Chapter 13
Home Life
Lily and James apparated into the entrance hall of their house, and dropped their bags on the hardwood floor with sighs of relief. With a flick of his wand, James banished all of the suitcases to their bedroom, where Lily could go through the numerous bags and unpack them.
"Feels weird to be back home, doesn't it?" Lily asked James as she interlocked their fingers together and tugged him towards the back of the house. "Yeah, it does," he admitted. "Even though we've only been gone for two weeks."
James tugged Lily to his side as they exited the back door and made their way over to their cliffs. "But you know what?" James asked as he sat down on the stone gray bench that Lily had placed on one particular cliff so that they could sit in that one spot and watch the waves beat un-relentlessly against the rocks. "What?" Lily asked as she snuggled into James' lap. "Being back home also means that we'll finally begin living like husband and wife," he smiled as he placed his cold fingers against the warmth of Lily's stomach as his hand stole up the emerald green scoop neck sweater that she was wearing. "That is true," she sighed as she looked over the ocean.
"James?" Lily asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Yes, my love?"
"How do you feel about kids?" she asked timidly.
James rested his chin on the crown of Lily's head and frowned. "I don't know. I'd love to have some one of these days. A boy to teach quidditch, a little girl to protect from guys who want to date her. But at this moment? I don't know. But I like the idea that someday you and I will have an army of little monsters running through the grass, making us want to pull all of our hair out, leaving toys all over the house, teaching them about quidditch, candy, how to swim, and how to read. And who knows, it might start sooner than later," he mused as he absently kneaded the skin on her belly, then suddenly stopped as he got a sudden insight.
"You-you're . . . that is to say . . . uhhh . . . you're not pregnant, are you?" James stuttered as he tipped Lily's head back to look into her eyes.
Lily's eyes widened. "No! No, I'm not pregnant, I was just wondering how you felt about them because I wanted to take myself off of the birth control spell."
James exhaled a big puff of air then chuckled. "I think that my heart stopped for a few minutes there. I don't think that I'm ready to share you not even a month into our marriage Lils," he joked. Lily smiled at him and asked coyly, "And why is that?"
"Because I can be selfish at times, and right now, I'm not ready to share my lovely wife with anyone else in the world," he murmured as he inched his hands further up Lily's sweater.
"James," Lily groaned as James cupped her breasts. "We only have an hour until people start coming over."
"I can be quick," he promised with a glint in his now deep blue eyes.
"You're never quick," she gasped out as she felt the searing heat of his mouth on her pulse point.
"But I can be," he promised, and set out to show her exactly how quick.
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"I can't believe you James Potter, we were almost caught! If your Mother had arrived not even two minutes earlier, we would have been!" Lily hissed at James as she changed out of her black jeans and green sweater into a black cocktail dress that had two thick straps that went over her shoulders, scooped down to show the outline of her breasts, stopped directly above her kneecaps, and was slit on the sides ever so slightly.
"I'm sorry! It's not my fault that you are simply irresistible!" James hissed back teasingly.
"Flattery isn't going to work on me this time Potter." Lily hissed again. "But they always say actions speak louder than words," she advised before spraying herself with her perfume and walking out of their bedroom door.
"Women!" James yelled as she shut the door, causing her to chuckle. He was so cute when he got frustrated.
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That night, they entertained their family and close friends, to tell them about their trip.
"Come on Lils, I know that you're leaving out something!" Kayla cried as she asked her best friend for the hundredth time how the sex in the shower was. "I'm not leaving out anything!" Lily shot back smiling.
"Fine then! I'm not telling you that Sirius and I finally picked a date!" Kayla huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest and slumped back in her white armchair before sitting right back up. "Shit. I just told you."
"That's what you get for prying the wrong person. Now, if you had just asked Jamie here, you would have gotten the full answer," Sirius taunted as he sat on the arm of Kayla's chair.
"James!" Lily cried, color seeping into her cheeks.
"I swear that I didn't say anything at all about the shower!" he defended himself. "I told him about the bathtub."
Lily's mouth dropped open, then snapped shut. She reached behind her blindly for one of the hunter green pillows that were propped against the white cushions of the couch, and threw it at James' head, and being an ex-chaser, she didn't miss her target.
"Hey! What was that for?" James asked as he bent to pick up the fallen pillow and threw it back at his wife.
"That," Lily smiled as she picked the pillow out of thin air and set it behind her, "was for telling Sirius anything about our honeymoon."
James just rolled his eyes, muttered something along the lines, 'Women are completely nutters', and sat down next to his wife on the couch.
"How'd you like it there Lily?" Lily's Mother asked as she sat in one of the vacant white chairs.
"It was beautiful. The water was so clear, and warm! It was almost like I was back in our cove in Italy! And it was so magical," she sighed as she laid her hand on James' thigh.
Suddenly, the fire erupted into flames within the white and hunter green room, and Tiffany and Peter came out.
All of the occupants of the room, blinked in confusion. 'Why are they here?' they all wondered.
"Don't we get a welcome?" Tiffany asked in a snobbish voice.
"Uhh . . ." Lily said, trying to figure out why they were here, "welcome?"
"What are you doing here?" Sirius asked, being blunt as usual.
"We just thought that we'd drop in on our old friends and get reacquainted. After all, we haven't talked to each other since the beginning of our seventh year," Peter smiled.
"Right," Kayla muttered under her breath. It was common knowledge that Peter and Tiffany had thrown a fit when Lily, James, Aria, Remus, Sirius and she had all turned their backs on them because the two had tried to break them all up. 'And you'll never be trusted again,' Kayla vowed as she stood up and glared at Tiffany.
Lily frowned in concentration. Something dark was in this room. Her mage magic was running through the roof. She glanced at Aria, who glanced at Remus, who looked at Sirius, who looked at Kayla, and then, Lily glanced at James and whispered, "Do you feel that energy?" James nodded as he scanned the bright room.
Lily got up from her spot next to James, and walked over to Peter and Tiffany. "Welcome to our house," she greeted cheerfully as she extended a hand. Peter reached out and grasped it, and then yanked her into his body. "Thanks, but we'd rather be going now, wouldn't we dear?" Peter sneered as he took out his wand and froze the whole room, except for Lily, himself and Tiffany.
"You little traders!" Lily yelled as she stumbled out of his grasp.
Peter reached out for her again, but Lily was too fast. She whipped out her wand, muttered a few words, and with a swish of her wand, Peter and Tiffany dissolved and disappeared. Lily quickly turned to the rest of the house, and unfroze them.
"What the hell was that about?" Remus screamed as he launched out of his chair.
"They're dark now. Didn't you feel that negative magic? They belong to him." Lily spat as she paced across the white carpet.
"Do you know what this means?" Aria asked as she got up and stood near the window that stood next to the fireplace. "The prophecy's have already begun," she whispered as she looked into the night.
"Oh, God," Kayla moaned as she crumpled into her chair. "What if some of us don't make it? What if some of us die?" she cried out as she took deep breaths to calm her pounding heart.
"We won't." Lily said with such force in her voice that everyone stared at her in amazement. "You remember how the prophecy stated that if we all stood by each other that we'd make it through the fall of the darkness? Well, as long as the six of us stay true to the rest, we don't risk dying. But if one of us breaks lose, we risk all of that and more."
The room was silent.
"What do we do now?" Aria asked as she turned towards Lily, who had always been the leader of the group. "The rest of you go home and get some sleep and live your life like you normally do. For now, that's all that we can do. We wait until they begin. Then, then we begin thinking." Lily sighed as she sat down next to James and rested her head against his shoulder.
"I guess that you're right, my dear," Tiffany Potter said as she stood up.
"Tell Mr. Potter to start being more careful when he's out on raids, please?" Lily asked as her second Mom kissed her cheek, and then James' in a farewell.
"Of course I will," she smiled before apparating home.
"Be careful, dear." Alexandra whispered into Lily's ear as she was hugged. "I always am, Mama," Lily replied as she hugged her back. Alexandra then repeated the same thing in James, Kayla, Sirius, Remus and Aria's ear before she too left.
"Promise to be careful? And to tell if something happens?" Sirius said in a serious voice as he put his hand out, palm up, and looked at Lily to start.
Lily smiled. This was a tradition that she, Sirius, James, and Kayla had started when they had been two, and then took it to Hogwarts with them, and begun with Aria and Remus involved. They always done it in the same way, with their hands always in the same spot. Lily stood up and walked over to Sirius.
"Promise," she smiled as she put her hand palm down on top of Sirius'.
"Promise," Kayla said as she rested her hand over Lily's.
"Promise," James said, and rested his hand on Kayla's.
"Promise," Aria whispered as she followed suit.
"Promise," Remus smiled as he added the last hand on the pile.
They all looked in each other's eyes, one at a time, and said together, "Promise made, promise kept."
The group broke apart, and with hugs and good-byes, Aria and Remus left for their flat, while Sirius and Kayla stayed for a few more minutes.
"As soon as you know Lily, get a hold of me." Kayla whispered as she hugged her best friend. She wasn't ready for this to begin. She knew that nothing would be the same. Nothing. Not after they did what they were meant to do.
"I swear," Lily whispered.
Kayla nodded her head and stepped back.
"Ready?" Sirius asked as he stepped next to her, having already said his good-bye's to his best friend, and second best friend. Kayla nodded her head, and they were gone.
"God, James. Why now?" Lily whispered as she fell backwards onto the couch.
"I don't know honey. I just don't know." He sighed as he picked her up and began carrying her to their bedroom. "Lets just think about this when the time comes okay? And, we now know to stay away from Tiffany and Peter, so lets do so." He told her as he laid her down on the bed and began getting ready for bed.
"You don't need to tell me that twice," she smiled as she pushed herself out of the bed and changed into her pajamas and brushed her teeth before getting back into bed.
"How is it that you take longer to get ready for bed than me?" Lily frowned as she saw her husband pull his pajama pants on.
"I don't take longer. I just take my time getting dressed at nights. Knowing that you'll get me out of my clothes anyways." He smiled as he got under the blankets on his side of the bed.
"Really now? And how do you know that?" she smiled seductively.
"You've never failed to do so before."
"I might just fail tonight though, just because you said that," she teased.
"Nah, you won't. You love the pleasure that I can give you too much to miss out." He said confidently.
Lily laughed and smothered him with a pillow before extinguishing the lights in the room and settling her head on his shoulder.
"Love ya, James," she said into the dark.
"I love you too, Lily," James replied as he bent his head to kiss her, showing Lily just how hard it was to resist his wonderful pleasures.
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Authors Note:
I'm sorry that this took so long, but this was the soonest that I could sit down and begin writing this story. That, and I also had a temporary writers block.
I know that you all are probably saying, 'Isn't Peter supposed to be trusted?' Yes, he is, in other stories, but earlier on in my first story, I told my readers that I need to know if they'd rather have an ending that they all expected, or if they wanted a different ending. Well, they picked the different ending, so I'm doing it that way. Now, for those of you who want me to, I'll post another story, from this chapter on, making it to where Lily and James do end up dying.
Just let me know if you want me too… but this fic is planned out to be the other way. Flame me if you want, but I wanted to be a little creative. And no one really said that they had to die in the fics, and that they had to follow the natural story line.
So, if you are disappointed in me for wanting to be a little different from all the rest of the fics, I'm sorry, but I'm willing to do a story where they do die if it'd make you happy.
Just review with what you want.
Well, hope that some of you were happy with this chapter.
And if you decide that you no longer like my story, I'd like to say 'Thank you for reviewing in the past, and I'm sorry that you no longer enjoy reading my story.'
Byes.
Mistress del Mare