Chapter 10
Before Lily and James knew it, their two weeks in Hawaii was gone and they were getting back on a muggle airplane to fly back home.
"James!" Lily whined, "I am not ready to go back yet! It's so beautiful here and I love it! Can we come back some day, please."
James laughed and kissed Lily passionately on the lips, "Anything you desire Mrs. Potter."
"Yay!" Lily said jumping on James and wrapping her legs around her husband, "If we weren't getting on that airplane." Lily purred in James's ear, "I would have my way with you. Just hearing you call me Mrs. Potter, makes me randy."
"Wow!" James said looking at his wife with his eyes popping out of his head, "There's a janitorial closet just down the hallway."
"James!" Lily laughed and then jumped off of James, "When we get home."
"No," James grumbled. "Sirius and Cassidy are there."
"They said they were looking for a house, they shouldn't be around the house much longer. Besides they are our friends, and you told Padfoot that you had no problem with them staying with us."
"I don't, but we are newlyweds now."
"And so are they."
"Okay Miss Smarty Pants."
"That is Mrs. Smarty Pants."
"Oh yes," James said nodding his head. "That's right you are now married to a tall, dark, and handsome man correct?"
"I guess you could say that," Lily said messing with James. "But he wears this thick glasses and his hair is just all over the place."
"Lily!" James gasped, "How could you!"
"James, I am just kidding!" Lily said laughing at the look of awe on James's face.
"You better be," James said pulling Lily close. "You are in such trouble when we get home."
"Oooh, I like trouble."
"I tell you what Frank, I can not stand that horrid woman you call your mother!" Alice yelled throwing herself down on the couch.
"What did she do now Alice?"
"Will not quit badgering me about a baby!"
"Well she wants a grandchild and we have said that we want children. I mean you do what children don't you Alice?"
"Of course I do Frank, I would just like to be married at least a year before we try to have a baby."
"And what happens if you get pregnant before then?"
"Then we have a baby nine months later."
"Alright I see where this is going and I'll tell my mother to get off of your back, okay?"
"Good," Alice said smiling at her husband and giving him a light peck on his lips. "What are you doing today?"
"Going help Mother at the store."
"Again?" Alice whined.
"Alice we don't start Auror training until September and we do need some money, and no I am not living off of your inheritance from your deceased family."
"Frank…"
"No Alice, I am a man and I am going to take care of you. I'll be home about seven tonight."
"Just fine," Alice huffed throwing herself down on the couch. "Guess you will just miss seeing our friends come back from Hawaii. I told you a week ago that Cassidy and I were throwing a 'Welcome Back' party for them. Everyone is going to be there and I get to…"
"What time is it Allie?"
Alice turned to look at her husband with a smile from ear to ear, "Five. They should be apparating to their house anytime after that from the airport."
"Fine I'll get off at four forty-five, we can call that Crouch boy, you know the kid that just started. Doesn't seem like a bad kid, just trying to get the hell away from his crazy father."
Frank leaned down to kiss Alice goodbye as he was headed to work, "Love you."
"Love you too," Alice said beaming at her husband. After Frank apparated to Diagon Alley, Alice headed upstairs to get ready for today.
"Gabby? Gabby! GABBY!" Remus began to yell as he realized that his girlfriend wasn't laying beside him. "Gabriella!"
"Shut up Remus," there was a yelling from the loo. "I just had to use the loo, you didn't seem that my wheelchair is gone?"
Remus then looked for her wheelchair and saw that he was being a total idiot, "What are you doing in there."
"Fixing my hair."
"Why?"
"We have to be at Sirius and Cassidy's soon."
Remus crawled out of bed and opened the bathroom door, there was Gabriella curling her long hair in the bathroom of the flat they had just gotten. "Don't you mean Lily and James's?"
"Nope, Cassidy came by yesterday and told me that they bought a cute little house. So I will be on my over to their house, you coming?"
"Nope," Frank said shaking his head.
"Then what do you expect to do all day?"
"We kind of have a prior engagement…"
"Oh, one you have just forgotten to mention to tell me about?"
"Yeah."
"And?"
"I kind of told Amos and his wife that we would go to Cedric's belated first birthday party."
"I am not going to that want to be rapist's house and I can't believe you told him that the both of us would attend. Frank you can go, but don't expect me to go."
"Come on Allie that was along time ago and Amos had changed a lot since Cedric was born."
"I don't give a damn about Diggory and I refuse to go to his disgusting house, for all I know that baby is a rapist baby too!"
"Allie don't talk like that! Ludo is going to be there too."
"Oh great the guy that cheated on my best friend, even bloody better. You go if you want to."
"You are going to be mad at me now."
"No I won't," Alice said shaking her head. "You go over there if you want to, but I am going over to Cassidy and Sirius's to help them set up for Lily and James's party."
"Party?"
"Yeah they come home tonight and we are throwing them a 'Welcome Home' Party."
"Oh…I didn't know."
"I am going over to Cassidy's now, the party starts at five if you are interested."
"Alice," Frank tried.
"Sirius is picking Lily and James up from the muggle airport at four thirty and it's about a thirty minute drive from there to Cassidy and Sirius's cute little cottage."
"Why aren't they apparating or Flooing?"
"In front of muggles?"
"Does Sirius even know how to drive?"
"No," Alice said honestly. "But he only has to tap his wand to the steering wheel and it will do all the driving for him. He just has to act, I am leaving now."
"Alice…"
But Alice had already apparated out. Frank thought to himself, 'No wonder she can't get along with my mother, they are so much alike.'
"LILY! JAMES!" Sirius yelled loudly across the muggle airport to try and get his friend's attention.
James started laughing, "Do you hear Sirius yelling our names like a maniac?"
"Yes," Lily giggled. "Do we act like we hear him or we do we keep acting as if we can not hear him?"
"Let's act as if we still don't hear him for a bit more, you know to see how drastic Sirius gets."
"Okay," Lily said smiling from ear to ear.
"LLLIIILY! JJAAMES! OVER HERE! PRONGSIE!"
"I don't think we can ignore him for much longer James, Sirius is going to insane soon."
James and Lily turned towards their best friend that was screaming their name, "Padfoot!" James yelled as if in surprise to see his best friend, "What are you doing here?"
"I have come to pick you guys up," Sirius said giving Lily a hug and then James a brotherly hug.
"How?" Lily questioned.
"I drove here."
"Drove what?" James wondered, hoping that he wasn't flying a broom to see them in plain day. Hoping that Sirius didn't expect Lily and James and all of their bags to hop on a single broom.
"A car."
"A muggle car?" Lily asked as she turned to look at James in worry for all of the muggles on the streets and sidewalks.
"Yes I drove a muggle car, well…I really didn't drive it. My wand did."
"Oh," James said nodding as he understood now.
"So how are we getting back home?" Lily asked.
"Well either you can drive or I can get my wand to drive again," Sirius shrugged.
"Where did you get the car from Sirius?" James asked wondering what his best friend had been up to while his wife and himself had been on their Honeymoon.
"I went and rented one from a rent-a-car place, Cassidy took me."
"They didn't ask for your drivers license?" Lily questioned as James wondered what a 'drivers license' was.
"Nope," Sirius said shrugging his shoulders. "Cassidy did all the talking, she said she knew him somehow. Don't ask me ask her, now come on let's go. Cassidy has been driving me crazy the whole time you guys have been gone, she says I am not as funny as you. Yeah whatever, I am the funny king."
Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius Black, "Okay Sirius. Let's go home."
"Mine or yours?"
James's eyebrows raised, "Your house? Don't you mean our house?"
"Nope," Sirius said shaking his head no. "Cassidy and I went house shopping right after you guys headed to Hawaii and in a couple of days we had bought a small cottage in Hogsmede."
"You guys already moved out?" Lily asked sounding as if she was on the verge of tears, "Why so soon?"
Sirius took James and Lily's bags and put them in the back of the muggle car, "Why do you sound so sad little Lily? Thought you and James would be happy to get rid of Cassidy and me?"
"Whatever," Lily said rolling her eyes. "We told you guys to take however long you guys needed."
"Yeah," James nodded. "We know you guys are still trying to get over Aurora's death."
"Well, Cassidy and I want to try to have another baby. We're sure you guys would want to be alone and try to have a baby of your own."
"So when do we get to see this cute little cottage that you guys bought without telling any of us," Lily said slightly punching Sirius as Sirius was opening the door for Lily.
"Hey that's my job!" James yelled and both his wife and best friend rolled their eyes at the bigheaded James Potter.
The three friends got into the muggle car and Sirius tapped on the steering wheel with his wand when everyone was sure that there were no muggles around and the car began to drive itself.
"We are going to stop by Cassidy and my house right now."
"Well what if we are plane-armed."
"Plane-armed?" Both Sirius and Lily asked at the same time.
"Yeah," James said shrugging as if this was just a common word. "You know when you are tired from flying on that plane thingy."
Lily began to laugh hysterically and Sirius turned around to see that James looked as confused as he did, "What's so funny?" James asked looking at his wife as though he thought she had gone insane.
Once Lily had been able to stop her laughing fit, "James it isn't called plane-armed, it's called jetlagged."
"How was I suppose to know?" James asked moodily, "I don't know all your weird little sayings that your family always said. Besides that's the first time I have over flown on that plane thingy."
"So how are we getting to Hogsmede to London and how long is it going to take? That is a bit of a good ride and as the airport isn't that far away from King's Cross, and I remember how long those trips were to Hogwarts."
"No we can push a button and the car goes really fast without scaring muggles and it can squeeze in tight places where normal muggle cars can't. I say we should be home in about thirty, thirty-five minutes."
"Wow," Lily said happily as she placed her hands in her lap.
"I don't want you to sit up there with Padfoot, you are my wife come sit with me."
Sirius rolled his eyes, as did Lily. "James the car is moving and I can't just crawl back there."
"Sure you can."
Lily turned around to look at her husband, "When did you become so jealous? Especially with Sirius, you know Sirius and I are just friends."
"Okay so I am not jealous, but we are still newlyweds…"
"Ek," Sirius began to choke. "Stuff it Prongs, you guys have the whole house together later on tonight."
"Yeah," Lily said turning back to look at James and winked at him. The wink seemed to sooth James and he didn't say another jealous word, but unfortunately for Lily, James and Sirius began to talk about nothing but Quidditch.
"Wow!" Lily gasped as Lily, James, and Sirius got out of the car that Sirius had rented. Sirius later on expressed that Sirius had put a spell on the muggle car to make it act like a magical ministry car. 'Sirius, that's illegal!" Lily yelled at Sirius in the car and he just acted as if he hadn't heard Lily yell at him.
"Wow," Lily said smiling and she turned to James. "Look how beautiful this house is!"
"It's not more beautiful then ours is it?" James asked a bit worried.
"Of course it is," Cassidy Black said from behind her best friends.
"Cassie!" Lily yelled and ran from her husbands arm to hug her very dear best friend.
"Geez, I see when I am not wanted." Sirius said now sounding jealous.
"Padfoot!" James yelled running towards Sirius and hugging him the same way Lily had hugged Cassidy. Sirius caught on to what James was doing and they were acting as if they hadn't seen one another in years and acting as if they were sobbing in one another's arms.
"Stuff it," Cassidy and Lily growled at their husbands.
"Hey, I grow!" Sirius said and then he transformed into Padfoot and ran around and around the girls.
"Wow I didn't realize how much I really missed you guys," Lily said laughing as Padfoot chased off a bunch of pigeons by snapping at them in his anamagi form.
"Okay Sirius let's go," Cassidy spoke up.
"Where are we going?" Lily asked.
"Sirius and I found the nicest little Italian restaurant off the main rode here in Hogsmede."
"Ooh Italian," Lily said turning around to smile at James. "I love Italian food!"
"Yes we all know love," James chuckled as he slipped his arms tightly around Lily's waist.
"Geez, Prongsie you act as if Lily is going to float away."
"She might," James said kissing Lily's neck. "After all she is my angel."
Sirius began to make gagging noises and Cassidy began to laugh hysterically, but Lily turned around to give James a big passionate kiss.
"Gross," Sirius growled.
"Okay Lily," Cassidy laughed. "Get Potter's lips pryed off of yours so you can see my beautiful new house!"
"Our house."
"Yeah our house."
Lily pulled back from James and James spoke up, "Hey now her name is Potter too now. So for now on when you growl my last name out you could still be talking about Lily."
"No," Cassidy said shaking her head. "I call Lily, Lily. Now come on you guys!"
James wrapped his arm around the small of Lily's back, and Sirius and Cassidy motioned for Lily and James to go first.
As soon as Lily and James walked in the lights turned on and all their friends from Hogwarts jumped out. Alice, Frank, Gabriella, Remus, Peter, a girl named Katrina who was Peter's date, a few people from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff too.
Lily jumped back in surprise and Lily and James laughed.
"This is so sweet!" Lily squealed as she turned around and gave Cassidy and Sirius a hug all over again. Lily then left James's side to hug Frank, Alice, Remus, and Gabriella. "You guys, I can't believe you guys! This is so sweet!"
"This is an awesome surprise," James said smiling and taking Lily back into his arms.
The surprise party ended up being a total smash and everyone had fun. There were friends from all houses and a few younger friends that would be graduating next year or the following year. Sometime later on that night Professor Dumbledore stopped by with Professor McGonagall.
It was kind of odd to all of them to see Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall outside of Hogwarts.
"James," Professor Dumbledore asked patting James on his shoulder while he was talking to one of his old Quidditch pals.
"Yes Professor?" James asked.
"James, I am no longer your Headmaster. So please call me Albus."
"Okay, Albus." James kind of stood there, calling the man who had been his Headmaster for seven years really didn't feel right calling him by his first name.
"I am sorry to interrupt your conversation, but could I please have a word?"
"Sure," James nodded and turned back to his friend. "Could we finish this conversation later?"
"Yeah sure, later James."
James followed Professor Dumbledore upstairs to one of the bedrooms upstairs. Professor Dumbledore locked the door and put a silencing charm on the room.
"Professor, I mean Albus…what's going on?"
"James?"
James turned around to see his wife looking at him oddly as she was in the room and since James was so worried about what his former Headmaster had to say to him that he didn't notice that Lily was in here.
"What's going on?"
"I was going to ask you the same."
"James, Lily please sit down." Albus said motioning to the bed that they were standing in front of and Albus Dumbledore sat down in the chair across from the bed.
"I am starting a society to fight against Lord Voldemort called 'The Order of The Phoenix.' I have a few people that have agreed to join and I was wondering if the two of you would want to. As both of your families were killed by Lord Voldemort and then the careers that the two of you are taking."
Lily and James nodded and Professor Dumbledore went on, "With James wanting to be an Auror and Lily wanting to be a Healer…"
"I'll join," James spoke up and stood up.
"Me too," Lily nodded.
"No!" James said turning to Lily and sitting back down on the bed, "No Lily. Lily you can't."
"And why not?"
"I couldn't bare to think of you getting hurt and this is going to be very dangerous."
"James if you can do it, so can I. Don't you dare tell me I can't do this."
"James, Lily." Albus Dumbledore spoke up, "I am not meaning to start a fight between the two of you. You have plenty of time to talk this out between the two of you. There will be a meeting with the others that want to join in a month, August eleventh to be in fact." Albus handed James a slip of parchment, "It has the date, time, and location on the slip of parchment. I really hope to see the two of you there."
Albus Dumbledore walked out of the spare bedroom and James tucked the slip of parchment in his pocket. "Lily you are not joining."
"Excuse me!" Lily said her emerald green eyes about to pop out of her head, "How dare you tell me what to do James Potter!"
"Lily…"
"No James! You are not going to boss me around just because we are married now. You were the kindest man and you told me that I could do anything I set my mind to. James I want to join this with you and…"
"Lily, no."
Lily rolled her eyes at James, "Our first night back from the honeymoon and you become a total prick! James I will not put up with this!" Lily apparated out of the room to leave a very lonely, and upset James Potter.