Forever Yours
Chapter 24
The Waiting
Lily roamed the halls of her house later that night. Maybe she shouldn't have given up her job. Now, all she could do during the days was worry about Harry. At least she'd have something to do if she still had a job.
"What's wrong, Lily?" James yawned as he came up behind her and looked into Harry's room over her shoulder.
"It looks weird, doesn't it?" Lily whispered softly. "It looks so . . . disserted now that he isn't there to sleep or play in," she elaborated as she wrapped her arms around her waist to ward of the chilly night air. It was a little too cold to be wearing only a thin white nightgown that barely covered anything during the middle of the night.
"We'll get through it Lily. I promise," James vowed as he wrapped his arms around her and began to back out of the room with Lily in his arms. "Come on, baby. You need to sleep. Don't run yourself ragged," he tried when he found that Lily wouldn't move out of Harry's room.
"I know. I won't. I'll go back to bed in a little bit, okay?" she smiled up at him a little sadly.
James sighed and nodded his head mutely before giving her a chaste kiss on the cheek and heading off towards their room on silent feet. He was worried about her. Ever since they had gotten back from Hogwarts earlier that day, she had been quiet. Only giving short responses when asked questions. He knew that she missed Harry, hell, so did he! But she needed to realize that it would have happened sooner or later in their life. And even though he didn't like the fact that his only child was away from home so early in it's life, and might not return for awhile, he at least tried to act normal. "I guess it's a Mother thing," James muttered to himself as he walked into the dark room, which was illuminated by the moonlight only, due to the open curtains. He sighed as he got into bed. He hadn't know that she would be this effected by Harry leaving. It seemed like she was taking it a little too extreme.
*.*.*
Lily stood in the same spot tha6t James left her at and looked at Harry's crib sadly. Ever though he was a year old already, this would be his first night away from her. She was just so used to having him around that the house felt. . . empty. Eerie.
"Maybe I should just listen to James," she sighed. "He's safe with Dumbledore, and no harm can come to him if he's with Dumbledore." And it was true. Hogwarts might not always be the safest of places, but Dumbledore was the safest person that Harry could ever be with. The old wizard had more power than anyone could even imagine. Which is really the only reason why she had ever even considered leaving Harry with Dumbledore. She knew that he'd be taken care of, and protected.
But she was starting to wonder if she did the right thing. Why hadn't she wanted a Secret Keeper? At least then she'd have her baby with her. 'It's because you know that somehow something would still happen. Dumbledore is the safest choice that you had Lily,' her mind reasoned with her.
Lily sighed and backed out of the room. She needed to stop worrying about Harry so much. She knew that he was safe.
Lily closed the door leading to Harry's room silently and started to walk down the hall, her feet making close to no sound on the carpet.
Maybe she'd go and visit her Mother tomorrow. Or Mrs. Potter. Or maybe even Petunia. She hadn't been able to see her nephew since he was born. That might be something to do, she thought as she padded over to her side of the bed, her feet making soft sounds on the hardwood floor.
"You okay now?" James asked, breaking the silence that had fallen over the room, as he pushed himself onto his elbow and looked at Lily as best as he could in the darkness.
"Yes, I think that I am," Lily admitted as she crawled under the blankets and got as close to James as she could.
"Everything will be okay Lily. You'll see," James said, once again, trying to reassure her.
Lily smiled at him slightly and brought one of her hands up to his cheek, which was scattered with stubble. "I love you James," she said as her hand moved to play with the messy strands of hair that laid by his ear.
"I love you too Lily. So very much. You're my everything," James smiled as his forefinger began to trace the contours of her face, taking the route that he'd know in his sleep. He knew every single bump, crevice, freckle, expression, and scar that marred this woman's body. He'd be able to draw her body to perfection - if he knew how to draw - in his sleep.
Lily smiled as she felt his fingertip brush against her nose in a soft caress. He loved touching her nose now days for some reason. Lily continued to smile as she brought James's head closer to hers and leaned up to kiss his lips lightly. James's finger brushed across her chin before trailing the line of her jaw and cupping her head with his hand.
"Make love to me James," she whispered as she nibbled on his bottom lip slowly, then ran her tongue over the area of flesh that she was playing with.
James groaned and rolled on top of her. "You have to ask?" he rasped in a husky voice as his hands stole up her silken nightgown.
*.*.*
The next morning, Lily woke up with a bad feeling in her gut. Something was going to happen, and soon. Really soon. In an attempt to get the feeling away, Lily snuggled closer to James and began to nuzzle his neck, trying to get him to wake up.
"James, sweetheart. Time to get up. Please," she whispered into his ear before taking it into her mouth and grazing her teeth over the flesh before pulling her head back a little bit to see if his eyes had opened up. They hadn't.
James groaned in his sleep, and wrapped an arm around his wife, holding her - securing her to his side.
Lily smiled evilly as a plan formed in her head. She slipped James's arm away from her body and straddled his hips before looking down at him. Damn, but he still looked hot as ever to her. Nothing had changed on his body since the first time they had made love. Well, nothing except the fact that he had gotten stronger. Which was a definite plus to her. There was just something about knowing that a guy is stronger than her that totally turned her own. And his chest could still make her goggle. All the long, lean, hairless, hard ridges of it. It made her mouth water just looking at it.
Lily leaned down and placed a small kiss on James's neck. For once, she was glad that he could be a sound sleeper at times. This seemed to be one of those times. She never realized that it could come into handy. Lily placed chaste kisses down his body until she had to scoot her body down so that she could get to her objective. Lily took James into her mouth, and watched through hooded lids as James's eyes shot open, the blue darker than usual, and his mouth opened just a tiny bit as a groan was ripped from his throat.
He could be amusing to wake at times.
"God, Lily!" James groaned as his hand fisted in her hair, which was in a big enough mess from the activities of last night. His hand jerked sharply as the pleasure grew too intense for his body to handle, but Lily didn't even feel it. She loved watching him like this. So . . . helpless. Needy. Vulnerable.
James groaned again, grabbed Lily by her arms, and hauled her up his body.
"You play dirty Mrs. Potter. But so can I," he grunted as he thrust into her body, making Lily throw her head back on a groan, and grip his forearms to gain stability.
What seemed like minutes, but was really an hour later, Lily and James got out of bed and got ready for the day.
"You're not going to work?" Lily asked skeptically as she noticed the time a few hours later. She turned from her spot on the terrace and faced James, who was leaning on the doorjamb of the terrace doors watching her silently with his arms crossed over his chest and a thoughtful look on his face.
His clothes didn't look like ones he would wear to work. Instead of his usual black slacks and dark blue button up shirt, he was wearing blue jeans and a gray sweater.
"No, I'm not. I took the week off," James explained with a shrug of his gray covered shoulders.
Lily's mouth formed and 'o', and she turned back to the view before she ran a hand over her tight black tank top, and black slacks.
"you feel it too, don't you?" Lily asked as she continued to listen to the furious beat of the ocean.
"Yes."
"Maybe we should get everyone over here . . . " Lily said, a little uncertain of her idea.
"I'll do it," James sighed. She was putting up a wall around herself. He knew that she was.
All Lily could do was nod her head. She didn't even look at James and do it.
He had guessed right though. She was trying to distance herself from everyone else. She just had this bad feeling that she was going to lose someone close to her. And she didn't know who it was, and it was driving her crazy! Hadn't she lost enough people who were important to her in her life? Her sister. Her Father. The way that she figured it, if she distanced herself from the others now, there was a better chance of not hurting as much as it normally would later. Right?
"They'll be here in a little bit," James announced as he leaned on the rail next to her and looked out over the ocean just as she was doing.
Lily nodded her head, and didn't reply. She didn't know what to say. She just realize that there was a possibility that she could lose the love of her life. Would she be able to cope with that? No. She didn't think that she could.
"I love you James," she told him before turning around and leaving the terrace.
James frowned in confusion. What the hell was that about, he wondered as he watched her shut the bedroom door behind her. She was acting like she was going to lose him! 'I'm not going anywhere, my love,' James vowed as he sighed and turned back around to continue looking at the ocean.
*.*.*
A little over two hours after James had talked to them, Kayla, Sirius, Aria, and Remus all showed up at their house, and they all seemed to have the same thoughts as Lily and James. Something was going to happen.
Nightfall was upon them, and everything seemed to spook Lily now. She was on edge, and everyone could tell. She kept on searching the room for something that wasn't there, and whenever someone talked to her, she jumped. Something was up.
"What's wrong?" Aria asked as she and Kayla got Lily alone.
"I don't know," Lily admitted as she begun to pace the space of the kitchen. She felt like she was some kind of caged animal who had to escape or else she'd lose her mind. Like she needed to transform and run wild.
"I feel as if I need to transform to get all of this energy out, but I also think that the urge to do so is some kind of trick. And I don't know what to do!" she ranted as she started to pace faster. "Something wants me out there. Outside. Something - or someone - wants our circle broken." She growled with the realization. They weren't going to break them up. They were going to fight this . . . thing together.
Kayla stood where she was, leaning against the counter in shock. In all of her years knowing Lily, she had never in her whole life, seen her best friend look like this, act like this. If Lily was edgy enough to rant and pace like this, and have that . . . frightened look in her emerald eyes, something big was going to happen. Lily was always the rock. The one that never got frightened of things. Now, now Lily was terrified. "Oh, God," Kayla whispered. She was starting to feel it now too. That eeriness. It was creeping into the air. And that nagging feeling of something dark on the horizon that Lily had been feeling since she woke up. It was there.
"What are we going to do?" Aria asked. She couldn't feel it, but she knew that this had to be something big to get Kayla and Lily acting like this.
"Wait for him to come to us. It's him. I know that it is. It's All Hallows Eve. Remember the prophecy?" Lily whispered as she pushed past the two girls and a made her way to the family room, where she knew that James and the rest of the guys were sitting, most likely talking about Quidditch so that they wouldn't have to think about what was going on at the moment.
"This could be our last night alive," Aria whispered shakily in realization. It hadn't seemed real. Not until this exact moment, it hadn't seemed real to her. It had been like the whole situation was so far away from her. Now, now she saw the seriousness of the situation. They could all die. The whole magical civilization was at jeopardy. And the responsibility lay at the hand of six twenty to twenty one year olds.
*.*.*
Authors Note:
Hey you all!
I'm sorry that it took me like a million dyas to get this out. But I had it done by Wednesday, but the site wouldn't let me put it up! I'm not sure if I'll be able to put it up today - Friday - because the site seems to not be working for me.
But I have two more chapters to go!
The next one will be the final chapter of the story, and then the second one will be an epilogue.
Well, I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter! I sorta left ya'll wit a cliffy though.
I'll try to have the next chapters out soon! Byes
Review please!!!!
Mistress del Mare
Chapter 24
The Waiting
Lily roamed the halls of her house later that night. Maybe she shouldn't have given up her job. Now, all she could do during the days was worry about Harry. At least she'd have something to do if she still had a job.
"What's wrong, Lily?" James yawned as he came up behind her and looked into Harry's room over her shoulder.
"It looks weird, doesn't it?" Lily whispered softly. "It looks so . . . disserted now that he isn't there to sleep or play in," she elaborated as she wrapped her arms around her waist to ward of the chilly night air. It was a little too cold to be wearing only a thin white nightgown that barely covered anything during the middle of the night.
"We'll get through it Lily. I promise," James vowed as he wrapped his arms around her and began to back out of the room with Lily in his arms. "Come on, baby. You need to sleep. Don't run yourself ragged," he tried when he found that Lily wouldn't move out of Harry's room.
"I know. I won't. I'll go back to bed in a little bit, okay?" she smiled up at him a little sadly.
James sighed and nodded his head mutely before giving her a chaste kiss on the cheek and heading off towards their room on silent feet. He was worried about her. Ever since they had gotten back from Hogwarts earlier that day, she had been quiet. Only giving short responses when asked questions. He knew that she missed Harry, hell, so did he! But she needed to realize that it would have happened sooner or later in their life. And even though he didn't like the fact that his only child was away from home so early in it's life, and might not return for awhile, he at least tried to act normal. "I guess it's a Mother thing," James muttered to himself as he walked into the dark room, which was illuminated by the moonlight only, due to the open curtains. He sighed as he got into bed. He hadn't know that she would be this effected by Harry leaving. It seemed like she was taking it a little too extreme.
*.*.*
Lily stood in the same spot tha6t James left her at and looked at Harry's crib sadly. Ever though he was a year old already, this would be his first night away from her. She was just so used to having him around that the house felt. . . empty. Eerie.
"Maybe I should just listen to James," she sighed. "He's safe with Dumbledore, and no harm can come to him if he's with Dumbledore." And it was true. Hogwarts might not always be the safest of places, but Dumbledore was the safest person that Harry could ever be with. The old wizard had more power than anyone could even imagine. Which is really the only reason why she had ever even considered leaving Harry with Dumbledore. She knew that he'd be taken care of, and protected.
But she was starting to wonder if she did the right thing. Why hadn't she wanted a Secret Keeper? At least then she'd have her baby with her. 'It's because you know that somehow something would still happen. Dumbledore is the safest choice that you had Lily,' her mind reasoned with her.
Lily sighed and backed out of the room. She needed to stop worrying about Harry so much. She knew that he was safe.
Lily closed the door leading to Harry's room silently and started to walk down the hall, her feet making close to no sound on the carpet.
Maybe she'd go and visit her Mother tomorrow. Or Mrs. Potter. Or maybe even Petunia. She hadn't been able to see her nephew since he was born. That might be something to do, she thought as she padded over to her side of the bed, her feet making soft sounds on the hardwood floor.
"You okay now?" James asked, breaking the silence that had fallen over the room, as he pushed himself onto his elbow and looked at Lily as best as he could in the darkness.
"Yes, I think that I am," Lily admitted as she crawled under the blankets and got as close to James as she could.
"Everything will be okay Lily. You'll see," James said, once again, trying to reassure her.
Lily smiled at him slightly and brought one of her hands up to his cheek, which was scattered with stubble. "I love you James," she said as her hand moved to play with the messy strands of hair that laid by his ear.
"I love you too Lily. So very much. You're my everything," James smiled as his forefinger began to trace the contours of her face, taking the route that he'd know in his sleep. He knew every single bump, crevice, freckle, expression, and scar that marred this woman's body. He'd be able to draw her body to perfection - if he knew how to draw - in his sleep.
Lily smiled as she felt his fingertip brush against her nose in a soft caress. He loved touching her nose now days for some reason. Lily continued to smile as she brought James's head closer to hers and leaned up to kiss his lips lightly. James's finger brushed across her chin before trailing the line of her jaw and cupping her head with his hand.
"Make love to me James," she whispered as she nibbled on his bottom lip slowly, then ran her tongue over the area of flesh that she was playing with.
James groaned and rolled on top of her. "You have to ask?" he rasped in a husky voice as his hands stole up her silken nightgown.
*.*.*
The next morning, Lily woke up with a bad feeling in her gut. Something was going to happen, and soon. Really soon. In an attempt to get the feeling away, Lily snuggled closer to James and began to nuzzle his neck, trying to get him to wake up.
"James, sweetheart. Time to get up. Please," she whispered into his ear before taking it into her mouth and grazing her teeth over the flesh before pulling her head back a little bit to see if his eyes had opened up. They hadn't.
James groaned in his sleep, and wrapped an arm around his wife, holding her - securing her to his side.
Lily smiled evilly as a plan formed in her head. She slipped James's arm away from her body and straddled his hips before looking down at him. Damn, but he still looked hot as ever to her. Nothing had changed on his body since the first time they had made love. Well, nothing except the fact that he had gotten stronger. Which was a definite plus to her. There was just something about knowing that a guy is stronger than her that totally turned her own. And his chest could still make her goggle. All the long, lean, hairless, hard ridges of it. It made her mouth water just looking at it.
Lily leaned down and placed a small kiss on James's neck. For once, she was glad that he could be a sound sleeper at times. This seemed to be one of those times. She never realized that it could come into handy. Lily placed chaste kisses down his body until she had to scoot her body down so that she could get to her objective. Lily took James into her mouth, and watched through hooded lids as James's eyes shot open, the blue darker than usual, and his mouth opened just a tiny bit as a groan was ripped from his throat.
He could be amusing to wake at times.
"God, Lily!" James groaned as his hand fisted in her hair, which was in a big enough mess from the activities of last night. His hand jerked sharply as the pleasure grew too intense for his body to handle, but Lily didn't even feel it. She loved watching him like this. So . . . helpless. Needy. Vulnerable.
James groaned again, grabbed Lily by her arms, and hauled her up his body.
"You play dirty Mrs. Potter. But so can I," he grunted as he thrust into her body, making Lily throw her head back on a groan, and grip his forearms to gain stability.
What seemed like minutes, but was really an hour later, Lily and James got out of bed and got ready for the day.
"You're not going to work?" Lily asked skeptically as she noticed the time a few hours later. She turned from her spot on the terrace and faced James, who was leaning on the doorjamb of the terrace doors watching her silently with his arms crossed over his chest and a thoughtful look on his face.
His clothes didn't look like ones he would wear to work. Instead of his usual black slacks and dark blue button up shirt, he was wearing blue jeans and a gray sweater.
"No, I'm not. I took the week off," James explained with a shrug of his gray covered shoulders.
Lily's mouth formed and 'o', and she turned back to the view before she ran a hand over her tight black tank top, and black slacks.
"you feel it too, don't you?" Lily asked as she continued to listen to the furious beat of the ocean.
"Yes."
"Maybe we should get everyone over here . . . " Lily said, a little uncertain of her idea.
"I'll do it," James sighed. She was putting up a wall around herself. He knew that she was.
All Lily could do was nod her head. She didn't even look at James and do it.
He had guessed right though. She was trying to distance herself from everyone else. She just had this bad feeling that she was going to lose someone close to her. And she didn't know who it was, and it was driving her crazy! Hadn't she lost enough people who were important to her in her life? Her sister. Her Father. The way that she figured it, if she distanced herself from the others now, there was a better chance of not hurting as much as it normally would later. Right?
"They'll be here in a little bit," James announced as he leaned on the rail next to her and looked out over the ocean just as she was doing.
Lily nodded her head, and didn't reply. She didn't know what to say. She just realize that there was a possibility that she could lose the love of her life. Would she be able to cope with that? No. She didn't think that she could.
"I love you James," she told him before turning around and leaving the terrace.
James frowned in confusion. What the hell was that about, he wondered as he watched her shut the bedroom door behind her. She was acting like she was going to lose him! 'I'm not going anywhere, my love,' James vowed as he sighed and turned back around to continue looking at the ocean.
*.*.*
A little over two hours after James had talked to them, Kayla, Sirius, Aria, and Remus all showed up at their house, and they all seemed to have the same thoughts as Lily and James. Something was going to happen.
Nightfall was upon them, and everything seemed to spook Lily now. She was on edge, and everyone could tell. She kept on searching the room for something that wasn't there, and whenever someone talked to her, she jumped. Something was up.
"What's wrong?" Aria asked as she and Kayla got Lily alone.
"I don't know," Lily admitted as she begun to pace the space of the kitchen. She felt like she was some kind of caged animal who had to escape or else she'd lose her mind. Like she needed to transform and run wild.
"I feel as if I need to transform to get all of this energy out, but I also think that the urge to do so is some kind of trick. And I don't know what to do!" she ranted as she started to pace faster. "Something wants me out there. Outside. Something - or someone - wants our circle broken." She growled with the realization. They weren't going to break them up. They were going to fight this . . . thing together.
Kayla stood where she was, leaning against the counter in shock. In all of her years knowing Lily, she had never in her whole life, seen her best friend look like this, act like this. If Lily was edgy enough to rant and pace like this, and have that . . . frightened look in her emerald eyes, something big was going to happen. Lily was always the rock. The one that never got frightened of things. Now, now Lily was terrified. "Oh, God," Kayla whispered. She was starting to feel it now too. That eeriness. It was creeping into the air. And that nagging feeling of something dark on the horizon that Lily had been feeling since she woke up. It was there.
"What are we going to do?" Aria asked. She couldn't feel it, but she knew that this had to be something big to get Kayla and Lily acting like this.
"Wait for him to come to us. It's him. I know that it is. It's All Hallows Eve. Remember the prophecy?" Lily whispered as she pushed past the two girls and a made her way to the family room, where she knew that James and the rest of the guys were sitting, most likely talking about Quidditch so that they wouldn't have to think about what was going on at the moment.
"This could be our last night alive," Aria whispered shakily in realization. It hadn't seemed real. Not until this exact moment, it hadn't seemed real to her. It had been like the whole situation was so far away from her. Now, now she saw the seriousness of the situation. They could all die. The whole magical civilization was at jeopardy. And the responsibility lay at the hand of six twenty to twenty one year olds.
*.*.*
Authors Note:
Hey you all!
I'm sorry that it took me like a million dyas to get this out. But I had it done by Wednesday, but the site wouldn't let me put it up! I'm not sure if I'll be able to put it up today - Friday - because the site seems to not be working for me.
But I have two more chapters to go!
The next one will be the final chapter of the story, and then the second one will be an epilogue.
Well, I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter! I sorta left ya'll wit a cliffy though.
I'll try to have the next chapters out soon! Byes
Review please!!!!
Mistress del Mare