Lily sat and read the Daily Prophet that hovered in the air just in front of her. She had her hands out and a bottle of self brushing nail varnish hovered by her fingers as the brush delicately brushed her nails. The door opened and Cara came in humming to herself
"Nice date?" Lily asked, not taking her eyes off the prophet.
"Yes, we're going out again in a an hour. Who was that man you were kissing?" Cara asked.
"James Potter, he was going to get in your way so I did the only thing I could think of." Lily said.
"Oh, bravo." Cara said clapping her hands slightly. "Well, I was thinking of wearing my pink dress, with the red shoes. What do you think?"
"I have the perfect lipstick that will go with that dress." Lily said looking up. "Let me just get my-" Lily looked around for her bag. "Oh SHIT!"
* * * *
Lily pushed the door to the empty bar open. It was closed but there were still a few people in there and it was open. James stood at the bar chatting to Remus Lupin and Sirius Black.
"Give me my bag and wand arsehole." Lily said walking up to James.
"Now, I want you to go back out of the bar and this time when you come storming in say please." James said. Lily glared at him.
"How about I just curse you to kingdom come? I know you stole it so I'd have to see your ugly mug again." Lily said. James reached under the bar and threw the bag at Lily.
"There, and for your information you dropped it last night when you were busy hitting me." James snapped. He turned and headed behind the bar to talk to the bartender.
"Oh, I can't believe him." Lily muttered as she went through her bag to make sure everything was in there. She got her wand out and placed it on the table top. "It's just like him."
"You know, you could cut James some slack." Sirius said. Lily turned to glare at him.
"Black, I would have thought you'd know that no one takes your advice, let alone me." Lily said.
"We've all changed, Lily. Especially James. He's made a good living by starting up this bar. His dad lent him the money and now he earns so much." Remus said, "I know you may not like any of us but give him some slack."
"You scarred him enough at school." Sirius said downing a drink, "Actually, no, just leave us and don't bother talking to any of us again. Come on Moony, we got to get that potion for you." Sirius and Remus left the bar, leaving Lily on her own.
"He's loaded." Lily muttered to himself, "He's got millions, well done Lily." She flicked her wand and disapparated back to her flat.
* * * *
"Come on Potter, Bar is closed tonight, you must go out." Lily muttered as she looked at James' house with a pair of binoculars. She knew James couldn't apparate because the whole area had a non-apparition charm on it to try and keep the piece. When people Apparated they tended to make a big noise. After a few more minutes of waiting James came out of the bar holding a broom,
"Quidditch, I should have known" Lily drawled to herself. James locked the door to his bar with his wand and started down the street. Lily put down her binoculars and pointed her wand at James. She muttered a few words and a jet of light floated silently through the air. When it touched James it dispersed into a mist. This was a spell that allowed her to track him, wherever he went in the country. Lily headed to somewhere where she could apparate and pulled a map. There was a small red dot flying across the map from London to somewhere in Devon. Lily read the name of the place and folded up the wand. She closed her eyes and when she opened her eyes she was in a small silent and dark village. She walked around, she wasn't wearing the right shoes but oh well. She walked down a country road and cringed, the place stank of cow droppings. Lily could see the Cows lying on the ground a little way off.
"Come on Prongs." Came Sirius' voice. "We're just going to do a bit of training, you two are my targets."
"What?" came James' voice, "I am not being your target."
"Well, Remus has said he'll be the keeper and so you're the one and only chaser and I'm going to have to try and hit you aren't I?" Sirius said. Lily looked past a bush and saw Sirius and James standing one the grass field. Remus was in the air flying around and got his wand out. He drew three large circles in the air and nodded happily as he went back down to the ground.
"Ok, fine but if I get too hurt then I'm going to be a bit pissed off."
"A bit?" Sirius asked, "I'd say you'd be very pissed off!" Sirius grinned. James rolled his eyes and mounted his broom. "Great." Sirius conjured a small box and got out the red quaffle.
* * * *
All the times James played Quidditch with Sirius and Remus he had the feeling he was being watched but he couldn't see anyone other then his friends. It was quite fun having Sirius pelt Bludgers at him. There was a reason James was the best Chaser in Hogwarts and he was pleased that he was still quite good.
"Padfoot, I'm knackered, lets get going." Remus said, "Nikki will be waiting for me at home, I said I'd be home before midnight."
"Moony's in Looooove" Sirius said. Remus threw the Quaffle at him, causing Sirius to do a roll. "Hey!" Remus gave Sirius a smirk.
"See ya." Jame said as he went to the ground. Remus gave him a brotherly hug and then apparated away.
"Ok, first one to catch the Bludgers wins." Sirius said bracing himself for the oncoming bludger.
"Whatever." James said as Sirius fell to the floor with a bludger in his arms. James helped Sirius wrestle the Bludger into the box and snapped the lid shut. It instantly disappeared.
"Well," Sirius said, he was covered in dirt and his usually perfect hair was messy as hell, "Got a match tomorrow, you coming?" Sirius asked.
"No, I'm going to sort out the bar." James said.
"Alright, well, listen out for me on the wireless." Sirius said as he apparated away as well. James just stood there, he loved being in the devon country side, it was so wild and dangerous and no one ever came out here. There was a rumoured beast of Bodmin Moor, that was Padfoot, also the wild 'cat' that roamed Dartmoor…also Sirius. James conjured a blanket and spread it on the grass. He lay down on the blanket and stared at the sky. It was completely cloudless and he could see the stars so clearly, there was no pollution out here that was created by the Muggles. James closed his eyes for a few moments when there was a scream. He opened his eyes to see a red haired beauty come out of a bush and rub her leg.
"Stupid hedgehog!" She said hopping on one foot for a while. She sat down and looked at her leg. James got up and jogged over to her.
"What are you doing here?" James asked. Lily looked up at him.
"I just got hurt, are you going to help me out?" She asked. James rolled his eyes and sat down next to Lily and took her foot in his hands.
"Isn't this the foot you used to try and kick me in sixth year?" James asked.
"I don't know. I've forgotten anything to do with you." Lily said. James didn't know why but that remark really hurt. There were a few marks in Lily's skin where something had punctured it but it wasn't bleeding.
"You'll be fine," James said. "It's just a few pricks, they'll be gone by tomorrow." James got to his feet. "So what are you doing here?"
"I was just out…walking." Lily said.
"You were always a rubbish liar Evans." James said. "Have you taken to stalking me now?" Lily looked at him like she was offended by the remark
"No, I just wanted to say sorry about how I behaved earlier. I didn't mean to be so angry, I've been going through a rough patch recently" Lily said.
"It doesn't look like it." James said looking at Lily's figure. Everything about her had enchanted him all through Hogwarts, why did she have to return to his life and make him fall for her all over again.
"What are you doing out here?" Lily asked suspiciously. "You're not burying animal Carcasses like you did in school?" James smiled.
"I thought you'd forgotten everything about me."
"Not everything, I lied. What are you doing out here?" Lily asked.
"Well at first I was playing Quidditch with Sirius and Remus and now I'm just staring at the sky." James said. Lily looked at him,
"Why, you were never interested in that kind of thing." Lily said. James smiled and helped Lily to her feet.
"Do you want to join?" James said, "Today there's supposed to be shooting stars. I was thinking of going up there on my broom and getting a closer look"
"Ok, I suppose." Lily said. James put an arm around her waist and Lily hopped over to the blanket. James helped her onto his broom and got on behind her. He put a hand around her waist and held onto the broom handle with the other hand. He kicked off and they soared high into the air.
"So what are we looking for?" Lily asked.
"Just streaks in the sky really." James said. He looked into the sky and about ten minutes later he saw a white streak, "There." He said pointing it out.
"Oh yeah." Lily said, "Oh, there's another one!" Lily said pointing.
"There." James said. He laughed slight.
"Oh, there's two there." Lily said. She was laughing and seemed to be enjoying herself. James looked at Lily after about half an hour
"Enjoying yourself?" He asked. She looked at him and smiled.
"I never thought you could have this kind of fun for free." Lily said. James smiled.
"Well it's not all free." James said putting his head closer to hers.
"Really? What could it possibly cost Potter?" she asked turning her head slightly, her face was so close and all James wanted to do was kiss it.
"You know what the cost is." He said. Lily looked like she was trying to remember.
"Remind me." She said with a slight grin. James's breath escaped him and he couldn't believe his luck. He moved closer to her face when a high-pitched ringing started.
"Shit!" Lily said turning away and taking a small plastic object that was ringing loudly.
"What's that?"
"A mobile phone." Lily flipped it open. "Hello?" James leaned back with a sigh and began to steer the broom back down to the ground. "No, yes. What? No I'm- fine" Lily said, "I'll see you in a bit." James landed the broom and Lily hopped slightly as she got off.
"Isn't that a muggle thing?" James said,
"Yeah, but it's really easy to keep in contact with my friends with it. Quicker then owls and I can use them anywhere but Hogwarts" Lily said.
"So you have to meet someone?" James asked.
"Yeah, my cousin, she's in a bit of a situation." Lily said holding the phone up.
"Can I see you again?" James asked. He was again enchanted with the red haired vixen that had made his life hell, metaphorically. Lily smiled.
"We'll see Potter." She suddenly disappeared with a crack. James just stood there before letting out a string of swear words. He had promised himself that he wouldn't think of Lily again, he wouldn't even try to see her but
"FUCK!" James shouted into the endless darkness.