A/N: Thank you all to who reviewed! Not much to say except I'm on my spring break and am about to go away tomorrow so I decided to type up the chapter. Be grateful heh :)

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Chapter 5 After the Quidditch Game

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The next few days Lily did a lot of thinking about the pros and cons of going into the association. It would be dangerous but hell she was already in danger since Voldemort was looking for her. She had come to the blunt truth that if Voldemort was after her sometime in the future he would end up getting her. 5 years, 10 years or even 15 but she had no doubt he would.

She was definitely leaning towards joining as she was wondering a lot about her purpose in life. Basically right now she was a young adult having a good time with her girlfriends and working at a little café but there had to more than that in life. She wanted something to look back at or her children to look back and be proud of Lily Evans. Perhaps this had been the very thing she had been looking for without really searching for it.

Looking at her watch in the darkness it read eleven thirty in the evening. Tomorrow was Wednesday and James was probably wondering whether she was intending on going to the meeting. Smiling goofily she decided to owl him this very moment. He was most likely up anyways so it wouldn't disturb him.

Grabbing a piece of spare parchment Lily quickly wrote a note saying she would come to the meeting with him and asking him to come around to get her. Tying the letter to her lovebird's leg she opened the window and let Delia out into the night with the stars shining like lost gems in the clouding night.

Lily conjured a glass of water and sank into her futon couch closing her eyes and laying like that for a while. Julia had gone to bed earlier to get her beauty sleep for the night. She was auditioning the next morning for a Muggle movie and she wanted to look her best.

Lily heard a tapping noise on her window and was surprised to see Delia already there along with a note. She jumped up off the futon and opened up the window letting Delia in. Untying the note she unraveled it and read the scrawl at the bottom of it:

Are you insane? It's bloody midnight! I was just getting my beauty sleep at James flat here and what do I see but a little lovebird. I thought I was having hallucinations from the lack of sleep because who has lovebirds as messengers? Geeesh I'm back to bed. What a waste of time this was. Sirius

Lily began to laugh as she finished the note from the deranged Sirius, she could picture him gaping at little Delia. Lovebirds fared just as well as owls did when it came to communicating. Lily began to write Sirius back when there was another tapping on the window and she looked up to see a beautiful snow-white owl with dark blue eyes.

Hurrying over to the window she opened it up and saw a note in the birds beak and she carefully took it. It read:

Lily!

Your letter unfortunately went to Sirius first and let me tell you he's never really in the best moods in the late evenings so don't listen to what he said while he was in his cranky Sirius mode. I'm glad your coming to the meeting and I wanted to invite you to my Quidditch game afterwards. Sad to say we're not playing Ireland but Bulgaria this time. Oh and lovebirds are smashing. –James

Lily smiled at when he had said he wasn't playing Ireland but Bulgaria this time. She was definitely going to the game. She quickly scribbled a note back to James saying she would go to the game. Turning to the note Sirius had written she merely wrote on it, I love you too Sirius.

Handing the two notes to the owl she opened the window and let the owl go away in to the night until she could only see a little white pinprick in the distance. Closing it up she dragged herself to her bedroom finally feeling the tiredness seep through her. Falling onto her bed she flicked her wand causing the light to diminish and she fell asleep immediately, the darkness awaiting her.

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Lily shifted onto her bed pulling her blanket over her head more. She could hear voices murmuring in her room. Julia knew better than to talk that loudly in the morning when Lily was sleeping. They had gotten into countless fights over it. Turning over she opened one eye still blurred with wonderful morningness and then the other popped open. James was in her bedroom talking with Julia.

"James?" Lily groaned out pulling the Eeyore comforter around her tighter so he wouldn't see the lack of material on her body.

"Oh hey Lily, um you must've forgot about the meeting and all but it starts in like 20 minutes and Moody likes it when new members are punctual." James said leaning against her wall looking around interestedly. The room was a natural mess with clothes strewn all over the floor.

He leaned over and Lily thought he was tying his shoes or something but then his voice filled with amusement said, "A C 34, not bad."

Lily blushed deeply and said, "James! I think I'll go get ready now thanks. Don't have too much fun waiting in my room while I'm gone." She said grabbing her robe and pulling it around her securely as she gave him a good shove on her way out.

Lily ran into the hallway heading towards the bathroom and Julia blocked her way. "I can't believe he just said that!" Julia said erupting into girlish giggles, her face into a creamy mask as she was using all the beautifying tricks before her audition.

"You were eavesdropping!" Lily asked indignantly grabbing a piece of whole wheat toast Julia had made that morning.

"Of course. He's only the hottest Quidditch player ever." Julia replied winking at Lily.

"Hey, James has a Quidditch game after our little breakfast, come okay?" Lily asked feeling slightly bad for lying to her friend but she didn't think it would be good to let too many people know about the Order specially when she hadn't even gone to see what it was like for herself.

"Sure Lilybunny." Julia said blowing her a kiss.

Lily ran into the bathroom remembering he was in her room alone and she thanked the heavens she had showered the evening before. Waving her wand at her tangled hair it immediately became smooth and wavy. Slipping into a pair of pink pants she pulled over a thick knitted brown sweater accenting her features making her emerald eyes stand out.

Slipping into her clogs she jogged down to her room and entered the room just in time to hear James say incredulously, "What a loony donkey. Who in their right mind would buy a blanket with a purple donkey grimacing on it?"

She looked at him studying her beloved blanket and said, "Talking to yourself James? Never knew my room had this affect on people. Oh and his name is Eeyore and he's very popular in the Muggle world."

James muttered something that sounded like "muggles."

"Well lets get going then. I'm ready." Lily said smiling brightly.

"Finally, took you long enough." He said as they made their way out of the house and down to an alley where they could apparate.

"Psh that was very good time for me considering I was rudely awoken at the last minute." Lily said tossing her head of hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah yeah yeah, you should've been awake." James said rolling his eyes.

"I was awake. I was slowly getting up." Lily shot back.

"Whatever." James said rolling his eyes once again and then taking her hand suddenly.

Lily looked up to him blushing and then mentally hit herself. They were apparating, and here she was getting all excited. Yeesh.

The two of them experienced that familiar very uncomfortable feeling of being squeezed through a tight tube and then they were in front of a rather odd looking house. It was a bungalow type and it seemed to be the only house around. Lily looked around and saw that fields surrounded them and nothing else.

"Well let's head in shall we?" James asked and for some reason he sounded nervous.

"Sure." Lily said easily.

James walked up to the door and tapped the door a few times intricately with his wand and then waited a moment. Lily heard a tapping from the other side of the door and it seemed James replied with 5 shorts taps.

The door sounded as if it was being unlocked as Lily heard scraping sounds behind and then it was opened. The man on the other side was rather peculiar looking man. He had small dark beady eyes and his whole face was scarred looking, he was rather alarming looking.

"Bout time you got here Potter. The meeting's about to start." The man glared at James and Lily felt her cheeks becoming flushed since it was her fault they were late getting here.

"We're not late until the meeting starts Moody." James said good naturally grinning at him.

"Ah but who is this you've got with you? Wouldn't want any spies coming in here. Real good lookout we would be then." Moody said looking at Lily.

Lily smiled at him and said, "I'm Lily Evans sir. Nice to meet you."

Moody looked at her again his features somewhat softening as his face relaxed into a smile. "Ah of course. Come along then I'll introduce you to some folks." Moody said to Lily nodding her to follow him. Lily looked at James raised an eyebrow, smiled and then followed Moody.

Lily walked in with Moody and tried to store all the people she had met in her memory so she wouldn't forget later on. The Order had about 15 people recruited. She met a lady she knew only by sight from the Daily Prophet, Emmeline Vance, the Longbottoms, and the Prewetts. Lily thanked Moody for introducing her and then looked around to where James was sitting and headed over to where he was with two other men.

"Ah here she is. Mates this is Lily Evans. Lily these two odd fellows are Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew." James said nodding his head to a tall man with sandy brown hair that had a few sprigs of gray surprisingly. He must have quite the stressful job if he had grays already. The man named Peter was a shorter and rounder man with flat brown hair and watery eyes. Lily smiled at them kindly and shook their hands.

"Where's Sirius off to mate?" Remus asked leaning back into his chair.

"Looking for me?" A recognizable voice came from behind Lily and she turned grinning taking in his disheveled look.

"Did you get a good nights sleep?" She asked him innocently.

"Harhar, it was quite horrible actually after that thing you call your messenger started squeaking in my room." Sirius said moodily shaking his hair out of his face.

There was sound at the front of the room and Lily looked up to see an odd looking older wizard. He had long white hair tucked in his belt and he was wearing deep navy robes with stars speckling it. His light blue eyes were twinkling beneath the half moon glasses and he had a very kind look.

"That's Dumbledore." James whispered in Lily's ear.

Dumbledore. Of course, it seemed very evident that a man like Dumbledore would be in an organization like this fighting against Voldemort. She had done a research paper about Dumbledore awhile back in Beauxbatons and learned that he was probably the only wizard Voldemort was truly afraid of. It was very comforting that he was on their side.

"It has come to my knowledge that Voldemort has a group of discreet and powerful wizards on his side. They are called the Death Eaters. I have names of a few already and I am in need of a pair to go in behind and spy around. Moody will fill you in right now about what specifically you'll be doing." Dumbledore said looking around the room.

At that exact moment Lily looked at James to see that he was looking at her. They made a non-verbal agreement to be the two to go on this 'mission' James raised his hand in the air and Dumbledore looked at him a smile alighting his face.

"Ah James, and who will be your partner?"

"Lily Evans." James said pulling a hand through his hair looking up at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore bowed and said, "Pleasure to have you on board Ms Evans." Lily nodded at him smiling and followed James out of the room to where Moody was.

"So you two are going to do this then eh? Don't get mushy during it. Keep it serious." Moody said gruffly and Lily could feel heat creep up her neck and she had to refrain from laughing.

"We need you to go to this pub in Knockturn Alley, it's called Dark Spotters. The plan is to sneak around there and get information. Make sure before you go that you make yourselves unrecognizable so they'll think you're just some random people off the street. Here's the address to get there." Moody said handing Lily a slip of paper and she took it and slipped it into her purse.

"Thanks Moody, we'll be on our way since I have a game to head to now anyways. We'll check on you after we finish it. I'm guessing we'll head to the bar this Friday evening and try to weed them out." James said nodding to Moody and then heading out the door with Lily locking it on their way out.

"This'll be interesting." Lily said thinking about their little mission.

"Yeah should be. Lets get going then." James said taking a hold of her hand and then they were gone. Lily opened her eyes and saw that they were at the entrance of the pitch and stadium.

"I'll be seeing you later than. My teams waiting for me." James said still holding on her hand.

Lily smiled at him flirtatiously and said, "I'll be rooting for Bulgaria…I mean England."

James pretended to look downcast and then Lily kissed him on the cheek. "Don't be silly. I guess I'll be waving an England flag this game anyways!"

Lily ran off and kept her eyes peeled for her brown hair friend and then spotted her in the seating in the middle. Lily bounced over to her and sat down next to her smiling. "Whatchoo grinning about so much?" Julia asked suspiciously looking at Lily.

"Nothing, is it illegal to smile?" Lily asked pinching Julia's face.

"Lileeeeeeeeee!" Julia screeched out rubbing her face.

"Oh stop whining, it's very unbecoming of you." Lily said laughing.

The stadium was soon full and Lily looked out to the pitch and saw that the two teams were already on. James eyes connected with her for the briefest moment and then he turned away to concentrate on the game. Lily's eyes widened as she watched Bulgaria almost dominate the game for the first half hour. They had a very strong Keeper and good Beaters even challenging the legendary Chasers of England.

"Go James!" Julia yelled out loudly and Lily once again felt the need to shrink away at the loudness of her friend in public areas.

"That's supposed to be my line missy." Lily said pretend glaring at Julia.

"You would never." Julia said rolling her eyes and waving the England flag.

Lily felt her eyes wander around the stadium studying people which was rather selfish of her since she was supposed to be watching every single "brilliant" move of James but instead she was looking around. She heard in the background the Commentator yelling about how James had set up an extraordinary move and they had gotten their points for it finally.

Lily looked up an aisle and her eyes fell on a horrifying sight. There sitting nonchalantly in between crazed fans was none other than Luscius Malfoy and he was raising his wand. Lily having the gift of reading lips looked at the incantation he was about to udder and saw that it began with Avada-

"JAMES! JAMES MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!" Lily yelled at the top her lungs fearfully watching as a stream of bright green light erupted from Luscius's wand.

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A/N: Oho and it's a cliffie. My first one I think? So anyways here's dear Lily's beginning with the Order. Her mission with James to go to a sleezy pub will most likely be in next chapter along with images of Lisa. Review my darlings.

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