AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhh! I don't know how many of you picked this up but James
was not a Seeker!
I completely forgot.
The reason, pixie, that I didn't realise this is because this is my first L/J fic and I am so used to writing in Harry's era. For eg. At one point, I had Lily sitting down at the Gryffindor table next to Parvarti Patil. It was not until I re-read this that I realised my mistake.
SORRY EVERYBODY!
But oh well, it goes with my story, and Seekers are usually the heroes in Quidditch matches so we'll just have to survive because James is the hero in this story.
Thankyou to everyone who reviewed, there are getting too many of you to write out personally, but I'll try to do so on alternate chapters or something like that. I'm sorry if this offends anyone. Anyways, thanks to
Methinks I may have to raise the rating for this chapter, but I'll write it first and see. Nothing big, just a swimming episode ... *grins*
On to Chapter 3
The Golden days.
Lily sat down next to Sirius at breakfast, "Morning."
Sirius grinned, "How'd you sleep, beautiful?"
Lily made a face, "Fine thanks Sirius," she replied wryly.
It had been three weeks since the Quidditch match against Slytherin and Lily honestly believed she had never been happier in all her years at Hogwarts. She now spent almost all her time with the Marauders.
It had started slowly. James would ask her to come help him with homework at their table, or would slide in next to her at breakfast. Sirius would sit with her in class and call her annoying nicknames constantly, and Remus would ask her for advice on everything from food to study habits and beyond. Even Peter seemed to have taken a shining to her, but he hardly spoke to her, appearing too shy.
Lily quickly found herself sitting with the Marauders at every meal, in the same circle in the common room and involved in all of their conversations. James would mention an ongoing issue and Lily could instantly pick up where he had left off from and give her advice or opinion.
Speaking of James...
James slid into the seat on Lily's other side, "Morning, Lil."
"Morning."
He began to pile toast onto his plate.
"You are going to wind up weighing four hundred kilos if you keep eating like that." Commented Sirius.
Lily smiled, "You can talk, mud boy."
Sirius put on an offended face, "Mud boy? Are you saying I'm a pig."
"Well done Einstein."
"Einstein?" asked Sirius and James at once.
Lily grinned, "He was a famous Muggle scientist." Sirius and James' miffed expressions did not change. She opened her mouth to continue explaining, then gave up.
"Never mind."
Remus slid into the seat opposite James, "Morning, Prongs, Padfoot, Lily."
Lily smiled at him, "Love to stay and chat but we've got a Prefect meeting, Jamesie boy."
James got up with her and they marched off out of the Great Hall.
Remus looked at Sirius, "Any plans?"
"Plans on what?"
Remus groaned at him, "James and Lily, stupid."
Sirius looked up at him, "well, now that you mention it..."
"Yes?"
"I have had a thought. An idea. A plan you could call it. A brilliant, devious, result producing plan if you want to be specific."
Remus grinned. Sirius did too.
***
(A/N I could cliffhang it here, but it's only been about 500 words and I'm sure you'd all kill me, sooo, I'll write a bit more.)
Lily and James sauntered down the corridor towards the Prefect's meeting chatting amiably.
"Sirius reckons he's going to beat me in Potion's this year. He is dead set on it."
Lily laughed, "You're even beating me in Potions. He hasn't got a hope."
"That's what I..." They both froze as a boom rocked the walls of the castle. Lily's mind began to reel with all the things she knew about Muggle warfare and for an instant thought that Hogwarts was under attack.
Another boom was heard and the ceiling began to cave in. James grabbed Lily around the waist and pulled her into a classroom as the entire ceiling of the corridor fell.
James was still as rubble began to clutter around him and he winced as a sharp piece cut his leg. The noise stopped and he looked up.
Lily began to blush as she felt James' body weight pinning her to the ground, but she was too worried about their situation to care much. James also blushed as he noticed her beneath him and he stood up quickly, offering a hand to pull her up. She took it and James pulled a little too energetically. Lily stood and found her nose touching his. Both pairs of eyes were wide for a second before James took half a step back. Disappointment flared briefly in each friend's eyes before they both began to blush again.
Lily looked at the doorway of the classroom, "we're trapped."
James followed her gaze, "I hope there wasn't anyone else there. Or anyone else who was walking in the corridor the floor above."
Lily smiled briefly, pulling her wand from her robes, "is there any spell we can use to get through?"
"Wouldn't risk it."
She nodded. They turned to survey the small classroom, and were met with a shock.
It wasn't a classroom as they had originally thought, but some sort of narrow corridor, lit adequately with flame torches along the sides. James looked at Lily.
"Have you ever...?"
She shook her head, "come on. Let's see where it goes."
James heard the slight tremble in her voice, and on impulse grabbed her hand. Lily squeezed it and kept close to him as they began to traverse the corridor.
James glanced at Lily, as the flames slowly became further apart, the passageway becoming dimmer the further they went. She looked a little scared but seemed determined to keep going. He didn't say anything.
Lily saw it first, as they approached the end of the passageway.
"Look!" she whispered in awe.
It was an enormous room, so large they could hardly see the other side. In the centre was a swimming pool, with steam rolling gently off the water. The dimness had been left behind in the corridor and the room was lit with searchlights as large as James' head. He grinned at this thought.
"Since when does Hogwarts have a swimming pool?"
"Who cares? Let's swim."
Lily looked nervously at the pool, "What if it's Professor Dumbledore's or something?"
James paused, "There's no one else here. We came down the only entrance and that wasn't exactly near Dumbledore's office."
Lily shrugged, "I guess." She looked up suddenly, "We're missing the prefect meeting."
James laughed suddenly, "In case you forgot, we were almost crushed beneath that cave-in. I don't think too many people will care that we missed it."
Lily smiled. She suddenly felt like a swim, "I haven't got my swimming trunks." (Is that what they call them?)
James shrugged, "go in, in your robes."
"I won't be able to swim very well."
James shrugged, "Your choice." He stripped off his school robes to reveal a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. Tugging the T-shirt over his head he dropped his clothes and walked to the edge of the pool. He glanced down to check the depth of the pool before diving neatly into the pool.
Lily looked yearningly at the pool. She grinned, making up her mind suddenly and pulling off her robes and shoes. Underneath she wore a tank top and a light pair of shorts. Wrinkling her nose, she stepped into the shallow end of the pool. The warm water lapped around her skinny ankles and she waded in, looking around for James. She felt a hand grab her ankle and pull it from under her and she shrieked as she ducked under the water.
James dropped Lily's ankle and let her stand back up.
"JAMES!!" she cried as she hit him.
James laughed and splashed an armful of water at her. Lily laughed and began to splash back.
James yelped as water got in his eyes, and he flicked his dark hair out of his eyes, grinning maniacally at Lily before diving at her, tackling her into the water. Lily let him pull her down, before surfacing and dunking him as he came back up.
They both began to laugh and couldn't stop as James placed his hands on Lily's waist from behind and picked her up, throwing her into the water. Lily surfaced spluttering before lunging at him throwing her weight onto his shoulders, pushing him under.
James came up and held out a hand, signaling a truce. Lily reached for it and heaved another arm of water into his eyes at the same time.
James laughed as she swam away, quickly following. He cornered her at the other end, a huge grin on his face.
"Trapped are you, Evans?"
"Not a bit, Potter."
She promptly dived under him and headed back to the other end of the pool. James laughed again and caught her little ankle, pulling her up by it. Lily quickly ducked up for air and again found her nose an inch from James'. She grinned, tweaking his nose and pushing him in the chest.
"Come on, Potter. It's time we got going."
James nodded. He climbed out of the pool and looked down at her.
She drew in a stifled breath. James bare chest was shining with water, muscled and golden, toned to perfection. His eyes gleamed beautifully at her, his messy hair setting off his handsome face.
James held out a hand to her and pulled Lily from the pool. Her crimson curls hung wetly around her tiny face and sat heavily on her pale shoulders, her green eyes piercing into his. Her lithe body slid out of the water and rose up to meet him. Her wet clothes clung to her, setting off her figure and James melted at her beauty. He blushed and glanced away, realising he was staring. Lily noticed the blush and also blushed; reaching for one of the fluffy white towels that had appeared from nowhere.
James followed suit feeling strange emotions fluttering around his stomach. He felt a need to touch Lily's gorgeous curls, to run a finger along her cheekbone, to kiss the rosy lips.
He shook his head slightly at the latter, and hurriedly began to wipe himself down.
Lily watched him, feeling suddenly nervous to be with her friend.
Don't be silly, she told herself, it's just James.
Don't be an ass, James, it's just Lily.
He's your friend.
She's so pretty.
He's really cute.
Those curls.
That smile.
They turned to one another suddenly, light in their eyes and James took half a step towards Lily. She turned her small face towards him as he approached.
"Hello Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans. I was informed you were on your way to the prefect's meeting when the ceiling collapsed."
They both turned, startled to see Dumbledore standing at the entrance. Both prefects blushed.
"We got into a side passage just in time and..."
"We found this place..."
Dumbledore held up a hand, "No explanation is needed. This chamber only appears once every blue moon. It's lucky the passage opened as the ceiling fell, or you would both have been crushed." He smiled suddenly, "perhaps it is time you got into some dry clothes and headed back to your dorms. All students have been taken back to their dorms to assure that nobody gets hurt. The teachers are trying to find anyone who was near the scene. You better get back before staff start to panic."
Lily and James nodded hurriedly and thanking Professor Dumbledore, donned their robes and headed back down the passageway.
***
As they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, James turned suddenly to Lily.
"Hey Lil?"
Lily raised her eyebrows, "Yeah?"
"Thanks for the swim."
She grinned, "Anytime, James."
They headed back into Gryffindor Tower.
***
Lily looked up and saw Sirius as they entered. He ran up and gave Lily a hug, before hitting James across the face half playfully, half in a rebuking manner.
"You idiot! You both could have been killed, you..." he paused, noticing their wet hair, "Have you been swimming?"
Lily blushed but James glowered at Sirius, "For your information, I saved Lily when that roof fell in."
Sirius grinned, "I was only kidding, you prat. But why is your hair wet?" he asked again, his grin becoming sly.
"Yes, in fact we have. We found a enchanted passageway that led to a heated swimming pool. Since it only appears once in a blue moon, we thought we should make the most of our find."
Sirius' expression became innocent, "Of course you did." He said with the air of one patronizing a small child. James cuffed him and they all headed back inside.
***
Remus watched the exchange from a corner not far away, his lycanthropic hearing allowing him to hear the conversation perfectly. He grinned suddenly at the thought of James and Lily swimming together, and knew that Sirius' brilliant idea may not even be needed.
But it would still be fun to execute. And Remus loved fun.
***
A/N This is probably one of my favourite chapters so far. I hope everyone else likes it too, and if you don't, p*ss off. I don't think that needs a PG, but if anyone disagrees, review and say so and I'll change it.
If I get five reviews for this chapter, I'll start writing the next. However, we're going on holidays on Wednesday, so I won't be able to post for about another two weeks. Sorry everyone! Anyway, please review. And would some people please review Ginny Files chapter 5? I want more for that if you want me to continue.
Happy Easter everyone!!!!
Luv Lawwwren.
I completely forgot.
The reason, pixie, that I didn't realise this is because this is my first L/J fic and I am so used to writing in Harry's era. For eg. At one point, I had Lily sitting down at the Gryffindor table next to Parvarti Patil. It was not until I re-read this that I realised my mistake.
SORRY EVERYBODY!
But oh well, it goes with my story, and Seekers are usually the heroes in Quidditch matches so we'll just have to survive because James is the hero in this story.
Thankyou to everyone who reviewed, there are getting too many of you to write out personally, but I'll try to do so on alternate chapters or something like that. I'm sorry if this offends anyone. Anyways, thanks to
Methinks I may have to raise the rating for this chapter, but I'll write it first and see. Nothing big, just a swimming episode ... *grins*
On to Chapter 3
The Golden days.
Lily sat down next to Sirius at breakfast, "Morning."
Sirius grinned, "How'd you sleep, beautiful?"
Lily made a face, "Fine thanks Sirius," she replied wryly.
It had been three weeks since the Quidditch match against Slytherin and Lily honestly believed she had never been happier in all her years at Hogwarts. She now spent almost all her time with the Marauders.
It had started slowly. James would ask her to come help him with homework at their table, or would slide in next to her at breakfast. Sirius would sit with her in class and call her annoying nicknames constantly, and Remus would ask her for advice on everything from food to study habits and beyond. Even Peter seemed to have taken a shining to her, but he hardly spoke to her, appearing too shy.
Lily quickly found herself sitting with the Marauders at every meal, in the same circle in the common room and involved in all of their conversations. James would mention an ongoing issue and Lily could instantly pick up where he had left off from and give her advice or opinion.
Speaking of James...
James slid into the seat on Lily's other side, "Morning, Lil."
"Morning."
He began to pile toast onto his plate.
"You are going to wind up weighing four hundred kilos if you keep eating like that." Commented Sirius.
Lily smiled, "You can talk, mud boy."
Sirius put on an offended face, "Mud boy? Are you saying I'm a pig."
"Well done Einstein."
"Einstein?" asked Sirius and James at once.
Lily grinned, "He was a famous Muggle scientist." Sirius and James' miffed expressions did not change. She opened her mouth to continue explaining, then gave up.
"Never mind."
Remus slid into the seat opposite James, "Morning, Prongs, Padfoot, Lily."
Lily smiled at him, "Love to stay and chat but we've got a Prefect meeting, Jamesie boy."
James got up with her and they marched off out of the Great Hall.
Remus looked at Sirius, "Any plans?"
"Plans on what?"
Remus groaned at him, "James and Lily, stupid."
Sirius looked up at him, "well, now that you mention it..."
"Yes?"
"I have had a thought. An idea. A plan you could call it. A brilliant, devious, result producing plan if you want to be specific."
Remus grinned. Sirius did too.
***
(A/N I could cliffhang it here, but it's only been about 500 words and I'm sure you'd all kill me, sooo, I'll write a bit more.)
Lily and James sauntered down the corridor towards the Prefect's meeting chatting amiably.
"Sirius reckons he's going to beat me in Potion's this year. He is dead set on it."
Lily laughed, "You're even beating me in Potions. He hasn't got a hope."
"That's what I..." They both froze as a boom rocked the walls of the castle. Lily's mind began to reel with all the things she knew about Muggle warfare and for an instant thought that Hogwarts was under attack.
Another boom was heard and the ceiling began to cave in. James grabbed Lily around the waist and pulled her into a classroom as the entire ceiling of the corridor fell.
James was still as rubble began to clutter around him and he winced as a sharp piece cut his leg. The noise stopped and he looked up.
Lily began to blush as she felt James' body weight pinning her to the ground, but she was too worried about their situation to care much. James also blushed as he noticed her beneath him and he stood up quickly, offering a hand to pull her up. She took it and James pulled a little too energetically. Lily stood and found her nose touching his. Both pairs of eyes were wide for a second before James took half a step back. Disappointment flared briefly in each friend's eyes before they both began to blush again.
Lily looked at the doorway of the classroom, "we're trapped."
James followed her gaze, "I hope there wasn't anyone else there. Or anyone else who was walking in the corridor the floor above."
Lily smiled briefly, pulling her wand from her robes, "is there any spell we can use to get through?"
"Wouldn't risk it."
She nodded. They turned to survey the small classroom, and were met with a shock.
It wasn't a classroom as they had originally thought, but some sort of narrow corridor, lit adequately with flame torches along the sides. James looked at Lily.
"Have you ever...?"
She shook her head, "come on. Let's see where it goes."
James heard the slight tremble in her voice, and on impulse grabbed her hand. Lily squeezed it and kept close to him as they began to traverse the corridor.
James glanced at Lily, as the flames slowly became further apart, the passageway becoming dimmer the further they went. She looked a little scared but seemed determined to keep going. He didn't say anything.
Lily saw it first, as they approached the end of the passageway.
"Look!" she whispered in awe.
It was an enormous room, so large they could hardly see the other side. In the centre was a swimming pool, with steam rolling gently off the water. The dimness had been left behind in the corridor and the room was lit with searchlights as large as James' head. He grinned at this thought.
"Since when does Hogwarts have a swimming pool?"
"Who cares? Let's swim."
Lily looked nervously at the pool, "What if it's Professor Dumbledore's or something?"
James paused, "There's no one else here. We came down the only entrance and that wasn't exactly near Dumbledore's office."
Lily shrugged, "I guess." She looked up suddenly, "We're missing the prefect meeting."
James laughed suddenly, "In case you forgot, we were almost crushed beneath that cave-in. I don't think too many people will care that we missed it."
Lily smiled. She suddenly felt like a swim, "I haven't got my swimming trunks." (Is that what they call them?)
James shrugged, "go in, in your robes."
"I won't be able to swim very well."
James shrugged, "Your choice." He stripped off his school robes to reveal a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. Tugging the T-shirt over his head he dropped his clothes and walked to the edge of the pool. He glanced down to check the depth of the pool before diving neatly into the pool.
Lily looked yearningly at the pool. She grinned, making up her mind suddenly and pulling off her robes and shoes. Underneath she wore a tank top and a light pair of shorts. Wrinkling her nose, she stepped into the shallow end of the pool. The warm water lapped around her skinny ankles and she waded in, looking around for James. She felt a hand grab her ankle and pull it from under her and she shrieked as she ducked under the water.
James dropped Lily's ankle and let her stand back up.
"JAMES!!" she cried as she hit him.
James laughed and splashed an armful of water at her. Lily laughed and began to splash back.
James yelped as water got in his eyes, and he flicked his dark hair out of his eyes, grinning maniacally at Lily before diving at her, tackling her into the water. Lily let him pull her down, before surfacing and dunking him as he came back up.
They both began to laugh and couldn't stop as James placed his hands on Lily's waist from behind and picked her up, throwing her into the water. Lily surfaced spluttering before lunging at him throwing her weight onto his shoulders, pushing him under.
James came up and held out a hand, signaling a truce. Lily reached for it and heaved another arm of water into his eyes at the same time.
James laughed as she swam away, quickly following. He cornered her at the other end, a huge grin on his face.
"Trapped are you, Evans?"
"Not a bit, Potter."
She promptly dived under him and headed back to the other end of the pool. James laughed again and caught her little ankle, pulling her up by it. Lily quickly ducked up for air and again found her nose an inch from James'. She grinned, tweaking his nose and pushing him in the chest.
"Come on, Potter. It's time we got going."
James nodded. He climbed out of the pool and looked down at her.
She drew in a stifled breath. James bare chest was shining with water, muscled and golden, toned to perfection. His eyes gleamed beautifully at her, his messy hair setting off his handsome face.
James held out a hand to her and pulled Lily from the pool. Her crimson curls hung wetly around her tiny face and sat heavily on her pale shoulders, her green eyes piercing into his. Her lithe body slid out of the water and rose up to meet him. Her wet clothes clung to her, setting off her figure and James melted at her beauty. He blushed and glanced away, realising he was staring. Lily noticed the blush and also blushed; reaching for one of the fluffy white towels that had appeared from nowhere.
James followed suit feeling strange emotions fluttering around his stomach. He felt a need to touch Lily's gorgeous curls, to run a finger along her cheekbone, to kiss the rosy lips.
He shook his head slightly at the latter, and hurriedly began to wipe himself down.
Lily watched him, feeling suddenly nervous to be with her friend.
Don't be silly, she told herself, it's just James.
Don't be an ass, James, it's just Lily.
He's your friend.
She's so pretty.
He's really cute.
Those curls.
That smile.
They turned to one another suddenly, light in their eyes and James took half a step towards Lily. She turned her small face towards him as he approached.
"Hello Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans. I was informed you were on your way to the prefect's meeting when the ceiling collapsed."
They both turned, startled to see Dumbledore standing at the entrance. Both prefects blushed.
"We got into a side passage just in time and..."
"We found this place..."
Dumbledore held up a hand, "No explanation is needed. This chamber only appears once every blue moon. It's lucky the passage opened as the ceiling fell, or you would both have been crushed." He smiled suddenly, "perhaps it is time you got into some dry clothes and headed back to your dorms. All students have been taken back to their dorms to assure that nobody gets hurt. The teachers are trying to find anyone who was near the scene. You better get back before staff start to panic."
Lily and James nodded hurriedly and thanking Professor Dumbledore, donned their robes and headed back down the passageway.
***
As they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, James turned suddenly to Lily.
"Hey Lil?"
Lily raised her eyebrows, "Yeah?"
"Thanks for the swim."
She grinned, "Anytime, James."
They headed back into Gryffindor Tower.
***
Lily looked up and saw Sirius as they entered. He ran up and gave Lily a hug, before hitting James across the face half playfully, half in a rebuking manner.
"You idiot! You both could have been killed, you..." he paused, noticing their wet hair, "Have you been swimming?"
Lily blushed but James glowered at Sirius, "For your information, I saved Lily when that roof fell in."
Sirius grinned, "I was only kidding, you prat. But why is your hair wet?" he asked again, his grin becoming sly.
"Yes, in fact we have. We found a enchanted passageway that led to a heated swimming pool. Since it only appears once in a blue moon, we thought we should make the most of our find."
Sirius' expression became innocent, "Of course you did." He said with the air of one patronizing a small child. James cuffed him and they all headed back inside.
***
Remus watched the exchange from a corner not far away, his lycanthropic hearing allowing him to hear the conversation perfectly. He grinned suddenly at the thought of James and Lily swimming together, and knew that Sirius' brilliant idea may not even be needed.
But it would still be fun to execute. And Remus loved fun.
***
A/N This is probably one of my favourite chapters so far. I hope everyone else likes it too, and if you don't, p*ss off. I don't think that needs a PG, but if anyone disagrees, review and say so and I'll change it.
If I get five reviews for this chapter, I'll start writing the next. However, we're going on holidays on Wednesday, so I won't be able to post for about another two weeks. Sorry everyone! Anyway, please review. And would some people please review Ginny Files chapter 5? I want more for that if you want me to continue.
Happy Easter everyone!!!!
Luv Lawwwren.