Author's Note:

I was wondering whether to portray this confrontation as a shouting match, but I decided on a heart-to-heart talk instead. The first part of the chapter is, admittedly, very boring. But the next chapter 'Meet the Parents' as I intend to title it, should be fun.

Has anyone seen Meet the Fockers? Is it any good? Just curious…

Anywho…

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Recap:

"James, why weren't you honest with me? Tell me what Cassandra said. It's been killing me." She admitted.

James was surprised. He hadn't even imagined that… was it possible? Was she jealous of Cassie?

He boldly voiced his question.

"Well….yeah. A lil bit."

Sirius smirked. "A lil bit! Understatement of the mil-len-nium! Man, you were the fiery, fearsome, red hot, green eyed monster of jealousy and with your red hair and green eyes, I mean that literally, Miss J!"

Lily glared at him pointedly.

"I'll go get something to eat, shall I?" Sirius ran off to the other side of the park.

This time James didn't object.


Modus Operandi: Confrontation

James and Lily were sitting in a muggle park. It was past sunset now and the streetlights were turning on.

James watched Sirius walk until he was hidden by a large willow tree. He wanted this conversation to be private and Sirius had the worst habit of eavesdropping.

Lily was looking into the woods blankly, unconscious of James.

He took a deep breath and ruffled his hair, "I think…" He waited for her to turn but she continued staring into space.

"I think… we should have done this a long time ago."

Lily nodded and said in a whisper, "Where did this go wrong? I never imagined that I would be one to track down the whereabouts of my boyfriend at odd hours of the night…"

"Cassie." He answered, in reply to her question. "That's when everything went berserk."

"Yeah…" She turned to him and said quickly, "You know, that time, I thought I knew everything there was to know about you. We had become a couple… A real couple."

"But…"

"But then suddenly, Cassie comes up… a girl you never told me about… even though she was your… your first love."

James gazed at her for a few seconds, "Lily, who told you that she was my first love?"

Lily thought back to Kat using her controller powers and extracting the information from… "Sirius."

"Sirius." He repeated incredulously. "Lily… of all the people in the universe, you took to heart the words of Sirius Hercules Black?"

Lily snorted suddenly, "Hercules? His middle name is Hercules? That macho cartoon guy?"

James looked extremely uncomfortable, "Yeah… I mean no! Wait, what's a cartoon? Please don't tell anyone!"

Lily shook a finger at him smiling, "Getting sidetracked, aren't we, Jamesie? Anyway, we knew Sirius was honest, cause… Well..." She explained the use of Controller powers.

"Ahhh… I see. That's strange. I thought Sirius knew me better."

"Huh?"

"Well, for future notice, just because Sirius thought it doesn't mean it's true. Sirius believes that every single woman in the entire world has a secret, often well concealed desire to get him into bed… and that's definitely not true." He smirked. "Anyway, Cassandra was definitely not my first love. It defies the very laws of logic."

"Huh?" Lily made a mental note to prepare some intelligent replies. Anything was better than saying 'huh?'.

James leaned close to her and whispered, "How could Cassie be my first love… if I had all ready fallen in love with you?"

Lily stared at him dazedly. A faint "Huh?" escaped from her mouth.

James began grinning, "But I have to say, I should've had more sense to fall in love for a girl with subnormal intelligence who says only 'huh?' a million times a day."

But Lily was too busy grappling with his first remark to notice his teasing, "But… but… how? We didn't even know each other back then."

"Ahem. You may not have known me— a very difficult task to accomplish, by the way, I was, sorry, am the most popular guy in school, but taking into regard your subnormal intelligence—but I definitely knew you."

Lily opened her mouth, but James cried, "Don't you dare say 'huh'!"

"I was not going to." Lily exclaimed weakly, but both of them knew the truth.

James looked up into the sky. It was twilight now, and millions of stars were slowly appearing.

"I remember…" he said slowly, resting his arms behind him so that he was comfortable, "I remember the first time I met you…."

A nervous first year with red hair, green eyes and a trembling voice was walking through the corridor, trying to find a seat on the train, the Hogwarts Express.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of someone running behind her, but before she could turn, a loud voice yelled, "Coming through!" into her ears and shoved her to the ground. He hesitated for a second, glancing at the redhead. He heard some noise and ran ahead, not pausing to apologize. Before the girl could clean herself up, another boy with a mischievous glint in his eyes rushed past her, brandishing a wand. "Oof!" The girl was flattened to the door of a compartment and the door opened. The girl collapsed and in just a few seconds was surrounded by kind, concerned faces of girls just about her age. "Hi!" said one of the, extending her hand to help the fallen girl. "My name is Larika. What's yours?"

"Lily. Lily Evans." She replied, brushing her dusty clothes.

Lily looked at James for a full minute, said, "That was you?" and then suddenly, she gave him a shove and pushed him to the grass.

James sat there, looking stunned and utterly bewildered. "Why?" He asked weakly, not moving.

"Punishment for running around the corridors." She gave him a hand and helped him hoist back onto the bench.

James glared at her, " a) Punishment is to be given by taking away points, not by physical violence. And 2) why d'you help me back up again?"

Lily answered, " a) you're in Gryffindor. I'm in Gryffindor. Therefore, why the heck would I willingly take away points? Answer 2) through all that pushing, you did (indirectly) introduce me to my best friend… so… consider your debt paid."

"a) we're not in school, so technically you can't take away points. And 2) the debt of introduction to best friend is not repaid as easily as that."

"Excuze moi, but a) you brought up the topic of points, not me. 2) why?"

"a) All right, you made it loud and clear. 2) My mom still feels sorry that she introduced me to Sirius."

" 2) I see and c) why are we going in a random order of numbers and letters?"

James shook his head, grinning. He struggled to get back to the topic at hand. "So... as I was saying, how could Cassie be my first love, if you had all ready taken that place?

Lily began to giggle. "Can we do this some other time?"

James glanced at her clearly surprised, "Are you sure? I mean, I thought you would want to--?"

"No, no. That can wait. I'm sorry…" She began laughing again. "I'm in too good a mood for this."

James became exasperated. "Lily…"

"James, listen to me. As of now, you are on temporary suspension from all guilt or excuses or anything to do with Cassie or my behavior--"

James interrupted her, putting a finger to her lips.

"No," He began firmly. "I want to get this over with right now."

Lily kept quiet, gazing up at him solemnly. "Alrighty…"

He stood up, "Well then. You want to know why I liked Cassie? Because she was so much like you. She was brave, but sometimes shy, kind, graceful, considerate of everyone's feelings, fiery… very confused and ext-remely confusing… So much like you…" He turned away.

"Why did you go out with her?"

He seemed to hesitate. "To tell you the truth, it was kinda… because of you."

"Me?"

"Yea," He smiled sheepishly, acknowledging the pleasure on her face. "First year, I observed you from a distance, second year I thought I liked you, third year I decided you were the one for me and thought of a plan to er… try and impress you…

Lily smiled, "That failed dismally, by the way. After third year, I really couldn't stand the sight of you. I remember avoiding you so you wouldn't ask me out."

"Those were the days." He gave her a small grin. "That's also when I decided, very childishly, that I would go out with you or no one at all."

She looked at him incredulously. "There was actually a time when James Potter was gasp girl-less?"

"Well, that lasted for sometime at least. Then my mum got worried about my peculiar state of singularity. She tried to set me up with the daughter of a friend of hers – Cassie. The more I resisted, the more ingenious her schemes became. After a long and tiring struggle, I gave in and asked Cassie out. I suppose I did love her. But… it was love emerging from habit. I mean, we were together for nearly two years. Then, she broke up with me."

"Why?"

"She said the strangest things… about fate, destiny… something about not being meant for each other. And then, last month… she sprouts up suddenly. Telling me all kinds of bullshit."

"Like…"

"Nothing important. Just…"

"What?"

"Well, she basically said that you weren't good enough for me, blah-blah-blah…" He stammered on, avoiding eye contact with her.

"And?"

"Well, the weirdest part was…. When I told her to erm… shove off, she seemed somewhat relieved."

"Well then."

"What?"

"So, you didn't do anything wrong after all."

"I didn't?"

"No."

"Oh."

"So, can I kiss you now?"

"Do you have to ask?"

Lily leaned forward.

"Ahem!" Sirius put in, "This area has been sanctioned as strictly PG-13. Please restrain yourselves."

"Sirius…" groaned James. "How the heck do you turn up at the most inopportune moments?"

"I have a knack." He said cheekily and slid into the small gap between the two of them.

"Yeah, right. More like you were spying again."

"Well, how could I resist? It was so soap-opera-ish. 'Oh, Jamesie!' 'Oh, Lillian!' 'Oh Lord!'"

"I think" began Lily, "It's time we got home."

"Right you are, Lily-of-the-Valley!" Sirius said cheerily, a big grin plastered across his face.

He stood up, slipping a hand into one of each.

And they set off.

Sirius sang loudly, "We're off to see the wizard, the WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ!"

"Christ," muttered James, "What did you eat?"


Author's Note: Long time, no update, I know. What can I say? Boy trouble. GRRRR! As much as I love James, I (sometimes) can't stand guys! Sorry to make you bear my rantings and ravings… But this one guy! GRRR!

Hmmm… anyway, hoped you liked this chapter. It was ready a long, long time ago, but my computer lost it. Made a few important changes to make it funnier. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most, how fluffy was this chapter? How fluffy do you want the chapters to be? Hmmm… Review please.