Chapter 8- And So It Begins!

James woke up, his sides and chest aching with pain. He opened his eyes and looked down to where the pain was coming from, his chest and sides were covered in bandages down to his hips, his shirt was unbuttoned, splattered in what seemed to be dry blood.

That's when he realised where he was, the hospital wing. Curtains were drew around his bed, shielding the rest of the wing from view.

He could hear hushed, angry voices coming from the other end of the wing,

"Oh alright, fine, but for fifteen minutes only!" Madam Pomfrey's voice could be heard around the wing.

Then hurried footsteps could be heard echoing off the walls. Suddenly, the footsteps stopped and the curtain was pulled back and there stood the beaming faces of the Marauders, Lily, Stacey, Shelley and Charlie, once they saw that he was awake.

"James!" they all cried, Sirius, who was still in shock about his best friend almost dying, looked as though he was going to give James a huge man huge, but was beaten to it by Lily.

She hugged him gently so as to not make the pain any worse for him. When she had pulled away, much to the disappointment of James, she had tears ,he noticed, in those beautiful emerald green eyes of hers.

"Oh, James!" and she started sobbing on his shoulder,

"I'm sorry James, it's just that, I was so scared when Snape hit you with that spell…….and……. and I thought y-you were g-going… t-to to…"

"Hey" James said soothingly, " I'm not going anywhere, don't worry, I'm here, and I always will be."

At this Sirius wiped away a pretend tear, looking at the couple in a fake loving way. Shelley noticed this, she really was in tears, and nudged him quite hard in the ribs. Sirius opened him mouth to shout at her but she quietened him with a soft kiss and nodded back to Lily and James, who were completely oblivious to their friends watching them.

The Marauders and the girls were watching them so intensively, they didn't want to miss this! So when Madam Pomfrey came back out of her office to tell them to leave, they pulled their gazes away from Lily and James looked at Madam Promfrey and said "Shhhh!"

At first she looked a little confused, but when she saw the loved up couple she immediately fell silent.

When James and Lily had finished hugging, James whispered, but so everyone else could hear,

"I love you Lily"

"I love you too James" she whispered back.

At this point the girls had burst into tears, including Madam Pomfrey, and the Marauders looked slightly scared.

Lily and James looked very embarrassed, but all the same James grinned cheekily, leaned down and kissed her, Lily returned the kiss, deepening it and making it more passionate.

They broke apart when they heard their friends whooping and applauding loudly. The couple smiled at it other and shared their second kiss, deeper and more passionate than the first.

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