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Chapter Seven: Sparrow

Lily was on her date with Thomas Kadings, having a lovely time, and as they were making small talk he just…disappeared. One second he was sitting across from her, and the next he was gone. Lily screamed.

This, of course, drew the unwanted attention of other guests. Several people came over to the table, wondering what was wrong, asking if they could help. Lily was trying to explain that she had been on a date, when suddenly her date had disappeared.

"Maybe he apparated, dear," a grandmotherly old witch said. Her husband nodded his agreement.

"But…" Lily started, but was interrupted. She screamed again. Only this time it was because the door flew off its hinges, admitting an out of breath James. Several other people screamed as well.

"Where… is.. he?" James panted, wand out.

"Where is who?" the grandmotherly witch asked.

"That… Thomas... creep..."

"He disappeared," Lily said, wondering what on earth James had done to interrupt a date this time.

"I didn't do anything," James told her, sensing her thoughts. He was about to say something else when a drunk guy in a pirate's costume walked up to him.

"Hello," the drunk guy said. "Is there any rum around here?"

"No," James replied, thinking he didn't need any more alcohol.

"Pity," the man said. "Any of that firewhiskey stuff Thomas mentioned?"

"No," Lily said this time. "Do you know where Thomas went?"

"Oh, sure, love," the drunk guy said. "If he were still here, d'ya think I would be?"

"I don't know."

"Well, Thomas is back on the ship, of course. Somethin' went wrong with that spell o' his, I s'pose. But it's always had a couple o' holes in it."

"Oh," James said, suddenly understanding.

"Well, I'm glad somebody knows what's going on here. Could anyone please tell me where my date disappeared to?" Lily wanted to know why she seemed to be the only one there who didn't know what was going on with her date.

"I don't really understand much. If you want the whole story, ask Abby. But the gist of it is he's back in seventeen hundred and something," James told her.

"What?"

"I told you, ask Abby. All I understand is he's on a pirate ship that existed three hundred years ago."

"Oh, and this makes perfect sense."

"No, actually it doesn't. I don't really understand anything."

The drunk interrupted by summoning a barmaid. The girl glared at him. "I was on break," she said irritably.

"Sorry, love. Could ya get me a drink?"

"No."

"How about rum?"

"That constitutes as a drink, doesn't it? Why don't you just go away and leave me alone?"

"But where's the fun in that?"

"You know, I think there's a cache of rumin the forest somewhere. You could ask these guys to take you there."

"Thanks, love."

"Don't call me love."

"Sorry, love. Say, either of you chaps know about this forest thing?"

Lily and James both looked at the drunk guy. How could you not know where the forest was? He ought to have been able to see it through the window.

"Yeah," said James.

"Great! Could you and the lady lead me there?"

"Sure…" said Lily, wondering why on earth he would need a guide.

Despite only needing to walk roughly thirty feet, it took at least thirty minutes to get the drunk guy to the forest. Once finished with the pirate, James and Lily walked back to Hogwarts together.

For several minutes the two were silent, but as they were passing Hagrid's hut, James turned to Lily.

"Hey, Lils?"

"Yeah?"

"Wanna go out with me?"

"…sure…"

And there we conclude this chapter. The next chapter is more of an epilogue, it tells mostly of their wedding and Sirius spiking the punch…wait…you didn't hear that from me. Anyway, it's been great. I love you all and really enjoyed writing this, I hope you enjoy reading it as well. No matter what you think, always remember to click that little blue button and review. I'd really appreciate it if everyone reviewed, because I'm on the favourites list of some people who've never reviewed at all. And that makes me kind of sad.

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