Stag and Flower

Chapter 6: Sleeping Beauty

A/N: Sooooo! This is the first chapter of fan fiction I ever wrote. It is very close to my heart and although it has no plot in it I will post it. In the later chapters, there will be no mention of what happens here, as it is not at all important. I just have to post this and you can't say that this description is anything but amazing. So here goes!

"I've loved you since the moment I met you," Lily said seductively.

"I thought you hated the air I breathe?" James replied.

"That was just an act to hide my true feelings. I had to uphold my reputation, you know," she said walking closer to James.

"Then why are you telling me now?"

"My love has been building up inside me for over six years. I had to tell someone." Lily pushed James against the wall in the empty corridor. She leaned against his chest to kiss him. But before their lips met, Lily transformed into a giant Jack-in-the-Box, with green hair, a red nose, and a white face. Its huge head rocked back and forth, laughing hysterically.

James awoke suddenly. He was drenched in sweat.

"Not a clown again," he thought to himself. His watch on the nightstand read 2:34 a.m. He decided to sneak down to the kitchens for a piece of pie. Grabbing his Invisibility cloak, he walked out of his bedroom, into the Head common room. He immediately forgot what he was doing. All of his attention was on the image before his eyes. Lily, the very girl he had just dreamt about, was asleep on the couch. James slowly took in the scene.

Lily had obviously fallen asleep studying. Books, bits of parchment, and old quills covered the coffee table. His eyes moved to Lily's sleeping figure. She was in short pajama shorts and a tight tank top. Her left foot was gently tucked behind her right. Her hands lay comfortably on the binding of a Potions book, open on her tiny abdomen. The right side of her smiling face rested on the arm of the couch. Her thick rich red hair was in a messy bun on the left side of her head. Beneath her closed eye lids, James knew, were deep pools of emerald.

"My God. She's beautiful," James said out loud. He walked over to her limp body. He put his left arm behind her head, his right in the bend of her knees, and gently lifted her off the couch. He walked across the common room, opened her door, and laid her on the bed. He quietly closed the door, magically cleaned off the coffee table and sat on the couch, staring at the flames in the fireplace. He stayed there, thinking of Lily, until Sirius, Remus, and Peter came to get him for breakfast hours later.