Chapter Two
Authors note : Okay. So I got you a new chapter up. Its pretty long again. Has the usual M rated stuff so don't read if it offends. And I hope you enjoy. PLEASE review. It makes my day. :D xx
Dusclamier : I own none of the story of which J.K.Rowling wrote. I only created the characters not present in the Harry Potter series.
Chapter 5
Lily awoke to an uncomfortable feeling under her back and her eyes stiff and closed together. She flickered her eyes open and stetched her back and realised that something was underneath her. As she riggled she realised it was an arm and the arm was attached to the warm body she was cuddled up to. She turned to look at James and smiled at his sleeping form. He had a slightly silly gormless look when he was sleeping. It made her love him even more. His lip sagged slightly and a little line of drool dripped out making Lily roll away from him and surpress a giggle. Her moving away shook him awake and he opened one eye and groaned in a tired manner. He looked around him and saw that Lily was lying next to him giggling.
"What?" James asked her. She grinned.
"You have a little issue with dribble. This is clearly one of you worse habits." Lily said smiling. James blushed and wiped his mouth of any lingering dribble.
"Hey, no fair. I was asleep." James said rolling over and laying his head on his pillow and closing his eyes.
"It so is fair. I just learned one of your things. Now get up so that I can ravish you till you need to sleep another twelve hours." Lily said running her hand under James tshirt. He awoke at this and looked away from his pillow and looked cheekily at Lily. He rolled over and pulled her to him and kissed her on the lips swept her up in his arms and then continued to make love to her.
That day and many after them continued in the same manner. Two weeks passed and nothing had changed. They began to get into a routine of things. Lily and James became more close and got to know each better after the rushed beginning of their relationship. James' parents would visit them once maybe twice a week to check they were alright. They were very caring towards Lily already, they clearly knew how much she meant to James and they were very generous as well to all his friends.
Three days before christmas it dawned on them what was coming and it made them feel sad. None of them could get out to get presents so they agreed when they got free of hiding they would buy each other a present. Christmas day rolled past with a light hearted party all day including a dare game that got out of hand. But then again, a dare game isn't a dare game if it doesn't get out of hand. It ended with Sirius having to kiss James for twenty seconds with tongue. Thankfully they can say they had drank their own body weight in assorted alcoholic drinks so they weren't to blame for their actions. It didn't stop Lily and Eddie taking the piss unmercilly out of them for days though. Then after Christmas New Years dawned on them. They celebrated the New Year as they had Christmas with party like antics and this time James got revenge and made Lily kiss Eddie for thirty seconds which Sirius described as "The most erotic thirty seconds of my life." They did it and then the count down to the last few minutes of New Year rolled around. James grabbed Lily's hand just a minute before New Years and pulled her out of the living room of their floor and into their bedroom. He pulled her over to the fireplace and pulled the candlestick and the fireplace opened to be a staircase and he led Lily up the staircase. They finally reached the top which was a door. He made her close her eyes and gently led her through the door. She didn't know what he was doing but she was definitely curious. He stopped and let her open her eyes. When she did she gasped and sighed with relief as she saw the sky above her.
"James?" She asked. He just smiled. "We're outside James." Lily looked around her and saw they were in a small clearly in a woodland area. She looked up and saw the stars glinting. She sighed at relief of being outside, it had been so long and she had missed the sight of everything outside she was missing.
"Is this safe James?" Lily asked.
"For the moment. I just wanted to be here while I gave you your Christmas present." James said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a box.
"James. You shouldn't have got me anything. I haven't got anythign for you." Lily said guiltily looking at the box he held out to her.
"Just open it Lily. I want you to have it." She reached out and took it from him and gently opened it and gasped at the most beautiful ring inside.
"James! You can't be serious!" Lily said. An engagement ring! It was too much too soon for her. He just smiled.
"Its not an engagement ring Lily. Its just a ring. You wear it on this finger touching her right hand ring finger.
"Oh." Lily said smiling. "Its so beautiful James." It really was. It was plain white gold around the band with an enormous whole emerald with nothing else around it.
"Just like your eyes Lily. It was my great grandmothers. She was the only women to ever be in Slytherin in my family ever and like you she was strong and beautiful and I want you to have it." James said taking it out of the box and placing it on her finger. "There's said to be a protection spell on it that protects it wearer. So I think at times like these you should wear it as I could not live if anything happened to you." Lily looked down at the ring and smiled.
"Thank you." Lily said quietly. James just kissed her on the end of her nose and smiled. They went back downstairs and joined in the rest of the others partying in which Sirius had drunkenly proposed to Eddie and she had hit him upside the head and told him to not be an idiot. He didn't seem preturbed though as ten seconds later he was snogging the life out of her. The New Year rolled passed and a week into the New Year whilst the group were all hanging out in the sitting room when Mrs Potter burst into the room
"James!" She cried as she ran in. She was clearly out of breathe. James rushed to her aid and sat her down for her to catch her breathe but she wouldn't let him.
"There's no time James! They're coming. You've got to go. Take only what your wearing and your wands. Keep your wands ready." She said quickly. Everyone jumped up and readied themselves for orders. "I must go ahead of you. Check everywhere is safe. Your father is at another place, they did a double pronged attack ... they distracted us with a muggle attack when they were really coming here. Grab what you can and get out of here." They ran to their separate rooms. Lily ran into the closet and yelled, "Teraoiniacus!" The clothes in the closet immediately floated up and shrunk then flew into her trunk which she immediately shrunk again. She grabbed the little box and then did the same to all James' clothes and possessions as she had with hers. Once done she shoved them into a handbag she had left out, pulled her pump shoes on then went to the door. James had collected the map from his bedside table.
"Have you got your ring on?" James asked. Lily looked down at her hand and saw the glint on green
"Yes." Lily said.
"Good, it'll give you a bit of protection." James said. They grabbed each others hands and ran out the room and were met by their friends who seemed packed and ready as well. Mrs Potter ran into their corridor a loud ringing sound suddenly pierced through the whole place.
"Thats the alarm, we have to go!" Mrs Potter said she began running down the corridor with the teenagers following her. "Death Eaters have got into the cave and they'll be here in seconds so hurry." They sped up and were sprinting down the corridors. They reached a darkened hall where there was no door at the end. Mrs Potter yelled "Furniculus!" Then a doorway appeared they all poured through it at high speeds just as they heard an enormous explosion behind them. Mrs Potter turned just as three death eaters came into the corridor she yelled the word to close the door then stood and concentrated and whispered some words before the door disappeared and no sounds could be heard anymore from the other side. They however carried on running.
"We have to keep going. They won't be able to get through there but they might realise that this is part of the house and come round from anothe direction. We have to get you out of here." Mrs Potter said her voice shaking from exhaustion and clear worry on her face as she looked on as her son. They ran through the corridor and came out in what seemed to be a stately home. They ran into the living room and all nine of them flood straight to the Leaky Cauldron.
"Now." Mrs Potter said now they were at safety in a public place for a time. "I want you to take this money, this cloak and my love and promise me you'll stay safe. You're going to have to go out on your own now. I would suggest staying in a muggle area. But here are eight plane tickets. I know some of you are muggleborn so you'll know what to do. Just go now. Its only a matter of time before the death eaters catch up. Go!" Mrs Potter said. The Leaky Cauldron was empty. Obviously the death eaters attacks had been occuring whilst they had been hiding away and now everyone was hiding from them.
"This is crazy. We can't just leave and hide. Leave the country. Isn't that a bit extreme Mum?" James said.
"James," Mrs Potter said her eyes clearly showing the pain she was feeling as she sent her only beloved son into exile, "I love you, so does your father, please just go, and be safe."
"No," Lily piped up. Everyone looked to her. "We're not running. We need to stay."
"You can't," James' mum begged.
"But you don't understand we can't leave everything for us is here. We should stay and fight. We need to fight this not run away from it." Lily said her friends nodded in agreement.
"Are you sure Lily?" James asked quietly putting his arm around her waist protectively and asking her quietly.
"I'm sure. I'm not going. If anyone wants to go thats their choice but I am staying," Lily said.
"Well that means I'm staying, there's no way that she's getting all the fun of fighting the bad guys," Eddie said grinning. Lily grinned back at her, she had never doubted that Eddie would stay with her. The others all agreed that staying was what they wanted to do. Peter seemed a bit twtchy but agreed when everyone else did.
"What next then?" Mrs Potter asked. "Where are you going to go?" She was clearly worried and didn't know what they were going to do.
"Well I have a plan of sorts," Lily said. They all looked to her. "Not here."
"We can go to the order of the phoenix." James' mum said.
"What's that?" Lexi asked.
"I'll explain when we get there," she said then she ushered them outside and they walked for a time.
"Why are we walking?" James asked.
"I don't want the ministry knowing where we are going, they don't know about this and its best that it stays that way there are too many spies for Voldemort in the ministry thats how they found how where you were, and also the place we are going to doesn't have a fireplace to floo to as that would mean anyone could just go there and that wouldn't work out." They all carried on walking. "Its not too far." Mrs Potter added. They walked down street after street and the not far statement seemed to be a slight bending of the truth after an hour of walking they finally arrived at what Mrs Potter said was their destination. The place was a small, what seemed to be derilict street. The houses on the street were all falling down with entire parts of walls missing, and you could see in to see that various shredded pieces of furniture were there ruined and unwanted. The group looked around suspicously, this looked exactly like the area where seedy character like death eaters hung about and it didn't seem right that the safest place for them would be in the dodgiest part of town. They walked past three houses before they reached one, it fitted in with the rest though looked slightly more up together than the rest, all the walls were intact and it was fairly large though it was downtrodden, it had a overgrown garden infront and what looked to be a field behind, but was probably a garden before as there seemed to be a few statues, but they only got a glimpse because as Mrs Potter guided them up the path they lost sight of the back garden and took more notice of the house itself.
The front door looked at though it had been through all type of weather, orginally painted bright red the paint was chipped and cracked. The windows of the house were dirty and you couldn't see inside. Mrs Potter knocked on the front door as the eight teenagers gathered behind her. The door creaked open and a head popped out, an old woman who seemed to have only one eye and a small patch of grey hair. She squinted her good eye at Mrs Potter and broke into a smile.
"Well I wasn't expecting you, did you manage to convince...?" She broke off when she saw the teenagers behind her. The old woman opened the door fully and looked about to burst with anger.
"You brought them here! Here of all places! Why don't you just write to Volde-bloody-mort and tell him where to find the bloody head quarters!" She screached.
"Calm down Felia, they didn't give me much of a choice, and I don't think its that bad an idea. They will stay here in secret until I get word to Dumbledore and then we will see." Mrs Potter said giving some authority in her tone of voice. The old woman gave in and opened the door and beckoned everyone in. They all looked curiously around as they entered the head quarters of what seemed to be the order of the phoenix. No one apart from James and Sirius had any clue of what this was but even the boys were surprised at how downtrodden the headquarters were. In the centre of the hall was a stairway leading upstairs that curled to the left up and over them. To the left was an arch that seemed to lead to a sitting area and to the right was a door that was open and was a corridor. Once inside Mrs Potter turned around smiling.
"This is Felia Gretten. She is an old friend of Dumbledore's and this is her house. She gace it up to be headquarters many years ago. You'll stay here for the time being. You'll behave," She looked at her son and Sirius," You'll help with the cooking and cleaning and you won't bother her. I have to go now and talk to Dumbledore, but hopefully he'll return this evenign with me to here whatever plans you have." Then she departed in the same mad rush as she had been in all day. The group was left standing there with a women who looked older than Hogwarts who didn't look especially friendly.
"Right then." She said clapping her hands together. "The four girls can go upstairs and at the end of the landing theres a door and in there you four will be staying and the boys if you take the stair case up then take the first door on your left that will lead you to the attic where there's enough room for you all there. Its not perfect but it will have to do. I didn't really have time to clean up there lately with all thats going on. But if you need me I will be down in the sitting room. I'll let you go settle for a while. Just one rule, keep it quiet. I don't want to attract any attention to this house so no magic unless its necessary." Then she hobbled off which drew attention to the walking stick she had which as the handle had the head of a badger instead, it looked distinctly old and to Lily looked like a relic of Ravenclaw himself. She eyed it and was interested as to why she had it. Was she a decendant? She didn't think too much into it though as she followed her friends up the stairs. She was disappointed she wouldn't be staying in James room anymore. She had enjoyed being with him and it didn't look like they would have any privacy here witht he restrictions Felia seemed to enforce. They travelled up the creaking stairs, there were moving portraits on the walls that spoke as they went up whispering to each other and talking about the teenagers. One even spoke directly to them.
"Well thats a Potter if ever I saw one!" It exclaimed, it was a painting of a man who seemed quite young, around twenty he was wearing a suit and it didn't seem like too old a painting, he was handsome and had a certain charm about him.
"Yes I am, James Potter." He said curiously.
"Welcome," he said smiling at them from his place in the painting. "I'm William. I knew your father James. He's a good man and still is from what I see of him, hes always rushing of late. It seems the war has begun. Of course I knew it was coming." They all looked at him strangely at this comment but they just smiled politely and carried on up the stairs.
"If theres anything you need to know, come to me!" He called up the stairs after them. They carried on walking and finally reached the corridor the girls room was in. The door at the end fitted the description of their room so the girls walked on there and the boys went off through the door on their left up to the attic. The attic was a room with heigh ceiling and it wasn't just a bedroom there also featured a fire place at one end and some chairs and a couch like a small living room. The room was very old decorated, there were five beds in the room but they of course only needed four. The beds were queensize which suited them fine. They resized their trunks and unpacked some stuff. Not sure how long they were staying there they only unpacked the necessities.
Down in the girls room they were unpacking in their comfortably sized room. There were four queensize beds just like the boys room. Two on one side and two on the other side of the room. Eddie and Lily took the side nearest the windows of the room which were fairly large and met the high ceiling of the room. The view looked out onto the back garden, it seemed that the overgrown field they had seen was only part of the garden. A lot of it was a maze of sorts made up of tall overgrown bushes that weaved in and out creating a laberynth. The rest of the garden stretched for a very long time until it seemed to reach a woodland area of tall trees.
"Not exactly the shag pad we had back at the Potter's is it?" Eddie said bluntly as she resized her trunk and pulled out a clean white tshirt to replace the one she was wearing.
"Yeah you could say that. Probably a good thing for me and James." Lily said folding her clothes a bit neater in her trunk and sighing to herself.
"Why do you say that?" Lexi asked curiously.
"Things started way too fast with me and James. Its like we skipped the cute start of our romance and went straight for the raunchy sex side. It was a mistake I think. We should have waited for a bit. I don't want things to happen too soon and then for this to end." Lily said.
"Oh Lils it won't end for you. Its only just started. Maybe a cool down period is okay but don't stop completely with him. I mean a man has got to have some form of amusement in a place like this," Eddie said indicating the old house.
"And where exactly am I supposed to carry out this 'amusement'. We don't have the same bedroom anymore." Lily said.
"Use your imagination." Eddie said pulling her smelly tshirt off and replacing it with the clean one. She flicked her long hair out and looked at Lily.
"Don't worry about it Lils. From what I see you've got the perfect relationship. Now lets go find those sexy marauders before they get up to too much mischief." Eddie said grabbing Lily around the shoulder and pulling her with her out of the room. They walked down the corridor and followed the stairs the marauders has gone up to the marauders room. They got upstairs and were happy to find the marauders sitting around the fireplace. The attic had very similar qualities to the gryffindor common room. The girls smiled at the familiarities. They joined the boys at the fireplace. Lily joined James on the floor and sat between his legs and leaned against his back. Eddie cuddled up to Sirius on the sofa and Lexi and Issy sat on the floor with Remus and Peter.
"So Lily my dear. You mentioned a plan back at the Leaky, what is it?" James asked. Lily looked thoughtful.
"Well its pretty basic. No details of yet until we run this past your parents and Dumbledore I guess but I thought... we're the thing that Voldemort seems to want right? Well why not give it to him. He wants us and is sending lots of Deatheaters after us why not lure them to a place then unleash all the aurors to capture them." Lily said.
"I get it. So we're like the bait." Sirius said. Lily nodded.
"Basically yeah," She said.
"That could work. but as you said we need to pass it through my parents. Until then it looks like we'll be hanging out here is secret again. I doubt they'll find us here. I get the feeling this place is as secure as Hogwarts. Thats the only reason it would be the Order of the Phoenix headquarters and also my parents wouldn't let us go anywhere unsafe. We'll probably only be here a few more days though. I think you've got something with that plan. I will tell my mum about it later when she comes back, hopefully with my Dad." James said looking slightly worried. Lily placed her hand over his.
"He'll be fine, so will your mum." She said comfortingly.
"I know, I know. I just wish they had a safe job that didn't involve them possibly going to their death everyday." James said giving a weak smile. Lily just held his hand as they sat in the attic.
"So this place is pretty nice in a weird way," Eddie said looking around. "I mean its not as good as the Potter Palace but its got a certain thing that makes me feel at home.
"I know what you mean, did you see Felia's walking stick, it looked like an original artifact of Ravenclaw. I think she might be a descendant. I mean look at this house. Its ancient. Though it can't be as old as Ravenclaw herself." Lily said. The others nodded in agreement. Clearly this house was more than it seemed.
"I want to go have a look round the garden, want to come James?" Lily said getting up and looking at James.
"Sure." He said eagerly taking her hand and leaving the room with her. As they left Eddie muttered,
"Looks like Lily thought of a place for her and James to have 'alone' time." She said smirking. Sirius leaned in and kissed her neck.
"Where are we going to have our alone time?" He muttered so only she could hear, the others were talking amongst themselves.
"Why is someone needing a bit of TLC?" Eddie asked teasingly stroking the inside of Sirius thigh. He inhaled breathe and stood up sharply.
"Eddie is going to show me her room." Sirius said brightly to the others. They all rolled their eyes and kept talking. Sirius grabbed Eddie's hand and pulled her up and practically dragged her downstairs into the girls room. He locked the door behind him and pushed Eddie against the door then pushed himself onto her.
"You teasing me isn't very nice you know." Sirius said.
"Oh really," Eddie said lickign her lips, "What are you going to do about it?" She asked. Sirius growled like a dog and began kissing her fiercely. He ran his hands down to her jeans and undid them like a pro and pushed them down to the floor.
"Easy there tiger, a girl likes to be romanced." Eddie said giggling and unbuttoning Sirius' trousers. But Sirius stopped her and made her look into his eyes.
"You know I love you right Ed'. This isn't just about the sex to me. It scares me but you mean everything to me." Sirius said without showing a glimpse of joking. Eddie smiled and kissed Sirius gently.
"I know, I love you too. I didn't realise it for a while but I really do. Even if you do drive me a little crazy sometimes." Eddie said. Sirius grinned and kissed her. He paused after a minute.
"Where were we with the whole taking clothes off business?" He asked grinning.
"I think I was about here," Eddie said running her hand along Sirius' crotch to his zipper.
"Oh yeah, that was it." He said closing his eyes to her touch.
Whilst Sirius and Eddie were having their alone time Lily and James were walking hand in hand through the garden towards the labryrinth.
"Want to go wander in the maze?" James asked.
"What if we get lost?" Lily asked dragging her feet.
"Whats wrong Lils?" James asked using the name Lily loved to hear him say.
"Nothing," she said.
"Come on, you can tell me." He said looking slightly worried.
"Its nothing. I am just worried about everything, I mean the plan I thought of is risky and I don't want to put anyone in danger. I mean its obvious Voldemort is after me mostly after what happened to my parents..." Lily stopped to take a deep breathe to hole back the tears. James squeesed her hand for reassurance.
"Lily, everything will be fine. I promise." James said pulling he face up to his to place a gentle kiss on her lips. She smiled.
"How can I not cheer up after that?" She asked as her face broke out into a grin.
"Well thats what the ol' Potter charm does to a lady." James said dusting his shoulder off and looking smug.
"Just as long as its only this lady thats recieving the charm." Lily said grabbing his t shirt in her hands and placing a swift kiss on his lips before running off into the maze giggling. He ran after her and tried to follow her through the maze. She giggled and ran as fast as her feet could take her. She weaved in and around corners until she got trapped in a dead end with James just behind her. She faced him and grinned.
"Looks like you caught me." She said slightly flushed from the running, he hair was a bit wind swept and James thought she had never looked so sexy. He walked towards her until he had her between the bush and him and he grabbed her roughly on the arse and pulled her towards him before enveloping her in a fierce kiss that took her breathe away. He pushed her roughly against the bush which was uncomfortable but she was passed with caring as his kisses left her mouth and he began kissing down her neck to the top of her neck. She rapped her legs around his waist and his arms instinctively went up to cup her ass and hold her up while her legs encircled him. His kisses reached the top of her shirt and he began trying to take her shirt off.
"James..." Lily mumbled. He thought she was saying his name out of passion before she let her legs down and pushed away slightly. "We can't do this here James. Talk about uncomfortable."
"Lily..." James said in a whiny tone. It was clear he was all hot and bothered and she had killed the buzz somewhat.
"Sorry. Come on lets see what this maze leads to.Maybe we can find somewhere where I can be where a twig isn't stuck up my ass." Lily said.
"Yeah lets go," James said grabbing her hand and leading her though the maze. They went this way and that before finally they came to an opening on the other side. It was on a large lawn which looked a lot better kept than the front half of the garden. They walked across the lawn and over to what looked like a gazebo. It was like an octagonal wooden house and inside was a large room with lawn furniture in it like deck chairs which seemed to be kept away for the winter.
"Lets go inside." James said. He tried to lead Lily but she didn't want to go.
"James its getting cold, don't you think we should go back?" Lily asked.
"We can do whatever you want to do Lily," James said kindly although he looked a little disappointed.
"Just kidding!" Lily said loudly before she ran ahead of him and up the few steps into the gazebo. She entered through a creaky door and went inside with James behind her. Lily went over and lay on a deck chair and pretended to be relaxing in the sun. She conjured up some big sunglasses with her wand and looked over at him.
"Daaaaahrling! Do fetch me a drink. I am parched!" Lily pronounced in an overly dramatic posh english accent whilst swooning over the chair hand over forehead as if she really was a lady of leisure in the sun. James just burst out laughing and walked over to her. He pushed her back on the lounger and lay down on top of her with her legs either side of his body. She immediately rapped them around his waste and peered up at him behind the big black sunglasses. He picked them off her and then leant down for a fierce kiss which made her press twice at hard back into the kiss. He reached his hand underneath her shirt and pulled it immediately up over her hand. He neaded her breast through her bra and then his hands reached down to her jeans. He pulled the button undone and then pushed her jeans and pants down to her knees so her had access to what he needed.
"In a rush are we," Lily asked when she pulled away from James kiss for some breath. He just kissed her gently on the lips this time and smiled.
"I'm always in a rush to make love to you Lily. I'm addicted to you Lily Evans." He said before pushing his own undone jeans down. He then pushed his boxers down and released his extremely excited lower half. Before he pushed into Lily she pulled him close and whispered something.
"Do it fast and hard Potter. I want you so bad." That was enough for James to immediately slam himself into Lily. She gasped a little from the forcefulness of it but then he began pounding into her and she began to love it. He kept going faster and faster until finally she screamed out and James allowed himself to release probably the hardest he ever had. He collasped on top of her. She enjoyed feeling his weight on her. She was gasping from the power of her orgasm. James stroked her face to check she was alright and she opened he half closed eyes wider and smiled.
"You always give me what I ask James. You were amazing. If ever you want me to do something you like, just let me know." Lily said smiling seductively which almost made James reharden inside of her. But he quickly pulled out before anything went any further.
"I'll remember that Miss Evans. You bet I will." He said smirking down at her dishevelled form. She was lying with her jeans and knickers pulled down and no top on and she didn't seem to have any embarassment of being this way in front of James which he loved. He would hate to think she changed anything about herself just because of him. He liked to see her at her best and worst. She began pulling her clothing back on and then stood up and placed her newly magicked sunglasses on top of her head.
"Well that was fun," Lily said smirking.
"How could it not be," James replied kissing her on the side of her head before putting an arm around her shoulders and walking up with her to the house.
Back at the house Eddie and Sirius had been getting up to about the same things as Lily and James but it hadn't ended so well.
"I TOLD YOU TO BEHAVE SIRIUS AMARALIUS BLACK!" Mrs Potter was shouting at him like a parent would shout at their naughty child. James and Lily walked in to see Mrs Potter standing over and half dressed Sirius and Eddie. Eddie was trying to hold back a giggle and Sirius was putting on his smacked puppy look.
"I'm sorry Mrs Potter, Eddie thought she had been stung by a bee and we thought we had better take her clothes off to check she hadn;t been stung anywhere else." Sirius said as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. James and Lily watched on trying not to burst out with snorting laughter.
"I come back from trying to protect you and I find you up to ... THIS with a girl who I bet is far too innocent to even realise what you were expecting from her!" Mrs Potter exclaimed but after she had said it Lily and Eddie both collapsed on the floor in absolute hysterics.
"I'm sorry Mrs Potter." Lily managed to snort out whilst clutching her sides. "But you should seriously be a stand up comedian. You are SO funny." Sirius just raised his eyebrows at James whilst the girls were giggling and James just looked disapproving and rolled his eyes. Then James looked from Sirius to Lily and then smirked back at Sirius before sticking his tongue out. They could speak in looks and this basically meant "haha I got some and you gooot caught! Ha ha ha!" Sirius just stuck his tongue right back and looked at Eddie and smiled. He knew exactly how not innocent she was and if Mrs Potter had come in five seconds later she probably would have found out too. Eddie grinned back and then cowered slightly when she took a look at how annoyed Mrs Potter really was.
"I know you're not kids anymore but I don't want to ever walk in on THAT again. Understand?" Sirius and Eddie nodded then Mrs Potter stormed off to find Felia.
"Woah." Sirius said. Eddie just giggled again. Lily was still sitting on the floor chuckling.
"Stop giggling Lily. I am innocent. Sirius jumped me. I couldn't fend him off." Eddie said pretending to be hurt and afraid. This just set her and Lily off into another fit of giggles. James smirked at Sirius.
"She middle named you Sirius. You must have really pissed her off. She has only ever middle named me a few times and it takes a lot." James said smirking.
"Yeah Amaralius. You must have really pissed her off." Eddie giggled making fun of his middle name." She stopped giggling when Sirius looked down at her naughtily with an evil glint in his eye.
"Sirius!... don't you dare!" At Eddie exclamation Sirius dived on Eddie and began tickling her furiously. James looked down at Lily she was sitting on the floor chuckling. He offered her a hand and she took it and he pulled her up and as he did he pulled her into him and when he did he placeda hand on her hip. His slightest touch made Lily go wild. She smiled up at him and he looked down at her.
"When you touch me I tingle." Lily said thoughtfully. "Its weird... but I like it." Then she went on her tiptoes and placed a small kiss on James cheek. He grinned and took her hand and they went up to the attic room where they assumed Peter Remus Issy and Lexi still were. They were up there chatting and talking and when Lily and James came up they turned to look.
"What was the yelling about?" Issy asked.
"Sirius and Eddie got caught almost in the act." James said bluntly.
"We didn't get caught," Sirius said coming up behind James. "We were rudely interrupted. If your Mum wasn't such a nice lady usually I would have been quite annoyed."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." James said smirking at Sirius' way of bullshitting everything. They all resumed their sitting until Mrs Potter came upstairs.
"Okay. I am here to brief you on what is going on. As far as the order is concerned this is probably a safe place for you all right now. But we have learned from our sources inside the Dark Lords inner circle that finding you eight is Voldemorts highest priority. They are searching everywhere for you and in the mean time are blowing apart anyone who gets in their way. So far we have had four attacks and all have only resulted in injury not death thankfully. Strangely Voldemort is staying away though and only sending his deatheaters to find you. Which means you are in slightly less danger. You are to stay here for now until further notice. Now the offer to leave the country is still there for anyone who wants it." Mrs Potter said looking around. Peter began shaking uncontrollably. He stood up.
"I... "He was shaking and couldn't get a breathe out. "I want to go. I can't be here. I don't want to die." The group all looked away from him as he began crying, he looked down ashamed on his fear. Mrs Potter just nodded.
"I will get an auror to escort you to the ministry so you can be taken to safety.Do no be ashamed Peter. We will not judge you." Mrs Potter said laying a motherly hand on his still shaking shoulder. He nodded then Mrs Potter left.
"Its okay mate, we understand." Remus said quietly and surely.
"I'm sorry. I just... I just think being here is too dangerous. They will find you and when they do... I just can't be here. Its not too late for you all to come." Peter begged.
"No Peter. We're staying." James said. He seemed cold in his tone and he wouldn't look at Peter.
"I'm sorry James." Peter mumbled.
"Save it Peter, I thought Marauders stuck together but I guess not this time." James said before leaving the room with Lily going after him to calm him down from his blatant anger and disappointment in his friend. The others stayed quiet and spent the rest of the evening quiet and just listening to music separetely or alone with their partner. James and Lily stayed in the girls room lying and talking. Lily knew James was upset Peter was leaving. But nothing could be done about it. Peter was collected in the night and he left silently without a word to the others as he thought it was best for everyone. When the others found out about his sudden departure without even a goodbye there was a low feeling throughout the group. Except for James who just pretended as though he was unbothered. The mood stayed this way for a while.
A month passed and nothing changed. The kept hearing news every so often of an attack of muggles which made them feel more and more uneasy. Nut they stayed at Felia's house. By spring the weather had gotten better quickly and they spent most of the day outside. The boys had found some ancient brooms and they played with them whilst the girls sat around and chatted. By february they began to get extremely restless.
"When is that plan going to happen?" Lily asked. "Did you mention it to your mum?" James looked unsure.
"I did. I swear. But she refused to put us in any undue danger. You can't blame her really. The plan is risky." James said.
"I know. But I feel so useless here. Maybe if we only used me as the bait." Lily suggested.
"There is no way in hell that I would leave you Lily. I would protect you to my last breathe and there is no way I would leave you to be bait for the evillest man on the planet." James said strongely.
"Okay," Lily said leaning her head on his chest. As time had passed their relationship had become stronger and stronger. Sirius and Eddie seemed to still be in their fun and playful stage but everyone knew they cared deeply for each other. Lily still sometimes wondered about her and James. She remembered the conversation she had had with Eddie about taking things slowly with James but instead they had done pretty much the opposite. They had fun still though and acted like most typicle couples in love, they acted as if nothing could ever be better than being with each other. They didn't really have the time to waste being coy and new in being a couple, what with everything that was going on around them, it was intense and so was their relationship.
That evening they thought Faria might like some company so they sought her out in the house. She was sitting in a sitting area listening to the wizarding radio. It seems to be telling of the new developments in the war. It was official. It was a war. The man on the radio spoke,
"Two attacks in the last fornight. One on a muggle village in the north of england and another right here in London on a wizarding family, the father was an unspeakable and said to be tortured whilst his wife and two young children were avada kedarvra'd. This travesty is one of many since the war began but at the ministry our amazing aurors are doing their best to fight off this evil and they should be commended for their effort. Only yesterday Mad Eye Moody came in with a suspected death eater. A Bellatrix Black. Caught after a battle she has been put in azkaban and is awaiting her most definitely guilty verdict. Now I am signing off Harry Winkle here now to Fran with the weather." Faria noticed the kids had joined her and smiled slightly. The others all looked edgy at learning that Sirius' cousin had been imprisoned. They looked at Sirius and he looked stony. They spoke.
"One family death eater down, about fifty to go." He said bitterly with a less than happy smirk. The others said nothing and all took their places on various chairs and sofas in the room. Varia turned the radio down and sat.
"So, is everything alright?" Faria said.
"Yes thank you. Thanks for letting us stay here." Lily said politely.
"Of course, of course. I mean you are the cause. The reason we fight. You are the future. Without you none of this would be worth anythign." Faria said.
"We want to help. Can some of us join the order. I am of age. I am seventeen. Surely I can." James said. Faria looked unsure.
"That is for your parents tod decide James. And at the moment you need to be in hiding so there isn't much you could do anyway. Its probably best for you not to join at this time." Faria said fairly. James nodded though he looked less than convinced. They spent that evening talking to Faria. She told them stories of Mr and Mrs Potter back when they were at school, Faria had been their school teacher at Hogwarts, she was great friends with Dumbledore. She told them how they met, their great hatred for each other. But then their gradual love that started nearer the end. It was so similar to how Lily and James had been that they all smiled knowingly. Faria carried her stories on. They listening for a long while then when it got late Faria sent them up to bed. Lily kissed James gently on the lips before they parted to different rooms. He smiled happily into the kiss. Lily smiled as she walked away knowing James was watching her ass as she went.
The next day awoke the same as many that followed. They would get up. Wait for any news of the war. Mr and Mrs Potter came everyday mostly. Various members of the order were always coming in and out. The kids got to know them all. They knew the members of the ministy that were secretly in the order, they began to know more and more secrets of the order. They grew to like many of the members and when some didn't come back after battle it affected everyone. They were there for three weeks before they heard the news from Hogwarts. It was still open but many people had left as their parents thought it was safer for them to be home, which was their mistake. Various people from the seventh year came to join the order as their parents were in it. The Prewett bothers Gideon and Caleb (don't know if thats their names, i can't remember them) became favoured members. Also three girls called, Ella Harringdon, Sophia Lorrette and Harriet Craven, they had been a year above the marauders and the girls and knew them fairly well, the prewett brothers and the girls had all been in gryffindor. They all became one large group, though the one exception of the marauders and their girls not being able to leave the house sometimes made there a slight devide. The Prewett brothers were both training to be aurors and were extremely likable people. They were both around six feet tall with golden hair and warm brown eyes. Both brothers were equally loud and always making jokes. They had a sister called Molly who was around ten years older than the brothers, she was married to Arthur Weasley and had three young sons called Bill, Charlie and Percy. Molly and Arthur were both members of the order aswell and came in from time to time. Molly often brought the boys along with the girls adored, especially Lily, she loved children. The three girls Ella, Sophia and Harriet were best friends and were all training to be healers, they had joined up because Harriet's father was Henry Craven a top auror who was in the order and Harriet wanting to follow on in her fathers footsteps came along with her two best friends.
As far as the teenagers knew the members like these young people only got and passed on messages to people close in the ministry who were trying to catch these 'death eater's' but gradually their work got to more and more. Lily and her friends didn't get to hear all the details as a lot of it was held back. But they knew they weren't the only ones under the orders protection. Many scared people came and went through the house to safe locations just as they had. More and more attacks began occuring and the orders members began having to go to raids and fight these death eaters. It was scary to see less people come back everytime when there was meetings. The teenagers tried to help though and keep the members upbeat.
"I just wish I could join," James said frustratingly.
"You will eventually. Mrs Potter called us in for a meeting tomorrow surely that means somethings happening." Lily said.
"You really don't want to be doing what we're doing James," Gideon said. James, Lily, Gideon, Eddie, Sirius and Sophia were all sitting in the living room downstairs. The rest were all around the house in various groups. "Do you really want to have to go to people's houses to find entirely dead families. Its not easy work." Gideon was always the joker was becoming less and less like himself. A recent raid had changed him, he had gone to a house with other members to find one his school friends and his family completely wiped out. He and his brother had not been quite the same since. But they tried not to show it too much.
"I don't mind hard work. I just feel useless." James said quietly resting his head on Lily's stomach as she played with his hair.
"Maybe you'll be allowed once you can come out of hiding. I'm sure you'll be allowed soon." Sophia said. Sophia was fairly shy compared to her three friends, she rarely talked but when she did she was often funny, but was mainly known for her kind heart and gentle ways. She had soft blonde curls reaching half way down her back and she had a slim figure and reached around 5,11, she wasn't a model in appearance but was extremely beautiful in her own way with her striking blue eyes that looked like a pool of water. Gideon looked to her with caring eyes, he had been spending more and more time with Sophia, it was clear he cared for her greatly. The other couples were going as strongly as usual, sometimes James and Lily argued but that was usually out of frustration of being stuck in the house and generally ended with a trip to the garden for some makeup sex. Sirius and Eddie were the same as usual, though the war had affected them they were still the same bubbly couple as always. Remus and Issy were okay still though still moved slowly in their relationship. Lexi seemed lonely however, before all this had been happening she had begun to start a relationship with Harry. They had never even had the date they were supossed to have had. They had never had the chance to really begin and now Lexi began to forget him. She felt like she was missing out as her friends were all so happy. But she did like Caleb Prewett. She thought he was a great guy, and he had showed more than a little interest in her, they had began sneaking off when he and his brother came round for a social call. First it was just to talk, then one night they had been walking in the moonlight in the maze and he had turned her round and kissed her solidly on the mouth. She had been so surprised that she hadn't responded but once she realised what was happening she kissing back gently, apprehensively. He kissed her back with the same gentleness slowly pushing her mouth open and sliding his tongue in, she gasped and opened her mouth. they kissed for a while then when Caleb pulled back he just smiled, took her hand, and walked her back to the house to their friends who hadn't even noticed they had been gone. They kept their little romance secret for the time. They didn't really know why, but they just wanted it to be secret for some reason.
The day of the meeting Mrs Potter called came and all seven teenagers gathered in the meeting room of the order, it was in the basement of the house and had an enormous table that could sit around thirty people. Mrs Potter was ther aswell as Mr Potter and to their surprise Dumbledore aswell. They hadn't seen him for a long time and it was a nice surprise to see their favoured headmaster.
"Hello children," Dumbledore said. The children all greeted him amicably and sat down at the table nearest the end the adults were sat at.
"We called this meeting because we think its time for you to be allowed to join the order if you want," Mr Potter said. James beamed happily at finally being allowed as did Sirius."You have to be aware though, the risks are not than what they were before, its just that everyone is in risk at the moment, and you are practically adults, and it should be your decision as to whether you want to fight or not. But bear in mind, we don't expect you to join, but if thats what you want we won't stop you." Mrs Potter seemed tight lipped throughout the whole speech, she clearly didn't agree with this. James immediately spoke.
"Well I'm in." He said standing up.
"Me too," Sirius said also standing.
"That include me aswell then," Remus said standing aswell.
"Us aswell," the girls said jumping up, the boys all looked slightly apprehensive about this and the girls noticed.
"Don't think we're not joining, we can help as much as you can," Lily said.
"We didn't say you couldn't," James said taking hold of her hand, "But it won't stop me worrying any less." Lily kissed James on the cheek as reassurance of her well being.
So this was the beginning of when they all joined the order. They all decided it was time to move out of the order. Summer hit and they wanted their own places and decided they would go to London. The girls bought a house in the centre of town, they managed to afford it with money Lily had inherited from her parents, she said she couldn't think of anything else she would want to spend it on. The other girls were so grateful as they wouldn't have been able to get a place otherwise that they said Lily didn't have to pay any bills ever so they could pay her back in that way. She refused of course, but was touched by their offer. The boys didn't need to buy a house as the Potter's apparentely owned a house in London that they never used so the boys all moved into there and paid rents. The only problem they faced was work. No one had done their newts due to leaving school early. But everyone found work somewhere. There seemed to be a lot of people quitting their jobs and leaving the country after all.
Lily got a job in the hospital almost straight away after an amazing reference from Professor Slughorn. She worked in the department of Magical Injuries in mungoes (jees, i cant remember the name of the hosital :S). The other girls worked in various places, Eddie worked in the wizarding clothing shop on Diagon alley, Madame Malkins. Lexi got a job in the Daily Prophet as a secretary and Issy worked in the wizarding school for younger children. She was like a teacher's aid. Sirius and James went straight into auror training with or without newts a recommendation from Dumbledore could get you a long way. Remus however got turned down for being an auror and took a job at a small bookstore on diagon alley, he wasn't overly surprised that being a werewolf stopped him becoming an auror, but it didn't stop his disappointment. With all of them having a good income they were fairly happy. They were worried when they first came out of hiding that they would get attacked the minute they stepped out of the door, but Mrs Potter explained to them that they had got knowledge from the inside that they weren't the top priority anymore and that they would be safe for the time being. They had a better summer than they would have thought, Gideon, Caleb, Sophia, Ella and Harriet visited frequentely.
When they first came out of hiding, Lexi was worried that Harry had maybe been worried as he wouldn't have known why she disappeared for ten months so went to see him and explain. Also her relationship with Caleb had gotten more serious and she wanted to make sure it was okay with Harry as they had been kind of together before all this happened. She went to his club and when she asked the doorman he said Harry was in his office on the third floor. She walked to his office with a speech in her head to say to him. When she got there she knocked on the door and when she head Harry's tired voice shout come in she entered. He was crouched over his desk with piles of paper infront of him.
"Hey Harry," Lexi said quietly leaning against the door post. He looked up with a look of utter shock on his face.
"Lexi!" He barked out. She just smiled. He ran round his desk and engulfed her in a hug. "What the...? Where have you been? You've been gone ten months. I have been so worried. No word of your whereabouts came, or Lily's or the others girls... I thought you were all..." He took a deep breathe and let her explain the whole scenaria. She got to the part about Caleb and Harry seemed to understand, she however didn't tell him the name or that Caleb was in the order, she explained to Harry that they wanted to keep in quiet as they just liked keeping to themselves.He said he understood and he also explained that he had moved on too. He had met a girl called Lucy and he hoped she didn't mind. She told him she didn't and everything seemed fine. They talked for a while. He said the club was doing terribly, no one wanted to come to a club while the war was going on. Lexi said he shouldn't worry and that she would put forward an idea for an article on his club for the daily prophet.
"Its what they've been looking for, all the articles have been about you-know-who for so long they want a different theme and this could be it. I'll work on it for you. Here's our new address, I hope you'll bring Lucy along to meet us all sometime." Then she kissed him on the cheek and departed. She was relieved that she had done it, she had worried about seeing him for some time.
Her relationship with Caleb was still secret, they didn't really have any reason to keep it secret,but they did and they liked their privacy. Both were very busy but tried to fit in time to meet up and spent time together. The order had been fairly unbusy lately. Untill one night the entire order was called, a mass attack had been made on the ministry. They all apparated there immediately. The girls had all been at home and when they got there the ministry was mayhem, it was a saturday and the ministry was busy and full of everyday people. Lexi and Issy immediately started getting the paniced people out. An auror came racing passed and said there was about a hundred death eaters all over the ministry. Eddie and Lily being the best duelists went to help in the fight and followed the auror. They went on the floor which said it was the department of mysteries. When they got there it was a battlefield. Curses were flying everywhere and there were bodies on the floor. Lily and Eddie the minute they walked in heard their names screamed.
"LILY! EDDIE! DUCK!" Eddie and Lily immediately dive out the way as a red flash crashed into the wall behind them. They looked to where the call had come from and it had been James who was now fighting a masked and cloaked person who was throwing curse after curse at James which he dflected everytime. They looked around quickly taking on the situation. Each auror or person fighting the deatheaters were about even but the deatheaters were so much more viscious that the fight seemed uneven. Lily sent a stunning spell at the deatheater fighting James and then tied the masked monster up. James smiled at his girlfried they took on another deatheater who was coming his way. Everywhere was people Lily recognised. Caleb and Gideon, Sophia Ella and Harriet, the Potters, all the members that they had met in the time spent at the headquarters. Then there were aurors. Sirius was fighting a deatheater who kept barking out ancient dark magic, he somehow knew how to deflect it all and threw a few back of his own. Lily saw people on the floor, people on her side, that were injured. She knew that she risked her own life doing it but she dropped down beside one man and began healing him using the techniques she knew from what she had learned from the hospital. Once one person was healed enough she moved onto another. Any injured deatheaters had apparated immediately away, even the one she had tied up seemed to be gone. The fight went on, Lily joined in once she had healed as many people as possible. She stunned a deatheater that had Eddie cornered, Eddie's arm was bleeding and she was sweating from tiredness. The deatheaters fell to the floor and Eddie didn't even stop but moved to the next death eaters and began stunning the, she hit one successfully. The three marauders were all fighting different deatheaters and successfully beating them. Throughout the room the death eaters seemed to be tiring and losing the battle. Suddenly a dark mark shown high above the crowd and a humungous cracking sound was made as all the deatheaters apart from the recently stunned ones disappeared immediately. Everyone heaved a deep breathe. Around a hundred and twenty people in the room all stopped and looked around. The scene was a shambles. People were crying over the dead people who hadn't been able to fight, injured people were lying on the floor crying for help, other people stood shell shocked, and others were trying to help everyone. Lily was one of those people, she gathered all the people who were unhurt and got them to take all the people who were critical to mungoes, the people who were in need of care would go afterwards and the dead would be taken away. Overall there were seven dead aurors, fourteen dead civilians and five dead deatheaters. So the loss of the good side was far greater.
The ministry was recked but no doubt it would be fixed up with a little bit of magic. Lily checked to find out who had died as quick as she could, the aurors were none of the ones in the order and the civilians she also didn't know, but she still held back the tears from this loss. Then she got to the hospital knowing she would be needed. She rushed to help, healing a man whose leg had been severed from the knee downwards. She cast a spell for the pain and sealed the wound. In the short time she had worked at the hospital she had learnt how to heal extremely well. She went from bed to bed healing people, sometimes people she knew, she healed a nasty graze on the side of a member of the order, she of course had to pretend not to know them as he was a ministry member was wasn't supposed to be in the order. When she had finished with whoever she could she rushed from ward to ward trying to find her friends knowing they would have come here afterwards to help. She just hoped it wasn't because any of them were hurt. She bumped into Remus who had a nasty graze on his face but he seemed fine.
"Remus!" Lily declared upon seeing him. "Are you okay? Where's everyone else? Is everyone okay?" She rushed out. He just looked at her and quietly said.
"Everythings fine Lily. Eddie is with Sirius, he got hit but it was only a bump on the head. Lexi and Issy are fine, they weren't in the fight at all because they helped people escape. And..."
"Yes but James! Is he alright? Where is he?" Lily asked worried.
"He's fine Lily, he's fine. He got hit with a strong stunning spell. He's still unconsious but..." before he could finish Lily had already run.
"He's in ward B2 Lily!" Remus yelled after her running form. She sprinted to the ward, it was intensive care and she couldn't get there fast enough. Her breathe was caught in the back of throat as she rounded the corner of the ward. It was full of people. Some screaming from pain and other completely out cold. She walked to the end and saw one bed that had two people around it. Mr and Mrs Potter. They saw Lily and smiled at her. They saw her paniced face and Mrs Potter came to comfort her.
"Lily, its going to be alright. He was stunned, but he'll be fine. Sit down. You looked tired." Mrs Potter said and was right. Lily had been working tirelessly to get people healed for hours. She sat down and realised her feet were killing her.
"He's definitely going to be alright," Lily asked.
"Of course, my boy can take a stunning." Mr Potter said. Lily smiled a little. She knew James would be fine. It didn't stop her worrying though. She sat by his bed for hours, waiting for him to awake. People came and left like Sirius and Eddie, Sirius had a sling around his arm and Eddie was limping slightly but they were fine. Remus also came by and tried to convince Lily to go home and get some rest but she refused. She just waited and waited. It got to three in the morning. The ward had quietened down considerably. Everyone was sleeping, most people had been allowed to go home with the fast healing. But James seemed to not want to wake up. The stunning must have been extremely powerful.
Finally just as the sun was coming up James opened his eyes slowly and peeked around trying to work out where he was. The ward was fairly dark still and it took a while for his eyes to become used to the light. He peered around seeing the beds around him. He worked out he was in the hospital. The fight slowly came back to him. Along with the massive pain in the side of his head. He looked to his left of the bed and saw Lily curled up in a chair sleeping. He smiled. He should have known she would be here. He felt awful, she probably thought she would lose him like she lose her parents. He didn't want her to ever feel like that. He tried to sit up but his head too much and he lay back down in frustration. Lily woke at his shuffling about. She was a bit dissorientated then suddenly came to.
"James!" She declared. "Are you alright?" She jumped out of the chair and perched on his bed taking his hand and looking very worried
"I'm fine Lily," James said, "I'm fine." He said again for extra insurance. She looked relieved and tired. He stroked her hand and she curled up next to him with her head on his chest. He stroked her hair.
"I was worried." Lily said in a small voice. He smiled down at his beautiful redhead.
"I love you Lily," He said kissing the top of her head.
"Don't ever scare me like again James," Lily said sleepily into his chest.
"Okay Lily, I promise." James said drifting off.
LOADS goes on in this chapter. sooo much storyline so i hope you managed to keep up and I hope it leaves you wanting more of my lil' ol' story. :) xx