You Never Forgot Me.


Chapter 2

When Lily arrived to the leaky cauldron with Christina, they had found that their punctual friends were... punctual. They walked in smiling, as the hot air from the crowded pub blew in their faces. Seeing the faces of her many friends brought Lily a sense of comfort.. Lily blushed as the women fawned over her ring and the men over her dress. She smiled at them, thinking that in less than two months; she would be 'Mrs. Darcy Andrews.' She grinned as Christina's boyfriend, Seth, whisked her away with a quick hello to Lily. The bride-to- be roamed around the full Leaky Cauldron, trying to find her fiancée.

She looked over the crowd of people to see her fiancée talking to a large group of men. She just smiled absently as she stared at him. His tall 6'4, 210 lbs. made him strong and rough to the world. However, Lily knew that he was nothing but the sweetest man she could have ever hoped to married. His blonde hair that fell over his eyes, which were a cool blue, that just made you feel safe all over. She smiled as he kept a conversation with a few mates of his; he turned looked at her and smiled sweetly. She grinned back at him, but turned her attention to some one asking where the 'Loo' was. She directed the man, and in no time at all, some one grabbed her from behind and kissed her on the cheek softly.

"Perfect." He whispered in her ear as she giggled.

"Darcy." She greeted.

"Darcy? I'm not Darcy." she turned around to see her dearest friend Remus Lupin standing there, a cheeky grin across his face.

"REMUS!" she cried as she jumped into his arms.

"Lily, my friend." He greeted, as they hadn't seen each other in over a year.

"Merlin, how are you? You look wonderful." She cried as they looked over each other, even though Lily noticed that he had gotten skinner. However, he put on a sly smile even though he knew she noticed.

"Don't I?" he asked, she laughed as they walked over to the bar. "Well, thanks for inviting me to your engagement party." He quipped at her, she blushed crimson.

"I really did want to, but I had no idea where you were, every time I send an owl to your place, he comes back with nothing. I assumed that you moved, and didn't tell me." she told him with a raised eye brow,

"That's alright." He said taking a few of the snacks offered at the bar, "I did move, so, it is my fault. Sorry bout that love."

"How did you know I was engaged any way?" she questioned him.

"I didn't, I was in the area when I came in here and saw you. So I decided to surprise you. But this is no real surprise, I saw how quickly Darcy fell for you." She laughed at her good friend and hit him softly on the chest.

"Yes, all thanks to you."

"Well... I do give many wonders to this world." He told her, a smug look coming over his features, she smiled and shook her head.

"Well, it is good to see you."

"Same here Lily dearest."

"Are you going to stay long?"

"No, I cant," he told her apologetically. "You know. full moon is tomorrow, so I am off to Hogsmead." The young man then started turning pink himself. He was still so self-conscious about his being a werewolf.

"I wish you would. I mean, it is because of you that I am even engaged. But you have to do what you have to do."

"Isn't it the truth." He looked around to see a man staring intently at the two, he smiled and waved at him. "Darcy is always a jealous bloke" he questioned as the man realized it was Remus and waved back. Lily looked over rolling her eyes.

"Yes, but he is the best"

"Yes, yes, you are welcome." He joked. "I think you two will be very happy." he retorted nodding his head in approval, Lily smiled.

"You know what, I think I will be."

"Well, Lily, I must away, have things to settle before I can disappear completely." He stood up, and gave Lily a huge hug.

"Owl me soon." She said as he pulled away, and began to walk toward Diagon alley.

"Will do. Bye." And he turned and walked away.

"Was that Remus?" came Darcy, taking her hand.

"Yea, poor thing, couldn't stay." She said smiling. "Good chap he is."

"Well, that's ok then. Thought it was some man to come and sweep you off your feet." He joked, Lily turned to him, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"You are the only one for me." she told him sweetly. He smiled and kissed her softly.

"C'mon love, so many are just aching to meet you." she smiled as he led her around the pub, meeting and greeting so many. Not even noticing when a group of 4 walked in through the door.

James and Sirius, along with their girlfriends, Adrian Hurst and Amiéle de Musis, were surprised by the amount of people already The Leaky Cauldron. The place felt hot, and it was packed form wall to wall. The guys looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Just like Darcy to have a huge party." Came Sirius, hanging his and Amiéle's coat.

"Really. The man is loaded, so, you have to give it to him."

"Where is he?" asked Adrian taking James' hand. He began to scour over the place looking for his 6'4 boss. Spotting his blond hair he pointed,

"That's him. A great chap he is."

"Merlin's beard, is that his fiancée?" asked Sirius, looking at the red head, with her back to them. James peered over to see her flipping her hair, and shifting her weight from one leg to the other.

"Darcy was right, her body is to die for." James whispered as they walked over to the bar for a drink.

"Ziriuz,ave you met 'is fiancée?" she asked in her thick French accent, he shook his head.

"Never. But he talks about her constantly." He retorted shrugging.

"Well, I need to use the ladies room for a moment, Amiélle, will you come?" asked Adrian, as she nodded, and followed her out. The guys then turned around and surveyed the people. Which was a hard job since every one was so squished together. Sirius looked over the sea of people, and in an instant, he saw a girl pushing her hair back form her face. He looked, and saw - what looked like- Christina Greer. She looked a round for a moment, and then turned back. Sirius shook his head, and leaned over to James.

"Does that look like... Christina?" he asked him, James turned around and looked to where he was pointing, but saw no one.

"I don't see any one." He told him, Sirius looked back and shook his head.

"Must have been... well, whatever. Lets get a drink." And the two men turned their backs to the crowed, just as Christina looked over toward them shaking her head as well.


"I feel like a piece of meat." Lily told Christina after a few hours into the party. The windows had long been opened, and a cooling spell had been placed around the smallish pub. The two girls sat at a near by table as their respective other got involved into a conversation of the latest Quidditch match against Ireland. Lily and Christina shook their heads, thinking from boys to men; they never really did change. So, they developed their own conversation of wedding plans, and ideas for the flat after Lily would leave. But, unfortunately, Lily was dragged away from her cousin, as Darcy took her across the bar.

"I see my mates from work." He told her, as she tried to mingle with the people she passed by.

"Oh really." She replied absently, as she stopped and talked to Darcy's sister.

"Van." he whined softly, she looked at him with a knowing glance. "Ok, I will bring them to you." he said as he walked off, Lily looked at her sister to be and smiled.

"Just like a little boy." She joked, Lisa Andrews laughed softly.

"Try living and going to school with him all your childhood. Believe me, he was more of a crier when we were young." The girls giggled softly, as his voice boomed over the crowd, his intoxicating laugh making every one smirk.

"He really does love you." Lisa told her softly, Lily looked at her and smiled.

"He does?" she asked but knowing the answer. She sighed.

"I think more than any one ever will, Lily." The bride to be only smiled.

"Vanessa." Came his wonderful voice. "I want you meet my work colleagues." Lily turned around to lock eyes with piercing blue. In that instant, she found herself face to face with James Potter. "This is James Potter, and Sirius Black. Guys, this is Lily Evans, or Vanessa as I like to call her." Darcy told them as he wrapped his arms around her. Lily and James kept their eyes locked, as Darcy seemed to rattle on with only Merlin knows what. Both speechless, both completely in shock of seeing each other after 5 years, both searching for something that still might be there after all this time. It's James Potter, Lily told her self, those are his eyes, his nose, his hair, his strong arms, his perfect lips, his strong chin, his. everything. The red head had nothing to say, how could she, she didn't know whether to hug him, or stand there awkwardly like she already was. Lily's eyes shifted over to Sirius who had the same look of astonishment, confusion, and was that... satisfaction?

"LIL!" shouted Christina as she made her way toward them, her boyfriend Seth close behind with his arm around her. "You got to hear this joke Allistar just told us. Go ahead love." She told her smiling; Lily looked at her and smiled a bit.

"Ok Lils, this guy and girl go into a bar."

"Oh Seth, always with the dirty jokes?" Lily asked,trying to not think of the two men standing next to her. This was all a dream, she told herself, and this was all a dream.

"Of Course! Lily, you know I love them dirty." She joked as she kissed his cheek. "Now, let him finish."

"Yes, I want to hear this." Came the voice of Sirius, Christina looked up with a smile, but a double take made it vanish in an instant. Her mouth fell open as she stared back at Sirius Black, in the flesh.

"Hello Christina." He said softly, as his dark eyes fixed on her intently. Christina's eyes searched him for a moment, trying to see if this was just some prank, a nightmare or a dream come true. An awkward silence fell over the 6, as every thing was passing by them, but their moment had stopped.

"Am I missing something?" asked Darcy. "You guys know each other."

"Well... uh..." they all started, before Lily cut in.

"We where... uh... Hogwarts ... friends." she told him smiling.

"OH? So, you two know Remus then?"


"I feel all cramped." Came James as he sat at the bar with Sirius. They had been there for a few hours now, and hadn't even talked to Darcy, who was going around, being the social butterfly he was. So, instead, they sat and waited around as their girlfriends went around talking with any face they recognized.

"Tell me about, I have been hit in the shoulder 4 times already." Sighed Sirius as he took a sip from his drink. James looked over at him to see him in that far off look again, the same one he got after he thought he saw Christina. James nudged him a bit and took him from his place.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." He said weakly, James gave him a knowing look. "it's just that... I was just thinking about her, that's all."

"I know, but. it has been 5 years." He told him, even though he was in the same place.

Thinking of the red head he saw earlier standing next to Darcy, what Sirius had said that it just maybe Lily that was marrying Darcy, it made his stomach turn. How was he supposed to react to the fact that maybe, in some cruel world, his Lily was going to marry a man he could never compete with. Darcy Andrews was the best man he had ever known, next to Albus Dumbledore of course.

"I know! It seems ridiculous. She is probably married with like 10 children, none of them mine. Just got me thinking that's all." He replied with a weak smile. His best friend nodded a bit.

"I know exactly what you mean." And the boys slumped back onto their stools, to think about their woes.

"GENTLEMEN!" came a voice, then a huge slap on the back, the two men went forward and turned back to see the cheeky grin of Darcy.

"Darce!" came James, standing up and giving him a handshake.

"Jim." He greeted playful as James rolled his eyes.

"I hate that."

"I know. Sirius! Hey, have a nice relaxing weekend?"

"Hopefully followed by a full relax week." Replied Sirius taking his hand and shaking it as well. Darcy laughed loudly, and every one around smiled a bit, it was rather contagious.

"Yes yes, you know I keep my word. I however, am off to Egypt, someone is trying to break in to all the Pyramids, and they want me on the job."

"So, you will be off again so soon?"

"Yes, I will, and leave my fiancée behind. By the way, come with me, I want you all to meet her." He told them excitedly, as he pushed his way through the crowd. "She is a sweet girl, I think you guys will like her."

"Sure we will." Came Sirius, poking James in the ribs, he furrowed his brow.

"It's not going to be Lily, you wanker." He growled at him as Darcy came to a stop.

"Vanessa." He said to her, the men tried to look over his shoulder, but with his huge stature, it was nearly impossible. "I want you meet my work colleagues." He turned around, and with him brought a beautiful red head. Immediately, James locked eyes with her, and found the green he used to drown in as a boy. In that instant, he found himself face to face with Lily Evans. "This is James Potter, and Sirius black. Guys, this is Lily Evans, or Vanessa as I like to call her."

James heard Sirius step back a little, as they both realized that their jokes of her being his fiancée were proved true. There was a horrible awkward silence, but James couldn't tear himself away. He didn't know what to do exactly. He wanted to say hello as if nothing was bothering him, but something was. It was the fact that she was getting married, and it wasn't to him. However, he thought that the pain of her leaving him was long gone, that he had in fact moved on. Yet being here, right in front of her, looking so much more beautiful than he could have ever remembered, it was impossible. She was here, the love of his life was right in front of him.

And when a loud obnoxious voice was heard, Sirius looked over Lily's head to see Christina Greer coming toward them, some man wrapped around her. After coming out of his trance of thinking that damn, he was good. He found himself lost in looking at Christina. So that was her, he said to himself as she and that man began talking to Lily.

'She looks beautiful.' He breathed softly, as he smiled at Lily. He wanted to yell, to jump, to make her look at him, and see what she was missing all her life, so he could look at her and see what he was missing all his life. When she started to laugh and telling Lily that 'you know I love them dirty.' His blood boiled. Sirius Black never was a jealous man, he took everything with a grain of salt. However, looking at her now, how beautiful she was, and thinking that only if it was him who now had her in his arms, he knew that being jealous was something he was going to have to learn to deal with.

"Yes," he started softly, "I want to hear this." Christina looked at him quickly, but did a double take. She locked eyes with him for a moment before moving them to another spot.

"Hello Christina." He said softly, trying to make her look into his eyes. He knew what she was doing, she was afraid of something. He knew Christina too well to know that she was afraid when she didn't look into your eyes. 'Look at me Christina.' He said in his head.

'Please, just one more time.'

Don't look him in the eye, don't look him in the eye." Christina told her self, as Lily began to tell Darcy (awkwardly) that they were all old Hogwarts friends. How could Christina look him in the eye, this was Sirius Black, the man she compares every other too. Besides, if she did look him in the eye, she knew what she would do, she would fall in love with him right then and there. She did it when she was 16, there was nothing stopping her from doing it now. So she kept her head down, or on James, who smiled awkwardly at her. 'Just don't look him in the eye, just don't look him in the eye."


Chapter 3

"So, you guys know Remus?" asked Darcy as grabbed a drink from a friend.

"Yea, he was one of our best mates at school." Replied Sirius who was the only one with working vocal chords.

"Oi, he really is the best. Stopped by a little while ago, but ran off just the same." The told them as he took a swig of beer. "Even though, he would have to be our guest of honor, he was the one who helped me make up my mind on getting serious with Vanessa." James looked up at Darcy with a confused face,

"What? R-Remus told you what?"

"Yea. It was, what a year ago."

"And he just told you to marry her?" he asked a bit more harshly this time. Christina looked over at Lily and nudged her a bit, a look of pure guilt was written all over the red head's face.

"Well, not exactly, we were sitting in a small pub right out side of Surrey, I rattling on like I do about Vanessa, when he said that if I love her so much, just take the chance. He knew she was one in a million, so I looked at him and asked him if he was sure. He sighed and said that he knew a man once, who fell in love, but took his chance to late. And that guy realized that by the time he got to be with her, she was already too in love with some one else. Said that, if I didn't do this know, that I would regret it for the rest of my days, just like the guy he knows does now." He smiled as he kissed lily on the head again. "Not soon after, I asked Vanessa to marry me, and she said yes."

"Really?" came Sirius, looking at James who had a look of pure betrayal.

"Really." Darcy smiled as he looked over all his friends who seemed to be oddly quiet. He gave Sirius an odd look, and was replied with a weak smile.

"What is wrong with you all?" came Seth, looking at Christina strangely. "I would assume that being friends for all your years in Hogwarts, you would want to rattle on about each other."

"Uh... sure..." Replied James as he rubbed the back of his head. Darcy gave a loud sigh,

"You are all acting very weird. Is there something you all aren't telling me?" the four looked at each other and replied.

"No." they exclaimed in unison. Darcy held up his hands, furrowing his brow at Seth.

"Ok, Ok. Merlin, I was just asking." Shaking his head and looking at his watch. "Any who, if you don't mind, Seth and I have some business to take care of. So you all reminisce and we will be back in a short few." He told them as he signaled for Seth to follow, he nodded and let go of Christina.

"Be right back, love." He told her softly as he kissed her on the forehead. James looked over at Sirius who began to size Seth up; he leaned over and whispered.

"You can take him." Sirius shook his head and rolled his eyes.

"I don't care." He snapped quickly and- at least to James- a bit crest fallen. Looking back at the girls, they noticed they looked at each other, desperately wanting to protest.

"But... oh." Started Lily. "You don't need me for anything?"

"No love, I will call for you in a few." And with another nod, he and Seth were gone, leaving the 4 in an even deeper awkward silence.

So there they stood, 5 years older, all in respective relationships, feeling as though some one had sent them back to when they were teenagers just torture. None of them could figure out what to say, whether to start by saying where the hell have you been for 5 years, or hello. All sounds of people around them, laughing, talking, and basically getting pissed were all drowned out. Heartbeats were racing, and temperatures where rising. Sirius began to rock back and forth, as Christina began to look toward the ceiling, as if asking the gods for help. James had suddenly found a loose string on his sweater to be the topic of his interest, and Lily began to search for some one who would whisk her away so this meeting would pass. Soon enough, Lily and Sirius caught eyes and a small smile was shared. Thinking to herself, 'this is Sirius. It won't be as awkward,' she began to talk.

"So."

"So." replied Sirius.

"Uh... how is every thing?"

"Good, good. You?"

"Just fine. Things have been picking up." Sirius sighed.

"Work?" he asked her. "What do you do now?"

"Oh, uh, Christina and I work in the Department of International Magical Cooperation" she retorted, nodding her head. "Rather dull, but it pays the bills." He grinned a bit.

"No need to ask what we do." Sirius said to her, as he saw that lily had gone quiet and awkward again. "We work with Darcy."

"Yes." Sirius looked at James and Christina who had gone quiet and were fidgeting as well, tilted his head toward lily and said,

"Why dose this have to be so weird?" he asked, signaling to the whole group, Lily shrugged and let her shoulders drop a bit from its tense position.

"I don't know, I mean, it's been 5 years."

"But... we are all friends here right?" asked Christina, they all gave a small sigh and nodded their heads.

"We are all friends." Replied James, he then walked up to Christina "its good to see you again." she smiled and gave him a hug.

"Its wonderful to see you again too James." They broke apart and looked over at Sirius and Lily. Sirius smiled and turned to the red head.

"LILY!" he yelled, taking her into a huge hug and lifting her from the ground. Lily grew red from embarrassment and laughed at her old friend.

"I missed you too Sirius." She told him in between laughs. As he let her slip to the ground, the four faced each other, and the awkwardness returned.

"Not there yet, eh?" came Sirius looking at Christina intently. She shook her head slightly.

"Not quiet yet." She replied to him, but let a smile escape her lips.

"You look good though, years did you well."

"Thank you Sirius. You don't look too bad yourself." He grinned.

"Would you expect anything less?" she laughed lightly, she looked back at Sirius and for a moment looked into his eyes. But before she could get to thinking she caught her self and averted them to his shoulder. 'Not they're yet' he said again.

"James." Said Lily as Sirius and Christina began to talk lightly. He just kept his eyes on her and replied, almost in a whisper.

"Lily."

At that moment, all James could think of was Lily. After 5 years, here she was right in front of him, marrying his boss. He didn't know whether to be angry, happy, surprised, quiet, but he settled for confused. It was a bit better as the initial surprise of seeing each other wore off, yet as his eyes traveled over her, he found his locket lying sweetly on her sweet pale flesh. When he looked back to her face, their eyes met again. He shifted his eyes down to her neckline, turning red meant that she knew what he meant. She lifted her hand; the one with the huge diamond mounted on it, and tucked the chain away. Shifting her eyes away from him.

"How are you?"

"Good." He sighed, wishing he had the guts to do what he desperately wanted to do.

"Works great, and life is good. How about you? When did you get back from traveling." She smiled softly at him and replied.

"About 2 years ago." She said mater - a- factly, he nodded his head.

"Ah."

"Yea. It was great though. We went all over, it really is beautiful out there. Best thing that happened to me; to tell you the truth." He nodded his head in reply, so anywhere with out me was the best thing? He asked in his head as he kept his eyes on her.

"James... I..." She started, but before he could hear the declaration of her love, (hey, James was a dreamer) Darcy had stepped onto the bar table and began to make a scene.

"My friends." He called over the sea of people. Heads began to turn as they watched the rather handsome man smile broadly. Lily and Christina gave each other knowing glances.

"Darcy. Always making an ass of him self, eh?" joked Sirius poking Lily in her ribs, she shook her head.

"You have no idea."

"My friends." He started again, rather red in the face. "I want to thank all of you for coming to mine, and my sweet wonderful fiancée, Vanessa, engagement party! We have loved seeing all of your handsome, and some not so handsome faces." There was a bit of laughter, and a bit of shocked faces as they watched Darcy laugh at his own joke. "Good one? I know. Any way. I just wanted to announce that I have finally made my decision for my best men on my wedding day." There was a hush that came over the pub as all eyes focused on Darcy. It was said that he was one of the best men around, and that the fact of being considered so close to him was a joy. A handsome wealthy, talented in his job, he really was a catch, to any woman. or man in some cases. "So, on Saturday, May 21, the men that will be standing beside me will be." he looked over the whole pub and let the silence take over the sea of people. "Seth Gresham, and Sirius Black." Applause broke out over the pub as Seth stood beside Darcy.

Sirius actually hadn't thought in a million years that he would have chosen him. Yes, they did get on very well, and they always went out for drinks, more so than he did with James. But he. His best man? Next to that git Seth, who now was dating Christina? He just stood there a stunned face as he swore he heard a girl calling him over the sea of people.

"'Ziriuz!"

"C'mon mate, don't be shy." Coaxed Darcy, as James nudged him up to bar. He walked slowly as he made his way through the crowd. "By the look on his face, I suspect you didn't know I was going to choose you?" joked Darcy as he stood in front of him; Sirius swallowed the huge amount of spit in his throat and replied.

"No idea."

"Yes, well I felt that we get on just so well and since I don't have any brothers of my own, I might as well choose the bloke I spend the most time with on the road." He smiled. "And Seth here is a great chap. Spend loads of time with him since he is dating Christina, and we got to know each other well over the year he has been with her. So it was the perfect match." Sirius looked at Seth again with hard eyes.

"I see." He said sharply, but it didn't come out that way to Seth, since he could hardly hear him any way. He just smiled a huge grin, and Sirius began to look him over. About 6'0, he had a rather big build, tanned, with light blue eyes, and red hair, he looked rather nice to any female that crossed his way. But to Sirius, he hated him already.


A/n: Chapter 2 and 3. Thats pretty much it. I hoped you enjoy it! And still working on You Never Saw Me. So be patient!

Love,

Yvette S