A/N:-ok, this is were the storyline starts to change from the movie but the principles and stuff will be the same. J
"NOWAY!" James roared, "That was you?" He asked. Lily nodded guiltily as she downed the small shot of fire whiskey. It was nearly ten at night and Lily had spent the entire day with James and Sirius. She still thought they were prats but very very nice prat. All their speech was slightly slurred and they were all swaying slightly.
"I was the one who slipped Snape the sleeping pill." Lily said.
"That was so cool." Sirius said slapping his hand on the bar, "I thought it was Prongs."
"I thought it was you." James said to Sirius.
"But it was me." Lily said holding her hands in the air. "He was a sleep for a month!" They were all quite drunk and were talking about the good ole days back at Hogwarts.
"So I did rub off on you." James said grinning like an idiot.
"I never thought you were that bad." Lily said. "I actually really liked you, in seventh year anyway." She eyed the bottle of fire whiskey with Sirius and they both looked at each other like they both thought the same thing.
"You liked me?" James asked leaning across the bar towards Lily.
"Yeah, why do you think I went out with Remus?" Lily spluttered out. "I was jealous." James and Sirius stared at her wide eyed.
"Can you give me a kiss?" James asked. Lily grinned and leaned forwards clumsily. She couldn't really feel her feet anymore and she was incredibly dizzy. James placed a kiss on Lily's lips quite forcefully. He opened her mouth with his and pulled Lily into quite a fiery kiss. When they finally stopped Lily fanned herself with her hand and let out a few short breathes.
"Remus never kissed like that." She said with a smile.
"Has anyone?" James asked giving Lily a wink. Lily started giggling.
"Give me the fire whiskey." Sirius said.
"Oh, you should try this Muggle stuff called Vodka. It's like-" Lily couldn't think of the right word to describe it, "it's like whoa."
"What did you get in your NEWTs again?" James asked. Lily shrugged and grinned.
"Who cares, NEWTs are for the, the-" Lily frowned, "for the stupid people."
"HEAR HEAR!" Sirius shouted. A few people in the bar looked at him but Sirius didn't notice, none of them did.
"Can I have another kiss?" Lily asked James. He grinned and started to lean in for another kiss when the doors to the bar opened and Cara stood in the doorway scanning the people in the bar. She saw Lily and stormed over.
"Lily, there you are." Cara said. She grabbed Lily's arm and started pulling her.
"Get off me." Lily slurred.
"Lily, are you ok? You're drunk!" Cara held Lily's face in her hands and looked into Lily's eyes
"Yeah!" Sirius shouted. "Being drunk is like…" He received a slap from Cara and shut up.
"Come on, I'm taking you home." Cara said helping Lily up.
"No, I want to stay with James, he's so sweet." Lily said looking at James. He gave her a grin and clumsily climbed over the bar and stood unsteadily next to Lily.
"I think you should go." He said.
"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow." Lily said. She kissed James and hadn't finished the kiss when Cara dragged her off. Lily stumbled after her and followed her to the apartment.
"I can't believe you're drunk. You never drink."
"I so do." Lily said grumpily. "I drink all the time."
"With our victims? You could have given us away." Cara snapped.
"So." Lily said. "I don't care. James was looking after me, there wasn't any problems with that." Lily was beginning to sober up quickly and she didn't really like it. She could feel the beginnings of a headache in her mind.
"There are, he could have asked you anything and you would have willingly given the answers to him. You're going straight to bed." Cara said as she pushed the apartment door open and led Lily inside. Lily stumbled down a few steps and started laughing.
"That was fun." She said. Hamon looked up from his bed on the sofa and watched as Cara wrestled the drunk Lily into bed.
"She had fun then." Hamon said bitterly.
"She's drunk!" Cara said, "Are you going to help me? We need Lily in best shape if she's going to get James." Lily stood up as straight as she could and stopped Cara.
"Cara, darling. I have James already. He loves me, he has loved me since he was about thirteen." Lily said trying to be sober, "So if you don't mind, I'm going to go back out and have some fun because I've been a stuck up, boring old fart for all of my-"
"Lily, you're staying here. You're completely drunk, you'll thank me tomorrow." Cara said, "Now get to bed!" Cara pointed at the bedroom and Lily pouted at her and turned to go to sleep but stumbled on her shoe and fell over and started laughing.
* * * *
Lily moaned as she felt her head throb again, and again and again. She put a hand to her forehead and pulled the duvet over her. Her head was killing her and the light was too bright. There was the noise of some people walking around outside that was deafening Lily.
"Silencio." She said picking up her wand from her bedside table and pointing at the window but nothing happened. "Only works on people." She moaned to herself. "Just try and get some sleep. More sleep." Lily said to herself. She tried to get comfortable in her bed again when there was a knock at her door.
"Get lost!" Lily shouted but instantly regretted it as her head throbbed again. The door opened anyway and a tall man with messy black hair came walking in. Lily looked up and moaned as she went back into her bed and pulled her duvet over her head.
"Go away Hamon." She murmured.
"Who's Hamon?" James asked. Lily opened her eyes in alarm.
"My, cousin's husband." Lily said quickly.
"So that's why there was a bed on the sofa." James said. He sat on the bed and looked at Lily,
"What are you doing here?" Lily asked.
"Your cousin came to the bar and asked me to help you get over you inevitable hang over." James said.
"She did?" Lily asked. "Well, there's no way you can get rid of this killer Hangover." James smiled and pulled Lily out of bed.
"I know the perfect cure, just come and lie on the sofa and point me in the direction of the kitchen." James said. Lily smiled gratefully and let James pull her to the sofa.
"Kitchen is over there, I think." Lily said, "Sorry, I've just moved in and I'm still not sure where everything is." James nodded understandably.
"First you sip on this." James said conjuring a mug of Coffee. "It's a Muggle thing but it's very good for soothing a hangover." Lily nodded sat down on the sofa. James picked up a duvet that Hamon had been using and wrapped it around Lily and handed her the coffee.
"Thanks." Lily said gratefully. James smiled and wondered over to the kitchen. Lily took a sip of Coffee and turned her head to look over the sofa to where James was rummaging through her cupboards while humming some tune he'd heard off the radio. Lily watched him and felt herself smiling. What was she doing, yes James was a prick, yes he was rich, yes he was sweet, she shouldn't be playing him. Anyone else but not James Potter. James felt her gaze on his back and he turned and gave her a smile. Lily gave him a smile before turning away and sipping the coffee again. She let out a shaky breath and soon James came over with a small glass of a weird looking liquid.
"Here." He said taking Lily's mug. He poured the liquid into the mug and mixed the contents together. "This should help you get rid of your hangover by lunchtime." He said gently.
"Thanks." Lily said quietly. "Did I say anything last night that, I don't know, didn't seem like I would do?"
"You said a lot of things." James said smiling. Lily frowned.
"Like what?" Lily asked.
"Well, there was the thing about Snape's sleeping pill." Lily smirked, "Something about no one kissing you like I can and something about using Remus." He said the last thing seriously. Lily frowned and took a sip of her coffee, it was amazing how comforting the drink could be when you felt like shit.
"Is it true that you used Remus to make me jealous?" James asked. Lily bit her lip nervously. She could already feel her headache going away.
"Yes." She said very quietly.
"Why? You could have had me if you wanted me." James said.
"How was I supposed to know that, you were going out with my best friend." Lily snapped. James scowled, "How did you think I would feel about that?"
"You always said you hated me."
"Don't you think I said that for a reason?" Lily asked.
"Well, I thought that was because of the Marauders tricks on you-"
"Ok, at first it was because of that but it was because I really liked you but you were always going out with other girls. You just seemed out of my league."
"I was out of your league? You wouldn't give me the time of day." James said. "You were the one who was always rejecting me." James sat on the sofa in front of Lily. Lily had her legs crossed under her and had the duvet pulled around her tightly.
"I suppose we were both idiots then." Lily said with a smirk, looking into her mug.
"We were." James said with a smile, "We can make it up though, I still want you." James hooked a finger under Lily's chin and lifted her face to look at him. Lily sighed.
"But I don't want you." Lily said, "I've seen too many jerks, had so many scumbags just stare at me like they expect me to just get into bed with them. I've even been offered money. I just don't feel for you like that anymore." James gazed into Lily's emerald green eyes. They were so full of feeling and James could tell that she meant every word she had just said. He just smiled, how easy it was to just get lost in his brown eyes. Lily thought.
"Well, I don't mind that. You can learn to love me, everyone does." James said. Lily smiled and nodded
"I'll give you a try." She said. Five, four, three, two… James smiled and gently pressed his lips against Lily's. Lily felt him gently teasing open her mouth and felt his tongue touch hers gently. Don't close your eyes. Lily reminded herself. To close your eyes meant to give your life away on a silver platter, Cara had taught her that. James put a hand around the back of Lily's neck, pulling her face nearer, if that was possible, she didn't mind, she liked this. James pulled away gently after a while and looked at Lily. She gave him a weak smile.
"I'll check up on you later."
"Do you want me to come by the bar?" Lily asked.
"No, I'll come by here, then we'll decide what we want to do then." James said.
"I think I might be having a meal later with Cara and Hamon later."
"Cara's your cousin?" James asked. Lily nodded, "She's quite pretty you know." Lily raised her eyebrows, "Not as pretty as you. You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life." James said. He kissed Lily again but not as passionately as before. Lily smiled. "See you later."
"Bye," Lily whispered. It was all she could managed James got up and left the apartment. Lily sat staring out of the windows and sipping the coffee. Her hang over was completely gone now and she was just enjoying a very nice warm coffee. She held it in her hands for a while and smiled to herself. James was so sweet, he was amazingly kind. Why hadn't she seen this side of him in her seventh year? Things may have gone differently, no in her seventh year James had still been the prat he was always with a slightly deflated ego. Lily sighed, as soon as Cara came back she was going to tell her to find someone else. Lily was going to leave this business, she wasn't going to hurt anymore men. That was it, no more.