Flower Tears and Maurder Fears

Chapter 2: Evil Flowers and Midnight Plots

Meanwhile down in the common room:

"What!" Lily asked quietly complete shock in her voice, just realizing how close James was.

" I. Will. Not. Give. You. The. Counter. Curse. Unless. You. Go. To. Hogsmeade. With. Me." James, who was now only a few inches away from Lily replied slowly as if he was talking to a toddler and not an adolescent.

Lily's anger grew as he talked to her like that, if there was one thing she absolutely HATED that was it. Her anger made her see red, which resulted in evil thinking on her part. Barely concealing a grin, Lily closed the distance between them and placed her hands one his shoulder.

" I would really appreciate it …" Lilly began and when reached the last word brought her knee up hitting a very… sensitive part of James body. " … If you would leave me alone."

Lily watched for a moment as James eyes clouded with moisture, smiling sweetly she leaned down and whispered " Counter Curse?"

Looking away from Lily James muttered the counter curse, causing Rascal who had climbed on to an arm chair to turn from Purple to his normal chocolate brown. Scooping him up Lily headed up the stairs. Just as she heard James begin to get up and when she had reached the bottom of the stairs, she looked back.

" Hey Potter." She said, and saw the hopeful look before it was concealed. " Don't get me mad."

When she turned away and made it half way up the stairs she found Sirius and Remus sitting comfortably on the landing barely managing to hold back their laughter. Sirius more than Remus. Looking down at them Lily found a sort of satisfaction that someone had seen her discomfort "the great James Potter".

" Enjoying the show? BED NOW!" Lily yelled, " not satisfied enough not to yell at them foe being out of bed though" she thought with a grin, as they scrambled up the steps to their dormitory.

As Lily got ready for bed, a little voice nagged at her subconscious.

You know you would have liked it…

Liked what?

Going out with James. I know you think he's kind of cute…

I DO NOT LIKE POTTER!

Someone's in denial

I'm NOT in DENIAL! I can't believe I'm fighting with myself.

"I need to go to bed" Lily said aloud, and promptly changed and climbed between the covers.

Just as she was beginning to slip off to sleep on last thought entered her subconscious.

" He can be sweet sometimes"

And she fell asleep.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

As soon as Remus and Sirius were sure Lily had gone to bed; they quietly crept down the stairs. As they thought they he would be, James was still sitting there, now having moved to sit on the window ledge. Though the window was blocked by James's head Remus knew the moon was quarter full.

" Not too far away." He thought grimly, James turned then revealing not the expressionless face he showed everyone else but a frustrated and confused face he usually showed his friends after fighting with Lilly.

Anticipating a long talk, Moony sat in the chair closest to the window. Sirius however climbed onto the window ledge with James.

The three sat in silence for a while until James broke the silence.

" I don't understand." He exclaimed furiously " She won't even give me a chance."

" Well." Remus said barely hiding a grin at the look on James face. The first time James had told them he was going to try to get Lily to go out with him, they hadn't believed that he was serious (A/N: No pun intended). Now looking at him Remus realized he was in deep even if he didn't think so. " She hasn't really seen the real you has she?"

James and Sirius both looked from the window ledge in confusion. Sighing Remus exclaimed warily:

"Do you remember one time you've ever talked to her without pranking her?" he asked

James and Sirius's blank faces answered the question. Before Remus could comment, Sirius asked the question they had both been wondering about.

" Why Evans?" he asked curiously "You could go out with almost anyone, without being slapped as many times as you've had with Evans.

"She's different." He said simply but sincerely "She doesn't care about her looks, or what everyone thinks about her, she doesn't grovel, or whine or beg, she's a beauty; it's true. But there something more …" he trailed of when he saw the grin on Remus's face and the "You've lost it" look on Sirius's.

Glancing at Sirius Remus chuckled. "If I had enough energy I'd tell you why I find this funny." He said with a small secret smile " I'm going to bed"

After Remus had left the room remained quiet for a millisecond before –

"Mental, that one." Sirius said with a grin " SO… What revenge are we planning against Evans?"

With a wide smile James looked up at Sirius, his long messy hair covering his eyes.

" Something unexpected."

(A/N: So I want to know what you think! Thank you fro anyone who's reading this. And a BIG thanks to my first reviewer HPOS Sufferer! Thank you but you didn't mention if you liked it…)

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