Chapter 5 - Training
It had been three weeks since James had wandered off to Egypt, and no one had heard from him. But Lily did know for sure that he was still alive, due to the fact that she was on the team that pieced together the information that the Ministry got from him. But she tended to think that that was because she was one of the few people who could actually understand James' handwriting.
During those three weeks, Kayla and Sirius were being put through training.
That meant waking up every morning before the roosters did, running 4 miles throughout a day, going through every obstacle course that you could even begin to imagine, and getting charms and spells crammed into their heads that they didn't even know existed!
When Lily walked into their practice one day, she laughed at the sight. Some of the courses were just ridiculous! There was an alligator infested swamp that they apparently had to get across without disturbing the creatures, there was a patch of the lawn that was pouring down rain, and then there was a patch of lawn that had crater sized holes everywhere.
"What are they teaching them?" Lily wondered, amused for the first time in weeks.
"How they can kill us." A dry voice sounded from behind Lily.
Lily smirked and turned around to see a dirty, tired, and mean looking Kayla. "That bad?" Lily asked as she pointed her wand at Kayla and cleaned her off before she gave her best friend a hug.
"Sorry," Lily smiled sheepishly at Kayla's amused look. "I'm still on the clock and I don't really want to go back looking like I've been through what ever the hell that you have."
"You wouldn't want to go through what I have even if I was sparkling clean!" Kayla laughed. "No one would." Another voice grumbled. Lily smiled and looked over at a smoking Sirius.
"Why are you smoking Si?" Lily asked with furrowed brows.
Sirius gave her a look that said 'Don't you even think about making fun of me.' But Lily ignored it. She didn't grow up with Sirius and James without getting some of their qualities! "This is why you should have paid attention to me when I was teaching you! Think about it you idiots, if you would have paid attention to me, you wouldn't be here learning nothing of any use what so ever, now would you?" Lily gloated.
Sirius and Kayla glared at her menacingly. "At least we know that she's returning to normal." Sirius whispered as he glared at his friend. Kayla nodded and broke into a smile, causing Sirius to look at her weirdly.
"What?" Sirius asked, looking from Lily's grinning face to Kayla's now grinning face.
"You mean-?" Kayla asked excitedly. Lily nodded happily.
Sirius just stood there, getting more confused by the minute. "What is going on here?" he asked once again. Kayla turned towards him with a bright smile. "She's heard from James!" Kayla screamed.
Sirius' face cleared and he rounded on Lily. "How is he? When is he coming home? Is he alright? Is he done with his assignment? And more importantly did he meet any hot chicks?" he asked in a rush, and threw in the last question just because.
Lily smiled happily and answered him. "He's fine, we don't know when he's coming home yet, no, he's not done with his assignment, but almost. And if he did met any hot chicks he had better have kept away from them."
Sirius smiled. He had been missing his best bud, and now that he knew that everything was all right, everything seemed a little better.
That is until Lily made him explain why he had been smoking earlier when they all went out for dinner that night. Remus, Aria, Sirius, Kayla and Lily were all walking into an Italian restaurant when Sirius actually began to tell them what had happened to him during training that day.
"I had to fight a freakin' dragon! These people are insane Lillers!" Sirius complained as they walked into the restaurant. "I mean, that is why there are such things as dragon experts!"
Lily burst out laughing at the outraged look on Sirius' face. He just looked so funny with his arms crossed over his chest while he was leaning back on his chairs two back legs, and a scowl on his face. "Sirius," she gasped, "you look so funny like that!" Sirius' scowl turned darker. "But that still doesn't explain the smoke. What happened when you fought that dragon Sirius?" Lily asked slyly.
Sirius colored. "Do I have to tell you?" Sirius pouted. Lily nodded her head.
Sirius looked down at the table, coloring even more and said, "The dragon had a fancy to my bum, and tried to bite it. But I ran out of her way, and I guess she got a little irritated that every time she'd go to bite my bum that I would move, so she just set my bum on fire instead." He mumbled, but Lily, Aria, Remus and Kayla still got the story, and roared with laughter, making the other dinners look at them funny, or with disapproving looks.
"Well, maybe you should have just told the dragon that your bum was taken," Kayla reasoned with a fit of giggles. Sirius glared at her. And then he glared at the rest of his friends.
"Shut up already!" he screamed, which did no good seeing as they just kept on laughing until they couldn't stand to laugh anymore.
When Lily looked up from wiping her eyes the first thing she saw was an extremely furious Sirius, the next thing she saw was a dark alley.
Lily looked around, and jumped when someone walked right through her. She looked to her right, and saw someone would had some very untamable hair. Then she squinted. She would know that hair anywhere. It was James! She walked towards him, and figuring that she was invisible, stroked his cheek. It was rough, as if he hadn't been able to perform a shaving charm all day. But the weirdest thing was that his head whipped around to his side, where Lily was standing, and he whispered, "Hunter" out into the dark night air.
Lily was shocked. Could he see her? Could he hear her? Could he feel her? She decided to test to see. "James?" she called out loud and clear, but he didn't stop looking at the spot where Lily's touch had come from. 'Nope, can't hear me, and obviously can't see me, seeing as I'm standing at his other side now.' She reasoned. But he must have been able to feel her. She got this wicked grin that would do the Marauders proud and lifted her hand up to his chest and laid it there, bringing his attention to that spot, and then she moved it up, to his neck until her thumb rested next to his ear. She then did something that she had a habit of doing all the time after they made love. She brushed her thumb over his entire ear, then trailed her hands into his hair.
"Hunter?"
~*~*~*~
"Hunter?" James whispered furiously. He knew that touch. No body ever touched him like Lily did. He wanted to hold her so badly. It was harder to be away from her than it was when she had to stay in Italy. They were engaged now! And oh, how he missed her touches, her smile, the way she felt next to him, on him, over him. And how he missed her love.
James looked directly in front of him and blinked in astonishment. Lily was standing right there in front of him. "Lily?" he gasped quietly.
He saw Lily blink furiously and nod. James shut his eyes for a long period of time then slowly open them again. Yep, she was still there. James exhaled sharply and drew her into his arms swiftly. "How'd you get here?" he asked into her hair.
"I don't know. But I'm glad I'm here." She whispered into his neck. "I love you James, and we all miss you. Especially me." She told him as she looked into his eyes.
James looked down into Lily's eyes and smiled a small smile. "I love you too Lily, and miss you all so much." He told her. "And especially home to you." He whispered as he slowly trailed a finger down her cheek. "But you should be getting back. It's dangerous here, and looking as you do you'd get harmed. I love you Lils."
"I love you too, James." She whispered, and before she knew it, she was back in the restaurant staring at Sirius, and having everybody else at their table staring at her. "What?" she questioned them. 'I couldn't have really been gone, could I have?' she wondered.
"Where'd you go?" Kayla asked, being the first one to break out of her trace.
"Yea. We were just about to go and see if you went home or something." Aria informed Lily.
Lily blinked. "Okay, it did happen then." She said in a small voice. 'What the hell happened!'
"What happened?" Remus and Sirius questioned at once.
"I ended up in the alley where James was, and I saw him. He said that he missed you all." She told them with a dazed look on her face.
Sirius' jaw dropped. "Y-you saw him?" he nearly shouted, causing eyes and heads to turn towards their table once again. Lily nodded her head. "He looked worn out too." She said more to herself than them.
Kayla smiled. "Lily. Sorry to change the subject, but you look as if you had just traveled back into the 1800's and you had to wear a corset 24/7." Kayla told her.
Lily grimaced. She hated those things. They were so tight and itchy! Yuck! Lily shuddered. "No, it's just weird. One minute I was looking into Sirius' face, and the next I was having somebody walk through me, and then talking to James. I don't know, it was just . . . weird." She told them.
Sirius nodded his head in understanding. It'd be weird for him too. "But what was with the corset comment, Pounce?" Sirius asked.
Kayla smirked. "Lily here doesn't like the feel of them too much, and you should just see the look on her face when she sees one of them. It turns all white, and her eyes get big. It's actually pretty funny considering that she could just burn the things and go without anything on under the dress."
"No, I couldn't!" Lily protested. "I refuse to walk around in a dress without a freakin' bra on! That hurts!"
Kayla and Aria snickered, while Sirius shot Remus a confused look, who in return just shrugged.
~*~*~*~*~
Over the next two weeks, Lily began to have flashes of James, as he had of her.
In all truth, Lily was returning to normal, and James had collected enough information to come home, which he would be doing the next day, and Lily was excited. Her man was finally returning home, and just in time to help her with moving into their new home.
A/N: I am so sorry that it has been taking me so long to update with this story, but my stupid, idiotic teachers have decided that they just need to give me more homework! But I promise, chapter six will be up before next Wednesday.
I'm sorry for the delay on this chapter, and I hope that you enjoyed reading. And if any of you want me to email you when I update, you are welcome to email me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com.
Mistress del Mare
It had been three weeks since James had wandered off to Egypt, and no one had heard from him. But Lily did know for sure that he was still alive, due to the fact that she was on the team that pieced together the information that the Ministry got from him. But she tended to think that that was because she was one of the few people who could actually understand James' handwriting.
During those three weeks, Kayla and Sirius were being put through training.
That meant waking up every morning before the roosters did, running 4 miles throughout a day, going through every obstacle course that you could even begin to imagine, and getting charms and spells crammed into their heads that they didn't even know existed!
When Lily walked into their practice one day, she laughed at the sight. Some of the courses were just ridiculous! There was an alligator infested swamp that they apparently had to get across without disturbing the creatures, there was a patch of the lawn that was pouring down rain, and then there was a patch of lawn that had crater sized holes everywhere.
"What are they teaching them?" Lily wondered, amused for the first time in weeks.
"How they can kill us." A dry voice sounded from behind Lily.
Lily smirked and turned around to see a dirty, tired, and mean looking Kayla. "That bad?" Lily asked as she pointed her wand at Kayla and cleaned her off before she gave her best friend a hug.
"Sorry," Lily smiled sheepishly at Kayla's amused look. "I'm still on the clock and I don't really want to go back looking like I've been through what ever the hell that you have."
"You wouldn't want to go through what I have even if I was sparkling clean!" Kayla laughed. "No one would." Another voice grumbled. Lily smiled and looked over at a smoking Sirius.
"Why are you smoking Si?" Lily asked with furrowed brows.
Sirius gave her a look that said 'Don't you even think about making fun of me.' But Lily ignored it. She didn't grow up with Sirius and James without getting some of their qualities! "This is why you should have paid attention to me when I was teaching you! Think about it you idiots, if you would have paid attention to me, you wouldn't be here learning nothing of any use what so ever, now would you?" Lily gloated.
Sirius and Kayla glared at her menacingly. "At least we know that she's returning to normal." Sirius whispered as he glared at his friend. Kayla nodded and broke into a smile, causing Sirius to look at her weirdly.
"What?" Sirius asked, looking from Lily's grinning face to Kayla's now grinning face.
"You mean-?" Kayla asked excitedly. Lily nodded happily.
Sirius just stood there, getting more confused by the minute. "What is going on here?" he asked once again. Kayla turned towards him with a bright smile. "She's heard from James!" Kayla screamed.
Sirius' face cleared and he rounded on Lily. "How is he? When is he coming home? Is he alright? Is he done with his assignment? And more importantly did he meet any hot chicks?" he asked in a rush, and threw in the last question just because.
Lily smiled happily and answered him. "He's fine, we don't know when he's coming home yet, no, he's not done with his assignment, but almost. And if he did met any hot chicks he had better have kept away from them."
Sirius smiled. He had been missing his best bud, and now that he knew that everything was all right, everything seemed a little better.
That is until Lily made him explain why he had been smoking earlier when they all went out for dinner that night. Remus, Aria, Sirius, Kayla and Lily were all walking into an Italian restaurant when Sirius actually began to tell them what had happened to him during training that day.
"I had to fight a freakin' dragon! These people are insane Lillers!" Sirius complained as they walked into the restaurant. "I mean, that is why there are such things as dragon experts!"
Lily burst out laughing at the outraged look on Sirius' face. He just looked so funny with his arms crossed over his chest while he was leaning back on his chairs two back legs, and a scowl on his face. "Sirius," she gasped, "you look so funny like that!" Sirius' scowl turned darker. "But that still doesn't explain the smoke. What happened when you fought that dragon Sirius?" Lily asked slyly.
Sirius colored. "Do I have to tell you?" Sirius pouted. Lily nodded her head.
Sirius looked down at the table, coloring even more and said, "The dragon had a fancy to my bum, and tried to bite it. But I ran out of her way, and I guess she got a little irritated that every time she'd go to bite my bum that I would move, so she just set my bum on fire instead." He mumbled, but Lily, Aria, Remus and Kayla still got the story, and roared with laughter, making the other dinners look at them funny, or with disapproving looks.
"Well, maybe you should have just told the dragon that your bum was taken," Kayla reasoned with a fit of giggles. Sirius glared at her. And then he glared at the rest of his friends.
"Shut up already!" he screamed, which did no good seeing as they just kept on laughing until they couldn't stand to laugh anymore.
When Lily looked up from wiping her eyes the first thing she saw was an extremely furious Sirius, the next thing she saw was a dark alley.
Lily looked around, and jumped when someone walked right through her. She looked to her right, and saw someone would had some very untamable hair. Then she squinted. She would know that hair anywhere. It was James! She walked towards him, and figuring that she was invisible, stroked his cheek. It was rough, as if he hadn't been able to perform a shaving charm all day. But the weirdest thing was that his head whipped around to his side, where Lily was standing, and he whispered, "Hunter" out into the dark night air.
Lily was shocked. Could he see her? Could he hear her? Could he feel her? She decided to test to see. "James?" she called out loud and clear, but he didn't stop looking at the spot where Lily's touch had come from. 'Nope, can't hear me, and obviously can't see me, seeing as I'm standing at his other side now.' She reasoned. But he must have been able to feel her. She got this wicked grin that would do the Marauders proud and lifted her hand up to his chest and laid it there, bringing his attention to that spot, and then she moved it up, to his neck until her thumb rested next to his ear. She then did something that she had a habit of doing all the time after they made love. She brushed her thumb over his entire ear, then trailed her hands into his hair.
"Hunter?"
~*~*~*~
"Hunter?" James whispered furiously. He knew that touch. No body ever touched him like Lily did. He wanted to hold her so badly. It was harder to be away from her than it was when she had to stay in Italy. They were engaged now! And oh, how he missed her touches, her smile, the way she felt next to him, on him, over him. And how he missed her love.
James looked directly in front of him and blinked in astonishment. Lily was standing right there in front of him. "Lily?" he gasped quietly.
He saw Lily blink furiously and nod. James shut his eyes for a long period of time then slowly open them again. Yep, she was still there. James exhaled sharply and drew her into his arms swiftly. "How'd you get here?" he asked into her hair.
"I don't know. But I'm glad I'm here." She whispered into his neck. "I love you James, and we all miss you. Especially me." She told him as she looked into his eyes.
James looked down into Lily's eyes and smiled a small smile. "I love you too Lily, and miss you all so much." He told her. "And especially home to you." He whispered as he slowly trailed a finger down her cheek. "But you should be getting back. It's dangerous here, and looking as you do you'd get harmed. I love you Lils."
"I love you too, James." She whispered, and before she knew it, she was back in the restaurant staring at Sirius, and having everybody else at their table staring at her. "What?" she questioned them. 'I couldn't have really been gone, could I have?' she wondered.
"Where'd you go?" Kayla asked, being the first one to break out of her trace.
"Yea. We were just about to go and see if you went home or something." Aria informed Lily.
Lily blinked. "Okay, it did happen then." She said in a small voice. 'What the hell happened!'
"What happened?" Remus and Sirius questioned at once.
"I ended up in the alley where James was, and I saw him. He said that he missed you all." She told them with a dazed look on her face.
Sirius' jaw dropped. "Y-you saw him?" he nearly shouted, causing eyes and heads to turn towards their table once again. Lily nodded her head. "He looked worn out too." She said more to herself than them.
Kayla smiled. "Lily. Sorry to change the subject, but you look as if you had just traveled back into the 1800's and you had to wear a corset 24/7." Kayla told her.
Lily grimaced. She hated those things. They were so tight and itchy! Yuck! Lily shuddered. "No, it's just weird. One minute I was looking into Sirius' face, and the next I was having somebody walk through me, and then talking to James. I don't know, it was just . . . weird." She told them.
Sirius nodded his head in understanding. It'd be weird for him too. "But what was with the corset comment, Pounce?" Sirius asked.
Kayla smirked. "Lily here doesn't like the feel of them too much, and you should just see the look on her face when she sees one of them. It turns all white, and her eyes get big. It's actually pretty funny considering that she could just burn the things and go without anything on under the dress."
"No, I couldn't!" Lily protested. "I refuse to walk around in a dress without a freakin' bra on! That hurts!"
Kayla and Aria snickered, while Sirius shot Remus a confused look, who in return just shrugged.
~*~*~*~*~
Over the next two weeks, Lily began to have flashes of James, as he had of her.
In all truth, Lily was returning to normal, and James had collected enough information to come home, which he would be doing the next day, and Lily was excited. Her man was finally returning home, and just in time to help her with moving into their new home.
A/N: I am so sorry that it has been taking me so long to update with this story, but my stupid, idiotic teachers have decided that they just need to give me more homework! But I promise, chapter six will be up before next Wednesday.
I'm sorry for the delay on this chapter, and I hope that you enjoyed reading. And if any of you want me to email you when I update, you are welcome to email me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com.
Mistress del Mare