Chapter:3

Chapter Title: Games a foot

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Let the fairy tale continue…

Lily and Remus were in a field with a clear view of the royal castle. Remus sat on a stool painting the castle while Lily ran around the bushels of hay holding onto the string of Dumbledore's flying contraption.

"He thinks I'm a countess, Remus." Lily said

"I don't thinks it's the fact that he believes you to be a countess that captivates him but I believe the fact that you, yourself, are truly captivating." Remus said looking up from his painting. Lily was silent for a moment.

"If I saw him today I would march right up to him and say…" Remus looked across the field and saw two figures riding their way; Remus realized who they were and Lily hasn't noticed them heading their way.

"If you saw the Prince today what would you say?" Remus asked amused.

"I say, its not the social standing that draws people together but their ability to communicate with each other. I would say that I may be just a servant but I share the same intellectual standing as he. I would tell him to forget all that he has been told about social standing." Lily laughed, twirling in a circle watching the flying contraption above her.

"Well, I think your chance is on its way." Lily stopped dead in her tracks and saw the two men ridding towards them. She panicked and ran behind a bushel of hay with the flying contraption still flying above her. The Prince and Sirius rode up to Remus.

"Is Signore Dumbledore around?" The Prince asked

"I'm sorry your highness." Remus said

"But isn't that his flying contraption?" Lily looked horrified at the string to the flying contraption that she held in hands and threw it over her shoulder.

"I haven't seen Signore Dumbledore since this morning at the house that the Countess DeLoncré is staying at." Remus said and Lily shook her head silently cursing.

"The Countess DeLoncré? You know her? Where can I find her?"

"I believe that she is alone today at the house of her cousin, just beyond the forest." Lily was ready to strangle Remus.

"Thank you." The Prince said, "Nice painting." The Prince rode off towards the forest. Lily ran out from behind the bushel of hay after the Prince turned away. Lily pushed Remus off from his stool.

"You stupid git. He is off to my house as we speak." Remus propped himself up on his elbows.

"Then you should get going." Lily smiled mischievously; she gave Remus a quick kiss on the cheek before she sprinted towards the woods. Lily ran her hardest towards her house through the woods. She burst through the door of the house calling out for the other maids in the household.

The Prince anxiously knocked on the door of Lily's house. Lily took a deep breath before she opened the door.

"It is true then. I have found you." The Prince said to Lily. She had another of Marguerite's old dresses and her hair brushed and half of it pulled back, "Would you like to take a walk with me?" Lily took his offered hand. The Prince wanted to talk with Lily; she seemed to be the only one that could captivate him with her individual thinking. Lily chuckled and the Prince couldn't help but catch a glance of her out of the corner of his eye.

"Ahh, so the Prince has read Utopia." Lily laughed at his quoting of the book.

"Please call me James." Lily smiled and James heart melted, "I have read the book and I find it very insightful but my father finds it nonsense."

"No offense but men like your father are the ones who hinder progression."

"You are the very founder of forward thinking and my father is the king of backward. Perhaps you can talk him into the sixteenth century." James sighed, "I would like to take you somewhere." James took Lily to a Franciscan monastery. They marveled at the monks silence and watched them intently before James took Lily by the hand and lead her farther into the monastery. Lily gasped. James lead her to the monks' glorious library.

"Pick one." James told her.

"I could no sooner pick a favorite star in the heavens."

"What affects you so?"

"My father would read to me when he was home and I would fall asleep listening to his voice. It wasn't the book he was reading but the sound of his voice and his passion for the written word." James smiled but the smile faded as he looks around the room. He turned away from Lily and walked down the stairs out of the library, "Is there something wrong?"

"You have more conviction in one memory then I have in my entire being." James said quietly. Lily followed him out of the monastery.

"Surely there is something that you are passionate about."

"Not like you." They walked in silence on the path through the woods that was suppose to take them back towards Lily's house. The Prince dragged his feet, kicking a rock and looked to be in deep thought, "If you could have the ability to do one thing, what would you do?" Lily thought for a second.

"One thing?" The Prince nodded, "I would build a University." The Prince chuckled.

"But there are Universities all over the country."

"Not just any University but one where everyone can study not just the rich. One with the biggest library in the world." Lily said passionately.

"How do you do it?"

"What?"

"Live everyday with this much passion; don't you find it exhausting."

"Only when I'm around you; why do find the need to irritate me so?"

"Why do you rise to the occasion?" Lily huffed and James smirked. They walked in silence but James still held his smirk and Lily her scowl, that is until James began to look around and recognized nothing.

"Uh…do you know the way?" He asked timidly. Lily shook her head. The Prince ran his hand through his unruly jet black hair. Lily smirked at him.

"From up there we should be able to see the way." Lily pointed to the top of a small cliff that either of them could easily climb.

"Right." The Prince started to figure out a plan for his climb and a spot where to start. He tried his best to make it look like he knew what he was about to do but Lily could see through his brave face.

"I think I should go."

"I think not." He said, his voice deeper then normal, "I will do it."

"Don't be silly. When have you climbed anything but the stairs to you room?" The Prince was about to protest but Lily was already stripping down to her undergarments and the Prince turned away. Lily started her climb, unafraid, listening to Prince's protest.

"I am the man, I should be the one climbing up there to save us."

"Yes but if you where to fall and break your royal neck what would happen to country; who would become king?" Lily called down to him; the prince snorted at the thought of his father's distraught at finding an heir.

"You swim alone, rescue servants and climb rocks, is there anything you don't do?"

"Fly." Lily said, "I can see it; that way." She pointed towards the northwest, "I'm coming back down, turn away." James turned away and was face to face with a dirty man missing a few teeth behind him was a large group of men with swords drawn. James drew his sword and called up to Lily.

"Stay aloft, Madame, there are games a foot." Lily looked over her shoulder and saw the men surrounding James.

"My wife thanks you for the dress." One called up to Lily.

"You will give me my dress." Lily jumped down from the rocks. James was trying his best ward off the intruders but there were too many of them and he was quickly disarmed. Lily and James stood defenseless in the middle of a group of armed Death Eaters..

"Let the Lady go, your quarrel is with me." James said quickly. The head Death Eater stepped forward.

"You are correct." He turned to Lily, "You are free to go." Lily held her head high and took a deep breath.

"I demand a horse and supplies and my dress." Lily said strongly. The group of Death eaters laughed.

"We are allowing you to leave; you are in no position to negotiate." His red eyes light up with amusement as he watched Lily.

"You surely aren't going to allow me, a Lady, to wander off alone in the woods with nothing." Lily said daintily. The pale man smirked.

"You are correct, Madame; how could I send you off with nothing." He said empathetically but his red eyes danced with amusement, "You can have anything you can carry." A small round of laughter echoed through the group of Death Eaters.

"I can have your word on that, sir?"

"On my honor as a Death Eater. Anything you can carry." Lily gave him a small nod and took a deep breath. She marched over to James, keeping her gaze away from any of the Death eaters but she could feel the man's red eyes on her. Lily grabbed James by his forearm, slipped the other arm between his legs and lifted him onto her back. The group of Death Eaters couldn't control their laughter. Lily gave one glance back at their leader, who had one hand on his cheek in shock and smiled with delight, before she started, very slowly, towards the direction of her house.

"Come back." The leader called, "We'll give you a horse." The Death Eaters invited James and Lily to stay at their camp for the night. The death eaters gave them blankets to sleep on , food and even wine.

"Now its your turn, tell me one of your secrets." Lily said then taking a sip from her third glass of wine. James thought for a moment.

"I do not wish to be king." Lily was shocked.

"But think of all that you can accomplish for your people."

"And also have every choice made for me, like who I can marry." His hazel eyes looked into her emerald orbs.

"You were born to privilege, and with that comes obligations." Lily paused for a second, "Forgive me it seems that my mouth has run away again." James reached out for Lily's cheek. He ran his finger over her soft creamy skin.

"It is your mouth that has me hypnotized." He said before their lips met for a soft kiss. They broke apart at the sounds of whistles; a blush crept over Lily's cheeks seeing the audience they had attracted.

A/N: This chapter is so cute. I thought the Death Eaters fit in better then the Gypsies. I hope you enjoyed. Don't forget to REVIEW. Later.

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