Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

Warnings: none, unless you don't ship Jily

Word count: 714

Doe You Know What That Means?

Sat at the Gryffindor table were four, loud, unimaginably popular boys: James, Sirius, Remus and Peter. Or, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Although that is not the respective order. Sirius was wearing a leather jacket covered in motifs and was telling anyone who cared to listen about his most recent attempt of chatting up a girl. Remus was clad in a beige cardigan; so engrossed in a book that his spoonful of porridge was splattering, without his know-how, onto the table. Peter was listening avidly to Sirius' tale, slowly dipping his bread soldiers into a soft-boiled egg and lifting it to his mouth to take a bite. And James… well James was doing what he was normally doing ninety-nine point nine, nine, nine percent of the time: staring at a certain auburn-haired, green-eyed witch through his square-rimmed glasses.

"And so, I said – I said, 'well honey, I've got two wands in my pocket, but only one of those isn't attached to my person.' And she giggles, right? And she does this kind of thing that all girls do when they're interested, you know, that coy side-ways smile—" Sirius stops to imitate it, earning approving laughs from some of the surrounding girls, "—so I carried on, as you do you know? And I carry on with the off-hand sort of manner that the girls love and I said, 'well… that doesn't matter really does it? They're both twelve inches and capable of magic.'"

Loud laughter erupted from around him and the boy smiled smugly at the success of his tale. "What did she do then Sirius?" A girl with curly brown hair asked, leaning closer and balancing her head on clasped hands. Sirius smirked and opened his mouth to reply only to be cut off by a familiar voice.

"Hey, Evans!"

Sirius rolled his eyes, "Have you not given up Prongs?"

The other boy ignored Sirius and stood up to make his way over to 'Evans'. "Prongs? James seriously?!" Sirius called over to his friend, also standing up, much to the disappointment of quite a few girls.

Remus finally looked up from his book, rolling his eyes at the scene before him and joining the other two in standing up, carefully closing his book and placing it in his bag; Peter, noticing the other three's departure, reluctantly left his breakfast.

"Evans!" James called again.

"Yes, Potter?" Lily drawled back.

"Care for a date? Hogsmeade next Saturday maybe?" James asked, a smirk on his face while he ruffled his hair and adjusted his glasses.

Instead of immediately say 'no' or coming up with a snappy retort, Lily let a gracious smile pass over her face and pulled her wand from her cloak with a flick.

James flinched, Sirius face-palmed, Remus let out an exasperated sigh and Peter eyed the others' reactions with a scared face.

Lily almost laughed at the boy's faces, letting out a gleeful laugh at the look of shock on their faces when she muttered the Patronus Charm instead of a Hex. Her silvery Doe shot out of the end, trotted around in confusion at the lack of Dementors, before laying its eyes on Lily and sauntering towards her.

"I— what?" James stuttered, looking between Lily and the Doe, barely daring to believe.

"Doe you know what this means Potter?" Lily asked, smirking while she stroked the Doe's head, which tilted towards her in response.

James opened his mouth multiple times before settling with a faint shake of his head instead.

"It's a Doe you idiot!" Remus hissed in his ear, "You know, a female Deer! Lily's in love with you Prongs!"

"Oh," James said faintly, "wow." that was all he managed before his eyes rolled into the back of his head in a dead faint against Remus' chest. Said boy let out an 'oomph' as he wrapped his arms around James' shoulders to catch him.

To say Sirius found it funny would be one hell of an understatement. He could barely function as he hobbled to the Hospital Wing with an unconscious James being carried by Remus and Peter while Lily followed. His uproarious laughter didn't fully stop until James woke up and him and Lily shared their first kiss; to which he turned away, a disgusted look upon his face.

This isn't as brilliant as I planned it to be but, oh well. This is one of my own personal headcanons so I decided to write it out, hope you enjoyed!

Stay safe,

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