Chapter 15
Things soon got back to normal, or whatever normal was for three witches and five wizards. The Marauder's and friends were slowly but surely getting over the tragic death of Cassidy Black.
"It is so nice for you to stop by Peter," Lily said smiling at him as she brought Peter, James, and Sirius some lemonade and crumpets.
"Thank you," Peter said but inside he was screaming for thanking that filthy Mudblood for anything.
"I've got to go study James," Lily said leaning down to give her husband a kiss on the lips. "You visit with your friends, and Remus said that he should be by soon."
"Thanks love," James said smiling as he wife walked up the stairs and to their bedroom to study for her Healer classes.
"Beautiful isn't she?" James sighed.
"Still got it?" Peter said with disgust that the other didn't hear.
"Of course Prongsie still has it," Sirius said patting his best friend on the back. "Prongsie here has been in love with Lily for eight years now.
"Honestly Prongs," Peter said turning to his good friend. "What do you see in her?"
"What!" James and Sirius asked at the same time.
"What are you talking about Wormtail?" James said as you could hear his voice rising.
Peter blinked, he had to come up with some kind of a cover up. "I mean, what makes you know that you want to marry a woman like Lily…like how did you know?"
"Oh," James nodded.
"It's complicated," Sirius said fidgeting with his hands. "You just kind of know."
"Yeah. I always loved Lily, but after our first date I just knew that she was the woman I wanted to marry. The woman I wanted to carry and have my children."
"You knew that too?" Peter asked Sirius.
"Yeah," Sirius said as his eyes glazed over. "With Cassidy, I just knew. Since Cassidy had been very popular with the guys I never told her how I truly felt."
"Yeah but you didn't talk about marrying her until you found out that she was pregnant."
"Sure I didn't talk about it," Sirius nodded. "That doesn't mean that I didn't think about it. I knew that I wanted to marry Cassidy, but I never brought it up. When Cassidy told me that she was pregnant with Aurora, I knew that this was it. That Cassidy and Aurora would be my family and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with the love of my life and my unborn child."
"Oh," Peter nodded.
"Any lucky lady that you want to make your wife?" James asked elbowing Peter in the shoulder.
"No," Peter lied. In Peter's mind there was only one woman that he would every want with the title 'Mrs. Pettigrew.' Unfortunately the woman he wanted to be his wife, was already someone else's wife.
"You sure Pete, sounds as if you are trying to convince yourself that you don't want to make a special woman your wife."
"No, I am going to be a bachelor for the rest of my life."
"Hey you guys," Remus Lupin said stepping out of the grate from coming over to Lily and James's house by Floo Network. "What are you guys blubbering about?"
"Peter asked how I knew that Lily was the woman for me…"
"Duh," Remus chuckled sitting beside Sirius on the couch. "James was just in love with Lily for how long?"
Sirius chuckled along with Remus and Peter looked put out and James turned quaffle red.
"What are you guys saying about me?" Lily asked walking down the stairs that came into the living room.
"I thought you were suppose to be studying!" Sirius yelled.
"Shut up Padfoot," Lily growled. "This is my house and I'll go tell you to bunk with Alice and Frank if you don't watch it!"
"No!" Sirius shrieked like a little girl, "Not with that nitpicky clean freak!"
"Then you treat me like James treats me."
"No!" Sirius stood outraged, "James acts like a spineless git around you!"
"Hey!" James yelled outraged while Remus and Peter snickered at Sirius's response because they knew that Sirius had a point.
Lily rolled her eyes at the immaturity these boys still possessed and she went to the destination she had been headed to, the kitchen. Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup sounded wonderful.
Lily walked into the living room, just remembering something that she had forgotten to ask James since they had moved into their home.
"James?" Lily asked walking back into the living room with her ice cream in the bowl that was sitting in her hand.
"Yes love?"
"Alice and Gabby are suppose to be stopping by later on, could you tell them to come up to just go on up to the bedroom."
"I thought you were studying?" Sirius asked.
"I am, but I can stop here and there to hang out with my friends, Einstein."
Sirius shook his head, "I am not Einstein, I'm Sirius." Sirius turned towards James, "Who is Einstein?"
"I don't know," James blinked as he really began to think about it.
"Maybe Lily is cheating on you with this Einstein guy," Sirius said shrugging. At this moment Sirius got two slaps in the back of the head courtesy of James and Remus. Peter looked around as he was completely lost and Lily threw a pillow at Sirius.
"Who is Einstein?" James asked as he stood up to look squarely in Lily's brilliant green eyes. "I don't like him."
Lily began to laugh manically, "You don't know him or who he is."
"Ah ha!" James said raising his hand in the air, "There is another man." James had been proud that he was right, but then he realized what he had been right about this and his gorgeous face fell. "Why?"
"Why what?" Lily asked innocently.
James turned to his friends, "You guys need to leave now. We need to be alone."
"No way!" Sirius jumped up, "I want to know who this Einstein guy is." Remus hit Sirius's upside his head again. Remus dragged the very curious Peter and Sirius away and they had to eventually apparate.
James didn't move and when Lily turned back to see that all the color in James's face was gone, and was that tears filling in his eyes?
"James?" Lily spoke up trying to explain.
James fell back on the couch and threw his face into his hands, and Lily saw his body shake a bit. Lily heard a muffled James ask, "Why Lily? Why?"
"What!" Lily asked as she was just amazed how much this stupid comment brought on.
James jumped up and Lily almost cried when she saw how destroyed the love of her life looked, "Why Lily? WHY! I thought you loved me! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!"
"I do," Lily said walking up to James but when she touched him he jumped back as if he'd just been stung.
"No Lily, no." James said shaking his head as he was pulling his hair out, and then James waved his wand. A suitcase with the majority of this things were in it, "I'll be at Remus's. Don't bother trying to contact me…"
"James no!" Lily screamed as she felt tears falling down, "I was just messing with you. I am not cheating on you."
"How can I trust you!" James yelled grabbing Lily by her shoulders, "Merlin I loved you!"
"You still do, just wait and hear me out."
"How will I know that you aren't lying to me!"
Lily pushed James away and ran to a book on a book case and opened it up, "This is Einstein. He was a Muggle genius, so when Sirius said something stupid I called him Einstein."
James took the book from Lily and read the date and saw that this man died almost twenty-three years ago.
"Do you see now?" Lily asked as tears filled up in her brilliant green eyes and when James looked up from the book. James felt himself felt like a complete idiot and saw how he had just scared the living shit out of his new wife.
"Lily," James whispered as he pulled his fragile wife into his arms and just tried to figure out what the hell was going on. Had James just indeed almost walked out on the woman he loved more than life itself because of Sirius's being at total arse. That and James's absent mind with the Muggle world.
James felt horrible as he felt Lily's fragile body shaking against his, and he just realized that not only had he scared himself to death but his wife too.
"I'm so sorry," James whispered as he was stroking that lovely red hair he loved so much. Just then James realized he was standing, he thought he'd been sitting. James really had no idea what had just happened.
"I thought I'd lost you," Lily sobbed into James's chest.
"Shh," James said stroking Lily's hair as he was trying to sooth not only his now hysterical wife but himself.
A while later, they were standing there and James spoke up.
"Let's go to bed."
Lily pulled back and James almost started crying himself when he saw the look upon her face. Lily looked as if she had been to hell and back. Lily's lovely fire red locks were scattered everywhere, her face was all blotchy and red, and the lovely green eyes that usual held happiness and love for James there was something else in them just now. Then James realized what it was, she was scared. Lily was scared of what James was just about to do, to leave her.
"Don't leave me," Lily whispered as tears fell down her face.
"No," James pulled her close again. "Never."
"Promise?" Lily whispered as her body shook against his again.
James pulled back, "I promise."
Even though Lily looked as if her world was about to come crumbling down around her, James pulled her face close to his. Lily gasped lightly but closed her eyes as James's index finger was pulling her chin closer and closer to him.
Lily soon felt James's soft lips upon hers, their lips moving in a familiar rhythmic movement. Lily soon wrapped her arms around James's neck and she felt his arms get tighter around her waist.
Lily opened her mouth to allow James more access to the kiss, and James took the invitation. The kiss instantly increased in passion, and there was a hunger in it from the both of them. James felt as if he had to prove to Lily that he loved her more than words could ever explain and Lily wanted to believe this. Lily had to know that James believed her story and that he still loved her. She couldn't lose him, no not James too.
Lily pulled herself closer to James and he walked them back to the couch. James kneeled down on the couch and laid Lily down and then he got on top of her, without them having to break away from their passion filled kiss.
Lily still felt tears falling down her face, but this time they weren't tears of sadness. The tears that now fell down her porcelain face.
James pressed his body as close to Lily as possible with their clothes still on and James ran his hands like mad through Lily's long mane, and if possible the kiss intensified. Lily moaned into their kiss and Lily could feel James smile.
James pulled away momentarily to look down at Lily, and she looked more beautiful than he could remember. James didn't have much time to stare at her as Lily pulled his face back down to hers, as a second kiss began.
James pulled away from her lips and began to kiss lightly up and down Lily's neck. Lily then leaned up and whispered into James's ear, "I want you."
James pulled away from her neck and gazed down at his wife, and he knew. James began to pull Lily's blouse off and Lily began to unbutton James's button down shirt.
Soon both Lily and James's clothes were littered upon the floor.
There was a small 'pop' and the person that had just apparated gasped and then began to giggle.
"Prongs? Lils?"
James heard Sirius's loud mouth and was about to yell at Sirius for coming into their bedroom, when James realized that Lily was snuggled up really close to him. Usually during the night Lily slacks off the snuggles a bit.
James began to blink his eyes and he saw big scarlet things in front of him, James's glasses were off of his face.
James then felt them above his head and after James had slipped his glasses on and he turned to see a very happy looking Sirius in front of them.
"Sirius!" James yelled and James ended up waking Lily up by his screaming. "Get out!"
"My, my!" Sirius giggled, as he sounded like a very fat child who just got some cake. "Isn't this comfy?"
"Get Sirius," Lily growled. Then Lily looked down and thanked Merlin that James had grabbed the blanket last night and it was thrown over the both of them for hiding the parts of themselves that the really didn't want Sirius to see.
Sirius sat down in the armchair to the right of Lily and James laying nude on their couch, under a blanket after last night's full night of love making.
"So I am guessing that Lily left that Einstein guys for you Prongsie?" Sirius chuckled loving to see his friends so embarrassed as he was basking in this glory.
"Get out Sirius," Lily said baring her teeth with lots of anger towards her husband's best friend.
"There was no Einstein, he was some Muggle genius. You almost had me leave Lily last night for no blood reason!" James yelled at his friend, "It is a Muggle slang for when a stupid person is being stupid. Sarcasm."
"Oh," Sirius laughed but then he stopped. "Wait…you almost left last night? Where would you have gone?"
Lily turned to look at James and it was apparent to him that she wasn't ready to talk about their fight that they had had the night before, and frankly James wasn't ready to talk about it either.
"Remus's," James said trying to avoid Lily's eyes at the moment.
"Why?"
"He was going to leave me, damn it Sirius!" Lily screamed, "You put in his bloody head that I was cheating on him. James was going to leave me and divorce me and it would have been all of your fault!"
Sirius's eyes bugged out, "You were going to leave her!"
"Go home Sirius!" Lily shrieked.
"I am home."
"Then go wherever you stayed last night," it was James's turn to growl.
"Fine," Sirius snapped. "I know when I am not wanted, meet you at work in an hour." Sirius left and James turned to look at Lily.
James could feel her naked body still pressed very close to his own, and Lily put her head on his chest again. But then she looked up straight into his hazel eyes.
"I was scared last night."
"Me too," James said running his hand through his hair.
"I couldn't have lived without you."
"Shh," James said kissing her forehead. "Let's not talk about that now."
"We are going to have to talk about it sometime," Lily pointed out.
"True," James nodded. "I have to get ready for work and you…"
"Don't have a class today."
"Really?" James asked as one of his eyebrows raised.
"What?"
James climbed back on top of his beautiful wife and began to kiss up down her neck again.
James arrived at work one minute before he would have been late.
"Took you long enough," Sirius whispered.
Today was their practical day in Auror Training, they wouldn't have any physical training, except for the stuff they had to do everyday.
"Alright mum," James said rolling his eyes at his best friend. True James loved Sirius like a brother, but sometimes Sirius could be bloody annoying as hell.
"So what did you and Lily do once I had left?"
"None of your damned business."
"Alright daddy."
James turned quickly to look at Sirius, "What the hell is that suppose to mean?"
"Watch it," Sirius said in a singing kind of voice. "You'll be come a daddy soon."
"How many girls have you shagged?"
"Um…"
"Exactly and I haven't heard of you becoming a father."
"Excuse me," Sirius said sitting up tall. "I did get Cassidy pregnant."
"Enough," Edgar Bones said walking in and began to go over the practical stuff of Auror training.
"Lily?"
Lily had just gotten out of the shower and she heard someone calling her name from downstairs. Lily ran to the her bedroom door with a towel on and she cracked the door, "Yes?"
"Are you busy?"
Lily smiled, it was Gabriella. "I just got out of the shower, give me a few minutes and I'll be down."
When Lily got downstairs Gabriella was fidgeting with her hands and Lily sat down at the kitchen table, as this was where Gabby had her chair up to.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked.
"Nothing," Gabriella lied.
"Something is the matter because I can never pry you from your office and you are fidgeting."
"Okay, you got me."
"So spill."
"I have been working on this very important project."
"A new potion?"
"Yes," Gabriella nodded. "It is a very dangerous potion and I am almost done with it…and I will be testing the potion out."
"Gabby…"
"Wait Lily, just please let me finish. I want to test it to make sure it works, it will do wonders."
"What does it do?"
"Confidential."
Lily nodded, "Got it. Does Remus even know what it does?"
"No. My boss said I should tell him but I don't want to tell him and then for him to get all bummed out when it doesn't work. Thing is that if it works, then I will present it at a big Ministry Party that is coming up in two weeks. I want you and James to come."
"James hasn't said anything about a Ministry party."
"He doesn't know yet, they will find out today."
"Okay we will go," Lily said smiling at her friend. Gabriella looked both nervous but at the same times very excited about what this potion could hold for the future.
"Okay, well I have got to get back to the office. This was my lunch break."
"I could make you something real quick."
"No thanks," Gabriella said shaking her head. "I'm not hungry anyways, I'm too excited to see if this potion will really work. It would change Remus and my life forever."
"In a good way, correct?"
"Of course."
"Okay, good luck."
"Thanks Lily," Gabriella said smiling as the two friends hugged goodbye.
"Interesting," James during their ten minute break to Alice, Frank, and Sirius.
"I have always wanted to go to a Ministry Party!" Alice said smiling from ear to ear, "Mum and Dad always went when I was little and I was always bummed that I never got to go. Sounds fun, right Frank."
"Yeah," Frank said smiling. "I remember Dad talking about them over and over again with Mum."
Everyone then realized that Sirius had gone very quiet, and then it all hit them. Cassidy. She wasn't here and Sirius wouldn't be able to really enjoy the party without her….