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CHAPTER 13: THE LADY'S REMINISCE
Lily got out of the bathroom and wiped herself dry. She gasped when green light came from her hand. She opened her palm and a beautiful lady with long, black hair adorned with flowers and long green robes. "What are you?" she asked, horrified.
The girl turned around as she sat down on the floor. "My dear mistress, I think you're in distraught that you remember your name and you don't remember me," the girl said, appearing sad.
"Well, I don't really know you," Lily admitted. "I don't remember things after my seventh year."
"Oh, my dear mistress, I'm sorry. I'm Argua," she introduced. "I am yours."
"How did that happen?" Lily asked her.
"Let me recall. You and the man with the raven's hair were walking in the forest where we dwell – I dwell before." She touched and swirled the basin of water on the dresser.
Lily approached the basin that looked like a pensieve because of its silvery light. "Is that a pensieve?" she wandered loudly.
Lily watched the whole scene run before her eyes, clear to the memory of the fairy light, as the latter narrated the story.
"My denizens were playing by the water when the man with the raven's hair" – the bowl showed the figure of James holding her hands while chasing each other by a nearby spring – "hit the throne where I was sitting – well, it looked like a flower to humans, actually," she said haughtily, coughing a little.
"Then, what happened?" Lily asked, carrying the basin to the bed and looking at it.
Argua coughed. "I think it's a little rude for that man to stamp on my throne," she said with mocking sweetness.
Lily frowned at her fairy light. "She is not modest," she thought. "I'm asking you what happened, Argua," Lily said.
The fairy light stood up, with all grace that she can endure, and her robes of green came trailing after her, leaving glitters on her former sitting place. She coughed, hiding the embarrassment. "Of course, my dear Lady. You caught me, after that," she said in a short sentence. "you were thinking that I am just a firefly" – Lily saw an image of herself catching a green dot of light falling from the destroyed rose – "Imagine that?" she laughed with a mixture of her immodest coughing. "A human thinking that the Lady of the Water was a firefly? It's embarrassing! It's…" she stopped as she met her mistress' glare.
"Please just continue with the story, okay?" Lily said with impatience.
Argua coughed once again, embarrassed that her mistress became impatient with her. "Well, I liked you from the first time I saw you. After three months – yes, yes, that's after three months – the raven haired boy went to the forest to get me to go to you," she narrated. "At first, my army of fairies attacked him and tried to drive him away. I myself refused to go with him. You know, I don't trust him because of what he did to my small throne.
"He told me that he will bring me to you, because I told you that I had the option to go with you sometimes. I go back to the spring everytime I disappear. Then he presented me to you while my fairies were dancing above and while he's giving a certain" – she held Lily's hand – "Hey, where's the ring he gave you?" she inquired.
"It's on the other hand, Argua," Lily said, showing her other hand with the swollen finger.
Argua coughed heavily. This is so much for her discomfiture. "Well, that's the ring," she said. "My apologies, my Lady."
"Ok, that's all," Lily said, turning away and rolling her eyes. Argua became a light once again, jumped to her palm, and disappeared. "I shouldn't have talked to her, she's not my kind of pet," she sighed. "But at least, I knew about something," she smiled as she stood up and went away of the room.
NCSP:
"Mistress Lily is so kind, even though she's a muggle-born, she's deserving to be the next Mistress Potter," Noli beamed, his huge eyes teary.
"Noli, get a life and return to the kitchen," James said. "And wear the socks I gave you!" he shouted at him as the elf went inside the kitchen.
"Socks?" Lily repeated. "I thought giving clothes to a house-elf marks his freedom?" she inquired.
"Nah, his family is too loyal. My father gave him a jacket but he just kept it, their family never left this house," James said, putting his feet on the table.
"That's ridiculous, James," Kristanna said, pushing his feet off. "I'm still eating!"
"And Sirius too," he said. "He eats anything you cooked. Right, Padfoot?" he asked Sirius, who was almost eating the plate delectably.
Sirius gave a thumbs-up. "She'll be great, I promise," he said. "As long as she does not put any poison on my food," he added darkly.
A/n: ok, this chapter is really nothing, just something to update. Anyway, if you would like to, please try to read my other LxJ fics, Miss Match and Four Crazy Signs of Love. I would like to hear from you. thanks!
