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Author's Note: Thank you once again for the reviews. I hope this chapiter explains why Lily fainted. Sorry I didn't get this posted earlier I was at the National Lifeguarding Championship over Victoria Day weekend and didn't get a chance to write basically the entire time.

Chapiter 3: Lily's Friend

Lily felt like she had sunk inot deep water. Far aboce she could see the light at the surface. she began to move towards the light wanting desperatly to reach it. She swam upwards, further and further. As the light got closer lily could hear voices, though they sounded far way and muffeled. " I think she will come to on her own shortly. It's very unhealthy to enervate some one who ahd fainter due to shock."

"Lily can you hear me. Lily try to wake up, please wake up." Lily heard someone say. This voice was less muffled but still far way sounding. She knew that voice, it was James' voice.

"James," she said. Then her head broke through into the light and she regained full consciousness. "Where am I?" she asked utterly confused. Jams was sitting on her des holding her hand.

"You fainted," said James. "I didn't know what to do so Pince told me to bring you to the Hospital wing." James looked down at her, he decided not to mention the question he had asked her before she had fainted. If she remembers, she remembers, but if she doesn't, she doesn't he thought. "Madame Loeliet said that your fainting was just a result of shock on top of exhaustion and stress."

"I want you to be my frind James, and I want to be yours." Lily said. She had remembered the whole conversation she and James had had before the darkness had swallowed her. She hadn't at first but James' wards ahd brought it all back to her. At that moment Madame Loeliet walked into the room.

"Al, Miss Evans I see you awake." Madame Loeliet walked over to lily's bed. "Here I want you to eat all of this and go back to your house. I want you to go to bed early today and for the next couple of days, the amount of sleep you have been getting is apparently very low and it doesn't take magic to figure that out. You have been burning the candle at both ends it would seem my dear." said Madame Loeliet sternly. "I want you to make a concerted effort to get more sleep young lady."

"Yes Madame Loeliet I will, said Lily taking the chocolate that the nurse offered her and began to nibble on it.

"Good. Mr Potter, could you escort miss Evans back to Gryffindor Tower. If she passes out again I want you to bring her straight to me."
"Yes Ma'm," replied James giving Madame Loeliet a military salute and getting one of her rare smiles in return. He and Madame Loeliet knew each other fairly well thanks to quidditch injuries that Gryffindor's star seeker received.

James and lily walked back to Gryffindor Tower in silence. when they went in Sirius in his normal peppy mood ran over and grad James by the arm. "Come on James, you've gotta see what we came up with while you were in the library!" Sirius pulled James off towards the table where Peter and Remus were seated. James shot Lily an apologetic look.

It was at that moment that Lily realized that all her school stuff was still in the library. So leaving the common room she made her way back to the Hogwarts library.

"Ah, Miss Evans I hope you are feeling better,"said Miss Pince who had come to know Lily very well over the last six years.

"Yes I am thank you. Do you know where all the stuff I left here is?" asked Lily seeing the table where she had been working was now occupied by a gaggle of first years.

"I have all your things just over here. I gathered them up after Mr Potter kindly took you to the Hospital Wing. I didn't want any one to mess with them on you." Miss Pince handed Lily her backpack.

"Thank you ever so much. I'll probably see you tomorrow. If you get anything new please tell me!" Lily said as she left for Gryffindor Tower.

James' P.O.V-----------

"So James, how was the library?" asked Remus. Does Pince have any new DADA books?"Remus was the Marauder with the most interest in DADA.

Sirius liked astronomy best, his friends always said that he only had a favorite subject because he was named after a star, his head is always in the clouds and he was more awake at 11pm then any other time of day. James' best subject was transfiguration but he was top four in every class so there wasn't much difference between his best class and his weakest. Peter's best class was Muggle Studies because he lived with Muggle's during the summer and already knew all the answers, Peter wasn't as bright as the others.

"I was going t do some work but Lily was there so I ended up talking to her." Said James in responce to his friends quiestions while looking over a piece of parchment which outlinged the boys plan for their next prank.

"James, who is Lily?" Sirius asked.

"Lily Evans, you know the top girl in our year. I walked into the common room with her just now. She's..." James looked around but didn't see Lily because she had gone to the library. "Darn, she's gone off somewhere. Nest time she's up here I'll introduce her to you guys. She's really an amazing person."

"James, no none knows who Lily Evans is. I thought we had figured out she wasn't a Gryffindor back in third year," said Remus.

"Plus, there was no girl with you when you came in." Stated Sirius.

"Ya, I mean Sirius would have notice if there had been a female in the room. You know, come on, its Sirius." Said Peter laughing at his own joke.

"No one notices her. She's kind of invisible to people. I only noticed her after I found her working late in the common room one night. Any ways its shocking no one notices her. She's really quite pretty." James said shocked that Lily was so invisible that even girl crazy Sirius didn't notice her.

"James, are you okay? I mean a sixth year Gryffindor who no one in this house ever notices is even there is kind of weird don't you think." Remus looked at his friend with concern.

"Well you don't have to believe me but I'll continue to be Lily's friend." It was at this moment that Lily walked through the portrait hole. James was not looking at the hole at the time but Remus was. Still Remus didn't even notice anyone come into the room. James on the other hand heard the portrait open and close and turned to see who had come in. Seeing Lily he smiled.

"Lily, I wanted to introduce you to these three blocks that call themselves my friends. Sirius, Peter and Remus this is Lily Evans, Lily this is Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew." Lily looked at the Marauders nodding to each one in turn.

"Its nice to meet you, an honor really, to meet the imfamouse Marauders." Lily smiled at them. "James here are your things you left them in the library. Ms. Pince picked them up thinking they were mine." Lily handed James some books. "I've got to go. Bed early you know Loeliet's orders." She moved towards the staircase up to the girl's dorms.

"So do you believe me now?" asked James.

"James you said 'quite pretty'. That looked more like beautiful to me!" exclaimed Sirius his eyes opened wide. Sirius always had his eyes open for pretty girls and the fact that he had utterly missed one like Lily was a blow to his pride.

"Sirius, you hurt Lily and I will kill you." James threatened giving Sirius a dead serious look.

"Aww, how cute. Our little Jamesie Boy has finally fallen for a girl," teased Sirius.

"NO, I'm just protection a friend." James retorted.
"Sirius leave James alone." said Remus looking up from the reading he was now doing for their prank.

"Well what you guys ave her looks great. I'm heading to bed, I'm wiped." said James heading up the stairs to the boy's dorms.