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"James how much do you love me?" Lily asked me for at least the 13th time that day. We were back sitting on the sofa in the Gryffindor common room after she had spent the night in the Hospital Wing.
"Lily what's going on? All you've been asking me recently is 'do you love me' and 'how much do you love me' If I didn't love you, would I be sitting with you now, tempted to jump on you, rip off your clothes and carry you to bed?"
"James!" She said in a hushed whisper "I said no more dirty talk, not now"
"Lily, it's never too early for a man to talk dirty to the woman he loves" I smirked.
"Well James, you're just not a man are you" She said sulkily, turning away from me and crossing her arms.
"Lily come on; tell me what the matter is"
"Nothing" She mumbled.
"I don't believe you"
"Yeah well…you smell"
"Hey!" I said, quite offended.
"Nanny nanny boo boo stick your head in doo doo" She sang like a five year old.
"Lily if you don't tell me what the matter is right now I'm going to tell Alice you're the one who broke her lipstick" Lily gasped.
"James you pickle stick, how did you know that was me?"
"I know a lot of things Lily" I said, winking at her.
"Then you should know what the matter is then shouldn't you?" This girl may have been the sharpest tool in the whole entire hardware store, let alone tool box.
"I didn't say I knew everything"
"And I didn't say you did either" She said quickly, scooting away from me.
"Look Lily this is silly, hey I rhymed" I said proudly.
"Oh how original" She said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"Look Lily, are you going to just tell me what's going on?"
"No"
"Fine then…but no kisses for you" She looked at me, her lip trembling, before quickly composing herself and letting out a muffled:
"Sod off"
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"James…JAMES!" There was a frantic knocking on our dorm door later that night. I opened it to find a shaking Lily standing there with her duvet cover wrapped round her.
"Lily what-"
"Can I sleep with you tonight?" I was shocked, I just stood their mouth open, I had been waiting for her to say this for more days than I could count. "James…JAMES!" I was knocked out of my reverie by Lily who was poking me in the stomach.
"Sure you can Lily, I just wished you had given me more time, I mean I would have tidied up a little and gotten some music and told the boys to bog off but-"
"Oh James, I didn't mean it like that" She sighed bustling into the room. "I'm just scared to sleep in that dorm, not after what happened"
"Oh…" I was even more speechless now.
"Well can I? Please, I won't be any trouble and I don't snore or sleep walk or stay up late with the light on"
"I would say yes Lily but isn't it against school rules or something"
"You think I would ask if it wasn't that important. Please, I don't care about getting caught or anything" Wow she really wasn't the good girl everyone thought.
"Oh…ok fine"
"Oh thank you" She squealed, jumping on me and kissing me on the cheek. To hell with the no kissing statement.
"I don't think the guys will mind much but I would check it with them first-"
"Oh would you James, thank you so much that would be brilliant" She said all excitedly, sitting down on my bed and pushing off my bed sheets.
"I didn't mean I would- oh to hell with it" I threw my hands up in exasperation and walked off to the bathroom. Sirius was checking himself out in the mirror and Peter was brushing his teeth and putting in his brace. Remus was sitting down on the toilet, toilet seat down, reading a magazine about Herbology.
"Mate I think the idea is to put the seat up when you go to the toilet"
"Oh I don't need the toilet; I just wanted to read up on this magazine Jennifer is always raving about"
"Ah I see, trying to impress the ladies huh?"
"Impress them with that? Yeah right Prongs the only lady he could impress is Sprout"
"Hey" Remus said defiantly, "Jennifer loves this magazine, so I love this magazine"
"She also loves cheese covered pretzels does that also count"
"Padfoot you know I'm Lactose intolerance"
"Exactly Moony, therefore you do not love everything she loves"
"Actually Sirius I didn't say I did anyway"
"Yeah well…who's counting" Sirius said quickly and walked out of the bathroom. It was only about 3 seconds later that I heard a scream. Sirius came sprinting back into the bathroom and closed the door firmly behind him.
"What happened?"
"There's a girl changing in there" He whispered.
"Well who is it?" Remus asked.
"I don't know, I only saw their back, but whoever they are they've got a lot of body"
"Sirius you jerk that's Lily" I yelled punching him in the arm.
"Really? I never knew she was that se-"
"If you say it Sirius I'll cut your balls off" I threatened.
"Sorry" He said quickly. I pushed past him back into the dorm.
"Hey I heard a scream is everyone ok?" Lily asked me as she hurriedly pulled a top over her head and kissed me on the lips.
"Yeah…Sirius just had a little accident" I said smiling down at her. Compared to me she was quite small, but that was ok, it meant I could hold her and pick her up without having an arm sticking in my eye or a leg stuck up my backside.
"Well I'm gonna get to bed, It's getting late"
"Yeah me too"
"Well…goodnight" And with that she jumped into my bed, spread out and pulled the covers over herself. I sighed and picked my ruffled duvet up from the floor. I spread it out and snatched one of Peters' pillows to rest my head on. I lay down. The floor was hard, I tried rolling over. But it didn't help. I got up and pushed Lily over a little. Then I climbed into bed beside her and put a protective arm around her.
She opened one eye and looked up at me. I smiled down at her and she snuggled closer into my chest. I didn't get to sleep for a while; I was very restless, probably because the love of my life was lying next to me in my bed, wearing only a pair of skimpy shorts and a t-shirt. She wasn't asleep either, I could tell. I wondered if she was thinking the same thing.
"James you just grabbed my boob!" She growled.
"Oh sorry, I thought it was your arm"
"Your arm my arse" She grumbled.
"Sure" I said happily.
"No James, I didn't mean it like that"
"Oh…"
"You sexually deprived boy" She laughed.
"Hey! I'm in bed with you aren't I?"
"Yes well…only because you weren't man enough to sleep on the floor"
"It's my bed!"
"Well I'm the lady"
"Sure you are"
"I can push you out you know"
"You wouldn't do that"
"Want to bet?"
"No"
"Didn't think so" She said bluntly.
"I wuv you" I whispered in her ear. She tried shrugging me off so I slid my hand gently down her back so it was just above her arse.
"Don't do it James"
"Do what?" I asked innocently, sliding my hand further down her back.
"I said don't"
"Come on Lily, what's the matter"
"I just don't want to ok"
"Why not?" I whispered even more gently in her ear. She shivered and I could feel her body go rigid.
"Just no!" She said firmly. She grabbed my hand and pulled it away from her.
"Lily what are you so afraid of?" I sighed.
"Nothing, I just don't want to"
"I'm not trying to get you to have sex with me Lily"
"Then what are you doing?" She asked harshly.
"I'm just trying to get you to loosen up"
"By 'accidentally' slipping your hand up my top?"
"Hey I didn't think of that…good one Lily"
"James I'm being serious"
"Lily I'll make it special, I'll make it worth your while"
"I'm not a common hooker James and neither are you, so keep some of your dignity while I still respect you"
"Fine" I sighed, rolling over to the side of the bed.
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"James…James did you hear that?" I felt a hand squeeze my knee and I became aware of were I was again, in bed with Lily.
"Hear what?" I asked groggily.
"That"
"I can't hear anything"
"Exactly"
"What Lily?"
"The window, it was open before, now it's closed"
"Maybe Sirius or Peter or Remus closed it"
"No…no they can't have"
"Why not?"
"Because…It's back"
"Lily what's back?"
"It's back to get me" I think she was making a grab for my hand but ended up grabbing something else. In any other situation I would have been thrilled at her mistake, but because of her being scared she managed to squeeze me hard right were it hurts.
"Lily" I gasped.
"What is it James"
"That's not my hand"
"Oh…sorry"
"That's fine"
"James"
"Yes Lily"
"I'm scared"
"Don't be Lily, there's nothing wrong"
"How do you know?" She whimpered.
"Ok, if you're so scared we'll go check it out"
"But James"
"Then stop complaining"
"Fine we'll check it out" I got up and she grabbed onto my hand. Hers was all clammy and she was shaking. We tiptoed up to the window and looked outside. There was nothing there as far as I could see, then suddenly as though out of nowhere a pair of penetrating yellow eyes looked through the window. Lily gasped and I stumbled backwards. It didn't make a sound, nor did it move. I had never been so freaked in my life.
"Lily…calm down Lily, I'll see what it is" I ignored its stare and opened the window very slowly. The creature's eyelids flinched and I slowly stack my head out from the window…it was so dark I could barely see, then I saw what it was. An eagle. I started laughing.
"James I really can't see what's so funny" Lily scolded me.
"Lily, it's just a bloody bird. You were fussing over nothing"
"A bird?"
"Yes, an eagle or something"
"James Potter are you trying to tell me that thing was just a bird?"
"Well…yeah"
"James I can't believe you!"
"What! What did I do?"
"You're being so insensitive"
"How?"
"I think I know when I see something of the supernatural, it was not just a bloody bird!"
"Well of course you know things about the supernatural; you're in a school for witches and wizards!"
"Don't me with me James"
"Look Lily, I just don't see what the big hoo-ha is here"
"James, it scares me, as rightful duty as my boyfriend you should discard of it this instance!" She said, stamping her foot on the ground. I was very surprised the guys slept through this.
"Fine, fine, I'll throw a book at it or something"
"Thank you!" I turned to the window but the thing wasn't there anymore. Instead a small feather, jet black and silky drifted through the window. I grabbed onto it and looked it over. "James what is it?"
"It's a feather, just a normal feather"
"James…that feather isn't just a normal feather"
"Excuse me"
"That feather belongs to the Niger nex vomica, the only bird in the history of the world to carry a plague of death"
Hi this is the second chapter of the sequel, please read and review thankee
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