We Have to What?

Chapter Two

Moving In!

Summary: Lily and James are told by Dumbledore that in order to be Head Boy and Girl in their seventh year at Hogwarts, they have to learn to live together! In a two room flat! Chaos ensues…

Rated: PG-13, although might be R, depending on how I want the story to go. Plus, what's a good living-together fic without some dirtiness? Lol…

Disclaimer: I feel kind of guilty that I never put one up, so here it is. I don't own anything you recognize. I do own Podis Bagmore.

A/N: Thank you so so so so much for all of your reviews!Eight reviews for the first chapter of a story! That's incredible (for me!). Anyway, responses are at the end of the chapter. Enjoy.


Finally, after several minutes of just sitting in the street in despair, both Lily and James decided that the best thing to do would be to settle in and notify both of their respective families of their whereabouts.

James got to the front door first, but paused suddenly.

"Uh, we don't know what flat number we are."

Lily pushed past him, rolling her eyes.

"Haven't you ever stayed at a flat before? There are names to the side of the front door, with ringers up to the flats. Each one has a name." She walked up the steps and looked to her left.

"See?" she pointed at something on the door. "Miss Lily Evans and Mr. James Potter: Flat 4b"

"What does that mean?" asked James stupidly.

Lily cried in disgust, "Really? Have you ever lived outside of your twenty bedroom mansion?"

"It only has sixteen bedrooms," muttered James under his breath.

"What?" asked Lily, shocked. "I was only kidding! You really have sixteen bedrooms in your house?"

"Yeah," he said, turning red.

"Well, why couldn't Dumbledore have sectioned off part of your house and have us live there? It sounds like it's big enough to be its own country!"

"You shut up about my house!" exclaimed James, not realizing until too late that he was letting his temper get the better of him.

"I wasn't attacking your house!" said Lily shrilly. "I was merely exclaiming on the fact that you have been so spoilt throughout your entire life that you don't even know how to find your own flat!"

"Let's just go in," said James sensibly, sensing that if they stayed outside much longer, there would be hell to pay.

"Whatever," mumbled Lily.


"This is it?" exclaimed Lily when they entered the flat.

"And you're the one that was brought up like this?" asked James meanly.

"Well, not quite like this," she said soberly.

"Looks we're both spoilt brats then," he responded.

Lily ignored his last comment and instead, looked around at the shabby flat. It was so small that it could hardly be called two roomed, with the kitchen, living room, hallway and bedrooms all packed into one room, the bedroom separated with sheets. A tiny toilet constituted the second "room." And it was hardly private.

"Well," she said, sighing, "we should at least be grateful that Dumbledore separated the bedroom into two sections. We won't have to sleep together. I call the one with the best bed," Lily said, then raced into the bedroom.

James stood outside, not following for a minute. He was thinking about some things. 'I hope that I don't fall in love with her or anything. That would be awkward.' Unfortunately for him, feelings from fifth year had been resurfacing all afternoon, and he couldn't avoid the fact that Lily, while temperamental, was strikingly beautiful. With a resigned shrug, he walked in on Lily, and almost went back on his word not to fall in love with her.

She was lying on a large white bed, laughing. And it wasn't a fake laugh; the smile went to her eyes, and they were twinkling. He wondered why she was so happy about the room; it wasn't anything special. He stood stock still, then turned away shyly.

"I take it you have this room," he said gruffly.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, "It's just perfect. Yours," she pointed to another hung sheet, "is a little bit more private, but much smaller."

"Right," he said, and ducked through the sheet. Only once he had gone through did James realize the implications of the sleeping arrangements. He would have to go through Lily's room to get to the rest of the house! What if he walked in on her dressing!

He shook his head to clear his thoughts. 'You can't even talk to her for one minute without going stark raving mad, and you think you're in love with this girl?' he asked himself. Smiling, he realized he was just being stupid, and prepared to put his stuff in his room. The stuff had coincidently arrived just as they had.

Suddenly, Lily opened the sheet door to his room.

"Yes Evans?" he asked, rolling his eyes.

"If you want to eat around here, you're going to have to work, because I'm certainly not cooking for you!"

"Alright," he said, then groaned when he got up. 'I'm such an old man,' he thought to himself.


Two hours later, all they had accomplished was a livid Lily, a large mess and James, sitting smack in the middle, with a rueful expression on his face.

"What do you mean you couldn't find the top to the mixer?" she asked incredulously.

" I couldn't find it. I thought that a saucepan top would do the same job!" James argued defensively.

"Not if you let go of it!"

"Well, you can let a normal mixer top go!"

"That's because it fits. It comes with the mixer, and you are supposed to be able to let it go!"

"Well, how was I supposed to know that!"

"Use your head, Potter."

"I didn't think you thought I had a head," retorted James.

"You do have a head, but I've just never seen you use it except to torture little children at school!"

"Oh, so you admit that I'm smart?" asked James, enjoying the torture of Lily, but also feeling a little put out that he couldn't make a small mistake once in a while. After all, he had only made a half batch of the sauce, and therefore it meant that there were only two eggs on the ceiling, instead of four.

"No!" said Lily, stamping her foot. "Ugh! How am I going to live with you for a month?"

"Simple," said James grinning, and sidling over to Lily. "I'll seduce you." He put a hand out to her arm and slowly stroked it, delighting in her shiver. "And then, you'll fall in love with me." He stepped towards her, and smiled inwardly when she stared openly at him.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain on his face, and he had fallen on the floor, straight into the blender mess. He looked up in shock; Lily had slapped him! She was incredible angry.

"You're such a heartless, stupid, awful, immature—" she stopped unable to think of anything else.

James decided that, although he was prone on the floor, he could afford to torture her a little more. "Hot? Sexy? Beautiful? Intelligent? Lovely?"

Lily fled, tears in her eyes.

James grinned. He had accomplished his goal for today.


A/N: Okay, much shorter, but it's a chapter, and it's out pretty quickly. Sorry to my other stories, I will catch up with you soon! And I'm also sorry if this chapter was a little boring. It'll start to get exciting in the next few chapters.

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Tikvah Ariel: It's cool you have a personal code like that. I doubt that I will change to R, just because I don't think that it would be that good if I did, but it was just a precaution, so that people would be warned. And as for the canon part: Yeah, I didn't want to make this be totally canon, just because all of my other stories are. I mentioned that James like Lily in fifth year, which is canon, but I also said that it sort of faded away, which isn't. Thanks for your review, I always like ones that are more than "Grt fic ", which is not very helpful, although nice.

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