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Chapter 2 - What Would James Do?

James paced across the rug in his study, kicking the air aimlessly every few minutes. He would reach up to his head and tug at his hair as if literally trying to pull a solution from his brain. He growled in frustration and haphazardly threw himself into his black leather chair, sighing heavily, allowing his head to fall forward onto his desk with a resounding thump.

He sighed as his head met the cool hard surface of the desk. He closed his eyes tightly and let out a shaky breath.

James had always known that a career as an Auror would be dangerous, but he had always held the assurance that he and Lily would get through it. The door to his study creeked open, and he cursed whoever it was for disturbing him at that moment. Blinking back unshed tears, James lifted his head just high enough to see who had intruded.

Thump.

He allowed his head to drop back down, once again greeting the very solid wood that was his desk.

"Ergg." He groaned tiredly, as if to say, "What now!"

Two men stood just inside the door, staring worriedly at their best mate. The man with dark black hair just brushing his shoulders nervously searched James' defeated posture, then swiveled his gaze the the sandy haired man beside him.

The dark haired man's eyes pleaded with the others, he had never handled something like this before, consoling wasn't exactly his forte.

"What?" The sandy haired man quietly hissed, barely removing his soft gaze from the haggard looking man in front of them.

"Moony!" The other man pleaded with him, "Do something! You're supposed to be the expert at things like this." This was indeed true, as it turned out the sandy haired man, Remus, currently held a job in the Public Relations department at the Ministry, and had to deal with many different emotions of people he encountered on a daily bases. But something about this situation was extremely different. He had never once had to deal with someone quite like James, who was, at most times, very unpredictable with his emotions and thoughts.

"Padfoot," Remus replied slowly, "I don't think I can do anything, you know James. He's to sporadic with what he's thinking. Plus this is Lily Evans that he's dealing with, that just makes it ten times more difficult than anyone I have ever dealt with."

Padfoot, or Sirius, cursed under his breath. Evans. Of course, every time they had seen James in remotely this same position was due the wildly tempered redhead that had seemed to capture their best mates affections. They would have to tread lightly with this situation, because only Merlin knows how James will respond to anything.

Still, Sirius jabbed Remus in the side with his elbow, coming to the conclusion that it would still be better if Remus spoke first, rather than himself.

Remus rolled his eyes, and then hesitantly cleared his throat.

"Moony, I doubt he could hear that! I mean I barely heard it, and I knewit was coming."

He once again cleared his throat, louder this time, and waited expectantly for a response. The seconds ticked by, with no one moving or saying a word, the quiet breaths and ticking of the clock on the wall kept the beats as the time passed.

Eventually, Remus picked up a muffled word with his exceptional hearing, and strained his ears more to see if James might repeat it louder.

Again the seconds passed until James made another attempt at communication. What sounded like, "Mmph," escaped through James' arms that were now folded tightly around his face.

"What was that mate?" Sirius tried, bravely.

"I said WHAT!?" Shouted James, fiercely springing from his desk as he knock his seat over, in a manner that made Remus and Sirius take a few steps back until their heels met the door frame. They had seen James' temper enough times to know that it was never a smart idea to contradict anything he said.

Remus, the first one to come out of his stupor, took a slight step back forward towards their seething friend with his palms facing in front of him to try to calm him.

"James, we just want to know what we can do to help." He said calmly.

"Help? You want to help?" He scoffed scathingly. "Fine then, if you want to help so badly, why don't yougo out there and find Lily!" He coolly replied. "Oh! And why you're at it why don't you bring back the bastards that created this situation in the first place!" He finished, anger pulsating from his body.

Remus winced, he could tell that Sirius had done the same as the man to his left visibly recoiled. He had expected something like that, but was startled by the harsh tone that it was delivered in.

"Prongs," Tried Sirius. "We're trying everything that we can. There are Aurors andOrder members out searching for her. It's only a matter of time before they find her. And mate, we're the marauders! if anyone's going to be able to find Lily, it'll be us."

James sighed and slumped back into his chair. "I know Padfoot, I know. It's just that I promised Lily that we bothwould get through this Auror and Order Business just fine. You know how hesitant I was to let Lily even become an Auror..."

"James, no one blames you. This could've happened to anyone, Order member or Auror, but you know Lily. She had to get everyone else out of there first, you know that she wouldn't have felt right if she was only thinking of saving herself. She's a great witch James, I'm sure she'll find her way back." Remus Comforted.

He nodded his head in understanding. Of course he knew that Lily was an excellent witch. That was one of the many things that attracted him to her.

"Guys. Why now?" He moaned.

"What mate?" asked Sirius.

"Why now!? Of all times. Lily just only agreed to marry me. She was my fiance!" He choked. "We were going to get married and start a family. And now... now, that doesn't seem possible." James finished lamely.

Sirius closed the space between James and himself and set a comforting hand on his back. "James," he said sternly. "Lily and you willget married. You will start a family filled with mini Lilys and Prongslets, topped off with nerdy glasses and crazy hair."

James chuckled weakly. "Thanks Padfoot." He stood up and straightened his robes, then strode purposefully towards the door. He paused, "And Padfoot?"

"Hmm?"

"My glasses are not nerdy. Lily thinks they're sexy." James smirked and let the door fall closed behind him.

In the hallway, James could hear Sirius's barking laughter.

A/N:

I know, I know! It's a bit short. But I think of this one as sort of a filler chapter for the actual story. I just wanted to show James' perspective in the beginning before I jump right into the climax. It's sort of the before part. But i HOPE the everyone liked it, and I promise the next chapter will be more exciting and I'm thinking that it'll most likely be from both Lily's and James' point of view!!

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