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Chapter 3
When Lily went down at six thirty he was nowhere to be seen.
Twenty minutes later she showed apologizing for being late saying he got held up.
They walked ten minutes away (in the cold) to an Italian restaurant.
When they reached inside the owner came out and greeted James like an old friend.
'What was all that about?'
James shrugged, 'you meet people who like sports when you're a sports writer.'
Lily drank down the glass of wine when she got hers and spent the evening picking at her food.
Through her third glass she talked about what was going on at her work, how they wanted her to be more spontaneous and dress sexier.
Then she was hit with a brilliant idea.
When James heard what she had to say he wasn't sure if it was the wine talking or her old rational self.
He had never felt more comfortable in over five years than he had sitting there and having dinner with her.
'What if I ask the woman if you could interview her and in return you could help me be more spontaneous?'
He wasn't sure if he should accept because it seemed that it just dawned on her.
But then again he was never one to walk away from a story.
They were just friends he could handle just teaching her a few things but he doubted she remember when she really let herself go.
He was just glad that he was the only one to see her really loose control.
They had stolen Sirius's new motorcycle and flew it for most of the day and then came back with it.
She had trusted herself with him and now he wondered if she thought of those times.
'All right. If you help me I'll help you.'
'Great.'
After dinner though when they walked to her office building James wondered that since the brisk cold air was sobering up if she still felt the same.
And he was right.
'Listen James now that I had some time to think about it I don't really need your help, I contact Haley Manning for you but I'll work on being more spontaneous by myself.'
'Lily are you sure I don't want it to seem like I am using you.'
'No James its all right.'
James let Lily apparate home though he had no intention of not going through with his part of the deal.
A deal is a deal and he always held up his part of it.
Of course it was whether she liked it or not.
~~
The next day James ran into Gabby, Remus's girlfriend and Morgan, Sirius's girlfriend shopping.
'Hi James.' They greeted him.
'Hi where are you going?' he questioned as he folding his paper.
It was Saturday and he was in Diagon Alley.
He tried not to show that he really had no reason for being there but he wondered if they would buy.
Those girls were really perceptive.
Gabby has waist length dark hair with blue grey eyes. At 5'3" she is thin and tan. Gabby was a quiet sort of girl. Well sometimes. She respects her friends a lot. Even if she doesn't agree with some of their decisions she usually keeps to herself about that. She is very quiet at times but watch out if you take her being quiet as a weakness. James learned that a while ago and Remus trusts her with his secret so far so James figured she was nice.
Morgan was short and petit with reddish blond hair and misty green eyes. Sirius told him she was part fairy. He never really met a fairy before so he was interested. The girl had a complicated back ground with her dad being an evil wizard and her mum being a good fairy. Guess she must have lot of mood swings. Then again Sirius always did love a challenge.
'Oh we're going to meet the boys down there for lunch.' Said Gabby.
'Why don't you join us?' asked Morgan.
James though thought it better to decline.
'No thanks girls, I promised an old friend I'd help her with something.' They realised it was a female though they didn't say anything except,
'Oh really what's her name?'
'Lily Evans. Ask Sirius and Remus they'll tell you about her. I got to go.' He said and disapparated to the nearest Chinese restaurant he knew.
But before that he stopped by to ask Simone where Lily lived.
When he stopped by Simone was just on her way out and was surprised to see him.
She was even more surprised when he asked for Lily's address.
She grinned at him while she wrote it down.
When he looked at the address however it was his turn to be surprised.
Her house was not to far form where his own is in Godric's Hollow.
While he took his time in showing up at her doorstep he wondered what his friends could be telling their girlfriends about his relationship with Lily.
They really bit into him when he broke up with her. They thought that she was the best thing that could have ever happened to him.
What they could understand was why he spent so much time chasing after her when he ended up breaking up with her.
To them it didn't make any sense.
Well it certainly didn't make sense to him why should it to others.
He knew he loved her his friends knew he loved her.
She didn't.
Though this was not the perfect time for him to start up something between them again.
He could still feel the spark between them. He resisted the urge during the meeting and dinner to kiss her silly, like he had been longing to for the past five years. He never really asked her if she still hated him.
Maybe she got past that.
He could expect her to very well become a nun just because they broke up.
Heck he had more girlfriends than he could count or remember these past five years but all he could think about was Lily.
It wasn't an obsession he had with her though.
They had a lot of good memories and she was his first love of course he would remember her from the others.
He came up and knocked on her door.
He saw Lily gave a start when she opened the door.
'What are you doing here?' the surprise of his presence etched her voice.
'Well I brought you lunch. Hope you haven't eaten.' He said as he waved the food under her nose.
He knew Chinese was her favourite kind of food.
'I haven't but you might as well come in.'
He grinned at her and went through the door.
'I like the place you have here. It's really cozy.'
'Thanks, how did you find it anyway?'
'Well I got your address from ---'
'Simone.' They both finished.
Lily laughed and led the way to a neat little kitchen that over looked a garden, which was covered with snow.
'So what brings you here?' she said after they had gotten plates and started to eat on her kitchen table.
'I just wanted to see when you would be ready to go shopping for your new look.'
'James I told you last night you don't have too.'
'I just want to convince you not to dress like someone's grandmother. It's the attitude men pick up on not the clothes you wear. If you sincerely want to keep your job, it seems to me that you'd have to make some changes.'
He was saying what she knew to be true but it hurt coming form him. Thought Lily.
'Did you think like that when you dumped me?' she was not going to cry, she was not going to cry...
'No!' he practically choked out his reply.
'I loved it that you were such a sweet person and when you were impish you were incredible.'
He looked her over form head to toe and she knew he was undressing her with those incredible eyes.
'If you used just a part of your latent powers an ambitious intern would be the least of your worries.'
'Its really time for you to leave.'
She led the way to the door and held it open for him.
After he left with a quick goodbye she locked the door behind him.
~~
Outside in the crisp cold air James took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
His senses were reeling.
What made him think that he could be around Lily without feeling hot and bothered?
She still turned him on like no one he ever met.
Her clothes didn't hint it but he remembered the perfect body beneath it. He had to clench his fist at his sides to keep from touching her. He stood outside and debated whether to go back to her.
No doubt he wanted to but she'd deck him if he tried anything.
What was he thinking?
He didn't want to complicate his life by having an affair with Lily. Nothing was different between them.
She was till and a planner looking for permanence and a happy ending.
He on the other hand wasn't anymore ready for lasting ties than he was all those years ago.
James usually didn't mind being alone and he rarely dumped his problems on other people.
But tonight he needed to talk if it was only about sports.
Lily Evans was a threat. If he had any sense he'd never go near her again. It would be a triumph if he nailed the story with Haley Manning but his career would survive if he didn't.
He met up with Sirius at home and went out for a couple of hours.
But as he went home that night he still thought of Lily.
He still didn't feel good about the way he dumped her and if he hadn't concentrated so much on sports it might have been different.
He didn't give himself points on maturity either; he had to have known himself before he could have committed to Lily.
He still thought of her when he went to sleep that night.
The next week Lily was at work trying to get in touch with Haley Manning. She hadn't had any luck so far.
There was a knock on her door and she called come in without looking up thinking it was Jess on her way out.
'Hey there I was waiting for you down at the entrance but you didn't show up.'
'Yeah well I'm leaving now.' Said Lily picking up her purse wishing he would stop making her heart race by dropping in unexpectedly.
He slouched against the closed door he robes half open and his hands trust into the pockets of his jeans.
Was he showing of his lean waist and six-pack or is she just imaging he was doing it?
When he just continued to stare at her she felt compelled to say something.
'I sent Haley Manning a letter requesting her to come and speak with you.'
'You look nice.' Lily wanted to talk about the Manning's' not about what she was wearing.
'There is nothing more I can do for you.' Why was she feeling breathless and panicky? This is James he meant nothing to her now.
'I like the dress, a little long but at least you look like a woman.'
'I can't really give you her address with out her permission.' Lily said impatiently.
'Maybe she's out of town or something.'
She had the terrible urge to look down at her dress, James staring at it like he wanted to buy it.
He advanced another step.
There was a knock. She ignored it.
'Answer it.' He said and then followed her to the door where he stood behind it as he opened it.
'Yes?' she said.
'Oh Ms. Evans I would like to speak to you about the file you requested.' Lily was finding it hard to concentrate when James was tickling her neck.
She knew she would seem like an idiot if she half way between the door and her office giggling. His finger slid down her arm and she was fighting a smile that was coming on.
'Uh Mr. Hunt could I talk to you about that tomorrow?'
'Sure thing.' He said and left.
'Why were you doing that?' she asked of him immediately.
'Maybe I am wrong about what you wear. That grey number is a real turn on.'
'Don't you have somewhere else to be?'
'Are you seeing anyone?'
'No until recently I had and the rest is none of your business.'
He was poised to kiss her.
'I can't seem to get you out of my head.' He said not seeming pleased about it.
'Put you coat on, I am leaving and so are you.'
'I really need to know something Lily, its been keeping me awake.'
'Your insomnia has nothing to do with me.'
'It has everything to do with you. Are you ever going to stop hating me?'
'I don't hate you.' She said which she wasn't sure was exactly true since she really didn't know her feelings for him.
'Prove it.'
'Don't be silly.'
'Kiss me.'
'No! Why should I?' This was not good. What game was James playing?
'To prove you're indifferent to me. You'd kiss a guy on a date wouldn't you so one little peck is not big deal. So kiss me so we both can see there is no spark left.'
'You're right. Kissing you is not big thrill. I can prove that easily enough.'
She stood on tiptoe and brushed her lips against his.
'That wasn't kiss. You could do a lot better. Like this.' He said and his arms encircled her. His lips barely touched hers but she remembered the magic he could bring to a kiss. She wasn't going to respond and he'd get the message.
He kissed increasing the pressure and she part her lips.
She'd stop him but it would her to enjoy herself a little before. He was right she hadn't been properly kissed in awhile. It was a good thing something interrupted when it did she was sure if she would have been able to stop.
It was a screech from the window.
Chapter 3
When Lily went down at six thirty he was nowhere to be seen.
Twenty minutes later she showed apologizing for being late saying he got held up.
They walked ten minutes away (in the cold) to an Italian restaurant.
When they reached inside the owner came out and greeted James like an old friend.
'What was all that about?'
James shrugged, 'you meet people who like sports when you're a sports writer.'
Lily drank down the glass of wine when she got hers and spent the evening picking at her food.
Through her third glass she talked about what was going on at her work, how they wanted her to be more spontaneous and dress sexier.
Then she was hit with a brilliant idea.
When James heard what she had to say he wasn't sure if it was the wine talking or her old rational self.
He had never felt more comfortable in over five years than he had sitting there and having dinner with her.
'What if I ask the woman if you could interview her and in return you could help me be more spontaneous?'
He wasn't sure if he should accept because it seemed that it just dawned on her.
But then again he was never one to walk away from a story.
They were just friends he could handle just teaching her a few things but he doubted she remember when she really let herself go.
He was just glad that he was the only one to see her really loose control.
They had stolen Sirius's new motorcycle and flew it for most of the day and then came back with it.
She had trusted herself with him and now he wondered if she thought of those times.
'All right. If you help me I'll help you.'
'Great.'
After dinner though when they walked to her office building James wondered that since the brisk cold air was sobering up if she still felt the same.
And he was right.
'Listen James now that I had some time to think about it I don't really need your help, I contact Haley Manning for you but I'll work on being more spontaneous by myself.'
'Lily are you sure I don't want it to seem like I am using you.'
'No James its all right.'
James let Lily apparate home though he had no intention of not going through with his part of the deal.
A deal is a deal and he always held up his part of it.
Of course it was whether she liked it or not.
~~
The next day James ran into Gabby, Remus's girlfriend and Morgan, Sirius's girlfriend shopping.
'Hi James.' They greeted him.
'Hi where are you going?' he questioned as he folding his paper.
It was Saturday and he was in Diagon Alley.
He tried not to show that he really had no reason for being there but he wondered if they would buy.
Those girls were really perceptive.
Gabby has waist length dark hair with blue grey eyes. At 5'3" she is thin and tan. Gabby was a quiet sort of girl. Well sometimes. She respects her friends a lot. Even if she doesn't agree with some of their decisions she usually keeps to herself about that. She is very quiet at times but watch out if you take her being quiet as a weakness. James learned that a while ago and Remus trusts her with his secret so far so James figured she was nice.
Morgan was short and petit with reddish blond hair and misty green eyes. Sirius told him she was part fairy. He never really met a fairy before so he was interested. The girl had a complicated back ground with her dad being an evil wizard and her mum being a good fairy. Guess she must have lot of mood swings. Then again Sirius always did love a challenge.
'Oh we're going to meet the boys down there for lunch.' Said Gabby.
'Why don't you join us?' asked Morgan.
James though thought it better to decline.
'No thanks girls, I promised an old friend I'd help her with something.' They realised it was a female though they didn't say anything except,
'Oh really what's her name?'
'Lily Evans. Ask Sirius and Remus they'll tell you about her. I got to go.' He said and disapparated to the nearest Chinese restaurant he knew.
But before that he stopped by to ask Simone where Lily lived.
When he stopped by Simone was just on her way out and was surprised to see him.
She was even more surprised when he asked for Lily's address.
She grinned at him while she wrote it down.
When he looked at the address however it was his turn to be surprised.
Her house was not to far form where his own is in Godric's Hollow.
While he took his time in showing up at her doorstep he wondered what his friends could be telling their girlfriends about his relationship with Lily.
They really bit into him when he broke up with her. They thought that she was the best thing that could have ever happened to him.
What they could understand was why he spent so much time chasing after her when he ended up breaking up with her.
To them it didn't make any sense.
Well it certainly didn't make sense to him why should it to others.
He knew he loved her his friends knew he loved her.
She didn't.
Though this was not the perfect time for him to start up something between them again.
He could still feel the spark between them. He resisted the urge during the meeting and dinner to kiss her silly, like he had been longing to for the past five years. He never really asked her if she still hated him.
Maybe she got past that.
He could expect her to very well become a nun just because they broke up.
Heck he had more girlfriends than he could count or remember these past five years but all he could think about was Lily.
It wasn't an obsession he had with her though.
They had a lot of good memories and she was his first love of course he would remember her from the others.
He came up and knocked on her door.
He saw Lily gave a start when she opened the door.
'What are you doing here?' the surprise of his presence etched her voice.
'Well I brought you lunch. Hope you haven't eaten.' He said as he waved the food under her nose.
He knew Chinese was her favourite kind of food.
'I haven't but you might as well come in.'
He grinned at her and went through the door.
'I like the place you have here. It's really cozy.'
'Thanks, how did you find it anyway?'
'Well I got your address from ---'
'Simone.' They both finished.
Lily laughed and led the way to a neat little kitchen that over looked a garden, which was covered with snow.
'So what brings you here?' she said after they had gotten plates and started to eat on her kitchen table.
'I just wanted to see when you would be ready to go shopping for your new look.'
'James I told you last night you don't have too.'
'I just want to convince you not to dress like someone's grandmother. It's the attitude men pick up on not the clothes you wear. If you sincerely want to keep your job, it seems to me that you'd have to make some changes.'
He was saying what she knew to be true but it hurt coming form him. Thought Lily.
'Did you think like that when you dumped me?' she was not going to cry, she was not going to cry...
'No!' he practically choked out his reply.
'I loved it that you were such a sweet person and when you were impish you were incredible.'
He looked her over form head to toe and she knew he was undressing her with those incredible eyes.
'If you used just a part of your latent powers an ambitious intern would be the least of your worries.'
'Its really time for you to leave.'
She led the way to the door and held it open for him.
After he left with a quick goodbye she locked the door behind him.
~~
Outside in the crisp cold air James took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
His senses were reeling.
What made him think that he could be around Lily without feeling hot and bothered?
She still turned him on like no one he ever met.
Her clothes didn't hint it but he remembered the perfect body beneath it. He had to clench his fist at his sides to keep from touching her. He stood outside and debated whether to go back to her.
No doubt he wanted to but she'd deck him if he tried anything.
What was he thinking?
He didn't want to complicate his life by having an affair with Lily. Nothing was different between them.
She was till and a planner looking for permanence and a happy ending.
He on the other hand wasn't anymore ready for lasting ties than he was all those years ago.
James usually didn't mind being alone and he rarely dumped his problems on other people.
But tonight he needed to talk if it was only about sports.
Lily Evans was a threat. If he had any sense he'd never go near her again. It would be a triumph if he nailed the story with Haley Manning but his career would survive if he didn't.
He met up with Sirius at home and went out for a couple of hours.
But as he went home that night he still thought of Lily.
He still didn't feel good about the way he dumped her and if he hadn't concentrated so much on sports it might have been different.
He didn't give himself points on maturity either; he had to have known himself before he could have committed to Lily.
He still thought of her when he went to sleep that night.
The next week Lily was at work trying to get in touch with Haley Manning. She hadn't had any luck so far.
There was a knock on her door and she called come in without looking up thinking it was Jess on her way out.
'Hey there I was waiting for you down at the entrance but you didn't show up.'
'Yeah well I'm leaving now.' Said Lily picking up her purse wishing he would stop making her heart race by dropping in unexpectedly.
He slouched against the closed door he robes half open and his hands trust into the pockets of his jeans.
Was he showing of his lean waist and six-pack or is she just imaging he was doing it?
When he just continued to stare at her she felt compelled to say something.
'I sent Haley Manning a letter requesting her to come and speak with you.'
'You look nice.' Lily wanted to talk about the Manning's' not about what she was wearing.
'There is nothing more I can do for you.' Why was she feeling breathless and panicky? This is James he meant nothing to her now.
'I like the dress, a little long but at least you look like a woman.'
'I can't really give you her address with out her permission.' Lily said impatiently.
'Maybe she's out of town or something.'
She had the terrible urge to look down at her dress, James staring at it like he wanted to buy it.
He advanced another step.
There was a knock. She ignored it.
'Answer it.' He said and then followed her to the door where he stood behind it as he opened it.
'Yes?' she said.
'Oh Ms. Evans I would like to speak to you about the file you requested.' Lily was finding it hard to concentrate when James was tickling her neck.
She knew she would seem like an idiot if she half way between the door and her office giggling. His finger slid down her arm and she was fighting a smile that was coming on.
'Uh Mr. Hunt could I talk to you about that tomorrow?'
'Sure thing.' He said and left.
'Why were you doing that?' she asked of him immediately.
'Maybe I am wrong about what you wear. That grey number is a real turn on.'
'Don't you have somewhere else to be?'
'Are you seeing anyone?'
'No until recently I had and the rest is none of your business.'
He was poised to kiss her.
'I can't seem to get you out of my head.' He said not seeming pleased about it.
'Put you coat on, I am leaving and so are you.'
'I really need to know something Lily, its been keeping me awake.'
'Your insomnia has nothing to do with me.'
'It has everything to do with you. Are you ever going to stop hating me?'
'I don't hate you.' She said which she wasn't sure was exactly true since she really didn't know her feelings for him.
'Prove it.'
'Don't be silly.'
'Kiss me.'
'No! Why should I?' This was not good. What game was James playing?
'To prove you're indifferent to me. You'd kiss a guy on a date wouldn't you so one little peck is not big deal. So kiss me so we both can see there is no spark left.'
'You're right. Kissing you is not big thrill. I can prove that easily enough.'
She stood on tiptoe and brushed her lips against his.
'That wasn't kiss. You could do a lot better. Like this.' He said and his arms encircled her. His lips barely touched hers but she remembered the magic he could bring to a kiss. She wasn't going to respond and he'd get the message.
He kissed increasing the pressure and she part her lips.
She'd stop him but it would her to enjoy herself a little before. He was right she hadn't been properly kissed in awhile. It was a good thing something interrupted when it did she was sure if she would have been able to stop.
It was a screech from the window.