Requirement
Lily lay on her bed in her empty dorm, staring out the window, watching the sun go down. She heard a soft click behind her and turned her head to see James closing the door.
"James, what are you doing in here?" She was glad to see him but she had seen Mrs Norris prowling around earlier. Sure it was only a kitten, but that cat was better at busting kids than Mr Filch himself.
"Can't a guy visit his girl?" He sat on the bed beside her and stroked her hair.
"No, it's just, how did you get in here? Aren't there spells to keep the guys out?" She turned on her side and rested her head on her arm.
"You think a simple admittance enchantment can keep me out?"
"Never." Lily admitted.
James bent down and kissed her on her forehead. "These past two weeks have been amazing. I can't believe how comfortable I feel when I'm with you. I mean, I'm pretty relaxed when I'm hanging with the guys and stuff but it's so different with you. It's amazing."
Lily smiled. She had been comfortable too, she loved being with him and felt so different around him. Like life was better. But right now, she wasn't as comfortable as she should've been.
What will everyone think? I'm supposed to hate James, not dating him…I can't wait to see Wendy's face though.
James suddenly reached out and grabbed Lily, pulling her on top of him. She was giggling as she said, "Blimey, you scared me." And then kissed him. They smiled at each other.
She turned around so that she was sitting in his open legs, head resting on his shoulder. She closed her eyes and listened to his breathing. They lay there for a while.
"You know, you're perfect." James whispered in her ear.
Lily opened her eyes. "Don't say that. I'm not."
"You are. You're so perfect that even your imperfections are perfect."
"What imperfections?"
"There's one. You don't even know what your imperfections are." He joked.
She punched his leg lightly. "No really, I want to know."
Well sometimes when you laugh, you snort." He said, smiling.
"Snort? No I don't. I've never snorted in my life! Okay, maybe once or twice. What else?"
"Um, you always hand in your assignments early and you always leave a bit of your hair hanging out at the back when you wear it up. Your left eye twitches every time you lie. And…and when you kiss me…" Lily turned around again so she could look into his eyes. He put his hands on her waist and pulled her up closer to him. She brought her legs around and wrapped them around him. His hands moved to her backside to provide support and she leant in close to him, waiting for an answer.
"When you kiss me, you think. Where most people just let it take over them, you think. And I can feel your thoughts, on your lips, on your tongue. I can see them in your eyes. And its perfect. You're perfect."
"Well you've got the job done yourself."
"Yeah, but I admit it. I know I'm perfect and I have to let everyone else know. It's one of my imperfections."
Lily smiled and kissed him. "Would you still like me if I didn't snort?"
"With tits like that, hell yeah." James started to laugh. Lily opened her mouth to retaliate but James stopped her by giving her a long kiss, and soon Lily forgot what she was going to say.
They continued kissing until the sun had gone to bed and the room became dark. A soft ringing noise echoed through the castle and James pulled away. His second love was calling for him.
"Dinner."
They made their way down to the Great Hall and joined Sirius, who was discussing Quidditch with Frank Longbottom, head boy and former Gryffindor chaser. Next to Sirius sat a 7th year Slytherin, Kimberley Grima, looking deeply impressed with Sirius's discussion on Broomstick tampering, but of cause not having a clue what he was talking about.
Lily remembered her first encounter with Kimberley in her first year. She had bumped into her in the crowded hallway.
"Don't get your filthy mudblood germs on me, you derro." She snared at her.
"Sorry, I wasn't looking."
"Obviously, bitch."
"Make her pay." Kimberley's friend Augustine Rockwood growled.
"Boroform Madorfious" Kimberley hissed.
Lily's ears swelled to the size of Quaffles. Kimberley was only an amateur spell caster, which caused the hex to have a painful consequence.
Lily grabbed her books and ran to the Hospital Wing as fast as she could.
She never knew why but Kimberley had approached her almost two years later and apologised to her and said that she'd changed her ways. Lily and Kimberley had been friends ever since and Kimberley had become quite keen on Sirius, although he never seemed to notice.
So now, as Lily and James sat down and began to eat their dinner, Kimberley talked to Lily about school, boys, teachers, people she hated (which included Augustine Rockwood and many of her other former friends), and any thing else she could think of. Kimberley was a big talker and could talk for hours and hours about anything you asked her about. So the five friends sat, talking and eating, until the topic changed to a miserable one. New school rules.
"I know I'm head boy, but as hard as I try, the teachers wont budge. They really want this curfew thing to go ahead and there's no way we can change their mind. I'm sorry, but we're going to have to accept it." Frank said gravely. "Maybe if you two stopped running around the school at all hours they would have some more lenience."
"That's bollocks, Longbottom. We aren't restricted by rules. If anything, we do shit just because it's against the rules. I say go ahead with this stupid curfew. The more rules there are, the more rules there are to break."
"Okay, lets beak the rules then." James suggested despondently.
"No, don't just break the rules, destroy the rules. Lets do something so against the rules. And lets get away with it." Kimberley grinned maliciously, eyes glowing in the moonlight of the enchanted ceiling.
"Guys, come on. It's not really that bad."
"In our common rooms by nine, in our dorms by midnight, no noise after ten. I hate rules. I don't want them to make rules that control what we do every minute of every day. This is a school, not azkaban. And we're kids, we want to stay up late and make noise, its our job. They can't stop us. Its stupid." Sirius growled and gritted his teeth.
Three weeks ago, Lily had thought that Sirius didn't have a care in the world. But now he seemed so passionate, so unmovable, so right. Lily was in total agreeance with everything Sirius had said. They were teenagers, they needed some freedom.
"You know what Sirius, all that sounded pretty convincing. I'm in." James smiled at Lily and held her hand under the table.
"I'm in too." He said confidently.
"For sure," Sirius added. "As if I would say no to that. I said it in the first place."
"So we're all in?" Kimberley asked determinedly.
James, Lily and Sirius all looked at Frank in suspense, but Frank did not show any sign of decision until he said. "We're not going to get caught, right? I'm head boy. I can't get caught."
"Relax, man. We're not gonna get caught. We'll be fine." James reassured.
"Then I'm in, unless I think you come up with a breakable plan. But if it's good. Then I'll help you out."
"You legend. Great. Now we just have to come up with an idea. What are we gonna do?" Sirius seemed to want to get right into the action. But Lilly had already been thinking about this and had come up with the perfect idea.
"We're going to throw a party." She didn't even have to suggest it. She just said it and everyone instantly agreed.
"That's perfect." Kimberley said, and by the look on her face, she too began to think about how, when and most importantly where.
"But we'll need some more people to help organise, I mean this is gonna be huge right? As in all 6th and 7th years or something like that?" James said.
"I reckon we just invite the people we want to, it'll end up being most of 6th and 7th, but without those unwanted guests."
"Well, how are we going to keep it a secret?"
"Where are we going to fit if there's going to be so many of us?"
"How will we get to where ever without getting caught?"
"What if someone dobs us in?"
"How the hell are we going to make this work?"
All questions had gone to Lily, whose eyes had become wide. A confused look crept across her face. Why were they asking her? She didn't know the answers.
"Well I suppose Remus, Ebony, Terran, Casey, Jack, Johnny. They'll probably want to help out."
"And I could get Trish and Mandy to help." Kimberley added.
"I can't do much, I really don't want to get too involved, but I can help with where to go." Frank said and all attention was turned to him. "The place doesn't actually exist, yet. But we can make it. It'll be hard work, but it's pretty much our best choice."
All eyes were on him, but he didn't continue.
"Where the fuck is it?" Sirius burst out suddenly, suspense killing him.
"It's not exactly a where, so much as a what. I read about it in Niemerhiems compendium. It's something we could conjure, we could make and no one would notice. It's called the room of requirement."
