The Flower's Story chp 30

"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."

-Winchell, Walter

"I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house."

-Jerome, Jerome K.

Remus, Sirius, Peter and Molly all sat on James' bed looking anxiously at the door and at eachother. When James had ran out the door with his invisibility cloak they didn't know whether he was going to pound lily or rescue her from the ultimate death. They all knew he had over-reacted when Molly told them about the bullies and about the lies she'd been feeding Remus whenever he asked about them.

"But they aren't bullies" Molly was saying to herself, as she got up from James' bed. Remus looked up from the lunar chart he had been staring at.

"What?" Sirius exclaimed "Moll, they're verbally harassing her and who knows what else?"

"Oh no!" Remus turned to face Sirius "If Lily had been being attacked more than verbally she'd say something to one of us. But verbally she could handle herself, you should know that!" Remus remarked with a slight grin

Sirius had received one to many verbal beatings from lily over their course at Hogwarts. There had not been one week in every school year that Lily had not said something along the lines of: 'I'm gonna kill you Sirius' or 'one of these days Sirius'. He was quite used to them by their 7th year together.

A little while later the door flew open and Tasha strolled in with a smug look on her face. Sirius on the other hand looked appalled.

"Why is it that girls can come up to our dormitories but we can't go up to theirs?" Sirius asked annoyingly

"You've been in our dormitories before! I know James has at least." Tasha was still looking extremely pleased with herself when she sat on the bed across from all of them. "Speaking of James..."

Tasha trailed off obviously enjoying rubbing it in their faces they she knew something they didn't.

"Yes what about him?" Sirius asked curiously he loved playing Tasha's little games but the others didn't have enough patience for them.

"Tash, if your going to go on and on about what you know and we don't we're just going to find out for ourselves then!" Molly made a move to get up, but Tasha stopped her

"Your no fun" Tasha sighed as she walked straight to Sirius but directing her comment towards Molly. Instead of telling them what was going on she went right up face to face with Sirius and gave him a short kiss on the lips. This was quite surprising, for Tasha hardly ever showed public signs of affection with Sirius. Even he was taken aback a little which is exactly what she'd hoped for. So she leaned close to his ear and whispered loud enough for the others to hear. "I think he's finally grown up!" Sirius gasped mockingly and gave Tasha a kiss except this one a little longer. Soon enough Sirius had gotten up and grabbed Tasha by the hand taking her downstairs. The only thing the rest of them heard him say was:

"Things are finally turning back to normal."

Remus and Molly sighed, relief coursing through them. They knew what this meant, unfortunately Peter being still extremely thickheaded they had to tell him what was going on. That James and Lily had finally reconciled. Peter smiled at this news but didn't exactly take it in as joyous tidings. Remus noted this to himself and walked down to the common room with Molly and Peter in tow.

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Everything definitely was back to normal, Lily and James were snogging whenever they weren't fighting, eating, sleeping, or studying. This did not really give them lots of time because of their NEWT's. The whole of the 7th years felt like they had catapulted back to 5th year again, except three times over. The workload was gigantic. Nobody had time to just lull about, their professors made sure of that. Especially Lily and James!

Being Head Boy and Head Girl, Lily and James had a lot more responsibilities than others all did, put together! They were told to patrol hallways almost every night, looking for students out of bed. Of course this time was usually used for snogging, but James usually brought the marauders map just in case anyone approached. They didn't want to be caught off guard looking like they hadn't been attending their duties. To James and Lily though their duties, just meant having less time to study for regular exams, homework and most importantly: NEWTS.

Almost everyone decided they had wanted to become Aurors. Even Peter was thinking about taking it up with them. They never thought that Peter would have passed the OWL's for Auror classes but everyone has little surprises of their own.

Molly hadn't really thought of giving a decision on career choices. Of course she was in all the same NEWT classes as the rest of them, but Molly of course was engaged to Arthur, and whenever she mentioned the word engagement Lily and James exchanged smug glances. Everyone thought this meant that they were happy for them, and soon expected an engagement like that one soon enough.

But Tasha had expected it to be much sooner than guessed by her friends. She always had keen understandings about Lily and James' relationship. She found it very interesting the little subtle messages. She caught James' eye a few minutes after he and lily had exchanged glances. She gave him a knowing wink and he looked at her surprised then at Lily a little disappointed. Tasha was going to have to have a little chat with her two lovebirds. But she put it off for a long while leaving them the benefit of the doubt.

Months were passing by like days, and days like hours. Things seemed to be going a little to fast for everyone, because before they knew it, the Christmas holiday was upon them. And students were signing up to leave the school or stay. Everyone had planned to stay in school this year because it's their last year, but Lily preferred to do something different. Something she had never done before.

"James, I want to invite all our mates over for the entirety of the Christmas break. We need to go out of this with a bang, and I mean a real good bang far away from Hogwarts castle." Lily proposed to James one night a week before the school term ended. They had been sitting alone

"I don't, Lily..." James said warily. The last thing he wanted was a frantic Lily cleaning up the house and becoming a neat freak again. Sirius had once called her Suicidal Sponger Lily, which of course gave him a good whack over the head by both Tasha and lily.

"Please...for me?" lily pleaded giving him big watery and eyes and a pouty face.

"All right all right but stop with that face please! It's to pathetic for me to look at-" James had stopped mid-sentence because a large bag of books was flung over the armchair next to them and a tired looking Tasha fell right onto it. She smiled and gave a wave to lily and James.

They looked at eachother in question to this randomness of just dropping in on their conversation. But Tasha had a purpose that was going to get out.

"So where is it?" Tasha asked taking out the bag of books from underneath her bum.

"Where is what?" Lily asked confused "Oh Tasha want to come to James' house for Christmas this year we're having a big bash! All the mates are invited!" Lily was so enthusiastic about this whole party but James didn't keep his eyes off Tasha.

"Sound like fun...of course I'll be there! And don't you mean OUR house?"

"Well I guess it could be our house since we live there! But Remus lives there too " Lily answered awkwardly

"Oh so your going to keep him living with you after the celebrated event huh!" Tasha asked lowering her voice and smiling at the two of them. Lily stared blankly at Tasha and James had a very peculiar look on his face.

"It's just a party Tash. And of course he's going to live with us. Where else would he go?" lily asked getting rather confused and frustrated. James just sat there saying nothing.

"Well, I would expect that you and James would like to be alone for the conceiving of children an-"

"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?" Lily and James both almost jumped a foot into the air. They both realized now what she was talking about, but how she knew was a complete mystery. Almost every night they had asked eachother if they told. And each in turn had said no. They looked at each other and realized no one had told anyone so how could she possibly know.

"Don't go bonkers on me you two. It's actually quite obvious. Whenever Molly mentions you know what, you look at eachother as if Lil is about to have a baby." Tasha giggled at the look on Lily's face

"Trust me I'm not going to tell anyone. But when were you planning on telling people cause pretty soon, Remus and Sirius are going to catch on. They're already gathering suspicions about you mates hiding something."

"Well...we hadn't planned on telling anyone for quite a bit. It was rather informal you know. Just sort of a quick question and answer." James explained in a low voice

"So Tash I think it would have been better for you not to know at all because, we're probably not going to say anything for a long while!" lily whispered

"A long while!" Tasha yelled

Lily and James tried to hush her down but to no avail.

"I can't keep a secret for a long while!"

"Well then you shouldn't have but into our business!" James exclaimed quietly

"James!" Lily said warningly "Tash, it's not that...well...this was just a...You know what? Let's go for a walk OK?" Lily got up and took Tasha's hand.

Tasha glared at James a little then followed Lily through the portrait hole. It wasn't after hours yet so they had a lot of time to just lull about the hallways. It was to cold to go outside and in the library nobody was really aloud to talk much, so Lily decided to take Tasha into the Great Hall.

Lily and Tasha took their seats away from the other groups of people who were either studying or just socializing.

"Listen Tash" Lily started as they got settled "That whole engagement proposal bit, it's not as important and as official as it sounds. It was more like a...oh bloody hell how do I put this...it was more like a pact! A pact between James and I that no matter what, we'll always belong to each other! That even if we do separate there will always be a place in my heart for him and a place in his heart for me!"

"Wait...so your not getting married?" Tasha asked meekly disappointed

Lily smiled "Well not tomorrow" she joked

Tasha smiled although she was disappointed. She always wanted to be a bride's maid or a maid of honor, something along the lines of that. But since Lily probably wasn't going to get officially engaged for another few years, and it would take a long while to get all the plans together, Tasha figured she wouldn't be attending any weddings for quite a while.

"Hey, don't worry" Lily said sympathetically as she saw Tasha's face dampen "You have to remember the Molly is going to be having her wedding long before I am. To tell you the truth, I don't really want to get married so quickly, I'd like to explore the wizarding world, and have some adventures before I even start to think about 'settling down' and starting a family..."

Lily trailed off thinking about how she didn't really want to get married very soon. She wanted to go into the true wizarding world and explore it. But she then thought of James and how he wanted to instantly become an Auror and fight the good fight. Lily needed to wait a little longer before starting to work, but leaving James behind while going off would be so hard. He had grown up in this world, lily only knows what she learned within the walls of hogwarts and what Remus had told her as a child.

Tasha watched a range of emotions wash over Lily's face. She knew that once Hogwarts was over, Lily's life would change forever. This was truly where she had matured and grown into the beautiful woman she is today. How this change would affect her, whether in good way or bad, Tasha couldn't guess.

"Lil, I promise no matter what, no matter where we end up going and what we end up doing...this group of ours will stay together." Tasha reached a hand across the table for Lily to take.

"Do you promise?" Lily asked with tears threatening to fall

"I promise forever" She replied quietly with a grim smile on her face

Lily took Tasha's hand and smiled wearily.

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Everyone had decided to stay the Christmas holiday at James' house. James had enough room to accommodate all his guests. Even Arthur and Cossette were coming. They were to spend half of the first week at home while James, lily, and Remus cleaned up the entire house. It was gonna take all four days, so they pleaded with their friends not to come and visit before they were suppose to.

The first day of cleaning was treacherous. Lily was taking absolute advantage of the fact that they were all able to do magic outside of school this year, even without special permission by the ministry. They each started with a section of the large house to clean. Lily assigned herself the kitchen, being that she was the only one who could maneuver themselves around it, Remus took on the study, being that he spent much of his time there, and James was forced to clean all the cutlery, china, and tables in the large dining room. Mostly because he had the best reflexes, and if he dropped a plate it would be the easiest for him to grab it before the crash.

The next day was spent on bedrooms. All bedrooms had to be dusted, mopped, and all such things. They each did their own rooms. Lily moved into James' room just for the holidays, so that everyone could fit together. They put Tasha and Sirius in the same room, but this room had a large couch just in case Tasha was mad at Sirius again for some odd reason. Arthur and Molly had rooms connecting to each other, Lily knew that They wouldn't have separate rooms for lond but james insisted upon it for some reason. But the question on whether Remus and Cossette should have a room was the worst part. Lily knew that the last time Cossette had visited Remus and her had gotten extremely close. But no one knew how close...

So Lily approached him about this when they were down to cleaning the last two rooms.

"Remus!" She called from down the hall. She didn't exactly look stunning, she had dirt all smudged down her cheeks and on her knees from dusting and crawling on the floor with a mop and rag. He hair was back in a bandanna so that it wouldn't get dirty, and she was wearing this huge smocked with rolled up jeans.

"What? I'm almost done with all the windows in these rooms, so stop hounding me!" He poked his soapy head from out of one of the bedrooms. Apparently he had spilled some of the soap he was using to wash the windows.

"Oh, no I'm sure those windows look wonderful, I just needed to ask you something..." She came into one of the rooms and tried not to put her dirty bum on any of the clean furniture.

"What is it?" Remus put the rag back into the bucket full of soapy water; he wiped his brow of sweat and turned to look at Lily. She had a peculiar embarrassed look on her face. "What's the matter?" he smirked

"Actually I just came here to ask you whether you and Cossette would either have separate rooms. As opposed to sharing...one......room?" She trailed off at then end as she saw Remus' face.

You can see that he was debating this heatedly in his head. Right then lily knew they had gotten to be a little more than friendly, but maybe not completely.

"Listen these are the last two rooms and their right across the hall from eachother." Lily insisted, but this didn't seem to be enough for Remus.

She walked up to him and smirked "We've also oiled all the hinges on all the doors to make sure that nothing squeaks during the night!" Remus looked up at lily at first in shock, but his reaction gradually gave way to a smile.

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The third day was spent on the hardest task of all. Lily after all the years Lily and Remus had lived with James, in this huge house, there was always one corridor that had been locked, all that time. When James' parents were alive, Sirius had said one time that their was a grand ballroom that lead out onto a balcony in some other part of the country, in a warmer climate on a beach somewhere. Sirius had seen once when he was invited to a benefit for "The mistreatment of Werewolves and half-breeds alike" of course it was enchanted.

So lily had approached James about this and he agreed to finally open it up again. He felt it was a good way to remember all the people lost in the War against Lord Voldemort. Remus and Lily had been waiting downstairs for a half-hour while James looked for the key to open the door.

"Why can't we just use magic?" Lily muttered to herself yawning at the same time. It was early and they were all very tired.

"Well, James had said that his parents made sure no magic would be able to break through these doors." Remus told her for the thousandth time

"Yes, well, we're wasting precious cleaning time while he's off frolicking for this-"

"I have not been frolicking Ms. Evan's!" James announced as he bounded down the stairs "this key is particularly hard to find being that it is so small." He held up the key in his hand for them both to see, except that they couldn't.

"I don't see it! James what are playing at we need to start this now or we'll never have this room done by tomorrow! And tomorrow we have to put the decorations up." Lily exclaimed hurriedly

"Lil, lil, lil! We'll be done with this room in an hour. For it cleans itself every other week. And yes I'm am holding a key in my hand...just...watch!"

James approached the door. He scanned it, looking for something in particular. Lily and Remus watched him closely and silently, making sure they don't break his concentration. After about 15 minutes James yelled in triumph.

"Ya ha! A door is not a door until the entire doorknob is filled in. Lily could see a tiny speck of a hole on the golden doorknob. James seemed to be placing something inside the hole, lily could here clicking and a high pitch violin sound as the door started to unlock. A light started to shine from the cracks on side and underneath it.

The door flung open, lily had never seen a grander sight before in her life. The second the door opened a warm breeze filtered into her skin. The first thing she saw was a grand silver archway with some sort of writing on the top of the archway. But it was written in a different language. She couldn't understand it so she just kept walking in wonderment. Behind her she could Remus short intakes of breath as he wondered at the magnificent room.

James was wrong, they wouldn't be done cleaning the room in an hour, and they didn't even need to clean it in the first place. The wooden floor was sparkling and perfectly waxed for dancing and socializing. The ceiling was so high and painted as is they were in some kind of tropical forest. The chandeliers were hanging in a similar fashion according to the paint on the ceiling.

"The ceiling paints can be changed if you want." James whispered into Lily's ear. "The chandeliers will change with them." He added

"Lily you've got to come see this view!" Remus had yelled out from the balcony far across the room.

She ran across the room and jumped onto Remus' back laughing hysterically. They really were in the middle of the amazon or some sort of tropical forest. Remus held onto lily's legs so she wouldn't fall off of him. He sighed and looked back at her and watched her stare out into the beautiful horizon. Wherever they were the sun was just setting and the animals below were making their night calls.

"Well Lil, here you are. You adventure was right in your own back yard." Remus said quietly

"Well, more like side yard, because this corridor is on the side of the house..." James noted thoughtfully

Remus laughed quietly to himself at James' comment.

"James, promise me you'll never lock this corridor off again. Please promise me!" lily asked sliding off Remus' back

"I promise." James replied smiling. He swung his arm over Lily. And she did the same to him and Remus. And at that moment, nothing mattered. Not even the hurt that they all had felt, not even the terrifying world that awaited them after leaving hogwarts. The only thing that mattered was that they were all together, and this moment would never be forgotten.

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They spent the rest of the day putting up decorations. They figured that tomorrow would be spent ordering gifts and relaxing from these days of cleaning and hard work. They were taking a break at lunchtime; Lily had been making them all sandwiches when the doorbell rang.

"James! Remus! Somebody, please get the door, I'm busy." Lily yelled into the living room where Remus and Sirius had been sending out owls for presents.

"We're busy too Lil, and your closer, so hop to it 'RED'" James yelled back from the living room.

"Four eyes!" She yelled back, dropping the knife she was using to spread jelly on her sandwich.

"Why do I have to do all the work in this blasted house?" She muttered to herself, as she looked around the kitchen trying to find a good excuse not to answer the door.

Lily walked out of the kitchen and approached the door. She yelled through the door to see who it was, but nobody answered. So she opened the door slowly in case anything was to jump on her and take her by surprise. But the only surprise she found was standing in the front Garden and marveling at a snowman some muggle child must have made.

"Ah, Hello Ms. Evans" Dumbledore looked up from the rather large snowman to greet her.

At first Lily wanted to ask what he was doing here, but she thought better of it and decided to be polite.

"Professor, it's so nice to see you!" Lily tried not to sound like she was to surprise. But Dumbledore just chuckled lightly to himself and gazed at Lily over his half-moon spectacles.

"Yes, it's lovely to see you also Ms. Evans however, it would be much more pleasant if we were to see each other in a rather warmer climate."

Lily felt like a complete idiot. Here's her headmaster standing the freezing cold while Lily was gapes at the surprise of him appearing at her front door step.

"Oh my goodness!" She exclaimed embarrassed "Please, do come in professor!" she opened the door and let him walk in front of her, through the doorway. It occurred to Lily that he doesn't even seem to be walking, it's as if he was gliding through the entranceway.

"Why thank you!" Dumbledore commented.

"James! Remus!" Lily shouted out forgetting her manners for the moment "We have company so get you arses in here!" She turned back to Dumbledore and smiled taking his cloak and hanging in the nearby coat closet.

Dumbledore did not flinch at her screams but just seemed to look around as if he were expecting the house in some way, until he spotted a very disgruntled James and Remus walking through the door.

"Lily!!" James spoke up in a very whining tone "Remus tried to hex me!"

"James stop being a child! And Remus try to ignore James' absurd comments about whatever it was you tried to hex him for this time! All right you too?" Lily informed them in an extremely motherly way.

"All right" they echoed monotonously

But just then they both looked up to se who the company was. Remus' reaction was quite suitable; he just stood up straight and greeted the Headmaster as if he knew he had been coming.

James on the other hand, dropped his jaw in utter surprise and asked out loud

"What are you doing here Professor?" Lily nabbed him in the ribs and gave him a glare that said 'be good'.

But the Headmaster just chuckled lightly to himself and smiled at these ragged three.

"Actually I am here to discuss a very important matter with you three! Perhaps we should all sit down?" Dumbledore said with a look of importance

"Yes of course professor!" Remus gestured toward the sitting room where a nice cozy fire was flaming in its place. They all took a seat.

Lily James and Remus all sat on the sofa across from the fireside. Professor Dumbledore took a standard chair that was facing them sideways, he twisted it around with his wand to make face right at them. When he sat down he waited for a few minutes while gazing intently into their eyes.

James didn't like this feeling. It's as if he was inspecting them, to see if they were prepared for some horrid news.

"Professor please, what's going on? Has anything happened we should know about?" Remus asked urgently

"Yes and no, Mr. Lupin." Dumbledore sighed deeply "As you know, Voldemort is growing more powerful as these months pass us by. I hope you recall a few years before that I had planned to start an army of juvenile wizards, and train them to prepare them for the fight against lord voldemort." He looked to them for a sign of understanding

They all nodded incoherently. Dumbledore went on.

"Good. I realized that you were all to young to start this sort of training, and I relinquished this thought to many more on my mind. But now that you are of age and almost have completed your last year of Hogwarts, I am compelled to tell you that there is yet another group that has been formed. Once you are legally wizards, I hope that you will take into consideration joining this group. I now that not all the young men and women I have selected for this group will be able to attend, being that have already received job offers and such things."

Dumbledore looked to James briefly who had seemed very interested on the nails of his right hand. Lily noticed this.

"What exactly does being in this 'group' require professor" Remus asked interested

"Weekly meetings, for updates on Voldemorts movements. Emergency meetings if necessary, and doing some jobs that might require the risk of your very own life." The three friends looked between each other at this last comment. "I'm not going to lie to you three, there will be much danger in joining this group. For instance, Voldemort and his followers will constantly be trying to find out who we are, as we search for their identities. There might be attacks that either side could inflict upon each other. This is a war we are waging, and there are bound to be casualties."

They all knew what knowing a casualty felt like. Lily and James' parents were dead, and Remus' folks were still in concussion, not likely to be getting up at any moment.

"I would ask for your answer as you return to Hogwarts. I have already gone to visit most of your friends, such as Mr. Black, Ms. Harris, Mr. Pettigrew and a number of others that you are well acquainted with."

"Professor..." James started "Would we putting our lives at risk more than they are already?"

"Yes you would James." Dumbledore answered curtly

"And we wouldn't always all be together?" Lily piped in quietly

"No, you will most of the time be separated, except at meetings and if you meet outside of the group socially. But almost all of the group members will be running on assignments for us against the dark side." He sighed.

"Thank you Professor!" Remus said after a few moments of pensive silence

"Thank you children-no you are not children anymore!" dumbledore gave a slight laugh "Thank you for listening to me!" With a wave of his wand Dumbledore's cloak was lifted from the nearby closet and hoisted over his shoulders.

And with a nod to each of them he helped himself out of the door and closed it shut. They were all still sitting there next to eachother, pondering this 'group' dumbldore thought was so urgent he needed to talk to them about it. And offer them positions in the fight against Voldemort. There was no debating, with one look at each other they all silently agreed to avenge those that had been harmed in this horrendous war, and fight good against evil, even though they would risk their own lives.

After a while Lily had brought in all the finished sandwiches and placed them in front of its owner. They had all started to eat in silence until Lily remembered the look dumbledore had given James when he was mentioning the job offers.

"James..."Lily started slowly and sweetly

"Weth?" He answered through a mouthful of tuna

"What was that look dumbledore gave when mentioning job offers and such things?" Lily asked a little more heatedly

"I dunno!" James answered becoming interested in his fingernails again.

"Oh yes you do! You were offered a job and you didn't tell me weren't you?" She was yelling a bit now and giving him her daggers glare

"Hey Lil, what people offer me in the way of jobs is my business and not yours. You've kept certain things from me before haven't you?" James said smugly

"Don't you give me that tone of voice James Potter!" yelled Lily standing up "And I had every right to keep that from you and everyone else for the matter! It wasn't as if you were the only one who didn't know. Now you're you're the only one who knows! So you should be quite satisfied unfortunately its not enough for you, nothing is ever enough!"

They both seemed to have forgotten that Remus was sitting there quietly just waiting to see what the big secret was. Everyone wanted to know what lily and James were fighting over and if Remus played his cards right he just might be able to hear it.

"Oh please, Lily!" James stood up to face her "It's exactly the same I haven't told anyone else. And what you kept from me was a life changing power. Once you master it you could be-" Lily didn't let him finish

"I could what?" She screamed exasperated "Lose control fling something at you the wrong way? Are you afraid of some ickle bruise a flying clock could give you?" She taunted

"More like a flying dagger!" James yelled throwing his hands up in the air and walking away "Lil, I don't want to fight you anymore..."

"What? Afraid that you don't have your wand near you and I just don't need mine?" She screamed "James I can't do anything dangerous, I can't even lift anything heavier than 10 lb. practically" Lily's cries became quieter

James slowly turned around and noticed the look of defeat on her face. He felt ashamed that he had started to scream at her, and he could see that she was sorry.

"Lil" He started shortly, walking over to her "I haven't taken any job offers..."

"See? That's all I wanted to know and you just have to skive off the subject, as usual." She stated looking up at him sadly

"Yet. I haven't taken any job offers yet." He could see the mounting anger on her face, so he added quickly "It doesn't mean that I'm going to instantly run off for some Quiditch team and leave you here. I also got offered a job at the ministry of magic! Sure I would start at the bottom, but I'd still be here with you!"

He could see she was looking wide-eyed at something over at the fireplace. He turned sharply around to see Remus with a sly grin on his face that made him strangely resemble Sirius. Lily and James smiled warningly at Remus.

"Hey! Your secret is safe with me. The both of you!" He threw his hands up and went back outside to work more on the decorations. Lily and James ran out after him and made sure to pelt him with as many snowballs as possible.

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The following morning was quite uneventful, they all slept later for lack of energy and the whole house was pretty much clean. As Lily walked over to James and Remus with their afternoon tea (coffee in Remus' case), she saw something-bright green streak past her.

'Bloody hell what is that owl up to now?' she thought to herself. She was about to summon the owl to her with a simple summoning charm when two other rather large blurs flew past her with a great whoosh of air.

"What the-" Remus looked up with a grin at the three figures flying about the chandeliers

"Hey Hey Hey!" James called standing up on the sofa "It took me 5 hours to clean those things, you better careful...Sirius do you hear me?"

"SIRIUS! Get away from my bird you arrogant toerag! You too...TASHA!" Lily was standing on the couch alongside James, getting ready to snatch the bird.

"Come on Lil, let's have some fun! You never have fun anymore!" Sirius had stopped in mid air while the other two blurs still flew around the ceiling

"Listen! I have fun all the time...see I'm having fun right now! Now why in godric's name are you chasing my bird? "

"Because your 'bird' has stolen some extremely personal information from Sirius and I that I repeat is highly personal?" Tasha had called as she did a loop-the-loop around Lily's 'bird' to confuse him. Sirius had started his chase for the bird again

"Oh really?" Lily chimed in with mounting interest " And what sort of 'personal information' would that be?"

"Pictures" Tasha yelled as she streamed over Remus' head

"Pictures" Lily repeated slyly "Oh J.J. would you come here for a moment?"

"Oh the pictures aren't of us you perverted little witch" Sirius snickered "You have a very dirty mind, Evans you know that?" He had floated down from the ceiling and was now hovering right next to her.

"I do not, I just need a good laugh every now and then, that's all!" she proclaimed in a would be innocent voice.

"So what's in the pictures then?" Remus asked as he ducked another incoming by tasha and James Jr.

"James and Lily at various romantic intervals throughout their career at hogwarts." Tasha yelled still racing after J.J. (James Jr.)

"WHAT?" James and Lily started at this

"Yup even before you started the dating. Tasha and I have had this teeny weeny ickle bet going on for years. " Sirius flew higher to be sure he was out of slapping range with Lily

"1st year to be precise." Tasha smiled

"Give me those...NOW!" Lily's temper flared. She jumped onto the back of the sofa and Jumped for J.J. who had just gone flying by, but she missed and fell onto her bottom with a groan.

James jumped down from the couch to help her up. Sirius and Tasha were still steadily chasing after J.J.

"All right you two, what was this bet about?" James yelled up to them while holding Lily down so she wouldn't hurt herself and jump after them again.

"Well we bet that we could get 100 pictures of you two looking like you want to snog. Now this was way before you started dating, but we knew there was some sort of mutual attraction the moment Lily started giving James those looks of disgust!" Tasha giggled

"GOTCHA!" Sirius called giving everyone a fright. Apparently he had caught J.J. and torn the pictures from the bird's claws. But he didn't fly off without giving tasha and Sirius a few good hard-earned pecks on the head.

"Owe, Lil, you bird is a bloody nuisance." Sirius screamed rubbing his head where the bird had pecked

"Hey! I wasn't the one chasing him around the house. You gave the poor owl quite a fright." Lily winked at J.J. now extremely proud of her bird.

"Oh shut up Lily, and loosen up! I mean it's not like these pictures are going to ruin your life. We're only going to show them to your children and your grand children..." Tasha grinned evilly

"Don't forget all of hogwarts!" Remus laughed as he hopped onto his broom. Apparently he had left the room to get his cloak on and his broom

"Where do you think your going?" Lily summoned her cloak to her and threw it over her shoulders along with her scarf.

"To have fun!"

"James!"

James also had gotten the hint and thrown his cloak on and fetched his broom.

"Oh no, don't you dare go out and leave me here with all the dusting we still have to do!" she turned back to Sirius and Tasha "I'm officially stating that I blame you and I don't like you Sirius. You are the largest toerag in the history of the wizarding community!"

"Thank you Madame. Now you are allowed to truly dislike me." Sirius came swooping for Lily who was just about to summon her broom to herself.

"Wait Sirius, what are you-?" Sirius had wrapped his arms around Lily and thrown her onto the front of his broom, swooping up to the ceiling where the rest of the group was hovering.

"Just stay still, don't hit me and maybe I won't drop you!" Sirius smirked at her. But Lily had no intention of moving she barely used her own broom let alone ride along with someone else. Sirius made sure she was securely wedged between his arms and that she was holding on tight to the broom.

Unfortunately her fear of heights didn't stop her from complaining.

"Sirius Black you put me down GENTLY this instant!" she screamed

"You know what?" Lily looked over and saw Remus and James flying on their own brooms. "I don't reckon you should put her down Sirius. Lily has been lacking quite a good time, she's been all mopey and cleaning the house, and I think we could all do with a good outing." James flew over Lily's head and opened the skylight in the ceiling so they could all fly out of it.

"No James no! I still have to finish-" Lily cried

"Shut your trap Lily, and just give into the fact that we are going to force you to have fun." Tasha yelled as she flew through skylight with Remus on her tail.

"Oh dear..." She held onto the broom and made sure Sirius arm was tight around her. "Sirius if you drop me-"

"I won't Lil, just calm down, and have fun."

James looked over to them, winked and flew through the skylight catching up with Remus.

"You better not, or else I'll have to mame you!" She said to sirius with a smile

"Really?" Sirius grinned with a happy go lucky smile. Lily gave him a good whack before he tightened his grip on and flew through the skylight with nice long howl.

"So where are we going?" Tasha called back to Sirius and James. They had just owled her to tell her to come with broom in hand to James' house.

"No clue!" Remus cried over to her with a grin

"You have definitely known Sirius for to long." Lily yelled over to him

"Why's that?" Sirius asked faking a pout

"He's starting to inherit that doggy grin of yours. You know, I think being an ani-" Sirius had suddenly squeezed tight on her to make sure she didn't let slip in front of tasha that they were animagus. So he gave her a look of warning.

"Being an Animal like person, you've actually started to grow doggish." Lily corrected herself quickly with a grin "I mean you eat everything that you come across, you chew on paper and cardboard when you're hungry or bored, and I wouldn't be surprised if you've peed on a few hydrants recently!" She grinned over at James who seemed to be laughing so hard that he almost flew into a chimney.

"Hey! I have not peed on any hydrants......recently" he said quite annoyed at the amused look on Remus' and James' faces. Tasha on the other hand thought his extremely unpleasant.

"EEWW! Sirius you've peed on hydrants, that's revolting." Tasha yelled in disgust

"Well not in human form I haven't" Sirius noted with a grin

Tasha seemed too confused to comment on this while James and Remus was still having bouts of hysterics. Of course they had seen Sirius in dog form and his doggy habits breaking through.

Lily seemed quite satisfied with this method of revenge, and quieted herself for a little longer while they were in flight.

After a while Lily started to get restless and the cold outside was settling in on her. She started to wonder if they were ever going to figure out where they were heading. And apparently Tasha had started to get restless also, for she was starting to annoy James and Remus.

"Are we there yet?" she asked James

"No..."James replied

"Are we there yet?" She asked Remus

"No..." Remus answered

"How about now?"

"No!" James answered getting annoyed

"What about now?"

"No." Remus also started to get aggravated

She started to look at James but he was way ahead of her.

"No."

"No!" Remus added dully as she looked back at him

"And the next time no!"

"And the time after that, no!"

"Then when are we going to get there because I'm starting to freeze!" Tasha yelled as she flew away from the boys and over to Sirius and Lily, who had been shivering for quite some time.

"Lil, stop shaking or I won't be able to control my broom." Sirius hissed

"I can't help it I'm so cold!" Lily whined "How did you convince me to do this? Why am I here? And where are we going?" Lily's temper started to get the better of her

"Ok that's it! James I shall try to return your girlfriend to you in one piece but I can't make any promises." Sirius yelled towards James.

"Try not to snog with her!" James yelled "And we'll watch over your girlfriend" he sighed

"Thanks! Ready Lil, I'm going to show you how to laugh again." Sirius whispered sounding something like satan to Lily.

"Oh no I'd much rather stay here with James thank you, I think I'll be switching brooms now." But Sirius had turned his broom around and tightened his grip on Lily. They shot towards the direction of the sun and James, Remus, and tasha were no longer in sight.

A/n: ::huff:: ::puff:: Ok longest chapter in the series but I just couldn't stop...it's like a disease...aaahhhhh. Ok I'm sane...no I'm not really. I swear the next chapter shall have a point, I promise. Please r&r and no flames, luv ya!

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