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: Thanks so much to everyone for reviewing. I just want to say thanks by posting again quicker than I usually do. I haven't got much to say so I'll just give my reviewers a few messages.

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Catty cat: By rocky I just mean their relationship won't be perfect like any relationship. I will add twists and stuff. Hopefully this story will go onto a sequel so there will definitely be some twists to come.

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Chapter 13

She knocked on the door and Amaryllis answered in her pyjamas. She had a towel around her head, a face pack on and was walking funny due to toe separators on her feet.

"What's going on?" Lily asked entering the house and putting her stuff down in the hallway. She entered the lounge and Cressida was sitting on the sofa also in her pyjamas with her feet up on the coffee table with her toenails painted ruby red, her hair was also in a towel and she had a face pack on. She also had a bowl of toffee popcorn that she was munching while watching her favourite movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

"We're having a feel good day, we highlighted our hair, we have nail stuff, we have face packs, we have good wholesome unhealthy food and we have all our favourite movies." Amaryllis said, then she whispered quietly so Cressida couldn't hear, "I thought it would get her mind off Sirius, she seems happier."

Lily nodded then took her stuff upstairs and she got changed into her pyjamas like the other two girls. Lily picked up the same nail polish as Cressida had used and started painting her toenails while she sat on the floor.

She pulled her hair back into a bun and started to smother on some of the green face pack gunk that her friends had used. She could get her friends to highlight her hair later. She got up and sat with her friends on the sofa and they all sat al watched the movie sighing when romantic parts happened and crying when sad bits did.

When the movie ended their face packs had all dried so they all went and washed them off feeling their fresh skin afterwards. They all went back into the lounge afterwards to watch another movie.

"What else did you get 'illis?" Lily asked.

"What do you think?" Amaryllis said smirking. Lily suddenly clicked.

"You got Grease!" Lily squealed jumping up and down.

"You know it!" Amaryllis said jumping up and putting it on. They all then continued to watch Grease, singing and dancing along. Laughing until their sides hurt. Lily was pleased to see Cressida was laughing as well and not being as unhappy as she had been in the last week.

The next few days flew by for Lily, she was having such good fun with her friends, but at the same time she desperately wanted to see James. She hadn't heard from him since she had last seen him and she missed him. Amaryllis seemed to have the same problem because she had received a letter from Remus saying that she can't come round the next few days because he's really busy.

Lily thought this wasn't like Remus and told Amaryllis not to worry. But she did worry as she hadn't seen Remus in a week and a half and he didn't seem so worried about seeing her.

"Maybe he's gone off me or met someone new." Amaryllis said mumbled holding back the tears.

"Of course he hasn't, he loves you silly. He's probably not feeling himself. I bet you its nothing." Lily assured her friend.

"I'm not so sure," Amaryllis said. But she put it to the back of her mind for a while.

The next day after not hearing from Remus Amaryllis decided to go round James' house to see if anything was up. She didn't tell her friends where she was going she instead told them that she was going shopping for a while and that she'd be back in a couple hours.

It took two buses and a taxi to get to James house and finally when she got there she knocked on the door, unsure as to whether she had made the right decision coming. Remus was actually the one to open the door and Amaryllis smiled guiltily at him.

"What are you doing here?" Remus demanded. He looked pale and worn, as though he hadn't slept.

"When I got your letter I was worried there was something wrong so I thought I would check you're okay." Amaryllis said nervously.

"I said you shouldn't come," Remus said a frown appearing on his face.

"You better come in." Amaryllis walked in and they went through into one of the sitting rooms.

"Why didn't you want me to come Remus?" Amaryllis asked.

"I said I was busy Am' why isn't that enough." Remus asked annoyance starting to grow in his voice.

"I'm sorry but that isn't good enough, you blow me off and don't give me a reason. I thought something was wrong. Sorry for caring," she said.

"I didn't ask you to come round," Remus said his temper and voice clearly raised.

"Stop yelling at me Remus, all I was doing was care," she said her own temper rising with his.

"No, all you were doing was checking up on me. Don't you trust me at all?" Remus said standing up from his chair.

"Well I don't know Remus, is there any reason for me not to trust you? I always feel you're keeping something from me. You're always making excuses and stuff and I wonder if there's something I don't know." She said.

"Maybe there is, doesn't mean I have to tell you," Remus shouted.

"So you are keeping a secret, I knew it. What is it that's so bad you can't tell me Remus? Is it someone else? Is that it? You have someone else?" She said, hurt showing though her voice.

"No there isn't anyone else okay? Its nothing to do with something like that. I just don't think you can handle it that's all." Remus said his voice getting quieter.

"I can't handle it!" Amaryllis yelled. "Of course I can, I love you Remus, I don't care, whatever it is I will still love you." She said this without yelling and her voice broke as she tried to hold back tears. Remus looked at her and looked at her. His face was so pale he looked like he was a ghost. He looked at Amaryllis straight in the eye and said in a small voice like a child's almost.

"I'm a werewolf."

"What?" Amaryllis said thinking she had heard him wrong.

"I'm a werewolf Amaryllis, I got bitten as a child and once a month I change in a werewolf. That's what has been happening these last few days. That's why I couldn't see you. This months changes were really tough and I didn't want you to see me like this," Remus said motioning to his sick state.

"Oh Remus," Amaryllis said, it all dawned on her and everything fitted.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you," Remus said, he walked toward Amaryllis and she noticed he stumbled a bit, his face was screwed up as though he couldn't see straight and his hands were shaking.

"Remus are you okay?" Amaryllis said walking towards him. Before she could get to him he suddenly collapsed on the floor in a heap. His body landed with a thud on the floor and he lay there still. Amaryllis froze for a second then realised he needed help.

"James!" she screamed at the top of her lungs whilst moving Remus so that he was lying straight. She checked he was breathing and a slow and steady breath was coming from him.

"James! Sirius!" She carried on screaming. Soon enough both boys came running through the doors to the sitting room and saw Remus lying on the floor with Amaryllis lying next to him.

"What happened?" James asked rushing forward.

"He just fainted while we were talking." Amaryllis said.

"James its probably because…" Sirius said before shutting up because Amaryllis was there.

"Its okay I know about Remus being a werewolf." Amaryllis said quietly. Both boys eyes widened. Then James spoke.

"He lost a lot of blood last night, he got beat up pretty bad during his transformation. We better get him into bed. Amaryllis fetch one of the house elves." James picked up Remus' feet while Sirius got his top half and they both carried him upstairs. They were careful with him as they lay him in his bed. Amaryllis gently pulled off his shoes and socks and the other two boys left her to look after him knowing he was in good hands.

"Call us if you need us Am, we'll be on this floor." James said softly.

"Okay, I will stay with him, he might need a doctor, so maybe you should sort that out." She said looking up at them.

"No I don't think so, Remus would kill us, the doctor would guess about Remus and nobody can know about him." Sirius said sternly.

"But he's really bad," Amaryllis said upset at their disconcert.

"Remus is stronger than most, give him a couple days and he'll be back to normal, he's been worse." James said.

"That doesn't make it right!" she replied brusquely.

"Amaryllis…." James started.

"Just leave, I'll look after him," she said getting up and hurrying them out of the door. She sat at Remus' side and removed some of his clothes so that he'd be more comfortable. She brought his T-shirt up and saw his scared chest. There were numerous scratches, new and old. Amaryllis winced knowing the pain he must have gone through. She

Amaryllis stayed with him until it was dark then realised the girls might be worrying so she went to owl them. She went to find James so she could borrow his owl to write to them. When she walked to his room knocking but no one answered. She pushed the door open and walked in on James and Lily sitting on James' bed watching a movie and eating crisps (chips to American people). Lily saw Amaryllis walk in and stopped eating mid chew.

"'illis what are you doing here?" Lily asked swallowing.

"I could ask you the same thing." Amaryllis said.

"I was… um…" Lily stuttered.

"She was just over looking for you," James cut in quickly. "But I told her you were looking after Remus cause he has the flu and she decided to stay and watch a movie with me." He said all this with a dead straight face without showing the slightest bit that he was bending the truth a bit.

"Yeah that's about it." Lily said smiling sweetly as Amaryllis.

"Ok well I was just coming to owl you so I guess that saves me a job," Amaryllis said. She was so overcome with tiredness and worry for Remus that she didn't even bat an eyelid at her friend's poor excuses.

"Is Remus okay? Can I go see him?" Lily said getting up from her position on the bed.

"Um… no you better not. He doesn't want to see anyone apart from me right now. He's feeling so crap. Better to just leave him alone," Amaryllis reeled off quickly. She left quickly afterwards leaving a slightly startled Lily.

But James took her mind off things by laying a soft kiss on her neck then moving his lips up her neck to her face and then planted them gently on her lips. She sighed contentedly into his mouth and lay onto the bed pulling him down with her not letting him break their kiss. He half lay on top of her kissing her slowly and gently savouring every kiss. Lily pushed her hands into his soft hair and swirled her fingers around his messy locks. James groaned, his weak spot obviously his hair. Lily grinned and tugged slightly harder on his hair pulled James' head back so she could kiss his neck. She ran her hands under his shirt feeling his muscular back running her cold fingers up and down his spine. He shuddered and pulled his lips just above Lily's not quite touching.

"You drive me crazy," he whispered.

"Well we wouldn't want that now would we?" Lily said smirking and getting up off the bed and straightening her clothes.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"Home. Cressida will be waiting for me," she said pulling her hair roughly off her neck and tying it in a bun. James crawled to the end of the bed and sat with his legs dangling off the edge pouting.

"Do you have to?" he asked.

"Yes, I do. If Amaryllis is staying here then I had better go keep Cressida company at home. I still haven't told her about us. She's too fragile right now so I just want to be there for her." She kissed James on the end of his nose and giggled at his face then she skipped out the room. James remained sitting on the bed, when she left the room he lay down on the bed and sighed contentedly.

Lily made him feel better, at the start of the summer he had been so down about being in this house but with her there, it had made it all better. He couldn't believe she had made him feel anything. It seemed that since his parents had gone, he had been numb, totally cold. He had acted the same after a year or so. Back to marauder ways. But he still didn't feel anything. She made him feel warm and he liked it.