Okay guys, here I am again.

lol, anyway I learned from a sweet refrain so i wont thank anyone personally with long comments, i wish i could that way we'd have a conversation going on here.

Anyways on Simply Friends i Told ppl about why they deleted a sweet refrain, which was the reason stated above--well now i'll tell you about the other one Indulge me.

The reason that was deleted was because of too much woopee ( a polite term for Se X...lol.) going on or rather too much detail.

Anywho this is rated M for mature content, there will be sex scenes but i'll try to cut it down...hopefully.

I hope you enjoy part two of Indulgent Prosecution. I'm gonna start a second chapter for one of the others as soon as my summer course is done...(next week)

Disclaimer: ALL The Characters belong to JK except my personal touches, example Syd Lombard and Andres Constantine from part 1. Others are introduced in this chapter as well.

Indulgent Prosecution

Chapter 2: Cheerful Camaraderie

Lily Evans.

Well, well, well, James sure wasn't expecting her name to be the one matched to the new "brightest, hardworking up and comer prosecutor" that Mr. Jonathan Myers had spoken off. She also had the most talent he—Myers—had seen in a long time.

He shook his head, well, that was the same Lily Evans he knew from a few years ago and since the years have passed it was nice to know that she hadn't changed a bit. Kind off.

She always was an over achiever.

He turned and to look at her—she looked damned good.

As always.

Even in that prissy suit she was wearing. It wasn't a far cry from her tidy appearance from when they were in school together but this time he saw that she had more legs than was necessary.

Wow!

And then unwillingly an image came to him with those same legs wrapped around his torso urging him closer.

Stop it! He ordered himself. There was no use in thinking about any such thing; it wasn't likely to occur.

But he almost laughed in spite of himself, she'd have a hernia if she knew what he was think and maybe blow her top if she knew outfits like the one she had on drive men crazy. Didn't she know blokes keep wondering what they could do to make prissy girls like her get out of those prim and proper skirts and drive them wild with wanting?

She had been his weakness when he was fifteen, when his hormones were like the raging bulls in Spain but it was worse when he was seventeen and he was seeing her day in and day out.

Of course he had more control this time around…yeah.

But if he seriously considered her right about now … he studied her buttoned down appearance, she could become a sweet weakness all over again.

James stopped, okay no, time to stop that particular train of thought. He wasn't about to let that happen. In years have gone by he had learned to put up a resistance around certain people although now its for a totally different reason. Shaking his head he tried to focus on the matter at hand as he watched her stunned expression.

So I'm going to be working the case with her he thought, as he kept looking at her face, her expression was comical to say the least.

James held back a chuckle because knowing Lily Evans, she would not find this the least bit funny and judging from the horror in her eyes she was in total shock as well as in no laughing mood.

He never thought he would see the day when he and Lily Evans would be working on the same side, again.

Last time things ended in an unbelievable way and if he valued his life he knew he had better not mention anything remotely connecting to that period of their lives.

However, it was seriously too funny, Sirius was going to get a kick out of this and he couldn't imagine what Remus would say even though they were never privy to most of their meetings in 7th year everyone knew that the animosity was there.

'Welcome welcome Lily, have a seat so we can get started.' DA Myers said and James had to hold back another laugh because Myers seemed to be oblivious to Lily's discomfort and astonishment. However, James suspected Myers wasn't as adept to judging Lily Evan's moods as he was.

Never mind that he hasn't seen her for two years but he had learned to read her well enough and gage her moods.

He had just chosen to ignore whatever mood she was in whenever they met and pretended that it didn't mean a thing. Though, now it seemed that she was having a hard time conceptualizing that he was here right now in front of her … in the same office as her … talking to her boss and—big horror here—was on the verge of talking to her.

They'd never gotten along, even when they were head boy and girl together. It seemed that they always clashed and very rarely agreed on the same thing.

James knew that if she had given him a chance to be himself around her, Lily would feel inclined to talk to him normally but as always she jumped headfirst into reaction mode. It was one to the things he had disliked about her but then again it was one of the main things that attracted him to her in the first place.

It was how things ended the way that they did.

Well, he'd had enough experience to brace himself against the slight bit of hurt he had always felt when she snubbed him. 'Ms Evans, its good to see you again.' He said politely not letting a trace of anything he felt migrate into his tone as she moved forward to take the seat.

'Do the two of you know each other?' DA Myers asked surprised but it was at this time Lily who decided to speak.

'Yes, actually we went to school together,' she said not looking at him but still spoke formally but in a pleasant tone and James couldn't resist adding a bit himself.

'We were even heads together,' he said grinning and it actually matched the smile on the DA's face.

'Brilliant, absolutely brilliant; that'll save time on the introductions and we can go straight into the facts of our current situation.' He said sitting down. After indicating that the two of them should be seated as well he got down to business.

'It's a bonus that the two of you know each other and have worked together in the past, it would make the working together flow through smoothly, which is most excellent. However, I don't know how much you know about the other right now so I'll cover that briefly before we get started.'

'James I've already started describing her work ethic and her position here in the London office so you can browse through this file if you have any question or just ask her. I'm sure Lily would accommodate you in anyway possible.' He said and James nodded, accepted the file after calming down and getting serious. He was here to do a job not reminisce about old flames...or rather old crushes… or maybe just an old something.

Neither one of them had fully worked what it was.

His former relationship—if one should decide to call it that—with Lily had been as mixed up as one could get. There were times when she came off as a bitch and he seriously considered shaking her never mind that he would never harm a woman…however it seemed it was only him who had the privilege to see that lovely side of her and it had got to him so bad and it seemed as though she hated the very sight of him.

She'd been so smart, funny, quirky and full of charm and grace with other people that he had felt left out and back then his ego was seriously misguided because he then proceeded to show one and all that he was not pining away for Lily Evans and he hadn't been.

No one thought so either.

Then a year or so later, after the last few weeks he spent with his father he had a sobering realization. His father was dying but was not ignorant of his son's faults. He talked and James listened and by the time they connected far more than father and son he was gone.

He went back to Hogwarts changed and although he hadn't deserved the position, Dumbledore gave him the chance to be Head boy, a job—to the horror of Sirius Black—that he took seriously.

So all in all there barely was a subject to classify what they were to each other.

'Lily, James is with the 5th division aurors and though he hasn't fully become instated as such this case is going to provide him with the leverage needed to scale the career ladder quickly.' He said then handed another file to Lily. 'Now that that's taken care off I'd like to brief the two of you on the current situation but we have to wait on the arrival of the Commissioner of IR Aurors and another person who would be working with you, however he would be just covering the legwork.'

James passed the next few minutes by reading the file handed to him by the DA, glancing up every so often to note that Lily was delving into her material as well. It was odd, James thought, to be working with her after all these years of antagonism. It still stung that she didn't think of him as her equal but his feelings for her—how unrealistic and meagre they were—had died away a long time ago—he made sure that it did.

At the very least they could have become friends, his father's death made him realise that but events unfolded and everything was corrupted. It was never likely to happen.

James directed his attention to the contents in the file and read. She had been a quick study in Law school and had taken a number of courses at super speed but then again a time turner would help you with that, he noted, when he saw the symbol next to the year she used it. He was surprised she found time to do an apprenticeship and as he continued to read he found himself in more awe than ever.

Where the hell did she find the time to do all these things? Hell, he had a hard time finishing his training to enter the auror assembly.

A little while later, a white bearded Commissioner and a woman who looked to be in her mid twenties were ushered in by the woman at the front desk.

'Welcome welcome. Lily and James I'd like to introduce to you the Commissioner of the Information-Retrieval Aurors Mr Alfred Wordsworth and a well known researcher who has been with us since she graduated from Beaubaxtons Mrs Libby Willard.' DA Myers said formally before seating himself again.

'With the Commissioner's permission I'd like to get started.' Myers started.

'Go on DA, I assume you've acquainted these two with each other.' Mr Wordsworth said.

'I have but in fact they used to work together before, as head students, at Hogwarts no less.'

'Outstanding, that will save us time in the long run. You may begin counsellor.'

'Right since neither Lily nor James has any idea of the situation I'll start from the beginning. I trust the Commissioner and Mrs Willard will jump in if I'm excluding any part of the explanation.' He said and received nods.

'This is not something that was not made top priority in the beginning because it was just rumours based peculiar and untrustworthy sightings. However we only have begun to extract the facts about it and we as the Ministry of Magic of England see it necessary for our people to look into it. It isn't a top priority situation therefore we are allowing some time before you actually arrive to the designated place rather than go immediately. The two of you are young and haven't established reputations yet so you'll be able to gather the information we need with less compromising efforts.

'In a week's time I want to two of you to arrive in Africa by portkey. You'll conduct a two week investigation during which you'll interview the witnesses. What we've heard so far has caused us to become concerned, however we believe it is still too early to jump to unnecessary conclusions.'

'These occurrences have the after taste of darkness and where there is that, the dark lord would not be far behind.' Mrs Willard spoke up.

'Now, now Libby we aren't too sure about that.' DA Myers said jovially but both Lily and James had other ideas, though voicing it wouldn't be tactful at the moment.

It seemed that the Ministry wasn't too keen on treating it as a Voldemort incident, if they can avoid the issue they would. After having both personally felt the after effects of Voldemort Lily and James were together on where the facts was leading.

'I want the three of you to put together an information extraction. A complied summary of your aliases and backgrounds will be sent to you at the end of the day by special courier. Lily and James, you will leave as soon as we're ready and Libby will be continuously sending you the facts or rumours as we receive them. That is all. Now I'll meet with the three of you again tomorrow. Dismissed.'

…

Lily felt odd. She wasn't exactly sure what her role in this was. She was a trainee and not in any particular physical sort of law enforcement. As far as she knew DA's and even ADA's (Assistant District Attorney's) weren't really required to actually go on a "mission".

Not that she was afraid or anything—she wasn't it was just that this was coming from left field. Wasn't this supposed to be in her job description then?

"Defend the innocent."

"Prosecute the guilty."

Those were things she could do after all she did use a time turner to hurry things along. Shouldn't they have informed her on Careers day that "operating in a dangerous mission" was going to be in there—which of course calls for physical on the job auror training.

She had none of those. She couldn't remember the last time she practiced any of her Defence against the Dark Arts. And the last time she exercised was… such a long time ago that she couldn't even remember.

Sure she aced the theory part of it in NEWTs and her Practical was almost flawless but it was two years she didn't keep up with all the new Defence spells that were the norm for people like James.

James.

Somehow she didn't want to dwell to much on him. It was difficult, seeing how they left things when they had been in the same room last.

Lily shook herself, this was not the time for her to be thinking about such things, she need to concentrate and as they stepped out of the office her mind was already forcibly on one the books she would need to get started.

'I'm sure the both of you have a good number of appointments to keep today,' Mrs Libby Willard spoke up and they nodded. 'Then I think it would be best if we can meet early in the morning if your schedule permits. That way you would have already gone through the information.' She said with a smile.

Lily returned it saying, 'its not a problem for me.'

'Same here,' James said.

'Great but I should warn you that even though I will try to make it on time, knowing my son it would be next to impossible.'

'You have a son? How old?' James asked.

Libby laughed, 'he's four. Anyway I'll try to drop him off by my mother's as early as I can.'

'That's fine,' Lily said smiling. 'Take your time and if you could send me your part of the investigation I'll read it and it'll be easier to get started when you do arrive.'

'Great idea, thanks so we'll meet around seven thirty then?'

'Not a problem.'

…

When Libby left James turned to Lily and couldn't help but think that she was efficient as always. As he opened his mouth to ask what she was up to these past couple years she spoke.

'It was … pleasant seeing you again James, I'll see you tomorrow.' She said and then left him standing there feeling remarkably put out.

She had only taken a few steps when he said, 'Lily sooner or later we'll have to address what happened. It will be the only way we'll be able to work together properly, clearing the air is the only way to go.'

She stiffened visibly before continuing down the corridor.

Shrugging James left the building intent on going back to work. He had to report to his chief and let him know what was going on. Not the confidential details but the vague answers to the questions he was sure to ask.

He'd be congratulated since it was rare for a newly designated auror to be signed up for a mission.

But during his trip back his mind kept wondering to Lily; she was the only person who made him feel thoroughly confused. He never knew where he stood with her and the feeling was starting to become annoying.

Sooner or later she'll have to come to terms with whatever feelings she had had for him and he knew they existed, she couldn't just have no feelings, the arguments had to have come from somewhere. What he wasn't sure about was whether or not he wanted them to come to light, after all not all feelings were good and there was a fine line between the two emotions and seeking them out will not bode well for either one of them.