Chapter 6- Pick Pockets

Lily went up to James that afternoon in his cabin when he was alone. The other guys were getting something ready and wanted him to hold down the fort and make sure Lily and Kyla didn't do anything to their remaining things. "Hey James," she said walking in.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, eyes narrowed with suspicion.

"Nothing," she said. "I just thought I'd come see how you were doing."

"Fine," James shrugged, and resumed his position of hands under his head and legs crossing one another at the end of his bed. Lily came over and sat next to him on the bed.

"Sorry about stealing your shoes," Lily said sweetly. "I'd give them back, but your mum is still angry about what you did to us this morning." Lily blushed, thinking about it.

"That's ok," James said, not even considering apologizing, knowing what his father would say if he did something like that.

Lily started getting a bit nervous and blushed a bit more. "I was also wondering if you'd like to take a walk with me tonight?"

James looked up at her. Could this get any better, he wondered. "Yeah, I'd be honored," James said as he turned onto his side and held himself up on one of his arms. Lily was finally going for his charm, so he was going to pour it on. "What time?"

"How about right after dinner?" she asked with a glimmer of excitement.

"All right," he said.

"See you then," Lily said excitedly and got up to leave. As she closed the door to the cabin Kyla came up behind her.

"Did he fall for it?" Kyla asked.

"Hook, line and sinker," Lily answered.

"Good, now we just have to work on the others," Kyla stopped and shook her head first, "I've really got to talk to him about how manipulative women can be."

They went back into their own cabin and continued to plot.

That night James didn't see Lily at dinner, so he went back to his cabin, got ready and knocked on the door of cabin three. "Just a minute," Lily said from inside.

A moment later, Lily opened the door and James's jaw dropped. Lily was wearing denim shorts that ended just above mid thigh, more leg than James had seen from Lily, and a forest green shirt that drooped on her shoulders, showed a bit of cleavage and quite of bit of her mid drift. This wasn't something Lily wore ever, but tonight, she needed to have James completely distracted.

"Ready?" Lily asked.

"Uh- y-yeah," James forced out. He recovered himself and ran his fingers through his hair.

They were nearly to the main campgrounds when Lily 'remembered'. "I don't have my wand," she said distressed.

"It's okay, I have mine," James stated suavely. He pulled his wand out of his back pocket, twirled it for a moment then put it back. "So, did you have anywhere in particular that you wanted to go?"

"No, just as long as it's just the two of us," Lily said smiling at James, then turning her head and blushed. James was liking this sudden change in how she acted around him.

They walked around the lake until it started to get dark. Lily moved closer and closer to James as they walked and talked, edging between the forest and the beach. "So what are you going to do after Hogwarts?" James asked.

"I'm going to St. Mungo's and intern to become a mediwitch. They have a three year program," Lily said, brushing up against James. He took the opportunity to grab her hand, which she accepted.

"Really? That's cool," James said. They walked silently for a bit longer.

"What about you?" Lily waited for some macho answer where he'd become hero of the world, or some such other nonsense.

"I'm going to do Auror training at least part time, and I don't know just yet, but probably get some other job," James answered completely honest.

"You? An Auror?" Lily asked, not knowing if he was just saying that or meant it.

"Yeah, is that hard to believe?"

"I would have thought you'd want to be some big Quidditch star, or something of the likes," Lily said.

"No," James said. "I'll probably play for a couple of years, but I can't do that and have a family."

Lily was shocked. "Is this one of your lines?"

"No, really, Lily, I've always wanted to have a family. Part of me always resented my parents for not having other kids, even though I know it wasn't possible now."

"Why not?"

"The doctors told my mum she shouldn't have anymore kids because the pregnancy was so hard on her. I always hated be alone with the adults as a kid. I want to at least have two," James said decisively.

Lily was melting at every sentence. Somehow she had never pictured James wanting any of that. "I never knew that," was all Lily could think of to say.

"I don't talk about it much," James shrugged. "It's just what's in my head."

James looked over to Lily who was genuinely smiling at him. "I think that's a pretty good thing to have in your head," she said taking a step closer to him. This was the part of the plan that Lily thought she might have trouble with, yet she was finding it very simple.

"I guess. It's usually something most guys don't concentrate on," he said.

"You've never been like most guys though," Lily pointed out. She put her arms around James's neck and played with the hair at the nape of his neck.

"I guess not," James said before leaning down and kissing Lily.

"How did it go?" Kyla asked when Lily got back.

Lily thought for a second. "Better than I thought," she said honestly, still thinking about how James had just kissed her, again.

"I'm sorry if you didn't want to do that, but you know," Kyla said, still feeling a bit guilty about having talked Lily into kissing James.

"It's really all right," Lily said, a smile spreading across her face. "I got it," she added, handing James's wand over to Kyla. When his arms had been around her and his lips preoccupied, Lily had pulled his wand out of his pocket and slipped it into her own. "How about your side of things?"

"Great," Kyla said. While Lily had been on a stroll with James, Kyla had faked sick when the other boys had wanted to go fishing late. Luckily she had calculated correctly in assuming Michael would be the only one with a wand. She had collected the wands and replaced them with regular Muggle wood play wands. It had fooled them enough at least. Then she only had to work her charm with her husband. Kyla played a game of exploding snaps with Michael and feigned fright when they exploded on her. She got just close enough to slip is wand out. "Now we just have to wait a few hours."

A/N: I know my chapters on things have been really short lately, but that's been what I can muster, so yeah. I hope you like this one. I'll write what they did in the next chapter and then the guys will get their revenge for this one. Gotta love prank wars! I thought I'd give a reason for Lily to start falling for James. A little fluff can't hurt… right? Please Review!

Thank you:

Zayne: Thank you for your reviews! I hope you like this chapter and trust me when I say I have some good stuff coming, but I would love to hear some good ideas. I might use them to make this a REALLY long prank war. Just tell me about the prank and I'll decide where I can use it and who to use it on, because I want the guys to be doing some equally mean and embarrassing things to the girls.

Roxy-babe88: That would be embarrassing, but they did sort of start the whole thing, in a way. I just think it's fun having both sides having problems and such.

Misakichi1: I'll keep updating if you keep reviewing =)

Dafalcon: I think part of the point of this whole thing is they keep getting each other, not that any one of them is better than the other, just that they keep having to get more and more creative to out do one another. I think Kyla just takes command with the group better than Michael, but I still think he's got a pretty good following.

Katkit: HEHE, just going to make you wait one more chapter to see, I think.

JamieBell: I like that it was so easy to get the underwear back too, and that they tried to play innocent with something so obviously their fault. I think it's funny that the kids on both sides have suggested to truce, but that Kyla and Michael do the whole 'we aren't giving up now' thing. I knew I had to have it be a boy vs girl thing, but it's working better than I even anticipated. I hope you like this with the fluff…