common room trying to figure out what they were going to do.
"Arthur Weasly's not bad." Rachel said.
"He's not very coordinated." Sirius said. "Would you rather use Arthur or Peter?" Sam asked with a duh kind of look on his face.
"God! Anyone but Peter." Chelsea cried.
James, who had been silent for quite some time, suddenly leapt out of his chair and exclaimed, "Lily!" And bolted out of the common room.
He paused outside the common room and thought,
Where would she be? Probably the library.I'll check there first. Man, why didn't I think of it before? She had her broom at breakfast, and in class that one day- of course it's her!
He sprinted down corridors and down staircases he was more than half way to the Library when his girlfriend (Vanessa Chang) stopped him.
"Hey Jamsie where ya going?" She said as she grabbed him around the neck.
"I have to find Lily."
"Who?" She said looking affronted.
"Look. We can talk later, this is important." He said before pulling Vanessa off of him and continuing toward the Library.
When he got there, he was out of breath and leaned on a chair while he scanned the place for Lily. He saw her sitting, alone in a corner with a book. She was wearing a long sleeved black shirt that contrasted well with her fiery hair, and she seemed oblivious that anyone else was even in the room. And for a minute James thought she was the most beautiful person in the world.
He walked over to her and touched her on the shoulder. Startled, she looked up and her bright green eyes locked with his Smokey gray ones.
"Uh. hi James. What are you doing here?" She asked with a puzzled look.
"Was that you? The person I saw flying yesterday morning?"
"What? You saw me!" She cried. Madam Pince threw her an angry glance. James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her out of the library.
He dropped her hand and said, "Would you like to be our replacement player for our Sunday game?"
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a/n: Yay! I finished chapter three!!! Ok, the next chapter might take me a while to write because I am going to have to write out the Quidditch game, and I'm not too good at that. And I check reviews every day so if you have some constructive criticism, or ideas, or comments it would be most appreciated. You reviewers inspire me to write! Thanks again. (Oh! I only used the word then, once in this chapter ; )
Disclaimer: Everything's J.K.'s blah blah blah.
Chapter 3: title
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James was awake and had just finished changing into his clothes and school robe. He still had about 45 minutes until breakfast so he leaned out the window and gazed out at the abundantly green grounds. It was a beautiful breezy day and every now and then owls would swoop past his window who were either delivering mail or just enjoying the weather. Then, James saw something - someone. Flying around. The small figure would zip strait up into the sky and dive back down behind the trees doing loops, figure eights, all sorts of things.
Why is someone flying around this early? Maybe it was just someone on the team practicing up for the big match against Slytherin on Sunday- Whoa! A Thesues Lindenwald! (A difficult Quidditch move, also a signature move of James' favorite Quidditch player) Wow I that was really good. Whoever that is sure knows their stuff. It took me almost a year to learn it. I wonder who it is..
"James. What are you looking at?" Asked a sleepy eyed Sirius.
"Huh? Oh nothing."
"Man," Sirius said "we've got another good half an hour of sleeping time till we need to go to breakfast."
"Oh. I couldn't sleep."
"Whatever." Sirius mumbled as he rolled back over and pulled the covers over his head.
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Lily had brought her book bag, and Lord of The Rings book with her when she went flying that morning, just to be on the safe side. She couldn't handle another day like the on before. Although she sort of regretted it since her stuff was now damp from the dew on the grass. But now she was eating her breakfast and thoroughly enjoying her book. Lily was pouring herself a glass of pumpkin juice without taking her eyes from the page but she nearly spilled when she was startled by a close friend of James'. It was Remus, probably one of James' more decent friends. Remus was standing at the chair directly in front of her when he asked her politly, "Uhh. is this seat taken?"
"No, go ahead." Lily replied.
"Thank you." Remus sat down and pulled out his own book titled Dealing With The Dark Arts.
"How's the book?" Lily asked curiously.
"It's terribly interesting, how about yours?"
"Oh I've read it before, but it's been a while. I love it." Lily replied, "How come you aren't with your friends?"
" When they began flinging their breakfasts at one another I decided to retreat before things got too messy."
"Smart." Lily glanced down the table towards James who had begun striking Slytherins with his breakfast.
Lily continued to watch James and his boyish grin.
He's almost charming at times. And funny. And smart. Gah! What's wrong with me? I hardly know him. it's not like I like him or anything. Nah, he seems like such a slacker. He probably won't show up to work on our project, Sunday. Oh, but look at his smile..
Remus followed her glance and raised his eyebrows; then he was about to say something but decided against it. A few moments later he said "Seems they're becoming bored."
"Wha- oh, yeah." She realized that she had probably been looking at James' long enough for Remus to notice, and she blushed and looked down at the table.
"Well, I'm going to head over to Potions class." Remus said as he packed away his book. "Would you care to join me?"
"Sure." She replied. She heaved her book bag onto her shoulder and they started off for potions.
"Your name's Lily, right?" Remus said.
"Yeah." They had barely reached the door of the Great Hall when the sound of tramping feet reached their ears, and they were suddenly joined by James and Sirius.
"Hey, Remus you didn't wait for us." James said sourly.
"Sorry. I didn't want to take you guys away when you had only begun throwing things at the Slytherins."
"Yeah, whatever. We all know you were just sneaking off with some girl to an empty classroom so you could make out." Sirius said with an evil grin. "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean, know what I mean?" (tee hee Monty Python.)
Lily looked at the ground uncomfortably, Remus rolled his eyes and James laughed.
"We were just going to Potions Sirius." Remus said irritably.
"Sure you were-" Sirius said playfully.
"Come on lets just get to Potions." James said as he began to lead the way.
"By the way; what's your name my dear?" Sirius asked Lily on their way to the dungeons.
"I'm Lily."
"Ah, yes the infamous book thrower,"
"Thanks," She said.
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It was 6:45 and Lily was on her way to her detention in the Library, and James was waiting with some of the Quidditch team for Sirius to show up for practice. He was always late.
James remembered the person he had seen flying that morning and decided to bring it up.
"Hey were any of you guys practicing this morning?" He asked nonchalantly.
"Umm. should we have been?" One of the guys asked hesitantly. He was the newest member of the team and he wasn't sure if this was some type of twisted way to get them in trouble.
"No, just wondering."
"Yeah, I was." Said a gangly red head boy, "Practicing up for the big game- "
"Oh, shut up you slept in till ten." Said one of his roommates giving him a shove.
"It wasn't me."
"Sorry."
"Not me."
James received from the rest of the team.
"Hey, Jamsie. Can we get started without Sirius? He's Probably forgotten about practice." Said his friend Sean.
"Fine, lets go." James said grabbing his broomstick and walking with the rest of the team onto the field where he released the balls, mounted his broom and zoomed straight into the air.
James began looking for the snitch as he circled the field. Sean was zooming toward Rachael, who had the quaffle, but she tossed it to Sam before Sean could get it.
The only beater has his hands full trying to keep a very persistent bludger from knocking Sam from his broom while the second bludger was left unguarded.
A few minutes later Sean caught the quaffle when Sam's throw was blocked by the keeper and Sean grabbed the ball before Sam could get it again.
A moment later Sean was zooming toward his own goal and slowed down to toss the quaffle to his team mate Chelsea, when he was struck hard in the back by a mean bludger. He lurched forward over the front of his broom but managed to grab hold of it and started to spiral slowly toward ground dangling from the broomstick. Several teammates dove after him but as they did his hand slipped and he plunged downwards. James dived after him but he was far away to begin with. The team watched helplessly as he slammed into the earth.
His teammates flew after him and crowded around his limp body. "Chelsea," James said hurriedly, "go fetch Madam Pomfrey. And quick. Tom, conjure up a stretcher." His orders were fulfilled and James knelt beside his friend and rolled him over onto his back.
"Oh, my god. Is he dead?" Rachel asked apprehensively.
James felt his wrist for a pulse and said, "No, he'll be fine." James pulled off his Quidditch robe, folded it up and set it under Sean's head.
A few minutes later Madame Pomfrey, Madam Hooch and Chelsea were running towards them. They gingerly lifted Sean onto the conjured stretcher and started off towards the castle at a quick pace.
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James and Sirius came trudging into the Great Hall for breakfast, late the next morning. Both looked like they had received little sleep. With their drooping eyelids, and sloppy hair James accidentally bumped into Lily, who was leaving the Great Hall. Lily's broom clattered to the floor at James' feet and James just stepped over it, without a word and continued on his way.
Lily could understand that James was upset, especially with the big game against Slytherin the next day. So she just picked up her broomstick without complaint and left.
James was pouring himself some pumpkin juice and Sirius had his head buried in his hands.
"It's alright Siri. It's not your fault; you forgot and I should have reminded you." James said, trying to comfort his guilty feeling friend.
"I'm so stupid. I should have been paying more attention. If I could have just got to practice on time, Sean would have been fine and able to play Sunday."
"Don't worry, McGonagall said we have all day to find a replacement."
"We're not gonna find anyone better than Sean." Sirius murmured.
"Hey, at least we still get to play." James said.
"Do you have anyone in mind?" Sirius asked halfheartedly.
James' mind flashed to the morning before when he saw the person flying before breakfast. "Sort of," he said, "I saw someone flying but I'm not sure who it was."
"That narrows it down a bunch. How do we even know if it was a Gryffindor?"
"Oh." James said pausing to think a minute.
"Come on James, lets start interviewing people. See if anyone's good enough to be on the team."
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By 3:45 the Gryffindor Quidditch team had practically given up on finding a replacement. The team was sitting in the Gryffindor common room trying to figure out what they were going to do.
"Arthur Weasly's not bad." Rachel said.
"He's not very coordinated." Sirius said. "Would you rather use Arthur or Peter?" Sam asked with a duh kind of look on his face.
"God! Anyone but Peter." Chelsea cried.
James, who had been silent for quite some time, suddenly leapt out of his chair and exclaimed, "Lily!" And bolted out of the common room.
He paused outside the common room and thought,
Where would she be? Probably the library.I'll check there first. Man, why didn't I think of it before? She had her broom at breakfast, and in class that one day- of course it's her!
He sprinted down corridors and down staircases he was more than half way to the Library when his girlfriend (Vanessa Chang) stopped him.
"Hey Jamsie where ya going?" She said as she grabbed him around the neck.
"I have to find Lily."
"Who?" She said looking affronted.
"Look. We can talk later, this is important." He said before pulling Vanessa off of him and continuing toward the Library.
When he got there, he was out of breath and leaned on a chair while he scanned the place for Lily. He saw her sitting, alone in a corner with a book. She was wearing a long sleeved black shirt that contrasted well with her fiery hair, and she seemed oblivious that anyone else was even in the room. And for a minute James thought she was the most beautiful person in the world.
He walked over to her and touched her on the shoulder. Startled, she looked up and her bright green eyes locked with his Smokey gray ones.
"Uh. hi James. What are you doing here?" She asked with a puzzled look.
"Was that you? The person I saw flying yesterday morning?"
"What? You saw me!" She cried. Madam Pince threw her an angry glance. James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her out of the library.
He dropped her hand and said, "Would you like to be our replacement player for our Sunday game?"
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a/n: Yay! I finished chapter three!!! Ok, the next chapter might take me a while to write because I am going to have to write out the Quidditch game, and I'm not too good at that. And I check reviews every day so if you have some constructive criticism, or ideas, or comments it would be most appreciated. You reviewers inspire me to write! Thanks again. (Oh! I only used the word then, once in this chapter ; )