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James finally smiled slightly for the first time since the previous morning when the pillow fight had taken place. Then looking around at the still scattered feathers made James finally break down. He fell limply in Lily's embrace and felt her sink to the ground and cradle him in her embrace. He laid and felt her straighten out his body on the floor and ran her fingers through his hair in time with his gasping sobs.
Soon enough he drifted off into darkness, finally escaping the reality where everything was going wrong.
When James finally awoke he found himself on the right hand side of the bed, Lily's tiny body curled into his spooned one. Her red hair splayed across their shared pillow and Sirius closely spooned around her back. James said nothing but watched his two family members sleep. With anyone else he would feel extreme jealousy, anger and betrayal at that position but with Sirius, it wouldn't be normal if he weren't there. That Sirius was as much Lily's boyfriend as he was.
James smiled slightly before rising from the bed and heading into the bathroom. After relieving himself and running a shower, James disrobed himself and stepped into the scalding water. After about a minute, James heard the bathroom door open and close and Lily open the shower stall door. She had begun disrobing already while asking if she could join him, and as he couldn't deny her anyway, she walked into the shower closing it softly behind her. James automatically brought her into his embrace, burying his face in her deep, thick red hair and listening as tears dripped down the both of their faces. Lily just rubbed his back and snuggled herself deeper into James's well developed chest. The pair eventually hopped out of the shower, both red from the scalding water and conveniently out of breath.
Then after changing in the bedroom and finding Sirius still asleep, the two headed downstairs for breakfast after placing locking charms and protection charms over Sirius and the bedroom. James was steadfast on not loosing anymore of his family even if he had to put protection charms over them for the rest of their lives. Lily and James eventually sat down at the kitchen in the room for a couple of pieces of toast when they heard a scream.
James automatically ran for the stairs and before the Aurors could enter, had burst into his room. Sirius was in there awake, but he had found the bed empty and thought that something had happened to them. Sirius had tears in his eyes and when he noticed that James was standing in the doorway, Sirius hopped up automatically and grabbed his best friend in a bear hug,
"I had the worst nightmare man, I thought that you guys were gone. Voldemort had killed you both and left me alone. I was so alone it hurt so much, James. I couldn't handle it and when I woke up and neither of you were in bed it was just like it was reality."
Then Sirius broke down in tears. Lily had come upstairs by now and the three sank to the carpeted floor, Lily in the arms of both of her men and a fierce protectiveness coming out in both of them.
For the next three days the two were like lions around Lily, their lioness. She was their territory. You came near her, they ripped you apart. Literally. The Aurors had learnt early on that James Potter was unwilling to loose any more members of his family to Voldemort, that to argue with him was to have the famous Gryffindor temper descend on you like a ton of bricks. His auror father before him had been famous for it and James's temper was even more dangerous if it was possible. But one young auror learnt early on that lesson. Very early.
A man by the name of Gavin Vandine had just gotten out of Auror training school and had been posted to the new Potter heirs, Lily, Sirius and James Potter. Gavin was extremely excited about this being his first mission, not even understanding that the centre of this operation had lost more in seven years that Gavin could understand and the fact that James Potter would forever be stronger, even in his second year then Gavin would ever become.
Gavin walked into the Hyperion hotel after apparating around the corner and found the place swarming with undercover aurors hanging around the foyer, reading papers, working as porters and such and just looking inconspicuous. A nearby auror noticed the trainee walk into the hotel and groaned. He had strictly forbidden the Minister to send trainees to this operation. It was too delicate. James was too close to hurling every curse he knew at anyone that came near his family. They had to stay far enough away from him to give him his peace but close enough to know that he was going to live to get to Hogwarts.
But the trainees had been taught that no one was going to stand in the way of their target. This boy was going to be extremely hardened by the end of this operation.
Sure enough, after he had been briefed and had changed clothes, Gavin blended in conversing with other members of the hotel visitors that were also in the foyer. Then he saw Lily Evans/Potter coming down the stairs smiling slightly looking at Felix (who was the head of the operation) who smiled slightly back. Lily eventually came down the stairs and towards the entrance to the hotel garden sitting on the steps and admiring the garden. Gavin decided that he wanted to go and talk to the heiress and keep her company.
Little did he know that her two keepers were watching her like a hawk from the balcony inside. Then as Gavin approached the red head, aurors were whispering for him to leave her alone. To go back to his post, but the boy, not understanding why he couldn't even talk to her. Then as he sat beside her she looked up in shock before fright descended over her emerald green eyes "Hi" Gavin whispered. Lily smiled slightly before looking behind her to see if her two ebony haired lions were coming yet. She whispered a hi before excusing herself to go somewhere more private. But before she could do anything Gavin grabbed her arm and pulled her back down.
She knew that this boy was dead now. There was no doubt about it. Sure enough, not even fifteen seconds later, Sirius had pulled her into his arms and a extremely angry James Potter had sandwiched his girlfriend between his best friend. Their unspoken conversation that was held above her head consisted of many nods before she was picked up and begun to turn, when she heard a soft whimper. She felt sorry for the boy who had decided to try and talk to her. She just hoped to god that he wasn't an auror.
Then as Sirius was taking her up the stairs she heard Felix approaching her boyfriend who had the boy up against the wall demanding to know if he was an auror. She heard Felix say "James, he's a trainee. He didn't know about how protective you both are." Then James turned to him "Felix, he shouldn't be here. I gave you one circumstance to stay here with me, that none, and I mean none of you came near us. That you gave us our freedom. You've broken that promise, I want you all out of here by tomorrow morning. If there are any of you here by eight tomorrow morning we'll portkey out of here and no one will ever see us ever again. I will not jeopardize my family for your trainees practise, so take him somewhere where he can get some practise instead of earning himself a death threat. Because if I see him anywhere near Lil's anytime in the future, Voldemort won't even be able to stop me from killing him."
Then James turned to Gavin and ground out "You just made yourself some very powerful enemies young man. You may be older than me, but my experience and blood line makes your three years at Auror school look like child's play. I am Gryffindor's heir and you have attempted to harm my wife. The only person able to touch her apart from me is Sirius. Don't ever let me find you anywhere near my wife. EVER." Then to Gavin's shock, James's eyes shone a bright gold colour and the boy wet his pants and fell unconscious.
James dropped the child and shook his head disgusted at the auror and turned to Felix "eight am Felix." Then the Auror commissioner watched as his quarry turned and headed back up the stairs towards the rest of his family. Then as he opened the door to the apartment room he heard Lily's soft sobbing and Sirius scolding her.
"Lily, you knew that you were asking for trouble going down there. The fact that it is just crawling with aurors. But you still went out into the garden, and then one of them tried to molest you. Do you want what happened to Mr Potter to happen to you? You know that we're just trying to look out for you but your just making it so hard."