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Flirting With the Enemy

By; Sierra Sitruc

Email: ChristmasAngel87@hotmail.com

Chapter 2 Where Now?



Lily was tired; she'd only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before, and was now dragging herself along behind James who had much more energy then her.

Lily was groaning and such- she wasn't having a very good day, but who would in her position. She's likely to be sentenced to death soon, and she finally met a guy she felt that 'connection' with and he happened to be her captor. She felt strangely comfortable around him and was talking very openly with him, as he was her.

"How much longer 'til we get there?" Lily whined.

"You know, for a prisoner of 'war' you have a lot of nerve."

That shut her up.

Ten minutes later James finally spoke. "All right start talking, I can't stand the silence!" Lily giggled in spite of herself.

"One minute your giving me threats the next you're ordering me to talk!" Lily said grinning at him; he made her feel a lot better especially when he smiled.

James only shook his head; This isn't supposed to happen! I'm supposed to take her in, get paid and go out on another raid! Not start LIKING the enemy, no one can find out about this; especially Sirius. Damn, I really don't want her to go to Azkaban, she's too sweet, how'd she get involved in this?James thoughts continued to trouble him for a moment until he was interrupted by a soft voice.

"James? Are you in there?" Lily asked him, she was walking along side him again, and he snapped to attention.

"Oh yeah, just thinking." James said.

"I figured that much." Lily said smiling. James started grinning too; her smile seemed to lighten his mood so easily.

They continued walking in silence again. "Hey Lily I have a question, why don't you know how to apparate? I thought every death eater knew."

Lily blushed. "Well, I kept failing my tests, and not everyone can apparate. To get around most places I just use a broomstick, even though it's dangerous in 'this job'." Lily told him.

"Oh… aren't you a reporter for the Daily Prophet too? Hey you're the person who does all the reports on-."

"Death Eater killings and other stuff on the war…weird isn't it? I was already lined up for that job before…I joined. I really like THAT job. This one isn't so much fun; I mean it's bringing me to my doom." Lily looked at him, and saw pity in his eyes.

"I take it you don't like being a Death Eater?" It was more of a statement then a question, but Lily answered it anyway.

"Yes, I think it's horrible, but I got myself into this- sort of, but I'm willing to suffer the consequences I guess, and if I do escape HE won't be happy with me."

"Who Voldemort?"

"No, the tooth fairy."

"Did you know the tooth fairy is my third cousin twice removed?"

"No I didn't." Lily said giggling, but then she sobered.

"So, if you DO get out of this mess, what are you going to do; go back to it? Before you answer that I'll tell you what I think, I don't think you will because on accident I gave you a clear chance to escape and you didn't take it." James said knowingly.

"Oh- this morning while you were sleeping?" Lily asked looking at her feet. That's no way to be a Death Eater Lily. Lily told herself, she honestly tried to be Death Eater, but she just couldn't do it.

"Yeah, I realized my mistake- don't tell the Ministry about that okay?" James said it as a joke, but he was very serious.

"I won't you can err, trust me. Kind of odd for the enemy to say that isn't it?"

"Yeah. If only we'd met at Hogwarts, well actually we did, but you know what I mean."

"Yes, at Hogwarts I always thought of you as that immature Marauder who all the girls fawned over."

"They still do." Lily gave him a playful shove.

"You're so full of your self."

"Hey watch it; I am the superior person in this situation."

"Humph." Was all Lily said.

"Sorry, didn't mean to rub it in."

"It's all right, you have every right to. I mean you were smart enough to keep on the good side, you didn't give in- but I had my reasons, just like everybody else in there, and I happen to think mine are much better then there's." Lily said grimly.

"What DO they say in those…meetings?" James asked.

"Oh the usual: Mudbloods suck, kill the muggles, we're going to rule the world, yada yada yada. I'm muggle-born you know, they could be talking about my parents."

James' mouth fell open. "YOU'RE muggle-born?! You are in quite a predicament."

Lily laughed dryly. "Yes, I go around helping them kill people like me."

James shuddered. "So you admit you helped?"

Lily tried to keep the tears from falling, and control herself. "Uh, yeah I told you I'm the person who did the Imperial curse on everyone. I was there and I could have stopped them, but I just listened…I wish I could forget those memories, but they're already there, now that I think about it- I deserve to die."

James' heart melted for her, it wasn't fair she had to go through so much pain; it was evident on her face. He was confused about this girl; she seemed normal and wonderful and perfect- but yet she had this dark past (or present). He knew there was more to her story then she was saying, but he decided not to ask her. There would be enough to find out when they gave her the truth potion. Even though he had a feeling she would tell them anything they wanted if they only asked.

"You don't deserve to die Lily; you're not evil like the rest of them."

"Maybe not evil; but I'm definitely not a good person. I should have tried to save them- but I didn't and it's too late to take it back."

They stayed quiet for a while until they finally reached the edge of the forest and came upon a field full of grass and a few small flowers blooming on that day in March.

"I thought there was a house around here somewhere." James said squinting in the sunlight. "Come on let's keep walking."

"Do I have any other choice?" Lily asked as she was pulled by the binding spell, and James turned to grin at her.

"No, come on, I think the house is behind that tree over there, nice wizarding family there the Prewetts."

"Oh t-them?" Lily asked nervously. "I'm going to get in trouble for telling you this but-."

"OH God! Look!" Lily didn't finish what she was saying and the two ran over to where the house SHOULD have been, but all that was left was leftovers of the walls, and a faded dark mark.

Lily gulped, "Uh, that's what I was going to tell you- they were on You- Know-Who's list, he was planning on killing them soon, and I guess he did." Lily held back a sob, and she and James entered the 'house'.

"Oh, this is bad." James muttered looking around.

"No kidding, I'm just glad I didn't have to witness it."

"That's not the only bad thing, now I don't know how we're going to get back, unless we can somehow reconstruct this fire place…" James looked at the last remnants of the brick fire place and chimney.

"James, that's down right impossible." Lily said sadly. "More walking I suppose?"

"Yeah, they aren't going to be happy with me, I was suppose to bring you in already, hours ago; they might get suspicious and start looking for me. Maybe we should hang out here."

"Are you asking my opinion? I'm just the lowly prisoner remember?"

"Oh right." James said, and seemed to be thinking deeply for a few moments. "I think we should keep walking, it'd be so much faster if we could just use the Floo Network like I planned but that's going to be delayed for a while, and I don't know who's house we're going to find- I think the Hopkirks don't live too far off and wouldn't mind us paying a visit. So let's get walking we have a lot of ground to cover."

Lily groaned her feet were tired and she was starving, and the stupid cloak was getting on her nerves, and it was still damp from last night's rain. Not to mention she felt like she might be getting sick.

"Hold on before we leave, I'm taking this damn cloak off, I can hardly breath in it!" Lily exclaimed and started to pull it off, she had muggle clothes on underneath. I simple green t-shirt that brought out her eyes and blue jeans, she felt surprisingly warmer and James too took off his cloak, and they left them at the Prewett house to stay, it was also a sign that they had been there in case someone stopped by.

Lily and James' shoes were covered in mud and it was cold mud, not the nice oozy warm mud that feels good but the clumpy cold kind that makes you shiver.

"Ack, my shoe!" Lily yelped, her foot was caught in a deep muddy area, and her shoe had come off in the process of escaping. James laughed at her. "It's not funny; my shoe's is stuck in the mud, woah ah!" Lily almost fell over but James caught her before she fell over, but her sock was now covered in mud. "Oh dear."

"Lily, what are we going to do now? You're either going to be very uncomfortable with a shoe full of mud, or you're walking barefoot!" James laughed as Lily stood up on one foot.

"Help me!" Lily said in a whiny voice and put on her best puppy dog face.

James caved easily. "All right all right what do you want me to do?"

Lily grinned evilly. "Carry me!" She said, James rolled his eyes, but ended up carrying her piggy back.

A while later they stopped for lunch. "I'm starving, I can't go with out food much longer, especially with YOU on my back- Err not that you're heavy or anything."

"I don't care, what are we eating?" Lily's stomach grumbled she hadn't eaten since 6:00 last night and was ready to eat anything.

"What do you want?"

"I don't care you choose." Lily said lazily.

Instantly James conjured up a bunch of junk food and the two of them pigged out for about thirty minutes.

"Okay, now I feel like your fattening me up!" Lily joked.

"I wouldn't do that, when I'm the one who has to carry you!" James said honestly.

Lily grinned, and jumped back on his back and they were off again. After a while of silence since James was concentrating on where he stepped, Lily started chattering on about her life story.

"I was four when I had my first 'magical' experience. I turned my older sister's hair into snakes like medusa because she was acting like one, sneaking around and such she scared me so much it just happened. Then when I was seven…"

James listened contentedly as she got up to age eleven. Then they took a break, it was James who needed it. They ate a little bit and purposely ignored the topic of their situation. For a while it seemed like they were just two friends out for a camping trip and it had gone wrong and James ended up carrying Lily around. But that's not how it was, and it was constantly in the back of their minds.

"I have an idea." James said as they got ready to start walking again.

"What?"

"I give you my left shoe and you carry ME."

"Ha, ha very funny James."

"I thought so." James said grinning, and Lily once again climbed on his back.

"My foot's freezing!" Lily said, James looked at her exposed toes, and listened to her sneezing, they were both getting sick, and James didn't have enough supplies or knowledge about being a medic wizard to help either of them out.

"You're going to have to deal with it for a while longer, I don't think we're going to be making it anytime soon to the Hopkirks, especially since I'm carrying you on 4 hours of sleep." James informed her.

"Ah, my trusty steed." Lily said patting his head, and hugging his neck.

James snorted, thinking about his Animagi form a stag.

"I'm no horse Miss Lily." James said, but after that Lily continued her life story talking about her first year of Hogwarts which was very entertaining.

"I swear I thought the Giant Squid was going to eat me! It wasn't funny at all, so stop laughing!" Lily couldn't help but giggle her self; it was a funny story after all. Lily on her first day had fallen in the lake and the squid rescued her, but she had screamed her head off and tried to escape before she realized it was saving her.

As Lily continued about her story, she told him everything from misadventures in detention, to being bored out of her mind. When she got to the end of seventh year, she stopped. Partly because she didn't like that part and partly because it was late and they were stopping for the night since they couldn't go on anymore.

"I'm going to be in trouble with my boss when we finally get there." James said as he conjured two sleeping bags, and started a fire where they could warm up. They huddled under the sleeping bags, sneezing and coughing, James was better off then Lily who had been missing her shoes all day; was getting quite sick by then.

"Yeah, they probably think little old me seduced you and we ran off to join the ranks of You-Know-Who." Lily joked.

"Probably, my friends won't think that but the Daily Prophet will have a field day that one of their very own people kidnapped an Auror or something like that. No one knows what happened to us after all."

"I don't think the other Death Eaters will think that, they might even be looking for me- I know one of them probably will be anyway." Lily said thoughtfully, thinking of Severus.

"Who?" James asked hoping to get information out of her.

"Well, I won't say his name, but he's a spy for your side if you can take that as a hint."

"Really? And you knew about it and didn't turn him in?!"

"Uh, no we have a deal going on, he doesn't tell everyone about me and I don't tell them about him; not that I would but this keeps me safe…well it did until now. When you tackled me last night."

"Just doing my job." James said.

"I know, I don't hold anything against you for that either."

They talked for a while and James and Lily both felt like they'd known each other for years, not just a day. James started talking about his life as they sat staring up at the sky, on the damp ground in sleeping bags. (Separate ones mind you)

The same thought kept repeating in James' head over and over. This might be the last night I ever get to talk to her. James was really starting to like her; they'd practically flirted the entire day, something he thought he'd never do with a Death Eater. James also couldn't help thinking I wonder if she likes me? Even if she did, it's not like we could date.

They finally went to sleep side by side, too tired to care about the sneezing and coughing or the fact that they were enemies, and were supposed to want to kill each other.

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Lily and James were up early, and ate a quick breakfast and headed on their way Lily once again was carried by James by piggy back. Lily was feeling sicker then she had the day before, and wasn't talking; she just rested her head on James' shoulder and dozed off as they walked, even though it wasn't all that comfortable of a place to sleep.

Some time late in the afternoon, they were talking another break, when they heard voices coming from behind the trees. The voices were gruff and cold, they both recognized them as Death Eaters and James and Lily took cover.

"James, don't do anything stupid." Lily whispered.

"Same goes to you." James said, he was concentrating hard and thinking about what to do. Lily was straining to hear what they were talking about.

"The Master said she and that Auror were right in this area." A cold voice said, Lily recognized it as Malfoy who her group leader. Voldemort separated his Death Eaters into groups keeping them organized although sometimes they would join up with each other.

Then Lily heard a voice then made her some what relieved, but at the same time worried. "Are you SURE she's here? That Auror might have already taken her off some where and the foot prints DID disappear a long time ago! Lets just tell the Master they're gone it will save us a lot of trouble." It was indeed Severus; Lily hoped he led them away so she and James could escape so Lily could be taken off to be killed. Wait a second! IS that what I want!? No of course not, maybe I should- no I won't do that to James, I deserve to die for what I did and plus I know some stuff that could help the Ministry with it's fight against Voldemort.

James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her away as the two men came closer. James felt an extreme need to keep her safe, and he had every intention to. At least keep her safe from THEM anyway.

"All right then, let's go tell the Master they disappeared, but he won't be happy that's for sure. Remember how hard he worked to get her to join in the first place?" Malfoy said that and James looked at Lily curiously but she looked away, she didn't like THOSE memories at all either. There were a lot of parts in her life she just tried to ignore.

Malfoy and Severus disappeared and Lily felt relieved, as did James, and they continued on in a hurry, and they both had the same feeling they'd be back soon, and they needed to get on safe ground soon.

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That night since Lily and James were going at such a slow pace they had ended up once again not making it to their destination. They would be starting their third day 'together' the next morning and they needed to make it.

James didn't feel safe staying out in the open that night, but he didn't have a choice. They were trapped out there, but James had a bad feeling something was going to happen that night and he was feeling uneasy as was Lily.

During the night James was shaken awake by Lily.

"Hm?" He said groggily and reached for his glasses.


"James, I hear people, lots of them- I think they're Death Eaters." Lily's voice was full of fear, she was more afraid for James then herself (of course). "What are we going to do?"

James was instantly a wake and hiding their camp sight, "Come on Lily we're going to make a run for it, and your going to have to run with out a shoe!" James whispered loudly.

"Okay, let's go." Lily said determined to not get James caught or for that matter herself.

The two set off in a run and they could hear the Death Eaters walking quickly all around them.

"James I don't remember telling you this- I figured you already knew, but I THINK, I'm not sure but I think You-Know-Who can track me, I wasn't sure because I don't have that little tattoo yet- but all the same I think he still can."

"It would have been nice if you'd told me earlier but it's too late now, keep running as fast as you can!"

Then by misfortune they ran straight into an apparating Death Eater. "Shit." James muttered.

But Lily recognized the man; it must be her lucky minute. "Sev! Help, they're after me and James!" Lily whispered frantically.

"Snape/ Potter!?" James and Severus asked at the same time. Severus rolled his eyes.

"Lily you need to get out of here, you do know Potter is planning on making you die don't you? Lils I don't want you to die, come on Potter can apparate! Potter, let her go free, she's the most innocent person in this mess." Severus started to plead for Lily's life.

"Severus, it's okay, I'd rather die then go back there, and this is for the best, now could you do me a favor and lead THEM away."

Severus sighed knowing he wasn't going to get anywhere with her. "All right, go that way and run as fast as possible okay? You'll see a small house there, it belongs to an old muggle, he'll take you in- I think. None of the Death Eaters will go that way I promise you, now go quick." Lily looked at Severus sadly. Severus was wondering if he'd ever see her alive again. "Bye Lils."

"Goodbye Severus, thanks."

"Come on Lily." James said grabbing her arm and pulling her in the direction Severus had told them to go. James didn't trust Severus it was a well known fact, but James could tell Lily and Severus were friends and that Severus was more then likely the spy and wouldn't do anything to hurt Lily. (Auror instincts)

Lily and James were running quickly and made it to the Muggle's house unharmed. The old man took them in just like Severus said he would, and James saw a fire place which was perfect to contact the Ministry with- but something held him back. Or SOMEONE held him back and her name was Lily Evans, and the fact that James wanted to spend as much time with her as he could before he had to turn her in.

Lily was talking to the old man (Bob Smith, what a common name) making up lies about how her and James had been camping and gotten lost and their stuff was shredded by a rabid bear. He believed the story in a millisecond.

"You two can sleep in the extra bedroom; I hope you find it okay." Bob winked; his house was so small it was impossible to get lost in unless you were a caterpillar.

James and Lily entered the bedroom and discovered there was only one bed, and since Lily was still under the binding spell it wasn't going to work if one of them was on the floor.

"Did he get the impression we're a couple?" Lily asked staring at the bed.

"I guess so." James said scratching his head; his thoughts were going in two different directions. The first he really wanted to sleep in the same bed as her, the second he wondered if he would do something he would regret if he had to sleep next to her alone for so long, with nothing between them such as a sleeping bag.

Just then Bob entered the room with steaming cups of hot chocolate. "You two looked so sick, I figured you'd want these." Bob said and handed them each one and he left them alone again.

They sat on the bed in silence drinking the hot chocolate. Lily finally said something to end the awkward silence. "Well, I feel better just drinking this."

"Yeah me too."

More silence.

"Do you think he has any spare clothes, I feel dirty and maybe a shower even- no never mind that's not going to work." Lily said immediately.

"Why not?" James asked not realizing why.

"The binding spell, unless you feel like sharing a shower with me, I don't think we'll be getting clean any time soon." James blushed as Lily said this and it occurred to Lily that she wanted to ask him what he was thinking but decided it wasn't anything below PG-13. This made her blush as well.

"Uh, I guess we might just have to-." James was cut off as once again Bob entered the room carrying clothes.

"I thought you might want these since your own clothes were so dirty. I don't think they'll fit- too big, but I think they'll be all right."

"Thank you." Lily said politely taking the clothes he handed her and once again Bob left for the last time that night. The two were silent again.

"Well this is an awkward silence." James said finally.

"Yeah, okay let's just change and get this over with, I'm freezing and desperately want clean clothes!" Lily exclaimed and they both ended up changing with their eyes closed into the baggy clothes Bob gave them

"Um, Err are you tired, because I'm very ready to sleep." James said.

"Uh, yeah- this is going to be weird going to bed with the enemy- not in THAT way." Lily corrected herself as James gave her an odd look.

It turned out to be a very uncomfortable night for the both of them; they just laid there not moving at all- too afraid to say anything or make a move (on the enemy.)

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Chapter 3--