CHAPTER FIVE Quintessential
Small drops of rain were falling on the red head who sat next to the lake. She was very tired but her body seemed unwilling to sleep. She began to shiver as her wet robes clung to her body.
Out of nowhere James Potter appeared. Extreme exasperation overtook her and she mustered the urge to hex him.
The urgent look in his eyes said more than enough.
"I'm sorry, I truly am". He said.
"You'll have to do better than that" she retorted and jumped to her feet desperately wanting to be in bed.
James jumped up and down in frustration. He could not believe his stupidity. He knew Lily better than she thought, and he knew how she hated his arrogance and any comments about her personal life. He had really screwed up this time. But how on earth was he going to make it up to her.
The time they had spent together over the past couple of days had been amazing, he would give anything to be back in her arms.
Mentally, he kicked himself repeatedly. He had waited so long for the red head to notice him, and when she finally did, what did he have to do? Piss her off. With a temper like hers it was hardly surprising when she broke his nose. She would be over the incident by tomorrow, but why did he have to try and impress everyone. He didn't like anyone else the way he liked Lily. There were many girls that were prettier than her, but her personality was something no one could rival with. The way she argues over what she was passionate about. The way she couldn't stand when her friends didn't read the newspaper.
He walked over to the nearest tree and punched it in frustration. This did nothing to help his exacerbation but it did hurt his knuckles a lot. Episkey he muttered at his knuckles heeling them with a flourish.
Picking up his cloak and the map that he had so hurriedly dropped he began to trudge up towards the castle. He made his way up to his dormitory hoping he would wake up tomorrow and find all of this a bad dream.
Several weeks passed before the rumours of Lily Evans and James Potter died down. Everyone assumed James was just showing off as there was no way Lily would ever go out with him, or so they thought.
After another failed attempt at winning Lily back, James was in a particularly bad mood, his frustration at new heights. After trying to vent some anger on Moony and Wormtail with no success he picked up his broom and set off for the quidditch pitch, even though it was pouring with rain.
The rain quickly soaked him through, and his teeth started to chatter. He couldn't see where the ground was anymore because of the heavy rain. Flying blindly he crashed into a goal post, breaking his ankle on the fall.
He swore loudly as he searched in vain for his wand.
Lily was thinking about seeing James. She missed the way she felt around him, but her pride was preventing her from doing so. Then an idea struck her. Why hadn't she thought of it sooner, go and speak to Sirius! Kicking the blankets off she crept up the stairs to the boys dormitory. Being ever so careful she turned the handle and found Sirius' bed. Gently picking up the covers of his bed she climbed in.
She knew he wouldn't be asleep. "What can I do for you Lils" he asked.
"Well, she said, I think I need to talk to James".
Quietly he chuckled, some people found it so hard to see the answer which was quite literally sitting 5 feet away from them.
"He's right there, go and talk to him" he answered simply.
Taking a huge breath she climbed out of Sirius' bed and slowly made her way over to James' bed. Only there was one problem, there was no James in it.
"Sirius, she said her voice slightly panicked, he's not here".
This woke the other members of the dormitory up, who, after getting over the shock of seeing Lily, stirred into action.
"Don't worry" said the quiet voice of Remus Lupin, "he stormed out about two hours ago with his broom".
Lily took one look at the weather and ran out of the dormitory and towards the pitch.
LUMOS she yelled when she reached the pitch. Light glanced out in all directions, and she searched in desperation for James, thinking something had happened to him. She found a wand which looked like it was James', taking this as a bad sign, she began to search faster.
She saw a small, drenched figure, crouched beside a goal post
She ran over to him, the mud flying up against her pyjamas.
Reaching him quickly she kneeled beside him, touching his cold skin. Seeing his attempt to make a splint for his ankle she mended it with her wand. She looked at him worriedly.
"Don't worry I'll be fine" he said "if you start talking to me again".
She gave him a small smile, silently agreeing, no more games from either end. She knew he would get hypothermia if she didn't get him warm soon. She helped him up and he leaned on her as they both slowly headed back to the castle.
Instead of returning him to his dormitory she took him to the Gryffindor bathroom and sat him in the shower. Hurriedly she turned the taps on, the hot water covering them both, until James' skin began to go pink.
Breathing a sigh of relief that no damage was done, she began to remove most of his wet clothes.
He made as if he was going to say something, but she hushed him, she knew he was going to apologise and explain, but there was plenty of time for that later. Seeing as she was already wet she shed the top layers of her pyjamas, knowing they looked pretty stupid with mud all over them.
James managed to fix his ankle now that he was warm. He strode over to the red head closing the distance between them.
"I never want to be apart from you again" he whispered to her.
Cupping her face he began to kiss her, trying to put in as much emotion as he could, to show her how much he had missed her. She backed up until she was against the cool tiled wall of the bathroom, and began to kiss him strongly and slipped her tongue inside his mouth.
With this action, he picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his torso, as he carried her to the deserted common room. They feel intertwined on to the couch in front of the fire which warmed them slowly. Not that they needed the warmth, for now James body was emanating plenty of it, Lily thought to herself.
Slowly the kisses changed from strong and passionate, to sweet and gentle. As Lily ran her hands down his chest, he began slowly to undo the many buttons of the shirt she had hastily thrown on in her efforts to find James.
Gently he pulled the shirt off and trailed his fingers down her chest and along her stomach. She moaned in delight as she closed her eyes, she didn't want him to stop. She snaked her arms around his neck liking the feeling of his skin on hers as he carefully rolled her under him.
Suddenly Lily, with a quick jerk, rolled James off the couch and onto the ground with a loud thump. Laughing out loud she jumped over the back of the couch as he jumped up to chase her.
"You're going to pay for that Miss Evans" he said with a malicious glint in his eye. He lunged at her and with a shriek she tried to dodge him. Unsuccessful she attempted to out run him, but he had cornered her.
"mmm, I think that deserves a fine of many kisses" he started as he positioned her against the wall, putting his hands on either side of her to stop her from escaping.
"Now now, no childish games Miss Evans" he jokingly warned as she tried to tickle him.
"Why Mr Potter, if you think I was engaging in such ridiculous accusations, you are quite wrong" she replied in a pompous tone; before wrestling him onto a chair and straddling him exploring the inside of his mouth with her tongue, her hands teasing him gently.
Gradually she began to get cold, the rain and her present lack of clothes weren't exactly helping her situation.
The hazel eyes noticed when her skin cooled to the point where she had goose-bumps.
"Looks like you need someone to warm you up" he demurred
"And I suppose you would be that some one?" she asked
James waggled his eyebrows suggestively as Lily rolled her eyes. Instead of commenting on his offer she walked over to the fire and sat on the furry rug in front of it. James sat on the couch behind her and stroked her hair, he hadn't realised how tired he was until this moment. A yawn from Lily indicated she was feeling the same way and she climbed onto the couch and lay in James' arms. As soon as her head hit to soft fabric of the wine coloured couch she feel asleep.
The next day dawned bright and sunny after the previous night's storm. The light swept in the windows and over the couple that lay on the couch, a tangle of arms and legs. The red head's eyes blinked open as the sun hit them and she stretched hugely, waking the hazel eyed boy. Normally, it's warmer in the morning, she thought to herself and then realised that it was cold because she was only wearing her underwear and her clothes lay strewn across the common room.
Cursing under her breath, she woke James roughly and collected her wet clothes, with a quick kiss goodbye she ran up the stairs to her dormitory praying that no one was awake to witness her coming in the door wearing only her underwear.
Her and James had come so close to sleeping together last night, this thought both scared her and excited her.
As luck would have it, everyone was still asleep as she tentatively began to dress for the school day ahead. At the bottom of her trunk she found a pair of lacy underwear that her Aunty Liz had given her for Christmas. Envisaging James' face when he saw her in these, she decided to keep them handy.
As the red head was dressing James burst nosily into his dormitory, not caring if he woke everyone up. He wrenched open the curtains that surrounded his friends four poster beds and yelled GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE at each of them before decorating the room with confetti from his wand.
"I can't work out which is worse" muttered a sleepy Lupin "Angry/depressed James or happy/bubbly James".
Peter just simply ignored what was going on and tried to go back to sleep.
"So I take it all went well last night" Sirius added slyly "just don't screw it up again, for all our sakes".
James drew his friend aside to tell him in private what had happened and how Miss Lily Evans had ended up in his arms wearing practically nothing. The grey eyes knew all, he could see it, and his friend was falling for Lily, hard.
A/N: REVIEWS HURRAH, I never thought I'd get reviews!
Emerald Purity: yes I quite agree about the dialogue thing! I'm just completely hopeless at dialogue, but I shall try!
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