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Chapter 11 It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
James was asleep, sleeping in a chair next to Lily's bed, holding her hand. Lily was tossing and turning, but unconsciously in her sleep, never letting go of his hand.
"DADDY!" Lily yelled sitting straight up quick as a lightning bolt. James awoke with a start to see Lily crying harder than she had in a while.
""Lily. Lily. Lily..." James started, climbing onto the bed and spooning Lily onto his lap. "It was just a nightmare. You're all right. Shh...It's okay." he comforted. Lily sat crying into his chest for a few more minutes before she calmed down.
"Stay with me." Lily whispered. "Please." She begged. James nodded.
"Okay." he agreed. He laid Lily down and laid down next to her. He turned to his side facing her and gathered her into his arms. The two of them fell asleep, Lily in a slightly less dreamy sleep than James.
â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢ With Remus, Sirius, Allison and Dasani
"I can't believe we watched The Little Mermaid!" Sirius said.
"What? I thought it was cute! Besides, Eric and Ariel remind me of James and Lily, just make Eric have brown eyes and glasses." Allison pointed out.
"That's so true, Ally!" Dasani laughed.
"It wasn't that bad, Sirius. Ariel did have a lot of the qualities Lily possess. A good singing voice, brave, adventurous, fights for what she believes in and above all- Doesn't take crap from any one/" Remus said. The other three laughed.
"Hey that's the fourth film we've watched. It's passed one o' clock and James is still not home. Do you think he got lucky?" Sirius asked, raising his eyebrows suggestively.
"Shuttup Padfoot! Lils' just lost her parents." Remus scolded.
"Yeah, have a heart. Maybe he just stayed with her tonight like we suggested." Allison reprimanded.
"I agree with them, Sirius. SERIOUSLY, now is not the time." Dasani agreed.
"Sorry. I was just trying to lighten the mood a bit." He apologized.
â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢â¢ With James and Lily the Next Morning
James laid there at 10:00, watching Lily sleep. He didn't want to wake her up by moving her because she hadn't slept for a few days before.
"Hi, James." He heard a whisper. He snapped back to reality and saw his fiancée looking at him with a weak, sad, small smile on her face,
"Hi, love. Are you okay for now?" he asked softly. She nodded.
"I'm fine, thank you for your concern." She answered back politely. He frowned and wrinkled his at her formality.
"Lily, I'm always concerned about you. I always be. I love you. Don't you ever forget that! Now, how about a spot of breakfast? What do you want to eat? I'll make breakfast." He said as the two of them walked out of her room.
"Oh stop it James. You and I both know that you can't cook." Lily giggled softly and lightly.
"For you, I'd try," he said sweetly. She smiled a small smile at him and the walked into the kitchen.
"No need for that, James. I've already made all of her favorite foods, starting with the classic cereal, bagels, to bacon and sausage." Ally said from behind the stove. "Dasani helped." She added. James shrugged and muttered something a little incoherently.
"Oh man! I wanted to impress her with what little cooking skills I have!" Dasani and Ally both laughed.
"So, Lil? What'll it be? Cereal, bagels, muffins, bacon, sausage? Hell! Do you want them all?" Dasani asked.
"I'll just have a muffin thanks." Lily said, taking a chocolate chip muffin before any one could object. They wanted her to eat more.
"So you two, how was your night?" James asked Allison and Dasani while taking some bacon, a muffin, and a bagel. Lily poured him some tea and gave it to him. "Thanks, Lil."
"Pretty good. We watched four movies. One movie reminded us of you two. Can you guess which one, Lils? We'll give you a hint:" Allison started.
"It's a Disney animated film." Dasani finished. Lily looked down at her muffin and continued picking at it.
"The Little Mermaid." She whispered. James looked at the girl sitting next to him.
"Confused, James?" Dasani asked grinning. He nodded and regarded her with curious eyes. "We can watch it after breakfast. Then you'll understand."
"No, I want to go out. Just explain it to him and show him the movie case." Allison argued. James nodded.
"I agree. We need to get out." He said, looking at Lily with a small underlining glare.
"I don't want to. You guys can go on without me. I'll just stay here." Lily said. "Thank you any ways." Her muffin was only missing a fourth of it.
"No, you're coming." James told. Lily got a little mad.
"I don't want to! You can't make me!" Lily exclaimed.
"Yes! I can!" James' voice rose.
"Who do you think you are, to tell me what to do?" Lily asked in a frighteningly calm voice. James was speechless for a minute. Dasani and Ally both dropped their forks and Lily was glaring at James.
"I think I'm your fiancée!" James said with the same deadly calm voice.
The kitchen was deadly silent. The clank of a bread crumb could be heard. Then the four occupants heard a 'POP' and turned to see Mrs. Melanie Potter standing next to the stove and Mr. Harold (Harry) Potter standing next to her.
"Dasani, Ally, can you girls please give us sometime alone to talk to James and Lily?" Melanie asked as she and Harry walked to the two in question.
"Sure Mrs. Potter." The two girls took their plates and headed to Dasani's room to talk and finish breakfast.
"James, don't force Lily to do something she doesn't want to do just yet. She needs to mourn properly." Harry said, clamping his son on the shoulder. James suddenly felt ashamed of himself.
"The dear girl just lost her parents." Melanie continued. "Sorry we didn't get here sooner, dearie. Harry was working overtime because of the raid and I was pretty busy at work too." she told Lily.
"But you don't work on weekends, Mum." James pointed out.
"I'm replacing Lily for a week." She said. Lily's head snapped up.
"I'm sorry." She whispered, slightly ashamed of herself.
"Don't worry. You are, after all, my daughter-to-be." Melanie said. She took Lily into her arms as Lily broke down again. Harry pulled James aside.
"Son, don't rush Lily to go back to her everyday routine so soon after she lost her parents. Make sure she lives life, but let her mourn. Love her, be there for her, for example, go to the funeral with her. Just don't let her have a repeat of yesterday. Sirius and Remus told us what happened." He added as James shot him a confused look. "Don't let that happen." He finished. James nodded.
"I do love her." he told his dad.
"I know that. But in times like these, it's a possibility that she could forget that. Make sure she always knows it." Harry said. James nodded again.
"Thanks, Dad." He gave his dad a 'manly hug' and said, "should we go back into the kitchen?" Harry nodded.
"Hi Harry, James." Melanie greeted.
"I'm sorry, Lily. We don't have to go out, but I'm not going to let you become attached to the life you had yesterday." James said, walking over to Lily and taking her hands in his. Lily nodded her head.
"Okay." she whispered. The two elder people grinned.
"See? Problem solved." Melanie said, apparating away.
"That is until the next one comes along. Don't tell her I said that or I'll get the couch!" Harry grinned 'popping' away.
"You're stuck with me all day, so what do you want to do? Do you want to watch a movie?" he asked her.
"Not really." Lily admitted, what she thought was inconspicuously glancing at the pocket of his robes that held the note Petunia sent her protruding out of it. James followed her gaze and then dropped her hands. He reached into his pocket and brought the letter out. He unfolded it and held it out for Lily to see.
"Read it. Read it to me. I want to know why you're so nervous that it is in my possession." James stated firmly with the letter in his outstretched hand. Lily took the letter.
"No." she defied.
"Pardon me?" he challenged her to say that again.
"No, I won't read it to you. We can go out." Lily tried.
"Don't try that, Lily. Either you read it to me of I-"James stopped when he saw her taking her wand out and pointing it to the letter. James, who was quicker than she was, took out his wand, summoning the letter to him. He began to read the letter.
"No! Don't read it!" Lily begged, but James began to read it out loud. By now, Dasani and Ally had come back into the kitchen.
"'Dear Freak,
You're a bitch. I hate you. You killed my parents. They aren't yours. You've no rights on saying that. If it was my choice, I wouldn't even write to you but Vernon said I should tell you about when I'm holding their joint funeral. It's on Monday, September 15, at 8:00 am. They're being buried in the church's cemetery. I hope I don't see you there, bitch.
The Much Better Offspring,
Petunia Dursley'"
James finished. James was shaking and red faced. Dasani had white knuckles as did Ally. Lily looked down.
"This is why you wouldn't let me read it? It was from Petunia?" James growled.
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Hey! So sorry about the delay, but the homework keeps piling up as the year progresses closer to exams (even though they are 12 weeks away). And also, I had to be so accident prone to pour water (steaming hot water) on the back of left hand-it's red and swelling. Actually it was a total accident and it was more like the water spilled on my hand so my dad freaked out and everything when I called him and told him the my entire left hand was burned. He even got me an appointment with a surgeon! I told him it wasn't that serious that I had to see one. But he called into a local pharmacy Walgreens and got me a prescription creme. So I only have one hand to type with. Well, make my day better (because having a burnt hand isn't fun) by clicking the button on the bottom left hand corner that says 'go'. Toodle-loo!
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