Two months later …

Lily Evans ran down the stairs with her best friend Alice. She was a complete different person now. She had finally relaxed. Her red hair were no longer bushy but long and shining. Her green eyes were no longer frowning but smiling. Several heads turned as she passed.

"Quick Alice! We'll get late!" Lily cried to her friend.

Alice had stopped running. She was panting hard, holding her sides.

"Lil, I'm telling you! You're mad! It will never work!" Alice was desperate to stop her friend too.

But Lily Evans was unstoppable when she had her mind set to one thing.

"Look, it's been going on for years! Lily finally slowed down, aren't you a tiny bit curious what they're up to?"

Alice sighed loudly. Lily would never have acted like that a few months ago.

"No! Look, Lily, since when have you been interested in what Potter and Black are doing?"

Lily blushed. The truth was that James and Sirius had been so nice to her these days that she had began to really like them and actually seen them as 'friends'. However, as nice as they could be, they wouldn't tell her why they slipped away in the middle of the night every month.

"I thought you hated those guys!"

Lily shook her vivid red hair and widened her green eyes.

"I do. I really hate them."

Alice smirked. She wasn't blind. She had noticed Lily's feelings towards the marauders change. Especially towards Potter…

At that moment a boy approached them. He was rather good-looking in a sort of fierce way. He had brown hair, dark eyes and a determine mouth. Probably the cleverest student in Hogwarts after Lupin.

"Frank!" Alice cried delighted.

Alice had finally managed to seduce her hearts greatest desire: Frank Longbottom. The two of them kissed happily then broke apart. Frank had Alice tightly in his arms in a protective way.

Bingo! Lily thought.

She was the one who had helped the couple get together. It was thank to her they had found each other. Lily Evans grinned. Now she had a reason to force Alice in her insane plan. Lily had done her a favour; she would like one in return. So the girl waited patiently for Frank to leave. Alice knew exactly what was going on in her friend's head.

"All right, she said in this defeated way, you win."

And so the girls went together. They walked down Hogwarts grounds, in the pitch black night. The big clock on one of the highest tower of the castle rang. Midnight. No students were allowed out of their common-room now. Lily and Alice had never broken any rule their whole time at Hogwarts. There's a first for everything.

"Miss Evans? Miss Rivers?"

Lily's heart stopped beating as her blood turned cold. She turned. Their potion teacher was standing there, a bewildert look on his face.

"Professor Slughorn! Lily cried in a false cheery voice.

Alice stared at her friend as if she had just gone bonkers.

"Miss Evans what are you doing here in the middle of the night? Slughorn asked.

Lily and Alice were lucky. They could have bumped into McGonagall and that would have been the end of it! But luck was with them that night, Slughorn happened to be extremely fond of Lily. The girl blinked her green eyes in innocence.

"Well you see, I, I …" Lily helplessly tried to find an excuse to be out so late.

Alice came to her rescue.

"We were looking for some plants, for some potion. Lily has a very bad headache and she's afraid she'll have to stay in bed the whole week-end! We need to make her a heeling potion, you see, professor."

Slughorn patted Lily on the shoulder.

Fuck off, Lily thought to herself.

She couldn't stand it when a professor cooed over her as if she was ten years old. But right now it was coming quite useful, so Lily did not dare speak her feelings out loud.

"Say no more, young lady, say no more. I do understand, Slughorn said in a father-like voice, but wouldn't it be better to go and see Madam Pomfrey?"

Alice and Lily looked at each other. Lily glanced at her watch. They had to get Slughorn out of the way now if they wanted to catch the marauders on act!

"Yeah, maybe that's better. I'll go and see her, professor, thank you so much for your advice."

Slughorn nodded and walked away his giant belly stinking out more than ever. He was very pleased with himself. Usually Evans was so rude to him that he was hurt! But now she had been nice and Slughorn made a mental note to make her join the Slug club.

"Whoa, what are we going to do now? Alice said.

Lily blinked.

"What do you mean? We got ride of him right?"

Alice rolled her eyes. Lily could be so slow sometimes!

"But you know he's really on to you and he'll surely ask Madam Pomfrey if you're all right!"

Lily bit her lips. What a mess! Half of her regretted her actions and wished she was in her warm bed. The other half of her was more than determined to know what Potter and Black were up to!

"We'll risk it, Lily said, I don't care about old Slughorn! We'll tell him my headache went away and we returned to the common room."

Alice snorted.

"Yeah right. He's not completely dumb you know! He'll smell a rat!"

Lily looked at her coldly.

"My god! This can't get any worse! she cried in frustration clutching her red hair, let's go for it and if you're too pissed off to come with me well fine. I want to know what James and Black are up to. I'm going!"

Alice smirked. Lily had never called James Potter by his first name.

"You like him, don't you?"

Lily blushed so hard that her face was as red as her hair.

"Let's not waste time. Are you coming with me or not!"

Alice frowned.

"'Course I'm coming! I'm not leaving you all alone here, Lil.

Lily smiled gratefully. The two girls made their way further and further in the grounds. They stayed as close as they would to the Wumpy Willow, because it was always there where Potter and Black seem to go!

Lily and Alice waited in the dark, shivering until they heard a sound. A wolf was running towards them. It charged at them with top speed. Alice screamed. She was the first one to recognize the wolf for what it really was.

"A WEREWOLF" She yelled in fright.

Lily screamed too as she watched the whole scene as if in slow motion. She could see the werewolf jumping at Alice, ready to bite. The girl tried to fight him off, but she couldn't. Just as the werewolf was about to bite Alice's neck another creature appeared from the dark followed by yet another animal. An enormous dog had pelted towards Alice, and ripped the werewolf of her with its big pointy teeth. The werewolf howled in pain. Lily ran to Alice, crying. Then she looked at the other animal. It was a stag. But not any stag. It was proud and beautiful, with its head high watching her. It had big hazel eyes. Lily found herself drown to the stag and she longed to touch him. But the stag backed off as she approached.

Meanwhile the dog was wrestling with the werewolf. The stag came to help the dog and somehow they managed to control the monster. The three creatures ran away together under Lily's amazed green eyes. Alice, however, had fainted. Lily dragged her to the hospital wing. Big tears filled her eyes as she spotted what seemed to be two bites on her friend's neck. But she knew she could be thankful the dog and the stag had come or Alice and herself would have been both killed by the mad werewolf. Lily thought of the stag again and she longed to see it one more time. The girl looked out of the window: it was full moon.

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Author's note : I just wrote the three chapters of "A kiss for Evans" today, I think I'm going to need a break … before I completely forget myself and think only of James and Lily … Sorry if to you it goes a bit too quickly ("two month later") and I'm sorry I don't know how to spell the "Wumpy Willow" I hope I got it right, well, that's it. Review please!