A/N: Sorry for the wait guys, but I've been busy. Ah! You all know how this time of the year is, what with exams and review and everything. You're lucky I can post tonight (taking a day off tomorrow). So, this is the chapter you've been waiting for. Please review.

Catch My Fall

Chapter 16- Fawn Daniels

Recap

"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.

"Lily Potter," Fawn said grittily. "Clever, clever. I should have known you'd pull something like this. I must have lessened your abilities, seeing as you're pregnant and all."

Sirius eyed Lily's wand, watching her as she was ready to strike, but grasped onto it quickly.

"Not yet," he insisted. "Don't you want to know the truth?"

Lily nodded, grinding her teeth together angrily. James had cast a spell that didn't allow Fawn to Disapparate.

Katy came out from stunning the camera man and joined her friends. She gazed at Fawn in disgust.

"You filthy, no good, piece of shi-" Katy started to say before Fawn spat on her.

Lily gasped, knowing how this would trigger Katy off.

"I didn't take it from Venus Adams and I won't take it from you," Katy yelled, pointing her wand at Fawn's throat. "Why are you ruining poor Lily and James' lives?"

"Don't forget mine," Sirius piped in.

During all this commotion, James had been standing in front of Fawn, his eyes carefully studying her. She seemed familiar, as if he knew her. He wondered briefly if maybe she had been a Death Eater. It didn't seem likely.

"I feel that the public has a right to know when it's being deceived," Fawn told them snobbishly.

"Aware of what? I have personal problems within my family that prevented us from sharing our news with the entire community. I am not having an affair, I don't plan on killing my child, and James and I are perfectly happy in our marriage," Lily retorted. "The only thing I was hiding was my pregnancy, which I did so for a reason."

"I've watched you, Evans. I've watched you for quite some time. It didn't seem fair to me that you were allowed to enjoy all the aspects that life has to offer. I hated being near you, around you, in the same community. I never got one moment's glory with Lily Evans strutting around and pushing me in the shadows. Never," Fawn told Lily.

"You called me Evans," Lily told her. "Only Moody calls me Evans because he won't not." (A/N: One guess where that line's from.)

"Only people from Hogwarts know you as that," Katy said. "Everyone else calls you Potter."

"She went to school with us, Lily," James said quietly. Fawn's neck snapped in James' direction, her eyes growing somewhat softer. "Fawn Daniels was in fifth year when we were in seventh. She was the Ravenclaw I took to the Yule Ball."

A glint of recognition sparked in Lily's eyes, the memories flooding back to her. James had left Fawn to be with Lily, something Lily had never really thought about until that moment.

"Shouldn't you still be in school?" Sirius inquired, speaking directly to Fawn.

"I wasn't getting any limelight there even without dear Lily gone," Fawn said maliciously. "The entire school was buzzing with news of the Potters and the Blacks. Even Katy Jones and Remus Lupin had more attention than I did. I figured that the only way I could get the satisfaction I craved was by bringing the Potter dream team down. So, I dropped out in order to become the wizarding communities best on-the-spot journalist. It seems Lily's not the only one with the infamous reputation. I too have been called out for various job as of last week's issue."

"You're jealous," Katy whispered. "You're just a jealous, pain in the ass, conceited girl. You don't know anything about what these two have had to go through. What we all have had to go through."

"I may not," Fawn confessed. "But I do know that as long as I have the license to write, there is nothing you can do to stop me."

"You claim to be some evil genius," Sirius observed. "But in case you haven't noticed, you're tied to a tree and we all have our wands."

"Why'd you have to go after my wife? Why Lily? I know you said she gets a lot of attention, but that can't be it. Katy and Halle got a lot of attention while they were in school as well. Yet, you only write about Lily. Why?" James asked.

"She took you away from me, James. We were destined. It was in the stars. Our signs matched! I thought that for a moment, my life was going to turn around. I was going out with James Potter, head boy and most infamous Marauder."

"Hey!" Sirius protested.

"Then, once things were going to finally start getting good, she takes you away. She came back and you forgave her. I never did, James. I never thought she was good enough for you. She may have been perfect, but you two just didn't mold. It wasn't in your destiny. I was in your destiny," Fawn said, her brown eyes gleaming with angry tears. "She doesn't deserve someone as selfless and humane as you. She doesn't know what it's like to feel pain."

Katy laughed at this out of sheer disbelief. "Lily doesn't know about pain? If you're so devoted, haven't you noticed how much hell Lily and James went through during their seventh year?"

"Physical pain is nothing compared to the never ending agony I felt. I watched as Lily repeatedly broke your heart, James. Yet, you never let go. You always took her back. You married her, for Merlin's sake! Even after all she did, you married her. She's pregnant now. She has a little Potter inside of her, something I always dreamed about," Fawn said, eyeing Lily's pregnant stomach enviously.

"Can anyone say restraining order?" Sirius asked. "You're psycho. I'm serious, no pun intended. If you're looking for someone, I suggest you take your mind off of James and head down to St. Mungos. There's a fabulous lunatic of the name Cole Jacobs there. He was obsessed with Lily, you're obsessed with James. It's a match made in psychopathic heaven."

Lily had been standing silent for quite some time, letting tears form in the corners of her eye as she heard all these things. James had looked to his feet in embarrassment, wishing it was all done and over with. He just wanted Fawn to leave them alone.

"Now, I don't know about daily therapy, but you should definitely consider weekly," Sirius said. "I am sure there is someone out there who can explain all of this to you. I sure as hell can't."

Lily walked towards Fawn, her face inches from hers.

"I love James," Lily told her quietly. "He is my husband, the only man I have ever really seen myself with. You may not understand that the way we do, but you should know this. I'm not giving him up. He is mine. I want you to stop writing articles about us, go back to school, and forget you ever met anyone of the name James or Lily Potter. If not, we will take you to court at the Wizengamot for harassment."

There was a silence as Fawn took in what Lily was saying.

"I may hate you," she said slowly. "But I do respect you."

"Then follow my wishes," Lily told her. "Leave town. Do whatever you need to do to forget. We'll do the same."

The last of Fawn Daniels was seen that very night as she whacked her photographer on the head one last time and Disapparated to somewhere they couldn't tell you about.

.X.

"Our poor friends," Katy said as she hopped into bed that night. Remus lay up, reading a research book on werewolves. He was looking for some sort of potion that could somehow alter the transformations. "They go through so much. It's amazing they're still together."

"It's amazing they ever got together," Remus chuckled. "For awhile, me, Sirius, and Peter thought it was hopeless."

"As did Halle and I," Katy reminisced. "I do hope that Fawn Daniels is the last of the bunch to reappear in their lives."

"I wouldn't count on it," Remus said. "Lily and James have made countless enemies over the years. It's an odd thing as they're two of the nicest people I know."

"I know," Katy said. "Now Dumbledore's speaking of another spy. One who may be leaking information on the order. It's all too odd. I know that it couldn't be any of our friends, seeing as you described them so well. They're all too nice for that kind of thing."

"We never know," Remus answered quietly. "You keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. It could very well be one of our friends. Members of the Order are dying off like flies, leaving the suspects even more out in the open."

"If only I knew who it is," Katy muttered.

.X.

James had just got out of the shower and was ready for bed when he heard Lily crying in their bedroom. He opened the door and saw her crumpled up by the pillow, her face bent down into it, her hair sprawled all over the place.

"Lily honey, what's wrong?" he asked her, taking her hand into his.

"Nothing," she lied. "Nothing at all. It's just hormones."

"Are you sure?" he asked, knowing all too well that this had nothing to do with hormones. "I mean, we had a big day. It wouldn't be shocking if you were upset."

Lily nodded, sitting quietly in his arms for a few moments.

"I haven't been a very good wife," she admitted into his chest.

He lifted her head up and looked at her oddly. "What do you mean? You've been the best wife I could ever ask for."

"Fawn was right," Lily said to him. "I don't deserve you."

"Why not?" James asked. "If anything, it should be the other way around."

"I've treated you so horribly in the past years of our lives. I pushed you around, broke up with you, got you into horrible situations. I don't deserve to be pregnant with your baby," Lily said, her eyes flowing with more tears.

"This is what she wants," James told his wife. "She wants you to feel like this. How would she know this anyways? She doesn't know either one of us very well. She couldn't possibly know how our marriage is."

Lily shrugged.

"You're amazing, Lily. I married you because I love you. Neither one of us is perfect, but that's why we're perfect for one another. Don't you see? We have something she doesn't. She's bitter. We have a family and friends. I have you and that's more than I could ever ask for."

"Now I know why I married you," she whispered. "Because you always know how to make things better."

She leaned in and kissed her husband, thankful that she was Lily Potter.

A/N: Please review. There was a bit of foreshadowing..