A/N: Sorry that took so long! I was pretty busy with homework, tests, dance, etc. Well, here's a nice long (well the longest I've written so far) chapter for you! I've got some more chapters on the way!

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Disclaimer: Most characters, locations mentioned, etc are from J.K Rowling! I only own the plot and several of the characters.

Chapter 6: A Day of Quidditch

"Hey Potte—I mean James, can I talk to you for second?" asked Lily in the Head's common room. It was about seven in the evening and Lily had just finished getting her homework done. James had just walked out of his room. Lily sat down at the long desk.

"Yeah," James responded joining her at the table.

"Okay, well I was thinking maybe we should go ahead and set up the date for the Christmas Ball," Said Lily.

"Sounds good," said James flashing her a grin.

Lily felt something her stomach do flips. She mentally scolded herself because she couldn't help notice he looked very attractive his whole laid back look and shirt untucked.

"Okay so we'll need to set a date, and run it past Dumbledore first," James listed as he grabbed a quill and some parchment and started jotting down notes.

"I think we should have it the first week of December and on a Saturday" Lily made mental calculations in her head.

"So that'll be the third of December" said James writing it down. "We can stop by Dumbledore's office on Monday, after class." James stood up.

"Yeah," Lily agreed, also getting up.

"Ready to do our Head duties?" asked James playfully.

"I thought it was Claire and Russell's turn to do rounds" said Lily confused.

"Nope, I talked to them this morning; Russell had detention so they're patrolling tomorrow," replied James.

"Oh okay"

Lily and James walked out of the Head's common room together and walked down the corridors.

"I think we should patrol the Astronomy Tower first," suggested Lily. James nodded and they continued walking silently.

"So are you trying out for Quidditch?" asked James trying to make conversation.

Lily laughed.

"What?" asked James smiling.

"It's just that whenever guys can't think of something to talk about, they talk about Quidditch. It should be a law or something" replied Lily, turning a corner.

"And is it a law for girls never to answer questions?" questioned James

"And is it one for guys never stop asking them?"

"Well I'll stop asking if you start giving me the right answers" responded James, now stopped, and gazing at her with a twinkle in his eyes.

Just then Lily and James heard whispering. They turned the corner and saw a group of Slythrins walking towards them. Some of which were Malfoy, Snape, and Avery.

"You guys aren't allowed after hours" spoke Lily sternly.

Malfoy gave an evil smile at Lily. "Like I'm going to take orders from a Mudblood," sneered Malfoy. James gripped his wand tightly in his robe pocket, but at the last second decided against using it, considering how he knew Lily felt about him fighting Slythrins.

"You will if you don't want to lose House Points" said Lily pointedly.

"One day, Mudblood, someone more powerful than you can imagine, will make you and all other like you meet a quick end."

James couldn't take it, he spoke furiously, "NEVER", almost at a death whisper, forgetting his reasoning, and pointing a wand at their throats, "talk like that to Lily again." Malfoy didn't flinch, and didn't seem to be impressed whatsoever with James' threat either.

Lily got in-between James and Malfoy and forced James' wand arm down.

"Fifty points from Slythrin" said Lily.

Avery gave her shrewd glare. "Come on, let's go," said Snape coldly. James scowled as he watched them depart. Lily and James continued walking to the astronomy tower mutely.

"Thanks for that," commented Lily quietly.

James nodded. Lily remained quiet for a few minutes.

"What did he mean by someone more powerful? Most likely Voldemort. What am I saying, of course he's taking about Voldemort. Who else would it be?" Lily thought. Her mind was racing.

"Maybe he's the death eater" the thought just dawned on Lily. Lily shivered. "No, stop thinking that, they don't make death eaters that young."

James noticed Lily looked a little shaken up, and she seemed to be thinking hard about something.

"You sure you're ok?" asked James. "I could go hex them if you wanted me to," joked James.

James watched her form a smile on her lips. "No, I'm okay, just a little tired" responded Lily.

"Okay, will everyone PLEASE SHUT UP!" yelled James. "Thank you."

Practically all the girls of Hogwarts had decided to audition for a spot on the Quidditch team because then they would get to spend more time with the Quidditch captain.

"Prongs, I think you should go ahead and start tryout, otherwise it's going to get worse" reasoned Sirius in his Quidditch gear.

James nodded then spoke: "ok, I want all the people trying out for chaser there, all the people for seeker there, and all the people for keeper there" James yelled.

The first few hours were a complete disaster—considering the majority of the people there didn't actually know how to play and were only there either for the captain or because they actually thought they could play.

James began getting very irritated.

"OKAY, THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO PLAY QUIDDITCH, PLEASE LEAVE AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!" yelled James.

Remus snorted. "Very smooth Prongs." Remus had come to watch Sirius and James at the tryouts.

Many girls giggled and got up to leave. "See you later James!" said Melinda leaving with a few of her friends. More than half the people there left.

James looked at the people reasonable quantity of people left and smiled satisfactorily. He began by watching the seekers all chase for the snitch, and next were the chasers. Sirius had managed to score five out of five hoops, as well as one other sixth year and then he watched as the chasers already on the team tried to score while the prospective keepers blocked the hoops.

"Ok, great job everyone! You all did really well, but I can only accept so many of you. The sheet of people who made it will be posted tomorrow! Hope to see you back!" announced James before dismissing them.

"Oi! Prongs? So did I make it?" asked Sirius excitedly as ran up to James, who was already heading inside.

"I can't tell you, you know that."

"Awwwe come on! I'm your best mate! Shouldn't I get like special privileges or something?" complained Sirius.

"No" responded James simply, and walking towards the castle.

"So how did the tryouts go?" asked Peter at dinner.

"Pretty good, well except for the beginning" reasoned James. "You should have seen how many peole were ther-"

"So am I in or not?" asked Sirius for like the fourteen hundredth time that hour.

"ARGHHH Padfoot! If you ask me one more time, you won't be on the team!"

"Fine" said Sirius crossly. He sulked as he picked up a fork hastily and began stabbing his potatoes and eating them. James grinned secretly.

"You better let him on the team you know," stated Remus with a small grin, just out of the ear shot of Sirius. "Otherwise his face will be glued like that and he'll lose his 'striking features'" snorted Remus, quoting Sirius

James laughed. "Hmm…nah—I think it suits him," he mocked.

James put up the tryout sheet on the wall in the Gryffindor Common Room and quickly hurried at the opposite wall to avoid the people that were surly to come attack it. Twenty Gryffindor crowded around the posted paper on the wall.

"Did I make it?" shouted Sirius making his way through the people.

Sirius scanned the page and then let out a huge "Yes!"

"MAKE WAY EVERYONE, THE KING OF QUIDDITCH IS AMONGST YOU!" cried Sirius clearing a path through the people.

James, leaning on the wall, smiled and rolled his eyes.

"Nice Padfoot, but since when have you been the Quidditch king? I believe that title is reserved for me" said James bemused. Sirius and James walked out of the Gryffindor Common Room to avoid the Gryffindor's stampeding.

"Think whatever you like Jamsie-boy, but my fan club knows the truth," mocked Sirius.

"OI! VICTORIA!" Called Sirius in a sing-song voice, running after her across the hall.

" How's my lovely fair maiden this evening?" he put an arm around her shoulder.

"Shut it Black," cried Victoria coldly. Sirius shrugged as she walked away with Angelica and James joined him. They continued walking.

"It's not funny" stated Sirius. He didn't have look at James to know that he was smirking.

"Who said I was smiling?" questioned James.

" Whatever"

" Don't worry mate, she'll catch on eventually"

" Yeah right. All I know is that the day you get Lily to go out with you, is the very same day that Vicotria will say yes to me. And, that is not very soon mate—judging by the state of things."

"Well 'not very soon', might be sooner than you think" replied James smiling.

Sirius raised his eyebrows. "I'm sure" he stated sarcastically.

"Me too" James responded seriously. " And in the meantime, want to go practice some Quiddich? I was going to go head for the pitch."

"Yeah sure---oh no, wait, I have dentention. Which means, if I did my calculations correctly, I am officially ahead of you by one detention, with 18 dentions this Year." Cried Serius casually and proudly

" Not for long," said James grinning evilly.

"Hey Chris!" cried Lily cheerily catching up with Chris in the hallway.

"Hey Lily, um listen, do want to go with me to the Quidditch pitch? I was thinking to practice a little. Maybe I can get you to play some Quidditch with me?"

"Yeah sure, like that'll ever happen" said Lily jokingly. "But I'll go with you to the pitch"

"Did you see Professor Berwick's red hair today? That was hilarious—but whoever did that, will get serious detentions if they get caught." Said Chris smiling.

"Yeah" said Lily inwardly laughing because she had a pretty good idea who did it and who they got the idea from.

Lily and Chris walked up to the bleachers and sat down. Lily watched as he got his gloves on.

"Are you going to the Ravenclaw vs. Gryffindor game?" questioned Chris.

"Yeah, but I can't say I'll be cheering only for you, my loyalties lie for Gryffindor too," responded Lily smiling.

Chris chuckled. "Fare enough. So up for some broom riding?"

"Um, no, that's ok. I'll just watch." Responded Lily.

Chris gave an 'are you sure' look.

"Go on" said Lily reassuringly. "I'll watch."

She watched as he did some loops in the sky and do several laps. She had to admit he was very good at flying. She herself always wanted to fly but never was really happy with heights.

"Lily?" questioned a familiar deep voice from behind. She turned her head and saw the one and only. "Hey Potter" she said calmly. He was dressed in his Quidditch attire, and her, expecting him to take off on his broom, to her surprise, sat down instead.

"What are you doing here?" asked James. "Ahh" he looked at where Lily was looking and saw Chris.

"So how are you and Chris doing?"

Lily looked at James carefully. "Fine, why?"

"Just wondering" said James.

"Have you guys gone out yet?" continued James.

"Well..not yet..but we're going to Hogsmead together" replied Lily. She didn't know why she was telling James this.

James didn't respond, but just kept looking at the pitch.

"What about you? You going with Marsha, or Melinda, or Tiffany, or whatever her name is?" asked Lily. It felt like her mouth had its own brain today. She half expected James to make a stupid remark and say he was going out with "all three of them" but he didn't.

James turned towards Lily with a curious expression and laughed. "I'm not going with anyone so far"

"Oh," said Lily with a small voice.

"Nice stunt, by the way," said Lily smiling.

"Stunt? Why what ever do you mean Evans?" questioned James playfully.

"Oh please Potter, don't play dumb. The red hair?"

"Hmm…" James stroked his chin. "Nah...doesn't ring a bell."

Lily slapped him playfully. James laughed. "You totally ripped that off of me!"

"What can I say, you are a brilliant witch" said James with a dashing smile.

Lily flushed.

"So, why aren't you out on the pitch?" asked Lily changing the subject.

"Well, the pitch is taken, and I thought you might want some company," replied James casually. Chris landed and noticed James next to Lily and walked up the bleachers.

"Potter, what are you doing here" demanded Chris roughly. James was now standing and leaning on his broom stick.

"I just thought it was a nice day to go out the pitch," replied James curtly.

"And hang out with my girlfriend?" questioned Chris.

"Well not really, but it's a definite bonus," replied James, loving how angry he was making Chris.

"Why don't you bugger off?" said Chris harshly and grabbing Lily's hand.

"Why aren't you hanging out with your girlfriend?" accused James.

Chris's face went an angry shade of red.

"See ya," Said James, noticing that he had obviously struck a nerve. He brushing past Lily.

"Oh," continued James over his shoulder, "just a word of advice, you might want to work on actually being able to score some hoops before the big game" said James to Chris smugly."Bye Lils."

"Chris, James and I are just friends—if you could even call it that! We were just talking," cried Lily walking up to the castle.

"Yeah, well, I still don't like him spending so much time with you," said Chris softly.

"Well we don't really have a choice—we are Head Boy and Girl after all" responded Lily sincerely.

"Yeah I suppose," said Chris looking away. Lily turned his head gently to face her with her delicate hands. She kissed him and looked at his face.

"You okay?" asked Lily.

Chris smiled and pushed some hair out of her face. "Yeah, let's go inside."

Lily smiled and walked side by side with him in the hallway.

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What's next: James and Lily finally finish their potion and discover some things along the way...

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