Chapter 12: Two Weeks Notice

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Whenever dawn turns to night
And all the dreams sing their song
In the daylight forever
To You I Belong.

-To You I Belong by B-Witched

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"Lils! It's good to see you back at work! We missed you here."

"Hey Natalie. I wish I could say I missed the job, just some of the people here."

"Well, I hope I'm on that list of some of the people you missed. Oh my gosh, you can tell you've been in England for the past week."

"Why?"

"Your accent is very strong once more. Come on, Tipperman wants us all in a meeting in twenty minutes."

"What for?"

"Top financial keeper."

"Oh. Did Mackenzie win again?"

"Probably. She always wins; stupid bitch."

"Well, if it bothers you so much, you could sleep with the boss too like she does."

"There isn't a big enough salary in the world that would pay me to sleep with Albert Tipperman."

"I don't blame you. I'm just glad I'm leaving it."

"You're leaving? Why?"

"I'm going home to England to stay."

"Why?"

"I just like it better there."

"Oh, I see. There a guy there?"

"How'd you guess?"

"I assumed. That'd probably be the only reason why you'd leave us."

"You should never do that, Natalie. When you assume you make an ass out of u 'n' me." Natalie laughed,

"Where'd you get that?"

"Just something a couple of my friends from school used to say, or still say it. But anyways, I'm giving Tipperman my two weeks notice today."

"I can't believe you're going to leave us. You're going to leave me here all alone without anyone to help bail my ass out when I get into trouble?"

"If you get into as much trouble as you did that one time, call me, and I'll come bail your ass out." They both laughed, and entered the conference room. Natalie held the door open and said,

"Just be sure to bring this guy of yours along when you come help me then."

"I will." Natalie and Lily took their seats, and waited for everyone else to get there. There were already half of the people in their seats, and they all welcomed Lily back. Soon the boss came in, and after welcoming Lily back also, the meeting started.

"Ok, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of year again. Every summer we give out an award to the highest accountant. That person shall receive a pay raise, the parking space for a month, and bragging rights for the year." Tipperman said, ending with a smile, at the attempted joke. No one laughed or even smiled, except a woman with dirty blonde hair and a low cut suit.

"And the highest account keeper for last year is…" He glanced at the blonde, "Mackenzie Lorett." The blonde stood up, pretending to be shocked, and was thanking Tipperman as Miss America would thank the judges after receiving her crown, fanning her face and trying not to cry. The rest of the men and women at the meeting politely applauded, not meaning to offer Mackenzie any congratulations. The meeting was adjourned, and everyone went back to their work. Lily dropped her things off at her desk, and went to Tipperman's office. She opened the door and saw her boss and Mackenzie standing face to face, very close together, whispering. Mackenzie had a flirty grin on her face, while Tipperman ran a finger along her jaw line, getting ready to kiss her. Lily cleared her throat loudly, and the two jumped apart. Mackenzie left hurriedly, not meeting Lily's eyes. Tipperman nervously cleared his throat.

"Um, Mackenzie was just thanking me for the award."

"Yes, and I'm sure she will do so properly later." Lily said sarcastically.

"What can I do for you Lily?"

"I came to say I'm giving my two weeks notice."

"Why?"

"I want to go back home. I have the opportunity for a better job over in England, and I want to take it."

"You don't like your job here?"

"To tell you the truth, not really. Numbers were never my high point in school, but I took the job because I didn't need very many qualifications." Tipperman nodded.

"So, two weeks from now which will be the twentieth, you'll be leaving?"

"Yes."

"I hate to lose you, Lily."

"Well, we all lose things in life." With that, she turned and left. At lunch that afternoon, all the women were sitting around a table, conversing and gossiping. Mackenzie said,

"So, Lily, Tipperman said you were leaving."

"Yeah, your point?"

"Why are you?"

"I want to go back home to England."

"Just because you didn't get the top accounting award doesn't mean you have to leave."

"Believe me Mackenzie, that's not why I'm leaving. And I don't want the accounting job if I have to do what you do to get it."

"You mean do a good job at your work? That's all I do."

"Yes, Mackenzie, that's all you do, give Tipperman a good job while at work." A woman named Lela said. Mackenzie's jaw dropped.

"I can't believe you would think that I'd sleep with Tipperman to advance in the business."

"You can't believe that we think it, or can't believe that we know it?" Natalie said.

"I don't know what kind of rumors are going on around here, but I'm not having sex with the boss."

"Yeah right, Mackenzie, and pigs fly."

"I'm not going to take this abuse." She got up and left. All the women rolled their eyes.

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"My Lord, I've come with news. Potter is going out with that Lily Evans girl again. He's even talking about marrying her. If they aren't stopped, there will be another Potter soon." The Dark Lord sneered.

"Kill her."

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The last two weeks of Lily's job as an accountant flew by slowly without much activity. On her last day, her coworkers threw her a going away party, and at 5:00, Lily left the building with her box of things from her desk in her arms, never to have to set foot in that place again. Natalie had promised to write, and made Lily promise that she would visit occasionally. Lily hailed a cab home to her apartment, so she could get started packing. When she opened the door of her apartment, her jaw dropped when she saw two wizards in her apartment, examining all the muggle objects in the place. Lily laughed.

"What the hell are you two doing here?" Sirius and Remus jumped at the sound of someone's voice. Remus said,

"We've come on strict instructions to help you pack for England."

"Strict instructions from who?"

"Prongs." Lily laughed.

"What, does he think if I do it by myself I won't come back?"

"Possible, cuz' God only knows what goes on in that brain of his," Sirius said, picking up the phone and inspecting it.

"And even God doesn't know what goes on in your head, Padfoot," Remus said with a grin, while Sirius was about to throw the only object in his hand, the phone. Lily put her hands up to and stood in the line of fire.

"No, no, don't chuck the phone. Set it down, Sirius." Sirius slowly put the phone down, though looking as though he still wanted to throw something. Lily tossed a pillow to him and stepped out of the line of fire, while Sirius threw the pillow, and Remus caught it. He threw it back and Sirius caught it, and it went back and forth like this until Sirius' aim was off, and the pillow hit a picture frame sitting on a table knocking to the floor and the glass shattered. Lily sighed, and pointed her wand at the mess.

"Reparo." The frame repaired itself and Lily set it back on the table.

"You two are like children, come on, your twenty years old now, not six."

"I miss being six. It was good times," Sirius said.

"Yeah, you could get away with everything then." They got to packing, and a half hour later, Ally came in with shopping bags in her hands. As soon as she came in the door she said,

"Hey Lils!" Lily came to the door.

"Hey. Shopping?"

"Heck yeah, I…" She looked over Lily's shoulder and saw Sirius and stopped talking. She had a sort of dazed look on her face. Remus came from the kitchen, a box in his hands. He set it down on the floor and watched the scene in front of him.

"Um, Ally, these are two of my friends from England, they came to help me pack up. This is Sirius, and this is Remus. Sirius, Remus, this is my roommate Ally." Ally gave a breathless 'hi'. Sirius smiled and said,

"How you doin'?" (A/n: In the Joey way, for those of you who have seen Friends) Ally giggled.

"Um, I have to go put this stuff away, I'll be right back." With one last smile at Sirius, Ally disappeared into her room. Lily gave Sirius a confused look.

"What the hell was that about?"

"So I guess cheesy lines do work on American girls, eh?" Lily laughed.

"At least on New York girls," Remus said.

"Sorry, I saw that on a show and had to try it."

"Since when do you have access to a muggle TV?"

"I don't, I went out with a muggle girl and we watched TV for a while, and we watched that show, what's it called?"

"Friends?"

"Yeah. But anyways," He dropped the volume of his voice, "Does your roommate know about your being a witch?"

"No, nobody here in America knows."

"So we have to do all this the muggle way?"

"Unless we can get rid of her. But it won't be that bad."

"We can put half of the things into your trunk here and make it look like we're half done."

"She won't help too much, she'll at the most make dinner for us. She doesn't like to pack, and when she does pack she's not organized. Wait, I have an idea." She went to Ally's door to her bedroom and knocked. Ally opened it.

"Yeah?"

"Hey, did you want to go with Natalie and the three of us and a couple other people from work tonight for a few drinks?"

"Sure."

"Ok, we're almost done packing, so if you want to go down, I told Natalie to meet us at six, she's probably already down there."

"Ok, alright. Sounds good. I'll just get ready and head down there then. How much more do you have to pack?"

"Oh, just little things. It will only take about twenty minutes."

"Ok. I'll just get ready then." Ally went back into her room and shut the door.

"We're going for drinks?"

"Well, I didn't know you two were going to be here, so I agreed to go with Natalie for drinks tonight before I left. It'll be fine, we'll only stay for a few hours at the most."

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With many goodbyes and hugs and promises to write, Lily headed back to her apartment with Sirius and Remus so they could apparate home to England. Lily was going to apparate to James' house, so he and Lily could talk, while Sirius and Remus would bring Lily's things back to Remus' house. When Lily got to James' house, she knocked on the door. James answered it, with a sad look on his face. Lily laughed and said,

"Gosh, James, who died?" He didn't answer her, and his expression didn't change. Lily's smile faded quickly from her face.

"Who died?"

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A/N: Hee hee hee!!! I'm sorry I'm so evil, that's a nasty cliffhanger, I'll try and get the next chapter out as soon as possible, as soon as I get ten more reviews!! Thanks to all the people reviewed, it means a lot to me that you like my story.

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