A/N- Hey! Welcome to the REVISED version of FATE…for those of you who have just found this fic by chance…then if you like it, the whole story so far is called FATE and is like 49 chapters long…I am basically just doing revision…so all of you that have read what is written of FATE so far…I would appreciate it if you could possibly review and tell me what you liked that I added and what you didn't like and whether you liked this version of the chapter (or in this case chapters 1,2,3) or the original chapters.
REVISED FATE
Chapter 1
Wedding bells rang as the newly wedded Potters left the church. They were finally married. The most obvious couple had finally gotten together. After years of hating each other Lily and James finally realized one thing: They had loved each other since day one. Why it had taken them so long to figure it out was still a mystery to them along with all of their friends.
They walked out of the church with smiles on their faces followed by their best man and maid of honor. The best man was James' best friend, Sirius Black. Amy Stephens was the obvious choice for maid of honor as she had been equivalent to Lily's sister at Hogwarts. Lily's true older sister, Petunia Dursley was also present at the wedding with her husband, Vernon, but they were only there because Mrs. Evans (Lily's mom) had a thing about seeing her daughters together and thought it would be absolutely dreadful if they missed something as important as the other's wedding.
Nothing, not even Lily's sister, was going to ruin their happy day. James lead Lily down the carpeted stone steps and out to the muggle limo. There the limo driver opened the door for the couple as they waved their hands at the crowd. "Kiss her!" rang out a familiar voice belonging to another good friend of James, Remus Lupin. James looked at Lily. He never passed up a chance to kiss her, so without delay; he wrapped his arms round her waist and pulled her into him.
The couple got into the limo where they could finally be at peace. "This is the best day of my life, Mrs. Potter," said James accenting her new name as of today while grabbing Lily's hands and looking into her bright green eyes.
Lily blushed; James was charming although he still hadn't grown out of his big headedness. She found that she didn't mind any more. "Oh, Mr. Potter, always the charmer," she laughed, accenting his name as well. She figured that someday she was going to look back on this day and call herself crazy for marring him, but there was no turning back now.
James smiled, "I have been waiting to say that all day."
"More like for the past 5 years actually," she teased playfully caressing his hand with hers.
"Lets see, five years ago…that would be back in second year, Lils. Sounds about right," he said leaning forward to kiss her. "See how easy it is to make your dreams come true?" he teased.
Lily rested her head on James' shoulder and asked the question that had been haunting her since the night they began dating, "Why did it take so long for this dream to come true?"
James sighed. "I have always been dreaming this dream…but you however, had other dreams before this one," he said softly.
Lily sat back reflecting on the night when they had finally come to their senses. It had been just about seven months ago on Christmas day at the annual Christmas Ball at Hogwarts. Lily hadn't actually meant to fall for James, just give him a chance. James swept her off of her feet and then she realized that it was fate, just like James had told her all along.
"So where exactly are we going on our honey moon, Lils?" James asked kissing her again, thoroughly amazed that he could finally ask her that question.
Lily kissed him back, I thought we were going to my parent's cabin off the coast of the Bahamas," she said.
"Oh yes, that's right," he said ruffling his jet black hair.
Lily pulled away from him once again. "You did ask my parents about it, right?" she asked.
James turned sheepishly away from her piercing stare. "They're your parents," he mumbled.
Lily threw up her hands. "So? They are just as much your parents as they are mine now," she said in distress.
James grinned, "So they are, aren't they?"
"Yes, speaking of which, they would prefer it if you called them mom and dad," Lily said.
James squirmed. "Yeah, I know…it'll just take sometime to get used to. It'll be weird having four parents," he teased.
"So, I call your parents mom and dad all of the time," she said playing with his hands.
"As long as I don't have to call your sister my sister," James cringed.
"Well I don't call her my sister either. I am ashamed to be related to her," Lily said, crossing her arms in front of her.
James draped his arms around her waist and kissed her again. James had a special gift for making every care in the world disappear from Lily's mind when he kissed her. There had always been a special connection between them that Lily could never break, even when he kissed her when she hated him. Kissing her was what finally brought them together. At that Christmas dance, James had pulled an un expecting Lily into a rather passionate kiss that, surprisingly, she didn't object to.
They had been together ever since, and James had been proposing to her since the day after they started going out until Lily's 18th birthday last May. It was then that she realized that James was irresistible and that he would eventually find some way of marrying her, so she just said 'yes' and now, here they were, Mr. and Mrs. Potter.
Lily moaned as the limo began to slow down. It was always when the kiss began to lead somewhere that they got interrupted. James however didn't let Lily pull away, he kept things exactly the way they were. Lily heard footsteps outside of the limo door and did the only thing she could. She bit his lip rather hard causing him to pull away instantly, just in time. "You are a brutal one, Lils," he said, bringing his hand to his mouth
"Well I did try to tell you the easier way, but you didn't listen," she smiled, knowing that there wasn't anything she could possible do to offend James.
The limo door opened and James muttered, "We had a good ten seconds before we had to end it." Lily ignored his comment and got out of the limo, and stood waiting for James. He held out his arm to her as the limo drove away. Lily took it and he lead her into the dining hall.
It must have been the prettiest sight that Lily had ever seen. There were lilies all over the hall. Everyone stood up in their seats as they entered the hall. James saw Sirius standing by Remus and Peter at the long table that the wedding party sat at. The announcer came over the speaker saying, "And now for the first time, may I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Potter!"
James couldn't get his feet to move, it all seemed so surreal. He had Lily in his arms, something that he would have only be able to dream about a year ago. Lily looked at him and smiled her sweet smile to soften his nerves and led him onto the dance floor. The music started up in a slow tune. James mechanically put his arms around Lily's waist as she put her hands around his neck with her head on his shoulder.
James felt tense, everyone was looking at him. Normally he wouldn't have cared being the center of attention…heck he strived to be the center of attention…but now he'd always share that spot light…he could live with that… The reality of the day's events had finally sunk in; Lily was his forever and would be his company in the otherwise lonely spotlight of life.
Lily could sense his tenseness and tenderly kissed his neck. He relaxed a bit. Lily pulled herself closer to him so that she was now pressing up against him. James felt as though they were one as he looked at the on lookers, many who had tears in their eyes. James' friend Peter had tears streaming down his face as he watched them dancing; Peter was always a weird one though. Sirius shot him a grin that James couldn't help but to return.
Lily felt as though they were dancing on the clouds far above the earth. She looked around to see her mother sitting by James' parents, crying hysterically. She smiled at her mother which only caused her to cry, "My little Lily is all grown up!" which echoed all through the hall casing Lily to blush furiously as her eyes landed on her maid of honor, Amy.
Amy had always been there for her. She was in the same year as Lily and came from a pure blood family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Lily. They had been friends from the first train ride to Hogwarts and it was 'all her fault' as Lily used to say, that she met James and his other quirky friends.
The dance ended, after what seemed like an eternity, and Lily and James took their seats at the head table. Lily sat down between Amy and James. James sat down and began talking to Sirius while Lily laughed with Amy.
Sirius was busy teasing James. "Did Jamsie get nervous before walking into the hall?" Sirius sneered.
"Yes actually I did. I wanted to say thank you, Siri-poo," he said sarcastically.
"Thanks for what, Prongs?" he asked seriously.
"For being my best man."
"You promised the position to me in our 3rd year."
James laughed, "So I did."
The music started to play again and James grabbed Lily's arm and asked her to dance. Lily agreed and walked gracefully onto the dance floor, her wedding dress glittering in the dim light.
Remus took James' empty seat nest to Sirius. Remus was Lily's best friend from Hogwarts, he was like her older brother. "Hey Padfoot," Remus whispered nudging Sirius, "do you think that Prongs would let me cut in?" he finished looking over at Lily and James laughing together on the dance floor.
Sirius looked over at them. "Give him two more songs, then let Lily's dad have one, then let James' dad have one, then.."
"Oh I get the idea," said Remus cutting Sirius off.
"Then," Sirius ploughed on, "Prongs will want to dance with her again."
"Oh skrew it, I'm cutting in!" said Remus getting up from the table heading over to Lily and James. He tapped James on the shoulder and held out his hand to Lily, "May I?" he asked sweetly.
Lily smiled and broke away from James. The music livened a bit and Remus pulled her into a quick two step. "So how does it feel to be called Mrs. Potter?" he laughed as Lily rolled into him.
"Oh I'll never get used to it Remus!" she laughed.
Lily looked over at James who was dancing with her mother and obviously impressing her with his incredible dance skills. "It's like he has two sides to his personality," Lily sighed, the smile fading from her face, slightly.
"Yes, the charming James Potter and the big headed, pompous, prankster, James Potter, I know what you mean," Remus said causing Lily to laugh.
Remus felt a light tap on his shoulder. It was Mr. Evans. "It was nice talking to you, Remus," Lily smiled as they stopped dancing.
Lily now joined hands with her father as the music slowed down again. "My little Lily, all grown up," Mr. Evans said, his eyes glistening.
"Oh dad! It was bound to happen someday," Lily said.
"Well it was to the right man, I have to give you credit for that. He is quite the charmer," he teased.
Lily laughed, "Yes, James has a knack for turning on his charms at just the right time. Oh, I don't know if James has talked to you yet about…"
"About the vacation home, yes he mentioned it to me just as he was about to, oh how did he say it, 'take his mother for a spin around the dance floor. He makes me smile too much for my own good I can tell you that," Mr. Evans chuckled.
"Well what about the cabin? May we use it for a week or so?" Lily asked anxiously, hoping she wouldn't have to pick somewhere else to go on her honeymoon.
"Yes, but I fear that it won't be in its best condition, it will need some cleaning up. Your mother and I haven't been to the Bahamas lately," he said smiling.
Lily smiled at her father as the song came to and end. "Thank you Lily," he said before walking away to sit with his wife.
Lily went over to the punch bowl where some of her school friends were congregating. "Nice turn out," she said.
"Oh yes, Lily has always been able to throw a good party," said Amy, not realizing who had said it.
"Thank you, Amy," said Lily.
"Oh Lily! Its you! We figured you had forgotten about us, you have been dancing for the past hour you know," said her other friend Teresa.
"I could never forget about you four," she said glancing around the group. Beside Amy stood Gloria and beside Teresa stood Rain. Lily was so glad she had finally spotted the rest of her friends.
"I am so sorry that I couldn't be there for the ceremony," said Rain.
"Its okay, it was like any other wedding. As long as you are at the reception you didn't miss much," Lily said, pulling her friend into a hug.
"But you did miss some kiss up on that alter though," said Gloria whistling.
Lily playfully hit her arm. "Oh, Gloria, stop!"
"Oh yes, James did not seem to want to let go, Sirius had to pull James back," said Teresa giggling.
"It was his first wedding he had ever gone to," said Lily defensively.
"Yes, I know, but it was pretty funny," laughed Gloria again.
The four girls were laughing up a storm within five minutes and Lily felt like she was back at school again. "Lily, we are wanted to give a speech," said James slipping his arms around Lily's waist, kissing her on the head.
"Oh, a speech, this is going to be good," laughed Amy nudging Rain.
Lily and James smiled and walked back over to the head table and Lily noticed that the food had already been brought out. As they reached their seats Sirius whispered to James "Make it short, I didn't eat lunch today."
Lily laughed. Sirius and his stomach always went hand in hand. James' father stood up at the end of the head table and got everyone's attention and slowly the talking dyed away. "It is time for the newly weds speech," he said looking at James and Lily.
Lily could feel her face turning red as all of the eyes turned to her and James. Thank fully James spoke first. "Everyone, I have been waiting for this day to come for the past five years, as my wife reminded me in the limo ride over. Now it is finally here and Lily and I can start on our new adventure together," he said.
Lily waited for him to continue. "Lils, you're keeping everyone waiting," he whispered.
"That's it, you're done?" she asked.
James nodded. Lily tried to think of what to say. "Thank you all for coming today. As most of you know back in school James and I used to be enemies. I would like to say a special thank you to Sirius Black for making us realize that we have loved each other since the day that we met," she said gaining confidence.
Sirius stood up to take a bow as everyone clapped. Lily saw a camera flash. "Now let us eat!" Sirius yelled throwing his hands in the air.
Everyone clapped again and soon the room was filled with the nose of clinking silver ware. James looked at Lily. "Some speech Lils," he grinned.
Lily laughed, "You too." James pulled her into a kiss and yet again Lily saw a camera flash. They pulled away laughing and started to eat. Dinner went by fast. Lily felt over whelmed. The photographer was always flashing pictures and Lily was trying to keep up two conversations at once, one with Amy and one with James.
Soon after dinner the announcement was made for group pictures. Everyone in the hall filed out of the dinner hall and into a side room that was decorated with an assortment of flowers. It was beautiful. Lily mentally reminded herself to thank her mother for setting it up. "Ok first let's have the wedding party over here," the photographer said in a loud voice.
James tapped the photographer on the shoulder. "Could you also take pictures with this camera?" he asked handing him a wizard camera that when the film was developed the pictures would move. The photographer raised his eyebrows but didn't disagree.
James smiled, grabbed Lily's hand and lead her over the lily covered arch way. The photographer arranged the wedding party and took picture after picture. James had a picture taken with his friends from school and so did Lily.
By the time that all of the pictures were taken Lily was seeing spots and James had to carry her back to her seat in the hall. "Are you feeling alright, Lils?" he asked looking concerned.
"Too many bright lights," she laughed kissing him on the cheek. James kissed her on the lips. All of Lily's cares went away as they always did. She heard someone distantly calling her name, but she didn't really care. Lily easily found herself getting caught up in the moment as she usually did with James. But, the voice became more urgent and got louder. "Lily! Lils! Earth to Lily and James!"
James pulled away at the mention of his name to see Remus. "What is it Moony?" James asked looking aggravated.
"Well if you two wouldn't lapse into your own world while snogging, you would know," he said cheekily.
"Well spill it Moony!" James said.
"Its time for Lily to toss her flowers," he said, and then seeing the confused expression on James' face added, "Muggle tradition."
James and Lily left their seats and Lily grabbed her bouquet. She looked down at it. Now that she really looked at it, she didn't want to give it up. James slid an arm around her waist. "Come here a sec," he said pulling her over to the side.
He pulled his wand out of his pocket and mumbled a spell. "What is going to happen to it?" she asked. "It isn't going to explode is it?"
"Of course it is, you know me," James smiled
"James it better not be dangerous!" Lily said.
He gave the bouquet back to Lily and led her over to the crowd. The announcer counted off and on three Lily threw it over her head. She quickly whirled around just in time to see it explode into a fleet of butterflies. The crowd gasped in shock and then laughed in excitement. Lily glanced over at James who shrugged. The butterflies were gold in color and they glittered like gold. There were just enough people in the hall for the butterflies to land on, one per person. As soon as the landed they became still.
Lily looked over at James and smiled. James grabbed her in his arms and kissed her. "That was brilliant," she said. James smiled and pulled her back into the kiss. It was perfect. This was the most perfect day of Lily's life.
A/N- Well I decided that since I can't get anywhere further in FATE as of now, why not post part of the revision that I am doing? Lol…well mostly not a whole lot of it is changing really…just a few little things that I needed to change. I am combining chapters, this is chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the old one. Mostly with the revised version I am going to combine chapters, condense some things, expand on other things, get rid of some plot points that are basically dead air, bring in new characters, edit characters out, put in new plot points, and all of that good stuff…I dunno…I was reading FATE over again and I'm like…you know what? I can do better…so I am going to do better for you all… I feel that I owe it to you all….so I have most of the chapters so far combined in a reasonable way…I just need to edit them all…
Changes so far:
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 have been combined
Some things have been taken out, such as mushy stuff…yeah
Molly Weasley is not maid of honor any more, Amy Stephens is now.
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