Authors note- Wow thank you so much for the reveiws! I love them! I would have gotten this chapter out last night but I just had to go and see The Stepford Wives. Anyway, this chapter is short, but I think it holds alot! You know I mught just put out another tonight! I'm having a good time with this. also, if I got the timing of Wood's birth wrong, i'm realy sorry! Leave me a review!
Fate
Chapter Two
Weddings and Naked Thursdays
Disclaimer- I own nothing! but I wish I had one of those handy Stephford Wives!
They had been on the Hogwarts Express only twenty minutes and already it was one of the worst experiences of Lily's life. She had physically forced her best friend Kate Thomas into the heads compartment with her, just as James had done with Sirius. Now the forced sat talking happily to one another near the door, completely ignoring their friends. Lily stared at the wedding announcements in the Daily Prophet, and James just stared at her. She could feel his eyes boring into her, and it was driving her nuts.
Every know and again James would ask her a question, and weather it was 'Was your summer good?' or 'What's your favorite color?' Lily would either say 'yes Potter' or 'no Potter', she had no desire to go into particulars about her summer nor her color selections with him.
"So Evans, what is in the old Prophet today?" James asked her after a particularly long bout of silence between the two.
"Wedding Announcements."
"Must be good, you haven't turned the page in a hour." he said sarcastically " So are Snivelly's parents finally getting married? Regardless, he is still a bastard, right Sirius?" James added, trying to be funny.
"Right." replied Sirius, totally unaware of what James was talking about, he was completely enthralled with Kate at the moment.
"I'm going to choose to ignore that." Lily said, her eyes narrowed at James.
"Why?" he asked, completely unaware he was being a prat. "He is! Snape is a complete bastard!"
"What makes you say that?" Lily voiced, in attempts to be civil while arguing at the same time.
"Well Evans, if the shoe fits.... and it fits him perfectly!" he respond highly amused with himself.
"It fits you as well Potter." she shot at him, then went back to her paper.
After yet another hour, little had altered. Kate and Sirius were still deep in conversation, quite an accomplishment for them, but were sitting quite closer than earlier in the train ride. Lily still 'read' the same page of the Daily Prophet, and James still stared, ogled in her opinion, at her.
"So who is getting married?" James ventured.
"Well, for starters Lucius Malfoy found himself a wife," Lily answered, without realizing she was being courteous to him.
"Who?" James asked, wondering not only that, but why she wasn't snapping him, like usual.
"Narcissa Black" said Sirius, breaking conversation with Kate for the first time in hours. "My dear cousin. Good riddance to both of them!" he said, a sour look on his face.
"Did he go to Hogwarts?" Kate inquired, "I've never seen him, only heard the stories."
"He graduated the year before we started, same class as Arthur and Molly Wesley." said James.
"Oh, that explains it!" said Kate before turning back to Sirius, "So you really don't live at home?" she continued with Sirius, patting him on the arm.
"Slut." Lily muttered under her breath while smiling at her best friend. She then returned to her paper.
Kate Thomas really wasn't a slut, but had been after Sirius for as long as Lily could remember. Kate had long, slightly wavy at the end, brown hair, those intriguing eyes that seemed to change from green to blue to gray at will, and straight white teeth behind her natural bright red lips. She was pretty, but refused to believe it. She and Lily had been the best of friends since elementary school, seeing as they were both muggle born.
They were quite different from each other, not opposites, but different. Lily held the rules in high regard, whereas Kate held herself being above most rules in high regard. She had gotten away with so much in her seventeen years that no rule stood in her way. She was very charming, particularly from and adults point of view. Lily was outgoing and coy, but Kate was shy most of the time, and easily embarrassed. They were different physically as well. Kate was, em, well endowed in the bosom department, while her best friend was not. Lily was tall and very slim, almost bony, as Kate was shorter, and had a little more weight. Despite the differences they truly where made for each other.
"Who else is to be wed ths week Lily?" James delved.
"Eh, no one we know." she spoke quickly, did he just call me Lily? "Oh wait! Reginald Wood is marring that girl he knocked up last year, Amanda, and they had the baby, named it Oliver." she spoke excitedly, putting aside her disprovement of Potter for a moment or two.
"That's good, I always liked him."
And so their conversation continued. I was very similar to a conversation two strangers on a bus would have, but it was a conversation none the less, and a grade forward for them.
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"We have to share quarters?" a stunned Lily asked Headmaster Dumbledore after the feast that night in disbelief. He had asked to speak with herself and James after dinner, but she was certainly not anticipating this.
"Yes, the heads have always partook in the same lodgings. Your accommodations are located on the fourth floor across the statue of Boris the Bewildered behind a portrait of none other than Godric Gryffindor. The password is Triwizard Tournament. Goodnight." he beamed at them, then headed off to speak to Professor McGonagall.
"I can't believe this." Lily said, slumping into the closest chair, which happened to be the Headmasters, and burring her head in her hands.
"It wont be so bad." James offered. The smile on his face was nothing compared to what was inside. He was to live with Lily Evens, his Lily Evens, life could not be better, or so he thought.
"We'll just have to make the best of it." she said as she stood up, as if just having a revelation.
"Shall we?" he asked the red head, offering her his arm with a grin
"Don't push it Potter."
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"We'll have to have some, rules I guess" Lily said. James just laughed. How typical lily, rules.
"Okay." he replied trying to restrain laughter.
"Like don't come into my room, or go through my stuff, or read my owls, or....." and she continued to ramble off things he had done in the past. " or look at me in the bath with that damned cloak! It was not funny don't laugh!"
"Okay, I swear I'll never do it again!" he said, dramatically placing his hand over his heart, and abruptly stoping his laughter. " Now can I suggest a rule that may help me to uphold this vow?" he asked, trying to keep a straight face. She was so serious about this, it was down right adorable.
"Yes."
"I call it Naked Thursdays," he said holding up his hands and beaming as if he could see it in neon letters, "Every Thursday we go naked-" He stopped when she stood. The look on her face was priceless- amusement trying to be covered up by repulsion.
"Good night Potter"
"Ok, fine just you can go naked... I'll wear my clothes, I can see that's what you want and I'm fine with it...." he called after her bedroom door had been shut. James knew he was pushing it, but teasing her was so much fun. At least they were on speaking terms, and he was on top of the world because of this.
Before James went to bed that night, a large sign was erected, bearing the rules Lily had already made, and his Naked Thursdays in bold print.
So how was it?
Luvs from Sissiro