(A/n thank you to all those who reviewed!)

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Past to Present

Lily sat down in her chair at work and kept her down on her desk as her head was still banging from the terrible headache she had, from drinking all that wine last night. The pain was just starting to ease when:

"EVANS! I'm so glad you bothered to turn up to work today! Because you have hell of a load to catch up!" mad eye walk to straight to his office and slammed the door behind him.

Lily groaned in pain and started filling the paperwork she had on her desk.

"I know exactly how you feel!"

Lily whizzed around to see who was talking to her.

"Oh it's you Zack; you scared the hell out of me."

The man named Zack gave a light chuckle and smiled at Lily.

"Late night? Who was he then? C'mon you can tell me Lily."

"He was Drocas" Lily lied quickly "we just had a girly night in that's all"

Zack eyed her carefully "well here have this" he gave her a flask" it's a pepper up potion, my girlfriend made it last night before we –" Zack's cheeks reddened in embarrassment he quickly changed the subject " how bout I help you this morning, I'll run out and get the coffees for meeting"

"Could you?"

"Yeh sure!" Zack replied

After filing every piece of paperwork on her desk. It was lunch time and Lily was starving so she set out for the muggle sandwich place around the corner from the ministry.

Lily had just set a foot outside of the ministry when someone called her name

"Lily!"

She turned around and it was Simon

"Oh hi Simon how are you?" before he could even reply to Lily's question she answered it for him "oh good your great well I got to go" lily went to leave but Simon grabbed her hand.

"Lily I think we need to talk about what happened last night."

"Do we? I didn't think we do" Lily replied innocently

"Lily I know why you left early this morning and why you just want to forget it, I've spoken to Dorcas she told me everything Lily."

"What do you mean everything?"

"She told me about James and how you might feel you have betrayed him."

"You know what Drocas is talking through her arse because I feel fine you were just a quick fuck, that's all. So don't come to me all I know how you feel because you don't. Now excuse me I need to go get my lunch and 35 other Auror's" Lily walked off so angry with him.

It was 5.05pm which was time for Lily to head home. She couldn't get the conversation with Simon out of her. She was so rude and he was trying to be nice to her. Before she appareted home to her place she decided to go over and see him and apologise fro her rude behaviour.

She knocked on his door and waited for an answer. The door opened

"Simon I'm so sorry for what I said to you today. I didn't mean it"

"yeh well some of the things you said actually hurt me" Simon said quite coldly

"Look I'm really sorry, how about I make it up to you by taking you out to dinner? Please!"

"Fine let me grab my coat" Simon said trying to keep the smile off his face.

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3 months later

Dorcas just got up and went into her kitchen where she found Simon making food and putting it on a tray.

"What do you live here now?" Drocas replied sarcastically

"Actually I didn't stay round last night; I thought I would surprise Lily with breakfast in bed for her first day off in ages!" Simon replied in a tone of "as a matter of fact" sort of way.

"Well I'm coming too then if you're making breakfast you have to make it for everyone who lives here!" Dorcas said as the Daily prophet owl swooped in with the paper, she gave it a knut and went straight in to lily's bedroom.

"You two aren't fighting again are you?" said a very groggy Lily. Dorcas gave her the paper. Lily unfolded it and read the headline;

A FRIEND IN NEED

She then read the sub-heading

Missing Auror James potter saved by best friend black

"Anything interesting?" Dorcas asked

Lily passed the paper over to Dorcas. She looked at Dorcas and waited for her finish reading the head-lines.

"Oh my God!" Dorcas said

(A/n; really short chapter as I have to do my English and r.e coursework now. Newayz james is back. We will see him in the next chapter.)