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The Nameless Chapter
"Okay, You can go let them out by yourself." Lily said as she and James walked down the corridor to the room where they had locked Cat and Sirius before dinner.
Neither Lily nor James knew what to expect to find when they unlocked the door. They didn't know if they would find one of their friends dead or badly wounded. Sirius would most likely to be badly hurt or, depending how mad Cat was at the moment, dead. Or, as James pointed out but Lily said would be highly unlikely, they would just be sitting quietly on opposite ends of the room not talking. Lily pointed out that Cat was not the kind of person who stayed quite. They both agreed that either way that Cat and Sirius would probably try to inflict bodily harm on them.
"Oh, no." James said putting his hands on Lily's shoulder and steering her down the corridor so she couldn't turn around and run like James knew she wanted to. "There is no way I am facing those two by myself."
"Are you saying you're scared of them?" Lily asked stop walking and turning around to look at James and she hope sincerely that he would that his testosterone would kick in and he would say that no he wasn't scared of Cat and Sirius and that he didn't need Lily.
"Hell, yes, I am terrified of them." James said turning Lily back around in the direction they had been heading before Lily had stopped. Again James put his hands on her shoulders and steered her down the corridor again, mainly because he liked the fact that Lily was letting him touch her shoulders.
"Are you completely one hundred percent positive that you need me to go in the with you?" Lily asked as both stopped in front of the door to the classroom that Cat and Sirius were currently locked up in.
"Yes, I am one hundred percent positive." James growled. He couldn't believe Lily was willing to leave him there by himself. "I openly admit that Cat and Sirius scare the shit out of me." James didn't mind admitting this to Lily either. James could tell Lily was just as scared because she was slightly shaking under his hands. They had every right to be scared. James knew Sirius had an incredible 'Potrificus Totalus' charm and he never wanted to cross Cat when she was angry, she was scary enough without magic.
"Ok, I'm ready." Lily said planting her feet determinedly on the ground. 'Cat would thank her someday.' She told herself. "You can unlock the door now." She told James.
"O...ok" James stuttered, holding out his wand and muttering the counter spell to the one he had performed yesterday. Lily and James heard the lock click softly telling them that the door was unlocked.
"After you." Lily said indicating to James that he could open the door and go in front of her.
"Nope, ladies first." James indicated with his arms out for Lily to go in front of him.
"Stupid rule." Lily muttered slowly bringing her hand to the doorknob. She turned it ever so slowly and soon the door stood ajar. Neither Lily nor James heard any sound coming from the room.
"That can't be good." James whispered, his mouth close to Lily's ear, making her shiver.
"I know." Lily whispered in return, knowing that he was talking about the silence. She was trying to not to pay attention to the fact that James was standing very close to her. She was pretending not to notice that she could feel James' warm chest almost touching her back.
"Let's go in." Lily said pushing the door all the way open and talking a small step forward into the room, James right behind her. Lilly looked around the room and was about to take another step in when she stopped dead and her mouth fell open. James almost tripped over Lily he'd been expecting her to take another step. He looked over and saw what Lily saw. His mouth dropped open too.
Lily and James saw Cat and Sirius kissing like there was no tomorrow. Cat was sitting on top of and empty desk with her legs hanging of the end. Sirius was standing in front of her between her legs, his head bent over hers. Sirius had one arm wrapped around Cat's waist and the other tangled in her hair, while Cat had her hands around his neck.
"Are my glasses extremely messed up or is that what I really seeing what I think I'm seeing?" James whispered into Lily's ear bringing her out of her trance. She turned to look at James, her mouth still hanging open. James had taken his classes off and was now cleaning them on his robe.
"They... they're... did you.... they're... oh my god..." Lily whispered too shocked to string a sentence together.
"Oh, so it isn't my glasses." James smiled and put his glasses back on. "They should get a room."
"We had a room." Lily and James heard a voice growl. Both turned to see an annoyed Cat and a very angry Sirius.
"Well, we just came to tell you that the door's unlocked and we'll be leaving now." James smiled nervously as he and Lily started to turn to walk out the door.
"Oh no, I don't think so." Cat shouted. She hopped off the desk and walked over to Lily and James, who had frozen at her voice. Both flinching. "We've been in here for three hours. THREE HOURS!" Cat wailed.
"Well, you looked like you found something to do." James said nervously.
"Don't even talk to me Potter! I am about this far away from ripping your head off your body." Cat said holding her finger and thumb extremely close together.
"We were just trying to help." Lily squeaked from behind James.
"There are other ways to help." Cat said to Lily, not nearly as angrily as she has to James. "If you had just told up. Or just told us to talk to each other." Cat said.
"I actually kind of enjoyed all of this myself." Sirius smiled a goofy smile. "Snogging for three hours with a hot girl. What more could a guy ask for?"
"Black! You're supposed to be mad at these two." Cat glared at Sirius and slapped him on the chest.
"Ow. Oh, right." Sirius remembered. "Prongs, remind me to kill you later. And Tiger Lily, um... have Cat kill you later." Sirius was having a hard time being mad at his friends. James and Lily laughed at Sirius' attempted to be at them and Cat tried to hide her smile.
"So are you two official?" James asked.
"I dunno." Cat said softly as she and Sirius looked each other in the eyes.
"Well, no one asked me out. That's for sure." Sirius smiled.
"Me either." Cat said, knowing that Sirius was waiting for her to ask him.
"Fine, I guess I have to do all the work." Sirius sighed dramatically. "Cat, will you be my girlfriend?"
"I guess... if I have to." Cat said as if she were doing him a favor. Lily could tell that Cat was having a hard time keeping a big smile from spreading across her face.
"Yes, you have to." James said. "Now, come on Padfoot, quidditch practice started five minutes ago." James steered Sirius out of the room like he had steered Lily to it. Sirius still had a goofy smile on his face and it looked like it was permanently etched there.
"LILY MARIE EVANS!!!" Cat shouted one the boys had left. Lily jumped scared that Cat was about to kill her. "I love you!" Cat said pulling Lily into a tight hug. Lily just laughed.
"So I take it you enjoyed your time with Sirius." Lily said as Cat finally pulled away.
"You have no idea!" Cat said as her eyes became cloudy. "He's so sweet. And a really, really, good kisser and he-"
"Ok too much information. I don't want to know about you snog session." Lily said putting her hands over her hears and walked out of the room down the corridor.
"Aww, come on Lils." Cat pleased.
"NO!" Lily said loudly. "I would really rather not think about you and Sirius kissing. Just gross. I mean you're like my sister. Its gross thinking people in your family have love lives. It's like imagining your parents kissing. Oh my god! Bad Bad Picture!" Lily said loudly as she made her way up the stares to the Gryffindor tower.
"Yeah right." Cat said following behind her up the stairs. "You just don't want to think of anyone kissing anybody unless it's James kissing you!" Cat laughed as Lily turned bright pink.
"That's not true!" Lily said still bright red.
"Are you telling me that you never think of what it would be like to kiss James?" Cat asked.
"This conversation sounds familiar. Have we had it before?" Lily asked.
"I don't know!" Cat said. "Do you?"
"Do I what?" Lily asked stopping to face Cat in front of the portrait hole.
"Do you think about kissing James?" Cat asked. Lily turned bright, bright, red. "You do!!!"
"Hershey Kiss." Lily muttered to the fat lady and walked into the common room as the portrait swung open. "I'm sure you've thought about kissing Sirius."
"Well, yeah. But this is Lily Evans thinking about kissing James Potter. This is big." Cat said as she plopped down on an empty couch.
"WHY?!?! Why is it big? Why is it so hard to believe that maybe I've fallen for James Potter?!" Lily shouted so loudly that the entire common room turned to look at her. Lily turned even redder, if that's possible, and rushed up to the girl's dormitory.
"Well, there you go, James." Cat said as James came down the boy's dormitory stairs in shock. "She likes you."
"Wow... I... she..." James said speechless. He had come up to the dorm to get his quidditch notebook with all the plays he wanted his team to learn in it. "She really?" James still tried to speak.
"Yeah, she does." Cat said. "You get to practice and maybe I can get her to leave the dormitory sometime in the near future." Cat said getting up off the couch. James left the common room. Needless to say he didn't have a very good practice, his mind being somewhere else the entire time.
"Honey, I'm home!" Sirius called loudly as he entered the common room after quidditch practice.
"I assume you're talking about Cat." Remus said looking up from his book at one of the tables in the common room. He and Jo were sitting together doing their homework and doing their best to help Peter.
"Well, I certainly wasn't talking about you, Moony. If I remember correctly, you would be Jo's honey." Sirius said with the same wide smile plastered on his face as he had when he first came into the common room, making both Jo and Remus blush.
"Oh, would you shut up?" Anna said irritably walking in through the common room.
"What's crawled up your arse and died?" Sirius asked his smile not fading.
"Nothing's up my arse. You're the one who's been smiling like that for the last three hours." Anna replied. Everyone was used to Anna's bad mood after every quidditch practice.
"Would both of you please shut up? Some of us are trying to read." Cat's voice shouted over Sirius' and Anna's bickering.
"Of course." Sirius' smile grew, if this is physically possible, wider when he noticed Cat was curled up in a big chair by the crackling fire.
"Thank you." Cat said turning her attention back to the book. Sirius quickly made his way over to Cat's chair and sat on the armrest. "Can I help you?" Cat said once again looking up from her book trying her hardest to sound annoyed and not to smile.
"Well, there are quite a few things I'd like you to help me with, most of which aren't proper for me to say in public." Sirius stated causing Cat to blush furiously. "But there is something you can do for me."
"And that would be?" Cat asked smiling finally.
"Well, my buddy Prongs, more commonly known as James-"
"Sirius, get to the point." Cat cut in.
"Right, anyway, James was a bit off at practice just now. His mind was obviously elsewhere and when it's not on quidditch it's only on one other thing. Well, person. Your dear friend Tiger Lily." Sirius said.
"He thinks about Lils a lot. What's the problem?" Cat asked hoping that she wouldn't have to tell him about what had happened earlier.
"I've never seen him think about anything but quidditch when he's playing quidditch. And I've known him since we first started walking and talking." Sirius explained.
"Well, you see... right before practice... Lily and I were talking... and James heard us... well the entire Gryffindor population did." Cat tried to explain.
"What did you say that made James ask like that?" Sirius asked truly concerned and interested.
"Well, it wasn't anything I said but it was what Lily said. She didn't know James was standing on the stairs to the boys dormitory when she said it." Cat said. "She still doesn't know."
"What did she did she say?" Sirius asked.
"Do you really think I'm the right person to tell you that?" Cat asked.
"Come on. We might be about to help." Sirius answered.
"Fine. Lily said that she might like James." Cat said. "I know she likes him."
"Well, I say we use their idea against them and lock them in a room together." Sirius smiled mischievously.
Just then James walked into the common room in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. His hair still wet from the shower he had taken in the locker room. He had a cloudy look in his eyes as if thinking about something and not really paying attention to anything else.
"Hey! Cat! Have you seen my-" Lily's voice came from the girl's dormitory stairs. She obviously stopped when she saw James standing by the portrait hole. The cloudy look in his eyes gone. Lily entering brought him back to reality. He could see the slight pink tint Lily's face had turned. She was obviously thinking about what she had said earlier.
"Were you looking for something?" Cat broke the silence that had fallen among the group who were the main occupants of the common room at the time. Everyone noticed that both Lily and James were avoiding each other's eyes.
"Um... yeah... I was looking for... um... I don't remember anymore." Lily blushed even darker, being embarrassed that she forgot what she was looking for. "I guess I'll go back upstairs." Lily said and started to turn around.
"NO!" Cat, Sirius, James, Remus, and Jo all yelled at the same time. Jo and Remus had been watching what was going on since Sirius entered the common, Sirius and Cat probably had something tricky up their sleeves, and James, well; James just didn't want Lily to leave.
"Does someone need something from me?" Lily asked turning around, a little startled that everyone screamed her name out.
"Yes!" Sirius said immediately.
"And that would be?" Lily asked when he said nothing after that.
"Um..." Sirius said rubbing his head.
"James needs you to help him with his charms homework." Cat said for Sirius.
"Oh... well... ok." Lily said a little unsure.
"Um... thanks... I guess." James said knowing that Lily had no idea what was going on and Cat and Sirius knew exactly what was going on. "My essay's upstairs. I'll go get it."
"Ok, I'll just wait here." Lily said.
"Wait!" Jo suddenly called out. "Why don't you go with him and work on it up there. Remus, Sirius, and Peter were just about to play exploding snap and it's going to get a little loud down here."
"Um... I guess I don't mind if James doesn't." Lily said as she could help but think that her friends were a little weird and kind of freaky
"No." James said trying to sound as if it really didn't matter to him ever though he wanted to start dancing. "I don't care."
"Ok, let's go." Lily said walking over to the boy's staircase and up it with out waiting to see if James was following. She didn't need to bother. James was right behind her.
"That was a good call Jo." Cat praised her friend.
"So are you two going to tell Remus and I what's going on between Lily and James?" Jo asked.
"Of course." Cat said getting a little giddy.
"Oh me too!" Anna said plopping down on one of the couches.
Upstairs
"Ok, so where's this essay?" Lily asked after a couple of minutes of awkward silence in James' dorm. It looked about the same. It was a little cleaner as if a house elf had cleaned lately. Lily this time sat on the nearest bed and to James' excitement it was his.
"Um, right here." James pulled his bag out from under his bed and pulled a roll of parchment out of it. "Here, I think it's finished. I guess you could look it over to see if all of my information is right. Charms is your best subject."
"Ok, no problem." Lily took the parchment, unrolled it, and started to read. James stood a few minutes and started moving his weight from foot to foot as Lily read his essay. He finally sat down on the bed next to her. He was surprised when she didn't tell him to get off or to stand on the other side of the room.
"This is really good James." Lily said looking up from his essay a few minutes later. "I don't know why you wanted me to look at it." Lily turned to see how close James was sitting next to her and blushed a little. She had this really weird feeling in her stomach. She was suddenly very nervous and self-conscious.
"Thanks." James said softly moving his head slightly closer to Lily's hoping that she wouldn't slap him. He suddenly had a really strong urge to kiss Lily. Really kiss her.
"No problem." Lily said though it barely came out as James' lip just about touching hers. "James?" Lily whispered.
"Hmm?" was all James answered. He was too busy concentrating on Lily's lips. And they were very nice lips in his opinion.
"Are you going to kiss me?" Lily asked not moving her head away from James'.
"I want to." James answered.
"Then why don't you?" Lily said smirking. That was all James needed to hear. He brought his lips to Lily's and yes, both had fireworks going off in their minds. These fireworks would have put the American's Forth of July fireworks to shame. Slowly James started to lay down pulling Lily on top of him so that they lay on his bed.
"James..." Lily said pulling away breathless.
"Oh, sorry Lily, I shouldn't have." James realized that he had started to lie down. He hadn't notice when he was kissing Lily.
"No it's ok. It's just I think we should take things slow. If were going to take things at all." Lily said sitting up and straightening her shirt.
"I really want to take things somewhere." James smiled. A truly happy smile.
"Me too." Lily answered smiling also.
KrisKG: Sooo glad you like the last chapter. I assure Lily and James is in the near future. Just keep reading.
The all mighty and powerfulM: I'm glad you feel better now. And I'm also glad that you liked the last chapter! And yes, Lily is Next. She's the only one left.
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Dontleturdreamsbedreams: Ok, you go to the beach in the winter? How cold is it? Cause here in the winter it's constantly snowing. There's not way you could get me on a beach. I'm glad you liked the last chapter. And thanks about the breakfast food tip. I know it says in the books but I'm too lazy to get up from my computer and go upstairs to my room to get the books.
Loulou 13: I'm glad you liked the last chapter. I loved writing the Cat/Sirius scenes. They're so much fun.
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SiriusLives001: You are not a person I denial. Sirius really isn't dead. At least I really hope not. How can JK Rowling kill him? I just don't understand how she could do something so evil! And don't worry that kiss definitely meant something.
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The Nameless Chapter
"Okay, You can go let them out by yourself." Lily said as she and James walked down the corridor to the room where they had locked Cat and Sirius before dinner.
Neither Lily nor James knew what to expect to find when they unlocked the door. They didn't know if they would find one of their friends dead or badly wounded. Sirius would most likely to be badly hurt or, depending how mad Cat was at the moment, dead. Or, as James pointed out but Lily said would be highly unlikely, they would just be sitting quietly on opposite ends of the room not talking. Lily pointed out that Cat was not the kind of person who stayed quite. They both agreed that either way that Cat and Sirius would probably try to inflict bodily harm on them.
"Oh, no." James said putting his hands on Lily's shoulder and steering her down the corridor so she couldn't turn around and run like James knew she wanted to. "There is no way I am facing those two by myself."
"Are you saying you're scared of them?" Lily asked stop walking and turning around to look at James and she hope sincerely that he would that his testosterone would kick in and he would say that no he wasn't scared of Cat and Sirius and that he didn't need Lily.
"Hell, yes, I am terrified of them." James said turning Lily back around in the direction they had been heading before Lily had stopped. Again James put his hands on her shoulders and steered her down the corridor again, mainly because he liked the fact that Lily was letting him touch her shoulders.
"Are you completely one hundred percent positive that you need me to go in the with you?" Lily asked as both stopped in front of the door to the classroom that Cat and Sirius were currently locked up in.
"Yes, I am one hundred percent positive." James growled. He couldn't believe Lily was willing to leave him there by himself. "I openly admit that Cat and Sirius scare the shit out of me." James didn't mind admitting this to Lily either. James could tell Lily was just as scared because she was slightly shaking under his hands. They had every right to be scared. James knew Sirius had an incredible 'Potrificus Totalus' charm and he never wanted to cross Cat when she was angry, she was scary enough without magic.
"Ok, I'm ready." Lily said planting her feet determinedly on the ground. 'Cat would thank her someday.' She told herself. "You can unlock the door now." She told James.
"O...ok" James stuttered, holding out his wand and muttering the counter spell to the one he had performed yesterday. Lily and James heard the lock click softly telling them that the door was unlocked.
"After you." Lily said indicating to James that he could open the door and go in front of her.
"Nope, ladies first." James indicated with his arms out for Lily to go in front of him.
"Stupid rule." Lily muttered slowly bringing her hand to the doorknob. She turned it ever so slowly and soon the door stood ajar. Neither Lily nor James heard any sound coming from the room.
"That can't be good." James whispered, his mouth close to Lily's ear, making her shiver.
"I know." Lily whispered in return, knowing that he was talking about the silence. She was trying to not to pay attention to the fact that James was standing very close to her. She was pretending not to notice that she could feel James' warm chest almost touching her back.
"Let's go in." Lily said pushing the door all the way open and talking a small step forward into the room, James right behind her. Lilly looked around the room and was about to take another step in when she stopped dead and her mouth fell open. James almost tripped over Lily he'd been expecting her to take another step. He looked over and saw what Lily saw. His mouth dropped open too.
Lily and James saw Cat and Sirius kissing like there was no tomorrow. Cat was sitting on top of and empty desk with her legs hanging of the end. Sirius was standing in front of her between her legs, his head bent over hers. Sirius had one arm wrapped around Cat's waist and the other tangled in her hair, while Cat had her hands around his neck.
"Are my glasses extremely messed up or is that what I really seeing what I think I'm seeing?" James whispered into Lily's ear bringing her out of her trance. She turned to look at James, her mouth still hanging open. James had taken his classes off and was now cleaning them on his robe.
"They... they're... did you.... they're... oh my god..." Lily whispered too shocked to string a sentence together.
"Oh, so it isn't my glasses." James smiled and put his glasses back on. "They should get a room."
"We had a room." Lily and James heard a voice growl. Both turned to see an annoyed Cat and a very angry Sirius.
"Well, we just came to tell you that the door's unlocked and we'll be leaving now." James smiled nervously as he and Lily started to turn to walk out the door.
"Oh no, I don't think so." Cat shouted. She hopped off the desk and walked over to Lily and James, who had frozen at her voice. Both flinching. "We've been in here for three hours. THREE HOURS!" Cat wailed.
"Well, you looked like you found something to do." James said nervously.
"Don't even talk to me Potter! I am about this far away from ripping your head off your body." Cat said holding her finger and thumb extremely close together.
"We were just trying to help." Lily squeaked from behind James.
"There are other ways to help." Cat said to Lily, not nearly as angrily as she has to James. "If you had just told up. Or just told us to talk to each other." Cat said.
"I actually kind of enjoyed all of this myself." Sirius smiled a goofy smile. "Snogging for three hours with a hot girl. What more could a guy ask for?"
"Black! You're supposed to be mad at these two." Cat glared at Sirius and slapped him on the chest.
"Ow. Oh, right." Sirius remembered. "Prongs, remind me to kill you later. And Tiger Lily, um... have Cat kill you later." Sirius was having a hard time being mad at his friends. James and Lily laughed at Sirius' attempted to be at them and Cat tried to hide her smile.
"So are you two official?" James asked.
"I dunno." Cat said softly as she and Sirius looked each other in the eyes.
"Well, no one asked me out. That's for sure." Sirius smiled.
"Me either." Cat said, knowing that Sirius was waiting for her to ask him.
"Fine, I guess I have to do all the work." Sirius sighed dramatically. "Cat, will you be my girlfriend?"
"I guess... if I have to." Cat said as if she were doing him a favor. Lily could tell that Cat was having a hard time keeping a big smile from spreading across her face.
"Yes, you have to." James said. "Now, come on Padfoot, quidditch practice started five minutes ago." James steered Sirius out of the room like he had steered Lily to it. Sirius still had a goofy smile on his face and it looked like it was permanently etched there.
"LILY MARIE EVANS!!!" Cat shouted one the boys had left. Lily jumped scared that Cat was about to kill her. "I love you!" Cat said pulling Lily into a tight hug. Lily just laughed.
"So I take it you enjoyed your time with Sirius." Lily said as Cat finally pulled away.
"You have no idea!" Cat said as her eyes became cloudy. "He's so sweet. And a really, really, good kisser and he-"
"Ok too much information. I don't want to know about you snog session." Lily said putting her hands over her hears and walked out of the room down the corridor.
"Aww, come on Lils." Cat pleased.
"NO!" Lily said loudly. "I would really rather not think about you and Sirius kissing. Just gross. I mean you're like my sister. Its gross thinking people in your family have love lives. It's like imagining your parents kissing. Oh my god! Bad Bad Picture!" Lily said loudly as she made her way up the stares to the Gryffindor tower.
"Yeah right." Cat said following behind her up the stairs. "You just don't want to think of anyone kissing anybody unless it's James kissing you!" Cat laughed as Lily turned bright pink.
"That's not true!" Lily said still bright red.
"Are you telling me that you never think of what it would be like to kiss James?" Cat asked.
"This conversation sounds familiar. Have we had it before?" Lily asked.
"I don't know!" Cat said. "Do you?"
"Do I what?" Lily asked stopping to face Cat in front of the portrait hole.
"Do you think about kissing James?" Cat asked. Lily turned bright, bright, red. "You do!!!"
"Hershey Kiss." Lily muttered to the fat lady and walked into the common room as the portrait swung open. "I'm sure you've thought about kissing Sirius."
"Well, yeah. But this is Lily Evans thinking about kissing James Potter. This is big." Cat said as she plopped down on an empty couch.
"WHY?!?! Why is it big? Why is it so hard to believe that maybe I've fallen for James Potter?!" Lily shouted so loudly that the entire common room turned to look at her. Lily turned even redder, if that's possible, and rushed up to the girl's dormitory.
"Well, there you go, James." Cat said as James came down the boy's dormitory stairs in shock. "She likes you."
"Wow... I... she..." James said speechless. He had come up to the dorm to get his quidditch notebook with all the plays he wanted his team to learn in it. "She really?" James still tried to speak.
"Yeah, she does." Cat said. "You get to practice and maybe I can get her to leave the dormitory sometime in the near future." Cat said getting up off the couch. James left the common room. Needless to say he didn't have a very good practice, his mind being somewhere else the entire time.
"Honey, I'm home!" Sirius called loudly as he entered the common room after quidditch practice.
"I assume you're talking about Cat." Remus said looking up from his book at one of the tables in the common room. He and Jo were sitting together doing their homework and doing their best to help Peter.
"Well, I certainly wasn't talking about you, Moony. If I remember correctly, you would be Jo's honey." Sirius said with the same wide smile plastered on his face as he had when he first came into the common room, making both Jo and Remus blush.
"Oh, would you shut up?" Anna said irritably walking in through the common room.
"What's crawled up your arse and died?" Sirius asked his smile not fading.
"Nothing's up my arse. You're the one who's been smiling like that for the last three hours." Anna replied. Everyone was used to Anna's bad mood after every quidditch practice.
"Would both of you please shut up? Some of us are trying to read." Cat's voice shouted over Sirius' and Anna's bickering.
"Of course." Sirius' smile grew, if this is physically possible, wider when he noticed Cat was curled up in a big chair by the crackling fire.
"Thank you." Cat said turning her attention back to the book. Sirius quickly made his way over to Cat's chair and sat on the armrest. "Can I help you?" Cat said once again looking up from her book trying her hardest to sound annoyed and not to smile.
"Well, there are quite a few things I'd like you to help me with, most of which aren't proper for me to say in public." Sirius stated causing Cat to blush furiously. "But there is something you can do for me."
"And that would be?" Cat asked smiling finally.
"Well, my buddy Prongs, more commonly known as James-"
"Sirius, get to the point." Cat cut in.
"Right, anyway, James was a bit off at practice just now. His mind was obviously elsewhere and when it's not on quidditch it's only on one other thing. Well, person. Your dear friend Tiger Lily." Sirius said.
"He thinks about Lils a lot. What's the problem?" Cat asked hoping that she wouldn't have to tell him about what had happened earlier.
"I've never seen him think about anything but quidditch when he's playing quidditch. And I've known him since we first started walking and talking." Sirius explained.
"Well, you see... right before practice... Lily and I were talking... and James heard us... well the entire Gryffindor population did." Cat tried to explain.
"What did you say that made James ask like that?" Sirius asked truly concerned and interested.
"Well, it wasn't anything I said but it was what Lily said. She didn't know James was standing on the stairs to the boys dormitory when she said it." Cat said. "She still doesn't know."
"What did she did she say?" Sirius asked.
"Do you really think I'm the right person to tell you that?" Cat asked.
"Come on. We might be about to help." Sirius answered.
"Fine. Lily said that she might like James." Cat said. "I know she likes him."
"Well, I say we use their idea against them and lock them in a room together." Sirius smiled mischievously.
Just then James walked into the common room in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. His hair still wet from the shower he had taken in the locker room. He had a cloudy look in his eyes as if thinking about something and not really paying attention to anything else.
"Hey! Cat! Have you seen my-" Lily's voice came from the girl's dormitory stairs. She obviously stopped when she saw James standing by the portrait hole. The cloudy look in his eyes gone. Lily entering brought him back to reality. He could see the slight pink tint Lily's face had turned. She was obviously thinking about what she had said earlier.
"Were you looking for something?" Cat broke the silence that had fallen among the group who were the main occupants of the common room at the time. Everyone noticed that both Lily and James were avoiding each other's eyes.
"Um... yeah... I was looking for... um... I don't remember anymore." Lily blushed even darker, being embarrassed that she forgot what she was looking for. "I guess I'll go back upstairs." Lily said and started to turn around.
"NO!" Cat, Sirius, James, Remus, and Jo all yelled at the same time. Jo and Remus had been watching what was going on since Sirius entered the common, Sirius and Cat probably had something tricky up their sleeves, and James, well; James just didn't want Lily to leave.
"Does someone need something from me?" Lily asked turning around, a little startled that everyone screamed her name out.
"Yes!" Sirius said immediately.
"And that would be?" Lily asked when he said nothing after that.
"Um..." Sirius said rubbing his head.
"James needs you to help him with his charms homework." Cat said for Sirius.
"Oh... well... ok." Lily said a little unsure.
"Um... thanks... I guess." James said knowing that Lily had no idea what was going on and Cat and Sirius knew exactly what was going on. "My essay's upstairs. I'll go get it."
"Ok, I'll just wait here." Lily said.
"Wait!" Jo suddenly called out. "Why don't you go with him and work on it up there. Remus, Sirius, and Peter were just about to play exploding snap and it's going to get a little loud down here."
"Um... I guess I don't mind if James doesn't." Lily said as she could help but think that her friends were a little weird and kind of freaky
"No." James said trying to sound as if it really didn't matter to him ever though he wanted to start dancing. "I don't care."
"Ok, let's go." Lily said walking over to the boy's staircase and up it with out waiting to see if James was following. She didn't need to bother. James was right behind her.
"That was a good call Jo." Cat praised her friend.
"So are you two going to tell Remus and I what's going on between Lily and James?" Jo asked.
"Of course." Cat said getting a little giddy.
"Oh me too!" Anna said plopping down on one of the couches.
Upstairs
"Ok, so where's this essay?" Lily asked after a couple of minutes of awkward silence in James' dorm. It looked about the same. It was a little cleaner as if a house elf had cleaned lately. Lily this time sat on the nearest bed and to James' excitement it was his.
"Um, right here." James pulled his bag out from under his bed and pulled a roll of parchment out of it. "Here, I think it's finished. I guess you could look it over to see if all of my information is right. Charms is your best subject."
"Ok, no problem." Lily took the parchment, unrolled it, and started to read. James stood a few minutes and started moving his weight from foot to foot as Lily read his essay. He finally sat down on the bed next to her. He was surprised when she didn't tell him to get off or to stand on the other side of the room.
"This is really good James." Lily said looking up from his essay a few minutes later. "I don't know why you wanted me to look at it." Lily turned to see how close James was sitting next to her and blushed a little. She had this really weird feeling in her stomach. She was suddenly very nervous and self-conscious.
"Thanks." James said softly moving his head slightly closer to Lily's hoping that she wouldn't slap him. He suddenly had a really strong urge to kiss Lily. Really kiss her.
"No problem." Lily said though it barely came out as James' lip just about touching hers. "James?" Lily whispered.
"Hmm?" was all James answered. He was too busy concentrating on Lily's lips. And they were very nice lips in his opinion.
"Are you going to kiss me?" Lily asked not moving her head away from James'.
"I want to." James answered.
"Then why don't you?" Lily said smirking. That was all James needed to hear. He brought his lips to Lily's and yes, both had fireworks going off in their minds. These fireworks would have put the American's Forth of July fireworks to shame. Slowly James started to lay down pulling Lily on top of him so that they lay on his bed.
"James..." Lily said pulling away breathless.
"Oh, sorry Lily, I shouldn't have." James realized that he had started to lie down. He hadn't notice when he was kissing Lily.
"No it's ok. It's just I think we should take things slow. If were going to take things at all." Lily said sitting up and straightening her shirt.
"I really want to take things somewhere." James smiled. A truly happy smile.
"Me too." Lily answered smiling also.
