Mistake

Chapter 1:

"James!"

A frantic Sirius bounded up the stairs that lead to the head boys room, bursting through the door, he suddenly stopped. Instead of finding his best friend, he had stumbled upon the weeping form of Lily Evans. Lily was sitting on James's bed in a pair of black boxers (James's) and a small, white tank top. At the sight of her scantily clad form, Sirius could not stop an unwanted thought flit across his mind, God she's bloody gorgeous! Sirius shook himself to try and rid himself of this thought and walked across the room to Lily. "What's the matter Lils and where's James?"

Lily jumped slightly, obviously she had not heard him approach. She looked up at him with red, puffy eyes and sobbed, "M-my p-p-parents are d-" but she could not finish the sentence, instead a fresh wave of tears fell from her beautiful green eyes. Sirius understood straight away, he had heard of the latest attack on a group of muggles, obviously Lily's parents had been unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He sank down, next to Lily, onto James's bed. He put one arm around are shaking form and pulled her tight against him.

For and hour this was how the pair remained. Then Lily pulled herself up and looked up at Sirius, "What was it you needed to speak to James about? He left a note explaining where he is. His parents are moving house and he's gone to help them, he's going to be gone all weekend. Is there anything I can help you with?" She looked up hopefully at Sirius, but he hung his head, too ashamed to meet her eyes.

"My brother, Regulus, I've just got some bad news about him,"

Lily stared at Sirius and then timidly asked, "Is he...um..." To her shock Sirius let out a harsh bark of laughter.

"No, he's not dead if that's what you mean. It's much worse than that. He's become a Deatheater." Lily gasped and sat up straight.

"But...I don't understand, isn't he still at school?" Sirius turned slowly to look at her and nodded.

"Lily, most of the Slytherins are either Deatheaters or their parents are. I just never expected Regulus to be stupid enough," a sad smile formed on his face, "my parents will be so proud of him." Lily didn't know how to respond, she had always heard James and Sirius talking of Regulus and how much the disliked him, but she had never thought about the possibility of him becoming a Deatheater and from the sound of it, neither had they. Suddenly she felt a surge of pity for Sirius, he had fought so hard not to become like the rest of his family and now, it was clear from the look on his face that he was worried all his efforts would be for nothing. She gently turned his head, which had turned away from her again, to face her.

"Sirius, listen to me and you listen good. You are nothing like Regulus, or any other member of your family! You are a good person, do you hear me?" Sirius opened his mouth to protest but Lily carried on, "I may think that you can be an arrogant prat sometimes," at this they both smiled, "but you are a good person. If you don't believe me, think of what you've done for Remus. You've risked imprisonment so that he won't be lonely during the full moon. Now tell me, does that sound like the action of a future Deatheater?" Lily broke off and stared expectantly at Sirius, but instead of a response he merely stared at her.

Lily felt a blush creep onto her cheeks and she noticed that lock of silky black hair had fallen into Sirius's eyes. Trying to relieve the intensity in the room she reached up and brushed the lock away. As she leant closer, she caught a scent that reminded her of James, clean with the faint smell of the forest. Suddenly her eyes filled again at the thought of James and a feeling of longing tugged at her heart. She wanted James to be here right now, she wanted him to take her in his arms and comfort the way only he knew how to. A thought crossed her mind as she stared up at Sirius. He's the closest thing to James that I have right now. At the same time Sirius was thinking. She's the closest thing to James. With these thoughts in their minds Sirius leant slowly towards Lily, looking intently at her lips and Lily didn't pull away.

Hahaha cliffie. I want at least 5 reviews before I post the next chapter! Will Lily and Sirius realise what their doing is wrong...or not? Will James ever find out? Keep reading to find out!

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