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A/N: Just something that popped into my head. Read and Review?
Lily hugged her mother and her father goodbye, and watched them leave the pub. Then she dragged her magic trunk out to the back and then out in the busy street of Diagon Alley. After exchanging some money in Gringotts she found her way past Crystal Avenue and into Wiffleton Place. There she got a hotel room in one of the hotels and left her luggage there before heading over to Tywinton Square. She bought a basket of strawberries at one of the stands and slumped down at the edge of the huge fountain.
The sun was blazing, and it was extremely hot, and after a while Lily was seriously considering jumping into the fountain.
"Hello." A voice said, and a boy dumped down next to her.
"Hello Sirius." Lily grinned and offered him a couple of strawberries. The first couple of days Sirius had been at Hogwarts he'd been flirting with her non stop. But after she had told him off a couple of times and then hexed him thoroughly, he had decided she would have to become the little sister he'd never had. And so, to Lily's great annoyance, he would hex anyone who even looked at Lily the wrong way, even though she was fully capable of doing that herself.
"So what you doing here?" He asked her.
"Well my mum and dad are gone on a trip to Spain. It's their twentieth wedding anniversary, and they got it in present from my grandparents. So I'm staying here for the next couple of weeks, over at The Kneazle Hotel in Wiffleton. What about you?" Sirius let his gaze wander about the crowd.
"If I had had my way I would have gone straight here after school was over, but my dad forced me to me home for three weeks, then sent me to my aunt, uncle and cousins, but now finally I'm here. Left my bags with James over at the Cauldron, and I bet he's pissed. He can't make himself to leave it, so I guess he'll drag it all the way over here. Look, here we've got him!" Sirius shaded his eyes with one hand and pointed towards the little Alley between Diagon Alley and Crystal Avenue. James was positively fuming. He was dragging two trunks and a couple of bags.
"Sirius," Lily scuffed, "We'll have to help him!"
"No way I'm dragging that trunk, it's seriously heavy. And if I get too close to James, I fear he'll wring my neck!" Lily rose anyway and dragged Sirius with her.
"Hello James!" She smiled and dragged her wand out of her pocket.
"What you gonna do?" Sirius asked.
"You can't do magic!" James said.
"Oh huff!" Lily said.
"There's so much magic going on that the ministry probably won't detect it." She grinned.
"But even if they do, there's no problem. I've got a special agreement with McGonnagal and the Headmaster that says that I can do magic, so there!" She pointed her wand at the luggage and levitated it.
"You've got a special agreement?" Sirius asked.
"Why?" Lily looked at him for a second, then turned away.
"Well," She began. "It's all connected with Voldemort." Both James and Sirius winced.
"My family has been attacked by Voldemort three times when I have been away on school. And it's feared that I'll be attacked, therefor I have permission. Thankfully it hasn't been needed so far, Voldemort has kept away." Lily glanced up at the boys in time to see them wince for the third time.
"What's wrong with you? Do you fear his name?" James and Sirius nodded.
"Dumbledore said this would happen. But you just remember that fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself, so please. If you ever say 'you-know-who' in my presence, I will say 'no I don't know who', if you say 'he-who-must-not-be-named' in my presence I'll ask 'why not?'" She huffed and started walking down the street with the luggage floating in front of her.
"Where do you want these?" She asked.
"The Kneazle." Sirius and James said and followed her.
Lily dumped the trunks next to the reception inside the Kneazle and tucked her wand back into her pocket. James and Sirius checked in, and Lily, not bothering with a wand this time, beaconed with a finger and the trunks floated peacefully after her up the stairs to James and Sirius' floor, which happened to be hers as well. Lily then let the trunks drop to the floor, leaving it up to the boys to get them into the rooms. She followed Sirius into his room and flung herself down at his bed. After Sirius had got his luggage safe and secure into the room he dropped down next to her. A minute later or so James entered the room as well.
"Wanna play some quidditch?" Lily asked, "There's a children's field in the backyard here." James and Sirius wanted, and they got their brooms and headed down to the field, after borrowing some balls from the receptionist. They had to face reality, they were only three. That left the snitch and the bludgers out of the game. In the end they decided on playing chasers against keeper, and rotating. But after a while they got bored with that, and landed on the lawn.
"Where can we find another, what, three players at least?" They found no answer to this.
"Hey!" Lily suddenly said. "There's Adrian, perhaps he'd like to play?" The boys glanced over at the boy.
"Worth a shot." James mumbled and they hurried over to him.
"Hello Lily." Adrian Prewett smiled.
"Hi Adrian, we were trying to play some quidditch over there, but it seems like we're a couple of players short. Would you like to play?"
"I would have," Adrian said, and lifted a bandaged hand.
"But I can't grip a broom with this hand." It turned out that his sister's kneazle had bitten him quite badly when he tried to take her sons out for a broom ride. The problem was that they were only two and four years old. But he said that he had met a couple of Lily's friends out in Crystal Avenue. Lily left the boys and went in search for her friends. Not long after she found them at the huge ice-creme parlour in Tywinton Square. They were spending the rest of the vacation here as well, and had left their luggage in a safe-box. Lily bought an ice cream for herself, and one for James and one for Sirius. Then they went to the safe-box, and Lily managed, with some difficulty, to levitate the luggage over to The Kneazle, where they got their brooms and went out back. Sirius was longing to have an ice cream in the blazing sun, and gratefully accepted the chocolate, vanilla and lemon flavoured ice-cream, topped with a dancing ice mice. James thanked Lily for his strawberry, chocolate and hazelnut ice cream with chocolate frog, and politely asked who her companions were. Lily smiled and turned to her friends.
"This is April." She said and pointed at a girl with short, curly brown hair and dark blue eyes.
"This is Julie." She said and indicated towards a girl with clear Chinese inheritance, who had straight black hair and blue eyes. "And this is Alice." The last girl had wavy blond hair and grey eyes.
"April, Julie and Alice, meet James Potter and Sirius Black." They five people shook hands and greeted each other. But just as they were mounting their brooms, ready to play, they heard a voice calling for them. They turned and found that Remus Lupin and Frank Longbottom was running towards them with a broom each.
"Can we join?" Remus asked.
"Of course." Lily said, "But now we'll rearrange our teams. What about girls against boys?" She asked. The boys agreed.
"For the girls side, we'll have Lily as seeker, April as beater, Julie as chaser and me as a keeper." Alice said.
"And for our side," James said, "We'll have Frank as the keeper, me as the chaser, Remus as the beater, and Sirius as the seeker." When they had mounted their brooms, Adrian volunteered to be a grounded referee. The eighth players shot into the air and Adrian released the balls...
The two teams gloomily seeped into the Knezle Hotel each and every one of them sodding wet to the core. They had had almost an hour of perfect quidditch-weather, but then it rapidly clouded over and the hot and gleaming sun was replaced by heavy summer-rain. This didn't dampen the players' spirits in the least, but the dirty playing which evolved after the referee had fled the court definitively did. It had taken the joint effort of Adrian, Peter, the couple who owned the hotel, as well as their three sons and two daughters to bring the players inside. Unfortunately the score was a tie, leaving the players willing to settle the score in about any way possible. With James, Sirius, Remus and Frank on one side and Lily, April, Alice and Julie on the other side, the intensity was high. In the end they couldn't stand each other's presence, and while the boy-team, along with Peter and Adrian, settled themselves around a table and started playing cards. The girls on the other side took the opportunity to flee the hotel. Once outside in the almost empty streets of this magical haven the girls relaxed. The rain had finally stopped, but since it was getting late there weren't many people there. They easily found a café with a wide variety of coffees and ice creams, and stayed there for a couple of hours. When they left it was even darker. A mere minute later they stumbled upon a chance they couldn't let slip. The four quidditch-boys were walking around the now empty Tywinton Square, obviously looking for them. The girls quickly hid behind some columns. Lily got hold of her wand and was soon swirling it about in intricate waves mumbling foreign words under her breath. Soon several snowballs had appeared out of the moisture in the air. The three other girls grinned wickedly at Lily, eternally happy that they had such a brilliant which for a friend. Lily conjured enough snowballs for her friends before sneaking closer towards the boys. A clutter of snowballs was hovering near the tip of her wand ready to shoot off towards a suiting target. When close enough, but still at an appropriate distance Lily sent the ballshurtling off towards the unsuspecting boys. Soon shrieks and swearing erupted, and when they had silenced Lily was gone. The boys scooped up the splatter of snow and hid in the shadows of the columns. Not well enough, it seemed, 'cause they were immediately pelted with snow from all around. Attack is the best defence it is said. And soon the girls had to flee from the merciless attacks of the boys. War had erupted.
The battle was still going strong when Lily sneaked of to catch her breath. She entered a little alley in the Avenue, and leaned heavily against what she thought was the wall. But as it yelped as she leaned towards it she hastily jumped away. She brought up her lit wand, and it illuminated the face of James Potter.
"James," She hissed, "What in Merlin's name are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same thing." He retorted in a hushed voice. Lily leaned towards the opposite wall, confident that there weren't humans lurking in those shadows as well.
"Escaping the battle of course." She muttered.
"Me too." James said.
"Except that with you here it won't be much battling to do, since you're the one who conjured all the snow. How did you do that really?" Lily grinned.
"With a simple spell created by an Icelandic witch who moved to Egypt. I guess she missed the snow." Lily answered simply.
"My hands are freezing from that snow, by the way. Couldn't you make warm snow?" Lily glared at him, but grabbed his hands.
"Let me." She whispered, and while holding his hands gently with her left hand she warmed them with a stream of warm air from her wand.
"That better?" She asked after a while. He nodded. They now stood in the middle of the alley, closer than they intentionally had intended. They could feel each other's hot breaths, and their skin tingled where their hand met. They moved even closer still, their breaths slightly ragged, but if it was from the exhaustion of the battle or something entirely different, none knew. Lily's eyelids fluttered close as they both tilted their heads slightly, and in only a moment their lips would meet. But just then a snowball swished past them and hit a garbage-bin with a loud bang. And the moment was lost as their friends came sliding in after it, screaming with glee...
A/N: Now, I have no idea what will happen…