Chapter 3! Yay! I hope you like it!

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A Few Days Later

The worse things between you and James got, the more the same things stayed between you and Remus. However, James was completely ignoring you altogether and you were now bugging him. You found yourself looking at his head in classes, only to be awakened from your daydream by Remus, who looked extremely flustered by the homework you had recieved and thankfully he didn't notice your little day-dream modes about James. You have re-accuring dreams about James...and you...and-yeah. That kind of stuff. You think it's just what you're eating. You can't possibly have feelings for the biggest jerk in school! On the other hand, since you and Remus had gotten together, James isn't being so arrogent. He's being the sweet, kind, and sensitive guy that he is when he's alone. You never had these feelings for anyone (not even Remus!). You wonder what can be happening to you. You can't seriously be in love with James Potter, Super-Jerk! Can you? You never have been any good at sorting out your feelings. And then there's Quidditch...Your house team sucks since James quit. You have to do something about him, so you make up your mind...

"Rem, hun, I have to go talk to someone about something quick. I'll be back, k?"

"James about Quidditch?" He smiled at you, sweetly.

You look shocked, but nod and run off to find James.

You eventually find him in the Common Room, reading. (A very unusual sight indeed!)

"James?"

He glanced up at you. "Yeah?

You took a deep breath. "I wanna play Quidditch." He raised his eyebrow. "And I don't know the first thing about it. So, I was hoping that I could get the best Quidditch player and the best teacher in Hogwarts to teach me how to play."

He smiled. "You really want to learn how play?"

You nod. "And if I get the best teacher, I figure that I might be able to be at least half as good as he was-is."

"Be on the pitch tomorrow at dawn. Bring your broom, and be prepared for the hardest work out of your life."

You smiled at him and said, "James, I don't have any home work. Do you want help on your extra?"

"What are you up to? You never offered to help before."

"James, I don't want you thinking that I don't want to be friends. I'm dating Remus, but I still want to be your friend. I want to be-dare I say it-I want to be a Marauder too."

"Why?"

"Well, R-Remus and-"

"Oh, I should have guessed. You only want in because your presious Remus is. Like I said be on the pitch at dawn." James got up and headed towards the door.

"James," you whine running after him. "James, Remus isn't the only reason that I want to be a Marauder! I want to be one because I'm sick of being little Miss Perfect all of the time. I wanna let my hair down, be wild,"you say shaking your head, letting your red curls fly in every direction. James stared at you, smirking. "Or, so to speak," you finish, blushing slightly. YOU'RE BLUSHING IN FRONT OF THE GIT LIKE A LITTLE LOVE-SICK TEEN! Or puppy...

"You are one piece of work, Evans, you know that?"

"Yeah, I know. Hey, I have to meet Rem. I'll see you in the morning." You turn to walk away, but you turn and face James once more. "Thank you, Po-James." And without being able to stop yourself from doing so, you stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. ACK! DID I JUST KISS HIM! Evans! GET-A-HOLD-OF-YOUR-SELF! He did taste nice...NO! THIS IS POTTER!

Fast Forward to Dawn

"Morning, Evans."

"Ack! How do you get up this early?"

"I think of your pretty face, and it gets me thru the day and I'm not tired."

"James, I'm seeing Remus."

"I know. I just thought you deserved a compliment."

"Thanks."

James and you practiced all day and you continued to practice every morning before classes and after. You were beginning to see James in a completely new light. He was really nice and caring and compassionate...Wait! This was POTTER you were thinking about! Get ahold of yourself! Think of yourself, Lily! You were getting pretty good...Thanks to James...Ack! You can't even think to yourself about yourself without him interferring. This was beginning to get really annoying.

"Fantastic!" James said Friday evening. "My best student."

"Your only student. I gotta go. Remus is waiting for me. Thanks, James!" you call over your shoulder.

You run towards the lake and into the setting sun. You see Remus waiting for you.

"Hi," he said, simply.

"What's up with you?"

"Lil, we have to break up."

"Oh no. Remus, I swear that nothing is going on between me and James!" That's right, Remus! I've been completely loyal! No crushing on that git! Or have you...

Remus gave you a wierd look then shook his head, sending his shoulder-length sandy hair flying a bit. "Whatever that means. No, it's nothing to do with you or James. It's all me. I'm a warewolf. We're known to kill the ones that we love the most. I don't want to hurt you."

You nod, completely understanding the situation. "I get it." You feel kind of hurt, though. Remus, your first boyfriend just broke up with you! Grrrrrr...

"And I know you love James."

"Wha-how? I do not!" you declare, but not completely believing that it was true yourself...

"You've loved him since that kiss he gave you in first year. Yes, I saw it. Lily, he really does love you."

"I know. And, Remus forgive me, but, I do love him. I really do." You saw no use in hiding it any longer. You really, truely loved James Potter, your childhood tormentor. Surprisingly enough...

"And you know I'm here for you." He embraced you.

Over his shoulder, you see the moon. The full moon...

Remus goes rigid. He starts to transform.

"Lily! Get out of his way!" Sirius yells, trasforming into his giant black dog form.

You watch the whole thing as if in slow motion.

Suddenly, (Sirius being knocked unconcious by Remus) Remus grabs your arm and lifts you way up off of the ground, dislocating your shoulder. You scream and Remus drops you.

"Remus!" you cry. "Rem, it's me! It's Lily, don't you regonize me!"

Remus raises his arm to deliver you a fatal blow. You turn over, face down on the ground, waiting for your death...But it never comes. Instead, you feel someone cover your body with theirs. You see a pair of strong arms on either side of your head. You turn your head to see James covering you, taking Remus's blows. His face is full of pain and fear. Remus makes a final sweep and James is knocked off of you.

Sirius (he woke up now) attacks Remus and manages to get Remus to follow him into the hole and into the Shrieking Shack.

You go to James's side and hold his head against your chest. He's bleeding terribly and covering the both of you with blood. You sob and hug him tightly. You storke his hair.

"J-James?" you whisper

"I-I did my best, Lils. I guess that i-it wasn't too great..." His voice was quiet and raspy.

"You did fine. You were wonderful, James. You saved me."

"But you still got hurt..." His breathing was shallow and his pulse was really weak.

"I was already hurt. James..."

"I love you, Lily. I always have. I always will..."

"No! Don't you go saying your good-byes! James, please, please..."

"l-I'm sorry, Lily. I-I never meant to annoy y-you as bad as I did..." He started coughing and you just held his head and let it rest on your arm. You covered him with your robe becauses he was shivering.

"James, please. Don't leave me." You were crying, rather sobbing, and a few of your tears fell onto James's face.

"Why're you crying, Lilybear?"

You smile weakly at the nickname. "I love you, James," you whisper hoping that he maybe might have possibly heard you.

He heard you. "Lily..." He leaned up and kissed you, kissed you with more passion than he had ever kissed you (in the few times he had) with before and as much as he could muster at that moment.

He coughed and closed his eyes. "James!"

"Don't worry. I'm not gone just yet." He smiled weakly at you, but kept his eyes closed.

"Don't even joke," you said, stroking his hair.

You just held him close to your body, thinking that if you let go of him for only a second, you really will lose him for good... You end up falling asleep, shivering in the chilly night air...

Two in the Morning

"Lily! What are you doing-WHAT THE HLL HAPPENED!" you hear Sirius yell, waking up.

"Re-Remus did this last night," you yawn. Then you remember James. Your eyes fly open and you see James laying beside you, lips blue, ghostly pale and as cold as death itself.

"Help me!"

Together you and Sirius manage to carry James's body to the hospital wing. Madame Juniper takes one look at James and shoos you and Sirius from the wing.

You don't go far however. RIght outside the wing, you slump to the ground and sob. Sirius gathers you in his arms and holds you, comforting you. You cry for hours, literally hours, crying yourself to sleep. Afterall, it was two in the morning!

You wake up around nine and look up into Sirus's grave eyes.

"Is he-"

"No. He's in a coma, though. He lost a lot of blood. He would have lost a lot more, if you hadn't been there to slow it down."

"I have to see him." You stand up and go into the ward and to James's bed, despite the nurse's protests.

You sit beside him on a chair and hold his hand. "James, I'm here, right beside you. I won't leave you. I promise."

"You shouldn't be making him promises like that. You are leaving right now!" Madame Juniper yelled.

"Now, now, Francessca," Dumbledor said calmly from behind her. "Miss Evans is to stay with Mr. Potter until he is once again well. She will be here everyday and will keep a constant vigil over him. Won't you, Lily?"

"Oh, yes, sir! Thank you, Headmaster sir!" You hug him and go back to your seat beside James and stay that way for a while.

"I don't like this."

"Fancessca, dear, I would much appricate it if you would go out and let me have a private word with Miss Evans," Dumbledor said, eyes twinkling.

Madame Juniper stormed out of the room.

"Lily, you are excused from your work for a while. You are only to leave to go to your dorms at night, if you even go then. Oh, and the loos." He smiled at you. "You love James, do you not?"

You just stare at Dumbledor, amazed. "How did you..."

"Ahhhhh, Miss Evans, love is a tricky business and one of the deepest matters of the heart, not to be medled in. There is fine line between love and hate. You and James have flirted with the line, crossed it, and even broke it. None but those truely in love with one another will do so, Like you and James. You and he have a very special and unique kind of love." You blush at his words.

"Professor, I just need to know, is James going to live?" You had tears in your eyes and Dumbledor smiled gently at you.

"Life is another not to be tampered with. I can give you no definate answer, but I can tell you that what James did was out of pure love for you. That should buy him time." Dumbledor left.

You couldn't get over the fact that the Headmaster knew so much about your personal life. James's also.

You lay your head on the bed, next to James's hand. You fell asleep like that.

You wake up a few hours later to find yourself in the exact same position. James hasn't moved at all. You get tears in your eyes. You smile at him and whisper, "You know, James, you really are missed. Please wake up soon." Without thinking, you kiss him lightly on the lips and get up to go to the bathroom.

"How is he?" you hear a voice from behind you.

You turn to see Remus. "He's fine-oh who am I kidding! Remus he's in a coma. I'm afraid for him..."

"I'm so sorry. I didn't want to hurt him...or you! I just-"

You put a finger to his lips. "Shhhhhhh. Rem, it's okay. I know that you can't control your actions when you transform. I know you'd never intentionally hurt me or James. Just go back to the Common Room. I'll be back as soon as James wakes up." You look at Remus's worried face. "Honestly, James will be fine."

"It's not James that I'm worried about. It's you."

"Me?" you say with a laugh. "Why me..."

"Did you see yourself! Lily you look like hll! You have bags under your eyes, Your hair looks horrible, Your robes are rinkled and you just look, well...horrible!"

"I'm fi-i-i-i-ine," you yawn.

"Whatever. I've got work to do. See ya, Lils." Remus walked away and you headed back to the hospital wing.

"Miss Evans, can I speak with you?" Madame Juniper asks, leading you into her office. "Miss Evans, there is little left that I can do for James. He will be sent to St. Mungo's within the week if he doesn't wake."

"I-I'll go with him. He needs-"

"No, Lily. You cannot go with him. It is one thing to stay here 24/7, but not so far away." She looked at the way you were holding your shoulder. "Miss Evans, you disloated your shoulder. Did you not feel the pain?"

"I guess I was to preoccupied with James to notice," you say, lying and moving your arm and feeling an excrutiating pain.

Madame Juniper puts it right and wraps a sling around it. "Thanks," you say, coughing.

"It looks like you caught a cold as well. You should rest-"

"No! I'm fine! I-uh-I just swallowed and it-uh went down the wrong way. Yeah. That's what happend. Honest I'm fine!"

You walk out and over to James's bed and lay beside him. You hold his limp and cold hand and whisper, "Madadame Juniper says that if you don't wake up soon, they're sending you to St. Mungo's. If you go, then I can't be here with you. James, you really need to wake up. I don't want to lose you. Please, James...Ple-e-e-ease wake up..."you yawn, falling asleep with James in your arms...

"Miss Evans! Wake up!"

Your eyes flittered open and met the georgous, hazel eyes of none other than James Potter.

"JAMES!" you screamed. You hugged him and he hugged you back. "Thank GOD you're awake!"

"I couldn't be sent to St. Mungo's and leave you, now could I?"
"You heard me?" you ask him in awe.

"Every word you said to me." He smiled at you.

"Ahem!" Madame Juniper said. "As much as I hate to ruin this moment..."

"Miss Evans you will need to return to your dorm," Dumbledor said, smiling. "And you will also need to get out of Mr. Potter's bed."

You blush and try to get up, but James holds you tightly. "Prof.? Can Lily stay a little longer? I need to tell her and ask her something."

Dumbledor gives a slight nod and leads the disgruntled nurse away.

"So, you could hear me?"

"Yes, and you couldn't know how much I wanted to tell you it was okay, how much I wanted to tell you that you can go back to the dorms and rest properly. You look terribly sleepy."

"Remus says that I look like hll."

"No. You look georgous to me."

"Thanks, James. Hey, about what I said the other night when you told me that you loved me-"

"Think nothing of it. I know you were just caught up in the heat of the moment."

"That's just it, James. I wasn't. I meant it. I really do love you. I don't want to lose you."

He smiles at you. "I've waited to hear that for a long time."

You smile at him. "James-"

He pulls you on top of him and kisses you. Kisses you with a passion that you have never known to exist in anyone. It actually made you let out a slight moan into his mouth. He made out with you for a while. You then started coughing.

"Lils? Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I must have caught a cold when we were outside. I'll be fine." You stand up to leave, but get dizzy and fall to the floor.

James scrambles out of bed and kneels by your side. "Lily!"

"Miss Evans!" Madame Junpiper screaches from her office. "Into bed now! I swear that you kids today will catch your death from your late night wanderings! Potter! You too! Into your bed!"

"Madame! I'm fine! I stopped bleeding and I can walk! I can go! Professor Dumbledor! Tell her to let me go!"

"Francessca, he has point..."

"Oh yes! Just grand! Just waltz in and take over my job! I'm not here! I'm just a lonely wall flower who knows what's best for the students, but that's no matter! Just go on telling me how to do my job!" Dumbledor just rolled his eyes, ignoring her and he turned to you and James.

"Mr. Potter, you are free to go when you please." Madame Juniper snorted in disapproval. Dumbledor continued like he hadn't even heard her. "Miss Evans on the other hand, seems to have become very ill and must remain here for the remainder of the weekend. If she is feeling better on Sunday, you can attend classes on Monday. If not, then you may come see her in the evenings."

James helped you up and over to a bed.

Knowing that James wanted to be alone with you for a few minutes more, Prof. Dumbledor led Madame Juniper back to her office.

"I hope that you don't get sick, James."

"I won't. I just want you to get better! Now that I'm better, you get sick! Man this totally ruins the date I was going to ask you on!"

"I accept."

"Lily-"

"James 'Prongs' Potter, are you or are you not a Marauder?"

He gives you a sly grin. "I knew that there was some mischief in you, Evans."

"For now, our date can be me whooping your a in a game of exploding snap!"

"Oh! You are on sister! You are going to wish that you hadn't challenged the greatest player of all time!"

3 hours later

"Ha! I win again," you grin as James's cards blow up in his face.

"O-M-G! How do you do that!"

"I thought that you were a good player!"

"I-I am! Was! I mean-I am a good player! I just-uh-I just let you win!"

You looked at him, skeptically.

"Okay! You're a better exploding snap player than me!"

"Thank you!"

James kissed your cheek.

"Hey, how did you know that Remus broke up with me?"

"He told me that he was going to. He said that he didn't want to harm you. But he still did..."

"Hey, now! James Potter, last time you got angry with him, you nearly killed him."

"I'm not mad at him! I'm kind of disappointed in him! He knows that evey full moon he turns...well, you know...he turns...crazy, and I just don't know why he asked you to meet him at sundown on the night that he morphs!"

"I bet that it was me. He was distracted and forgot that it was full moon. I'm sure he just forgot."

"I hope." He kissed you.

"He told me that he would never intentionally hurt me. Or you. Just drop it."

"Fine. Hey, I have an idea. Come here," he says pulling you towards him and whispers in your ear.