A/N: Thank you for the reviews. I love you all so much. I apologize about the wait. I have been very busy. Please forgive me. Now, to answer some questions:
1) It's been two years. So, Fawn would be 17. That means she would be in Hogwarts. I do understand this, but I have reasoning. This reasoning will come out soon enough.
2) There is a reason she is like Rita.
3) If you forgot who she was, she was mentioned in Chapter 25, Chapter 25, and Chapter 27 of L/J: Their Story of Love. I believe she was mentioned in 34 as well. I'll do a little recap in a little while.
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Catch My Fall
Chapter 15-Enough
Several articles appeared about Lily, James, and Sirius is the next couple of weeks. Wherever they were remnants of Fawn Daniels' ludicrous articles cornered them. Whether it be a scrap of the newspaper or a dirty look from a random passerby, there was no avoiding it.
One week at work, someone saw Sirius enter Lily's office and the entire secretarial staff stopped what they were doing to eavesdrop. They would stare mournfully after James, feeling sympathy towards him. "His pregnant wife was cheating on him with his best friend, must be awful on the poor dear," they would whisper.
When Lily sat down at her desk, already in a bad mood from the ever-expanding pile of paperwork that was piled in a folder, she glanced quickly at the headline for that day's newspaper.
Sure enough, screams could be heard blaring from inside her office.
.X.
"That wench wrote that I am trying to kill our baby!" Lily screamed at James, throwing the paper down on his desk. He was studying a map that had speculations of Voldemort's next target. Currently, he wasn't striking hardly anywhere. The Aurors were clueless as to his next move.
James looked up at his five and half months pregnant wife, her eyes flashing and her mouth thinned. He carefully picked up the paper and saw a picture of Lily holding a cup of coffee. There was another photo of her receiving pills from a paper bag and taking them before eating. James could only anticipate what the article said.
LILY POTTER'S RELIEVING HER BURDEN
Written by Fawn Daniels, special correspondent.
Since the recent exposure of her pregnancy, Lily Potter seems to have gone a bit over the edge. Either the stress of expecting or the pressure put on by her husband, she has found a new way of release. She's not dangerous, at least not to anyone aside from her unborn child.
Recently she has been seen in several situations that could be considered harmful to the new Potter child. As seen above, coffee is a legal drug, one of which many of us consume in. For pregnant women, side affects could increase by the increased caffeine in the mother's diet. Is this just a coincidence or is she really willing to sacrifice her family for her not-so-secret affair with Sirius Black?
We have it here, on print, in picture, living proof of our assumptions. Mrs. Potter was seen taking mysterious pills before ingesting her food. Could these pills be hazardous to her baby? We're almost certain they are.
If only James Potter knew of what his wife was up to..
James looked up at his wife incredulously. One girl could do so much damage, it was amazing at the results. While James was reading the article, Lily had sat down at a chair and let the tears fall.
"I'm doomed to be an awful mother," she wept, bringing her hands to her face in effort to stop the drops from falling.
"Lily Potter, you are my wife, mother of my child, one of the only people I can trust completely. You're strong, beautiful, devoted, talented. You are not going to let some broad named Fawn Daniels tell you otherwise," James told her sternly, making her giggle slightly.
"No one is going to believe that," she moaned, putting her head on his shoulders as he kneeled down before her. "They all think I'm popping pills and sucking up as much caffeine as possible in order to kill my baby. Worst of all, poor Sirius is going to be getting so many death threats from readers. They all think we're having an affair."
"You're not?" James teased, acting surprised. She slapped his shoulder lightly.
"I was only holding Katy's coffee. I don't even drink it. I think it's completely awful. And those pills? We both know they're prenatal vitamins. No one else will know that though," she said sadly.
With a crack, Katy Apparated into the office, standing right next to James. She looked down on them, over at the paper, and rolled her eyes.
"I could kill that little bi-" she started before Sirius trudged into the office next to them, pushing her accidentally.
"This bird has screwed up my life more than I can possibly describe," he told his friends. "I just got a howler when I was drinking a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks. Everyone looked at me funny after I walked out. Worst of all, three little kids tripped me and I scraped my elbow on the street."
"You let three kids trip you?" James asked, appalled.
"They were huge, I tell you," Sirius insisted. "Like a huge, walking Giant Squid. They only had six arms though."
Lily laughed, glad that James and Sirius could brighten her already unfortunate looking day. With as much effort as possible, she lifted herself from her chair, picked up the newspaper, threw it in the garbage and lit it on fire.
A girl could only get so much satisfaction from that..
.X.
"They're just sitting there," Fawn complained in a harsh whisper. She was standing outside of the Potter home and was peering in through the window. Her dutiful camera man was beside her, staring blankly at his shoes and contemplating whether to tie his laces or not.
Her cousin, Rita, had come along for this trip, claiming Fawn was an ideal mentor. Fawn's other cousin, Annabelle (Rita's other sister), was far too busy to show Rita the ropes and had pawned her off on Fawn. So, here Fawn was with an overweight camera man, a hole in the knee of her fishnet stockings, and a fifteen year old girl following her around.
"Why are you so obsessed with the Potter's anyhow?" Rita whined. Her blonde curls were in pigtails and her obnoxious gum chewing was giving Fawn a headache.
"They're my story," Fawn hissed. "People like to read about them. Therefore, I get money and become more successful. It's part of my trade."
"He's pretty good looking," Rita mused, her gum clacking as she blew another bubble. "I suppose that has absolutely nothing to do with it?"
The camera man chuckled at the statement, but shut up when Fawn hit him on the head with her purse.
"Shut up, fool," she ordered, turning back to the bush they were hiding in. "Oh, look, she's eating cookies. Hurry, take a picture."
"Cookies?" Rita asked. "You're going to write a story about her eating cookies? That is lame."
"Lame?" Fawn repeated. "You say it's lame? Just sit down and shut up! I'm the journalist here. You need to learn from the best. The only way to get your story is to use proof. Everyone likes proof. Otherwise, it's just slander. Now, these cookies could be pivotal to my next story. Who knows?"
"Actually, I doubt it," Rita said. "She finished the cookies."
"You didn't take the shot?" she screamed at her camera man. He shook his head. Another whack was received from Fawn.
"I can't work like this," she mumbled, rubbing her temples.
.X.
"Scarlet woman," a witch muttered as she walked past Lily on her way out of Flourish and Blotts.
Lily's cheeks blazed red and James' arm tightened it's grip around her shoulders reassuringly.
"I could kill Fawn Daniels," she decided, sitting down at a table inside the bookstore. James sat down across from her, nodding his head.
"Another story, another woman who hates me," Lily said. "I just wish I could catch her in the act. I don't remember at her at all. It's her name. I just can't remember her name."
"This sounds familiar," James observed quietly. "Like Venus Adams."
"Yet, Fawn's not trying to kill us. She's just degrading my name in society," Lily sighed. She spotted Katy and Alice by the maternity books. She smiled.
"Katy! Alice!" she shouted from across the store. Several heads turned to see who was yelling, but many resumed reading their books. The women that looked all said the same thing, "Poor James Potter."
Katy glared at them all, making her way over to Lily with Alice waddling behind her.
"Things have gotten worst," Alice noted, seeing the angry glances from the customers of the book stores. "If it was me I'd scream at every single one of them."
"I bet you would," James agreed, laughing at little Alice Longbottom whose belly was no longer little.
"What are you two doing here?" Lily asked, letting them sit down.
"Well, Alice wanted to get a book that recorded all the stages of pregnancy, but Frank was working. So, she called me. We've been looking for the right one," Katy said.
"I want to know if I'm supposed to look like a circus tent with a head popping out of it," she grumbled, looking down at her large protruding stomach.
Lily smiled, knowing that Alice was the only one who almost knew how she felt. They were in it together. She was glad she didn't have to do it alone.
"That awful Daniels woman isn't still writing things about you, is she?" Katy asked.
Lily nodded wearily.
"If only there was something we could do about it," James said, folding his hands together and looking around for some sign of that crazy writer and her photographer.
Katy's blue eyes brightened at the prospect of a plan.
"I think I have an idea," she informed them.
.X.
The house was silent and Lily stood by the door, waiting for that familiar sound of a motorcycle engine to turn up. The lights were off and the blinds were closed. Her wand was carelessly in her back pocket, despite all the buttock warnings from Mad Eye Moody.
She smiled as she heard the sound of the motorcycle drift from the sky and into her driveway. She opened the door and smiled. She walked out, her feet bare, and greeted him with a grin.
She did her best to hug him warmly, although her eyes were scanning the proximity closely.
He leaned it, as if to kiss her, but instead whispered in her ear.
"Be patient," he had said. With that small gesture, the sound of a clicking camera could be heard and Lily could have screamed. She heard someone stumble out of the bushes.
"Gotcha," James said. Lily turned to see ropes tied around a small, petite blonde with defeated brown eyes. Katy had stunned the camera man, who had been hidden behind a tree.
Sirius let out a maniacal laugh.
"Nice to meet you, Fawn Daniels," Lily hoarsely said, her eyes intently focused on Fawn's.
A/N: Sorry to leave it at a sort of cliffhanger. I will try and post this weekend. If not, I am sorry. Thanks and please review.