a/n: I hope no one here is angry with me. Gomenasai! My computer's motherboard exploded and I became idle for a week. Oh well, I intended to update tomorrow but because I am rejoicing about my computer, I am updating a day earlier than scheduled. BTW, all my exams are done so I don't have a teeny-weenie problem, except for my three remaining projects.
CHAPTER 16: YOU'RE HERE AGAIN
Lily touched James' face and said in a faint whisper muffled by her resistance to shed tears, "I remember now," she said.
"You really do?" James' asked her, holding her hands.
"It has been a long journey on my way back to you, James," Lily said. With these words, James really knew that Lily had remembered.
James turned to the ocean and shouted, "You see? Lily remembered! She remembers me now!"
"James, that's stupid," Lily chuckled. "From the start, I really knew that I really knew you… differently, that is," she said.
"Like Dumbledore said, you'll remember me if I'm really special in your heart," James said, his eyes glistening with tears.
"Really, Dumbledore said that," Lily confirmed. "Let's go back now," she told James, who seemed to liven up.
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"What? What do you mean the wedding will be continued as expected?" Kristanna asked the two of them.
The two of them nodded slowly, smiling at each other. "Does that mean that you remember?" Sirius interrogated next.
They nodded once again. "Hey, why do you bug us, you two?" James finally asked, his temper flasked out.
"Besides, it's a good thing that I remember," Lily said matter-of-factly.
"Lily, what happened on the night of the war? To whom did you duel with?" Kristanna started to ask.
Lily tried to scan her mind. "I'm sorry, I can't remember," she said disappointingly.
"No matter. You'll remember that later on," Kristanna said in reply.
A knocking sound came from the window and Sirius saw an owl, carrying a large envelope. It set off after letting Sirius take the letter.
"Oh my gawsh! We're invited to a Ministry party! Tomorrow, seven o' clock," he informed, crumpling the too-large invitation. "It's the opening of the Fountain of Magical Brethren. How many galleons did they spend on that freaky fountain anyway?"
"About nearly a million," James answered. "Are they that corrupt?"
"Sure they are," Kristanna said darkly. "I'm the head of St. Mungo's and until now, since they started that excretal-project, there's no hospital allowance." She carried the tray of potions. "If that hospital is not magical, we'll be killing a million patients a day!"
Lily snorted. "Why aren't you telling the Ministry?" she asked.
"Hello? As if my super-perfect grammar is a treasure for those Ministry creeps," she said, rolling her eyes. "Maybe they just dump my letter to the trash bin, no matter how my owl bites them. Don't worry. I'll send a Howler next time."
"Do we have to leave tonight?" James asked.
"Aren't you a wizard, James Potter?" Lily asked. "We're going to apparate back, surely."
"Along with the great news that Lily Evans is back," James added, touching her chin.
"I told you Lily can taste peas," Kristanna told Sirius, making him carry the large tray of potions back to her trunk.
"Am I going to be your house-elf once we're married?" Sirius asked her.
Kristanna mimicked him. "Well, Sirius Black, do you still want to marry me or not?" she asked back threateningly.
"Of course I do," gulped Sirius.
a/n: sorry, kinda short but don't be disappointed. I hope you'll enjoy the next chapters that will follow as I am near to the end in writing this fic.
Please review. I would be inspired about that. I am brokenhearted.
