Chapter seven.

A/N: hello all my lovely readers and reviewers, i hope you like this chapter, it is a major cliffhanger, haha, sucked in i know what happens! i won't even tell my best friend! So the next chapter should be up soon.

disclaimer: yeah yeah i don't own it, yada yada yada.

Lily passed out only once that day. She coughed up blood twice, but compared to other days; it had been a good one.

Jennifer Ryan was a witch on a mission. She wanted to get James to go back to Lily; she deserved to have some happiness before… no Jen wasn't going to think about that.

She sat outside the café and sipped her coffee, while she pondered on what to do. Her golden brown hair swayed in the cold morning breeze. Her eyes were fixed and focused; she had to come up with something. She thought of Remus, who had always been a 'bridge' between Lily and James. He was best friends with both sides, so he rallied back and forth. Maybe he could help Jen. She was certain he wouldn't tell James, about Lily. But maybe she wanted him to tell James. This whole ordeal was very confusing.

She pulled her mobile phone out of her bag (a/n: I know it's a muggle thing but I need her to have one for this part.) and dialed Remus' number.

"Hey Jesse, is Remus there, I need to talk to him; it's urgent." She said calmly

"Yeah sure, hang on."

"Hello?" Remus said

"Hey Remus."

"That you Jen?"

"Yeah, can you meet me at the Lanx café in ten minutes? It's urgent."

"Ok, what's wrong? Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. It's Lily." She said, holding back the tears.

"Ok, I'll be there, a.s.a.p." he said and hung up.

Five minutes later she saw Remus rushing down the street towards her with a worried look on his face. As she told him the details of what had happened, she watched his face twist into an expression of fear and anxiety. When she finished, he sat there for a long time, silently.

"Remus?"

"Mm hmm?" he said vaguely

"What do we do now?"

"I don't know; I'm shocked. This isn't supposed to happen."

"Should we tell James?"

"I don't know, maybe. Everyone knows he still loves her. He just doesn't want to admit it. He was very hurt." Remus said

"Yeah, but everyone makes mistakes." Jen reasoned

"Maybe we should tell him. What if Lils doesn't want us to?"

"Tell Sirius, because he will definitely tell James. They're best friends, they don't keep secrets from each other."

"That's what you think." Remus laughed

"What?"

"Sirius has a massive crush on Emma."

"What about Claudia?"

"He only likes her as a friend."

"Oh." Jen said as she looked at her watch, "Shoot, I have to see Lily's doctor now, can you talk to Sirius?"

"Yeah, sure. See ya later."

"Bye." She said as she grabbed her bag and jumped on her broom.

Remus watched her fly off, he thought about Lily. His mind was troubled, he had to worry about Lily and his own life; his mother was off her rocker, and he was having relationship problems with Jesse. It wasn't a great time for one of his best friends to get a potentially lethal disease. He let out a long frustrated sigh and left the café, leaving a small tip.

He walked slowly up to the front door of James' parents house. Sirius had moved in there after a particularly brutal fight with his mother about his treachery. He knocked on the door and waited patiently, Helen Potter answered the door. "Remus! How are you?" she cried as she pulled him into a tight hug.

"I'm alright Mrs. P. How are you?"

"I'm wonderful. Come in, come in. I'm making brownies." She said, and there was a ding! "Oh! There ready!"

She pulled Remus into the kitchen and handed him ma hot brownie. He took a small bite; he loved Mrs. Potters cooking, it was always perfect.

"That's really good Mrs. P."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Is Sirius here?"

"Yes, I think he's outside on his broom. And James is out with Emma. I'm not sure about that girl. I liked that Lily one. She was a wonderful girl. The way James talked about her all the time, he was head over heels. How is she?"

"She is not very well. She has TB." He said quietly.

"What?"

"It's a muggle disease, it's un-healable by magic."

"Oh my goodness, I'll have to bake her a cake. Poor dear, what is happening to this world?"

"I don't know." Remus muttered as he stepped through the back door of the kitchen.

Sirius flew around the Potters back garden as if he was a race-broom flyer, flying at the National Welsby Flying races. He was flying at a million miles an hour and he didn't care.

"Oi! Sirius! Get down here!" Remus yelled, but Sirius couldn't hear him; so he grabbed James' broom that was leaning against the house and jumped on it. He wasn't as good as James or Sirius but he able to steer it well enough. He caught up to Sirius and yelled, "Hey, slow down, I need to talk to you. It's about Lily." Sirius reduced his speed immediately, ever since Hogwarts Sirius had treated Lily like a little sister.

"What is it?" he replied.

"Come with me." Remus said, the Potter's lived in a place that was a complete wizard and witch neighborhood. So it was safe for them to fly over it and not be seen by muggles. They flew slowly; Remus thought that if they were flying when he told Sirius, it would probably be safer because he didn't have anything to throw when he got angry.

Remus told him the problem and Sirius listened intently without interrupting.

"James needs to know." He said quietly in a monotone.

"I know that."

"Who's going to tell him?" he said in the same monotone.

"You are."

"Yeah, ok." He said and flew back down to the ground.

James had an idea, an idea that would hopefully get Lily out of his head permanently. He was on a date with Emma, when it hit him.

"Emma, wait."

"What? Why?" she asked curiously.

"Just, let's go this way." He said and pulled her into a forest.

"James, the path is going that way, where are we going?"

They came to a clearing. James looked around.

"This will do fine." He said

"For what?"

"You'll see." He said as he got down on one knee.

"Emma Jones, will you marry me?" he said

A/N: ok don't hate me, you'll find out what happens next chapter. it should be up soon cos' i've already started on it. this chapter was longer, yay for me! Should i make them get engaged and then break it off at the last second, maybe.

muahahahaha, i am an evil author!