One SlowDance

This is my first fanfic so be easy on me! I would like to apologize in advance because my spelling is horrible so I'm sorry if there are any spelling mistakes. Please review so I know whether to post the next chap. Well anyways hope u like it.

N/A- Thanks to my friend gem for proof reading and helping with ideas.

I do not own J.K Rowling's characters or the ending all I own is the plot.

Summary

So what really happened in their final year of school that made Lily changes her mind about James Potter? "You think you're funny, but you're an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter." Did the infamous Potter grow up for the love of his life? (LJ 4eva)

Chapter Eight – Crash And Burn

James point of view:

I look over at Lily, who happened to be sitting on the table just to the left of me. Her auburn hair fell down her shoulders as she bent over her caldron. She was so beautiful; I couldn't help but not watch her. Rose lent over to whisper something into Lily's ear and she turned around to look at me, then she quickly turned away as she giggled.

"Times nearly up; I will be coming around to examine your work," came professor Slughorn's voice.

He wondered around the room looking into everyone's stemming caldron. "Well done Snape, I would say about 10 more clockwise stirs and an extra set of dragon scales and it will be perfect!" he continued on his way, "Ahhh, Mr. Potter I see you have failed to stir the correct way again."

"Yes professor as usual" I smirked. And once again he examined the other students work.

Lily was the last one to have her work checked since she was to the side of the class. "Miss Evans, wonderful as usual your talent seems to amaze me for someone out of Gryffindor!"

"Well Gryffindor's can be just as smart as any Slytherin!"

"Miss Evans, there is that wit again!" he chuckled, "will you be joining me this Friday for tea?"

"As much as I would love to join you, I must decline."

"But Lily, whatever is keeping you from a lovely chat plus tea and cake can be rearranged, can it not?" I smirked at his please.

"I'm sorry, but I have another pressing engagement."

Then Sirius's voice called out, "Yeh Slug, Lily will be too busy snogging James to have any time for talking, let alone tea and cake," Slughorn's face was shocked and he turned to Lily and from what I could see was that her face was the colour of her hair, but she was spared of any answers because the bell rang and she was the first to leave the cold, dingy dungeon.

"Flower wait up!" she slowed down as I come up to her, "Sorry about that, but you got to admit, it did shut him up!" she seemed to smile a bit and I placed my arm around her back.

It was common knowledge that Lily and I were a couple, and many girls where not happy with this. My apparent 'fan club' had taken to glaring at Lily as she passed. Although Lily didn't seem to mind too much and if she did she hadn't complained to any one.

Lily's point of view:

It had been three days since James and I had been on our first date and everyone in the whole school was still talking about it. It had been a bit of a shock having the whole great hall stop abruptly when we would walk in, hand in hand and then stare as we ate our meal!

"Bye, don't kill yourself okay?" I lent forward and gave him a small sweet kiss on the lips.

"You sure don't want to come see me practice? I know you can't resist a man in uniform!" he answered slyly.

I poked my tongue out at him as he picked up is broom to leave, "Nah, I don't want to distract you, come on you're going to be late and you know the captain can't be late!"

He sighted and kissed me on the forehead before turning to leave. I walked up to my dorm hoping go get a quite night, Mel had left with some guy at dinner which meant she wouldn't be back till the early morning and Rose was having 'study time' with Remus. Elisa and Charlotte spent most of there time in the common room so I didn't see them much in the dorm.

I sat on my bed and opened up my N.E.W.T potions book to read up on next lessons assignment, when the door slammed opened and Elisa ran in crying. She obviously hadn't seen me because she lay on her bed.

"Elisa, are you okay?" I waited for a reply, but all I got was silence, "Elisa, are you okay?" I ask as I got off my bed and moved towards her.

"Yeh, I'm fine," came a muffled answer.

"You don't sound fine!"

"I suppose I don't," she half sighted and half laughed, "Oh blast! My mascara's running!"

"What's the matter?" I tried again; "Was it something to do with Charlotte?" she looked at me and then looked away. "I guessing… seeing as I'm not getting any other answer."

"Yeh, we had a fight." Again she seamed to be looking anywhere but at me.

"What about? Was it serious?" I had known Charlotte and Elisa since we were in first year, and they had always kept to themselves as they were close family friends.

"It was pretty serious, I mean it's been going on for a while now but I guess today was the final straw." I didn't know what to say, so we sat in silence for a few minutes. "It was actually something to do with you."

"Oh," I didn't know what else to say.

"Yeh, Charlotte has had her eyes on James for a few years now and she thought it was really unfair that he's with you coz you have been so mean to him and she was always there for him." I had expected something like this to happen, ever since it had become official. "And I told her that James doesn't care if you were mean, because he loves you and no matter how nice she was to him he wouldn't have changed his mind." Well that wasn't expected. Elisa and I had always gotten on, but if it had been a choice between me and Charlotte I would have bet my life that she would have chosen Charlotte.

"Elisa, you didn't need to do that!"

"But I did, she has never been that nice to you and you have always been there for us if we needed help and what I said was true!"

"Yeh, but she's your friend!"

"And so are you, I may have not paid much attention to you in the past but I can't just let her say shit about you!" I looked at her for a second, "She also said that Mel had a good way of dealing with it and that she may take a leaf out of her book. I told her to stop being stupid and she said if that's the way I felt I should hang out with the...the...the"

"The what?"

"The Mudblood." She inhaled sharply as though she had not believed she had said the word, "Sorry, and I said that you would be better then her anyway and ran off."

"Elisa, thanks for standing up for me. Most of the girls in this school have turned against me and it's nice to know someone is still here." She smiled at me. "You want to hang with me?"

"Yeh that would be good, thanks"

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James point of view:

"Good morning flower!" I kissed Lily as she made her entrance out of the girl's dorms.

"Hey! James you know Elisa don't you?"

"Yeh, you're Charlottes friend, aren't you?"

"Umm try Ex-friend" I gave her a small smile, and I followed Lily and Elisa out the portrait. "Did Remus and Rose go down earlier?" I placed my arm around Lily's back and she lent on my shoulder as we walked down the corridor, it felt truly comfortable.

"Yeh, apparently they had some extra work to finish!"

I could see Elisa getting a little uncomfortable, "So Elisa how your brother? He was quite a good Quidditch player!"

"Yeh, he's great! He's now playing for Puddlemere United! It's great, we get free tickets to all matches!"

"Really! I always thought he had the talent to get into the national league."

"What about you! You could easily play for whatever team you wanted!"

"Elisa don't inflate is ego any more then it all really is!" Lily says as she laughed. It made me remember the old insults she used to use on me.

"Very funny dear," I say looking down at her, "Nah I don't want to play in a team after Hogwarts. Quidditch is for fun I would never do it as a job or anything." The rest of the walk down to the Great Hall was just filled with small talk.

Lily's point of view:

We entered with the usual abnormal silence and most heads in the Great Hall turning to stare at us. I looked over to the Gryffindor table and saw Charlotte with the new established club, who use to be the 'James Potter club,' but now was the 'we hate Lily Evans club' sitting right next to Mel. Charlotte's expression of utter disgusts was more amid at Elisa rather then to me. James led us over the other end of the table where Remus, Rose and Sirius were sitting.

"Hey Prongs, flower" Sirius said in a mocking voice before even looking up at us.

"Padfoot, that's what I call Lily. You have not got the permission to use it!" Sirius finally looked up and smirked but then he caught sight of Elisa.

I saw him gaze at her and took this opportunity to get him back, "Sirius close your mouth and move over for Elisa!"

He flushed red and gave me a glare before moving over, patting the seat next to him. Elisa obliged and sat next to him as James and I took the seat opposite to them and began eating breakfast.

James point of view:

The rest of the week went by without much drama. Sirius was mesmerized by Elisa, who seamed to be repelling his so called 'charm' and I spent every moment with Lily weather during class or patrolling and head duty. Friday was now upon us and I had to think of another fairy tale date.

----------------------------- (Friday night) ----------------------------
We made our way back up from dinner early as Lily and I had to get ready for our second date. I was very nervous since I had decided to show her another one of The Marauders secrets!

"I'll be back down just let me get some casual clothes on," lily retreated up the stairs to her dormitory.

Lily's point of view:

Once in my dorm I started to panic 'what am I going to wear?' 'How should I do my hair?'

A total of 15 minutes later I had chosen my jeans and a halter neck green top that showed my midriff off as well as my belly button piercing. Because it was becoming a little chilly outside I had put on my cropped jacket, along with my beaded necklace. I didn't bother much with the make-up because I didn't want to be here for another hour, so I just put the necessities on. All in all I looked nice, not too over the top. I put my boots on and walked out the dorm.

I walked down the stair to the common room and saw James sitting on the couch near the fire. He was wearing a black t-shirt with a matching black jacket and jeans and his hair seamed as though he had tried to make it sit right with gel. All in all he looked pretty cute. I walked up to him, "Okay I'm ready" he stood up and smiled down at me, "What are you smiling about?"

"Ohh nothing, it's just that you look beautiful as always."

I could feel my cheeks heating up, "So where are we off to tonight?"

"You just have to wait and see wont you?"

We walked out of the common room and made our way to the statue of the one eyed witch, "James, I don't mean to be presumptuous but I don't think taking me to a statue is really 'romantic'"

"Ahhh that's were your wrong" he pulled out his wand and as he tapped the statue and said "Dissendium." The statue opened up reveling an opening, "well after you?"

I started at him in stunned believe. "No, I insist males first," I smirked at him

"Suit yourself, you'll see in a few seconds." And with that he disappeared down the opening. I took a quick breath and followed suit. As I slid down the tunnel it seamed to get darker till suddenly I landed in the arms of James', "gotcha. Come on, it's a bit of a walk." I took hold of his hand and walked along side of him. The path was long but as we reached what seamed like the two hundredth step, James suddenly said "Stop, or you'll hit your head." He opened the trap door that was directly above his head and stepped out offering me his hand.

I looked around, it seamed to be a dusty seller and I observed a crate with the label, Cockroach Cluster. "James, are we in the seller of Honeydukes by any chance?"

"Yes my dear, we are. Come on, we need to sneak upstairs"

James point of view:

Finally in the main street of Hogsmeade, I took hold of her hand once more and lead her down the cobble stone street, "So do you want to get a butterbeer to warm up?"

"Yeh I'll love that," she smiled at me as I led her to the Three Broomsticks.

We sat at a table and drank as we talked about school and current news. "So you heard about the murder of the Smith then?"

"Yeh" she sighed.

"But it wasn't in the papers, I only found out about it from my parents"

"Rose's grandmother is somehow good friends with there family and she got a letter about it from her. It was so upsetting. I met there 3 year old daughter last year, and to think that some idiot could kill her as well as her family is just sickening"

"Tell me about it. I worry a lot for my parents since they're Auros there at the top of the hit list, everyday I look in the paper expecting to see there face's staring at me having the heading, Potters dead." I looked up to see her face look sadly down "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to rub it in like that."

"No, it's alright. My parents are gone and I have to start to deal with it."

"But that's it, you don't have to! If I lost my parents I would probable lock myself in my room for ever." I placed my hand under her chin so I could see her eyes, "Although if I had you, I think I could pull through it." She looked into my eyes as I did the same to her. Finally she smiled, weakly, but still it was something.

"James Potter you really know your way into a girls heart" I chuckled.

"I try my best."

We walked out of the Three Broomsticks and out to the Shrieking Shack where we leaned against the fence near a few trees. I looked at the way her hair flowed as the wind blew through it and the way her eyes stared intently at the sky. At that moment I felt a great surge of passion for her.

I turned her to face me with one of my arms bring her close to me and I leant down and placed my lips on hers. She reacted instantly placing her hands around my neck. The kiss was full of passion and need and some how I managed to get her up against a tree as my hands started to roam her body. Merlin this girl has me wiped, but I didn't care.

My hands made there way up and down her side and in turn, she ran her hands through my hair which sent a shiver up my spine. Our mouth broke away for air and I kissed my way down her neck, she gave me better access by tilting my head to the side and her hand had managed to find there way to my chest. She moaned as I kissed and sucked her neck.

"James," her breathless voice managed to whisper. My pants began to tighten and I pressed my hips against hers to show her just how much she made me want her.

I moved my lips back to her mouth as we kissed even more intense then before. My hands were no longer on her side but they had slipped under her top, feeling her smooth skin.

Lily's point of view:

His hands ran up and down my side, I ran my fingers through his hair, probably messing it up even more then it already was, but the day that the messiness of his hair had irritated me had passed. We broke away for air and he stared to kiss my neck. I tilted my head to the side so he could access it better as I ran my hands down to rest on his chest. He started to suck my neck and I knew that it would leave a mark, but that make me even hotter.

"James," it had amazed me just how hard it was for me to get that single word out. His hips pressed against mine and I could feel his erection getting harder.

He moved his mouth back to mine and I was grateful, and I found that the kiss was way more intense then before. His hand went under my top making me falter, but only for a second. His touch made me tingle as he made his way up feeling ever part of my body till his hand rested on my breasts. He began to rub his thumb over my erected nipples through my strapless bra. I moaned with pleasure.

His hands then moved to the back of me, as he unclipped my bra and he pulled it out from under my top, dropping it on the floor beneath us. I had lost all sense of where I was, and once again he massaged my breasts and I moaned yet again. His touch drives me up the wall, our lips parted yet again for air but not for long as they started to attack each other again.

His hands had moved from my breasts down yet again, and I almost yelled but my mouth was other wise preoccupied. He hands had now passed over my bell button piercing and to the zipper on my pants, he went to unzip my pants. Alarm bells went off in my head and my hands which had not moved from his chest pushed him of me. I was scared.

He seamed shocked at first our breathing was fast and I couldn't really focus. I looked at him once again as he looked into my eye trying to read me and I pushed past him. My head told me to run. So against my better judgment I listened and ran.

"Lily," came James' voice, I didn't stop. "Lily pleases. I'm sorry!" his frustrated voice became fainter as I ran back to the passage we had come from.

James point of view:

I moved my hands steadily down her body to her pants. I made to unzip them but suddenly Lily's arms pushed me away. I stood there stunned, what had happened? I looked into her eyes and I saw a faint trace of fear. You stupid idiot you moved to fast, she ran I called out to her, "Lily!" She didn't turn back "Lily pleases. I'm sorry!" I was so frustrated that I kicked the trunk of the tree, "IDIOT!" I looked down to the floor where her lace bra had fallen.

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