You Never Forgot Me.
Chapter 3
"Merlin." Came Christina as Sirius name was called. "This is not good, this is really not good." She said to Lily, she nodded as Darcy began to rattle on again.
"Sorry old girl." She told her patting her on the back.
"With any hope, they will spend more time with you than with Me." she said hopefully, Lily shrugged.
"I don't mind, I like both of them really."
"You know Lily, this isn't going to be so good for you either." She told her, with a sly smile. Lily looked at her and rolled her eyes.
"How so, this is your ex fiancée, and your boy friend, working together." Christina smiled sweetly.
"As true as that may be. You know Sirius doesn't go anywhere with out James, so with he around so much, that will bring James around so much. So, Ms. Evans, how do you think he will feel when Sirius, Seth, Darcy, and James, go out to pick a suit, or a wedding ring at that." By the time Christina had finished, she had gone pale white.
"Oh no." She said in disbelief. "That means. they will be spending time with . . ."
"That's right. They sure will."
Lily sighed as she watched Darcy, Seth, and Sirius began talking. Darcy seemed to be completely clueless to the attitude that Sirius was showing Seth, as he as well noticed his harshly words. Christina looked over at Lily and shrugged.
"You will get it worse that me." came Lily. "Looks like something still lingers there for you."
"No." came Christina shaking her head. "It has been 5 years, I don't think that . . ."
"Don't you still feel it . . . even a bit . . ."
"No comment." Came Christina sighing. "I am gonna get a drink, want one?"
"No, I am going to go get some air or something. I will see you later." Christina shrugged, as Lily turned and started walking towards the steps leading up to the rooms on the second floor. She desperately needed to get her mind set, every time she tried to think about Darcy, James' face of betrayal popped in her mind. Was it good to see him after all these years? Should she be thinking about him as much as she really was? Was he going to be like Sirius and get jealous? Lily shook her head, she just wanted to get some time alone. Pushing past the many people, she almost ran into a girl with brown hair and a fair complexion.
"No!" said the girl as she grabbed Lily by the arm. "Lily? Lily Evans?" she asked her, eyes wide. Lily looked at the girl queerly, and replied.
"Uh. Yes . . . Hello."
"Oh Merlin! How have you been?"
"Engaged." She told her simply; wishing this perky girl would leave her alone.
"Well, I realize that now. Merlin, how good it is too see you again!"
"Uh. do I know you?" asked Lily a bit annoyed. The girl looked awe struck and then laughed a bit.
"Why Lily, it's me Adrian . . . Adrian Hurst." She said with a hopeful face. Lily thought for a moment before shaking her head lightly. "Oh . . . uh . . . I was in 6th year when you were in 7th."
"I think I remember you . . " Lily told her uncertainly, she smiled.
"I gave James the watch . . during Christmas, when you lost your memory." Lily smiled a bit, trying to rattle her brain to remember Adrian.
"Oh . . . OH!" came Lily in sudden realization. "Adrian! That's right . . . uh . . . how are you?" Lily asked half heartedly as her head began to ache horribly."
"Just fine."
"That's . . . great. Are you here alone?"
" Actually I' here with . . ."
"That's nice. You know can we continue this another time? My head hurts terribly."
"Uh . . . ok then Lily." she told he with hurt in her eyes, Lily smiled weakly, and made her way up the steps.
As Lily slowly made her way up the steps of the Leaky cauldron, she felt like with each step, her headache began to grow a bit stronger. She shook her head, as a thought that this has happened before flew through her thoughts, yet, that was quickly shaken off when she reached the top floor. Looking around she saw that all the doors of the rooms had been opened, realizing that when Darcy Andrews meant he was going to rent out the Leaky Cauldron, he was going to rent the WHOLE place, rooms and all. Happy that a charm won't be needed to open a door, she walked into the one nearest. Entering the small room, she quickly shut the door and leaned her head against it. She cringed a bit, as her headache intensified from the middle of her eyes to the back of her neck. Lily breathed heavily and pushed her back to the door.
"Are you ok?" came a voice, and Lily was shocked to see James sitting on the bed. She looked at him and nodded slightly.
"Headache." She told him as she rubbed her head a bit. James nodded and walked toward her.
"You can take it if you like?" he offered kindly, Lily nodded and gave a weak smile.
"Thank you." with her headache increasing at the rate it was, she didn't even notice when James took her hand and led her toward the bed, sitting her down gently.
"Is there anything I can do?" he asked kneeling in front of her, she closed her eyes and waved him toward the window.
"Open that, please."
He nodded in response and quickly opened the window that faced the alley between the small pub and the Muggle bookshop next to it. He looked out, as the cool night sky took over the city of London. The stars in the sky sparked as moon shown brightly. James sighed quietly, thinking it to himself.
"This isn't just by accident."
"James." Lily called softly; he quickly turned to see her looking at him, interest in her eyes. "Is everything alright with you?"
"Its good." He told her as he walked toward the bed. "Job. great of course. and life turned out well, for the most part."
"That's nice." She told him, easing a bit, and for the moment headache forgotten. "I..."
"Why didn't you come and find me when you came back?" he asked suddenly, as he sat on the far corner of the bed. Lily looked at him, watching as his pleading eyes bore into hers. She sighed and shook her head shrugging lightly.
"I-I figured you had moved on. . . or something." She told him sheepishly. He sighed and closed his eyes. "How come you did come find me?" she then questioned, he quickly looked away and shrugged to himself.
"Didn't know when you would come back. Thought . . . maybe . . . you had forgotten me."
"I never forgot you, James." she told him quietly.
"Then why are you marrying Darcy?" he asked suddenly moving closer to her.
"I had to move on, James." She told him with hurt in her eyes. "I mean, yes, I loved you, very dearly. And there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about you when I was away. But, I couldn't help but feeling that, I would be holding onto nothing."
"But that's not true." He told her in his defense. "I was miserable when you first left. Then Christina left Sirius, and we found that we became miserable together."
"But James." came Lily with a woeful sigh. "I remember that . . . when I left, Christina had told me that you had been seeing someone already. I mean, how was I supposed to respond to something like that? I know, it was probably some fling. . . I don't know, but it did hurt--greatly." Lily sighed as she watched James face fall from hopeful, to woeful, to guilty.
"But it has been 5 years." He retorted to her softly, she shook her head.
"And we have moved on. I mean, you have to have a girlfriend, don't you?"
"No." he retorted quickly, not even thinking about what he had just said.
"Well, then it is your choice, James."
"But I made my choice a long . . ." but he was quickly cut off, when Lily had grabbed her head in pain. She began to take in sharp breaths of air as she cradled her head.
"Lily!" came James coming to her side. "Lily, what's wrong?" he asked quickly, not sure of what to do. Her breaths began faster and deeper, as she began to rock back and forth.
"Air." She said quickly during another sharp intake. "Get-me-to-the- window." She told him quickly. He nodded as he slowly picked her up; he saw her face wince in pain
"Too fast?" he asked, she nodded her head ever so slightly, but James saw it clearly.
"Alright, I am going to take you carefully over there, can you make it? Do you need magic."
"No." she told him softly. "I just need some air." So James slowly walked Lily to the window, where she let her hands drop to grip the sill.
"You ok, Lil?" he asked softly as he rubbed her back softly She tilted her head to look at him.
"James I-" but when Lily froze and again James' wish for her declaration of her love for him fell through, he began to worry.
"Lily?" he asked as he watched her body begin to tremble. "Lily?" he asked more fervently. "What's wrong?" he asked, as she kept her eyes out side. Lily then slowly began to back up, as a look of pure terror flew across her features.
"No." she whispered quietly. "This isn't happening again."
James watched as Lily then hit the back wall and slumped to the ground. Looking outside, and seeing no one, he turned back to her, as she began to shake more violently.
"Christina." She yelled to James. "Its happening again! They are back- didn't I tell you."
"Lily, its me, James."
"They will see you. Christina get down!" she yelled at him again, as her face flushed, still body trembling. "Get me out of her Chris!" she yelled at him, as she began to cry.
"Lily."
"They will find me . . . it will happen again. I can't let them . . . get me out of here . . ."
James watched as Lily began to push herself against the wall, body trembling, tears pouring down her eyes as she kept calling him Christina and telling her they found her.
"What's wrong?"
"Please . . . I need to get out of here, Christina." She then stood up and raced to the bathroom, shutting herself in. James terrified, and utterly confused raced down the stairs and pushed his way toward Christina, with out so much as making any one look at him.
"Christina." He said hurriedly. Christina looked at him.
"James, what's wrong?" she asked setting down her drink.
"Its Lily . . . I don't know what's wrong with her." He told her in panic; she looked at him queerly.
"Calm down James. Tell me, what is going on?" he signaled her to follow him and Sirius, standing not to far from them, followed.
"She keeps telling me that they are back, and that is happening all over again." Christina stopped mind step and stared at James eyes wide, mouth opened slightly.
"Did she get a headache?" she questioned.
"Yea, that's why she was in there in the first place."
"Damn it!" Christina yelled as he raced the rest of the way up the steps.
"What's going on?" asked Sirius completely lost.
"I have no clue, but Lily is acting weird, it is scaring the hell out of me." The three entered the room and Christina looked around.
"Where is she? Oh God where is she?" James looked at her and replied.
"She locked herself in the bath room." Christina shook her head in relief, "thank Merlin." She then quickly went to the door and began to knock on the door.
"Lily!" she yelled.
"NO!" came a terrified voice. "Please."
"Merlin!" cried Christina leaning her head on the door. She looked at the boys, who were standing their awe struck. "What the hell!" she cried to them, making them jump 10 inches.
"Either you get out, or lock door!" The boys, wanting to be of help to the girls at the moment, locked the door soundly as Christina took out her wand. "Alo-" she stopped and quickly raced to the window. "James," she asked him "Did you see any one out there?"
"No. . . no one." Christina closed her eyes and shook her head.
"Damn it. Lock this window, and stay by it. Don't you leave it when she comes out." he nodded quickly, and locked and guarded the window.
The two men watched as the brown haired woman, took her wand again and pointed it at the doorknob.
"Alohamora." She whispered softly, when a click was heard; she rushed in there. The sound of a small scream was made and suddenly it stopped. There was shuffling and the sound of the bathroom curtain being scraped against the hangers.
"Sirius." Called Christina as she came out the bathroom. "Pick her up, bring her out here. She is fine." Sirius quickly nodded and walked into the bath, as Christina took out a small tube from her purse. She looked up at James, who gave her a worried look.
"Don't ask." She told him sternly. "Not while she is still awake." A few moments later, Sirius came out with a terrified Lily, who clung to him for dear life. Her eyes wandered around the whole room and then shut them tight as he lightly placed her on the bed.
"Christina . . ." she whispered as the tears fell faster then James had ever seen them.
"It's alright . . .shhh . . ." Her cousin cooed, as she opened the flask full of light green liquid.
"They know, they know."
"Shhh, drink this." Lily opened her mouth and the tube was finished with one gulp.
"What do .. .I. . . what-" Lily tried to say as the power of what ever was in the tube began to take hold of her. And with in a few seconds, Lily Evans was fast asleep.
The three people left in the room stood there shocked. Christina leaned over and put her head in her hands, breathing in slowly. Sirius, taking his role as supporting male, quickly took her in his arms.
"Its okay . . ." He cooed, as she shook her head.
"What just happened?" asked James as he sat next to Lily, taking her hand. "What did you give her?" Christina sniffed softly as she broke from Sirius.
"It's this potion, it's a mix between a memory solution, and a sleeping draught." She shook her head. "I give it to Lil when even she gets like this."
"Why does she get like this?" asked Sirius, as they watched her sleep. Christina only shrugged.
"I don't know if I should be telling you this, but since you had to see her, at least I should so you don't think she is mad." She then sat on the other side of Lily and sighed deeply. "It happened when we were in Russia. In this place called, Khabarovsk," Sirius and James looked at each other, and to lighten the mood, pretended to wipe the spit off of their faces. She smiled a bit and shook her head. "Can I get on with it now?"
"Of course." Came James, Christina shook her head again.
"Yea well, we had just come from China, and decided to stay in the magical community they have there. Mind you, it is horribly small, but very old, and very beautiful. So, Lily and I had just gotten there when there was an attack." She looked at Lily tears in her eyes and took her hand. "A Death Eater attack. Everything was being torn down, burned, muggle and wizard alike weren't spared. Lily and I didn't get it at all, we didn't know that the Dark Lord had this much power to send them all the way to Russia. We had since found that as he does attack other places in the world, he never goes too far out of Europe. So, we had gotten caught in the crossfire, so we began to fight against them. When it got to be just too much for us, and no help was in sight, we apparated a few blocks away, hoping that we could get help else where. So, as I apparated back to our last point in China, I found that Lily hadn't come with me."
She looked up at the men; her brown eyes filled with tears. "So I went back, and I found her wand, but no Lily. I almost went into hysterics; I searched all over the place, thinking that they couldn't have gone far. But then I realized that who ever it was had a wand, and that they could have taken her any where." Christina closed her eyes and gripped Lily's hand tighter to her heart as she let the tears fall down her face. Sirius took his cue, and sat next to her, and offered her a shoulder. With out even thinking, she let her head fall onto his shoulder and he held her for a few moments before she went on, without letting go. "The attack lasted almost 10 hours. Many were killed or tortured. I had no where to go, we had just gotten there and didn't know the magical community that well. Where the next community around we didn't know, and I don't think China would have helped even if I had apparated back. But then one of the Death Eaters had called that the ministry had come. They were all gone with in seconds, leaving nothing but their destruction behind. Afterward, I took no time in finding one of the Auror's, and whom should I meet but Darcy. I told him that I had tried tracking spells, but that whoever took her must have blocked it. It would have been easier if he were Muggle, so he did what ever you Aurors do. I don't remember because all I could think of was crying and what not. But he found her; she wasn't too far from where we had first apparated. The strange thing was, she wasn't hurt in any way, but she kept crying and crying. I asked her so many times to tell me what happened, but she refused, and that if she did, they would come back." Christina sighed as she lifted her head from Sirius' shoulder to wipe her eyes a bit. He smiled as he wiped one away himself.
"They kept coming back to her, these kind of attacks, I guess you could call them, and so, I left her in the care of Darcy, and went back to a man we met in China, being a great master of potions, he came up with this." She showed them the flask that held the concoction. "It is a kind of. relapse potion. It will erase the memory of what will happen in a certain amount of increments. The one I have now is for 5 minutes, but we can't use anything stronger. Because if we did, it could either erase her memory permanently, or leave her sleeping for Merlin only knows how long. We couldn't erase the memory, only the effects of what happened to her."
"So, when she wakes up, she will go back five minutes. She won't remember her attack?" questioned James, Christina nodded.
"That's what we hope. I carry one around with me. Learned that the hard way, when we were in Poland, she had one during a restaurant, and they almost called the mental ward."
"And what triggers it?" asked Sirius cautiously. "I mean, why does she get them?"
"That I don't know." Christina told him softly. "My guess is that it is Dark Magic. But what kind will do this to her, I don't know,"
"Does it happen often?"
"No, this is the first time this has happened in about a year." She told them sadly. " I had hoped it would never happen again, but with Dark Magic, you just never know . . ."
When Lily woke, she looked around to see that she wasn't in her own bed. Half asleep, Lily looked around the room, her green eyes scouring over every corner. They soo found its way to James.
He was sitting in a near by chair, head in his hands, resting on his knees. She watched him happily as his piercing blue eyes stared into nothing, and his raven black hair fell over them, covering his glasses. He shook it out of the way slightly, and then repositioned the place where his glasses lay askew. She smiled lazily and said in her mind: 'So perfect.' Lily stretched her arms and legs, and sat up a bit in the comfortable bed.
"Hey." she said, rubbing her head. James immediately stood up, and with a face that showed concern stared at her. "I doze off?" she asked, asking him why she was sleeping in one of the beds. James eyes wandered a bit before he could look back at her.
"Yea." He said weakly. "You did, I guess you were . . .uh . . .sleepier than you thought."
"I suppose. My headache's gone, that's nice," She smiled slightly.
"You ok?" he asked cautiously. Lily looked up at him with slight confusion.
"Yes, it was only a head ache James."
"So you don't feel . . .uh . . .anything else?" he asked. She shrugged.
"Hungry." He smiled weakly again, and nodded his head.
"Well . . ."
"OH LILY!" came the booming voice of Darcy as he walked briskly into the room. He gave James a knowing glance, and he nodded his head in reply. "There you are." He said, fake smile playing across his lips. "Christina told me you had . . . dozed off."
"Sorry Darce.'" She said, taking his hand that he offered and stood up. "I didn't mean to leave like that."
"Just the same." He told her happily. "Every one is starting to leave any way. " He sighed a bit, and looked back at James. "Actually, if you could go down and see them off, I want to talk to James for a tick." Lily looked over at James quickly, and he gave her a wary smile. Their eyes met yet again and she grinned.
"Ok, I will see you all later." And she walked out of the room and headed down stairs.
As soon as she stepped out and the sound of her footsteps drowned out, Darcy sat on the bed with a heavy sigh.
"Was it horrible?" asked Darcy to James, he shrugged a bit and sat back down on the chair.
"Dunno, how bad could it have gotten?"
"She could have tried to defend herself," he said sadly.
"What happened to her?"
"I don't know." Came a heavy Darcy. "She refuses to tell any one, and when I found her, she was just like that, all shaken up, didn't know who was who. She just kept screaming at me, "you promised you would never hurt me!" and crying. He sighed again.
"I don't know. It's just hard you know, it was a Death Eater attack, maybe she sees He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named- or something."
"No." came James soundly. "There was no one out there."
"Dark Magic, mate." Came Darcy solemnly. "You know how it is like, you know what they are like."
"I know."
"I guess . . . in a sick sort of way . . . I have them to thank for me getting married." He told James Shrugging, he looked back at him with a disgusted face.
"How?" he asked incredulously. Darcy shrugged.
"I mean we met because . . . I got her out of there . . . I was like . . . her knight . . .or something." He smiled a cheeky grin, as James looked less than amused. " I mean, she only remembers meeting me after the whole thing, just some Auror who met her in Russia." James stomach lurched. "I mean, that's kinda why she agreed to go out with me in the beginning, she knew that I could take care of her... or something." James watched as that stupid grin came over his face again, he got it every time he thought about HIS Lily.
"I see. So, thank the Death Eaters for getting you two to the altar." He spat sarcastically; Darcy looked at him with knowing look.
"Are you bitter?" he questioned.
"No."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not! What would I have to be bitter about?"
"That I didn't make you a best man." James looked at him like he had gone mad, but played along with it, hiding himself for the moment.
"Well . . . Why didn't you?" he asked him. Crossing his arms over his chest, Darcy sighed.
"It was my mum! She would only let me pick two mates, she wanted HER godson in the wedding, then our 3rd cousin from Spain, and then my sister insisted that her husband be in it! And I said I would choose who ever bought me a drink a few nights ago . . . and it turned out to be Sirius." James just rolled his eyes while the man looked aggrieved.
"Its ok." James said, not really caring. "Gives me less to do."
"Yea right!" came Darcy incredulously. "Ever tried to plan one of these things?"
"I wanted to once . . ." he said softly, but Darcy began to rattle on.
"I mean, I have my mum, Vanessa, Christina, me, now Seth and Sirius, hopeful I can recruit you to do the dirty work! And with all those people, I can't even choose a color for this thing!" He sighed again as he sat up straight from sitting hunched over on the bed. Standing up, he stretched, and his 6'4 got the better of James- who was 6'. "Well, no use crying over it, it will be the best day of our lives. C'mon, let's get down so we can help get these pissed blokes out of here."
James sighed, and followed him along, wondering if he would have been this happy 5 years ago, if Lily hadn't left when she did.
"No doubt."
The two men walked down to the almost empty Leaky Cauldron. It still felt hot and muggy, but you could move and breathe a whole lot better. The walked toward Christina, Lily, Sirius, and Seth sitting at the bar talking lightly. As he walked toward the 4, he saw the intense stare Sirius was giving Seth; a slight sneer was playing on his features as he looked at the man. Poor Sirius thought James as they met up with the rest.
"Sorry:" apologized Darcy as he took Lily's hand in his. " Just having a small chat." He grinned.
"That's ok, we were just chatting ourselves."
"Every one gone home yet?" questioned Darcy to Seth, he nodded.
"Was a bit hard to get Katrina and Marcus home, being pissed as they were. Talking about how they were going to have great sex when they got home." Seth visible shivered. "Worried me to say the least." Christina smirked at him.
"Sorry love, yuck! Marcus... Katrina...together! Good Merlin I just gave myself the shivers." Seth swung an arm over her- to Sirius' disgust- and squeezed her gently, and whispered something that made Christina go red. "Shut up!" she hissed as she playfully pushed him off.
"Oi." Came Darcy, looking at James and Sirius. "Speaking of couples, what happened to your girlfri. . ."
"OH CHRISTINA!" cried Lily standing at a table full of presents. "Look at this present from Amy and Lucas." Showing a box covered in tissue paper, Christina hurried over to Lily and began rummaging thought the many engagement presents given by their friends. Darcy and Seth watched as they began to rip open items, and squeal in delight, shaking their heads at their lovely girlfriends. However, James and Sirius had looked to each other and began to whisper. . .
"Merlin." Said Sirius looking at James with urgency, "I completely forgot about Amiele!"
"And I Adrian! Bloody hell, she is going to kill me! I don't even know where they went after we saw Lily and Christina."
"You got it easy, at least you can reason with Adrian, Amiele starts cursing at me in French, and before I know it, she is hitting me!" Sirius gave a guilty look to the two girls giggling madly like when they were in school. "What do you think we should do? Do we tell them?"
"NO!" cried James with a pleading looks. "That would be bad if we did. I mean.I don't know. . . . just don't tell them. Yet. . ."
"What are you two girls muttering about?" questioned Darcy playfully. "Oh, and Seth told me he sent the two girls home after the . . . incident upstairs." The two men sighed with relief.
"Oh. . . .good. . .we were uh . . . scared that they had left us for good." Said James uneasily. Darcy rolled his eyes,
"Doubt full, too nice to run out on gents like yourselves. Oh, I was going to tell you, since I will be leaving on Monday, I wanted to know if we could all go around getting things in order for the wedding." The two men looked at each other.
"All day?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, all day. See, we need to finally pick out the colors, and since I finally got my mates I wanted, I want you, and yes you too James, don't think I will let you off easy." James grumbled. "I want to pick out some things, so while I am gone you can pick them up and do what ever. Then we are going to stop by the chapel in which this is going to take place. . . "
"Chapel?"
"Yes James, a chapel. I know. . . it's a muggle thing. But Vanessa really wanted one and I am giving her the wedding she always wanted. I spare nothing, yes, I would prefer if it where a bit more like a Wizard wedding, but for Van, I will do anything." James tempered flared; it wasn't Lily's dream wedding because HE wasn't the groom. He shook himself mentally, not now just go along with it. . . . not now.
"Yea, "started Seth, "and then we have to get fitted for the muggle tux's, and then some more odds and ends. After all is said and done, we were thinking about having dinner, and you could bring your girlfriends if you like?" Sirius sneered, James nodded with apprehension.
"Uh . . .I don't know if . . . uh . . . Adrian is working tomorrow . . . but uh. . . I will . . .uh . . .see." "Excellent." Replied Darcy, "Van!" he called to her, as she and Christina looked up from their gift grubbing. "Yes love?" she answered as she held up a book called,
"Keeping the Magic: 100 ways to WOW your Warlock!"
"We are going now, I will have those picked up tomorrow morning and you and I, not Chris thank you very much, can go though them." She smiled cheekily with her cousin as the put down their items and walked back toward them.
"Sorry. Just got the better of Me." shrugged Christina's she took Seth's hand, carefully trying to avoid a look from Sirius.
"That's ok. Well, my lads I will be off will send some one in the morning to come and get you. Night." He called as he apparated back to Lily's
"Yes, nice meeting you both, see you at the house Chris." With a small kiss, he was gone also. Leaving the four to look at each other with uneasiness.
"Well," said Lily putting on her robe. "I guess . . . tomorrow then." She told James.
"Tomorrow." He said quietly, wanting to hug her, but not knowing how to go about it.
"Till then." Said Christina to Sirius.
"Can't wait." He replied sincerely. Another smiled, and a hint of admiration in their eyes, the girls were gone with a flick of their wands.
It wasn't soon after that Lily and Christina had arrived at their flat to see their loves sitting haphazardly on the couch, watching their muggle television. They sat there gazed as "All in the family." Had come on. "Strange." Said Darcy as he watched the old man and the woman, scrunching up his nose as she laughed. "I have been telling her to stop that horrible laugh but she keeps on."
"Yea, and why cant that bloke get his own beer, I mean, all it takes is a summoning spell." Replied Seth, Christina sighed and sat comfortable on his lap.
"Honey." Came Lily sitting next to him. "It's a muggle item, you don't get to interact. You just watch it as is." Seth and Darcy had looked to each other and immediately turned it off.
"No use in that." Exclaimed Seth throwing the remote on the other couch. Lily and Christina shook their heads as they snuggled next to their boyfriends. Trying hard to erase the memories and feelings they had earlier that night.
"Do you think this is right?" asked Lily after the men had left the apartment, talking of an early and long day tomorrow.
"How do you mean?" questioned Christina she slipped on her pajama pants that once belonged to a friend in Austria, and an old Quidditch cup T- shirt. "What do I think is right?"
"Seeing James and Sirius again."
"Yea... and?"
"Is it good for us?" Lily asked as she brushed her teeth. Her cousin snuggled under her covers as she thought of that.
"It's been 5 years Lily..."
"Yes and in five minute we act as if something..."
"Something what?" she asked quickly, Lily stopped brushing as she stared at her absently.
"As if something could change with them being around so much, that's all."
"I don't see it." Christina said stubbornly as she got comfort able. Lily rolled her eyes, unable to speak with the large amount of spit and toothpaste in her mouth, and ran off to the bathroom. "You are over reacting Lily Evans!" she called, "don't throw away someone like Darcy for something that ended a long time ago."
"Every thing deserves a second chance." She told her, wiping her mouth on one of their pink towels.
"Yes, and some books should be left closed." Christina retorted, sighing as Lily entered the room again.
"You feel it too don't you?" Lily asked her, leaning over her bed with a knowing look; she looked at her quickly.
"I don't feel anything." She told her, shrugging and lying at the same time. Lily sighed heavily and in her shorts and a button down shirt that belongs to Darcy, she threw herself on her bed. They were quite for a few moments, both anticipating the way the other was to react. They knew each other too well; the next move would be all too simple. Lily cleared her throat,
"I think . . . "
"Don't say it Lily." Christina told her harshly, she looked at her with confusion.
"What?"
"Don't fall in love with James again,"
"I didn't . . ." started Lily.
"You are happy with Darcy, and I am happy with Seth, we are good where we are!"
"I know that." Lily retorted with a soft voice.
"
Why dose everything always have to change when they come into the
picture?"
"But I. . . "
"Lily..." she told her with a force, "it is over . . ."
"Yea, but Chris, don't you think it a bit odd that on the same night of my engagement party, they show up? Don't you think it odd that Darcy's mates have been James and Sirius this whole time? I think it very odd, these sort of things don't happen for nothing." Lily tried to explain with softy eyes, Christina rolled hers.
"Some one up stairs is just messing with us. Testing human strength, and guess what, I have it! Sirius is . . ."
"You feel it too." Christina stopped at Lily's outburst. "You feel it and you are so bloody scared you don't know what to do."
"I don't feel anything." She retorted stubbornly.
"I think you do." Lily replied, trying to get it out of Christina, but she wasn't budging.
"Lily, I don't."
"Chris."
"LILY!" she hollered at her, "I refuse to go through this again, you saw how hard it was for me to get over Sirius the first time, and I cant let myself get hurt like that again! I won't, and I don't care what I feel."
"So you do feel it." Christina sighed stubbornly and turned on her side.
"And what if I do? Do you think he will drop everything for me? Do you think I would drop everything for him."
"You did once." "
"I was 17, things are different now! I need some one stable, some one I know who will be there, security." She told her, trying to keep her head on straight, Lily shook her head.
"And what of passion? What about that burning you feel when he is around, when he touches you."
"What of it?" she asked facing her with hard eyes. "I cant waste my time again Lily, I am almost 23, do you think I have time to play around like I used to?" she asked, her eyes reddening with tears.
"No, but we have to . . . it was always meant to be like this."
"Nothing is ever meant to be Lily." she told her callously, "if it were, then Sirius would have been there when we were engaged, but he wasn't, he was a boy."
"He grew up." Lily fought with her, she didn't want to see Christina missing out on something great, she would never forgive herself if she ended up unhappy.
"And so did I. I will stay with Seth, no matter how much I still... feel for Sirius, and seeing him again makes me ache. I have too much to lose if he doesn't want me again." And with a fallen tear, she turned over, ordering Lily out; she fell asleep quietly crying.
A/n :I cant believe it! The old gang! You guys are the greatest! Gwen! Arielle! Bee! And Ceso, I totally remember you! Omg, this is awesome! Thanks you guys so much for the love! Its been too long!
So, on the new and improved it states how many views my stories get. So, I have over 250 views ...but only 17 reviews ...funny how that is. Well, if you could show me some love, I would greatly appreciate it. But if you don't, oh well! There is always next time!
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