Okay, I never said I was any good at understanding Shakespeare...
Chapter twenty: Lily talks to James
"Potter?" Lily stuck her head in their dorm. Remus was still asleep, but Sirius, Peter and James jumped up and screamed.
"Evans! What the hell do you think your doing!" Sirius exclaimed, "What if I wasn't decent!" He added.
Lily rolled her eyes,
"You're never decent Black...Potter I need to talk to you."
James's eyes lit up,
"You do?"
"Yes, I do," she looked at Sirius and Peter expectantly, "Alone."
Peter blinked, his face blank until Sirius grabbed him and pulled him out of the dorm.
James sat down trying to look casual,
"So...What do you need to talk to me about?"
Lily sat down beside him, James almost fell off the bed in a mixture of surprise and fright.
"It's about Harry. We've ruined everything!"
James went to open his mouth to argue it was just her fault then thought better of it, things were usually his fault,
"Wait, you believe me now?"
Lily nodded,
"Well, yea...Dumbledore took me aside and told me I could have the rest of the day off from my classes. And I asked him why he told me he was going to send Harry back to his time. So yea, I believe you now..."
James pulled a cheesy grin.
"So you don't hate me?"
Lily hesitated,
"Uh...Harry has no future to go back to. He's a great kid and we did a good job, plus if I managed to like you in the future I'm sure I could grow to like you now."
"Wait, you're always had to 'grow' to like me even if Harry hadn't gone back in time so how has that changed the past?" James asked, confused.
"Well, because I was really angry about Harry, I thought that was the final staw on the camels back-"
"Camel?"
"Figure of speech."
James nodded.
"Anyway...So yea I guess that's changed some stuff."
James frowned,
"Lily, I think all of this has been blown out of proportion. I don't think it's nearly as bad as everyone says it is. I mean you know the truth, so you're no longer in love with him-"
Lily blushed,
"It was a small crush!"
"-And you now are trying to not hate me as much. I think we're pretty much covered the bases."
"James just Harry being here has changed history!"
James dismissed the issue with a wave of his hand,
"But there's nothing we can do to fix that. So really there's nothing we can do...Is there?"
Lily's eyes grew round,
"Oh my god, did James Potter just think something through logically!"
James smiled,
"I have my moments..."
"Just not usually around me." Lily finished.
It was James's turn to blush,
"Yea..."
"We raised a pretty good kid. He's polite, funny, smart, friendy and he's pretty good looking too."
James's chest swelled in pride,
"Takes after his father, except for the smart thing. That's you..."
Lily nodded,
"Definately, but he obviously has some of you stupidity to wind up in the past in the first place."
James laughed,
"I prefer to call it risk taking."
The two sat in silence. But for once it was calm silence, no Lily silently fuming, no James kicking himself because he said something stupid/wrong or both. James broke the silence,
"He has your eyes though."
"Your hair."
"Your ears."
"Your knobby knees."
"Your good ass."
Lily opened her mouth and stopped,
"My what?"
James pushed up his glasses,
"Your butt..." He then flinched thinking he had ruined the moment. Instead Lily dragged James off his feet and pulled him over to Sirius's full length mirror.
"I disagree!" Lily disagreed, she then turn James around so his back was to the mirror, "Now, look." She pulled James school robes tight around his butt, "See! That's Harry's butt right there, compared too..." She pulled his school robes tight, "Mine...See? It's different."
They both laughed and continued to argue until, Remus grunted indicating he was awake,
"As fascinating as it is to hear who Harry got his 'good ass' from, I would prefer it if you two would leave so I can sleep."
They both shrugged,
"Oh well come on Lily we'll ask Harry who he thinks he got his tosh from..."
They giggled and ran out of the dorm.
Remus grunted to himself,
"It was quieter when they didn't like each other."
He rolled over and fell back to sleep.