Suddenly realized that the dream Lily has plays off of Pensive, a wonderful fic about James and Lily in 6th year, well no I praticaly copied it, so I give credit for the orginal fic to Oy! Angelina, but since I changed it --- . So I changed it. Really, I've been reading it to much lately to remember it's not mine. Maybe that's why my brain is so overloaded with Harry Potter fiction stuff.

Chapter Nine

Plans

Remus, Peter, Karrie and Arabella were huddled in a corner talking.

"We have to do something to make them talk to each other again." Arabella said.

"Yes but what?" Peter asked.

"Well, Lily said something about James saying something about her eyes." Arabella said. "I'm assuming it was the reason for their ummm- fighting with each other, in the beginning."

"Oh yes, James was commenting how pretty she was and I guess he knew she was eavesdropping and changed the subject." Remus said.

"Makes sense." Karrie mused.

"Well what are we going to do?" Peter asked.

"Can't really have them pouring their juice all over each other all the time." Karrie noted.

"It would help." Remus said.

"Seriously, I don't know." Arabella said. It was sediment shared by the whole group.

Lily sat back and sighed.

The library was her refuge, since the other's had all sat with James, in an attempt to get them talking again.

She wanted, in a small way, to forgive James, but what he had done, and what she was sure he would do, was something Lily decided she could never forgive.

She put her head down and closed her eyes. She was tired she realized.

Lily found herself in the land of dreams, but couldn't really believe it. She watched herself, at what looked like sixteen, standing in the middle of the Gryffindor common room. James was standing there too. He was staring at her; hurt and loss were printed on his features.

"I was an amusement?" Lily asked, sounding very hurt.

"No."

"The why the hell did Remus say that? Remus doesn't lie!" Lily screamed. "Well, I guess I was wrong, Remus lies about more in the world then anything your small mind can comprehend.

"HIS MOTHER IS ILL?" Lily yelled. James stared at her.

"Remus doesn't lie. Anything he lies about he has a good reason for it."

"Well I guess this proved you wrong." Lily stormed out of the room. James fell onto one of the couches.

A girl appeared. "What was she talking about?" Karrie asked.

"I can't tell you." James said wearily, taking off his glasses.

"You should go to sleep."

"I will Kare, I will." James stood and walked off towards the stairs. "Kare, I'm going to wait for Lily, don't tell her."

"I won't." Karrie said. James left and Karrie fell on the couch. She began to cry.

Frank appeared. "Karrie?" Karrie didn't look up. "Karrie what's the matter?" Frank moved to sit on the floor by Karrie. "You love him, don't you?"

Karrie looked up, her face tear streaked. "I think I do." Frank looked down at his hands.

"Karrie, why?" he asked quietly.

"Because—" Karrie stopped. Frank looked up at her and moved towards her, cutting off her words by kissing her.

Lily looked away. She felt someone shaking her.

"Miss Evans?" a voice asked. Lily brought herself up, her eyes bleary. She looked up at Professor McGonagall.

"Sorry Professor- just tired, what are we talking about?" Lily asked, trying to find the blackboard.

"Miss Evans we're in the library. It's curfew." Professor McGonagall said, smiling slightly.

"Oh." Lily said, gathering her things. She hurried away, trying to shake the last fragments of the dream away.

She nearly ran into Professor Herald and a professor she didn't know, but turned a corner and hid before they saw her.

"It's amazing how well it worked, considering that she didn't know." Professor Herald said.

"The she was probably asleep during it all." The other said.

"Oh, we know she was." Professor Herald said, passing by Lily's hiding place. "Professor Lightoff made sure of it."

"Sleeping draft?" the other teacher asked.

"Much more affective, the selective sleeping draft. Choose a single person and only that person will fall asleep at a give time and wake up, with in a twenty four hour range." Professor Herald said.

"Very clever." The other said as the rounded a bend. Lily wondered who they were talking about.

Bursting into the common room, Lily looked around for James. Relieved to find him not there, Lily hurried over to where Peter, Karrie, Arabella and Remus were. "Hi!" she said brightly, sitting down amidst her chattering friends. The sudden silence alerted Lily to the fact that she wasn't welcome there. "I'm just saying hi, I'm for bed!" she hurried off, wondering what her friends were talking about, and if she was a subject of interest in the group.

Settling on her bed she looked up and saw Heather and Jillian whispering together. They glared at her. She flung up her hands and returned to the common room. She sat down near the fire place where a red-head was playing chess against Mary. She hugged her knees to her chest and watched as the little pieces moved.

Wizard chess had been explained to her by James.

Shaking off the though, Lily opened her Defense Against the Dark Arts book.

"Charlie!" Mary said. "That was cheating!"

"Is my brother cheating on you?" The red-head asked looked up with a grin. Mary looked like she was going to hit the boy.

"Bill and I are friends."

"And I'm in second year." Charlie replied.

"Hmm." Mary replied. "You should be doing something about the divination homework you got. I saw is Charlie Weasley."

Charlie sighed and looked up. "We're playing a game!"

"You'll win in two moves, take them and get along with your homework. Employ a first year to think of horrible things to happen to you." Mary said smiling. "Like Lily Evans."

Lily looked up from her book. "What?" she asked.

"Charlie Weasley, he wants your help with his divination homework." Mary said.

Charlie groaned and sat back. "Your go."

"Knight to E7." Mary said.

"Check and mate." Charlie said, grinning. Mary gave him a disapproving glare then got up.

"I have homework, ask Lily for suggestions." Mary said and walked away. Charlie pulled open his bag and beckoned Lily over.

"I just need help thinking up something terrible to happen to me in the next month."

"You play Quidditch?" Lily asked.

"I do." Charlie replied.

"Terrible as in deadly or terrible as in you'll fail something. Though the latter seems worse." Lily asked.

"Deadly." Charlie said grinning. "Professor Trelawney is like that."

"You'll get hit by a buldger that will knock you to the ground from fifty feet." Lily said.

"Excellent."

"You'll get burnt by some creature in Care of Magical creatures, third degree I believe." Lily supplied.

"Wonderful!"

"Hmmm let's see, in Herbology you'll get attacked by some plant…"

"That's a good one."

"In Divination you'll have an attack, heart failure? No a lung attack."

"A what a what?" Charlie asked.

"You're lungs with collapse on themselves." Lily clarified.

"You're great at this." Charlie said scribing the suggestions down. "Any more I should know about?"

"None, but if it's a comfort you'll survive to die when you're 31." Lily said smiling.

"Wonderful." Charlie said and began his homework. Lily wandered towards her dormitory.

"Lily?" it was James. Lily closed her eyes.

"What?" she snapped.

"Can we talk?"

"No." Lily said and hurried up the stairs.