Disclaimer: I soooo do not own any of these characters…. Well except Arianna… and the plot… All the rest is J. K. Rowlings.!

A/N Sooooo sorry this took a while to update folks…. But I'm working on the 6th Chapter now…

To ishbu girl….. NOoooooo… You cant take away my Fruits Basket supply..! Puhleez.

Chapter 5

James woke up, startled by a dream. He sat up for some time thinking about it.

Flashback

Lily asked James, "Why do you keep doing this? You blame me for things that are just… I don't know… the 'real' James would never do!"

James began, "I… I don't… Lily I don't remember any of this. I believe you, I know you aren't lying, but a lot of it I just don't remember doing. You try to put it from your mind, Lily and that's not fair to you. What's happening Lily?"

"I don't know James but it really scares me." Lily responded cautiously, for fear of setting James off again.

"I don't want to scare you."

End Flashback to Dream

It was a dull gray and chilly morning. The faint cold emanating throughout the room, along with James' reminiscing over his dream made him shiver slightly. He got dressed and went downstairs to the much warmer common room. He was a little surprised to find that the rest of the Gryffindor Tower had gone to breakfast.

Remus had told everyone to just let James sleep and that he'd had a bit of rough sleep. Lily wanted to wait for him, and she did but after nearly 25 minutes of ignoring her grumbling stomach, she decided to catch up with him later.

Lily, James and Remus were sitting together on one of the common room couches. The three of them were studying for exams. Of course this was not James' idea and he complained that exams weren't until June, but Remus and Lily succeeded in persuading him to at least look over Potions and Divination. Sirius and Arianna were otherwise occupied. : )

A group of first years witnessed this and embarrassedly and distractedly ran through the common room to get outdoors. James picked up his crusted with age borrowed Divination book and hurled it across the room at Sirius. James had and excellent aim; it had hit Sirius square in the back of the head.

"Oi! What's the problem Prongs?" Sirius asked confusedly jumping back to the couch near the fireplace from… well…. where ever he thought he'd been.

"Get a room why don't you!" James said rhetorically.

Sirius looked around, and James knew what was coming.

"Are we not in one?"

Remus and James smirked and Lily did her best to stifle a giggle. James knew it was funny. He couldn't deny that much.

"Well, you don't need to be giving demonstrations to first years. Yet. Honestly!" James pretended to be disgusted, but everyone saw through his act. He had been lectured just last week for the same 'crime' with Lily.

"Yes, really Padfoot! Freedemonstrations at that! You should at least charge for it.!"

Remus rejoined the conversation after nearly smothering to death from trying to hold in his laughs. (A/N Don't worry if you didn't catch what was funny…. Its okay. I don't even know what was funny really except that James had also been caught and jeered at for snogging in the common room. Just this author's way of trying to be funny.)

A smile and a 'teh' sound (the laugh-sigh sound) came from Lily at Remus' assumed funny statement.

"Okay Lily, it's over now." James spoke with a more serious tone.

Remus eyed him suspiciously, Sirius was back to… well… to Arianna.

"Alright James. I'm sorry." Lily said apologetically and a little irritatedly.

"Can you give us a minute?" James directed his question at Remus; he too had noticed… uhmm… Sirius.

"Sure. C'mon Sirius, her lips aren't going anywhere."

Remus pulled Sirius off of Arianna. Sirius helped her up and the guy's went to there dormitories and vice versa. Lily and James remained. Lily had stood up. It was late; they were the only ones who were down there…again.

"James? What is this really about?" Lily asked nervously.

"Oh. I think you know."

"No, I really don't. I wouldn't have asked if I did know." She replied daringly.

James began a slow sinister walk towards Lily. She was frightened. Frightened of James.

"James.? Don't look at me like that. James! Cut it out! James!"

"James!" Lily's last shout of his name was trying to catch his, well,… the attention that she wanted from him.

As she did that, he was making his was towards her still, and now Lily was backing up against the icy window pane. It was either James or the raw frosted air behind her that made her shudder throughout her body and up and down her back.

"James quit it! I hate that look in your eyes.," Lily stated firmly but compassionately. She placed a hand on the side of his neck and face, cupping his lower jaw.

"The sparkle's gone." Lily continued holding back tears.

James shook himself confusedly.

"Lily? What happened?"

"I don't know, but you really scared me," where had he heard that before. It sounded so familiar. "Maybe you should tell Dumbledore? I mean you anger easily, mostly at me. You just…I don't know. You just aren't yourself."

"No. I'm not going see the headmaster for every little teen problem I get." James came back with determinedly.

"Don't you think he at least ought to know?"

"No Lily. I really don't think he needs to be bothered with this."

"But James," tears that she had been holding back began to delicately slide down her cheeks, it bothers me."

James was at a loss for words. He had made Lily cry. Just like Thomas. He tried to convince himself that this was different, but then he felt that 'no, it really isn't.' Thomas had physically abused her, and now he was mentally and emotionally abused her. She had already been through that with her past boyfriend. Now James was no different, he felt he was becoming the same monster. He had to find out what was going on. Lily was right; he'd go to Dumbledore in the morning.

"Lily?" James reached out to Lily's waist. After a brief hesitation, she came.

James continued, "Baby, go on up to bed. Get some rest." He saw worry and confusion in her eyes, "I'm going to see Dumbledore in the morning." He added consolingly.

Lily's eyes brightened a little at this.

"Okay. Night. Sweet dreams." She stood on tiptoes to kiss him.

Then Lily began to walk up the stairs.

"Lily." James knew she liked to hearing it, and wasn't quite used to it yet but he said, "I love you."

A smile lit across her face. Just what he'd hoped for.

"I love you too."

A/N: Let me know if I have any wrong info in here…. Like times, or professors etc. Misspellings bug me to death so if you think you see one… let me know. Uhhh let me know when Hogwarts exams are…. I don't know… lol thanks.! And Sirius and Arianna were snogging on the couch. And snogging only! Remus' 'assumed funny' statement was about Lily and James doing the same thing.