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The next morning, I awoke to James attempting to stand up without waking me.
"Whatch doin, cutie?" I asked him, half asleep.
"Today is the quidditch match, the rest of the team is waiting for me to go to breakfast with them," He told me. I blinked and Sirius, Eden, and the rest of the quidditch team came into view. They were all looking at James and I, expectantly.
"Lily, love the look," Sirius said eyeing my morning hair.
"Sirius, love the—well, nothing, leave me alone," I told him back.
"Real original, Evans," Sirius said in response.
"Hey, guys, no arguing, it's way too early. Gotta go, Lils, see you in a bit," James said, and with that, he raced upstairs and changed into his quidditch robes, ran back down, and they all left. I got up off the floor and tried to decide what to do for a couple of seconds, then, decided to go get ready for breakfast and wake up Gwen.
To my surprise, Gwen was already awake.
"Hey Lily," Gwen said, absentmindedly. "Oh Lils, do you think Eden will ever speak to me again. I mean, she would normally get over a guy in, like, an hour. Leave it to me to end up liking the one that she actually liked. Oh Lily! What am I going to do!" Gwen said, almost hysterically.
"She'll get over it, I promise," I said, sympathetically.
"That's what Sirius said, too," she said, doubtfully, "But it really doesn't seem like she's going to get over it. I mean she got up and left before I was even awake and came up to sleep after I fell asleep. She's obviously avoiding me."
"So, you really like him, huh?" I asked, changing the topic.
"Oh, I've liked him, like, forever!" Gwen said, suddenly happy, "But now I don't know what to do—I mean normally Eden has moved on by now… it's been, like, over a month! That totally blows her three hour rule out of the water."
"Don't worry about her, whether she says it or not, she knew you liked Sirius when the two of them started dating," I told her. "Who are we sitting with for the game?" I asked, once again trying to change the topic.
"I don't know, we usually sit with Remus, but he might be sitting with the mystery girl," Gwen said, thoughtfully.
"So, I guess we're sitting alone?" I asked.
"What about Peter?" She asked me.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot about him," I said with a laugh. "Can we go to breakfast now? I wanted to talk to James before the game."
"Of course we can and of course you do," Gwen answered with a laugh.
Gwen and I walked into the Great Hall to find it full, with the Gryffindor team sitting there staring nauseously at the food. Every that is, except Sirius. He was inhaling food just like usual. The rest of the team was looking at him in disgust.
"Hey," I greeted James, giving him a peck on the cheek as Gwen and I sat down.
"Hello," James said, nauseously. This was odd. James never used proper language.
"Are you alright?" I asked him.
"What, oh you were talking to me, I'm great. Never been better," He said staring straight ahead.
"I'm great too, this food is awesome. Here, have some, Prongs," Sirius said between bites, shoving a plate of food at James. James continued to stare straight ahead, unfazed.
"Hey, Remus," I started, "Are you sitting with us or with the mystery girl?"
"You guys, she's on the Ravenclaw quidditch team," He answered. James continued to stare straight ahead, paling slowly.
"Dude, you're dating the enemy?" Sirius asked Remus.
"She's not the enemy, it's just a game," Remus answered.
"Just a game—" Sirius started. He was cut of by James suddenly standing up and running out of the Great Hall. He looked like he was about to throw up.
"Should I?" I asked, getting up. Remus gently pulled me back down.
"What are you going to do?" He asked. I sighed.
I did not see James again until he was walking out onto the quidditch pitch. He still looked nauseous, but determined. I was sitting with Gwen and Remus (and Peter, but who would have noticed?). Apparently, I was not the only one who noticed James looking rather ill.
"Potter looks as though he was hung from a pole by a pack of pixies, fell off the pole, and was run over by a stampede of hippogriffs when he hit the ground," the announcer said.
"He always gets like this before a match… right?" I asked Remus and Gwen, frantically.
"Honestly?" Gwen asked me.
"Duh," I answered.
"Never, James never gets worried before a quidditch match. That's why he's so good at it, but today he looks—" Remus started.
"Like he hung from a pole by a pack of pixies, fell off the pole, and was run over by a stampeded of hippogriffs when he hit the ground," Gwen finished.
On the field, things were not going well. James looked as though he were about to fall off his broom. Sirius was, instead of knocking bludgers away, dodging the bludgers Eden kept sending his way. Because of this, no one from Gryffindor quidditch team was keeping the players from being bludgeoned and they were all trying desperately not to get hit. It looked like Gryffindor was going to lose.
"Wow, this is going well, huh?" Gwen asked, sarcastically.
"I think Eden's trying to kill Sirius," Remus said. Things were getting pretty boring, we'd been there for about two hours and the score was 90-0 in favor of Ravenclaw.
"Holy crap, there's a bludger going right for James!" Gwen screamed. I jerked my head his way (he had been hovering, in a daze, in the entire spot the whole game).
"It's going to knock him out!" I screamed, in a panick.
"Don't worry, Lils, I'm sure he'll notice," Remus assured me. It did not look like he had noticed. He was just sitting there, dazed and staring straight ahead. Eden was busy sending one of the bludgers at Sirius and Sirius was busy fending them off. All of a sudden, James popped to life and went into a dive, right into the path of another bludger. They collided in mid air, knocking James off his broom. He was unconscious.
"Looks like Potter's going to need to spend some time in the hospital wing, I'm not sure how Gryffindor has a chance at winning with their prized seeker down," came the announcer's voice. I was completely panicking, almost in tears.
"I'm sure he's ok," Remus assured me.
"No he's—" I started.
"Bloody hell, wait a second, it looks as though Potter was diving for the snitch… sure enough he got it! Gryffindor wins!" the announcer screamed. I did not care if Gryffindor won, I raced down to the field closely followed by Gwen and Remus (Peter as well, I'm guessing, I'm really not quite sure). Madam Hooch was conjuring up a stretcher underneath James. She then started towards the hospital wing followed by Professor McGonagall, the Gryffindor quidditch team, Remus, Gwen, and I. I was still crying. Madam Pomphrey told us that we had to wait in the hall until she could get him conscious.
"What the heck was up with that?" I screamed at Eden and Sirius.
"What?" Sirius asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Is it not your job to protect the players from getting bludgeoned into oblivious?" I asked, screaming at Eden and Sirius.
"Well, Lily, I was a little busy preventing myself from being pelted by bludgers that were sent to me by certain people," He screamed at me, glaring at Eden.
"Whatever, Sirius, leave me the heck alone," Eden said, walking out.
"If you don't lower your voices, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," Madam Pomphrey said, sticking her head out of the hospital ward. "In fact, I want everyone except for Evans and Black gone." There were groans as everyone left, Gwen stopped and gave me a hug and told me not to worry, and Remus told me that everything would be ok. Sirius and I sat in an awkward silence for a while.
"Sirius, I thought you were supposed to prevent James from getting hurt!" I said to him in a hushed whisper.
"I am, but I have to watch my back too," He said. "Listen, Lily, I know you're just upset because James is hurt, but you're taking your anger out on me."
"No, I'm mad at you!" I shouted at him.
"The two of you can come in now, he's awake," Madam Pomphrey said poking her head out. We got up and followed her in to find James lying in bed, awake, looking pale.
"Oh, James," I sobbed, running up and wrapping my arms around him.
"I'm ok, Lily!" James said.
"Are you sure," I said, pulling back and closely examining his face. He looked like usual, except for a cut above his right eye.
"Yeah, I promise," James said giving me a weak smile.
"Oh, well, in that case…" I picked up a pillow off the bed next to James', "Don't you ever do that to me again!" I said, hitting him in the head with the pillow.
"Lily, is that really necessary?" James asked, trying to get the pillow out of my hands.
"Yes," I answered, still hitting him with the pillow.
"Sirius, could I get a little help here?" James asked.
"Lily, Lily, Lily, that's really not the way to go about it," Sirius said, pulling me away from James' bed and taking the pillow from me.
"Hey, that's it! Out, you two! Out!" Madam Pomphrey screamed at me.
"Please, Madam, just one more minute," James pleaded.
"Fine, but not another second! You need sleep," She responded, walking back into her office.
"James, I'm sorry!" I sobbed into his shoulder.
"It's ok, listen, you've got to go now, but I love you," James told me. "And Sirius, I want you to take good care of my girl while I'm in here."
"I love you, too," I said, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Don't worry, Prongs, I'll watch her, but I can't promise you I won't accidentally woo her away from you," Sirius said walking out.
"I love you," I said, giving him one last kiss on the cheek and walking out.
"I love you, too," He told me as I shut the door behind me.
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