White Stag

Lily left feeling better but still somewhat guilty. She was also very hungry. She told James that and he laughed. "Well, come with me then, Lils." That made her almost giddy- the use of her nickname meant James wasn't mad at her anymore.

He led her down so many different corridors she quickly got completely lost. Finally they stopped at a wall with a huge picture of a bowl of fruit on it.

"James... what are we doing?" Lily asked.

James smiled. "Watch this." He tickled the pear. It started giggling, then turned into a huge doorknob. "Tada. The secret to all those after-Quidditch parties." He pulled on the doorknob.

She gasped. "House-elves!" She had only seen a house-elf once before, at Sarah's, and her family had only had one. There must have been over a hundred here.

"You coming or not, Lils?" James asked.

She blinked, then realized she was just standing there staring. "Oh. Yeah."

"Watch it, there's a step there," he said, pointing down.

"Mister Potter!" squeaked the closest house-elf as they came in. "And a friend!"

James winked at the house-elf, who giggled. "Kitty, this is Lily Evans. Lils, this is Kitty."

Kitty looked up at Lily. "Would you like some food, Miss Evans?"

"Um..." Lily looked over at James.

"Can we just have some scones, Kitty?" he asked. Kitty nodded and ran off. "Thanks!" he called after her. "C'mon, Lils, there's a table right over here."

"You here a lot?" she said, following him to the table and sitting down. He laughed.

"Just a little. No, you're right. We come down here all the time."

Kitty scurried back with a basket of scones and handed them to James. "Thanks a lot Kitty, you're the best!" said James with a smile.

"Anything for Mister Potter and his Lily!" she said, smiling back at them both.

James and Lily both blushed.

"Umm... Kitty, she's not-" But Kitty had already gone off to do her next job. "Right. Uh..." James shrugged.

Lily laughed and took a scone. "So..." She suddenly had absolutely nothing to say.

"Um, Lils... Hogsmeade's week from today, and I was wondering if you wanted to go... just as friends, of course," he added hurriedly.

She turned her scone over and over. "I'd love to go," she said finally, "but does it have to be just as friends?"

Well. This is going to be the end. But I am going to get started on a sequel. As soon as I get this posted.

Thank you SO MUCH for all the encouragement,HG and Jeevesandwooster. I'm glad you liked it so much and I hope you read the sequel.
Actually, since you liked it so much, I'm pretty sure you will. :crosses fingers:

The 'Mister Potter and his Lily' thing was inspired by 'Mister Potter and his Wheezy' or whatever Dobby calls Ron. I think it was Wheezy. Anyways. I own nothing except Sarah (who was in this much less than I planned) and now Kitty. Kitty is definately going to be in the sequel... which, by the way, is going to start in Hogsmeade and hopefully be much less angsty. But there'll have to be some angst, cause Sirius is going to be in it. And we all know Sirius doesn't like Lily. :sigh:

Thanks again, everybody. :thumbs-up: