A/N: Ok, first things first, I do not own Harry Potter, any of it's characters, or anything like that. Secondly, when this chapter was first written, I was thinking about writing a ladeda happy clappy chapter, but then I thought, when has ANY relationship been happy clappy, so I thought I would throw in some angst like that bit at the end of chapter 4, but don't worry my pretties, there will be some fluffy loved up bits with a cherry on top, and thanks for all the support. And a huge thanks to my beta-reader, Miss Mairi. But anyway, the show must go on...oh and for the record, Italic writing is thought.
And a/n in italics tis moi. gIggLIngIrL3001. Seriously, and it was my birthday. Not kt's. Mine. Go celebrate hers in March. Oh, and celebrate Official Mairi Day, where you all worship me. Conceited? Me?
And I've decided that I will no longer beta-read Katie's A/Ns. I can't be arsed.
Yes, celebrate my birthday in March, the 20th to be exact
Chapter 5
"Oh my god, Lily, what did you do to him?" Sirius exclaimed seeing the body of his best friend on the ground.
"I...I...I..." she was lost for words. She came down from her shower, expecting to find James sitting there, about to kiss her or something, but instead she found him, unconscious, and she screamed. Luckily, Sirius and Remus turned up a few moments afterwards.
"Ok, Sirius, don't blame Lily there is an empty bottle - " Remus began; he was interrupted by a hysterical Lily.
"Merlin, breath! I didn't mean it! It was my entire fault! I just told him I didn't lo -"
Sirius screamed, "You tried to kill James? You tried to knock him out with alcohol -" This time, it was Remus' time to get annoyed.
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!" he screamed. Both Lily and Sirius stopped and starred at their feet. "Right, thank you. Now, by the looks of things, Lily told James something he didn't want to hear, yes?" Lily nodded, tears beginning to roll down from her green eyes, "Right, and then our extremely clever friend that is James, drank himself into a stupor to numb the pain." Sirius perked up.
"Oh does that make me clever? I drank about half a bottle last night," he said, in an upbeat voice.
"Wheesht boy, for Godric's sake!" Remus told him angrily. Sirius went back to staring at his feet. "But what are we going to do about this corpse?" Lily screamed loudly, hands clapped over her face.
"HE'S DEAD! OH AGRIPPA! I KILLED A PERSON!" Sirius rounded on her.
"You horrible person, you killed James, you should rot in hell, die witch di -" Remus got pissed off again.
"Be quiet! Please, just shut the hell up!" The others fell silent, slightly scared at Remus' new reign of anger, "Right, James is not dead, he's fine; we just need to wake him up," He stood up and walked over to the kitchen, the two others watching him with fear. He got a glass, filled it with cold water, walked back over, and threw the contents of the glass over James face. James's eyes burst open. Lily jumped and screamed. Sirius jumped with joy.
"You're awake! Oh James, I never told you how much you mean to me, but really, you're like a broth-"
"Be quite Sirius, I'm going to put a silencing charm on you in a second," Remus warned. Sirius went quiet, "Right, James, how do you feel? What happened?" James grabbed his head.
"Ow, my head! Its killing me! Ouchies." He closed his eyes in pain. Remus said a charm, pointing his wand at James' head and James looked immediately better. He looked at the others.
"I don't actually know what happened, I remember falling over...drinking...Lily saying stuff...supper, wait, where is lily?"
"She's right here...Lily? LILY?" Sirius looked around, "Well she was here, why do you want her anyway? Are we not good enough?" Sirius slapped James's cheek in a playful manner. Remus frowned at them both. James slapped Sirius back.
"What happened between you and Lily? She says it was her fault that you were like that," Remus asked him. James frowned and sighed heavily.
"It wasn't her fault...well...it kind of was, but mostly it was me over reacting,.I guess I felt stupid," James said, in a solemn and depressed manner. Sirius nodded.
"I knew you were stupid all along, I could have told you that yesterday, and none of this would have happ – OUCH!" Remus had hit Sirius over the back of his head, "What you do that for you emo werewolf?"
"Sirius, you are not helping this situation, and I advise you be quiet, or I will be forced to castrate you." Sirius went deathly white and went very quiet. "What did you say to Lily to make all this happen?" James sighed again, rubbing his temples to stop the throbbing that was still happening, despite Remus' Sobering Charm.
"Well, I told her I loved her, and she didn't take it very well." Sirius butted in again.
"I could have also told you that yester -" He trailed off spotting the look on Remus' face.
"What did she say?" Remus asked James, ignoring Sirius, who was slowly moving away from him.
"She said I should think about it, then to tell her. You know what? I'm going to go jump out the window now." He stood up and walked over to the window. Sirius grabbed him by the shoulders and manoeuvred him over to the sofas and sat him down.
"No you're not mate; you're going to be staying here for the moment. And you are going to tell us a play-by-play of where all that alcohol went. Because alcohol is as precious as life itself," Sirius told him, as Remus walked over and sat beside James. He sent Sirius a withering look, mouthing "Shut Up" at him, and patting his friend on the back.
"So Lily told you to really think about it, anything else?" He asked him. James nodded.
"She said she liked me, but didn't love me, and that if I said I did love her, she would work on it. But I don't think she really meant it," James basically whispered. He looked like death. Remus nodded. Sirius looked confused.
"I'm sure she was being serious, Lily wouldn't joke like that about things like love. Why don't you go ask her about it?" Remus advised him.
"Do you think I should?" James asked him back. Sirius had stood up and went over to rummage in cupboards.
"Yeah, it's the nicest thing to do since you just gave her the fright of her life." James shrugged his shoulders.
"I suppose. Hey, do you have anymore alcohol in here?" He asked. Remus stood up to leave. James stood up to and walked over to him. "Dude?"
"Yeah?" Remus replied looking back at him. But instead of saying something, James just hugged him - in a manly way of course. They broke apart, and Remus smiled at him, "Don't go all soppy on me now Prongs." James laughed and hit on the back. "Come on Sirius, we better be off now?"
"Awww man, I just found this stash of Chocolate Frogs," Sirius whined, "Can't I just stay here, I don't mind Evans and Prongs playing Tonsil Quidditch." Both Remus and James scowled.
"If you go now, you can take some of the chocolate," James offered. Sirius made a sound like a small child on Christmas morning, grabbed a few off the Chocolate Frogs and skipped off toward the door. Remus made a deep sigh.
"Well James, I better be off now to make sure Sirius doesn't go skipping into Filch, but good luck with Lily...and use protection." James laughed and said goodbye and thanks.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Lily was lying on her bed thinking of what to do. Should she say sorry? Should she tell him to stop being stupid? Should she give him a chance? She looked up at the ceiling, trying to find inspiration of some sort. She saw a spider on the wall. She wished she was that spider. Spiders had a simple life. They just walked around all day, eating, spinning and sleeping. Things like hormones and boys and love didn't bother them. The only thing they had to worry about was getting squished by someone who didn't like spiders. Or having some sadistic child pull their legs off, like she'd seen a neighbour do with a daddy long legs once. She felt a weight come down on her bed. She knew exactly who it was.
"Why did you do it James?" She asked him. He laid down beside her, sighing.
"To numb the pain I guess. I really don't know; it was like an impulse thing. I'm really sorry for giving you a shock like that, I should have known better." He rested his head on her shoulder. She didn't protest; it felt comfortable.
"It's ok, there was stuff I said that I shouldn't have said, but I did mean some of the stuff,"
"Like the bit about making it work?"
"Yes," Lily whispered. James smiled to himself. Was Lily giving in? After 6 years of saying no, was she saying yes?
"So, if I made a move, you would kiss me?" he asked, using all the Dutch courage he had. Lily swivelled around so she was facing him.
"You're saying you do love me?" James placed his forehead against hers and smiled.
"Maybe. Did you really thing I would say no?" Lily smiled back.
"Not really," She moved forward, and kissed him. It was a kiss filled with many emotions. Joy, passion, love, angst, realisation and hope, and when tongues got involved, a sense of hunger came into the kiss. When Lily broke it apart after about ten minutes, she noticed a certain hardness in James's jeans. He blushed when he saw her notice.
"Well, it looks like you enjoyed that huh?" She said to him. His face went back to normal when he realised she didn't mind. He pulled her back down.
"You don't know how badly I've always wanted to do that," he mumbled into her lips. She laughed back and let him enter her mouth again.
Eventually, when they did break away James puts his arms around her and cuddled her close to him. He took his glasses off and put them beside the bed.
"You look really hot in your pyjamas Lily," he whispered into his ear. Lily giggled.
"If you want to stay where you are for tonight, stop trying to chat me up, I'm not going to sleep with you now." James laughed. "But if you do, you better go get into your pyjamas, because I don't want any sweaty boys in my bed, thank you very much." He shifted about a little bit.
"Lily, I kind of just sleep in my boxers...but can I really stay here?" He was wishing she wasn't joking.
"Sure, I can't kick you out now. I'm too cosy. But if you keep your t-shirt on, you can stay. And by the way, you either do, or you don't sleep in just your boxers. Make your mind up." He smiled down at her and kissed her on the forehead. He got up and undressed down to him boxers and his Blue t-shirt, and crawled under the sheets with her.
"Are you one hundred percent sure I can stay? And you won't get all angry tomorrow morning?" he asked her, cautiously.
"James, shut up and sleep. I've been up denial for ages; you really think I'm going to head back down that river?" She replied, deadpan. He hugged her close to her.
"I knew I loved you for a reason." She laughed. Together they slowly drifted off to sleep; not knowing what horrors would wake them the next morning.
XxX
"HOLY CHICKEN SHIT OF THE GODS!" Sirius had just walked into Lily's room to find James and Lily lying together, asleep in her bed.
"Shhhh, Sirius, for goodness sake, they are sleeping. Be quiet." Remus hit Sirius over the back of his head again. Remus was equally as shocked as Sirius to find James and Lily in bed together. Did they have sex?
"Oh. My. God." Sirius and Remus whirled around to see Marlene McKinnon, one of Lily's best friends, standing at the doorway, with her hand over her mouth. "What has happened here? Why is Lily in bed with Pott - Oh please don't say they had sex, please! Please, please." She looked like she was about to keel over any moment.
"Wait, that's unfair," Sirius added, pouting slightly, "How come Prongs got laid and I didn't? Oh hello Marlene, you are looking very pretty today, how about we get toge -"
"Please, Padfoot," Remus interrupted, sensing the anger growing in Marlene's face, "We have to decide what to do; as in, should we wake them up?" Marlene nodded. Sirius grinned.
"Can I wake them up? Huh? HUH?" Sirius pleaded to the others. Marlene looked slightly taken aback at Sirius's childish behaviour, and just nodded. Remus sighed. Sirius looked like Christmas had come early. He pounced of, with the others watching carefully. He jumped onto the bed, and started leaping over Lily and James, making the bed shake and the pair bounce in time to Sirius's pounding feet. Lily moaned and rolled over. James, on the other hand, recognised the bounces and the "wheee!" noises and his eyes opened.
"Merlin, Padfoor! What are you doing?" James mumbled before rolling over. James felt something else in the. The previous night suddenly came pouring back into his mind. He smiled and cuddled up to Lily. Sirius bounced even more.
"So guys, how was the sex then?" James frowned and Lily woke up. She stared around the room. She saw James cuddled up next to her, Sirius basically on top of her, grinning down and Remus and Marlene standing beside the door. Suddenly, there was an eruption of questions and demands.
"What the hell are you doing Lily?"
"Dude, was she good huh?"
"Sirius, stop mentioning sex. It's disgusting."
"Lily, get some clothes on now, we need a serious talk...now!"
James put his hands over his head and moaned, "That is way too much information for first thing in the morning." Lily sat up and stared at the crowd in the room. Sirius looked bemused.
"Why did you get dressed again after sex? That's just silly children," he said to Lily and James. James threw a rude hand gesture towards him.
"We didn't have sex, we just shared a bed," Lily said before getting up and walking towards the bathroom. Marlene followed her for a girly chat. James sat up as well.
"I don't think I'll ever know what girls get up to in bathrooms together," Remus said to himself before turning on James, "So, what really happened?" Sirius sat down beside James on the bed, and Remus sat on the end of the bed.
"Well, you guys left and I went to see Lily, who was freaked out a little, and – well, we kissed," James reminisced. Sirius looked disappointed.
"Was that it?" Sirius asked. Remus sent another withering look at him, and hit him on the back of the head. Again.
"You're so badly unromantic Padfoot, you'll never win a girls heart with that attitude."
"Ok, shut up. Nobody would love a guy who suffers from PMS." Remus scowled back at his fellow Marauder, who looked surprised at his own good insult. James yawned loudly.
"I wonder what Lily is saying..."
"What's so bad about getting together with James?" Lily asked Marlene, who was sitting on the sink, while lily was sitting on the edge of the bath.
"Lily," she whispered scandalously, "This is James fucking Potter for Merlin's sake! You know! The guy who you've hated forever! And now all of a sudden you're in bed with him all lovey dovey, smooching up. Of course I'm shocked! What has gotten into you? If I told you this was going to happen two days ago, you would have told me fuck off, now look at you! I bet it was that dinner we had! You have food poisoning; you need to tell Dumbledore. Get you out of this room with him quickly!"
"Maybe because two days ago I didn't know the real side of him, the side nobody knows! He says he's usually acts fake, to get attention. But now he's got the attention he wants, he's ok."
"Oh for fuck sake Lily; you're being so blind. Maybe he's just saying this to try and get you into bed! Look what happened to me; I thought Ben was all that Jazz and he was just a lying loser! Lily, you're way too good for James, and you've got Adam! He's a nice respectable boy," Lily was starting to get angry.
"Maybe I don't want a 'nice respectable' boy, maybe I'm sick and tired of being the good girl who has good things and good morals and good boyfriends who are never in trouble! Maybe I want a guy who's a little rough around the edges and brings out a more sexy side in me! Nobody understands me, Marly! I feel like I'm stuck in Azkaban and your saying that I should stay there." Marlene looked slightly scared.
"I guess I had it wrong..." she whispered quietly.
"Yeah, "said Lily, obviously very angry, "Now that we've got this little fiasco sorted out, you can leave me to have a nice long bath were I won't be disturbed by having you, Black and Remus making judgements about me." She pointed at the door. Marlene knew better than to argue back. She knew Lily was just over reacting and would see her senses soon enough. She walked towards the door and left without saying anything to the boys.
"What just happened there?" Remus asked, watching a slightly pissed off Marlene stomp off down the stairs.
"Maybe she's got PMS," Sirius added. James snorted a laugh.
"Do even know what that is?" He asked. Sirius nodded.
"It's when girls get all moody," Remus added as well.
"And do you know why?" He asked.
"How would I know?" Sirius said, throwing his arms in the air, "I'm a dude, not a girl." He looked around at his two friends laughing at him. "Ask Moony, he suffers from Pre-Moon Syndrome."
"Oh Sirius," James said, "You make me laugh,"
"Well Prongsie, I'm a funny guy," Sirius replied, puffing his chest out.
"Well, I think we should leave Padfoot. We've got to go find Pete, stop him getting indigestion," Remus said standing up. Sirius shook his head.
"Last time we did that, James got pissed and nearly dies. The second time, we caught him in bed Next he could have a circus of belly dancing elephants, and I sure as hell don't want to miss a thing."
Eventually, after lots of persuasion, Sirius agreed to leave, but only if he could get more Chocolate Frogs and come back for dinner, to make sure that there were, in fact, no belly dancing elephants. James wondered around the flat, wanting to jump and scream with joy and happiness. He went upstairs, back to Lily's room and went snooping through her stuff. He found many interesting things, Moisturiser, a razor, something which for a fleeting instant looked like a kinky sex toy, but turned out to be hair curlers and lots more girly things. He got very excited though when he found Lily's underwear. I wonder what bra size she is? He thought to himself. He grabbed a bra and looked at the little thing which gives you information about washing and where it was made. Holy crap, 32D. He put it up against himself and went in front of the mirror. Hmmmm, I don't think yellow is my colour. He took his top off and put the bra on, not hooking it up at the back though. He went over to her drawer again, and this time picked out a black lacy one. Oooh, kinky. He put it on over the yellow one and went to find others. Unfortunately, he ran into Lily on the way to find more underwear.
"Er, James, what are you doing?" she asked him, with a slightly amused look on his face. James smiled and went over and hugged her. She was wearing a baby blue tank top and white jeans, which hugged her curves in a very good way he thought.
"I was checking to see what kind of underwear you have, and seeing if it looked good on me," Oooh, he thought, From up here I get a nice view down her top.
"And what did you think?" she asked him back, hugging him back and leaning closer in.
"That you have nice sized tits and saucy bras," He replied, leaning in for a kiss. Lily laughed and kissed him back.
"Ewww James," she said once they had broken apart, "You're all sweaty and dirty, you have to have a shower before I touch you again."
"Well Lily, I'm a very dirty person." She laughed. She liked him being flirtatious.
"Then go think dirty thoughts in the shower and I'll make toast." James smiled naughtily back at her.
"Oh I love your bad side," he seductively said. He then kissed her on the tip of her nose before skipping off towards the bathroom. Lily knew it was the start of a beautiful relationship. James on the other hand, was thinking very very rude thoughts about her, wishing she was in the shower with him. He washed his hair and got out of the shower and towelled himself down. He smiled at the thought that Lily's naked body had minutes before been against this same towel. He walked through to his room and flicked through his wardrobe, trying to find a suitable outfit for the day. Shall I just not wear anything...actually she might freak. He chose a white polo shirt and baggy jeans. He skipped off downstairs and sneaked up behind Lily.
"Please don't give me a fright," Lily said, not looking back or anything.
"Awww dang it, I was going to give you a fright," James moaned putting his arms around her stomach and kissing her neck, "Sorry bout earlier. I have pretty crappy friends,"
"Don't worry," Lily laughed, turning round so she was facing him. She was only 5'5, so she came up to James's chin. To try and solve this issue, James lifted her up, so they're faces were at the same level. She kissed his lips and played with his hair. Unfortunately, they're passion was interrupted by a familiar but unwanted voice.
"What the hell are you doing Lily," said the voice in a threatening way. Lily stopped kissing James and turned around.
It was Adam.
A/N: Ha ha, cliffhanger. You'll just have to wait until next time, but I will only update if you stop threatening to kill me in your reviews. Until next time my pretties...
And I, like most people, have no idea what the hell "Dutch Courage" is. We'll just go with Kt's description: like, summit you do if your feelin really really really brave. Fluffiness…whooo, finally! Say it with me "Princess Katie has made 'em snog!" Whoooo! I'm going to go now, ok? Byeeeeeee. And the holy chicken shit of the gods is mine. And so is the daddy long legs. Did you know that the daddy long legs has the most powerful venom known to man? Or at least according to Ricky Gervais. He makes me giggle.
I make her giggle too. Once she had to be sent out of class because I made her laugh so much...that amused me.