What happened next…
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.
Summary: James likes Lily but are his feelings returned? Will Lily ever give in and go out with the marauder or is them even being friends asking too much? These two questions can only lead to confusion, fun, and much more. Rated m for later chapters. R and R.
Author's Notes: Hiya. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Sorry. But here is a chapter to make up for it. Thanks so much to all my reviewers I love you.
Chapter 8
The cars were indeed waiting outside for them and people stared as the teenagers got into the cars. It wasn't exactly common place for a group of teenagers to be picked up in Rolls Royce's. The seating arrangement was the same as last time with the girls in one car and the boys in the other. The girls put their bags in the boot of the car and climbed in.
"So did you guys enjoy the movie?" Lily asked.
"What movie?" Cressida said smirking cheekily.
"Oh yeah I forgot you had your face to Sirius's." Lily said a bit grumpily.
"Oh come on Lily, it was only a bit of fun," Cressida said smiling.
"Yeah whatever," Lily said. It was obvious the fact that Lily was single had finally made her bitter.
"I'm sorry Lily, you must be feeling left out what with us going out with Remus and Sirius," Amaryllis said, always the thoughtful one.
"It's not that I'm not happy for you guys, I am, really happy, but maybe it would be nice for it to just be us for a while." Lily said looking at her friends.
"Okay, that a great idea, lets have a girls night in tonight, just us in our pyjama's eating ice cream talking, like we always do at school." Cressida said warming to the idea immediately.
"Yeah that sounds great," Lily said grinning, her friends never let her down.
"So it's sorted, no boys, just girl time." Amaryllis said. The rest of the car journey was spent with them talking, without the marauders being mentioned once. They arrived at the ugly outside of James' house and got out the car.
The boys were stood waiting as their car had arrived first. James was opening the door and they waited for the girls got out before going in. The girls got out the car and grabbed their bags from the boot. They walked up the drive. Sirius grabbed
Cressida around the waist and went to kiss her. She put her hand up though to stop his lips reaching hers.
"Sorry Sirius honey, its girls night in, no boys interaction, girls only." Cressida said firmly as her friends giggled and walked past them and into the door.
"Sure Cress' I don't mind you having only girls," Sirius said innocently. "But I wouldn't mind watching." He leered disgustingly at her. She slapped him upside his head and strolled into the house after her friends.
They were skipping up the stairs to their rooms to get into their pyjamas. It was only seven in the evening but they wanted to get comfy to slob out.
A house elf came up to her and offered to take her bags to her room for her. She declined, but she did ask the little elf to bring a tub of chocolate ice cream and three spoons and a case of light beer to her room. Then she skipped on up the stairs after her friends.
The boys were left in the foyer of the house looking after the girls.
"Shall we have our own guys night in?" Remus asked.
"Yeah sounds good. I am fed of being the single man, it'd be nice for it to just be us for a while," James said.
"Yeah okay, just us then," Sirius said.
The girls meanwhile were getting dressed into their pyjamas on their separate rooms. Cressida's pyjama's consisted of tight hot pants and a teeny strap top both in a bright shade of pink, she accompanied them with her furry pink slippers.
The house elf arrived in Cressida's room and she grabbed it and went to fetch Amaryllis to meet in Lily's room. Amaryllis jumped when Cressida barged into her room, Amaryllis was just putting on her pyjama top. She was wearing a tight blue tank top and shorts but they were quite as short and tight as Cressida's. Amaryllis had accompanied her pyjama set with a vintage pair of blue leg warmers she had borrows from her Mum's old clothes.
"Ready to go?" Cressida asked.
"Yeah, are we having it in Lily's room then?" Amaryllis asked.
"Yeah for now," Cressida said, obviously having plans for later. The two girls walked down the corridor. They didn't actually know which room was Lily's. They had been too busy looking at their own to see which they had chosen. Cressida looked at all the rooms on the left and Amaryllis looked at all the rooms on the right and finally they got to the end room where Lily resided. She was changed already and had her striped green pyjama bottoms on and matching green strap top on. She looked very innocent with her hair pulled into messy pigtails. She looked like she had when she was younger. Lily looked to her friends when they entered and grinned.
"So are we ready to have a girls night in?" Lily asked.
"You know it," Cressida said jumping on Lily's bed. "Your room is fantabulous Lil's, I wish I had waited and got this one." Cressida said looking around.
"Yeah it is pretty awesome," Lily said getting distracted by the tub of ice cream in her hands. "Is that chocolate ice cream?" Lily asked.
"Of course, Cressida said lying down on the bed, placing the ice cream in the centre of the bed. He friends both joined her and they all lay facing the middle of the bed eating ice cream.
"So," Lily said through a mouth full of ice cream. "What are we up to tonight? I assume the ice cream feast is only part of the festivities."
"Yeah, I figured we could go explore the house, I mean, we've seen about three rooms in this house since we got here. I know there must be tonnes more we haven't seen." Cressida said.
"I don't know Sid, I mean I don't think we should go snooping around in James' house, he didn't want us going above our floor, maybe he'll get upset if he finds out. I mean this was his parents house you don't want to be disrespectful." Lily said seriously.
"Oh come on, I didn't say we had to go upstairs I mean we haven't even looked properly downstairs yet." Cressida said. "How upset can James get, we won't touch anything and we won't go upstairs, there, sorted. Let's go. You two have eaten that ice cream so fast. You're going to have a brain freeze any minute." She said staring at the empty pot of ice cream. He friends grinned greedily. They jumped up happily now high on sugar.
"So should we search the house first and then talk about the boys or should we talk about the boys and then search the house?" Cressida asked.
"Definitely search the house, I have had it up to my neck in marauders lately," Lily said. Her friends nodded and they headed for the door. They were still in their pyjamas so they didn't want to be caught by the boys so they tiptoed about not wanting to draw attention to each other. They soon started to giggle though when Amaryllis started tiptoeing really high in the air.
She then began prancing about like a ballerina. She was pirouetting and leaping about when she tripped over her feet and landed on her bum and wen "Oomph!" quite loudly. The others had to contain their giggles and quickly put their hands over Amaryllis's mouth to stop her saying anything. Cressida and Lily picked Amaryllis up and they carried on to the end of the corridor.
They had no choice but to go downstairs but they had to pass the boys floor so they were extra quiet as they weren't sure whether the boys would be in their rooms or not. They hurried down and out of the main foyer into a door leading off. They went in a direction they hadn't been in before. They carried on through about ten rooms.
They were all very similar mainly sitting areas. They reached on room, which they stopped to look in for a while. It had no furniture in it at all, just large paintings all around the room. They were all men and clearly of the Potter line as they all had James' eyes and his strong chin. They walked to each painting and read the caption underneath.
"Theodore Potter, proud member of Wizengamot, and minister of magic for twenty seven years. Died in battle during the uprising of the evil witch Hestathus (1567-1598)"
"Tarquin Potter, noted intellect, endured two decades discovering the only known way to revive someone from the dead. Was assassinated by a group of dark wizards before his theories were put into public (1645-1692)".
"Mathew Potter, Auror for thirty years, died in the great battle of Harding, said to be the last man standing on the field (1765-1802)."
The girls carried on reading the portraits until they reached the last; it was different from the others, it had two people in it. It was clearly James' parents. The portraits caption read:
Harold, Cecilia Potter, Harold and Cecilia are prominent Aurors in their field, they met in Hogwarts and have since married and had one son James. (1965-...)
The year when they both died had been left free from writing. But it looked like a child had come and scratched in something in its place,
"For ever and ever."
Lily felt a lump rise in her throat. It was obvious James had written this as a child. He had had no idea at the time he would lose his parents. Lily felt as though she had invaded James' privacy. She grabbed her friends and took them onto the next room leaving the room full of pictures behind them. Lily couldn't get it out of her head though, not only had James' parents been killed by dark magic, but it seemed that every member of his family, for generations had had the same fate.
They died fighting.
