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A/N- Hello people! I am so happy right now; I shouldn't be because I have a final exam in math in two days and I havn't studied but I can't help it. I just opened my E-mail and what do I see? 12 reviews for chapter 6! I think that's the most I have ever gotten (well it's my first fic so I'm aiming kinda low), so this chapter is dedicated to all of you lovely people who take the time to review!

On with the show!

Chapter 7- So, we meet again

"Get up sleepy head." Screamed Arabella Figg while jumping on a solid looking pile of sheets.

"Get off," came a muffled reply from underneath the covers.

"Come on! Wake up! You told me to wake you up at seven remember? You have a job interview at eight!" Said Bella and before she knew it she was on the floor by the bed, and from under the sheets emerged a sleepy Lily Evans.

"God Bella! I totally forgot," said Lily and got in to the bathroom.

She was now 22 years old. She was still as beautuful as ever; if not more. The years only made her more attractive, more mature and graceful.

Ten minutes later she came out all dressed up and ready to go. She was wearing an elegant dress that reached just above her knee. Her neckline was visble but left enough to the imagination; it was sea green with patterns of roses at the sides and the dress hung perfectly on her, showing off all her curves.

With that dress Lily could win over any man in his right mind, but she wasn't interested in a man right now. She was more worried about her job interview. She had lost her job at the Ministry of Magic just a month ago and was looking ever since, but nothing seemed to suit her. She didn't want to be a secretary or something like that, she wanted to be an important businesswoman and in order to be that she needed to find a job as a manager or something of that sort.

"Lily, if you'll get ready this fast every time we go out, we'll never be late again!" Teased Bella, who was now sitting comfortably on the bed.

"Very funny, you know I work fast when I'm nervous."

"Well you shouldn't be; you're the smartest most capable witch I've ever met and if you can't get this job - no one can. Besides, I still don't get why you're applying for this job, I thought you wanted to be a manager not a secretary."

"It's not a secretary, I told you that already, it's a personal assistant" said Lily exasperated

"secretary, assistant, what's the difference?"

"I'll tell you what's the difference…"but she was cut off by Arabella

"Sit down and let me do your hair, explain to me in the meanwhile" she said and pushed Lily towards the chair in front of the mirror

"Anyway, I'm not answering phone calls or making coffee. I'll be helping my boss with business proposals, clients and making contacts and drawing plans. It's the publicity and advertisement department, that means that I'd also be in charge of public relations.

"The woman I talked to on the phone said there is definitely a promotion possibility in the future and that's exactly what I need. I don't want to waste my time helping people get rich with my ideas - I'm going for this because I have a chance to make something of myself." She finished just as Bella began speaking.

"Done!" She smiled triumphantly admiring her work.

Lily looked at the mirror and gasped. Her hair was in an elegant up-do with some strands of red hair out of the bun to frame her face; it was simple yet beautiful.

"You always were good with hair." Said Lily

"Yes well, I'm good at everything I do," she said and gave her a smirk and Lily just laughed.

"Lily you know it'll be hard, you're starting at the very bottom," said Bella suddenly turning serious.

"It's not the bottom, but it sure is close - don't worry. I know what I'm getting myself in to. I'll work hard. Besides, we need the money and it's better then being a waitress," said Lily and gave a nervous laugh.

"You're right! Now, think positive and get your arse in to the car, I'm driving you, we can't have you being late," said Bella and with that they were off.

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At exactly 7:50 they arrived to their destination. Lily got out of the car and waved goodbye as Bella drove off and only then did she take the time to look around, it was a typical London street; busy and full of people. There were a lot of tall buildings around and in front of her was one of the tallest; the entrance looked like that of a hotel and up in the sky hung a sign that read 'Potter Incorporated Industries LTD'; the name of the company. She made her way towards the door and was greeted by the doorman who held the door open for her.

"Thank you," she said and walked in. The inside of the building was even more luxuriance then the outside, there were people walking around, talking busily, some carrying folders or briefcase. She continued walking until she reached, what she presumed was, the front desk

"Hello, how may I help you?" Asked the secretary politely, granting Lily a small smile and Lily smiled back.

"Hello, I'm here for a job interview," said Lily.

"Alright, for which department?" Asked the secretary.

"The publicity and advertisement department."

"Okay, take the lift on your right and go to the third floor - that's the department's floor, then go to the head of department's secretary, she'll help you"

"Thank you," and with that she went in search of the lift, she soon found it and got in, she pressed the '3' button as the woman told her and waited (in the background played a melody Lily didn't recognize). She was fidgeting slightly and biting her bottom lip. A habit she had when she was nervous.

'Stop fidgeting Evans and pull yourself together' she reprehended herself 'you can do this, remember, think positive'.

Just then, the lift stopped and the doors slowly opened to reveal a corridor much like the one at the entrance floor. She set off to look for the front desk and quickly found it. There were a lot of secretary's desks, office doors (most of them were closed) and people along the floor but one table was bigger then the others, as was the office door next to it. The door was made of mahogany wood unlike most of the other doors who were partly made of glass or fake wood, she cautiously approached the woman sitting by the desk who was writing on piece of paper.

"Excuse me." Asked Lily timidly, the woman looked up and gave a cheery grin that immediately made Lily feel more comfortable.

"Yes, how may I help you?" Asked the woman whom had brown smooth hair and honey colored eyes.

"My name is Lily Evans, I'm here for the…"

"The job application, yes I know, Mr. Potter is in a meeting right now so I'll interview you."

"Mr. Potter?" Asked Lily; that name held some bad memories.

"Yes, Mr. Potter Jr., he's the son of the company's owner, he's the head of this department and if you get the job you'll be in charge of a lot of people. Basically this whole department - aside from a few who answer only to Mr. Potter senior"

Lily gulped, this sounded very frightening. She didn't think she'd have that much responsibility.

"Now let's get started," said the woman and motioned Lily to sit down. She looked over her resume and after a couple of minutes looked up.

"So Lily, I see you have a very good resume and some good recommendations. Professionally, you're perfect for the job. However, there is the matter of the personal side. You see, all the former assistants were let go because of… err some personal issues. They got too involved, if you know what I mean. That is one of the reasons I'm interviewing you. Mr. Potter's father felt that his son wasn't thinking clearly when he chose the former employees, he wasn't exactly basing his decisions merely on brains. Now I need to be sure that you are not like the former assistants and that you can stand up for yourself.

"Frankly I need to know you can put James in his place when the time comes, and believe me, if I know my boss, the minute he lays his eyes on you he'll be all over you, trying to work his charm"

"Oh don't worry, I can stand up for myself just fine. I'm not a redhead for nothing. As for your boss, I don't mix business with pleasure so there are no worries about that. Nonetheless, I do have a question; did you say his name was James?" asked Lily, a frightening thought crossed her mind. She knew James was rich and his father was a businessman in the muggle world, but she didn't think he was *that* rich. 'This place his huge, it can't be James's, besides, James is a very common name' she assured herself

"Yes, his name is James. I'm not actually supposed to call him by his first name when we're not alone - it's just that I've known him ever since he came working here three and a half years ago; we're some what of buddies. I'm actually dating one of his best friends who works here. By the way, my name is Rebecca. I don't think I mentioned that. Anyway, there is one more thing, you aren't allowed to use magic outside your office. Most of the simple workers, meaning everyone but executives, heads of departments and personal assistants, are muggle. The secretaries are also magic but I recommend not talking about anything magic related. Mr. Potter is against memory charms," said Rebecca.

Lily simple nodded, she didn't have a problem with that, she wanted this job badly and she was willing to do anything, 'Well except sleeping with the boss' she chuckled inwardly.

"Well then Lily Evans, congratulations, you are now officially hired," said Rebecca.

Lily was shocked; she didn't think she'd get the job so fast.

"Why don't you look around; come back in an hour or so and I'll introduce you to your new boss - don't worry, he may be a flirt and somewhat of a man whore but he's really nice and he gives a great Christmas bonus," said Rebecca and laughed.

Lily simply smiled; she was still a bit shocked.

"Thank you so much!" she said when she regained her senses

"It's okay, I like you, you seem like the type who'll make his life a living hell. Make him work hard I mean, and that's exactly what he needs - well it's exactly what his father wants of him anyway. Now go on, you need to learn your way around, just don't get lost." Rebecca smiled pleasantly and Lily took off.

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James Potter was sitting in a boring meeting to which he was forced to attend, by his father. He could have been interviewing the pretty girls applying to be his assistant - but no; his father wanted him to be there.

Currently there was a guy with thick glasses and a lot of freckles talking. James didn't know what about since he wasn't listening; he found his pencil to be more interesting then the cupboard the guy was now pointing at. It's not that James wasn't a good businessman - on the contrary; he was extremely good. He had the combination of charms, good looks, a witty brain and a quick tongue - and that is why he never failed to close a deal or snag an account from an opponent. Nevertheless, he hated meetings, especially ones his father arranged.

Those ones where much like this one; boring, slow and useless.

James's meetings were just the opposite. All the meetings he held were short, to the point and actually entertaining at times. Since he was a prankster at heart, he usually started his meetings with a prank he planned with his friends Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, who both worked in his department.

In this meeting there were no pranks or interruptions from James even though Sirius was there (Remus couldn't make it since there was a full moon the night before), and that was because all the heads of department were there as some of the owners, including James's father, Harold Potter.

James eyed his father, he was sitting motionless, listening attentively. James then moved to look at Sirius and smiled, he was staring into space just as bored as James was.

James looked at the door longingly, thinking of all the pretty girls that were in his office, then he moved to look through the glass wall. It was charmed so only the person inside can see through, to someone on the outside it looked like a normal wall with normal pictures, only heads and executives were allowed to get in the room so there was no fear that a muggle would enter, since all the high ranks were occupied by wizards and witches.

Outside the glass wall James saw a gorgeous redhead who was wearing a stylish dress that hung on her perfectly showing all her curves; and boy did she have curves.

James surveyed her; she was petite, slim long legs, creamy complexion and some nice breasts. She looked up, seemingly looking at a picture and James saw she had big amazing green eyes, that looked familiar, and a beautiful face. She tucked a strand of fiery red hair behind her ear and began to walk away.

James didn't know what to do, he wanted to go out and talk to her, maybe have a better view of her but he couldn't leave in the middle of the meeting. Fortunately for him someone called,

"Meeting concluded," so James bolted out of his chair to the hallway ignoring Sirius's calls. He toke a turn left heading towards the direction the redhead went and saw her bent over. He got closer and saw that she had dropped her bag.

"Need help?" He asked making her jump.

"God, scare me, why don't you?" She said and put a hand over her heart, James gave her one of his heart-melting-go-week-in-the-knees smiles.

"Sorry," he said as she got up and she smiled back at him. 'God, she's even more beautiful up close' he thought as she closed her bag. Now he could she her attributes much better; she had a beautifully designed body and artistically sculptured face.

"Actually you could help me, I kind of got lost. Could you direct me to the main office of this department?" She asked hopefully.

"Sure, I'm heading that way. Why are you going there?"

"Oh, I just got a job as the head's assistant," she said.

James couldn't believe his good luck, his father made him promise he that he wouldn't be picking his assistant but Rebecca would, and it turned out her taste similar to his, chose a beautiful redhead to work underneath him, he liked that idea in more ways than one.

"Congratulations," he said happily and she gave him a smile and replied with a "Thank you", he couldn't get out of his mind that she reminded him of someone.

'She has the most beautiful smile, but I'm sure I know it from somewhere' he thought.

He was about to tell her that he was her new boss when he noticed a man approach them. It was Raven Tomson, one of his employees and one of his friends; Raven motioned him to follow. James gave him a questioning look.

"It's important" was all Raven said, James let out a sigh.

"Fine, Emm sorry I have to go. You just have to go straight then turn right and you'll find it," he said to the girl whose name he didn't have a chance to ask.

"That's okay, I'm sure I can manage, thank you" and she was off, James knew he would see her in his office in a few minutes but was still angry about the interruption.

"What is it Rav?" he asked.

"Your father wants to see you," answered Raven and James let out a sigh for the second time that day.

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Lily couldn't wipe the grin off her face. A handsome, though familiar, stranger just helped her. She was liking this place already, she was now sitting in her boss's office that Rebecca had let her into. It was big, well equipped, there were two more doors leading to god knows where, a big desk, some comfortable chairs, a sofa and all the usual office supplies.

Yet the best part, to Lily's opinion, was the window; it was huge and covered nearly a whole wall, there was an amazing view of the city.

After a while her thoughts returned to the mystery man; he was very good looking. He had blue eyes and black hair; a contrast she liked. She could tell he had a muscular figure although he was wearing a suit, which fit him very well.

Her line of thought was cut off when the door swung open to reveal Rebecca and the black haired stranger.

Rebecca smiled at her and said "Lily Evans, this is James Potter, your new boss."

Lily's expression must have matched James's: utter shock and it all suddenly clicked as they both said "You?!?!"

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A/N- Well? What do you think? I'm not so sure on how to continue this, you know, their confrontation after the shock wears off, I have an idea but I would like to know what you think should happen between them (and don't say they snog senseless and James proposes 'cause there's a slim chance of that happening, Lily has her pride!).

On a different note, You all know that the fifth book comes out on June the 21st *jumps up and down in excitement* so I'm trying to go as fast as I can since the true story of Lily and James will be revealed…

As I said at the beginning I have a math exam on Tuesday and a history final on Sunday (god I hate that subject) so I doubt I'll have time to post, the next chapter will probably be out in a week and a half or so that's why this chapter is so long, to make up for the long wait, so just to show you how much I appreciate your support here is what will happen:

- James's father makes an appearance that effects Lily and James

- We will learn more about James's relationship with his father (he's not such a hateful man, it seems)

- Lily will decide to keep the job or not (well duh, you can guess what she'll decide)

- James makes a fool out of himself (maybe some signs of primary jealousy?!)

- All the old gang reunites, troubles are bound to happen!

So stay tuned, we're just getting to the good part I can promise you that!

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