Disclaimer: I do not own anything that belongs to J.K. Rowling. Which is everything.

A/N: I changed the name of the story, because I changed my mind about a few things in the story (things I have not yet published) and all of a sudden the title "A Second Chance just didn't fit the story. I really suck at naming stuff, so we can only hope that I can write better than I can name things. The summary hasn't changed too much, its still the whole Lily didn't like James, who loved Lily, he proposed, she said no, they didn't see each other for awhile, then they do, that kind of thing. I'm rambling now, sorry. I kinda suck at summaries too. And I don't even read author's note. Sorry.

Lily woke up the next morning the same way she had the day before, except it was much earlier and she was much less confused and alarmed. She walked past James, who was still asleep on the couch, and into the kitchen. There, she found Sirius with a cup of coffee. He grinned wickedly when he saw her. "Tell me," he said, "What is your darkest secret?"

"I'm deeply in love with Severus Snape," She said as she toasted a piece of bread with her wand.

"Really?" said Sirius, surprised. "No," replied Lily, "Well, I suppose that solves the Veritaserum problem, and since James is still sleeping, why don't you tell me about the meeting?"

Sirius shook his head, "Can't. Dumbledore put some kind of secret-keeping charm on us. Only James can tell you. Sorry Evans, but you'll have to wait until he gets up." Lily gulped down the rest of her own coffee and finished up her toast before marching into the living room.

First, she tried to shake James awake, and then when that didn't work, she tried hitting him with a pillow repeatedly. And then, as a last resort, she pulled out her wand and with a flick of her wrist, tipped the couch over. James was definitely awake now. "Bloody Hell!" he yelled to no one in particular, "wasgoinon?" He looked around the room, confused.

"You're rather disoriented in the morning, aren't you?" Lily commented, enjoying herself now. "Lily!" he said, surprised, "What are you doing here?" She sighed and turned to Sirius who had just entered the room, "Is he always this confused in the morning?" Sirius nodded and said, "Sometimes worse."

Lily sighed in frustration and went back to the kitchen. She returned a minute later with a mug of coffee in hand. She sat down on the floor across from James and handed the coffee to him. "Listen to me, James," she said slowly, "I want you to tell me exactly what happened at the Order of the Phoenix meeting. Can you do that?"

James looked at her, took a sip of coffee and nodded, "Well, after you came in, Mad-Eye disarmed you, but you were pretty quick though, and then they gave you that Veritaserum and McGonagall started questioning you, but you were pretty funny about it…" He continued to fill her in on the details of the meeting. She nodded but didn't interrupt. When he finished he said, "Oh, I almost forgot! What's your favorite color? Do you prefer butterbeer or firewhiskey? Would you rather be stuck in a cellar with me or Sirius?" Lily laughed, "Nope, not answering. I think I'll just go home instead. Bye James, Bye Sirius."

"Bye Lily!" James called, "See you on Sunday!" Lily cracked a tiny smile and disapparated.

For James, the rest of the week was passing by incredibly slow and all he could think about was the Order's next meeting. He was eager for three reasons in particular. 1) He wanted to help defeat Voldemort, and Moody thought that they might be close to getting some of his followers. 2) He wanted to speak to Remus, they hadn't spoken for two years and they hadn't left Hogwarts on good terms, James was ready to put that behind them. And 3) He was eager to see Lily again.

For Lily, The week was passing in a blur. Sometimes, in those few spare moments she had, she found herself thinking about Remus. Maybe if she could just talk to him again, to tell him that she didn't care that he was a werewolf, because he was human, too. But those moments when she wasn't busy came and went quickly.

On Friday, she was modifying the memory of a muggle who was accidentally squashed when an inexperienced young witch apparated on top of him with a trunk. The injuries weren't bad, but he still needed a memory charm. Anyway, as soon as she was finished, she turned around and saw two familiar faces standing in the doorway.

"James! Sirius!" Lily cried, "What are you two doing here?"

"We need to be given water and sedated," Sirius snickered. Lily looked at him curiously, James had never told her about that, he had forgotten completely. "Actually," James said to Lily, "We came to take you to lunch." He held up the brown bags he and Sirius had packed. Lily opened her mouth to say that she couldn't, but Sirius said first, "We already asked the chief healer and he said it was fine, so you have no excuse not to come with us."

James laughed, "He said he didn't know you had a boyfriend, let alone two." Lily groaned, "And I suppose you just let him go ahead and think that, didn't you?" Sirius grinned, "Well, he is such a busy man, we didn't want to bother him further…" Lily just rolled her eyes, "All right, let's go."

The three wizards went to a muggle park, a few blocks away from St. Mungo's. "Ever been here?" Sirius asked Lily. Lily shook her head. "Oh, Sirius and I come here all the time, it's a great little place," James said enthusiastically. Sirius pulled a blanket out of his coat pocket and spread it out on the ground. All three of them sat down. James pulled out three of the largest sandwiches Lily had ever seen.

"Where on earth did you get those?" she asked, laughing. "The muggles make good sandwiches," James replied matter-of-factly. Sirius nodded in agreement. "Here try this one," James suggested, handing her one of the sandwiches. Lily took a bite, "mmm…this is good," she said with her mouth full.

Sirius clapped his hands in delight. "Look at the effect we have on her, James,' he said, laughing, "She's already talking with her mouth full." Lily grinned. "Well," she said teasingly, " if you can't beat 'em…"

They talked and laughed until Sirius saw a pretty young woman walk by. "Excuse me, mates," he said, scurrying after her. Lily laughed softly. "Hasn't changed a bit," she murmured. She and James finished their lunches in silence and watched people pass by. One elderly couple said as they passed them, "Remember when that used to be us?" Lily turned red and glanced at James, who didn't appear to have heard them.

After a while longer, James said, "So, now that you're not under the influence of Veritaserum, what have you been up to since we left Hogwarts?" Lily smiled and said, "Well, after graduation, I got a job as a Healer at St. Mungo's, as you know, I now work in the muggles ward, and I already told you about Remus, and otherwise my life was pretty uneventful until…my parents."

James nodded sympathetically, "I heard about you parents, and I'm really sorry. I understand what you're going through, my parents were among the first to disappear when Voldemort came to power." "I'm sorry," Lily said. Then she added much too brightly, "I'm fine though. Its fine." James nodded and dropped the subject.

Eventually, Sirius came back, smiling triumphantly, and they packed up and walked Lily back to the hospital. "Thanks for lunch, guys," Lily said to them as she went back to work, "See you in a few days."

As they left, one of the other healers came up to Lily and giggled, "Lily, you never told me about your friends, the one with the messy black hair is handsome." Lily just stared at her like she was insane until the chief healer called to Lily and asked her to help the muggle who had sprouted daisies from his head.

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