Summary: James loves Lily, Lily hates James. Or does she? When James decides to change his ways in order for Lily to notice him, she notices what she should have known years ago. Now Read this story! Read it and weep! Sorry… Read and Review.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling so I do not own any of the following characters. She does.
A/N: Sorry for the delay. I've recently been hooked on rinoaJ's fanfic. You should read them too. They are all brilliant, compared to mine. Seriously. I need to have more regular reviewers – at the moment there are, like, 3 regulars?
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Lady Cantara – Fun chapter? Yay! I have been saying that a lot recently. Hope you enjoy it… This chapter… you know? Chapter 14 – A proper talkI've decided to give up reminding everyone of what James and I are going to do. I'm resigning to be a normal gal – falling over James.
It's perfectly normal, you know? A quick fill-in of what's happened between Prongs and I…
Prongs has asked me out on a secret date.
How secret? I don't know yet.
But I do know that he will meet me at the one-eyed-witch statue at 7:30.
In the evening.
I flew along the corridors, looking for the one-eyed-witch. He said that it was near the transfiguration class.
"Go away, ye blooming bird, you!" muttered Filch as I flew over him. There's Mrs.Norris. Dare I?
No. I held my bladder for a few more moments until I reached James.
"Bombs away!" I squawked.
You can imagine what happened.
Despite what did happen, he shrugged it off.
"Scourgify. Stupid bird. No wait – Lily!"
"That's the first time you've ever said that. Normally it's the other way around. I looked around. So… Where are you taking me?"
Prongs threw his invisibility cloak over us. "To somewhere where the marauders can't get us." He tapped the one-eyed-witch, and muttered something. It moved forward for a short amount of time, then closed.
"Where does this lead to?" I asked, as we both made our way down the tunnel.
"Well, it's a good half and hour walk before we get to Honeydukes."
"Hogsmede? How romantic of you…"
I continued, hand-in-hand. With him. You know – him. The him.
He opened the trapdoor, still covered with the invisibility cloak.
Then I realised something.
"James…"
"Yes?"
"Won't they have alarms? They should be closed by now."
"What – Honeydukes? No, no. I checked it out last night. They are open all the time."
I coughed into my hand, and it sounded something like, "Genius."
"What?"
I coughed again.
"Thanks." He smiled at me. I fluttered my eyelashes. "Shall we continue?"
"After you."
"No. You're the lady, you go first."
"Why thankyou. Some decency."
"Oh – It's nothing."
"Sure it is."
"If you say so… I believe it."
We proceeded out of Honeydukes, and no one saw us. By the time they heard the bell jingle, I had transformed, and was carrying James to a little cave that I had been inspecting.
"What the?"
"You don't mind, do you?"
"Of course not – this was where I was going to go. How'd you find out about this place?"
"Well, I built it."
"You did? Wizard." A/N: No pun intended
"I know."
"So that's why…"
"It only appeared after our last visit to Hogsmede?"
"Yep."
I'm so glad he likes it. Suddenly he transformed.
"Your turn?"
The deer nodded. Then he picked me up. I felt his strength, and relaxed as I sat on a deer – my dear – and held onto his antlers. I was placed inside my cave, which wasn't a cave anymore. Instead, it was comfy place. A homey place. Somehow James had managed to turn my cave into a reasonable… Home.
He transformed back.
"And now we talk." He said.
"And now we talk." I echoed. "It's so good that we're finally away from civilisation."
I looked at James, who was looking. No – gazing into my eyes.
"Away from civilisation? I don't think so."
"You're right… As always."
"This place is pretty nifty, huh?"
"Uh – huh. It's amazing."
"The most important thing is…"
"That marauders Wormtail, Padfoot and Moony aren't here?"
"Exactly. It's just a gardener and a flower."
"A perfect match."
Our faces met, followed by lips, followed by a long kissing session complete with hugs and many mutterings of "I love you Lily. I always have." And replies of, "I just noticed what I should have in 5th Year – I love you too."
After what seemed like an eternity, there was a silence.
Then there was a real conversation.
"I'm so sorry that I've mistreated you…"
"All of Hogwarts? It's ok."
"No – more than Hogwarts. Don't you remember the first time we met – at Gringotts. You were in front of me."
"That was when I got my wand."
"Me too. Anyway, you called me pretty, and I called you four-eyes."
"I don't remember that."
"Do you want to?"
"No. I've been hooked since then, but you know, you weren't the first to call me that."
"The future Slytherins?"
"Yeah, except when you said it, it didn't hurt. It just reminded me that you were normal – told not to talk to strangers."
We continued talking, not aware of the time.
"You know, all my not being nice to you… That's always been a cover – up for what I really thought."
"I knew it!"
"Yep."
"I told you."
"For the past seven years, yep."
I checked the time. "It's half-past twelve."
"We've survived overnight together."
"Lets get back to Hogwarts. We must have some sleep."
"Wait a while."
I turned my head, which had been looking to see if the way was clear. As soon as that happened, I found James on my lips, hugging me again.
It was wonderful.
After a while, we decided to go (again).
We threw the invisibility cloak on, and I carried him over to Honey dukes. Only one problem had arisen – it was closed. I quickly flew over to the shrieking shack, before realising that you couldn't get in because of all the curses we had put on it.
I was desperate. I gently put James down, transformed and he saw, for the first time ever, that I was in distress.
"Not to worry. There's a password to get to the Shrieking Shack from the outside."
I instantly calmed down, at ease again. "And what would that be?" I whispered so that only he could hear.
James knocked on the door. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
The door opened, and we entered.
Running down the stairs, we went down the tunnel to the whomping willow.
"Wait. I should freeze it."
"Allow me. Immobulus!"
We scurried out from under the tree and came out of its hit circle just before it tried to attack us.
"Night." He said, and disappeared under the invisibility cloak.
"Night." I said, and transformed.
We went back into our Head boy and girl dormitories, and slept peacefully, our dreams of each other.
A/N: Well, a real date – without interruptions. Reviews!Please?
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