Ok I'm really sorry I haven't updated for a while but I've been on holidays and I was deprived of the internet for four whole days! I was going through withdrawals, but the good thing is that I have finished chapter two and am half way through chapter three! So I hope you like it and I just wanted you to know that throughout the story it will be from both Lily and James' points of view. Well I hope you like the chapter! Thank you so much to my reviewers Biddett da Pigeon Stalker, crazy-chick and Amanda Halliwell! Please keep reading and reviewing!

Mystical Dreams

Chapter 2: Friend's are Family

James Potter woke up to the loud snorts of his friend lying on the mattress on the floor a couple of feat away from him. He grabbed his pillow and jammed it over his ears, trying to block out the continuous snoring unsuccessfully.

After a few minutes of endurance he gave up and used the one technique that never failed, he threw the fluffy white pillow. It flew through the air and landed smack bang on the culprits head.

Sirius Black gave one last loud snort and sat up in bed yawning.

"It-it can't b-be time to get up yet! W-what's the t-time?"

"Too early" James replied groggily, "Go back to sleep"

Sirius lay back down; taking James' pillow and hugging it like a teddy bear.

"Padfoot, my pillow?"

"Finders Keepers"

"Sirius" he whined

Sirius chuckled evilly.

Then with one unexpected leap, James came flying off of his bed and landed with a thump on Sirius' gut.

Sirius groaned. "Get off me you boar!"

"Give me my pillow"

"No way! I don't surrender that easily"

Suddenly James was laying on his stomach on the tangled sheeted mattress, looking up at a big, black dog that's slobber was drooling all down his clean, fluffy pillow that had been placed delicately in the dogs jaws.

"Awe, come on Padfoot, that's not fair! You know I'm too big to turn into a Stag here!"

Sirius' tail wagged joyfully and he started to bounce around the room playfully, barking into the pillow.

James scrambled after him, knocking over lamps and books as he launched out furiously, trying to grab any part of the black dog he could reach. The dog jumped out of the way, narrowly missing a glass photo frame as he leapt off the dresser.

After a few minutes of frantic chasing James finally exclaimed "All right, that's enough!"

He then, in less than 2 seconds morphed into his animagi form.

The black dog whirled around to find a muscular, dark stag standing proud and upright in front of him, its long, slender antlers only an inch from the roof.

The dog's eyes bulged as he looked up at the stag. He made a quick start to dart under the stags legs but James' quick reflex's obviously worked in his animagi form too and he bent his antlers low and scooped the dog up in them.

Sirius hung in the air, his black tufts of hair tangled in the stag's antlers.

Suddenly they both heard footsteps padding softly up the stairs.

The doorknob turned slowly and just as the door was flung open, both of the sixteen year old boys landed in a heap on the floor, in their normal human form.

Mrs. Potter stepped through the doorway, took one look around the sabotaged room and then fixed her eyes unblinkingly on the two boys piled on the floor.

"What in Gods name have you been doing to have made this much mess!"

James and Sirius grinned at her cheekily like four year old children.

"Don't give me that" she said huffily.

Sirius jumped off James and with a loud crack straitened his back. James gave a groan and got up off the floor rubbing his backside where he had fallen.

"Your both going to kill yourselves fighting with each other one day" she sighed. "Look at this mess! How are you going to find all your school stuff ready to pack your trunks for tomorrow?" she worried as she bustled around the room picking up dirty clothes and piling things neatly on shelves.

"I thought I heard barking up here earlier, if you've been hiding another one of those magical sound sensation things that pop out of the wireless then I think your father will do the bend James!"

Sirius nervously crept over to the slobber drenched pillow lying in the corner and made and effort to slump down on it casually.

"What have you both been doing?" She asked curiously.

"Sirius stole my pillow" James said pouting, looking over at Sirius who was trying to cover up the pillow as best he could.

"Well you threw it at me!" he said defensively.

"Yeah, because that's the only way to shut you up!"

"Am I dealing with toddlers here?" Mrs. Potter asked, exasperated.

"Dress and come down to breakfast, we have a lot to do today and your new school lists need to be checked through" she finished promptly.

As soon as she had closed the door behind her both Sirius and James burst into huge fits of laughter.

Sirius rolled off the drool strewn pillow and onto the floor, bark-like laughter erupting from his throat.

"Well Prongs my friend, I think that is one event to remember!"

"That of which we probably shouldn't try again" James said laughing as he picked up a broken photo frame.

"Man, I'm famished, let's go get something to eat" Sirius said as his stomach gave a loud groan.

"You're always hungry"

"Well after that much action at eight 'o'clock in the morning who wouldn't? I usually don't start walking around until ten!"

"Yeah, good point"

In a hasty two minutes James and Sirius had closed the door to the extremely messy bedroom and were sitting at the breakfast table, taking in the delicious smell of bacon and sausages wafting from the frying pan.

Mr. Potter was sitting opposite them, reading the mornings addition of The Daily Prophet which front line read: Hogwarts Students Eager to Get Back to School, with a picture of a student in the black school robes performing a spell on a changing teacup.

Sirius and James sat in thoughtful silence for a while whilst waiting for their breakfast until it was suddenly broken by Mrs. Potter.

"Now after breakfast I want you both to go back upstairs and clean up that filthy bedroom, and no James, I'm not helping with magic, then I would like you both to pack your trunks ready for tomorrow to go to school"

"K mum"

"Right Mrs. Potter"

Mr. Potter looked up over the top of his newspaper with his eyebrows raised in surprise.

"Is something wrong?" He asked the two boys.

"No, why?"

"You haven't complained yet" he said, confused, and then suddenly his expression changed from confusion to suspicion.

"What are you both up to?" He asked with the air of a detective ready to question his victim.

"Nothing!" They both exclaimed in unison.

"God! We can't even be polite without getting yelled at!" James said disbelievingly.

"He wasn't yelling dear, and with the many things you pair have done over the years I don't blame him for being suspicious" Mrs. Potter said whilst putting their breakfast in front of them.

Although, now all that could have been suspicious or offensive was driven out of their minds as they all dug into their first meal of the day.

After breakfast both of the boys went up to James' bedroom and started tidying and packing.

Sirius was surprised at how much of his stuff he had strewn around his friends room, for instance his Appleby Arrows quidditch mug was found tangled in between a bunch of James' socks behind some books in the bookcase.

It took them most of the day to find all of their possessions and tidy the room (what James and Sirius called tidying) by shoving everything else in a cupboard in a large heap.

Sirius left the possessions he didn't need to take to Hogwarts in James's room, though he had little, as when he shoved his stuff in his trunk the night he had ran from his home, he had had a very limited amount of time before his mother would have blown him apart. So the Potters house was now his temporary home until he was of age to get his own place. To this he was very grateful to the Potters and thought them much more of a family then his real one.

After their trunks were packed they both crept down the stairs and tip toed past the kitchen where Mrs. Potter was singing to the wizard wireless, they kept quiet so she wouldn't be able to give them another job to do.

When they had successfully gotten out of the house and into the backyard without being seen they both ran over to the shed where their brooms were kept.

James picked up his broom, which he would tell anyone who would listen (which was most people) that it was the latest model of Nimbus, that he was extremely proud of. He then handed Sirius his old cleansweep that he had generously let him keep and was still considered as a very fine broom. James also took out one tiny, golden winged snitch and Sirius helped himself to a bat and a struggling bludger.

They walked out onto the green grass that stretched for some acres, just far enough that any prying muggle eyes could not see them.

"We playing the usual game?" Sirius asked

"Yep"

They both jumped onto their brooms and flew into the warm summer air.

Sirius didn't usually fly, he thought it messed his hair too much, he was very proud of how it fell casually over his forehead. This gave him a slight disadvantage since James trained 4 times a week and nearly every evening at Hogwarts.

It was very rare that Sirius ever won the game since James was a very quick flyer and dodged bludgers with ease. The aim of the game was that Sirius could hit James with more bludgers than however many times James could catch the snitch. It never crossed their minds that this sort of game may be dangerous since they were both very used to pain, as they inflicted it onto each other in their weekly ritual of fights.

James let go of the snitch and watched it flutter around his head for a moment until it vanished out of sight.

The single bludger went zooming above the green grass as Sirius chased after it with his bat and started swinging it madly towards James who was searching widely for the walnut sized ball.

Within minutes James had found the glimmering winged ball fluttering just underneath Sirius' broom. He set off at high speed for the snitch, excelling on his broom as the wind deafened his ears.

Sirius zoomed after the bludger and swung it directly where the snitch was flying and in James' eager thoughts of catching the snitch he didn't see the bludger until it had hit him square in the gut. He stumbled on his broom, swaying dangerously. Sirius flew underneath him, ready to catch his friend if he fell, however, with a muffled "good shot" James managed to keep his balance and the game continued as normal.

Two hours later, two very battered and windswept boys walked up through the darkening field to the house. It had started to rain, and over some childish debate of who had the most chocolate frog cards they had both ended up smothered in mud from head to foot.

Sirius was the first one to step into the house, leaving one large, muddy footprint on the sparkling white tiles Mrs. Potter had spent all morning cleaning.

"SIRIUS BLACK!" She screamed, a mingled look of horror and fury on her face, "What in Merlin's beard do you think your doing! Take those shoes of right now!"

Sirius looked down at his squelching joggers and then to James who was taking off his own. He strode into the kitchen pompously, not realizing his jeans were dragging along the ground, leaving a trail of mud behind him.

"JAMES!"

"What?!"

Mrs. Potter pointed a trembling finger at the long mud patches trailing across her sparkling kitchen floor.

"Oh"

"Both of you go upstairs and clean yourselves up before dinner, and before that you can clean up this mess!"

Both of the boys ran up the stairs, trying not to drip mud anywhere while they poked their tongues out at one another.

After dinner and after they had cleaned up the mud on the kitchen floor they were all sitting in the lounge room on the cushioned sofas talking about what they would do for the Christmas holidays.

"It doesn't bother us what you would like to do, we bend either way, if you want to stay at school then- Mr. Potter was cut off , a dark brown, almost black owl had just fluttered through the open window and landed on Sirius' knee. He recognized the owl straight away and groaned. He took the letter from the owl's leg and opened it as it fluttered out of the window and into the night.

All of the Potter's watched as he skim read the letter and laughed out loud, but it wasn't a hearty laugh or one that you would always hear form Sirius Black, it was a unbelieving laugh, that of only could come out of his own family.

He then scrunched up the letter and threw it into the burning fire.

All eyes lay on him, but he did not say anything until James asked the question.

"Well?"

Sirius sighed. "Just me mother telling me that if I was planning to come home not to" he said carelessly waving his hand.

"Like I'd want to!"

"Well darling your welcome here for as long as you like!" Mrs. Potter said cheerily.

"Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Potter, it means a lot to me"

"It's our pleasure" Mr. Potter affirmed.

"Well I think it's time for bed, don't you? We've all got to be up early tomorrow morning" Mrs. Potter said.

"Oh by the way boys I better say goodbye to you both now, I can't come with you to the train station tomorrow, I've got a shift at Madam Malkim's" She added somewhat regretfully.

She launched into her normal speech of being careful, minding their manners and most of all not getting into trouble; this however had no effect on the two boys as they did exactly the opposite of what she told them every year.

". . .No dungbombs, no fizzing wizbees, and not at any situation are you to pick on poor Lily Evans!"

"Mum I don't pick on her! She picks on me! All I try to do is ask her out on at least one date and she bites my head off!"

"Well darling maybe you should take a second look at the way you ask her"

It took all of Sirius' might to keep a straight face while Mrs. Potter was giving this advice to James, though it was soon his turn to be lectured.

"You make sure you help him not to, and I want a full report if anything happens"

At this point Sirius lent over to James and muttered out of the side of his mouth

"How much are you gonna give me?"

James threw him a death stare and he just grinned.

"Now, I don't want any letters to arrive from Hogwarts telling me you have both pulled another one of your pranks, I would have liked to see prefect badges on you two but I could only wish, you both have exceptional grades, all you need is the good behavior, and I'd like to hear of that this year" she finished with a certain tone of finality.

She gave them both a rib cracking hug before wishing them goodnight and a safe trip for tomorrow.

They both walked upstairs to their abnormally clean room and chattered about who they thought would win the house cup and what they would do on their first midnight stroll of the month with Remus before they drifted off to a restful sleep, ready for their long train ride to Hogwarts the next day.

Well that is the end of the second chapter. It might take me a while to get up the next one because it is going to be a fairly long chapter so please hold tight and PLEASE review!

Mystical Dreams