This is my new story, the sequel to Why did I fall for your charms? I hope you like it. I do own a few people actually but I don't really care!

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"James, you love me don't you?" Lily asked me as we sat down on the sofa in the Gryffindor common room one day after classes.

"Lily, you know I love you" She looked up at me.

"Do you think I'm pretty James?"

"Lily what is this? Twenty questions or something?" She smiled and reached up to ruffle my hair.

"I think you're pretty" She laughed.

"Well you're all right too I suppose" I shrugged. She slapped me playfully and I kissed her softly on the nose. "You're gorgeous Lily"

"Thanks. I know I am" She smiled and this time it was my turn to poke her gently. She snaked her arms round my neck and kissed me roughly on the mouth. I liked it when she did this. She wasn't really the good girl everyone thought she was.

We had been together for over 4 months now and I was loving every second of it. It had been a very long and tiring journey getting together, but it was all worth it.

"So Lily, where are you going this Christmas?"

"Well I was going to go home…but I don't really feel like it much anymore"

"Why not?"

"Because you won't be there" She looked into my eyes. Her own filled with warmth and love.

"Well I don't really want to go home either"

"Why not?"

"Because Sirius won't be there" I laughed.

"Ha-ha James, Sirius always goes to your house, so technically that doesn't really wash"

"You know Lily; the one bad thing about dating you is you can always seem to outsmart me"

"James nearly every girl I know can outsmart you"

"Hey" I laughed and pushed her off my lap, and then I jumped on her and started tickling her.

"No! James! Get off!" She screamed, unable to control the frantic giggles erupting from her mouth.

"Only if you say 'James Potter has the nicest arse in the whole of Hogwarts'!"

"Never!"

"Hey, it's true"

"Sure Potter, eat my dust" She squealed, kneeing me with a lot of force in my crotch area. I doubled up and fell off the couch, gasping for breath.

"Oh James! I am so sorry; I didn't mean to hurt you!" She said grabbing my hand and attempting to pull me onto the couch.

"That's – ok - Lily" I wheezed.

"No, I was so stupid; can I do anything to make it better?" She asked me. Now how could I give up a chance like this?

"You can always rub it better"

"Of course I- Hey!" She slapped my arm and dropped me back onto the floor.

"Ouch!"

"Maybe next time you should be a little less rude then shouldn't you" She folded her arms and sat back on the sofa, leaving me lying there in a ball on the floor.

"What happened to James?" My best friend Sirius asked as he and his girlfriend Sandy entered the room through the portrait hole.

"He fell and banged the balls he doesn't have on the table" Lily said tartly, glaring down at me.

"Oh…ok then"

"Hi Sandy" Lily said smiling at one of her best friends.

"Hi Lils" She smiled back. They had fallen out just weeks prior to where we were now, over me and Sirius really. But those two girls couldn't be kept apart for more than a week without cracking.

"Isn't – anyone – going – to – help me?" I gasped, still clutching my privates.

They all looked down at me "No" They said in unison, did I have some great friends.

"Oh come on silly, but no more talking dirty, it's too early in the evening" Lily said, she winked at me and pulled me up to sit back on the sofa.

"Well me and Sirius are gonna go…you know"

"Have a good one" I laughed at them as they continued up to the boy's dorm.

"Lily, do you ever think about…you know…what they're doing?"

"You mean sex?"

"Yes…sex"

"Of course I do James, it's pretty impossible for anyone not to"

"Well…do you ever want to…you know…with me?"

"Course I do"

"What about now?" I asked hopefully.

"It isn't that simple James"

"Why not?" I asked, my face dropping.

"Because I want it to be special, not just for the sake of it. Anyway I want to save myself for marriage" She said simply, brushing her self down.

"But that's ages away" I whined.

"If you really loved me James, you would wait" She said a little too sincerely.

"Damn you and your guilt tripping" I mumbled under my breath.

"James I can hear you"

"I said I love you even when you're not stripping"

"Sure you did honey" She said patting me on the head. I grabbed her and kissed her. Her teeth blocked the way of my tongue but I managed to prise them open and we enjoyed a good snog before breaking apart for air. "You're a great kisser James"

"I have been told" She looked at me scornfully with an eyebrow raised. "By you of course, no one else" I said quickly. She smiled sweetly and patted me on the head again.

"Good boy" She said, tweaking the end of my nose.

"I love it when you baby talk me" I said sarcastically.

"Great that makes two of us" She smiled and I grinned mischievously at her. I picked up a cushion from the sofa and thwacked her with it. She looked at me startled and picked up another cushion. We had a good fight for a good 20 minutes before falling, exhausted, back onto the sofa.

"Kiss me James" She said looking at me with those beautiful eyes of hers.

"Like this" I leant down and kissed her gently on the lips. "Or like this" I grabbed the back of her head and kissed her passionately, deeply and lovingly.

"I'll take the latter" She gasped as we pulled apart. I smiled down at her and we connected again.

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"So how are things going with Sandy?" I asked Sirius later that evening. As I stripped down to my boxers, ready for bed.

"Great Prongs, I really like her" He beamed.

"Good, cause if you ever did anything to upset her, Lily would have my head for it"

"Yeah, it's funny how that works. Anything I do wrong always reflects back on you" He laughed slightly and I threw him a dirty look.

"Hey Guys" Remus said walking through the door.

"Hiya Moony" I said.

"Where have you been?"

"Oh, just in the library"

"Library my arse, you were with Jennifer weren't you?"

"No! Well…yes…but we were in the library"

"Gross Remus!"

"What? What's gross?"

"You did it in the library!"

"Excuse me! I did NOT do IT in the library!"

"So where did you do it?"

"I didn't do it anywhere!" He protested, shaking with rage.

"Sure" Sirius muttered, rolling his eyes. I choked back a laugh and slapped my friend on the back.

"That's ok Remus, I haven't done it either"

"That's really nice to know James" Remus said disgruntled, pulling away from me.

"What? What did I do?" I asked as Sirius stood their shaking his head and sighing.

"Nothing James mate, nothing"

I woke up with a start in the middle of the night. I swore I had heard a scream.

"Sirius, Padfoot mate, wake up"

"Huh…wha Jam go bach to shleep" Sirius said groggily, rolling over onto his front.

"Sirius get up! I heard something"

"James what's the matter?" Remus was a light sleeper; he had already woken up and was out of bed.

"I heard a scream; it sounded like it was coming from the girl's dorm"

"They probably just had a nightmare or something"

"No…I can sense it, something's not right"

"Who are you, the bloody wicked witch of the west?" Sirius said yawning. "Oh the irony" he laughed.

"Shut up Padfoot, I'm going to go check on them, are you coming?"

"Sure, sure, whatever it takes for you to shut up"

I grabbed my wand and my dressing gown and made my way towards the door.

"Wait!" I said abruptly, making Sirius walk into my back and Remus into his and then finally a little Peter, who had also decided to join in the adventure, into his.

"What is it?" Sirius whispered harshly.

"I need my broom"

"Why the hell would you need your broom?"

"To get up the girl's dorm stairs"

"Ah, good thinking mate"

"I know" They passed my broom up to me and I grabbed it and pushed through the door. When we got to the girl's dorm stairs I mounted the broom and soared up above the staircase. I stopped at their door and barged in. Lily was standing there as white as a ghost swaying back and forth in just her long t-shirt with Sandy, Daisy and Alice surrounding her.

"James, what are you doing here?"

"I heard a scream"

"James" Lily looked towards me; she tottered a little before collapsing backwards onto the floor.

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It was morning before she opened her eyes. I had sat by her side for the whole night after she had fainted.

"James" She croaked, looking up at me with glazed eyes.

"Lily" I said smiling down at her.

"What happened?"

"You collapsed Lily; you're in the hospital ward now"

"Oh James, what I saw…"

"Lily what did you see?"

"There was something watching me"

"Watching you?" I felt my stomach twist.

"I could feel its eyes on me…it was outside the window, and then…I looked and I saw it and then I screamed and-"

"Lily calm down" I said, soothing her. She was becoming hysterical.

"But James, I'm scared"

"Don't worry Lily I'll take care of you" I said resting my hand on her forehead.

"James you do love em don't you?"

"More than ever"

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