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It Was Meant To Be

Chapter 1 – A Job That Kills

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"Shut up!"

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"I said, shut it!"

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"Okay, okay, I'm up! Stupid alarm clock," muttered Lily Evans as she climbed out of bed and headed towards the bathroom, bumping into anything in her way as she went. She was definitely not a morning person.

"Good morning, Lils!" exclaimed Lily's best friend and roommate, Sarika, who apparently was a morning person. She looked into a bathroom and found a very sleepy Lily attempting to put toothpaste on her toothbrush, but completely missing it and pouring it all into the sink. Sarika just laughed and grabbed the toothbrush and paste and fixed it up for Lily to use.

Lily winced. "How can you be so loud so early?" She said.

Sarika just smiled. "Early? Lily dear, it is 9:00. You have to be at work in half an hour! Plus, I'm still used to it from having to get up early at Hogwarts, Lily dear. Anyway, before I got my Hogwarts letter, I always had to get up early to help my mum around the house. As you know, we weren't very rich back in India," she sighed. "My parents still don't have that much money. It's lucky that I was 'gifted' at magic and got a scholarship."

"I still don't understand how you can be gifted at magic," said Lily, her eyes wider open now.

"Neither do I, but who cares! We both got scholarships because of it," replied Sarika. Her voice was refilled with her normal cheerfulness.

"Yeah…now leave. I have to shower," said Lily.

"Okay! But hurry up, you're late. Breakfast is ready…and so is your coffee!" said Sarika.

Lily's ears perked up at the mention of coffee. "Really? Oh you really are the best, Sarika. I'll be there in two seconds…don't let the coffee cool, please!" she said as she closed the bathroom door.


After twenty – five minutes, Lily and Sarika were finally ready to leave, each with a thermos of coffee in her hand to ensure that they wouldn't fall asleep in the middle of the morning.

With a pop, the young friends apparated into Witch Weekly Magazine's office, where they were both writers for the magazine.

The two roommates made their way to their cubes. Lily threw her sandals off and sat down to find herself with a new assignment.

Thank goodness, a new assignment! I thought for sure I'd go back to spell – checking when I finished that last article on the new shop in Diagon Alley, Sarah's Soothing Lotions N' Things, Lily found herself thinking. That shop in Diagon Alley was booming with business! It was Lily's new favorite place to hang out with Sarika, along with other young women. The note said specifically to meet Ms. Wreag, Lily and Sarika's boss, in her office to receive her new assignment and that she would be working with Sarika.

Putting back on her sandals and grabbing a notebook along with a pencil, Lily made her way to Ms. Wreag's office. Along the way, Sarika caught up with her and they walked down together, chatting away about what their boss would assign them to report on now.

When the pair finally reached Ms. Wreag's office, all chatter ceased. Lily smartly rapped on the large oak door and waited.

"Please enter," said Ms. Wreag's scratchy voice. Sarika pushed the door open and Lily followed her in. Sitting at a large desk in the middle of the room, they saw their boss and waited respectfully to be invited to sit.

They looked up at the scratchy voiced women and observed her. It was always new, the way Ms. Wreag dressed. Although she was in her early sixties, the woman simply did not want to let go of her younger times. Today she was wearing a mini skirt with a tight tank top with a jean jacket on top. Her hair was dyed blonde and her long fingernails were painted hot pink. To top it all off, she was wearing mounds of make – up, all based off of pink. Her outfit never fit her foul mood however, with her scratchy, snappy voice, grumpy personality.

It was all Lily could do to stop her face from twisting into a shocked expression. The only reason Lily obeyed her was because she was the founder of Witch Weekly and always gave Lily and Sarika the best articles to write. The disgusted girl looked over at Sarika, who must have been thinking along the same line, because unlike Lily, she was not able the stop the disgusted expression that crept onto her face.

"Lily, Sarika, as you know, I have another assignment for the two of you," Ms. Wreag said, startling Lily and Sarika out of their thoughts. "I want you to write an article on a famous Auror. This guy is awesome! He's only been out of training for nine months and he's already got twenty – two Death Eaters! Also, I hear he's quite the Lady Charmer. I've set up an interview with him at the Concoctions Café for today at four o' clock."

That statement brought a look of shock to Lily's face. How was she supposed to come up with good questions so fast!

"Now, I know that this is short notice, but that is why I have given you two the job; you are my two best writers and I'm sure you can do it. Well, what are you waiting for? GET BACK TO WORK!" Ms. Wreag cried.

Now Lily was gaping. Ms. Wreag had given her a compliment! She had always thought that was impossible! Chucking to herself, she followed Sarika back out of the office. As soon as she reached her cube, she began coming up with questions to ask this amazing man.


Bells rang when Lily and Sarika opened the door to the Concoctions Café. They walked over to their reserved table to find their article subject already waiting for them with the day's newspaper in his hands. Lily whispered to Sarika to sit down, and did so herself. To her surprise, the man didn't even acknowledge their presence!

How rude! Lily thought.

"Excuse me," she said, attempting to get the man's attention. "We are authors from the women's magazine, Witch Weekly. We came to interview you."

The man lowered his newspaper and smiled toothily, but the handsome smile disappeared as soon as it came, when he saw Lily. Instead, there was longing in his eyes.

Lily gasped when she saw who she was to interview. His face was so familiar – so painfully familiar.

She could remember everything about him still, from the way he mussed up his raven black hair, to the way he strutted about Hogwarts, as though he owned it,and it was so painful to think about him , to think about the one she loved with all her heart to this day. It still hurt so bad to even think about James Potter.

A/N: There you go…the next chapter! Everything that happened at the end was probably predictable, but I hope you enjoyed it nevertheless. The next chapter will tell us about…wait a minute, I'm not telling! If you want to find out soon, you had better review so that I will be at least motivated to post the next chapter. Thank you so much to IndiChiki90 and AngelzDarlin90 for you reviews as my first reviewer! I'm glad you like this story and I will try to updated soon. Just keep your reviews coming and I'll do the rest!