A/N: Hello lovely people! I just wanted to let you know that the update speed is going to slow down since I've got to get back to Hogwarts, but I will still update! In other news this chapter is based off of a beautiful piece of fanart and I hope you enjoy it! Remember to leave a review!

March 4, 1978

"James I understand how the game is played, I just don't think I need to come to your practice."

"No Lily, you do. You're my good luck charm!"

"So don't waste my magic on practice, I'll come to the games."

"Come on Lils, you have to see me being all bossy and doing captain things!"

"Why now, James? You've had many practices since we started dating and you didn't beg me to come to those."

"Well…" James looked down, "All the other players have got people watching in the stands for practice and I feel kinda bad when they all make shots or something and look at their friends in the stands and smile… I just want to share what I'm good at with you."

"Okay."

"So you'll come?!"

"Yes James, I'll come. As long as you spend the same amount of time at practice as you do tomorrow night on homework and studying."

"What?"

"You heard me, you need to study more. N.E.W.T.s are coming up in just a couple of months and you have done very little."

"Fine, I'll study."

"Great, than I'd be happy to come watch you practice."

"YEAH!"

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The next morning Lily rose groggily and went to breakfast with James, then down to the quidditch pitch where they split, Lily going to the stands and James going to the locker rooms.

Lily had decided to wear the Gryffindor scarf which had flown away and blown straight to James, because it seemed to have some sort of magic or charm that was good luck for them. She sat with Remus, Marlene and Dorcas in the stands chatting about Professor Slughorn's ridiculous rant about eel skin.

James emerged from the locker rooms leading the rest of the Gryffindor team onto the quidditch pitch. James said something and they all mounted their brooms and soared around. They all flew a couple warm up laps then waited as James brought out the box that contained the quidditch balls. He threw up the quaffle and Mary caught it. Then he released the bludgers which swerved around and up. Finally he took out the snitch and glancing at the seeker, Thomas Heron, let it go. Lily strained her eyes to follow it but lost sight after less than a minute.

Good thing I'm not seeker then. She thought as James remounted his broom and organized the players. He was having them practice essentially a one-sided game. Sirius, along with the other Beater, Collin McGarvey, were supposed to aim the bludgers at the closest Chaser to the goal and keep them away from the Chaser farthest from the goal and the Seeker. Meanwhile the Chasers were all supposed to practice different ways of going at the goalpost, the only one that Lily could hear or understand was called the hawkshead attacking formation. The Keeper was to do what the Keepers always do, keep the quaffle out of the goals, and the Seeker was supposed to find and catch the snitch as many times as he could before the practice was over.

They did this for some time until a particularly interesting score happened. James had gotten the quaffle somehow and was rushing practically across the pitch to the goals. Sirius and Collin were batting the bludgers back and forth at James and in front of him, but he ducked and dodged them with apparent ease. Lily had stood and gone to the front of the stand they were sitting in and watched with a slight anxiety as James swerved away from another bludger and threw the quaffle straight into the middle goal post right past Ellie Breighton, the Keeper.

Lily cheered loudly along with Remus and, to a lesser extent, Marlene and Dorcas.

James turned to look at them as they cheered. He grinned and shot toward them. He stopped right in front of Lily and leaned over to kiss her.

It was a particularly good kiss and Lily only pulled away when she heard Remus crunch on his chocolate right behind her.

Sirius had started toward them and was shouting to James about there being a practice on, and he couldn't just pause it to snog Lily. But Lily didn't really hear because she was too busy smiling goofily at James and watching him smile just as goofily, if not more, right back at her.

This was disrupted as Sirius hit James with his Beater's bat, which knocked enough sense back into James for him to go back to his practice. However, Lily continued to grin stupidly as she retook her seat next to Remus.

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Later that evening, Lily sat around the fire with her mates and listened to them chatter. James had stayed true to his word and was doing his homework at a table nearby. He wore a look of such intense concentration that Lily wondered if his eyes were about to set the parchment on fire. Though she didn't really want to admit it, Lily had enjoyed going to see the practice and having James kiss her on his broom.

Lily decided that she might have to go to all the Gryffindor team quidditch practices.