I thought it was about time I wrote a chapter about James. I'm pretty impressed, it only took me about 30 minutes to write and I started a new story line.

I'm sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up but my damn computer wont let me upload sometimes. Hopefully it will work this time.

I've written up to chapter 14 so hopefully I'll be getting the next few up quickly…if I can.

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Chapter 6 Obsession

Potions wasn't as bad as Lily had thought it would be. There were no murders, no attacks. In fact James ignored Snape for the whole lesson, which was quite an achievement. He was doing it for Lily. She didn't know that, but he was. He remembered the way she'd acted last year, when she'd tried to stop him from hurting Snape and decided only to torture him when Lily wouldn't find out. He didn't want her to be angry with him again. She was too beautiful to have that angry look on her face, the look she had every time she looked at him and Sirius doing something wrong.

James sat in the secret passageway behind the fifth floor bathroom mirror. He liked it there. It was cool and empty and clean. Not like the other stuffy, dusty passageways that he and his friends often used. He had with him his wand and the marauders map. He had been watching the map for some time, watching a miniscule dot. A miniscule dot with the name Lilian Evans next to it in miniscule writing. She had been in the library most of the night, most probably starting the assignment they had they had been given is transfiguration. He thought vaguely about getting an early start on it too, but kept watching the Lily dot occasionally move around the library but mostly she stayed still, just like him. He was ten, maybe fifteen meters away from her. But she didn't know it. James stood up and leant against the wall that separated the two of them, getting as close as he could get to the girl that he couldn't get out of his mind.

Why do I keep thinking about her? Why won't she leave me alone? I can have any one I want, so why do I want her so badly? Why have I sat here sat here for so long? Am I obsessed? Is this real?

It had been almost two weeks since they had last spoken, in the Great Hall, but James hadn't forgotten a single word.

"I never liked you, but I used to think you had some shred of decency. You proved me wrong."

He could still hear the disappointment in her voice. He desperately wanted to prove that he was a kind, decent guy but didn't know how. Instead, he sat in his dark hole watching her every move, knowing where she was. Knowing he was all alone.

He watched her get up and go to her dorm, where most of the other girls were already asleep. He knew she was safe, he didn't have to watch her any more, but he wanted to. Instead he searched the map to see where everyone else was. Padfoot was in the common room, almost on top of a dot marked Penny Fishguts. James shook his head and sighed.

That's what I should be doing. What I would be doing if I wasn't here.

Mooney wasn't in the map. It was a wolf night, so he would be in the screaming shack, waiting for James and Sirius to join him. Wormtail was in the kitchens, doing what rats do best. Professor Dumbledore was in Professor Dippit's office. Filch was in the Entrance Hall, closely followed by Mrs Norris, his evil cat (or at least the students thought it was evil).

Then, just as he was about to pack it up and leave, another dot caught his eye. A tiny dot marked Severus Snape. He was roaming the grounds, heading towards the Quidditch Pitch. James tapped the map with his wand.

"Mischief managed." He muttered and the writing disappeared. He opened the mirror and leapt out. He ran up to the Gryffindor Tower where he found Sirius and Penny getting to know each other's tongues.

"Oi, love birds break it up."

"Fuck off Prongs, I'm busy."

"Yeah? Well you're about to get a whole lot busier. I saw Snivelshit snooping around the Quidditch Pitch, and if I'm right- and I usually am- he was walking right towards the Whomping Willow?"

Sirius pushed Penny off him and walked to James. He snatched the now blank paper off him and pulled out his wand.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He studied the map for a moment. "Bastards almost there. What do you want to do?"

But James had already started up the stairs, no doubt on the way to get his invisibility cloak.

Penny whined. "Sirius baby, you can't just leave me here."

Sirius looked at her pouting lips and flinched. What had he seen in her? "Ahh, Penny, babe, you've been great. But I… I think we should se other people."

"What? We've barely seen each other."

"I know, but we're just too different for this to work out."

Penny tried to reply but it was too late, James had already pulled his friend out of the portrait hole, leaving her alone and confused, like so many of Sirius's ex's.

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