I know it's been forever, sorry bout that. Thanks so much to everybody who reviewed, keep it up please. Blackjeans101, you're the reason this is up now instead of later. Please review guys, and I still haven't got any song guesses, maybe this will help (though I try not to quote as to keep away from cheesiness, and copywrite infringement, speaking of which, I don't own any of this stuff . I hope you like it.

After watching Greece James was profoundly grateful that Lily had been as conservative as she was in her choices concerning his wardrobe. Not only were his clothes not skin tight they were also not comprised completely of black leather. It was a perfect night, with the sky full of stars, and they thoroughly enjoyed it, sitting with Lily wrapped in James' strong arms, leaning against his chest on a blanket that James had thought to bring. He even refrained from charming it to make it colder than normal so that she'd sit closer, and was rewarded for his maturity as she sat close to him of her own choosing.

Lily decided to introduce James to the miracle that was Dairy Queen (honestly how have you survived 17 years without a blizzard is beyond me) and they were thoroughly enjoying themselves. "So James, how do you like it here?"

"Well the lights are very strange" he replied with a smirk. But James didn't get the answering laugh that he expected, and was instead met with a very startled gasp. "Lily, what's wrong?"

"James", her voice was shaking. Before James could do anything somebody grabbled Lily and spun her into his own arms. The man said in a very low, vaguely familiar voice, "I have a gun. Do what I tell you to and your girl will be just fine." There went James' ideas of fighting him off. He hadn't spent much time among muggels but he knew how dangerous firearms were.

More afraid than he'd ever been, James nevertheless tried to at least appear calm and confident for Lily's sake (and yes for the sake of his self-respect). He gave her a reassuring look, that she answered with a flick of her eyes to her captor, mouthing the word "Malfoy", and then the phrase, "I love you". It was a testament to their relationship that James immediately recognized that Lily was not professing her love for Malfoy, but that she was letting know who held her, and something even more important –that she loved James, that she trusted him to get them out of this.

"What do you want?" It took all of James' control to keep contempt or cheek out of his voice. For Lily he'd swallowed his pride before and was perfectly willing to do it again.

"Turn out your pockets boy", Lucius answered in a rough voice.

James did immediately, though smoothly. Lily was grateful for that he wasn't giving up all of his self-respect, she didn't think she could bear it if James was too compliant. "Wallet—money, credit cards, pictures of the most beautiful woman in the world", at that point Lily sniffed and Lucius scoffed. James left out the gum wrappers subway stubs, no need to be too impertinent.

James handed over all of his finds but Lucius wasn't done yet. "Thats a nice watch you've got on."

"Antique, my grandfather's" James said as he removed the gold watch, in his family for three generations, without a thought. And reaching into his shirt pocket James continued "and the key to my broom shed". Lily gasped and shock registered in Lucius' eyes. "Yes mate, I know who you are". Lucius grabbed the key and shoved Lily at James who, thanks to years of seeker training, caught her immediately and thanks to deep love and commitment held her tight as the tears that she'd been holding back (James wasn't the only one faking confidence during their ordeal) flowed over and soaked his new shirt.

"James, I'm so sorry" she said, her voice trembling as the rest of her body was.

He held rubbed her back with his right hand, still holding her tight with his left. "Shhh, shhh, it's all right. Don't blame yourself, none of this is your fault"

"All that money…" she was fighting to get her breathing under control.

"My family's loaded Lily", James retorted with a crooked smile, winning just a small one from his girl. "Remind me to cancel those credit cards though, no need to help those lovely Malfoys any more than necessary"

"You're new broom…" thanks to James her tears were starting to subside, just a little.

"I'll get another one, and even if I couldn't, even if we didn't have the money, none of those things are nearly as important as you are. Nothing will ever come close to being half as important as you are." He held her tighter, there had to be some way to stop the shaking.

"You're grandfather's watch", there went Lily's dream of watching James give it to their first son on the day they graduated from Hogwarts.

"Just a thing love, just a thing." Thank heaven, she's calming down. "He didn't get the most important thing"

"You're broom James, a Mars 3000, they aren't even out in Korea yet!"

He laughed, if she was upset at least she wasn't crying or quivering anymore, "you, Lily, you. Or the 2nd most important thing for that matter."

"What are you talking about?"

And with a broad grin James got down on one knee. "The reason I didn't take his instruction to turn out my pockets literally. Well this and the fact that in these pants I don't even know how. Lilly Evans, will you marry me?"

He held a gorgeous ring towards her (she didn't even want to think about how long it must have taken him to earn the money for it, he'd never let his parents buy her engagement ring), but what she really wanted was the hand holding the ring, and the man attached to it. The man she loved with all her heart, the man who she knew for sure would give up anything for her. The tears came again, this time tears of intense joy and love, but James didn't know that. His face was stricken, "Lily, d-did I say something wrong?" He was franticly running the last few minutes through his mind".

"No James", then she suddenly realized how James might take that answer. "I mean yes James", realizing how he might take that as well, Lily went on, "no you didn't say anything wrong, and yes I will marry you"

"Yahoo!!!!!!!!" He jumped to his feet, picked her up, swung her around and kissed her soundly. "Thank you" he breathed after setting her down, and slipped the ring onto her finger.

"Thank you James"

He grabbed her hand and pulled her back to the park and into a dancing position. "I know you were supposed to be in charge of this date, but I have a few plans up my sleeve," glancing down at the short sleeves she'd picked for him, "or, I would if I had sleeves…"

"There's no music James"

"Of course there is." And he sang into her ear, the song he knew was one of her favorites, from the Muggle movie Aladdin she'd made him watch last summer, about how he'd show her the world. And they danced, more to the beat of their love than anything else.

After their danced Sirus sauntered up with a grin on his face, noting the huge amount of precious mineral on Lily's ring finger and handed James his broom (he'd been holding it all day for this purpose, Malfoy would find an empty shed), so that James could make good on part of his promise (though, because of time constraints they returned home after watching the sun come up over the Taj Mahal).

"Lily, we're engaged! You're my fiancé!"

"Shh…don't wake up the whole country"

"Just this one city? Please? I'm so excited!"

"And don't you dare make us fall off this broom"

James looked offended, "a complete impossibility"

"Lily Potter", she tried out for the first time in front of James (and the thousandth counting all the time out of his presence), "sounds good doesn't it?"

"Mmm" he murmured, "I figured that out a long time ago fiancé of mine, you have no idea how long I've waited to say that"

"Feels good, doesn't it?"

"Yes…" everything felt good right now.