Spoiler: If they were mine would I be writing this on the net?...I thought not!

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Ch. 4. Lessons To Be Learned.

When the story was finished, there was not a closed mouth in the room, save Harry, Ron and Hermoine who just smiled. Sirius was free, Harry wasn't an orphan, all seemed to be right with the world for the young wizard.

Though receiving many groans, Lily forced her students to get back to work. They were studying how to handle Vampires, this particular week they were learning how to ward them off. Now, since before Lily Evans now Potter found out that she was a full blooded witch, she had found a great fascination for magical creatures such as vampires, werewolves and things of that nature. Having a passion for books, she often was taken to the library by her father and she would check out numerous books on the creatures, and she had a love for witches and wizards and warlocks as well. Finding out she was witch had created a stir and was pretty much amused by the news, and finding out that she could still be a witch without the nose, green skin, and the mole was pretty cool. The world she belonged to was nothing like the world she had read about. Books might be her passion, but she learned that when it came to magic, books wouldn't help her out at all. Something she thought Hermoine needed to learn.

During the times of her endless crusades on different books when she was younger, trying to learn anything about vampires, she found that they were easily repelled by garlic, crosses, stakes and things of that nature. Truth was, Vampires loved garlic and spread the flavor of it in their daily drinks of blood. Some of the most devoted Christians on earth were actual Vampires, and being Catholic required facing a lot of crosses! And the stakes, well, you're a human, do you like stakes…? That's what I thought….

The young professor ignored further question about the happenings of the past few years. She had given them all the information they needed without much detail however. James stood unnoticed in the back of the room,((he tried anyway, we're talking about James Potter!)) looking on as his wife taught his son, and the son of his greatest enemy, Malfoy and the kids of his former friends.

She made them laugh a few times demonstrating of the repellent techniques. She earned a few frightened glances as she informed them of the possibilities of the creature choosing them as a target, herself having been the love interest of one very violent vampire at one point. Sirius had found out and had given her a welcomed heads up.

"You are to write an report on how to distinguish if your best friend is a vampire or not," she smiled as they smiled or giggled. If you were to ask her what sound or noise she loved it would be laughter, so long as it wasn't one of Voldermorts famous cackles. She particularly loved James's laugh when she had done or said something that was stupid and or humorous "I want it to be at least half a parchment, describe symptoms, tests, indications, and signs that point to it! Be clear and detailed but don't make fall asleep k?" she asked.

In disharmony everyone murmured an unclear ok, Ron looked extremely disappointed at the announcement of the assignment.

"Oh come on Mr. Weasley!" exclaimed the delightful teacher looking at him, "you might find out that Harry or Hermoine is a vampire! Or even Mr. Finnigan or Longbotton! Or even me," she smiled at the site of the recharged face.

"We know that Malfoy was born one so there's no surprise there," one of the students said as all the Gryffindors burst out laughing. Lily caught James's eye as he laughed silently placing a hand over his mouth, she tried to maintain a firm face at the sound of laughter in the but her eyes ratted her out. She looked at Harry who looked happier then she had ever seen him during her disguised visits.

"Who said that?" she asked as firmly as she could. She knew for sure it was a Gryffindor. After all, they were the brave ones.

No one answered but they kept laughing.

"Are you willing to let it go Mr. Malfoy?" she asked looking at the blonde haired bombshell.

He scoffed and folded his arms across the chest to indicate his self-confidence, Lily took that as an haughty "yes".

The bell rang in the castle, the double period was over. "If you need any help, you know where to find me!" she yelled as the students prepared to file out of the room. "Gryffiondors, please stay behind!"

The Slytherins, have yet to discover her deeply rooted Gryffindor pride, began to snigger thinking the Gryffindors were about to get a stern lecture after having offended Malfoy, the Mighty and Slimy king of the Snakes. The Gryffindors, though confused, stayed behind as the Slytherins filled out.

She stood in front of the House, "alright, you know me, you can trust me. Who said that?"

"Why do you wanna know professor?" Parvati Patil asked.

"Cuz it was bloody brilliant," James laughed from the back of the room.

"It was me Professor," smiled none other then Claudia Alejandre, a sweet girl who also happened to be the daughter of Lily's best friend, Carolina.

"Wow! I'm impressed!" laughed Lily.

Claudia blushed, "I put a curse on him too, it should be taking effect right about.." there was a scream, "now," she smiled brightly.

"Doesn't this generation of Gryffindors make you proud dad?" Harry asked slapping his knee as he laughed. Apparently, the clever witch had put a Slug Spell on Malfoy, which meant he was throwing up huge disgusting slugs all over the place.

"Hell, you guys would give Sirius and I a run for our money," James said nodding as he walked to the front of the room, sitting on the vacant seat behind Harry, next to Hermoine.

"Good," Lily laughed. "Ok kids, get going now, you're dismissed and keep up the good work, you're my best class!"

With pleased muttering they went out of the room in clumps of friends, of course Harry, Hermoine and Ron stayed behind with Harry's newly reunited parents.

"You're the coolest teacher we've seen you know that?" Ron asked her.

"I have a pretty good idea," Lily smiled.

"Mrs. Potter, are you alright?" Hermoine asked.

Lily looked at her with a surprised expression, "why would you ask that?"

"You look a bit pale, if you don't mind me saying so," Hermoine said kindly.

Lily smiled at her, "I'm fine honey, thanks for the concern." The truth was, though she looked bright and cheerful and hyper, Lily was exhausted and near fainting.

"Yeah, Lily, you've gotten paler, I'm taking you to the infirmary," James said standing up from his seat.

"James, don't start…"

"Lily, you're the one who's favorite life guide is better safe then sorry," he offered her his hand, "c'mon, lets go."

"What happened?" Harry asked hurriedly looking from one parent to the other.

"I'll tell you later Harry," said James still looking at his wife, "c'mon hon, lets go."

She looked into his eyes thoughtfully. First day of Hogwarts had been pretty hard on the young witch, she didn't know anything about the world except what the people from the School had told her. Which wasn't much…as she sat in a compartment of the train, two boys came in and asked if they could join her. James Potter and Sirius Black. Sirius was cute, but she never liked him more then a brother or a best friend, he wasn't her type. But James Potter was different story, she of course hated his ego and the chip on his shoulder, but boy was she in love with him! When I say in love, I mean the deepest, most passionate and pure type of love on earth! It was 200 pure.

Lily's back was broken by his stubborn eyes, "fine," she said and took his hand in his, "you better get to class."

"It's lunch, Great hall, what's wrong?" Harry asked.

James sighed and looked at his son, he placed a hand on his shoulder, "I know you're like me in more then one way, I'm impatient, and I hate being kept in the dark too, and I know you're the exact same way son," James smiled, "but right now you really need to focus on school, I know its already hard enough with all the stuff that's been going on. We'll talk after dinner ok? Me and you, father and son chat."

Harry smiled, he loved his dad more then anything he had loved yet, "ok, see ya," he said, with a last glance at his parents, he and his friends walked away.

"Better then I expected," James said.

Lily looked at him questioningly, "eh?"

"He's one of the best kids I've met."

"He's ours isn't he?" Lily mused smiling weakly.

"True, c'mon, lets get going," he said and helped Lily walk to the infirmary.

After numerous testing, and examination by Madam Pomfrey, who starred from James to Lily in horror and recalling in her mind the times she had treated their injuries after a Quiddich match. Her testing results caused Lily to look at the love of her life and say, "told ya nothing was wrong."

He snared back at her playfully.

"I didn't say there wasn't anything wrong, I just said there wasn't anything I could find Mrs. Potter…." Madam Pomfrey said, "but by the way you've gone pale, I'm sure something's up with you that I need to further check…just to make sure."

"Ok…" Lily said questioningly dreading the moment James would say "I told you so".

But it never came, "so what do you want us to do?"

"For now I'm going to check some of her conditions with St. Mungos, there are some things I can't handle either way," Poppy smiled, "right now I'd recommend you taking it easy Miss Ev….er…Mrs. Potter."

Lily nodded and jumped off the examination table and thanked Pomfrey for her services and walked out with James. "Why do you looks grim? It might just be fatigue or something James!" Lily said seeing the extremely grim look on her lovers face. She stopped him behind a large statue in the deserted corridors, everyone was eating.

He tried avoiding her eyes but found it was impossible to avoid those magnifying eyes, "I dunno, I've been having really uneasy dreams lately…"

Seeing as how her husband was willing to stop his tale there she pressed on, "what are they about?"

He leaned against the wall, his eyes closed, "remember that time, 7th year, we sneaked out to that spot by the lake that night? We had one of infamous picnics?" he smiled slightly at the pleasant memory of their infamous picnics.

"Like I'll ever forget those," Lily smiled, "go on James."

"Well…we're by the lake, you're lying on my chest and Harry's playing in the water, he must be about 7 or 6...A black raven flies over the tree tops and um…I look at my chest and your not there, and instead there's a white carnation and I look towards the lake but its gone…Instead there are a bunch of people there and Sirius has Harry in his arms, they're both crying…and that's when I wake up."

She looked awestruck at him, not only was the dreaming disturbing but quit darker then the lighthearted mood her hubby was always in. And his dreams always reflected that aspect of him. "James, why haven't you told me this before honey?" she asked her find its usual place on his cheek.

He shrugged, "you seemed so happy with having Harry back in our life…I didn't wanna bother you with it…" he trailed off.

"Honey, you know you can talk to me about anything!!! Nothing will ever change that aspect of our life," Lily said pressingly.

He nodded, and smiled sadly saying, "I guess I didn't wanna bother myself with it either, the thought of talking about it was just upsetting. Harry's been a blessing since he found out about us."

She inhaled, "what do you think this means?"

He shrugged, "hell….I don't wanna know what it means…"

She chuckled falsely, she leaned into kiss him when they heard Sirius familiar, "aww…" echo through the hall. The two looked at each other smiling as he approached them. "What are you two up to..?" he asked mischievously.

"Grow up," smiled Lily.

"Never have, never will, and aint planning on it," he smiled, his expression turned serious, "Harry said you were in the infirmary, what's wrong?" he looked at Lily.

She shook her head, "nothing apparently, don't worry 'bout it Sirius."

He looked at James who was deep in thought starring at a spot on the floor, "what's wrong with her?"

"What, you don't trust me now?" Lily asked a little hurt but was smiling still.

"Not when it comes to something that can get him so worked up, what's wrong?" he asked again.

James looked at him, "we don't know Sirius, Madam Pomfrey is gonna check with the Healers in St. Mungos."

"Shit," he said.

"Look, I've had a crappy day without you two making a big deal about something we don't even know about. Lets just please go to dinner?" Lily pleaded looking from her husband to her best friend.

The men nodded, "lets go," James said and they began to walk towards the Great Hall for dinner.

As they were walking down between the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff table, they saw Harry run towards them, "you ok?" he asked looking at Lily.

She smiled at her son, "I'm fine Harry," she said and squeezed her arms sweetly, walking away knowing perfectly well that Harry wanted to speak to his father. She could read her son and husbands minds!

"Dad, can we go for a walk?" Harry asked urgently as Sirius followed Lily to the Staff Table before he got too emotional seeing the two bonding profusely.

"Can I eat?" he grinned.

His son blushed, "yeah."

James laughed, and clapped him on the shoulder, "a piece of bread'll do for me son, lets go, let me just go tell Lily ok?"

"Yeah," Harry grinned and watched James, his robes fluttering behind him exuding nothing but power and charm, walked towards Lily who was laughing at something Sirius had said.

"Hey, Harry and I are going for a walk ok?" James smiled leaning towards his wife.

She smiled happily, "ok, have fun," she said as he kissed her on the cheek and left the Hall with an arm around Harry's shoulder, eating a peace of bread with the other.