Thanks everyone for hangin' in there! I really appreciate all the reviews that you all give me and I am sorry to say that I don't have the time to respond to them this time. This chapter would have been up sooner, but my editor has not gotten this chapter back to me yet. Hopefully there is nothing too major. And when she does give it back to me, it might be worth checking out again, a few parts might change. I really hope you like this chapter and thanks a billion for reviewing! AND I promise promise that there will be some Lily and James action within the next few chapters. I just have to set it up first and then watch out!

Rating: M for Mature. I believe the title speaks for itself on this one.

Disclaimer: All Ms Rowling's. I think she's cool.

Of Sex and Repairmen

"She hates me."

"Of course she does."

"Not helping."

Sirius shrugged shoving more food into his mouth.

"Jane does not hate you, James."

"Then why would she put me through the torture of having Marlene over?"

"Because she wants you to die an early death and inherit all your money."

Remus glared at Peter, who also began shovelling more food into his mouth.

"Think of it this way, Lily's not coming over. Now that would be awkward."

James continued to look unmoving at Sirius. "So you're saying that talking to my mistress is much better than talking to an ex- girlfriend?"

"Yes," Sirius smiled.

James looked between Sirius and Peter who took his situation much too lightly for his liking.

"I slept with her and now Janes wants us to be friends with her."

"No, I think Jane wants to be friends with her. You don't have to."

"I'm forced to. I'm with Jane, it's like adoption. I'm forced to be friends with her friends."

"Jane's not friends with us."

James frowned. "Don't remind me."

Peter, who didn't hear the last comment, said through his scrambled eggs, "yea, I don't like Jane; she's like a nice Lily."

James raised an eyebrow and Remus stared in shock.

"I never thought of her that way."

"It's kind of true. I mean, she does look like Lily, she acts like Lily, she just lacks Lily's temper. Hey Prongs, weren't you always turned on by Lilers temper?"

James slammed his head on the table.

"Now you've done it," Remus glared.

"It's not that," James voice cleared the table.

"Pardon?"

"Jane assumed that Lily's still in love with me."

"And that's a problem because…?"

James looked up in shock. "Because I am in love with Jane!"

"You know," Sirius looked over to Peter, ignoring James last comment, "I once thought I loved this girl. She was amazing, busty, tall, gorgeous, so on and so forth. Then after a few weeks, I realized she was only good for one thing."

Peter urged him on.

"Sex, she was only good for sex. After I realized this I couldn't live with myself as I dated her for the next few weeks. Finally I had to call it quits."

"Wasn't she married?"

"And what a bastard of a husband he was. Poor girl was never satisfied."

Remus didn't know if he should be ashamed or amused. "What does this that to do with Jane?"

"Maybe Prongs does love Jane, but only for the sex. Maybe he's really still actually in love with Lily."

James laughed. "I'm not in love with Jane for sex, Padfoot. I don't think anyone could love her on sex alone."

The corner of Sirius' mouth twitched and Remus raised an eyebrow, Peter coughed awkwardly.

James shut his eyes in meditation and swore.

"Is our Jimmie sexually frustrated with his current situation? Not good enough for you? Not up to your standards?"

"No, no and no."

"Then can you please explain your last comment?"

"No, it was nothing; you guys took it the wrong way."

"Then why are you being so defensive?"

"I'm leaving."

"James, what's wrong?"

Jane had brought James into their kitchen and left Marlene looking at a photo album.

"Nothing."

"Please don't lie to me James. You're Marlene's boss; it wouldn't kill you to be nice."

"No, it wouldn't."

Jane nodded fairly confident her point had been received and lead James out of the kitchen again.

Marlene was stuck on a page. A seventeen-year-old Lily glared up at her as a younger James tried to distract Lily with flexing his muscles. Marlene used to be in this picture. Obviously she had left some time ago.

"James? I've never seen this album before."

Marlene saw Jane frowning down at the picture and James' face was indifferent.

"Yes you have, it's my school one."

"What I mean, is that I haven't seen any with her in it."

Marlene caught the dread in Jane's voice.

"She's not that bad."

Jane looked at Marlene. "Lily, she's not that bad."

"I wasn't aware that you knew her."

"They were best friends in Hogwarts."

Jane narrowed her eyes, this had triggered something, but she couldn't place it. James continued. "I would love to leave the topic there. Marlene, more tea?"

Jane was starting to piece it together. "James, didn't you say that Lily left you because you cheated on her with her best friend?"

Marlene froze. "Um…Yes James, more tea would be lovely." James rushed into the kitchen and Marlene hastily stuffed the album away.

"Wait, wait. You're the reason Lily left? You slept with James?"

James head came around the kitchen corner and Jane looked between him and Marlene.

"Well, would you look at the time. Boss is making me come in early tomorrow. Thank- you for the lovely time Jane…James." Marlene slightly bowed and then Apparitied.

Jane turned to James. "She's the reason why Lily left you."

After a silence and sighed. "Yes."

Jane nodded and went to clean up.

James was desperate. He was now pushing two months without sex and it was killing him. He lay in bed that night trying to remember that last time he had shagged Jane, but his memory was hazy and wearing thin.

At that moment, he began to think of Lily. It had been hectic, to say the least, since she had come back. And now that he thought about it, the sex thing might not have been bothering him as much if Lily wasn't around. He felt it as a silent competition with her and Jane. Lily was so powerful, she took command of every room and of every person in the room (mainly him) and Jane was the exact opposite. The competition might be a bit one sided based on that.

Jane was pretty though, however Lily was beautiful. Jane was smart, Lily was brilliant. Jane 's a decent shag, Lily was…brilliant. Lily was everything James wanted and yet, he felt he didn't want her. He felt it was time that she should want him. That she should have power over him. Deep down he knew that wasn't true and deep down he decided that he didn't love Jane anymore and never really did in the first place. James finally rolled over and drifted off to sleep with the content thought that Lily was next to him, and not Jane.

"Lily, luv," Davis traced the curve of her neck with his lips. "It's noon."

"It's Saturday."

He laughed between kisses. "Unfortunately you consumers find Saturday an ideal time to shop."

"Remus…"

"He has the morning, you're in the afternoon."

Lily rolled out of bed. Davis moaned.

"I didn't mean you had to leave now."

"That was certainly implied."

"Really? I must brush up on my innuendos."

He heard Lily laugh as the shower turned on. He smiled.

"You're late, Lily."

"I'm sorry, Remus. The shower wasn't working."

"Really?"

"Yes, I had to call a repairman and I couldn't leave without my shower, I would look terrible."

"You do know that you could have used magic."

"It's a magic shower having a magic problem therefore needing a magic repairman."

"When you say magic, does that mean…"

"Magic." Lily smiled.

"Of course. I'm off to meet James at the Leaky, he had a break though last night."

Lily busied herself with a new book order. "Is that right."

"Yes, he said it was something about having the best sleep of his life."

"Good of him." Lily looked up and smiled again.

Remus shook his head. "You are absolutely hopeless."

"Excuse me."

"You heard me. I'm off," Remus said pulling the door closed behind him. A second later it opened again and he said, "I hope you paid Davis well, there are not that many 'magic' repairmen."

Lily remembered to use magic to repair the window which had recently shattered and the book that needed severe recovering.